Community: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Community Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
History 101
Feb 7, 2013
As Jeff competes for spots in an overbooked 'History of Ice Cream' class, Abed copes with the looming end of their time at Greendale by retreating into a surreal mental 'happy plac
Paranormal Parentage
Feb 14, 2013
On the way to a Halloween party, the study group must free Pierce from his panic room and slowly comes to suspect that his mansion is haunted.
Conventions of Space and Time
Feb 21, 2013
Troy worries about losing Abed to a fellow Inspector Spacetime fan at a convention for the show, while Annie fantasizes about being married to Jeff.
Alternative History of the German Invasion
Feb 28, 2013
The study group contends with a group of German students who take over the study room. Chang makes his return to campus.
Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations
Mar 7, 2013
Britta joins Jeff to see his estranged father on Thanksgiving. Shirley invites the rest of the group to spend the holiday with her judgmental in-laws.
Advanced Documentary Filmmaking
Mar 14, 2013
Greendale comes together to get to the bottom of Chang's amnesia, which Abed films as a documentary. Jeff, however, suspects Chang is faking it.
Economics of Marine Biology
Mar 21, 2013
Dean Pelton enlists the study group to beautify the campus to woo a wealthy student to Greendale. A class on teaching P.E. pits Shirley against Troy.
Herstory of Dance
Apr 4, 2013
Jeff sets out to embarrass Britta when she announces a dance for women's empowerment. Abed dreams of shuttling between two dates in one night.
Intro to Felt Surrogacy
Apr 11, 2013
Dean Pelton prompts the study group to use puppets to relive the traumatic events of a recent adventure.
Intro to Knots
Apr 18, 2013
Jeff organizes a lovely holiday gathering at his apartment, but Annie secretly invites Professor Cornwallis to get in his good graces.
Basic Human Anatomy
Apr 25, 2013
When Annie and Shirley learn that Leonard is actually holding the spot as the class valedictorian, they join forces to bring him down.
Heroic Origins
May 2, 2013
Abed's research into the study group's history uncovers an overlooked series of chance encounters that led each of them to Greendale.
Advanced Introduction to Finality
May 9, 2013
A plan to celebrate Jeff's early graduation is unexpectedly disrupted by the study group's evil doppelgangers from the Darkest Timeline.