It’s no surprise that Community has some of the most ardent (and vocal!) fans of any show on television — the kind who create webpages for the most minor of characters, obsess over subliminal background story lines, and rant in apoplectic fury at any humble recapper who dares criticize their favorite program (ahem!). In its own inimitably bizarre, superhumanly dedicated, occasionally annoying and yet indisputably impressive way, Community has sought to create and sustain an entirely hermetic and functioning world, one as inclusive and rewarding to insiders as the fictional Greendale is to its own motley crew. “This place has always accepted me, sickness and all,” Pierce declares, touchingly, at the end of this week’s episode. “It accepted all of you.” He could just as well be speaking directly to the show’s fans who feel increasingly at home in Community’s reference-heavy, paint-splattered world. But how about the rest of us?
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