You have to respect Community for one thing, when they do something, they commit. Last night's episode was entirely in clay animation that the old school Christmas special used to do. The episode followed no seasonal plot, instead they decided to do a full on Christmas special.
Apparently in the beginning of the episode Abed had gotten some news that drove him crazy, and because of that news he saw everything in clay-mation. They called in Professor Ian Duncan, John Oliver's (from the Daily Show) fame obsessed shrink to get everyone to play along with Abed Christmas fantasy to see where the root of the problem was, which led them all to take up roles of toys from the Island of the Misfit Toys
Like I said at the beginning of the post, when Community does a gag episode they commit like no other show I have ever seen. Perfect example is their season one episode Modern Warfare, here's a clip of a fan made trailer. Community has a way of filling every stereotype that television shows usually fill, except when they do it they say they are doing it and somehow that makes it even funnier.
Episode Rating 1-10: 5 Despite all the good things about this show week to week I don't like Christmas specials
Stand Alone Episode Rating: 4 Once again I have a bias, as I do not like Christmas specials. However if you have a 10 year old kid and they saw this they might want to tune in week to week. I wouldn't let them though. This is for adults.
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