I’ve been wanting to do a Community rewatch for ages, and eventually it just kinda happened. It’s weird. It’s so 2009. Painfully so at times. It exists in a world where everything is fine, we’re all very progressive, Obama’s just been elected, so the floodgates have opened for the kind of ironic racism/sexism/homophobia jokes that defined a brief window of a generation. It’s a very specific 2009-era of what feminism means to characters like Britta. The gay jokes are wildly abundant, more than anything else. They don’t… they don’t make me uncomfortable, or wanting to cancel the show, etc. It’s just weird. It broadly holds up to my recollection of this season being the dare I say grounded college sitcom it later grew out of. I’m still fond of it, but even from this season, I think my implicit ranking of it has shifted compared to the other sitcoms of that time. We’ll see.