Good Morning Greendale: A Community Podcast

It's Abed's birthday and he wants a real conversation with Jeff, but he wants to get Abed out of here to the surprise Pulp Fiction party. Pierce is dressed up as the gimp. And it turns out that Abed was My Dinner With Andre-ing Jeff. It's all complicated. Meanwhile, we join a club! And all you have to do to join the club is to have fallen asleep during the movie Fight Club. We talk about school lo...

Shirley tries to ensure that Chang gets no parental rights to her child, but Jeff's selfishness gets in the way. Britta makes out with Troy and Abed's new war criminal friend and tries to get rid of him, but Troy and Abed are not having any of it. Pierce is racist. Meanwhile, we're talking about scary night sounds, Nickelodeon's "Doug," dad LARPing, and video games. Ben eats a fork. Mike burns a v...

For many reasons we were unable to get a normal episode out this week. Please enjoy Good Morning Greendale Nights. We talk a lot about the Frasier reboot. Sorry? Or... enjoy! That is up to you my friend. Warning! WE SWEAR IN THIS ONE! F-bombs and everything. Ben is a ghost who solves mysteries. Mike punches some tigers.

Welcome to the incredibly short election season at Greendale! Annie runs for president. Jeff runs for president. Abed has some romance. Pierce is out for revenge. Meanwhile the two of us are talking about the really cool (ridiculous) things we did when were 19. Ben duct tapes his shoes. Mike shows up under-dressed.

You know what they say about a pill addiction like... six episodes ago? Pierce has to end up ODing and spending time in the hospital in this episode. He then proceeds to torture everybody. LeVar Burton shows up. We talk about Colorado ghost towns, our love of Donald Glover's performance, whether the PS5 or the XBox is cooler and which ones are owned by people who are cool and have sex. Ben doesn't...

Troy and Abed concoct a scheme for romance with a hot librarian. Britta concocts a scheme where she is friends with a lesbian for no reason. Troy sees Andy Dick again (warning: do not listen to Andy Dick). Jeff and Chang have a whole thing. Shirley... disappears. Also Magnitude is back. That's all you really need to know this episode. Ben pops pops. Mike pop pops.

We are talking about controversial episode Advanced Dungeons & Dragons! Which means mostly we talk about D&D. But also, yes, we do talk about the controversy, even though we're not the ones you should be listening to about this one friends. Ben does his best to facilitate fun. Mike questions Dungeon Master neutrality.

Today we're talking about drugs. Should you do them? Probably not. Unless you're a cat (but more on that later). Annie thinks you shouldn't so much that she puts on a play for at risk youth. She also needs money because there's not much money in recycling cans. Pierce decides to be the hero of both the play and Annie's finances and it is a CONFLICT OF INTERESTS. Also, Britta's nephew has the hots...

Annie has a crush and Jeff doesn't like it. Shirley has a new old beau and Britta doesn't like it. Pierce falls in love with kettle corn, and who can blame him? It's a fun time snack! Meanwhile we spend an unfortunate amount of time talking about Emmanuelle In Space, talk about 10 Things I Hate About You (but it mostly gets cut?) We invent some weird hypotheticals. Ben sleeps with a Scooby-Doo cha...

It's Christmastime and that means we're doing a whole stop motion animation thing! Or, at least Abed is. And it's up to the rest of the gang to figure out what is going on with him or else he might get kicked out of school. So naturally we take a trip to Planet Abed to find the meaning of Christmas. We also talk about Christmas. And... peanut butter? And stolen street signs. Ben cuts the chatter....

It's Troy's birthday and so the gang goes to a bar to celebrate the manliest of manchievements: turning 21. Annie gets a fake ID and a bad accent, and Shirley gets a blast from the past. We talk about good drinks we like drinking and also Paul F. Tompkins. Welcome to the Paul F. Tompkins fancast I guess. Ben goes to the Red Door. Mike goes to L-Street.

We're going to night school (OR ARE WE) to take a class on conspiracy theories (OR ARE WE) and talking about the TV show Community (OR ARE WE). Jeff tries to get a free credit and/or is taking a class all about conspiracies and Annie's making a diorama for the bio dioramarama. Troy and Abed make a blanket fort for men. We go into business with a pizza place / bowling alley / bookstore for some rea...

It's a bottle episode and everybody us sus. That's hip lingo everybody is using thanks to Among Us. This is Among Us. But about a purple pen. Or a principle. Is it a pen or a principle? Either way, everybody gets mad at each other. We debate whether Cheers is a bottle series and whether Frasier would make a good paladin. And by "we" I mean "Ben." Ben says those things. Ben pulls a c-c-c-c-combo br...

Jeff and Troy find a magical trampoline in a magical garden. Abed becomes a RowBoat Cop. The word "bitch" is said an awful lot in this episode both by the characters and us so welcome to our second ever explicit episode because of the B-WORD. Hillary Duff makes a special appearance. We talk about our grade school media crushes, terms for baskteball, and do some impressions of some very famous peop...

It's Halloween, and everybody is at a puffy, sweaty party dressed in costumes and biting each other and infecting each other with a terrible secret black-ops rabies virus. So. Pretty much normal Halloween in my experience. Troy has a crisis of coolness, Abed has a crisis of friendship, Jeff has a crisis of not wanting to ruin a $6,000 suit, and Shirley has a crisis of doin' it with Chang. Meanwhil...

Shirley wants to make a film about Jesus. Abed wants to make a film about Jesus finding God through a God camera and every camera is God and every person is Jesus and also the film is called Abed. You got that? It makes perfect sense. Pierce falls in with a bad crowd of old people. Ben has a revelation about Jesus. Mike disses Reboot.

The most important event of the community college simulated space race is on. Can Greendale beat City College into simulated space? Will Annie transfer to City College? Will the dean notice the flag is a butt? Will you inevitably get a craving for KFC after listening to this episode? All we know is that we rank this episode as "delicious." Ben plays a prank. Mike gets a master's degree.

Bad news. Pierce's mom is dead. Or... is alive but with a vaporized organic body. Who can say? Jeff is suddenly worried about his own mortality and takes it out on the group. Britta is suddenly worried about Annie selling out their gender and takes it out on Annie. Abed spends some time in the background. We debate whether it is creepier to have a puppet of somebody for sexual or non-sexual reason...

Jeff's old lawyer buddy shows up and it reawakens a lawyer's instinct in him. None of the rest of the study group like this new development, especially because they need a seventh person for the pop-and-lock-a-thon. Everybody knows you need at least seven people. As for us? Well. I think all we can say about this one is... sorry, Jesus. Ben starts digging for holes. Mike fights a shrimp boat.

We're back and this semester we're taking Anthropology staring Betty Freakin' White. It's a damn good get as far as guest stars go if you ask us. And you did. By listening to this podcast you were like "hey what do Ben and Mike think about Betty White as a guest star in Community?" Spoiler: she is great. Also there's a lot of drama in the group due to all the kissing and love declaring that happen...

We're taking a break so we talk a little bit about a TV show a Community cast member has been on (and then never got picked up) and we also do some listener Q&A! Ben looks it up on Bing. Mike picks Buddy.

In the final episode of the season, events happen that may or may not be relevant to other episodes. Ben goes to comedy school. Mike has questions about "Eight Crazy Nights."

It's finals time and the gang has to really bone up because it turns out Chang doesn't actually have the qualifications to teach. Annie hatches a misguided scheme to keep the gang together. Chang plays a keytar. Troy gets approached by a plumber with a life-changing opportunity. Your intrepid hosts talk about school nightmares, peeing nightmares, the inability to go to early classes, and more! Ben...

It's here! We're talking about Modern Warfare, a famous Community episode because it's about a giant game of paintball on campus. We get a whole lot of great moments from every character and finally some Jeff/Britta payoff. I don't know what else to say; this is a legendary episode. Ben betrays Mike. Mike betrays... himself?

Jeff and Britta lose their minds while fighting with... uh... high school kids. High school kids who call them Schmitty. Nobody looks great in this one. Troy and Abed embark on a quest of college shenanigans and they come out looking pretty okay in this one. Pierce and Shirley get into a fight and... well there's a definite winner there. We are programming weird robots in BASIC and telling stories...