History Trivia / Community

** While he didn't speak ill of the show itself, Creator/JohnOliver admitted that his experience working on ''Community'' made him realize that he really wasn't cut out to be an actor, and had a difficult time playing off his costars. It's telling that he began hosting [[Series/LastWeekTonight his own show]] shortly after the fifth season ended.

** Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown has called [[Recap/CommunityS2E21ParadigmsOfHumanMemory "Paradigms of Human Memory"]] her favorite episode of the series.

* BannedEpisode: Season 2's "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" was pulled from Netflix and Hulu streaming on June 2020. The episode had Chang cosplay as a dark elf, in what the other characters disgustedly remark looks like {{blackface}}. However, this ban does not extend to the DVD sets or Amazon Prime, so it is available there legally if you want it.

* AcclaimedFlop: The series got rave reviews during its run on Creator/{{NBC}} but suffered from middling ratings and a lack of award success. It still managed to air five seasons before being cancelled and ultimately picked up for a sixth season on Yahoo.

* RealitySubtext: The entire main cast got along extremely well and became very close friends with one another...except for Creator/ChevyChase, who frequently alienated those he was working with on the show. This meant the Study Group's general animosity towards Pierce and his behavior came from a very real place.

** In "Introduction to Finality", Evil Abed says that Britta's favorite member of the ComicBook/XMen is X-Man, with the joke being that it's a fumbled attempt to guess a superhero name as she knows nothing about comic books. However, there really ''is'' a relatively obscure member of the X-Men called [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan X-Man]].

** At one point Britta says her favorite member of the ComicBook/XMen is X-Man, with the joke being that it's a fumbled attempt to guess a superhero name as she knows nothing about comic books. However, there really ''is'' a relatively obscure member of the X-Men called [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan X-Man]].

* IKnewIt:
** Jeff [[spoiler:returning to Greendale as a teacher in Season 5]].
** Pierce [[spoiler:suffering from a BusCrash after Creator/ChevyChase left the show.]]
** Troy [[spoiler:being given Pierce's fortune and it being his reason for leaving Greendale.]]

** At one point Britta says her favorite member of the ComicBook/XMen is X-Man, in attempt to sound geeky. Yeah, [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan about that]]...

* CaliforniaDoubling: The college is supposed to be located in suburban Denver, but palm trees and cars with California plates are often visible in exterior shots. According to Creator/DanHarmon on the DVD Commentary, the reason it doesn't snow during the show is because global warming hit Greendale pretty hard.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: According to Website/TheOtherWiki, ''Community'' is based on Dan Harmon's own community-college days, and Jeff is [[AuthorAvatar based on his younger, more self-centered self]].

** Not to say Chase isn't above acting this way to just the creator/writers. Chase frequently bullied and made fun of Creator/DonaldGlover during their tenure on the show, with Glover admitting in 2018 that Chase had made racist jokes to him, among which he said that, "People think you're funnier because you're black." Harmon being fired from the show in Season 4 did little to ease tensions, as Chase was also uncomfortable with his character's increasing bigotry. This culminated in him blowing up on the set of "Intro to Felt Surrogacy" dropping a racial slur in the context of exclaiming he thought that's what the writers were going to start having Pierce say. This resulted in Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown threatening to leave the show unless Chase was let go, which resulted in Chase's agents negotiating to have him exit the series immediately. At the end of the day, Pierce ended up being absent for a number of episodes in Season 4 and officially being killed off in Season 5 as a way of permanently retiring the character (outside of Chase recording his puppet dialogue for "Intro to Felt Surrogacy" and shooting a holographic cameo in "Repilot"). Joel [=McHale=] backed up this behavior [[https://bleedingcool.com/tv/community-joel-mchale-talks-working-with-chevy-chase-chase-leaving/ on a podcast]], saying that Chase had "good days and tough days" while on set, and admitted that both he and the rest of the cast haven't spoken to Chase in years. Chase meanwhile has little to no regrets about his behavior on the show, stating that "he was who he was" when asked about his behavior years later.

** Not to say Chase isn't above acting this way to just the creator/writers. Chase frequently bullied and made fun of Creator/DonaldGlover during their tenure on the show, with Glover admitting in 2018 that Chase had made racist jokes to him, among which he said that, "People think you're funnier because you're black." Harmon being fired from the show in Season 4 did little to ease tensions, as Chase was also uncomfortable with his character's increasing bigotry. This culminated in him blowing up on the set of "Intro to Felt Surrogacy" dropping a racial slur in the context of exclaiming he thought that's what the writers were going to start having Pierce say. This resulted in Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown threatening to leave the show unless Chase was let go, which which resulted in Chase's agents negotiating to have him exit the series immediately. At the end of the day, Pierce ended up being absent for a number of episodes in Season 4 and officially being killed off in Season 5 as a way of permanently retiring the character (outside of Chase recording his puppet dialogue for "Intro to Felt Surrogacy" and shooting a holographic cameo in "Repilot"). Joel [=McHale=] backed up this behavior [[https://bleedingcool.com/tv/community-joel-mchale-talks-working-with-chevy-chase-chase-leaving/ on a podcast]], saying that Chase had "good days and tough days" while on set, and admitted that both he and the rest of the cast haven't spoken to Chase in years. Chase meanwhile has little to no regrets about his behavior on the show, stating that "he was who he was" when asked about his behavior years later.

** Abed is shown shown to be a huge nerd for TV, movies and comic books in this show. His actor, Creator/DannyPudi, isn't super knowledgable about film or television, being more of an ObsessiveSportsFan in real life.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Wiki The Community Wiki]].

** Creator/DanHarmon had a major backlash to Season 4 when he finally watched it after being rehired to the show for the fifth season, to the point where he actually apologized over it.