Community season 2
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No. of episodes | 24 |
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Original network | NBC |
Original release | September 23, 2010 May 12, 2011 | –
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The second season of the television comedy series Community premiered on September 23, 2010 and concluded on May 12, 2011, on NBC. The season consists of 24 episodes and aired on Thursdays at 8:00 pm ET as part of Comedy Night Done Right.[1]
Cast
Starring
- Joel McHale as Jeff Winger
- Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry
- Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir
- Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley Bennett
- Alison Brie as Annie Edison
- Donald Glover as Troy Barnes
- Ken Jeong as Ben Chang
- Chevy Chase as Pierce Hawthorne
Recurring
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Guest stars
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Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) |
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26 | 1 | "Anthropology 101" | Joe Russo | Chris McKenna | September 23, 2010 | 201 | 5.01[2] |
27 | 2 | "Accounting for Lawyers" | Joe Russo | Emily Cutler | September 30, 2010 | 203 | 4.53[3] |
28 | 3 | "The Psychology of Letting Go" | Anthony Russo | Hilary Winston | October 7, 2010 | 202 | 4.20[4] |
29 | 4 | "Basic Rocket Science" | Anthony Russo | Andy Bobrow | October 14, 2010 | 204 | 4.81[5] |
30 | 5 | "Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples" | Tristram Shapeero | Andrew Guest | October 21, 2010 | 205 | 4.46[6] |
31 | 6 | "Epidemiology" | Anthony Hemingway | Karey Dornetto | October 28, 2010 | 206 | 5.64[7] |
32 | 7 | "Aerodynamics of Gender" | Tristram Shapeero | Adam Countee | November 4, 2010 | 207 | 4.61[8] |
33 | 8 | "Cooperative Calligraphy" | Joe Russo | Megan Ganz | November 11, 2010 | 208 | 4.53[9] |
34 | 9 | "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design" | Adam Davidson | Chris McKenna | November 18, 2010 | 210 | 4.41[10] |
35 | 10 | "Mixology Certification" | Jay Chandrasekhar | Andy Bobrow | December 2, 2010 | 209 | 4.55[11] |
36 | 11 | "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" | Duke Johnson | Dino Stamatopoulos & Dan Harmon | December 9, 2010 | 222 | 4.29[12] |
37 | 12 | "Asian Population Studies" | Anthony Russo | Emily Cutler | January 20, 2011 | 211 | 4.73[13] |
38 | 13 | "Celebrity Pharmacology" | Fred Goss | Hilary Winston | January 27, 2011 | 212 | 4.59[14] |
39 | 14 | "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" | Joe Russo | Andrew Guest | February 3, 2011 | 214 | 4.37[15] |
40 | 15 | "Early 21st Century Romanticism" | Steven Sprung | Karey Dornetto | February 10, 2011 | 213 | 3.81[16] |
41 | 16 | "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking" | Joe Russo | Megan Ganz | February 17, 2011 | 215 | 4.11[17] |
42 | 17 | "Intro to Political Science" | Jay Chandrasekhar | Adam Countee | February 24, 2011 | 216 | 3.79[18] |
43 | 18 | "Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy" | Anthony Russo | Andy Bobrow | March 17, 2011 | 217 | 4.15[19] |
44 | 19 | "Critical Film Studies" | Richard Ayoade | Sona Panos | March 24, 2011 | 218 | 4.46[20] |
45 | 20 | "Competitive Wine Tasting" | Joe Russo | Emily Cutler | April 14, 2011 | 219 | 3.49[21] |
46 | 21 | "Paradigms of Human Memory" | Tristram Shapeero | Chris McKenna | April 21, 2011 | 220 | 3.17[22] |
47 | 22 | "Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts" | Jay Chandrasekhar | Karey Dornetto | April 28, 2011 | 221 | 3.35[23] |
48 | 23 | "A Fistful of Paintballs" | Joe Russo | Andrew Guest | May 5, 2011 | 223 | 3.49[24] |
49 | 24 | "For a Few Paintballs More" | Joe Russo | Hilary Winston | May 12, 2011 | 224 | 3.32[25] |
Production
On March 5, 2010, NBC renewed Community for a second season.[26]
Guest stars in the second season of Community include Betty White in the season premiere as June Bauer, an anthropology professor.[27] Drew Carey appeared in the second episode of the season as Ted, the boss from Jeff's old law firm, and Rob Corddry also appeared in the second episode as Alan, Jeff's best friend from his old law firm.[28] Hilary Duff guest starred in the seventh episode as a "mean girl" who's a part of a clique that goes head-to-head with the Greendale study group.[29]
The second season featured a stop-motion animated Christmas episode written by series creator Dan Harmon and Dino Stamatopoulos, who plays Star-Burns in the series. Harmon said, "There's a reason for it to be stop-motion animated, but it's not a dream. It still exists within the reality of the show."[30]
On November 3, 2010, NBC ordered 2 additional episodes for the second season, bringing it to a total of 24 episodes.[31]
The second-season finale was a two-part episode featuring Josh Holloway in a guest appearance. The episodes were a follow-up to the season one episode "Modern Warfare" where the students partake in a campus paintball match.[32]
In the episode "Critical Film Studies", Abed mentions he traveled to Los Angeles to appear in a scene in the television series Cougar Town. In the second-season finale of Cougar Town, Danny Pudi as Abed appears in the background of a scene. Cougar Town actors Dan Byrd and Busy Philipps also appeared briefly in the background of a scene in second-season finale of Community. Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence explained, "They had Abed have a love of Cougar Town, we had Travis have a love of Community, and once we got wind of what they were having Abed say he experienced out here, we were going to try to find a way of Danny being a background character and essentially act that same thing out on our show."[33] Community previously had an episode that featured several shout-outs to Cougar Town.[34] The mutual admiration between the two shows started as Cougar Town creators Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel became friends with Community creator Dan Harmon, and would often tweet each other. Also, Community executive producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan previously worked with Lawrence on Scrubs for several years.[35][36]
DVD release
The second season of Community was released on region 1 DVD on September 6, 2011,[37] and on region 2 DVD on September 24, 2012.[38] The DVD contains all 24 episodes on four discs plus special features, which include:[37]
- Commentary on every episode. Participants include creator Dan Harmon; cast members Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Dino Stamatopoulos, Richard Erdman, Rob Corddry, Robert Smigel and Andy Dick; directors Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Anthony Hemingway, Jay Chandrasekhar, Duke Johnson, Steven Sprung and Tristam Shapeero; writers Chris McKenna, Emily Cutler, Hilary Winston, Andy Bobrow, Adam Countee, Megan Ganz, Andrew Guest and Sona Panos; producers Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan and Jake Aust; and composer Ludwig Goransson.
- Outtakes
- Deleted scenes
- "The Paintball Finale: From Script to Screen" featurette
- "Creating Wonderland" featurette
- "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" Original Storyboard Animatic
- "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" In-Process Animatic
- Season Two Cast Evaluations
- DJ Steve Porter Remixes Season One
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