Home > Community > Season 3 « TV Series Page Community: Season 3 (2011 - 2012) SEASON: Season 3 Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Want to see Episode List Season 3 Community Critics Consensus The Greendale study group take some of their boldest swings -- though not all connect -- in this freewheeling third season that nevertheless continues Community's streak as the gold standard for fiendishly clever television. 91% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 22 97% Audience Score User Ratings: 583 See score details Other TV Shows Freaks and Geeks The Good Place Seinfeld Parks and Recreation 30 Rock Rate And Review Submit review Want to see Edit Submit review Super Reviewer Verified Super Reviewer Verified Edit Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit Continue Super Reviewer Step 2 of 2 How did you buy your ticket? 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Biology 101 Air date: Sep 22, 2011 Jeff's plan to keep Pierce out of the Study Group backfires when he gets kicked out instead, Abed copes with bad news about Cougar Town, and Dean Pelton's authority is challenged by another Greendale dean. View Details 2. Geography of Global Conflict Air date: Sep 29, 2011 When another over-achieving student steals Annie's idea for a Model U.N. club, the Study Group comes to her rescue. Meanwhile, new security cop Chang tries to stop Britta's last-ditch efforts to create a campus disturbance. View Details 3. Competitive Ecology Air date: Oct 13, 2011 Chaos ensues when the Study Group tries to divide itself up into biology lab partners, and Chang appoints himself security "detective," and tries to solve a mystery that is only in his head. View Details 4. Remedial Chaos Theory Air date: Oct 6, 2011 At Abed and Troy's housewarming party, Jeff decides to let the decision on who gets the pizza rest on the roll of the dice, leaving Abed to contemplate six alternate realities. View Details 5. Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps Air date: Oct 27, 2011 During her pre-Halloween party, Britta gets everyone to tell a spooky story so that she can find out which member of the study group scored out as a psychopath on their psychology profiles. View Details 6. Advanced Gay Air date: Nov 3, 2011 Pierce gets a visit from his bigoted father after his wipes become a hit in the gay community, and the dean of the School of Refrigeration recruits Troy to become his student. View Details 7. Studies in Modern Movement Air date: Nov 10, 2011 The study group helps Annie move in with Troy and Abed - except for Jeff, who lies to get out of it but is busted by dean Pelton. View Details 8. Documentary Filmmaking: Redux Air date: Nov 17, 2011 Dean Pelton is given the task to make an updated Greendale television commercial, but the shoot soon goes over budget and spirals out of control, descending the dean into madness--with Abed documenting the entire experience. View Details 9. Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism Air date: Dec 1, 2011 Shirley teaches Jeff foosball so that he can beat a team of cocky, obnoxious Germans, while Annie creates an overly elaborate ruse so that she doesn't have to tell Abed that she broke his special edition The Dark Knight DVD. View Details 10. Regional Holiday Music Air date: Mar 15, 2012 A holiday-themed parody of "Glee" in which Abed tries to persuade each member of the Study Group to join the glee club so that they can qualify for regionals. View Details Show More Episodes Community: Season 3 Photos View All Photos (100) Tv Season Info A suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college with an eclectic staff and student body. Genre: Comedy Network: NBC Premiere Date: Sep 22, 2011 Creator: Dan Harmon Exec. Producers: Anthony Russo, Russ Krasnoff, Dan Harmon, Joe Russo, Gary Foster Cast Joel McHale as Jeff Winger Chevy Chase as Pierce Hawthorne Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley Bennett Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir Alison Brie as Annie Edison Donald Glover as Troy Barnes Ken Jeong as Ben Chang Jim Rash as Dean Pelton Dan Harmon Dino Stamatopoulos as Star Burns John Goodman as Vice Dean Laybourne Michael Kenneth Williams as Professor Kane Rob Corddry as Alan Connor Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Andre French Stewart as Vincent Giancarlo Esposito as Gilbert Lawson Taran Killam as Cory Radison Brandon Killham as Howie Richard Erdman as Leonard Pavel Sfera as Bono Impersonator Kirk Fox as Blade John Hodgman as Dr. Heidi Irene Choi as Annie Kim Luis Guzman as Himself Martin Starr as Professor Cligoris Larry Cedar as Cornelius Hawthorne Luke Youngblood as Magnitude Charley Koontz as Fat Neil Jerry Minor as Jerry Erik Charles Nielsen as Garrett Show More Cast Episodes 1. Biology 101 Air date: Sep 22, 2011 Jeff's plan to keep Pierce out of the Study Group backfires when he gets kicked out instead, Abed copes with bad news about Cougar Town, and Dean Pelton's authority is challenged by another Greendale dean. View Details 2. Geography of Global Conflict Air date: Sep 29, 2011 When another over-achieving student steals Annie's idea for a Model U.N. club, the Study Group comes to her rescue. Meanwhile, new security cop Chang tries to stop Britta's last-ditch efforts to create a campus disturbance. View Details 3. Competitive Ecology Air date: Oct 13, 2011 Chaos ensues when the Study Group tries to divide itself up into biology lab partners, and Chang appoints himself security "detective," and tries to solve a mystery that is only in his head. View Details 4. Remedial Chaos Theory Air date: Oct 6, 2011 At Abed and Troy's housewarming party, Jeff decides to let the decision on who gets the pizza rest on the roll of the dice, leaving Abed to contemplate six alternate realities. View Details 5. Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps Air date: Oct 27, 2011 During her pre-Halloween party, Britta gets everyone to tell a spooky story so that she can find out which member of the study group scored out as a psychopath on their psychology profiles. View Details 6. Advanced Gay Air date: Nov 3, 2011 Pierce gets a visit from his bigoted father after his wipes become a hit in the gay community, and the dean of the School of Refrigeration recruits Troy to become his student. View Details 7. Studies in Modern Movement Air date: Nov 10, 2011 The study group helps Annie move in with Troy and Abed - except for Jeff, who lies to get out of it but is busted by dean Pelton. View Details 8. Documentary Filmmaking: Redux Air date: Nov 17, 2011 Dean Pelton is given the task to make an updated Greendale television commercial, but the shoot soon goes over budget and spirals out of control, descending the dean into madness--with Abed documenting the entire experience. View Details 9. Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism Air date: Dec 1, 2011 Shirley teaches Jeff foosball so that he can beat a team of cocky, obnoxious Germans, while Annie creates an overly elaborate ruse so that she doesn't have to tell Abed that she broke his special edition The Dark Knight DVD. View Details 10. Regional Holiday Music Air date: Mar 15, 2012 A holiday-themed parody of "Glee" in which Abed tries to persuade each member of the Study Group to join the glee club so that they can qualify for regionals. View Details Show More Episodes Critic Reviews for Community Season 3 All Critics (22) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (2) Remains the smartest, weirdest show on TV... [Community] is deliberately constructed so that Harmon and his writers can drape complex and unrelenting TV-sitcom tropes and pop-culture references all over its scaffolding. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review… Bill Wyman Slate Top Critic I want Harmon to get to keep making his show, but I'll be grateful whether he does or not. Because if I can get three seasons on DVD of a show that never spoiled, or went sour-panicky, or phony-warm, I'll be entirely satisfied. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review… Emily Nussbaum New Yorker Top Critic You have one of the most solid cast that just works... This is the funniest comedy on television. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review… Jeremy Jahns JeremyJahns.com Season 3 was full of great stories, enjoyable character growth and some incredibly strong, memorable episodes. Jan 11, 2019 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review… Robert Canning IGN Movies Felt like it was having difficulty deciding how to grow, both in terms of characterization and format... With everything Community had already accomplished in two seasons, Season 3 floundered a bit. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review… Joe Matar Den of Geek How many sitcoms have enough brilliant, funny, sweet, and heart-achy episodes to allow for the possibility of debate? That's how good Dan Harmon's sitcom has been so far. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review… Dustin Rowles Pajiba Week after week, Community brings depth, story, and character exploration surpassing most network comedies... It's not a stuffy intelligence; it's just brilliantly innovative. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review… Todd Hertz Christianity Today If you want a good belly laugh, tune in. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review… Matt Roush TV Guide What I clearly failed to take into account was Dan Harmon and company's commitment to returning Community to status quo as soon as possible. Jan 11, 2019 | Rating: 7.6/10 | Full Review… Sean Gandert Paste Magazine Sony can criticise Harmon all they want for not making the show commercial enough, but he certainly developed the lives of these characters beautifully over three seasons. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review… Dave Harvey What Culture Team Community once again produced a great season of original and inventive comedy. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review… Emma Matthews Den of Geek I don't know if we'll get those fifth and sixth seasons or a movie, but I know that if this WAS to be its swan song, then we couldn't have asked for a more fitting sendoff. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review… Brian Collins Birth.Movies.Death. View All Critic Reviews (22) Audience Reviews for Community: Season 3 Aug 08, 2020 (all seasons) The subversive humour of the first three seasons, along with the great cast and character chemistry are what makes "Community". The fourth season just feels off, slightly forced even, and the show never fully recovers after that. Its formula - the episodes' identical structure - is increasingly obvious during those last seasons, which, unaided by the cast changes, don't feel that natural. The challenging, original, thought-provoking first three seasons are what "Community" should be lauded for. Petros T Jul 29, 2020 The dysfunctional COMMUNITY students are leading the way in mildly misanthropic adventures. What it does consistently is be a comedy show that doesn't feel like a comedy show. The characters are all kinds of atypical disassociative stereotypes who are also juxtaposed between lovable and loathsome. They're underdogs of an underdog campus - or wait, are they the popular kids at an unpopular campus? We don't know what, if anything, they're learning, but then maybe that's the underlying theme of the whole show, where it doesn't matter really what they learn being that low on the social strata. What can say is this is the last of the long seasons and I'm curious to see how the shorter seasons play out in compressed time. Eric W Jun 24, 2020 Best Season ever, So Funny and creative. Characters just get better. Franco V Jun 10, 2020 Not as good as 2 but still great Chris L May 29, 2020 Iconic, with many standout episodes, including several of the best in the show, and the most consistent season for quality. Anonymous U May 26, 2020 Doesn't have as many memorable moments or episodes but it still has them like Blankets and Pillows which is one of my favorite episodes and it also has a pretty god finale Pop culture C May 26, 2020 It's another great season and great TV. Ozlem T May 11, 2020 While it is not quite as funny as the two previous seasons, it has Remedial Chaos Theory in it so it evens out. The last truly amazing season of the show. Dan L May 09, 2020 The beat part of this show is how innovative it is. You can watch 5 episodes in a row and they could all feel like different genres. Carlos S May 02, 2020 Remedial Chaos Theory is one of the best episodes of the entire series. Kamron H See all Audience reviews News & Features 200 Erotic Movies Coming attractions for you 2020's Most Anticipated Movies What and when to watch Video Game Movies Ranked 43 ranked worst to best Best Netflix Series and Shows What to watch right now More News & Features TOP HEADLINES Best Horror Movies of 2020 Ranked – Rotten Tomatoes Fall TV First Look: Find Out What’s Coming – Rotten Tomatoes The Best Peacock Original Shows and Movies – Rotten Tomatoes 20 Movies To Watch If You Loved Inception – Rotten Tomatoes All Upcoming Disney Movies: New Disney Live-Action, Animation, Pixar, Marvel, and More – Rotten Tomatoes The Best Quibi Shows to Stream Now – Rotten Tomatoes The 64 Most Anticipated Movies of 2020 – Rotten Tomatoes Sundance 2020 Movie Scorecard – Rotten Tomatoes More Headlines Go back More trailers