BWW Recap: Season 6 of COMMUNITY Comes to a Close with 'Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television'

Well, the sixth season of COMMUNITY has come to an end, and unlike in past seasons, where the fate of the show was in limbo like it is now, this finale truly felt like a goodbye.

With the school year at a close, the study group convenes at Britta's bar to talk and discuss their summer plans. Well, everyone expect Elroy, who tells the group he's going to California to work for Linkedin. While at the bar, the group discusses the "season 7" now that six is over. Abed has the group pitch what they think season 7 will be like, and there are a wide array of interesting outcomes: the Dean has a very racist view with Shirley and Elroy saying very stereotypical things; Chang creates a very Rick and Morty-esque new member, Ice Cube Head; Britta's view of the next season is a dark one that includes an equally dark opening sequence; and Frankie can't come up with anything interesting other than Chang farting.

Annie's news of getting an internship with the FBI for the summer leads Jeff to dream up a seventh season that includes everyone staying together and no one ever leaving. Jeff's ideal future is for all of them to be teachers at Greendale, and though it sounds nice to everyone, Abed squashes that dream when he tells the group he's moving to LA to be a Production Assistant on a new FOX show. Everyone is excited for Abed, expect for Jeff, who starts freaking out over the fact that everyone is moving on. Jeff gets so dark that he even imagines strangling multiple Abed's, before he snaps out of it and abruptly leaves the bar.

He ends up at Greendale in the study room, where Annie finds him. Jeff tells her how he feels as if he lost her, and that he feels like he's too old and none of his opinions matter, including those on the "flavorless" Marvel films. Annie tells him that everyone deals with their respective ages and life, and that he'll be ok as long has he, "accept that you're older and let the kids stuff go." Jeff and Annie share one goodbye kiss before the rest of the group shows up to say goodbye.

This was an incredibly touching finale that hit a lot of emotional points for me. The fate of the show is still unknown, but it felt like Dan Harmon and Chris McKenna were saying goodbye with this finale, which if it's true, I would be ok with, because it ended things in a really sweet way.

My favorite moment of the episode was Abed's speech about TV: "[It] has to be joyful, effortless, fun. TV defeats its own purpose when it has its own agenda or is trying to defeat other TV or being proud of ashamed of itself for existing. It's TV. It's comfort. It's a friend you've known so well, and for so long, you just let it be with you. And it needs to be okay for it to have a bad day, or phone in a day. And it needs to be okay to get on a boat with LeVar Burton and never come back, because eventually, it all will." It felt as if Harmon was talking through Abed about how he feels about television, and it rang incredibly true. Also, Abed bringing up Troy and how much that still hurts him broke my heart, but I also love how much Abed has grown in six seasons: he has gone from someone who couldn't accept reality, to someone who uses that to his benefit, getting a job in the industry to make television himself.

In true Dan Harmon fashion, the tag of this episode was incredible and confusing and deep. In the vise of a guise of a Community board game, Harmon addresses the audience with an incredibly fast-paced and semi-emotional rant about the "side effects" of Community. Writing about it can't even do it justice, you just need to watch it.

I really hope this isn't the last time we see the study group, and the #AndAMovie hashtag gave me some hope for an impending film (with Troy I hope!) If not, I am so incredibly glad to have had six, well five, amazing seasons with some of the best comedy writing I have ever seen. Thank you for everything, Community.

A Few Little Things from the Finale:

-The study groups unofficial new name is "Nipple Dippers"

-Annie: "What that's crazy, people use Linkedin?"

-I loved one of Jeff's season 7's where the entire study group consisted of the minor characters and Seth Green, as new Greendale owner Scrunch.

-The Dean finally addressed his lack of costumes all season!! I was waiting for that, and I loved his costume overload.

-TWO f-bombs were dropped in this episode, one by Britta and one by the Dean.

-Chang admits he is "legit gay" during the group hug

-Jeff's current Season 7 future thats full of a table of hot red-headed girls

-Chang: "I farted during the fourth one, it's an inside joke."

-Frankie pointing out how she was a new member, but she "nailed it," which is so very true, Paget Brewester was the perfect addition to this cast, and I only wish she had joined earlier

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Well that's it from me! Thank you so much for joining me on this glorious journey that is COMMUNITY Season 6, and I only hope I have one last thing to recap (#AndAMovie!), but until then, thank you for reading!