Community (TV Series)

Aroview: Carried by a passionate internet following, this savvy American sitcom centred on the lives of seven disparate adults who form a study group while attending a fictional community college nails the oft-tried but rarely perfected strain of meta-humour and pop-cultural reference in TV comedy.

A natural descendant of 30 ROCK, yet more imaginative than anything else on television, a good portion of the show's humour is reserved for the absurdity of "adult learning" (the college they attend is essential high school for grown-ups), and the quotability of its larger-than-life characters (a revived Chevy Chase among them), while proceedings are often allowed to stray into a weird "fourth-dimension", where episodes depart from the main storyline to take on a life of their own.