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Community (2009), Season 5 — 13 episodes of sharp sitcom to watch online on iFILM. A year after graduating, Jeff is back at Greendale — this time on the other side of the lectern.
The season flips its central dynamic. Jeff teaches law and shares an office with Buzz Hickey (Jonathan Banks), a gruff criminology professor who becomes the group's unlikely new anchor. The losses arrive early: Pierce is dead, and his will includes a mandatory polygraph session that forces everyone's private business into the open — things the group has spent five years carefully not saying. Troy's last day at Greendale is staged as a campus-wide floor-is-lava game, and his absence quietly resets what the group looks like. By the final two episodes, the school board votes to sell Greendale to a corporate chain, and the gang forms a Save Greendale Committee to stop it.
Dan Harmon was away for season four and came back for five — the difference shows. The jokes are sharper, the character work blunter, and the season is more willing to sit with what everyone has lost. Stream Community Season 5 online on iFILM.
13 episodes
S5·E1Repilot
With his law practice doomed, Jeff returns to Greendale to start a class action suit against the school, but a hologram of Pierce has him reconsider.
S5·E2Introduction to Teaching
Abed tackles a two-day crash course on Nicolas Cage, while a clueless Jeff begins his teaching career with Annie as his most demanding student.
S5·E3Basic Intergluteal Numismatics
With the mysterious Ass Crack Bandit back at Greendale, Annie and Jeff are on the case. As clues and suspicions mount, Shirley delivers shocking news.
S5·E4Cooperative Polygraphy
Pierce's funeral leaves the study group with mixed feelings, especially after their late tormentor leaves one last test to reveal everyone's secrets.
S5·E5Geothermal Escapism
For Troy's last day at Greendale, Abed holds a campus-wide "hot lava" fantasy game. With a comic book worth $50,000 as the prize, it's an all-out war.
S5·E6Analysis of Cork-Based Networking
While Annie and Hickey's fight to get a bulletin board repaired spirals out of control, Abed and Britta go to war over spoilers of his favorite show.
S5·E7Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality
Jeff counsels a smitten Duncan on how to get a date with Britta but is developing feelings of his own. An angry Hickey tries to teach Abed a lesson.
S5·E8App Development and Condiments
A new caste system takes over when Greendale beta tests an app that ranks everyone. Shirley loves her new status, but Jeff and Britta want it stopped.
S5·E9VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing
Abed and Annie try to solve their new roommate dilemma with a retro VCR game, while Jeff, Shirley and Hickey hatch a plan to sell stolen textbooks.
S5·E10Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
To help Hickey be a more involved grandfather, which means patching up a bad relationship with his son, the gang creates an epic role-playing game.
S5·E11G.I. Jeff
Jeff's depression over turning 40 leads him to drink himself unconscious. In his dreams, he and the gang are part of the "G. I. Joe" cartoon team.
S5·E12Basic Story
The Save Greendale Committee's success is short-lived when the board votes for a corporate sellout, but Pelton, Annie and Abed might find a solution.
S5·E13Basic Sandwich
To save Greendale from being sold, the gang searches for an eccentric computer science professor's legendary treasure hidden beneath the school.
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