Jeff's father ran away from him and his mother when he was 8, it is mentioned, but at the time of the show it has been ~25 years, however, he is still dealing with trauma
In season 6, convicts are allowed to attend the school through remote controlled iPads on sticks. One follows and taunts Jeff before trying to push him down the staircase, however, he fails. Played for laughs.
it is heavily alluded to that Britta was molested. Never explictly stated in the show. Dan Harmon confirms she was molested and her father did not believe her. Her relationship with her parents is very strained.
In season 3 Chang has a bunch of preteen boys under his control as police officers in order to take over Greendale
S03E03 (Comparative Ecology) a flaming piece of paper is accidentally dropped onto a turtle, while out of view. The turtle is assumed to be fine afterward.
to add to the above comment, fake spiders and pictures of spiders, then in Advanced Advanced Dungeons and Dragons spiders are mentioned but I'm pretty sure none are shown (watched the episode like a week ago)
Not intentionally but Jeff texts Britta’s underage nephew some gross stuff he thinks is from her in the season three episode with the drug play, as he thinks hes helping britta flirt with a potential boyfriend, but it is her nephew, who is really into it and his aunt and its really gross
Pierce says his ingame DND character r*pes Neil’s character’s entire family a couple times which sucks. this episode was taken off the air though so if you don’t pirate it you don’t have to watch it
Pierce makes a joke about being "corn-holed" by the engagement party guests if they order expensive food, right before Britta says that Troy had been molested.
Chang's right hand is bitten by Britta's cat when he tries to reach for him under the couch. He spends the whole episode trying to find the nurse and his hand gets more and more swollen.
No but in one episode a safety checker discusses how many safety checkers die from being crushed by vending machines and proceeds to shake it violently to try and get it to fall, but it doesn’t so he lives.
Jeff is choked in anthropology class by the teacher who is then suspended, and later in season six Jeff chokes Abed during ‘Intro to Recycled Filmmaking’ after cutting his role in his crappy movie. In the finale of season six, he also imagines choking many clones of Abed. It’s a bad out of character season for Jeff
In S3e5, two characters are sewn together by their arms. The process of the stitching is not shown, but the end result is. It is played as a parody of horror movies and played for laughs (for instance, it gives them mind powers). In the same episode, a different character's hands and feet are swapped (by being cut off and sewn) and his butt is attached to his chest. Again, it is played as a joke.
Technically yes; one of the characters' "darkest timeline" selves loses an arm. It is not shown being amputated but the lack of arm is shown afterwards several times.
No, however there is a hangman drawing (the game) in the intro/ opening of every episode. The opening song also says 'we could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year'. This may sound ridiculous but it can be jarring and triggering for someone affected by hanging, specifically.
No, but at the end of Virtual Estate Planning Troy and Abed discuss having to raise an infant together that they believe was left in the study room, but it is revealed that the mother was there the whole time
Abed is heavily implied to be autistic and is played by a neurotypical actor. Although created by a (self-diagnosed ,but still) autistic person so there’s some slight grey areas
a lake is briefly shown, the aftermath of a raft popping is shown (the characters are just wet) and characters are pretending to be drowning (think dnd) on two occasions
kind of but not really. in one episode abed and troy pretend to switch bodies (doing a freaky friday homage) so abed can break up with troy's girlfriend for him. it wasn't real but they did it pretty convincingly and most of the cast played along. in the same episode the dean pretends to switch bodies with jeff but it's much more obvious
chang briefly has a pretend romantic relationship with a mannequin leg, i believe at the beginning of season 3. it's brought up a few times later in the show. the school mascot, the greendale human being, somewhat resembles a mannequin. it is creepy on purpose for comedic effect. it appears regularly throughout the show
One story is told where a boy pees his pants (“Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism” S3E9,) and another story is told where a man poops his pants (“Critical Film Studies” S2E18.) The latter is revealed to be made up.
"Community Season 2 Episode 13: Celebrity Pharmacology 212" - While they are putting on the drug education play, Pierce bends over with his butt in the direction of Jeff's coffin and acts like he's farting on top of him
At some point in Annie's story, Jeff reveals himself to be a vampire and opens up a closet, in which Britta, full of bites, falls in his arms. Vampire Jeff sucks Britta's blood once more.
Also in “Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” (S5E10) the we hear the sound of someone being impaled on a sword, though this doesn’t actually happen outside their imagination, it’s still an unpleasant sound
No depiction, however it is referenced.
~1:46 - The 9/11 attacks are referenced early in the episode when Jeff is talking to Professor Ian Duncan - "I still cannot figure out how you got a jury to connect September the 11th with my DUI, let alone why that helped."
This site's definition of copaganda is strictly about cops breaking the law, which I don't believe happens (and is a broken premise), but there are definitely cops portrayed as sympathetic, necessary and generally good guys.
the dean isn’t trans but is gender non- conforming (and gay) and there are occasional “jokes” or references to those things as an umbrella as him being a “pervert” or them being a “lifestyle choice”- all pretty lighthearted though
There's no deadnaming, although characters keep calling Neil ''Fat Neil'', which leads to his depression and suicidal thoughts in s02e14. (Netflix's removed episode)
once where the characters are pictured briefly in straightjackets spewing nonsense, and another when a psychiatrist is trying to convince them that theyve been in a mental institution and were collectively hallucinating Greendale and all of their journeys in the college
It's not shown on screen, but in S4 E5, Jeff tells his estranged father about a time when he self harmed as a child. He does show the scar (and it is just one), but it doesn't look like a "typical" self harm scar.
Abed is heavily implied to be autistic. Some traits are played for laughs but it’s mostly to enchance his character rather than mock him (even if it occasionally still happens mind you)
The character Chang often threatens and commits acts of (minor) violence that are chalked up to him “just being crazy”. He is used to conflate mental illness and violence throughout the show
Not really, as it is only mentioned once in one episode where Troy mistakenly says he ‘hopes he gets multiple personality disorder, because he gets lonely in the shower’ and mpd is a term that used to be used for did but is largely inaccurate and many people dislike
Though he denies that it was a suicide attempt, Jeff drinks a lot of scotch and overdoses on pills in this episode and hallucinates being in G.I. Joe, then wakes up in the hospital, having lived from his overdose. He claims it was an accident and he just didn’t want to be older. This has concerning implications however, because Jeff as a character makes a lot of jokes about suicide notes and killing himself and it can easily be seen as an actual suicide attempt, even though he says it isn’t. Jeff Winger is also not known for telling the truth, so idk. just be careful with this episode if this is something that bothers you.
Jeff has an unhealthy relationship with his body and it is mentioned in multiple occasions throughout the series. They never seriously adress it though (in some episodes things relating to that problem are minor plot points and while the episode itself "resolves" it in a way but problem never goes away or is implied to be getting better and actually gets worse) and the character is reluctant to admit it most of the time
No, but in "Advanced dungeons and dragons" Neil is harassed over his weight and it could be triggering for some. Jeff winger is shown to have an unhealthy relationship with food and his weight. Annie and britta are referred to as "skinny bitches" and "anorexic jezebels", which could possibly be triggering. Shirely is told that she needs to "check the door before she goes through it", reffering to her weight.
Several times throughout the show.
In season 1, episode 1 ~1:14-1:45 minutes in Jeff is watching Britta from afar while trying to get information about her to pursue her romantically/ sexually.
There is a lot of discrimination against the autistic character by other characters, as well as references to him being severely bullied in the past. Most of the jokes about autism are written by an autistic writer, however may be mistakenly interpreted as ableist if the viewer is not aware of this. Some of the ableism is the show is addressed, some is not.
The dean often wears feminine clothes and is made fun of for it. There are also a few other comments by characters that imply they only see supporting trans people as a way to earn brownie points rather than a legitimate issue. Troy and Pierce are manipulated into wearing “lady’s pantsuits” for laughs as well.
~1:00 - Abed describes his dad as Palestinian and promptly clarifies that he is not a threat to National Security, which people want to know as he has 'angry energy'.
~9:20 - Pierce calls Abed 'Abed the Arab' pronounced 'Ay-bed' the 'Ay-rab', possibly in reference to the 1962 racially stereotyping song, 'Ahab, The Arab'.
'I was raised on TV, and I was conditioned to believe that every black woman over 50 is a cosmic mentor.' - Jeff to the study group (including Shirley, a middle aged black woman).
~10:18 Shirley becomes angry and describes an act of violence (grabbing the back of someone's head and pushing it through a jukebox). It is later confirmed in the same episode that this almost certainly occured, and later in the show is definitively confirmed. This is the first instance of violence described/ referenced in the show and plays into the 'angry black woman' stereotype/ trope.
~10:18 - Shirley references grabbing the back of someone's head and pushing it through a jukebox. This particular act is referenced throughout the show, as Shirley did this to a sex worker ('stripper').
there's the dnd episode with dark-elf-face, but there's also what I believe is brownface in the fist chang dynasty. Pierce dresses up in a swami outfit and I'm pretty sure his skin is darkened. It's not too noticable tho.
romantic tension is shown between jeff and annie, annie is 18 when the series starts and jeff is presumably in his late twenties or early thirties. troy and britta also date for a while with troy being 19 at the beginning of the show and britta being around jeffs age
No bestiality, the dean does have a fetish of dalmatian patterns. In the episode, he hires a dalmatian mascot and is implied to have a romantic connection by calling the mascot his soulmate.
S6E12 a M/F couple learn that they are cousins and decide to stay together anyway. It's played up as humorous and the term incest is used. At the end of the episode there's a sort of PSA from that episode's writer about misconceptions re: offspring of incest between cousins.
There is one episode where characters pretend to have dementia and at the end of the episode it turns out one of the characters does have it. Mostly played for laughs
a character has no place to stay for a while and crashes at the houses of other characters. in s4 he is found at a fish farm and is used for free labor for a little bit (not shown)
One of the characters is very religious and occasionally makes off-handed comments about abortion in a negative tone (though it’s treated humorously by the show)
The show has a bittersweet ending. While it’s a happy ending for Annie and Abed as they leave hopeful about their characters, it’s a pretty sad ending for Jeff. He’s left behind by his friends, still struggling with alcoholism, and in a job he hates.
Mostly from Epidemiology when students in the school are biting each other after a zombie outbreak. A couple wounds are shown and star burns bites someone graphically as well as the whole cast being taken out one by one.
Chang at some point gets bitten by a cat and it swells disturbingly.
Pierce gets shot in the leg in Remedial Chaos Theory and blood comically shoots out of it.
In the episode where they tell scary stories a couple of the scenes have gore or body horror.
In the first paintball episode Jeff gets a splatter of blood on his shirt but it just looks like paint. That’s all I could think of