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
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
Britta mentions in season 1 or 2 that her cat died. Also in the halloween episode of season 2 there is a cat in a basement filled with zombies, so I presume that it died.
halloween episode season 3 decorations and a picture on the wall in biology teachers office. halloween episode season 4 decoration in early shot right after opening credits. season 5 episode 9 theme is second half is sky spiders
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
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.
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
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, 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
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
"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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
There’s a joke about a man who wears dresses actually being a transgender woman (not true, played for laughs). Also a character claims his mother would berate him for not being a girl, and make him wear a princess tiara.
“Advanced Dungeons and Dragons” but it’s kind of a weird example since a character covers himself in BLACK black body paint to cosplay a dark elf but everyone makes jokes about how awkward it is such as calling him Al Joson. Several streaming platforms were at least offended enough to take the episode out of rotation despite being an otherwise acclaimed episode
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
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