But aside from that, everyone graduates and everyone fails. In Season Five, Pierce dies and Troy leaves. Chang with his dictatorship and Abed even developing an evil split personality.

The entire gang gets banned from campus, and both Abed and Chang's behavior get worse. And in another episode, Jeff is hinted at being the most toxic of the group. In Season Three, Pierce comes back and Jeff gets kicked out and goes nuts. Pierce antagonizes a suicidal student and at the end of the season is kicked out of the group for real. Troy has a bad birthday, the group fights in earnest and even splits up in the first episode. For the most part, everyone likes each other and the season ends with a party and a dance. Annie is going to transfer in two years to a real college. Jeff is going to get his diploma in four years and get back to being a rich lawyer. In Season One, everything is lighthearted and optimistic. The show, possibly split between inadvertent and on purpose, gets darker as the seasons go on. I didn't think about it at the time, but it's true. In an actually unrelated google search recently, I came across an old thread that talked about how depressing Community gets as the seasons go on.

Official website (NBC) list of episodes.

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