Community [US] **SPOILERS**

Holy shít.

They actually did it.

I was only thinking then other day when might be too late for a movie; given the show's love of skewering convention, the plot has to involve the gang reuniting to save Greendale. It's right there.

They need to really bear down for the script here.

Funny thing is, Yvette Nicole Brown has herself spoken out against the removal of the Dungeons and Dragons episode as an "over correction" and said that anyone who played D&D would know Chang was being a dark elf, not wearing blackface.

The downside is the whole episode was a great, sympathetic examination of bullying and depression, the group intervening for someone really in trouble - but twitchy executives had their say, ironically ignoring the views of Brown who would have had a more legitimate say on the issue.

The Community YouTube channel was airing a single episode per week fadó, and even that skipped the D&D episode during the Season 2 run so it's an enduring, across-the-board decision it seems; but of course the YT comments sections are full of people agitating to restore the D&D episode.

Like you said nobody complained about it, and most people understood the context - going double cos Community was always so niche its audience was by default quite plugged-in to these kind of references. It's especially odd too given the current trend is to keep the thing and just slap some text at the front about it maybe being offensive to some. Boom, problem solved.

But when the actual black people on your show are saying "guys, it's not a problem", it's funny how the executive tier just don't listen / care. In of itself not a great look and kinda ironic how her voice and agency isn't heard here in the pursuit to avoid presumed prejudice. No idea if Glover has weighed in on the topic either.