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A quick review of this week's "Community" — which you can watch on Yahoo Screen — coming up just as soon as I'm here for the Such... A lot of this season has involved Dan Harmon, Chris McKenna and company — here represented by writers assistant Briggs Hatton, who not only wrote the episode but was the subject of the incest-obsessed tag — slapping new coats of paint on very familiar "Community" episode types. Sometimes, that hasn't worked, as you might expect from any comedy — and particularly one as idiosyncratic and experimental as this one — in its sixth season. But last week's paintball episode and this week's mockumentary one have easily been the season's best, suggesting that even in old age, "Community" can be "Community." "Wedding Videography" wasn't just a return to the fake documentary format, but one of those periodic episodes that looks at whether the group is ultimately a force for good or evil,...

This week's wedding-themed episode of Community is so near the knuckle, it could only be made on the internet...

This review contains spoilers.

6.12 Wedding Videography

“Britta, tonight every one of us is the worst. Take a night off.”

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today for a sitcom wedding. But one week after another paintball episode, Community gives us Wedding Videography, an episode that is way closer to Game Of Thrones than Friends. In short, the kind of episode so ballsy and leftfield, you could only make it on the internet.

In the same style as the previous Documentary Filmmaking episodes of seasons two, three and four, Abed is strictly behind the camera this week. Fellow student and oft-mocked “human spillage” Garrett (Eric Charles Nielsen) wants Abed to film his marriage proposal to Stacy, (Harmontown's Erin McGathy.) his Law classmate and girlfriend of the past 16 months, four weeks and two days.