one of it's best as the characters gave a heartfelt goodbye to each other and the viewers. Before the final farewells, the group wondered how their non-existent seventh year at Greendale would look. Although, as Community is known for it's meta humor, they didn't call it a seventh year but a seventh season. And each character pitched their ideas for it.
All these years later and the imaginary scenarios that the group came up with are the closet thing fans have had to a continuation of the series - despite the constant rumors of a movie. But which of these outrageous pitches would've worked best as a real seventh season?
Choking Abed
This is the shortest and least complex scenario. After Abed reveals that he's moving to Los Angelos, an angry Jeff imagines a season 7 where he constantly chokes clones of Abed to death.
It's a hilarious little gag, but of course, it wouldn't work as a full season of a TV show. Abed wouldn't even be able to deliver any of his laugh-out-loud lines as he'd be too busy struggling to breathe.
Dull Greendale
As the most serious and professional member of the Save Greendale Committee, it's no surprise that Frankie's pitch isn't too exciting.
In it, the whole group sits around the study table and politely interacts with each other. Annie then chimes in and suggests they take a class together, before setting up a single fart joke. It would make for an incredibly dull seventh season, and Frankie deservedly got napkins thrown at her for suggesting it.
Greendale Becomes Its Own Nation
In Britta's pitch, the school somehow moves to international waters and becomes an independent nation. Plus, the Dean is openly transgender and a lot more serious.
Naturally, the group criticizes Britta's vision. And while they can often be overly horrible to Britta, their rejection of her pitch is warranted. The whole thing is way too bleak and serious for Greendale.
Jeff And The Women
This one is less of a pitch and more of a fantasy for Jeff. It consists of the teacher staying at Greendale with a bunch of attractive young women.
The personalities of the new group aren't shown as none of them get to speak. Yet, Jeff won't care, as it's clear that he didn't add them to the group because of their wit. A man over 40 pursuing young girls isn't Community.
Ice Cube Head
Unsurprisingly Chang's pitch is bizarre. Shirley and Elroy's place in the group is taken by an animated character with an Ice Cube for a head. The new group member eats phones and can solve problems with his magical powers.
While it's certainly different from the rest of the show, it's so outrageous that it could be entertaining. Yet, there's also a chance that the new character could get annoying very quickly.
Elroy And Shirley
The main focus of the Dean's vision is to include both Elroy and Shirley as well as an extra black person. A noble attempt at representation, except it leads to Elroy awkwardly sitting in-between Annie and Shirley with the new guy in the background.
Furthermore, Elroy and Shirley are presented in an offensively stereotypical way during the pitch. Although, a season 7 with both of those characters and their original personalities would be good - particularly if it leads to a better ending for Shirley.
Jeff And The Side Characters
Perennial side characters Garrett, Leonard, Todd, Vicky, and Dave, Jeff in this version of season 7, along with the new billionaire owner of Greendale, Scrunch.
While this vision is brought on by Jeff's fears of everybody leaving him, it's actually got some potential. Getting a deeper look at some of the beloved secondary characters could be great. And the inclusion of a rich guy would allow them to go on crazy adventures with a built-in explanation for how they paid for everything. However, most viewers would miss the main cast too much.
Annie And Jeff
A large percentage of Community fans would've loved if Jeff ended up with Annie and this version of season 7 grants that wish. During it, the two are a married couple with a kid called Sebastian.
The child doesn't seem like he plays a big part in the show as he stays in the "kid area." But the season would allow the series to truly explore the relationship between Jeff and Annie instead of dancing around it as the other seasons did. However, the ones who disliked the idea of the duo together wouldn't be pleased. Furthermore, shifting focus from a group to just two characters would be too big of a change.
Police Procedural
At first, this seems like a normal season of Community except with Annie having to commute from the FBI headquarters to Greendale. The concept changes though once the Dean rushes in to inform Britta that her parents have been murdered. It then becomes a police procedural where Annie has to find the culprit.
The pitch gives a reason for Annie to stay at Greendale - albeit in a pretty contrived way. And Community has had some great homage episodes, including "Basic Lupine Urology," which paid tribute to the popular police procedural, Law & Order. So they've already proved that they can pull off episodes like this.
The Regular Formula
The initial pitch in the episode is from Abed, and his version sticks with season 6's regular formula, except with Shirley coming back to replace Elroy.
He also has the characters be so self-aware that they talk in abstracts. For example, instead of delivering one of his classic one-liners, Jeff simply says, "abusively cynical one-liner dismissing everything you just said." The abstracts are just placeholders for what they'd actually say. In reality, this vision of season 7 is typical Community, which is a great thing.