'Community' isn't a sitcom — it's a weekly satire of the sitcom genre

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http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...munity/238740/

"The show's real subject," as Hampton Stevens points out, "is mass media, especially the conceits, tropes, and conventions of TV and movies. Just as Jeff and Britta aren't a real TV courtship, 'Community' isn't actually a sitcom—not any more than The Onion is an actual news-gathering organization. 'Community,' instead, is a weekly satire of the sitcom genre, a spoof of pop culture in general, and an occasionally profound critique of how living in mass media society can mess up human relationships in the real world. It's also funny, too. Some of that "profound critique" comes disguised in the form of boob jokes."