Mockumentaries
Season 2 Episode “Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking”
Taking a shot at The Office, Parks & Recreation, Modern Family and various shows that used a fake documentary as a conceit to bring the audience into the world of these characters and explore stories within the world as voyeurs of the events, Community gave Abed a film camera and e started to film the study group after Pierce ODs on pills.
A dark storyline that is played out with some surprisingly intense sequences as each member of the study group is pitted against one another in a Pierce Hawthorne scheme, and the threat of meeting his father throws Jeff Winger through a ringer. With narration from Abed talking about the simplicity of telling a story with voice over, insert shots and talking heads offering exposition, it hits the nail on the head of the mockumentary sitcom structure that plagued the late 00s television line-up.
