Community season 5, episode 12, “Basic Story (Part 1)” airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. In the first part of the finale, Subway plots to buy Greendale.
Among the many great moments in it’s windingly-excessive product placement history, Community struck gold with Subway in season 3, episode 13, “Digital Exploration of the Interior Design.”
That was the episode with Travis Schuldt guest starring as a student named “Subway,” as the sub shop opened up in the Greendale cafeteria*.
*There was also a frivolous bit with pillow forts and a character named… am I saying this right? “Troy Barnes?”
Now, in the first part of the Community season 5 finale, “Basic Story (Part 1)”, Subway is making a return. But this time, instead of taking over the cafeteria, they plan of taking over the whole school.
Naturally the only people who can stop this corporate encroachment is the Save Greendale crew.
Dean Pelton will let Annie and Abed in on a crucial detail of Greendale’s history and set them on a path to save Greendale… yet again.
Official synopsis of ‘Basic Story (Part 1)’
As Subway makes plans to purchase the Greendale campus for their own Subway University, the study group members contemplate the end of an era. Jeff (Joel McHale) considers a generous offer of employment he has received from Subway, while Britta (Gillian Jacobs) considers an offer she has received from Jeff. Meanwhile, Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) tells Annie (Alison Brie) and Abed (Danny Pudi) about Greendale’s first Dean Russell Borchert (Chris Elliott), which leads to an interesting and potentially lucrative discovery in the walls of Greendale.
Photos from ‘Community’ season 5, episode 12 ‘Basic Story (Part 1)’: Jeff and Britta do WHAT now?
Watch ‘Community’ season 5 online
Episodes of Community season 5 are available on both NBC.com and Hulu the morning after the episode airs. Hulu also offers the most recent five episodes, as well as the entire series for Hulu Plus users. Community season 5 is also available on iTunes on a per-episode basis or with a season pass.