pilot script review

 community pilot script - Zachary Cook

the pilot episode features on the character of Jeff Crocker (name Changed to Jeff Winger in actual pilot episode), and his attempt at trying to get the character Britta to go on a date with him which he does in creating a fake study group of misfit students across campus in his spanish class. the plot of the show sees Jeff being sent to Community college after being found out with a fake law degree. in the early pages of the pilot we can see Jeff trying to bargain his way through an easy college life by bribing an old client who is a porfessor at the school. this is a personal goal and shows Jeff if a character who will say and do anyhting he needs to to get what he wants.

the main conflict in the script starts when Professor Duncan (Jeff's old client)  agrees to give him the test answers and Jeff returns to Britta and Abed who have invited more people from their spanish class into the fake study group Jeff created causing tension between all the characters who all have some little arguments with each other due to previous unseen interactions with each other.

the conflict is resolved when Jeff is forced to leave the study group and it is revealed the answers are fake and he sits on a bench defeated. this is when the rest of the study group come out of the library and sees him on the bench dejected. they walk over and eventually, with britta begrudingly doing so, inviting him back into the study group so he doesn't flunk his classes. this resolves the episode conflict of jeff starting a study group to get into Britta's pants but sets up the show arc and storyline and conflict of passing spanish class and graduating community college so Jeff can be a lawyer again.

overall the pilot episode of community sets up the series really well setting up the relationships between the characters and creating a lasting conflict throughout that everyone is working against. it suggests Jeff won't have an easy journey ahead but as long as he learns to be more human and connect with his study group he will conquer his challenges.