Community have done episodes featuring old school video game, stop-motion and even anime segments before, but this week they’re going to tackle traditional TV animation — cartoons, if you will — for the first time. The episode’s influence is obvious by its title, “G.I. Jeff,” but as Yvette Nicole Brown (“Shirley”) explained, “Just know, it's truly a G.I. Joe episode.”
Yes, much of this episode has the gang in animated form, interacting with G.I. Joe. No, not a team that resembles G.I. Joe - this is the actual team, as seen on the 1980s G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series. The episode was done in conjunction with Hasbro, and Community creator Dan Harmon told me, “The weird thing was how cooperative they were. Not that we maligned their product in any way, but their product is a syndicated, children's cartoon with a different rating than ours, so it's like part of the point of the episode is that there's a different sensibility within this world. So I thought they'd have more problems than they did with the idea of Jeff Winger's G.I. Joe character accidentally killing people. But they were cool with that!”
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