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Why You
Won’t Find Community Season 2 Episode 14 On Any Streaming Service
By JEREMY SMITH
Episode 14 of Season 2 of “Community” follows Jeff’s attempts to cheer up Neil, who has been bullied to near suicide after Jeff got people to call him “fat Neil.”
Ben Chang attends the game of Dungeons & Dragons that Jeff organizes for Neil while cosplaying a black elf, complete with black makeup and a white wig.
Due to Chang’s appearance in the episode resembling blackface, the episode was removed from streaming services in 2020 as racial tensions began to spike.
The inexcusable nature of Chang’s blackface is made clear in the episode itself, as Yvette Nicole Brown's Shirley says, "So we're just going to ignore the hate crime, huh?"
In a 2021 piece for The New York Times, creator Dan Harmon says of the episode, "It's gone, and it's fine that it's gone. It also is probably the best episode of 'Community.'"