
Their father/son conflict was perhaps most interesting in what it didn’t reveal: according to Hank, Hickey treats grandchildren as trophies. It’s hard to go wrong with David Cross ( Arrested Development), and Hickey is still marked in my books as pure fun. If forced to pick a side, I’d call “Advanced Advanced Dungeons and Dragons” a miss, but it’s a near miss, and one that was pleasant to watch.

That made me both excited and dubious about this episode, as Community’s track record on remakes is filled with hits and misses. The Season Two episode “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons” has the arbitrary honor of being the first Community episode I watched.

“Was everyone’s takeaway from last time that we can use D&D to reprogram brains?”
