What is Community's IQ Score?

Community has an IQ Score of 129/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 38/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 21/50 Educational Value, and 39/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Community educational?

Community is low on educational value, 21/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Community IQ Score 129/200

Community has an IQ Score of 129/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-08-19·Methodology

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129/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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The Verdict

Best forComedy nerds who collect format experiments, paintball epics and claymation Christmas

Skip ifYou want one steady register; the genre pastiche episodes are the whole attraction

Use it asA running seminar on TV formats that parodies each genre while nailing its mechanics

Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3.1

Formula

round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)

Database scale

2,605 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Dan Harmon's NBC/Yahoo sitcom set at a community college whose structural commitment to genre-experiment episodes (Dungeons & Dragons, claymation Christmas, paintball-as-action-film) is what separates it from its single-camera-comedy peers. Donald Glover, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Joel McHale anchor an ensemble whose specific cognitive textures are the show's actual subject.

People & Production Dan Harmon · Universal Television · NBC 20 connections