The show's appeal is its quick-paced surrealism. It literally smacks you out of left field time and time again. Whatever Harmon brought to the table with wit or mania (you choose) is missing in the later episodes. The show is becoming too paced, too deep, and too ordinary. It's shifting gears into a silly "Scrubs"-type show when the fun of "Community" was its defiance of any conventional genre. It HAD A style all its own, an that seems to be slipping away. Maybe it's just getting long in the tooth, but I'd love to see it return to its roots. The paint-ball episodes, for example, were extraordinary! Regardless of the show's ability live up to its roots of being unbelievably random, there's also the problem of making some of the characters too farcical; primarily the dean and Chang. The dean's character has become too incredibly 1-dimensional for the show, with his cross-dressing and Winger-lust, and frankly, nothing else. While Chang is the token fringe character that is wholly under-utilized and so periphery that it begs the question "why is he even in the show at all?" I think Chang needs more connection and more screen time, or cut the poor guy loose.