The case: someone desecrated the Study Group’s biology project (a yam), leading everyone in different crime procedural roles with Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown) taking the lead, Troy and Abed imposing questions, Jeff and Annie prosecuting suspects in trial, Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase) providing information, and Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs) working in a lab.
If there is one thing that Dan Harmon is impeccably good at, it is parodies that act more as earnest recreations of the subject material that happen to focus on ridiculous situations, and this Community mystery presented in the style of an episode of Law & Order, right down to the donk donk sound in between scene transitions, is an undeniable highlight.