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The Best Banned ‘Community’ Episode Is Back on Streaming

Fat Neil fans, rejoice — D&D is back on the menu.

For reasons known only to those who worked in sitcom writers’ rooms in the late-2000s-to-early-2010s, just about every beloved comedy series from that period that has stood the test of time featured at least one blackface gag that hasn’t. 30 Rock had multiple episodes featuring white actors in Black makeup, all of which were pulled from streaming services at the request of Tina Fey, among others. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia tackled the touchy subject of blackface with their signature over-the-top tastelessness in a few episodes and specials, all of which faced similar removals. And, for years, the classic Community episode “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” was unavailable for streaming due to a couple of scenes that feature a certain Chang’s decision to cosplay as a “drow,” a pitch-black dark elf from the D&D universe, with all the misguided makeup choices that accompany it.

Christina Applegate Reveals Secrets of Chris Farley’s First Matt Foley Sketch on ‘SNL’

Chris Farley’s first sketch as Matt Foley has long been Saturday Night Live legend, probably the first clip shown in any Farley retrospective. Part of the hilarity is thanks to the inability of Christina Applegate and David Spade to keep a straight face during Farley’s furious tirade. But according to Applegate on this week’s Fly on the Wall podcast, the cracking up started long before Farley even entered the scene.  

Applegate was already losing it because she and Spade were coming straight off another sketch featuring the recurring Gap Girls characters. 

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