'Community' Gets Animated Once More in 'G.I. Joe' Parody Episode

No stranger to special episodes, the folks at Community are getting animated once more. They've been reimagined as 8-bit and stop-motion characters as well as puppets before. This time they'll get the G.I. Joe treatment as animated action heroes like the beloved '80s toy-based cartoon. And like Joes of the past they also have codenames. Jeff (Joel McHale) as Wingman, Annie (Alison Brie) as Tight Ship, Britta (Gillian Jacobs) as Buzzkill, and Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) as Three Kids. Executive producer, Chris McKenna told Entertaintment Weekly why this episode was especially significant:

“[G.I. Joe] was something from our childhood that was very important to us and we had fond memories of it, and we thought it would be a cool way to do another animated episode...This one has a very specific story reason for it. I don’t want to give too much away, but our characters find themselves on a Wizard of Oz-type journey through the world of G.I. Joe...There’s a mystery that Jeff in particular has to get to the bottom of...At the end of a day it’s a Community episode...and it’s actually a significant one.”

The special episode entitled 'G.I. Jeff' debuts on April 3 on NBC. Yo Joe!