Arrested Development and Community are not only two of the most beloved TV shows of all time but they're also two of the most constantly beleaguered. Loving them can be quite the rollercoaster as both shows have been canceled and revived, with persistent talk of much-wanted movies always swirling around but never really materializing into something concrete.

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If you've always wondered what it was that makes each so devoutly adored then you'll probably have to just go ahead and watch them to truly find out. But this list aims to highlight the most stand-out qualities from each show and why they arguably make each of them the best comedy series ever.

Community: Background Gags

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While Arrested Development prefers to hide its subtler gags in plain sight so fans can slap themselves for missing them the first 10 times, Community contains a number of incredible gags and details that never draw attention to themselves and are all the more mindblowing when you finally notice them as a result.

Both shows can be viewed multiple times with each rewatching feeling like a new experience, especially because of the next point on this list.

Arrested Development: Running Jokes

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Community is made up of an ensemble of very distinct characters but the running jokes attributed to the lives of Arrested Development's characters are truly next level.

The show will often make jokes that don't pay off until later in the season rather than just later in the episode and the reincorporation of old jokes throughout the show feels far less like throwbacks and resting on its laurels and more like one of the most tightly written TV series ever made. It also results in obsessive theorizing on the part of fans, such as with the consistently teased idea that David Cross' character, Dr. Tobias Fünke, is actually a black man with an albino-like skin condition.

Community: Genre Parody

While Arrested Development certainly parodies a number of different genres, it's done in a way that never really breaks from the house style, so to speak. Community, on the other hand, pours everything it can into its chosen genre in one particular scene or episode and can deviate vastly from the central reality of the show for a short time.

Action movies, zombie movies, space exploration movies, procedural detective shows, documentary, and Westerns are all up for grabs when Community puts its mind to it and the commentary that the show makes is always deeply insightful and funny.

Arrested Development: The Ultimate Straight Man

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It's hard to rank Community and Arrested Development based on performances or casting because both shows do such an incredible job in both of those fields. Arrested Development retains far more of its core cast than Community does but Community's replacements for lost cast members were always terrific, even if it meant that certain actors didn't get as much of a chance to truly shine in their roles as others. But Arrested Development has one ace up its sleeve.

Gob, Lindsay, Tobias, Buster, Maeby, Lucille, George Sr., and George Michael are all funny enough to have an entire show based solely around any of them but Jason Bateman's turn as Michael Bluth provides the perfect straight man to the family's insanity. Michael is the best, and worst, parts of each of his relatives in an adorkably relatable way with Bateman's often-silent performance amplifying some of the funniest lines of the entire show.

Community: Theme Episodes

While Arrested Development is more of an overall experience, where events in the overarching narrative are more important than individual episodes, Community could deviate wildly from what the show establishes as the norm for an episode and then return to the standard set up the next week.

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This allowed the show to put on huge event episodes with impressively realized running themes as ambitious as a musical, various forms of animation, and even exploration of chaos theory.

Arrested Development: Never a Dull Season

There are so many of Arrested Development's greatest qualities that you can also apply to Community but this, sadly, isn't one of them. Whilst certainly not the worst thing ever, Community's fourth season was far more controversial with fans than even Arrested Development's and it simply feels like an entirely different, and considerably worse, show.

Arrested Development on the other hand, whilst certainly somewhat contentious with fans' expectations in the Netflix seasons, has the same great level of writing and acting throughout. Each and every season can be deep-dived into with a mountain of hidden treasures to find in every episode.

Community: Precision Timing

The precision that creator Dan Harmon insisted on with the show's character developments and humor would ultimately lead to its initial downfall but the results spoke so strongly that it's one of the biggest reasons why the show keeps coming back from the dead.

Jeff Winger is such a meticulously composed character, as evidenced by his trademark speeches and locked safe of cosmetics products, not to mention the to-the-millisecond accuracy of punchline delivery from the whole cast thanks to their performances as well as the show's writing and editing.

Arrested Development: Vagueness

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Arrested Development is a show that fans don't tend to aggressively argue as the greatest comedy series ever because so much of what makes it so isn't easy to put into words. It's just kind of self-evident.

The laidback quality to the characters and events allows for far vaguer themes to play out over the course of a season or several. The recurring and multi-faceted theme of the ostrich in the show's fourth season is a good example of this.

Community: Emotionality

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Not that the audience doesn't feel for the characters of Arrested Development but it's always purely a comedy. Elements of drama and suspense are used in an always tongue-in-cheek way that's ultimately building to a punchline.

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This isn't a flaw of the show but Community's adherence to a more conventional sitcom structure allows it to have moments that simply end on a bittersweet, melancholic, or just purely sad note and this provides a different and, at the very least, equally powerful kind of catharsis.

Arrested Development: The Music

Music is often a strong aspect to Community but it can't really compare to composer David Schwartz's achievements with Arrested Development. So much of the show's character comes from not just the breezy, often beautifully sentimental, score, in conjunction with Ron Howard's narration, but a number of hilarious original songs that have become classics in their own rights.

It's also worth mentioning that Arrested Development's overall use of music is pretty outstanding. Its use of pop songs like "The Final Countdown" and "The Sound of Silence" in conjunction with Gob's character, for example, has had a palpable cultural impact.

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