Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.When Community’s season finale airs next week, it’s doubtful we’ll have an answer yet on the show’s fate, which makes it especially notable that we’re ending the season on a storyline where the actual fate of Greendale lies in the balance. Not that this is anything new for the show, of course, and for what it’s worth, the chances of a Season 6 seem pretty good right now . But this is a show known for its meta storylines, so why not one about saving the school – and by extension, Community itself?

Save Greendale!

Until the end, this wasn’t one of the show’s big, outwardly themed installments – in fact, a large portion of it was Abed’s observations that while there didn’t seem to be anything wrong, something had to be coming, since “Usually a lot more than this happens in a half hour.” And yes, the big “nothing’s going on moment” where we watched a random Greendale extra slurp soup for several moments was a wonderful, oh-so Community joke.Of course, things began to spiral out of control after the insurance appraiser (a very funny Michael McDonald) arrived and it turned out that Greendale, gasp, was actually valuable. The return of Subway in such a big way was a bit jarring, yet once more done in a very Community way – yes, this was product integration, but on a very knowing and sardonic scale. Kudos to Subway who, after Chuck and now Community, see the value in these cult series and are okay with jokes like the one about how many Greendale graduates end up working at Subway.So let’s talk about Jeff and Britta. It’s always been interesting how this show has dealt or not dealt with relationships. There have been flirtations and kisses and yes, Jeff and Britta’s months of hooking up (very pointedly done off camera, as a reveal in the same episode it ended), but Dan Harmon has long resisted actually coupling up his characters – even while intense “shippers” for many a different potential pairing did their thing on YouTube and Tumblr, as they are inclined to. In fact, this episode had a pretty low blow (but funny) joke about the only time Community ever put two characters in a relationship for a sustained period, on-camera, with Jeff’s line, “The most boring thing that’s happened here until Britta dated Troy,” which of course happened during the Harmon-free Season 4.All of which is to say, I raised an eyebrow at Jeff and Britta not only reconciling at the end of this episode (with a sweet nod to how this show began), but saying they were going to run off and get married. Now actually, I’d endorse this – I like those two together (sorry, Jeff/Annie shippers). But with one more episode left, something tells me a curveball is coming. And I do wonder how Annie might end up involved… keeping in mind Jeff ending up with her as a season finale surprise would harken back to Season 1. [Update: I feel I should note that obviously Jeff and Britta's whole "Let's get married!" declaration was done out of desperation and sadness, as they were saying goodbye to Greendale and wanted to hold on to something from their time there. So it almost certainly won't actually happen... but it would be funny if it does.]Speaking of Annie, her, the Dean and Abed (who of course was pushing oh-so hard for something like this) finding the secret map in the Dean’s office could have just been ridiculous (instead of funny ridiculous), but worked thanks to the absolute commitment the writers and cast had to it. Alison Brie, Jim Rash and Danny Pudi were hysterical in that closing scene, seeming almost on drugs as they twitched about over the “BURIED TREASURE!”Some bullet points:-Wanting Annie to mature this season (especially after her Season 4 regression), the Community team put her in pants all year, dropping the trademark skirts. Which made it a nice touch when Annie, as everyone got so sad about leaving Greendale, wore a skirt for the first time this season.-Star-Burns blasting the Dave Matthews was an amazing bit. The song alone as his celebration anthem, the fact that he played it a second time, still so happy, while everyone was sad, and Buzz’s threat.-Fun tag at the end with Buzz and Duncan, two characters we haven’t seen bounce off each other like this. “My mother was a Stansbury whore!” indeed. If Community does come back for Season 6, hopefully Jonathan Banks and John Oliver can take at least a little time off from their new gigs at Better Call Saul and HBO, respectively, to pop into Greendale again.-On that big list of tasks the gang was accomplishing at the beginning (and yes, I'd love to see that exorcism in the gymnasium) was "Post 'no intercourse' signs inside library," which was an amusing bit of foreshadowing.-Chang's betrayals now just being an accepted thing by the others was a great touch.