David Cross also did a great job as Hickey’s son and he had great chemistry with Hickey that really brought their father-son relationship to life, whilst also doing a great job of throwing the game into chaos.
It was particularly enjoyable to see that ex-law enforcement side of Hickey manifest when he discovered that he could interrogate the goblins for information. Hickey’s early resistance to the idea of playing Dungeons & Dragons only made his later commitment to the bit all the more fun to watch. Of all the episodes so far this season, this episode focused the most on Hickey and it was fun to see Jonathan Banks absolutely go to town. While this certainly lowered the stakes of the episode a little bit, it did work well enough to enable the group to revisit the same goofy humor and funny writing that made that first D&D episode so memorable. Where Fat Neil’s depression was the centerpiece of the group’s D&D adventure this episode used the troubled relationship between Professor Hickey and his own son as a springboard more than anything else. Like some kind of superhero team-up, the study group only comes together to play D&D in times of great need. While this week’s episode lacks some of the emotional impact of Season 2’s, it does take the elements and ideas that made that episode so fun and magical a bit further.
A lot of people consider Advanced Dungeons & Dragons to be the best episode of Community that Dan Harmon & Co have ever put out.
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