Although there have been vague details about the upcoming episode of "Community" titled "Basic Email Security," Yahoo presented a promo that gave just a few spoilers.


Basically, hackers have maneuvered their way into the school's mainframe and threatened to expose everyone's e-mails. In exchange for their retreat, the school has to cancel the upcoming performance of a racist comedian, as reported by TV Rage.

In the video, the Dean learns that the school has been hacked. He runs around the halls, and even getting help from a cop, whose partner is a child.

The always cool Jeff gets made fun of. His emails reveal he writes to austronauts, an action he defends because they are "national heroes."

Elroy agrees and tells Jeff to "leave them alone."

As always, the school is out of control as a result from the hacking.

"Hackers threaten to make Greendale's emails public and the study group has to come together to stop a riot in this trailer for the sixth episode of Community season six," according to Yahoo's official description.

This season of "Community" on Yahoo has seen some major budget cuts, which some originally thought may lead to a significant lack of quality in the show. But the comedy has not suffered and they are no strangers this season to using the technology angle to incite laughter.

In the last episode of "Community," the school was introduced to robotic devices with tablets attached to them. But not for the sake of the students, rather to give prisoners in a state prison system an opportunity to attend college remotely.

As previously reported, "Community" has built a cult following. It started it's run on NBC back in Sept. 2009, running for five seasons before it was cancelled in 2014. It's last NBC episode aired on April 17, 2014.

Following it's cancellation, it was quickly picked up by Yahoo Screen and a sixth season was developed for the internet platform, featuring a new episode every Tuesday that streams for free on Yahoo.

Even though the ratings have sometimes been low, the show generally received positive reviews online. Online review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 87 percent critics score and a 98 percent audience score, which means that those who were actually watching it, liked it.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter about crossing over to Yahoo, series star Joel McHale said, "We feel loved -- not that we needed to feel loved, but Yahoo came down and gave us this big spiel [about] being in movie theaters, doing signage, being [all over the place], and we were just silent at the end of the speech."

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