"Community" creator Dan Harmon was joined by castmembers Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash, and Dino Stamatopoulos, and writer Chris McKenna, for a panel discussion at Comic Con on the show's upcoming sixth season on Yahoo TV. He even teased the "and a movie" portion of the show's signature hashtag: #sixseasonsandamovie 

While Yahoo TV had previous teased a possible fall return for the show, Harmon told the assembled audience that it was more likely going to be "probably sometime after Christmas," the plan being to start writing in the fall.

Harmon isn't planning anything crazy or ambitious for the online season. "My philosophy is: Attempt to make the same show, and let the lack of boundaries kind of make themselves felt, instead of just going, 'We can make the episode 49 minutes long, and say the f-word the whole time,'" he said in the panel. 

He said he didn't want to run the risk of people thinking, "Well, this is just some new show." When asked about Donald Glover, Harmon echoed speculation that his fate during his round-the-world trip to inherit Chevy Chase's fortune could become fodder for the speculated film. "Troy's out there somewhere. He may be in peril. That's what movies are made of," he said. "I have no plans of that, but it could be good. A "Search for Spock" kind of thing."

Joel McHale, had no doubt the show would be back. In fact, from McHale's perspective, it was about making more Community or suicide. He told the crowd, "I had no doubt we would be back because - well, like a Japanese general in WWII, the only option was victory or suicide. As I've said a lot, I love the show, I love the way Dan looks all the time. To have any show be on for as long as it has is a hard thing and then for the show to be as good as it is, I believe, because it is the greatest television show in history. So I always wanted it back - if they would pay me what Jim Parsons is making."

That said, though, Harmon wasn't going to be the one to shut the door on Glover's involvement in Season 6. It was the actor's choice to leave the show to pursue other opportunities in his career at the beginning of the fifth season.

Harmon went so far as to publicly offer Glover a spot in the new season by hastily adding, "Not that I'm rejecting the idea of him coming back for season 6. Donald, if you're listening." 

Creator Dan Harmon quipped during the panel that everyone will be watching the show the way they always did - "except now legally." A big problem with "Community" is that anyone who was smart and meta enough to get the jokes, was also smart and meta enough to pirate it online. 

Joel McHale joined Harmon on the panel that included producer Chris McKenna, Jim Rash, Gillian Jacobs and writer Dino Stamatopoulos. 

The plan is to release the 13-episode sixth season weekly, rather than the all-at-once model favored by most streaming services. Amazon tried a weekly schedule for its initial offerings, like the first season of "Alpha House," but has switched to the all-at-once approach for its newest project

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