Well, this is it, fellow Human Beings. The third season of “Community” is coming to a close with a triple-dose of Greendale’s favorite study group (airing at 8, 9, and 9:30 EST), and I think it would be helpful to work through our feelings about it all by engaging in a rousing live discussion. So if any of you have things to say about this season, the finale, or ideas for next season (or if you just want creepily proposition Alison Brie like this guy), drop in and have at it starting at 7:30 Thursday night. NOTE: Any commenter who shares this post on Facebook or Twitter will receive this awesome anus badge. I mean, um, that sounded weird. But, still, the badge is pretty cool.

As an added bonus, we have some amazing guests joining us. First of all, “Community” star Jim Rash (Dean Pelton) will swinging by the discussion from 9-10 p.m. If you have any questions or comments for him, begin your comment with @JimRash and fire away. (I’m going to ask him 700 questions about the logistics of time hoodies.) Additionally, “Community” writer Steve Basilone will be dropping by from 7:30-8ish, and then again around 9:30. He co-wrote both the finale and this season’s “Regional Holiday Music,” so if you have any questions about any of that episode’s notable moments, he’s your man. This is shaping up to be really cool night around here, so I hope you’ll all join us.

As you know, Human Beings, “Community” is airing three episodes tonight at 8, 9, and 9:30 p.m., the last of which is the third season finale. At the top of the screen, you’ll see a ticker for our “Community Season Finale Live Discussion.” Click that baby, and you’ll enter a magical land of gratuitous Greendale references.

But that’s not all! We’ve somehow wrangled two special guests:

-Steve Basilone, who co-wrote (with his writing partner Annie Mebane) “Regional Holiday Music,” a.k.a. the Annie Santa Dance episode, and also tonight’s finale, “Introduction to Finality.” If you’ve got any questions about the writers’ room or working with Dan Harmon, now’s your chance to ask ‘em.

-The Dean himself, Jim Rash! DEAN DEAN DEAN! We’re just as excited as you are. I mean, we’re talking about an Oscar winner here, folks. The outfits, the songs, the Dalmatians, the feelings for Jeff – question him on whatever you want, but remember: begin everything with @jimrash.

Here’s the schedule:

7:30 p.m. EST – Steve Basilone (recommended: general “Community” questions)
9-10 p.m. EST – Jim Rash (recommended: ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING)
10 p.m. EST – Steve Basilone (recommended: questions about the season finale)

Don’t keep it on the Dean-Low. Tell everyone you know to join the live chat tonight. It’s gonna be fun.

With “Community” airing its final episodes of the season tonight, we’re just going to get ALL of our “Community” wiggles out and probably peep down about the show for the next few months and focus our attention on TLC fare (did you here, there’s a dwarf competing on “Toddlers and Tiaras” now?). We’ve got the 12 Shows With Higher Ratings than “Community” that were canceled, we have All 68 Episodes of “Community” Ranked from Awesome to Awesomest (now, with only 8 slides), and we will have a massive live discussion tonight in which some awesome guests drop by. Please join us.

In the meantime, here’s a supercut of every single time Abed said “Cool, Cool, Cool.” 102 times, to be exact.

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Last October, I brought you the story of “Real World” alum John Devenanzio suing HBO and the creator of “Entourage” over their use of the name Johnny Bananas in a show-within-the-show starring Kevin Dillon’s character, Johnny Drama. I found the entire concept of someone from “The Real World” suing someone from “Entourage” over character issues to be hilarious from top to bottom. Well, I have two important updates about this groundbreaking case: 1) The case has been dismissed. 2) I still find the whole thing pretty hilarious.

In the lawsuit, Devenanzio charged HBO, parent Time Warner and Entourage creator Doug Ellin with featuring an “unwarranted, unauthorized and unfavorable mention of plaintiff’s name and personality and allusions to plaintiff’s physical and mental character.”

HBO responded by saying that Devenanzio had a “fundamental misunderstanding of the law governing publicity and privacy rights.” The network asserted that nicknames are not protected under New York law, that the plaintiff had failed to establish a connection between his identity and what he saw on the show and that the plaintiff’s lawsuit failed because the nickname wasn’t used in advertising and thus didn’t meet the “commercial” bar for such a claim.

Ultimately, though, Billings gave HBO a victory on a less sexy technicality. The episodes in question started airing on Aug. 15, 2010, and Devenanzio didn’t bring the claim until Oct. 3, 2011. The one-year statute of limitations window had closed, so the judge finds the lawsuit to be less “Johnny Bananas” and more “Johnny Rotten.” [The Hollywood Reporter]

What a bummer — both the way the lawsuit ended and that horrible, horrible joke at the end of the third paragraph of the blockquote. All of it has left me so unsatisfied. I mean, sure, win however you can win and get out cheap and fast and all that, but this trial had SO MUCH potential. They could filled the jury box with water and turned it into a hot tub. They could have called tons of bimbos and bros as witnesses. The cast of “The Real World” could have gotten in a fight with the cast of “Entourage” on the courthouse steps. The lawyers could have shouted things like “OBJECTION! THE WITNESS IS A DICK!” There could have been fist bumps galore and raging post-trial parties with beer pong and strippers and such. It would have been great.

My point here is that the second season of “Franklin & Bash” premieres Tuesday, June 5th at 10 p.m.

Tonight “Community” is running three episodes culminating in the season finale. I feel like fans of “Community” deserve a three-episode night: The year has been hard on our souls, and while it’s easy to say it’s only a TV show, there is something decidedly different about “Community.” For its biggest fans, we feel a certain ownership in the show. It’s not just something we watch on Thursday nights, it’s something we’re invested in, from the story lines to the characters to the fate of the show. Maybe no one outside of the show itself feels as invested as the folks of Community Glow. This is our show, and we have the post and comment count to prove it.

I wanted to do something big to mark the occasion, and ranking every episode of the series felt like a fun challenge. There’s only one way to rank 68 of the best episodes of television over the past three years, and that is from Awesome to Awesomest. Even the worst episode (OK, the second-to-worst episode) of “Community” is better than the best episode of almost every other show on the networks. A list like this, obviously, is subjective, and I expect there’ll be plenty of disagreement. I’ll probably be called names by anyone who feels like their favorite episode was slighted, which will probably include everyone. That’s cool. What I’ve realized about fans of “Community” over the last three years is that they take the show very seriously, and everyone has a very strong opinion. It’s the strength of those opinions, and the passion for the show that’s kept it alive as long as it has.

Still, in theory, the list is meant to work like this: As you click through it, the voice inside your head will say, “That episode was great. How is this episode so low,” but then you’ll arrive at the next number and think, “Oh, well … OK. I see.” Take away the bottom five and the top 10, and there’s probably not a lot separating the other 53. It’s the difference between an 8 and an 8.5. That’s how good and how consistent the show has been for the last three years. I wouldn’t expect anything less from the three episodes tonight.

Here are all 68 episodes of “Community” ranked from Awesome to the Awesomest.

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Dustin has been doing a great job covering the Upfronts this week (CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox), so I’m gonna help him out by taking care of The CW. Here we go: “Gossip Girl,” Monday; that show with Summer from “The O.C.,” Tuesday…and nope, I can’t even pretend to pretend to care. The synopsis for one of their new shows begins, “After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen…”

Instead, let’s talk about “Breaking Bad” because any excuse to talk about “Breaking Bad” is a good one, and now I really want “Breaking Bad” back on TV. Especially because Jesse Plemons, a.k.a. Crucifictorious frontman Landry Clarke on “Friday Night Lights,” has joined the cast. According to TV Line, he’ll play “Todd, a dependable, innocuous, working-class guy [who] may not be what he appears to be…because he kills Walt with a lead pipe and then kicks the game-winning field goal.” I may have added that last part, but seriously, “may not be what he appears to be”? I expect my “Breaking Bad” press releases to be as good as the show itself.

Or at least as good as this screenshot of Landry checking out Tyra.