Arrested Development is about to meet Community.

And the Internet may explode as a result.

Sources confirm that Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz will guest star on an episode of Community this winter, paying it forward after that sitcom's creator, Dan Harmon, made a cameo on Arrested Development Season 4 as a desert-dwelling yurt clerk.

Look for Hurwitz to stop by the NBC series as a Greendale student/party animal named Preston Koogler. And look for him to clash with anyone who tries to get in the way of him and a drunken good time.

Community finally returns from far too long of a hiatus with back-to-back episodes on Thursday, January 2.
 

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