• Community, 9:30-10 p.m. Thursday, WTVJ-NBC 6

Since Animal House established the toga party as the official measure of what constitutes a good college education 30 years ago, the sexual-psychotropic possibilities of campus bacchanalia have been done nearly to death: Slackers, Van Wilder, Road Trip, Real Genius. . . . Wait, I forgot Dead Man on Campus. Strike that word ``nearly'' a couple of sentences back.

So I guess it's not surprising that NBC is trying to breathe new life into the concept by moving it to a junior-college campus in its new sitcom Community. Think of the possibilities: Instead of a cast of drunken, horny young morons, you can have a cast of drunken, horny morons of all ages. Or, as the dean of Community's generically mythical Greendale Community College defines his student body, ``remedial teenagers, 20-something dropouts, middle-age divorcees and old people keeping their minds active as they circle the drain of eternity.''

This being broadcast television, Community's party animals tend to get their kicks less from bongs, grain-alcohol projectile vomiting and peeping into sorority windows than from irregular Spanish verbs and lengthy recitations of the script of The Breakfast Club, which, for the most part, is even less amusing than it sounds.

The single, and very occasional, exception is Jeff Winger (Joel McHale, The Soup), a glib, skirt-chasing lawyer disbarred on the technicality that he doesn't actually have a college degree. His continual hitting on icy blond Britta (Gillian Jacobs, The Box) produces some sporadic laughter. ``You put human beings in a state of emotional shambles for a shot at getting into my pants?'' an enraged Britta demands after he disrupts a study group on the eve of a big test. Replies the wounded Jeff: ``Why can't you see that for the compliment that it is?''

Oh yeah, did I mention Chevy Chase is kicking around in there someplace as an aging businessman seeking belated meaning for his Chamber of Commerce life? I can just hear him during breaks in the shooting: ``Call Lorne if you don't believe me! I was too in Saturday Night Live!''