"VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of Community, and the 93rd episode overall in the series. It originally aired on March 13, 2014 on NBC. The episode was written by Donald Diego, and directed by Tristram Shapeero. The episode marked the series writing debut of Diego. The episode was met with generally positive reviews. Despite positive reviews from critics, however, the episode maintained the previous two weeks' ratings low with a 1.0/4 in the 18-49 rating/share with an audience of 2.77 million American viewers.