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My main one the past couple months has been
“I’m gonna be a nerd”
and when anyone suggests
basically anything
“Better have a plan b” in my Dean voice

So I walked into my coworkers office just to drop off a requisition. He’s on the phone speaking a language I do not know. He waves for me to close the door. This was before I started making my way out of his office so I thought it was the perfect time. I closed it in front of me and just turned to stand there.
His tone on the call didn’t sound very pleasant and his eyebrows were very furrowed. Ass signs point to this being an unpleasant personal call. He waved so much more emphatically for me to get out. I did the hop, hands upwards and pointing, and walked out.

I feel like I finally got to hit a reference to one of my favourite physical comedy bits in the show. He may not have gotten a chuckle out of it (yet) but I stand by it because it was flawlessly executed.

I’m here in my office typing this out and I can hear him on the phone through the paper thin walls.

Totally worth it

he has a liquid jumper and can play pretty good defense. I think he couldve been a great sixth man for a tanking team

Working on a dictionary of name verbs feel free to tweak or add to my definitions.

Obviously we start with Britta and those established in show.

Britta: to mess up or botch something, usually througn avoidable mistakes.

Abed: to make something unnecessarily meta or self-referential.

Pierce: to fail to understand something where the meaning is obvious to everyone else.

Shirley: to respond to someone’s behavior with moral disapproval, particularly by pointing out when its mean or improper.

Jeff: to use rhetoric, charm, or manipulation to get out of doing something you do not want to do.

Annie: to become so intensely prepared, organized, or competitive about something that you take it far beyond what anyone asked for.

Troy: to confidently say something profoundly naive or childlike.

Chang: to take a small amount of authority and immediately become tyrannical, chaotic, or completely unhinged with it.

Dean: to turn an ordinary event into an elaborate themed production, usually involving costumes, puns, and far more effort than necessary.

Frankie: to ruin everyone’s chaotic fun by introducing sensible rules.

Elroy: to aggressively validate someone, especially a white people, with suspiciously intense praise.

Hickey: to respond to whimsical nonsense with exhausted, hard-ass practicality.

Duncan: to use intellectual or professional authority to disguise selfishness, incompetence, or an embarrassingly personal motive.

I don't remember the exact quote, but "crackin wise" is the main part I am focusing on.

I showed my friend the pilot of Community and made a comment about how young Donald Glover was. She goes “more like Babyish Gambino.”

Thought you all would appreciate.

Rewatching this show for the second time (from the beginning). Currently on Season 3.

I first watched this show several years back. When I first watched it, I shipped Britta and Jeff so hard. I thought Britta and Troy was a nice idea, but the execution was poor. Never liked Jeff and Annie, largely because I didn't think it was a necessary pairing and thought they would be romantically incompatible. I thought they could have been a "one-off attraction" like Annie/Troy (or Annie/Abed in the S2 Paintball Episode). But I wasn't a fan of the whole Jeff/Annie arc, it honestly bored me. I liked them as friends but I always thought Annie was too genuine of a person to be with someone like Jeff.

On my second rewatch, I now think the show should have not bothered with romantic plotlines at all. I think it worked best because it subverted the sitcom romance. I think people should have just gotten off with each other but not dragged it out into some overarching storyline. I actually liked that Jeff and Britta had this chemistry and attraction but never became an actual couple. They would have been a dysfunctional couple. Them hooking up but not really being together seemed more realistic.

I think they should have left everyone as friends with random flings but no real "potential romance". There's something nice about seeing a group of male and female friends just hanging out together and having a good time. The show doesn't take itself seriously enough to have actual proper romantic storylines IMO. Perhaps this is why Britta and Troy as a couple ultimately failed: lots of build-up, but the execution was so bad. (That and Dan Harmon not being around in S4.) I may have more thoughts on that pairing after rewatching S4.

Now this is a man who knows how to marry his cousin.

I love that two episodes after Jeff wrinkled Troy's brain with the whole "doesn't matter what you if you do it for them" business, Pierce just drops the tough love he needed. I think it shows that Jeff thinks he has it all figured out but is actually kind of full of shit. It's also a good example of Pierce saying what other people won't, and that it has value.

Which episode is considered better, Remedial Chaos Theory or Advanced Dungeons and Dragons?

I love both obviously but Advanced D&D is by far my favorite episode of the show

This is as I'd bet a highly debated topic in this Reddit but I just wanted to add my two cents. I'm rewatching the show for the second time five years on, and it's changed for me. Season 3, the show felt like it was stagnating, it's great, but there's feeling of a drag to it like I felt last time. However, opposed to last time when I watched season 4 and reading all the hate online and my opinion being skewed, this time I actually enjoyed it. It progresses the characters more than any season, and it sticks. Jeff changes in little ways, and his relationship with Pierce becomes kinder. There's still the usual antics, but the characters feel like they've changed slightly for the better. No other season feels like this to me, and season 5 just kinda brings them back to how they were. 5-6 are better per episode, but I like how in season 4 they decided to have the moments in episodes where the group learn actually stick, which I actually wasn't a fan of in previous seasons. Anybody feel the same?