#greendale and whatever

[askingrayla-leone]

bro got out the appendix and became unstoppable

The Matador! The Matador! Carlos Sainz vigorously wins the Australian Grand Prix! Good morning, Italy! 1-2! 1-2! 1-2 Ferrari!

[askingrayla-leone]

alright lads who wants to join the love britta club

[cliveowenluvr]

i know nobody knows me on here but im gay and i like this guy from my school, any tips?

[realbeefman]

rewatching community why is jeff winger so transgender. “you lost the right [to talk about women’s bodies] the moment you decided to grow a wang!” from 2x21 the entire little indian girl story from crit film studies HELLOOOOO

[askingrayla-leone]

This Saturday Leonard singlehandedly outdid Greendale's cafeteria

This Saturday Leonard is making vegetable soup! More than enough for me, I can bring some in to Greendale on Monday if anyone wants some?

[t-bone-barnes]

what was ur reaction when u found out annie and abed made out during 2nd paintball

hhhhmmmmmaamsjsjjssj mixed feelings.. i know abed gets mad bitches so like im used to it. but annie 🙁? rly?? britta was right that girl is a chronic man stealer 😭😭😭 lol just kidding but seriously i dont care. i dont even like think about it and if i did it would be totally normally lol i dont even care at all. doesnt matter to me fr like theyre friends i get it!!! and plus if you really think about it it wasnt really abed it was abed as han solo and abed was just committing to his character so it wasnt even like he wanted to kiss her and she was probably the only one who enjoyed it lol. but like i said i rly dont care 🤷‍♂️

[askingrayla-leone]

Here's what we know about last night TELL ME IF YOU REMEMBER SOMETHING ILL ADD IT;

- someone mass roofied us all

- LIGHTBULB IS MISSING (the alien cat not my apt lightbulb)

- Troy slept w someone last night and doesmt know who

- abed slept with some mustached dude

- @leonardlikesthissite bought WAAAYY too much let's chips (not complaining abt that tho)

- at abt 9 lightbulb jumped out the window but britta got him back immediately. We then locked all the windows and laughed at Jeff

- I slept with some people and i don't know who the hell it was (!)

- I'm pretty sure I saw @greendalesbestreporter and @ask-annie-kim making out while we played ....twister?

- according to my recent epiphany we played twister

-Troy says that @askingbrittaperry bought the worst drink known to man to the party

-NEW: Leonard ate all the onions in my house and thinks Lighbulb ate his jacket

-NEWER: Frankie saw someone leave with lighbulb

[dawnofthedreadd]

if jigsaw existed within the community universe jeff winger would've been dead a long time ago i think

[askingrayla-leone]

Yeah that Kevin dude got it bad, rip his memory

[askingrayla-leone]

Next time I wanna get high I'm deleting tumblr . I've never been more embarrassed . No one look at me

[askingrayla-leone]

Can cats eat eggs

-trgiy

Well my dad's cat eats scrambled eggs everyday. so I hope so

[luunamoona]

i feel like it would've made more sense for jeff to have become greendale's lawyer rather than becoming a teacher.

his whole reason to be at greendale was to become a lawyer again, so i'm a little confused why they decided he should be a teacher for greendale instead of becoming their lawyer and defending them in the marvin humphreys case (idk how spell his name). that'd set up a much more interesting new story for jeff, having him have to deal with whatever insane lawsuits greendale has. they could've utilised his being a lawyer much better than him being a teacher. as well as that, he's never shown any interest in teaching, actively insulting the people working at greendale throughout the show. and the argument that "oh he cares about greendale so he became a teacher", as if him literally stopping the school from being sued wouldn't be an even better way of showing that.

in conclusion, jeff shouldn't have been a teacher. the show was about a fake lawyer going to shitty school to become a lawyer again. so why not follow through? it would just make sense for him to do that, to support greendale at a more executive level. maybe that'll happen in the movie?

[askingrayla-leone]

He did this. But not in the tampon aisle . He was very confused and asked how we would pee. Also I found out once that he thought pads were pussy stickers.

troy barnes is the kind of guy to go up to a random woman in the tampon aisle and ask her how it works out of genuine curiosity

[askingrayla-leone]

Btw when Troy says "I like uno" he means he's gay. It's gay uno.

[tiredandoptimistic]

Fresh off a rewatch of Geothermal Escapism and feeling emotions (this turned into an overlong Troy Barnes analysis post and I'm inviting you on the journey)

The thing that really sticks with me, especially when you consider the rest of season five (and also the show as a whole), is how truly I'm convinced that Troy did need to go on that voyage. He went from a guy who wore his letterman jacket to college and bragged about being prom king, to somebody who was unapologetically himself and content with being judged for it. Despite all this growth, Troy still wasn't his own person; not entirely.

I keep thinking about the bit in Repilot, where Jeff argues that Troy's life was ruined by Greendale because he now revolves entirely around "another man." Putting aside the blatant homophobia, Jeff is kinda right. When asked what he's doing with his life, Troy excitedly talks about what Abed is up to. Now, there's nothing wrong with being supportive and it's clear that Troy feels content with putting Abed's goals first, but it is concerning when you think in context of his arc. In season three, there was the pillow and blanket war as an extension of Troy's frustration with always being the sidekick. Even though they work through a lot of their issues and have an honest discussion about how Abed never saw Troy as lesser, there's still clearly some level of fear that one day he will. We see this in season four, during Inspecticon, when Troy is genuinely afraid that Abed will leave him for someone who (in Troy's mind) is a better match for his intellect. Once again Abed proves that he wouldn't want anybody else, but that's not the end of it. By the start of season five it's great that Troy is comfortable playing support to Abed's goals, but he still hasn't fully resolved the base issues. Yes, he's confident in his worth as a supporter rather than a leader, but he's still never figured out who he is alone.

Looking back at Troy's season one characterization, it's clear that his main struggle as a person is not knowing who he is or what he wants. He defines himself entirely as a quarterback and prom king, even when it's clear that nobody else actually takes that seriously. Even Annie, who knew Troy as the untouchable king of the popular kids and is seriously crushing on him (in a comphet way but that's another post), sees his jock identity as something that's holding him back. In the pilot, Troy has a chat with Jeff about his letterman jacket; expressing how insecure all the jokes make him. It's clear from this that he has no confidence in his own identity. He wears the letterman jacket because he's Troy The Quarterback, doesn't know how to handle that being seen as a bad thing, and goes to Jeff for advice because he needs someone else to tell him what version of himself to become. Whatever choice Troy makes for how to dress, it's about finding the quickest way to balance likeability with the illusion of his own convictions. Like Jeff tells him, "either way, it's for them."

Throughout season one, Troy struggles with his own identity through his friendships with the entire study group, most notably Abed. Despite his meathead persona, Troy's silly side starts to come out in the very second episode, when he and Abed do their iconic Spanish rap during the end card. After that, we see their friendship gradually develop through these short comedic bits. During this time, in "Football, Feminism, and You," we see Troy caught in a conflict between Jeff (who wants him to go back to football) and Annie (who wants him to become more academic). In the end, Jeff and Annie both feel bad for trying to warp Troy to fit thier ideals, and Troy settles on playing football purely because he enjoys the game. After that, Troy and Abed's friendship finally comes out of the end cards and into the show itself. The example I wanna talk about is "Environmental Science," when Troy is once again forced to choose between what he wants to do and how he wants to be seen. At the start of the episode, he embarrases himself in front of his science class by freaking out from fear of Fievel the rat. For the rest of the episode, Troy is unwilling to commit to helping Abed find Fievel by singing their romantic duet because he's already admitted weakness and that highlights his insecurities. He's been getting more comfortable goofing off with Abed, but suddenly he feels all the ways in which his expressions of his actual personality have opened him up to ridicule. Of course the episode ends with Troy joining Abed in their duet to save Fievel, and he even faces his fear of touching the rat to get him back to his cage. From that point onwards, Troy and Abed's friendship is more or less firmly established. I could go into all the ups and downs, but this post is long as hell already and I've still got more to say.

During seasons two and three, Troy almost entirely gives up the tough guy act and accepts that he's a big softie who thinks Abed is the coolest guy in the world for being so unapologetically himself at all times. He's always denied his interests for the sake of appearing likeable and tough, so meeting Abed and seeing that it's possible to be happy and loved a weirdo who never pretends to be anything else is kinda groundbreaking for him. He still has his ups and downs (like when he ditches their matching costumes for the sake of attracting girls in "Epidemiology"), but for the most part he's found a comfortable new role as Abed's Best Friend. Hell, during Shirley's wedding in "Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts," Troy is the one who decides it's not worth trying to be normal when they can be themselves. In "Early 21st Century Romanticism," Troy gives up a date with a girl (something he supposedly really wants) because she won't accept Abed's weirdness. What I'm getting at here is that Troy has given up his high school identity and adopted a new one, but that brings with it some of the same old problems.

By the time season five rolls around, Troy is not an individual. He is one half of a pair: TroyandAbed. This isn't an inherently bad thing; we are a communal species and it's normal and healthy to embrace the fact that you can't function independantly of others. The problem is that he transitioned so smoothly from Prom King Troy to Abed's Best Friend Troy that he never had time in the middle as just Troy. It's wonderful that Abed helped Troy discover one way to express himself and be genuinely happy, but he still only really learned how to do that on Abed's terms. The only thing we see Troy do without Abed is build a blanket fort, which is still fundamentally about Abed. He also dates Britta, but that feels more like Troy trying to prove that he can have an adult relationship and Britta trying to prove that she can stay with a guy who isn't the fucking worst (I love you Britta but your taste in men is rancid). It's clear that both of them are more in love with the idea of a stable relationship than with each other. For their entire relationship Troy is more invested in Abed and Britta is fine with that. He may be sleeping in a separate bedroom, but he's still living in the blanket fort, y'know?

This brings me back to Pierce's will, and his final gift to Troy; a chance to become his own man. Pierce may have the worst opinions on everything, but I still think this opportunity is what Troy needed at that point in his life. He finally gets a chance to explore everything the world has to offer, entirely detached from other people who can warp his opinions. Troy is a mirror, he reflects what's around him. He needs some time on his own to figure out what it is he really wants for himself. Plus, getting to dock in places all over the world gives Troy the chance to be whoever he wants without fear of meeting expectations. He can do anything, try anything; comfortable in the knowledge that he's not impressing anyone. And, at the end, he is able to look back on everything he's experienced and decide once and for all what his happiness looks like. I choose to believe that it's going home to Abed, fully informed of the alternatives and aware that playing support doesn't mean giving up your own identity.

[stampgwifeyera]

do yall feel like theres a twitter account run by several students at greendale that just tweets whatever gay thing troy and abed do/say?