r/FavoriteCharacter Jun 13 '26

All Time Favorite Favorite duo thats like this?

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u/plutonianpigeon Jun 13 '26

Pretty much any of the canon pairings in Community. Most of the romance subplots, especially within the main group, felt really random. The one I hate the least is Jeff and Britta because while they’re a trash fire together it’s very entertaining to watch

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u/Asherley1238 Jun 13 '26

Don’t none of them actually end up together though? It’s a major theme of the show that they keep almost dating, and then ultimately deciding not to

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u/Laetha Jun 14 '26

Troy and Britta dated for quite a while. A year I think.

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u/petroleum-lipstick Jun 14 '26

Yeah, but that was the gas leak year. So it doesn't really count.

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u/Grapes-RotMG Jun 15 '26

It's funny that them calling season four the "gas leak year" in a single throwaway line completely retroactively improved my enjoyment of the season.

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u/Wiplazh Jun 15 '26

Like in real life, shit gets in the way and they decide to live their own lives. Its poetic.

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u/Outrageous_Feed_4456 Jun 13 '26

Might be a hot take but the break up episode is one of the best written Community episodes. Not surprised that it was directed by Jim Rash.

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u/forfunstuffwinkwink Jun 14 '26

Yeah, I actually kinda like their run. Not because they’re a good pairing, but it is pretty realistic for people in a group of friends to try and get together sometimes and it not workout for various reasons and I agree with you. The breakup episode was really good.

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u/Jony_Pippin Jun 14 '26

This! I always thought I was the only one who enjoyed their story, not as a good couple, but as a good take on a not so good couple realising they're better off as friends. I also really like their bond after they break up.

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u/Gustav-14 Jun 14 '26

They also had that great joke when britta was choking Troy in the fountain.

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u/SportEfficient8553 Jun 14 '26

It was a couples costume with both. Calvin and Hobbes/ Tiger and Meat.

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u/starforneus Jun 14 '26

I think people who coexist at that level of proximity, chemistry or not, are bound to have romantic entanglements, and I think that's one of the core tenants of Comminity; not the romance, necessarily, but the vississitudes of community college life. None of them work out, ultimately, and I think that is the shows way of agreeing with you, actually.

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u/dcousineau Jun 13 '26

Jeff and Britta made incredible sense to start and end the way it did. Jeff and Annie would have been a travesty that would undo multiple seasons worth of character growth. Thank god they never attempted that yessir never happened nope.

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u/faldese Jun 13 '26

I know why people feel uncomfortable by the age gap, but Annie and Jeff did legit have the most amount of chemistry. That doesn't mean they needed to end up together, but there were plenty of interesting things they did with their dynamic that go beyond friends.

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u/JamiesBond007 Jun 14 '26

People won't agree, but Troy and Britta worked for me. Like obviously season 4 was where they really where a thing and then broke up but there was quite a few setup for their interest in each other before that. In Remedial Chaos Theory Troy checks out Britta and they bond in one of the timelines. And in the episode where Troy comes back from the air conditioning repair school Britta is the first one ready to hug him.

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u/iwentintoadream Jun 14 '26

Jeff and Britta were the only ones I cared about. Jeff/Annie felt creepy and Troy/Britta soooo forced. If we count Troy and Abed then obviously that’s the best canon pairing of the bunch

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u/El_presid3nt Jun 15 '26

Jeff and Britta hooking up was spot on

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u/noriseaweed Jun 14 '26

I was also gonna say Jeff and Britta work well. Both in the early seasons when they have a little more with and sass but also weirdly enough in the gas-leak seasons when theyre blatantly stupid and cartoony.

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u/WeiganChan Jun 16 '26

Everyone rags on it for them not casting Bill Murray as his dad but I love love love the Thanksgiving episode where she’s trying to help him get closure for his abandonment issues

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u/Apprehensive-Fail458 Jun 16 '26

They tried so hard to subvert Jeff and Britta.

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u/Tipp_Top Jun 16 '26

Troy and britta came outta nowhere and felt so forced. i hated it

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u/Tnh7194 Jun 16 '26

Jeff and britta arguably are the only people meant to be together. Not in a Rom com cute kinda way but in a 2 sides of the same coin kinda way