britta is the absolute best ♡ this video is a little unpolished but i love britta and wanted to compile a video of my personal favorite moments from her :) partially inspired by this video: • Greatest Hits of Britt...
Reasons why Britta is the best: - Introdcued Inspector spacetime to Abed - Came up with the idea of Shirley's sandwich - Embrace Troy's sensitive side - Great support in curbing Jeff's ego - the trigger to the best(prime) timeline (ROOOXAAAN) - Britta's in it
My favorite part of all of this is that Gillian Jacobs has never done drugs and attended Juilliard. Which just proves how insanely talented she is to pull off a character like Britta
I think this was true of the majority of the cast. Danny Pudi seems very extroverted and witty but was totally convincing as Abed. Alison Brie likewise, as well as being very comfortable being risqué, but was still perfect for Annie. Donald Glover is probably the most professional and sophisticated of the group but still managed to pull off the goofiness to play Troy. The only one of the main seven I'd say mirrors their character in real life is Chevy (for the wrong reasons).
@@nyecrozier8663 interesting point! I never thought of it that way. i wonder what the show would look like if they were allowed to act more like themselves! 😆
@@mamaslillele it’s very caricaturish, I’ve been up close and personal with weed never acted that way. Its what people think what stoners would act like. I only have a problem with scenes she was supposed to be high in, rest if the times she is my favourite character.
i get it but its too spread out. "its in your blood" is too much reality. plus it was like one of the originals. "thats black" is timeless. TIMELESS. "dumbgaydad" is cute.
"It's in your blood" is like a perfect little capsule of brilliance that immediately rewires your brain the first time you hear it; "Dumb gay dad" is the gift that keeps on giving more and more every time you come back to it
I think the Jeff/Britta exchange is pretty funny, but Jeff/Troy was such a strong, iconic moment for the show's early episodes. I wouldn't be surprised if that moment convinced a lot of people to start watching
@@Greezy2000 Probably "Love," .. Gillian is front and center on that. It is super quirky, though, and won't appeal to everyone. I liked it. But people who don't generally like Jud Apatow type stuff will likely be put off. Then "Transatlantic." Really good limited series, and she is excellent in it in a leading role. Finally, "Fear Street," which is just a lot of fun if you like high school centric horror (which I do) ... I list that last only because Gillian has a more limited role in that one. But she is, of course, terrific in it.
The odd thing is, Britta’s singing in Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas wasn’t too bad, but it became ludicrously off-key in the Glee Club Christmas episode.
Hmmm… over-thinking this, maybe the reason Britta sings so badly is due to the corrupting influence of Mr. Rad and being brainwashed by the whole Glee Club experience. Part of the running joke over the course of the episode is how GC recruitment turns everyone in the study group into pod person versions of themselves, causing them to behave in ways they normally would never do.
I definitely remember that. I can reconcile that in my head by thinking Abed was imagining her as a better singer, but she also sang decently in the puppet/hot air balloon episode. BUT - that was the gas leak year hehe.
I love Britta so much. She may not be the smartest or funniest of the group, but she's so much smarter and funnier than the others give her credit for. I also find her social awkwardness and misguided activism painfully relatable.
@@aakansha353 She's definitely smart in a lot of ways that the others aren't. In absolute terms, I think Annie and Abed are probably the smartest members of the group, but Britta's a close third. The line about her being smarter than Jeff, especially in Season 1, is absolutely true.
@@leafyishereisdumbnameakath4259 Chevy gave a really great performance and one that im not sure anyone else could have pulled off. That being said, he was an ass who felt like he was above the show and his spat with Dan had very little to do with him quitting. He despised the hours and was shitty to everyone, Dan didn't make him do that lol
Abed: "Like RoboCop." Britta: "Exactly like rowboat cop. Shanice is a bad rowboat. Sink her, Abed!" And who could ever forget: "Hit me with your genie's bottle... rub it all over me..."
The difference between Meg and Britta is that Britta's abuse usually comes in the form of retribution for her own actions and she doesn't seem to care most of the time
When Jeff said “you seemed smarter than me when we I met you”my brain exploded because that’s pretty much what I’m thinking every time she talks it’s 🤯 my brain
I love her. I hate when people complain that she became too over the top after the first few episodes, as if almost everybody in the show isn't over the top (and were it not for the change and gillian's acting, Britta would be totally written out). I do think they fumbled a lot on how they dealt with her relationship to some of the group, her and Troy as a couple was always strange to me, and i actually liked her being a little like Jeff's conscience in the beginning (they later changed to Annie, and i found it less interesting), she was altruistic to the point of insanity and he was selfish to the point of self sabotage, it would have worked better for them too keep bouncing off of each other (likewise, Annie was too driven, a foil to too relaxed troy, but that's a different topic). Britta is def one of my fave characters, both low-key and amped up versions of her, i always like her storylines
Totally agree. At the start I was so worried she was going to be another of those generically smart, competent, attractive female characters that are always showing up in friend group sitcoms-it's GOOD that they went in such a weird direction with her! Britta isn't perfectly written or perfectly utilized, but ya gotta love her all the same!!
Britta and Troy dating was built up to with small embers here and there, it could have led to some nice growth for both characters. It was just poorly handled by the new show runners who sped things up with a blowtorch and then did nothing with it. Except that sequence where she escapes the bedroom and shows up at the door, that part I loved
Britta went from the best grounded character to the best insane character. Thats range right there. Her and Pierce probably have my favorite dumb lines.
Amazing job on the edit. At the end Jeff says she is the heart of the group and then the last clip showed the best timeline where Jeff didn't stop Britta from singing Roxanne
This show is responsible for so many of my day to day quotes. Anytime a pizza shows up, "Pizzaaaaaa!!! Pizza, pizza go in tummy. Me so hungry, me so hungry ", anytime there are bagels at work, or when it's time to put up Christmas decorations, "I got a Christmas time for ME. I got a Christmas time for TREE!" Love me some Britta Perry. She's the worst in the best possible way.
The shot of Britta getting spanked by Troy’s grandma while Troy cries in the corner literally makes me howl every time I see it. Her face looks so much like a kid crying, so great.
All the characters in Community are top tier. If I had to ranked them and give them a score out of 10 based on how well written they are it would go as follows 9. Shirley 7.5/10 8. Chang 7.8/10 7. Pierce 8.9/10 6. Dean 9/10 5. Annie 9.5/10 4. Jeff 9.6/10 3. Britta 9.7/10 2. Troy 9.8/10 1. Abed 10/10
The only show with better characters/writing would be Bojack Horseman The main cast is a 10/10 imo These are my two favorite show's and I'll never stop Re watching them
@@tariq6319 If Bojack's first season wasn't so uneven and weak, that show would absolutely be the greatest comedy series ever created. Amazing storytelling. Just needed a little time to find its beats.
Britta has always been my favorite character because her growth (or perhaps... "anti-growth") is so weirdly relatable. She starts off as this almost tough chick who shows a lot of outward confidence... and then slowly just sort-of falls apart into an incredibly insecure and problematic... but fundamentally wonderful person when she lets her guard down and starts being herself. I see a lot of myself in that... and more than a few of my friends. Also, I don't understand how she did it, but Gillian Jacobs somehow managed to make that ugly dark brown bodysuit, crown and boots combo look _surprisingly_ hot. 😂😂😂 I'd be her... "Christmastime for a tree" (?)... anytime she asked, haha.
Britta has really grown on me, especially after listening to Dan talk about her in the commentaries. I feel like she embodies some characteristics of the stock Clown character of Commedia dell'arte. She constantly makes a fool of herself and is usually the butt of the joke, but there is a tragic streak in her as well.
Watching this show the first time around I kept asking myself why they turned her into an airhead but going back through the second time, in the beginning she’s just pretending to be someone she isn’t. The rest of the show is her true self now that she’s found genuine friends
That's pretty much how it went. Sure, Dan Harmon definitely ramped it up a bit after finding out that Gillian Jacobs could play such a goof, but she retained most of her original elements. Not only that, she developed a strong friendship with Shirley, could still read Jeff like a book, and helped Troy and Abed come to terms with reality at various times.
She was too much at times but she geniunely had the most care and compassion she was just really insecure, I hate her parents for doing that to her and how the group treated it like a joke
Ok so I can’t be the only one right the episode where the dean is forcing everyone to do the commercial is possibly the funniest episode in the whole show right?
Honestly, both times Jeff questions Britta's use of a word or phrase, her explanation is still kind of really right. Britta was always smart! She's the best!
Britta is nearly always right, but clumsy. Abed is Harmon's creative/metacommentary stand-in, Britta is his self-deprecating conscience, Jeff the handsome hero that he'd like to be, Pierce/later Chang the stand-in for people Harmon hates. Annie is the sociopath necessary for inducing conflict, played so cute we won't come to hate her. The intent for Troy changed, but it became introducing childhood innocence and as a partner in crime to Abed. The only member of the core study group that I think was short changed is Shirley, who perhaps was intended to deprecate religious norms, but of necessity played so softly as to come out close to a side character. Dean (and Greendale generally) presents the idea of an imagined world where all would be treated humanely with sympathetic doubt.
