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- Acceptable Targets:
- Acceptable Professional Targets: In the pilot, as soon as everyone learns Jeff's a lawyer, they groan in disgust.
- Acceptable Religious Targets: The pious. It's fine to be religious but don't go shoving it down everyone else's throat.
- Glee. As Jeff says, can't they write some original songs? Every other sitcom does.
- The much maligned Season 4.
- Alternate Character Interpretation:
- After in "For A Few Paintballs More", Leonard confides in Britta he has been in several wars, a theory emerged that he's acting so coarse and wild because he's living the young teen college experience he never got to have (being in a POW camp and all).
- The characters themselves go back-and-forth over whether Pierce is an inherent, fundamental and completely irredeemable Jerkass or whether he's just a lonely but socially inept old man who just wants to make friends but has no clue how, and merely ends up lashing out whenever his overtures are rejected.
- Abed; Lovable Nerd Woobie with numerous psychological and emotional problems who uses pop culture as a way of trying to connect to people, or Manipulative Bastard who enjoys pulling strings to get people into trouble that resembles his favourite movies and TV shows? "Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality" addressed this, with Hickey thinking Abed was the latter while also throwing in a bit of Spoiled Brat and Never My Fault into the mix.
- Britta in "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care." Is she just a Rebellious Princess or were her parents once the authoritarian sort that seventeen year olds would rebel against? The evidence does lean more towards the latter, they do mention taking drugs that wiped their memories of most of Britta's teenage years and blame Britta for most of their bad relationship, but given Britta, there's just enough ambiguity for it to go either way.
- Audience-Alienating Premise: While the series' basic premise was appealing enough, the increasing amount of weirdness and Continuity Lock Out following Season 1 proved off-putting to potential new viewers.
- Award Snub:
- After Glee and Community had each run for a single season, Community wasn't nominated for a single award at the 2010 Emmys. Glee was nominated for nineteen (although it only won four).
- No nominations whatsoever despite critical and commercial acclaim. McHale lampshaded this on episodes of The Soup when the Emmys rolled around, citing The Soup as the cause of Community's snubbing.
- Awesome Music: Dan Harmon believes that many an episode has only truly come together after Ludwig finished scoring the music.
- Badass Decay: In the first paintball episode, Chang is The Dragon and brings his own weapons, managing to kill everyone bar Jeff, even having a Mutual Kill with Britta. In the second, he's an incompetent moron who continually betrays the groups he latches on to. Of course, the entire second season was largely dedicated to giving Chang a near-constant Humiliation Conga, so this is perhaps understandable.
- Also, he was unarmed the entire time, and spent most of that time (that we see) tied up and blindfolded.
- Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Invoked, like most tropes. "HAT CLUB!"
- Broken Base:
- Britta's characterization. As the show continued, she went from grounded intellectual to Dumb Blonde. Did this make her more enjoyable and play better to Gillian Jacobs' strengths as an actress or was it a mean spirited insult (given that Britta was based on an old girlfriend of Harmon's)?
- Chang's characterization. To some, he was never quite as well used as he was in the first season and his differing roles made him very inconsistent. Others appreciated the unpredictability of him.
- Season 5 and 6. Did they recapture the magic or were they just the show running on fumes?
- Continuity Lock Out: Already crossed this by the time of the mid-season premiere of the first season premiere and it only got worse from there. The Season 4 finale notably featured a lot of Call Backs to Seasons 2 and 3.
- Crack Pairing: Discussed in "Paradigms of Human Memory" where it's noted that any pairing, with enough video effect skills, has the potential to become this.
- Pierce/Abed.
- Duncan/Britta.
- Creator's Pet: Starburns. He's certainly popular in his own right but far less so than other side characters such as Vicki, Garrett, and Fat Neil. Dan Harmon outright adores the character however and gives him as much screentime as possible.
- Crosses the Line Twice: Pierce has a habit of doing this.
- An excerpt from "Environmental Science" that was used standalone to promote the show. It's too long to present in its entirety here: see the Quotes page.
- Leonard fought in the Korean War. For North Korea.
- When Pierce is playing 'Pictionary' and draws a swastika to convey a windmill, saying that Rabbi Chang should know what it is.
"This isn't going to stop until Pictionary bans the word 'Windmill.'" |
- Pierce in "Geography of Global Conflict":
Pierce: You be careful. They are ruthless.
Pierce: What? Not Asians. Women! |
- And again later.
Pierce: Sneak attack! That's just like-
Pierce: Not women, Asians. |
- Cult Classic: It's hardly mainstream, but the fanbase was dedicated and big enough to campaign for its renewal and succeeded.
- Designated Villain: Britta in "Paradigms of Human Memory." She may be a bit extreme but Abed was in danger of being expelled and she was the only one taking that, and his mental breakdown, seriously. Perhaps as an Author's Saving Throw, Troy agrees with Britta about this in "Geothermal Escapism" but can't find it within him to stand up to Abed.
- Dork Age: Season 4. The Flanderization of many characters and perceived Jumping the Shark moments didn't win many fans over. It's often mocked in other media and referred to as "the gas-leak year" from Season 5 onwards.
- Double Standard: Shirley gets a lot less flak from the group for her racism and judgemental attitude than Pierce.
- To be fair though, Pierce is more extreme about it, and his racism is also really, really blatant compared to Shirley's one-liners or passing comments that even some fans don't realize until after the fact. Shirley is also a lot more willing to accept blame and fault and make amends if she's confronted or crosses the line more than Pierce.
- Pierce is also prejudiced against almost everybody, his father is even worse (to the point there doesn't seem to be anyone he isn't prejudiced specifically towards), he is quite accepting of people if there is even a vague reason that it is in his self interest, and Pierce rarely shows any actual hostility specifically based on prejudice. Shirley targets specific groups and can be very confrontational towards them.
- Ear Worm:
- The piano refrain from the pilot, "Good ol' Fashioned Nightmare" by Matt and Kim.
- Donde, está, la biblioteca...
- Troy and Abed in the mooooooorning!
- The theme song, dear Lord!
- P-P-Pocket full of Hawthorne's!
- From "Regional Holiday Music", there's Troy and Abed's rap and Annie's song.
- Both songs in "Intro to Felt Surrogacy."
- Ensemble Darkhorse:
- Several side characters such as Garrett, Magnitude, or Fat Neil.
- Rachel, the coatcheck girl.
- Of all the D&D personas, Hector the Well-Endowed seems quite popular. Mainly because Annie plays as him, and the idea of a well-endowed Alison Brie is an appealing one.
- Season 6 was divisive but Frankie and Elroy were beloved.
- Rick, the former human embodiment of Subway, and Britta's One True Love.
- Evil Is Sexy: Evil Annie.
- Fandom Rivalry: Has a one-sided one with Glee. That is to say Community and its fans harp on, and bash Glee, but Glee has never even alluded to Community and its own fans seem unaware of the rivalry entirely. Has a similar situation with The Big Bang Theory.
- Fandom Specific Plot:
- Daleks invade Greendale.
- Troy and Abed come out.
- Following Season 6, Troy returns from the cruise, having figured out his feelings. After catching up with all the changes, he goes to LA to find Abed.
- Jeff gets Britta pregnant and she gives birth to a girl. You don't get a Community fanfic writer's union card until you have Jeff impregnate Britta.
- Fan-Preferred Couple:
- Jeff and Annie. How much do some fans prefer this couple you may ask? Enough to vote them TV's Top Couples 2011 despite the fact they are not a canon couple.
- Abed and Annie also have a vocal fandom. It helps that the character's actors, Alison Brie and Danny Pudi, ship it themselves.
- And then there's Troy/Abed, which is shipped because of their amazing bond and to removed Troy from this shipping madness.
- Fanfic Fuel:
- Abed goes off and has offscreen adventures several times.
- Troy and Le Var Burton's globe trotting cruise.
- Who was the ass crack bandit? Almost everyone has a fact condemning them and another clearing their name. The most likely candidates seem to be Annie, Britta, or the Lunch Lady. The 2020 Zoom meeting revealed that most of the cast, much to Alison Brie's surprise, thinks that it was Annie.
- Fanon: Many a fan believes Rich to be a serial killer given that his Nice Guy persona seems to be covering up some deep mental issues.
- Fanon Discontinuity: Season 4, the gas leak year, to some. They'd even hoped that Dan would declare the whole thing as Canon Dis Continuity when he came back (he didn't).
- Foe Yay: Between the deans of Greendale and City. Laid on pretty thick in "Basic Rocket Science".
- And again in "For A Few Paintballs More".
- Friendly Fandoms:
- Let's just say that Inspector Spacetime was very well received by both Community and Doctor Who fans.
- A similar situation occurred after the Season 5 episode "G.I. Jeff." Helped that Hasbro collaborated with them on the parody.
- Lots of overlap with Dan Harmon's later Rick and Morty. And Rick and Morty's own sister show, Solar Opposites.
- Was very friendly with Victorious during its first season (as many Beck/Jade fans enjoyed Jeff/Britta) but to show what Serious Business shipping is, the Beck/Jade fans promptly abandoned the show when it moved in a Jeff/Annie direction, which they likened to Beck/Tori, and sunk Jeff/Britta more than once.
- Side note: Aside from the Tori - Annie comparison, and that's a stretch, none of the characters on either show are even remotely comparable, certainly not Beck and Jeff.
- Reasonably friendly with Transformers given all the terms that the Laser Lotus philosophy borrowed, such as "energon pods."
- On rather good terms with Dungeons and Dragons due to the two episodes where the group plays the game.
- Quite friendly with Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- Fountain of Memes: Anything Chang says. "Senor Chang is a man who cannot die.", "Magic user, baby, what?!"
- Funny Aneurysm Moment: Fans found Abed's freakout over Cougar Town being benched in the third season premiere a LOT less funny once NBC's Spring 2012 lineup was revealed.
- Also, Jeff saying "This is the year we all die" in "Biology 101." By the time "Basic Lupine Urology" rolls around, Starburns had "died".
- That same line is also a bit more bitter with the announcement that Dan Harmon wouldn't be returning for Season Four and the fandom's subsequent collective meltdown.
- Also, Jeff saying "This is the year we all die" in "Biology 101." By the time "Basic Lupine Urology" rolls around, Starburns had "died".
- Growing the Beard: The show became a lot less predictable midway through the first season, with "Debate 109" being the point that most fans agree it started to pick up steam, when they stopped putting so much focus on Jeff trying to seduce Britta, and Annie's crush on Troy.
- Britta herself started out as a fairly typical Straight Man Love Interest for Jeff, with the result that she often wasn't considered as funny or interesting as the other, rather more idiosyncratic, characters. While the seeds were there from the start, however, around about the same time as the above the writers and actress started playing her more as being So Unfunny It's Funny and Adorkable, with fans starting to find her a lot more likeable as a result.
- Also, starting in "Remedial Chaos Theory" she's shown to be capable of physical comedy.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- In "Paradigms of Human Memory", there's a flashback to "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas", however it is seen through the eyes of the other characters. Puts a much darker light on the former (with the other characters lampshading that it wasn't as fun as Jeff and Britta seemed to be remembering), and really makes you think about snowman Chang's bottom button...
- The timeline where Troy left to get the Pizza became the Darkest Timeline. After Troy left the show in Season 5, many saw it as the point where Seasonal Rot became irreversible. That was also the year that NBC cancelled the show.
- He's Just Hiding: Pierce. He's done it before.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In the Season 1 Finale, Abed is using a banana to do impressions: (Banana on forehead- Banana Rhino. Banana over top lip- Banana Sam Elliot. Banana over eyes- Banana Levar Burton.) What makes it perfect is Troy being the only person who laughs at the last one.
- During the second paintball episode, which has become a Star Wars parody, Troy becomes the Luke-expy. A few years later, Donald Glover would be cast as a young Lando Calrissian.
- Not that it wasn't funny to begin with, but pretty much everything Dean Pelton does/has ever done, now that his actor (Jim Rash) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Especially with how a season 3 episode has him writing and directing a tv advert for the college. Trying to keep in mind he's won an award in real life while seeing how bad and crazy things get can be a bit difficult.
- The fifth Inspector in Inspector Spacetime was female. Well so is the fifth Doctor of the revival. And sadly, she too is a Base Breaker as her stories are considered too political to some and focus too much on "woke" themes.
- In another Spacetime one, the British fan of the series who appears in "Conventions of Space and Time", Toby, is played by Matt Lucas who played Nardole in Series 10 of Doctor Who.
- The Grand Finale features a memorable Take That at the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Jeff and Annie outright say that they find then films boring). A year later, Dan Harmon wrote some scenes for Doctor Strange.
- Idiosyncratic Ship Naming: Indyshipping, for Annie/Abed, based on the gift Annie got for Abed in Intro to Psychology.
- Jerkass Woobie:
- Pierce. While he is unquestionably a jerkass, it's also made quite clear that he's desperately lonely and needy; it is possible to feel sorry for him at times. The study group does.
- Chang, in season two. See The Woobie below.
- The elderly gang of hooligans, the Hipsters, from "Messanic Myths and Filmaking". After the car stealing incident, no one's family was willing to bail them out of holding. Simply put, No one wants to be near them because they're assholes but they're assholes because no one wants to be around them.
- Season 3 toyed with the idea of Jeff being this.
- Just Here For Godzilla:
- Some are here just from Troy a.k.a Childish Gambino.
- Others are Abed and his funny lines.
- Some are here for both, coming to see how awesome they are together...and maybe to ship them.
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Annie/Abed. Annie/Jeff. Annie/Troy. Annie/Señor Chang. Annie/Britta. Annie/Professor Duncan. Notice anything all those pairings have in common?
- It's quite telling that even discounting Romantic Expressionism (see Crack Pairing on the main page), Annie has been shipped IN SHOW with every member of the study group except for Pierce (who has explicitly stated that Annie is his favorite)and Shirley. It's canon that Annie had a crush on Troy in high school and for the first half of the first season, Annie and Jeff kiss in Debate 109 and Pascal's Triangle Revisited, Annie and Abed (as Han Solo) kiss in For a Few Paintballs More, and Annie starts to go in for a kiss with Britta in Early 21st Century Romanticism. And this for a girl they say they try not sexualize too much.
- They said they try. They never said they succeeded.
- It's quite telling that even discounting Romantic Expressionism (see Crack Pairing on the main page), Annie has been shipped IN SHOW with every member of the study group except for Pierce (who has explicitly stated that Annie is his favorite)and Shirley. It's canon that Annie had a crush on Troy in high school and for the first half of the first season, Annie and Jeff kiss in Debate 109 and Pascal's Triangle Revisited, Annie and Abed (as Han Solo) kiss in For a Few Paintballs More, and Annie starts to go in for a kiss with Britta in Early 21st Century Romanticism. And this for a girl they say they try not sexualize too much.
- Love It or Hate It: "Virtual Systems Analysis" seems to have about evenly split the Community audience (or the fandom at least) into two camps; one of which thinks it's possibly the best thing ever, and the other which hates it with the fiery intensity of a supernova.
- Memetic Mutation:
- "I have the weirdest boner."
- "Annie's pretty young. We try not to sexualize her."
- Whovians were quick to latch onto the Doctor Who Affectionate Parody "Inspector Spacetime" from the third season premiere. There's even a parody Tumblr confessions blog for it now.
- "Six seasons and a movie!" began as a Take That at The Cape, but has quickly morphed into the rallying cry for fans who don't want the show to get cancelled.
- Streets ahead.
- And if you don't know what that means, you're clearly streets behind.
- Hah! GAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
- MY EMOTIONS!
- "Look at me now Dad!"
- "Shut up Leonard!"
- "Thank you Leonard. For that compliment and for your service to this country."
- "Ugh, Britta's in this?"
- "What am I not good at?"
- "Sex."
- Blow-off class.
- "You're the worst."
- Moral Event Horizon:
- Pierce was borderline becoming a Complete Monster during most of Season 2, with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons being a prime example of how far he was willing to go in ruining the Study Group's lives, even harassing "Fat" Neil, who was clearly struggling with suicidal thoughts.
- Chang followed suit in season three with his plot to take over the school and turn it into a dictatorship with him as the head. That would be bad enough but his methods include kidnapping the Dean, expelling the study group, trying to get them think they are insane and then planning on burning down the school, killing everyone to cover up his scam (though that was because he thought that fire couldn't pass through doors).
- Narm Charm: "Basic Intergluteal Numismatics" is framed as a murder/rape story but the criminal that Annie and Jeff are hunting deposits quarters up people's buttcracks.
- Nightmare Fuel: Surprisingly, there's quite a bit.
- No Yay: The episode "Physical Education" has a scene where Jeff has a pool match with his aging, overweight new billiards instructor. It features both of them getting naked and the instructor walking up to Jeff while both are still naked and then kissing him on the lips.
- One of Us:
- Abed has to be a troper.
- Dan Harmon, the creator of the show, apparently reads a lot online about the show and adjusts it based on feedback. Abed's Meta Guy status and the lampshade hanging on it in season two includes references to the paintball episode that suggests he's read the Crowning Pages.
- One True Threesome:
- Annie/Troy/Abed.
- On a minor scale, Britta/Abed/Troy. Jeff even refers to Abed as 'your boyfriend's boyfriend' to Britta once.
- Annie/Troy/Abed.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: "Trobed" for Troy/Abed seems to be catching up after "Remedial Chaos Theory," though it's used just as much for shipping them as it is for referring to them in a friendship kind of way.
- Relationship Writing Fumble:
- The writers never quite made up their minds about Jeff/Annie or Jeff/Britta.
- Jeff/Annie's Will They or Won't They? lasted to the Grand Finale and beyond. Their last interaction is them deciding to try it again later on.
- Jeff and Britta have quite a bit of Unresolved Sexual Tension, but all the interactions about it are rather flat and always shoved aside.
- Troy and Britta dated, what their dynamic was was left ambiguous.
- The writers never quite made up their minds about Jeff/Annie or Jeff/Britta.
- Rescued From the Scrappy Heap: In the first few episodes Britta seemed to be the typical Manic Pixie Dream Girl-slash-Women Are Wiser love interest, which came off pretty bland and cliched compared to the rest of the cast. This was fixed by revealing her to be a total dork who puts up a front of being cool, and also that she was nowhere near as closer-to-Earth as her initial, rather self-righteous character would suggest.
Britta: Do you know sugar is like baby meth? That’s what my homeopath says. |
- Retroactive Recognition:
- In Seasons 4 and 5, Abed was dating Captain Marvel.
- Britta's therapy rap in "Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations" would later become known to many as the theme song for Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- Ruined FOREVER: Twelve hours after the announcement of Dan Harmon's firing, the majority of the fandom had already given this treatment to the then-theoretical forth season.
- Seasonal Rot: It's generally agreed that when Dan Harmon left following the third season, the show lost its touch. While the early few episodes of Season 5, when he came back, seemed a return to form, it quickly fell back into this when Donald Glover (Troy) left. Even the cast thinks that Season 6 (which didn't feature Shirley) was a notable step down, though they're still proud of it. General fan consensus was that Season 1 was the best.
- Ship-to-Ship Combat: Community fans get along well generally, but there is some Britta vs. Annie sparring when it comes to who will end up with Jeff. If you root for Jeff/Britta as your OTP, Jeff/Annie shippers will have a field day ranting about how unlikable Britta is or how the duo lacks romantic chemistry. If you openly advocate Jeff/Annie, the Jeff/Britta shippers will declare their disgust with the age gap (16 years) and claim that their massive differences could never be reconcilable in a relationship. Shippers of all other pairings seem to be much more civil.
- Many Troy/Britta shippers are at least a little bitter that their ship is getting the stereotype of being a side-dish that people only ship because they want to clear the way for Jeff/Annie.
- Ship Mates:
- Fans of Jeff/Annie will often ship Troy/Britta, who in Season 1 were romantically linked to Annie and Jeff respectively in canon.
- On the flip-side, Jeff/Britta shippers will often ship Troy/Annie (and increasingly commonly, Annie/Abed), in order to keep Annie away from Jeff.
- Annie/Abed fans have a slight problem doing this in a way that helps their ship. If they ship Troy/Britta it leaves the Jeff/Annie ship open. If they ship Jeff/Britta it leaves the earlier Annie/Troy ship open.
- Following Season 3, the common trio seems to be Jeff/Annie, Troy/Abed, and Britta/Subway.
- Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: The Grand Finale with regards to television shows. They can't last forever, sometimes they'll have bad episodes, and it's not fair to the characters to throw out their Character Development just because it conflicts with your headcanon or prevent them from growing, especially if you love them. And if a sitcom cast keeps rotating, then the odds of future success aren't great.
- Squick: Jeff and Annie's relationship was originally big brother/little sister, but it got creepy very fast, especially as she got older.
Jeff: But now you're becoming this mature, self possessed, intelligent young woman, and I can't keep patting you on the head or talking down to you. |
- The Squick of their relationship is hard to take seriously for some people since the age difference of the actors is very limited, Allison Brie isn't type cast for Dawson Casting (so people potentially have seen her playing much older characters), and Joel McHale looks younger then his age but the characters have a 16 year age gap.
- Tear Jerker: There are a few moments.
- Testosterone Brigade: Yes, many watched just to see Annie not being sexualized.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Firing Dan Harmon at the end of Season 3 was the first change. Then Seasons 5 (writing out Pierce and Troy) and 6 (the new dynamic under Yahoo! that saw Shirley cut) kept up this trend.
- Uncanny Valley:
- The stop-motion figures in "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas." Britta's is especially bad. Hilariously, the normally expressionless Abed looked the most human.
- Annie's werewolf transformation in her scary story from "Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps"
- The Greendale Human Being.
- Unfortunate Implications:
- In "English as a Second Language", people are convincing Troy to be a plumber instead of staying in school. Played for Laughs as usual.
- In-universe, almost everything Pierce says and does. He (probably) didn't even realize how much that windmill looked like a swastika...
- However, if at least part of his faux Buddhist religion is accurate, the swastika would be perfectly fine for him. It wouldn't carry the same sort of meaning for him; it would be a sun symbol.
- Buddhist troper here to say that no part of Pierce's religion has been even vaguely accurate. And we tend not to use the swastika in the west. It's really, really, really not worth it. That symbol has been Ruined FOREVER.
- Though Pierce uses the term Buddha, the religion is really more of a parody of Scientology. Considering the amount of flak said religion can rain down, it's perhaps understandable that the show tried to cover it up with something so absurdly inaccurate that most people would know it's wrong.
- The portrayal of the homosexual community in "Advanced Gay" has been met with some criticism. Dan Harmon admitted that a few of the concerns were actually pretty valid and apologized, promising to be more aware of the issue in the future.
- Unpopular Popular Character:
- Pierce and Chang. Both are often barely tolerated by the rest of the group, but they're popular characters with the fans.
- Also Britta. Although not exactly disliked by the other characters, they frequently call her a killjoy. Evidently her colleagues at work don't like her much either. And she's apparently not too popular with the rest of the Greendale student body either:
Vicki: You're the worst. |
- Annie was apparently so unpopular in high school that a crossing guard tried to lure her into traffic.
- The study group in general appears to be this to some degree; they're very close-knit with each other and are, of course, very popular with the fans of the show, but there's some evidence to suggest that they're not that well liked among the student body at large in Greendale.
- Vindicated by History:
- Jeff/Britta is not universally beloved, but during the COVID-19 lockdown binge watching, and how young Annie was shown to be in the first three seasons, many more people began viewing Jeff/Annie as Squick.
- When the show was released on Netflix, it finally got the numbers it so deserved.
- Vocal Minority: Like any Cult Classic, there are those fans who hype up the show so much that they scare off any new fans but Community fans have been known to attack more popular and mainline sitcoms out of frustration for the lower ratings, scaring off any potential viewers.
- The Woobie:
- Oddly enough, Chang in season 2. All he wants is to join the group and he just gets shot down. Although he did spend most of the first season tormenting them, so it makes sense.
- According to Word of God, Britta was designed to become this over the course of the series, especially in the Season 1 finale. Her self-esteem issues are certainly often referred to.
- Abed also becomes this, particularly in "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas".
- Then the second half of Season 3 hits, exploring more of Abed we never knew. Virtual Systems Analysis has major insight to his issues.
- All of the main characters, and more than a few of the minor ones, have had their moment of Woobie-dom; no matter how big a Jerkass they might be at times it's also quite clear that they're all broken and vulnerable people to some extent.
- Todd in the third episode of season 3.
- The Dean can become like this, at times.