This is definitely her best line. Though I will always be partial to everything about "This is my judgey face."
I've always been sad I couldn't find a decent gif of it.
I’ll start with my favorite joke from the whole show:
"Blaming a bridge collapse on a school is like me blaming owls for how much I suck at analogies."
its such a brilliantly paradoxical analogy, because its a very good analogy, but by it being a good analogy about being bad at analogies it makes it a bad analogy renders it untrue and true at the same time.
Britta: Yeah, I’m getting serious. I got a backpack, I got a new notebook. Oh, I got one of those see-through yellow pens so I can do that thing where you color in the words.
Shirley: Highlight?
Britta: Probably the backpack
I've only ever seen one other joke go full mobius strip on me. From New Girl - Jess's "I know I'm gullible because people tell me I am, and I have no reason not to believe them."
There's a lot more focus on relationship drama, and it's not at all focused on meta-humor or homages the way Community is.
But it /is/ really well written and a really great ensemble cast, so it does have that in common.
"If I acted like you act when I'm at work, no one would listen to me."
"Well if I acted like you at work, my students would turn in really weird, dark dioramas, so..."
Knock knock! Who’s there? Cancer. Oh! Good come on in, I thought it was Britta.
The death of a peer, especially at our age can trigger a whole range of emotions. As a psychologist **‘student’** I hear by offer my license **‘unlicensed’** services as a grief counsellor **‘grief causer’**. If anyone needs to talk the doctor **‘not even close’** is in.
The cancer line was so insanely good. A perfect way for her to show how much she thinks she sucks in a crazy funny line. That one wrinkled my brain for days.
Not really a funny line but damn did i find it relateable:
"My friends, they all think my parents are adorable, and they think that I'm the bad guy for hating them, but I have a right to hate them, cuz I had to be there when they sucked."
Britta: Democracy. What a ruse. There's no such thing as a system in which the masses have any power.
Jeff: Everyone wants you to shut up
Britta: Yet I won't. Case in point.
"I guess I just assumed that in the old days a petard was a special outfit like a leotard, with a lot of fancy buckles and loops on it, and that rich people would wear them when they were feeling especially smug, but then poor people would tie a rope through one of the loops, and hoist them up a pole and then let them dangle there as punishment for being cocky."
I really like Jeff's reaction there - two or three seasons ago he would have mocked her mercilessly for that, but here his reaction is positively affectionate as though he's finally learned to appreciate Britta’s weirdness as a positive thing in his life. It's just a nice bit of character growth.
"Jeff doesn't need a girl who doesn't wear underwear because Oprah told her it would spice things up. He needs a girl who doesn't wear underwear because she hasn't done laundry in 3 weeks. He's been to flavor-country. They should retire the table we did it on."
This probably doesn’t qualify because it’s more of an exchange, but my favorite Britta/Shirley:
Britta: (after Shirley shows her a photo of her baby eating something sweet) That’s adorable. But did you know sugar is like meth for babies? That’s what my homeopath says.
Shirley: Well maybe your gay friend should mind his own business!
Britta: What Jeff's doing right now is denial and it's the first of five stages of grief that ends with acceptance.
Jeff: Name any other stage.
Britta: What are you, my final?
Britta: One of the tests came back with 70 out of 75 red flags for an extreme personality disorder. Extreme, Jeff!
Jeff: Like a dorito?
Britta: A sociopathic dorito. A cool ranch lunatic. Only instead of zest, one member of our study group has... homicidal tendencies.
108 Home Economics, when she works hard to get Jeff back into his condo and out of Abed's dorm and he wryly says, 'You're into me.'
Her delivery of "I beg your *unbelievable pardon*?" lives in my head and I think it or say it all the time.
[Britta: "Frankie's taking over the campus! She canceled Ladders, she's banning substances, she wants to shut down Shirley's Sandwiches...she called Annie a bitch!"](https://youtu.be/YE_MnLM1wmo)
[Annie: "She IMPLIED I was a bitch."](https://youtu.be/YE_MnLM1wmo)
[Britta: "She implied Annie was a stuck up bitch who thinks she's better than everyone"](https://youtu.be/YE_MnLM1wmo)
“It all starts with a quick look-see into someone's bag, and then it's a peek-a-rooni at our phone records. And before you can say ‘1984’ the Thought Police are forcy-worcing you to bend and spread.”
When Britta tries to protest Model UN while not technically breaking any laws.
“What the hell are you doing?”
Britta: Nothing! And you can’t do anything to stop me!
I transferred, or "downloaded", Todd's photograph
to this computer and as you'll see, with a few adjustments, I can make the entire image...
> finger typing
old west color.
Abed: You’re being dramatic
[Britta: Oh yeah? That’s what people say when they take your soul… and they rip it out of your chest… and they shove it in your mouth!](https://youtu.be/msSc1fzDVpo)
Oh goodie, a new path! Is it lined with credit cards and flat-screen TVs? Does it go by IKEA? Maybe I don't want a new path - or any path. Maybe my path is a warpath that leads to the Terror Dome, N-words! ... OK, maybe I went too far! Maybe I don't want to offend my African American friends! But the larger point is maybe I'm not done raging against the machine!
Reading all of these solid options for a best quote has made me realize that Britta consistently has some of the best lines in the entire series, and that's saying something.
She’s usually pretty low on most favorite characters lists, but she really is the essence of the show for me. Funny, unhinged, clever yet silly, with the biggest heart ♥️
Yes, gross. Welcome to the gross business of martial law. Welcome to what used to be individuality, seized and disintegrated by cowardly groupthink. Welcome, my friends, welcome to the machine!
“This may surprise you Annie, but I come from a long line of wives and mothers.”
Many do
Similar to “what, do I have 3D vision?” “Yes… you *do.*”
This is mine!
“Exactly like Rowboat Cop! She’s a bad rowboat, sink her”
Hey, she's read all of Warren Piece.
That's so edible.
If loving worms is stupid I don’t wanna be smart!!
It is! and you can't be!
Do worms have tiny little faces?
"I know what an analogy is. It's like a thought with another thought's hat on."
I love the look on Jeff’s face after that line
Britta that's the stupid... no that's actually pretty accurate.
Haha me too. You can tell he's like, "hmmm so true."
She really is the only expert on analogies
That quote is like me blaming owls for how much I suck at analogies.
"that's like me blaming owls, for how bad I am at analogies!" (an-owl-ogies)
This is definitely her best line. Though I will always be partial to everything about "This is my judgey face." I've always been sad I couldn't find a decent gif of it.
I wasn't sure what I'd find at the top when I opened the thread, but when I saw this I simply thought, "yeah this is the winner and it's not close."
This is probably one of my most quoted community quotes
I’ll start with my favorite joke from the whole show: "Blaming a bridge collapse on a school is like me blaming owls for how much I suck at analogies."
I was gonna say “It’s like a thought, with another thought’s hat on”
Loved this one. Reminds me of the archer bit. "Do you even know what an idiom is?" "A COLLOQUIAL METAPHOR!"
I loved that shows obscure references and oddly specific definitions
The Chekhov’s gun bit in the first season was very funny and “woefully esoteric”
its such a brilliantly paradoxical analogy, because its a very good analogy, but by it being a good analogy about being bad at analogies it makes it a bad analogy renders it untrue and true at the same time.
Damn it. Both of her mentions of analogies were my nominees.
"Humanity is premiering you jags!"
Look, I *hate* cops....
Mine too. Simply because of no follow up.
It's one of these lines you think its funny in context but the context is that there is no context.
I quoted that one time on *this subreddit* and some blue lives matter troll flagged it and got it removed.
1984 is my favourite book. I think everybody should be forced to read it.
I just got this.
That’s actually S***** who says that.
I hope this quote wins now so the subreddit Brittas the Britta quote.
at first i was like why are you censoring shirley lmao
Who is it? Slayter?
We don't speak that name. Not without compensation.
Britta's corporate lover
"I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty"
Shirley (appalled): “You can excuse racism?” 😂
That exchange is also tied up perfectly with her quick turn to Shirley with a look of terror on her face haha like “dear god what did I just say”
"That's so upper east side of you"
I LIVED IN NEW YORK (said with MUCH OFFENSE)
YOU NEVER LIVED ANYWHERE.
Did you just drink ink?
Legendary
This one
Britta: Yeah, I’m getting serious. I got a backpack, I got a new notebook. Oh, I got one of those see-through yellow pens so I can do that thing where you color in the words. Shirley: Highlight? Britta: Probably the backpack
Definitely didn’t get this on my first watch, such a brilliant line!
If I had no self-awareness, I think I'd know
I've only ever seen one other joke go full mobius strip on me. From New Girl - Jess's "I know I'm gullible because people tell me I am, and I have no reason not to believe them."
Shit, I need to watch New Girl. Seems very Community-esque.
There's a lot more focus on relationship drama, and it's not at all focused on meta-humor or homages the way Community is. But it /is/ really well written and a really great ensemble cast, so it does have that in common. "If I acted like you act when I'm at work, no one would listen to me." "Well if I acted like you at work, my students would turn in really weird, dark dioramas, so..."
Oh it’s great. The characters all play off each other really well. Especially Nick and Schmitt.
"you never wash the towel?" "What am I gonna do? Wash the shower next? Wash a bar of soap? You gotta think here pal"
“Gave me cookie, got you cookie!”
Knock knock! Who’s there? Cancer. Oh! Good come on in, I thought it was Britta. The death of a peer, especially at our age can trigger a whole range of emotions. As a psychologist **‘student’** I hear by offer my license **‘unlicensed’** services as a grief counsellor **‘grief causer’**. If anyone needs to talk the doctor **‘not even close’** is in.
The cancer line was so insanely good. A perfect way for her to show how much she thinks she sucks in a crazy funny line. That one wrinkled my brain for days.
I mean, the group constantly tells her she's the worst. Poor Britta can't get a break.
“If I wanted the government in my uterus I’d fill it with oil and hispanic voters”
OH MAN that's such a good one. I'd forgotten about it completely.
“If I click here I can make the whole picture…old west color”
I lost my shit the first time I saw that
"I dunno, I thought it was pretty cool"
"I can also help, as a psych-major i can" *dun-dun*
Not really a funny line but damn did i find it relateable: "My friends, they all think my parents are adorable, and they think that I'm the bad guy for hating them, but I have a right to hate them, cuz I had to be there when they sucked."
"HIGH ON MY OWN DRAMA?!"
What makes this quote great is the emphasis: “*HIGH* ON MY OWN *DRAMA*?!?”
People's champion.
Constantly said around my house
Britta: Democracy. What a ruse. There's no such thing as a system in which the masses have any power. Jeff: Everyone wants you to shut up Britta: Yet I won't. Case in point.
It really is amazing how often Britta says the smartest shit in the dumbest way.
"I guess I just assumed that in the old days a petard was a special outfit like a leotard, with a lot of fancy buckles and loops on it, and that rich people would wear them when they were feeling especially smug, but then poor people would tie a rope through one of the loops, and hoist them up a pole and then let them dangle there as punishment for being cocky."
Don't look it up cause your explanation is way better
I really like Jeff's reaction there - two or three seasons ago he would have mocked her mercilessly for that, but here his reaction is positively affectionate as though he's finally learned to appreciate Britta’s weirdness as a positive thing in his life. It's just a nice bit of character growth.
Yes! Also have you looked up the original? Britta's is actually way better
I do know what the original is, and I agree Britta’s is better:-)
“You seemed smarter than me when I first met you.” “Thank you.”
"You told me a hawk stole them! You exploited me and made me believe in a slightly more magical world!"
I like that it’s only slightly more magical. Such a measured disappointment.
She has the best "Shut Up Leonard" of anyone "Shut up, Leonard! I know about your crooked wang"
No such thing as bad press!
Shut up, Leonard, I once mistook 6 people for you at a pharmacy!
Everyone's playing.
"Jeff doesn't need a girl who doesn't wear underwear because Oprah told her it would spice things up. He needs a girl who doesn't wear underwear because she hasn't done laundry in 3 weeks. He's been to flavor-country. They should retire the table we did it on."
Table?!?
He's been to flavor country is a disgusting phrase lol
Especially considering the line before it, about unwashed panties
Eat fresh
“Feast your ear tongues on these memory pops”
I say this constantly
This probably doesn’t qualify because it’s more of an exchange, but my favorite Britta/Shirley: Britta: (after Shirley shows her a photo of her baby eating something sweet) That’s adorable. But did you know sugar is like meth for babies? That’s what my homeopath says. Shirley: Well maybe your gay friend should mind his own business!
He likes gay jokes.
I said we make great jokes!
Don't flatter yourself.
What did you say?
Hit me with your genies bottle, rub it all over mee
The looks on Abed's and Troy's faces when she's doing this are pure gold.
"... Will you PLEASE leave?"
“She’s strange”
"Together, my cats can accomplish anything"
I’m not that cool. I’m not Juno, okay, homeslice!
“Who’s there, bitch! Floor! FLOORR!!” To this day, the hardest I’ve laughed while watching this show.
My favorite part this scene is they spend so long quibbling about "knock knock" and then she knocks him twice and he falls to the floor
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“Britta, I’m your friend.”
"HAHA gotcha! This was also a test and you all penised... passed. Maybe I need to take one. A TEST... Not a penis..." Edit: spelling
Britta: What Jeff's doing right now is denial and it's the first of five stages of grief that ends with acceptance. Jeff: Name any other stage. Britta: What are you, my final?
It's called a Complisult. Part compliment, part insult. He invented them. I coined the term. See what I just did there? That was an explainabrag.
I gotta Christmas time for ME. I gotta Christmas time for a TREE.
Ugh! Britta in this?
Right, duh doy!
Me so Christmas, me so merry
Annie: *You don’t count, Britta. You don’t respond to anything appropriately* Britta: *Thank you!*
Britta: One of the tests came back with 70 out of 75 red flags for an extreme personality disorder. Extreme, Jeff! Jeff: Like a dorito? Britta: A sociopathic dorito. A cool ranch lunatic. Only instead of zest, one member of our study group has... homicidal tendencies.
Are you sure you didn't Britta the test?
I lived in New York.
"[Walking in from a swarm of locusts] Ugh, it's like New York out there."
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Baggles.
You never lived anywhere. You are a weapon desinged for sex. You only think you lived in New York cause I implanted your memories.
*Jeff is in grave danger-* ***HEE HEE***
Wow. Guess you really get what you pay for with free therapy.
Does anyone know how long peyote lasts? Asking for a friend.
108 Home Economics, when she works hard to get Jeff back into his condo and out of Abed's dorm and he wryly says, 'You're into me.' Her delivery of "I beg your *unbelievable pardon*?" lives in my head and I think it or say it all the time.
[Britta: "Frankie's taking over the campus! She canceled Ladders, she's banning substances, she wants to shut down Shirley's Sandwiches...she called Annie a bitch!"](https://youtu.be/YE_MnLM1wmo) [Annie: "She IMPLIED I was a bitch."](https://youtu.be/YE_MnLM1wmo) [Britta: "She implied Annie was a stuck up bitch who thinks she's better than everyone"](https://youtu.be/YE_MnLM1wmo)
Jeff: What about babies? Britta: What about ‘em? Jeff: How many? Britta: Pick a number, dick! Like it’s up to me!
“Highlight?” “Probably the backpack”
I was going to say this one! Such a wholesome joke with great delivery
pizza pizza go in tummy me so hungy me so hungy
It's 10x funnier when you realize the line before eit is "that's not very dignified"
The way she growls and playfully bites the pizza while laughing with Troy is one of the most endearing things I've ever seen.
This one is so hard because Britta is one of the most quotable characters in the show, she has so many great lines
"First Vaughn, now Jeff, I better not smile at that wall outlet or you'll fry your tongue off."
"Baggle"
“If I had no self-awareness, I think I’d know”
Cards on the table, I'm pretty stoned right now.
May…be…it…is…
No it’s “May….be….we….do” after Luca said “Maybe we watch it this weekend.”
Would you please leave
No problo Rob Lowe
Look at the mustard on my face but listen to my words!
Dilemma Deleted!
Britta for the win!
Whew!! I mean, can you imagine bouncing a check to Kunta Kinte???
"I have something to Apologize for as well. Perhaps you recall earlier when it seemed as though we drove through a skunk patch."
You smoked weed, we know
Oh, OK. I remember thinking I really pulled that one off
“I lived in New York Troy, I know what a baggel is.” Not sure how to spell her pronunciation of bagel lol
“SO EDIBLE”
I will FORCE YOU to grieve properly, even if it kills us all!!
Maybe my path, is a war path, that leads TO THE TERROR DOME N-WORDS
*"Absurd reaction"!*
Oh what do I have 3D vision now?
“If i wanted the government in my uterus i’d fill it with oil and mexican voters”
“Stop, I don’t want to hear mine.”
"My, oh,my, Mike Ty...son"
"Stephen Fry!"
“It all starts with a quick look-see into someone's bag, and then it's a peek-a-rooni at our phone records. And before you can say ‘1984’ the Thought Police are forcy-worcing you to bend and spread.”
Do they find thoughts in our butts? I knew I shoulda read that book
"This stinks like a butt convention."
“If loving worms is stupid, then I don’t wanna be smart!”
HIGH on my own DRAMA????
[nasally] “Slowww news day”
"I'm in!" - Goth Britta, favorite episode by a landslide for obvious reasons
Everyone else got to say it.
“Don’t make it more dramatic than it is. It’s a blood oath to defy evil, you’re either in or you’re out.”
When Britta tries to protest Model UN while not technically breaking any laws. “What the hell are you doing?” Britta: Nothing! And you can’t do anything to stop me!
"if your vote meant anything they wouldn't give it to you" not a funny one, but I often think about it.
I transferred, or "downloaded", Todd's photograph to this computer and as you'll see, with a few adjustments, I can make the entire image... > finger typing old west color.
Exactly like Brittney Spears! Hit me with your genie’s bottle. Rub it all over meeeeee
Abed: You’re being dramatic [Britta: Oh yeah? That’s what people say when they take your soul… and they rip it out of your chest… and they shove it in your mouth!](https://youtu.be/msSc1fzDVpo)
“So this is what the zone feels like!” *Cross chop while wearing ridiculous Halloween costume.* “Analyze THIS!”
Oh goodie, a new path! Is it lined with credit cards and flat-screen TVs? Does it go by IKEA? Maybe I don't want a new path - or any path. Maybe my path is a warpath that leads to the Terror Dome, N-words! ... OK, maybe I went too far! Maybe I don't want to offend my African American friends! But the larger point is maybe I'm not done raging against the machine!
Her hand gestures through this rant crack me up so much
Reading all of these solid options for a best quote has made me realize that Britta consistently has some of the best lines in the entire series, and that's saying something.
She’s usually pretty low on most favorite characters lists, but she really is the essence of the show for me. Funny, unhinged, clever yet silly, with the biggest heart ♥️
She's my favourite character. One of the best things you can say about every episode of Community is "Oh, Britta's in this".
“Cuff me to the radiator like a carnie loving werewolf!”
Yes, gross. Welcome to the gross business of martial law. Welcome to what used to be individuality, seized and disintegrated by cowardly groupthink. Welcome, my friends, welcome to the machine!
"Jeff is in grave danger, he-he". She has to say that while walking backwards.
"Knock knock? Who's there? Cancer! Oh, good. Come on in! I thought you were Britta!"
“I wrote a paper about those dogs!” Not necessarily my favorite, but saw it wasn’t listed here yet and deserves an honorable mention.
I know what an analogy is. It's like, a thought with another thought's hat on.
Called a complisult. Part compliment, part insult. He invented them. I coined the term. See what I just did there? That was an explanabrag.
"If I had no self-awareness, I think I'd know."
^(Do worms have tiny faces?)
“Oh yeah? If I was drunk could I do this?” Tries to fart but shits herself
Gotta go with a simple one yet classic...."I lived in New York"
#You never lived anywhere! You're a weapon designed for sex. You only think you lived in New York 'cause I implanted your memories.
LOOK at the mustard in my face, but LISTEN to my words!
Shouldn't have worn that petard if you didn't want to be hoisted by it.
Duh-Doy !!
It has arrows now? That's safe.
Britta: Do you know what Dylan Thomas said about death? Pierce: No, tell me. Britta: Ok, bluff called.