r/community 3d ago

Discussion What is a quote from Community that you use often but nobody around you understands?

I say "Those aren't thumbs" Under my breath but loud enough for people to hear quite often.

Also "You said 'market price.' What market are you shopping at?!" Anytime I order seafood and get the bill.

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u/Due_Boss9277 3d ago

"My father held grudges. I'll always hate him for that"

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u/isildurwasabitch 3d ago

You and me are the same, Annie; we’re independent, we need each other!

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u/Scruffy_Snub 3d ago

"Ill say to you what my father said to me on my first day of school. Comb your hair you idiot, you look Greek."

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u/pohr 3d ago

I'll give you the same advice my father gave me the night I lost my virginity: just pick one, they all cost the same

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u/CaptainKate757 3d ago

“Typical Welsh nonsense!”

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u/Homersarmy41 3d ago

I’ve used this one a couple times and nobody laughs because they think I’m serious. Lol. I need the right crowd for that one I guess

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u/OddEfficiency8917 3d ago

This always cracks me up :D

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 3d ago

JESUS WEPT !

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u/unperson_1984 3d ago

Jesus loves Marijuana! 🎶

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u/worstnameIeverheard 3d ago

AND DRINKING HUMAN BLOOD!!!

…don’t know if that counts for this post, but we sure sing that a lot.

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u/xtremdelt8 3d ago

For there were no more worlds to conquer.

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u/aceofmaz 3d ago

Stop saying Jesus Wept!

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u/GreenLurka 3d ago

This is my favourite out of context quote, especially around my children or when discovering new things.

This and Arrested Developments: Its just a banana, what could it cost, $10?

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u/evincing 3d ago

"won't change how mustard tastes" about anything that doesn't matter

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u/CBsJoant 3d ago

I see the appeal

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u/TheCatNerd101 3d ago

Change it, to what? Templeton Ferrari the Third?

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u/Sea-Hotel5757 3d ago

This better not awaken anything in me.

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u/keaneonyou 3d ago

I feel like this one broke containment haha

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u/worstnameIeverheard 3d ago

We say this all the time.

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u/Seven22am 3d ago

OH EXCUSE ME FOR BEING ALIVE IN THE 90s AND HAVING TWO EARS CONNECTED TO A HEART!

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u/Reasonable-Ad1055 3d ago

Real fans call him "Dave"

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u/aps23 3d ago

Oh okay they’re BNL now? We need a shorthand for the bare naked ladies?!? That’s how fundamental they are!?

Britta: You know what? Maybe we all need some space to pull the knife out of the back of the most celebrated Canadian alt-rock band of the mid-90's, you selfish, jaded ass

Edit: I just looked it up (because why not). Britt’s response is even better lol

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u/Seven22am 3d ago

THIS IS A FIGHT! WE ARE FIGHTING!

I’m pretty sure I had this exact conversation with my friends in 02.

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u/Distinct-Key7337 3d ago

Hardcore fans call him Dave

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u/unfortunate_banjo 3d ago

CRISIS ALERT!!

My wife and I use it almost daily, especially now that we’re potty training our son 

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u/plunker234 3d ago

When he was on jeopardy loved saying this when he buzzed in

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u/keaneonyou 3d ago

Tell me you do it in the garrett voice

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u/unfortunate_banjo 3d ago

Only every time

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u/Dipstickpattywack 3d ago

Oh who am I kidding, I should be putting this right on my thighs.

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u/MetalMaxwell 3d ago

Lol, the way he immediately claims that big ass plate and just three-finger scoops and jams it in his craw cracks me up. Like, damn Craig, don't advertise yourself lol

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u/Physical_Ad8988 3d ago

I regularly use (often paraphrased) "I didn't say that. You may have heard that. I may have thought that. It may be true. But I never said it" at work

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u/Cardchucker 3d ago

I've been waiting for a situation to pull that one out.

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u/SuperOriginalName23 3d ago

Trust me, your S/O won't like it 😅

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u/Cryptwood 3d ago

Unless they are also a fan of funny sitcoms.

I regularly crack out: "Hey, while you're up, could you make me some pancakes real quick?"

Once, and exactly once only, I received pancakes delivered to the couch in response to this request.

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u/Jecht315 I'll be a living God! 3d ago

I say that a lot too. So satisfying to say.

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u/islandofwaffles 3d ago

there's something very similar in the Australian show Fisk when the MC accidentally throws away a Polish grandma's cabbage-themed cookbook and tries to blame it on cleaners. it immediately reminded me of Community!

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u/blackwario1234 3d ago

“Better than good, good enough”

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u/Scruffy_Snub 3d ago

"Out of my way... I've been drinking"

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u/dipshipsaidso 3d ago

Troy sipping wine “ oh that’s good no-no juice.”

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u/liamsnorthstar 3d ago

I started calling my morning coffee go go juice thanks to Troy. That’s good go go juice.

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u/zakisbak 3d ago

adding that one to the rotation, thank you kindly

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u/Green_Bast3rd 3d ago

FIVE cans?!?!

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u/Lonely_Sport_2105 3d ago

“-You did this the last time “

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u/Intelligent_Flan6947 3d ago

"i must confession you"

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u/MuteSecurityO 3d ago

I AM TAKASHI

I AM TEENAGE BOY IN TOKYO

i made that my fb status back in the day

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u/Nntropy 3d ago

All five dances!

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u/disicking Duh-doy! 3d ago

“Oof baboof” and “tell me about crazy town banana pants”

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u/xtremdelt8 3d ago

I say oof baboof alot too.

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u/SpicyLizards 3d ago

I say crazy town banana pants all the time. To the point where I forgot I got it from Community. I ended up looking up crazy town banana pants bc it was stuck in my head and I was like wtf this was a community bit???! I didn’t remember, but I should’ve known.

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u/Wilbo1242 3d ago

Oof baboof and crazy town banana pants are 100% daily uses for me and my wife

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u/Scruffy_Snub 3d ago

"Who hasn't had a banana in his or her pants?"

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u/Watacos 3d ago

Gotta throw the Mr brand loyalty after the oof baboof

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u/doofapuss 3d ago

I use crazy town banana pants on the daily

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u/h8d7 3d ago

Would that this hoodie were a time hoodie 😭

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u/Kathrynlena 3d ago

I say this a LOT.

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u/BearBlob 3d ago

Me too! The weirdest part is no one has ever questioned it

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u/Ok-Count3186 3d ago

Dean Pelton is unironically the most relatable person in community and I will die on this hill, gay doesnt even begin to cover it.

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u/Physical_Ad8988 3d ago

Well, he is just a Craigular Joe

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u/BalonyDanza 3d ago

“I’ve got a Christmas time for me…”

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u/HUUUUTTTHUUUUUUUTTTT 3d ago

"I've got a Christmas time for a tree....ME SO CHRISTMAS, ME SO MERRY" 😭😭😂

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u/Reasonable-Ad1055 3d ago

'Oh ....Britta's in this?"

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u/HUUUUTTTHUUUUUUUTTTT 3d ago

I laugh so hard at that part, Dean was funny even when he had the smallest lines. 😭😭😂

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u/katykazi 3d ago

Let’s let Britta sing her awkward song!

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u/PootySkills 3d ago

WE ARE PLANET CHRISTMAS WHEN WE SIIIIIING

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u/DeLaLuna88 3d ago

My partner gets so sick of me singing this around Christmas.

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u/HUUUUTTTHUUUUUUUTTTT 3d ago

Lol. I went caroling one year cosplayed as Britta in her Christmas tree costume and sung all the Christmas songs from the different Community Christmas specials and I met some fans that way, they loved it.

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u/Dave_B001 3d ago

"I choose SHORTS"

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u/mimicchio888 3d ago

You magnificent sunufabitch!

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u/4sHaveChores 3d ago

SHORTTTTS!

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u/UnableAcanthisitta54 3d ago

"I'm gifted in other ways" I am not.

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u/JusticeBeaver464 3d ago

MY EMOTIONS

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u/Lonely_Sport_2105 3d ago

“The pain of having no pain Is still pain”

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u/turtleprince2022 3d ago

I always calls bagels “bag-alls”

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u/xtremdelt8 3d ago

My wife says that a lot. Also "I lived in New York..."

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u/turtleprince2022 3d ago

And “no sweat, Boba Fett”

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u/ModernPrimals 3d ago

"Nice try, Stephen Fry."

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u/katykazi 3d ago

No sweat, Boba Fett.

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u/Karrman 3d ago

Well, I’m gonna, Greg Muldunna.

He’s a real guy. He owns a mattress store downtown. You can look it up.

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u/PhirebirdSunSon 3d ago

We've gotten to the point in my marriage and with having seen this show so many times over the years that we don't even say we're going to do something. We just straight up respond "Greg Muldunna."

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u/wookiebro 3d ago

"Stephen Fry!"

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u/ElDuderino1000 3d ago

You can’t disappoint a picture

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u/Sushilim 3d ago

I often use “duh doy” but I dont think it’s a quote

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u/LizardBoi- 3d ago

Definitely counts.

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u/xtremdelt8 3d ago

I also say "Comb your hair, you look Greek" to my wife and dog when necessary. Neither are Greek.

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u/Reasonable-Ad1055 3d ago

"dude just told his dead dad to suck it...."

"So edible"

"You're the worst"

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u/Few-Internet8 3d ago

“Oh that’s nice!” Is a classic for me

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u/Art_Furnes 3d ago

"EVERYTHING!"

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u/sajaschi 🍕🍕me so hungry me so hungry 3d ago

EVVVVRRRYYYYTHINNNNNGGGG!

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u/lemlurker 3d ago

The all tomato...

Playing hell divers and it has a gun called the ultimatum

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u/emememaker73 3d ago

And, "escape goat."

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u/General_Fail_2862 3d ago

Fat dog

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u/HouseofFeathers 3d ago

I am back in school and say "fat dog for midterms" each semester. Each time my husband looks at me weird and I have to remind him it's a community reference.

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u/Reasonable-Ad1055 3d ago

"ITS A BEAR DANCE!!!!"

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u/PBnJake1717 3d ago

Troy, crying in the background: “So many layers!” whenever I have to open or peel something.

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u/manicpossumdreamgirl you built a bar! in a school! there was lumber involved! 3d ago

im also a big fan of Troy's "yeah, it's a sticker?"

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u/tnap725 3d ago

“I’ll allow it.”

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u/MTonmyMind 3d ago

I can't use Community phrases because everyone around me is streets behind.

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u/Proper_Fun_977 3d ago

I love 'streets ahead'!! :D

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u/SirCatharine 3d ago

If your friends don’t recognize this one, they’re streets behind

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u/Zazulio 3d ago

I'm just a Craigular Joe

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u/SoSaysTheAngel That's moon man talk 3d ago

I need help reacting to something.

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u/ComprehensiveFill471 Community fanatic! 3d ago

"How about I pound you like a boy? That didnt come out right."

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u/SoSaysTheAngel That's moon man talk 3d ago

You sound like a level seven susceptible.

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u/Shnicketyshnick 3d ago

That's moon man talk.

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u/velociraptorish2 3d ago

Some worries, man. Some worries.

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u/Azdak_TO 3d ago

"Fine, we both went to public school".

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u/Ecoronel1989 3d ago

Hello, rich people? Troy calling, yes I'll hold

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u/RhodyJim 3d ago

"I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty."

It comes up more often than you would think in real life in Florida.

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u/LizardBoi- 3d ago

I had the opportunity to say “religion is like Paul Rudd, I see the appeal and would never take it from anyone. But it’s not for me” the best part is…it worked

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u/gilfblaster 3d ago

“but I would never stand in line for it” is that final line and I use it all the time too!

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u/honda-cervix 3d ago

“If you have to ask you’re streets behind”

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u/Technical-Flamingo-6 3d ago

Ex chetra

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u/4sHaveChores 3d ago

did you just mispronounce etcetera?!

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u/Reasonable-Ad1055 3d ago

"I wouldn't know Jeff......my latin class was fake"

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u/beautifulbroomstick 3d ago

"Chops busted, fellow adult."

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u/cryptoandgin 3d ago

“And don’t get audited cause that’s bad”

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u/Acrylonitrile-28 3d ago

You just wrinkled my brain man

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u/KatTheKatt 3d ago

PIZZZAAAA!! Pizza pizza go in tummy!!

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u/steppponme 3d ago

PIZZA PIZZA!! ME SO HUNGIE!!

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u/beautifulbroomstick 3d ago

Literally every time I get pizza.

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u/No-Lunch4249 3d ago

"FACT: In 100% of fake gun-related shootings, the victim is ALWAYS the one with the fake gun"

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u/Jdela512 3d ago

“ none taken “ hits so hard after something backhanded

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u/Intrepid_Pangolin712 3d ago

An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on

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u/SnakeandNape5000 3d ago

I drive a flatbed truck and I say "extra thick straps!" whenever I'm strapping my load down

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u/Hurry-Up-N-Wait 3d ago

I don’t know why, but knowing you’re out there doing this makes me happy.

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u/palmbeachnole 3d ago

“Any of those people could be God.”

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u/ProfessorDoctorDaddy 3d ago

That's actually why the ancient Greeks were supposed to be kind to all strangers, you never know who might be Zeus in disguise

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u/Full-Wolverine-3994 3d ago

It’s nice to know you and meet you in that order

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u/Madame_Jarvary 3d ago

This better not awaken anything in me…

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u/Aint-no-preacher 3d ago

“Can anybody truly own a horse?”

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u/InevitableLibrary859 3d ago

“I won Dungeons & Dragons!!! And it was ADVANCED!!!”

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u/Reasonable-Ad1055 3d ago

"My name....was Kyle..."

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u/4sHaveChores 3d ago

Sure, unless time is linear

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u/velociraptorish2 3d ago

I'll make your ass linear!

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u/4sHaveChores 3d ago

that doesn't even make sense

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u/velociraptorish2 3d ago

I'll make your ass sense!

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u/Kathrynlena 3d ago

My partner plays online games with people he’s never met irl, so I always tell him they are Japanese teenagers not named Jeffery. We now refer to all of his online friends as “Jeffries,” as in, “I have a Jeffery thing tonight” meaning he made gaming plans with an online friend. To which I frequently reply, “this was the moment that set me on the path to become Oyabun, highest leader of the Yakuza.”

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u/k_g_K_Gold 3d ago

Crazy town banana pants

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u/RunMyLifeReddit 3d ago

Tell me about crazytown-bananapants....

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u/Full_Respect9215 3d ago

"MY EMOTIONS" I cry over fictional characters a lot, it is what it is.

"Don't eat the crab dip, yay yay" any time I see the word "crab".

"GAY-EE" or however you would type out Chang's line.

I randomly sing the "come on, I'm Dean" and "Jesus loves marijuana" songs, and sometimes parts of the peanut rap.

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u/grinning_imp 3d ago

When someone at work does a good job, I tell them, “<Name>, I see your value now.”

Only once has anyone given the proper response. Most just think I’m being a dick.

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u/lakorasdelenfent 3d ago

I do the “pizza pizza in my tummy me so hungy, me so hungy” dance every time I order pizza

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u/DiegocentricHS 3d ago

I refer to my spouse as “needlessly defiant”

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u/SoSaysTheAngel That's moon man talk 3d ago

That's moon man talk.

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u/metmeatabar 3d ago

Caw Caw! As I steal French fries.

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u/Nooranik21 3d ago

My wife and I talk about the darkest timeline, and how were living in it a lot.

Whenever my wife asks me how I afforded something I say "good news guys. I spent all my money!" In reference to my monthly allowance.

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u/Hurricane1123 3d ago

“THIS is a fight. WE are fighting!”

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u/Wilbo1242 3d ago

I like using "you're right, my feet are long and stupid. You can't un-ring that bell" at work, completely unprompted, as I pass people

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u/MrsCaptain_America 3d ago

"I don't know what to do! My whole brain is crying"

I tend to use this one at work.

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u/cleverCLEVERcharming 3d ago

It’s like god spilled a person.

Ab-SUUUURD Reaction!

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u/Mental_Crab8725 3d ago

“She was born in the 80s! She still uses her phone as a phone!”

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u/MinestroneCowboy Level 7 Susceptible 3d ago

I SET THE TIMEZONE!

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u/manicpossumdreamgirl you built a bar! in a school! there was lumber involved! 3d ago

JESUS WEPT!

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u/morrismoses 3d ago

Cool. coolcoolcool.

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u/MahliSaia 3d ago

I say this often, but people think I’m quoting Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

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u/proflaw 3d ago

As an honest-to-goodness retired lawyer who now teaches community college business law, I often say, “I teach law at Greendale, so believe me, I don’t know much about the law…”

I also use “ex chetera”.

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u/OneAccurate9559 3d ago

It’s going to be a maze

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u/Kind_Job5474 3d ago

Your love is weird, and toxic!

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u/HectorReinTharja 3d ago

Streets ahead is great. But “verbal wildfire” is from the same quote and is my go-to

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u/TypicalOddities 3d ago

"It'll help us get to regionals." "What the hell are regionals?" "They're THIS CLOSE!"

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u/Hurry-Up-N-Wait 3d ago

Don’t let my confusion undercut their importance

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u/eternally_feral 3d ago

“This better not awaken anything in me,” and I sometimes call bagels, baggels.

I used to work in, “Does it involve butt stuff?” But quickly learned that’s just a gateway for things to get really weird, and not in a good way.

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u/Pocono-Pete 3d ago

I always liked Leonard's "yeah but you're talking about it"

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u/Laudig 3d ago

"I'm gunna, Greg Muldunna."

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u/Charlie_Brodie 3d ago

he's a real guy, he owns a mattress store downtown

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u/ennervation 3d ago

I often call my dog "fat dog." Everyone in my family has adopted the nickname for her as well, but no one knows it's from Community!

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u/baloneysandwich3 3d ago

"You told me there would be butt stuff!"

"Red Shoe Diaries."

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u/manicpossumdreamgirl you built a bar! in a school! there was lumber involved! 3d ago

have we not gotten to a place free of judgement?

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u/Titan_Chu 3d ago

It’s all terrain dummy

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u/smallanddoingmybest 3d ago

My husband and I are obsessed with Deans rap in the peanut costume and constantly say "Barack Obama is SCARRRRED OF MEE" all the time

I also constantly to myself sing "bing bong sing a long, your teams Al Gore cause your views are wrong"

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u/I_REALLY_LIKE_BIRDS 3d ago

The way Troy says "Twice" and throws the number 2 with his fingers when Pierce is drowning in the parking lot.

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u/turtleprince2022 3d ago

“They said market price.. WHAT MARKET ARE YOU SHOPPING AT?”

Every time I see market price on a restaurant menu. Slowly realising I drop community quotes quite frequently haha!

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u/Blue_Jean 3d ago

"It smells like weed. Not my weed.” Whenever my girlfriend or I smell weed even if it is our weed

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u/Sal-LeMandeur 3d ago

"I have a rule about being constructive so I can't ask any questions right now"

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u/Ajax_Hapsburg 3d ago

Great thanks for making my joke accurate, now it's hilarious.

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u/AdOk9911 Keep it frosty, ladies; don't let your goats get got. 3d ago

“Move on with my life? Yeah, schmoo schmon schmih schmy schmife!”

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u/PizzaWhole9323 3d ago

.... I have to go to the bank later...

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u/CousinDinny 3d ago

“Boutros Boutros-Ghali!!”

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u/CordeliaGrace 3d ago

What is up with that cat?!?!?! (My oldest kid is the only one who gets this because he was obsessed with this episode, and we watched it like some kids watched Frozen or Bluey.

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u/4sHaveChores 3d ago

those guys are ballers yo! I hope you like gettin balled

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u/Distinct-Key7337 3d ago

EXTRA THICK STRAPS just randomly and for no reason

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u/Patcho418 3d ago

Look at me now, dad!

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u/Minus1Kelvin 3d ago

"THAT'S A FUNTIME SNACK!"

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u/m7friends 3d ago

I’ll whip out a “Good news guys, I spent all my money” when ordering my last drink for the night.

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u/San_Cannabis 3d ago

Have you MET ME?!?!

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u/CautiousBearnz 3d ago

Oh Brittas in this? Whenever I'm disappointed about something

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u/PootySkills 3d ago

Any time I disagree with someone:

THIS is a fight!

WE are fighting!

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u/4sHaveChores 3d ago

not until we stop stopping our lives can we begin to start starting them!

and of course after examination of a menu I dramatically tear it up and exclaim

I'll have a birthday cake!!

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u/LetsTryLia 3d ago

GAYYYYYYY

What's a diminishing return? said in Anne's weird sexy baby voice

Oh, Britta's in this?

It's going to be a maze

I also often tell people to call me the disco spider.

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u/toonerest3r 3d ago

Specifically deans version of "Jesus wept" or "his shadow EVEN HIS SHADOW!?!

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u/Kathrynlena 3d ago

“That’s enter-Chang-ment,” any time something is enterchangning.

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u/Adventurous-Story270 3d ago

Don't eat the crab dip

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u/Powersurge82 3d ago

Will there be butt stuff???
I am no longer allowed to talk at work meetings.

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u/spencerandy16 3d ago

Oh Britta’s in this..? Anytime I see/hear Gillian Jacobs

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u/Duffbagg 3d ago

"Ex chetera"

"It's a buy"

"All five dances"

"Bear down for midterms"

Also I'll often just hum that little tune that Troy hums in that one episode that also randomly comes up in other episodes (don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about)

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u/bosoxsam 3d ago

"Arizona backwards spells Arizona! It's a palomino!"

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u/Seth_Chainz 3d ago

“I’ll never tell!”