As per my username, my favorite Community line ever is in the finale when Jeff says "I'm sort of a hero that way" because it's slightly cocky and perfectly Jeff; it's so simple yet SO impactful and ties the entire show so beautifully.
Jeff starts his life as a narcissist, thinking he's cool and powerful cuz he can fool the juridical system by faking his degree and getting away with it. It's what he tells his father about himself after decades of not seeing him because that's what Jeff deems to be the prideful accomplishment of his life.
But after 6 seasons, Jeff learns that being a hero is simply living everyday. It doesn't take big achievements, he doesn't need to dazzle anybody to feel seen. He doesn't need to write "You're special" on his bathroom mirror and stare at it until he believes it.
He's simply a hero for letting people into his life and learning how to love others. How to love himself. How to continue pushing forward in life.
And it's so simple. Because like Jeff said once, the truth isn't life-shattering. It's painfully obvious.
It's simply living life. And that makes his entire story so deeply relatable.
Because in the end, we're all like Greendale students. Sucky people working on ourselves to be less sucky.
Friends can't carry you, they are there to pick you up and support you but you need to walk your own path. This takes time and it never gets perfect, never gets predictable. But we can still be okay. Because we’re all afraid of the same thing. So none of us is ever actually alone.
Jeff realises that he does indeed have tools to face anything the future throws at him. It's a newly found confidence he can now use as his life ring buoy. He can slowly learn to trust himself and his own capacities again. Not be dependent on others.
Jeff is a hero for having gained those tools. For having worked so hard on himself.
And we're heroes for that too.
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the politics of human sexuality was such a good episode about jeff's pathological need to feel young and smart by talking to immature young women and how that will ultimately leave him unfulfilled which he himself realises IN the episode and then at the end of the season he kisses annie yes I am still mad about
This line proves why timepetals works so well
Martha thought like me, like most of us in this situation, let's be honest. She's sharing a bed inches away from a man who traveled back in time to show her Shakespeare. This could be read as romantic.
But The Doctor has always been oblivious to the impact he has on others.
So I'm not going to say Rose wouldn't think like Martha, or wouldn't wish for something more.
But Rose wouldn't act like Martha because Rose would see The Doctor is troubled so she'd try and help him find a solution. She'd put him first.
And that's how their love story can seem as if it's put on hold, how they can both be focused on the problems first.
Because their love speaks through everything they do, every action and thought is out of love for the other.
How Martha felt a little led on isn't selfish, it's natural. But what Rose does is selfless.
saw traps ranked on how much i would like to see dennis in them
100% certain this scene is the reason Jeff went to therapy.
And honestly, Jeff wouldn't have listened to anyone else. Especially s1 Jeff who has a line telling Abed "why are we the only sane ones here". Because yeh, the other characters aren't necessarily better than him. To Jeff, someone else telling him that advice would have sounded condescending. But Abed doesn't pity him and doesn't shy away from saying it as it is. Abed is like hey Jeff that's alarming behavior and I care about you so you should seek a professional for that. And Jeff gets it. And actually follows through. He meant it when he said that Abed in this episode was his wake up call.
They're two sides of the same coin and Jeff finally sees that other side of the coin and goes oh I have the potential to be a good person...yeh I want that.
Just crying and thinking about how Jeff barely had any love or comfort growing up but the second he gets the tiniest ounce from the study group, he's already ready to share it with the world because how can you keep such a life-changing feeling to yourself.
"If I were him and I missed out on you guys, I'd be sitting in that classroom, watching, wondering. So how can I exclude someone from something that I'm so lucky to have."
Jabed
YES. YES YES YES YES. YES. A MILLION TIMES YES.
Thinking about Frank vs Russia again. And about the confirmation that the SINNED system was created at the same time as the DENNIS one. We know Dennis perfected his system for women but we haven't seen him ever date a man or keep a man. We have no confirmation of what he's done, and based on Dennis' eagerness in knowing if Dee and Mac got 2nd dates, I like to think he's never even tested it before. It was all based on observations. He kept it secret all these years and finally saw potential now to test it out through them. When's the second date? He's eager to know. Does it work.
And it does. Ofc it does. It was foolproof. He knew that.
Dennis isn't against a romance with Mac. The system exists since s6, Dennis clearly WANTS to keep a man. He just doesn't understand how that's already happened. Mac likes him? Wdym, he hasn't done the steps yet. Dennis just confirmed that the system works.
We know Dennis' outburst basically meant "You can't be in love with Johnny because he doesn't love you Mac, I don't love you. Move on."
But it also meant "You can't be in love with Johnny because Johnny is me! And you're not in love with me!"
Dennis is rejecting love on all grounds, in both directions. This isn't part of the plan, part of the scheme. This isn't his goal, not now. He's not ready and Mac isn't either.
The goal was simply to get Mac's attention back. To bring them back on equal footing. To be friends again. Dennis is fixing the friendship first, and Mac is being impatient and an idiot and jumping at romance and ruining the careful pacing Dennis is creating.
I was trying to explain to my friend why Dennis is a teenage little girl and then I had to get more serious into why I believe his emotional development stopped at 14, so I pull out the quote and uh-
I had totally forgotten the end of that sentence, that couldn't be broken by anything but marriage.
Dennis is expecting fairytale happy ever after to save him from his trauma and break his shell like a lover's true kiss-
Like I rest my case man...
I NEED THEM IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER
rita ♡ she/her ♡ I have two hands, one for Jeff Winger and one for Dennis Reynolds ♡
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