Community is a sitcom that takes you to a wild ride at a community college. A group of misfit students form a study group and dive into crazy adventures. It’s packed with pop culture nods, meta-humor and oddball characters. Fans adore it. Cast includes Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs and more. You’ll laugh, you’ll cringe and you might even relate to someone. Enjoy!

Meet the characters from Community

Jeff Winger

Jeff Winger is the smooth-talking, charismatic glue of the study group — law school dropout turned pseudo-professor who’s always wearing a blazer and a smirk. He’s equal parts confident and painfully aware that he’s faking it (which he tries not to think about but secretly does, of course). He uses sarcasm like a shield and a scalpel, cutting through nonsense but often hiding real feelings, and yes he can be a total softie when it counts. Also he tells terrible jokes and has the world’s most flexible moral compass — somehow lovable even when he’s being a jerk.

Abed Nadir

Abed is the meta-loving, movie-quoting heart of the group, always observing life like it’s a film (and sometimes narrating it). He’s brilliant at seeing patterns, ridiculous pop culture analogies, and oddly comforting in his robotic honesty — except he cries during cartoons sometimes, which confuses everyone. He can be emotionally distant and hyper-aware at the same time, like, he’ll miss your birthday but stage the perfect homage episode about it. Unflappable pop culture brainiac, but also secretly cares more than he lets on — and yes, he probably has a spreadsheet.

Troy Barnes

Troy starts as the goofy ex-jock but grows into this wide-eyed, goofy, pure friend who will build a blanket fort empire with you at 3 a.m. He’s basically sunshine with sneakers — ridiculously loyal, impulsive, and also surprisingly deep when the mood hits (he cries at musicals, I swear). He’s simultaneously a man-child and a budding adult: terrible at math, excellent at finger guns, and suspiciously good with small mechanical things sometimes. Also he and Abed have an entire language of inside jokes and it’s both adorable and kind of terrifying.

Pierce Hawthorne

Pierce is the cranky older guy who thinks he’s hip but mostly just says outrageous things and then wonders why people leave the room. He can be offensive and clueless but also desperately insecure and capable of a strange, misguided generosity (he once gave a weirdly specific gift, which was actually kind of sweet). He’s rich-ish? older? too many hats — and also obsessed with nostalgia, which leads to some gloriously uncomfortable moments. Every now and then he flashes a tiny moment of genuine wisdom or vulnerability and you remember he’s not just a punchline, even if he often is. Also, I think he has a false tooth and a scandalous collection of sweaters, which may or may not be canon.

Annie Edison

Annie is the hyper-organized, brainy overachiever who color-codes her emotions and will catalog your personal flaws in a spreadsheet if you let her. She’s earnest, morally intense, and honestly kind of terrifying when she gets a plan in motion (there will be Post-its, there will be binders). At the same time she’s incredibly sweet and brave — fierce about justice but also vulnerable and awkward in the cutest way. She insists on being helpful and occasionally smothers people with kindness, which is both wonderful and a little suffocating, depending on the day.

Britta Perry

Britta is the self-styled rebel-therapist who wants to save the world but often accidentally saves neither herself nor the conversation. She’s passionate, blowhard-y, and constantly doing that thing where she ‘finds herself’ by making questionable life choices — but like, you have to admire the commitment. She ruins therapy sessions, joins protests, becomes very into yoga sometimes, and then loudly abandons everything when it’s inconvenient. She cares a lot under the messy exterior and will defend her friends ferociously, which is totally her redeeming quality. Also there’s a running joke that everything she tries ends up being ‘Britta’d’—a useful word and also a crime, depending on who you ask.

Ben Chang

Ben Chang is pure chaos energy incarnate — part-Spanish teacher, part-old man, part-psychopath, all unpredictability. He changes jobs, personalities, and entire identities like socks, which is hilarious and slightly terrifying. One minute he’s paranoid and dangerous, the next he’s trying to lead a cult choir or sell questionable wedding services, and somehow it fits his broken, weirdly sympathetic soul. He’s the group’s wildcard; don’t trust his accent, but maybe trust the occasional heartfelt confession, which is as real as anything from Chang.

Shirley Bennett

Shirley is the warm, religious, entrepreneurial mom-friend who will bake you a pie and then quietly throw verbal daggers at anyone who crosses her kids or her morals. She runs a business (or three?) and has a soft smile that hides a surprisingly sharp spine — never underestimate her fury, it’s like silent thunder. She loves church potlucks, gossip in tiny doses, and community in a way that keeps the group honest and fed. Also she gets into passive-aggressive religious debates at 2 a.m., but always forgives you by Sunday, most likely with a casserole.

Dean Pelton

Dean Pelton is Greendale’s flamboyant, over-the-top dean who obsesses over costumes, marketing campaigns, and bafflingly themed campus events. He is equal parts endearing and exhausting — he’ll cry about campus pride and then show up dressed as a giant duck, and you’ll somehow love him for it. He tries so hard to be inclusive and cool that it becomes performance art, and yet there’s real tenderness underneath the sequins. Also he has a very particular way of saying ‘Greendale’ and a collection of questionable hats that I would sell my soul to see in person.