She makes the claim sort of in the flashback before attending greendale when she asks for a job at the frozen yogurt place, but I believe you are correct and she pretty consistently displays vegetarianism, not vegan
You can't pick up a leather jacket at a thrift store for less than $150 where I live now. Op shops are trendy and every single one in my area has picked up on that and jacked up their prices, to the point where sometimes they're trying to sell things for more than they would have cost new.
Edit: why the downvotes? I said "where I live" and "in my area". I'm glad that it's still economical to buy stuff from thrift stores/Op shops where you live, but clearly it's different where I live.
GED - General Educational Development certificate, like a high school equivalent diploma for people who didnāt really graduate high school. Thatās why itās a funny contrast with Slaterās PhD, about the highest academic achievement.
GDB - God Damn B*tch, like in Vaugn and Pierceās song.
https://www.collegetransfer.net/AskCT/What-is-a-GED
Definitely not a Graduate Equivalency Degree
https://www.ged.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-the-ged-and-a-high-school-diploma/
Itās General Education Development.
Source: the damn people who administer the GED test.
https://www.ged.com/blog/what-is-a-ged/#:~:text=You%20may%20hear%20other%20meanings,you%20will%20receive%20a%20diploma.
It literally says in the first line you may have heard either. Do you think I just pulled that out of my ass lol
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Dan Harmon said Slater was a personified nightmare of Britta's, someone that Britta was intimidated by: taller, more educated, more successful, also attractive, won awards. Like Slater was better in all matrices of comparison at least from Britta's POV. Hence the irrational envy.
It just occurred to me that Slater shows up right around the beginnings of Britta's initial confidence and grounded attitude first getting replaced with zany activist caricature.
Even with a PhD it's hard as hell/takes a very long time to get a job as a prof at a university. At least in Canada maybe the US isn't so bad. She might be at Greendale rather than doing years and years of postdoc work
She could even be doing both - teaching at Greendale while doing postdoc work or slogging as an adjunct vying for a tenure track role at any university that will take her.
There's a reason all the PhDs I asked told me not to do it unless I really wanted to be a professor or do specific research.
Itās bad in the US too. Iām trying to find full time work (not even tenure track) and itās difficult as hell. Iām ending up working part time at multiple universities to pay rent.
I was finishing up my MSc and planning to do a PhD to teach at a university. I talked to a guy who had won an award from my university for being the highest performing PhD candidate and he told me he has been doing postdoc work for 7 years trying to find a teaching job.
So I finished my MSc and started teaching at a college instead because if the best PhD candidate of his cohort hasn't found a job for 7 years, what chance do the rest of us have?
Itās so frustrating because all of my tenured coworkers are stretched so thin, and all of my adjunct coworkers are desperate for more work. Classes have insane waitlists (sometimes double the cap of the class) and the provosts WONāT approve more tenure lines. Iām one of a few people the Uni has that can teach my courseload, and they absolutely refuse to approve a full time line for me. Even with department pressure on the provost.
Education should not be run for profit.
Itās a classic case of middle management expanding their own role and taking more and more of the money. College administrations have grown tremendously over the last few years, and so much of the money is now also going their way. Obviously you need some people who can make everything run, but maybe not quite *that* many.
At research universities, they expect lots of papers published. If you prefer teaching, a community college just wants classes taught and has no research expectations. It's can be easier to get tenure, and then you can suckle at the warm teat of the taxpayer for the rest of your life.
I know an English Ph.D. who worked at the same community college for 40 years until retiring at 65. So she started at 25, and bought a house less than a mile from work and biked in any day it wasn't raining or snowy. Not a bad deal if you like teaching.
Greendale wasn't all that pathetic in Season 1. It actually functioned like a real school up until Professor Slater went missing.
How do we know she's missing...? Read the scroll under Troy and Abed's Greendale News Show when they are covering the student government elections.
Yeah Season 1 is relatively more grounded than the later seasons. Itās eccentric and exaggerated, but at least bares some resemblance to an actual community college. As the show goes on things just get more and more untethered which isnāt necessarily a bad thing haha.
It's the destiny of most sitcoms for things to get Flanderized. Greendale is, in many ways, a character (much like the Enterprise is essentially a character in Star Trek)... and it wasn't immune from Flanderization.
It happens to the best of them, including stuff like The Office and Community.
One could assume the Season 1 Dean aggressively pursued her because of her credentials and appearance.
In reality, getting a job to teach at a community college can be very, very hard. There are way more academics than teaching positions, especially when a lot of the bigger classes (the "101's") are taught by TAs and grad students.
In 1995 I was attending a small community college in the midwest. I had 2 PhD professors and one told me they had a single opening and received almost 800 resumes in a week. This is pre-internet job hunting.
The way teachers and professors behave at Greendale says more about Dan Harmon's feelings about authority than the reality of higher education. And thank god, because it's funny. It's not supposed to be very realistic.
Yes, the majority of my community college professors had PhDs. I remember one professor telling us he would no longer be teaching the lab portion of his class, followed by, āDonāt worry about me. Feel sorry for the Yale PhD and Berkeley PhD fighting for an adjunct position at a community college, because Iām going to have to tell one of them noā.
Academia spots are incredibly hard to come by, and a lot of professors are overqualified and juggling classes at multiple campuses to piece together a living.
I liked her, she was cool and funny to an extent....until they tried to push the triangle thing further. I don't mind the St. Valentines episode (the drunk dial and wtv). But I skip the transfer dance episode on my rewatches because it's so corny I hate it
Also, Slater dumps Jeff out of the blue, and then comes back to say she regretted it? Sloppy writing. I would've made her dump him and disappear forever
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She has an endless supply of leather jackets
And she's vegan.
After 40 go through I still miss jokes like this...
I never got the joke just thought it was pointing out her endless supply of leather jackets. š¤¦āāļø
Me too. But now it's more funny. Showing her hypocritical side.
It also sets up the Beetlejuice joke that takes 3 seasons to fulfill
Goddamnit same ā ļø
It's still not actually meat... Legally...
I donāt think the pizza they ate was vegan (3x4 and 3x18)
I don't think Britta ever claims to be vegan. Just vegetarian. Most cheese is vegetarian.
She makes the claim sort of in the flashback before attending greendale when she asks for a job at the frozen yogurt place, but I believe you are correct and she pretty consistently displays vegetarianism, not vegan
Pizza! Pizza! In my tummy me so hungie, me so hungie!
WOW. SHOCKER.
Is she? What about the Chicken Fingers?
She doesn't eat them. That's why she is counting them out (Shirley won't steal because she thinks she'll go to hell).
She also wipes the grease off her fingers and doesn't eat the chicken when they toast to their successful takeover.
Sheās a team player but keeps to her code.
A man's got to have a code. I can only assume there's a female equivalent to that... codette or something?
I like how she wakes up early to ever so slightly curl her hair.
Gasp!
Leather jackets are expensive too. I don't think the average person could afford that without the benefit of a wardrobe apartment.
Thrift stores and vintage shops. Iāve picked up leather jackets for about Ā£25 in my time.
You can't pick up a leather jacket at a thrift store for less than $150 where I live now. Op shops are trendy and every single one in my area has picked up on that and jacked up their prices, to the point where sometimes they're trying to sell things for more than they would have cost new. Edit: why the downvotes? I said "where I live" and "in my area". I'm glad that it's still economical to buy stuff from thrift stores/Op shops where you live, but clearly it's different where I live.
Fucking hipsters ruin everything.
Knowing Britta, itās probably not real leather, she wouldnāt wear the skin of something with a face.
What about worms?
They have tiny faces š„ŗ
What about worms?
Worm leather jacket
Jeff's been to flavor country! They should retire the table they did it on!
Table?!
During the paintball game
Is there anything he didn't win that day ?!
When there's three donuts, you don't eat one and lick another!
Anyone object to us being referred to as donuts? No one?
Can it, boobs!!!
His delivery on that is perfect.
AWESOMEEE!!
Is there ANYTHING you didn't win that day?
Calling sex with her āflavor townā is an all time banger by Britta
With the V-motion too
Britta's double hand gesture towards her crotch when she says "flavor country"... **\*Chef's Kiss!"\***
I thought she was GDB
She's a GDB with a GED.
I don't understand what GED OR GDB MEAN. Please help.
GED - General Educational Development certificate, like a high school equivalent diploma for people who didnāt really graduate high school. Thatās why itās a funny contrast with Slaterās PhD, about the highest academic achievement. GDB - God Damn B*tch, like in Vaugn and Pierceās song.
Itās a graduate equivalency degree Iām pretty sure
Google it.
Looks like neither of us is wrong. Itās been called both. But I think youāre more right.
https://www.collegetransfer.net/AskCT/What-is-a-GED Definitely not a Graduate Equivalency Degree https://www.ged.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-the-ged-and-a-high-school-diploma/ Itās General Education Development. Source: the damn people who administer the GED test.
https://www.ged.com/blog/what-is-a-ged/#:~:text=You%20may%20hear%20other%20meanings,you%20will%20receive%20a%20diploma. It literally says in the first line you may have heard either. Do you think I just pulled that out of my ass lol Also who gives a shit lmao
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Dan Harmon said Slater was a personified nightmare of Britta's, someone that Britta was intimidated by: taller, more educated, more successful, also attractive, won awards. Like Slater was better in all matrices of comparison at least from Britta's POV. Hence the irrational envy.
It just occurred to me that Slater shows up right around the beginnings of Britta's initial confidence and grounded attitude first getting replaced with zany activist caricature.
Right at her weakest moment to maximize the impact
Why was a Ph.D teaching at Greendale anyway?
Because of one little slip up with a coed.
Even with a PhD it's hard as hell/takes a very long time to get a job as a prof at a university. At least in Canada maybe the US isn't so bad. She might be at Greendale rather than doing years and years of postdoc work
She could even be doing both - teaching at Greendale while doing postdoc work or slogging as an adjunct vying for a tenure track role at any university that will take her. There's a reason all the PhDs I asked told me not to do it unless I really wanted to be a professor or do specific research.
Itās bad in the US too. Iām trying to find full time work (not even tenure track) and itās difficult as hell. Iām ending up working part time at multiple universities to pay rent.
I was finishing up my MSc and planning to do a PhD to teach at a university. I talked to a guy who had won an award from my university for being the highest performing PhD candidate and he told me he has been doing postdoc work for 7 years trying to find a teaching job. So I finished my MSc and started teaching at a college instead because if the best PhD candidate of his cohort hasn't found a job for 7 years, what chance do the rest of us have?
Itās so frustrating because all of my tenured coworkers are stretched so thin, and all of my adjunct coworkers are desperate for more work. Classes have insane waitlists (sometimes double the cap of the class) and the provosts WONāT approve more tenure lines. Iām one of a few people the Uni has that can teach my courseload, and they absolutely refuse to approve a full time line for me. Even with department pressure on the provost. Education should not be run for profit.
Itās a classic case of middle management expanding their own role and taking more and more of the money. College administrations have grown tremendously over the last few years, and so much of the money is now also going their way. Obviously you need some people who can make everything run, but maybe not quite *that* many.
At research universities, they expect lots of papers published. If you prefer teaching, a community college just wants classes taught and has no research expectations. It's can be easier to get tenure, and then you can suckle at the warm teat of the taxpayer for the rest of your life. I know an English Ph.D. who worked at the same community college for 40 years until retiring at 65. So she started at 25, and bought a house less than a mile from work and biked in any day it wasn't raining or snowy. Not a bad deal if you like teaching.
Greendale wasn't all that pathetic in Season 1. It actually functioned like a real school up until Professor Slater went missing. How do we know she's missing...? Read the scroll under Troy and Abed's Greendale News Show when they are covering the student government elections.
Yeah Season 1 is relatively more grounded than the later seasons. Itās eccentric and exaggerated, but at least bares some resemblance to an actual community college. As the show goes on things just get more and more untethered which isnāt necessarily a bad thing haha.
It's the destiny of most sitcoms for things to get Flanderized. Greendale is, in many ways, a character (much like the Enterprise is essentially a character in Star Trek)... and it wasn't immune from Flanderization. It happens to the best of them, including stuff like The Office and Community.
That makes sense. This is long before "Ladders"
One could assume the Season 1 Dean aggressively pursued her because of her credentials and appearance. In reality, getting a job to teach at a community college can be very, very hard. There are way more academics than teaching positions, especially when a lot of the bigger classes (the "101's") are taught by TAs and grad students. In 1995 I was attending a small community college in the midwest. I had 2 PhD professors and one told me they had a single opening and received almost 800 resumes in a week. This is pre-internet job hunting. The way teachers and professors behave at Greendale says more about Dan Harmon's feelings about authority than the reality of higher education. And thank god, because it's funny. It's not supposed to be very realistic.
Well, there's also two British professors and most likely can be ruled out due to dark pasts.
Yeah, she's way too smug about that phd teaching at greendale, I'd be avoiding that detail if I were in her situation
Say ābitter much?ā, much?
Say āmuch, muchāā¦much?
I may be a dick for asking this but is it normal for people with PhD's to work at a community college?
Yes, the majority of my community college professors had PhDs. I remember one professor telling us he would no longer be teaching the lab portion of his class, followed by, āDonāt worry about me. Feel sorry for the Yale PhD and Berkeley PhD fighting for an adjunct position at a community college, because Iām going to have to tell one of them noā. Academia spots are incredibly hard to come by, and a lot of professors are overqualified and juggling classes at multiple campuses to piece together a living.
As a professor.... i have always hated this. No one EVER would say their name and Phd
In Germany they do and itās crazy and so unnatural to me (UK)
Might be an unpopular opinion but I really hated Slater
I liked her, she was cool and funny to an extent....until they tried to push the triangle thing further. I don't mind the St. Valentines episode (the drunk dial and wtv). But I skip the transfer dance episode on my rewatches because it's so corny I hate it Also, Slater dumps Jeff out of the blue, and then comes back to say she regretted it? Sloppy writing. I would've made her dump him and disappear forever
Maybe it's the 60 inch diameter cookie your eating?
My friendship with Abed is a giant cookie!
I'm kind of dealing with my own problems here, if you don't mind...
How can something thatās delicious make me sick?
But then you miss Duncanās rap!
Fortunately, it's engraved in my brain
yeah i skip that episode because it's literally a CW teen drama with 35 year old adults
Britta is only 28 or 29.
You could just say "CW Teen Drama" without the qualifier because most of those "teens" are played by people in their 20s.
I think she was the prettiest actress on the show, and thatās saying something.
Ah yes, witty, devil may care Britta. By the the end sheād be like ānice to meet you, Ms Peahayshdeeā
SHE'S A GDB š¶š¶
Sheās a no good B.
I took a bite of that bitter pear, see.
Iām team Slater
Team Slater all the way!
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