Troy responds during the study group’s Dungeons & Dragons game.

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Troy Barnes

You're the AT&T of people.

— Community • 2009

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Britta tries to bring a real-world moral argument into the fantasy game. Troy answers from an entirely different frame of reference, making the failure to connect the joke.

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During Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Britta objects that goblins are being attacked on their rightful land. Troy responds by calling her the AT&T of people. His comparison turns the interruption into an insult rather than answering her objection.

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