Built 2026-09-19 from the 97 NewsRadio scripts and the 110 Community scripts held locally. Three kinds of mirror, each with its own standard of proof.
This is Brandon's organizing premise for the whole investigation, recorded as his. The lines below are the frame that new evidence gets tested inside.
| NewsRadio | Community | What carries across |
|---|---|---|
| Dave Nelson | Jeff Winger | The reluctant leader who talks the room into order and himself out of it. |
| Joe Garrelli | Troy Barnes | The fixer who ends up inside the machinery, air conditioning included. |
| Matthew Brock | Abed Nadir | The oddball whose logic runs on its own rails, and the group builds around it. |
| Lisa Miller | Annie Edison | Ambition that reads as correctness, and correctness that reads as ambition. |
| Beth | Britta Perry | Outspoken, broke, and the first to say the thing nobody wants said. |
| Catherine Duke | Shirley Bennett | The moral centre who names the group's tokenism out loud. |
| Bill McNeal and Jimmy James | Pierce Hawthorne | Wealth and vanity as the engine of chaos, split in two and rejoined. |
Taken from TVmaze, main cast and guest cast for every episode of both shows, matched on person id rather than on a name. Each name links to its TVmaze page.
| Performer | In NewsRadio | In Community |
|---|---|---|
| Andy Dick | Matthew Brock (main cast) | Helicopter Pilot (S02E07 Aerodynamics of Gender); Tiny Man (S02E15 Early 21st Century Romanticism) |
| Brian Posehn | Fan (S04E04 Super Karate Monkey Death Car); Brian (S04E11 Chock) | Bixel (S05E08 App Development and Condiments) |
| David Cross | Theo (S02E16 Houses of the Holy); David (S04E11 Chock) | Hank Hickey (S05E10 Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) |
| David St. James | Lawyer (S03E14 Complaint Box) | Professor Albrecht (S03E19 Curriculum Unavailable); Professor Albrecht (S06E01 Ladders) |
| French Stewart | Brent (S03E23 Mistake) | Vinnie (S03E12 Contemporary Impressionists) |
| Michael McDonald | Lee (S03E17 Airport) | Ronald Mohammed (S05E12 Basic Story) |
| Patton Oswalt | Guy (S03E11 The Trainer) | Male Nurse (S01E08 Home Economics); Jackie (S02E03 The Psychology of Letting Go) |
| Paul F. Tompkins | Justice of the Peace (S05E17 Wedding (2)) | Nerdy Guy (S02E10 Mixology Certification) |
| Wayne Federman | Randy Stark (S05E20 Freaky Friday) | Father (S06E13 Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television) |
Every phrase of five to eight words that appears in both shows and is rare in each, at most three episodes a side. Stock English is filtered out, and only the longest form of each echo is kept. The episode columns are where to check the claim.
| Phrase | Words | Community | NewsRadio |
|---|
The scripts behind this carry dialogue with no speaker names, so a row proves that a line was said in both shows and never who said it. Speaker attribution for Community sits in its own index, and for NewsRadio only 112 lines have a proven speaker.