Troy Barnes was born in Denver, Colorado, to parents William and Doreen Winger.
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Troy Barnes's father divorced his mother when he was very young and later had another child named Willy Jr.
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Troy Barnes tells her that he had to change schools, as well as his hair, his clothes, even his personality because of the incident.
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Troy Barnes comes to an uneasy understanding with both Britta and Annie.
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Troy Barnes still possesses all of the get-well cards he received from his classmates in a box under his bed because "it proves that someone, at some point, cared about me".
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Troy Barnes is approached by Alan, who convinces him to sue Greendale.
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Troy Barnes becomes a law teacher at the school and forms the Save Greendale Committee.
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Troy Barnes has trouble getting used to being a teacher at the school and struggles with a drinking problem.
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Troy Barnes was conceived in Riverside, Colorado, to George and Deb Perry.
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Troy Barnes is prone to be vain and hypocritical in her actions.
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Troy Barnes experienced an unexplained trauma in her childhood during a birthday party involving a man in a dinosaur costume.
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Troy Barnes decided to drop out of high school because she thought it would impress Radiohead.
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Troy Barnes became friends with others and created a small group of "anarchist, billboard vandals".
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Troy Barnes is not always adept with everyday female bonding, which creates a bit of distance between her and the other women in the group, though they generally bond.
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Troy Barnes eventually sleeps with Jeff during a prolonged paintball match.
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Troy Barnes is proud to be an African American woman but appreciates not being defined by those characteristics.
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Troy Barnes is very friendly to everyone but sometimes has problems minding her own business or keeping secrets, and she gossips compulsively.
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Troy Barnes then set out to earn an Associate's Degree in Business to start her own company.
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Troy Barnes relates to the other members as people she simply likes being friends with and vice versa.
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Troy Barnes eventually becomes the personal chef of a suicidal former detective attempting to solve the mystery behind his wife's death and his paralysis.
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Troy Barnes was an acquaintance of Troy Barnes, a popular athlete, and harbored a crush on him.
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Troy Barnes is, for example, the only student of Greendale to have ever made use of the extra credit program that the college offers by hosting a Dia de los Muertos party.
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Troy Barnes takes audio notes of every class and transcribes them, prompting Pierce to exclaim and misuse the term "spoiler alert".
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Troy Barnes is very intensely focused on grades, school activities, and group cohesion.
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Troy Barnes takes the cohesion of the study group more seriously than the other members and, in trying to get the group to retake Spanish 102 together, gets Senor Chang fired for his fake degree in "English as a Second Language".
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Troy Barnes becomes the leader of the Save Greendale Committee.
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Troy Barnes, born December 4,1989, is a former high school football star and Greendale Community College student.
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Troy Barnes later made a name for himself as the varsity quarterback of his high school football team and was prom king.
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Troy Barnes is afraid of tarantulas, rats, centipedes, lakes and automatic toilets.
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Troy Barnes now plays quarterback for the nonathletic Greendale Human Beings, saying he would rather play football for fun.
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Long oblivious to Annie's romantic interest in him, Troy Barnes makes a few broad attempts at wooing her but fails.
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Troy Barnes kisses Britta but comes clean about his lie and is disappointed when she claims kissing him was a mistake.
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Troy Barnes plays down the serious interest he shares with Britta in interpretive dance, which conflicts with his fading image as a football player.
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Troy Barnes has evolved from the start of the series as a cocky, selfish, image-obsessed boy to a goofy and passionate, yet goodhearted and responsible, young man.
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In season 5, after Pierce's funeral, Troy Barnes was given his remaining shares of Hawthorne Wipes, weighing at about $14.
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In "Basic Email Security", Frankie mentions that Troy Barnes mysteriously vanished after Pierce masturbated himself to death.
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Troy Barnes briefly appears, in Spider-Man pajamas, on a background TV screen in the 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
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Troy Barnes's father founded Hawthorne Wipes, the award-winning moist towelette company.
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Troy Barnes enrolled in Greendale in 1999, looking for friendship and popularity, but is held back by his clumsiness and lack of tolerance.
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Troy Barnes's religion plays an important role when his mother dies in the season 2 episode "The Psychology of Letting Go" and Pierce believes his "Buddhist" teachings that she will be reborn, carrying a canister of what he thinks is his mother's soul around.
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When, along with Jeff and Troy Barnes, he listens to a compact disc made by his mother telling him she's gone and encouraging him to let her go and live his life, Pierce simply shrugs it off as her losing her mind.
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Troy Barnes is the author of Greendale's unusual school song and was a member of Vaughn's band for a brief time.
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Troy Barnes temporarily joins an elderly group of students who act like teenagers called the Hipsters to feel accepted.
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Troy Barnes begins to play the role of the study group's villain, but both trends seem to subside when he comes to terms with the group after overdosing on his painkillers.
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Troy Barnes tells the group that he assumes all of his relationships will end, so he continually tests and provokes people and why all seven marriages failed.
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Troy Barnes had never kept a group of friends at Greendale for longer than a semester.
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Troy Barnes later appears in a cameo during the season 5 premiere, "Repilot", as a pre-recorded holographic projection in a courtyard at Greendale.
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Troy Barnes can be quite theatrical at times, and has a huge ego.
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Troy Barnes starts hunting for clues to solve a "case" after meeting a distressed student and later burns down a school section while doing so.
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Troy Barnes is on terrible terms with Professor Duncan, who potentially foreshadows Chang's lack of teaching qualifications when in "Advanced Criminal Law", he notes Chang demands to be called "Senor" because he is not a real professor.
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Troy Barnes's brother is Rabbi Chang, who criticizes Senor Chang's confusing title and behavior.
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Troy Barnes enjoys jetting around on a scooter, plays the keytar as an instrument, and has a history of having his clothes stolen from the local YMCA.
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Troy Barnes's self-proclaimed nickname is "El Tigre Chino", and he owns a black jacket which has on the back that moniker and the image of a tiger.
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Troy Barnes eventually joins the study group in the episode "Asian Population Studies" after being voted in over Rich.
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Troy Barnes proves his worth in the next episode helping Annie and the group save their drug awareness play from Pierce's antics.
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Troy Barnes is not good at his job, and the school cannot afford more human resources.
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Troy Barnes then calls Dean Stephen Spreck, Dean of City College, that he is out of the plan to destroy Greendale.
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Troy Barnes wants his school to be more like a "real" university, and is often asking favors of the students.
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Troy Barnes has taken a habit of dressing in an elaborate costume, often when visiting the study-group.
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Troy Barnes provides free therapy to several students, including Britta and, at one point, hopes to write about Abed's issues for a book deal.
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Troy Barnes has a rivalry with Senor Chang and willingly mocks Chang over being fired and subsequently becoming a Greendale student.
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Troy Barnes never knew the identity of his father and later admitted his mother worked as a prostitute in a pub in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
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Troy Barnes is absent again in season 6, though in the premiere episode "Ladders", Abed is seen wiping the nameplate on his door.
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Troy Barnes serves as a mentor to Jeff, helping him to make the transition from student to teacher.
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Troy Barnes has a strained relationship with his son Hank, resulting in his being excluded from his grandson Sebastian's life.
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Troy Barnes has a better relationship with his other son, Furio, who is gay, and spends Christmas and Thanksgiving with his sister, Rachel.
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Troy Barnes developed a virtual reality company and lives in a recreational vehicle.
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Troy Barnes decides to enroll at Greendale to reinvent his life in "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care", joining the "Save Greendale Committee" shortly after.
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Troy Barnes is hired as head of Greendale's IT Department in "Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing".
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Troy Barnes is a fan of the 1990s alternative rock band Natalie is Freezing, and briefly dated the lead singer Julie.
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Troy Barnes had a strict policy against dating students, but became romantically involved with Jeff, after he begged her to sleep with him during a Halloween party.
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Troy Barnes gets involved in a conspiracy intrigue with Jeff, Annie, and Dean Pelton, when he mysteriously poses as Jeff's fake Conspiracy Theories night school class teacher, "Professor Professorson" in the episode "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design".
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Troy Barnes later teaches Troy and Britta in an elective acting class and directs Troy in an all-black cast stage production of Fiddler on the Roof, entitled, "Fiddla Please".
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Troy Barnes just came off of a twenty-year prison sentence in which he completed his PhD and is baffled by some of how the world has since changed.
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Troy Barnes has a hard-line policy against accepting bribes, but only Jeff and Pierce know of this.
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Troy Barnes plays a very prominent role in "Intro to Knots" when he is tied up by Chang and the study group at a party at Jeff's apartment for supposedly giving them a failing grade on a group assignment.
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Troy Barnes takes several classes with the main characters, including Spanish and Boating.
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Troy Barnes is a music lover, and in particular likes the band Styx.
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Troy Barnes worked in the school cafeteria until the events of "Contemporary American Poultry", when the group causes him to be fired for siphoning off chicken fingers—the most edible foodstuff served by the cafeteria—for his friends.
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Troy Barnes begins wearing the aforementioned top hat at the beginning of the second season to draw attention away from them.
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Troy Barnes is assumed dead when a meth lab that he has been operating out of from his car's trunk explodes in the episode "Basic Lupine Urology".
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Troy Barnes ends up being accused of being the Greendale Ass-Crack Bandit, only for Jeff to find out this was a ruse by the Dean to deflect attention, in exchange for the Dean hiding Star-Burns' meth charges and allowing him to remain in the stables.
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Troy Barnes briefly appears in the season six episode "Intro to Recycled Cinema" as an extra in Abed's sci-fi film, Raiders of the Galaxy.
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Troy Barnes leads a rowdy, disobedient band of elderly Greendale students called the "Hipsters", with whom Pierce temporarily hangs out in "Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples".
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Troy Barnes was the cause of the bond between Jeff and Shirley in the first season due to his small nipples, which Shirley finds hilarious.
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Troy Barnes spends time with the study group again in "Epidemiology", when he attempts to treat the infected students while dressed as a banana and causes Jeff to admit his hatred for him openly.
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Troy Barnes was first introduced in the episode "Asian Population Studies".
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Troy Barnes appears in "Basic Lupine Urology", in which he is accused of destroying the study group's biology project.
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Troy Barnes makes another appearance when she is Abed's girlfriend in "VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing".
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Troy Barnes has appeared several times since, often in a cranky mood when the study group asks him to find or fix things in the school.
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Troy Barnes kills Vice Dean Laybourne, briefly becoming the new Vice Dean before being exposed by Troy, who is revealed as the "truest repairman".
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Troy Barnes becomes her boyfriend again after learning of her pregnancy; he remains loyal to her even after discovering that Chang could be the father.
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Troy Barnes appears again in "Repilot" when he tries to convince Jeff to help him launch a major lawsuit against Greendale.
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Troy Barnes initially appeared as a member of campus security before inexplicably becoming a police officer.
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Troy Barnes seems to be friends with Professor Sean Garrity, referring to him by his given name.
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Troy Barnes appears in "The Science of Illusion" to investigate a body Britta drops out of the biology labs; in "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design", he teaches Jeff and Annie the dangers of fake gun shootouts.
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Troy Barnes appears briefly during a montage at the end of season three, apparently forming another plot.
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Troy Barnes maintains that the account belongs to Annie's Boobs, and thus Troy Barnes cannot legitimately change the monkey's name.
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Troy Barnes is a cybernetically enhanced police officer, reminiscent of RoboCop.
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Troy Barnes first appears piloting Pierce's drone and urging him to ignore the dosage recommendations on his medication.
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Troy Barnes often gives Pierce bad advice, influencing him into a painkiller addiction and overdose in "Early 21st Century Romanticism".
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