On Sunday, thousands of Community fans turned out for a WonderCon Q&A panel (moderated by IGN TV's own Eric Goldman) that featured series stars Gillian Jacobs Yvette Nicole Brown and Ken Jeong , along with series creator Dan Harmon . But before the actors and brain trust behind the series came out to meet their adoring followers, the crowd got to see a special screening of the episode " Digital Exploration of Interior Design ," two weeks before it airs; a tremendous episode that will certainly delight all Britta fans out there, as the gang's nagging, pompous "conscience" finds herself in a very unusual love affair with…the Subway Sandwich Corporation.

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Those who watched Chuck certainly know that Subway and ratings-starved NBC shows are certainly no strangers; with the company even working along with Chuck and Chuck fans to help it get picked up at the end of Season 2. Well now it seems as though Community has been passed the "Subway product placement" torch since, as we saw in the last weeks' episode, there's a plan to build a Subway right in the heart of Greendale's Cafetorium. But unlike the product placement on Chuck, Community creator Dan Harmon wanted to fully integrate Subway into the mix. "[Subway] came to us," Harmon told the crowd. "They're out there and they're pretty liberal and progressive with their product placement. And I'm not one of those writers who hates doing it or afraid to do it. But I do have to have 100 percent control over that stuff. It's not like we want to vilify our product placement, but we also need to tell a story about it on the show."As you can imagine, Britta is none too pleased about the new shop. And neither are Shirley and Pierce , who had their own plans for an eatery. We won't spoil the episode for you guys, but we will say that Britta winds up having some unexpectedly hilarious mixed emotions over Subway that may or may not lead to some sort of, um, lewd act. "I love her indignation," Jacobs said about Britta. "I like her hypocrisy. Her fallibility. her stubbornness. She takes a lot of abuse and doesn't learn from it. I just love playing Britta. I think it's a gift as an actress. And I'm so happy that people have embraced the 'Britta-ness' of Britta."Harmon then continued that thought by explaining how much Britta had changed on the show from the first episodes. "When I wrote the pilot, I needed a carrot to dangle in front of the rapscallion Jeff Winger," he said. "The girl that the guy wants. And like all nerdy writers we create the 'perfect nerdy girl.' But she's really just this list of eclectic tastes. It's just sort of a list of stuff that you fantasize about and not much more than that."

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Harmon then said he was able to get a better handle on Britta's character after talking to fellow Community writer Hilary Winston. "Hilary said 'I don't like her'," Harmon admitted. "She said 'I wouldn't trust her and if we went shoe shopping together and I started acting a bit girly she'd punish me for it. She'd make me feel awkward about it.' And so that's when I figured out that [Britta's] the woman that women didn't like. The second burst for Britta was the 'bah-gel' thing. I say bagel wrong and the cast and writers tease me relentlessly about it. And so I just gave Britta that trait. And I think it helps female characters when the writers don't feel forced to think of them as females and just give them things that anyone can have. I think that's what male writers need to do more."It's probably clear from the brief description that I gave of the upcoming episode that Shirley and Pierce are going to continue to try and make their "business partnership" into a real thing. "I think that them being together is great because Shirley and Pierce are like oil and water," Yvette Nicole Brown said. "And she doesn't like him very much." Brown then asked the panel "She doesn't like him, right?" "Well, she is human," Harmon responded, getting a big laugh from the crowd. "Yes, the two of them will continue to try and make their sandwich plan work, " Brown continued. "But this is Greendale and so there's a good chance that it will go awry in some way."And what about all the Chang scenes we caught in the epic "Community Returns" trailer? With the banner and the Napoleon costume? "I don't want to spoil anything," Jeong said. "But it's my favorite Chang arc of the series. This incarnation of Chang is my favorite because it combines the authority of Season 1 and the pathetic-ness of Season 2 and then mixes it with him being a security guard. It's personally my favorite stuff that I've done of the show so far."

A brand new episode of Community, " Contemporary Impressionists ," airs this Thursday at 8pm on NBC!