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* [[Community/Recap/S1 E11 The Politics of Human Sexuality|The Politics of Human Sexuality]]: in an earlier episode Troy mentions that Dean Pelton looks like [[Moby]]. Annie needs to see the Dean's statue's [[Moby Dick|white dick]]. What does Shirley say when she sees it?
{{quote|'''Shirley:''' "Thar she blows!" }}
* Who's the villain in the episode [[Community/Recap/S1 E12 Comparative Religion|Comparative Religion]]? A former nerd with abandonment issues, especially [[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation|during the holidays]]. In other words, a grownup [[National Lampoon's Vacation|Rusty Griswold]]. And his [[Chevy Chase|father]] is right there, never speaking a word to him. Dan Harmon, you casting genius.
* In "[[Community/Recap/S1 E15 Romantic Expressionism|Romantic Expressionism]]," Jeff convinced Britta to help him sabotage Annie's relationship with Vaughn by explaining that Vaughn is a "gateway douchebag" and will make Annie more likely to date other douchebags down the line. Later in that same episode, Starburns sees Jeff from across the classroom and remarks, "See that guy over there? He's a douchebag." {{spoiler|Cut to the [[Season Finale]]....}}
* In "[[Community/Recap/S1 E20 The Science of Illusion|The Science of Illusion]]," Britta's ill-fated prank, at which Jeff scoffed early on, would have become a more mainstream joke had it been completed. Rather than a benign animal costume "prank," it would likely have created mayhem in the Spanish class at Senor Chang's expense, given the "crippling fear of frogs" that Chang is revealed to have (not to mention his penchant for over-reacting). Either way, Britta's prank would have backfired from her point-of-view.
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* In the [[Community/Recap/S2 E01 Anthropology 101|season 2 opening sequence]] we see Troy hop out of bed wearing Spider-Man pajamas. This is a reference to the summer's internet campaign to have Donald Glover considered for the role of Peter Parker in the Spider-Man movie reboot.
* In the [[Community/Recap/S2 E01 Anthropology 101|season 2 opening sequence]] we see Jeff working out in striped underwear. Later in the season Britta mentions that he is usually seen in stripy "Beetlejuice" underwear.
* Remember when Abed delivered a baby in the background of "[[Community/Recap/S2 E03 The Psychologyof Letting Go|The Psychology of Letting Go]]"? At the end of the sex education fair episode in season one, right after Abed told everyone not to wear condoms while having sex that night, you can see a guy throwing away a condom while getting cozy with a girl in the background behind Jeff. This is probably not the same couple who got pregnant in season 2, but it's probably a very subtle [[Brick Joke]].
** The episode was also the second filmed for Season Two, and if it had shown in this order, it would have been screened in September... roughly nine months after "Politics of Human Sexuality".
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** It also works on the level of a satirical critique; to add to this, at the end the lesson that Annie and Britta come to learn is that their bickering just means that the guys, who get to leer over their oil-slick cat-fight, end up winning. To once again simplify things, a frequent critique of this in-fighting between the different waves of feminism is that [[We ARE Struggling Together!|while feminists are devoting themselves to internal dogmatic battles over relatively petty and minor ideological differences with each other]], they're losing the 'war' by letting hard-fought for battles and victories erode away and allowing traditional patriarchy to reassert itself.
* In "Basic Rocket Science" there is a lot of discussion about Greendale's new school logo. Jeff says "...and I told him it was a butt. He kept not seeing it. It was driving me crazy." Is it possible this is the show's staff being frustrated that nobody saw the obscene joke in the [http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=13z2wio&s=7 original Greendale logo]?
* In ''[[Community/Recap/S2 E08 Cooperative Calligraphy|Cooperative Caligraphy]]'', Annie asks Abed if he took her pen. Abed replies he's strictly mechanical pencil these days, and Pierce quips, "More relatable?" thought the joke was just that Abed is mechanical. While on the surface this comments appears to just refer to Abed's mechanical nature, it also works as a call back to the ''[[Community/Recap/S1 E01 Pilot|Pilot]]'', the Winger speech makes a point about humans being able to relate to a pencil by simply giving it a name.
* In [[Community/Recap/S2 E10 Mixology Certification|Mixology Certification]], we discover that Shirley "had a few bad years." It's never stated that this was before she found Jesus, but that would explain her constant attempts to foist her religion on the rest of the group: There is no worshiper more evangelical than the new convert.
** She also becomes much less overtly Jesusy once {{spoiler|she gets back with her husband}}, which would suggest that both her drinking and her religiousness were attempts to deal with, or at least distract herself from, the problems in her life.
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* In "[[Community/Recap/S2 E15 Early 21st Century Romanticism|Early 21st Century Romanticism]]," Star-Burns shaves his sideburns into heart shapes, thus making him... "Heart-Burns".
* In "[[Community/Recap/S2 E16 Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking|Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking]]", Britta and Jeff are the first ones at the hospital, with the others just coming in. This is because they are both Pierce's emergency contacts, as shown in "[[Community/Recap/S2 E05 Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples|Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples]]".
** Pierce's 'punishments' towards his friends in this episode, while frequently condemned as being over-the-top cruelty, in fact act as a somewhat warped reflection of how he views the recipient's general relationship with and treatment of him:
*** Annie is generally nice to him, or at least is more patient with him than the others; she gets a genuine gift. Also, she is the only one who cared about his drug addiction, since she used to be addicted herself.
*** Abed generally acts as a neutral observer; he receives no gift, but is permitted to record and observe.
*** Troy, Shirley and Britta usually more or less get on with him (although there's spikiness on both sides) -- as such, they get gifts that, while intended maliciously as a [[Mind Screw]], can also be viewed as a kind of warped kindness ( {{spoiler|Troy's getting to meet his hero, Shirley's getting validation of the group's regard for her, Britta's getting $10 000 to do with as she pleases.}}).
*** And Jeff? Pierce clearly wants to be a father figure to Jeff, but Jeff not only repeatedly shoots him down, but is often openly and unrepentantly dismissive and snide towards him, so Jeff not only gets a completely malicious gift, but one which reflects how Jeff's father rejected him just as Jeff rejects Pierce.
* In "[[Community/Recap/S2 E17 Intro to Political Science|Intro To Political Science]]", Troy and Abed comment at the election polling is spilt 48%-48% between Jeff and Annie, with a 2% margin of error -- before admitting that they don't even know how to do margins of error and got the polls simply by "talking to two guys at a vending machine". It only sinks in later that Troy and Abed are broadcasting from the vending machines -- the clear implication is that they ''are'' the two guys at the vending machines...
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** Moreso because {{spoiler|Jeff was (inadvertently) responsible for coining the cruel, fat-baiting nickname that took such a toll on Neil in the first place.}}
** It also explains why Jeff seemed so upset when Abed and Troy were making fun of him about Jeff's egg comment in one of the flashbacks in "Paradigms of Human Memory."
* "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" has alot. The narrator says this is the game that decides the fate of good and Pierce. This ep was a [[Moral Event Horizon]] for Pierce as he [[Took a Level in Jerkass]] because of his addiction for drugs taken a firm hold and him od-ing in the next ep. Second, Jeff holds a campaign to cheer up Neil and get Neil's sword back as he was bullied as a kid. Third, he was the one who coined the term "Fat Neil" in the first place, so this is just a bully victim turned bully making up to the victim.
* "[[Community/Recap/S2 E19 Critical Film Studies|Critical Film Studies]]" looks like it's setting up an [[Affectionate Parody]] spoof of ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', but actually ends up becoming a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to {{spoiler|''My Dinner With Andre''}} and ignores ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' entirely. Or does it? For one of the hallmarks of ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', like most of Tarantino's work, is a series of [[Seinfeldian Conversation|Seinfeldian Conversations]] between two people, often in restaurants, which seem to be completely irrelevant to the plot but which end up taking on greater significance once we're aware of the bigger picture. So it could be said that as well as {{spoiler|''My Dinner With Andre''}} the episode actually ''was'' spoofing Tarantino and ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' -- just not the bits everyone was ''expecting'' it to spoof.
** Also, Jeff was expecting a night full of [[Pulp Fiction]] references, just like the audience after they saw the [[Trailers Always Lie|Misleading Promo]] NBC aired. And, like the audience, Jeff got a completely different night than he expected.
** There is also a meta-example for [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|us tropers]]. While ''[[Community]]'' is probably one of the most blatantly [[Troperiffic]] series ever made, {{spoiler|''[[My Dinner with Andre]]''}} is about as close to [[The Tropeless Tale]] as you can get.
* In "[[Community/Recap/S2 E19 Critical Film Studies|Critical Film Studies]]" Abed reveals he chose {{spoiler|''[[My Dinner with Andre]]''}} because "It's about a guy who has an unexpectedly enjoyable evening with a weird friend he's been avoiding lately." Jeff assumes that in this scenario he's the guy who's been doing the avoiding (as he all but admits to at the beginning) and Abed's the 'weird friend'. However, if you think about it the example also works the other way around; in [[Community/Recap/S2 E18 Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy|"Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy"]] Troy and Abed admit they've been avoiding Jeff (partly because of the things Britta has told them about him based on their sexual encounter), and Jeff -- while certainly 'normal' compared to Abed, on least on the surface -- is himself ultimately a rather messed-up and 'weird' person, as his story about the Indian girl costume demonstrates. Could be that instead of / in addition to feeling that Jeff had been putting some distance between them, Abed felt guilty about his part in avoiding Jeff and wanted to bridge the gap, but couldn't figure out how without referencing a movie. It also explains Abed's non-committal response when Jeff asks if Abed feels that Jeff's been avoiding him: "We did hang out more last year."
* Why does Abed's [[Whos the Boss]] class in "[[Community/Recap/S2 E20 Competitive Wine Tasting|Competitive Wine Tasting]]" sound like a [[Laugh Track]] when they laugh? Because it is a class based around a multi-camera sitcom.
* In "[[Community/Recap/S2 E21 Paradigms of Human Memory|Paradigms of Human Memory]]", the tiny sombrero that they find in the monkey's pile of mementos is the same one worn by Pierce in the "Two Conquistadors" skit from [[Community/Recap/S1 E02 Spanish 101|Spanish 101]].
* At the beginning of "[[Community/Recap/S2 E07 Aerodynamics of Gender|Aerodynamics of Gender]]", Pierce announces his radio-controlled hovering spycam by saying "Hey, remember last week when you were racing those radio-controlled cars and you thought you were cool? Well, turns out you're not!" We never saw the car episode, but during the Dean Pelton costume flashback montage in "[[Community/Recap/S2 E21 Paradigms of Human Memory|Paradigms of Human Memory]]", one clip shows Jeff sitting with a neat-looking radio-controlled car.
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** On the robot's chest is the same panel that Chang rewires in season 2 episode "Basic Rocket Science."
** It appears that the Boob-a-Tron robot may have been after Annie's boobs. Annie's Boobs is also the name of Troy's monkey that re-appeared earlier in the episode.
* In [[Community/Recap/S2 E21 Paradigms of Human Memory|Paradigms of Human Memory]], a series of flashback showed Abed displaying love of the short-lived show [[The Cape (2010 TV series)|The Cape]] by wearing a cape. In some of the other flashbacks, he can be seen wearing a shirt that says "Save The Cape", probably in response to its cancellation.
* In [[Community/Recap/S2 E21 Paradigms of Human Memory|Paradigms of Human Memory]], there is a flashback to the group in the study room during the events of Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas. All of the characters are wearing the EXACT clothes that their claymation counterparts were wearing in the special.
* In almost every flashback in [[Community/Recap/S2 E21 Paradigms of Human Memory|Paradigms of Human Memory]] Shirley can be seen clutching her "comedically oversized purse."
* Also, [[Community/Recap/S2 E21 Paradigms of Human Memory|Paradigms of Human Memory]], where there is a series of memories of everyone fighting to get all the fighting. In [[Community/Recap/S1 E01 Pilot|The Pilot]], what is one of the first things Jeff advises, with bad intentions however, the study group? To air everything out and put it all out in the open because [[Blatant Lies|he's been in other groups that were destroyed by unresolved tension.]]
** And it works; but not for the reasons they suspect. The members arguing that they should keep arguing commonly cite that it's better to get everything out in the open because "they'll stop fighting (forever)". This, obviously, doesn't happen (and indeed would ''never'' happen), which gives them cause to believe that they are merely dysfunctional people incapable of getting along -- but what it actually means that they are in fact ''very'' comfortable and open with each other, since they are more willing to confront and challenge each other whenever they feel one (or more) of them has crossed the line, rather than bottling it up to unleash it in a more potentially destructive and irreparable fashion later -- which ultimately helps them resolve the matter they're currently facing quickly and constructively. And the episode reflects this; If we ignore the flashbacks, what's left is the group discovering an issue, arguing about it quite heatedly but then hashing it out and resolving it very quickly (their argument in total probably takes up no more than ten minutes if we take out the flashbacks, and then by the time everyone simmered down they'd realized they were making a big deal over something comparatively little) and making sure they remain friends in the process.
** Further Fridge Brilliance; Jeff's final speech, of which we only saw a brief excerpt, probably pointed all this out, but we didn't hear it because we actually saw it in action all the other times he'd made a speech to help resolve the issues that had risen amongst them. [[Show, Don't Tell]] in action.
* [[Community/Recap/S2 E21 Paradigms of Human Memory|Paradigms of Human Memory]]: When you watch all of the flashbacks, you can see that almost all of them link together in some way to give us a sense of what happened in the 'episode' that we didn't see, or which at least suggest a plot which we didn't see. Almost all of them, that is, except for the short scene of Troy and Abed mocking Jeff behind his back by wearing his jacket and playing with his phone, which occurs outside of any context and seems to have no link to any of the other scenes. In fact, it seems very similar in both subject and length to the end-of-episode 'tags' that Troy and Abed star in at the end of every episode -- and if there are entire episodes we didn't see, it stands to reason that there are also episode ''tags'' we didn't see...
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* Also in "[[Community/Recap/S2 E20 Competitive Wine Tasting|Competitive Wine Tasting]]," why is Troy's acting name between "Trevor St. McGoodbody or David"? What's the last line in [[Community/Recap/S1 E15 Romantic Expressionism|Kickpuncher]]? "Don't call me Kickpuncher. Call me...David."
* Also from "[[Community/Recap/S2 E20 Competitive Wine Tasting|Competitive Wine Tasting]]", Britta develops a thing for Troy after he relays his false story of being molested by his uncle as a child. This could just be [[Weakness Turns Her On|Britta's thing for damaged goods expressing itself]] -- however, according to [http://www.greendalecommunitycollege.com/campus-connect/britta-perry.shtml this] among other hints around the place, Britta's own backstory is also implied to contain at least one instance of molestation which could, in Britta's mind, have made them kindred spirits.
* In "[[Community/Recap/S2 E23 A Fistful of Paint Balls|A Fistful Of Paint Balls]]", it's revealed that Annie is the only hold-out in the vote to remove Pierce from the group. Why? Because unlike the other members of the group, she can most relate to Pierce and why he does the things he does; like Pierce, she has first-hand experience of what it's like to be excluded by people who you want to be accepted by and how painful that can be, like Pierce she has first-hand experience with drug addiction and how that can potentially ruin your life and drastically affect your behaviour and outlook, and like Pierce she has an over-competitive ruthless streak that she struggles (rather more successfully than he does) to keep in check and from destroying her relationships with the people around her. Where the others just look at Pierce and mostly see an insufferable [[Jerkass]], Annie sees both a reflection of how she could end up and someone who, like her, could be redeemed with help from the people around him.
* At the end of [[Community/Recap/S2 E24 For a Few Paintballs More|For A Few Paintballs More]], Britta suggested that they take Anthro 201 next semester, and Abed said it was too risky because 'sequels are always disappointing'. This can both be a reference to the Star Wars franchise, and the episode itself, which was a Sequel Episode.
* [[Community/Recap/S2 E24 For a Few Paintballs More|For A Few Paintballs More]] was obviously filled with callbacks and references, too many for any one person to be able to catch them all. One such aspect of the episode though that I saw as being rather poignant was Leonard's little arc. Leonard as a character has been portrayed as an old man who acts like a teenage brat, swearing and acting up constantly. In the episode he reveals to Britta that he's been in several real life wars; the reason he acts like a rebellious teenager in his later years is that he spent his actual teenage years fighting in one of the most humourless periods in recent human history.
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** [[Up to Eleven|FIVE.]] While the sequence means all these things, Jeff clearly isn't thinking about it that much in depth -- he's just having a daydream. The creators, meanwhile, probably only created the sequence with one or two of these levels in mind, while we find so many more.
** Six. Because as we learn in "[[Community/Recap/S3 E10 Regional Holiday Music|Regional Holiday Music]]" the Study Group filled in for the Glee club before. Jeff is remembering that too.
** Seven. It also acts as ironic [[Foreshadowing]] for the rest of the season, which has in general been one of the most difficult so far for the study group in general and Jeff in particular (who has been subject to an ongoing process of [[Deconstruction]] revealing his numerous issues and neuroses). In between such things as Troy and Abed falling out and causing a school-wide pillow war, Shirley and Pierce's sandwich shop dreams gettin stolen and sold to Subway by the school, everyone in general having numerous issues, problems and difficulties {{spoiler|and even getting expelled towards the end of the season}}, this year has been anything but 'finally fine' for the study group.
* Why does Pierce {{spoiler|help Jeff out even though he was the member who was the most antagonistic to him? It's cause Pierce saw Jeff and himself as [[Not So Different]]. Up until Annie tells Jeff that they are no longer friends. Even during all of Pierce's antics, Annie always stuck by him. Jeff was basically losing the one positive thing Pierce had last season, so he took pity on the guy. At least that's my interpretation of it.}}
** To go even further with this: {{spoiler|Pierce's lowest point in the last season was arguably when even Annie got fed up with his antics and turned on him in "A Fistful of Paintballs". They really are [[Not So Different]] -- but the group was willing to give Pierce another chance, so Pierce pays it forward with Jeff.}}
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{{quote|'''Pierce:''' Dancing in your underwear, taking air conditioner repair. So you can get a job ...}}
** Not just that, but it is heavily hinted that the air conditioner repair course is the only viable education that Greendale has to offer. Keep in mind that Greendale gets most of its money from alumni donations and that most of those donations go straight to the Air-Conditioning Repair Anex.
* In " [[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]]", it can be interpreted that what happens in each timeline is a rough summation of what would happen if the group lost the member getting the pizza. To briefly sum up the many interpretations floating around for each member:
** Losing '''Annie''' makes it feel more indie movie. Things are a bit more relaxed -- however, there's also an element of danger without her (the gun is found and brandished around) and the group is lacking a distinct nurturing, healing presence (there's no one to tend Jeff's head injury and she's "a pretty good nurse").
*** Another way to interpret it is that this timeline is probably the least eventful of them all. While nothing particularly bad happens, nothing particularly good happens either. Things become stale and less exciting without Annie's drive and ambition around to propel the group.
** Losing '''Shirley''' makes everyone behave meaner and be a bit more inclined to be selfish. Without her nagging, prodding and [[Team Mom|Team Momming]] them, they're inclined to forget their responsibilities and to not do what they should, even if they don't want to (taking her pies out of the oven).
** Losing '''Pierce''' makes everyone happier (temporarily, at least) and leads to ship teases.
*** Alternatively, losing Pierce is the forefront to casting out the more mature people since Shirley, after baking pies, is quickly dismissed by Jeff very condescendingly.
** Losing '''Britta''' loses the sardonic bent and increases the wackiness. However, it also makes the group a bit less warm, inviting and comforting; no one comforts Pierce when he has his meltdown or tries to make things better. While she might not always succeed or do so most effectively, Britta does try and make everyone feel better.
** Losing '''Troy''' leads to chaos, madness and death. Things go to hell quickly. Furthermore, while other timelines may see everyone unhappy and at each other's throats, this one ends up with everyone actively turning 'evil' in some way -- more than anything else, this suggests that Troy is the true [[The Heart|heart]] of the group.
*** The same timeline also suggests something similar about Pierce, oddly enough; when he's around, he acts as both a sufficient target for the group's negative impulses and as a warning for what'll happen if they overstep the line to prevent them from going to far. Take him out permanently, however, and the group are free to become 'evil' and act on their darker impulses.
** Losing '''Abed''' causes the group to become too dramatic and self destruct. Although it seems like everyone is a bit more emotionally open without him, they end up taking it too far; he regulates the emotional pressure of the group.
** Losing '''Jeff''' makes the conflicts go away. Everyone's a lot more relaxed, happy and willing to let their hair down and have fun without him shooting them down before they start.
*** A [[Alternate Character Interpretation|more favourable]] interpretation of Jeff is that without him, a lot of the underlying tensions and issues facing the group remain pushed under the surface, where they might fester and do more damage in the long run unless they're exposed. However, it's also worth noting that several of these issues are either directly caused by him (mocking Troy and shooting down Britta), are exacerbated by him (his organized opposition to Shirley's baking only ends up making things worse and leads to her storming out; by cutting Britta off before she can start singing he just drives her to get high) or managed to be resolved both in a much less emotionally turbulent fashion and without his involvement (Annie's living situation). As such, while he might help expose problems that threaten the fabric of the group and help resolve them, he is at least partially responsible for many of them in the first place and his methods of attempting to resolve them may often hurt as much as they help.
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* In " [[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]]", one is led to believe that the timeline where Jeff is away is the real timeline. [http://whendoilaugh.tumblr.com/post/11446145916/abeds-timeline-was-real-not-jeffs Is it though ?]
** [[Word of God|Yes.]] [http://twitter.com/#!/danharmon/status/124993322119999488 Yes,] [http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/11469117959/fine-were-geniuses-but-not-evil-geniuses it is.]
* Look again at [[The Tag]] for Remedial Chaos Theory, which shows the darkest timeline. All (present) study group members are clad in black.. except Jeff and Troy. Jeff is wearing purple, the colour of royalty and power, to re-estabilish him as the group's most dominant member, alongside black. Troy on the other hand is apparently the only one ''not'' fully taken over by darkness - he wears a light blue shirt, representing his position as [[The Heart]] (which his timeline in the episode further elaborated on).
** Furthermore, Annie, in the mental ward, would likely be wearing white hospital robes - representing both her underlying insanity and inherent pureness.
* You could argue that Pierce died in the darkest timeline because turning Pierce, who was already some sort of inherently evil, into Evil!Pierce would be sort of impossible - or worse, would result in the Anti-Pierce, which is exactly what Evil!Abed would want to prevent. [[Fridge Horror|Now theorize exactly what happened that caused Pierce to die and what Evil!Abed's role in it might have been.]]
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* In [[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]], there is a mild example in Timeline 5. {{spoiler|When all Hell breaks loose, Jeff tries to put the fire out with a shirt. We see the shirt catch on fire and slowly start crawling up it, closer to Jeff's arm. Suddenly, it becomes a lot clearer how he lost his arm in the fire.}}
* In [[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]] the reason Jeff has to roll a dice to determine who gets the pizza is because "Nose Goes" fails when everyone does it at the exact same time. In [[Community/Recap/S2 E07 Aerodynamics of Gender|Aerodynamics of Gender]] they play "Nose Goes" to determine who has to make sure Pierce doesn't overdose on painkillers. Jeff loses, and asks when they started doing that. Apparently, they do it so often that everyone has become incredibly good at it to the point where they all win.
* At the end of [[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]] everyone is singing and dancing happily... [[Not So Different|except Jeff and Pierce]].
** However, while it's a pretty clear [[Not So Different]] moment, it also has a few indicators of how Jeff has undergone [[Character Development]] which has to some degree distanced him from his implied fate of ending up like Pierce; while Pierce is preoccupied with getting rid of his cruel housewarming gift to Troy so he doesn't get in trouble, Jeff is happily watching his friends enjoy themselves. While he might not yet be ready to take the step of actually joining in, Jeff has still bonded with them sufficiently to take simple pleasure in their happiness however silly he might think it.
* Annie's story in [[Community/Recap/S3 E05 Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps|Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps]] had her teaching Vampire Jeff how to read, which got them romantically closer to each other, {{spoiler|or she thought so, at least}}. This is exactly how she treated Troy in the beginning of season 1, where she tried getting romantically closer to him by tutoring him.
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* How did Annie know Britta {{spoiler|had put the tests in the wrong way up}}? She had taken one when she was in rehab for her adderall addiction.
** She knows because the scores were printed on the bottom of the page, rather than the top, presumably upside-down. Scantron marking sheets are pretty much independent of the questionnaire sheet, so the scantron sanity tests would look just like any scantron test for any other subject.
*** Could this up side down thing mean that the first insanity-result was Abed's?
**** No; "upside down" means that the individual Scantron cards were inserted in the wrong direction, not that the order of cards was changed.
* In "[[Community/Recap/S2 E20 Competitive Wine Tasting|Competitive Wine Tasting]]", it was established that Britta has questionable taste in men. This is further supported by her timeline in "[[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]]." Annie even makes a joke about how her romantic tastes after she talks about a guy who got so high he was able to survive a fall. Given the boyfriends she's hooked up with, it would explain why she [[Does Not Like Men|she's often making insulting remarks about men.]]
* With the reveal of the Secret Cabal of Air Conditioning in [[Community/Recap/S3 E06 Advanced Gay|Advanced Gay]], Greendale's ridiculous standards start to make sense. Think about the nature of the AC Repair Annex. They pride themselves on secrecy. What better way to stay hidden then to have a campus's reputation marred by incompetent staff, ridiculous public events (paintball riot, decrepit promotional KFC van press conference), and substandard cirriculum? This explains overall the school's reputation and staffing choices. The more ridiculous Greendale is, the easier the AC Annex is to hide.
* In the Dean's confession scene in [[Community/Recap/S3 E08 Documentary Filmmaking Redux|Documentary Filmmaking: Redux]], we see him burning his diploma, from Appomattox University. Appomattox is a small town in Virginia that doesn't have a university in it. Were the writers (and/or set designers) just going for something that sounds like a last-tier university? Perhaps. But a re-watch of [[Community/Recap/S2 E04 Basic Rocket Science|Basic Rocket Science]] will find the Dean telling Jeff that "if you don't get back here in time for the launch, City College wins, and Greendale becomes just another school on my résumé that no one can call, because it doesn't exist". Who knows how he actually got that diploma.
* In [[Community/Recap/S3 E09 Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism|Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism]], we get confirmation that Abed is very powerful. When Troy finds out that Annie has broke Abed's DVD, he has a panic attack, sputtering in a fearful voice, "He knows everything." He realizes, as shown in [[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]], that if Abed was properly traumatized, he could become a full-blown villainous mastermind.
** How would he know that since that timeline never happened?
** He presumably doesn't know the exact details of that timeline but can make a very good educated guess based on the evidence at hand and his personal experience with Abed that if Abed were to completely snap bad things would happen.
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* In [[Community/Recap/S3 E14 Pillows and Blankets|Pillows And Blankets]], The Dean tries so hard for the two forts to come to an agreement so that Greendale can hold the world record for biggest pillow or blanket fort, but failed. The irony is that they could have hold the world record for biggest pillow fight.
* Also in [[Community/Recap/S3 E14 Pillows and Blankets|Pillows And Blankets]], The Chang-glourious Basterds, a parody of Inglourious Basterds, were all recruited in a Bar-Mitzvah. The real Inglourious Basterds were all Jewish-Americans.
** I'm sorry, but I just have to comment... that's brilliant.
* Another from [[Community/Recap/S3 E14 Pillows and Blankets|Pillows And Blankets]]; why is there a crazed pillow fight raging in the background of every still shot of Jeff texting on his phone? Because he's been going around delivering rabble-rousing speeches to all the armies; each one is a pillow fight he's just incited. It even matches the MO he displays in the one speech we see him deliver, where he's fired up and passionate while giving the speech only to immediately switch to disinterest and start playing with his phone once he's gotten everyone's blood up.
* "[[Community/Recap/S3 E15 Origins of Vampire Mythology|Origins of Vampire Mythology]]": aside from a subplot where Troy and Abed are trying to watch ''[[Blade]]'' without interruption, there's not actually much to do with vampires in this episode... until you remember that the classic vampire subtext is of a mysterious man who has a powerful and all-consuming allure to women (usually metaphorically standing in for sex) despite being bad news for them, and who will, if they are allowed to sate their desires with him, ultimately lead them to ruin -- i.e. Blade. And Jeff spends the entire episode trying to figure out where this allure is somehow coming from. Hence '''origins''' of a '''vampire's''' (Blade's) '''mythology''' (sex appeal).
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** Troy seems notably disinterested and reluctant to help Britta with her problems throughout the episode and would rather watch ''[[Blade]]'', which makes him seem a bit callous and uncaring. Except, it's clearly established that Troy at the very least has a bit of a crush on Britta, Britta's problems in the episode centre around an old boyfriend who she finds irresistible despite herself, and there are few things worse than having to put up with someone you're romantically interested in continually going on about someone else...
* The upcoming [[Law and Order]] episode [[Basic Lupine Urology]] has the latin name for wolf in the title. The producer of the [[Law and Order]] franchise? Dick Wolf.
** Urology is also the study of amongst other things part of the male anatomy. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
** One has to wonder why [[Too Dumb to Live|Star-Burns would build a meth lab in his trunk of all places]]. Then you remember that he was kicked out of introductory biology at the beginning of the year, and therefore has limited knowledge of how to actually make meth. Which also justifies in how it was so unstable, all it took was a rear end for a drastic explosion.
* At the end of "[[Community/Recap/S3 E18 Course Listing Unavailable|Course Listing Unavailable]]" Troy lifts everyone's spirits when they're depressively musing that this could be 'the worst timeline' by pointing out that {{spoiler|despite having been expelled from Greendale}} "We're all alive and we're all fine!" Compare to the ''actual'' worst timeline from "[[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]]", where one of the members was dead, one had gone insane, two of them suffered serious and crippling injuries, one had succumbed to alcoholism and one had... [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|dyed a blue streak into her hair]].
** Adding to that, the worst timeline happened because he wasn't there to prevent the chaos that erupted while getting the pizza. Him being there after {{spoiler|the expulsion}} prevented another chaotic timeline.
** It also goes to show why exactly the Troy-absent timeline was the darkest one. It wasn't just any tragedy that made it bad. It was the fact that the group was broken apart, by Pierce's death and Annie's absence. But as long as the group stayed together, their happiness would still be salvageable.
* It's been pointed out that in "[[Community/Recap/S3 E18 Course Listing Unavailable|Course Listing Unavailable]]" the group essentially goes through the five stages of grief -- only over their lost Biology 101 credit and it's repercussions, not their lost classmate:
** Denial: The news that they're going to have to repeat Biology over summer causes Jeff to scream a [[Big No]].
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* In the 'Greendale asylum' sections of "Curriculum Unavailable" Annie is pretty much dressed in the 'psychiatric hospital' equivalent of what she is usually seen to wear anyway -- a cardigan and a dress.
** There are more [[Call Backs]] to the first [[Clip Show]] than one might think. First off, one clip in the first one show the group in [[Foreshadowing|an asylum]]. Two, Jeff notes that he thinks the universe is making them into a super-group. By "Curriculum Unavailable", [[True Companions|they have]].
* In "Digital Estate Planning", Cornelius designed the video game after Pierce suggested that they invest in video games, citing that while moist towelettes are still being sold in stores while "arcade after arcade closes!" At first, this just looks like Cornelius being [[It Will Never Catch On|stubborn and set in his ways]] in light of video games now being a multi-billion dollar industry -- however, Pierce made his initial suggestion in the early 1980s, right before [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983]] completely decimated the industry in North America. In this at least Cornelius [[Jerkass Had A Point|had a point]] -- if they'd made the switch then Hawthorne Industries would have probably been completely wiped out in the fallout.
* Vice-Dean Laybourne has something of a mini-character arc throughout the third season as represented by his hair. At the beginning of the series, he is all-powerful, dominant and arrogant, striding over Greendale like a colossus and effortlessly acquiring what he wants through dominating the Dean -- as represented by his clean-shaven, short-haired appearance. Then, he encounters Troy, who is not only a greater repairman than he will ever be but who rejects his authority and overtures. Cue something of a [[Hollywood Midlife Crisis|life crisis]] as his authority and belief in himself as the greatest repairman is threatened, as represented by numerous attempts to cajole, bully or manipulate Troy into joining the AC Repair School -- and by his growing a beard and an ill-advised ponytail in the middle of the series. Then, once Troy joins the school, Laybourne has what he wants, but realizes that it doesn't matter that he's not the greatest repairman, as he can mentor Troy into embracing his destiny. As represented by the fact that he's cut off the ponytail and shaved away the beard, but has kept a moustache.
* In [[Recap/Community S 3 E 07 Studies In Modern Movment|Studies In Modern Movement]], the hitchhiker sings that he loves marijuana during the Kiss from a rose montage, while Britta and Shirley's facial expressions turns to horror as he claims he likes 'drinking human blood', per his [[Napoleon Delusion|Jesus Delusion]] it actually isn't as disturbing as one would initially imagine as {{spoiler|Transubstantiation ie symbolically eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Christ is the way one receives salvation.}}
* Chang's rise to [[Big Bad]] and Star Burns' death were all omens of Evil Abed's appearance, as the timeline grew darker. Why was Star Burns seen alive at the very end of the season finale? Because the timeline had been un-darkened when Jeff's speech defeated Evil Abed.
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* The current glee club's reaction to cease and desist seems like nothing more than an over the top reaction, right? {{spoiler|Then we find out how Mr. Rad runs his glee club and what happened to that last bunch of members...}}
* Jeff's plan in [[Community/Recap/S2 E06 Epidemiology|Epidemology]] was to leave everyone but him, Abed and Troy in the school. That means that Abed and Troy and the Dean (If he wasn't arrested for endangering the populace) would be the only survivors.
* Abed has a sex video (likely unknown to him) of Jeff and Britta.In "[[Community/Recap/S2 E21 Paradigms of Human Memory|Paradigms of Human Memory]]" it was revealed that Britta and Jeff got very frisky in Abed's dorm room on St. Patrick's Day. In [[Community/Recap/S2 E18 Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy|"Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy"]] Abed reveals to Britta he had a security camera installed in his dorm room for the purpose of making autobiograghical documentaries. Abed's is going to be in for shock when he goes to edit it.
* At the end of [[Community/Recap/S3 E12 Contemporary Impressionists|Contemporary Impressionists]], Abed had a conversation with Evil Abed. Of course, that's just his imagination going wild, right? Well, at the end of [[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]], when Alternate Troy and Abed decided to become evil, Prime Timeline Abed felt a presence, which he promptly ignored. This could suggest that there is some sort of link between the two Abeds. Could the Evil Abed that Abed saw in the Dreamatorium be the real Evil Abed, communicating to him through his mind?
* [[Community/Recap/S3 E17 Basic Lupine Urology|Basic Lupine Urology]]: {{spoiler|Starburns' death. He was building a meth-lab in the trunk of his car which exploded and killed him. Bad enough in itself, but it's stated that it exploded when he was rear-ended -- which suggests that there was someone else driving behind him who was also caught in the blast and possibly killed.}}
* Just the sheer bits of emotional truths woven between dialogues that really show that the Study Group members are [[Stepford Snarker|a lot more messed up than they seem to act most of the time]]. Make you really wonder why these people don't just break down crying already.
** Jeff's father was an abusive alcoholic who eventually left the family, leaving Jeff with a lot of emotional scars. Additionally, he has seriously deep self-esteem, vanity and body image problems amongst other things.
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* The video game in [[Community/Recap/S3 E20 Digital Estate Planning|Digital Estate Planning]] was designed with the intention of bringing together Pierce and his seven closest friends, and getting them to turn on each other to fight for Pierce's inheritance. Given how clearly inept Pierce is at playing the game, he's ''very'' lucky the friends he ended up making and bringing along were as scrupulous and decent as the study group are
* In [[Community/Recap/S3 E22 Introduction to Finality|Introduction to Finality]], if Evil Abed is trying to turn the cast into their dark timeline counterparts, this means ''that at some point he would have tried to kill Pierce.''
** Even worse, he would have orchestrated it where Annie would be the one to do it and thus go crazy from the guilt.
** Pretty much all of his efforts to turn them into their evil counterparts counts as this, considering how dark the 'worst timeline' ended up being.
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**** Not the OP above, but I'd guess that the implication referred to is presumably ''in'' the fact that he calls it "No-No Juice"; the logic being that in not knowing it's called 'wine' (since if he knew what it was he'd call it what it was), he doesn't know what it is and possibly ''also'' doesn't know it's alcoholic (since if he knew what it really was he'd also know it was alcoholic). "No-No Juice" suggests he's been told as a child he can't have any but doesn't know what it is or, following this train of logic, ''why'' he can't have any, and just hasn't learned since then. It doesn't necessarily mean he hasn't drank it before or that he hasn't drank ''any'' alcohol before, but if we follow this logic it does possibly suggest that he doesn't know that wine itself is alcoholic and has drank it previously (or something like it, such as grape juice) without realizing this.
**** Or he knows it's wine and AS A JOKE calls it "no-no juice" as he's not supposed to be drinking it, i-e drinking it is a "no-no" but he still knows what it is. Even people who have never drank usually know the concept of wine.
**** Indeed -- but Troy doesn't seem like he's joking and, let's be fair, isn't the brightest, most well-informed or mature of men; it would sort of fit into his character to have never heard of wine.
**** Considering the amount of things that Troy does through the series that Jehovah's Witnesses don't do, it's probably safe to say that he claims the religion, but doesn't practice. With that in mind, he's likely joking about "no-no juice", and has had alcohol before. Or the inconsistencies could just be blamed on [[Did Not Do the Research]].
**** Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Donald Glover raised as a Jehovah's Witness?
**** In the next episode, [[Community S 2 E 20 Competitive Wine Tasting|''Competitive Wine Tasting'']], Troy knows what a wine cellar is - indicating that he probably at least knows what wine is - and, in a bit of [[Fridge Horror]], refers to his butt as his "no-no"...
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* In ''[[Community/Recap/S1 E04 Social Psychology|Community]],'' Abed sat in a chair for ''twenty-six hours''. ...Food? Water? ''Bathroom''?
* How does Jeff know {{spoiler|where Rich lives}} in "[[Community/Recap/S2 E12 Asian Population Studies|Asian Population Studies]]"?
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