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Pierce deals with the death of his mom. Jeff gets an unexpected result back from a medical test. Abed has a side adventure.

 

 

** [[Fridge Brilliance|It's been about 9 months since the STD fair, hasn't it?]] Note that you see a couple in the background of that episode throwing a condom away and then getting back to it...

* [[Bilingual Dialogue]]: [[Betty White]] and an African tribesman in [[The Tag]]. This is so another tribesman won't be spoiled by the English half of their discussion of ''[[Inception]]''.

* [[Broken Bird]]: Jeff spends most of the episode angsting over his mortality. He's in near-perfect health. The "near" part is devestating to him.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Britta's imitating Annie.

* [[Captain Obvious Aesop]]: Lampshaded on at one point when Britta and Annie are staging a demonstration to raise awareness about the environmental effects of the oil spill in the gulf. Britta is angry and yelling about how horrible it is to people passing by when someone mockingly points out that she doesn't need to yell at them, nobody is on the other side of this issue.

* [[Cat Fight]]

* [[Completely Missing the Point]]:

** Duncan points out that Jeff's recent desire to belittle and undermine Pierce's faith in his cult is linked to Jeff's discovery that he has high cholesterol. Jeff accepts this, but instead of the expected 'so lighten up about it and let Pierce continue regardless' message, Jeff instead decides that this increased self-awareness means he can ''really'' go to town on pulling the rug from under Pierce.

* [[Drinking the Kool Aid]]: Invoked. Pierce's faith believes that when Buddha returns everyone will merge into shimmering ocean of knowledge that tastes like Hawaiian fruit punch. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Which sounds a lot like]] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|an incredibly oft-mentioned anime.]]

* [[Eureka Moment]]: Duncan discovers he can force Chang to run away.

** Look carefully at the girl who Jeff hits on in the student health clinic - she's reading an STD pamphlet.

** Abed has an entire Funny Background ''Storyline'' involving a pregnant woman, her jerk boyfriend and her eventual giving birth. It's quite impressive when you go back and watch it. Shirley even comments on it after noticing that Abed has barely appeared in the episode.

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Non-romantic version; Shirley spends most of the episode poorly concealing her jealousy over the fact that she wasn't invited to join in Britta and Annie's project.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]

** Shirley sardonically highlights a certain hypocrisy in Annie and Britta's jealous sniping match with each other:

* [[Law of Disproportionate Response]]: Jeff is told he is near-perfect health except for slightly high cholesterol. He reacts as if he's been told he's going to die later that afternoon.

* [[Meaningful Background Event]]: The background events tell the story of Abed helping a pregnant woman, getting in an argument with the father, and eventually delivering the baby. At the end, the group asks Abed where he's been. You can see it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tP0ubODOUQ here], if you missed it.

* [[Out of Focus]]: Literally; the episode features a subplot of Abed befriending a pregnant classmate that takes place entirely in the background.

* [[Soapbox Sadie]]: Britta's anger over the oil spill is seen as this.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Pierce's mother's audio will ends with beatalicious rap music.

* [[Sweater Girl]]: Annie's tendency to wear tight sweaters is [[Lampshaded]] by Britta.

* [[Take That]]:

'''Male Nurse Jackie:''' Yeah, but the temple is a temple of doom! And like the real [[Temple of Doom]], it represents the inconvenient fact that all good things, be they people or movie franchises, eventually collapse into sagging, sloppy piles of hard-to-follow nonsense. }}

* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]

'''Pierce's Mom:''' Not vaporized. }}

* [[Throw It In]]: The boiled eggs Jeff dejectedly de-yolks at lunch are actually what Joel McHale brought in for lunch that day.

 

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