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{{quote|''Yeah, well, you can tell your disappointment to suck it. I'm doing a [[Bottle Episode]]!''|'''Jeff'''}}

The study group has finished an assignment for Anthropology class and everyone is getting ready to go on their separate ways. Jeff has a date, Britta has a photography project, and the rest are going to a puppy parade on the quad. Then, Annie notices that her pen is missing. [[Hilarity Ensues]] as each member of the group is successively accused of having taken the pen.

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== The ''[[Community]]'' episode "Cooperative Calligraphy" provides examples of: ==

* [[A Wizard Did It|A Ghost Did It]]:  {{spoiler|The group's conclusion.}}
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The DVD case for the first half of Season 2 is styled after Abed's notebook. You can read Abed's notes on the menstrual cycles so that you can see exactly what he wrote without having to freeze-frame the episode.
* [[Anvilicious]]: The Equality and Togetherness float at the puppy parade. [[Lampshaded]].
* [[Big No]]: Annie
* [[Born in an Elevator]]: Abed is of the mind that if you are pregnant you should invoke this trope or not be pregnant at all.
* [[Bottle Episode]]: [[Invoked Trope]] by both Abed and Jeff.
* [[Brick Joke]]/[[Chekhov's Gunman]]:  {{spoiler|Annie's Boobs the monkey}}, introduced in Season 1.
* [[Call Back]] As per us
** [[Community/Recap/S1/E21 Contemporary American Poultry|Annie's boobs, Annie's backpack, the gum in the hair, and stolen boyfriend.]]
** [[Community/Recap/S1/E17 Physical Education|Jeff's stripey]] [[Community/Recap/S1/E23 Modern Warfare|Beetlejuice underpants]].
** [[Community/Recap/S2/E08 Cooperative Calligraphy|Abed points out that ]] {{spoiler|Shirley could have only conceived during Halloween, referring back to [[Community/Recap/S2/E06 Epidemiology|"Epidemiology."]]}}
* [[Collective Groan]]: The group's response to [[Soapbox Sadie|Britta]]'s complaining about "invasion of civil liberties".
* [[Eat the Evidence]]: One of the suggestions.
{{quote|'''Troy:''' Maybe nobody took it. Sometimes I think I lost something really important to me, and it turns out I already ate it.}}
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: The pen turns out to have been stolen by  {{spoiler|Annie's Boobs, Troy's monkey.}}
* [[Fan Nickname]]: While this is certainly not ''Community'''s only [[Bottle Episode]], it's invariably the one any member of the cast, crew, or fanbase is referring to if they say "the bottle episode".
* [[Fan Service]]: Everybody strips down to their underwear. There's something for everyone!
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** When removing Pierce's casts to find the pen, Abed expresses uncertainty that they should be doing that, noting that "this is how supervillains get created."  {{spoiler|Throughout the second half of the series, Pierce's increasingly erratic, [[Jerkass]] and cruel behaviour has been an ongoing subplot, culminating in his revenge scheme in "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking".}}
** You also notice at the beginning of the episode that when Annie starts to get upset, Abed has a chocolate for her - hinting at the reveal later in the episode about  {{spoiler|his tracking the girls' menstrual cycles.}}
** Britta comments that Jeff "usually" wears Beetlejuice boxers - only Abed notices, setting up his realization in "Paradigms of Memory" that  {{spoiler|they have been sleeping together.}}
* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]:
** The theft of Annie's pen during the drive by deaning.
** On the whiteboard, you can see the phrase "If we evolved from monkeys, how come we still have monkeys?" with the second monkey crossed out and replaced with "Pierce?"
* [[Funny Background Event]]: You can see {{spoiler|Annie's Boobs take the pen in the back of one of Troy and Abed's shots early on.}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
{{quote|'''Britta:''' I still think man is going to evolve into woman, not a dragon monster with three legs.
'''Pierce:''' [[Gag Penis|Three legs?]] }}
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]:
** When Britta accuses Annie:
{{quote|'''Annie:''' I am ''not'' hiding my own pen, you paranoid weirdo! Everybody stay within each other's eyelines please, one of you is a monster.}}
** When the group discover Shirley's pregnancy test:
{{quote|'''Annie:''' Guys, this is a terribly childish way to handle this kind of situation. ''(runs over to Shirley and hops up and down in excitement)'' Does this mean you have a new boyfriend? Who, who, who?}}
** The Dean, who is usually the orchestrator of [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]], booing the "Equality And Togetherness" float.
* [[I Can Explain]]: Abed in when the group discovers his charts on the female group members' menstrual cycles. Double-subverted in that while he didn't expect them to actually give him a chance to explain, he's prepared with an explanation when they do.
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Dean Craig Pelton gets called a "non-miraculous son of a bitch."
{{quote|'''Craig:''' Non-miraculous?}}
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]
{{quote|'''Jeff:''' I have a date to catch, or, should I say, a catch to date.
'''Britta:''' Oof, I hope you just came up with that.
''(later)''
'''Dean Pelton:''' I expect to see you all at the puppy parade. Except you, Jeffrey - I know you've got a catch to date. }}
* [[MacGuffin]]: The pen
* [[The Dog Was the Mastermind|The Monkey Was The Mastermind]]
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Troy's face when he finds out that Shirley was ovulating on Halloween, [[Community/Recap/S2/E06 Epidemiology|when she had sex with Chang]]. Doubles as a [[Call Back]].
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]/[[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: One of the floats in the puppy parade features a puppy and a kitten with the caption, "Equality and Togetherness". Even the Dean finds it sanctimonious.
* [[Precious Puppies]]:
{{quote|'''Dean Pelton:''' Attention, students! The puppy parade is starting on the quad! Better come quick--[[Lampshade Hanging|with every passing moment, these puppies grow older and less deserving of our attention.]]}}
* [[Ransacked Room]]: The study room is thoroughly trashed by the end, albeit at the hands of the group.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Shirley
{{quote|'''Shirley:''' Mother Hen? I think we're about the same age.
'''Britta:''' Sure, unless time is linear.
'''Shirley:''' I'll make your ass linear.
'''Britta:''' That doesn't make any sense.
'''Shirley:''' I'll make your ass sense. }}
* [[Serious Business]]
{{quote|'''Annie:''' ''It's not a pen; it's a principle!''}}
* [[Shirtless Scene]]
* [[Squick]]: Britta dumps her bag at the group's insistence.
{{quote|'''Britta:''' There! Happy?
'''Jeff:''' Not if that's a used q tip. }}
* [[Take That]]: Jeff's would-be date is named Gwynnifer after [http://twitter.com/gwynnifer a Twitter troll].
* [[Title-Only Opening]]: This is used for the only time in Season 2.
* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: Annie is accused of hiding the pen here.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?]]: Britta provides an in-universe example.
{{quote|'''Annie:''' Last week, she invoked the Freedom of Information Act to request photocopies of my notes.}}
* [[Women's Mysteries]]: The response of the women to their finding [[It Makes Sense in Context|Abed's charts of their menstrual cycles]].
* [[Word of God]]: According to Dan Harmon on the DVD commentary, Gwynnifer doesn't exist and Jeff wasn't really making a phone call. Gwynnifer was his code for {{spoiler|hooking up with Britta}}.

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