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{{quote|''You are making me do work for my fake conspiracy class!''|'''Jeff'''}}

Back at Abed's dorm, Troy and Abed make a blanket fort that gets out of control.

 

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Professor Professorson is played by Kevin Corrigan. Kevin also played Sam Weiss in the TV series [[Fringe]], which for anyone unfamiliar with the show is currently being driven by a conspiracy theory in the plot (and has been for its entirety); the character, Sam Weiss, is a part of it.

* [[Adult Child]]: Troy and Abed create a "blanket fort for men"

* [[An Aesop]]: Almost everyone has an aesop to teach someone else, resulting in the [[Gambit Pileup]].

* [[Amateur Sleuth]]: Annie draws a reluctant Jeff into her investigation of Professor Professorson

* [[Author Avatar]]: In-universe - Dean Dangerous, the hero of Dean Pelton's "Time Desk."

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Annie, although it's really {{spoiler|all part of the conspiracy she and Jeff concocted}}.

* [[Call Back]]: One of the courses on the Night School curriculum is Theoretical Phys-Ed, a Call Back to a course mentioned in the earlier episode Basic Rocket Science

** Troy and Abed's fort includes a Memorial to Pierce's mother.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The Dean's book, "Dean Dangerous".

* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]

* [[Drama Club]]: {{spoiler|Sean Garrity is the drama professor, and is drawn into the ruse because he offered to pay Dean Pelton in acting.}}

* [[External Combustion]]: Parodied by playing it entirely straight, but for the fact that it's a tiny electric car in Annie's diorama.

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: [[Exaggerated Trope|Played up]] ''ad absurdum''.

** Annie and Dean Pelton were trying to teach Jeff a lesson about laziness.

** While Jeff and Annie were teaching Pelton that if you conspire with everyone you're [[Pinball Protagonist|really just doing random crap]].

** While {{spoiler|the drama professor and security guard were teaching them all not to play with prop guns.}}

* [[A God Am I]]: One of Jeff's theories for how a professor he made up could appear out of nowhere before him, Annie and the Dean: "I've ignored the signs for too long."

* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: Dean Pelton is writing a time travel novel, The Chronicles of Dean Dangerous. From what we hear of it, it's made of this trope.

* [[High School Hustler]]: Jeff making up an imaginary class to get unearned credits would make Ferris Bueller proud. But he's put to shame by "Professor Professorson"'s fake class, teacher, and ''entire night school''... {{spoiler|Or he would have been if any of that were true.}}

* [[Homoerotic Dream]]: Dean Pelton apparently has some bizarre ones about Jeff

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: The cop who decides to give a lesson about the dangers of using fake guns...with a fake gun.

** Also Britta, who sneers at Troy and Abed's invitation to join them in their blanket fort... only to be later seen hanging out in said blanket fort (albeit in a rather strange and pretentious part of it) once it's grown in size and popularity.

* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: Dean Pelton's reason for {{spoiler|conspiring with anyone who offers}}

* [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue]]:

'''Dean Pelton:''' ''(entering)'' Hello! }}

* [[Informed Judaism]]: Professor Professorson "My family name was Professorberg but we changed it when we were fleeing from the Nazis." Although actually {{spoiler|his real name is Sean Garrity}}

* [[Insult Backfire]]: The Dean is oddly proud of being too stupid to plan a [[The Plan|gambit]].

* [[Large Ham]]: Professor Professorson / Woolley / Garrity, when revealing his true scheme. Then again, to be fair to the guy look at the dialogue he's been given, {{spoiler|all taken from Dean Pelton's unpublished novel}}:

Would that this desk were a time desk, that I might correct my past mistakes... ride dinosaurs... fight with [[Jack the Ripper]]... }}

* [[Logic Bomb]]: A dioramarama including a diorama about a world ''without dioramas''.

* [[Love Confession]]: {{spoiler|Annie to Jeff.}}

* [[Mad Libs Catchphrase]]: "Would that this desk were a time desk," later changed by the Dean to "Would that this hoodie were a time hoodie."

* [[Real Joke Name]]: Played with using "Professor Professorson.

'''"Professor Professorson":''' My family name was Professorburg, but we changed it when we were fleeing from the Nazis. }}

** Of course, it does in fact turn out to be a made up name.

* [[Repeat Cut]]: For...a slot car sparking a bit.

* [[Rule of Funny]]: * [[Beyond the Impossible]]: Troy and Abed's fort. It has a memorial wing dedicated to Pierce's mother, a Turkish District, a weird sex club, and ...

'''Troy:''' Latvian Independence Parade. [[[Beat]]] Don't look at me, they had the proper permits. }}

* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: As with anything, Annie demonstrates that when she wants to be sarcastic, she's a complete overachiever:

'''Annie:''' Blee-bloo-bluh-bluh-blah-blee-bloo-bluh-bluhhhherr. }}

* [[Ship Tease]]: Jeff/Annie {{spoiler|the tackle, Annie's confession, and the very end when the Fluffytown starts to collapse.}}

* [[Shocking Swerve]]: About five in the space of two minutes.

* [[Significant Reference Date]]: November 18, 2010 (Latvian Independence Day).

* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: Jeff recognises that only the Dean could possibly have written Garrity's ridiculous lines.

* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]:

'''Troy:''' Get outta my brain. }}

* [[Stalker Shrine]]: Or scrapbook, as it were

* [[There Are No Coincidences]]

* [[Troubled Fetal Position]]: Dean Pelton, in the study room. by the end of the {{spoiler|fake shootout}}

** The chase scene through Troy and Abed's fort.

 

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