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** The Jeff/Annie and Pierce/Abed slow-mo montages are parodies of shipping music fan-videos which take particular moments and exaggerate their romantic meaning to imply a relationship between the characters, and one [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsBvqDwVqwc specific Jeff/Annie fan-vid in particular]. Dan Harmon, however, contacted the creator in advance to alert them of the 'treat' in the episode for her, and [[Word of God|has insisted]] that it was meant affectionately, not maliciously.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Played straight; Chang crawls through the ducts to retrieve Annie's Boobs' stash. It should be noted that Chang is the smallest one of them and even so he had to apply a thick layer of Vaseline.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: “The truth is, it’s been a dark year. Pierce got hooked on painkillers, Shirley’s having an unplanned baby and, apparently, Chang is in the group now.”
* [[Art Shift]]:
** {{spoiler|Abed catching Britta and Jeff having sex}} from the period of "[[Community (TV)/Recap/S2 E11 Abeds Uncontrollable Christmas|Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas]]".
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** Jeff asks Chang how many vents he is going to crawl out this year. Chang crawled out of an air vent in a police station in [[Community (TV)/Recap/S2 E18 Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy|Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy]].
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Troy points out that this year has been darker, with Pierce getting addicted to drugs, Shirley having an unplanned pregnancy and Abed having a mental breakdown. Not to mention the obvious [[Noodle Incident|Glee Club bus crash and being attacked by a racist prospector in a]] [[Ghost Town]].
** "[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|...and apparently, Chang is in the group now?]]"
* [[Clip Show]]: Spoofed -- the setup is all there, but the episode is actually entirely original material, with the flashbacks either providing a new view on earlier episodes, or events we've never heard about before. The ending takes this to extremes -- the flashbacks start triggering flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks, provoking a near-mental breakdown in Troy. Furthermore, Jeff's final speech is composed entirely out of flashbacks.
* [[Complaining About Complaining]]:
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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Mega-Dean in the tag; upon Jeff being quite rude about his costume, he seems to think it perfectly appropriate to horrifically butcher the entire study group.
* [[Easter Egg]]: After the group leaves and Chang runs back in to share some memories, a Chang-doll can be seen standing outside the diorama of the study room.
* [[
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Greased-up Chang in a Speedo.
* [[Fan Service]]: A quick clip of both Jeff and Britta in their underwear during one of Abed's specific flashbacks.
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* [[Ho Yay]]: The montage of Pierce and Abed's "lingering looks."
* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Mega-Dean.
* [[The
* [[Larynx Dissonance]]: The Dean voices every character in his cartoon, so this shows up in full force for Britta's and Annie's single lines.
* [[Meta Guy]]: Abed is called out on this by Jeff when he starts triggering flashbacks in flashbacks in flashbacks about the arguments the group get into, causing Troy to nearly break-down.
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* [[My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That]]: Abed transcends reality and becomes the living embodiment of this trope.
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Chang
* [[
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Several of the flashbacks, most notably Jeff's final speech(es).
* [[Prospector]]: In the first flashback a shotgu n wielding one nearly shoots the study group.
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** An extended version of a scene from "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" had Jeff ask Britta if she wanted to have sex later, though creator Dan Harmon has said this was planned far enough in advance that it was animated along with the rest of the "Christmas" footage in 2010.
*** We also get to see an unseen part of the episode from the "real world" perspective.
* [[Ripped
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Jeff's tendency to do this is parodied with a speech at the end composed of flashbacks to fragments of other speeches inspired by the [[Noodle Incident|Noodle Incidents]] seen in the rest of the episode. The result is a confused, contradictory and glorious mess which nevertheless works perfectly as a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blRXuxb7b9k 'Jeff' speech].
* [[Shipping Goggles]]: Annie's montage shows that she has them on with regards to Jeff.
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{{quote| ''The study group climbs out of the lake with a flat raft''<br />
'''Troy:''' You can yell at me all you want, I’ve seen enough movies to know that popping the back of a raft makes it go faster! }}
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The group round on Jeff and Britta {{spoiler|when it's revealed they've been hooking up, breaking their promise at the beginning of the season to keep intimacy out of the group dynamic}}, calling them on their selfish actions. Turned around, however, when Jeff and Britta point out that the other members of the group aren't exactly without their own selfish and thoughtless tendencies either.
* [[Whole Episode Flashback]]: [[Lampshaded]] by the name of the episode itself.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]:
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