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== The ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' episode "Competitive Ecology" provides examples of: ==
== The ''[[Community]]'' episode "Competitive Ecology" provides examples of: ==
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]/[[Broken Aesop]]: What made the study group fall into infighting so quickly? [[Sarcasm Mode|The introduction of Todd, of course]]! (This might have a thin piece of justification; given how delicate the balance of interaction between the group's members is, it's hardly surprising that the introduction of an outside element would throw off that balance.) Also, apparently Jeff decided to get a new phone since Biology 101
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]/[[Broken Aesop]]: What made the study group fall into infighting so quickly? [[Sarcasm Mode|The introduction of Todd, of course]]! (This might have a thin piece of justification; given how delicate the balance of interaction between the group's members is, it's hardly surprising that the introduction of an outside element would throw off that balance.) Also, apparently Jeff decided to get a new phone since Biology 101
** It should be noted that the group's pairs had already started fighting with each other, before the matter of Todd was even introduced to them.
** It should be noted that the group's pairs had already started fighting with each other, before the matter of Todd was even introduced to them.
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{{quote| '''Britta:''' Haha! Gotcha! This was also a test, and you all penised. ...''Passed.''}}
{{quote| '''Britta:''' Haha! Gotcha! This was also a test, and you all penised. ...''Passed.''}}
* [[Freud Was Right]]: In [[The Tag]], Britta gives everyone a basic multiple choice psychological evaluation. Troy fills his bubbles to shape a pair of boobs. Britta mistakes all the other sheets for penises.
* [[Freud Was Right]]: In [[The Tag]], Britta gives everyone a basic multiple choice psychological evaluation. Troy fills his bubbles to shape a pair of boobs. Britta mistakes all the other sheets for penises.
* [[Going By the Matchbook]]: Chang tries to force this trope with disastrous results.
* [[Going by the Matchbook]]: Chang tries to force this trope with disastrous results.
* [[Good Old Ways]]: Kane's monologue on how Legos have changed while he was inside.
* [[Good Old Ways]]: Kane's monologue on how Legos have changed while he was inside.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Todd has a wife, a baby girl, a promise to his dead father to graduate from college, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|diabetes]], and had fought in Iraq.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Todd has a wife, a baby girl, a promise to his dead father to graduate from college, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|diabetes]], and had fought in Iraq.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Todd is able to keep cool all night while the group squabbles and gets more and more insane. {{spoiler|He finally snaps and tells them exactly what he thinks of them before leaving.}} Given his backstory, he is probably the most stable and sane character on the show so far.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Todd is able to keep cool all night while the group squabbles and gets more and more insane. {{spoiler|He finally snaps and tells them exactly what he thinks of them before leaving.}} Given his backstory, he is probably the most stable and sane character on the show so far.
** Also the Head Security Officer, pointing out that Chang is probably mentally ill (and "it's not even funny"), the Dean is enabling him and [[Genre Savvy|that this ''cannot'' possibly end well]].
** Also the Head Security Officer, pointing out that Chang is probably mentally ill (and "it's not even funny"), the Dean is enabling him and [[Genre Savvy|that this ''cannot'' possibly end well]].
* [[Out of Order]]: Shirley recognizing Britta's marajuana lighter and Pierce revealing he had sex with Eartha Kitt both refer to events in alternative timelines of the next episode to air "[[Community (TV)/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]]". This introduces a little [[Fridge Logic]] when you remember that the events that allowed both of these things to happen never happened in the 'real' timeline of the previous episode, but both can be easily explained as having happened differently at some point between episodes anyway. Or, if you prefer more of a [[Mind Screw]], the [[Word of God]]-debunked [[Epileptic Trees|but still popular]] theory that what we think is the 'real' timeline isn't the ''real'' timeline...
* [[Out of Order]]: Shirley recognizing Britta's marajuana lighter and Pierce revealing he had sex with Eartha Kitt both refer to events in alternative timelines of the next episode to air "[[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]]". This introduces a little [[Fridge Logic]] when you remember that the events that allowed both of these things to happen never happened in the 'real' timeline of the previous episode, but both can be easily explained as having happened differently at some point between episodes anyway. Or, if you prefer more of a [[Mind Screw]], the [[Word of God]]-debunked [[Epileptic Trees|but still popular]] theory that what we think is the 'real' timeline isn't the ''real'' timeline...
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Todd. No offense.
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Todd. No offense.
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Done by Chang throughout. The Dean joins in toward the end, but they monologue simultaneously and drown each other out.
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Done by Chang throughout. The Dean joins in toward the end, but they monologue simultaneously and drown each other out.
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