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** In the third timeline, after Troy catches Britta smoking a joint, he pulls out a cigarette case, opens it, takes out what looks like a joint and holds it to his mouth. It turned out to be a candy cigarette.
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Evil Abed makes felt fake goatees for everyone until they can grow their own
* [[Berserk Button]]: Played for laughs; while everyone else more-or-less laughs off the fact that Jeff was manipulating them in order that he wouldn't have to get the pizza and considers making him go down for them a fitting punishment, Pierce seems genuinely offended and outraged by it.
* [[Big No]]: Troy upon seeing the troll standing amid the chaos of Timeline 5. [http://youtu.be/2IxURn_63_I The reasons have to be seen to be seen to be believed.]
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: One way to interpret the last timeline. The last thing we see is Jeff obliviously smiling, unaware that it is because of his absence that the group got the happiest timeline. All the while hinting that he may become the new [[Big Bad|Pierce]] for this season.
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'''Jeff:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|Of]] ''[[Sarcasm Mode|course]]'' [[Sarcasm Mode|I am, Abed.]]<br />
''[Throws the dice; creates a new timeline.]'' }}
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Timeline 5 as it gets incredibly dark by the end. But this is [[Played for Laughs]] as it has [[Refuge in Audacity]]. Also, since it's an alternate timeline, as far as we can know it never happened.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]
** Literally, Annie's gun which is shown off in one time line (in the first act) only to go off in another (in the third act).
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** In five of the six first timelines, Jeff stops Britta from singing "Roxanne". In the timeline without Jeff, it proves to be the source of a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Several of them such as in the tag where {{spoiler|Shirley becomes an alcoholic again and Annie goes to a mental ward after a nervous breakdown, not unlike her addiction to pills back in high school}}
** In the tag, Regular!Troy and Abed are watching [[Inspector Spacetime]], introduced in [[Community/Recap/S3
** The flag that the study group designed for Greendale in [[Community/Recap/S2
** The refrigerator resembles [[Community/Recap/S2
** Among the apartment's decor is a movie poster for Kickpuncher Detroit.
** Abed's "suggestive eyebrows" make a reappearance.
** Annie is described as a good nurse, a phrase used in "[[Community/Recap/S2
* [[Critical Failure]]: Abed calls attention to that fact that {{spoiler|the dark timeline came about because Jeff rolled a 1}}.
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: The real timeline, where everyone (excluding Jeff and Pierce) ends up dancing to the Police's "Roxanne."
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'''Britta:''' "Exactly! Life got '''dark'''!" }}
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: All based on a dice roll.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: In the tag, Regular!Troy and Abed are watching [[Inspector Spacetime]], introduced in [[Community/Recap/S3
* [[Gilligan Cut]]
{{quote|'''Jeff:''' Abed, there are no other timelines!
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'''Pierce:''' More like a mental-
'''Jeff:''' BAKEdown, I know, I didn't say it on purpose. }}
* [[In Spite of a Nail]]: See "[[Out of Order]]" on [[Community/Recap/S3
* [[Irony]]: In Timeline 5, Troy rushes out of the room to get the pizzas in order to ensure he doesn't miss anything. He not only consequently goes on to miss [[Disaster Dominoes|the most chaotic, action-filled and destructive of all seven times]], but in rushing out the door he accidentally triggers Abed's ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' [[Raiders of the Lost Ark|boulder model]], which initiates the entire [[Disaster Dominoes]] process. He is thus directly responsible for everything he ended up missing directly because of his eagerness not to miss anything.
** In six of the seven timelines, Pierce latches on to any feeble pretext to bring up the story of the time he had sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom, justifying it by claiming a natural opening appeared in the conversation. In the seventh timeline, a natural opening ''does'' actually appear when Troy compares Jeff to an airplane bathroom -- but Pierce is cut off before he can reveal the story and doesn't get another chance.
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* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: In the final scene, Abed in the prime timeline, while watching TV with Troy, somehow senses the birth of "Evil Troy" and "Evil Abed" in the "dark timeline". Abed doesn't know what the feeling is though and dismisses it as "nothing".
* [[Narrator]]/AlternateCharacterInterpretation
** It's fair to assume that each roll of the dice is Abed playing out each scenario in his head. Each moment is exactly what ''would'' happen when every person's number came up as [[Community/Recap/S1
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: [[In-Universe]], Pierce's Norwegian troll doll which literally gave Troy nightmares when it was placed outside his bedroom at Pierce's. May cause this for some viewers in [[Real Life]] too! [http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6242732771_23fd8423d4_z.jpg See for yourself.]
** Abed's attempt at a smile, which looks more like barely restrained murderous rage.
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** It probably didn't help that at the time, {{spoiler|the apartment was on fire, and he was obviously the one who'd be least likely to escape it. Crosses into [[Fridge Horror]] over how exactly he died.}}
** Alternate possibility: {{spoiler|Pierce appears to be bleeding from his upper leg, so the bullet may have hit his femoral artery which would cause him to bleed out very quickly.}}
* [[Out of Order]]: With the previously aired episode "[[Community/Recap/S3
** The first line of the episode and the apartment number was [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]] / [[Lampshade Hanging]] about this episode being switched with the previous one.
* [[The Pratfall]]: Annie pulls a magnificent off one that would have made Pierce proud. That is if she hadn't accidentally shot him while doing it.
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* [[Sarcasm Mode]]:
{{quote|'''Jeff:''' Of ''course'' I am, Abed.}}
* [[
* [[Ship Tease]]: Troy and Britta have a heart-to-heart in the bathroom, Jeff/Annie have moments in almost all of the timelines and {{spoiler|make out}} in one, and Jeff/Annie, Jeff/Britta, Britta/Troy and Troy/Abed share googly eyes. The apparent offer for Annie to move in with Abed and Troy also helps the chances of Abed/Annie and Annie/Troy happening in the future. Also, everything to do with Troy and Abed's apartment is awash with [[Ho Yay]].
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The song "Roxanne" by [[The Police]] (which plays on an iPod speaker in six of the seven timelines) becomes this in Timeline 5 during the chaos that erupts with Pierce being shot and the apartment catching on fire.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Abed has a model of the boulder scene from ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''.
* [[Squick]]: Jeff is greatly turned off when Annie tells him that his protective instinct reminds her of her father.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: In the Prime timeline all the conflict, [[Ship Tease]] and [[Character Development]] of the other timelines is avoided.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: In the first timeline, we discover that [[Annie Get Your Gun|Annie keeps a gun]]. This is also a [[Brick Joke]], because we learned in last season's episode "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design", that Annie carries a gun due to her apartment's neighborhood being dangerous.
** One of the sources of tension throughout the episode is what is described as Shirley's baking problem. In several of the timelines, Britta also has a bit of a problem with [[The Stoner|getting baked]].
* [[Super Reflexes]]: Abed catching the die in midair is much more impressive when you consider that he did it after coming to the conclusion that the group shouldn't fight against the chaos of the universe, and that Jeff was manipulating them so he wouldn't have to get the pizza. And he had roughly 3 seconds to come to these revelations.
* [[Take a Third Option|Take Another Option]]: In the 'true' timeline, Abed grabs the die before it hits the table, noting that A: too much of their lives is run by fate already and B: Jeff is a [[Magnificent Bastard|conniving son of a bitch]] for using a method that ensures he'll never have to get the pizza.
* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] / [[Anachronic Order]]: [http://totalmachismo.tumblr.com/post/11456096409/community-304-remedial-chaos-theory-big-spoiler This particular theory]{{Dead link}}.
** [[Word of God]] [http://twitter.com/#!/danharmon/status/124993322119999488 says] [http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/11469117959/fine-were-geniuses-but-not-evil-geniuses no,] but it's a neat idea nonetheless.
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