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Following an extravagant re-marriage proposal from her ex-husband Andre, Shirley decides to put her plan to open a sandwich shop in the Greendale cafeteria on hold to instead concentrate on planning the wedding. Outraged at this example of Shirley putting her role as a traditional housewife over her career dreams, Britta insists that she and Annie plan the wedding while Shirley instead concentrates on her business pitch, with Pierce -- recently fired from Hawthorne Wipes upon the death of his father, and looking to start a business of his own -- providing the funding. However, this ends up backfiring when Britta suffers a crisis of identity upon discovering a hidden talent for arranging weddings.
Jeff, who has been asked to write a toast celebrating the happy couple, finds himself undergoing a crisis of his own when his cynicism about marriage and his failure to produce a speech ends up digging up old wounds. Troy and Abed, meanwhile, decide to purge their systems of 'weirdness' and become 'normal' for the ceremony.
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* [[Accidentally Accurate]]: The show generally does a pretty good job of including up-to-date topical references, so Britta's reference to "people dying in Uganda" would seem to be another instance of this in light of the media storm about [[wikipedia:Kony 2012|Kony 2012]] in the week the episode was aired, and which would be a natural thing for her to reference -- except that this episode was written and shot months before that particular story flared up, and it just happened to be pure coincidence (although, of course, the situation in Uganda had been bad well before "Kony 2012").
* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: an R&B a capella version, of course.
* [[Ascended Fanon]]: Danielle is [http://twitter.com/danharmon/status/181454861852868610 actually] Danielle Harmon the [[Community/Recap/S1
* [[Bored with Insanity]]: Troy and Abed get all their weirdness out in the Dreamatorium so they'll be perfectly normal for Shirley's wedding. Their idea of perfectly normal, anyway.
* [[Brand X]]: Annie's can of soda pop is unmistakably Sprite, but labeled generically as Soda.
* [[Call Back]]:
** Like in "[[Community/Recap/S2
*** Also from this episode, when injured by the 'trouser bench', Pierce begging "would someone please call all the ambulances?" reflects the Dean asking "would someone please get ''all'' the mops?" when Shirley's water breaks.
** Also, Annie hums the song "Daybreak" from Abed's horror story in "[[Community/Recap/S3
** A [[Take That]] is dealt to [[James Belushi|Jim Belushi]], as in "[[Community/Recap/S1
** This episode continues the theme of how Jeff's [[Disappeared Dad|dad walked out on him and his mother while Jeff was a kid]], and how this has ended up with Jeff being completely messed up as an adult, as seen in "[[Community/Recap/S2
** It also continues the theme of Pierce's issues with his own father.
{{quote|'''Pierce''': "Look at me now Dad!"}}
** Annie's Boobs makes an appearance.
** The way Abed attempts to be normal is reminiscent of "[[Community/Recap/S2
* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: Apparently, this is a major principle of floral-arrangement-designer-persons:
{{quote|'''Annie:''' What about pink?
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** Subverted with Jeff. Annie believes there's a real person in Jeff and he just needs to dig deep. Cut to a montage of images in his heart consisting of poker, women, cars, and alcohol. Possible Double Subversion, however, in that one of the only 'real' things that appear is [[Ship Tease|Annie]].
*** And [[Male Gaze|her boobs]].
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]:
** Jeff and Britta loudly dismiss the idea and institution of marriage before Shirley enters the room, only to immediately and loudly switch to praising Shirley as soon as she enters.
** Troy is also not particularly impressed by Shirley's demand that he and Abed act 'normal' at her wedding, since she's holding it in the study room:
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* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Pierce spends the first half of the episode dressed as Michael Douglas's character from the film ''[[Wall Street]]''.
** Troy and Abed mention a [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32
** Britta makes a ([[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure|"Britta'd"]]) reference to something called ''[[Hermann Hesse|The Steppenwolf]] [[The Stepford Wives|Wives]]''.
* [[Ship Tease]]: In the montage of images that represent everything in Jeff's 'heart', Annie pops up quite a lot. [[Male Gaze|As well as]] [[Buxom Is Better|her cleavage]] at one point.
* [[Sincerity Mode]]: Abed insists this after being Normalized.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]:
** Andre has some conflicts over Shirley being the breadwinner.
** Britta seems to view marriage as fundamentally this for women, leading to an alcohol-fueled breakdown when it turns out she's good at planning weddings.
* [[Take That]]: [[Community/Recap/S1
* [[Thief Bag]]: A drawing of the Dean holding one in each hand is used in Shirley and Pierce's slide presentation to him about opening a sandwich shop on campus.
{{quote|'''Dean Pelton:''' That's me! Where did I get all the money I'm holding?}}
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