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{{quote| '''Pierce:''' Never wear a rubber.<br />
'''Jeff:''' Never listen to Pierce. }}
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: If Troy joins the AC Repair School, he will be forced to move out of the apartment, cut off from his friends, be unable to have a relationship and, for some unknown reason, will not be permitted to use the word 'sensational'.
* [[Blackface]]: Well, more like "tan face". Pierce uses either make-up or a lot of bronzer to darken his face for the swami costume.
* [[Binocular Shot]]: "They're like telephones for your eyes."
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* [[Character Development]]: Another glimpse of how far Jeff has come; when presented with an option that would easily enable them to enter Greendale to stop Chang but would mean forcing Troy to join the Air Conditioning Repair Annex, Jeff immediately rejects the easy option (something that would have been unthinkable a few years ago) and agrees with everyone to plan an elaborate heist and possibly risk jail if they get caught rather than risk losing Troy.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]
{{quote| '''Troy:''' (''after Chang tells his entire [[Evil Plan]]'') Chang, [[You're Insane!|you're insane]]. [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Heinous?|You're still into keytar]]?}}
** Also, earlier, when Officer Cackowski scoffs at their claim that the Dean has been replaced by a 'Deanelganger'.
{{quote| '''Jeff:''' Well, when you say it that way, it sounds ridiculous.<br />
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* [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like]]: Dean Pelton had his hopes up that Jeff would be the one to personally rescue him, and is less than thrilled when it is Britta.
* [[Distracted By the Sexy]]: [[Dirty Old Man|Pierce]] immediately suggests Britta and Annie do this to divert the guards when Shirley points out that [[We Need a Distraction]], much to their disgust. Although considering the guards [[Jerkass Has a Point|they're trying to distract are twelve-year-old boys...]]
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
{{quote| '''Board member''': Only a matter of time until everyone finds out what happened here. Nobody can sit on something this big.<br />
'''The Dean''': ''I'll'' sit on it. When I became dean, I made a pledge to swallow this school's failures and spit out degrees, because that's. What. Deans. Do. }}
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** Sadly, {{spoiler|Chang turns out to be this too, as he anticipated that they were going to try to pull this and ends up stopping their real plan}}.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Troy agrees to join the Air-conditioning Repair School.}}
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Guy]]: Chang's chief lieutenant Joshua is the fireworks obsessed kid from ''[[Super Eight|Super 8]]''.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: The Doppel Dean has a wife, turns out.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Troy completes his bargain {{spoiler|with the AC Repair School}} despite the personal cost because "A man's only as good as his word. [[Metaphorgotten|Or his nod through a camera to a guy with a button.]]"
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* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]}}: {{spoiler|Chang doesn't get any comeuppance, despite keeping the dean held prisoner and nearly burning the school down. Although the next episode apparently subverts this, since Chang is revealed to be living in the City College air-vents, suggesting he at the very least lost his job and is no longer welcome at Greendale}}.
* [[The Ladys Favor]]: {{spoiler|Britta gives Troy a lock of her hair when he leaves to join the AC Repair School.}}
* [[Laser -Guided Karma]]: The Changlorious Bastards suffer this when the study group get the upper-hand against them, as they're subjected to various indignities common to childhood pranking (stuck in a room suddenly plunged into the dark, menaced by bigger people, getting [[Stuffed Into a Locker]], etc). Considering that in their appearances to this point they've basically been acting like insufferable [[Drunk With Power|power-mad]] little [[Bratty Half Pint|brats]], it's rather fitting.
* [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]: Chang is dressed like him for his birthday party.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Jeff is disguised as Ricky Nightshade, a rock 'n' roll magician with obvious overtones of [[Criss Angel Mindfreak|Criss Angel]].
* [[Non -Fatal Explosions]]: Annie tries to discuss, but apparently, Chang has no idea how fire works.
{{quote| '''Annie''': You're going to burn down the school and kill everyone!<br />
'''Chang''': Fire can't go through doors; it's not a ghost. }}
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** Abed exaggerates that flooded bathroom will turn the party into ''[[The Poseidon Adventure]]''.
** Chang's keytar solo begins with "[[Beverly Hills Cop (Film)|Axel F]]."
** Jeff and Chang face off with [[Colour -Coded for Your Convenience|color-coded]] stun batons; Chang's is red and double-sided like [[The Phantom Menace (Film)|Darth Maul]]'s.
** The moustaches Troy and Abed wear as part of their disguises as plumbers are very similar to those worn by [[Super Mario Bros|a couple of Italian sibling plumbers who star in a series of video games you may have heard of.]]
*** This is a very subtle one, but also, their name tags say "Barry" and "Rod". Or, you know, [[Gene Roddenberry|Rod and Barry]].
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* [[We Need a Distraction]]: Used word-for-word by Shirley. [[Dirty Old Man|Pierce being Pierce]], he immediately suggests Annie and Britta employ [[Distracted By the Sexy]] on the guards.
* [[Wham Episode]]: As a result of the [[Heroic Sacrifice]], {{spoiler|Troy completes his deal with the AC repair group and has to leave the group to go the AC repair school.}}
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?]]
{{quote| '''Chang''': You think they'll believe the Greendale Seven and the worst dean ever over the guy who just ''nailed'' an awesome solo?}}
* [[Wimp Fight]]: The Dean versus Faux-by.
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