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Although I hope that this is not true, as this is a terrible prank to pull o loyal fans at the expense of gaining more, the continuing announcement of new guest stars and inclusion in NBC promotional materials, in addition to a return date still to be announced, the network has certainly raised awareness of the show to the public. The recent announcement of guest stars and the fact that a character is going to die in the show, still not revealed is the return date, coupled with social media buzz has created such an aura around the show that upon its return, new viewers will have heard so much about this show that ratings are sure to be much higher. This break has also allowed for die-hard fans of the show to convince their friends and family to become fans of the show through [[DV Ds]], DVR, and online viewings, as well as other people finding their way to the show through similar means. Thus NBC has used this ploy as a way of drawing more viewers. The old adage of "you want what you can't have" in relation to the show is going to draw in more people, including those who knew nothing of the show. While watching all of the episodes in the break, viewers will want more, and will thus be more inclined to watch the show as soon as they can. Therefore, NBC has purposefully undertaken this strategy for said means.
=== The idea for the Greendale Human Being's face came from [[Yume Nikki
* Possibly a practical joke by one of the students.
* And if you'd like to compare them, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJHux3Hda2c go ahead and check Uboa's face out]
=== All fans of Star Trek named Kevin have [[George Takei]]'s [[Funny Answering Machine]] message from [[Community
* It seemed pretty obvious but it will get out of hand soon.
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=== What Jeff's old lawyer buddy said about being the head of Jeff's old firm was a lie. ===
* [[Community
* My thesis is that Alan's claim that Ted was {{spoiler|eaten by sharks and thus no longer in charge of the firm}} was a lie. After all, Jeff would have been smart enough to--metaphorically--keep his ear to the ground and would have heard this news. But Alan couldn't just return to the law firm with his tail between his legs because he couldn't even beat Jeff Winger in mock court, so he concocted the story on the fly to convince Jeff to throw the case by appealing to his previous narcissism.
=== Robert Laybourne will be the [[Big Bad]] of Season 3, with Chang as his [[The Dragon|Dragon]]. ===
* Season 3 will end with Jeff graduating, recovering his law degree, and tricking Laybourne into readjusting the Greendale Charter to reinclude the A/C Repair Annex, putting the Dean back in charge.
** Alternately, Laybourne will conspire with City College's dean to completely oust Pelton.
=== Alternate theory: There will be a showdown between Dean Laybourne and Troy, and Chang will be a [[Spanner in
As a [[Manipulative Bastard]] and the true master of Greendale, Dean Laybourne will try every trick in the book, including trying to create a "spark" that will lead to that moment in the trailer where {{spoiler|the greendale 7 are expelled from the school. (temporarily)}} However, in a fit of psychotic control, Chang will somehow louse it up due to his desire to become the true master of Greendale. With his [[Child Soldier]] army, he will wage a private war against the Air conditioning for control over the puppeteer, leading to him destroying the Annex's power, bringing back the Greendale 7 and setting up season four with CHANG as [[Big Bad]], in a [[
=== Possible Third Season Homages: ===
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** Or more likely, a parody of three camera sitcoms in general.
* An ep about rebooting horror story characters and a fight of preboot vs reboot characters.
* An ep about the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
=== Britta will be the jerk of this season, like Pierce in season 2 ===
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=== Britta will have a relationship of some kind with Starburns. ===
I mean, come on, the pizza dude looks uncannily like him. That can't be coincidental. And with some of the relationships we've already gotten, or even the ones that have only been hinted, this one seems kinda tame, in comparison.
* Jossed/Confirmed {{spoiler|He's dead, as of [[Community
=== Abed will be the villain in the final season ===
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* And it will be Greendale Vs. The Air Conditioning Repair School.
** Alternately, Greendale invades City College as revenge, in an episode based on spy fiction tropes. Annie as a Bond Girl, anyone?
* Jossed. {{spoiler|Season Three's fake clip show, "[[Community
=== Senor Chang is going to join Jeff's Study Group. ===
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* Danny Pudi (Abed's actor) ''will'' be/''is'' in ''[[Knights Of Badassdom]]''. Of course, there's always the possibility that there [[Aint No Rule|Won't Be No Rule]] about wet-paint ''spells''/props...
* OR the Dean will attempt to have another event, but it just turns to paintball anyway.
* This is pretty much confirmed by [[Community
=== Shirley eventually is going to be chased by a werewolf. ===
* We did see one briefly when Jeff is playing pool against Coach Bogner in "[[Community
** In the commentary for "[[Community
=== There will be a power struggle between Jeff and Chang once Chang joins the group. ===
Let's face it, Chang loves being in control and using that control to make people pissed. No way he's going to lay back and let Jeff call the shots.
* He may attempt a coup but everyone would immediately back Jeff.
* Jossed.
=== Troy is going to become the [[Team Dad]]. ===
While he's not the most [[Book Smart]] member of the group, he's one of the more level headed and responsible. He gets major maturity points in his birthday episode. While a lot of his humor is childish, he has a sense of right and wrong and seems to be fairly dependable. In contrast, Jeff ends up being a victim of his vices a lot, and is a little more self-concerned.
** If not necessarily the [[Team Dad]], he's at least becoming the Hero. Along with the birthday episode, he led the group's space mission, and saved them all from becoming zombies.
=== The Air conditioning School has a particle accelerator. ===
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=== Troy is the chosen one who will unite air-conditioner repairmen and plumbers, and forge a new age of brotherhood between all maintenance workers. ===
* It's made obvious in the end of Advanced Gay that he is some sort of line walker with the powers of both groups, which is a good start if you're going to be a messiah.
** Partially Confirmed: As of [[Community
=== Jeff's father will be a plot line ===
* Specifically, it will be revealed that his father died in an accident barely a year after he left Jeff and his mom.
=== There will be at least one other episode based on something from "Paradigms of Human Memory" ===
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=== The show will use another fake [[Clip Show]] similiar to "Paradigm of Human Memory" to cover events that took place during the extended hiatus in Season 3. ===
* [[Community
=== If there's a fourth season, the study group will be working together for a History class. ===
* Since the existing seasons each had a central theme built around the class, as mentioned on the main page, I figure that the fourth one- which will likely be the final one before the characters graduate- will deal with them coming to terms with their past histories and development, not only during the series but before it as well.
=== Robert Laybourne has been replaced with his evil counterpart ===
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=== Troy and Abed will switch roles at some point (metaphorically speaking). ===
In the second half of the season, one of the undercurrents of tension between Troy and Abed is that Abed tends to be the one who leads and Troy is the one who follows, as represented by the fact that in their ''[[Inspector Spacetime]]'' role-play Abed is always the Inspector and Troy is always Constable Reggie. It would seem that a natural way to resolve this plot and demonstrate development between them and their friendship would be to present some circumstance whether they either had to or Abed was willing to surrender the role of the Inspector to Troy and to himself take on the role of the Constable.
== Past Plot ==
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The expression on his face when Jeff wants to see them is a dead give away. He lucked out that Britta wanted to help him.
=== In her timeline in "[[Community
* Probably more of an obvious implication than a real WMG, but it would explain why she decides to marry him and why he bugs out at Abed's mention of "other timelines."
** Either this, or they were both ''already'' high -- it's implied that Britta's a little high even before she goes into the bathroom, and everyone comments on how weird the pizza guy is -- and they bonded over how high they both were.
=== The entire episode "[[Community
Three pieces evidence for this.
* The prime timeline is the only timeline that Pierce is shown to not reveal during the housewarming party he had sex with Eartha Kitt in an airport once.
** In "[[Community
* Timeline 6 is the only timeline where Britta admits she is high to Shirley. Shirely appears to be genuinely unaware of Britta's drug usage before this.
** In "[[Community
* In "[[Community
Jossed by Dan Harmon himself, [http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/11469117959/fine-were-geniuses-but-not-evil-geniuses he ain't that evil.]
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It's part of the weird brainwashing-madness thing that seems to go down before people join the glee club; those who are not in the club can't hear anything, which is why the performance by the second glee club at the beginning had no soundtrack despite their elaborate song-and-dance routines (it was in ''their'' heads, but since our viewpoint characters weren't yet in the club, we couldn't hear them). When Abed is being conditioned, he is initially self-aware enough to question why he can hear a piano playing when there's clearly no one playing it, but is soon sucked in and forgets all about it. The other times we hear music are when someone conditioned into the club is conditioning someone else into it, so in reality there's either no music at all or we're hearing what the conditioned characters are hearing rather than what everyone else is hearing; for example, when Troy and Abed are singing "Baby Boomer Santa", they ''think'' the song sounds great, but since they're clearly not playing their instruments correctly there's either no sound at all or what sound there is sounds basically like a horrible, ill-played cacophony (explaining why the others look so horrified by what's happening). It's also partly why the music abruptly stopped when Britta came on stage in the pageant to do her routine -- everyone was so stunned by what was happening the effect was broken.
=== The revealed results of the psychological evaluations in "[[Community
Basing a diagnosis on a single self-report survey is most like going to be error prone, and the results the various study group members may all be false positives.
* Jeff's results are the easiest to explain he flat out admits to filling out the questionnaire randomly. He may exhibit signs of narcissism and possibly even sociopathy but his results on the evaluation can't really be used.
** He also does seem to have HUGE father issues, and he can get pretty violent (remember when Pierce bequeathed him his "father"?), but he remarks multiple times that he and Abed are the only sane ones.
** Jeff is also clearly established in a later episode to be in therapy, suggesting some issues at least. And let's face it, we can hardly rely on his own self-reporting when it comes to how 'sane' he is; he's not exactly going to come out and admit to it.
* Britta's results can be explained by her unknowingly messing up answering the questionnaire (i.e. she Britta'd it like always). She may have skipped a question or filled it a question twice getting the rest of her results out of order.
* Shirley's results can be explained by a simple social desirability bias. She answered the questionnaire as she believed an upright Christian fundamentalist is expected to behave and not on her own behavior.
** She also has thinly veiled rage issues, as demonstrated in many episodes. While she may have a bias, she's pretty violent when you really look at it.
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* Abed's results are also of questionable validity. Abed has been shown to have the uncanny ability to analyze a situation and anticipate the outcome. He could easily have filled in the results he recognized would give the needed outcome.
* Troy's results are the hardest to explain away by character quirks. It is possible he filled in the answers based on which he thought would be the funnest (he has previously said he wanted multiple personality disorder based on wanting to avoid boredom).
** Alternatively, he simply used the lozenges to draw funny patterns (he drew boobs one time), which distorted the results.
^While the above is certainly plausible in the case of the test itself, it's regardless quite clear from the rest of the series that we're hardly dealing with the most psychologically well-adjusted bunch of people here. The tests might not exactly be 100% accurate or foolproof, but they probably shouldn't be dismissed out-of-hand either since they are, at the very least, confirming what we should already know; that these people are ''frigging nuts'' -- not necessarily psychotically violent, of course, but still not exactly what you'd call 'entirely sane' either. Especially since a few of the above explanations still hint at some rather irrational (and at times unsettling) personality issues...
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=== Star-Burns's one-armed lawyer is Evil Jeff. ===
In "[[Community
== Character ==
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=== ''Abed'' is a [[Puppet Master]] ===
Think about it. He seems utterly content in himself, and as so is willing to change himself to help the group. He's [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]. He even states that he understands everyone perfectly and as such is willing to change himself in order for them to understand them to help. Abed knows exactly what he's doing all the time.
* Abed also notes in "Contemporary American Poultry" that it's vital to Jeff's ego that he be in charge of the group -- or, at least, ''believes'' himself to be in charge of the group.
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* ''Just'' a troper? My guess is he ''created'' [[TV Tropes]]. Maybe....
** Except he doesn't seem to be much of a 'Buffy' guy. I dunno.
** He and Troy once agreed to stage a suicide pact in order to get ''[[Firefly]]'' back on the air. Given the general respect given to his works by those around this parish, it's perhaps fair to say that Abed at least knows and respects the works of [[Joss Whedon]], even if he's not actually a fan.
=== Abed is God or a [[Reality Warper]] in the same sense as [[Suzumiya Haruhi]]. ===
Think about it. The reason nobody has powers is probably because Abed doesn't like those kinds of movies enough and values interesting situations more.
** In 'Messianic Myths and Ancient People', Abed's making a movie caused him to unconsciously tap into more of his own powers (again, like Haruhi). The difference being that in Abed's movie [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|the camera is God and the filmmaker is Jesus]], causing Abed to accidentally start [[A God Am I|turning himself into God]] to the point where he becomes aware of his own powers. He then realized that a [[Reality Warper]] making a movie about [[Recursive Reality]] will inevitably lead to a [[Divide
** Abed did bring four people into the study group...
** Or Jeff is a [[Reality Warper]]/God - he admitted as much in Conspiracy Theories and... Apparently what he wants (as Suzumiya wants the guy) is to learn things without having to admit to himself that he's learning....
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=== Abed knows that he is on a TV show. ===
* He doesn't compare TV Tropes to real life situations for lack of a better way to interact with the world. He does it because he knows that he is living in the one situation where they can helpfully be applied. Semi-confirmed in Contemporary Impressionists when he references "them"
** This explains why he's the only one who Britta's psychological tests declared sane: believing he lives in a tv show means that he perceives his reality more accurately than any of the other characters. Hell, at the end of ''Documentary Filmmaking Redux'', he even seems to be aware of the camera.
** Abed has also commented on the type of episode that the study group is currently a part of. For example, he refers to "Cooperative Calligraphy" as a bottle episode.
*** Then again, [[
** Abed asks Shirley if she wants to be in a spin off series with him, thinking they could open a hair salon.
** He says that since the last episode was Abed-heavy, he would lay low for an episode.
=== Rich was number 1 on the Dean's [[Community
If Jeff is only number 2, and he's eternally [[Always Someone Better|the guy who one-ups Jeff]], so...
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That person is the viewer.
* Ever wondered why there's always a seat free next to Jeff? That's the viewer's chair.
** And that's why nobody else can join the study group.
=== Abed is a [[Inspector Spacetime|Space Master]] ===
Which is [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|nothing at all like a]] [[Doctor Who
=== There is a bizarro study group. ===
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* The other many weird, wacky background characters of Community = The other many weird, wacky background characters of Scrubs
=== Or an [[Alternate Universe]] version of ''[[Star Trek:
* Dean = Picard
* Jeff = Riker
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* He didn't have any identity outside Black Rider. Seeing as Sawyer would likely be a celebrity after what has happened to him and his past career, I don't think if would be too far a stretch to say he would be traveling incognito.
=== Greendale is the #1 choice of college for graduates/drop-outs of [[Strangers
* Adding to the guess, Flatpoint was Dean Pelton's first job in education, likely a counselor.
=== It really IS Abed in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ2ScWMi1dA this T-Mobile commercial] ===
It takes place post-Greendale, the girl is his future girlfriend/wife, and he seems to be much more well adjusted here as a result of his experiences with the Study Group.
* This would not work as that model of phone in the above commercial was introduced c. 2007-8. It is often clearly stated that the world of ''[[
=== Pierce's religion is really an arm of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|SEELE]]. ===
In "The Psychology of Letting Go," he tells the anthro class that "When Buddha returns, we all take liquid form and merge into a shimmering ocean of knowledge--which, according to scripture, tastes like Hawaiian Punch." That's a pretty succinct description of the Instrumentality Project, spun to make it sound more appealing for social engineering purposes. The substitution of Hawaiian Punch for Tang is a cheap obfuscatory tactic by SEELE.
=== Joshua in "Aerodynamics of Gender" is [[Supernatural (TV series)|Joshua]] ===
He's a philosophizing gardener in a secret Paradisical place. God made him take a vessel on Earth to spread new gospel lessons.
** O_o Joshua is a neo-nazi?
=== Evil!Troy and Evil!Abed's timeline is the show's Earth-2 ===
The shout outs to [[Fringe]] in [[Community
=== Community and The Big Bang Theory exist in the same world ===
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=== Lukka (2x18) is a doll ===
A unknown organisation wanted to investigate Greendale so they hired the Dollhouse. Knowing that Greendale was a very strange college, they gave Victor an outlandish backstory and sent him in for the long haul (hence he's able to make friends with and date whoever he likes). After a while he was pulled out, hence he's not been seen since.
=== Annie is the granddaughter of [[Mad Men|Pete and Trudy Campbell]] ===
Per [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730035107/http://fucknojezebel.tumblr.com/post/21244440984/this-is-my-favorite-ever#notes this Jezebel comment]
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