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* [[Acceptable Professional Targets]]: In the pilot, as soon as everyone learns Jeff's a lawyer, they groan in disgust.

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Why is old guy Leonard always acting so coarse and wild? He's living the young teen college experience he never got to have ([[Stalag 17|being in a POW camp and all]]).

** This may have just become a [[Sure Why Not]] as of [[Community/Recap/S2 E24 For a Few Paintballs More|For A Few Paintballs More]]. Leonard confides in Britta he has been in several wars.

** This may have just become a [[Sure Why Not]] as of [[Community/Recap/S2/E24 For a Few Paintballs More|For A Few Paintballs More]]. Leonard confides in Britta he has been in several wars.

** The characters themselves go back-and-forth over whether Pierce is an inherent, fundamental and completely irredeemable [[Jerkass]] or whether he's just a lonely but socially inept old man who just wants to make friends but has no clue how, and merely ends up lashing out whenever his overtures are rejected.

** Abed; [[Lovable Nerd]] [[The Woobie|Woobie]] with numerous psychological and emotional problems who uses pop culture as a way of trying to connect to people, or [[Manipulative Bastard]] who enjoys pulling strings to get people into trouble that resembles his favourite movies and TV shows?

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* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: Invoked, like most tropes. "HAT CLUB!"

* [[Complete Monster]]:

** {{spoiler|Pierce}} was borderline becoming one during most of Season 2, with [[Community/Recap/S2 E14 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] being a prime example of how far he was willing to go in ruining the Study Group's lives, even harassing "Fat" Neil.

** {{spoiler|Pierce}} was borderline becoming one during most of Season 2, with [[Community/Recap/S2/E14 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] being a prime example of how far he was willing to go in ruining the Study Group's lives, even harassing "Fat" Neil.

** Chang becomes one in season three with his plot to take over the school and turn it into a dictatorship with him as the head. That would be bad enough but his methods include kidnapping the Dean, expelling the study group, trying to get them think they are insane and then planning on burning down the school, killing everyone to cover up his scam (though that was because he thought [[Too Dumb to Live|fire couldn't pass through doors]]).

* [[Creator's Pet]]: Rich, to Jeff.

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** How much do some fans prefer this couple you may ask? Enough to vote them [http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b229149_tvs_top_couples_2011_winner.html TV's Top Couples 2011] despite the fact they are not a canon couple.

** Abed and Annie also have a vocal fandom that seems to be growing. It helps that the character's actors, Alison Brie and Danny Pudi, ship it themselves.

* [[Foe Yay]]: Between the deans of Greendale and City. Laid on pretty thick in [[Community/Recap/S2 E04 Basic Rocket Science|"Basic Rocket Science"]].

* [[Foe Yay]]: Between the deans of Greendale and City. Laid on pretty thick in [[Community/Recap/S2/E04 Basic Rocket Science|"Basic Rocket Science"]].

** And again in "For A Few Paintballs More".

* [[Friendly Fandoms]]: Lets just say that ''[[Inspector Spacetime]]'' was very well received by both ''[[Community]]'' fans and ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans.

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* [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming]]: Indyshipping, for Annie/Abed, based on the gift Annie got for Abed in Intro to Psychology.

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]:

** Pierce, lately. While he is unquestionably a jerkass, it's also made quite clear that he's desperately lonely and needy; it is possible to feel sorry for him at times. [[Community/Recap/S2 E14 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons|The study group does.]]

** Pierce, lately. While he is unquestionably a jerkass, it's also made quite clear that he's desperately lonely and needy; it is possible to feel sorry for him at times. [[Community/Recap/S2/E14 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons|The study group does.]]

** Chang, in season two. See [[The Woobie]] below.

** The eldery gang of hooligans, the Hipsters, from "Messanic Myths and Filmaking". {{spoiler|After the car stealing incident, no one's family was willing to bail them out of holding}}. Simply put, No one wants to be near them because they're assholes but they're assholes because no one wants to be around them.

** Season 3 seems to be casting Jeff in this role.

* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Annie/Abed. Annie/Jeff. Annie/Troy. Annie/Señor Chang. Annie/Britta. Annie/Professor Duncan. Notice anything all those pairings have in common?

** It's quite telling that even discounting [[Community/Recap/S1 E15 Romantic Expressionism|Romantic Expressionism]] (see Crack Pairing on the main page), Annie has been shipped IN SHOW with every member of the study group except for Pierce (who has explicitly stated that Annie is his favorite)and Shirley. It's canon that Annie had a crush on Troy in high school and for the first half of the first season, Annie and Jeff kiss in [[Community/Recap/S1 E09 Debate 109|Debate 109]] and [[Community/Recap/S1 E25 ~~Pascals~~ Triangle Revisited|Pascal's Triangle Revisited]], Annie and Abed ([[It Makes Sense in Context|as Han Solo]]) kiss in [[Community/Recap/S2 E24 For a Few Paintballs More|For a Few Paintballs More]], and Annie [[It Makes Sense in Context|starts to go in for a kiss with Britta]] in [[Community/Recap/S2 E15 Early 21st Century Romanticism|Early 21st Century Romanticism]]. And this for a girl they say they try not sexualize too much.

** It's quite telling that even discounting [[Community/Recap/S1/E15 Romantic Expressionism|Romantic Expressionism]] (see Crack Pairing on the main page), Annie has been shipped IN SHOW with every member of the study group except for Pierce (who has explicitly stated that Annie is his favorite)and Shirley. It's canon that Annie had a crush on Troy in high school and for the first half of the first season, Annie and Jeff kiss in [[Community/Recap/S1/E09 Debate 109|Debate 109]] and [[Community/Recap/S1/E25 Pascal's Triangle Revisited|Pascal's Triangle Revisited]], Annie and Abed ([[It Makes Sense in Context|as Han Solo]]) kiss in [[Community/Recap/S2/E24 For a Few Paintballs More|For a Few Paintballs More]], and Annie [[It Makes Sense in Context|starts to go in for a kiss with Britta]] in [[Community/Recap/S2/E15 Early 21st Century Romanticism|Early 21st Century Romanticism]]. And this for a girl they say they try not sexualize too much.

*** They said they ''try''. They never said they succeeded.

* [[Love It or Hate It]]: "[[Community/Recap/S3 E16 Virtual Systems Analysis|Virtual Systems Analysis]]" seems to have about evenly split the ''[[Community]]'' audience (or the fandom at least) into two camps; one of which thinks it's possibly the best thing ever, and the other which hates it with the fiery intensity of a supernova.

* [[Love It or Hate It]]: "[[Community/Recap/S3/E16 Virtual Systems Analysis|Virtual Systems Analysis]]" seems to have about evenly split the ''[[Community]]'' audience (or the fandom at least) into two camps; one of which thinks it's possibly the best thing ever, and the other which hates it with the fiery intensity of a supernova.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]:

** "I have the weirdest boner."

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* [[Too Good to Last]]: Subverted? Ratings for the show, weren't that great begin with, tanked in the third season, and NBC put it on hiatus for several months. However, since it just got its fourth season, perhaps this is now subverted?

** Maybe double-plus unsubverted, since season 4 will be only 13 episodes long, run in the [[Friday Night Death Slot]], and be without Dan Harmon at the helm. More than one commenter has opined that the Darkest Timeline has indeed come to pass.

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The stop-motion figures in [[Community/Recap/S2 E11 ~~Abeds~~ Uncontrollable Christmas|"Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas."]] Britta's is especially bad. Hilariously, the normally expressionless Abed looked the most human.

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The stop-motion figures in [[Community/Recap/S2/E11 Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas|"Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas."]] Britta's is especially bad. Hilariously, the normally expressionless Abed looked the most human.

** Possible [[Fridge Brilliance]] as we see all the events through Abed's perspective, and he's experiencing a mental breakdown throughout the episode.

** Annie's {{spoiler|werewolf transformation}} in her scary story from [[Community/Recap/S3 E05 Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps|"Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps"]]

** Annie's {{spoiler|werewolf transformation}} in her scary story from [[Community/Recap/S3/E05 Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps|"Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps"]]

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]:

** In "English as a Second Language", people are convincing [[Token Minority|Troy]] to be a plumber instead of staying in school. Played for laughs as usual.

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*** Buddhist troper here to say that no part of Pierce's religion has been even vaguely accurate. And we tend not to use the swastika in the west. It's really, really, ''really'' not worth it. That symbol has been [[Ruined FOREVER]].

*** Though Pierce uses the term Buddha, the religion is really more of a parody of Scientology. Considering the amount of flak said religion can rain down, it's perhaps understandable that the show tried to cover it up with something so absurdly inaccurate that most people would know it's wrong.

** The portrayal of the homosexual community in "[[Community/Recap/S3 E06 Advanced Gay|Advanced Gay]]" has been met with some criticism. [[Dan Harmon]] [http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/12377752020/mea-culpa-for-those-needing-one-onward-and-gayward admitted] that a few of the concerns were actually pretty valid and apologized, promising to be more aware of the issue in the future.

** The portrayal of the homosexual community in "[[Community/Recap/S3/E06 Advanced Gay|Advanced Gay]]" has been met with some criticism. [[Dan Harmon]] [http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/12377752020/mea-culpa-for-those-needing-one-onward-and-gayward admitted] that a few of the concerns were actually pretty valid and apologized, promising to be more aware of the issue in the future.

* [[Unpopular Popular Character]]:

** Pierce and Chang. Both are often barely tolerated by the rest of the group, but they're popular characters with the fans.