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{{quote|''"Greendale Community College is represented by two separate yet equally important types of people; the goofballs that run around stirring up trouble, and the eggheads that make a big deal about it. These are their stories."'''}}

 

 

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** Jeff ordering a hot dog from Garrett's cart. The entire scene is set up like the numerous external shots of the characters wandering New York that pervade ''[[Law and Order]]''.

** Abed and Troy claim to hear a kitten meowing in Starburns' locker and therefore exigent circumstances.

** The sudden twist phone call just before the credits where they learn of {{spoiler|Starburns' death.}}

** Leslie Hendrix as the coroner.

** A scene with a disorganized filing room.

** A big celebrity guest star as the defense attorney (in this case, it's [[Michael Ironside]], [[Type Cast]] as a military officer).

** Annie's tactics during the trial were vicious and unethical. Jeff of all people calls her out on it and points out that in her desire to win she stopped caring about finding out the truth.

** The defense attorney wasn't much better, taking the opportunity to slander the absent Starburns as a "Holocaust-denying 9/11 pedophile."

* [[Black Boss Lady]]: Shirley takes on this role due to [[Genre Savvy]] status from watching police procedurals, acting as a virtual [[Expy]] of ''L&O'''s Lt. Anita Van Buren.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: Star-Burns claiming that he had simply found that backpack, despite being seen by both Troy and Abed stealing it off a table.

* [[Call Back]]:

** The title contains black and white stills of events from previous episodes such as the food fight, [[Community/Recap/S3 E02 Geography of Global Conflict|the Model UN]], [[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Annie's handgun]], [[Community/Recap/S1 E23 Modern Warfare|a desolate campus]], [[Community/Recap/S3 E03 Competitive Ecology|the cafeteria fire]], and [[Community/Recap/S3 E16 Virtual Systems Analysis|a pair of Blorgons]]. Footage of Annie and Shirley [[Community/Recap/S1 E20 The Science of Illusion|driving the campus police cart]] is also included.

** [[Actor Allusion|Troy's]] [[Spider-Man]] tie, to his pajamas in "[[Community/Recap/S2 E01 Anthropology 101|Anthropology 101]]."

** Reading an analog clock is one of the things that Abed doesn't understand at the end of "[[Community/Recap/S3 E16 Virtual Systems Analysis|Virtual Systems Analysis]]."

** Starburns has a [[Community/Recap/S3 E13 Digital Exploration of Interior Design|locker since every student gets one at registration]].

** Jeff doesn't get to invoke 9/11. It is done by the other party. He did not seem pleased.

(Cut to Troy sitting in the library "disguised" as a college student wearing glasses and a letterman sweater)

'''Troy:'''(loudly) Well, time to visit the restroom! }}

* [[Downer Ending]]: The culprit is discovered and justice is served...then comes a phone call that {{spoiler|Starburns is dead.}}

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: {{spoiler|Starburns.}}

* [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]: Star-Burns attempts one on Quendra to evade pursuit, but she refuses even when he reassures her he'll "explain later."

{{quote|'''Quendra:''' "The explanation isn't the issue!"}}

** Chang sticking out his [http://www.hulu.com/watch/338455/community-ken-jeongs-chang-tongue "Chang tongue"] as the bailiff.

** During the hotdog scene you can see in the background a woman leaving a room wiping her mouth, shortly after her a man leaves zipping up his pants. Doubles as [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]. [http://i49.tinypic.com/16mfpd.gif Now in .gif form!]

*** This one was apparently happening so far in the background [http://paradigms-of-a-time-lord-memory.tumblr.com/post/22084223302 that the producers themselves didn't notice it until it was pointed out to them.]

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Shirley watches crime shows when she's bored, enabling her to pull a pitch-perfect impersonation of [[Law & Order|Lt. Van Buren]].

{{quote|'''Shirley:''' It's been a long fifteen years.}}

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: The Dean's lullaby in [[The Tag]], which ends, "The dean will be here / Staring at you."

* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: One of Annie's [[Disregard That Statement|"withdrawn"]] questions is about whether Todd is still a virgin or not.<ref> It's been established that Todd is a father, so we can probably chalk this up to Annie's [[Courtroom Antics]].</ref>

** "A man's gotta have a code."

** "We only have time for justice."

* [[Musical Pastiche]]: The [[Special Edition Title]] features a remake of the opening theme with ''L&O'' style instrumentation.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Starburns has a truly epic one of these [[media:starburns_oh_crap_7347.jpg|when he's discovered stealing bags]]. And again when the equipment for his car-boot meth lab is discovered.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Professor Kane does not appreciate being summoned to the biology lab at midnight for what is essentially a sweet potato someone's pushed off a table. He also gets increasingly irate with the lunacy everyone displays about the ensuing investigation.

{{quote|Holy crap! We are ''definitely'' dissecting pine cones next year.}}

{{quote|'''Abed:''' I'm gifted in other ways.}}

* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Neil and Vicki, whom a number of fans have been viewing with [[Shipping Goggles]] since [[Community/Recap/S2 E22 Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts|Season 2]].

** The sweet potato projects. In contrast the serious felonies Starburns is committing are quietly ignored, setting up the ending.

** The pinky swear between Starburns, Abed and Troy is treated as if it were some binding legal deal between the cops/DA and the criminal witness in exchange for testimony.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Prof. Kane tells Jeff that [[The Wire|"a man gotta have a code."]]

* [[Special Edition Title]]: In the ''L&O'' style, complete with the [[Power Walk]] at the end.

* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]: Subverted with Todd, who looks set up to be a perfect example of one of these (for a given value of 'murderer' seeing as we're discussing the death of a yam here). {{spoiler|Then it turns out the yam was dead when Todd accidentally dropped it anyway, and it was Neil who killed it.}}

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|Ignoring the tragedy of it, it should be remembered that Star-Burns chose to build a meth lab in his own car trunk. There are several things wrong with that, beyond legality and morality.}}

* [[Vomiting Cop]]: Troy gags during the autopsy scene.

* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|Star-Burns is killed in a meth-lab explosion.}} The beauty of this example is that it works on both a dramatic level within the series itself ''and'' as a continuation of the overall ''L&O'' parody, referencing those episodes which would end with the District Attorney receiving a phone call that would provoke one of these instead of closing with a [[Schiff One-Liner]].

** The whole episode revolves around a yam being killed.

{{quote|'''Starburns:''' I swiped some beakers for the meth lab that I'm building in the trunk of my car, but that's it! I didn't kill any yam!}}

** The crime becomes even more heinous when it is discovered that the yam was pregnant (ie it was sprouting buds)

* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: It's ''[[Law and Order|Law & Order: Greendale Community College]]''.

* [[You Have 48 Hours]]: Shirley sends Troy and Abed off with the advice they have 48 hours before the trail goes cold.