History Recap / CommunityS1E08HomeEconomics

** When Pierce accuses Vaughn of trying to [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel "Garfunkel"]] him, Pierce clearly sees himself as Paul Simon in that scenario. The music video for the latter's [[Music/{{Graceland}} "You Can Call Me Al"]] featured Creator/ChevyChase pretending to be Paul Simon, much to Simon's apparent bemusement.

** When Pierce accuses Vaughn of trying to '[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Garfunkel]]' him, Pierce clearly sees himself as Paul Simon in that scenario. The music video for the latter's "You Can Call Me Al" featured Creator/ChevyChase pretending to be Paul Simon, much to Simon's apparent bemusement.

* ActorAllusion: When Pierce accuses Vaughn of trying to '[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Garfunkel]]' him, Pierce clearly sees himself as Paul Simon in that scenario. The music video for the latter's "You Can Call Me Al" featured Creator/ChevyChase pretending to be Paul Simon, much to Simon's apparent bemusement.

* AbusiveParents: Jeff makes a throwaway reference to having a drunken and abusive dad when explaining how TV makes an excellent parent. (Given what we see in [[Recap/CommunityS2E16IntermediateDocumentaryFilmmaking "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking"]], this could be {{Foreshadowing}}.)

* TheCastShowoff: Pierce becomes a keyboardist in Vaughn's band, allowing Chevy Chase to display his musical skills briefly.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Vaughn. His usual method of revenge for people who piss him off is to write songs with [[CreatorBreakdown rather passive-aggressively spiteful lyrics]] in which he denounces them as a "B". Unfortunately for him, he gets a response song written about him in TheTag, which he apparently did not anticipate.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: Pierce gets angry at Britta's ex boyfriend (whose band he recently joined) about not getting his share of the credit for a song they wrote (an insulting song about Britta caused by the ex's CreatorBreakdown regarding the events in "[[Recap/CommunityS1E04SocialPsychology Social Psychology]]"). Britta watches their argument from a distance without hearing the words, leading to this exchange:

* TantrumThrowing: Vaughn resorts to this during his CreatorBreakdown.

-->'''Jeff''': TV is a good dad. TV never ignores you. TV never comes home late drunk. TV never assaults you. Well... except for ''[[Series/CopRock Cop Rock]]''.

* AccidentalUnfortunateGesture

* AbusiveParents: Jeff makes a throwaway reference to having a drunken and abusive dad when explaining how TV makes an excellent parent. (Given what we see in [[Recap/CommunityS2E16IntermediateDocumentaryFilmmaking Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking]], this could be {{Foreshadowing}}.)

* ActorAllusion: When Pierce accuses Vaughn of trying to '[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Garfunkel]]' him, Pierce clearly sees himself as Paul Simon in that scenario. The music video for the latter's "You Can Call Me Al" featured Chevy Chase pretending to be Paul Simon, much to Simon's apparent bemusement.

-->'''Annie:''' ''NO!'' Before you two proceed, I have one thing to say.\\
''(long pause)''\\
'''Troy:''' ...Did you... say it already?

--> '''Pierce:''' Your song? We wrote it together. Are you trying to {{Garfunkel}} me?\\
'''Vaughn:''' Maybe. Assuming to "Garfunkel" someone is to keep putting up with them even though they're a [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} fat, lazy cat who hogs the spotlight and eats all the lasagne]].

--> '''Jeff:''' How are you so satisfied all the time, Abed? Don't you ever want anything more out of life than cereal?\\
'''Abed:''' Sometimes I like to pour hot cocoa mix into cold milk and drink it like a cold hot chocolate. I call it "special drink."
* TheCastShowoff: Pierce becomes a keyboardist in Vaughn's band, allowing Chevy Chase to briefly display his skills as a musician.

--> '''Jeff:''' The next person who offers me pity or charity will be mentioned -- by name -- in my suicide note.

-->'''Vaughn:''' Uh-huh. Well played, Pierce. This isn't over. ''[storms off]''
* IAmWhatIAm: Britta ends up encouraging Jeff towards this trope, telling him to embrace being the vain, shallow poser that he really is.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Vaughn getting a nasty song written about him by Pierce is a fairly just comeuppance considering the trouble he causes in the episode by writing nasty songs about other people.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Don't. Talk. To. Vaughn.
* SchmuckBait: Britta warns Pierce to not talk to Vaughn. Gets predictable results.
* ShoutOut: Nurse Jackie describes himself as "[[{{Series/MASH}} kinda the Hawkeye round here]]".

-->'''Abed:''' Do it, Britta, seduce him. Draw the tapeworm of Jeff's old self out of him with the bowl of milk that is your sexuality.\\
'''Britta:''' No.

-->'''Britta:''' Maybe you're one of those rare people with nothing underneath the surface. Maybe if you put stain remover on a turd, you don't get a diamond - you just get a turd with less direction in life.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Pierce gets angry at Britta's ex boyfriend (whose band he recently joined) about not getting his share of the credit for a song they wrote (an insulting song about Britta caused by the ex's CreatorBreakdown regarding the events in "Social Psychology"). Britta watches their argument from a distance without hearing the words, leading to this exchange:
-->'''Britta:''' Pierce, did you just defend my honor?\\
'''Pierce:''' Uh... yeah, totally.

* TWordEuphemism: Vaughn's song about "Getting rid of Britta, I'm getting rid of the B..." ''(She's a G-D-B!)''