History Recap / CommunityS1E22TheArtofDiscourse

* LastMinuteWordSwitch: Pierce to Shirley: "The pot calls the kettle...[[ShapedLikeItself a kettle]]."

* InnocentBigot: Subverted with Pierce for once, when he calls Shirley "the pot calling the kettle...[[LastMinuteWordSwitch a kettle.]]" But at that point it was too late.

-->'''Abed:''' We've lost our [[{{Cheers}} Cliff Clavin]], our [[{{Seinfeld}} George Costanza]], our [[{{Entourage}} Turtle... or Johnny Drama... or E]]. Man, that show is sloppy.

* FoodFight: One breaks out right after the usually GenreSavvy Abed points out that [[TemptingFate "classic college experiences never happen organically"]].

* PizzaBoySpecialDelivery: Troy and Abed are [[DiscussedTrope discussing]] PornNames when porn-esque bass music starts playing and a studly pizza delivery guy enters asking in a suggestive manner who ordered the pizza with "extra sausage" he has. After Troy and Abed flee the room, the music stops and the camera cuts to Leonard [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn with a guitar]] saying he ordered the pizza.

* HotMom: Mark's mom. Jeff bangs her. Twice. Off-screen.

* AnimalReactionShot: When a joke by Britta falls flat, the goat[[hottip:* :a rival school {{Mascot}} that Troy and Abed stole for Abed's list]] [[EvenTheDogIsAshamed gets a reaction shot]].

** Pierce & Shirley realize this is the case with the two of them, as they share most of the same complaints about the rest of the Study Group leaving them out of things. It's this realization that prompts her to forgive for the pantsing incident.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: After Pierce refuses to apologise to Shirley, she goes back into the woman's bathroom and Annie goes with her, while Britta looks at Pierce disapprovingly. Abed tries to follow, only for Troy to pull him back just in time.

* NotSoDifferent: Jeff tries to tell Britta that she shouldn't be concerned about some asshole teenagers asking them what mistakes they made to end up where they are in life, but interrupts himself by blowing up at Pierce and asking him what mistakes he made to end up where he is in life.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: After [[spoiler: Pierce gets kicked out of the group for pantsing Shirley, they quickly realize that they need him back, because his vital role as the biggest {{Jerkass}} there allows the rest of them to get along better with each other by diverting all their vitriol toward him.]]

-->''Troy and Abed will be back in "College Cut-Ups 2: Pantie Raid Academy"''.

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->''Troy and Abed will be back in "College Cut-Ups 2: Pantie Raid Academy"''.

* HarsherInHindsight: "Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism" would show that this is not the first time Jeff's been bullied.

* PizzaBoySpecialDelivery: Troy and Abed are [[DiscussedTrope discussing]] PornNames when porn-esque bass music starts playing and a studly pizza delivery guy enters asking in a suggestive manner who ordered the pizza with "extra sausage" he has. After Troy and Abed flee the room, the music stops and the camera cuts to Leonard [[SorryILeftTheBGMOn with a guitar]] saying he ordered the pizza.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: After [[spoiler: Pierce gets kicked out of the group for pantsing Shirley, they quickly realizes that they need him back, because his vital role as the biggest {{Jerkass}} there allows the rest of them to get along better with each other by diverting all their vitriol toward himself.]]

* TakeThat: Abed explains how the absence of Pierce has left the status of group {{Buttmonkey}} up for grabs:

-->'''Abed:''' Boobatron's great. And once someone spills bongwater on his circuitry and he comes to life, he's gonna make us the coolest guys on campus and help us get babes.

* NameTron: Booba-tron

* TeensAreMonsters: The highschool students attending campus for a program to earn college credits won't stop MERCILESSLY hounding the cast for going to a community college, when they'll be one day going to universities. Strangely UpToEleven - many fans felt they were too cruel to be funny.

->''Troy and Abed will be back in "College Cut-Ups 2: Pantie Raid Academy"''.

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!The ''{{Community}}'' episode "The Art of Discourse" provides examples of:

* {{Irony}}: It's implied that Mark, the leader of the high schoolers, will meet the same fate as Jeff. His medical license will be revoked and he will disappear possibly to a community college to earn an actual medical degree.

** Mark's mom taught him to be cruel.

* {{Irony}}: It's implied that Mark, the leader of the high schoolers, will meet the same fate as Jeff. His medical license will be revoked and he will disappear possibly to a community college to earn an actual medical degree.

* UnusualEuphemism: The utterlly impenetrable obscurity of "schmitty!" just makes it all the more infuriating.