History Recap / CommunityS2E02AccountingForLawyers

* FreakOut: Troy ''launches'' into one after Anne chloroforms the janitor.

* PoisonousFriend: Alan's presence at Greendale causes Jeff to regress to the amoral and manipulative {{Jerkass}} he was at the beginning of the series.
-->'''Annie:''' Shouldn't we be happy that Jeff found an old friend?\\
'''Abed:''' Our concern is that Alan is to Jeff what Rob Lowe was to James Spader in the 1990 film ''Film/BadInfluence''.\\
'''Shirley''' ''[disapprovingly]'': He's a bad influence.\\
'''Abed:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint You saw it?]]

* CouldSayItBut:
** Played with, upon Annie realizing she knows Alan from her Narcotics Anonymous meetings. She blurts "NARCOTICS! I know where I know Alan from!" out but immediately clams up & declares she's not allowed to say, only for Britta to point that it's obvious that means she met him in Narcotics Anonymous.
*** Subverted, when Annie's talked into letting the rest of the group guess that Alan may have been behind Jeff's disbarring. She writes it down on a notepad & intends to mime it, only for Shirley to just take the notepad and read out what Annie wrote.

-->'''Annie:''' Go on your stupid mission, I hope it sucks.

* WeirdAlEffect:
** An in-universe example. Britta does an impression of a bit [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] does frequently on ''The Daily Show'', which is itself an impression of [[Series/TheTonightShow Johnny Carson]], which comes off as a weird impersonation of Carson. When asked "Is that your Johnny Carson?" Britta is confused, and says no, it was her Jon Stewart.
** Another in-universe ones plays off the first in-universe one: when Alan does his Carson impression Troy says he's "got Britta down."

'''Jeff:''' She's ''a stripper''. Life sued her and she lost.

%% * PowerTrio: Troy, Abed, and Annie.

%% * SingleTear: Poor Chang.

'''Abed:''' Our concern is that Alan is to Jeff what Rob Lowe is to James Spader in the 1990 film ''Film/BadInfluence''.\\
'''Shirley''' ''[disapprovingly]''''':''' He's a bad influence.\\

* BrainBleach:
-->'''Annie:''' First, he said [the room number] was 69. I wanna rub Purell on my brain.

** Jeff notices that a lot of people are wearing green hats and wonders if the Greendale hat club is still struggling to survive. The Dean explains it's Octoberfest. Cut to Jeff and Abed at the food machines, where they run into Alan.

'''Jeff:''' You have no idea.\\
'''Random Guy:''' Hat club! [puts a ridiculous hat on Jeff]\\
'''Jeff:''' Now you have some idea.
** At the start Abed and Jeff say the school's become more cartoony so Abed drew a cartoon tunnel. See TheTag entry below for the results.

-->'''Abed''': All you have have to do is believe! ''[Troy gears up to run into the "cartoon world"; Abed pops out of a dumpster seconds before he does, alarmed:]'' Wait! You don't have to believe.\\

''[clearly broken, Troy slinks away]''\\

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After Jeff spies his old friend and hides, saying, "This is all I need," Abed calls out to him, saying, "You’re all my friend needs."

** Subverted, when Annie's talked into letting the rest of the group guess that Alan may have been behind Jeff's disbarring. She writes it down on a notepad & intends to mime it, only for Shirley to just take the notepad and read out what Annie wrote.

* DenserAndWackier: Jeff notices in the cold open how much Greendale is becoming more of a cartoon.

-->'''Troy:''' What did she say?\\
'''Abed:''' I don't know.\\
'''Troy:''' All I heard was 'suck'.

'''Pierce''': Bad''ass''!

-->'''Jeff:''' I can explain. I'm a teacher. Wait, that's worse than the truth. I'm a student.

* PoisonousFriend: Alan, to Jeff.
* PowerTrio: Troy, Abed, and Annie.
* ShoutOut: Alan calls Jeff [[Film/TangoAndCash Tango]], Jeff calls him [[Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid Sundance]]. They worked with different partners.
* SingleTear: Poor Chang.

--> '''Britta''': Jeff, Alan narked on you!\\
'''Jeff''': But he's way too primo for that, ''Music/FrankZappa''!
* TrueCompanions: At the end, so much.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Annie; see CrossesTheLineTwice.

-->'''Alan:''' Jeff, you know what lawyers call someone who defrauds the state bar, cheats on his LSATs and cons his way into a firm? Best lawyer EVER.

-->'''Alan:''' Jeff, you know what lawyers call someone who defrauds the state bar, cheats on his LSATs, and cons his way into a firm? Best lawyer EVER.

-->'''Alan:''' You know what they call a lawyer who fakes his college degree? Best lawyer EVER.

* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: After Annie chloroforms the the janitor, Abed says he has an idea to get out of it. Cut to Troy, Annie & Abed lying on the floor next to the janitor, acting like they've been chloroformed too. But since they didn't get rid of the rag that Annie used, the janitor remembers what happened & Annie chloroforms him a second time.

* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: Jeff's perfectly willing to associate with Alan even after receiving conclusive proof that it was Alan who stabbed him in the back by revealing his lack of qualifications and getting him fired, but when Alan can't even admit it to Jeff, instead weaseling out of it by blaming an intern, Jeff returns to his friends.

* RunningGag: Troy, Abed and Annie try to fool the janitor by pretending they were all asleep.

* LargeHam: Troy, freaking out after Annie chloroforms the janitor.
-->'''Troy:''' I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO MY WHOLE BRAIN IS CRYING.

!The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Accounting for Lawyers" provides examples of:

* CuttingTheKnot: Annie's solution to everything: chloroform. After Jeff gives a speech about how caring is bad, and walks away from the group:
--> '''Shirley:''' It's like watching a soul slipping through our fingers. But what more can we do? \\
''[Annie applies chloroform to rag]''\\
'''Troy:''' Would you ''stop''?!
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Alan blames a former lawyer acquaintance of theirs who no longer practices for Jeff's disbarring. Jeff isn't buying it.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Annie complains to Troy and Abed that all she's been used for that night is bait and distraction. They're too busy staring at her bouncing chest to catch what she says.

* GilliganCut: After Annie chloroforms the the janitor, Abed says he has an idea to get out of it. Cut to Troy, Annie & Abed lying on the floor next to the janitor, acting like they've been chloroformed too. But since they didn't get rid of the rag that Annie used, the janitor remembers what happened & Annie chloroforms him a second time.

* ICanExplain: Subverted; Troy doesn't actually have an explanation, he’s just stalling for time. DoubleSubverted, it actually works. Also:

* OriginsEpisode

* TotallyRadical: Invoked & lampshaded.

* UpToEleven: Of course Alan lies and tells Jeff it was someone else who ratted him out, and of course that someone was a wonderful guy. How wonderful? He adopted three at-risk teens and donated a kidney to a temp. When Alan points out that the guy left the firm shortly after Jeff was reported, Jeff replies it was because the man's ''wife passed away''.

->"''God, it's a sea of Wingers. This whole place reeks of [[AmoralAttorney moral ambiguity]].''" - '''Britta'''

* BrickJoke: Jeff notices that a lot of people are wearing green hats and wonders if the Greendale hat club is still struggling to survive. The Dean explains it's Octoberfest. Cut to Jeff and Abed at the food machines, where they run into Alan.
-->'''Alan:''' What has this place done to you?
-->'''Jeff:''' You have no idea.
-->'''Random Guy:''' Hat club! [puts a ridiculous hat on Jeff]
-->'''Jeff:''' Now you have some idea.

-->'''Abed''': All you have have to do is believe! ''[Troy gears up to run into the "cartoon world"; Abed pops out of a dumpster seconds before he does, alarmed:]'' Wait! You don't have to believe.
-->'''Troy''': [[BlatantLies I didn't!]] ''[Clearly disappointed]'' I didn't...
-->''[Clearly broken, Troy slinks away.]''
-->'''Abed''': ... I may have done some damage there.

--> '''Shirley:''' It's like watching a soul slipping through our fingers. But what more can we do?
--> ''[Annie applies chloroform to rag.]''
--> '''Troy:''' Would you ''stop''?!

* DistractedByTheSexy: Annie complains to Troy and Abed that all she’s been used for that night is bait and distraction. They’re too busy staring at her bouncing chest to catch what she says.
-->'''Troy:''' What did she say?
-->'''Abed:''' I don't know.
-->'''Troy:''' All I heard was 'suck'.

-->"I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO MY WHOLE BRAIN IS CRYING"

--> "I usually have one foot out of reality, and even ''I'm'' freaking out right now."

* WeirdAlEffect: An in-universe example. Britta does an impression of a bit [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] does frequently on ''The Daily Show'', which is itself an impression of [[Series/TheTonightShow Johnny Carson]], which comes off as a weird impersonation of Carson. When asked "Is that your Johnny Carson?" Britta is confused, and says no, it was her Jon Stewart.

-->'''Abed:''' You get any of that?\\
'''Troy''' All I heard was suck.

Jeff reconnects with Alan (Rob Corddry), a lawyer from his old firm. As he drifts away from the group, Chang makes an attempt at joining the study group by helping them win the school Pop-and-Lock-athon. Annie realizes that she has met Alan before, and that he was, in fact, the one who got Jeff disbarred. She tells Jeff, but he refuses to believe her. While Jeff attends an office party at the firm, the rest of the study follow him in an attempt to prove it, leaving Chang alone at Greendale.

* WeirdAlEffect: An in-universe example. Britta does an impression of a bit [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] does frequently on ''The Daily Show'', which is itself an impression of [[TheTonightShow Johnny Carson]], which comes off as a weird impersonation of Carson. When asked "Is that your Johnny Carson?" Britta is confused, and says no, it was her Jon Stewart.

* AmoralAttorney: Everyone in the law firm.