History Recap / CommunityS2E08CooperativeCalligraphy

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: One of the floats in the puppy parade features a puppy and a kitten with the caption, "Equality and Togetherness". Even the Dean finds it sanctimonious.

* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Annie is accused of hiding the pen here.

* ICanExplain: Abed in when the group discovers his charts on the female group members' menstrual cycles. Subverted in that while he didn't expect them to actually give him a chance to explain, he's prepared with an explanation when they do.

* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Annie is accused of hiding the pen here.

->"''Yeah, well, you can tell your disappointment to suck it. I'm doing a {{bottle episode}}!''" - '''Jeff'''

* EatTheEvidence: Troy's suggestion
-->"Maybe nobody took it. Sometimes I think I lost something really important to me, and it turns out I already ate it."

-->'''Craig:''' "Non-miraculous?"

-->'''Jeff:''' "I have a date to catch, or, should I say, a catch to date."\\
'''Britta:''' "Oof, I hope you just came up with that."\\
'''Dean Pelton:''' ('later') "I expect to see you all at the puppy parade. Except you, Jeffrey - I know you've got a catch to date."

-->'''Shirley:''' "Mother Hen? I think we're about the same age."\\
'''Britta:''' "Sure, unless time is linear."\\
'''Shirley:''' "I'll make your ass linear."\\
'''Britta:''' "That doesn't make any sense."\\
'''Shirley:''' "I'll make your ass sense."

-->'''Annie:''' ''"It's not a pen; it's a principle!"''

-->'''Annie:''' "Last week, she invoked the Freedom of Information Act to request photocopies of my notes."

* BottleEpisode: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by both Abed and Jeff.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When removing Pierce's casts to find the pen, Abed expresses uncertainty that they should be doing that, noting that "this is how supervillains get created." [[spoiler: Throughout the second half of the series, Pierce's increasingly erratic, {{Jerkass}} and cruel behaviour has been an ongoing subplot, culminating in his revenge scheme in "Intermediate Documentary Making".]]

*** Britta comments that Jeff "usually" wears Beetlejuice boxers - only Abed notices, setting up his realization in "Paradigms of Memory" that [[spoiler: they have been sleeping together.]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: You can see [[spoiler:Annie's Boobs take the pen in the back of one of Annie's shots early on.]]

'''Britta:''' "Oof, I hope you just came up with that."
-->'''Dean Pelton:''' ('later') "I expect to see you all at the puppy parade. Except you, Jeffrey - I know you've got a catch to date."

* [[TheDogWasTheMastermind The Monkey Was The Mastermind ]]

'''Dean Pelton:''' ('later') "I expect to see you all at the puppy parade. Except you, Jeffrey - I know you've got a catch to date."

* [[The Monkey Was The Mastermind TheDogWasTheMastermind]]

* EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies

* {{Fanservice}}

!The {{Community}} episode "Cooperative Calligraphy" provides examples of:

!The {{Community}} episode ''Cooperative Calligraphy'' provides examples of:

->"''Yeah, well, you can tell your disappointment to suck it. We're doing a {{bottle episode}}!''" - '''Jeff'''

* [[spoiler: [[AWizardDidIt A Ghost Did It]]]]: The group's conclusion.

* BrickJoke / [=~Chekhov's Gunman~=]: [[spoiler: Annie's Boobs the monkey]], introduced in Season 1.

--> "Maybe nobody took it. Sometimes I think I lost something really important to me, and it turns out I already ate it."

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When removing Pierce's casts to find the pen, Abed expresses uncertainty that they should be doing that, noting that "this is how supervillains get created." Throughout the second half of the series, Pierce's increasingly erratic, {{Jerkass}} and cruel behaviour has been an ongoing subplot, culminating in his revenge scheme in "Intermediate Documentary Making".

-->'''Craig''': Non-miraculous?

--> '''Jeff:''' "I have a date to catch, or, should I say, a catch to date."
--> '''Britta:''' "Oof, I hope you just came up with that."

--> '''Shirley:''' "Mother Hen? I think we're about the same age."
--> '''Britta:''' "Sure, unless time is linear."
--> '''Shirley:''' "I'll make your ass linear."
--> '''Britta:''' "That doesn't make any sense."
--> '''Shirley:''' "I'll make your ass sense."

--> ''"It's not a pen; it's a principle!"''

* [=~Victoria's Secret Compartment~=]: Annie is accused of hiding the pen here.
* [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?~=]: Britta provides an in-universe example.
--> '''Annie:''' "Last week, she invoked the Freedom of Information Act to request photocopies of my notes."
* [=~Women's Mysteries~=]: The response of the women to their finding [[ItMakesSenseInContext Abed's charts of their menstrual cycles]].

* ReadyForLovemaking: Britta doesn't bring her own school supplies, but she does bring condoms.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: You can see [[spoiler:Annie's Boob's take the pen in the back of one of Annie's shots early on.]]

* Fanservice