History Recap / CommunityS2E08CooperativeCalligraphy

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: You can see Annie's Boobs take the pen early on, during the Dean's visit.[[note]] It's a blink and miss it moment but after the Dean announces the puppy parade, when the scene cuts to Troy saying "Aw, I want to lick it", look to a ball of crumpled paper near Abed's hand towards the back of the table. The pen is to the left of the paper and it is lifted off the table as "lick it" is said. [[/note]]

** If you pay very close attention to the beginning of the episode while the Dean gives his non-violent verbal reminder, you can actually see the pen being stolen.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: You can see Annie's Boobs take the pen early on, during the Dean's visit.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Even the Dean, no stranger to PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, finds the "Equality and Togetherness" float with a puppy and a kitten a bit too much.

** Abed's claim that Shirley couldn't have gotten pregnant on Labor Day because she was ovulating on Halloween doesn't make sense even if he was able to track it. If Shirley was ovulating at the beginning of November, it's perfectly possible for her to have been ovulating at the beginning of October and the beginning of September as well, given that most women's menstrual cycles are a bit shorter than a full month.

** Jeff's would-be date is named Gwynnifer after [[http://twitter.com/gwynnifer a Twitter troll]].

* BigNo: Annie

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted.

* BrickJoke[=/=]ChekhovsGunman: Annie's Boobs the monkey, introduced in Season 1, is the thief.
** Britta tries and flubs one of the group's rhyming celebrity name jokes ("My oh my, Mike Ty... son"), which Pierce pulls off successfully ("Nice try, Creator/StephenFry") a minute later, to Britta's chagrin.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Who would have guessed a little monkey was behind all missing items from the study room?

** Abed gives Annie a chocolate in the first two minutes of the episode, long before his menstrual charts are revealed.

* AngerMontage: Jeff becomes unhinged and starts ripping out the carpet, tipping over a book shelf and [[TantrumThrowing throwing some tantrum]].

* BottleEpisode: {{Invoked|Trope}} by both Abed and Jeff.

* BrickJoke[=/=]ChekhovsGunman: Annie's Boobs the monkey, introduced in Season 1, is the real culprit.

** Britta tries and flubs one of the group's rhyming celebrity name jokes (my oh my, Mike Ty... son), which Pierce pulls off successfully (nice try, Stephen Fry) a minute later, to Britta's chagrin.

** [[Recap/CommunityS1E21ContemporaryAmericanPoultry Annie's Boobs, Annie's backpack, the gum in the hair, and the stolen boyfriend.]] Doubles as {{Foreshadowing}}, since it brings Annie's Boobs back into the viewer's consciousness after a long absence.
** [[Recap/CommunityS1E17PhysicalEducation Jeff's stripey]] [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare Beetlejuice underpants]].

* FanNickname: While this is certainly not ''Community'''s only BottleEpisode, it's invariably the one any member of the cast, crew, or fanbase is referring to if they say "the bottle episode".

** You also notice at the beginning of the episode that when Annie starts to get upset, Abed has a chocolate for her -- hinting at the reveal later in the episode about his tracking the girls' menstrual cycles.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the Dean's announcement about the cold weather affecting the puppies, [[{{Squick}} Pierce is trying to eat the Slim Jim.]]

-->'''Britta:''' I still think man is going to evolve into woman, not a dragon monster with three legs.\\
'''Pierce:''' [[GagPenis Three legs?]]
* HeldGaze: Jeff and Annie have a very {{UST}}-y moment of holding each other's gaze as their anger ignites after Annie tries to calm down Jeff with the line: "It's just a pen!" The HeldGaze continues even as Britta butts in and Jeff keeps staring at Annie's chest. Once again, the HeldGaze is used to establish that Jeff and Annie's {{UST}} is off the charts!

--->'''Annie:''' Guys, this is a terribly childish way to handle this kind of situation. ''(runs over to Shirley and hops up and down in excitement)'' Does this mean you have a new boyfriend? Who, who, who?
** The Dean, who is usually the orchestrator of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, booing the "Equality And Togetherness" float.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Dean Craig Pelton gets called a "non-miraculous son of a bitch."
-->'''Craig:''' Non-miraculous?
* LockedRoomMystery: The situation plays out like this, [[SeriousBusiness despite the mystery being over who has Annie's pen.]]

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

-->'''Dean Pelton:''' Attention, students! The puppy parade is starting on the quad! Better come quick--[[LampshadeHanging with every passing moment, these puppies grow older and less deserving of our attention.]]

-->'''Jeff:''' I have a date to catch, or, should I say, a catch to date.\\
'''Britta:''' [[LamePunReaction Oof, I hope you just came up with that]].\\
''(later)''\\
'''Dean Pelton:''' I expect to see you all at the puppy parade. Except you, Jeffrey -- I know you've got a catch to date.\\
'''Jeff:''' ''[off Britta's look]'' Oh, like you're famous for your wit.

-->'''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.

* ShipTease: Jeff and Annie angrily strip off their clothes while using another one of their customary {{Held Gaze}}s.

-->'''Britta:''' There! Happy?\\
'''Jeff:''' Not if that's a used Q-tip.
* SkewedPriorities: This exchange regarding cutting into Pierce's casts:
-->'''Troy''': Dammit. Broke the scissors.
-->'''Jeff''': Here. ''Be careful''. That's the last pair we have. ''[as an afterthought]'' Also, don't cut his legs.
* TakeThat:

* {{Artistic License - Biology}}: there’s a fairly wide time period in any given woman’s cycle when she could potentially ovulate, and that day can change from cycle to cycle. Unless Abed was tracking everyone’s temperature or, uh, even more personal things, he wouldn’t be able to track anything except actual menstruation.

* ArtisticLicense-Biology: there’s a fairly wide time period in any given woman’s cycle when she could potentially ovulate, and that day can change from cycle to cycle. Unless Abed was tracking everyone’s temperature or, uh, even more personal things, he wouldn’t be able to track anything except actual menstruation.

* Artistic License - Biology: there’s a fairly wide time period in any given woman’s cycle when she could potentially ovulate, and that day can change from cycle to cycle. Unless Abed was tracking everyone’s temperature or, uh, even more personal things, he wouldn’t be able to track anything except actual menstruation.

** When removing Pierce's casts to find the pen, Abed expresses uncertainty that they should be doing that, noting that "[[CreateYourOwnVillain 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 "[[Recap/CommunityS2E16IntermediateDocumentaryFilmmaking Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking]]"; essentially, he becomes the show's equivalent of a super-villain.

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

* FreezeFrameBonus:
** The theft of Annie's pen during the drive-by deaning.
** On the whiteboard, you can see the phrase "If we evolved from monkeys, how come we still have monkeys?" with the second monkey crossed out and replaced with "Pierce?"

* [[TheDogWasTheMastermind The Monkey Was The Mastermind]]

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

** Abed points out that Shirley could have only conceived during Halloween, referring back to [[Recap/CommunityS2E06Epidemiology "Epidemiology."]] Troy also silently recalls the voicemail Chang sent him at the end of that episode.
** The collection of items amassed by Annie's Boobs contains numerous callbacks to previous episodes.

** 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 "[[Recap/CommunityS2E16IntermediateDocumentaryFilmmaking Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking]]"; essentially, he becomes the show's equivalent of a super-villain.

** FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the Dean's announcement about the cold weather affecting the puppies, [[{{Squick}} Pierce is trying to eat the Slim Jim.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: Right after Pierce brags about outbiding four hospitals for his motorized wheelchair, it starts malfunctioning.

* RansackedRoom: The study room is thoroughly trashed by the end, albeit at the hands of the group.

* ShirtlessScene

* SkewedPriorities: The whole episode. Also, this exchange regarding cutting into Pierce's casts:

* TakeThat: Jeff's would-be date is named Gwynnifer after [[http://twitter.com/gwynnifer a Twitter troll]].

* WomensMysteries: The response of the women to their finding [[ItMakesSenseInContext Abed's charts of their menstrual cycles]].

* ShipTease: Jeff and Annie, using another one of their customary {{Held Gaze}}s.

** Abed points out that Shirley could have only conceived during Halloween, referring back to [[Recap/CommunityS2E06Epidemiology "Epidemiology."]]

** 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 "[[Recap/CommunityS2E16IntermediateDocumentaryFilmmaking Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking]]".]]

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