History Recap / CommunityS2E09ConspiracyTheoriesandInteriorDesign

-->'''Jeff:''' "I've denied the signs for too long."

Would that this desk were a time desk, that I might correct my past mistakes... ride dinosaurs... fight with UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper...

—->Jeff: "I've denied the signs for too long."

—>Jeff: "I've denied the signs for too long."

* AGodAmI: One of Jeff's theories for how a professor he made up could appear out of nowhere before him, Annie and the Dean: "I've ignored the signs for too long."

* AbsenteeActor: Ken Jeong as Chang.

* SettingUpdate: In-universe. Jeff is not impressed with the idea of rewriting ''Theatre/Macbeth'' for gangland Chicago.

-->'''Cackowski''': Fact! In 100% of all fake gun related shootings, the victim is always the one with the fake gun.

** [[DoubleSubversion Eventually]], it does in fact turn out to be a made up name.

** Jeff/Annie: when Jeff tackles her to [[DivingSave save her]] from the 'ExternalCombustion' example above, it ends with a ''very'' sexually-charged moment, particularly in light of the fact that he didn't need to tackle her in the first place. Annie later indicates that her confession of love to Jeff in the climatic confrontation got a bit more real than she'd expected, and when Fluffytown starts to collapse, the two instinctively lean closer into each other.

* AbsenteeActor: Ken Jeong as Chang

** One of the courses on the Night School curriculum is Theoretical Phys-Ed, a Call Back to a course mentioned in the earlier episode Basic Rocket Science

** Implied by Officer Cackowski at the end noting that in 100% of all fake gun related shootings, the victim is always the one with the fake gun.

* DivingSave: Jeff saving Annie from the ExternalCombustion. [[SeriousBusiness Involving a toy slot car.]]

* GambitPileup: [[ExaggeratedTrope Played up]] ''ad absurdum''.

* LoveConfession: Annie to Jeff, when she goes [[ThrowItIn off-script]] during the GambitPileUp. Of course, Jeff just thinks she was in-character, though an [[http://www.itsjustaboutwrite.com/2012/08/2x09-conspiracy-theories-and-interior.html analysis]] of the pain on his face when Annie rants about his dismissal of her and their kiss implies otherwise.

* ThrowItIn: In-universe. Annie blurting out that she loves Jeff during the middle of the GambitPileUp.

* CountingBullets: In this case: Counting Guns. Jeff is upset when he realizes that the gun Annie [[PantsPositiveSafety pulls from her back]] cannot be a fake gun because there were only three prop guns between them.

** The shootout at the end involves Jeff (pretending to) [[KudzuPlot think that the Dean killed Annie and goes to shot him with what Annie believes to be a real gun.]]
** Implied by the cop at the end noting that in 100% of all fake gun related shootings, the victim is always the one with the fake gun.

-->'''Annie''': Course I shot him! He was being dishonest.

* DramaClub: Sean Garrity is the drama professor, and is drawn into the ruse because he offered to pay Dean Pelton in acting.

** Annie mentions that she lives in terrible neighborhood. While it doesn't affect the plot here, it's later relevant to the plots of "[[Recap/CommunityS2E13CelebrityPharmacology Celebrity Pharmacology 212]]," "[[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Remedial Chaos Theory]]" and "[[Recap/CommunityS3E07StudiesInModernMovement Studies in Modern Movement]]".

* InformedJudaism: Professor Professorson. "My family name was Professorberg but we changed it when we were fleeing from the Nazis." Although actually his real name is Sean Garrity.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: In-universe example: when their blanket fort makes the newspapers and inspires similar blanket forts in campuses across the country, Troy and Abed decide it must be destroyed. To clarify: They destroy the ''entire'' blanket fort by pulling down part of the roof in Abed's dorm.

* ShockingSwerve[[invoked]]: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]], with about five in the space of two minutes.

* ConspiracyTheorist

* FakingTheDead: Woolley, Jeff

** Officer Cackowski giving a lesson about the dangers of using fake guns... with a fake gun. But then it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since he can't exactly use a ''real'' gun to do so.

* ThereAreNoCoincidences

* ActorAllusion: Professor Professorson is played by Kevin Corrigan. Kevin also played Sam Weiss in the TV series ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', which for anyone unfamiliar with the show is currently being driven by a conspiracy theory in the plot (and has been for its entirety); the character, Sam Weiss is a part of it. Corrigan also starred as Uncle Eddie in ''GroundedForLife'', an episode of which prominently featured an epic blanket fort.

* DivingSave: Jeff saving Annie from the ExternalCombustion.

** Annie mentions that she lives in terrible neighborhood. Whilst it doesn't affect the plot here, it's later relevant to the plots of "[[Recap/CommunityS2E13CelebrityPharmacology Celebrity Pharmacology 212]]," "[[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Remedial Chaos Theory]]" and "[[Recap/CommunityS3E07StudiesInModernMovement Studies in Modern Movement]]".

** Whilst Jeff and the Dean were trying to teach Annie not to go behind the backs of her friends...
** Whilst Jeff and Annie were trying to teach the Dean that if you conspire with everyone who asks, [[PinballProtagonist you're really just doing random crap]]...
** Whilst Professor Garrity and Officer Cackowski were trying to teach all three of them that replica guns aren't toys.

* HeldGaze: Two again per this episode. Jeff and Annie stare into each other's eyes for a long, meaningful moment after he [[DivingSave tackles her to ground]], believing her to be in danger, and again at the end as the blanket fort falls. Jeff looks at Annie's eyes whilst she looks at his lips.... yet another case of a HeldGaze suggesting a possible J/A AlmostKiss moment.

** Annie & the Dean were trying to teach Jeff that academic fraud is bad...
** Whilst Jeff & the Dean were trying to teach Annie not to go behind the backs of her friends...
** Whilst Jeff & Annie were trying to teach the Dean that if you conspire with everyone who asks, [[PinballProtagonist you're really just doing random crap]]...
** Whilst Professor Garrity & Officer Cackowski were trying to teach all three of them that replica guns aren't toys.

There was an epic pillow fort which took up an entire hallway.

Back at Abed's dorm, Troy and Abed make a blanket fort that gets out of control.

* SelfDestructMechanism: When the blanket fort becomes too popular, Abed and Troy reveal that they had set it up to be reliant on [[TwoKeyedLock two twisted up blankets]] from the beginning, and pull on them to take the whole thing down.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the GambitPileUp, Professor Garrity remains "in character" as dead, even after it's been revealed that Annie didn't really shoot him, until it's time for him to cue Officer Cackowski's entrance.

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->''You are making me do work for my fake conspiracy class!''\\
-- '''Jeff'''

!The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design" provides examples of:

* AuthorAvatar: In-universe - Dean Dangerous, the hero of Dean Pelton's "Time Desk."

* CallBack:
** One of the courses on the Night School curriculum is Theoretical Phys-Ed, a Call Back to a course mentioned in the earlier episode Basic Rocket Science
** Troy and Abed's fort includes a Memorial to Pierce's mother.
* CallForward: this episode contains the earliest reference to Fat Neil (although no actual appearance).
* CaptainObvious: Officer Cackowski.
-->'''Cackowski''': Fact! In 100% of all fake gun related shootings, the victim is always the one with the fake gun.

* ChekhovsGun:
** The Dean's book, "Dean Dangerous".
** Annie mentions that she lives in terrible neighborhood. Whilst it doesn't affect the plot here, it's later relevant to the plots of "[[Recap/CommunityS2E13CelebrityPharmacology Celebrity Pharmacology 212]]," "[[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Remedial Chaos Theory]]" and "[[Recap/CommunityS3E07StudiesInModernMovement Studies in Modern Movement]]".

* HeldGaze: Two again per this episode. Jeff and Annie stare into each other's eyes for a long, meaningful moment after he tackles her to ground, believing her to be in danger, and again at the end as the blanket fort falls. Jeff looks at Annie's eyes whilst she looks at his lips.... yet another case of a HeldGaze suggesting a possible J/A AlmostKiss moment.

** Britta, who sneers at Troy and Abed's invitation to join them in their blanket fort... only to be later seen hanging out in said blanket fort (albeit in a rather strange and pretentious part of it) once it's grown in size and popularity.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Dean Pelton

* LogicBomb: A dioramarama including a diorama about a world ''without dioramas''.

* MethodActing: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Professor Garrity during the GambitPileUp - even after it's been revealed that Annie didn't really shoot him, he remains in character as a corpse until it's time for him to cue Officer Cackowski's entrance.

* RepeatCut: For... a slot car sparking a bit.

'''Troy:''' Latvian Independence Parade. [{{Beat}}] Don't look at me, they had the proper permits.

* SelfDestructMechanism: When the blanket fort becomes too popular, Abed and Troy reveal that they had set it up to be reliant on two twisted up blankets from the beginning, and pull on them to take the whole thing down.

** Jeff/Annie: when Jeff tackles her to save her from the 'ExternalCombustion' example above, it ends with a ''very'' sexually-charged moment, particularly in light of the fact that he didn't need to tackle her in the first place. Annie later indicates that her confession of love to Jeff in the climatic confrontation got a bit more real than she'd expected, and when Fluffytown starts to collapse, the two instinctively lean closer into each other.

--->"Well guess what! [[Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun Annie's got a gun!]]"
** The scene at the end where Jeff, Annie, and the Dean take it in turns to fool eachother - and the audience - is similar to an extended GambitPileup in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' where Michael, GOB, and George Sr do the same thing

'''Abed''': Because it's a brighter tomorrow?

* TwoKeyedLock: After Troy and Abed agree that the fort has to go, they simultaneously pull down different blankets to trigger its collapse.

* ArcWords: Annie herself points out she lives in a terrible neighborhood.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the GambitPileUp, Professor Garrity remains "in character" as dead, even after it's been revealed that Annie didn't really shoot him, until it's time for him to cue Officer Cackowski's entrance.

* StalkerShrine: Or scrapbook, as it were.

--->"Well guess what! [[AnnieGetYourGun Annie's got a gun!]]"