History Recap / CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons

* HeadTiltinglyKinky: The sex scene between Hector the Well-Endowed and the elf maiden that Annie describes. Soothing music plays while she speaks, so we can't actually hear what happens, but Shirley looks horrified, Troy takes notes, and Britta and Jeff look astonished that this is coming from ''Annie'' of all people.At one point, she holds up two fingers, then three, [[invoked]][[CrossesTheLineTwice and then four]].

* HeadTiltinglyKinky: The sex scene between Hector the Well-Endowed and the elf maiden that Annie describes. Soothing music plays while she speaks, so we can't actually hear what happens, but Shirley looks horrified, Troy takes notes, and Britta and Jeff look astonished that this is coming from ''Annie'' of all people. At one point, the viewer can see Annie saying "I take out my huge member." At another point, she holds up two fingers, then three, [[invoked]][[CrossesTheLineTwice and then four]].

* UnfortunateImplications:[[Invoked]]

* PowerWalk: We see the group doing this [[Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience again]] before the opening title sequence.

*** Abed the [[AmbiguousDisorder Undiagnosable]];

Pierce: "I cast shape change on Duquesne."

Abed: "what form do you choose for Duquesne?"

Pierce: "Faaaaaaaaaat"

Pierce: I cast shape change on Duquesne.
Abed: what form do you choose for Duquesne?
Pierce: Faaaaaaaaaat

* RPGEpisode: Conspicuously lacking {{deep immersion|Gaming}}.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Abed's in-episode [[TheMagnificent title]] calls attention to it.

* BottleEpisode: The episode takes place almost exclusively in the study room. UpToEleven. Unlike [[Recap/CommunityS2E08CooperativeCalligraphy the previous Bottle Episode in the study room]], the characters barely leave the ''table'', which makes sense since they're playing D&D.

* PyrrhicVillainy: Pierce completely defeats the group and temporarily 'wins' the game, but at the cost of becoming completely despised by everyone in the group.

-->'''Lavernica''': Who did this to you, gnome waiter?
-->'''Gnome waiter''': I never saw his face. Just so you know ... My name ... was Kyle. [''Dies'']

-->'''Pierce:''' That's right, Neil. Your new best friend, Jeff Winger, coined the name "Fat Neil".
-->'''Shirley:''' [''Disapprovingly''] Jeffrey.
-->'''Jeff:''' Neil, look, before you respond, I can make it up to you. [[DiggingYourselfDeeper I'll find a fatter Neil!]]
-->'''Troy:''' [[FlatJoy Huz]][[SarcasmMode zah...]]

-->'''Pierce:''' I don't like being excluded, Jeff! Do you?!
-->'''Jeff:''' '''''YES!!'''''

-->'''Abed:''' I need to know what you want to do next.
-->'''Pierce:''' So many things, Abed ... So many things.

-->'''Neil:''' So call him "Skinny Neil"!
-->'''Jeff:''' Well, he's not actually that skinny.
-->'''Neil:''' He's bald! He's ''black''!
-->'''Jeff:''' Well, I don't see the world through that lens ... I shouldn't be high-roading you.

-->'''Troy''': I'm Bing-Bong the Archer. I'm an archer, and such.
-->[''Later'']
-->'''Jeff''': I take my throwing knife and throw it, knife-style.

-->'''Abed as gnome waiter:''' How can I help you, dear madam?
-->'''Britta as Lavernica:''' Oh, please, no need for such deference. I'm no better than a gnome.
-->'''Abed as gnome waiter:''' You are, madam. You are a human warrior, which is five species classes greater than I.
-->'''Britta as Lavernica:''' That's disgusting. Don't talk like that.
-->'''Abed as gnome waiter:''' I am so sorry, madam. Please don't report me for execution.
-->'''Britta as Lavernica:''' Oh, no, no, I didn't mean that. We've gotta do something about these gnomes!

* CondescendingCompassion: The study group play ''Dungeons and Dragons'' to cheer Neil up, but their lack of understanding of (and, at times, barely concealed disdain for) the game and their simplistic intention to let Neil win an easy victory means that, while they undeniably mean well, they inadvertently come off as a bit condescending towards him.

* CovertPervert: ''Annie''. She looks like a sweet, innocent girl. We don't hear what she's saying, but we see her miming actions and the [[ReactionShot other players' reactions]]. Troy takes notes.

-->'''Pierce:''' That's right, Neil. Your new best friend, Jeff Winger, coined the name 'Fat Neil'.
-->'''Shirley:''' Jeffrey.

-->'''Troy:''' Huzzah...
* AuthorAppeal: Series creator Dan Harmon was a role-playing game enthusiast in his youth. He plays various pen and paper games in his podcast ''Podcast/{{Harmontown}}'' and in an animated RPG show ''Series/{{Harmonquest}}''.
* BigBad: Pierce opposes the rest of the players out of jealousy for being left out of the game.

-->'''Shirley:''' [[HoYay/{{Community}} Yeah, I bet you did.]]
* BigNo: Chang cries NO in a spectacular fashion after his character gets decapitated by Pierce.

* CompressedAdaptation: Most games of D&D played have a lot more setup and follow through.
* CondescendingCompassion: The study group play ''Dungeons and Dragons'' in order to cheer Neil up, but their lack of understanding of (and, at times, barely concealed disdain for) the game and their simplistic intention to let Neil win an easy victory means that, while they undeniably mean well, they inadvertently come off as a bit condescending towards him.

* DontYouDarePityMe: Weaponised; after Pierce is gloating over derailing the game, the others consciously get under his skin by noting how much they pity him for his pathetically spiteful and vindictive way of looking at the world, and how it prevents him from forming true friendships.

* HeadTiltinglyKinky: The sex scene between Hector the Well-Endowed and the elf maiden that Annie describes. Soothing music plays while she speaks, so we can't actually hear what happens, but Shirley looks horrified, Troy takes notes, and Britta & Jeff look astonished that this is coming from ''Annie'' of all people. At one point, the viewer can see Annie saying "I take out my huge member." At another point, she holds up two fingers, then three, [[CrossesTheLineTwice then four]].

** Jeff gets a minor moment. After Neil protests Jeff using "Fat Neil" to distinguish him from the other Neil who was present by pointing out that the other Neil happens to be both bald and African American, Jeff sanctimoniously informs Neil that "I don't view the world through that lens", with an implied rebuke of Neil doing so. Considering that this is mere moments after it's been revealed that Jeff (inadvertently) coined the cruel and bullying nickname that has almost driven Neil to suicide, he could probably have kept his mouth shut, or at least dialed down the smug self-righteousness a bit.
* IgnoredAesop: We are told in the ending voiceover that Pierce learned "very little" from the episode. As usual, then.
* InnocentBigot: To the others, Chang was in BlackFace. For Chang, he was just being a dark elf.

** The narration of the episode is done in a very similar way to the opening of ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]''.

* UnfortunateImplications: {{Invoked}}

* BlackFace: Chang shows up to the Dungeons and Dragons game cosplaying as a dark elf, having painted his skin jet black and donned a white wig. He's mistaken for wearing blackface by both Shirley and Pierce. In 2020, this episode was pulled from Netflix due to the "blackface" humor.

* AncestralWeapon: The Sword of Duquesne.
-->'''Pierce:''' I hump it.

%% * BigBad: Pierce, in-character.

* BlackFace: Chang's use of {{Cosplay}} makeup will haunt you to your dying day.

* GameWithinAGame: An [[WhatCouldHaveBeen alternative ending]][[invoked]] was for the study group to start playing another game of Dungeons and Dragons within the cube where Pierce trapped them all, thus continuing to exclude him from wi`thin the game.

* UnfortunateImplications: [[{{Invoked}}]]

* UnfortunateImplications: [[Invoked]]

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Almost, as Creator/{{NBC}} wanted to cut the episode until Creator/DanHarmon the Creator convinced them not to.[[invoked]]

* UnfortunateImplications:[[invoked]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** In the original concept, Pierce the Insensitive turns out to be an expert D&D player due to hanging out with Creator/GaryGygax in TheSeventies.
** It was in talks for Pierce the Insensitive's victory/defeat to involve him sealing everyone in a cube, only for them to exclude him from a game of D&D they start up while inside the cube.

* BigBad: Pierce, in-character. Arguably out of it as well.

* BreakingSpeech: Pierce pulls out one on Neil to turn him against Jeff.

* CovertPervert: ''Annie''. Sure, we don't hear what she's saying, but we see her miming actions and the [[ReactionShot other players' reactions]].
** Troy takes notes.
* CriticalHit[=/=]CriticalFailure: Pierce is able to decapitate Chang's character.
* CrossPlayer: Annie the Dayplanner. Abed, too, when he plays the NPC elf-maiden, causing Jeff to feel uncomfortable when he has to seduce her. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Annie has to seduce her instead.]]

* DefeatMeansFriendship: To a very, ''very'' small degree between Neil and Pierce.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Note to Pierce: when [[AmoralAttorney Jeff]] [[JerkAss Winger]] seems disgusted with your lack of common human decency, you have clearly set some kind of record in dickishness.
* FantasticRacism: Britta is incensed by this in D&D regarding gnomes.

* HoYay: Invoked. Abed names the character meant for Troy "Hector the well-endowed."

* MundaneMadeAwesome:

** Also: [[Creator/StanLee Excelsior!]]

* CharacterGrowth: It's absolutely believable that Jeff would have been the one to give Neil his shitty nickname. It's also believable that Jeff would feel bad about that now.

->'''Abed:''' In about 13 turns, [Pierce] will die of exposure. Jeff?\\
'''Jeff:''' I wait 14 turns.

-->'''Gnome waiter''': I never saw his face. Just so you know... My name... was Kyle. ''[Dies]''

--> '''Pierce:''' That's right, Neil. Your new best friend, Jeff Winger, coined the name 'Fat Neil'.
--> '''Shirley:''' Jeffrey.\\
'''Jeff:''' Neil, look, before you respond, I can make it up to you. I'll find a fatter Neil!\\
'''Troy:''' Huzzah...

* BiggusDickus: Hector the Well-Endowed, the character Annie plays. Although Abed originally designed him with [[BlackIsBiggerInBed Troy]] in mind.

* BottleEpisode: The episode takes place almost exclusively in the study room. UpToEleven. Unlike the previous Bottle Episode in the study room, the characters barely leave the ''table'', which makes sense since they're playing D&D.

* ContinuityNod: The name Marrrrrrr is from episode [[Recap/CommunityS2E06Epidemiology Epidemiology]], it's the sound that Jeff makes when he is a zombie.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Dark Elf Dies First. Chang's character dies first. Possibly as a punishment for cosplaying in blackface.

* GameWithinAGame: An [[WhatCouldHaveBeen alternative ending]] was for the study group to start playing another game of Dungeons and Dragons within the cube that Pierce trapped them all in, thus continuing to excluding him from within the game.

* HoYay: Abed names the character meant for Troy 'Hector the well-endowed.'

** Pierce. He destroys everything Neil had worked for just ForTheEvulz. Basically the opposite of what Pierce did in [[Recap/CommunityS2E11AbedsUncontrollableChristmas "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"]]
** Jeff gets a minor moment. After Neil protests Jeff using "Fat Neil" to distinguish him from the other Neil who was present by pointing out that the other Neil happens to be both bald and African American, Jeff sanctimoniously informs Neil that "I don't view the world through that lens", with an implied rebuke of Neil doing so. Considering that this is mere moments after it's been revealed that Jeff (inadvertently) coined the cruel and bullying nickname that has almost driven Neil to suicide, he could probably have kept his mouth shut, or at least dialed down the smug self-righteousness a bit.

* KickTheDog: Everything Pierce does to Neil - Whilst he's merely being a dick to the rest of the Study Group, he actively goes out of his way to cruelly insult Neil.
* TheMagnificent:

*** Britta the [[SoapboxSadie Needlessly Defiant]];

*** Abed the [[AmbiguousDisorder Undiagnosed]];

*** Pierce the [[{{Jerkass}} Insensitive]].

-->'''Abed:''' I need to know what you want to do next.\\
'''Pierce:''' So many things, Abed... So many things.

-->'''Jeff:''' Someone asked where the restrooms were. You were standing by them, but you were also standing kind of near, uh, other Neil.\\
'''Neil:''' So call him "Skinny Neil"!\\
'''Jeff:''' Well, he's not actually that skinny.\\
'''Neil:''' He's bald! He's ''black''!\\
'''Jeff:''' Well, I don't see the world through that lens... I shouldn't be high-roading you.

* PowerWalk: We see the group doing this [[Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience once again]] before the opening title sequence.

** The entire episode is about the study group giving Neil one of these, and as such most of them try to keep their quirks and {{Jerkass}}eries in check. Even Chang's customary manchild behavior is somewhat in abeyance.

* RPGEpisode: Conspicuously lacking [[DeepImmersionGaming deep immersion]].

* RuleOfDrama: One wonders how high Abed must have rolled for Pierce - who is playing as himself, meaning an out-of-shape old man with no particular skills - to manage to first steal someone's sword right out of his belt and then kill someone with it in a single blow. Likewise, at the end Neil manages to defeat Pierce by succeeding at a roll with a mere 15% chance of success. In both cases, the die apparently opted to provide the interesting result over the probable one.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Almost, as NBC wanted to cut the episode until Creator/DanHarmon the Creator convinced them not to.

-->'''Troy''': I'm Bing Bong The Archer. I'm an archer, and such.
-->(later)

** A copy of ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}.
** A Series/DoctorWho Day of the Daleks video.

** "Hector the Well-Endowed" was meant for Troy, and in Literature/TheIliad, Hector was a prince of the nation of Troy.

** [[Film/WhenHarryMetSally "I'll have what Fat Neil's having"]]
* SlouchOfVillainy: ''[[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgfrkmd2Aw1qbzcxd.jpg "So many things, Abed... So many things."]]''

-->'''Abed as gnome waiter:''' How can I help you, dear madam?\\
'''Britta as Lavernica:''' Oh, please, no need for such deference. I'm no better than a gnome.\\
'''Abed as gnome waiter:''' You are, madam. You are a human warrior, which is five species classes greater than I.\\
'''Britta as Lavernica:''' That's disgusting. Don't talk like that.\\
'''Abed as gnome waiter:''' I am so sorry, madam. Please don't report me for execution.\\
'''Britta as Lavernica:''' Oh, no, no, I didn't mean that. We've gotta do something about these gnomes!

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Shirley can't tell you how long she's waited to take out Pierce ...in the game.

* TheXOfY: Britta is "the AT&T of people".

* UnfortunateImplications: [[invoked]]
** Chang spends the episode in blackface. When Shirley calls him out, he says he's playing a dark elf.
** Discussed; Jeff defends his decision to refer to Neil as "Fat Neil" because there was another Neil in the corridor and he had to differentiate between the two. Neil, hurt, points out that the other Neil was both bald and black. When Neil brings up race, Jeff replies that he doesn't "view the world through that lens."

** In the original concept, Pierce the Insensitive turns out to be an expert D&D player due to hanging out with Gary Gygax in the '70s.