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* BlackComedy: Lukka's reminiscing over his past war crimes is at least partially PlayedForLaughs, despite the fact that both the audience and the characters are rightfully expected to be horrified by them.


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* ConflictBall: Both Troy and Abed have a death grip on it this episode. To wit, they flatly refuse to believe Britta's claims that Lukka is a ''genocidal war criminal'' simply because she's "ruined" some friends they've had in the past by dating them.
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* CaughtOnTape: Abed has a video camera installed in his room which catches Britta stealing the DVD.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Lukka talks like this at times.
-->"You have DVD blu-ray disc."

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* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Chang gets himself a pipe in an attempt to look mature.



* HeyWait: When Britta is about to leave Abed's room, Lukka shouts after her "Wait a minute" but then it turns out he wasn't talking to her but spotted the blu-ray disc of ''Kick Puncher 3 - The Final Kickening'' on a shelf next to the door.



* OutOfFocus: Annie and Pierce.



* StrippingSnag: Chang's attempt to fix the pool table results in a girl getting her skirt ripped by a protruding nail.



* TakeThat:
-->'''Jeff''': Hey, who am I to stand in the way of someone trying to put their life together? What am I, daytime television?



* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Lukka applies his real world knowledge to show how it can be done. Though honestly any game that awards points for killing unarmed villagers is just asking for this to happen.
** It looks and sounds like a standard run & gun game, but apparently it contains sophisticated infrastructure systems to allow strategies like cutting off the enemy forces' supplies at the root by terrorizing the countryside. It seems the game is designed with cruelty potential on the genocidal level in mind...
* WasJustLeaving: When Abed wants Britta out of his room he announces "Britta was just leaving."



* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Lukka applies his real world knowledge to show how it can be done. Though honestly any game that awards points for killing unarmed villagers is just asking for this to happen.
** It looks and sounds like a standard run & gun game, but apparently it contains sophisticated infrastructure systems to allow strategies like cutting off the enemy forces' supplies at the root by terrorizing the countryside. It seems the game is designed with cruelty potential on the genocidal level in mind...
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* {{Jerkass}}: Whether she ruins their male friends or not, Troy and Abed are pretty dickish to Britta this episode. They do acknowledge at the end that they've been a bit hard on her and resolve to treat her better, however.

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* {{Jerkass}}: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Whether she ruins their male friends or not, Troy and Abed are pretty dickish to Britta this episode. They do acknowledge at the end that they've been a bit hard on her and resolve to treat her better, however.
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Hey Its That Guy cut by TRS decision. Ditto for Hey Its That Voice.


* HeyItsThatGuy: Lukka is [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} Victor]]! With the Lubov imprint, no less.
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* ManipulativeBitch: Shirley is clearly not shy about using her pregnancy to guilt people into doing what she wants, frequently with the refrain "You're not gonna make a pregnant woman [do X]!". Taken to the nth degree in her argument with Jeff, in which she ''makes him storm off instead of her'':
-->'''Jeff:''' Let me guess: I’m not going to make a pregnant woman storm off?
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: After Lukka spoils the mood, a standard "Wa Wa Aa Aa". plays. Lukka's jazz musician neighbor is a real mood killer.

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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: After Lukka spoils the mood, a standard "Wa "[[SadTrombone Wa Wa Aa Aa".Aa]]". plays. Lukka's jazz musician neighbor is a real mood killer.
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Fixed the one that referred to the episode itself. Why is there not a rule that you should spoiler events from future episodes, but not events that happen in the episode being recapped? I can at least make the distinction, even if the rules inexplicably don\'t.


* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: Abed, Troy, and Lukka are playing what seems to be an outright genocide simulator. It's likened to Lukka's [[spoiler:experience committing real genocide in the Balkans.]]

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* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: Abed, Troy, and Lukka are playing what seems to be an outright genocide simulator. It's likened to Lukka's [[spoiler:experience experience committing real genocide in the Balkans.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Lukka is [[{{Dollhouse}} Victor]]! With the Lubov imprint, no less.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Lukka is [[{{Dollhouse}} [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} Victor]]! With the Lubov imprint, no less.
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** It looks and sounds like a standard run & gun game, but apparently it contains sophisticated infrastructure systems to allow strategies like cutting off the enemy forces' supplies at the root by terrorizing the countryside. (I forget how exactly, does Lukka mention something about burning crops?) It seems the game is designed with cruelty potential on the genocidal level in mind...

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** It looks and sounds like a standard run & gun game, but apparently it contains sophisticated infrastructure systems to allow strategies like cutting off the enemy forces' supplies at the root by terrorizing the countryside. (I forget how exactly, does Lukka mention something about burning crops?) It seems the game is designed with cruelty potential on the genocidal level in mind...
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* BluntYes:
-->'''Jeff''': I spent the night learning arts and crafts from my cellmate, Chabo. [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Did you know that you can make an ashtray using only a cigarette and a snitch's forehead?]]
-->'''Andre''': Yeah.


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* BullyingADragon: Chang calls his arresting officer "Officer baby".
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\"stop rep...primanding\" Last second word swap had the wrong word. The rep is the first part of the word, the joke is more clever that her simply chnaging the word after saying the start of a different word. Britta begins by repeating the word repeating before chnaging it to a word that fits within context.


--> '''Britta:''' Stop rep... remanding me and explain why I'll ruin him

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--> '''Britta:''' Stop rep... remanding rimanding me and explain why I'll ruin him
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* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: Abed, Troy, and Lukka are playing what seems to be an outright genocide simulator. It's likened to Lukka's [[spoiler:experience committing real genocide in the Balkans.]]
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* [[PlayingWith/JumpingTheShark JumpingTheShark]]: Lampshaded. Abed has made sweatshirts commemorating the [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare paintball adventure]]. "It's all downhill from here" is printed on the back.

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* [[PlayingWith/JumpingTheShark JumpingTheShark]]: PlayingWith/JumpingTheShark: Lampshaded. Abed has made sweatshirts commemorating the [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare paintball adventure]]. "It's all downhill from here" is printed on the back.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Whether she ruins their male friends or not, Troy and Abed are pretty dickish to Britta this episode. They do acknowledge at the end that they've been a bit hard on her and resolve to treat her better, however.

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Accuracy.


* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chang escapes through the ventilation shaft at the police station. Later in the series [[spoiler: he'll live in the air ducts at Greendale]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chang escapes through the ventilation shaft at the police station. Later in In the next series [[spoiler: he'll live in the air ducts at Greendale]]

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Lampshaded shark.


* [[PlayingWith/JumpingTheShark JumpingTheShark]]: Abed has made sweatshirts commemorating the [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare paintball adventure]]. "It's all downhill from here" is printed on the back.

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* [[PlayingWith/JumpingTheShark JumpingTheShark]]: Lampshaded. Abed has made sweatshirts commemorating the [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare paintball adventure]]. "It's all downhill from here" is printed on the back.

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* JumpingTheShark: Abed has made sweatshirts commemorating the [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare paintball adventure]]. "It's all downhill from here" is printed on the back.

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* JumpingTheShark: [[PlayingWith/JumpingTheShark JumpingTheShark]]: Abed has made sweatshirts commemorating the [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare paintball adventure]]. "It's all downhill from here" is printed on the back.
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* JumpingTheShark: Abed has made sweatshirts commemorating the [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare paintball adventure]]. "It's all downhill from here" is printed on the back.

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Foreshadowing Chang in airducts


* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chang escapes through the ventilation shaft at the police station. Later in the series [[spoiler: he'll live in the air ducts at Greendale]]



* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: After Lukka spoils the mood, a standard "Wa Wa Aa Aa". plays. Lukka's neighbor is a real mood killer.

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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: After Lukka spoils the mood, a standard "Wa Wa Aa Aa". plays. Lukka's jazz musician neighbor is a real mood killer.

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Get with the program


--> '''Chang:''' I am *nuts*, Jeff!

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--> '''Chang:''' I am *nuts*, Jeff!Jeff! Get with the program!
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* GlassesPull: After Chang kidnaps the kids and Jeff calls him on it
--> '''Chang:''' I am *nuts*, Jeff!
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--> '''Abed:''' "Hit me with your genie bottle?"
--> '''Troy:''' What the... What *was* that?
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--> '''Abed:''' You're not allowed
--> '''Britta:''' Not allowed?!
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* LastSecondWordSwap: Britta
--> '''Troy:''' You'll ruin him
--> '''Britta:''' I'll ruin him?!
--> '''Abed:''' Stop repeating
--> '''Britta:''' Stop rep... remanding me and explain why I'll ruin him
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** However, had they gone through with it, Chang wouldn't have been able to [[spoiler:take over the school]] in season 3. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job, Andre!]]
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** It looks and sounds like a standard run & gun game, but apparently it contains sophisticated infrastructure systems to allow strategies like cutting off the enemy forces' supplies at the root by terrorizing the countryside. (I forget how exactly, does Lukka mention something about burning crops?) It seems the game is designed with cruelty potential on the genocidal level in mind. . .

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** It looks and sounds like a standard run & gun game, but apparently it contains sophisticated infrastructure systems to allow strategies like cutting off the enemy forces' supplies at the root by terrorizing the countryside. (I forget how exactly, does Lukka mention something about burning crops?) It seems the game is designed with cruelty potential on the genocidal level in mind. . .mind...

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* CassandraTruth: [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous After borrowing a DVD without permission]] Britta is unable to convince Troy & Abed of the real reason they should stop being friends with Lukka.

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* CassandraTruth: [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous [[FelonyMisdemeanor After borrowing a DVD without permission]] Britta is unable to convince Troy & Abed of the real reason they should stop being friends with Lukka.



* FelonyMisdemeanor: Abed, Troy and Lukka are ''very'' freaked out by Britta's DramaticPause moment.
-->'''Troy:''' I don't want to play any more.\\
'''Abed:''' I feel sick.\\
'''Lukka:''' She's strange.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Abed, Troy and Lukka are ''very'' freaked out by Britta's DramaticPause moment.
-->'''Troy:''' I don't want to play any more.\\
'''Abed:''' I feel sick.\\
'''Lukka:''' She's strange.
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* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Abed has security camera set up in his dorm for an autobiographical documentary. They come in handy every once in a while.

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* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Abed has a security camera set up in his dorm for an autobiographical documentary. They come It comes in handy every once in a while.

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