History Recap / CommunityS2E21ParadigmsOfHumanMemory

* InvisibleBackupBand: Glee club fill-in flashback - full band sound but only Professor Duncan on the piano.

* BottleEpisode: Stunningly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] (and quite possibly the only example to date). Most {{Clip Show}}s are employed so as to save production money and time, with very little money spent on taping and writing new material, the ClipShow is usually a type of BottleEpisode. This episode spoofs the very nature of a ClipShow (or more specifically, of a RecapEpisode) by having the actual clips be a bunch of [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]] to a variety of locations and situations never actually seen in the series. Financially, this episode was expensive, even to the point that [[WordOfGod Dan Harmon himself paid for the Sara Bareilles song]] to be used in the MistakenForRomance portion of the episode. Interestingly the episode after this one is a true BottleEpisode because of the expensiveness of this episode as well as the season finale.

* BottleEpisode: Stunningly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] (and quite possibly the only example to date). Most {{Clip Show}}s are employed so as to save production money and time, with very little money spent on taping and writing new material, the ClipShow is usually a type of BottleEpisode. This episode spoofs the very nature of a ClipShow (or more specifically, of a RecapEpisode) by having the actual clips be a bunch of [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]] to a variety of locations and situations never actually seen in the series. Financially, this episode was expensive, even to the point that [[WordOfGod Dan Harmon himself paid for the Sara Bareilles song]] to be used in the ShippingGoggles portion of the episode. Interestingly the episode after this one is a true BottleEpisode because of the expensiveness of this episode as well as the season finale.

* ShippingGoggles: [[invoked]]Played with, parodied, and arguably deconstructed. At one point Annie brings up the {{UST}} between her and Jeff and, to support her claim of the "fundamental Jeff-and-Annie of it all", brings up a whole range of seemingly romantically-charged moments between her and Jeff, set to 'Gravity' by Music/SaraBareilles. Jeff, however, argues that she's reading too much into things and that you could do the exact same thing with anyone, picking Pierce and Abed entirely at random. We then see a selection of clearly innocuous moments between Pierce and Abed set to the exact same song and similarly framed as if they were moments of huge romantic significance. While Jeff and Annie arguably do have plenty of genuine {{UST}} (as Abed himself notes), the episode is clearly making the point that it's very easy for shippers to take what might be entirely random moments out of context and over-saturate them with unintended meaning and significance [[ConfirmationBias in order to support their own preconceptions,]] and that not every single moment they see as ShipTease might actually be so.

** Somehow blowing up a house.

-->'''Jeff:''' It's not you. It's m-\\

-->'''Jeff''': It's not you, it's-\\
'''Britta''': It's you.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Troy has apparently been denying himself this under a mistaken impression.
-->'''Troy:''' Didn't we agree at the beginning of the year that for the good of the group we wouldn't allow any intimacy between each other or ourselves?\\
'''Jeff:''' Troy, we never said ourselves.\\
'''Troy:''' ...Okay, now I'm ''really'' mad!

** The study group getting lost in a western town.

-->'''Troy''': Like the Traveling Wilburys.

* NoodleIncident: Several of the flashbacks, most notably Jeff's [[RousingSpeech final speech(es)]].

** The entire episode is a parody of the ClipShow. Unlike actual Clip Shows, the flashbacks presented by the group are of scenarios we've never seen and often make reference to events that the show has skipped. In essence, it's a Clip Show of entirely new footage, including the numerous hints to [[spoiler: Jeff and Britta's hookups]] being added in exclusively for this episode. As a result this is one of the most expensive episodes in the series rather than one of the cheapest.

* BusCrash: Literally. Remember the Glee Club introduced in last year's [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare paintball competition]]? Turns out they all died in a bus crash.

* EvilIsSexy: Mentioned by Jeff.
-->'''Jeff:''' Look, just because we're good-looking doesn't make us villains.

* ShipTease: Played with, parodied, and arguably deconstructed. At one point Annie brings up the {{UST}} between her and Jeff and, to support her claim of the "fundamental Jeff-and-Annie of it all", brings up a whole range of seemingly romantically-charged moments between her and Jeff, set to 'Gravity' by Sara Bareilles. Jeff, however, argues that she's reading too much into things and that you could do the exact same thing with anyone, picking Pierce and Abed entirely at random. We then see a selection of clearly innocuous moments between Pierce and Abed set to the exact same song and similarly framed as if they were moments of huge romantic significance. While Jeff and Annie arguably do have plenty of genuine {{UST}} (as Abed himself notes), the episode is clearly making the point that it's very easy for shippers to take what might be entirely random moments out of context and over-saturate them with unintended meaning and significance [[ConfirmationBias in order to support their own preconceptions,]] and that not every single moment they see as ShipTease might actually be so.

-->"The dude was hardcore racist. Like 18-hundreds Disney style. We learned new ways to hate ourselves."

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Annie's Boobs is back, and is finally brought to justice for stealing Annie's pen in "Cooperative Calligraphy".

* ShipTease: Played with, parodied, and arguably deconstructed. At one point Annie brings up the {{UST}} between her and Jeff and, to support her claim of the "fundamental Jeff-and-Annie of it all", brings up a whole range of seemingly romantically-charged moments between her and Jeff, set to 'Gravity' by Sara Bareilles. Jeff, however, argues that she's reading too much into things and that you could do the exact same thing with anyone, picking Pierce and Abed entirely at random. We then see a selection of clearly innocuous moments between Pierce and Abed set to the exact same song and similarly framed as if they were moments of huge romantic significance. While Jeff and Annie arguably do have plenty of genuine {{UST}} (as Abed himself notes), the episode is clearly making the point that it's very easy for shippers to take what might be entirely random moments out of context and over-saturate them with unintended meaning and significance in order to support their own preconceptions, and that not every single moment they see as ShipTease might actually be so.

** The Dean's costume montage has references to Tina Turner, ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'', and ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''.

* FanService: A quick clip of both Jeff and Britta in their underwear during one of Abed's specific flashbacks.

* ContinuityCavalcade: Annie's Boobs' stash provides amble references to earlier episodes. Most normally, Annie finds the pens she flipped out over in "Cooperative Calligraphy."

** The entire episode is a parody of the ClipShow.