History Recap / CommunityS2E24ForAFewPaintballsMore

* The Leader: Troy and Jeff squabble over the role, with Troy as a clear Type III and Jeff [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] his role as a Type IV.

* JumpingOnAGrenade Jumping on a Paint Grenade: Alas, poor spoiler:Magnitude, we hardly knew ye.

*** spoiler:NotQuiteDead: "For Greendale!"

* TheBadGuysWin: [[spoiler: Only to be averted by Pierce.]]

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted, since a nameless student is the first to get taken out by the Stormtroopers (however, [[spoiler:Magnitude]] is the first named character to "die").

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Magnitude.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Magnitude]]
-->[[spoiler:"Pop... p..."]]
*** [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]]: "For Greendale!"

* [[JumpingOnAGrenade Jumping on a Paint Grenade]]: Alas, poor [[spoiler:Magnitude]], we hardly knew ye.

-->--'''Dean Spreck'''

** Dean Spreck's intercom speech (this page's quote, in fact) is a nod to the female radio DJ from ''TheWarriors'' who provided both coded messages to New York's gangs and plot summary to the audience, complete with a replicated close shot of the lower half of Spreck's face speaking into a microphone. His cadence is even similar.

[''The Stormtroopers get shot through the poster by Annie and Abed.'']\\\
'''Stormtrooper 1:''' What the?!

[''The Stormtroopers get shot through the poster by Annie and Abed.'']\\

* VestOfStyle: Abed makes Starburns give his up.

** "Vicki!" [[spoiler:Vicki]]

* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: Pierce wins the paintball competition and decides to donate the money to repair the school, but he comes to decision to quit the Study Group.]]

** [[Recap/CommunityWebisodes The poster of]] [[DanHarmon Dean of Admissions Pat Isakson]].

** DanHarmon shows up on an admissions poster and is called a loser.

** Early on, Leonard interprets "Hit 'em where it hurts" to mean "Just below their balls." Later, when getting ready to fight, his BattleCry is "Let's kick some taint."

* DecoyProtagonist: The Dean and Jeff himself believe he is the the hero of the story. [[spoiler: Turns out Jeff is the first of the study group to 'die'. Really any of the other members could make a better argument for being the protagonist.]]

* {{Fanservice}}: Take all of the Alison Brie fanservice from the previous episode and combine it with ClothingDamage and being covered in paint.

* GenreShift: From [[TheWestern Western]] to "Rebels vs. [[TheEmpire the Empire]]", as mentioned above. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. (By [[GenreSavvy Abed]], of course.)

* TheReveal: At the start of the episode Pistol Patty is revealed to be Dean Spreck from the rival City College.

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Since Spreck is technically sponsoring the event, he makes it so that if someone gets paint on them, they're out rather than just getting hit by a paintball gun.

** LiteraryAllusionTitle: The episode title is taken from ''ForAFewDollarsMore''.

** Both Jeff's plan and Troy's refer to the climaxes of films: Troy's is to ''{{Constantine}}'' (Holy water in the sprinklers killing vampires), and Jeff's is to the classic Western ''TheWildBunch'' (where the climax involves charging a machine-gun nest)

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Since Spreck is technically sponsoring the event, he makes it so that if someone get's paint on them, they're out rather than just getting hit by a paintball gun.

** Dean Spreck's intercom speech is a nod to the female radio DJ from ''TheWarriors'' who provided both coded messages to New York's gangs and plot summary to the audience, complete with a replicated close shot of the lower half of Spreck's face speaking into a microphone. His cadence is even similar.

* FoeYay: As in [[Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience "Basic Rocket Science"]] there seems to be a copious amount of it between the dean and [[spoiler: the dean of city college.]]

* HoYay: Between the deans.

* MagnificentBastard: Dean Spreck

** [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare Chang's presumably personal gun]] ("I'm even one of the douchebags who brings in his own equipment") was apparently confiscated by the dean and kept in his closet all year - it ends up being used by both Annie and Jeff in pretty significant scenes.

* AirVentPassageway: [[spoiler: Failure]].

! The ''{{Community}}'' episode "For A Few Paintballs More" provides examples of:

* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: Justified in this case with Dean Spreck. While he did mastermind the whole game as part of his BatmanGambit, he couldn't enroll in the school himself and thus wasn't part of the game just like the Dean.]]

* ShoutOut: There's the ''StarWars'' WholePlotReference, of course...

->'''[[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Greendale students]]: [[MisfitMobilizationMoment I understand you've unified]] [[DoNotGoGentle and intend to draw this game out]]. [[WarIsHell Well, if it's a war you want, it's a war you will lose.]] [[EliteArmy City College is stronger, faster;]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking our sperm counts are higher]], [[RefugeInAudacity even in our women]]. [[ResistanceIsFutile Resistance is as pointless]] [[TakeThat as your degrees]].''