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* FreudianExcuse: In Timeline 5, Shirley eventually admits to Britta that the only reason she bakes excessively is that she feels excluded by the rest of the study group, and baking is her way of feeling needed and included. Unfortunately, this means that Jeff's plan to confront her excessive baking by colluding with everyone to refuse to eat what she cooks unwittingly works to validate her fears of being left out.

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* FreudianExcuse: In Timeline 5, 6, Shirley eventually admits to Britta that the only reason she bakes excessively is that she feels excluded by the rest of the study group, and baking is her way of feeling needed and included. Unfortunately, this means that Jeff's plan to confront her excessive baking by colluding with everyone to refuse to eat what she cooks unwittingly works to validate her fears of being left out.
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* DisasterDominoes: Timeline 5. Troy hurriedly leaves the apartment for the pizza delivery — he dislodges the rolling boulder from the "Raiders" set model which lands on the floor — Annie trips on it and falls into the coffee table, smashing Pierce's bottle of overproof rum — Pierce jumps up from the game table in panic and Annie's purse hits the floor — a gun inside it fires, shooting Pierce in the thigh and hitting an artery — as the others frantically try to stop the bleeding, Britta steps out of the bathroom, and as she gapes in alarm the marijuana cigarette she's smoking falls and ignites the rum. Eventually, Pierce is dead, Annie is driven mad from guilt and locked in a mental hospital, Shirley lapses into chronic drunkenness, Troy's larynx is destroyed, Jeff loses an arm in the fire, Abed puts on a mustache and decides [[MultiversalConqueror they should invade the Prime Timeline,]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Britta dyes a strand of her hair blue]].

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* DisasterDominoes: Timeline 5. Troy hurriedly leaves the apartment for the pizza delivery — he dislodges the rolling boulder from the "Raiders" set model which lands on the floor — Annie trips on it and falls into the coffee table, smashing Pierce's bottle of overproof rum — Pierce jumps up from the game table in panic and Annie's purse hits the floor — a gun inside it fires, shooting Pierce in the thigh and hitting an artery — as the others frantically try to stop the bleeding, Britta steps out of the bathroom, and as she gapes in alarm the marijuana cigarette she's smoking falls and ignites the rum. Jeff ineptly attempts to put out the fire with a piece of cloth, but the cloth ends up lighting on fire too and wraps about his arm. Just then, Troy returns with the pizza to find the apartment in both flames and shambles. Just then, the box containing Pierce's "present" burns away, revealing the troll doll inside. Troy assumes that the troll is somehow responsible for the chaos, and decides to defeat the way you are supposed to fight trolls: By eating it. Eventually, Pierce is dead, Annie is driven mad from guilt and locked in a mental hospital, Shirley lapses into chronic drunkenness, Troy's larynx is destroyed, Jeff loses an arm in the fire, Abed becomes convinced that they are in the "Darkest Timeline" so he puts on a mustache felt goatee and decides and declares that they should find a way [[MultiversalConqueror they should to invade and take over the Prime Timeline,]] Timeline]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Britta dyes a strand of her hair blue]].
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* HopeSpot: Timeline 6, in which Abed gets the pizza, is basically made of these. Right after the darkest timeline, the three conflicts appear to have been simultaneously resolved before getting messed up again.
** Jeff and Annie kiss and share a very tender moment...but then Annie says Jeff reminds her of her dad, leading Jeff to criticize her, and the moment is ruined.
** A stoned Britta eats and compliments one of Shirley's pies, validating her...but then Shirley realizes Britta has been smoking weed and the two start fighting about this.
** Pierce has a major JerkassRealization about his troll doll prank and tries to take back his "gift"...but Troy insists on opening it and gets even more angry than he did in the other timelines.
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'''Jeff:''' There's no such thing as Single-Malt-Platinum-Boobs-And-Billards Club?! ''[Realizes]'' Oh. I guess I never said it out loud.

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'''Jeff:''' There's no such thing as Single-Malt-Platinum-Boobs-And-Billards Single-Malt-Platinum-Boobs-And-Billiards Club?! ''[Realizes]'' Oh. I guess I never said it out loud.
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* BottleEpisode: Save for the final scene in the study room the episode takes place entirely in Abed and Troy's apartment. Ironically though, according to the DVD commentary it was one of the ''more'' expensive episodes because it took such a long time to shoot (as in, over six months with three different directors).

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* BottleEpisode: Save for the final scene in the study room room, the episode takes place entirely in Abed and Troy's apartment. Ironically Ironically, though, according to the DVD commentary commentary, it was one of the ''more'' expensive episodes because it took such a long time to shoot (as in, over six months with three different directors).
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* AwkwardKiss: ​Jeff and Annie come really close to kissing in Timeline 4, but they are interrupted and the moment is gone. In Timeline 6, the two successfully make out, only to stop when Annie mentions Jeff reminding her of her father. That creeps him out and points it out, plus he berates Annie for wearing too much lip gloss.

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* AwkwardKiss: ​Jeff and Annie come really close to kissing in Timeline 4, but they are interrupted and the moment is gone. In Timeline 6, the two successfully make out, only to stop when Annie mentions Jeff reminding her of her father. That creeps him out and irks him, which he points it out, plus he out. He also berates Annie for wearing too much lip gloss.

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