History Recap / CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory

* LibationForTheDead: Evil!Shirley pours one out for [[spoiler: Pierce. May he Rest In Pierce.]]

* ShipTease: Troy and Britta have a heart-to-heart in the bathroom, Jeff/Annie have moments in almost all of the timelines and [[spoiler: make out]] in one, and Jeff/Annie, Jeff/Britta, Britta/Troy and Troy/Abed share googly eyes. The apparent offer for Annie to move in with Abed and Troy also helps the chances of Abed/Annie and Annie/Abed happening in the future.

* ShipTease: Troy and Britta have a heart-to-heart in the bathroom, Jeff/Annie have moments in almost all of the timelines and [[spoiler: make out]] in one, and Jeff/Annie, Jeff/Britta, Britta/Troy and Troy/Abed share googly eyes.

* DevelopmentGag: Abed and Troy's apartment is number 303, the production number of the episode. The episode was difficult to make, and as such, it ended up being the fourth episode aired. The first lines of the episode, dubbed in at the last minutes, are Britta and Annie confirming that the apartment number is 303, not 304.

'''Timeline 7 (The Real Timeline):''' Abed catches the die and says that they should stop creating alternate timelines for two reasons: a) together they can weather anything and b) Jeff is a [[MagnificentBastard conniving son of a bitch]] who used a six-sided die when there were seven people - so he would never be the one to get the pizza. Jeff goes to get the pizza and hits his head on the ceiling fan. The others laugh and call it karma. Britta starts to sing "Roxanne" and Shirley joins in. Soon everybody is singing and dancing. Pierce throws the Norwegian troll in the trash. Abed invites Annie to come live with him and Troy. Jeff arrives with the pizza and says, "Look what happens with I leave you guys alone."

* OutOfOrder: With the previously aired episode "[[Recap/CommunityS3E03CompetitiveEcology Competitive Ecology]]". Events in this episode, Pierce revealing he had sex with Eartha Kitt and Shirley recognizing Britta's marajuana lighter both referred to. [[WildMassGuessing Hurm...]]

** WordOfGod [[http://twitter.com/#!/danharmon/status/124993322119999488 says no,]] but it's a neat idea nonetheless.

** Among the apartment's decor is a movie poster of Kickpuncher Detroit.

* ContinuityNod: Several of them such as in the tag where [[spoiler: Shirley becoming an alcoholic again and Annie going to a mental ward after a nervous breakdown, not unlike her addiction to pills back in high school]]

* ContinuityNod: In the tag, Regular!Troy and Abed are watching InspectorSpacetime, introduced in [[Recap/CommunityS3E01Biology101 the season premiere]].

** The flag that the study group designed for Greendale in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience Basic Rocket Science]] can be seen in Troy and Abed's apartment.

* DarkIsEvil: In TheTag everyone is wearing black.
** [[TheMourningAfter Or they're mourning Pierce's death?]]

* LibationForTheDead: Evil!Shirely pours one out for [[spoiler: Pierce. May he Rest In Pierce.]]

'''The Tag:''' In the timeline where Troy went to get the pizza, Pierce has died from his leg wound, Jeff lost an arm in the fire, Shirley's become a drunk, Annie's in a mental ward, Troy lost his larynx (from trying to swallow the Norwegian troll), and Britta's dyed a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking strip of hair blue]]. Abed declares that since this is the darkest of the timelines, that they should all agree to be their evil counterparts, wear [[BeardOfEvil evil goatees]] made of felt, and try to break into the real timeline to take over their lives. Troy and Abed put on their felt goatees. "Evil Troy and Evil Abed!" Meanwhile, in the normal timeline, Abed senses a disturbance, only to brush it off.

** Subverted. Annie literally finds a brick at the very beginning of the episode, but it never comes up afterwards.

** Literally, Annie's gun which is shown off in one timeline only to go off in another.

-->'''Jeff:''' "Britta, you put one wash-away blue streak in your hair and I lost an '''arm'''."
-->'''Britta:''' "Exactly! Life got '''dark'''!"

* TimeyWimeyBall: [[http://totalmachismo.tumblr.com/post/11456096409/community-304-remedial-chaos-theory-big-spoiler This particular theory]].

* OutOfOrder: With the previously aired episode "[[Recap/CommunityS3E03CompetitiveEcology Competitive Ecology]]". Events in this episode, Shirley recognizing Britta's marajuana lighter and Pierce revealing he had sex with Eartha Kitt both referred to.

* [[TakeAThirdOption Take A Seventh Option]]: In the 'true' timeline, Abed grabs the die before it hits the table, noting that A: too much of their lives is run by fate already and B: Jeff is a [[MagnificentBastard conniving son of a bitch]] for using a method that ensures he'll never have to get the pizza.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The real timeline, where everyone (excluding Jeff and Pierce) ends up dancing to the Police's "Roxanne."