History Recap / CommunityS3E11UrbanMatrimonyAndTheSandwichArts

''[Shirley looks bewildered.]''\\

* One when Britta expresses some jaded thoughts about matrimony:

'''Britta''': No to everything you both said!
*** This gets extra points since she rejects Annie's statement, even though she's [[HypocriticalHumor nothing but anti-wedding throughout the whole episode]].
* Another after Shirley declines Troy and Abed's help with planning her wedding (based off their self-professed expertise from watching an ''Inspector Spacetime'' WeddingEpisode):

''[Shirley looks bewildered]''\\
'''Abed''':[[DontExplainTheJoke It's the noise people make when they're offended in all the movies Annie rents.]]\\

* IResembleThatRemark: A couple of instances:
-->'''Britta:''' When's our culture gonna outgrow this wedding thing?\\
'''Annie:''' You're anti-''wedding'' now?\\
'''Jeff:''' Oh, she's just pro-anti.\\
'''Britta:''' No to everything you both said!
** This gets extra points since she rejects Annie's statement, even though she's nothing but anti-wedding throughout the whole episode.
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-->'''Abed:''' ''(Scoff! scoff! scoff! scoff! [[OverlyLongGag scoff! scoff! scoff! scoff!]])'' [[DontExplainTheJoke It's the noise people make when they're offended in all the movies Annie rents.]]\\
'''Annie:''' ''(Scoff!)''

---> '''Pierce''': "Look at me now Dad!"

* IResembleThatRemark:
**
--->'''Britta:''' When's our culture gonna outgrow this wedding thing?\\

*** This gets extra points since she rejects Annie's statement, even though she's nothing but anti-wedding throughout the whole episode.
**
--->'''Abed:''' ''(Scoff! scoff! scoff! scoff! [[OverlyLongGag scoff! scoff! scoff! scoff!]])'' [[DontExplainTheJoke It's the noise people make when they're offended in all the movies Annie rents.]]\\

* SelfDeprecation: Dean Pelton cannot ''believe'' that Shirley actually learned some useful business sense at Greendale.

--> '''Pierce''': "Look at me now Dad!"

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The backup dancers that Andre brought along for his [[WackyMarriageProposal choreographed re-marriage proposal]] continue doing vigorous footwork sans music in the background while Andre and Shirley are having a heartfelt conversation.

'''Andre:''' ...[[TranquilFury Walk away, man.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: Hinted to be partially what's behind Britta's intense (even for her) opposition towards / breakdown about marriage throughout the episode -- during Andre's over-the-top and romantic proposal to Shirley, while everyone else looks either thrilled with events and at least happy for Shirley, she has an incredibly sour look on her face.

---> We'll try not to embarrass you at your community college library wedding.

* ThePowerOfLove: Subverted. When Jeff writes the toast for Shirley's wedding, we are led to believe he will write it based on his feelings for Annie. Turns out, he bases it on alcohol instead.

* TheReveal: Shirley's "Miss Piggy" voice is, according to Andre, her "sexy" voice she uses in the bedroom. [[HilariousInHindsight Which makes it wildly inappropriate when you remember she talked to her sons in that voice]].

** Britta makes a ([[PopculturalOsmosisFailure "Brittaed"]]) reference to something called ''[[Creator/HermannHesse The Steppenwolf]] [[Literature/TheStepfordWives Wives]]''.

* ThiefBag: A drawing of the Dean holding one in each hand is used in Shirley and Pierce's slide presentation to him about opening a sandwich shop on campus.
-->'''Dean Pelton:''' That's me! Where did I get all the money I'm holding?

** Subverted with Jeff. Annie believes there's a real person in Jeff and he just needs to dig deep. Cut to a montage of images in his heart consisting of poker, women, cars, and alcohol. Possible Double Subversion, however, in that one of the only 'real' things that appear is [[ShipTease Annie]].

** Troy is also not particularly impressed by Shirley's demand that he and Abed act 'normal' at her wedding, since she's holding it in the study room:

!The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts" provides examples of:

* WhyWasteAWedding: Played with. While drunk, Jeff and Britta decide to get married, at the rehearsal for Shirley and Andre's wedding. Later, the minister convinces Shirley and Andre to cancel the scheduled wedding, having been practically married at the rehearsal.

* AmazingFreakingGrace: An R&B a capella version, of course.

** Britta makes a ([[PopculturalOsmosisFailure "Brittaed"]]) reference to something called ''[[Creator/HermannHesse The Steppenwolf]] [[TheStepfordWives Wives]]''.

** Pierce spends the first half of the episode dressed as Michael Douglas's character from the film ''WallStreet''.

* ShipTease: In the montage of images that represent everything in Jeff's 'heart', Annie pops up quite a lot. [[MaleGaze As well as]] [[BuxomIsBetter her cleavage]] at one point.

* AccidentallyAccurate: The show generally does a pretty good job of including up-to-date topical references, so Britta's reference to "people dying in Uganda" would seem to be another instance of this in light of the media storm about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kony_2012 Kony 2012]] in the week the episode was aired, and which would be a natural thing for her to reference -- except that this episode was written and shot months before that particular story flared up, and it just happened to be pure coincidence.
** It doesn't hurt that people are ''always'' dying in Uganda.

* AscendedFanon: Danielle is [[http://twitter.com/danharmon/status/181454861852868610 actually]] Danielle Harmon the [[Recap/CommunityS1E25PascalsTriangleRevisited Tranny Dance Winner]].

** Troy and Abed mention a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong wedding episode]] of ''InspectorSpacetime''.

* AccidentallyAccurate: The show generally does a pretty good job of including up-to-date topical references, so Britta's reference to "people dying in Uganda" would seem to be another instance of this in light of the media storm about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kony_2012 Kony 2012]] in the week the episode was aired, and which would be a natural thing for her to reference -- except that this episode was written and shot months before that particular story flared up, and it just happened to be pure coincidence (although, of course, the situation in Uganda had been well known before "Kony 2012").

** A TakeThat is dealt to [[JamesBelushi Jim Belushi]], as in "[[Recap/CommunityS1E14InterpretiveDance Interpretive Dance]]".

*** In general, for two people who have never been married or, it appears, even in a stable relationship that's lasted longer than a few months, both Jeff and Britta are pretty certain and self-congratulatory about their cynical and dismissive views on marriage. Andre and Shirley's speech to both of them at the end is basically part a heartwarming re-affirmation of their love for each other and partly them gently-but-firmly pointing out to Jeff and Britta that they both ultimately know nothing about marriage or what it is to be married to someone else, and so should probably shut up and stop acting like idiots over it.

** Troy and Abed's attempts at being 'normal' are ultimately just as weird as their usual eccentric personalities, except where their usual hijinks are (mostly) engaging, likeable and charming, their 'normal' personas are just discomforting, off-putting and oddly sarcastic.

* AmazingFreakingGrace: an R&B a capella version, of course.

*** And his phone, [[CargoShip obviously]]

-->'''Britta:''' When's our culture gonna outgrow this wedding thing?\\

-->'''Abed:''' ''(Scoff! scoff! scoff! scoff! [[OverlyLongGag scoff! scoff! scoff! scoff!]])'' [[DontExplainTheJoke It's the noise people make when they're offended in all the movies Annie rents.]]\\

'''Britta:''' No to everything you both said!\\

** This gets extra points since she rejects Annie's statement, even though she's nothing but anti-wedding throughout the whole episode.

** How exactly is this AccidentallyAccurate if the conditions of Uganda have been known since long before Kony?

* Malaproper:

* IdeaDing: "I have an idea" says Abed. "ting!" goes the sound effects.

'''Britta:''' I'm one of the Steppenwolf wives.