History Recap / CommunityS3E13DigitalExplorationOfInteriorDesign

* [[ExpertInUnderwaterBasketWeaving Underwater Basket Weaving]]:

* AssShove It's all but directly stated that [[spoiler:anal fingering]] is the "deviant sex act" that Britta and Subway engaged in.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* [[invoked]] DoingItForTheArt: Troy wants to make a blanket fort because it's faster to build and he means to aim for a world record. Abed simply wants to build the perfect fort, with pillows.

* AbsenteeActor: Ken Jeong as Chang.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** When the Dean first mentions the Guinness record to Troy and Abed:
--->'''Dean:''' I was Googling the record length of things...
** The title of the episode is confusing (there's nothing digital here!) until you realize they mean "digits" as in ''fingers.'' Sheds some light on Britta and Subway's "deviant sex act."
** The Subway executive [[RagingStiffie doesn't want to stand up from the table]] after listening to the tape of Britta and Subway having sex.

*** A [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar digital exploration]] [[AssShove of interior design]].

* BerserkButton: This ultimately sparks the pillow fight at the end of the episode.
-->'''Dean:''' Watch it, Star-Burns!\\
'''Star-Burns:''' [[RunningGag My name]]! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Is!]] ''[[CallBack Alex]]!''

Abed and Troy plan to build another fort, but differ over whether to build a pillow fort or a blanket fort, and Vice Dean Laybourne stokes resentment between the two.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: Dean Laybourne with Troy and Abed.

** Dean Laybourne's combination of beard, black suit, and long ponytail copy [[Creator/RobertDeNiro Robert [=De Niro=]]]'s Louis Cyphre look from ''Film/AngelHeart''. Without the ponytail, it also shares some similarity to the look of TheMaster from classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' (particularly as played by [[http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/jqpublique/MASTER13.jpg Roger Delgado]]) -- fitting, given how Laybourne uses Troy and Abed's shared love of ''JustForFun/InspectorSpacetime'' to drive a wedge between them.

%%--> '''Dean:''' Did you know Greendale students are technically in the army reserves?

--> '''Dean Pelton''': ''[blithely]'' I am not.

* GenderBlenderName: Kim [=McFadden=].

-->'''Subway corpohumanoid''': Actually, I'm on the wait list for [[invoked]][[PortmanteauSeriesName [=PreMenPostFemExMark=]]]!

* [PortmanteauSeriesNickname Portmanteau Nickname]:
--> '''Britta''': ''[condescendingly]'' I don't recall seeing Subway in my [=Pre-Menopausal=] [=Post-Feminist=] Experiential Marketing class...
-->'''Subway corpohumanoid''': Actually, I'm on the wait list for [=PreMenPostFemExMark=]!

* AesopAmnesia: Taken to new heights (arguably spoofed). Jeff makes a big speech about how it was wrong for him to have been so oblivious to Kim. About two minutes later in the episode, he's already forgotten about him.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: As Subway is being hauled away by his corporate masters Britta yells: "Subway I love you!"

* BerserkButton:
--> '''Dean''': Watch it, Star-Burns.\\
'''Star-Burns''': [[RunningGag My name]] is [[{{callback}} Alex]]!
* BlanketFort: Abed and Troy's subplot.

** A photo from season one's [[Recap/CommunityS1E07IntroductionToStatistics Dias De Los Muertos party]] can be seen in Annie's locker.

--> '''Pierce''': Excellent whores-manship!\\
'''Shirley''': Pierce!\\
'''Pierce''': Sorry, whores-womanship. I forgot it was the 90s.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint:
-->'''Troy''': (''after Subway shows his driver's license'') I don't believe this! Come on, Subway, there is no way you're 5'10".\\
\\
'''Britta:''' You should try reading Orwell's ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''!
-->'''Subway:''' I have! It's a great book. Really awakened me in high school. I think kids should be forced to read it.
-->'''Britta:''' Me too!

--> '''Pierce''': Corporate espionage--I like it. Microphones hidden in lipstick, lipstick hidden in microphones.

--> '''Dean''': Did you know Greendale students are technically in the army reserves?
* GenderBlenderName: Kim.

--> '''Dean:''' I was googling the record length of things ...

* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Whatever Britta and Subway did that gives the Subway exec pause.

--->You know, I was raised in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area Bay Area]] but I'm a father now!

* HoneyTrap: Pierce and Shirley want Britta to be one in their plot against Subway. Pierce calls it a penis flytrap.

---> '''Britta''': [[EthicalSlut I am not a whore]]. And ... not that I've done the math, but if I were, I'd be the super-classy kind.

'''Girl offscreen:''' Gesundheit.\\

---> '''Britta''': You should try reading Orwell's [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]!\\
'''Subway''': I have! It's a great book. Really awakened me in high school. I think kids should be forced to read it.
* IgnoredEpiphany: By the end Jeff has forgotten who Kim was.

* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God, What Have We Done?]]: Troy and Abed share a look with each other right as the first skirmish ends of hurt, betrayal and sadness. Then they both return to their forts, Abed declaring forcefully, "ToBeContinued."

*** A [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Digital Exploration of Interior Design]]

* PowderKegCrowd: The conflict between Fort Pillow and Fort Blanket escalates when Starburns throws a pillow that destroys part of Troy's fort.
* ProductPlacement: Taken to some kind of absurdist extreme. In addition, the Subway restaurant location is and ''will be'' visible in every scene in the cafeteria from this episode on. Until season 4 anyway, when Shirley finally gets her sandwich shop approved for the cafetorium.
* PunBasedTitle: Britta's high school newspaper column was named ''Britta Unfiltered'', although she apparently doesn't realize it's a pun.

* SanitySlippage: Pierce appears to be suffering from this during this episode, for no adequately explained reason.
-->'''Pierce:''' Shirley, you do the honors. My brain starts getting weird this time of night.
-->'''Jeff:''' It's 10 AM!
-->'''Pierce:''' (''casually'') You're welcome.
-->'''Jeff:''' (''worried'') Uh-oh.

-->'''Pierce:''' Look at these idiots! Cattle! Sheep! Other animals that travel in herds! I want to say snakes...

-->'''Pierce:''' Top-notch whoresmanship, Britta!
-->'''Shirley:''' Pierce!
-->'''Pierce:''' Sorry, whoreswomanship. Forgot it was the 90's.
-->'''Shirley:''' ''[looking at Pierce, concerned]'' [[RunningGag Uh-oh]].

-->'''Pierce:''' You know what I think? I think you're falling for him!
-->'''Britta:''' I am not. Who do you think I am? I lived in New York!
-->'''Pierce:''' You never lived anywhere! You're a weapon designed for sex! You only think you lived in New York because I implanted your memories!

-->'''Pierce:''' This pen is a microphone. But it's also a mini-flask. ''[drinks ink from the pen]''
-->'''Britta:''' Did you just ''drink ink''?
* SeriousBusiness:
** Blanket fort versus pillow fort.
** Then there's this:
--->'''Pierce:''' You know what I think? I think you're falling for [Subway]!\\

** Laybourne also gives a thumbnail version of the [[Literature/AtlasShrugged John Galt speech]] to Abed.

** Pierce telling Britta she's a weapon designed for sex and that he implanted her memories. Is Pierce working for the [[{{Series/Dollhouse}} Rossum Corporation]]?
* SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond: Jeff's plot.

* ToBeContinued: as Abed lampshades at the end.

* TheUnfairSex: Annie is immensely sympathetic to Kim initially, only to immediately lose sympathy upon discovering that Kim is a guy and not a girl as they'd initially believed. It's subverted, however, as Annie ends up realizing that this is just her own issues around gender expressing themselves and she had no right to take them out on Kim.
* WholePlotReference: The Subway subplot could be seen as one long reference to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', specifically Britta and Subway's affair reflecting Winston and Julia's affair.
** The Abed and Troy plotline is equally drawn from “Literature/TheFountainhead”.

* WholePlotReference: The Subway subplot could be seen as one long reference to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', specifically Britta and Subway's affair reflecting Winston and Julia's affair.

** This is not the first time Troy and Abed build a BlanketFort with a

* RibbonCuttingCeremony: The Dean tries to cut a ribbon at the opening of the new Subway stand in the cafeteria but the giant scissors break. The Dean then tries to bite through the ribbon.

---> '''Britta''': You should try reading Orwell's [[NineteenEightyFour 1984]]!\\

* OhCrap: Jeff supplies an understated usage of this trope.
-->'''Pierce''': Shirley, you do the honors. My brain starts getting weird this time of night.
-->'''Jeff''': It's 10 AM!
-->'''Pierce''': (''casually'') You're welcome.
-->'''Jeff''': Uh oh.

-->'''Pierce:''' You're welcome.
-->'''Jeff:''' Uh-oh.

* DevelopmentGag: Jeff's locker number is 313, this refers to the production code for the episode.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Or rather "is vaguely mentioned by the plot". John Goodman had a ponytail and goatee for the movie ''{{Film/Flight}}'' which was filming at the time. It was such a different look to Vice Dean Laybourne's last appearance that it couldn't go unmentioned, but they didn't have time to go into it. So he's "just going through some stuff."

* HeyItsThatGuy: Subway is actually [[{{Series/Scrubs}} Keith Dudemeister]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Subway is actually [[{{Scrubs}} Keith Dudemeister]].

** Vice-Dean Laybourne plays trumpet in a band and is surprisingly familiar with ''InspectorSpacetime''.

** Dean Laybourne's combination of beard, black suit, and long ponytail copy [[Creator/RobertDeNiro Robert [=De Niro=]]]'s Louis Cyphre look from ''Film/AngelHeart''. Without the ponytail, it also shares some similarity to the look of TheMaster from classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' (particularly as played by [[http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/jqpublique/MASTER13.jpg Roger Delgado]]) -- fitting, given how Laybourne uses Troy and Abed's shared love of ''InspectorSpacetime'' to drive a wedge between them.