History Recap / CommunityS3E14PillowsAndBlankets

* GenreSavvy: Jeff has learnt from [[Recap/CommunityS2E16IntermediateDocumentaryFilmmaking previous]] [[Recap/CommunityS3E08DocumentaryFilmmakingRedux examples]] that whenever a documentary crew is following these characters around, chaos tends to result.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[InvokedTrope Invoked.]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: KeithDavid narrates the episode in the style of the works he's narrated for historical documentarian Ken Burns.

** According to Pierce's medical record, his physician is [[{{Fletch}} Dr. Rosenrosen]]. (The same piece of paper gives Pierce's birthdate as Oct. 8, 1943, the same as Chevy Chase.)

** Pierce's DoomsdayDevice looks like a cross between ComicBook/IronMan Mark I -- with detailed schematics and wielding The Pillow of [[TheMightyThor Thor]] -- and the Michelin Man.

** Which is an odd twist, given that the documentary is implied to have been made to document the record-breaking pillow fight.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: The Guinness Book of Records executive gets fired and isn't coming, thus rendering the entire conflict utterly pointless. As soon as they learn this, everyone sheepishly and dispiritedly gives up and goes home except for Troy and Abed.]]

** Pierce's DoomsdayDevice [[spoiler: looks like a cross between ComicBook/IronMan Mark I -- with detailed schematics and wielding The Pillow of [[TheMightyThor Thor]] -- and the Michelin Man.]]

* TitleOnlyOpening

* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption

* WarIsHell
* WeUsedToBeFriends

* WimpFight:
** Played with; when everyone is pillow-fighting, it's no-holds-barred and vicious. When it's just Troy and Abed, however, they just sort of slap each other's sides with the pillows.
** Justified though, as they're obviously not trying to actually hurt each other, and actually ''want'' the fight to go on for as long as possible.

** Pierce defecting from Troy's army to Abed's after Shirley is promoted over him is a reference to Benedict Arnold; one of Arnold's grievances against Congress which prompted him to conspire with the British to surrender West Point was that he was passed over for several promotions which he felt he was owed.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In-universe. Annie sees Jeff leaving the room and waiting long enough for Troy and Abed to think he got the imaginary "magical friendship hats" from the Dean's office so he can end the conflict and save their friendship as one. She is unaware that he actually DID go all the way there.

* DistressedDamsel: The Dean takes on this role in the Study Room Kerfuffle, screaming for Jeff to "Find me!" as the battle rages around him. Cut to Jeff... disinterestedly ignoring him and playing with his phone.

* TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar: The two sides agree on a set of rules governing which parts of the body you are allowed to hit. ([[GroinAttack Groin Attacks]] are not allowed, but Annie treats incidental "lightly grazed testicles.")

** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Leonard likes this post."]]

* OneWomanWail: Heard over The Battle of Greendale.
* OddlyNamedSequel:

** Jeff deliberately stirring the pot to delay schoolwork is noted as "[[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Buellerian]]."

---> '''Abed's Facebook status update''': The war won't stop with ''[[Franchise/{{Rambo}} First Blood Part II]]''; it will escalate to ''Rambo III''. Which should really be called ''Rambo II: First Blood Part II''. But the Rambo titles never made sense. And neither does war.

---> '''Abed's Facebook status update''': The war won't stop with ''First Blood Part II''; it will escalate to ''Rambo 3''. Which should really be called ''Rambo 2''/''First Blood Part 3''. But the Rambo titles never made sense. And neither does war.

* DontExplainTheJoke:
** The narrator explains the name behind the Changlorious Basterds. Not even he gets the joke.
** The Basterds were recruited at a bar mitzvah, so they're likely Jewish (as is Chang, possibly), much like the Basterds in the movie. [[FridgeBrilliance Not that that took a month to figure out or anything.]]

* AffectionateParody: Of KenBurns' documentaries, specifically ''[[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar The Civil War]]''.

* {{Mockumentary}}: The entire episode is done in the style of a KenBurns war documentary like ''The Civil War'' or ''The War''.

* AffectionateParody: Of KenBurns' documentaries, specifically ''[[TheAmericanCivilWar The Civil War]]''.

* IncrediblyLamePun: It's like ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''... [[DontExplainTheJoke but with "Chang." I don't get it either.]]

* IncrediblyLamePun: It's like ''InglouriousBasterds''... [[DontExplainTheJoke but with "Chang." I don't get it either.]]

* ShouldntWeBeInSchool: Lampshaded; following Troy's 'all tomato,' the Dean loudly wonders whether any of the students at Greendale actually go to any classes.

* [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything The Students Who Don't Do Anything]]: Lampshaded; following Troy's 'all tomato,' the Dean loudly wonders whether any of the students at Greendale actually go to any classes.

** Surprisingly TruthInTelevision, to an extent. Harvey Mudd College has dorms named "East" (it's east of the academic buildings), "West" and "North" (which are west and north of East, respectively), and "South" (which is actually the northernmost of the four by a matter of a few feet or so, but the pattern had to continue). They are arranged similar to the four corners of a square so North is east of South, West is south of South, and East is southeast of South. In contrast, Greendale's names seem fairly sensible.
** This happens often in real life when new buildings are added to campuses.

* DontExplainTheJoke: The narrator explains the name behind the Changlorious Basterds. Not even he gets the joke.

--> '''Troy:''' We're grown-ups now. We have grown-up problems.\\

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: The narrator in general enjoys pushing his metaphors to breaking point:

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone / ShellShockedVeteran:

* NonIndicativeName: See NamesakeGag. Several buildings on campus have cardinal directions in their names, but the actual basis of these names make little to no sense--for example, being named for ''people'' named North or for their relative locations to other buildings as opposed to campus as a whole. Then there's the English Memorial Spanish Center, named for English Memorial, a ''Portuguese'' explorer.

* OddlyNamedSequel: {{Discussed}}.
--> '''Abed's Facebook status update''': The war won't stop with ''First Blood Part II''; it will escalate to ''Rambo 3''. Which should really be called ''Rambo 2''/''First Blood Part 3''. But the Rambo titles never made sense. And neither does war.

* WimpFight: Played with; when everyone is pillow-fighting, it's no-holds-barred and vicious. When it's just Troy and Abed, however, they just sort of slap each other's sides with the pillows.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: