History Recap / CommunityS4E04AlternativeHistoryOfTheGermanInvasion

* WrongGenreSavvy: When Professor Cornwallis confronts them in the cafeteria, the group believes that he turned the entire school against them so that they could learn AnAesop about different perspectives of history. They're wrong, and it leads Cornwallis to wonder if he can still alter his contract.

* OutOfOrder: The episode was intended to air second, but was shuffled to fourth; in this episode, the group are only just starting their history class and Vicki, who invited them to her Halloween party in "Paranormal Parentage" (the episode moved to second), is here leading the protest movement against them.

* [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything The Students Who Don't Do Anything]]: Distracted by the protest, the study group miss their exam.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Deconstructed. While the study group works through their issues and experiences CharacterDevelopment, they fail to realize that their actions have negative effects on others. As the feud with the Germans escalates, the audience cheers on the struggling protagonists but fails to realize that the Germans are following rules and not doing anything morally wrong. When the study group pulls of their KansasCityShuffle it is easy to overlook that it is is an underhanded trick and the Germans have done nothing really wrong. Then the study group is called out on their bad behaviour and the HeelRealization strikes.

* SeriesContinuityError: During the incident with Annie's Pen, the Dean continually makes announcements about a puppy parade taking place in the quad, and it's heavily implied that the study group are ''the only seven students'' too involved in their own SeriousBusiness to attend. In this episode, the incident is mentioned as one where other students also needed the room and in the flashbacks there are several students around the library very much unconcerned with the parade.
** In addition, the group's [[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons Dungeons and Dragons]] game took place at night, but is here shown taking place during the day.

** Abed feels a [[Film/ANewHope strange disturbance]]. Britta asks him if he had dairy.

* UnfortunateImplications: Invoked by Annie who as a Jew does not like the fact that the other students call her a Nazi.

* WhatTheHellHero: Vicki, Leonard and Todd call the group out for extending their time in the study room for petty reasons ("They've lost a pen" "We're playing Dungeons and Dragons"). Some of their complaints are justified but others are taken out of context probably because no one outside the group [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold knows what really happened]].

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The Germans use phrases with terrible grammar like "der kaffee hausen" or "knaidels".
* TheAtoner: The study group tries to make up for their past bad behaviour after their HeelRealization by renovating the other study rooms so that they are, if not as good as the study room we know and love, then are at least more pleasant (and safe) to be in.

** The events of [[Recap/CommunityS2E08CooperativeCalligraphy "Cooperative Calligraphy"]], [[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons"]], and an apparently figure skating related NoodleIncident are shown from the perspective of other students trying to use the study room.

* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: When the Dean shows up with his black trenchcoat at prison, we know somethings up (or underneath).

* FrameUp: The group's elaborate plan to get the Germans banned is to hold an {{Oktoberfest}}, make the Germans drink beer and take photos of them doing it.

* GodwinsLaw: The study group are labeled as Nazis by the other students for the crime of... [[SeriousBusiness selfishly over-extending their use of the study room without consideration for other people who might want to use it.]]

* HandsGoDown: When the history teacher request the students to describe a battle from both sides as part of their test, a lot of hands go up. All hands go down when he announces that no dioramas are allowed.

* JerkassHasAPoint: The Germans act like jerks but they signed out the study room fair and square and the study group has been ignoring the signup sheet for years. While the Germans follow the rules, the study group needs underhanded tactics to win.

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: The Study Group fix up the rest of the study rooms after realising that the rest of the students hate them for hogging Study Room F for the past 3 years, when it's the only one of the study rooms that's actually in a usable state. The trope comes into play because it's been 3 years, and no-one else at the school had bothered to do anything until this point in time.
* MarketBasedTitle: Apparently the German dub of ''Series/HogansHeroes'' was called ''Hogan's Villains''. For a quick clear up, the German title in reality was infacted ''Ein Käfig Voller Helden'' meaning a ''A Cage Full of Heroes''.

** The study group themselves, after realising that they've been hogging the study room unfairly for the past three years.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: The the study group spends entire episode trying to kick the Germans out unfairly for hogging their study room, only to realise they've been doing the exact same thing for the past three years and preventing other students with booked times from using it.

** Karl's CatchPhrase is [[Film/ThreeHundred "Tonight we dine in Hell!"]], which enables Abed to recognize him from [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft SpawnCraft]].