History Recap / CommunityS5E01Repilot

** [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Alan took over as partner of Jeff's old firm]] in season 3 but has apparently ran it into the ground.

* MarriedToTheJob: Shirley lost Andrew because she was spending too much time with her sandwich business.

* MoodLighting: Most of the episode has a very washed-out and desaturated colour palette, to reflect the miserable and broken state of the characters and the deconstruction of Greendale. Once everyone's in a better place towards the end, the colours brighten considerably.

* MoralityPet: The study group still serves as this for Jeff. After seeing how enthusiastic the group was to save Greendale, Jeff decided to tell the Dean the truth. It is then subverted when he decided to go forward to the lawsuit anyway when he found out the evidence got shredded. He then uses the gang's pain to further his own goals (and to get some money for them as well). Even after they found out he was manipulating him, they decided to go with the lawsuit anyway instead of discouraging him.

--> '''Jeff:''' ''[Brandishing the law suit in front of the Deam]'' These are the signatures of the five people who are crazy enough to care about this toilet. And tonight? I almost got them to sue it. ''Heed the warning!''

* {{Reconstruction}}: After the lengthy deconstruction of Greendale throughout the episode, the ending implies that is on the way; Jeff confronts the Dean over his failure to manage the school effectively and agrees to take a teaching job partly to help the Dean improve the school, and the study group re-enroll when they realise that their problems were partially their own fault and that they need to either pursue what they really want to do or figure out what that really is to begin with.

& ArtisticLicenseLaw: Jeff claims that he and the study group will win if they sue Greendale for ruining their lives, and he, Alan, and the Dean all think similarly about Humphries' case. However, while it is possible for a student to sue their school for educating them irresponsibly (what's known as "educational malpractice"), such cases are next to impossible to win and no student has ever actually won such a case. So, both Humphries and the group would almost certainly lose.

* RealityEnsues: The gang tries to live out their dreams after they graduate from Greendale. But with such a poor education, their dreams fall flat.

-->'''Britta:''' Are you trying to give us emotional whiplash?!

* MarriedToTheJob: Shirley lost Andrew because she was spending too much time with her sandwich buisness.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite having a fondness for Greendale to the point of ignoring its obvious flaws, the group ends up agreeing to sue Greendale when they discover that Dean rehired a lunatic like Chang as a teacher.

* FoilerFootage: In addition to none of the trailers even hinting at Chevy Chase's return as Pierce Hawthorne, an alternate version of the script was used at table reads where, instead of Jeff coming across Pierce's hologram, Jeff would discover Starburns was still alive and the ensuing conversation about why he's been hiding out on the Greendale campus would be what motivates Jeff to not go through with the lawsuit; with the only people knowing about Chevy's return being the ones who absolutely needed to know to shoot the scene.

** He uses this to persuade the study group to sue the school, pointing out how they [[{{Flanderization}} became "mixed-up cartoons"of themselves]] while at the school and are hopelessly ill-equipped to survive after graduation;

*** Also doubles as an TakeThat/AffectionateParody as they utilize Zach Braff's voice over at the end of each episode. When Abed points it out to the girls, they seem less than excited about the story device.

* AmbiguouslyBi[=/=]EvenTheGuysWantHim: When Jeff pointed out that Troy's identity had been consumed with his relationship with another man, he thought he was talking about his Clive Owen tumblr.

** Jeff accuses Troy of having allowed his entire identity consumed by his codependent relationship with another man. Troy assumes that Jeff is referring to his Clive Owen Tumblr.

* CallBack:
** Several to the pilot, most of them immediately {{Lampshaded}} by Abed.
** The global peace clock used for [[Recap/CommunityS3E02GeographyOfGlobalConflict Annie's model UN face-off]] is left in the study room.
** The first thing Jeff sees at Greendale is [[Recap/CommunityS1E09Debate109 the formerly barren trophy case, with the trophy from Jeff and Annie's debate victory against City College, complete with newspaper clipping]].
** When Jeff claimed that Troy's identity had been consumed by his relationship with another man, Troy mistakenly thought he was talking about [[Recap/CommunityS3E16VirtualSystemsAnalysis Clive Owen]].
** Chang's bout of "Changnesia" is discussed, and Annie is the only person to be surprised when he admits he was faking it the whole time.

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!The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Repilot" provides examples of:

* FiveFiveFive: Abed wouldn't put the 555 number onscreen in Jeff's ad because it "[[LampshadeHanging sounds fake]]", even though it's Jeff's actual number. (Well... Jeff's fictional number, obviously, but you know...)

* {{Hologram}}: The Pierce Hawthorne Museum of Gender Sensitivity and Sexual Potency has one of Pierce.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Jeff becomes the small-scale version of this when he slips back into his AmoralAttorney ways; he's planning to manipulate his friends into suing Greendale, which will no doubt lead to its complete ruin, but it's clear that he's taking no pleasure in doing so and is largely acting the way he is because he's broken by his failure to become a CrusadingLawyer and is disillusioned with Greendale. When he manages to get his friends to sign the class action suit form, he's clearly downbeat rather than triumphant about it.

* AmbiguouslyGay[=/=]AmbiguouslyBi[=/=]EvenTheGuysWantHim: When Jeff pointed out that Troy's identity had been consumed with his relationship with another man, he thought he was talking about his Clive Owen tumblr.

** It also deconstructs the common process of {{Flanderization}} that fictional characters, particularly in long-running sitcoms, often undergo; while attempting to convince the others to sue Greendale, Jeff makes the case that the school has reduced them to "mixed-up cartoon characters" who are more broken than they were before they entered the school, and points out examples of how each of the characters has gradually become a broader character over the course of the show.

* {{Flanderization}}: Jeff compares everyone's original character with how they act now, and notes that they have turned into cartoon characters of themselves. Of course, he's [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall talking about]] what ''attending Greendale'' has done to them.

** He uses this to persuade the study group to sue the school, pointing out how they [[{{Flanderization}} became 'cartoon characters' of themselves]] while at the school and are hopelessly ill-equipped to survive after graduation;