Line #93 Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare


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3	It's near the end of the semester, and as the other members of the study group discuss how infuriated they are getting at Britta and Jeff's UnresolvedSexualTension, Dean Pelton walks in to inform everybody about the school's upcoming "Spring Fling", featuring music, food, activities, "what-what!" He also mentions that there will be a game of "Paintball Assassin", with a special prize for the last man standing- what was to be a Blu-ray DVD player, until it was stolen, and is now "TBD".
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5	As Troy ponders whether or not he wants this new "TBD" that Pierce is pretty sure he had for about a month in the seventies, Jeff announces that he will be going to his car for a short nap. When he wakes up, he stumbles out of his car to find the school all but destroyed with paintballs. Interrogating Garrett, whom he finds lying slumped over in the hallway, Jeff discovers that shortly after the paintball game started, the students turned on each other once the Dean announced what the final prize for the winner would be. When Jeff asks what the prize was, he is told that the game has not concluded, and is "still happening! ''Right now!''"
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7	Before Jeff can extract any more information from Garrett, a LaserSight appears, and Leonard plugs Garrett with paintballs several times before moving on to Jeff. Disregarding Jeff's insistence that he's not playing with the response that "Everyone's playing!", he pursues Jeff down the hallway, where Abed emerges, vaults over Jeff, and saves him by shooting Leonard with a few paintballs of his own. Abed takes Jeff from wandering in the Neutral Zone to the base of operations he has set up with Troy, where they finally reveal to Jeff the prize that has driven student against student: priority registration, the first pick for your schedule of classes next semester.
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10	!!The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Modern Warfare" provides examples of:
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12	* AceCustom: Chang is "one of those douchebags who brings in his own equipment", which in his case consists of a paintball machine gun, a pair of pistols [[BlingOfWar with a unique gold paintjob]], and [[spoiler:a home-made paint-bomb hidden in his jacket [[TakingYouWithMe as a last resort]]]].
13	* [[ActionFilmQuietDramaScene Action Episode Quiet Drama Scene]]: The remains of the study group [[CampfireCharacterExploration around the campfire]] and Jeff and Britta's AfterActionPatchUp.
14	* AffectionateParody: The [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative best]] [[PaintballEpisode paintball-based]] SatireParodyPastiche of PostApocalyptic and HeroicBloodshed [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative action movies since]] ''Series/{{Spaced}}''.
15	** Jeff's whole outfit, and the fact he taped a gun to his back is clearly a reference to [=John McClane=] from ''Film/DieHard''. That FiringInTheAirALot at the end is also a reference to ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}''
16	* AfterActionPatchUp: Lampshaded and parodied when Jeff suffers an actual injury and Britta patches him up, commenting on how the "wounded soldier fantasy" clearly means they're moments from doing it. They do it.
17	* AfterTheEnd: The majority of "Modern Warfare" takes place after Dean Pelton announced the prize to the school's paintball competition, causing almost all of the students to turn on each other almost immediately. The school is a paint-soaked wasteland in ''under an hour''.
18	-->'''Jeff:''' What was the prize?
19	-->'''Garrett:''' '''"Was"'''?! This is not ''over!'' This is ''still happening!'' '''Right now!'''
20	* AlmostDeadGuy: Garrett isn't dying. He's just been eliminated from a paintball tournament that's gone horribly awry. He manages to explain to Jeff what exactly went wrong before being shot again.
21	* AlmostKiss: DoubleSubverted with Jeff and Britta -- they do the lean in while mocking the FlorenceNightingaleEffect, and do a silly smooching act. Then they do it again, and ''there'' we go.
22	* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: Troy and Shirley have this conversation:
23	-->'''Troy''': You thinking what I'm thinking?
24	-->'''Shirley''': Mm-hmm. Our team's walking with God.
25	-->'''Troy''': I'm thinking we might already be the only seven left.
26	* BackToBackBadasses: Jeff, Britta, Abed and Shirley near the end.
27	* BadassBoast:
28	-->'''Jeff:''' And tell the DramaClub their tears will be ''real'' today.
29	* BadassCrew: The study group as a whole, for surviving as long as they did in such hellish conditions.
30	* BadassInANiceSuit: Chang puts one on to take out Jeff and Britta.
31	* BigDamnHeroes: Played half seriously and half for laughs (like everything in this episode) when Abed saves Jeff from Leonard, complete with a slow-motion WallJump.
32	* BigShutUp: Jeff and Britta unintentionally resolve a MexicanStandoff by annoying everyone else into uniting against them.
33	-->'''Shirley / Annie / Troy / Abed:''' SHUT UP!
34	* BilingualBonus: The Chinese song that plays over Chang's big entry is based on a song sung by the Chinese assassin Jing Ke as he was sent to assassinate the King of Qin, who would survive and later become the Emperor of China. The lyrics "風蕭蕭兮易水寒，壯士一去兮不復還." literally translate to: "The winds blow, the river freezes. The hero fords, never to return!"
35	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Troy is the first of the study group to go down in the paintball game after he "made God mad".
36	* BlingBlingBang: The two gold-painted paintball guns Senor Chang uses in homage to ''Film/FaceOff''.
37	* ABloodyMess: Inverted; "It's blood! I thought it was paint but I'm just bleeding! Thank god for that..."
38	* BodyguardBetrayal: Pierce's defection from Starburns.
39	* BrickJoke: The DiscoDan skater guy Jeff spends the first act making fun of comes back during the climax with a whole gang of disco skaters, and end up taking out Abed and Shirley.
40	* BulletTime: [[InTheStyleOf In a style similar to]] John Woo movies, Chang and Britta's shootout. Complete with two paintballs colliding in mid-air.
41	* CampfireCharacterExploration: The group sits around a TrashcanBonfire and discusses what each of them would do with the award.
42	* CampingACrapper: Britta's group's strategy is the TropeNamer.
43	* CharacterDevelopment: Jeff during the pilot would have been willing to admit he and Britta have chemistry while taking the priority registration prize for himself. Here, he makes it clear he is no longer pursuing Britta that way unless she is willing. Likewise, he gives the priority registration form to Shirley since she needs it more than the rest of them do.
44	* ChessMotifs: The Chess Club garnished their armor with chess figures and they send in a "pawn" to [[LuredIntoATrap to lure the heroes into a trap]].
45	* CollectiveGroan: Jeff and Britta's BelligerentSexualTension and constant bickering provokes this more than once from the rest of the Study Group, with two instances of the other members of the group nearly eliminating the two of them from the game because they're just that sick of it.
46	* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Spoofed.
47	-->'''Abed:''' Come with me if you don't want paint on your clothes.
48	** As other episodes show, Jeff getting his clothes ruined would be worse than death for him...
49	* ComfortTheDying: Spoofed. After Shirley is eliminated in the paintball match, Britta goes to comfort her.
50	-->'''Britta:''' Shirley! Shirley, I am so sorry.
51	-->'''Shirley:''' [[NoLongerWithUs I'm going home, Brit-ta]].
52	-->'''Britta:''' Yes, you are. Yes, you are.
53	-->'''Shirley:''' No, seriously. I'm going home. Can you help me up?
54	-->'''Britta:''' Oh. Sure.
55	* ContinuityNod:
56	** Abed's bandolier of paintball pellets has a slot for his lip balm.
57	** In the Dean's office, you can see Pierce's Vitruvian Man sketch from [[Recap/CommunityS1E06FootballFeminismAndYou Football, Feminism, and You]] pinned on the board behind his desk.
58	** As well as the miniature Greendale Human Being doll used to design it
59	* ConvenientMisfire: A rare heroic example where Jeff runs out of bullets in a shoot out but [[BigDamnheroes Britta saves the day]] by sliding between his legs and taking out the mooks.
60	* CrazyPrepared: Pierce finally finds a use for adult diapers.
61	* DeathIsDramatic: Hilariously subverted with Shirley's "I'm going home, Britta."
62	* DefensiveFeintTrap: The Chess Club ambushes people by having one member step into a room then immediately run out, where three more wait outside the door. Right before they fall into the trap, Jeff realizes that "He's a pawn..." (no, seriously, the guy [[VisualPun literally has a single pawn taped to his helmet]]).
63	* DesolationShot: When Jeff steps out of his car after the nap and the camera pans out to give us a total shot of the devastated school area.
64	* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Chang and Dean Pelton grab this. The Dean doesn't know how many students are still in the running but he knows there aren't many left. Rather than do a headcount in the morning, Chang convinces him to let him enter the game using LoopholeAbuse by signing up for a class. This ends up biting them in the butt; Britta pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Jeff out of guilt for trying to betray them, while before it would have been up to the two of them to decide the winner. Jeff also seeks out the Dean and fires paint at him in retaliation for turning the whole school into a battleground.
65	* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Dean offered priority registration as a plan B prize after someone stole the original Bluray DVD player. He didn't consider that for a lot of students, being able to plan your schedule around a full-time job or family would be valuable. Cue epic warfare, at least one student suffering a serious injury, and the Dean even realizing that giving someone priority registration as a prize is technically illegal.
66	* DidYouJustHaveSex: Played with. Abed senses the loss of {{UST}} between Jeff and Britta but can't seem to pinpoint the reason why.
67	* DiscoDan: "Post-ironic [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Disco Stu]]" and his GangOfHats.
68	* DiscoSucks: The first scene features a guy roller-skating through the hallway in an orange tracksuit and an afro, and Jeff comments that the guy's a tool and isn't going to bring disco back. He does.
69	* TheDoorSlamsYou: "Post-Ironic Disco Stu" fails to notice one of the doors to the Study Room in his path. Partially justified, in that the door's glass, aside from the several inch thick black border surrounding it.
70	* TheDragon: Chang, for the Dean. He even has his own El Tigre tiger striped paintball gun. And dual gold handguns. And a room-painting suicide bomb.
71	* DramaticGunCock: Troy and Abed do this to discourage Jeff when the latter tries to reach for a gun during their first encounter.
72	* DuelingShows: {{Invoked}}. Several more stabs at ''Series/{{Glee}}''.
73	** When Abed and Troy are explaining to Jeff the Glee club sniper trap:
74	--->'''Troy:''' They say the glee club has lured stragglers into sniper traps with cheery renditions of hit songs.\
75	'''Jeff:''' Really? And [[TakeThat people fall for that]]?\
76	'''Troy:''' Yeah.\
77	'''Jeff:''' I mean, I'm all for winning, but let's not resort to cheap ploys! ''[[[HypocriticalHumor takes off shirt]]]''
78	** Later:
79	--->'''Jeff:''' WRITE SOME ORIGINAL SONGS!
80	* DwindlingParty: The Study Group over the course of the game. Troy, Annie and Pierce are all taken out by the Glee Club, and later Shirley and Abed by the disco skaters. Britta and Chang end up "killing" each other at the end, leaving Jeff to take the prize.
81	* EvilCostumeSwitch: Not that he wasn't '''already''' kind of evil to begin with but Senor Chang changes to an outfit similar to that worn by ''Film/TheKiller1989'' once the Dean gives him the go-ahead to take out the remaining players.
82	* EvilLaugh:
83	** Senor Chang, when detonating his paint bomb.
84	** He also shares a less cackling one with Dean Pelton earlier.
85	* FeetFirstIntroduction: Chang's entrance to the study room starts with the camera lingering on his shoes.
86	* FiringInTheAirALot: Both Chang and Jeff do this with the machine paintball gun.
87	* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Mocked by Jeff and Britta. And then played entirely straight.
88	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
89	** When the group is voicing their irritation over Jeff and Britta's UST at the start of the episode, Pierce advises them to just do it and move on already. By the end of the episode, they've done just that.
90	** Senor Chang becomes a student so that he can finish the game of paintball. Its relevance is revealed in the penultimate episode of the season.
91	* GangstaStyle:
92	** A continuity goof has Britta holding a gun GangstaStyle whenever the camera's on her and right way up when it's OverTheShoulder.
93	** Played straight by Jeff, Troy and Abed when they "execute" the trio of students they sneak up on from behind.
94	* TheGenerationGap: Shirley's [[GrowingUpSucks age issues]] crop up again when she comments on how Jeff and Britta are no [[Series/{{Cheers}} Sam and Diane]]:
95	-->'''Annie:''' ''[perplexed]'' [[PopculturalOsmosisFailure Who are Sam and Diane]]?\
96	'''Shirley:''' ''[clearly not charmed]'' Okay, ''we get it!'' You're ''young!''
97	* GoneHorriblyWrong: Dean Pelton's implementation of priority registration as a prize for winning the paintball tournament causes the entire campus to descend into chaos.
98	* GunpointBanter: Between Jeff and Britta during the MexicanStandoff in the men's room. {{Lampshade}}d, the rest of the group gets annoyed at them.
99	* GunsAkimbo: Annie, Britta and Shirley. For some reason, none of the other guys do except for Senor Chang, in his role as TheDragon, who pulls out dual [[BlingBlingBang gold plated guns]] after his paintball machine gun runs out.
100	* HandSignals: Troy communicates this way with Abed and Jeff in the scene where they meet Pierce and Starburns.
101	* HiddenDepths: When registering for a class in order to be made eligible for the game, Chang requests an arts and crafts class and mentions that he paints watercolours.
102	* {{Homage}}: Tons.
103	** The "ONE HOUR LATER" scene where Jeff wakes up echoes the same scene in ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''. It also has quite a similar feel to the ending of the first Resident Evil film.
104	** The line "Stu-dy grooo-up! Come out and ''play-y-y!''", a paraphrase of Luther's taunt in ''Film/TheWarriors''. And it's used by a group of retro disco students who are very reminiscent of some of the film's weirder gangs.
105	** Jeff's wardrobe, his anticipation of Britta trying to shoot him ("No paintballs, Hans?"), and his final retaliatory gesture at the Dean are all taken directly from ''Film/DieHard''. Also his entry, screaming "Deeeaaan!"
106	** Troy's "Jeff winger, you son of a bitch!" and aggressive slap is from ''Film/{{Predator}}.''
107	*** Chang's paint bomb plays out like the end of the movie.
108	** Chang's entrance to the study room is straight out of a Creator/JohnWoo movie... minus the DisturbedDoves. They didn't have the budget for them.
109	** Abed's entrance (see page image) was stolen from a certain [[Film/TheMatrix leather-clad action girl]].
110	** Abed also stole his goggles from [[Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick Riddick]].
111	** "Look who I found wandering the [[Franchise/StarTrek Neutral-Zone]]"
112	** The music cues come from [[Series/{{Lost}} the island]].
113	** "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Come with me if you don't want paint on your clothes.]]"
114	** Shirley spouting bible verses while kicking ass? There are a couple of [[Film/TheBoondockSaints brothers from Southie]] she should meet.
115	** There is a reference to a certain black motherfucker (''Film/PulpFiction'').
116	** Troy's football pads referencing allllllll the way back to ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior''.
117	** The Britta/Chang scene results in two paintballs colliding, a straight from a scene in the 2009 film ''Film/{{Wanted}}''.
118	** Jeff firing the paintball gun in the Deans office is very similar to a scene in ''Film/RamboIV''.
119	** The last player standing will win ''[[Film/{{Highlander}} The Prize.]]''
120	** Chang entering as a wild card as the only non-student in a game of students killing one another is very much like Kiriyama in the film version of Film/BattleRoyale.
121	* HoneyTrap: Jeff assumes Britta seduced him only to take advantage of him lowering his guard.
122	* HypocriticalHumor:
123	** Jeff taking off his shirt right after claiming they shouldn't resort to cheap ploys in a reference to the viewer hook of Series/{{Glee}}.
124	** This exchange:
125	--->'''Dean:''' There will be a prize for last man standing, ''(sotto voce)'' or [[PoliticalOvercorrectness last man in a wheelchair]] without paint on him.\
126	'''Britta:''' Or last woman.\
127	'''Dean:''' Give it a rest, Britta! ''Ugh.''
128	** Britta calls Jeff out on how immature it is that he didn't trust her and removed the clip from his gun in case she betrayed him, only for Jeff to retort that she's wearing ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' panties and actually ''has'' just tried to betray him.
129	** Senor Chang ''"Politics of Gender, biyatch!"''
130	* IdiotBall: Leonard commits a serious tactical error when he comes upon Jeff talking with Garrett. Neither of them notice him due to their conversation, Jeff is unarmed, and Garrett has already been eliminated. So, what does Leonard do? He shoots ''Garrett''. Jeff runs for it, Leonard chases him, and Abed eliminates Leonard when Jeff leads him right to him.
131	* IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt: Jeff ends up giving the prize to Shirley, who has the most need for it of the members of the study group, and remarks that he didn't expect that of himself. Played with in Britta's case however; while she's the one who suggests giving the prize to Shirley in the first place, Jeff accuses her of just being a hypocritical, self-righteous phoney who only made the suggestion to look good and score points off Shirley's situation. It's quite telling she was the only one who hadn't yet revealed what she'd do with the prize and, as Jeff points out, she'd look like an asshole if she didn't decide to give it to Shirley. Britta later admits that [[JerkassHasAPoint he may have had a point]].
132	* IfWeGetThroughThis: "What are you guys gonna do if you win priority registration?" As soon as Shirley mentions her kids, you know she's out of the game.
133	* ImminentDangerClue: Abed realizes the danger they are in at the men's room urinal when he sees [[DroolHello fresh green paint roll down]], highlighting the paintball outline of the previous users [[CampingACrapper who got trapped there.]]
134	* ImprobableAimingSkills: The moment when Britta's and Chang's paint bullets hit each other.
135	* IncrediblyObviousBomb: Chang's bomb features an incredibly large LED display.
136	* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: Jeff removes his magazine before sleeping with Britta, predicting her betrayal.
137	* IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt:
138	-->'''Dean:''' The prize was a Blu-ray DVD player... but it got stolen. So now it's TBD!\
139	'''Troy:''' I want TBD! Is that new?
140	* JerkassHasAPoint: Britta protests that Jeff's accusation that she slept with him in order to get him to lower his guard and then betray him is 'gross', but as Jeff points out, her protests ring pretty hollow and self-serving considering that she ''did'' sleep with him and then tried to betray him once his guard was down. Britta also admits that Jeff had a point when he accused her of being a self-righteous phony after she [[IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt insisted that everyone sacrifice the prize to Shirley if they win it]].
141	* KilledMidSentence: Shirley gets killed while spouting Bible verses.
142	* LaughingMad: Chang is laughing madly before his bomb goes off. Jeff gets one too when he reaches the Dean.
143	* LaserGuidedKarma: Troy gets shot mere seconds after suggesting to Shirley that they betray the other members of the group.
144	* LoveInterestTraitor: Britta becomes this to Jeff, but then she does a HeelFaceTurn and ends up [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redeeming herself]].
145	* LuredIntoATrap: All over the place, with ReversePsychology and UriahGambit.
146	** The chess club tries to lure the study group out by [[{{Pun}} sending in a pawn]].
147	** The glee club's rendition of Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" is designed to lure people out by being way too on the nose.
148	* MacGuffin: Priority registration. Parodied with the [[SeriousBusiness seriousness]] it's being pursued.
149	* MexicanStandoff: Throughout.
150	* MoreDakka: Chang's paintball machine gun is ideal for letting off steam.
151	* MortalWoundReveal: When Abed returns from finishing off two mooks off-screen, the camera slowly pans down on him to reveal that his shootout left him lethally wounded in both legs.
152	* MultipleGunshotDeath: The chess club team dies riddled with bullets InTheBack.
153	* NobodyHereButUsBirds:
154	** Abed's signal to Troy that he's coming in.
155	** Another one is heard right before Troy is shot by the Glee Club.
156	* NoHonorAmongThieves: Pierce betrays Starburns while they're stealing from the vending machines.
157	* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Said by Abed after Jeff and Britta have sex, though they did not figure out that it had happened.
158	* NowOrNeverKiss: Jeff and Britta have a kiss before Britta goes into her shootout with Chang.
159	* OminousAdversarialAmusement:
160	** Parodied when Chang opens his jacket to reveal a paint bomb after being tagged by Jeff.
161	** As a parody of ''Film/DieHard'', during their final confrontation, Jeff starts laughing at the Dean before pulling out his emergency weapon stuck on his back and giving the Dean a surprise BoomHeadshot.
162	* OnlySaneMan: Subverted; when he learns that the prize is priority registration, in line with this trope Jeff's initial reaction is to scoff "is ''that'' all?" -- [[DelayedReaction then he takes a second to think about it]], realizes what it ''means'', and joins in the craziness with everyone else. Also justified in that he doesn't want to be splattered in paint.
163	* [[OutrunTheFireball Outrun the Paintball]]: When Senor Chang reveals his contingency plan with a paint bomb. Extra ridiculous when you realize that Jeff had already won the game: he was the last man standing. Jeff was already out when he does the dramatic jump and the paint is stopped by the windows.
164	* OutfitDecoy: Jeff's group tricks the Chess Club with a [[Film/DieHard dummy in an office chair]].
165	* PaintballEpisode: The game is set in the whole school area.
166	* PlayingTheHeartStrings: Abed and Shirley's outro.
167	* PostApunkalypticArmor: To increase the post-apocalyptic feel of paintball Greendale, Troy wears this. Other characters do as well to a varying degree (see ScavengedPunk).
168	* ThePowerOfTrust: Played with; the nature of 'The Prize' means that everyone will eventually turn on each other in order to get it -- however, as with the study group, most of the people who make it furthest through the game do so by forming 'packs' with other people they trust to watch their backs. In keeping with this, throughout the episode whenever one of the group tries to betray the others it usually backfires on them (Troy [[LaserGuidedKarma immediately gets shot]] when he suggests turning on the others to Shirley, and Britta's attempt to betray Jeff is scuttled when he reveals he emptied her gun).
169	* PreClimaxClimax: Parodied with Jeff and Britta's hook-up.
170	* PreMortemOneLiner: To the Chess Club:
171	-->'''Jeff:''' Checkmate, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitches]]!
172	* PsychoForHire: Chang is hired by the dean to put an end to the game.
173	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Redemption Equals Getting Paint On Your Clothes. Britta makes up for her attempt to double-cross Jeff by sacrificing herself to defeat Chang.
174	* ReligiousBruiser: {{Parodied}} by Shirley, who quotes Bible scripture like it's a BadassCreed during the shootout with the disco skaters.
175	* ResetButton: All that paint is cleaned up impossibly quickly at the end; the school looks pristine just a few hours after the game ended.
176	* ReversePsychology:
177	-->'''Jeff:''' Hey Pierce, ''don't'' come over here, okay?\
178	'''Pierce:''' Screw you! I'm comin' over there!
179	* ScavengedPunk: The episode contains a nod to the AfterTheEnd variety of this, specifically referencing PostApunkalypticArmor. Many of the characters outfits are pieced together from random available equipment. In some cases it makes solid sense (Troy, a football player, wearing some modified football pads), other times it is simply amusing (members of the chess club wear plastic bowls with chess pieces attached as helmets).
180	* ScreamingWarrior: Jeff, while redecorating the Dean's office.
181	* SeriousBusiness:
182	** Priority registration. While it's not something people generally turn violent over (at least in any way that could help their ranking), it is a major issue for students further down the chain when vital classes are only offered at a certain time (whole graduation plans can be thrown off by months or years because a required class is only available once a semester or once a ''year'').
183	** The paintball tournament itself, which everyone approaches as if it were an actual post-apocalyptic warzone.
184	* ShirtlessScene: Jeff spends the episode in his muscle shirt.
185	* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: Parodied; Jeff naps through the apocalyptic first hour of the paintball game.
186	* SmokingBarrelBlowout: Jeff does this after taking out Dean.
187	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Jeff and Britta, as per usual. {{Lampshaded}}.
188	* StabTheScorpion: When Jeff runs from Leonard through the corridors, Abed comes his way with his gun drawn. Jeff slides down to evade the shot but as it turns out Abed was aiming at Leonard instead.
189	* StereotypeFlip: Chang takes a break from this to embrace being a Creator/JohnWoo-style GunFu badass. Unfortunately he only manages to take out ''one'' person, while getting [[MutualKill taken out at the same time]].
190	* SweetAndSourGrapes: Jeff ends up winning the priority registration form, as he wanted. Then he gives it to Shirley, citing a GreaterNeedThanMine. Shirley and Britta are very surprised by this.
191	* TakingYouWithMe: Chang using his bomb to take Jeff with him. It does not work out.
192	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Britta's and Jeff's group agreed to team up, until they are the last seven standing.
193	* ThatDidntHappen: Jeff and Britta agree that their PreClimaxClimax didn't happen.
194	* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Only the last man standing will receive the prize.
195	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch:
196	** Jeff when he finishes off the Chess Club:
197	--->'''Jeff:''' Checkmate, bitches!
198	** Senor Chang to Jeff:
199	--->'''Jeff:''' You're not even a student!\
200	'''Senor Chang:''' Wrong! ''[Holding up college schedule]'' "Critical Media Literacies" and "Politics of Gender", biyatch!
201	* TrashcanBonfire: Jeff, Britta, Abed, and Shirley gather around one of these in the cafeteria.
202	* TrashTheSet: You might think that "Modern Warfare" was made last, as only two more episodes of the 25-episode first season follow it, and the episode features the entire school getting covered in paint and all the furniture getting upended for cover. The episode's production number? ''19''. That means they filmed ''six more episodes'' of the season after ruining their set. Apparently, that ResetButton overnight cleaning at the end was ''real''. Which may explain in part why the Season 2 paintball episode(s) was the finale, complete with tag of the irritated school janitor looking ahead at a long summer of cleaning paint.
203	* {{Troperiffic}}: Amazing what can be done in 20 minutes.
204	* TurnCoat: Pierce initially teams up with Starburns, but has no qualms about shooting him in order to switch over to Jeff's group and save his skin.
205	* UnfortunateImplications: Averted and discussed on the DVD commentary. The episode tries very hard to avoid the viewer being reminded of actual school shootings.[[invoked]]
206	* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: This episode begins the grand tradition of Jeff getting into cover with a jumping front roll.
207	* UnresolvedSexualTension: The study group complains about this getting unbearable.
208	-->'''Abed:''' To be blunt, Jeff and Britta is no [[Series/{{Friends}} Ross and Rachel]]. Your sexual tension and lack of chemistry are putting us all on edge. Which is why, ironically - and hear this on every level - [[{{Pun}} you're keeping us from being]] ''Series/{{Friends}}''.\
209	'''Britta:''' Jeff and I do not have sexual tension. We just argue all the time.\
210	'''Shirley:''' Awww, just like [[Series/{{Cheers}} Sam and Diane]]! I ''hated'' Sam and Diane.
211	* TheUriahGambit: Jeff discovers the position of the Glee Club by telling Pierce [[ReversePsychology "not" to come over to him]].
212	* WallJump: Abed's ''[[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]''-style one, taking pride of place as the image at the top of this page.
213	* WhatTheHellHero: Britta has the nerve to pull this on Jeff after ''she'' tries to betray ''him'', calling him gross after he accuses her of sleeping with him just to get him to lower his guard. Jeff quickly points out the hypocrisy of her position.
214	* WholePlotReference: The plot of "Modern Warfare" can be construed as a WholePlotReference to several movies. ''Film/BattleRoyale'': A schoolmaster forces his students into a competition where they have to finish each other off one by one. He also enters a ringer who wishes to enter for fun, and one who has played the game before. At the end, the last man standing breaks into his ivory tower and finishes him off. Which is also a very similar premise to ''Film/TheCondemned2007'', ''Film/TheRunningMan'', and ''Film/DeathRace'', if you replace school students with prisoners...
215	** If you focus on Jeff's perspective, he lives out ''Film/DieHard'' almost scene for scene, being caught at the wrong place at the wrong time. The way he's introduced to the war is also similar to how ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' begins.
216	* WillTheyOrWontThey: Discussed about Britta and Jeff. The resolution is sarcastically teased by them, then they play it straight and have sex in their hide-out in their usual study room in the library.
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