Line #80 Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality


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2	[[caption-width-right:328: Let's burn this mother down.]]
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4	-> ''"Listen up, people! We got an inter-dimensional battle on our hands. The evil counterparts are waging a war. And it's either us... or us."''
5	-->-- '''Abed'''
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7	With Jeff having passed history and collected all his required credits, Annie and the Dean plan his graduation, but Jeff is hesitant to leave his friends behind to rejoin his old partner. As the study group plans a party, Jeff rolls a die to decide who has to get soda... which lands on its side, in the crack between the tables. Abed stares in horror, but decides to shake off his sudden premonition. But Evil!Jeff had already teleported into the Dean's office, only to discover that his good self is lamer than ever, and reluctant to leave Greendale. Together with Evil!Annie, they decide to destroy the study group from within, forcing Jeff to graduate.
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10	!!The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Advanced Introduction to Finality" provides examples of:
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12	* AbortedArc / WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Whatever happened to Dean Spreck?
13	* AffectionatePickPocket: Evil!Annie nabs Jeff's phone while she hugs him.
14	* AllJustADream: We learn at the end that the episode played out as a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind in Jeff's mind.
15	* AlternateTimeline: The Darkest Timeline's "Troy and Abed In The Morning!" takes a peek at one of the others during TheTag.
16	* ArtificialLimbs:
17	** Evil Annie brings Evil Jeff's prosthetic arm.
18	** Evil Pierce has lost his right leg from the knee down, and uses a unicycle wheel and crutches to get around.
19	* BackingIntoDanger: While stalking each other, Evil!Troy and Troy back into each other, turn round and take aim.
20	* BadassBoast:
21	** Evil!Jeff when preparing for the FinalBattle.
22	-->"Let's burn this mother down."
23	** Shortly after, Lame!Jeff has his own moment when loading his gun handed to him by Abed.
24	-->"All right. Let's light up these dark suckers."
25	* BadassCrew: The evil study group. Just look at that page image. Subverted, though, in that Shirley's too drunk too aim properly, Britta and Pierce shoot themselves and Troy only wants his other self to ''think'' he's intimidating. And Abed has made his HeelFaceTurn.
26	* BadassLongcoat: Evil!Troy and Evil!Jeff wear long leather ones.
27	** NotSoBadassLongcoat: Evil Troy admits to his good counterpart that he's out of bullets and that he just wanted to seem intimidating.
28	* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Everything post dice-roll is going on in Jeff's head as a representation of his conflicting feelings about graduating.
29	* BeardOfEvil: Like Evil!Abed, Evil!Troy grows a real goatee as discussed in the Darkest Timeline. The two of them are the only ones of the Evil!study group to commit to this, though.
30	* BookEnds: Ends the fourth season as it began - with an episode that takes place heavily in the mind of a character worried about life after Greendale. Jeff and Abed's roles are even flipped, with one giving a RousingSpeech that takes place in the other's mind. On top of that, the last line is "Troy and Abed in the morning!", a variant of which was used as the first line of the season.
31	* BulletTime and BulletCatch: Jeff vs. Jeff at the end.
32	* ButtMonkey: Pierce in the cold open.
33	-->'''Troy:''' All for one, and one... dude we can leave behind. Everybody go, quickly, go!
34	* TheCaligula: Chang is still emperor in the Darkest Timeline. The evil study group doesn't seem to mind.
35	* CallBack:
36	** The last cases that Jeff tried involved [[Recap/CommunityS3E22IntroductionToFinality sandwiches]] and [[Recap/CommunityS3E17BasicLupineUrology yams]].
37	-->'''Jeff:''' It's official--it's on a banner.
38	** To "[[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Remedial Chaos Theory]]":
39	*** Abed hasn't brought up [[Recap/CommunityS3E22IntroductionToFinality the Darkest Timeline]] [[Recap/CommunityS4E10IntroToKnots in months]], so Jeff tosses the die under the pretext of assigning graduation tasks.
40	** We get to see the timeline where Britta and Troy got a RelationshipUpgrade.
41	*** TheTag
42	** Parallel Star-Burns posters: [[Recap/CommunityS3E18CourseListingUnavailable memorial picnic]] and [[Recap/CommunityS3E17BasicLupineUrology blowout meth sale]].
43	** The Doppeldeaner and [[spoiler:[[Recap/CommunityS3E21TheFirstChangDynasty Emperor Chang]]]] appear.
44	** Troy's proposed [[Recap/CommunityS4E04AlternativeHistoryOfTheGermanInvasion "Troy-jan Horse"]] sandwich.
45	** "[[Recap/CommunityS3E18CourseListingUnavailable Let's burn this mother down!]]"
46	** "We ''finally'' [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare figured out]] [[Recap/CommunityS2E23AFistfulOfPaintballs how to make]] [[Recap/CommunityS2E24ForAFewPaintballsMore paintball ]] [[Recap/CommunityS3E19CurriculumUnavailable cool again]]."
47	** [[spoiler: Abed points out that the vending machines only contain meat and eggs to indicate that everything is happening inside Jeff's head -- [[Recap/CommunityS3E16VirtualSystemsAnalysis much like to how the vending machines only contained buttered noodles while inside the Dreamatorium]]]].
48	** Annie's book of wedding plans.
49	** In the Darkest Timeline, ''Series/TheCape'' found [[Recap/CommunityS2E21ParadigmsOfHumanMemory a second life on cable]].
50	** Jeff has a photo from the group's [[Recap/CommunityS3E10RegionalHolidayMusic stint as the Glee club in his locker.]]
51	** Evil!Shirley would like to get some dairy-free mudslides, which are just vodka. This harkens back to [[Recap/CommunityS2E10MixologyCertification Troy's 21st birthday party]] where regular Shirley suggests the gang goes out and get some vodka-free mudslides, which are just milkshakes.
52	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience / EvilWearsBlack:
53	** In the study room confrontation between Good!Jeff and Evil!Jeff, Evil!Jeff is wearing a black shirt, and Good!Jeff wears white.
54	** Evil Annie wears a black cardigan, Good Annie wears pink.
55	* CountingBullets: Troy vs. Troy
56	* CowerPower: The group is hiding in a line behind Britta at the cafeteria.
57	* DarkIsEvil: All evil timeline selves are wearing black leather.
58	** DarkIsNotEvil: Darkest Timeline Abed wears black and has a goatee, but underwent a HeelFaceTurn. And Evil Pierce is just Pierce in dark clothes.
59	* DarkWorld: The Darkest Timeline. Chang still rules the school with an iron fist via the Doppledeaner... but hey, at least ''Series/TheCape'' found a new life on cable!
60	* DivideAndConquer: Evil!Jeff's impersonates Jeff and start causing a feud amongst the group members.
61	* DistractedByTheSexy:
62	** Jeff makes a speech to Evil!Annie when the study group runs late because everyone's behaving weirdly... only to trail off when Annie takes off her coat.
63	** Whilst facing off with Evil Annie, Annie becomes momentarily distracted from the actual issue at hand when Evil Annie mentions that she's sleeping with Jeff in the the Darkest Timeline.
64	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The graduation ritual plays out like a wedding.
65	* EndOfAnAge: This is the final episode in which the main characters are students at Greendale and the final time the core cast is complete. By Season 5, Jeff returns but as a professor, while Pierce suffers a BusCrash, Troy leaves Greendale to fulfill his task in inheriting his bequeathment from Pierce, and Shirley is gone by the time Season 6 rolls around (although she does make the odd cameo there).
66	* EntendreFailure: Annie totally fails to get Evil!Jeff is coming on to her.
67	-->'''Jeff:''' Well, you are making me feel something.
68	-->'''Annie:''' blank look
69	-->'''Jeff:''' And it's not about graduating.
70	-->'''Annie:''' another blank look
71	-->'''Jeff:''' I'm saying I'm hot for you!
72	* EvilMeScaresMe: Played straight with Annie and Jeff. Britta jumps in to defend herself ("Don't talk to her like that!"), Troy is still a bit of a softie even when evil, Shirley sees [[TheAlcoholic her drunk self]] with a mix of contempt and pity, Evil!Pierce is just Pierce without a leg, while Evil!Abed had undergone a HeelFaceTurn.
73	* EvilSoundsRaspy: Evil!Jeff has a hoarse Batman-like voice, likely due to [[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory smoke inhalation.]]
74	* FailedASpotCheck: The Dean is too busy singing to himself while making a collage of Jeff to notice Evil!Jeff teleporting into the office behind him.
75	* FailedAttemptAtDrama:
76	-->'''Evil!Troy:''' I'm {{counting bullets}}. And one of us is out.
77	-->'''Troy:''' Is it you?
78	-->'''Evil!Troy:''' ...yes.
79	-->'''Troy:''' Why would you tell me that?
80	-->'''Evil!Troy:''' To sound intimidating.
81	* FakingTheDead: Evil!Pierce.
82	* FemmeFatale: Evil!Annie is trying to seduce and manipulate Lame!Jeff.
83	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jeff mentions when asked that his major is in education. He returns to Greendale in the next season as a professor.
84	* FreezeFrameBonus:
85	** Another message about the hiatus and thanking the fans on the whiteboard.
86	** GCC #411 and SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE on the blackboard.
87	* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Inverted. Jeff realizes after Abed's RousingSpeech that if this is all in his head, he doesn't have to do anything.
88	-->"''Don't'' logic this one away from me. We ''finally'' figure out how to make paintball cool again."
89	* HeadsTailsEdge: The die lands in the gap between the two tables.
90	* HeelFaceTurn: Evil Abed (he's just Abed now).
91	* HeldGaze: Lame! Jeff and Evil! Annie, when they first meet up in the study room (after she reveals her red dress)
92	* HellBentForLeather: The evil study group.
93	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Evil!Shirley is too drunk to aim.
94	-->'''Good!Shirley:''' Get help. ''[Shoots herself]''
95	* ItsAllAboutMe:
96	** When Jeff says that he met 6 very important people when he came to Greendale, the Dean believes that he's included in the six at Britta's expense.
97	** Pierce complains about the group leaving him out again as they decide the six of them will take Astronomy in the next semester, and when it's pointed out that it's only six because Jeff's going to have graduated by then, he complains that he's no longer the one who gets left out anymore. And then barges in on Jeff's graduation to announce that he's graduating first.
98	** Similarly, Evil Pierce complains about being left out of the Evil Study Group's invasion plans, but as Evil Annie points out, they thought he was dead for over a year. Even when that's pointed out, he ''still'' complains they left him out.
99	* KilledMidSentence: The doppel-Deaner. "Abed brought me here to prove to all of you that--"
100	* LaboriousLaziness: Shirley lampshades Jeff's trademark:
101	-->"Congratulations, Jeffrey. You worked hard not to work hard to earn that degree."
102	* LetsGetDangerous: When Abed comes back from the Darkest Timeline carrying space-warping paintball guns, the study group decide to go to town whupping ass. Good thing they had three (four including a NoodleIncident) previous {{paintball episode}}s to give them experience.
103	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Even though the majority of the episode took place in Jeff's head, you've got to wonder if he really did have some sort of ultra-realistic vision of a future timeline where he threw the die.
104	* MrExposition: Abed, in both timelines.
105	* MrFanservice: Jeff in underwear.
106	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: "All right, Mr. Winger, et al. Britta."
107	* NakedOnArrival: Evil!Jeff appears in his underwear in the Dean's office. Dean doesn't even notice.
108	* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: "Not without my study group," says Jeff to Evil!Jeff as he rips up his diploma.
109	* NoRangeLikePointBlankRange
110	* OhCrap: Abed's face when the die lands.
111	-->"It didn't land on a number. [[BadLiar It probably means nothing...]]"
112	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Troy forgetting to bring the soda becomes a running gag for the group.
113	* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Parodied & subverted, when Evil Annie is telling Annie about how she's sleeping with Evil Jeff in the Darkest Timeline.
114	-->'''Annie''': ''Nobody'' sleeps with Jeff. Not even me.
115	* OnSecondThought: Said by Jeff at the end, coming out of his BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind.
116	-->"On second thought, who needs to roll a die? And who cares if we have soda?
117	* OverusedRunningGag: Abed proclaims that they finally managed to make paintball cool again, as the last time they have a paintball reference they agreed it was played out.
118	* PaintballEpisode: Now DarkerAndEdgier and with inter-dimensional paintball bullets.
119	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Evil!Jeff's EvilPlan is to deliver these to all of Jeff's friends so he would feel driven to get his law firm job back.
120	* RousingSpeech: Played with:
121	** Abed convincing Jeff he's grown as a person and shouldn't go back to his old law firm.
122	** Subverted in that after his graduation ceremony, for once Jeff doesn't know what to say.
123	* SeasonFinale: The fourth one.
124	* SequelHook:
125	** The Study Group decide to study Astronomy next semester.
126	** Jeff off-handedly mentions that he wound up majoring in education.
127	* SeriesFauxnale: This episode was written with the show's uncertain cancellation in mind to give the fans a satisfying closure. Then the series got renewed for season 5.
128	* ShipTease:
129	** A boatload to Annie/Jeff. Since all the Darkest Timeline stuff is in Jeff's head, Evil!Jeff/Evil!Annie is a huge tease, as is [[FemmeFatale Evil!Annie]] trying to seduce Jeff. Even discounting the dream, Annie is way too prepared to throw a wedding for Jeff, and at the end, when he says he loves all the members of the study group, he locks eyes with Annie and gives her a nod.
130	** Jeff/Britta and Jeff/Abed: Jeff mentions the study group fighting over who misses him the most, Britta and Abed both point to themselves.
131	** Troy/Britta in timeline 5 in TheTag. They're a couple with a baby.
132	* ShoutOut:
133	** ''Film/TangoAndCash''
134	** ''{{Franchise/Terminator}}''
135	** Season 3 of ''Series/TheCape''.
136	** ''Film/TheMatrix''
137	** ''Franchise/StarWars''
138	** ''Film/SupermanIII''
139	** ''Film/TheGraduate''
140	** Suddenly noticing background details are weird to tip off that the darkest timeline is inside Jeff's head seems to be one to ''Film/{{Inception}}''.
141	** Abed's RousingSpeech is a parody of the kind given by Creator/TommyLeeJones in ''Film/TheFugitive'' and the ''Film/MenInBlack'' series.
142	** Evil Abed's reformation after meeting his good self is a reference to Mirror Spock's similar reformation in the ''Series/{{Star Trek\|The Original Series}}'' episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror Mirror]]''.
143	* SilenceYouFool: Evil!Jeff to Abed when Abed calls him on being Evil.
144	* SniffSniffNom: Chang tastes the blue goo that the paintball warping gun hits him with.
145	* [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Pierce]]: ''At a graduation ceremony''.
146	* SurpriseParty: Annie is totally unprepared to deal with Jeff graduating early -- then Surprise! It's on a banner.
147	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Annie and the Dean are planning a graduation, not a wedding.
148	* TakingTheBullet: Chang takes a bullet for Jeff while he screams "FRIENDSHIIIIIP!!"
149	* TimeSkip: Lampshaded; it's been several months since the events of the previous episode.
150	* UnholyMatrimony: Evil Jeff and Evil Annie.
151	* UnusualPopCultureName: An alternate universe version of Troy and Britta have had a child together named Chewbacca (ie. the Wookie from ''Franchise/StarWars''). Troy apparently convinced Britta that it was a traditional African name.
152	-->'''Troy:''' It means "[[BountyHunter he who hunts bounties]]".
153	* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Evil Jeff and Evil Annie are treated as serious villains, while the rest of the evil study group are incompetent.
154	* VillainsOutShopping: Evil Troy and Evil Abed do "Troy and Abed in the Morning!" during TheTag, with Chang and the other {{Alternate Timeline}}s as guests. Evil Jeff yells at them to stop goofing around.
155	* YourMakeupIsRunning: The Dean as he comes to Jeff in a wedding dress, distraught at whatever Evil!Jeff said to him.

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