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Pierce, initially annoyed to find that Hawthorne Wipes have become iconic in the gay community, embraces said community when he learns how much value they've brought to the business. He then reverses himself under pressure from his even more bigoted father.

Meanwhile, Troy finds himself being wooed by Vice Dean Laybourne and the secretive Brotherhood of Air Conditioner Repairmen.
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! The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Advanced Gay" provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion:
** Pierce's father is named Cornelius, which happens to be Chevy Chase's birth name.
** Pierce's Eulogy for his father: "You're dead... And I'm not." Is reminiscent of Chase's [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Weekend Update]] CharacterCatchphrase "I'm Chevy Chase... And you're not."
* AggressiveCategorism: Pierce's father is impressively specific and vitriolic in his racism, apparently having established mental pigeonholes for the Swedes and Welsh for example (and he's somehow able to accurately identify various white ethnicities on sight). He also wears an ''[[DodgyToupee ivory toupee]]'' because normal toupees use that abhorrent Oriental hair.
--> '''Shirley:''' Oh my goodness, he's like the Abed of racism.
* AlmightyJanitor: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. The janitor who wants to mentor Troy is far less powerful than [[DoubleSubversion the air-conditioning repairmen.]]
* AncientConspiracy: According to Dean Laybourne, the Air Conditioner Repairmen's roots go all the way back to AncientEgypt.
* BreakThemByTalking: Jeff gives Cornelius a ''heart attack'' with his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Pierce proves to be a better businessman than his father.
* ButtMonkey: Even ''the priest'' at Pierce's Dad's funeral thinks Britta is the worst.
* CallBack:
** To [[Recap/CommunityS1E17PhysicalEducation Physical Education]]. Britta's mispronunciation of a word (see Bagel), resulting in being told 'you're the worst'.
** Troy's plot revolves around his plumbing talents, previously seen in [[Recap/CommunityS1E24EnglishAsASecondLanguage English As A Second Language]] and [[Recap/CommunityS2E24ForAFewPaintballsMore For A Few Paintballs More]].
** [[Recap/CommunityS2E23AFistfulOfPaintballs Jeff assumes Pierce's father is faking his heart attack]]. Turns out it was a real one.
** Pierce's father resembles the Colonel in [[Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience Basic Rocket Science]]. This explains his irrational fear of the KFC mascot.
** In [[Recap/CommunityS1E07IntroductionToStatistics Introduction to Statistics]], Pierce accidentally calls his mother through voice command on his cell phone. Among the things she tells him is "I saw your father's ghost again; he's very angry." When Annie reveals her assumption that he was dead, Pierce responds "Mom liked to pretend that was the case." Doubles as a {{Retcon}}.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Jeff does this symbolically with Cornelius Hawthorne. Pierce himself calls out his father's corpse at the funeral.
* CampGay: Camper than a national park.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the janitor trying to convince Troy to use his "gift" of repair talents "for good."
* ContinuityDrift: In an earlier episode Pierce accidentally calls his mother and she tells him that she's seen the ghost of his father again... but, in this episode, we find out that Pierce's dad is not dead. [[FridgeBrilliance And that his mother likes to pretend he is.]]
* CryingWolf: Jeff dismisses Pierce's dad's heart attack as a fake one since the Hawthornes are notorious for them. Turns out it was real.
* CuteButPsycho: Possibly Shirley, due to her "murder, suicide" comment.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Just about every word Pierce says in the moments after he sees the Hawthorne Wipes drag techno video.
* DramaticWind: Happens twice in the same situation. Troy feels the air conditioning kick in moments before meeting Vice Dean Layborne.
* FanserviceExtra: The attendees at Pierce's party, many of whom are shirtless and buff.
* FullNameUltimatum: Piercenald Anastasia Hawthorne.
* {{Forgiveness}}: This is the episode where Jeff forgives Pierce fully for the prank from last season. He gets righteously furious on seeing Pierce's father emotionally abusing Pierce and refusing to let him grow as a person, seeing exactly how Pierce became the man he is. So he uncancels the party, tells Pierce he deserves better than to live under an abusive father's shadow, and lays into Cornelius for hurting his only son.
* FuneralCut: When Jeff confronts Pierce's father, Cornelius, about how bad of a father he was, Cornelius falls over and appears to have a heart attack. Jeff, who knew that Cornelius had taught Pierce to [[WoundedGazelleGambit fake a heart attack whenever he was in trouble]], attempts to call him out on running away. Cut to the old man's funeral: it turned out [[CryingWolf he wasn't faking it that time]].
* GenderReveal:
** Chang is in for a surprise when they get home.
** Although Pierce doesn't get anywhere near the stage of proceedings that Chang reached, he still makes the same fundamental error with the same person.
* GilliganCut: Cornelius keels over after Jeff's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and Jeff dismissively tells the nurses rushing in to help him that he's faking a heart attack. The next scene cuts straight to Cornelius's funeral.
* GunStripping: As part of his initiation Troy must assemble an AC unit blindfolded.
* HiddenDepths: Jeff implies that he would like to have a son of his own.
* HypocriticalHumor: After Pierce's father's funeral, Chang calls Jeff gay for going home alone, while leaving arm-in-arm with Urbanna Champagne, a CampGay transvestite.
* KubrickStare: Laybourne at the end.
* LittleKnownFacts:
-->'''Pierce''': You know that the Canadian mallard is the only waterfowl that bites its father's head off on its way out of the womb?
-->'''Jeff''': That is definitely not true.
-->'''Pierce''': I don't know, I looked it up on the Wi-ka-pee-dia.
* LostInTransmission: Type 2.
-->'''Troy''': I'm gonna eat spaceman paninis with Black Hitler and there's ''nothing you can do about it!!''
* {{Malaproper}}: Britta's [[BookDumb misdiagnosis]] of Pierce's father's issues amounts to what she calls an "Edible Complex". She's talking about an "Oedipus Complex".
-->'''Britta:''' In my psych class, I'm learning about this thing called the edible complex. All men have to kill their fathers so they can do something to their mothers. I haven't finished the chapter.
* MilkmanConspiracy: "The brotherhood of guys who fix air conditioners."
* MundaneMadeAwesome: In contrast to plumbing, air conditioning repair is treated as a world-shaking talent at Greendale. The actual lack of awesomeness is {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Abed, who points out that "they're virtually the same thing."
-->'''Laybourne:''' Have you heard the expression "room temperature"?\\
'''Troy:''' Of course.\\
'''Laybourne:''' This is the room.
* NoodleImplements: It's never revealed what exactly Hawthorne wipes have to do with the gay community. Abed whispers why into Shirley's ear and the only clue is that it's practiced by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch Bruce Vilanch.]]
-->'''Jeff:''' ''[[EspeciallyZoidberg Especially]]'' Bruce Vilanch.
* OnlySaneMan: Abed, who points out that for all the rivalry, secrecy, and power games between the plumbers and the air-conditioning repairmen, the two jobs are all but exactly the same.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Played for laughs in the climactic confrontation between Troy and Vice Dean Laybourne. It transpires that Troy is not very good at it.
-->'''Laybourne:''' You're making a huge mistake, son.\\
'''Troy:''' That may be, sir. But at least it's my mistake.\\
'''Laybourne:''' That doesn't change the fact that it's a mistake.\\
'''Troy:''' Doesn't it?\\
'''Laybourne:''' ''[Bemused]'' ...No, it doesn't.
* PhraseCatcher: Even the priest at Cornelius' funeral thinks Britta is the worst.
* PragmaticVillainy: Pierce abandons a lifetime of homophobia very quickly once he realises that there's profit (and [[SlaveToPR popularity]]) to be had in being a gay rights advocate. This sets him apart from his father, for whom spiting the numerous groups he is bigoted against is clearly the most important thing.
* RefugeInAudacity: Vice Dean Laybourne cites this as the reason he kidnaps the recruits and chooses to have a black Hitler and a panini-making astronaut present at the recruitment ceremony. If anyone ''does'' talk about it, no one will believe them.
* SecretHandshake: It's Troy and Abed's usual handshake, except they whisper "Secret" after.
* ShoutOut:
** Abed is wearing a VideoGame/DeBlob T-shirt in the first meeting room scene.
** The drag queen Urbana Champaign is named for the city where the University of Illinois is located.
* SkewedPriorities: Britta's apparent reaction to Cornelius' aforementioned ivory toupee.
-->'''Britta:''' I can excuse racism, [[AnimalLover but I draw the line at animal cruelty]].\\
'''Shirley:''' ''[affronted]'' You can excuse racism?!
* SlobsVersusSnobs: [[ConversedTrope Conversed]]. This is how the janitor describes the rivalry between plumbers and air-conditioning repairmen.
* SophisticatedAsHell: The elite brotherhood of ''guys who fix air conditioners''.
* TakeAThirdOption: Forced to choose between being a plumber and being an air conditioner repairman, Troy decides to instead sit on the couch and watch TV with Abed. Laybourne realizes this means that he can still recruit Troy.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Jeff gives Pierce's dad such a harsh TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that the old man has a heart attack and dies.
* ThatCameOutWrong:
** "Quit putting gay things in my mouth!"
** "I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty".
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Both the janitor and Dean Laybourne try this trope out on Troy.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Both Jeff and Pierce give one to Pierce's dad. The former kills the old man, the latter happens at the funeral.
* ThisExplainsSoMuch: The study group has this response collectively when they meet Pierce's father.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Even though Troy [[RefusedTheCall refused his offer]], Vice Dean Laybourne swears to himself "this isn't over."
* WhatYearIsThis:
-->'''Abed as JustForFun/InspectorSpacetime:''' The question isn’t what they want from us... but when.\\
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'''Jeff:''' How old are you?\\
'''Troy:''' It's not 'How old are we', its 'When old are we...'
* WhyDontYouMarryIt: Pierce's retort for Jeff's support of gays.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Pierce's dad has it written in his will that whoever kills him gets his DodgyToupee, an "honor" that Jeff reluctantly accepts at the funeral.
* YourMom:
-->'''Jeff:''' Britta, you are going to make a terrible therapist. And if you need to talk to someone about that, I don't recommend you.\\
'''Britta:''' Hm. Is that how your dad talked to your mom?\\
'''Jeff:''' No, that's how I talk to ''your mom''.\\
'''Britta:''' How does that make you feel?\\
'''Jeff:''' ''Shut up''.
** Subverted; it's later revealed that the members of the study group do talk to Britta's parents.
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