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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: This one takes it to a whole [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19FMU3M7Jtk&feature=player_embedded different level.]]
* FurAgainstFang: Annie's story.
* FurAgainstFang: Annie's story.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: This one episode takes it to a whole [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19FMU3M7Jtk&feature=player_embedded different level.]]
]] After two previous episodes had characters saying ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'' Annie said it a third time here. Sure enough, Beetlejuice himself walks by in the background right after.
* FurAgainstFang: Annie'sstory.story -- after her AuthorAvatar fails to reform Jeff's vampire character, she reveals she's a werewolf and eats him alive.
* FurAgainstFang: Annie's
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* HerCodenameWasMarySue: All of the stories play with this to some degree, but Pierce (irresistible sex-stud with a full head of hair capable of beating up gangbangers with his GagPenis) and Shirley ([[MessianicArchetype angelic messiah-figure who nobly forgives her friends their sins]] [[CaughtUpInTheRapture before being raptured into Heaven]]) really go to town with it. Shirley's story contains a particularly lame attempt to pretend this isn't the case:
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* HerCodenameWasMarySue: All of the stories play with this to some degree, but degree:
** Pierce(irresistible makes himself an irresistible sex-stud with a full head of hair capable of beating up gangbangers with his GagPenis) and GagPenis.
** Shirley([[MessianicArchetype makes herself a [[MessianicArchetype angelic messiah-figure who nobly forgives her friends their sins]] [[CaughtUpInTheRapture before being raptured into Heaven]]) really go to town with it. Shirley's Her story contains a particularly lame attempt to pretend this isn't the case:
** Pierce
** Shirley
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** Britta isn't as aggressive about this, but her AuthorAvatar is much more sensible than Jeff and takes the opportunity to gloat about her survival.
** Abed makes himself very rational and competent, to the point that it ruins his story. Though he also does this to Britta's stand-in.
** Annie makes herself a sweetheart who teaches Vampire Jeff to read and reforms him but [[SilkHidingSteel can also brutally murder him when he betrays her.]]
** Troy's stand-in outsmarts a MadScientist, gains superpowers, and plays out an involved revenge fantasy against Pierce that he shares with his best friend Abed.
** Jeff's stand-in stops a murderous Chang and saves all his friends with a powerful speech.
** Abed makes himself very rational and competent, to the point that it ruins his story. Though he also does this to Britta's stand-in.
** Annie makes herself a sweetheart who teaches Vampire Jeff to read and reforms him but [[SilkHidingSteel can also brutally murder him when he betrays her.]]
** Troy's stand-in outsmarts a MadScientist, gains superpowers, and plays out an involved revenge fantasy against Pierce that he shares with his best friend Abed.
** Jeff's stand-in stops a murderous Chang and saves all his friends with a powerful speech.
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** Annie and Shirley's stories appear to have been a little influenced by ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and ''Literature/LeftBehind'' respectively. Britta's story is a version of the popular [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hook "hookman" urban legend]]. Troy's story is reminiscent of ''Film/TheHumanCentipede''.
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** Annie and Shirley's stories appear to have been a little influenced by ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' and ''Literature/LeftBehind'' respectively. Britta's story is a version of the popular [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hook "hookman" urban legend]]. Troy's story is reminiscent of ''Film/TheHumanCentipede''.
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** In Shirley's story Annie is dressed like Velma from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''.
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** In Shirley's story story, Annie is dressed like Velma from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Pierce in Troy's story. His MadScientist self sews Troy and Abed together, but ends up being experimented on himself. But it's subverted in that he actually enjoys what they've done to him...
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Pierce in Troy's story. His MadScientist self sews Troy and Abed together, but ends up being experimented on himself. But it's subverted in that he actually [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoys what they've done to him...him]]...
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Despite being in a college library, most of the study group can come up with a weapon at a moments notice. Shirley wields a [[GrievousBottleyHarm broken bottle]], Pierce a fire extinguisher, Annie a [[ShearMenace pair of scissors]], Troy uses pens for WolverineClaws and Abed becomes the ChairmanOfTheBrawl. Averted by Britta, who wields a SinisterSwitchblade.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Despite being in a college library, most of the study group can come up with a weapon at a moments notice. Shirley wields a [[GrievousBottleyHarm broken bottle]], Pierce a fire extinguisher, Annie a [[ShearMenace pair of scissors]], Troy uses pens pencils for WolverineClaws and Abed becomes the ChairmanOfTheBrawl. Averted by Britta, who wields a SinisterSwitchblade.
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* HookHand: The killer in Britta and Jeff's stories features one.
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* HookHand: [[HookHand Hook Thing Where His Hand Should Be]]: The killer in Britta and Jeff's stories features one.
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* AnthropicPrinciple: Demonstrated with Abed's story: sure, it is nice to see GenreSavvy characters taking proper steps to defend themselves from an escaped SerialKiller [[DefiedTrope instead of being]] TooDumbToLive, but if obstacles such as, say, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the aforementioned serial killer just doesn't show up]], then all the author gets is a teeth-grindingly annoyed audience.
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* AnthropicPrinciple: Demonstrated with Abed's story: sure, it is nice to see GenreSavvy characters taking proper steps to defend themselves from an escaped SerialKiller [[DefiedTrope instead of being]] TooDumbToLive, but if obstacles such as, say, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the aforementioned serial killer just doesn't don't show up]], then all the author gets is a teeth-grindingly annoyed audience.
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* AnthropicPrinciple: Demonstrated with Abed's story: sure, it is nice to see GenreSavvy characters taking proper steps to defend themselves from an escaped SerialKiller [[DefiedTrope instead of being]] TooDumbToLive, but if obstacles such as, say, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the aforementioned serial killer just don't show up]], then all the author gets is a teeth-grindingly annoyed audience.
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* AnthropicPrinciple: Demonstrated with Abed's story: sure, it is nice to see GenreSavvy characters taking proper steps to defend themselves from an escaped SerialKiller [[DefiedTrope instead of being]] TooDumbToLive, but if obstacles such as, say, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the aforementioned serial killer just don't doesn't show up]], then all the author gets is a teeth-grindingly annoyed audience.
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* VillainousGoldTooth: The story Pierce tells involves a racist reimagining of Troy and Abed as gangbanging home invaders. This version of Troy has a gold tooth.
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* GoldTooth: Troy sports them in Pierce's story.
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* BlowYouAway: In Shirley's story, she appears as an angel and blows away TheDevil (the Dean).
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** The characters were already [[DeathBySex hesitant to have sex]] even before they hear about the escaped SerialKiller,
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** The characters were already [[DeathBySex [[SexSignalsDeath hesitant to have sex]] even before they hear about the escaped SerialKiller,
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* DeathBySex: {{Defied|Trope}} in Abed's story. He shuts down Britta's attempt to kindle romance to avoid dropping their guard.
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* SexSignalsDeath: {{Defied|Trope}} in Abed's story. He shuts down Britta's attempt to kindle romance to avoid dropping their guard.
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* StockholmSyndrome: Britta in Annie's story, being contented to be the vampire's (Jeff) "blood storage".
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* DramaticThunder: All over the place.
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* EinsteinHair: Pierce in Troy's story.
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* RescueEquipmentAttack: After it's revealed that there's a closeted sociopath in the study group, the lights flicker off, allowing all of them to quickly improvise a weapon to defend themselves. Pierce ends up with a fire extinguisher, and when the lights come back on, he points the nozzle at the others menacingly and bellows "You don't want to be Barium Sulfated!".
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* CompetencePorn: Abed's story is an inversion: sure, the heroic characters are (by slasher victim standards) hyper-competent, but the (InUniverse) audience ''hates'' this.
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* CompetencePorn: Abed's story is an inversion: sure, the heroic characters are (by slasher victim standards) hyper-competent, but the (InUniverse) audience (other than Troy) ''hates'' this.
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* CompetencePorn: Abed's story is an inversion: sure, the heroic characters are (by slasher victim standards) hyper-competent, but the (InUniverse) audience ''hates'' this.
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* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Both of Britta's stories, as well as Annie's and Shirley's have fatalities. Troy's and Pierce's stories have mutilations and beatings, respectively, but nobody gets flat-out killed. Abed's and Jeff's stories lack any violence. This ends up carrying to the real-life confrontation in the study room; the men (sans Jeff) have impractical, improvised weapons while the women are armed with deadlier ones.
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** InUniverse; Shirley seems to think that you can snort marijuana and that NPR is a music station on which partying kids would be listening to Death Metal.
** Also, Britta seems to think that ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' is actually called ''Warren Piece''.
** InUniverse; Shirley seems to think that you can snort marijuana and that NPR is a music station on which partying kids would be listening to Death Metal.
** Also, Britta seems to think that ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' is actually called ''Warren Piece''.
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** Shirley seems to think that you can snort marijuana and that NPR is a music station on which partying kids would be listening to Death Metal.
** Also, Britta seems to think that ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' is actually called ''Warren Piece''.
** Shirley seems to think that you can snort marijuana and that NPR is a music station on which partying kids would be listening to Death Metal.
** Also, Britta seems to think that ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' is actually called ''Warren Piece''.
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** The characters [[CellPhonesAreUseless immediately call the police through their charged cell phones]], the call immediately gets through and [[PoliceAreUseless the cops tell the characters they will be there in a few minutes]],
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** The characters [[CellPhonesAreUseless immediately call the police through their charged cell phones]], the call immediately gets through and [[PoliceAreUseless the cops (who don't dismiss the characters) tell the characters them they will be there in a few minutes]],
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* GenreBlindness[=/=]GenreSavvy: Parodied and deconstructed; Abed objects to the GenreBlindness displayed by the characters in Britta's story, explaining that character's making decisions the audience never would makes us lose sympathy for them. His innate Genre Savviness leads him to construct a perfectly logical horror story where the protagonists [[AvertedTrope avoid every single cliché, mistake and convention]] present in the genre ... even the [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality ones necessary for telling a story]] (up to and including not even bothering to show the killer). This almost completely robs his story of suspense, tension and horror and just serves to bore and irritate his audience.
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* GenreBlindness[=/=]GenreSavvy: GenreSavvy: Parodied and deconstructed; Abed objects to the GenreBlindness displayed by the characters in Britta's story, explaining that character's making decisions the audience never would makes us lose sympathy for them. His innate Genre Savviness leads him to construct a perfectly logical horror story where the protagonists [[AvertedTrope avoid every single cliché, mistake and convention]] present in the genre ... even the [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality ones necessary for telling a story]] (up to and including not even bothering to show the killer). This almost completely robs his story of suspense, tension and horror and just serves to bore and irritate his audience.
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** The characters [[IgnoredVitalNewsReport immediately pay attention to the news]] about the escaped serial killer and [[ItsProbablyNothing immediately assume the weird noises outside their cabin to be said serial killer]],
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** The characters [[IgnoredVitalNewsReport [[IgnoredVitalNewsReports immediately pay attention to the news]] about the escaped serial killer and [[ItsProbablyNothing immediately assume the weird noises outside their cabin to be said serial killer]],
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* DefiedTrope: Abed's story is a step-by-step list of defiances of slasher cliches:
** The characters were already [[DeathBySex hesitant to have sex]] even before they hear about the escaped SerialKiller,
** The characters [[IgnoredVitalNewsReport immediately pay attention to the news]] about the escaped serial killer and [[ItsProbablyNothing immediately assume the weird noises outside their cabin to be said serial killer]],
** The characters [[CellPhonesAreUseless immediately call the police through their charged cell phones]], the call immediately gets through and [[PoliceAreUseless the cops tell the characters they will be there in a few minutes]],
** The characters [[LetsSplitUpGang stick together and immediately go to a defensible part of the cabin]], arm themselves, and [[BackToBackBadasses stand back to back]] keeping an eye on all entry points while they wait for the cops.
** In a minor (and more comedic) example, Abed doesn't adds the news broadcast the very second the characters turn on the radio and plays music for a little while because he wishes to avoid such ContrivedCoincidence.
** The characters were already [[DeathBySex hesitant to have sex]] even before they hear about the escaped SerialKiller,
** The characters [[IgnoredVitalNewsReport immediately pay attention to the news]] about the escaped serial killer and [[ItsProbablyNothing immediately assume the weird noises outside their cabin to be said serial killer]],
** The characters [[CellPhonesAreUseless immediately call the police through their charged cell phones]], the call immediately gets through and [[PoliceAreUseless the cops tell the characters they will be there in a few minutes]],
** The characters [[LetsSplitUpGang stick together and immediately go to a defensible part of the cabin]], arm themselves, and [[BackToBackBadasses stand back to back]] keeping an eye on all entry points while they wait for the cops.
** In a minor (and more comedic) example, Abed doesn't adds the news broadcast the very second the characters turn on the radio and plays music for a little while because he wishes to avoid such ContrivedCoincidence.
