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** In one episode, Pierce's cellphone puts his mother on speaker as she says she heard his father's ghost. In "Advanced Gay," Pierce reveals his father is alive and that his mother liked to pretend that Cornelius Hawthorne was dead because he's such an awful person. Then Jeff [[spoiler:accidentally kills Cornelius with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Pierce's behalf]].
** The RunningGag about Greendale being a SuckySchool with a generally inept faculty who repeatedly run completely idiotic classes (such as an analysis of who the titular boss was in ''Series/WhosTheBoss'') becomes this after [[spoiler:"[[Recap/CommunityS5E01Repilot Repilot]]" showed the ramifications of attending such a school]].
** All the jokes about Pierce dying (especially the ones about him DyingAlone) can become this after Season 5 when [[spoiler: it's revealed that Pierce masturbated himself to death - presumably in a room by himself.]]
** Chang punching Duncan in the face with a roll of quarters in his hand in Season 2 is a hilarious bit of physical comedy. Then the Ass Crack Bandit in Season 5 came up with a much more sinister use for quarters, which Duncan would ''also'' be subjected to.
** The "Troy and Abed" singing gags in TheStinger become this in [[spoiler: Season 4, where Evil Abed and Troy sing the last Stinger one as part of their radio show. They both reluctantly accept the status quo where Chang is a dictator in their timeline and reaffirm that no matter what happens, the two are friends. You can tell it feels like the EndOfAnEra before the next season premiere. Season 5 has Troy and Abed singing it mid-show during the Pierce interrogation episode as "Troy and Abed are in mourning", foreshadowing that Troy is leaving for good and Abed isn't ready to say farewell]].
** In the episode "Aerodynamics of Gender", the world is seen as a RoboCam through Abed's eyes. When the RoboCam is on the screen, you can see a list of memos Abed has for himself. When Abed is playing back something Shirley said to him, one of the memos is [[spoiler:"Confirm mom for Xmas"]]. This is a lot worse in hindsight when you realize "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" is just a few episodes later.
** "Intro To Documentary Filmmaking" has Jeff literally beating up Pierce for saying his father was coming to visit, because it was another of Pierce's MindScrew pranks, and that this is why Pierce has no friends. [[spoiler:Jeff does actually meet his father in Season 4, and the only positive Jeff gets out of it is learning he has a BigBrotherInstinct for his half-brother; his CallingTheOldManOut isn't even that different from what he told Pierce]].
** In the episode "Modern Warfare", the Glee Club shown in the first game of Paintball Assassin ends up dying in a bus crash next season [[spoiler:caused by their own crazy teacher, Mr. Rad]].
** In the episode "Paradigms of Human Memory," there is a flashback to "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"; however, it is seen through the eyes of the other characters. Puts a much darker light on the former (with the other characters lampshading that it wasn't nearly as fun as Jeff and Britta seemed to be remembering), and really makes you think about [[{{Squick}} snowman Chang's bottom button...]]
** In Season 3's "Remedial Chaos Theory", Troy's absence leading to the darkest timeline seems harsher after Creator/DonaldGlover left the show in the fifth season, which became the last season after NBC cancelled the show. You could say Troy leaving the group really did lead to the darkest timeline. This was later subverted when it was announced that Platform/{{Yahoo}} Screen would produce at least one more season with virtually the same budget as the Creator/{{NBC}} seasons.
*** Relatedly, a consequence of the darkest timeline being Pierce's death becomes a lot more uncomfortable given not only Creator/{{Chevy Chase}}'s already "eclectic" relationship with the show deteriorating to the point that he would outright quit in Season 4, but that his own character (Pierce) [[spoiler:would be killed off less than a season after that in Season 5]].
*** Similarly, Troy and Pierce's interactions with each other in Timeline 6 where the former gives the latter a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech take a much darker turn once Glover revealed years after the show ended that [[HostilityOnTheSet he and Chevy Chase did not get along]] since Chase had made racist jokes to him (i.e., telling Glover that, "People think you're funnier because you're black").
** It's noted on the commentary track for "[[Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality Advanced Introduction to Finality]]" that the final line of the cold open, Troy commenting "One for all, and all for one guy we can leave behind!" was originally just a joke about Pierce's age, but the line took a greater subtext when Chevy Chase quit the show. The joke ''was'' originally HilariousInHindsight, but became HarsherInHindsight when [[spoiler:Pierce was revealed to have died in "[[Recap/CommunityS5E03BasicInterglutealNumismatics Basic Intergluteal Numismatics]]"]].
** The two-season arc of Shirley reconciling with her husband becomes this when [[spoiler:they divorce again during the TimeSkip]]. Even worse, Andre and Shirley renewed their vows promising to accept that they both have changed and would commit to their relationship with Shirley opening a sandwich shop to support their family. [[spoiler:The sandwich business fails and as a result, Andre takes the kids, leaving Shirley alone]].
** Professor Kane quitting due to the guilt of Starburns' death becomes this when you find out [[spoiler: he faked it, meaning Kane had a guilt ridden breakdown over a death that ''never even happened'']].
** The final two lines of the [[LyricalDissonance (surprisingly dark)]] theme song, which are "I can't count the reasons I should stay, one by one they all just fade away", turn out to be prophetic, as in the final two seasons, a third of the cast members left one by one, which became a point of contention for a big portion of the fans.
** Season 3 opens with a big musical number where all the characters sing about how they're gonna "finally be fine", which is then revealed as Jeff's ImagineSpot in regards to a year without Pierce. In the series finale, [[spoiler:when Jeff learns that both Annie and Abed are leaving while he is still stuck at Greendale, Annie tells him "you're gonna be fine, you know," to which Jeff bitterly replies, "I don't wanna be fine."]]
** Some of the HilariousOuttakes that imply or [[BlackComedyRape act out]] sexual misconduct between the cast and/or crew come off as tasteless after the rise of the #metoo movement. It's also pretty clear that Gillian and Yvette don't really want to participate in these type of jokes but occasionally get pushed into playing along with the rest of the cast.
** Various other pieces of information to come out after the show finished also make Harmon look like a complete asshole in his dealings with Chevy Chase, who was pilloried for his 'poor behavior' like leaving the set early, refusing to film scenes and his "use of a racial slur" that was apparently the "final straw" forcing him off the show. Those refusals were usually caused by Harmon not having done his job properly and leaving the scripts unfinished, causing the cast and crew to sit around doing nothing well after midnight, and where the racial slur was said in the context of Harmon pushing Pierce's character into an irredeemably awful racist, something Chevy didn't like happening.
** Abed either has a breakdown or invites Evil Abed inadvertently into the timeline in Season 3 when it seems [[spoiler:Troy has to leave forever to join the AC Repair school]]. It gets worse in Season 5 when [[spoiler:Troy leaves for ''real'' to fulfill a requirement to earn Pierce's inheritance: sail around the world for a year. Abed has another breakdown that Britta has to fix, and spends the rest of the season trying to find a ReplacementGoldfish for his best friend. To make matters ''worse'', a FreezeFrameBonus reveals Troy and Levar Burton were captured by pirates. [[CruelTwistEnding Abed may never see his best friend again]]]].
** Throughout "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care", the majority of Britta's screentime is spent being judged for declining to reconnect with her parents and acting very bratty and childish. In addition to this, her reasoning isn't properly explained and the examples of the bad parenting she gives are certainly terrible, but undercut the reality by a mile. The biggest reason that Britta hates her parents is because ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yne9x/i_am_dan_harmon_creator_of_community_writer_of/c5x6asv/?st=jd0fvn82&sh=0ef08288 she was sexually assaulted by a man in a dinosaur costume as a child]]'' and her parents did not believe her. With the accusations of sexual harassment against Dan Harmon that would be made public just a few years later[[note]]Though he was smart enough to genuinely own up to his faults and eventually gave what was described as a sincere apology to the woman who accused him of said harassment on his ''Podcast/{{Harmontown}}'' podcast[[/note]], the decision to make Britta come off as childish and petty for harboring resentment toward her parents for not having supported her after being raped can't help but feel considerably more sinister and ill-intentioned.
** In one episode, Pierce's cellphone puts his mother on speaker as she says she heard his father's ghost. In "Advanced Gay," Pierce reveals his father is alive and that his mother liked to pretend that Cornelius Hawthorne was dead because he's such an awful person. Then Jeff [[spoiler:accidentally kills Cornelius with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Pierce's behalf]].
** The RunningGag about Greendale being a SuckySchool with a generally inept faculty who repeatedly run completely idiotic classes (such as an analysis of who the titular boss was in ''Series/WhosTheBoss'') becomes this after [[spoiler:"[[Recap/CommunityS5E01Repilot Repilot]]" showed the ramifications of attending such a school]].
** All the jokes about Pierce dying (especially the ones about him DyingAlone) can become this after Season 5 when [[spoiler: it's revealed that Pierce masturbated himself to death - presumably in a room by himself.]]
** Chang punching Duncan in the face with a roll of quarters in his hand in Season 2 is a hilarious bit of physical comedy. Then the Ass Crack Bandit in Season 5 came up with a much more sinister use for quarters, which Duncan would ''also'' be subjected to.
** The "Troy and Abed" singing gags in TheStinger become this in [[spoiler: Season 4, where Evil Abed and Troy sing the last Stinger one as part of their radio show. They both reluctantly accept the status quo where Chang is a dictator in their timeline and reaffirm that no matter what happens, the two are friends. You can tell it feels like the EndOfAnEra before the next season premiere. Season 5 has Troy and Abed singing it mid-show during the Pierce interrogation episode as "Troy and Abed are in mourning", foreshadowing that Troy is leaving for good and Abed isn't ready to say farewell]].
** In the episode "Aerodynamics of Gender", the world is seen as a RoboCam through Abed's eyes. When the RoboCam is on the screen, you can see a list of memos Abed has for himself. When Abed is playing back something Shirley said to him, one of the memos is [[spoiler:"Confirm mom for Xmas"]]. This is a lot worse in hindsight when you realize "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" is just a few episodes later.
** "Intro To Documentary Filmmaking" has Jeff literally beating up Pierce for saying his father was coming to visit, because it was another of Pierce's MindScrew pranks, and that this is why Pierce has no friends. [[spoiler:Jeff does actually meet his father in Season 4, and the only positive Jeff gets out of it is learning he has a BigBrotherInstinct for his half-brother; his CallingTheOldManOut isn't even that different from what he told Pierce]].
** In the episode "Modern Warfare", the Glee Club shown in the first game of Paintball Assassin ends up dying in a bus crash next season [[spoiler:caused by their own crazy teacher, Mr. Rad]].
** In the episode "Paradigms of Human Memory," there is a flashback to "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"; however, it is seen through the eyes of the other characters. Puts a much darker light on the former (with the other characters lampshading that it wasn't nearly as fun as Jeff and Britta seemed to be remembering), and really makes you think about [[{{Squick}} snowman Chang's bottom button...]]
** In Season 3's "Remedial Chaos Theory", Troy's absence leading to the darkest timeline seems harsher after Creator/DonaldGlover left the show in the fifth season, which became the last season after NBC cancelled the show. You could say Troy leaving the group really did lead to the darkest timeline. This was later subverted when it was announced that Platform/{{Yahoo}} Screen would produce at least one more season with virtually the same budget as the Creator/{{NBC}} seasons.
*** Relatedly, a consequence of the darkest timeline being Pierce's death becomes a lot more uncomfortable given not only Creator/{{Chevy Chase}}'s already "eclectic" relationship with the show deteriorating to the point that he would outright quit in Season 4, but that his own character (Pierce) [[spoiler:would be killed off less than a season after that in Season 5]].
*** Similarly, Troy and Pierce's interactions with each other in Timeline 6 where the former gives the latter a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech take a much darker turn once Glover revealed years after the show ended that [[HostilityOnTheSet he and Chevy Chase did not get along]] since Chase had made racist jokes to him (i.e., telling Glover that, "People think you're funnier because you're black").
** It's noted on the commentary track for "[[Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality Advanced Introduction to Finality]]" that the final line of the cold open, Troy commenting "One for all, and all for one guy we can leave behind!" was originally just a joke about Pierce's age, but the line took a greater subtext when Chevy Chase quit the show. The joke ''was'' originally HilariousInHindsight, but became HarsherInHindsight when [[spoiler:Pierce was revealed to have died in "[[Recap/CommunityS5E03BasicInterglutealNumismatics Basic Intergluteal Numismatics]]"]].
** The two-season arc of Shirley reconciling with her husband becomes this when [[spoiler:they divorce again during the TimeSkip]]. Even worse, Andre and Shirley renewed their vows promising to accept that they both have changed and would commit to their relationship with Shirley opening a sandwich shop to support their family. [[spoiler:The sandwich business fails and as a result, Andre takes the kids, leaving Shirley alone]].
** Professor Kane quitting due to the guilt of Starburns' death becomes this when you find out [[spoiler: he faked it, meaning Kane had a guilt ridden breakdown over a death that ''never even happened'']].
** The final two lines of the [[LyricalDissonance (surprisingly dark)]] theme song, which are "I can't count the reasons I should stay, one by one they all just fade away", turn out to be prophetic, as in the final two seasons, a third of the cast members left one by one, which became a point of contention for a big portion of the fans.
** Season 3 opens with a big musical number where all the characters sing about how they're gonna "finally be fine", which is then revealed as Jeff's ImagineSpot in regards to a year without Pierce. In the series finale, [[spoiler:when Jeff learns that both Annie and Abed are leaving while he is still stuck at Greendale, Annie tells him "you're gonna be fine, you know," to which Jeff bitterly replies, "I don't wanna be fine."]]
** Some of the HilariousOuttakes that imply or [[BlackComedyRape act out]] sexual misconduct between the cast and/or crew come off as tasteless after the rise of the #metoo movement. It's also pretty clear that Gillian and Yvette don't really want to participate in these type of jokes but occasionally get pushed into playing along with the rest of the cast.
** Various other pieces of information to come out after the show finished also make Harmon look like a complete asshole in his dealings with Chevy Chase, who was pilloried for his 'poor behavior' like leaving the set early, refusing to film scenes and his "use of a racial slur" that was apparently the "final straw" forcing him off the show. Those refusals were usually caused by Harmon not having done his job properly and leaving the scripts unfinished, causing the cast and crew to sit around doing nothing well after midnight, and where the racial slur was said in the context of Harmon pushing Pierce's character into an irredeemably awful racist, something Chevy didn't like happening.
** Abed either has a breakdown or invites Evil Abed inadvertently into the timeline in Season 3 when it seems [[spoiler:Troy has to leave forever to join the AC Repair school]]. It gets worse in Season 5 when [[spoiler:Troy leaves for ''real'' to fulfill a requirement to earn Pierce's inheritance: sail around the world for a year. Abed has another breakdown that Britta has to fix, and spends the rest of the season trying to find a ReplacementGoldfish for his best friend. To make matters ''worse'', a FreezeFrameBonus reveals Troy and Levar Burton were captured by pirates. [[CruelTwistEnding Abed may never see his best friend again]]]].
** Throughout "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care", the majority of Britta's screentime is spent being judged for declining to reconnect with her parents and acting very bratty and childish. In addition to this, her reasoning isn't properly explained and the examples of the bad parenting she gives are certainly terrible, but undercut the reality by a mile. The biggest reason that Britta hates her parents is because ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yne9x/i_am_dan_harmon_creator_of_community_writer_of/c5x6asv/?st=jd0fvn82&sh=0ef08288 she was sexually assaulted by a man in a dinosaur costume as a child]]'' and her parents did not believe her. With the accusations of sexual harassment against Dan Harmon that would be made public just a few years later[[note]]Though he was smart enough to genuinely own up to his faults and eventually gave what was described as a sincere apology to the woman who accused him of said harassment on his ''Podcast/{{Harmontown}}'' podcast[[/note]], the decision to make Britta come off as childish and petty for harboring resentment toward her parents for not having supported her after being raped can't help but feel considerably more sinister and ill-intentioned.
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* HarsherInHindsight:
** In one episode, Pierce's cellphone puts his mother on speaker as she says she heard his father's ghost. In "Advanced Gay," Pierce reveals his father is alive and that his mother liked to pretend that Cornelius Hawthorne was dead because he's such an awful person. Then Jeff [[spoiler:accidentally kills Cornelius with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Pierce's behalf]].
** The RunningGag about Greendale being a SuckySchool with a generally inept faculty who repeatedly run completely idiotic classes (such as an analysis of who the titular boss was in ''Series/WhosTheBoss'') becomes this after [[spoiler:"[[Recap/CommunityS5E01Repilot Repilot]]" showed the ramifications of attending such a school]].
** All the jokes about Pierce dying (especially the ones about him DyingAlone) can become this after Season 5 when [[spoiler:HarsherInHindsight: [[HarsherInHindsight/Community Has it's revealed that Pierce masturbated himself to death - presumably in a room by himself.]]
** Chang punching Duncan in the face with a roll of quarters in his hand in Season 2 is a hilarious bit of physical comedy. Then the Ass Crack Bandit in Season 5 came up with a much more sinister use for quarters, which Duncan would ''also'' be subjected to.
** The "Troy and Abed" singing gags in TheStinger become this in [[spoiler: Season 4, where Evil Abed and Troy sing the last Stinger one as part of their radio show. They both reluctantly accept the status quo where Chang is a dictator in their timeline and reaffirm that no matter what happens, the two are friends. You can tell it feels like the EndOfAnEra before the next season premiere. Season 5 has Troy and Abed singing it mid-show during the Pierce interrogation episode as "Troy and Abed are in mourning", foreshadowing that Troy is leaving for good and Abed isn't ready to say farewell]].
** In the episode "Aerodynamics of Gender", the world is seen as a RoboCam through Abed's eyes. When the RoboCam is on the screen, you can see a list of memos Abed has for himself. When Abed is playing back something Shirley said to him, one of the memos is [[spoiler:"Confirm mom for Xmas"]]. This is a lot worse in hindsight when you realize "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" is just a few episodes later.
** "Intro To Documentary Filmmaking" has Jeff literally beating up Pierce for saying his father was coming to visit, because it was another of Pierce's MindScrew pranks, and that this is why Pierce has no friends. [[spoiler:Jeff does actually meet his father in Season 4, and the only positive Jeff gets out of it is learning he has a BigBrotherInstinct for his half-brother; his CallingTheOldManOut isn't even that different from what he told Pierce]].
** In the episode "Modern Warfare", the Glee Club shown in the first game of Paintball Assassin ends up dying in a bus crash next season [[spoiler:caused by theirown crazy teacher, Mr. Rad]].
** In the episode "Paradigms of Human Memory," there is a flashback to "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"; however, it is seen through the eyes of the other characters. Puts a much darker light on the former (with the other characters lampshading that it wasn't nearly as fun as Jeff and Britta seemed to be remembering), and really makes you think about [[{{Squick}} snowman Chang's bottom button...]]
** In Season 3's "Remedial Chaos Theory", Troy's absence leading to the darkest timeline seems harsher after Creator/DonaldGlover left the show in the fifth season, which became the last season after NBC cancelled the show. You could say Troy leaving the group really did lead to the darkest timeline. This was later subverted when it was announced that Platform/{{Yahoo}} Screen would produce at least one more season with virtually the same budget as the Creator/{{NBC}} seasons.
*** Relatedly, a consequence of the darkest timeline being Pierce's death becomes a lot more uncomfortable given not only Creator/{{Chevy Chase}}'s already "eclectic" relationship with the show deteriorating to the point that he would outright quit in Season 4, but that his own character (Pierce) [[spoiler:would be killed off less than a season after that in Season 5]].
*** Similarly, Troy and Pierce's interactions with each other in Timeline 6 where the former gives the latter a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech take a much darker turn once Glover revealed years after the show ended that [[HostilityOnTheSet he and Chevy Chase did not get along]] since Chase had made racist jokes to him (i.e., telling Glover that, "People think you're funnier because you're black").
** It's noted on the commentary track for "[[Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality Advanced Introduction to Finality]]" that the final line of the cold open, Troy commenting "One for all, and all for one guy we can leave behind!" was originally just a joke about Pierce's age, but the line took a greater subtext when Chevy Chase quit the show. The joke ''was'' originally HilariousInHindsight, but became HarsherInHindsight when [[spoiler:Pierce was revealed to have died in "[[Recap/CommunityS5E03BasicInterglutealNumismatics Basic Intergluteal Numismatics]]"]].
** The two-season arc of Shirley reconciling with her husband becomes this when [[spoiler:they divorce again during the TimeSkip]]. Even worse, Andre and Shirley renewed their vows promising to accept that they both have changed and would commit to their relationship with Shirley opening a sandwich shop to support their family. [[spoiler:The sandwich business fails and as a result, Andre takes the kids, leaving Shirley alone]].
** Professor Kane quitting due to the guilt of Starburns' death becomes this when you find out [[spoiler: he faked it, meaning Kane had a guilt ridden breakdown over a death that ''never even happened'']].
** The final two lines of the [[LyricalDissonance (surprisingly dark)]] theme song, which are "I can't count the reasons I should stay, one by one they all just fade away", turn out to be prophetic, as in the final two seasons, a third of the cast members left one by one, which became a point of contention for a big portion of the fans.
** Season 3 opens with a big musical number where all the characters sing about how they're gonna "finally be fine", which is then revealed as Jeff's ImagineSpot in regards to a year without Pierce. In the series finale, [[spoiler:when Jeff learns that both Annie and Abed are leaving while he is still stuck at Greendale, Annie tells him "you're gonna be fine, you know," to which Jeff bitterly replies, "I don't wanna be fine."]]
** Some of the HilariousOuttakes that imply or [[BlackComedyRape act out]] sexual misconduct between the cast and/or crew come off as tasteless after the rise of the #metoo movement. It's also pretty clear that Gillian and Yvette don't really want to participate in these type of jokes but occasionally get pushed into playing along with the rest of the cast.
** Various other pieces of information to come out after the show finished also make Harmon look like a complete asshole in his dealings with Chevy Chase, who was pilloried for his 'poor behavior' like leaving the set early, refusing to film scenes and his "use of a racial slur" that was apparently the "final straw" forcing him off the show. Those refusals were usually caused by Harmon not having done his job properly and leaving the scripts unfinished, causing the cast and crew to sit around doing nothing well after midnight, and where the racial slur was said in the context of Harmon pushing Pierce's character into an irredeemably awful racist, something Chevy didn't like happening.
** Abed either has a breakdown or invites Evil Abed inadvertently into the timeline in Season 3 when it seems [[spoiler:Troy has to leave forever to join the AC Repair school]]. It gets worse in Season 5 when [[spoiler:Troy leaves for ''real'' to fulfill a requirement to earn Pierce's inheritance: sail around the world for a year. Abed has another breakdown that Britta has to fix, and spends the rest of the season trying to find a ReplacementGoldfish for his best friend. To make matters ''worse'', a FreezeFrameBonus reveals Troy and Levar Burton were captured by pirates. [[CruelTwistEnding Abed may never see his best friend again]]]].
** Throughout "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care", the majority of Britta's screentime is spent being judged for declining to reconnect with her parents and acting very bratty and childish. In addition to this, her reasoning isn't properly explained and the examples of the bad parenting she gives are certainly terrible, but undercut the reality by a mile. The biggest reason that Britta hates her parents is because ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yne9x/i_am_dan_harmon_creator_of_community_writer_of/c5x6asv/?st=jd0fvn82&sh=0ef08288 she was sexually assaulted by a man in a dinosaur costume as a child]]'' and her parents did not believe her. With the accusations of sexual harassment against Dan Harmon that would be made public just a few years later[[note]]Though he was smart enough to genuinely own up to his faults and eventually gave what was described as a sincere apology to the woman who accused him of said harassment on his ''Podcast/{{Harmontown}}'' podcast[[/note]], the decision to make Britta come off as childish and petty for harboring resentment toward her parents for not having supported her after being raped can't help but feel considerably more sinister and ill-intentioned.page]]
** In one episode, Pierce's cellphone puts his mother on speaker as she says she heard his father's ghost. In "Advanced Gay," Pierce reveals his father is alive and that his mother liked to pretend that Cornelius Hawthorne was dead because he's such an awful person. Then Jeff [[spoiler:accidentally kills Cornelius with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Pierce's behalf]].
** The RunningGag about Greendale being a SuckySchool with a generally inept faculty who repeatedly run completely idiotic classes (such as an analysis of who the titular boss was in ''Series/WhosTheBoss'') becomes this after [[spoiler:"[[Recap/CommunityS5E01Repilot Repilot]]" showed the ramifications of attending such a school]].
** All the jokes about Pierce dying (especially the ones about him DyingAlone) can become this after Season 5 when [[spoiler:
** Chang punching Duncan in the face with a roll of quarters in his hand in Season 2 is a hilarious bit of physical comedy. Then the Ass Crack Bandit in Season 5 came up with a much more sinister use for quarters, which Duncan would ''also'' be subjected to.
** The "Troy and Abed" singing gags in TheStinger become this in [[spoiler: Season 4, where Evil Abed and Troy sing the last Stinger one as part of their radio show. They both reluctantly accept the status quo where Chang is a dictator in their timeline and reaffirm that no matter what happens, the two are friends. You can tell it feels like the EndOfAnEra before the next season premiere. Season 5 has Troy and Abed singing it mid-show during the Pierce interrogation episode as "Troy and Abed are in mourning", foreshadowing that Troy is leaving for good and Abed isn't ready to say farewell]].
** In the episode "Aerodynamics of Gender", the world is seen as a RoboCam through Abed's eyes. When the RoboCam is on the screen, you can see a list of memos Abed has for himself. When Abed is playing back something Shirley said to him, one of the memos is [[spoiler:"Confirm mom for Xmas"]]. This is a lot worse in hindsight when you realize "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" is just a few episodes later.
** "Intro To Documentary Filmmaking" has Jeff literally beating up Pierce for saying his father was coming to visit, because it was another of Pierce's MindScrew pranks, and that this is why Pierce has no friends. [[spoiler:Jeff does actually meet his father in Season 4, and the only positive Jeff gets out of it is learning he has a BigBrotherInstinct for his half-brother; his CallingTheOldManOut isn't even that different from what he told Pierce]].
** In the episode "Modern Warfare", the Glee Club shown in the first game of Paintball Assassin ends up dying in a bus crash next season [[spoiler:caused by their
** In the episode "Paradigms of Human Memory," there is a flashback to "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"; however, it is seen through the eyes of the other characters. Puts a much darker light on the former (with the other characters lampshading that it wasn't nearly as fun as Jeff and Britta seemed to be remembering), and really makes you think about [[{{Squick}} snowman Chang's bottom button...]]
** In Season 3's "Remedial Chaos Theory", Troy's absence leading to the darkest timeline seems harsher after Creator/DonaldGlover left the show in the fifth season, which became the last season after NBC cancelled the show. You could say Troy leaving the group really did lead to the darkest timeline. This was later subverted when it was announced that Platform/{{Yahoo}} Screen would produce at least one more season with virtually the same budget as the Creator/{{NBC}} seasons.
*** Relatedly, a consequence of the darkest timeline being Pierce's death becomes a lot more uncomfortable given not only Creator/{{Chevy Chase}}'s already "eclectic" relationship with the show deteriorating to the point that he would outright quit in Season 4, but that his own character (Pierce) [[spoiler:would be killed off less than a season after that in Season 5]].
*** Similarly, Troy and Pierce's interactions with each other in Timeline 6 where the former gives the latter a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech take a much darker turn once Glover revealed years after the show ended that [[HostilityOnTheSet he and Chevy Chase did not get along]] since Chase had made racist jokes to him (i.e., telling Glover that, "People think you're funnier because you're black").
** It's noted on the commentary track for "[[Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality Advanced Introduction to Finality]]" that the final line of the cold open, Troy commenting "One for all, and all for one guy we can leave behind!" was originally just a joke about Pierce's age, but the line took a greater subtext when Chevy Chase quit the show. The joke ''was'' originally HilariousInHindsight, but became HarsherInHindsight when [[spoiler:Pierce was revealed to have died in "[[Recap/CommunityS5E03BasicInterglutealNumismatics Basic Intergluteal Numismatics]]"]].
** The two-season arc of Shirley reconciling with her husband becomes this when [[spoiler:they divorce again during the TimeSkip]]. Even worse, Andre and Shirley renewed their vows promising to accept that they both have changed and would commit to their relationship with Shirley opening a sandwich shop to support their family. [[spoiler:The sandwich business fails and as a result, Andre takes the kids, leaving Shirley alone]].
** Professor Kane quitting due to the guilt of Starburns' death becomes this when you find out [[spoiler: he faked it, meaning Kane had a guilt ridden breakdown over a death that ''never even happened'']].
** The final two lines of the [[LyricalDissonance (surprisingly dark)]] theme song, which are "I can't count the reasons I should stay, one by one they all just fade away", turn out to be prophetic, as in the final two seasons, a third of the cast members left one by one, which became a point of contention for a big portion of the fans.
** Season 3 opens with a big musical number where all the characters sing about how they're gonna "finally be fine", which is then revealed as Jeff's ImagineSpot in regards to a year without Pierce. In the series finale, [[spoiler:when Jeff learns that both Annie and Abed are leaving while he is still stuck at Greendale, Annie tells him "you're gonna be fine, you know," to which Jeff bitterly replies, "I don't wanna be fine."]]
** Some of the HilariousOuttakes that imply or [[BlackComedyRape act out]] sexual misconduct between the cast and/or crew come off as tasteless after the rise of the #metoo movement. It's also pretty clear that Gillian and Yvette don't really want to participate in these type of jokes but occasionally get pushed into playing along with the rest of the cast.
** Various other pieces of information to come out after the show finished also make Harmon look like a complete asshole in his dealings with Chevy Chase, who was pilloried for his 'poor behavior' like leaving the set early, refusing to film scenes and his "use of a racial slur" that was apparently the "final straw" forcing him off the show. Those refusals were usually caused by Harmon not having done his job properly and leaving the scripts unfinished, causing the cast and crew to sit around doing nothing well after midnight, and where the racial slur was said in the context of Harmon pushing Pierce's character into an irredeemably awful racist, something Chevy didn't like happening.
** Abed either has a breakdown or invites Evil Abed inadvertently into the timeline in Season 3 when it seems [[spoiler:Troy has to leave forever to join the AC Repair school]]. It gets worse in Season 5 when [[spoiler:Troy leaves for ''real'' to fulfill a requirement to earn Pierce's inheritance: sail around the world for a year. Abed has another breakdown that Britta has to fix, and spends the rest of the season trying to find a ReplacementGoldfish for his best friend. To make matters ''worse'', a FreezeFrameBonus reveals Troy and Levar Burton were captured by pirates. [[CruelTwistEnding Abed may never see his best friend again]]]].
** Throughout "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care", the majority of Britta's screentime is spent being judged for declining to reconnect with her parents and acting very bratty and childish. In addition to this, her reasoning isn't properly explained and the examples of the bad parenting she gives are certainly terrible, but undercut the reality by a mile. The biggest reason that Britta hates her parents is because ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yne9x/i_am_dan_harmon_creator_of_community_writer_of/c5x6asv/?st=jd0fvn82&sh=0ef08288 she was sexually assaulted by a man in a dinosaur costume as a child]]'' and her parents did not believe her. With the accusations of sexual harassment against Dan Harmon that would be made public just a few years later[[note]]Though he was smart enough to genuinely own up to his faults and eventually gave what was described as a sincere apology to the woman who accused him of said harassment on his ''Podcast/{{Harmontown}}'' podcast[[/note]], the decision to make Britta come off as childish and petty for harboring resentment toward her parents for not having supported her after being raped can't help but feel considerably more sinister and ill-intentioned.
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** Related to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
*** In "Football, Feminism and You", Jeff says that one of Pierce's mascot disguises looks like "a falcon with a gun." Creator/TheRussoBrothers (who worked on several episodes of the show, and one of whom -- Joe Russo -- directed this particular episode) later directed four MCU films, all of which feature the Falcon (who uses guns).
*** "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television" throws a TakeThat at the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, which sees Jeff and Annie insulting it. A little over a year later, Dan Harmon wrote some additional scenes for reshoots of ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5azrwi/im_dan_harmon_executive_producer_and_star_of/d9kocdy/?context=3 even came out of the experience with nothing but positive things to say about both Marvel Studios and the MCU]]. Furthermore, there seems to be a minor meta-textual RunningGag of ''Community'' actors having cameos/starring roles in the [=MCU=] (usually in films directed by the Russo Brothers), with Creator/DannyPudi as a [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=] communications techie in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Creator/JimRash as the Dean of [=M.I.T.=] in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Creator/DonaldGlover in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' as Aaron Davis, Creator/BrieLarson becoming the titular star of ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', and both Creator/KenJeong and Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown appearing in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (the former as a security guard and the latter as a [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=] secretary [[spoiler:for a military base in the [=1970s=]]]). And with ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' introducing the Multiverse and canonizing ''Film/SpiderMan2'', Creator/JoelMcHale's cameo as a banker in that film now counts as well. Additionally, Creator/KumailNanjiani would later star as Kingo as part of the EnsembleCast of ''Film/{{Eternals}}''.
** In the Season 3 finale, Britta shows her unfamiliarity with the superhero genre by trying to proclaim that her favorite member of the X-Men is "X-Man". Fast-forward to 2021, and Creator/GillianJacobs would end up getting to voice the superheroine Atom Eve in ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible|2021}}''.
** From the [[Recap/CommunityS1E01Pilot pilot]], the jokes against Creator/BenAffleck can come across as this, given his subsequent critical success with directing ''Film/TheTown'' and ''Film/{{Argo}}'', the latter of which won him a ''second'' Oscar for Best Picture. Even at the time the first episode aired, Affleck had already earned acclaim for his direction and writing of ''Film/GoneBabyGone'', though that wasn't as high-profile as his later efforts.
** In the Season 1 finale, Abed is using a banana to do impressions: (Banana on forehead- Banana Rhino. Banana over top lip- Banana Creator/SamElliott. ''Banana over eyes- '''Banana Creator/LeVarBurton'''''.) What makes it perfect is Troy being the only person who laughs at the last one.
** Watching Dean Pelton completely fail at writing and directing a TV advert for Greendale becomes absolutely ''hysterical'' after Creator/JimRash became an Academy Award-winning screenwriter for his work on ''Film/TheDescendants''.
** There's two in "[[Recap/CommunityS1E19BeginnerPottery Beginner Pottery]]":
*** From an InUniverse perspective, [[spoiler: Pierce being clueless at sailing becomes even funnier when he later admits in "Cooperative Polygraphy" that he was ''supposed'' to sail around the world to earn his fortune, but instead cheated and stayed at the same island the whole time, meaning that he never really did much sailing to begin with.]]
*** From a meta perspective, the crazy pottery teacher describing people acting out the SignatureScene from ''Film/Ghost1990'' as "ghosting" becomes ''much'' funnier after the term of "ghosting" would actually become online vernacular in the latter half of the [=2010s=] (namely, for a person cutting off all communication with a friend or the person they're dating with zero warning or notice beforehand).
** As it turns out, ''Community'' wouldn't be the ''last'' Creator/DanHarmon-related [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty show]] to deal heavily in {{Alternate Timeline}}s populated by potentially "evil" variants of the main protagonists.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS4E05CooperativeEscapismInFamilialRelations Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations]]" Creator/JamesBrolin turns up as [[spoiler:Jeff's long-absent father]]. Just over a week earlier, he appeared on ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' as [[spoiler:Castle's long-absent father]].
** From more of a BlackComedy standpoint, "We're Gonna Finally Be Fine" (the opening musical number from "[[Recap/CommunityS3E01Biology101 Biology 101]]" is Jeff daydreaming a musical style CrowdSong about how much better life's going to be without Pierce in the Study Group) became this after Creator/ChevyChase's departure at the end of Season 4 and Creator/DanHarmon returning as showrunner for Season 5 following his own departure a year earlier.
** Season 3's "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking" features a scene where Britta interacts with Troy's hero, Creator/LeVarBurton. Fast forward to 2020 and Creator/GillianJacobs ends up voicing a character in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' and a La Forge doll can be seen in that same episode.
** The jokes about Britta smoking pot as well as her hatred of the government makes the fact that in Colorado (the state the show is set in), marijuana is now legal and government regulated.
** After defeating the Glee Club (based on the one from ''Series/{{Glee}}'') in Season 1's "Modern Warfare", Jeff yells "Write some original songs!" as a parting shot. This was done to criticize ''Glee's'' use of licensed songs. The year after "Modern Warfare" aired, it was announced that ''Glee'' would actually be doing an episode with original songs.
** When Jeff runs into Alan in Season 2's "Accounting For Lawyers", he tries to explain his presence at Greendale by claiming to be a teacher. He then muses that's actually worse than the truth and admits he's really a student. In "Repilot", [[spoiler:Jeff becomes a teacher at Greendale.]]
** TheTag in the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/CommunityS5E13BasicSandwich Basic Sandwich]]" basically being a huge TakeThat to NBC. With NBC's subsequent cancellation of the show and Yahoo picking the show up for a sixth season, it means ''Community'' essentially left NBC while flipping the bird and screaming "Fuck you!"
** Early on, Annie is established as a recovering Adderall addict who once ran through a plate glass window while yelling "Everyone's a robot!" (as shown in a flashback in Season 4). TheTag for Season 6's "Laws of Robotics and Party Rights" has the committee conduct their meeting with everybody using telepresence robots. Yes, Annie. "Everyone's a robot!"
** Professor Kane complains about how Legos stopped being about piles of bricks and have since become sets based on specific themes and pop-culture tie-ins. A few years later, Creator/AlisonBrie (Annie) voiced a character in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' and Creator/JoelMcHale (Jeff) started to appear in commercials for ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'', both of which are based around Lego's specific themes and pop-culture tie-ins.
** At one point of "Accounting For Lawyers", Alan comments that he wants to eat Jeff's brains, then pretends to do so. Three years later, Alan's actor (Creator/RobCorddry) would play a zombie in ''Film/WarmBodies'' and eating brains becomes a plot point in that film. Furthermore, Annie becomes a zombie in "Epidemiology" which aired shortly before her actress, Creator/AlisonBrie, started dating Creator/DaveFranco. Franco also appears in ''Film/WarmBodies'' and his character [[spoiler: is killed by a zombie]].
** During the ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody in "[[{{Recap/CommunityS2E24ForAFewPaintballsMore}} For a Few Paintballs More]]" Abed assumes for himself the role of the team's Han Solo until the end of the paintball match. Flash-forward to 2016, when Troy's actor Creator/DonaldGlover was cast as Han's best friend Lando Calrissian in ''Film/{{Solo}}''.
** "[[Recap/CommunityS5E08AppDevelopmentAndCondiments App Development and Condiments]]" shows Greendale becoming a futuristic dystopia where one's social status is defined by one's ratings in social media. This is even funnier to watch after ''Series/BlackMirror'' did [[Recap/BlackMirrorNosedive an episode]] about a CrapsaccharineWorld where the ''exact'' same thing happens, especially considering that in that episode, much like Jeff, the protagonist attempts to raise her rank but ends up being thrown in the deep end of the social ladder.
** Troy's bewilderment (and mild jealousy) at Abed's side-adventures becomes this after Season 5 [[spoiler: when he goes on an adventure of his own, traveling around the world with his idol Creator/LeVarBurton]].
** Evil!Jeff's comment that naming a sandwich the "[[PunnyName Troy-jan Horse]]" would just make people think horse meat was in it, from "[[Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality Advanced Introduction To Finality]]". Between the episode being filmed in late 2012, and airing in May 2013, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_meat_adulteration_scandal the story broke in Europe that horse meat had been included in foods supposedly containing beef]].
*** Consider also the MagicRealism dark satire film ''Film/SorryToBotherYou'', in which workers, especially black workers, are turned into horses for exploitation by their white bosses, published in 2018.
** The group end up going to a convention for ''[[ShowWithinAShow Inspector Spacetime]]'', a ''Series/DoctorWho'' knock-off, and Britta notices that there was a female Inspector, to which Abed comments that no one liked her "not because they are sexist, she sucked." This was a number of years before ''Doctor Who'' cast Creator/JodieWhittaker as the first female Doctor, which came with its own fair share of controversy.
** At the end of "[[Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience Basic Rocket Science]]", Jeff semi-jokingly congratulates Troy for helping save themselves and Greendale by saying he would recommend him to NASA. Creator/DonaldGlover would later appear in ''Film/TheMartian'' as an astrodynamicist who is recruited to help NASA save Mark Watney.
** Jeff's angst about ending up like Pierce or being nor much different than Pierce, now that Creator/JoelMcHale has played Creator/ChevyChase himself in ''Film/AFutileAndStupidGesture''.
** "Comparative Religion" has Troy giving the "Creator/ForestWhitaker eye". When he does, he makes a face that is ''very'' similar to the face Donald Glover makes in his Music/ThisIsAmerica music video.
** The fact that Creator/PatrickStewart was considered for the role of Pierce creates two examples in Season 2, both due to his portrayal of Jean-Luc Picard on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and that Creator/WilliamShatner played James T. Kirk on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. First, in "Anthropology 101", Troy posts Pierce's comments on Twitter as "Old White Guy Says Stuff", a parody of ''Shit My Dad Says''. That same year, [[Series/ShitMyDadSays a television series]] based on that hit the air with Shatner playing the titular Dad. Then in "Epidemiology", Pierce attends the Halloween party as James T Kirk. If Stewart had been cast, this would have been either an ActorAllusion or hilariously ironic.
** In "Geothermal Escapism", Britta complains that ''Teen Vogue'' sets a poor example for girls. The magazine began writing about feminist issues two years later.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons Advanced Dungeons And Dragons]]", Troy says he'd like a tail because "people would know when [he's] happy". Almost 10 years later, he'd voice Simba in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'', a character who, being a lion and all, not only has a tail but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZr-VTULYQ8 whose tail actually jumps up and down and wags whenever he's happy]].
*** Not the only episode that looks weird now that Glover has voiced Simba. In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E01Anthropology101 Anthropology 101]]", Troy says he thinks all cats are female, which now comes off as hilarious considering he's voiced a ''male'' cat (albeit a lion rather than a regular housecat, but still).
*** Plus there's the entire existence of "Annie's Boobs". Weird how he goes from owning a monkey [[http://www.roxy-cinemas.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/lion4.jpg to being advised by one]].
** In "Advanced Criminal Law", Chang compares himself to Mr. Miyagi. In "Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing", he actually plays Miyagi in a stage production of ''Film/TheKarateKid''.
** Britta's sub-plot in "Early 21st Century Romanticism" revolves around her befriending a girl named Page who she believes is a lesbian. In ''Film/LifePartners'', Gillian Jacobs plays a straight girl named Paige whose best friend actually ''is'' a lesbian.
** In Season 2's "Intro to Political Science", it ends with a FakeShemp of UsefulNotes/JoeBiden sleepily saying he was dreaming of being President of the United States. Come 2020, Biden ''was'' actually elected to the office of the Presidency.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS3E01Biology101 Biology 101]]", Vice Dean Laybourne refers to the dean as a "happy pansexual imp", which is a [[AffablyEvil shockingly]] [[DepravedBisexual accurate]] description of [[WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss Blitzo]].
** In the series finale, Abed [[spoiler:moves to L.A.]] because he got a job working on a show set in a video game studio. Years later, Creator/DannyPudi would be cast in ''Series/MythicQuest'', which is indeed set in a video game studio.
** Abed being a huge fan of ''JustForFun/InspectorSpacetime'' (a fairly obvious AffectionateParody of ''Series/DoctorWho'') is extra funny when you know that Creator/DannyPudi went on to star in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' alongside Creator/DavidTennant, the Tenth Doctor himself.
** "[[Recap/CommunityS5E03BasicInterglutealNumismatics Basic Intergluteal Numismatics]]" is an irreverent parody of dark mystery/thrillers about {{serial killer}}s where the central joke is that the villain commits thoroughly ridiculous crimes involving ''butts'', which the characters all treat completely seriously. [[Film/ButtBoy Sounds familiar...]]
** Creator/MattWalsh portraying a Neo-Nazi garden keeper in "[[Recap/CommunityS2E07AerodynamicsOfGender Aerodynamics of Gender]]" is pretty funny to see in the 2020's, after ''another'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Walsh_(political_commentator) Matt Walsh]] rose to prominence with the online right wing movement.
** In the Season 1 finale, when Britta admits to Shirley that she slept with Jeff earlier that semester, she demands to know where and when it happened--and Britta sarcastically replies, ''"During paintball, in the study room, with [[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} Colonel Mustard]]."'' The final season would introduce Britta's father George Perry, played by Creator/MartinMull--who played Colonel Mustard in ''Film/{{Clue}}''.
** In "Intro to Political Science", Abed nearly gets in trouble with the Secret Service for pirating the film ''Film/TheLastAirbender''. Over a decade later, Creator/DannyPudi would be cast in Creator/{{Netflix}}'s live-action ''Series/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' TV show.
** Related to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
*** In "Football, Feminism and You", Jeff says that one of Pierce's mascot disguises looks like "a falcon with a gun." Creator/TheRussoBrothers (who worked on several episodes of the show, and one of whom -- Joe Russo -- directed this particular episode) later directed four MCU films, all of which feature the Falcon (who uses guns).
*** "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television" throws a TakeThat at the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, which sees Jeff and Annie insulting it. A little over a year later, Dan Harmon wrote some additional scenes for reshoots of ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5azrwi/im_dan_harmon_executive_producer_and_star_of/d9kocdy/?context=3 even came out of the experience with nothing but positive things to say about both Marvel Studios and the MCU]]. Furthermore, there seems to be a minor meta-textual RunningGag of ''Community'' actors having cameos/starring roles in the [=MCU=] (usually in films directed by the Russo Brothers), with Creator/DannyPudi as a [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=] communications techie in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Creator/JimRash as the Dean of [=M.I.T.=] in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Creator/DonaldGlover in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' as Aaron Davis, Creator/BrieLarson becoming the titular star of ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', and both Creator/KenJeong and Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown appearing in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (the former as a security guard and the latter as a [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=] secretary [[spoiler:for a military base in the [=1970s=]]]). And with ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' introducing the Multiverse and canonizing ''Film/SpiderMan2'', Creator/JoelMcHale's cameo as a banker in that film now counts as well. Additionally, Creator/KumailNanjiani would later star as Kingo as part of the EnsembleCast of ''Film/{{Eternals}}''.
** In the Season 3 finale, Britta shows her unfamiliarity with the superhero genre by trying to proclaim that her favorite member of the X-Men is "X-Man". Fast-forward to 2021, and Creator/GillianJacobs would end up getting to voice the superheroine Atom Eve in ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible|2021}}''.
** From the [[Recap/CommunityS1E01Pilot pilot]], the jokes against Creator/BenAffleck can come across as this, given his subsequent critical success with directing ''Film/TheTown'' and ''Film/{{Argo}}'', the latter of which won him a ''second'' Oscar for Best Picture. Even at the time the first episode aired, Affleck had already earned acclaim for his direction and writing of ''Film/GoneBabyGone'', though that wasn't as high-profile as his later efforts.
** In the Season 1 finale, Abed is using a banana to do impressions: (Banana on forehead- Banana Rhino. Banana over top lip- Banana Creator/SamElliott. ''Banana over eyes- '''Banana Creator/LeVarBurton'''''.) What makes it perfect is Troy being the only person who laughs at the last one.
** Watching Dean Pelton completely fail at writing and directing a TV advert for Greendale becomes absolutely ''hysterical'' after Creator/JimRash became an Academy Award-winning screenwriter for his work on ''Film/TheDescendants''.
** There's two in "[[Recap/CommunityS1E19BeginnerPottery Beginner Pottery]]":
*** From an InUniverse perspective, [[spoiler: Pierce being clueless at sailing becomes even funnier when he later admits in "Cooperative Polygraphy" that he was ''supposed'' to sail around the world to earn his fortune, but instead cheated and stayed at the same island the whole time, meaning that he never really did much sailing to begin with.]]
*** From a meta perspective, the crazy pottery teacher describing people acting out the SignatureScene from ''Film/Ghost1990'' as "ghosting" becomes ''much'' funnier after the term of "ghosting" would actually become online vernacular in the latter half of the [=2010s=] (namely, for a person cutting off all communication with a friend or the person they're dating with zero warning or notice beforehand).
** As it turns out, ''Community'' wouldn't be the ''last'' Creator/DanHarmon-related [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty show]] to deal heavily in {{Alternate Timeline}}s populated by potentially "evil" variants of the main protagonists.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS4E05CooperativeEscapismInFamilialRelations Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations]]" Creator/JamesBrolin turns up as [[spoiler:Jeff's long-absent father]]. Just over a week earlier, he appeared on ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' as [[spoiler:Castle's long-absent father]].
** From more of a BlackComedy standpoint, "We're Gonna Finally Be Fine" (the opening musical number from "[[Recap/CommunityS3E01Biology101 Biology 101]]" is Jeff daydreaming a musical style CrowdSong about how much better life's going to be without Pierce in the Study Group) became this after Creator/ChevyChase's departure at the end of Season 4 and Creator/DanHarmon returning as showrunner for Season 5 following his own departure a year earlier.
** Season 3's "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking" features a scene where Britta interacts with Troy's hero, Creator/LeVarBurton. Fast forward to 2020 and Creator/GillianJacobs ends up voicing a character in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' and a La Forge doll can be seen in that same episode.
** The jokes about Britta smoking pot as well as her hatred of the government makes the fact that in Colorado (the state the show is set in), marijuana is now legal and government regulated.
** After defeating the Glee Club (based on the one from ''Series/{{Glee}}'') in Season 1's "Modern Warfare", Jeff yells "Write some original songs!" as a parting shot. This was done to criticize ''Glee's'' use of licensed songs. The year after "Modern Warfare" aired, it was announced that ''Glee'' would actually be doing an episode with original songs.
** When Jeff runs into Alan in Season 2's "Accounting For Lawyers", he tries to explain his presence at Greendale by claiming to be a teacher. He then muses that's actually worse than the truth and admits he's really a student. In "Repilot", [[spoiler:Jeff becomes a teacher at Greendale.]]
** TheTag in the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/CommunityS5E13BasicSandwich Basic Sandwich]]" basically being a huge TakeThat to NBC. With NBC's subsequent cancellation of the show and Yahoo picking the show up for a sixth season, it means ''Community'' essentially left NBC while flipping the bird and screaming "Fuck you!"
** Early on, Annie is established as a recovering Adderall addict who once ran through a plate glass window while yelling "Everyone's a robot!" (as shown in a flashback in Season 4). TheTag for Season 6's "Laws of Robotics and Party Rights" has the committee conduct their meeting with everybody using telepresence robots. Yes, Annie. "Everyone's a robot!"
** Professor Kane complains about how Legos stopped being about piles of bricks and have since become sets based on specific themes and pop-culture tie-ins. A few years later, Creator/AlisonBrie (Annie) voiced a character in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' and Creator/JoelMcHale (Jeff) started to appear in commercials for ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'', both of which are based around Lego's specific themes and pop-culture tie-ins.
** At one point of "Accounting For Lawyers", Alan comments that he wants to eat Jeff's brains, then pretends to do so. Three years later, Alan's actor (Creator/RobCorddry) would play a zombie in ''Film/WarmBodies'' and eating brains becomes a plot point in that film. Furthermore, Annie becomes a zombie in "Epidemiology" which aired shortly before her actress, Creator/AlisonBrie, started dating Creator/DaveFranco. Franco also appears in ''Film/WarmBodies'' and his character [[spoiler: is killed by a zombie]].
** During the ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody in "[[{{Recap/CommunityS2E24ForAFewPaintballsMore}} For a Few Paintballs More]]" Abed assumes for himself the role of the team's Han Solo until the end of the paintball match. Flash-forward to 2016, when Troy's actor Creator/DonaldGlover was cast as Han's best friend Lando Calrissian in ''Film/{{Solo}}''.
** "[[Recap/CommunityS5E08AppDevelopmentAndCondiments App Development and Condiments]]" shows Greendale becoming a futuristic dystopia where one's social status is defined by one's ratings in social media. This is even funnier to watch after ''Series/BlackMirror'' did [[Recap/BlackMirrorNosedive an episode]] about a CrapsaccharineWorld where the ''exact'' same thing happens, especially considering that in that episode, much like Jeff, the protagonist attempts to raise her rank but ends up being thrown in the deep end of the social ladder.
** Troy's bewilderment (and mild jealousy) at Abed's side-adventures becomes this after Season 5 [[spoiler: when he goes on an adventure of his own, traveling around the world with his idol Creator/LeVarBurton]].
** Evil!Jeff's comment that naming a sandwich the "[[PunnyName Troy-jan Horse]]" would just make people think horse meat was in it, from "[[Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality Advanced Introduction To Finality]]". Between the episode being filmed in late 2012, and airing in May 2013, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_meat_adulteration_scandal the story broke in Europe that horse meat had been included in foods supposedly containing beef]].
*** Consider also the MagicRealism dark satire film ''Film/SorryToBotherYou'', in which workers, especially black workers, are turned into horses for exploitation by their white bosses, published in 2018.
** The group end up going to a convention for ''[[ShowWithinAShow Inspector Spacetime]]'', a ''Series/DoctorWho'' knock-off, and Britta notices that there was a female Inspector, to which Abed comments that no one liked her "not because they are sexist, she sucked." This was a number of years before ''Doctor Who'' cast Creator/JodieWhittaker as the first female Doctor, which came with its own fair share of controversy.
** At the end of "[[Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience Basic Rocket Science]]", Jeff semi-jokingly congratulates Troy for helping save themselves and Greendale by saying he would recommend him to NASA. Creator/DonaldGlover would later appear in ''Film/TheMartian'' as an astrodynamicist who is recruited to help NASA save Mark Watney.
** Jeff's angst about ending up like Pierce or being nor much different than Pierce, now that Creator/JoelMcHale has played Creator/ChevyChase himself in ''Film/AFutileAndStupidGesture''.
** "Comparative Religion" has Troy giving the "Creator/ForestWhitaker eye". When he does, he makes a face that is ''very'' similar to the face Donald Glover makes in his Music/ThisIsAmerica music video.
** The fact that Creator/PatrickStewart was considered for the role of Pierce creates two examples in Season 2, both due to his portrayal of Jean-Luc Picard on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and that Creator/WilliamShatner played James T. Kirk on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. First, in "Anthropology 101", Troy posts Pierce's comments on Twitter as "Old White Guy Says Stuff", a parody of ''Shit My Dad Says''. That same year, [[Series/ShitMyDadSays a television series]] based on that hit the air with Shatner playing the titular Dad. Then in "Epidemiology", Pierce attends the Halloween party as James T Kirk. If Stewart had been cast, this would have been either an ActorAllusion or hilariously ironic.
** In "Geothermal Escapism", Britta complains that ''Teen Vogue'' sets a poor example for girls. The magazine began writing about feminist issues two years later.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons Advanced Dungeons And Dragons]]", Troy says he'd like a tail because "people would know when [he's] happy". Almost 10 years later, he'd voice Simba in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'', a character who, being a lion and all, not only has a tail but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZr-VTULYQ8 whose tail actually jumps up and down and wags whenever he's happy]].
*** Not the only episode that looks weird now that Glover has voiced Simba. In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E01Anthropology101 Anthropology 101]]", Troy says he thinks all cats are female, which now comes off as hilarious considering he's voiced a ''male'' cat (albeit a lion rather than a regular housecat, but still).
*** Plus there's the entire existence of "Annie's Boobs". Weird how he goes from owning a monkey [[http://www.roxy-cinemas.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/lion4.jpg to being advised by one]].
** In "Advanced Criminal Law", Chang compares himself to Mr. Miyagi. In "Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing", he actually plays Miyagi in a stage production of ''Film/TheKarateKid''.
** Britta's sub-plot in "Early 21st Century Romanticism" revolves around her befriending a girl named Page who she believes is a lesbian. In ''Film/LifePartners'', Gillian Jacobs plays a straight girl named Paige whose best friend actually ''is'' a lesbian.
** In Season 2's "Intro to Political Science", it ends with a FakeShemp of UsefulNotes/JoeBiden sleepily saying he was dreaming of being President of the United States. Come 2020, Biden ''was'' actually elected to the office of the Presidency.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS3E01Biology101 Biology 101]]", Vice Dean Laybourne refers to the dean as a "happy pansexual imp", which is a [[AffablyEvil shockingly]] [[DepravedBisexual accurate]] description of [[WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss Blitzo]].
** In the series finale, Abed [[spoiler:moves to L.A.]] because he got a job working on a show set in a video game studio. Years later, Creator/DannyPudi would be cast in ''Series/MythicQuest'', which is indeed set in a video game studio.
** Abed being a huge fan of ''JustForFun/InspectorSpacetime'' (a fairly obvious AffectionateParody of ''Series/DoctorWho'') is extra funny when you know that Creator/DannyPudi went on to star in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' alongside Creator/DavidTennant, the Tenth Doctor himself.
** "[[Recap/CommunityS5E03BasicInterglutealNumismatics Basic Intergluteal Numismatics]]" is an irreverent parody of dark mystery/thrillers about {{serial killer}}s where the central joke is that the villain commits thoroughly ridiculous crimes involving ''butts'', which the characters all treat completely seriously. [[Film/ButtBoy Sounds familiar...]]
** Creator/MattWalsh portraying a Neo-Nazi garden keeper in "[[Recap/CommunityS2E07AerodynamicsOfGender Aerodynamics of Gender]]" is pretty funny to see in the 2020's, after ''another'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Walsh_(political_commentator) Matt Walsh]] rose to prominence with the online right wing movement.
** In the Season 1 finale, when Britta admits to Shirley that she slept with Jeff earlier that semester, she demands to know where and when it happened--and Britta sarcastically replies, ''"During paintball, in the study room, with [[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} Colonel Mustard]]."'' The final season would introduce Britta's father George Perry, played by Creator/MartinMull--who played Colonel Mustard in ''Film/{{Clue}}''.
** In "Intro to Political Science", Abed nearly gets in trouble with the Secret Service for pirating the film ''Film/TheLastAirbender''. Over a decade later, Creator/DannyPudi would be cast in Creator/{{Netflix}}'s live-action ''Series/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' TV show.
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* HilariousInHindsight:
** Related to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
*** In "Football, Feminism and You", Jeff says that one of Pierce's mascot disguises looks like "a falcon with a gun." Creator/TheRussoBrothers (who worked on several episodes of the show, and one of whom -- Joe Russo -- directed this particular episode) later directed four MCU films, all of which feature the Falcon (who uses guns).
*** "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television" throws a TakeThat at the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, which sees Jeff and Annie insulting it. A little over a year later, Dan Harmon wrote some additional scenes for reshoots of ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5azrwi/im_dan_harmon_executive_producer_and_star_of/d9kocdy/?context=3 even came out of the experience with nothing but positive things to say about both Marvel Studios and the MCU]]. Furthermore, there seems to be a minor meta-textual RunningGag of ''Community'' actors having cameos/starring roles in the [=MCU=] (usually in films directed by the Russo Brothers), with Creator/DannyPudi as a [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=] communications techie in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Creator/JimRash as the Dean of [=M.I.T.=] in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Creator/DonaldGlover in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' as Aaron Davis, Creator/BrieLarson becoming the titular star of ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', and both Creator/KenJeong and Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown appearing in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (the former as a security guard and the latter as a [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=] secretary [[spoiler:for a military base in the [=1970s=]]]). And with ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' introducing the Multiverse and canonizing ''Film/SpiderMan2'', Creator/JoelMcHale's cameo as a banker in that film now counts as well. Additionally, Creator/KumailNanjiani would later star as Kingo as part of the EnsembleCast of ''Film/{{Eternals}}''.
** In the Season 3 finale, Britta shows her unfamiliarity with the superhero genre by trying to proclaim that her favorite member of the X-Men is "X-Man". Fast-forward to 2021, and Creator/GillianJacobs would end up getting to voice the superheroine Atom Eve in ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible|2021}}''.
** From the [[Recap/CommunityS1E01Pilot pilot]], the jokes against Creator/BenAffleck can come across as this, given his subsequent critical success with directing ''Film/TheTown'' and ''Film/{{Argo}}'', the latter of which won him a ''second'' Oscar for Best Picture. Even at the time the first episode aired, Affleck had already earned acclaim for his direction and writing of ''Film/GoneBabyGone'', though that wasn't as high-profile as his later efforts.
** In the Season 1 finale, Abed is using a banana to do impressions: (Banana on forehead- Banana Rhino. Banana over top lip- Banana Creator/SamElliott. ''Banana over eyes- '''Banana Creator/LeVarBurton'''''.) What makes it perfect is Troy being the only person who laughs at the last one.
** Watching Dean Pelton completely fail at writing and directing a TV advert for Greendale becomes absolutely ''hysterical'' after Creator/JimRash became an Academy Award-winning screenwriter for his work on ''Film/TheDescendants''.
** There's two in "[[Recap/CommunityS1E19BeginnerPottery Beginner Pottery]]":
*** From an InUniverse perspective, [[spoiler: Pierce being clueless at sailing becomes even funnier when he later admits in "Cooperative Polygraphy" that he was ''supposed'' to sail around the world to earn his fortune, but instead cheated and stayed at the same island the whole time, meaning that he never really did much sailing to begin with.]]
*** From a meta perspective, the crazy pottery teacher describing people acting out the SignatureScene from ''Film/Ghost1990'' as "ghosting" becomes ''much'' funnier after the term of "ghosting" would actually become online vernacular in the latter half of the [=2010s=] (namely, for a person cutting off all communication with a friend or the person they're dating with zero warning or notice beforehand).
** As it turns out, ''Community'' wouldn't be the ''last'' Creator/DanHarmon-related [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty show]] to deal heavily in {{Alternate Timeline}}s populated by potentially "evil" variants of the main protagonists.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS4E05CooperativeEscapismInFamilialRelations Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations]]" Creator/JamesBrolin turns up as [[spoiler:Jeff's long-absent father]]. Just over a week earlier, he appeared on ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' as [[spoiler:Castle's long-absent father]].
** From more of a BlackComedy standpoint, "We're Gonna Finally Be Fine" (the opening musical number from "[[Recap/CommunityS3E01Biology101 Biology 101]]" is Jeff daydreaming a musical style CrowdSong about how much better life's going to be without Pierce in the Study Group) became this after Creator/ChevyChase's departure at the end of Season 4 and Creator/DanHarmon returning as showrunner for Season 5 following hisHilariousInHindsight: [[HilariousInHindsight/{{Community}} Has it's own departure a year earlier.
** Season 3's "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking" features a scene where Britta interacts with Troy's hero, Creator/LeVarBurton. Fast forward to 2020 and Creator/GillianJacobs ends up voicing a character in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' and a La Forge doll can be seen in that same episode.
** The jokes about Britta smoking pot as well as her hatred of the government makes the fact that in Colorado (the state the show is set in), marijuana is now legal and government regulated.
** After defeating the Glee Club (based on the one from ''Series/{{Glee}}'') in Season 1's "Modern Warfare", Jeff yells "Write some original songs!" as a parting shot. This was done to criticize ''Glee's'' use of licensed songs. The year after "Modern Warfare" aired, it was announced that ''Glee'' would actually be doing an episode with original songs.
** When Jeff runs into Alan in Season 2's "Accounting For Lawyers", he tries to explain his presence at Greendale by claiming to be a teacher. He then muses that's actually worse than the truth and admits he's really a student. In "Repilot", [[spoiler:Jeff becomes a teacher at Greendale.]]
** TheTag in the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/CommunityS5E13BasicSandwich Basic Sandwich]]" basically being a huge TakeThat to NBC. With NBC's subsequent cancellation of the show and Yahoo picking the show up for a sixth season, it means ''Community'' essentially left NBC while flipping the bird and screaming "Fuck you!"
** Early on, Annie is established as a recovering Adderall addict who once ran through a plate glass window while yelling "Everyone's a robot!" (as shown in a flashback in Season 4). TheTag for Season 6's "Laws of Robotics and Party Rights" has the committee conduct their meeting with everybody using telepresence robots. Yes, Annie. "Everyone's a robot!"
** Professor Kane complains about how Legos stopped being about piles of bricks and have since become sets based on specific themes and pop-culture tie-ins. A few years later, Creator/AlisonBrie (Annie) voiced a character in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' and Creator/JoelMcHale (Jeff) started to appear in commercials for ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'', both of which are based around Lego's specific themes and pop-culture tie-ins.
** At one point of "Accounting For Lawyers", Alan comments that he wants to eat Jeff's brains, then pretends to do so. Three years later, Alan's actor (Creator/RobCorddry) would play a zombie in ''Film/WarmBodies'' and eating brains becomes a plot point in that film. Furthermore, Annie becomes a zombie in "Epidemiology" which aired shortly before her actress, Creator/AlisonBrie, started dating Creator/DaveFranco. Franco also appears in ''Film/WarmBodies'' and his character [[spoiler: is killed by a zombie]].
** During the ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody in "[[{{Recap/CommunityS2E24ForAFewPaintballsMore}} For a Few Paintballs More]]" Abed assumes for himself the role of the team's Han Solo until the end of the paintball match. Flash-forward to 2016, when Troy's actor Creator/DonaldGlover was cast as Han's best friend Lando Calrissian in ''Film/{{Solo}}''.
** "[[Recap/CommunityS5E08AppDevelopmentAndCondiments App Development and Condiments]]" shows Greendale becoming a futuristic dystopia where one's social status is defined by one's ratings in social media. This is even funnier to watch after ''Series/BlackMirror'' did [[Recap/BlackMirrorNosedive an episode]] about a CrapsaccharineWorld where the ''exact'' same thing happens, especially considering that in that episode, much like Jeff, the protagonist attempts to raise her rank but ends up being thrown in the deep end of the social ladder.
** Troy's bewilderment (and mild jealousy) at Abed's side-adventures becomes this after Season 5 [[spoiler: when he goes on an adventure of his own, traveling around the world with his idol Creator/LeVarBurton]].
** Evil!Jeff's comment that naming a sandwich the "[[PunnyName Troy-jan Horse]]" would just make people think horse meat was in it, from "[[Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality Advanced Introduction To Finality]]". Between the episode being filmed in late 2012, and airing in May 2013, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_meat_adulteration_scandal the story broke in Europe that horse meat had been included in foods supposedly containing beef]].
*** Consider also the MagicRealism dark satire film ''Film/SorryToBotherYou'', in which workers, especially black workers, are turned into horses for exploitation by their white bosses, published in 2018.
** The group end up going to a convention for ''[[ShowWithinAShow Inspector Spacetime]]'', a ''Series/DoctorWho'' knock-off, and Britta notices that there was a female Inspector, to which Abed comments that no one liked her "not because they are sexist, she sucked." This was a number of years before ''Doctor Who'' cast Creator/JodieWhittaker as the first female Doctor, which came with its own fair share of controversy.
** At the end of "[[Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience Basic Rocket Science]]", Jeff semi-jokingly congratulates Troy for helping save themselves and Greendale by saying he would recommend him to NASA. Creator/DonaldGlover would later appear in ''Film/TheMartian'' as an astrodynamicist who is recruited to help NASA save Mark Watney.
** Jeff's angst about ending up like Pierce or being nor much different than Pierce, now that Creator/JoelMcHale has played Creator/ChevyChase himself in ''Film/AFutileAndStupidGesture''.
** "Comparative Religion" has Troy giving the "Creator/ForestWhitaker eye". When he does, he makes a face that is ''very'' similar to the face Donald Glover makes in his Music/ThisIsAmerica music video.
** The fact that Creator/PatrickStewart was considered for the role of Pierce creates two examples in Season 2, both due to his portrayal of Jean-Luc Picard on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and that Creator/WilliamShatner played James T. Kirk on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. First, in "Anthropology 101", Troy posts Pierce's comments on Twitter as "Old White Guy Says Stuff", a parody of ''Shit My Dad Says''. That same year, [[Series/ShitMyDadSays a television series]] based on that hit the air with Shatner playing the titular Dad. Then in "Epidemiology", Pierce attends the Halloween party as James T Kirk. If Stewart had been cast, this would have been either an ActorAllusion or hilariously ironic.
** In "Geothermal Escapism", Britta complains that ''Teen Vogue'' sets a poor example for girls. The magazine began writing about feminist issues two years later.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons Advanced Dungeons And Dragons]]", Troy says he'd like a tail because "people would know when [he's] happy". Almost 10 years later, he'd voice Simba in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'', a character who, being a lion and all, not only has a tail but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZr-VTULYQ8 whose tail actually jumps up and down and wags whenever he's happy]].
*** Not the only episode that looks weird now that Glover has voiced Simba. In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E01Anthropology101 Anthropology 101]]", Troy says he thinks all cats are female, which now comes off as hilarious considering he's voiced a ''male'' cat (albeit a lion rather than a regular housecat, but still).
*** Plus there's the entire existence of "Annie's Boobs". Weird how he goes from owning a monkey [[http://www.roxy-cinemas.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/lion4.jpg to being advised by one]].
** In "Advanced Criminal Law", Chang compares himself to Mr. Miyagi. In "Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing", he actually plays Miyagi in a stage production of ''Film/TheKarateKid''.
** Britta's sub-plot in "Early 21st Century Romanticism" revolves around her befriending a girl named Page who she believes is a lesbian. In ''Film/LifePartners'', Gillian Jacobs plays a straight girl named Paige whose best friend actually ''is'' a lesbian.
** In Season 2's "Intro to Political Science", it ends with a FakeShemp of UsefulNotes/JoeBiden sleepily saying he was dreaming of being President of the United States. Come 2020, Biden ''was'' actually elected to the office of the Presidency.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS3E01Biology101 Biology 101]]", Vice Dean Laybourne refers to the dean as a "happy pansexual imp", which is a [[AffablyEvil shockingly]] [[DepravedBisexual accurate]] description of [[WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss Blitzo]].
** In the series finale, Abed [[spoiler:moves to L.A.]] because he got a job working on a show set in a video game studio. Years later, Creator/DannyPudi would be cast in ''Series/MythicQuest'', which is indeed set in a video game studio.
** Abed being a huge fan of ''JustForFun/InspectorSpacetime'' (a fairly obvious AffectionateParody of ''Series/DoctorWho'') is extra funny when you know that Creator/DannyPudi went on to star in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' alongside Creator/DavidTennant, the Tenth Doctor himself.
** "[[Recap/CommunityS5E03BasicInterglutealNumismatics Basic Intergluteal Numismatics]]" is an irreverent parody of dark mystery/thrillers about {{serial killer}}s where the central joke is that the villain commits thoroughly ridiculous crimes involving ''butts'', which the characters all treat completely seriously. [[Film/ButtBoy Sounds familiar...]]
** Creator/MattWalsh portraying a Neo-Nazi garden keeper in "[[Recap/CommunityS2E07AerodynamicsOfGender Aerodynamics of Gender]]" is pretty funny to see in the 2020's, after ''another'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Walsh_(political_commentator) Matt Walsh]] rose to prominence with the online right wing movement.
** In the Season 1 finale, when Britta admits to Shirley that she slept with Jeff earlier that semester, she demands to know where and when it happened--and Britta sarcastically replies, ''"During paintball, in the study room, with [[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} Colonel Mustard]]."'' The final season would introduce Britta's father George Perry, played by Creator/MartinMull--who played Colonel Mustard in ''Film/{{Clue}}''.
** In "Intro to Political Science", Abed nearly gets in trouble with the Secret Service for pirating the film ''Film/TheLastAirbender''. Over a decade later, Creator/DannyPudi would be cast in Creator/{{Netflix}}'s live-action ''Series/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' TV show.page]]
** Related to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
*** In "Football, Feminism and You", Jeff says that one of Pierce's mascot disguises looks like "a falcon with a gun." Creator/TheRussoBrothers (who worked on several episodes of the show, and one of whom -- Joe Russo -- directed this particular episode) later directed four MCU films, all of which feature the Falcon (who uses guns).
*** "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television" throws a TakeThat at the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, which sees Jeff and Annie insulting it. A little over a year later, Dan Harmon wrote some additional scenes for reshoots of ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5azrwi/im_dan_harmon_executive_producer_and_star_of/d9kocdy/?context=3 even came out of the experience with nothing but positive things to say about both Marvel Studios and the MCU]]. Furthermore, there seems to be a minor meta-textual RunningGag of ''Community'' actors having cameos/starring roles in the [=MCU=] (usually in films directed by the Russo Brothers), with Creator/DannyPudi as a [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=] communications techie in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Creator/JimRash as the Dean of [=M.I.T.=] in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Creator/DonaldGlover in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' as Aaron Davis, Creator/BrieLarson becoming the titular star of ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', and both Creator/KenJeong and Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown appearing in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (the former as a security guard and the latter as a [=S.H.I.E.L.D.=] secretary [[spoiler:for a military base in the [=1970s=]]]). And with ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' introducing the Multiverse and canonizing ''Film/SpiderMan2'', Creator/JoelMcHale's cameo as a banker in that film now counts as well. Additionally, Creator/KumailNanjiani would later star as Kingo as part of the EnsembleCast of ''Film/{{Eternals}}''.
** In the Season 3 finale, Britta shows her unfamiliarity with the superhero genre by trying to proclaim that her favorite member of the X-Men is "X-Man". Fast-forward to 2021, and Creator/GillianJacobs would end up getting to voice the superheroine Atom Eve in ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible|2021}}''.
** From the [[Recap/CommunityS1E01Pilot pilot]], the jokes against Creator/BenAffleck can come across as this, given his subsequent critical success with directing ''Film/TheTown'' and ''Film/{{Argo}}'', the latter of which won him a ''second'' Oscar for Best Picture. Even at the time the first episode aired, Affleck had already earned acclaim for his direction and writing of ''Film/GoneBabyGone'', though that wasn't as high-profile as his later efforts.
** In the Season 1 finale, Abed is using a banana to do impressions: (Banana on forehead- Banana Rhino. Banana over top lip- Banana Creator/SamElliott. ''Banana over eyes- '''Banana Creator/LeVarBurton'''''.) What makes it perfect is Troy being the only person who laughs at the last one.
** Watching Dean Pelton completely fail at writing and directing a TV advert for Greendale becomes absolutely ''hysterical'' after Creator/JimRash became an Academy Award-winning screenwriter for his work on ''Film/TheDescendants''.
** There's two in "[[Recap/CommunityS1E19BeginnerPottery Beginner Pottery]]":
*** From an InUniverse perspective, [[spoiler: Pierce being clueless at sailing becomes even funnier when he later admits in "Cooperative Polygraphy" that he was ''supposed'' to sail around the world to earn his fortune, but instead cheated and stayed at the same island the whole time, meaning that he never really did much sailing to begin with.]]
*** From a meta perspective, the crazy pottery teacher describing people acting out the SignatureScene from ''Film/Ghost1990'' as "ghosting" becomes ''much'' funnier after the term of "ghosting" would actually become online vernacular in the latter half of the [=2010s=] (namely, for a person cutting off all communication with a friend or the person they're dating with zero warning or notice beforehand).
** As it turns out, ''Community'' wouldn't be the ''last'' Creator/DanHarmon-related [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty show]] to deal heavily in {{Alternate Timeline}}s populated by potentially "evil" variants of the main protagonists.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS4E05CooperativeEscapismInFamilialRelations Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations]]" Creator/JamesBrolin turns up as [[spoiler:Jeff's long-absent father]]. Just over a week earlier, he appeared on ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' as [[spoiler:Castle's long-absent father]].
** From more of a BlackComedy standpoint, "We're Gonna Finally Be Fine" (the opening musical number from "[[Recap/CommunityS3E01Biology101 Biology 101]]" is Jeff daydreaming a musical style CrowdSong about how much better life's going to be without Pierce in the Study Group) became this after Creator/ChevyChase's departure at the end of Season 4 and Creator/DanHarmon returning as showrunner for Season 5 following his
** Season 3's "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking" features a scene where Britta interacts with Troy's hero, Creator/LeVarBurton. Fast forward to 2020 and Creator/GillianJacobs ends up voicing a character in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' and a La Forge doll can be seen in that same episode.
** The jokes about Britta smoking pot as well as her hatred of the government makes the fact that in Colorado (the state the show is set in), marijuana is now legal and government regulated.
** After defeating the Glee Club (based on the one from ''Series/{{Glee}}'') in Season 1's "Modern Warfare", Jeff yells "Write some original songs!" as a parting shot. This was done to criticize ''Glee's'' use of licensed songs. The year after "Modern Warfare" aired, it was announced that ''Glee'' would actually be doing an episode with original songs.
** When Jeff runs into Alan in Season 2's "Accounting For Lawyers", he tries to explain his presence at Greendale by claiming to be a teacher. He then muses that's actually worse than the truth and admits he's really a student. In "Repilot", [[spoiler:Jeff becomes a teacher at Greendale.]]
** TheTag in the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/CommunityS5E13BasicSandwich Basic Sandwich]]" basically being a huge TakeThat to NBC. With NBC's subsequent cancellation of the show and Yahoo picking the show up for a sixth season, it means ''Community'' essentially left NBC while flipping the bird and screaming "Fuck you!"
** Early on, Annie is established as a recovering Adderall addict who once ran through a plate glass window while yelling "Everyone's a robot!" (as shown in a flashback in Season 4). TheTag for Season 6's "Laws of Robotics and Party Rights" has the committee conduct their meeting with everybody using telepresence robots. Yes, Annie. "Everyone's a robot!"
** Professor Kane complains about how Legos stopped being about piles of bricks and have since become sets based on specific themes and pop-culture tie-ins. A few years later, Creator/AlisonBrie (Annie) voiced a character in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' and Creator/JoelMcHale (Jeff) started to appear in commercials for ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'', both of which are based around Lego's specific themes and pop-culture tie-ins.
** At one point of "Accounting For Lawyers", Alan comments that he wants to eat Jeff's brains, then pretends to do so. Three years later, Alan's actor (Creator/RobCorddry) would play a zombie in ''Film/WarmBodies'' and eating brains becomes a plot point in that film. Furthermore, Annie becomes a zombie in "Epidemiology" which aired shortly before her actress, Creator/AlisonBrie, started dating Creator/DaveFranco. Franco also appears in ''Film/WarmBodies'' and his character [[spoiler: is killed by a zombie]].
** During the ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody in "[[{{Recap/CommunityS2E24ForAFewPaintballsMore}} For a Few Paintballs More]]" Abed assumes for himself the role of the team's Han Solo until the end of the paintball match. Flash-forward to 2016, when Troy's actor Creator/DonaldGlover was cast as Han's best friend Lando Calrissian in ''Film/{{Solo}}''.
** "[[Recap/CommunityS5E08AppDevelopmentAndCondiments App Development and Condiments]]" shows Greendale becoming a futuristic dystopia where one's social status is defined by one's ratings in social media. This is even funnier to watch after ''Series/BlackMirror'' did [[Recap/BlackMirrorNosedive an episode]] about a CrapsaccharineWorld where the ''exact'' same thing happens, especially considering that in that episode, much like Jeff, the protagonist attempts to raise her rank but ends up being thrown in the deep end of the social ladder.
** Troy's bewilderment (and mild jealousy) at Abed's side-adventures becomes this after Season 5 [[spoiler: when he goes on an adventure of his own, traveling around the world with his idol Creator/LeVarBurton]].
** Evil!Jeff's comment that naming a sandwich the "[[PunnyName Troy-jan Horse]]" would just make people think horse meat was in it, from "[[Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality Advanced Introduction To Finality]]". Between the episode being filmed in late 2012, and airing in May 2013, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_meat_adulteration_scandal the story broke in Europe that horse meat had been included in foods supposedly containing beef]].
*** Consider also the MagicRealism dark satire film ''Film/SorryToBotherYou'', in which workers, especially black workers, are turned into horses for exploitation by their white bosses, published in 2018.
** The group end up going to a convention for ''[[ShowWithinAShow Inspector Spacetime]]'', a ''Series/DoctorWho'' knock-off, and Britta notices that there was a female Inspector, to which Abed comments that no one liked her "not because they are sexist, she sucked." This was a number of years before ''Doctor Who'' cast Creator/JodieWhittaker as the first female Doctor, which came with its own fair share of controversy.
** At the end of "[[Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience Basic Rocket Science]]", Jeff semi-jokingly congratulates Troy for helping save themselves and Greendale by saying he would recommend him to NASA. Creator/DonaldGlover would later appear in ''Film/TheMartian'' as an astrodynamicist who is recruited to help NASA save Mark Watney.
** Jeff's angst about ending up like Pierce or being nor much different than Pierce, now that Creator/JoelMcHale has played Creator/ChevyChase himself in ''Film/AFutileAndStupidGesture''.
** "Comparative Religion" has Troy giving the "Creator/ForestWhitaker eye". When he does, he makes a face that is ''very'' similar to the face Donald Glover makes in his Music/ThisIsAmerica music video.
** The fact that Creator/PatrickStewart was considered for the role of Pierce creates two examples in Season 2, both due to his portrayal of Jean-Luc Picard on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and that Creator/WilliamShatner played James T. Kirk on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. First, in "Anthropology 101", Troy posts Pierce's comments on Twitter as "Old White Guy Says Stuff", a parody of ''Shit My Dad Says''. That same year, [[Series/ShitMyDadSays a television series]] based on that hit the air with Shatner playing the titular Dad. Then in "Epidemiology", Pierce attends the Halloween party as James T Kirk. If Stewart had been cast, this would have been either an ActorAllusion or hilariously ironic.
** In "Geothermal Escapism", Britta complains that ''Teen Vogue'' sets a poor example for girls. The magazine began writing about feminist issues two years later.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons Advanced Dungeons And Dragons]]", Troy says he'd like a tail because "people would know when [he's] happy". Almost 10 years later, he'd voice Simba in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'', a character who, being a lion and all, not only has a tail but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZr-VTULYQ8 whose tail actually jumps up and down and wags whenever he's happy]].
*** Not the only episode that looks weird now that Glover has voiced Simba. In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E01Anthropology101 Anthropology 101]]", Troy says he thinks all cats are female, which now comes off as hilarious considering he's voiced a ''male'' cat (albeit a lion rather than a regular housecat, but still).
*** Plus there's the entire existence of "Annie's Boobs". Weird how he goes from owning a monkey [[http://www.roxy-cinemas.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/lion4.jpg to being advised by one]].
** In "Advanced Criminal Law", Chang compares himself to Mr. Miyagi. In "Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing", he actually plays Miyagi in a stage production of ''Film/TheKarateKid''.
** Britta's sub-plot in "Early 21st Century Romanticism" revolves around her befriending a girl named Page who she believes is a lesbian. In ''Film/LifePartners'', Gillian Jacobs plays a straight girl named Paige whose best friend actually ''is'' a lesbian.
** In Season 2's "Intro to Political Science", it ends with a FakeShemp of UsefulNotes/JoeBiden sleepily saying he was dreaming of being President of the United States. Come 2020, Biden ''was'' actually elected to the office of the Presidency.
** In "[[Recap/CommunityS3E01Biology101 Biology 101]]", Vice Dean Laybourne refers to the dean as a "happy pansexual imp", which is a [[AffablyEvil shockingly]] [[DepravedBisexual accurate]] description of [[WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss Blitzo]].
** In the series finale, Abed [[spoiler:moves to L.A.]] because he got a job working on a show set in a video game studio. Years later, Creator/DannyPudi would be cast in ''Series/MythicQuest'', which is indeed set in a video game studio.
** Abed being a huge fan of ''JustForFun/InspectorSpacetime'' (a fairly obvious AffectionateParody of ''Series/DoctorWho'') is extra funny when you know that Creator/DannyPudi went on to star in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' alongside Creator/DavidTennant, the Tenth Doctor himself.
** "[[Recap/CommunityS5E03BasicInterglutealNumismatics Basic Intergluteal Numismatics]]" is an irreverent parody of dark mystery/thrillers about {{serial killer}}s where the central joke is that the villain commits thoroughly ridiculous crimes involving ''butts'', which the characters all treat completely seriously. [[Film/ButtBoy Sounds familiar...]]
** Creator/MattWalsh portraying a Neo-Nazi garden keeper in "[[Recap/CommunityS2E07AerodynamicsOfGender Aerodynamics of Gender]]" is pretty funny to see in the 2020's, after ''another'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Walsh_(political_commentator) Matt Walsh]] rose to prominence with the online right wing movement.
** In the Season 1 finale, when Britta admits to Shirley that she slept with Jeff earlier that semester, she demands to know where and when it happened--and Britta sarcastically replies, ''"During paintball, in the study room, with [[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} Colonel Mustard]]."'' The final season would introduce Britta's father George Perry, played by Creator/MartinMull--who played Colonel Mustard in ''Film/{{Clue}}''.
** In "Intro to Political Science", Abed nearly gets in trouble with the Secret Service for pirating the film ''Film/TheLastAirbender''. Over a decade later, Creator/DannyPudi would be cast in Creator/{{Netflix}}'s live-action ''Series/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' TV show.
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** Pierce, frequently. One example is he's playing ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}'' and draws a swastika to convey a windmill, saying that Rabbi Chang should know what it is. [[note]] Apparently this is just one of ''thousands'' of swastika-windmill ''Pictionary'' incidents. [[/note]]
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** Pierce, frequently. One example is he's playing ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}'' PlayingPictionary and draws a swastika to convey a windmill, saying that Rabbi Chang should know what it is. [[note]] Apparently this is just one of ''thousands'' of swastika-windmill ''Pictionary'' incidents. [[/note]]
* FandomRivalry: Both of which are [[UnknownRival exceptionally one-sided]]. Generally speaking, most ''Community'' fans hate both ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and ''Series/{{Glee}}'' due to both series having been timeslot rivals for ''Community'' along with ''Community'' being seen by its fans as "doing everything better" than what those two shows were doing. In contrast, most fans of ''The Big Bang Theory'' and/or ''Glee'' seem to be surprised to learn that ''Community'' even '''exists''', much less that there's a rivalry between the fandoms.
** In the case of ''The Big Bang Theory'', the animosity seems to be due to how there's the feeling among the ''Community'' fandom that the former puts nerds and nerd culture up to ridicule, whereas ''Community'' is a show "for nerds by nerds."
** This was ''thought'' by many to be referenced in the show, and for a while got it a lot of hate online. In one episode, Jeff goes on and on about how much he hates the Music/BarenakedLadies, not understanding why everyone likes them so much. This was seen by many as a cheap shot at ''The Big Bang Theory'', whom Barenaked Ladies sing the theme song for. Dan Harmon himself had to come out and clarify that no, the episode had nothing to do with ''The Big Bang Theory'', that it was a reference to the fact that he, like Jeff, knows a lot of fans of the band who are very passionate, and he just doesn't get it.
** In the case of ''The Big Bang Theory'', the animosity seems to be due to how there's the feeling among the ''Community'' fandom that the former puts nerds and nerd culture up to ridicule, whereas ''Community'' is a show "for nerds by nerds."
** This was ''thought'' by many to be referenced in the show, and for a while got it a lot of hate online. In one episode, Jeff goes on and on about how much he hates the Music/BarenakedLadies, not understanding why everyone likes them so much. This was seen by many as a cheap shot at ''The Big Bang Theory'', whom Barenaked Ladies sing the theme song for. Dan Harmon himself had to come out and clarify that no, the episode had nothing to do with ''The Big Bang Theory'', that it was a reference to the fact that he, like Jeff, knows a lot of fans of the band who are very passionate, and he just doesn't get it.
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* FandomRivalry: Both of which are [[UnknownRival exceptionally one-sided]]. Generally speaking, most ''Community'' fans hate both ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and ''Series/{{Glee}}'' due to both series having been timeslot rivals for ''Community'' along with ''Community'' being seen by its fans as "doing everything better" than what those two shows were doing. In contrast, most fans of ''The Big Bang Theory'' and/or ''Glee'' seem to be surprised to learn that ''Community'' even '''exists''', much less that there's a rivalry between the fandoms.
** In the case of ''The Big Bang Theory'', the animosity seems to be due to how there's the feeling among the ''Community'' fandom that the former puts nerds and nerd culture up to ridicule, whereas ''Community'' is a show "for nerds by nerds."
** This was ''thought'' by many to be referenced in the show, and for a while got it a lot of hate online. In one episode, Jeff goes on and on about how much he hates the Music/BarenakedLadies, not understanding why everyone likes them so much. This was seen by many as a cheap shot at ''The Big Bang Theory'', whom Barenaked Ladies sing the theme song for. Dan Harmon himself had to come out and clarify that no, the episode had nothing to do with ''The Big Bang Theory'', that it was a reference to the fact that he, like Jeff, knows a lot of fans of the band who are very passionate, and he just doesn't get it.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Season 4 (the only season without Dan Harmon and the first without most of the writers of Seasons 1-3) has been declared this by some fans, with some even hoping to erase the season from canon by having Abed walk out of the Dreamatorium shortly after the end of Season 3, and reveal it was all just him running simulations. [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/07/dan-harmon-wont-be-a-jerk-about-community-season-4-and-doesnt-plan-to-negate-anything It wasn't]], but its SeasonalRot was heavily lampshaded throughout the fifth season, poking fun at some of its more questionable plot developments. Characters even refer to it in-universe as 'the gas leak year.' Also, on the extreme side of things, there are some fans who only prefer [[FirstInstallmentWins the first season]] when the show was still somewhat grounded and had yet to go DenserAndWackier, refusing to acknowledge the existence of any season that came after.
** In the case of ''The Big Bang Theory'', the animosity seems to be due to how there's the feeling among the ''Community'' fandom that the former puts nerds and nerd culture up to ridicule, whereas ''Community'' is a show "for nerds by nerds."
** This was ''thought'' by many to be referenced in the show, and for a while got it a lot of hate online. In one episode, Jeff goes on and on about how much he hates the Music/BarenakedLadies, not understanding why everyone likes them so much. This was seen by many as a cheap shot at ''The Big Bang Theory'', whom Barenaked Ladies sing the theme song for. Dan Harmon himself had to come out and clarify that no, the episode had nothing to do with ''The Big Bang Theory'', that it was a reference to the fact that he, like Jeff, knows a lot of fans of the band who are very passionate, and he just doesn't get it.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Season 4 (the only season without Dan Harmon and the first without most of the writers of Seasons 1-3) has been declared this by some fans, with some even hoping to erase the season from canon by having Abed walk out of the Dreamatorium shortly after the end of Season 3, and reveal it was all just him running simulations. [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/07/dan-harmon-wont-be-a-jerk-about-community-season-4-and-doesnt-plan-to-negate-anything It wasn't]], but its SeasonalRot was heavily lampshaded throughout the fifth season, poking fun at some of its more questionable plot developments. Characters even refer to it in-universe as 'the gas leak year.' Also, on the extreme side of things, there are some fans who only prefer [[FirstInstallmentWins the first season]] when the show was still somewhat grounded and had yet to go DenserAndWackier, refusing to acknowledge the existence of any season that came after.
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* FandomRivalry: Both FanonDiscontinuity:
** [[VocalMinority On the extreme side ofwhich things]], there are [[UnknownRival exceptionally one-sided]]. Generally speaking, most ''Community'' some fans hate both ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' who only prefer [[FirstInstallmentWins the first season]] when the show was still somewhat grounded and ''Series/{{Glee}}'' due had yet to both series having been timeslot rivals for ''Community'' along with ''Community'' being seen by its fans as "doing everything better" than what those two shows were doing. In contrast, most fans go DenserAndWackier, refusing to acknowledge the existence of ''The Big Bang Theory'' and/or ''Glee'' seem to be surprised to learn any season that ''Community'' even '''exists''', much less that there's a rivalry between the fandoms.
came after.
**In the case of ''The Big Bang Theory'', the animosity seems to be due to how there's the feeling among the ''Community'' fandom that the former puts nerds and nerd culture up to ridicule, whereas ''Community'' is a show "for nerds by nerds."
** This was ''thought'' by many to be referenced in the show, and for a while got it a lot of hate online. In one episode, Jeff goes on and on about how much he hates the Music/BarenakedLadies, not understanding why everyone likes them so much. This was seen by many as a cheap shot at ''The Big Bang Theory'', whom Barenaked Ladies sing the theme song for. Dan Harmon himself had to come out and clarify that no, the episode had nothing to do with ''The Big Bang Theory'', that it was a reference to the fact that he, like Jeff, knows a lot of fans of the band who are very passionate, and he just doesn't get it.
* FanonDiscontinuity:Season 4 (the only season without Dan Harmon and the first without most of the writers of Seasons 1-3) has been declared this by some fans, with some even hoping to erase the season from canon by having Abed walk out of the Dreamatorium shortly after the end of Season 3, and reveal it was all just him running simulations. [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/07/dan-harmon-wont-be-a-jerk-about-community-season-4-and-doesnt-plan-to-negate-anything It wasn't]], but its SeasonalRot was heavily lampshaded throughout the fifth season, poking fun at some of its more questionable plot developments. Characters even refer to it in-universe as 'the gas leak year.' Also, on the extreme side of things, there are '
** There's some fans whoonly don't disown Season 4 (or at least, [[SoOkayItsAverage don't particularly disown it]]) but prefer [[FirstInstallmentWins to ignore the first season]] when latter two seasons where the show was still somewhat grounded cast members started to leave the show, feeling it became less enjoyable without the original study group dynamic. It's divided in three groups: those who ignore everything after Season 4 (when Creator/ChevyChase left), those who ignore everything after "[[Recap/CommunityS5E05GeothermalEscapism Geothermal Escapism]]" (when Creator/DonaldGlover left) and had yet those who solely ignore Season 6 (when Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown and to go DenserAndWackier, refusing to acknowledge a lesser degree Creator/JonathanBanks and Creator/JohnOliver left).
** Among theexistence side of any season the fanbase who likes Pierce, many aren't fond of the reveal he [[spoiler: died from dehydration from filling up the cylinders he gave the Study Group in "[[Recap/CommunityS5E04CooperativePolygraphy Cooperative Polygraphy]]" with his sperm ]], out of finding it to be nothing but a cheap shot towards Creator/ChevyChase by [[spoiler: giving his character an undignified death]]. These fans prefer to believe he either [[spoiler: died in a less squicky way or that came after.[[HesJustHiding he didn't die at all]] ]].
** [[VocalMinority On the extreme side of
**
** This was ''thought'' by many to be referenced in the show, and for a while got it a lot of hate online. In one episode, Jeff goes on and on about how much he hates the Music/BarenakedLadies, not understanding why everyone likes them so much. This was seen by many as a cheap shot at ''The Big Bang Theory'', whom Barenaked Ladies sing the theme song for. Dan Harmon himself had to come out and clarify that no, the episode had nothing to do with ''The Big Bang Theory'', that it was a reference to the fact that he, like Jeff, knows a lot of fans of the band who are very passionate, and he just doesn't get it.
* FanonDiscontinuity:
** There's some fans who
** Among the
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* OneTrueThreesome: A few fics have Jeff, Britta and Annie getting together.
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* OneTrueThreesome: OneTrueThreesome:
** A few fics have Jeff, Britta and Annie gettingtogether.together.
** Annie/Abed/Troy is also a common triple ship for fics, often referred to as "Trobedison"
** A few fics have Jeff, Britta and Annie getting
** Annie/Abed/Troy is also a common triple ship for fics, often referred to as "Trobedison"
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* AudienceAlienatingEra: Season 4.
** Characters underwent {{Flanderization}} by being defined solely by a single joke: Abed is quirky to the point of a mental disorder! The Dean is a WholesomeCrossdresser! Meanwhile, Troy reached near-SatelliteCharacter levels while Pierce was increasingly DemotedToExtra and barely played a major role in any given episode[[note]]Pierce's decreasing screentime was partially a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot: Creator/ChevyChase was getting increasingly sick of working on the show, and he ultimately left midway through the season after having an outburst where he dropped a racial slur on-set[[/note]].
** Troy and Britta's relationship suffered a major ShippingBedDeath as the writers couldn't find anything interesting to do with them; Chang's FakingAmnesia plot was obvious and hackneyed.
** Earlier jokes and storylines were brought back as {{Fanservice}}, with the ''Inspector Spacetime'' joke being run into the ground. The finale, which brought back the "worst timeline" and paintball concepts that'd been lampshaded as old and forced an entire season prior, was critically panned with the only good thing about it being the reveal that it was AllJustADream. A few shots at Season 4 were taken in-universe during Season 5, with reference to the "gas-leak year".
** Characters underwent {{Flanderization}} by being defined solely by a single joke: Abed is quirky to the point of a mental disorder! The Dean is a WholesomeCrossdresser! Meanwhile, Troy reached near-SatelliteCharacter levels while Pierce was increasingly DemotedToExtra and barely played a major role in any given episode[[note]]Pierce's decreasing screentime was partially a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot: Creator/ChevyChase was getting increasingly sick of working on the show, and he ultimately left midway through the season after having an outburst where he dropped a racial slur on-set[[/note]].
** Troy and Britta's relationship suffered a major ShippingBedDeath as the writers couldn't find anything interesting to do with them; Chang's FakingAmnesia plot was obvious and hackneyed.
** Earlier jokes and storylines were brought back as {{Fanservice}}, with the ''Inspector Spacetime'' joke being run into the ground. The finale, which brought back the "worst timeline" and paintball concepts that'd been lampshaded as old and forced an entire season prior, was critically panned with the only good thing about it being the reveal that it was AllJustADream. A few shots at Season 4 were taken in-universe during Season 5, with reference to the "gas-leak year".
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* AudienceAlienatingEra: AudienceAlienatingEra:
** Season 4.
** *** Characters underwent {{Flanderization}} by being defined solely by a single joke: Abed is quirky to the point of a mental disorder! The Dean is a WholesomeCrossdresser! Meanwhile, Troy reached near-SatelliteCharacter levels while Pierce was increasingly DemotedToExtra and barely played a major role in any given episode[[note]]Pierce's decreasing screentime was partially a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot: Creator/ChevyChase was getting increasingly sick of working on the show, and he ultimately left midway through the season after having an outburst where he dropped a racial slur on-set[[/note]].
** *** Troy and Britta's relationship suffered a major ShippingBedDeath as the writers couldn't find anything interesting to do with them; Chang's FakingAmnesia plot was obvious and hackneyed.
** *** Earlier jokes and storylines were brought back as {{Fanservice}}, with the ''Inspector Spacetime'' joke being run into the ground. The finale, which brought back the "worst timeline" and paintball concepts that'd been lampshaded as old and forced an entire season prior, was critically panned with the only good thing about it being the reveal that it was AllJustADream. A few shots at Season 4 were taken in-universe during Season 5, with reference to the "gas-leak year".year".
** Seasons 5 & 6 also apply due to the generally darker tone of the plotlines, the loss of close to half of the main cast and replacement characters, the heavier concentration of high concept "homage" episodes in the shorter, 13 episode seasons, and a general trend in the characters toward more meanspiritedness and aggression towards each other, particularly in season 6.
** Season 4.
** Seasons 5 & 6 also apply due to the generally darker tone of the plotlines, the loss of close to half of the main cast and replacement characters, the heavier concentration of high concept "homage" episodes in the shorter, 13 episode seasons, and a general trend in the characters toward more meanspiritedness and aggression towards each other, particularly in season 6.
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* EstrogenBrigade: The show is mostly aimed at male fans, but still has a large group of vocal female fans due to the good-looking male actors. The most notable examples are Creator/DannyPudi, Creator/JoelMcHale (who is constantly losing his shirt), and Creator/DonaldGlover, all of whom female fans are still constantly rewatching the show for to this day.
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** "[[Recap/CommunityS2E06Epidemiology Epidemiology]]" -- A ZombieApocalypse takes place at the school's Halloween party.
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** "[[Recap/CommunityS2E06Epidemiology Epidemiology]]" -- A ZombieApocalypse takes place at the school's Halloween party. Unlike other genre-parody episodes where sci-fi tropes are explained as [[AllJustADream dreams]] or [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness hallucinations]], the zombie epidemic in this episode is very real and (via Chang and Shirley's hookup) has an impact on the plot of the series going forward.
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** In Season 3's "Remedial Chaos Theory", Troy's absence leading to the darkest timeline seems harsher after Creator/DonaldGlover left the show in the fifth season, which became the last season after NBC cancelled the show. You could say Troy leaving the group really did lead to the darkest timeline. This was later subverted when it was announced that Website/{{Yahoo}} Screen would produce at least one more season with virtually the same budget as the Creator/{{NBC}} seasons.
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** In Season 3's "Remedial Chaos Theory", Troy's absence leading to the darkest timeline seems harsher after Creator/DonaldGlover left the show in the fifth season, which became the last season after NBC cancelled the show. You could say Troy leaving the group really did lead to the darkest timeline. This was later subverted when it was announced that Website/{{Yahoo}} Platform/{{Yahoo}} Screen would produce at least one more season with virtually the same budget as the Creator/{{NBC}} seasons.
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** A relatively small but still noticeable one has begun to spring up around Abed, largely centring around the AlternativeCharacterInterpretation listed above. Even though there are multiple episodes ''per season'' dedicated to deconstructing just how thoroughly annoying and occasionally outright destructive Abed's antics are capable of becoming as well as how they could backfire on him in the form of pushing away his friends or taking a significant toll on his own sanity, some fans of the show feel as though whatever lessons those episodes were meant to teach Abed, especially with regards to not treating his friends like fictional characters who exist purely to be manipulated for his own amusement [[AesopAmnesia never really stuck around to any kind of meaningful extent, even to the episode's tag]] and he is all-too-often EasilyForgiven (especially by Troy).
*** Relating to this is the fact that, while each member of the group is shown to have reasons for behaving in the way they do (especially Pierce, Jeff and Annie), they all have multiple instances of either being [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse actively called out or else realising for themselves that they've crossed a line and that they need to alter their behavior to accommodate the others in the group]]. When it comes to Abed, however, not only does he rarely get called out for his more destructive actions/behaviors to the same extent as the others but on the occasions that he is, the respective episodes tend to end with Abed either getting his way or else not really having to significantly confront or learn to alter the worst aspects of his behavior in the same way everyone else is given the chance to, largely due to him tending to fall back on his own FreudianExcuse of having an [[DiagnosedByTheAudience undiagnosed neurological disorder]] and a rough childhood in order to do so. Even though the later seasons began to have instances of outside characters calling out this dynamic of Abed (intentionally or not) forcing everyone in the group to accommodate him and very rarely that effort going both ways, the dynamic itself never really changed. Put simply, depending on who you ask, Abed is either an {{Adorkable}} LovableNerd whose meta humor and dynamic with Troy is the source of some of the show's best jokes, or he's a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] vaguely sociopathic KarmaHoudini who regularly gets the group into quite serious trouble for the sake of his own amusement.
*** Relating to this is the fact that, while each member of the group is shown to have reasons for behaving in the way they do (especially Pierce, Jeff and Annie), they all have multiple instances of either being [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse actively called out or else realising for themselves that they've crossed a line and that they need to alter their behavior to accommodate the others in the group]]. When it comes to Abed, however, not only does he rarely get called out for his more destructive actions/behaviors to the same extent as the others but on the occasions that he is, the respective episodes tend to end with Abed either getting his way or else not really having to significantly confront or learn to alter the worst aspects of his behavior in the same way everyone else is given the chance to, largely due to him tending to fall back on his own FreudianExcuse of having an [[DiagnosedByTheAudience undiagnosed neurological disorder]] and a rough childhood in order to do so. Even though the later seasons began to have instances of outside characters calling out this dynamic of Abed (intentionally or not) forcing everyone in the group to accommodate him and very rarely that effort going both ways, the dynamic itself never really changed. Put simply, depending on who you ask, Abed is either an {{Adorkable}} LovableNerd whose meta humor and dynamic with Troy is the source of some of the show's best jokes, or he's a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] vaguely sociopathic KarmaHoudini who regularly gets the group into quite serious trouble for the sake of his own amusement.
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** A relatively small but still noticeable one has begun to spring up around Abed, largely centring around the AlternativeCharacterInterpretation listed above. Even though there are multiple episodes ''per season'' dedicated to deconstructing just how thoroughly annoying Abed and occasionally outright destructive Abed's rather his antics are capable of becoming as well as how they could backfire on make him in the form of pushing away his friends or taking a significant toll on his own sanity, some fans of the show feel as though whatever lessons those episodes were meant to teach Abed, especially with regards to not treating his friends like fictional characters who exist purely to be manipulated for his own amusement [[AesopAmnesia never really stuck around to any kind of meaningful extent, even to the episode's tag]] and he is all-too-often EasilyForgiven (especially by Troy).
*** Relating to this is the fact that, while each member of the group is shown to have reasons for behaving in the way they do (especially Pierce, Jeff and Annie), they all have multiple instances of either being [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse actively called out or else realising for themselves that they've crossed a line and that they need to alter their behavior to accommodate the others in the group]]. When it comes to Abed, however, not only does he rarely get called out for his more destructive actions/behaviors to the same extent as the others but on the occasions that he is, the respective episodes tend to end with Abed either getting his way or else not really having to significantly confront or learn to alter the worst aspects of his behavior in the same way everyone else is given the chance to, largely due to him tending to fall back on his own FreudianExcuse of having an [[DiagnosedByTheAudience undiagnosed neurological disorder]] and a rough childhood in order to do so. Even though the later seasons began to have instances of outside characters calling out this dynamic of Abed (intentionally or not) forcing everyone in the group to accommodate him and very rarely that effort going both ways, the dynamic itself never really changed.unsympathetic. Put simply, depending on who you ask, Abed is either an {{Adorkable}} LovableNerd whose meta humor and dynamic with Troy is the source of some of the show's best jokes, or he's a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] vaguely sociopathic KarmaHoudini who regularly gets the group into quite serious trouble for the sake of his own amusement.
*** Relating to this is the fact that, while each member of the group is shown to have reasons for behaving in the way they do (especially Pierce, Jeff and Annie), they all have multiple instances of either being [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse actively called out or else realising for themselves that they've crossed a line and that they need to alter their behavior to accommodate the others in the group]]. When it comes to Abed, however, not only does he rarely get called out for his more destructive actions/behaviors to the same extent as the others but on the occasions that he is, the respective episodes tend to end with Abed either getting his way or else not really having to significantly confront or learn to alter the worst aspects of his behavior in the same way everyone else is given the chance to, largely due to him tending to fall back on his own FreudianExcuse of having an [[DiagnosedByTheAudience undiagnosed neurological disorder]] and a rough childhood in order to do so. Even though the later seasons began to have instances of outside characters calling out this dynamic of Abed (intentionally or not) forcing everyone in the group to accommodate him and very rarely that effort going both ways, the dynamic itself never really changed.
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** Pierce easily comes second place in terms of divisiveness: see AlternativeCharacterInterpretation above. Part of the fandom thinks he's a bigoted, utterly irredeemable {{Jerkass}} who more than earned his [[DroppedABridgeOnHim lousy departure]]. Others think he's a lovable buffoon who simply has a tendency to [[TheDogBitesBack act out and become abrasive when he's ignored or made fun of for too long.]] The behind-the-scenes drama involving Chevy Chase and his ''immensely'' vitriolic relationship with the series doesn't help any matters.
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** Pierce easily comes second place in terms of divisiveness: see AlternativeCharacterInterpretation above.divisiveness. Part of the fandom thinks he's a bigoted, utterly irredeemable {{Jerkass}} who more than earned his [[DroppedABridgeOnHim lousy departure]]. Others think he's a lovable buffoon who simply has a tendency to [[TheDogBitesBack act out and become abrasive when he's ignored or made fun of for too long.]] The behind-the-scenes drama involving Chevy Chase and his ''immensely'' vitriolic relationship with the series doesn't help any matters.
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** The show has effectively the same premise as Creator/LouisSachar's classic ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' books, which are also all about wacky hijinks at a bizarre school that plays by its own rules. One could make a pretty good case for calling the show "''Wayside School'' for grown-ups".
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** The show has effectively the same premise as Creator/LouisSachar's classic ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' books, which are also all about wacky hijinks at a bizarre school that plays by its own rules. One could make a pretty good case for calling the show "''Wayside School'' for grown-ups".[[note]] Amusingly, ''Wayside School'' also features a RunningGag involving a mild-mannered NiceGuy named "Todd" [[ButtMonkey continually catching hell]] despite never doing anything wrong.[[/note]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Whenever the idea of a ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' American remake comes up, many bring up the fact that it would be a lot like ''Community''. Both shows are about a gang of weirdos coming together to [[CharacterDevelopment help each other grow]], both are thoroughly obsessed with pop culture and both have had exceptionally memorable {{Paintball Episode}}s.
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** Whenever the idea of a ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' American remake comes up, many bring up the fact that it would be a lot like ''Community''. Both shows are about a gang of weirdos coming together to [[CharacterDevelopment help each other grow]], both are thoroughly obsessed with pop culture and both have had exceptionally memorable {{PaintballEpisode}}s.Episode}}s.
** The show has effectively the same premise as Creator/LouisSachar's classic ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' books, which are also all about wacky hijinks at a bizarre school that plays by its own rules. One could make a pretty good case for calling the show "''Wayside School'' for grown-ups".
** Whenever the idea of a ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' American remake comes up, many bring up the fact that it would be a lot like ''Community''. Both shows are about a gang of weirdos coming together to [[CharacterDevelopment help each other grow]], both are thoroughly obsessed with pop culture and both have had exceptionally memorable {{Paintball
** The show has effectively the same premise as Creator/LouisSachar's classic ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' books, which are also all about wacky hijinks at a bizarre school that plays by its own rules. One could make a pretty good case for calling the show "''Wayside School'' for grown-ups".
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* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: While Season 4 is generally agreed to have suffered from a noticeable decline in writing quality due to Creator/DanHarmon's firing, most fans agree that the main cast's acting remained remarkably strong in spite of it. In particular, Creator/JoelMcHale's performance in "Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations" is often cited as a highlight of his career.
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* ShipSinking:
** [[spoiler:Britta/Troy]] is sunk without much fanfare toward the end of Season 4.
** [[spoiler:Annie/Abed]] was sunk in Season 5, with the revelation that [[spoiler:Abed was catfishing Annie so she'd make better breakfasts, followed by Annie invoking LikeBrotherAndSister with Abed in "VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing".]]
** [[spoiler:Britta/Troy]] is sunk without much fanfare toward the end of Season 4.
** [[spoiler:Annie/Abed]] was sunk in Season 5, with the revelation that [[spoiler:Abed was catfishing Annie so she'd make better breakfasts, followed by Annie invoking LikeBrotherAndSister with Abed in "VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing".]]
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* FanPreferredCouple: Jeff and Annie despite Jeff/Britta originally being meant to endgame. How much do some fans prefer this couple you may ask? Enough to vote them [[http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b229149_tvs_top_couples_2011_winner.html TV's Top Couples 2011]] despite the fact they are not a canon couple.
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** Despite Troy and Abed having canon love interests in the form of Britta and Rachel, respectively, most fans ship the two together instead, due to the massive amounts of HoYay between them and their great chemistry, with Troy/Abed having the most fics for the show on [=AO3=] and still being popular years after the show ended.
** Jeff and Annie despite Jeff/Britta originally being meant to endgame. How much do some fans prefer this couple you may ask? Enough to vote them [[http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b229149_tvs_top_couples_2011_winner.html TV's Top Couples 2011]] despite the fact they are not a canon couple.
** Despite Troy and Abed having canon love interests in the form of Britta and Rachel, respectively, most fans ship the two together instead, due to the massive amounts of HoYay between them and their great chemistry, with Troy/Abed having the most fics for the show on [=AO3=] and still being popular years after the show ended.
** Jeff and Annie despite Jeff/Britta originally being meant to endgame. How much do some fans prefer this couple you may ask? Enough to vote them [[http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b229149_tvs_top_couples_2011_winner.html TV's Top Couples 2011]] despite the fact they are not a canon couple.
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* AwardSnub: In spite of achieving a rabid following and a lot of praise from critics, the show only snagged a handful of UsefulNotes/EmmyAward nominations during its entire run. The sole writing nomination was for Chris Mc[=Kenna=] for "Remedial Chaos Theory".
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* AwardSnub: In spite of achieving a rabid following and a lot of praise from critics, the show only snagged a handful of UsefulNotes/EmmyAward MediaNotes/EmmyAward nominations during its entire run. The sole writing nomination was for Chris Mc[=Kenna=] for "Remedial Chaos Theory".
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** In "Intro to Political Science", Abed nearly gets in trouble with the Secret Service for pirating the film ''Film/TheLastAirbender''. Over a decade later, Creator/DannyPudi would be cast in Creator/{{Netflix}}'s live-action ''Series/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' TV show.
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* HesJustHiding: [[spoiler:Pierce. Understandable, considering his fake heart attacks and pretending he was dying to toy with the study group. Not to mention that he actually ''did'' successfully fake his death in the Darkest Timeline, only to reveal that he was still alive after all.]]
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* HesJustHiding: [[spoiler:Pierce. [[spoiler:Pierce]]. Understandable, considering his [[spoiler:his fake heart attacks attacks]] and pretending [[spoiler:pretending he was dying to toy with the study group. group]]. Not to mention that he [[spoiler:he actually ''did'' successfully fake his death in the Darkest Timeline, only to reveal that he was still alive after all.]]all]]. Many fans are holding out hope that he'll turn up again in the movie, if only for a cameo.
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** In the Season 1 finale, when Britta admits to Shirley that she slept with Jeff earlier that semester, she demands to know where and when it happened--and Britta sarcastically replies, ''"During paintball, in the study room, with [[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} Colonel Mustard]]."'' The final season would introduce Britta's father George Perry, played by Creator/MartinMull--who played Colonel Mustard in ''Film/{{Clue}}''.
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** ''[[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons Advance Dungeons And Dragons]]''. Not the episode itself, which was well received, but about the episode being removed from Netflix and Hulu. Was taking it out from their platforms appropriate and respectable in light of heightened concerns and awareness of racism, or was it an overreaction, considering the execution of the scene and how tame it is compared to some other scenes and jokes the show has? The history of dark elves in real life Dungeons and Dragons, who have been accused of initially being based on racial stereotypes, doesn't help matters. Yvette Nicole Brown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjJQBX2Nw2A thinks]] highly of the episode, and laments the controversy it caused overshadowing the acting of Charley Koontz in his one featured episode. The controversy is only for Netflix and Hulu since Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, and the season two DVD release still have the episode.
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** The removal of the otherwise well received ''[[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons Advance Dungeons And Dragons]]''. Not the episode itself, which was well received, but about the episode being removed Dragons]]'' from Netflix and Hulu. Was taking it out from their platforms appropriate and respectable in light of heightened concerns and awareness of racism, or was it an overreaction, considering the execution of the scene and how tame it is compared to some other scenes and jokes the show has? The history of dark elves in real life Dungeons and Dragons, who have been accused of initially being based on racial stereotypes, doesn't help matters. Yvette Nicole Brown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjJQBX2Nw2A thinks]] highly of the episode, and laments the controversy it caused overshadowing the acting of Charley Koontz in his one featured episode. The controversy is only for Netflix and Hulu since Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, and the season two DVD release still have the episode.
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** ''[[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons Advance Dungeons And Dragons]]''. Not the episode itself, which was well received, but about the episode being removed from Netflix and Hulu. Was taking it out from their platforms appropriate and respectable in light of heightened concerns and awareness of racism, or was it an overreaction, considering the execution of the scene and how tame it is compared to some other scenes and jokes the show has? The history of dark elves in real life Dungeons and Dragons, who have been accused of initially being based on racial stereotypes, doesn't help matters. Yvette Nicole Brown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjJQBX2Nw2A thinks]] highly of the episode, and laments the controversy it caused overshadowing the acting of Charley Koontz in his one featured episode. The controversy is only for Netflix and Hulu since Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, and the season two DVD release still have the episode.
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** [[spoiler:Annie being the Ass Crack Bandit in Season 5. The Ass Crack Bandit's identity ''is'' strongly implied to have been her in the SeriesFinale, but it's also still left as a RiddleForTheAges]].
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** [[spoiler:Annie [[spoiler:Annie]] being the Ass Crack Bandit in Season 5. The Ass Crack Bandit's identity ''is'' strongly implied to have been her in the SeriesFinale, but it's also still left as a RiddleForTheAges]].RiddleForTheAges.
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*** Relating to this is the fact that, while each member of the group is shown to have reasons for behaving in the way they do (especially Pierce, Jeff and Annie), they all have multiple instances of either being [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse actively called out or else realising for themselves that they've crossed a line and that they need to alter their behaviour to accommodate the others in the group]]. When it comes to Abed, however, not only does he rarely get called out for his more destructive actions/behaviours to the same extent as the others but on the occasions that he is, the respective episodes tend to end with Abed either getting his way or else not really having to significantly confront or learn to alter the worst aspects of his behaviour in the same way everyone else is given the chance to, largely due to him tending to fall back on his own FreudianExcuse of having an [[DiagnosedByTheAudience undiagnosed neurological disorder]] and a rough childhood in order to do so. Even though the later seasons began to have instances of outside characters calling out this dynamic of Abed (intentionally or not) forcing everyone in the group to accommodate him and very rarely that effort going both ways, the dynamic itself never really changed. Put simply, depending on who you ask, Abed is either an {{Adorkable}} LovableNerd whose meta humour and dynamic with Troy is the source of some of the show's best jokes, or he's a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] vaguely sociopathic KarmaHoudini who regularly gets the group into quite serious trouble for the sake of his own amusement.
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*** Relating to this is the fact that, while each member of the group is shown to have reasons for behaving in the way they do (especially Pierce, Jeff and Annie), they all have multiple instances of either being [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse actively called out or else realising for themselves that they've crossed a line and that they need to alter their behaviour behavior to accommodate the others in the group]]. When it comes to Abed, however, not only does he rarely get called out for his more destructive actions/behaviours actions/behaviors to the same extent as the others but on the occasions that he is, the respective episodes tend to end with Abed either getting his way or else not really having to significantly confront or learn to alter the worst aspects of his behaviour behavior in the same way everyone else is given the chance to, largely due to him tending to fall back on his own FreudianExcuse of having an [[DiagnosedByTheAudience undiagnosed neurological disorder]] and a rough childhood in order to do so. Even though the later seasons began to have instances of outside characters calling out this dynamic of Abed (intentionally or not) forcing everyone in the group to accommodate him and very rarely that effort going both ways, the dynamic itself never really changed. Put simply, depending on who you ask, Abed is either an {{Adorkable}} LovableNerd whose meta humour humor and dynamic with Troy is the source of some of the show's best jokes, or he's a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] vaguely sociopathic KarmaHoudini who regularly gets the group into quite serious trouble for the sake of his own amusement.
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* ContinuityLockout: More of a meta-version; in later seasons particularly, Dan Harmon tended to use the show as an airing board for his grievances with the network which, coupled with his fondness for obscure meta-humour, tended to result in a lot of jokes about ''Community's'' behind-the-scenes issues that would completely fly over the heads over anyone unaware of or uninterested in the details of how the suits at NBC had pissed Harmon off this week. While many of the devoted fans -- being media-savvy types who tended to follow along with news about their favourite shows in the first place -- responded well to these kinds of jokes, it arguably didn't really help with the show's persistent troubles in attracting a broader audience -- which, in addition to consistently leaving the show in danger of cancellation, ironically also left the show stuck in a position where it was in constant risk of the kind of ExecutiveMeddling that annoyed Harmon in the first place.
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* ContinuityLockout: More of a meta-version; in later seasons particularly, Dan Harmon tended to use the show as an airing board for his grievances with the network which, coupled with his fondness for obscure meta-humour, meta-humor, tended to result in a lot of jokes about ''Community's'' behind-the-scenes issues that would completely fly over the heads over anyone unaware of or uninterested in the details of how the suits at NBC had pissed Harmon off this week. While many of the devoted fans -- being media-savvy types who tended to follow along with news about their favourite favorite shows in the first place -- responded well to these kinds of jokes, it arguably didn't really help with the show's persistent troubles in attracting a broader audience -- which, in addition to consistently leaving the show in danger of cancellation, ironically also left the show stuck in a position where it was in constant risk of the kind of ExecutiveMeddling that annoyed Harmon in the first place.
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** Various other pieces of information to come out after the show finished also make Harmon look like a complete asshole in his dealings with Chevy Chase, who was pilloried for his 'poor behaviour' like leaving the set early, refusing to film scenes and his "use of a racial slur" that was apparently the "final straw" forcing him off the show. Those refusals were usually caused by Harmon not having done his job properly and leaving the scripts unfinished, causing the cast and crew to sit around doing nothing well after midnight, and where the racial slur was said in the context of Harmon pushing Pierce's character into an irredeemably awful racist, something Chevy didn't like happening.
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** Various other pieces of information to come out after the show finished also make Harmon look like a complete asshole in his dealings with Chevy Chase, who was pilloried for his 'poor behaviour' behavior' like leaving the set early, refusing to film scenes and his "use of a racial slur" that was apparently the "final straw" forcing him off the show. Those refusals were usually caused by Harmon not having done his job properly and leaving the scripts unfinished, causing the cast and crew to sit around doing nothing well after midnight, and where the racial slur was said in the context of Harmon pushing Pierce's character into an irredeemably awful racist, something Chevy didn't like happening.
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* BizarroEpisode: While''Community'' has a number of episodes which would fall under this for any other show, it still has those that qualify as a BizarroEpisode even by ''Community''[='s=] standards.
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* BizarroEpisode: Whilst ''Community'' has a number of episodes which would fall under this for any other show, it still has those that qualify as a BizarroEpisode even by ''Community''[='s=] standards.
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* FanonDiscontinuity: Season 4 (the only season without Dan Harmon and the first without most of the writers of Seasons 1-3) has been declared this by some fans, with some even hoping to erase the season from canon by having Abed walk out of the Dreamatorium shortly after the end of Season 3 & reveal it was all just him running simulations. [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/07/dan-harmon-wont-be-a-jerk-about-community-season-4-and-doesnt-plan-to-negate-anything It wasn't]], but its SeasonalRot was heavily lampshaded throughout the fifth season, poking fun at some of its more questionable plot developments. Characters even refer to it in-universe as 'the gas leak year.' Also, on the extreme side of things, there are some fans who only prefer [[FirstInstallmentWins the first season]] when the show was still somewhat grounded and had yet to go DenserAndWackier, refusing to acknowledge the existence of any season that came after.
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* FanonDiscontinuity: Season 4 (the only season without Dan Harmon and the first without most of the writers of Seasons 1-3) has been declared this by some fans, with some even hoping to erase the season from canon by having Abed walk out of the Dreamatorium shortly after the end of Season 3 & 3, and reveal it was all just him running simulations. [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/07/dan-harmon-wont-be-a-jerk-about-community-season-4-and-doesnt-plan-to-negate-anything It wasn't]], but its SeasonalRot was heavily lampshaded throughout the fifth season, poking fun at some of its more questionable plot developments. Characters even refer to it in-universe as 'the gas leak year.' Also, on the extreme side of things, there are some fans who only prefer [[FirstInstallmentWins the first season]] when the show was still somewhat grounded and had yet to go DenserAndWackier, refusing to acknowledge the existence of any season that came after.
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** TheTag in the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/CommunityS5E13BasicSandwich Basic Sandwich]]" basically being a huge TakeThat to NBC. With NBC's subsequent cancellation of the show & Yahoo picking the show up for a sixth season, it means ''Community'' essentially left NBC whilst flipping the bird & screaming "Fuck you!"
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** TheTag in the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/CommunityS5E13BasicSandwich Basic Sandwich]]" basically being a huge TakeThat to NBC. With NBC's subsequent cancellation of the show & and Yahoo picking the show up for a sixth season, it means ''Community'' essentially left NBC whilst while flipping the bird & and screaming "Fuck you!"
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** Evil!Jeff's comment that naming a sandwich the "[[PunnyName Troy-jan Horse]]" would just make people think horse meat was in it, from "[[Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality Advanced Introduction To Finality]]". Between the episode being filmed in late 2012 & airing in May 2013, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_meat_adulteration_scandal the story broke in Europe that horse meat had been included in foods supposedly containing beef]].
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** Evil!Jeff's comment that naming a sandwich the "[[PunnyName Troy-jan Horse]]" would just make people think horse meat was in it, from "[[Recap/CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality Advanced Introduction To Finality]]". Between the episode being filmed in late 2012 & 2012, and airing in May 2013, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_meat_adulteration_scandal the story broke in Europe that horse meat had been included in foods supposedly containing beef]].
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** Creator/KumailNanjiani stars as Custodian Lapari in Seasons 5 & 6, but it wouldn't be until his starring role in ''Series/SiliconValley'' that Nanjiani's popularity would explode.
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** Creator/KumailNanjiani stars as Custodian Lapari in Seasons 5 & and 6, but it wouldn't be until his starring role in ''Series/SiliconValley'' that Nanjiani's popularity would explode.
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** Chang. While fans generally love CreatorKenJeong, opinions are divided on the handling of the character after Season 1, especially since he went through a great deal of {{Flanderization}} and the show clearly struggled to find reasons to keep him around once he stopped being the group's Spanish teacher.
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** Chang. While fans generally love CreatorKenJeong, Creator/KenJeong, opinions are divided on the handling of the character after Season 1, especially since he went through a great deal of {{Flanderization}} and the show clearly struggled to find reasons to keep him around once he stopped being the group's Spanish teacher.
