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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.
** 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.
