History Recap / CommunityS1E04SocialPsychology

* HollywoodScience: Duncan has a total breakdown when he encounters the outlier of extreme patience that is Abed, ranting that his Duncan's Principle has been completely broken. Of course, ''one'' outlier is hardly enough to totally disprove a hypothesis concerning human psychology, but...

* GiftedlyBad: Vaughn's poetry

* FanonDiscontinuity: In-universe example, for the IndianaJones movies.

* ArtisticLicenseStatistics: Duncan's FreakOut at the end of his experiment isn't really called for if one considers that a single statistical outlier, even one as extreme as Abed, doesn't invalidate the results of the experiment (putting aside the problems mentioned in NoControlGroup). In fact, in a sufficiently large sample, one would ''expect'' such outliers to occur. the FreakOut likely happened because watching Duncan [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fall victim to his own principle]] was both [[RuleOfFunny hilarious]] and [[LaserGuidedKarma satisfying.]]

* ArtisticLicenseStatistics: Duncan's FreakOut at the end of his experiment isn't really called for if one considers that a single statistical outlier, even one as extreme as Abed, doesn't invalidate the results of the experiment (putting aside the problems mentioned in NoControlGroup). It likely occurred because watching Duncan [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fall victim to his own principle]] was both [[RuleOfFunny hilarious]] and [[LaserGuidedKarma satisfying.]]

* NoControlGroup: If this had been a real experiment, the subjects should have been isolated from each other. Experiencing previous breakdowns may have influenced the breakdown of later subjects. Of course, neither the professor leading the experiment nor the institution in this case are exactly exemplars of scientific research...

In another attempt to gain extra credit -- and thus a greater chance of escaping Greendale -- Annie manages to secure a place in Professor Duncan's experiment, in which the "Duncan Principle"[[hottip:*: The longer people are forced to wait, the more control is lost by the ego, the more gained by the id, resulting in "a surprisingly predictable emotional eruption" -- i.e. a good old-fashioned temper tantrum]] is to be tested, by convincing Troy and Abed to volunteer to be test subjects. However, this leads to unforeseen factors the researchers did not anticipate, which ends up making it unclear who are the ''real'' test subjects.

-->'''Duncan:''' Houston, we have an idiot.[[hottip:*:This line is oddly not in the DVD release, instead replaced with "And they're off..."]]

-->'''Senor Chang:''' ''[To Annie, very ''very'' creepily]'' Who's erratic and unstable ''now'', Princess ''Gringa''? ''[Kisses her on the forehead]''[[hottip:*:This was also not in the DVD release, instead replaced with an example of Chang teaching something that is quite obviously not spanish]]

* PainfulRhyme: Several times in Vaughn's poem.

* {{Shipping}}: This episode was the start of the Annie/Abed pairing in the fandom.

* ShoutOut: "Oh my God, my life is ''[[Franchise/{{Degrassi}} Degrassi High]]!''"

* ShoutOut: "Oh my God, my life is ''[[{{Degrassi}} Degrassi High]]!''"

-->'''Senor Chang:''' ''[To Annie, very ''very'' creepily]'' Who's erratic and unstable ''now'', Princess ''Gringa''? ''[Kisses her on the forehead]''[[hottip:*:This was also not in the DVD release, instead replaced with an example of Chang being a hack]]

-->'''Senor Chang:''' ''[To Annie, very ''very'' creepily]'' Who's erratic and unstable ''now'', Princess ''Gringa''? ''[Kisses her on the forehead]''

Jeff and Shirley begin to bond over a recently-discovered mutual shared interest -- making fun of Britta's new boyfriend, Vaughn. However, their mutual passion for gossip about him will end up creating rifts in their friendship group.

* WhatTheHellHero: Neither Troy nor Abed are exactly pleased with Annie when they learn the true purpose of the experiment (although Abed is [[TheStoic much better at concealing it]]). Annie's ultimately left looking very uncomfortable after Troy's breakdown during the experiment and Abed's confrontation with her afterwards.

* BerserkButton: Upon being informed in "Social Psychology" that the experiment was going to start late, Chang immediately exploded in a violent, childish temper tantrum, involving throwing furniture and screaming "MOMMY!" Since the purpose of the experiment was to test how long people would put up with being delayed before exploding, and Chang literally didn't last more than a few seconds, his SitcomArchNemesis Professor Duncan was quite pleased:

!!The ''{{Community}}'' episode "Social Psychology" provides examples of:

* GossipyHens: Shirley and Jeff

* ShapedLikeItself: Pierce says that his ear-noculars give him "sonic hearing". As Abed points out, "All hearing is sonic."

-->'''Annie:''' ''I just got the first three because...\\

* GiftedlyBad: Vaughn's poetry.
* GossipyHens: Shirley and Jeff.

* TheStoic: Upon being told to just sit and wait, while everyone else around him ends up throwing childish tantrums and storming out, Abed just calmly, without expressing any apparent emotion (as he tells her later, he was actually ''livid''), sits and waits. For ''[[BeyondTheImpossible twenty-six hours]]''.