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'''Abed:''' Dear god. What have you done to me?

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'''Abed:''' Dear god.god... What have you done to me?
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* EmbarrassingVoicemail: This kicks off the main plot after Britta drunk dials Jeff and leaves a long, confused message.
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* {{Crossdresser}}: Chang forces Troy and Pierce to wear attractive women's pant suits to a dance as punishment for trying to get revenge on him for humiliating them. [[spoiler:It was Shirley and Annie.]]

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* {{Crossdresser}}: Chang forces Troy and Pierce to wear attractive women's pant suits to a dance as punishment for trying to get revenge on him for humiliating them. [[spoiler:It It was Shirley and Annie.]]
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* TakeThat: Abed compares Jeff and Britta's situation to that of Tony and Angela from ''Series/WhosTheBoss'' but is unable to explain the resolution on that show since he could "never make it past the opening credits".

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Based on the kid's attitude, this is almost certainly a reference to later seasons' snarky, angry Miles Straume rather than intense, serious Jin.


* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Britta's drunk dial to Jeff at 3 in the morning. Then Jeff returns the favor with a 40 minutes call.
* BrickJoke: In the cold open, Abed emphasizes the importance of emphasis in successful sarcasm. At the end of the cold open, he goes to town on sarcasm to remind Jeff that he, in fact, knows something about television.

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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Britta's drunk dial to Jeff at 3 in the morning. Then Jeff returns the favor with a 40 minutes 40-minute call.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Platonically (for now) -- Britta drunk dials Jeff, who takes it as proof she's just playing hard to get. But then, to make her feel better, he gets drunk enough to drunk dial ''her''... and tells her how she's his favorite friend and he just wants her to be as happy as he is with Slater. So, after briefly faking him out to make him think he invited her to the dance, Britta plays the actual message for Slater, so that she and Jeff have a Happy Valentine's Day after all. But Britta's keeping back the rest of the forty-minute voicemail for later use.
* BrickJoke: In the cold open, {{cold open|ing}}, Abed emphasizes the importance of emphasis inflection in successful sarcasm. At the end of the cold open, he goes to town on sarcasm to remind Jeff that he, in fact, knows something about television.television.
-->'''Abed:''' No, I have no IDEA what I'm talking about. ''(crosses eyes)'' I'm Abed, I NEVER watch TV.



* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Troy and Pierce use trench coats to cover their embarrassing pant suits.
* CreatorBreakdown: In-universe with the young Asian actor. Abed makes a connection to Creator/ChristianBale's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqxWVYMVARg meltdown]] on the set of ''Film/TerminatorSalvation''.

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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Troy and Pierce use trench coats trenchcoats to cover their embarrassing pant suits.
* CreatorBreakdown: In-universe with the young Asian actor.actor in Abed's movie. Abed makes a connection to Creator/ChristianBale's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqxWVYMVARg meltdown]] on the set of ''Film/TerminatorSalvation''.



* DisproportionateRetribution: ''All'' of what Chang does to Troy and Pierce. When the latter two send themselves valentines to save face, Chang humiliates them in front of the class. And later, when he's almost pranked, he not only blames them and forces them to show up at the dance wearing women's pantsuits, he threatens to ''fail'' them if they don't.
* DrunkenMontage: Abed and Jeff (another scene lifted directly from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'').
* HangoverSensitivity: Britta, Jeff, and Abed.
* HoYay: Troy calls Pierce a "slut!" for hopping on Chang's bike to go get some frozen yogurt.
--> '''Pierce''': [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday I'm not gay, man]]; they close in 7 minutes.\\
'''Troy''': I could've driven you.\\
'''Chang''': You said [[FelonyMisdemeanor he ''hated'' fro-yo]].\\
'''Pierce''': Just drive. (''They drive off'')\\
'''Troy''': Slut!
* InspectorLestrade: Troy's deduction skills are an epic fail.
-->"Yeah. It was written on fake Princeton letterhead. So whoever wrote it, worked at Princeton, ran out of stationary, and didn't have time to go to the store.
* IThinkYouBrokeHim

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* DisproportionateRetribution: ''All'' of what Chang does to Troy and Pierce. When the latter two send themselves valentines Valentines to save face, Chang humiliates them in front of the class. And later, when he's almost pranked, he not only blames them and forces them to show up at the dance wearing women's pantsuits, he threatens to ''fail'' them if they don't.
* DrunkenMontage: Abed and Jeff spend the night getting drunk enough for Jeff to make a convincing late-night drunk dial to Britta (another scene lifted directly from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'').
* HangoverSensitivity: Britta, Jeff, and Abed.
* HoYay: Troy calls Pierce a "slut!" for hopping on Chang's bike to go get some frozen yogurt.
--> '''Pierce''': [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday I'm not gay, man]]; they close in 7 minutes.\\
'''Troy''': I could've driven you.\\
'''Chang''': You said [[FelonyMisdemeanor he ''hated'' fro-yo]].\\
'''Pierce''': Just drive. (''They drive off'')\\
'''Troy''': Slut!
* InspectorLestrade:
EpicFail: Troy's deduction skills are an epic fail.
-->"Yeah.
skills.
-->'''Troy:''' Yeah.
It was written on fake Princeton letterhead. So whoever wrote it, worked at Princeton, ran out of stationary, and didn't have time to go to the store.
* IThinkYouBrokeHimHangoverSensitivity: Britta starts the episode with a vicious hangover. Jeff and Abed set out to match her drunken hijinks and wake up barely coherent in Abed's dorm room; Abed can barely string together a pop culture reference.
-->'''Abed:''' [[IThinkYouBrokeHim You broke me.]]
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* LadyInRed: Britta. And she's seriously just doing it to mess with Jeff.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Britta implies that Jeff's drunk dial is forty minutes long and she intends to hold it over his head.

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* LadyInRed: Britta. And she's seriously Britta cleans up nicely in a red dress after Jeff's drunk dial message... to make him ''think'' he asked her to the Valentine's Day dance. It's a serious amount of effort just doing it to mess with Jeff.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Britta implies gets Jeff off the hook with Slater but then whispers mid-hug that Jeff's his drunk dial is forty minutes long and she intends to hold it over his head.



* PlayingHardToGet: Jeff mentions this to be Britta's scheme.

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* PlayingHardToGet: Jeff mentions this to be believes Britta's scheme.drunk dial proves this is her long-term scheme with him.



** Jeff and Abed's drinking montage has a number of them, mostly to [[TheEighties Eighties]] HighSchool Movies:
*** They recreate the dance sequence from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' (to the same song, no less).
*** They shotgun cans of beer (from ''Film/TheSureThing'').

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** Jeff and Abed's drinking montage has a number of them, mostly to [[TheEighties Eighties]] HighSchool Movies:
*** They recreate
Movies, like recreating the dance sequence from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' (to the same song, "We Are Not Alone" by Karla [=DeVito=] no less).
*** They shotgun
less) and shotgunning cans of beer (from ''Film/TheSureThing'').like in ''Film/TheSureThing''.



** Abed refers to the adolescent he cast as Chang as "a young [[Creator/DanielDaeKim the Asian guy from LOST]]."

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** Abed refers to the adolescent he cast as Chang as "a young [[Creator/DanielDaeKim [[Creator/KenLeung the Asian guy guy]] from LOST]].''Series/{{Lost}}."



* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Jeff and Britta have the same reaction to arming the Human Being with arrows.
--> Oh, it has arrows now. ''That's'' safe.

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* SlutShaming: Parodied after Pierce hops on Chang's bike to go get some frozen yogurt and doesn't invite Troy.
--> '''Pierce''': [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday I'm not gay, man]]; they close in 7 minutes.\\
'''Troy''': I could've ''driven'' you.\\
'''Chang''': You said [[FelonyMisdemeanor he ''hated'' fro-yo]].\\
'''Pierce''': Just drive. (''They drive off'')\\
'''Troy''': Slut!
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Jeff and Britta have the same reaction to arming dressing up the Greendale Human Being with arrows.
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as Cupid.
-->'''Jeff/Britta:'''
Oh, it has arrows now. ''That's'' safe.

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