History Recap / CommunityS2E20CompetitiveWineTasting

* DrivenToSuicide: After Abed proves Angela was the boss, they tease this as the professor opens a drawer to reveal a gun... and opens it further to reveal ''What Was Happening?: An Analysis of WhatsHappening''. See WhatCouldHaveBeen.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: In addition to Pierce's usual mispronunciation of Abed's name ("AY-bed"), the ''Who's the Boss?'' professor keeps calling him "a-BED". He also seems to think it's Abed's last name ("Ah, Mr. Abed, what do you want?")

* FridgeLogic / FridgeBrilliance: In [[Recap/CommunityS1E16CommunicationStudies Communication Studies]], Abed remarks how he could never get past the opening credits of WhosTheBoss. This troper isn't sure whether it weakens Abed showing up the professor or makes it that much more impressive.

* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: Jeff asks Troy how he got roped into an acting class, something Joel McHale would probably have to take to get intp the career he's now. CaptainObvious

* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: Jeff asks Troy how he got roped into an acting class, something [[Joel McHale would probably have to take to get intp the career he's now. {{CaptainObvious}}]]

* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: Jeff asks Troy how he got roped into an acting class, something Joel McHale would probably have to take to get intp the career he's now. CaptainObvious

* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: Jeff asks Troy how he got roped into an acting class, something Joel McHale would probably have to take to get intp the career he's now. Captain Obvious

* UnusualEuphemism: Troy has several for his no-no hold. Or his plop-plop place.

* MayDecemberRomance

* Irony: To have a traumatic experience as a source for acting, Troy lies about being molested as a child, thus giving the drama professor's next words another meaning:

** Abed's excitement at the situation is also funny to the countless college students whose professors have required their students to read (i.e. BUY) their precious book, which is miraculously the textbook of the class, and tout their own work just a little too highly. More annoying in broader topics like History and Literature, less so in narrowed fields where less research and criticism is being done. The situation is made even funnier in that while the specific focus of the class (''WhosTheBoss'') probably counts as the latter, the professor's attitude towards his work -- and Abed's questioning of it -- [[SeriousBusiness is quite conclusively]] [[SmallNameBigEgo the former]].

* AffectionateParody: At the end of the episode, Troy is cast in an all-black ''[[FiddlerOnTheRoof Fiddler on the Roof]]'' show. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It's as funny as it sounds,]] and couples as a [[ShoutOut shout out]] to Patrick Stewart's all black show of ''{{Othello}}''.

* CallBack: Pierce holds his engagement party at the same restaurant featured in the previous episode, "Critical Film Studies".

* ShipTease: Between Troy and Britta.

!The ''{{Community}}'' episode "Competitive Wine Tasting" provides examples of:

The gang picks their spring quarter electives. Jeff and Pierce sign up for Italian Wine Tasting, where they meet a lovely Chinese woman. Troy and Britta take an acting class and are instructed to share painful emotions from their past, which proves difficult for Troy. Meanwhile, Abed takes "A Critical Analysis of ''WhosTheBoss''" taught by the person who wrote the book of the same name; however, Abed's theories about who the 'boss' was turn out to be controversial..

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Troy considers one of these for his stage name - Trevor St. [=McGoodbody=]. Or David.

* [[spoiler: UnholyMatrimony: At the end of the episode, after having publicly spilled the beans about Wu Mei's intentions, Jeff brings her back to see Pierce and declares that they might just be well-suited towards each other anyway. His reasoning reads like this trope.]]

* [[spoiler: UnholyMatrimony: At the end of the episode, after having publicly spilled the beans about Wu Mei's intentions, Jeff brings her back to see Pierce and declares that they might just be well-suted towards each other anyway. His reasoning reads like this trope.]]

* ActorAllusion: At the bar, Jeff's exchange with Pierce ("I just hope she can satisfy me. I'm like an insatiable baboon in the bedroom." "Don't sell yourself short, you're a baboon everywhere.") echoes a similar StealthInsult that Chevy Chase had used on Ted Knight in ''{{Caddyshack}}'' ("He's been club champion three years running and I'm no slouch myself." "Don't sell yourself short, you're a tremendous slouch.")

* ActorAllusion: At the bar, Jeff's exchange with Pierce ("I just hope she can satisfy me. I'm like an insatiable baboon in the bedroom." "Don't sell yourself short, you're a baboon everywhere.") echoes a similar StealthInsult that Chevy Chase had used on Ted Knight in ''{{Caddyshack}}'' ("Don't sell yourself short, you're a tremendous slouch.")

-->'''Britta:''' Before my ex-boyfriend Pavel was arrested for forging church relics he accused me of only being attracted to 'a certain kind of guy'. Hard to understand him, though; he was pretty huffed up on paint-thinners.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Harmon considered including a joke where after disproving Sheffield on who the boss was, Abed is shown walking across campus and hears [[DrivenToSuicide gunshots]], his only reaction being a momentary glance in the direction of the noise. [[ExecutiveMeddling NBC argued against it]], and upon consideration, Harmon decided that such a reaction would be too callous even for Abed.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/GroundhogDay Stephen]] [[{{Glee}} Tobolowsky]] as the ''WhosTheBoss?'' professor.

* DrivenToSuicide: After Abed proves Angela was the boss, they tease this as the professor opens a drawer to reveal a gun... and opens it further to reveal an analysis of WhatsHappening. See WhatCouldHaveBeen.

* UnusualEuphamism: Troy has several for his no-no hold. Or his plop-plop place.