History Recap / CommunityS3E18CourseListingUnavailable

* PoliceBrutality: Chang's plans for the school involve plenty of this. When the riot breaks out, one of the preteen security guards can be heard screaming "Beat them like dogs!" as the riot squad charges in.

* ProductPlacement: Subway once again, though it's subverted when Vicki breaks the glass case and the students ransack the stand. Leonard declares that he will steal all the veggies except onions and olives.

'''Annie and Shirley:''' [[CatchPhrase Awwwwwwwwwww!!]]

* SimilarSquad: Faux-by/Pretendean is back.

* PowderKegCrowd: The attendees at Starburns' memorial become increasingly unruly as the study group vents their grievances with Greendale in general and the Dean in particular. When Pierce gets up to make a speech, the Dean (correctly) assumes that he's going to provoke the crowd and tries to stop him, only to be shamed into letting him speak. Pierce, of course, promptly lights a match and tosses it into the keg.

* ProductPlacement: Subway, subverted when Vicki breaks the glass case and the students ransack the stand. Leonard declares that he will steal all the veggies except onions and olives.

* RiddleForTheAges: In this episode at least, it's unclear why the Dean impersonator would go along with a plan for a hostile takeover especially since Chang doesn't even have the money to pay him.

* TheStarscream: Chang replaces the Dean with a lookalike.

* ThatCameOutWrong: The study group accidentally starts a riot by badmouthing the school, with Pierce expressly saying "Let's burn this mother down" in front of a group of witnesses. Even if the school board is bribed by Chang, and a Dean impersonator throws them under the bus, the board members have a point that inciting violence in a college is grounds for expulsion.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Troy asks Abed if Starburns' jar of ashes will summon Starburns during impressions like the Genie in ''Aladdin''. Abed tells him no.

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Discussed early when not everyone talks respectful about Star-Burns.

** Star-Burns and Pierce's hairbrush.

* OhCrap: The study group's faces when they realize that venting over their biology grades being withheld until they complete summer school has ended up triggering a riot.

* PoliceBrutality: Chang's plans for the school involve plenty of this.
* ProductPlacement: Subway, subverted when Vicki breaks the glass and the students ransack the stand. Leonard declares that he will steal the veggies.

* ThatCameOutWrong: The study group accidentally starts a riot by badmouthing the school, with Pierce expressly saying "Let's burn the mother down" in front of a group of witnesses. Even if the school board is bribed by Chang, and a Dean impersonator throws them under the bus, the board members have a point that inciting violence in a college is grounds for expulsion.

* DeadpanSnarker: Jeff is being snarky [[UpToEleven even more than usual]], at least until the Dean delivers the bad news.

** Annie criticizes Greendale for having an anus flag, but the Dean points out [[Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience it was the study group that drew it]].

* RealityEnsues: The study group accidentally starts a riot by badmouthing the school, with Pierce expressly saying "Let's burn the mother down" in front of a group of witnesses. Even if the school board is bribed by Chang, and a Dean impersonator throws them under the bus, the board members have a point that inciting violence in a college is grounds for expulsion.

-->'''Jeff''': [[TookALevelInDumbass You seemed smarter than me when I met you.]]
-->'''Britta''': [[InsultBackfire Thank you!]]

-->''Chang and his minions arrive''
-->'''Annie:''' Look! [[FunSize Tiny riot gear]]!!
-->'''Annie & Shirley:''' [[CatchPhrase Awwwwwwwwwww!!]]

* SandInMyEyes: Troy in the school nurse's office after the riot.

* FailedASpotCheck: No one notices the guards in the medical room leave to tell Chang of the plan to scapegoat him, despite several being in a position to do so.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Whilst Jeff's complaints were very petty, and Troy, Abed & Pierce merely wound up inciting the student body to riot, Annie & Shirley have valid points when they criticize the way Dean Pelton has been running the school.

** ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'': "If we rub that, will he come out and do celebrity impressions?"

-->'''Jeff''': You seemed smarter than me when I met you.

* LampshadeHanging: Remember when Britta seemed smart at the very beginning of the first series? So does Jeff.

* AccidentalInnuendo
--> '''Dean''': Okay this is my school, and I'll enter whatever I want!

* BarehandedBladeBlock: One of the many ridiculous things Starburns does in Abed's memorial film.

* BitterSweetEnding: The group gets expelled, but they also [[TrueCompanions grow closer as a group.]]
* BodyDouble: Chang's plan to guarentee the outcome of the discipline hearing involves one.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: At the end of the episode, Annie gets out a bottle of liquor and the last scene is of the group drinking and eating pizza.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Somehow Starburns' wake becomes a platform for the study group to vent about their own problems ([[FelonyMisdemeanor however minor they may be]]).

* KilledOffForReal: Starburns. Any thought from the last episode that his death was a hoax was negated by his ashes (and those of [[GratuitousAnimalSidekick his lizard]]) being given to Abed.

* MagnificentBastard: He gets the Dean replaced with an impersonator whom he can control. And then he gets on the school board's good side, thwarting the study group's plan to blame the riot on Chang.

---> '''Annie''': Edison Out!

** FakeShemp: during the scene at the health center, Abed (played by a stand-in, and not Danny Pudi) is sitting down with a towel over his head, completely silent.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Starburns' funeral, before it erupts into a riot, is one of these toward the Dean and the school.

** A DVD of Music/KanyeWest's film Runaway can be [[http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3i7juICr81qkgmgko1_500.png seen on Troy & Abed's shelf]] in the first scene

* SimilarSquad: Faux-by/Pretendean is back

[[quoteright:280:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/star_britta_107.png]]
[[caption-width-right:280:Sadly, this won't help you cope with the fact this is a WhamEpisode.]]

* WhamEpisode: The Dean gets replaced by an impostor, Chang rises to power, and the episode ends with the group being expelled from Greendale.

* ShaggyDogStory: The fact that biology has been canceled makes many of the events of the season irrelevant, like [[CommunityS3E17BasicLupineUrology proving that their yam was murdered]].

* AscendedMeme: Britta's "ask me anything" (a reference to the Q&A Gillian Jacobs did on {{Reddit}}).

** The post-expulsion depression scene is very reminiscent of the one in ''AnimalHouse'', including Pierce lamenting "13 years of Community College down the drain."