History Recap / CommunityS3E22IntroductionToFinality

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: In universe; one of the other repairmen openly wonders whether the Sun Chamber announcer is on cocaine due to his [[LargeHam over-the-top performance]].

-->'''Shirley:''' ''[sing-song]'' [[CatchPhrase Hello!]]\\

* RealityEnsues: Because Troy ''makes'' it ensue.

* ThemeTuneCameo: "At Least It Was Here" plays over the final scene of the episode.

* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Jeff's inspirational speech gives Good!Abed the opening to reassert himself and zap Evil!Abed (and his [[BeardOfEvil goatee]]) back to his own timeline.

** Also to ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', ''Film/RoboCop2'', ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', and ''Creator/VH1'', all of which Evil!Abed considers [[invoked]]SoOkayItsAverage.

** Evil!Abed also starts to give on to the center slice of a square cheese pizza, before deciding that [[SubvertedTrope it actually sounded quite delicious]].

-->'''Shirley:''' '[sing-song][[CatchPhrase Hello!]]\\

-->'''Jeff: '''I thought you said you were gonna go easy!\\
'''Alan:''' [[{{Jerkass}} Felt pretty easy to me.]]

-->'''Shirley:''' [[CatchPhrase Hello!]]\\

'''Shirley:''' ''[Singsong]'' Biology.\\

--> '''Britta''': ''[uneasily]'' You say your name is ''Evil!Abed''... which does not throw me [[TrustMeImAnX because I'm a therapist]].

-->'''Pierce''': Booyah! Good person!

* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Jeff's inspirational speech gives Good!Abed the opening to reassert himself and zap Evil!Abed (and his [[BeardOfEvil goatee) back to his own timeline.

** Also to ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', ''Film/RoboCop2'', ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', and ''Creator/VH1'', all of which Evil!Abed considers SoOkayItsAverage.

-->'''Leonard:''' ''[unmoved]'' [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity No such thing as bad press.]]

* {{Tuckerization}}: Star-Burns has a book called "The Science of Death Faking" by Chris Branan. Christopher Branan was a set designer for {{Series/Community}}.

* AccidentalPublicConfession: Murray accidentally spills the beans in public about having murdering Vice Dean Laybourne. Followed by DidIJustSayThatOutLoud

* AllPsychologyIsFreudian / AllThereInTheManual: Evil Abed asks Britta about her parents. Her response involves a man in a dinosaur costume and a birthday party that would at first glance come off as a humorous non sequitur. Britta is actually describing [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yne9x/i_am_dan_harmon_creator_of_community_writer_of/c5x6asv/?st=jd0fvn82&sh=0ef08288 her eleventh birthday when she was molested, and her father refused to believe what had happened]]. This isn't the first time the series has alluded to this part of her backstory, but it is one of the more explicit examples so far.

* AnArmAndALeg: Evil Abed plans to do this to Jeff. Thankfully, he never gets a chance to (because the cord for his bone saw doesn't reach far enough).
** And because by the time Evil Abed comes back with an extension cord, Jeff is in the middle of a speech which causes Good Abed to take control again.

* BreakTheCutie: Evil Abed "darkening" Britta. She gets better.
* BreakingSpeech: Evil Abed gives Britta one, of the HannibalLecture variety, raising the timeline darkness to 10%. He adds a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for another 2%.
** Evil Abed seems to be fond of these in general. He also uses one to convince regular Abed to allow him to take over.

** Leonard [[Recap/CommunityS3E09FoosballAndNocturnalVigilantism uploaded another food review to Youtube]].

** Evil Abed returns.
*** Also, the simulated hologram of Good Abed while Evil Abed was outside of the Dreamatorium is similar to Abed's persona switching between characters in the Dreamatorium.

** Part of Evil Abed's BreakingSpeech resembles TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Troy gave to Britta in the season premiere. The difference is Troy said it because he was upset. Evil Abed was doing it simply because he was, well, evil.

** Troy decides to move out of the Blanket Fort & into the former Dreamatorium. He also appears to embrace his 'destiny' as the Truest Repairman and decides to remain in the Air-Conditioning Repair School, albeit after he uses his status as MessianicArchetype to change things so that they start acting less like a weird cult and more like a normal trade school to allow him to have a life outside of it.

* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Played with; Evil!Abed manages to turn the tables on Britta and [[HannibalLecture start analysing her]] (nearing driving her to tears in the process), but this time it's less that she's bad at it but more that [[ManipulativeBastard Evil Abed is just that good]]. Indeed, Abed at the end credits her with doing what no other therapist has managed to do -- making him realize he needs therapy and providing a therapist he feels comfortable undertaking it with (albeit because she, in his words, "has just as little control over my mind as me.")

* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: After Murray confesses to murdering Laybourne, he immediately pauses and then says "Was that out loud?"

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The off-screen deaths of the Vice-Dean and Jeff's former boss.

* DumbassHasAPoint: Troy is the first one to realize that the Vice-Dean was murdered and immediately deduces who did it.

* EvilIsPetty: Evil Abed wears SinisterShades and smokes in the hall, hangs up a pay phone while somebody's using it, pops a kid's balloon with his cigarette, and puts the butt out in someone's beverage. The timeline darkness meter then ticks up 1%.
-->'''Evil Abed:''' Cruel. Cruelcruelcruel.
* EvilTwin: Evil Abed of course.

* ForTheEvulz: Evil Abed's original intention in his debut episode was to [[KillingYourAlternateSelf destroy the prime versions of themselves]] and [[KillAndReplace replace]] them. Now he just seems determined to ruin their lives.

** Or FridgeHorror, when you remember just how dark the darkest timeline really is... and what Evil Abed would have done to [[KilledOffForReal Pierce]] and [[TheOphelia Annie]] if he hadn't been stopped before getting to Jeff... or if one of them had been in the Dreamatorium when Evil Abed manifested instead of Britta.

* GoodIsDumb: Or as Evil Abed puts it: "When the world gets bad enough, Abed, the good go crazy. But the smart… they go bad."
* GrandTheftMe: This is apparently what Evil Abed does to Abed for most of the episode.
* HannibalLecture: Evil Abed's BreakingSpeech to Britta involves him turning the tables on her attempts to psychoanalyze him.
* TheHeart: The theme of Troy being the heart of the group, as implied in "Remedial Chaos Theory", continues; with his absence Abed refuses to leave the apartment, Britta is openly pining and miserable, and Shirley and Pierce are suing each other. And that's before Evil Abed shows up...
* HeelFaceTurn: Having acted as a sinister, threatening presence throughout the entire season in almost all his appearances, in what little we see of him in this episode Laybourne seems to have mellowed considerably; he seems genuinely interested in mentoring Troy and helping him embrace what Laybourne views as his destiny.
* HeroicBSOD: Troy's absence has had this sort of effect on Abed; he's refused to leave the apartment since it happened and is, for the first time, genuinely beginning to worry that he might actually be crazy. It leads to Evil Abed taking over for a while.

* KnuckleCracking: Evil Abed cracks his neck badass-style when stepping out of the holodeck room.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is ambiguous as to whether Evil Abed is merely an aspect of regular Abed's personality taking over as the result of a mental breakdown, or whether he has actually found a way to cross over from another timeline. For what it's worth, Abed seems to believe the former, and describes it as having "gone crazy" once he recovers, but a case for either side could be made depending on your viewpoint.

-->'''Troy:''' I am the Truest Repairman! And this man is a dishonour to making air-conditioners work good.

* PlotHole: How did Abed complete the biology credit if he hasn't left his room since Troy left?

** Anbed shippers got their piece of cake; when Evil Abed reverts into Normal Abed and sits down in the court room, the first thing he does is take Annie's hand. And she smiles.

** Britta's session with Evil Abed in the Dreamatorium bears [[HannibalLecture similarities]] to Clarice Starling's interviews with Hannibal Lecter in ''Literature/SilenceOfTheLambs''.

** [[Series/{{Fringe}} Recognize that sound the first commercial break after Evil Abed appears?]]

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial
-->'''Britta:''' So you say you're Evil Abed, which does not throw me because I'm a therapist.
** Upon spying on Jeff and Shirley's conversation about him, Pierce feels the need to defend himself against Jeff's accusations regarding his craziness, paranoia and impotence. Jeff, of course, never said a word about impotence.

** Also to ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', ''Film/RoboCop2'', ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', and ''Creator/VH1'', all of which Evil Abed considers SoOkayItsAverage.

-->'''Britta:''' [[RunningGag Shut up, Leonard; I know about your crooked wang.]]
-->'''Leonard:''' ''[Unmoved]'' [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity No such thing as bad press.]]

* TragicVillain: Evil Abed is one when you remember he turned into this because his timeline was so dark.

** [[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Evil Abed returns]].

* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud

* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Played with; Evil!Abed manages to turn the tables on Britta and [[HannibalLecture start analysing her]] (nearing driving her to tears in the process), but this time it's less that she's bad at it but more that [[MagnificentBastard Evil Abed is just that good]]. Indeed, Abed at the end credits her with doing what no other therapist has managed to do -- making him realize he needs therapy and providing a therapist he feels comfortable undertaking it with (albeit because she, in his words, "has just as little control over my mind as me.")

* HannibalLecutre: Evil Abed's BreakingSpeech to Britta involves him turning the tables on her attempts to psychoanalyze him.

* BreakingSpeech: Evil Abed gives Britta one, raising the timeline darkness to 10%. He adds a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for another 2%.

* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Played with; Evil!Abed manages to turn the tables on Britta and start analysing her (nearing driving her to tears in the process), but this time it's less that she's bad at it but more that [[MagnificentBastard Evil Abed is just that good]]. Indeed, Abed at the end credits her with doing what no other therapist has managed to do -- making him realize he needs therapy and providing a therapist he feels comfortable undertaking it with (albeit because she, in his words, "has just as little control over my mind as me.")

** Britta's session with Evil Abed in the Dreamatorium bears similarities to Clarice Starling's interviews with Hannibal Lecter in ''Literature/SilenceOfTheLambs''.

* [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Melodramatically Kooky Secret Societies Have Standards]]: Even the members of the Air-Conditioning Repair Annex find the Sun Chamber announcer a bit too [[LargeHam absurdly over-the-top]].

* SeriesFauxnale: Definitely had a series finale vibe, complete with LastEpisodeThemeReprise. This, to some degree, is RealLifeWritesThePlot, as it was uncertain at the time of writing and filming whether this would be the last episode of the series or not. Ultimately a form of DoubleSubversion, in that while the series was ultimately renewed, this in fact turned out to be the last episode of Dan Harmon's tenure as showrunner, so ultimately works as his swansong.

* UpToEleven: The Chaplain mentions the 5 winds: East, West, North, South, and [[OddNameOut the one they keep secret]].

* BrickJoke: So, what is mitosis?

* EngineeredPublicConfession

* TenMinutesRetirement: Troy is back after one episode.

* MagnificentBastard: We get another glimpse of what made Jeff such an effective lawyer. He knew what needed to be done to win over the entire courtroom and how to use Pierce's nature to get there.

* AllPsychologyIsFreudian / AllThereInTheManual: Evil Abed asks Britta about her parents. Her response involves a man in a dinosaur costume and a birthday party that would at first glance come off as a humorous non sequitur. Britta is actually describing [[http://www.greendalecommunitycollege.com/campus-connect/britta-perry.shtml her eleventh birthday when she was molested, and her father refused to believe what had happened]]. This isn't the first time the series has alluded to this part of her backstory, but it is one of the more explicit examples so far.

* BatmanGambit: We get another glimpse of what made Jeff such an effective lawyer. He knew what needed to be done to win over the entire courtroom and how to use Pierce's nature to get there.

** Subway leaving Greendale. When the wake riot first occurred, they threatened to pull out. And given that Chang rose to power after that, Greendale didn't do a good job in convincing them to stay. This does allow Pierce and Shirley to establish their sandwich shop though.

* ForTheEvulz: Evil Abed's original intention in his debut episode was to destroy the prime versions of themselves and replace them. Now he just seems determined to ruin their lives.

* OrphanedPunchline

* PaperThinDisguise: Having faked his own death, Starburns is revealed to have cut and dyed his hair. Still didn't shave off those unique and conspicuous burns, though...

-->'''Leonard:''' ''[Unmoved]'' [[DirtyOldMan No such thing as bad press.]]

** Among other things, Starburns faked his death.
** Evil Abed returns.

** Alan tries to make Shirley come out as a bad person by bringing up a joke she once made that was obviously not true (specifically, that she'd trade her son Ben for a chance to "bump it with {{Denzel|Washington}}") and because she wasn't sure whether Ben's father was Andre or Chang. He also tries to blackmail Jeff into losing on purpose, otherwise he'd never be able to work at his old firm. This after he promised Jeff he'd go easy on her.

* ShoutOut: To ''TheWire'', with the montage that closes the main part of the episode.

** Also to ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', ''Film/RoboCop2'', ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', and ''VH1'', all of which Evil Abed considers SoOkayItsAverage.

* {{Twitter}}: #sixseasonsandamovie

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Infinite Labyrinth of Eternal Ice, reserved for perpetrators of serious transgressions against AC repair school.