History Recap / CommunityS4E04AlternativeHistoryOfTheGermanInvasion

* PowerWalk: The group on their way to the study room.

** ''Series/GameOfThrones''
** ''Series/TheRealWorld''

** ''Series/BurnNotice''

** "99 Luftballons"
** ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''
** Occupy movement.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: You can celebrate different cultures on campus, as long as it's not your own. The study group uses this as part of their scheme. To make it even crazier, the Dean enforces this by keeping a detailed list of the racial background of every student "[[HypocriticalHumor To make sure nothing racist happens]]."

* NotSoDifferent: The the study group spends entire episode trying to kick the Germans out unfairly for hogging their study room, only to realise they've been doing the exact same thing for the past three years and preventing other students with booked times from using it.

** The events of [[Recap/CommunityS2E08CooperativeCalligraphy "Cooperative Calligraphy"]], [[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons"]], and a NoodleIncident are shown from the perspective of other students trying to use the study room.

* [[invoked]]TooSoon: Jeff refers to this trope by name. He says that ''Series/HogansHeroes'' was produced before people had the concept of TooSoon.

* [[invoked]]TooSoon: Jeff refers to this trope by name. He says that ''Series/HogansHeroes'' was produced before people had the concept of TooSoon.

* [[ItsAllAboutMe It's All About Us]]: When Professor Cornwallis confronts them in the cafeteria, the group believes that he turned the entire school against them so that they could learn about different perspectives of history. They're wrong, and it leads Cornwallis to wonder if he can still alter his contract.
-->'''Prof. Cornwallis:''' Are you actually suggesting that a professor at Greendale would set up an elaborate ruse just to teach ''seven'' students a lesson?\\
'''Everyone nods and agrees as if it makes sense.'''\\
'''Troy:''' That's a Wednesday.

* MarketBasedTitle: Apparently the German dub of ''Series/HogansHeroes'' was called ''Hogan's Villains''. For a quick clear up, the German title in reality was infacted ''Ein Käfig Voller Helden'' meaning a ''A Cage Full Of Heros''.

* NoodleIncident - Jeff dressed up as an ice skater to prove a point.

* {{Oktoberfest}}

* SeriesContinuityError: During the incident with Annie's Pen, the Dean continually makes announcements about a puppy parade taking place in the quad, and it's heavily implied that the study group are ''the only seven students'' too involved in their ouwn SeriousBusiness to attend. In this episode, the incident is mentioned as one where other students also needed the room and in the flashbacks there are several students around the library very much unconcerned with the parade.

*** [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Very popular in Germany]].

** Occupy movement

* WrittenByTheVictors
* ZanyScheme: The fake Oktoberfest. Everyone insistently calls it a ruse.

* NoodleIncident - Jeff dressed up as an ice skater to prove a point.

* [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything The Students Who Don't Do Anything]]: Distracted by the protest, the study group miss their exam.

* [[invoked]]TooSoon: Jeff refers to this trope by name. He says that ''Series/HogansHeroes'' was produced before people had the concept of TooSoon.

! The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Alternative History of the German Invasion" provides examples of:

* ZanyScheme: The fake Oktoberfest. Everyone insistently calls it a ruse.

* UngratefulBastard: Neil's presence in the protest against the group may place him here, since one of the things that the protest brings up is the group's use of the study room to play Dungeons and Dragons -- which was a well-meaning (if flawed) attempt to help Neil resolve his issues around exclusion that were leading him towards suicide, something which Neil is curiously silent about.

* UngratefulBastard: Neil's presence in the protest in the group may place him here, since one of the things that the protest brings up is the group's use of the study room to play Dungeons and Dragons -- which was a well-meaning (if flawed) attempt to help Neil resolve his issues around exclusion that were leading him towards suicide, something which Neil is curiously silent about.

* AllGermansAreNazis: Played straight for awhile ("That's called appeasement, and everyone knows if you give the Germans something small like the study room or {{Austria}}, they end up wanting something big, [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII like Earth]]."), but subverted by the end of the episode when the study group realizes they've acted more like Nazis than the actual Germans.

* SeriesContinuityError: During the incident with Annie's Pen, the Dean coninually makes announcements about a puppy parade taking place in the quad, and it's heavily implied that the study group are ''the only seven students'' too involved in their ouwn SeriousBusiness to attend. In this episode, the incident is mentioned as one where other students also needed the room and in the flashbacks there are several students around the library very much unconcerned with the parade.

* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Abed to Troy, regarding ''TheRealWorld''.

** ''TheRealWorld''

* [[invoked]]TooSoon: Jeff refers to this trope by name. He says that HogansHeroes was produced before people had the concept of TooSoon.

* TooSoon: Jeff refers to this trope by name. He says that HogansHeroes was produced before people had the concept of TooSoon.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell guest stars as Professor Cornwallis, a history teacher, formerly of Oxford University.

* [[spoiler: DesignatedVillain: Invoked in the episode. Although they were no doubt being dickish, the Germans never actually broke the rules when it came to claiming the study room. It was actually the Study Group who refused to share it when offered.]]

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: [[spoiler: You can celebrate different cultures on campus, as long as it's not your own. The study group uses this as part of their scheme. To make it even crazier, the Dean enforces this by keeping a detailed list of the racial background of every student "[[HypocriticalHumor To make sure nothing racist happens]]."]]

* [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything The Students Who Don't Do Anything]]: [[spoiler: Distracted by the protest, the study group miss their exam.]]

* [[spoiler: DesignatedVillain: Invoked in the episode. Although they were no doubt being dickish, they never actually broke the rules when it came to claiming the study room. It was actually the Study Group who refused to share it when offered.]]
* EasilyForgiven: All it seems to take for the study group to be forgiven for three years of crappy behaviour towards their fellow students is for them to fix up the other study rooms. Perhaps justified, in that most of the complaints against them in this episode centred around their use of the study room anyway.

* AllGermansAreNazis: Played straight for awhile ("That's called appeasement, and everyone knows if you give the Germans something small like the study room or {{Austria}}, they end up wanting something big, [[WorldWarII like Earth]]."), but subverted by the end of the episode when the study group realizes they've acted more like Nazis than the actual Germans.

* MarketBasedTitle: Apparently the German dub of ''Series/HogansHeroes'' was called ''Hogan's Villains''.
** For a quick clear up, the german title in reality was infacted ''Ein Käfig Voller Helden'' meaning a ''A Cage Full Of Heros''.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The Germans prank of messing with the study group's chairs.

** For a quick clear up, the german title was infacted ''Ein Käfig Voller Helden'' meaning a ''A Cage Full Of Heros''.

The study group begins their non-ice cream history class taught by Professor Cornwallis (MalcolmMcDowell), but the annoying German trio--now led by Juergen's brother, Reinhold (Chris Diamantopoulos)--is also taking the class. Chang returns to Greendale.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Malcolm [=McDowell=] guest stars as Professor Cornwallis, a history teacher, formerly of Oxford University.

* JumpingOutOfACake: Troy is designated to do this, but the Germans see through the plot...but it's all part of the plan.