History Recap / CommunityS4E13AdvancedIntroductionToFinality

** [[spoiler:Evil Pierce has lost his right leg from the knee down, and uses a wheel & crutches to get around.]]

* EvilMeScaresMe: Played straight with Annie and Jeff. Britta jumps in to defend herself ("Don't talk to her like that!"), Troy is still a bit of a softie even when evil, Shirley sees [[TheAlcoholic her drunk self]] with a mix of contempt and pity, while Evil!Abed had undergone a HeelFaceTurn.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Megan Ganz posted a deleted line from the script that could have made very poetic BookEnds.
-->'''Jeff:''' Plus, [[spoiler: if I stay in town,]] I can pop by whenever I want. You know, just to settle any group arguments about which one of you misses me the most.
-->'''Abed:''' [[Recap/CommunityS1E01Pilot Jeff, I can see your value now]].
** Apparently, ''two'' versions of the episode were shot. The episode was originally going to end on a montage that would show flashes of what the characters were up to now, but it was ultimately dropped because it would need 5 minutes of the episode to do it "right" & NBC didn't want to do the montage in case they made the decision to renew the show for Season 5.

* RealitySubtext:
** The hiatus is lampshaded heavily during the opening scene.
** In the Darkest Timeline, ''Series/TheCape'' wasn't cancelled but was retooled for cable.
** "I was hoping for more" -- both Abed and Jeff say this at different points.
** Pierce graduating wasn't in the original script, and was hastily added when it was learnt Chevy Chase wasn't going to return for a potential fifth season.

* HeldGaze: Lame! Jeff and Evil! Annie, when they first meet up in the study room.

* AbortedArc / WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Whatever happened to Dean Spreck?
* AccidentallyAccurate: Evil!Jeff's comment that naming a sandwich the "[[PunnyName Troy-jan Horse]]" would just make people think horse meat was in it. Between the episode being filmed in late 2012 & airing in May 2013, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_meat_adulteration_scandal the story broke in Europe that horse meat had been included in foods supposedly containing beef]].
* ActingForTwo: Everyone, obviously.
* ActorAllusion: Jeff asks Evil!Annie why she's "acting like a mistress in a [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime movie]]." Alison Brie was in a stereotypically bad Lifetime movie called ''The Deadliest Lesson." She says in the commentary that she drew on her experience both acting in and watching Lifetime movies to play Evil!Annie.

* AccidentallyAccurate: Evil!Jeff's comment that naming a sandwich the "[[PunnyName Troy-jan Horse]]" would just make people think horse meat was in it. Between the episode being filmed in late 2012 & airing in May 2013, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_meat_adulteration_scandal the story broke in Europe that horse meat had been included in foods supposedly containing beef]].
* ActingForTwo: Everyone, obviously.

* CatchPhrase:
** ''Troy and Abed in the morning!''

* EnemyWithout

** "We ''finally'' [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare figure out]] [[Recap/CommunityS2E23AFistfulOfPaintballs how to make]] [[Recap/CommunityS2E24ForAFewPaintballsMore paintball ]] [[Recap/CommunityS3E19CurriculumUnavailable cool again]]."

* FalseReassurance: [[spoiler:Evil Annie]] isn't crazy ... emotionally.

* EvilMeScaresMe: [[spoiler: Played straight with Annie and Jeff. Britta jumps in to defend herself ("Don't talk to her like that!"), Troy is still a bit of a softie even when evil, Shirley sees [[TheAlcoholic her drunk self]] with a mix of contempt and pity, while Evil!Abed had undergone a HeelFaceTurn.]]

** [[spoiler:Pierce graduating wasn't in the original script, and was hastily added when it was learnt Chevy Chase wasn't going to return for a potential fifth season.]]

** Jeff off-handedly mentions that he wound up majoring in [[spoiler:education]].

** Troy/Britta in [[spoiler:timeline 5 in TheTag.]]

** Suddenly noticing background details are weird to tip off that [[spoiler: the darkest timeline is inside Jeff's head]] seems to be one to ''Film/{{Inception}}''.

* TakingTheBullet: Chang: "FRIENDSHIIIIIP!!"

** Apparently, ''two'' versions of the episode were shot.
** The episode was originally going to end on a montage that would show flashes of what the characters were up to now, but it was ultimately dropped because it would need 5 minutes of the episode to do it "right" & NBC didn't want to do the montage in case they made the decision to renew the show for Season 5.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: The Dean tearfully confronting Jeff is what tips him off that something is definitely wrong.

* SequelHook: The Study Group decide to study Astronomy next semester.

** And Jeff/Britta and Jeff/Abed: Jeff mentions the study group fighting over who misses him the most, Britta and Abed both point to themselves.
** And Troy/Britta in [[spoiler:timeline 5 in TheTag.]]

* LadyInRed: Evil!Annie wears a very cleavage-y hot pink dress to Jeff's graduation party.

* AllTheMyriadWays: Abed crosses over to the Darkest timeline to find that Chang is still in control of the school, Starburns is alive and holding a blowout Meth sale and ''Series/TheCape'' was retooled for cable, giving it at least two more seasons than in our world.

** Abed's RousingSpeech is a parody of the kind given by TommyLeeJones in ''Film/TheFugitive'' and the ''Film/MenInBlack'' series.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Even though the majority of the episode [[spoiler: took place in Jeff's head, you've got to wonder if he really did have some sort of ultra-realistic vision of a future time-line where he threw the die.]]

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:Ends the fourth season as it began - with an episode that takes place heavily in the mind of a character worried about life after Greendale. Jeff and Abed's roles are even flipped, with one giving a RousingSpeech that takes place in the other's mind]]. On top of that, the last line is "Troy & Abed in the morning!", a variant of which was used as the first line of the season.

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:Ends the fourth season as it began - with an episode that takes place heavily in the mind of a character worried about life after Greendale. Jeff & Abed's roles are even flipped, with one giving a RousingSpeech that takes place in the other's mind]]. On top of that, the last line is "Troy & Abed in the morning!", a variant of which was used as the first line of the season.

With Jeff having passed history and collected all his required credits, Annie and the Dean plan his graduation, but Jeff is hesitant to leave his friends behind to rejoin his old partner. As the study group plans a party, Jeff rolls a die to decide who has to get soda...which lands on its side, in the crack between the tables. Abed stares in horror, but decides to shake off his sudden premonition. But Evil!Jeff had already teleported into the Dean's office, only to discover that his good self is lamer than ever, and reluctant to leave Greendale. Together with Evil!Annie, they decide to destroy the study group from within, forcing Jeff to graduate.

* CatchPhrase: Chang now calls Annie "Milady".

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:Ends the fourth season as it began - with an episode that takes place heavily in the mind of a character worried about life after Greendale. Jeff & Abed's roles are even flipped, with one giving a RousingSpeech that takes place in the other's mind.]]
** The last line is "Troy & Abed in the morning!" which is also the first line of the season.

* [[spoiler:BookEnds: Ends the fourth season as it began - with an episode that takes place heavily in the mind of a character worried about life after Greendale. Jeff & Abed's roles are even flipped, with one giving a RousingSpeech that takes place in the other's mind.]]

* [[spoiler: LetsGetDangerous: When Abed comes back from the Darkest Timeline carrying space-warping paintball guns, the study group decide to go to town whupping ass. Good thing they had two previous {{paintball episode}}s to give them experience.]]

* ComicalOverreaction