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* EtTuBrute: Troy incorrectly attempts to use the phrase.Incorrectly used by Troy.
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* StylisticSuck: Professor Hickey's comic, "Jim The Duck". Publishers are interested, though.
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-->"'Jeff:'" I can't just pretend I'm teaching. I'm not Mythbusters.
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* TakeThat: The Nicholas Cage (Good or Bad?) subplot spares no expense at making fun of...[[CaptainObvious well you know who]].
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** "'Jeff:'" I can't just pretend I'm teaching. I'm not {Mythbusters}.
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* TakeThat: TakeThat:
** The Nicholas Cage (Good or Bad?) subplot spares no expense at making fun of...[[CaptainObvious well you know who]].
**"'Jeff:'" Also, one on {{Mythbusters}}.
-->"'Jeff:'" I can't just pretend I'm teaching. I'm not{Mythbusters}.Mythbusters.
** The Nicholas Cage (Good or Bad?) subplot spares no expense at making fun of...[[CaptainObvious well you know who]].
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-->"'Jeff:'" I can't just pretend I'm teaching. I'm not
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* ApatheticTeacher:
** Professor Hickey, who's been 'temporarily' working at Greendale for 15 years.
** Jeff started out as one, but he got into it later on.
** Professor Hickey, who's been 'temporarily' working at Greendale for 15 years.
** Jeff started out as one, but he got into it later on.
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* CutAndPasteNote: Annie's Witness Intimidation project has one.
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Jeff settles into a new job at Greendale and adjusts to the expectations of being on staff – however Jeff's lax attitude to his new position puts him at odds at Annie, whilst Professor Hickey shows him the ropes and shares some pointers on how to manage unruly and demanding students, revealing the truth about minus grades.
Meanwhile, Abed convinces the rest of the Study Group to take a new class, "Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad," with Professor Garrity.
Meanwhile, Abed convinces the rest of the Study Group to take a new class, "Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad," with Professor Garrity.
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Jeff settles into a new job at Greendale and adjusts to the expectations of being on staff – however Jeff's lax attitude to his new position puts him at odds at Annie, whilst Professor Hickey shows him the ropes and shares some pointers on how to manage unruly and demanding students, revealing the truth about minus grades.
grades. Upon learning of the Greendale faculty's manipulative grading system, Annie incites a school-wide riot.
Meanwhile, Abed convinces the rest of the Study Group to take a new class, "Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad," with ProfessorGarrity.
Garrity. Unfortunately, Nicolas Cage's acting skill is a mystery that even Abed cannot unravel, and he descends into madness searching for the answer.
Meanwhile, Abed convinces the rest of the Study Group to take a new class, "Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad," with Professor
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[[caption-width-right:301:Yay, teaching!]]
[[caption-width-right:301:Yay, teaching!]]
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* LargeHam: Abed becomes one once his Nicolas Cage breakdown begins.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Leonard starts the episode making snide comments over the fact that Jeff is now a teacher -- one of which directly provokes Professor Hickey to start picking on ''him'' in order to make an example of him.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Leonard starts the episode making snide comments over the fact that Jeff is now a teacher -- one of which directly provokes Professor Hickey to start picking on ''him'' in order to make an example of him.
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* SeriousBusiness: Minus grades provide Greendale students with yet another provocation to launch into a riot. Granted, minuses can have an impact on a student's grade point average, but you still don't normally see universities burst into rioting over them.
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* SeriousBusiness: Minus grades provide Greendale students with yet another provocation to launch into a riot. Granted, minuses can potentially have an impact on a student's grade point average, average (depending on how the grading system works; it's not uncommon for minus grades to simply be recorded as the complete grade and be left to the teacher's discretion), but you still don't normally see universities burst into rioting over them.
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* SeriousBusiness: Minus grades provide Greendale students with yet another provocation to launch into a riot.
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* SeriousBusiness: Minus grades provide Greendale students with yet another provocation to launch into a riot. Granted, minuses can have an impact on a student's grade point average, but you still don't normally see universities burst into rioting over them.
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* SeriousBusiness: Minus grades provide Greendale students with yet another provocation to launch into a riot.
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* TakeThat: The Nicholas Cage (Good or Bad?) subplot spares no expense at making fun of...[[CaptainObvious well you know who]].
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* TakeThat: The Nicholas Cage (Good or Bad?) subplot spares no expense at making fun of...[[CaptainObvious well you know who]].who]].
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The plot centres around the conflict between students and teachers, and in his climactic speech Jeff makes the point that they should be working together to improve the school more rather than finding excuses to be constantly at each other's throats. This leads to the formation of the real "Save Greendale" committee at the end, comprised of both teachers (Jeff and Hickey) and students (the rest of the study group).
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The plot centres around the conflict between students and teachers, and in his climactic speech Jeff makes the point that they should be working together to improve the school more rather than finding excuses to be constantly at each other's throats. This leads to the formation of the real "Save Greendale" committee at the end, comprised of both teachers (Jeff and Hickey) and students (the rest of the study group).
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** Also cemented by the fact he takes Pierce's seat in the "Save Greendale Committee" group.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Annie scolding Jeff for the way he taught comes off very much like a schoolteacher giving a lecture to a belligerent child.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Hickey is a GrumpyOldMan who has been at Greendale for a much longer time than the rest of the group, is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, a bit of an outsider and NotSoDifferent from Jeff. Sound familiar?
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Hickey is a GrumpyOldMan who has been at Greendale for a much longer time than the rest of the group, is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, a bit of an outsider and NotSoDifferent from Jeff. Sound familiar?familiar?
* TakeThat: The Nicholas Cage (Good or Bad?) subplot spares no expense at making fun of...[[CaptainObvious well you know who]].
* TakeThat: The Nicholas Cage (Good or Bad?) subplot spares no expense at making fun of...[[CaptainObvious well you know who]].
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* RoomFullOfCrazy[=/=]StringTheory: Abed's room while he tries to figure out Nic Cage.
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* BrutalHonesty: Jeff gave a speech about how both the students and teachers were at Greendale because they ''all'' sucked. The crowd reacts as well as you might expect.
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* RousingSpeech: Subverted with Jeff. His speech that the students are not so different from the teachers hits closer to a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and everyone turns their anger onto him.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Hickey is a GrumpyOldMan who has been at Greendale for a much longer time than the rest of the group, is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold JerkWithAHeartOfGold, a bit of an outsider and NotSoDifferent from Jeff. Sound familiar?
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** Written on the blackboard of Garitty's class is the phrase [[Film/GlengarryGlenRoss Always Be Caging]].
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** Written on the blackboard of Garitty's class is the phrase [[Film/GlengarryGlenRoss Always Be Caging]].Caging]].
* SuspiciousySimilarSubstitute: Hickey is a GrumpyOldMan who has been at Greendale for a much longer time than the rest of the group, is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and NotSoDifferent from Jeff. Sound familiar?
* SuspiciousySimilarSubstitute: Hickey is a GrumpyOldMan who has been at Greendale for a much longer time than the rest of the group, is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and NotSoDifferent from Jeff. Sound familiar?
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* TheBully: Hickey acts like a schoolyard bully. Especially to Leonard.
* ButtMonkey: Leonard is constantly a victim to Hickey's bullying.
* ButtMonkey: Leonard is constantly a victim to Hickey's bullying.
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* MysteriousTeachersLounge: Jeff is invited to the Glendale teacher's lounge, which is ran like an exclusive club. So exclusive, in fact, that Dean Pelton isn't allowed to enter, which pleases Jeff.
* PassThePopcorn: When Annie enters Jeff's class, Chang is by the door with a bowl of popcorn saying "Ooh, she in your class, yo!"
* RoomFullOfCrazy[=/=]StringTheory: Abed's room while he tries to figure out Nic Cage.
* RoomFullOfCrazy[=/=]StringTheory: Abed's room while he tries to figure out Nic Cage.
* SanitySlippage: Abed goes crazy trying to figure out Nicolas Cage until he starts acting like Cage himself.
* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Hickey shows Jeff a meatball with Leonard's earring, implying that he killed him and had him made into lunch. He's just kidding, though; Leonard is alive, and wants his earring back.
* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Hickey shows Jeff a meatball with Leonard's earring, implying that he killed him and had him made into lunch. He's just kidding, though; Leonard is alive, and wants his earring back.
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-->"'Abed:'" Every actor is something. {{Robert Downey Jr}}., good. [[RunningGag Jim Belushi, bad.]] [[JeanClaudeVanDamme Van Damme]], the good kind of bad. {{Johnny Depp}}, the bad kind of good.good.
** Written on the blackboard of Garitty's class is the phrase [[Film/GlengarryGlenRoss Always Be Caging]].
** Written on the blackboard of Garitty's class is the phrase [[Film/GlengarryGlenRoss Always Be Caging]].
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* TheBGrade: Annie starts crying because she got an A- on her project.
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* NotSoDifferent: Jeff makes the point that the Greendale students & faculty are in the same position since they're stuck at Greendale because they've taken wrong turns in life, and that it's not exactly any better for them if they leave.
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* LargeHam: Abed becomes one once his Nicolas Cage breakdown begins.
* NotSoDifferent: Jeff makes the point that the Greendale students & faculty are in the same position since they're stuck at Greendale because they've taken wrong turns in life, and that it's not exactly any better for them if theyleave.leave.
* RunningGag: Yet ANOTHER {{Take That}} to Jim Belushi.
* ShoutOut: Combined with {{Take That}}:
-->"'Abed:'" Every actor is something. {{Robert Downey Jr}}., good. [[RunningGag Jim Belushi, bad.]] [[JeanClaudeVanDamme Van Damme]], the good kind of bad. {{Johnny Depp}}, the bad kind of good.
* NotSoDifferent: Jeff makes the point that the Greendale students & faculty are in the same position since they're stuck at Greendale because they've taken wrong turns in life, and that it's not exactly any better for them if they
* RunningGag: Yet ANOTHER {{Take That}} to Jim Belushi.
* ShoutOut: Combined with {{Take That}}:
-->"'Abed:'" Every actor is something. {{Robert Downey Jr}}., good. [[RunningGag Jim Belushi, bad.]] [[JeanClaudeVanDamme Van Damme]], the good kind of bad. {{Johnny Depp}}, the bad kind of good.
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* HeroidBSOD: Abed has one of these after his Nick Cage breakdown, realizing he can't define whether he's bad or good.
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Jeff settles into a new job at Greendale and adjusts to the expectations of being on staff – however Jeff's lax attitude to his new position puts him at odds at Annie, whilst Professor Hickey shows him the ropes and shares some pointers on how to manage unruly and demanding students, revealing the truth about minus grades.
Meanwhile, Abed convinces the rest of the Study Group to take a new class, "Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad," with Professor Garrity.
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! The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Introduction to Teaching" provides examples of:
* CallBack: Professor Garrity brings up [[Recap/CommunityS2E20CompetitiveWineTasting Abed conclusively proving that]] [[WhosTheBoss Angela, was in fact, the boss]].
* ItsPersonal: Minus grades ''are'' actually personal. The Greendale student body reacts as you'd expect & promptly riots.
* NotSoDifferent: Jeff makes the point that the Greendale students & faculty are in the same position since they're stuck at Greendale because they've taken wrong turns in life, and that it's not exactly any better for them if they leave.
Meanwhile, Abed convinces the rest of the Study Group to take a new class, "Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad," with Professor Garrity.
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! The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Introduction to Teaching" provides examples of:
* CallBack: Professor Garrity brings up [[Recap/CommunityS2E20CompetitiveWineTasting Abed conclusively proving that]] [[WhosTheBoss Angela, was in fact, the boss]].
* ItsPersonal: Minus grades ''are'' actually personal. The Greendale student body reacts as you'd expect & promptly riots.
* NotSoDifferent: Jeff makes the point that the Greendale students & faculty are in the same position since they're stuck at Greendale because they've taken wrong turns in life, and that it's not exactly any better for them if they leave.
