History Recap / CommunityS5E02IntroductionToTeaching

* JerkassHasAPoint: He puts it in a very insulting and condescending fashion, but Jeff's quite right that the staff and student body need to work together to improve Greendale rather than constantly finding excuses to be at each other's throats and just throwing destructing tantrums about things they don't like all the time.

** Shirley says that NicolasCage is [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} Demon to some, angel to others]], and then she and Abed have a small discussion about the ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' movies.

** One on ''Film/HellraiserBloodline'', with Shirley saying that 'Pinhead [[RecycledInSpace in space]] was kind of disappointing'.

-->'''Abed:''' Every actor is something. Creator/RobertDowneyJr, good. [[RunningGag Jim Belushi, bad.]] [[JeanClaudeVanDamme Van Damme]], [[SoBadItsGood the good kind of bad]]. {{Johnny Depp}}, the bad kind of good.

** Shirley, much to Abed's surprise, is a fan of the ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' movies.

** Shirley says that NicolasCage is [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Demon to some, angel to others]], and then she and Abed have a small discussion about the Hellraiser movies.

** One on Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} 4, with Shirley saying that 'Pinhead [[RecycledInSpace in space]] was kind of disappointing'.

** Also, one on {{Mythbusters}}.

** One on Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} 4, with Shirley saying that 'the one [[RecycledInSpace in space]] was kind of disappointing'.

* TheBGrade: Annie starts crying because she got an A- on her project.

* CallBack: Professor Garrity brings up [[Recap/CommunityS2E20CompetitiveWineTasting Abed conclusively proving that]] [[WhosTheBoss Angela, was in fact, the boss]].

* EtTuBrute: Incorrectly used by Troy.

* LargeHam: Abed becomes one once his Nicolas Cage breakdown begins.

* MysteriousTeachersLounge: Jeff is invited to the Greendale 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.

* 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 (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.

-->'''Abed:''' Every actor is something. Creator/RobertDowneyJr, good. [[RunningGag Jim Belushi, bad.]] [[JeanClaudeVanDamme Van Damme]], the good kind of bad. {{Johnny Depp}}, the bad kind of good.

* 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.

** The Nicholas Cage (Good or Bad?) subplot spares no expense at making fun of...[[CaptainObvious well you know who]].

** Professor Hickey, who's been 'temporarily' working at Greendale for 15 years.

-->'''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.

'''Hickey:''' ''[Dismissive]'' Probably not.

* AccidentalHero: Annie's attempt to get Jeff to stop being an ApatheticTeacher plays out this way - she argues with him in class, trying to get him to stop blowing off teaching his students by telling them to split into groups & quiz one another, pointing out they won't learn anything that way. The ensuing argument, which sees Jeff lead Annie in a circle until she's actively contradicted her original argument, leaves his class astonished that he won an argument with Annie Edison & his subsequent explaining of how he did it leads to Jeff realising he ''likes'' teaching.

* 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.

** One notable difference, however, is that where Pierce couldn't resist preening and showing off with little provocation, Hickey doesn't seem to suffer the same illusions about himself:

* PowderKegCrowd: The Greendale students, once they discovered that minuses are made up.

* HiddenDepths: Professor Hickey is working on a cartoon series about a duck called Jim.

* MessianicArchetype: Shirley suggests that, while Nicolas Cage is not Jesus, he works the same way.

* 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).