History Recap / CommunityS5E08AppDevelopmentAndCondiments

** Tim and Eric from ''TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' and Jen Kirkman from Chelsea Lately and Series/AfterLately are the Fours who harass Britta and later are the band that plays music at the Fives' "Fancy Future Dance".

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The "Two"s and "Three"s all dress in grey work clothes.

* TheExile: Jeff and Shirley are banished to the "Outlands" for fighting.

* FanDisservice: Let's face it, nobody needed to see Starburns dressed as Sean Connery in ''Zardoz''.

* ForbiddenZone: People rated with just one "[=MeowMeow=] Been" are banished to the "Outlands": outside the buildings on campus which has been strewn with trash and barb wire.

* TheMole: Starburns serves the Fives, but also passes information about them to Britta to aid in the revolution.

** Starburns is wearing the same {{Stripperific}} outfit Creator/SeanConnery wore in ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''

* StarCrossedLovers: Jeff (dressed as a "Four") and Britta (dressed as a "Two") are mistaken for this when caught alone in a room by a "Four". He laments:
-->"Y'know, I once loved a Two. Matthew. He was my everything, but numbers change. I'll keep your secret, new Beenz."

* YouMonster: Abed calls the "Fives" monsters after he complains that he was happier as a "Three" and they continue to give him high ratings.

* RefugeInAudacity: Koogler used his position as a Five to park in handicapped spots.
** The Four who separated from his true love because they had different ratings.

* JustTheFirstCitizen: Britta, after the revolution.

* AsceticAesthetic: The Fives' private section.

* ShaggyDogStory: At the end, Jeff points out both that the app's beta-period ended several days ago and it's now live on the App Store and that they're all in school on a Saturday for no reason, thus rendering Britta's "reviewlution" completely pointless.

* FullCircleRevolution: Britta leads the Twos and Threes to revolt against the tyranny of the Fives and becomes dictator, making everybody "Ones".

* NotSoDifferent:
** After spending most of the episode competing against each other, Jeff and Shirley end up acknowledging that they're both insecure {{Control Freak}}s who manipulate the people around them in order to feel liked.
** Once she's led the "reviewlution", Britta turns out to be [[FullCircleRevolution just as dictatorial]] as Shirley was, only where Shirley enforced a strict caste system that placed her and a select elite at the top, Britta enforces a supposedly egalitarian communist-style system which still works to make her more equal than the others. She becomes quite distraught when she loses her seat of power.

* GodwinsLaw: It seems Britta has been violating this lately.

** Chang goes from exaggerating a limp from his leg falling asleep to walking everywhere on crutches.

** Britta warned Jeff early on that he should know the real reason why he wanted to take down the system or he would fail before he started. Sure enough, his main goal wasn't to showcase the sham of the system but to take Shirley down. This ended up with him and Shirley being demoted to 1's, but the system was left intact.

* GenreBlind: Jeff seems to be the only person to realize how manipulative Shirley it is and that she is not as nice as she appears. Despite being a well known trait for her for the four years the group knew her.
** Dean thinks the app will be good for the college (like Facebook was for Harvard). Predictably, the campus devolves into chaos. Again.
* GenreSavvy: Hickey instantly realises that the Meow Meow Beanz app is going to cause nothing but trouble and institute a class-based ranking system, and just decides to go along with it and get in on the ground floor by pretending it's his birthday all the time.

** Hickey, who [[GenreSavvy realizes immediately]] the implications the app would have on the school, and decides to play the system quietly to his advantage for the rest of the episode instead of try to fight it.

** Britta, after finally getting into a position of power & influence by leading a revolt against the [=MeowMeow=] Beenz app & the Fives by reducing everyone's rating to One, swiftly loses her influence when Jeff points out that there's still one Five left -- the app itself. Everyone promptly deletes the app, and Britta loses her influence since her rebellion no longer has a reason to exist having reached it's natural conclusion.

!!The ''{{Community}}'' episode App Development And Condiments provides examples of:

** Buzz using birthdays to get easy upvotes seems to be a reference to Website/{{Reddit}}, and how people will use their Cake Day to get free notability.

** Shirley claiming that she loved her Four rating from Vicki. In a very loud voice. Twice.
** Hicks claiming it was his birthday. 8 days straight.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Koogler's not that old.

* AffectionateParody: Of futuristic ScienceFiction movies like ''ThingsToCome'' and those set in a {{Dystopia}} made in the 1970s like ''LogansRun'', ''TheApple'' and ''{{Zardoz}}''.
** There's also some spoofing of ''TheHungerGames'' going on, especially with the Fives' fashions, and the talent contest the Fives stage to give the Twos and Threes hope and help them "believe in the system."

* {{Goof}}: Jeff states in the ColdOpen that it was a Tuesday, then he states near the end of the episode that it was a Saturday. But we're told the episode takes place in an [[TimeSkip eight day span]], so shouldn't it be a Wednesday that the "Reviewlution" occurs.
** The ColdOpen features the designers of the app pitching using Greendale as a trial to the committee, however; the actual beta-test period likely started on a different day (presumably the Friday of that week).

-->'''Jeff:''' [[OrphanedPunchline So I'm like "That's two cops!" and she's like "What?" and I'm like "Two cops, balls back, tops OFF!"]]

-->"Attention Greendale. "I'd like to propose we forget everything that happened over the last few days, and I don't anticipate a lot of pushback on that. I think we're all pretty embarrassed."

* {{Deconstruction}}: The episode highlights that Britta has a good point more often than some would like to admit. It's just that her intensity is off-putting and makes everyone ignore her. In this episode, it's rectified when she puts mustard on her face.