History Recap / CommunityS5E09VCRMaintenanceAndEducationalPublishing

* AnAesop: Shirley tries to put the events of the textbook scheme into perspective (and escape culpability for her role in it) by claiming that they learned a valuable lesson from it. Everyone else is skeptical:
-->'''Hickey:''' We went through some stuff.\\
'''Shirley:''' But we learned something...\\
'''Hickey:''' No we didn't!\\
'''Shirley:''' We learned that sometimes there's no lesson.\\
'''Jeff:''' How is ''that'' learning?

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Anthony, Annie's brother, is around 19, yet looks much older.

* CoolBigSis: Annie tries to be this to Anthony. Eventually, however, she admits that she resents how he took her side. Anthony tells her she needs to fix her own issues before she can be the cool sister.

** Abed refuses to flip a coin (or do rock-paper-scissors) because it creates parallel timelines

* FullMotionVideo: Annie and Abed play this.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Anthony, even more so than Abed. He has none of Abed's quirk and charm, yet he is very handy at fixing things.

** Even Abed, no stranger to the AmbiguousDisorder himself, considers Annie's brother Anthony weird and off-putting.

* {{Corpsing}}: Gillian Jacobs after Dean Pelton's rap in the ColdOpen, with her looking straight into the camera (and visibly biting her lips) before shifting again. Though mostly turned from the camera, there seems to be quite a lot of movement of Joel Mc[=Hale=]'s mouth, indicating he may have been fighting a laugh as well. The extra with the keyboard also has a slight hint of cracking a couple of times.
** According to the cast, the scene took multiple takes because no one could get through the rap without cracking up, with Gillian Jacobs frequently ruining takes by laughing and looking at the camera. Dan Harmon and the editors ultimately settled on this take after reasoning that it made sense for Britta to find the situation funny.

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: In the tag, the "Pile of Bullets" actor's wife encourages him to leave his job at Creator/Apple, calling it a "sinking ship". While Apple was far from new in 1993, that was one of the darkest periods of the company's history. One can understand how getting out then would have seemed like a smart move.

** ItWillNeverCatchOn: The wife also tells him to quit his job at Apple Computers, mocking its giving of stock options.

* RealityEnsues: Pointed out by Anthony. He understands why Annie is mad at him for taking their mother's side, but tells her that's not an excuse for making him a part of her weird mind games with Abed. Anthony mentions he was only thirteen, and he wasn't able to recognize that their mother was emotionally abusive. Thus, Annie has no right to hold a grudge against what he did as a child.