History Recap / CommunityS5E09VCRMaintenanceAndEducationalPublishing

* HiddenDepths: Anthony might look weird and off-putting, but when his sister tries to apologize to him for her and Abed's behaviour using family stuff, he reveals to be quite lucid about the whole situation, more so than his sister. He says that Annie can't keep using her drug addict background as an excuse to manipulate people.

** One might assume the sky-blue color of the textbooks to be coincidental, were it not for Hickey's actor's most [[Series/BreakingBad famous role]], and that Vince Gilligan is making a cameo...

* 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.

* HiddenDepths: Anthony might look weird and off-putting, but when his sister tries to apologize to him for her and Abed's behaviour using family stuff, he reveals to be quite lucid about the whole situation, moreso than his sister.

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

** His wife is played by Gina Gershon (''Film/{{Bound 1996}}'').

* {{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 McHale'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.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Once again, the divide between Shirley's religious beliefs and her fundamental personality is explored: she initially objects to Jeff and Hickey's plan on moral and religious grounds, but after they convince her to sell them she very quickly becomes the greediest and most ruthless of all of them.

** His wife is played by Gina Gershon (''Film/{{Bound}}'').

* GenreSavvy: Britta immediately pegs that Jeff and Chang are trying to cause a rift between the remaining members of the textbook scheme and rolls her eyes. Unfortunately for her, both Shirley and Hickey have deeply succumbed to paranoia by this point.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Jeff, Shirley and Hickey agree to clear out the storage room because they think they've figured out that Annie always assigns easy tasks first. Unfortunately for them, Annie's pegged that they think they've figured this out and doesn't have any other tasks to assign.
-->'''Annie:''' Nobody picks up on my patterns! What am I gonna say next? Graham cracker! You didn't know.

* {{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. The extra with the keyboard also has a slight hint of cracking a couple of times.

** Abed's love of buttered noodles return.

!!The ''{{Community}}'' episode VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing provides examples of:

** Abed still uses Jeff's Netflix account.

* {{Corpsing}}: Gillian Jacobs after Dean Pelton's rap in the ColdOpen, with her looking straight into the camera before shifting again. The extra with the keyboard also has a slight hint of cracking a couple of times.

** Annie's brother, Anthony, is played by Spencer Crittenden, the [[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeon Master]] of {{Podcast/Harmontown}}.

* ShipTease: Annie uses lawyer terminology like "I'll allow it" and Jeff begins to have qualms with his group's plans, calling them "too evil." It's clear that ''something'' always bring Jeff and Annie back to each other, even in subtle ways when they don't share screentime in an episode together their influence on each other is felt.

** Britta tells the hyper-paranoid Shirley and Hickey that Jeff is clearly trying to drive a wedge between the remaining participants in the textbook scheme.

** One might assume the sky-blue color of the textbooks to be coincidental, were it not for Hickey's actor's most [[BreakingBad famous role]], and that Vince Gilligan is making a cameo...

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: After Dean Pelton's rap spirals out of control. Gillian Jacobs even glances briefly at the camera, which causes one to wonder [[EnforcedMethodActing whether the actors knew what was going to happen.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The textbooks are treated like they're a valuable stash of illegal drugs that the main characters have stumbled upon and are trying to sell.

* SeriousBusiness: Abed and Annie take playing ''Pile of Bullets'' way too seriously.

* SeriousBusiness:
** The textbooks are treated like they're a valuable stash of illegal drugs that the main characters have stumbled upon and are trying to sell.
** Abed and Annie take playing ''Pile of Bullets'' way too seriously.

* ArtisticLicense: College-level textbooks would still be ''incredibly'' valuable even without page numbers since most colleges do not provide books for their students. Although their effectiveness as a teaching tool would be diminished (since, as the bookseller notes, you can hardly tell someone to turn to a particular page when the page in question is not clearly identified), they would presumably still be useful for students as a source of information.
* BigLittleBrother: Anthony is way taller than Annie.

* ArtisticLicense: College-level textbooks would still be ''incredibly'' valuable even without page numbers since most colleges do not provide books for their students. Although their effectiveness as a teaching tool would be diminished (since, as the bookseller notes, you can hardly tell someone to turn to a particular page when the page in question is not clearly identified), but they would presumably still be useful for students as a source of information.

* ArtisticLicense: College-level textbooks would still be ''incredibly'' valuable even without page numbers since most colleges do not provide books for their students.

** Shirley initially refuses to participate in the textbook scheme, pointing out that it's a crime;

* AccompliceByInaction: Shirley tried to avoid doing this, and ended up being the mastermind.

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

* BlindfoldedTrip: Happened to Britta, off-screen. It didn't matter, though, since she still knew where she was.

* {{Callback}}: Abed refused to flip a coin or play Rock-Paper-Scissors because they create [[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory alternate timelines]].
** The couch Abed and Annie were sitting on during the game is the same pattern as the "Dreamatorium".

* EmpathicEnvironment: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in Abed's "Third Act Apology", with Pavel pouring "rain" over Abed's head, and pulling out a cardboard rainbow after Rachel accepted the apology.

* FalseConfession: Chang was forced to record one by the group.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Shirley warns Jeff that nothing good is ever found in a vent. Sure enough, it's textbooks that end up driving the group apart. Not to mention, they're misprinted.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Once again, the divide between Shirley's religious beliefs and her fundamental personality is explored; she initially objects to Jeff and Hickey's plan on moral and religious grounds, but after they convince her to sell them she very quickly becomes the greediest and most ruthless of all of them.
* HeelRealization: After the group made Chang do a FalseConfession, Jeff realizes that what they're doing was too evil.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Chang was not allowed to leave the storage room after he saw the textbooks. Jeff was also forbidden from excluding himself from the crime.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The Edison siblings, Anthony and Annie are this.

* NeverMyFault: Throughout the entire episode, Shirley never took responsibility for her actions. Asserting that it was Jeff and Hickey's fault for dragging her into this and that she didn't want this.

* ThePratfall: A student slipped on Abed's [[SlipperySkid fake rainwater]] after his apology to Rachel. He was not a stuntman.

* SecondActBreakup: Abed and Rachel's breakup. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Abed made a "Third Act Apology".

* SniffSniffNom: Britta determined the quality of the textbooks by sniffing one.