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* HollywoodGeography: Parodied. The makers of "The Butcher and the Baker" seem really insistent that there are "swamps" and "bayous" in the state of Georgia, mistaking it for Louisiana or Arkansas.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Jeff ''almost'' has a reasonable, responsible idea after getting Frankie to quit and getting alcohol allowed on campus.
-->'''Dean:''' Frankie hasn't come back to work today.\\
'''Jeff:''' That's ''[[SarcasmMode terrible]]''.\\
'''Dean:''' The insurance company dropped us. We have no insurance!\\
'''Jeff:''' What was Frankie's salary?\\
'''Dean:''' A lot.\\
'''Jeff:''' What were the insurance premiums?\\
'''Dean:''' A lot.\\
'''Jeff:''' Add those two numbers together, that's your new school dance budget.\\
'''Dean:''' Oh! Nice.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The group put off telling Abed about Shirley leaving because they think he can't handle change, but Abed ends up being the OnlySaneMan who doesn't overreact to Frankie and the changes she brings.
* HypocriteHasAPoint: The Save Greendale Committee, particularly Jeff [[NeverMyFault deflect from all blame regarding the roof collapse]] but it's pretty unfair that the Dean uses it as evidence that they need Frankie to oversee them given when the committee was formed Greendale had so many problems that a single post-it note getting lost under a box was enough to cause a disaster of that magnitude.
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** Rachel is namedropped by Abed in this episode, where he notes that he has no idea what became of her. This is because Creator/BrieLarson had become much higher in demand since her appearance on ''Community'', and was unable to come back to the show after Season 5 due to other commitments.


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lampshaded by Abed, where he wonders what became of his girlfriend Rachel when talking with Frankie[[note]]Rachel doesn't show up for the rest of the show because her actress Creator/BrieLarson had scheduling conflicts[[/note]].
* WrittenInAbsence: Shirley is absent for most of the show, where it's revealed that she moved to Atlanta to work as a professional chef and help out a handicapped detective. We see them working together in TheTag.
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* InadvertentEntranceCue: Parodied when Jeff & Abed do this when they break into Frankie's interview to plead Greendale's case. It's noted that they've been doing it to every closed office they came to because they didn't know where the interview was; and whilst it's not brought up, Jeff demanding Frankie not be hired doesn't make any sense when she'd already been refused the job.

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* InadvertentEntranceCue: Parodied when Jeff & Abed do this when they break into Frankie's interview to plead Greendale's case. It's noted that they've been doing it to every closed office they came to because they didn't know where the interview was; and whilst it's not brought up, Jeff demanding Frankie not be hired doesn't make any sense when she'd already been refused the job. Although this example does still count: The man interviewing her had just advised that she find a company run by insane people.

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Abed, of course. In particular, his first conversation with Frankie. "I can't tell if you have any flaw, quirk, or point of view that makes you a creative addition to the group..." He also thoughtfully wrote the Dean's "catching everyone up" PA announcement for the cold open.

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Abed, of course. In particular, his first conversation with Frankie. "I can't tell if you have any flaw, quirk, or point of view that makes you a creative addition to the group..."
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He also thoughtfully wrote the Dean's "catching everyone up" PA announcement for the cold open.open, which tells both the viewers and the characters what the main characters have been up to.
** In his first conversation with Frankie, he rattles off potential fan concerns about the direction the show has taken.
--->'''Abed:''' My umbrella concern is that you, as a character, represent the end of what I used to call our show, which was once an unlikely family of misfit students, and is now a pretty loose knit group of students and teachers. None of whom are taking a class together in a school which, as of your arrival, is becoming increasingly grounded, asking questions like, how do any of us get our money? When will we get our degrees, and what happened to that girl I was dating? As opposed to questions I consider more important like, what is real? What is sanity? Is there a god? Where's that Pierce hologram?

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** To "[[Recap/CommunityS2E01Anthropology101 Anthropology 101]]"
*** Shirley spun-off, but she didn't take Abed with her.
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*** Vicki performs at the speakeasy, much as she did at Pierce's saloon.
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*** The Ladders Class was originally shown in one of the clip montages of crazy Greendale moments
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*** A flashback reveals that Leonard has been at Greendale since it first opened as Greendale Computery College.

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** To "[[Recap/CommunityS2E01Anthropology101 Anthropology 101]]"
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101]]": Shirley spun-off, but she didn't take Abed with her.
** To "[[Recap/CommunityS2E23AFistfulOfPaintballs A Fistful of Paintballs]]"
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Paintballs]]": Vicki performs at the speakeasy, much as she did at Pierce's saloon.
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Unavailable]]": The Ladders Class was originally shown in one of the clip montages of crazy Greendale moments
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Story]]": A flashback reveals that Leonard has been at Greendale since it first opened as Greendale Computery College.



** To "[[Recap/CommunityS5E01Repilot Repilot]]"
*** Abed mentions to Frankie that there's a Pierce hologram on campus, and that Jeff is the only one to have seen it.

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Repilot]]": Abed mentions to Frankie that there's a Pierce hologram on campus, and that Jeff is the only one to have seen it.


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* CastSpeciation: Discussed by the ever-MetaGuy Abed, who comments to new character Frankie that he worries that she isn't distinct enough from longtime cast member Annie (as both are straightlaced and motivated white brunettes). Frankie, of course, proves to be more serious and unused to shenanigans compared to Annie.
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* LongList: Frankie checking off things on Annie's to-do list that she's already resolved:
-->'''Frankie:''' Done, done, de-loused, appraised, defused, rebuilt, de-peanut buttered, debunked, spayed, neutered, underway, re-sanctified, plunged, deported and exhumed.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Combining unrestricted alcohol consumption with a class wholly devoted to people climbing up very tall ladders ends, as should have probably been foreseen sooner, with people receiving serious injuries. This, in turn, leads the Save Greendale Committee having to deal with the legal implications that their reckless conduct regarding the running of the school has resulted in.



* RealityEnsues:
** Turns out, installing an underground speakeasy is hard to keep secret.
** Frankie repeats her initial speech at a job interview. As she finds out the hard way, only an institution as crazy as Greendale would hire someone so blatantly pompous.
** Combining unrestricted alcohol consumption with a class wholly devoted to people climbing up very tall ladders ends, as should have probably been foreseen sooner, with people receiving serious injuries. This, in turn, leads the Save Greendale Committee having to deal with the legal implications that their reckless conduct regarding the running of the school has resulted in.

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** After bluntly checking off Annie's suggestions for improvements point-by-point, Frankie makes a comment about Annie's elaborately decorated folder that initially seems quite dismissive and condescending ("This is cute."). At the end, Frankie produces a folder that is decorated in a similar fashion, suggesting that she was in fact being quite sincere and that [[NotSoDifferent they are quite similar personality-wise]].

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** After bluntly checking off Annie's suggestions for improvements point-by-point, Frankie makes a comment about Annie's elaborately decorated folder that initially seems quite dismissive and condescending ("This is cute."). At the end, Frankie produces a folder that is decorated in a similar fashion, suggesting that she was in fact being quite sincere and that [[NotSoDifferent they are quite similar personality-wise]].personality-wise.



* NotSoDifferent: In order to combat the group's 1920s-themed speakeasy, Frankie gets a bunch of security guards to dress up as Keystone Cops (and, in the case of one, a carrot).
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* FlairBartending: Britta tries to show off some moves to Abed but doesn't even the hint of any skill at it.

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* FlairBartending: Britta tries to show off some moves to Abed but doesn't have even the hint of any skill at it.
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* FlairBartending: Britta tries to show off some moves to Abed but doesn't even the hint of any skill at it.


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** To ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' when Leonard flashes back to the 1970s and Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" begins playing (which also soundtracks the opening scene of that film).
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* NeonSignHideout: Much to the study group's surprise the speakeasy, as Frankie rather bluntly points out, is incredibly easy to spot.
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* HappyEndingOverride: In a way. The previous season ended with the notion that the Greendale Campus is now fine and functional. This episode starts with the roof collapsing and later Annie mentions a number of different issues (like electricity in the swimming pool) still being dealt with.

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* HappyEndingOverride: In a way. The previous season ended with the notion that the Greendale Campus campus is now fine and functional. This episode starts with the roof collapsing and later Annie mentions a number of different issues (like electricity in the swimming pool) still being dealt with.
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* HappyEndingOverride: In a way. The previous season ended with the notion that the Greendale Campus is now fine and functional. This episode starts with the roof collapsing and later Annie mentions a lot of different issues (like issues of electricity in the swimming pool) that are sstill being dealt with.

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* HappyEndingOverride: In a way. The previous season ended with the notion that the Greendale Campus is now fine and functional. This episode starts with the roof collapsing and later Annie mentions a lot number of different issues (like issues of electricity in the swimming pool) that are sstill still being dealt with.
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* HappyEndingOverride: In a way. The previous season ended with the notion that the Greendale Campus is now fine and functional. This episode starts with the roof collapsing and later Annie mentions a lot of different issues (like issues of electricity in the swimming pool) that are sstill being dealt with.


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* TrivialTitle: The episode is named after a class that Frankie mentions as one of the classes she would cut. [[spoiler:The class itself latter appears for a few seconds and ends poorly for Annie.]]
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** On a lesser note, Buzz Hickey and Ian Duncan. The former no longer works at Greendale [[spoiler:and, as shown in a blink-and-you-miss-it shot of a computer screen in [[Recap/CommunityS6E06BasicEmailSecurity a later episode]] and probably hinted by Jeff having his office all to himself, seems to have passed away since the previous episode,]] and the latter simply doesn't appear without any explanation, but still at least has an office at Greendale with his name on the door.

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** On a lesser note, Buzz Hickey and Ian Duncan. The former no longer works at Greendale [[spoiler:and, as shown in a blink-and-you-miss-it shot of a computer screen in [[Recap/CommunityS6E06BasicEmailSecurity a later episode]] and probably hinted by Jeff having his office all to himself, episode]], seems to have passed away since the previous episode,]] away,]] and the latter simply doesn't appear without any explanation, but still at least has an office at Greendale with his name on the door.

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* PutOnABus: Bye, Shirley.[[note]] Yvette Nicole Brown had to leave due to a family emergency.[[/note]]

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Bye, Shirley.[[note]] Yvette Nicole Brown had to leave due to a family emergency.[[/note]][[/note]]
** On a lesser note, Buzz Hickey and Ian Duncan. The former no longer works at Greendale [[spoiler:and, as shown in a blink-and-you-miss-it shot of a computer screen in [[Recap/CommunityS6E06BasicEmailSecurity a later episode]] and probably hinted by Jeff having his office all to himself, seems to have passed away since the previous episode,]] and the latter simply doesn't appear without any explanation, but still at least has an office at Greendale with his name on the door.
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* CensorshipBySpelling: Annie spells out C-H-A-N-G-E so Abed would not understand. Chang is the one getting it wrong as "screw you".

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* CensorshipBySpelling: Annie spells out C-H-A-N-G-E so Abed would not understand. It doesn't work on Abed, but Chang is the one getting it wrong as "screw you".thinks she's talking about him.
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* InadvertentEntranceCue: Parodied when Jeff & Abed do this when they break into Frankie's interview to plead Greendale's case. It's noted that they've been doing it to every closed office they came to because they didn't know where the interview was; and whilst it's not brought up, Jeff demanding Frankie not be hired doesn't make any sense when she'd already been refused the job.


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* IllPretendIDidntHearThat: While the Save Greendale Committee ''think'' that their speakeasy is operating right under Frankie's nose, it turns out she's known it was there all along but simply chose to turn a blind eye because it was easier than putting up with their childish, knee-jerk tantrums and resistance to everything she was doing.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: Parodied when Jeff & Abed do this when they break into Frankie's interview to plead Greendale's case. It's noted that they've been doing it to every closed office they came to because they didn't know where the interview was; and whilst it's not brought up, Jeff demanding Frankie not be hired doesn't make any sense when she'd already been refused the job.

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