History Recap / CommunityS6E13EmotionalConsequencesOfBroadcastTelevision

* RealitySubtext: The show was built ''heavily'' on Creator/DanHarmon's [[WriteWhoYouKnow experiences putting together a group of friends at a local community college]], with Jeff as basically an AuthorAvatar. The episode starts with them completing their original goal as the "Save Greendale Committee" and can go their separate ways, characters talk about their mythical "season seven" and what that would entail but it becomes obvious that even if they keep in touch they will likely never be together as a group again. The final monologue functionally shatters the FourthWall, as it is done [[CreatorCameo by Dan Harmon himself]] and gradually descends into talking about [[CreatorBreakdown his regrets of mistreating people and hoping the people who love him are watching]].

* SelfDeprecation: The episode is extremely meta even by the high standards the show has set. Different characters make their own "pitch" as to what season seven will become, and the majority of them are lambasting the very narrative foundation of the show. TheTag talks extensively about all the tonal issues of the show, "Some episodes too conceptual to be funny. Some too funny to be immersive, and some so immersive they still aren't funny." Even contains a reference to the Creator/ChuckLorre VanityPlate in a way that is hard to determine as a ShoutOut or TakeThat, as it comes out as "...[[IResembeThatRemark may descend into vain Chuck Lorre-esque rant by narcissistic creator]]."

* TropeName: The first imagine pitching is Abed's in which the characters have so much self-awareness that they talk in abstracts.

* AscendedExtra: Invoked, as Jeff's inital pitch for Season 7 has the rest of the cast replaced by recurring characters Dave, Todd, Garrett, Vicky and Leonard.
* AuthorAppeal: In a reflection of creator Dan Harmon's partiality towards redheads, Jeff's fantasy at the end episode replaces everyone in the group with attractive redheads.

*** Jeff's fears about the future resurface, however this time it's his fear that everyone else will move on from Greendale and leave him behind, whereas it was orginally his fears about moving on from Greendale and leaving his friends behind.

** The whiteboard features several lines of seven numbers, each preceeded by nm - these are the unqiue ends of the IMDB page addresses for the various cast members; for examle, Joel [=McHale=] is [=nm0570364=].

* GrandFinale: A clever AffectionateParody of grand finale's seen in tv sitcoms, as well as the effective SeriesFinale.

** Season 4 gets hit by this again. As everyone pitches what they would do for Season 7, Frankie's pitch (The fourth legit attempt at doing so) simply features the characters stating outloud the formula of their interactions, before culminating in Chang just farting; Frankie accepts that writing the "show" is harder than it looks.

* TheBigDamnKiss: Jeff and Annie, in a parallel to the S1 finale, "Pascal's Triangle Revisited."

** Justin Roiland voices Ice Cube Head.

* PrecisionFStrike: Dean Pelton of all people drops this one:
-->'''Dean Pelton''': (to Abed) No offense, but isn't the shape of your brain kinda fucked up?

* ShipTease: Massive amounts for Jeff and Annie.

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*** Jeff's private pitch for Season 7 has him repeating his original Winger Speech, albeit with the Study Group replaced with attractive redheads who Jeff describes as somewhat similar to the original group.

* TitleDrop: Jeff says the name of the show in his final Season 7 pitch (to a table of [[HeroesWantRedheads redhead girls]]).
-->'''Jeff''': You just stopped being a study group. I hereby pronounce you...a ''Community''.

* WrittenInAbsence: Elroy just ups and leaves early in the episode, and is missing from several of the Season 7 pitches, as Keith David was only available for one day of shooting.

* HeldGaze: One happens between Jeff and Annie before their [[TheBigDamnKiss big damn kiss]].

* TitleDrop: Jeff says the name of the show in his final Season 7 pitch (to a table of [[HeroesWantRedheads redhead girls]].

* BlackComedy: The "Community: The Board Game" tag takes a sharp left turn into this, with a generous dose of BreakingTheFourthWall and existential angst.

As their sixth year at Greendale draws to a close, Abed asks everyone to imagine pitching a TV show about what they would do in Season Seven. This is confirmed to be the [[http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/07/from-soup-to-nuts-an-interview-with-joel-mchale/ final episode]], due to the cast being hot commodities and busy with their own projects. All that is left is the movie now.

!!The {{Community}} episode Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television provides examples of:

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Unsurprisingly, the Dean is this again. Turned UpToEleven with his proposal to bring both Shirley and Elroy back, and even a entire third African-American person (who in this sequence, sits far away from the table in the corner and doesn't say anything.)

** One of Jeff's pitches mocks the "Save Greendale Committee" concept, as well as the lack of Annie's {{Iconic Outfits}}.

** TheTag provides one to the Nielsen Rating system, with the narrator (Voiced by Dan Harmon) mocking the system as an outdated and inaccurate way of measuring what people are watching on TV.
** TheTag also mocks NBC for cancelling ''Community'' and numerous other shows because of low Nielsen ratings, when looking at the '''actual''' viewing figures would have revealed a much wider audience.

** And at the end, when Abed is sayin one "cool" for each season, Chang farts during the fourth one, and lampshades it claiming it's an inside joke.

-->'''Dad''': I got it! The whole show is happening inside this game!

-->'''Dad''': You stupid child. Nobody's winning anything, don't you see? This means we don't exist. We're not created by God, we're created by a joke. We were never born, and we will never actually live.

* BlackComedy: The whole "Community: The Board Game" tag, with a generous dose of BreakingTheFourthWall and existential angst.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Annie's reaction to Jeff asking if the group had forgotten the Ass Crack Bandit is to start rambling that ''of course'' she's not forgotten about him. Jeff seems to be the only one to pick up on this, however.

* GrandFinale: A clever AffectionateParody of grand finale's seen in tv sitcoms. It being a legit finale is left up in the air.
** Turns out it is a legit finale.

** And t the end, when Abed is sayin one "cool" for each season, Chang farts during the fourth one, and lampshades it claiming it's an inside joke.

As their sixth year at Greendale draws to a close, Abed asks everyone to imagine pitching a TV show about what they would do in Season Seven. (We can always hope this episode is a SeriesFauxnale, right?)