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2	[[caption-width-right:350: It's the [[SeasonFinale end of the season]], and a memorable moment in TheStinger becomes the crux of the DarkestHour, before the redemption of the Greendale 7.]]
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4	With Troy having been claimed by the [[AncientConspiracy AC Annex]], Abed having fallen into a state of severe depression, and Shirley and Pierce divided by legal difficulties, the study group's problems are far from over as they resume classes at Greendale following the downfall of Chang's regime.
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6	Now has a [[YMMV/CommunityS3E22IntroductionToFinality YMMV page]]
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8	!! Tropes appearing in this episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'' include:
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10	* TenMinuteRetirement: Troy is back after one episode.
11	* AccidentalPublicConfession: Murray accidentally spills the beans in public about having murdering Vice Dean Laybourne. Followed by DidIJustSayThatOutLoud.
12	* AllPropheciesAreTrue: The prophecy that Troy is the air-conditioning repair messiah.
13	* AllPsychologyIsFreudian / AllThereInTheManual: Evil!Abed asks Britta about her parents. Her response involves a man in a dinosaur costume and a birthday party that would at first glance come off as a humorous non sequitur. Britta is actually describing [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yne9x/i_am_dan_harmon_creator_of_community_writer_of/c5x6asv/?st=jd0fvn82&sh=0ef08288 her eleventh birthday when she was molested, and her father refused to believe what had happened]]. This isn't the first time the series has alluded to this part of her backstory, but it is one of the more explicit examples so far.
14	* AmoralAttorney:
15	** Alan tries to make Shirley come out as a bad person by bringing up a joke she once made that was obviously not true (specifically, that she'd trade her son Ben for a chance to "bump it with Creator/{{Denzel\|Washington}}") and because she wasn't sure whether Ben's father was Andre or Chang. He also tries to blackmail Jeff into losing on purpose, otherwise he'd never be able to work at his old firm. This after he promised Jeff he'd go easy on her.
16	--->'''Jeff: '''I thought you said you were gonna go easy!
17	--->'''[[{{Jerkass}} Alan]]:''' [[ExactWords Felt pretty easy to me.]]
18	** Jeff's final speech at the end is to all intents and purposes him rejecting the AmoralAttorney he once was.
19	* AnArmAndALeg: Evil!Abed plans to do this to Jeff. Thankfully, he never gets a chance to (because the cord for his bone saw doesn't reach far enough).
20	** And because by the time Evil!Abed comes back with an extension cord, Jeff is in the middle of a speech which causes Good!Abed to take control again.
21	* ArtisticStimulation: Discussed. One of the other repairmen openly wonders whether the Sun Chamber announcer is on cocaine due to his [[LargeHam over-the-top performance]].
22	* AudienceMurmurs: There is a murmur going through the rows of AC School members when the DuelToTheDeath at the Sun Chamber is brought up.
23	* BadLiar: Shirley:
24	-->'''Shirley:''' ''[sing-song]'' [[CharacterCatchphrase Hello!]]\
25	'''Jeff:''' Are you here to help me with Biology or to get me to help you?\
26	'''Shirley:''' ''[sing-song]'' Biology.\
27	'''Jeff:''' Are you lying? ''[Shirley looks cornered]'' Hard to put the word 'yes' into lilting syllables, huh?\
28	'''Shirley:''' Ye-''es?''
29	* BadassBoast: PlayedForLaughs; to challenge Murray, Troy yells out "I am the truest repairman!"... in a slightly silly falsetto voice.
30	* BaitAndSwitch: When Shirley approaches Jeff to ask him to represent her, he tells her that "Biology finals is at 5:00", implying that he'd rather be studying for that... before telling her that he'll be available from 3:00 to 4:00. Granted, he is still seen studying while in "court".
31	* BatmanGambit: We get another glimpse of what made Jeff such an effective lawyer. He knew what needed to be done to win over the entire courtroom and how to use Pierce's nature to get there.
32	* BeardOfEvil: Evil!Abed.
33	* BlatantLies:
34	--> '''Britta''': ''[uneasily]'' You say your name is Evil!Abed... which does not throw me [[TrustMeImAnX because I'm a therapist]].
35	* BrandX: Jeff doesn't use Google.com, he uses Searchsies.com.
36	* BreakTheCutie: Evil!Abed "darkening" Britta. She gets better.
37	* BreakingSpeech: Evil!Abed gives Britta one, of the HannibalLecture variety, raising the timeline darkness to 10%. He adds a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for another 2%.
38	** Evil!Abed seems to be fond of these in general. He also uses one to convince regular Abed to allow him to take over.
39	* CallBack: Several in this episode.
40	** Leonard [[Recap/CommunityS3E09FoosballAndNocturnalVigilantism uploaded another food review to [=YouTube=]]].
41	*** He is also apparently roommates with Sexy Dreadlocks Guy from "[[Recap/CommunityS1E21ContemporaryAmericanPoultry Contemporary American Poultry]]".
42	** Also, Jeff's [[SitcomArchNemesis nemesis]], Alan, [[Recap/CommunityS2E02AccountingForLawyers returns]].
43	** Evil!Abed returns.
44	*** Also, the simulated hologram of Good!Abed while Evil!Abed was outside of the Dreamatorium is similar to Abed's persona switching between characters in the Dreamatorium.
45	** [[CapitalismIsBad Subway leaving Greendale]]. When the wake riot first occurred, they threatened to pull out. And given that Chang rose to power after that, Greendale didn't do a good job in convincing them to stay. This does allow Pierce and Shirley to establish their sandwich shop though.
46	** Alan refers to the fact that Shirley was unsure of who Ben's father was while she was pregnant with him.
47	** Part of Evil!Abed's BreakingSpeech resembles TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Troy gave to Britta in the season premiere. The difference is Troy said it because he was upset. Evil!Abed was doing it simply because he was, well, evil.
48	** Doubles as a FreezeFrameBonus. On the board in the courtroom, you can actually see a [[Recap/CommunityS1E06FootballFeminismAndYou Greendale advertisment with Jeff on it]].
49	** Britta again talks about that run-in she had with [[Recap/CommunityS1E25PascalsTriangleRevisited a man in a dinosaur costume who may have molested her]].
50	** [[Recap/CommunityS2E07AerodynamicsOfGender Once again,]] there are multiple shots from [[RoboCam a computerized version]] of [[POVCam Abed's point of view]] with [[CyberGreen green overlays]].
51	* CharacterDevelopment:
52	** Jeff chooses to fight for his friends over his last shot at returning to his old law firm, even though Shirley told him that it was okay for him to choose his job over her, and upon Alan revealing that he was the one who sold Jeff out to the state bar, Jeff merely thanks him for it]]. Also, after years of trying to ignore him, Jeff decides to finally look up his [[DisappearedDad father]] again.
53	** Pierce criticizes his lawyer for using the word "gay" as a derogatory word. Also counts as HypocriticalHumor. And after the case is thrown out, he suggests that Jeff signs the documents to place the sandwich shop in the Greendale Cafeteria on his & Shirley's behalf... which, as Annie points out, is his first good idea.
54	** Abed gains sufficient self-awareness to realize that he has problems and would benefit from therapy. He also "destroys" the Dreamatorium, but now has a smaller one placed in the Blanket Fort.
55	** Troy decides to move out of the Blanket Fort & into the former Dreamatorium. He also appears to embrace his 'destiny' as the [[TheChosenOne Truest Repairman]] and decides to remain in the Air-Conditioning Repair School, albeit after he uses his status as MessianicArchetype to change things so that they start acting less like a weird cult and more like a normal trade school to allow him to have a life outside of it.
56	* TheChosenOne: The Truest Repairman.
57	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: A more literal use of cool than most examples of this trope. For the murder of Vice Dean Laybourne, Murray is sentenced to The Infinite Labyrinth of Eternal Ice. Subverted, however, in that the sentence is commuted to simply calling the cops to take him to jail upon Troy pointing out that this is ''utterly insane''.
58	* CourtroomAntics: Jeff pulls several stunts because he was completely unprepared due to focusing on the biology test.
59	* CrazyPrepared: As he [[SealedEvilInACan breaks free of the Dreamatorium]], Evil!Abed asks Britta whether Lame!Abed owns a bone saw. We see in later scenes that evidently he does.
60	* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Played with; Evil!Abed manages to turn the tables on Britta and [[HannibalLecture start analysing her]] (nearing driving her to tears in the process), but this time it's less that she's bad at it but more that [[ManipulativeBastard Evil!Abed is just that good]]. Indeed, Abed at the end credits her with doing what no other therapist has managed to do -- making him realize he needs therapy and providing a therapist he feels comfortable undertaking it with (albeit because she, in his words, "has just as little control over my mind as me.")
61	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Troy's usually TheDitz and has spent the entire series rejecting his natural talents as a repairman. When he finally embraces it in the Sun Chamber, however, he kicks ass at it.
62	* DenouementEpisode: BigBad Chang was defeated in the previous episode, the finale focuses more on dealing with how the group is dealing with moving on at the end of their third year.
63	* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: After Murray confesses to murdering Vice Dean Laybourne, he immediately pauses and then says "Was that out loud?"
64	* DissonantSerenity: Troy spends almost the entire battle in the Sun Chamber calmly standing in his chamber with his arms folded [[TranquilFury silently glaring at Murray]] as Murray frantically attempts to fix the malfunctioning AC unit in his chamber. He breaks this serenity only to calmly fix his unit with a few simple moves and to take mercy on his defeated opponent when it becomes clear that he cannot win or yield.
65	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The off-screen deaths of the Vice Dean and Jeff's former boss, Ted.
66	* DuelToTheDeath: "Two men are sealed in the chamber, each with a broken unit. The heat will increase until one man yields... or dies."
67	* DumbassHasAPoint: Troy is the first one to realize that the Vice Dean was murdered and immediately deduces who did it.
68	* EveryoneHasStandards: Including melodramatically kooky secret societies, it seems, as even the members of the Air-Conditioning Repair Annex find the Sun Chamber announcer a bit too [[LargeHam absurdly over-the-top]].
69	-->'''Announcer:''' Weeeell, boys and girls, I hope you brought your ''popsicles'', because it's about to get ''SCALDING HOT'' in the Sun Chamber! You already know the rules... ''[[ThereAreNoRules BECAUSE THERE AREN'T ANY]]!!!''\
70	''[One of the other students storms down and snatches the microphone off him]''\
71	'''Replacement Announcer:''' Geez, Dennis, are you on ''coke''? Take that crap off and sit down! ''[The original announcer dejectedly slinks away]'' Sorry about that. Of ''course'' there are rules.
72	* EvilIsPetty: Evil!Abed wears SinisterShades, smokes in the hallway, hangs up a pay phone while somebody's using it, pops a kid's balloon with his cigarette, and puts the butt out in someone's beverage. The timeline darkness meter then ticks up 1%.
73	-->'''Evil!Abed:''' Cruel. Cruelcruelcruel.
74	* EvilTwin: Evil!Abed, of course.
75	* FakingTheDead: Apparently Star-Burns faked his death and changed his hair color... [[PaperThinDisguise but still has his unique & distinctive sideburns]].
76	* ForTheEvulz: Evil!Abed's original intention in his debut episode was to [[KillingYourAlternateSelf destroy the prime versions of themselves]] and [[KillAndReplace replace]] them. Now he just seems determined to ruin their lives.
77	** May count as FridgeBrilliance though. While it seems that he's just trying to ruin their lives, it may actually be him trying to replace them with their evil counterparts. He breaks Britta's spirit, making her ponder dyeing her hair. His plot to cut off Jeff's arm makes sense when you remember that Jeff lost an arm in the dark timeline.
78	** Or FridgeHorror, when you remember just how dark the darkest timeline really is... and what Evil!Abed would have done to [[KilledOffForReal Pierce]] and [[TheOphelia Annie]] if he hadn't been stopped before getting to Jeff... or if one of them had been in the Dreamatorium when Evil!Abed manifested instead of Britta.
79	* FreezeFrameBonus: There's actually a list of Greendale Court rules behind the witness stand on the wall.
80	** Also in the AC Repair class the blackboard has the "this is my rifle" mantra from ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' written on it--except with "limpken wrench" in place of "rifle."
81	* GoodIsBoring: Evil!Abed refers to 'good' Abed and Jeff as 'Lame!Abed' and 'Lame!Jeff' respectively.
82	* GoodIsDumb: Or as Evil!Abed puts it: "When the world gets bad enough, Abed, the good go crazy. But the smart… they go bad."
83	* GrandTheftMe: This is apparently what Evil!Abed does to Abed for most of the episode.
84	* HannibalLecture: Evil!Abed's BreakingSpeech to Britta involves him turning the tables on her attempts to psychoanalyze him.
85	* TheHeart: The theme of Troy being the heart of the group, as implied in "[[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Remedial Chaos Theory]]", continues; with his absence Abed refuses to leave the apartment, Britta is openly pining and miserable, and Shirley and Pierce are suing each other. And that's before Evil!Abed shows up...
86	* HeelFaceTurn: Having acted as a sinister, menacing presence throughout the entire season in almost all his appearances, in what little we see of him in this episode Vice Dean Laybourne seems to have mellowed considerably; he seems genuinely interested in mentoring Troy and helping him embrace what Laybourne views as his destiny.
87	** [[FridgeBrilliance Perhaps]] his [[Recap/CommunityS3E13DigitalExplorationOfInteriorDesign previously-mentioned mid-life crisis]] lent him some perspective. Of course, [[FridgeHorror it may also be why Murray, Laybourne's right-hand man, decided to bump him off.]]
88	* HeroicBSOD: Troy's absence has had this sort of effect on Abed; he's refused to leave the apartment since it happened and is, for the first time, genuinely beginning to worry that he might actually be crazy. It leads to Evil!Abed taking over for a while.
89	* HeroicSacrifice:
90	** Shirley tells Jeff it's okay for her to lose as long as it lets him avoid trouble at his former law firm.
91	** Jeff also makes one by choosing Shirley over his former law career.
92	* HypocriticalHumor:
93	** Pierce being outraged by Jeff calling him paranoid and crazy... after jumping out between two cardboard pieces, painted to look like a bookcase. For further crazy, he was apparently there the whole time Jeff was studying just to see if he would do anything about the legal dispute between him and Shirley. For added paranoia value, his over-the-top reaction of betrayal was completely unnecessary, as Jeff was explicitly advising Shirley to just let things drop until Pierce calmed down a little.
94	** After making his blackmail attempt to try and force Jeff to throw the case, Alan snidely remarks that Jeff's other option is to "y'know, finish up your big win here" in a fashion that suggests it's just a trivial, insignificant little matter. While it is, Alan is just as desperate -- if not more -- to win the case than Jeff is.
95	** Pierce criticising Alan for using the word "gay" as an insult. Lampshaded afterwards.
96	--->'''Pierce''': Booyah! Good person!
97	* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Infinite Labyrinth of Eternal Ice, reserved for perpetrators of serious transgressions against the AC repair school.
98	* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Or comdemn him to The Infinite Labyrinth of Eternal Ice, for that matter.
99	* [[ImNotAfraidOfYou I'm Not Afraid of You Anymore]]: Jeff's inspirational speech gives Good!Abed the opening to reassert himself and zap Evil!Abed (and his [[BeardOfEvil goatee]]) back to his own timeline.
100	* InsistentTerminology:
101	-->'''Annie''': [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness He won't even play in the Dreamatorium.]] Sorry, not play -- "render imaginated dreamscapes."
102	* KlingonPromotion: Vice Dean Laybourne is murdered and then succeeded by his second-in-command, Murray.
103	* KnuckleCracking: Evil!Abed cracks his neck badass-style when stepping out of the holodeck room.
104	* LargeHam: The initial announcer for the match between Troy and the new Vice Dean. Even for the Air-Conditioning Repair School, this is too much and he ends up getting replaced by a much more calm announcer.
105	* LiteralMetaphor:
106	-->'''Allen:''' Ted's gone. Got too old. Couldn't swim with the sharks and got eaten.\
107	'''Jeff:''' That makes no sense. He started the firm; you can't lose your own firm.\
108	'''Allen:''' You can if you're dead. That shark thing was ''not a metaphor.''
109	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Murray sabotaged the air conditioner that killed Vice Dean Laybourne.
110	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is ambiguous as to whether Evil!Abed is merely an aspect of regular Abed's personality taking over as the result of a mental breakdown, or whether he has actually found a way to cross over from another timeline. For what it's worth, Abed seems to believe the former, and describes it as having "gone crazy" once he recovers, but a case for either side could be made depending on your viewpoint.
111	** Likewise, the Infinite Labyrinth of Eternal Ice: Actual [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves House of Leaves]] shit, or a (literally) glorified walk-in freezer? The world may never know.
112	* MessiahCreep: Troy's AC Repair story begins as him simply being an exceptionally talented repairman, worthy of the Vice-Dean's interest. By this episode, he is the long-prophesied [[TheChosenOne Chosen One]] of the Air Conditioning repair school. He challenges their social norms and even prevents a public execution. Played with, however, since Troy himself is never anything less than exasperated by the ridiculous ways in which everyone concerned blows the fact that he's an exceptionally talented repairman completely out of proportion, and only joins in so that he can correct an injustice and, in doing so, get everyone to chill out about things a bit.
113	* MontageOut: A combination of tying up loose ends and setting up plot hooks for the next season.
114	* MoralityChain: Troy leaving the group causes Abed to fall to the dark side. Jeff's rousing speech manages to help him recover though.
115	* MundaneMadeAwesome:
116	** Troy {{lampshade\|Hanging}}s how ridiculous the prophecy is by pointing out it was just an air-conditioning repair school.
117	--->'''Troy:''' It's a ''trade school''. It's a 2-year degree, in boxes, that make ''rooms cold''.
118	** Also, the guy who killed Laybourne... to become Vice Dean of an air-conditioning repair school.
119	* NotSoAboveItAll: Although he's mostly bemused at the excessive insanity of the AC Repair School, Troy ultimately isn't above playing by their rules and challenging Murray to a duel in the Sun Chamber.
120	-->'''Troy:''' I am the Truest Repairman! And this man is a dishonour to [[BuffySpeak making air-conditioners work good]].
121	* OddCouple: It's a split-second hint at the end of the tag, but considering Leonard apparently roommates with Sexy Dreadlocks Guy from "[[Recap/CommunityS1E21ContemporaryAmericanPoultry Contemporary American Poultry]]" (or at least someone who looks quite like him), it can safely be assumed that this is going on.
122	* OnlySaneMan: Troy, to the rest of the Air-Conditioning Repair School.
123	--> '''Air Conditioning Repair Chaplain:''' Take this man to the Infinite Labyrinth of Eternal Ice.\
124	'''Air Conditioning Repair Students:''' [''brandishing their wrenches''] YEAH!\
125	'''Troy:''' No! No. [[ShamingTheMob Take him to the]] ''[[ShamingTheMob police]]''. [[ShamingTheMob He murdered someone. Take him to]] ''[[ShamingTheMob jail.]]'' You guys are weird.
126	* OrphanedSetup / OrphanedPunchline:
127	--> '''Pierce''': An Irish and a Jew walk into a Chinese laundry. With a gay duck.\
128	''[[TimeSkip Three jokes later]] ...''\
129	'''Pierce''': So you're telling me they're not good at basketball?\
130	(''[[ReactionShot crowd boos]] and throws paper balls at Pierce'')
131	* PaperThinDisguise: Having faked his own death, Star-Burns is revealed to have cut and dyed his hair. Still didn't shave off those unique and conspicuous burns, though...
132	* PatrickStewartSpeech: Jeff gives one about ThePowerOfFriendship in order to win Shirley's court case. It also prompts Pierce to fire Alan:
133	-->'''Pierce:''' Why didn't ''you'' just give an inspiring speech about friendship?
134	* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Britta's [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses psychiatrist glasses]].
135	* RoboCam: Evil!Abed sees the world this way, including a meter for how close things are to the darkest timeline.
136	* SequelHook: A lot of loose ends are tied up, but...
137	** Chang is now hiding in the air vents in City College.
138	** Jeff is now actively searching for his father... which [[Recap/CommunityS2E16IntermediateDocumentaryFilmmaking may not be a good thing]].
139	* RunningGag: Jeff spends the entire episode trying to learn what mitosis is.
140	* SecretCircleOfSecrets: AC School hams it up with the initiation ritual for Murray as the new Vice Dean.
141	* SeriesFauxnale: Definitely had a series finale vibe, complete with LastEpisodeThemeReprise. This, to some degree, is RealLifeWritesThePlot, as it was uncertain at the time of writing and filming whether this would be the last episode of the series or not. Ultimately a form of DoubleSubversion, in that while the series was ultimately renewed, this in fact turned out to be the last episode of Dan Harmon's original tenure as showrunner, so ultimately works as his swansong.
142	* SeriousBusiness: Dueling to the death in the Sun Chamber and executing the most heinous of transgressors in the Infintie Labyrinth of Eternal Ice are added to the AC Annex's list. Troy puts a stop to all of it.
143	* ShipTease: As many as the writers could cram into an episode.
144	** Shirley telling Jeff his law career is more important than her sandwich shop is another tease for Jerley shippers.
145	** Anbed shippers got their piece of cake; when Evil!Abed reverts into Normal!Abed and sits down in the court room, the first thing he does is take Annie's hand. And she smiles.
146	** Britta/Troy was also teased very hard. Britta gave Troy a lock of her hair before he went off in the last episode, and here she wanted to be the first to hug him after he returned from the repair school. After Abed took that chance away from her, she tapped Troy on the shoulder for her hug. She's also clearly and vocally unhappy about Troy no longer being around:
147	--->'''Jeff:''' Okay, so what is mitosis?\
148	'''Britta:''' I miss Troy.\
149	'''Jeff:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Wrong, and stop guessing that.]]
150	** Not to mention the blatant Trobed teasing. "I miss Abed so much." Troy ignoring Britta's offered hug in favor of Abed upon his return also adds fuel to the fire. ("Can I cut in?")
151	** Jeff having Annie help him in defence of Shirley and also comforting her (by speaking ''directly'' to her as an aside) when she gasps upon hearing that he's [[HeroicSacrifice throwing the case.]]
152	* ShoutOut:
153	** To ''Series/TheWire'', with the montage that closes the main part of the episode.
154	** The new, police-box-sized Dreamatorium sure [[Series/DoctorWho makes a familiar sound]] upon taking off ...
155	** And immediately following that is a ShoutOut to the whiteout of the season 5 ''Series/{{Lost}}'' finale.
156	** Troy sees the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi glowing blue ghost of Vice Dean Laybourne smiling at him after his victory.]]
157	** Characters studying biology never seem to know [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch what mitosis is.]]
158	** Britta's session with Evil!Abed in the Dreamatorium bears [[HannibalLecture similarities]] to Clarice Starling's interviews with Hannibal Lecter in ''Literature/SilenceOfTheLambs''.
159	** To ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. The Sun Chamber announcer is clearly a fan of Dr. Dealgood. More subtly, in victory Troy confronts the same moral dilemma Max did.
160	** The blackboard on the AC repair school [[Film/FullMetalJacket has an interesting Prayer.]]
161	** [[Series/{{Fringe}} Recognize that sound the first commercial break after Evil!Abed appears?]]
162	** Alan makes an odd reference to ''Theatre/DrivingMissDaisy''.
163	* SitcomArchNemesis:
164	** Alan.
165	** And, in the closing montage, City College. Which apparently has Chang [[HereWeGoAgain living in its air vents]] now.
166	* SplitPersonalityTakeover: At first, Evil!Abed takes over Abed's life. Later on, we see Good!Abed take over again after hearing Jeff's speech.
167	* TheStarscream: Murray had Laybourne killed so he could take his place as Vice Dean.
168	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Upon spying on Jeff and Shirley's conversation about him, Pierce feels the need to defend himself against Jeff's accusations regarding his craziness, paranoia and impotence. Jeff, of course, never said a word about impotence.
169	* TakeAThirdOption: The central crux of Shirley and Pierce's argument is which of them gets to sign on the one dotted line on the sandwich shop contract. At the end, they decide to let Jeff sign and thus act as their representative.
170	* TakeThat: Yet ''[[RunningGag another]]'' one to Creator/JamesBelushi.
171	** Also to ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', ''Film/RoboCop2'', ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', and ''Creator/VH1'', all of which Evil!Abed considers [[invoked]][[SoOkayItsAverage So Okay, They're Average]].
172	** ''Series/DanceMoms''
173	** Evil!Abed also starts to give one to the center slice of a square cheese pizza, before deciding that [[SubvertedTrope it actually sounded quite delicious]].
174	* TemptingFate:
175	-->'''Britta:''' [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What's the worst that could happen?]]
176	-->'''Leonard:''' Classic tee-up.
177	-->'''Britta:''' [[RunningGag Shut up, Leonard!]] I know about your crooked wang.
178	-->'''Leonard:''' ''[unmoved]'' [[invoked]][[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity No such thing as bad press.]]
179	* TimeSkip: The episode takes place during the summer, between their third and fourth years, just before they are set to take the Biology final for the class they had to make up during the summer.
180	* ThouShaltNotKill: The rules for the Sun Chamber state that the opponent either yields or dies. When it becomes clear that his opponent is vanquished yet incapable of yielding, Troy takes pity on him and fixes his AC unit rather than let him suffer a lethal case of heatstroke.
181	* ThereAreNoRules: Subverted for the Sun Room Challenge.
182	* TragicVillain: Evil!Abed is one when you remember he turned into this because his timeline was so dark.
183	* WhamEpisode:
184	** Among other things, Star-Burns faked his death.
185	** [[Recap/CommunityS3E04RemedialChaosTheory Evil!Abed returns]].
186	** Jeff fights for Shirley and in the process kills any chance he has of working at his former law firm.

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