History Recap / CommunityS1E10EnvironmentalScience

* ItMakesSenseInContext: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJHamGNOFQ This clip]] is one of the show's most popular on Website/YouTube, if not ''the'' most popular outside the Troy-Abed tag scenes at the end of each episode. In it, [[HeyItsThatGuy the Bro Rape guy]] and an Indian actor sing "[[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail Somewhere Out There]]" at a mouse in a vent; [[HeyItsThatGuy the naked Chinese mobster from]] ''TheHangover'' does an Irish tango kind of thing, screams, and starts making out with his dance partner as [[HeyItsThatGuy the host of]] ''TheSoup'' silently watches; and [[HeyItsThatGuy that woman who worked with]] [[TheOffice Dwight when he was at Staples]] talks very slowly about "orgasmically delicious" brownies in front of a mesmerized class (and briefly impersonates JackNicholson from ''TheShining''), while Chevy Chase waves a sandwich in the air.

--> '''Dean''': I'm here to kick of the first day of a new tradition at our school called "Green Week!"
--> '''Pierce''': First we give a month to black history, now we're [[ComicallyMissingThePoint blowing 7 days on the Irish]].

* GreenAesop: Parodied; the Dean decides to celebrate Green Week and announces that he's change the name of the college to Envirodale, only to be told the school is already named '''Green'''dale. The Dean then orders the 5,000 leaflets he's had printed with "Envirodale" on it destroyed, and another 5,000 printed up with Greendale in them.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJHamGNOFQ This clip]] is one of the show's most popular on YouTube, if not ''the'' most popular outside the Troy-Abed tag scenes at the end of each episode. In it, [[HeyItsThatGuy the Bro Rape guy]] and an Indian actor sing "[[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail Somewhere Out There]]" at a mouse in a vent; [[HeyItsThatGuy the naked Chinese mobster from]] ''TheHangover'' does an Irish tango kind of thing, screams, and starts making out with his dance partner as [[HeyItsThatGuy the host of]] ''TheSoup'' silently watches; and [[HeyItsThatGuy that woman who worked with]] [[TheOffice Dwight when he was at Staples]] talks very slowly about "orgasmically delicious" brownies in front of a mesmerized class (and briefly impersonates JackNicholson from ''TheShining''), while Chevy Chase waves a sandwich in the air.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Troy and rats, with Troy even referencing the [[TropeNamer trope namer.]] Also Chang and frogs, apparently.

* EpicSong: Intercut over three different storylines.

** In TheTag of "Environmental Science," Pierce behaves like Michael Corleone in the restaurant scene from ''TheGodfather'', shooting Troy and Abed in the face with a water pistol filled with pepper water, then dropping the gun as he leaves.

!The ''{{Community}}'' episode "Enviromental Science" provides examples of:

* MoralMyopia: Jeff is asked to approach Senor Chang on behalf of the group and get him to call off some of the ridiculously harsh amounts of homework he's been setting. Chang, bonding with Jeff over his recent separation from his wife, agrees to call it off — but only for Jeff. Jeff goes along with this, and when the other members of the group learn this and angrily call him out over it Jeff initially acts as if ''he's'' the one who's being wronged.

* DesignatedVillain: The group temporarily kicks Jeff out for going to Chang and getting only himself a free pass from homework. While that may sound bad on Jeff's part, keep in mind that the group threatened to kick him out if he didn't try to convince Chang to call off the essay, even with Jeff's reasonable reluctance to talk to their crazy teacher. Then they proceed to just sit back and let Jeff take care of all of it, so it's quite easy to see why Chang would only give Jeff special treatment seeing as how he's the only one jumping through hoops to try to please him. That said, Jeff didn't ''have'' to take Chang up on his offer at everyone else's expense, it's made clear that Jeff is the most likely person to be able to successfully convince Chang to back off a bit, and it's suggested that he's otherwise not been pulling his weight in the study group while benefiting from everyone else's hard work, so he's not exactly in the right; it's understandable why they'd be feeling pissed off and betrayed with him.

* MoralMyopia: Jeff is asked to approach Senor Chang on behalf of the group and get him to call off some of the ridiculously harsh amounts of homework he's been setting. Chang, bonding with Jeff over his recent separation from his wife, agrees to call it off — but only for Jeff. Jeff goes along with this, and when the other members of the group learn this and angrily call him out over it Jeff initially acts as if ''he's'' the one who's being wronged.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJHamGNOFQ This clip]] is one of the show's most popular on YouTube, if not ''the'' most popular outside the Troy-Abed tag scenes at the end of each episode. In it, [[HeyItsThatGuy the Bro Rape guy]] and an Indian actor sing "[[AnAmericanTail Somewhere Out There]]" at a mouse in a vent; [[HeyItsThatGuy the naked Chinese mobster from]] ''TheHangover'' does an Irish tango kind of thing, screams, and starts making out with his dance partner as [[HeyItsThatGuy the host of]] ''TheSoup'' silently watches; and [[HeyItsThatGuy that woman who worked with]] [[TheOffice Dwight when he was at Staples]] talks very slowly about "orgasmically delicious" brownies in front of a mesmerized class (and briefly impersonates JackNicholson from ''TheShining''), while Chevy Chase waves a sandwich in the air.

** Abed and Troy's mouse is named after Fievel Mousekewitz, one of the characters in the movie ''AnAmericanTail'', in which he sings "Somewhere Out There", the song Abed and Troy sing to lure their mouse out.
* MoralMyopia: Jeff is asked to approach Senor Chang on behalf of the group and get him to call off some of the ridiculously harsh amounts of homework he's been setting. Chang, bonding with Jeff over his recent separation from his wife, agrees to call it off — but only for Jeff. Jeff goes along with this, and when the other members of the group learn this and angrily call him out over it Jeff initially acts as if ''he's'' the one who's being wronged.

* {{Homage}}: In TheTag of "Environmental Science," Pierce behaves like Michael Corleone in the restaurant scene from TheGodfather, shooting Troy and Abed in the face with a water pistol filled with pepper water, then dropping the gun as he leaves.
** Abed and Troy's mouse is named after Fievel Mousekewitz, one of the characters in the movie AnAmericanTail, in which he sings Somewhere Out There, the song Abed and Troy sing to lure their mouse out.

* DesignatedVillain: The group temporarily kicks Jeff out for going to Chang and getting only himself a free pass from homework. While that may sound bad on Jeff's part, keep in mind that the group threatened to kick him out if he didn't try to convince Chang to call off the essay, even with Jeff's reasonable reluctance to talk to their crazy teacher. Then they proceed to just sit back and let Jeff take care of all of it, so it's quite easy to see why Chang would only give Jeff special treatment seeing as how he's the only one jumping through hoops to try to please him.
** That said, Jeff didn't ''have'' to take Chang up on his offer at everyone else's expense, it's made clear that Jeff is the most likely person to be able to successfully convince Chang to back off a bit, and it's suggested that he's otherwise not been pulling his weight in the study group while benefiting from everyone else's hard work, so he's not exactly in the right; it's understandable why they'd be feeling pissed off and betrayed with him.

** That said, Jeff didn't ''have'' to take Chang up on his offer at everyone else's expense, it's made clear that Jeff is the most likely person to be able to successfully convince Chang to back off a bit, and it's suggested that he's otherwise not been pulling his weight in the study group while benefiting from everyone else's hard work, so he's not exactly in the right either; it's understandable why they'd be feeling pissed off and betrayed with him as well.

** That said, Jeff didn't ''have'' to take Chang up on his offer at everyone else's expense, it's made clear that Jeff is the most likely person to be able to successfully convince Chang to back off a bit, and it's suggested that he's otherwise not been pulling his weight in the study group while benefiting from everyone else's hard work, so while he's not the villain, it's understandable why they'd be feeling pissed off and betrayed with him as well.

** That said, Jeff didn't ''have'' to take Chang up on his offer at everyone else's expense, it's made clear that Jeff is the most likely person to be able to convince Chang to back off a bit, and it's suggested that he's otherwise not been pulling his weight in the study group while benefiting from everyone else's hard work, so while he's not the villain, it's understandable why they'd be feeling pissed off and betrayed with him as well.

** That said, Jeff didn't ''have'' to take Chang up on his offer at everyone else's expense, it's made clear that Jeff (with his silver tongue) is the most likely person to be able to convince Chang to back off a bit, and it's suggested that he's otherwise not been pulling his weight in the study group while benefiting from everyone else's hard graft, so while he's not the villain, it's understandable why they'd be pissed off with him as well.

** That said, Jeff didn't ''have'' to take Chang up on his offer at everyone else's expense, it's made clear that Jeff (with his silver tongue) is the most likely person to be able to convince Chang to back off a bit, and it's suggested that he's otherwise not been pulling his weight in the study group and benefiting from everyone else's hard graft, so while he's not the villain, it's understandable why they'd be pissed off with him as well.

** That said, Jeff didn't ''have'' to take Chang up on his offer at everyone else's expense, it's made clear that Jeff (with his silver tongue) is the most likely person to be able to convince Chang to back off a bit, and it's suggested that he's otherwise not been pulling his weight in the study group and benefiting from everyone else's hard graft, so it's understandable why they'd be pissed off with him as well.

'''Pierce''': Go tongue Chang.\\

'''Jeff:''' Yeah. You look like you would have to. I'm not surprised you said that.\\

* DesignatedVillain: The group temporarily kicks Jeff out for going to Chang and getting only himself a free pass from homework. While that may sound bad on Jeff's part, keep in mind that the group threatened to kick him out if he didn't try to convince Chang to call off the essay, even with Jeff's reasonable reluctance to talk to their crazy teacher. Then they proceed to just sit back and let Jeff take care of all of it, so it's quite easy to see why Chang would only give Jeff special treatment seeing as how he's the only one jumping through hoops to try to please him.

* DesignatedVillain: The group temporarily kicks Jeff out for going to Chang and getting only himself a free pass from homework. While that may sound bad, keep in mind that the group threatened to kick him out if he didn't try to convince Chang to call off the essay, even with Jeff's reasonable reluctance to talk to their crazy teacher. Then they proceed to just sit back and let Jeff take care of all of it, so it's quite easy to see why Chang would only give Jeff special treatment seeing as how he's the only one jumping through hoops to try to please him.

* DesignatedVillain: The group temporarily kicks Jeff out for going to Chang and getting only himself a free pass from homework. While that my sound bad, keep in mind that the group threatened to kick him out if he didn't try to convince Chang to call off the essay, even with Jeff's reasonable reluctance to talk to their crazy teacher. Then they proceed to just sit back and let Jeff take care of all of it, so it's quite easy to see why Chang would only give Jeff special treatment seeing as how he's the only one jumping through hoops to try to please him.

* DesignatedVillain: The group temporarily kicks Jeff out for going to Chang and getting only himself a free pass from homework. While that my sound bad, keep in mind that the group threatened to kick him out if he didn't try to convince Chang to call off the essay, even with Jeff's reasonable reluctance to talk to their crazy teacher. Then they proceed to just sit back and let Jeff take care of all of it, so it's quite easy to see why Chang would only give Jeff special treatment seeing as how he's the only one jumping through hoops.

* EekAMouse

-->'''Chang:''' You make no mistake about this, Winger: I pleasured that woman greatly.\\
'''Jeff:''' Yeah. You look like you would have to. I'm not surprised you said that.

* GreenAesop: Parodied; the Dean decides to celebrate Green Week and announces that he's change the name of the college to Envirodale, only to be told the school is already named Greendale. The Dean then orders the 5,000 leaflets he's had printed with "Envirodale" on it destroyed, and another 5,000 printed up with Greendale in them.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJHamGNOFQ This clip]] is one of the show's most popular on YouTube, if not ''the'' most popular outside the Troy-Abed tag scenes at the end of each episode. In it, [[HeyItsThatGuy the Bro Rape guy]] and an Indian actor sing "[[AnAmericanTail Somewhere Out There]]" at a mouse in a vent; [[HeyItsThatGuy the naked Chinese mobster from]] ''TheHangover'' does an Irish tango kind of thing, screams, and starts making out with his dance partner as [[HeyItsThatGuy the host of]] ''TheSoup'' silently watches; and [[HeyItsThatGuy that woman who worked with]] [[TheOffice Dwight when he was at Staples]] talks very slowly about "orgasmically delicious" brownies in front of a mesmerized class (and briefly impersonates JackNicholson from ''TheShining''), while ChevyChase waves a sandwich in the air.