History Recap / CommunityS1E18BasicGenealogy

** Pierce compares Amber's appearance to those of the call girls he frequents. It goes about as well as you'd expect.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Amber points out Pierce is acting as one.

* IWasQuiteALooker: Invoked. Britta unsuccessfully attempts to flatter Troy's grandmother's to get on her good side.

* AssShove: It's implied this happens to Troy in the {{Stinger}}; he and Abed are stuck in the vending machine because they thought it looked fun and can't call for help. Abed tells Troy to hit a certain letter-number combo because the action of the machine will push his phone out of his pocket. Troy hits G-13 instead, and based on his strained voice and facial expression, it's pretty clear what happened.

-->'''Jeff:''' You're becoming dangerous, Annie. It's those doe-eyes. Disappointing you is like choking WesternAnimation/{{the Little Mermaid}} with a bike chain.

* OverprotectiveDad: Overprotective ex-stepdad Pierce.

* HollywoodBoardGames: Pierce and co. play a game of ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}'', with the cue being "windmill". Matching the sitcom's customary BlackComedy and in a {{justified}} case for it, Pierce's drawing resembles a swastika. This [[GameNightFight derails into a fistfight]] with a rabbi who gets understandably offended by it. The cop that arrests them thinks ''Pictionary'' should ban the abovementioned cue.

* MistakenForRacist: To be fair, Pierce actually is pretty racist, but for once he makes an innocent mistake with his attempt to draw a windmill while playing ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}''. [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike And apparently he's not the first person to do it]], according to Officer Cackowski. Obviously, he'd never seen the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/OldDutchQualityLivesHereLogo.png Old Dutch potato chips]] logo in his life...

* PlayingPictionary: With actual ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}''. Apparently, people drawing accidental swastikas has come up on campus before. Officer Cackowski says it won't stop until ''Pictionary'' bans the clue "windmill" from the game.

* MistakenForRacist: To be fair, Pierce actually is pretty racist, but for once he makes an innocent mistake with his attempt to draw a windmill while playing Pictionary. [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike And apparently he's not the first person to do it]], according to Officer Cackowski. Obviously, he'd never seen the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/OldDutchQualityLivesHereLogo.png Old Dutch potato chips]] logo in his life...

* PlayingPictionary: With actual Pictionary. Apparently people drawing accidental swastikas has come up on campus before. Officer Cackowski says it won't stop until Pictionary bans the clue "windmill" from the game.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The cop (Officer, previously Security Guard Cackowski) that the dean has to call to handle the fight is apologetic to both men. He says it was obviously a misunderstanding thanks to Pictionary and just needs to take their statements.

* SoreLoser: Pierce is petulant during Pictionary when he's not the one to come up with the right answer... even though his team still won the points.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Apparently, a lot of people make the same mistake as Pierce when drawing a windmill in Pictionary. So much that the cops say it's been happening since the beginning of Pictionary.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: There's at least one actual prominent Asian-American rabbi, [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120324015755/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/profiles/angela-buchdahl/ Rabbi Angela Buchdal.]]

'''Amber:''' Uh-huh.

* MoralityPet: Annie, to Jeff. This episode takes it UpToEleven.

'''Troy:''' I want [[PirateBooty pirate's booty]].

* NonNaziSwastika: Pierce's windmill in Pictionary, which offends Señor Chang's brother the rabbi, which leads to [[BigBrotherInstinct Chang punching Pierce]].

--->'''Nana:''' I ain't no hussy!

* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Trying to teach Troy a lesson about respecting and "cherishing" family, Britta says something she would consider complimentary but which "Nana" considers offensive. Nana orders her to get a switch, which Britta does. Britta seems to think that the switch was for striking her hand. Nana quickly corrects her ("I ain't no nun!"). She bends over -- even though Troy tells her she doesn't have to -- and pulls down her pants. She realizes very quickly she doesn't know what she's gotten herself into.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chang's brother calling him out on how ridiculous "Señor Chang" sounds. At first it looks like just another joke about the oddity of a Chinese-American man teaching Spanish, until one watches [[Recap/CommunityS1E24EnglishAsASecondLanguage "English as A Second Language"]] ...

'''Troy''' ''[crying]'': I don't understand you, Britta! I don't understand you at all! She's had enough! SHE'S HAD ENOUGH!

-->'''Abed:''' I hope they’re not twins. Twins freak me out. They always know what the other one is...\\

'''Abed:''' Yeah. And they’re always finishing each other’s...\\

'''Abed:''' It’s creepy.

* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Trying to teach Troy a lesson about respecting and "cherishing" family, Britta says something she would consider complimentary but which "Nana" considers offensive. Nana orders her to get a switch, which Britta does. Britta seems to think that the switch was for striking her hand. Nana quickly corrects her ("I ain't no nun!"). She bends over--even though Troy tells her she doesn't have to--and pulls down her pants. She realizes very quickly she doesn't know what she's gotten herself into.

-->'''Amber''': Pierce, you're up!
-->'''Pierce''': Eat my dust, Winger.
-->'''Jeff''': You do know we're on the same team...?
* SorryToInterrupt: Jeff and Amber walk in on Britta being spanked by Nana, while Troy is bawling his eyes out:

* PetTheDog: Pierce reveals that he knew all along that his step daughter was scamming him, shares a NotSoDifferent moment with Jeff, then helps Jeff realize that he cared more for Michelle than he let on.

* OffScreenBreakup: [Jeff and Prof. Slater.

-->'''Jeff:''' As long as you have friends you have family.

* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Trying to teach Troy a lesson about respecting and "cherishing" family, Britta says something [[ValuesDissonance she would consider complimentary but which "Nana" considers offensive]]. Nana orders her to get a switch, which Britta does. Britta seems to think that the switch was for striking her hand. Nana quickly corrects her ("I ain't no nun!"). She bends over--even though Troy tells her she doesn't have to--and pulls down her pants. She realizes very quickly she doesn't know what she's gotten herself into.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Rabbi Chang questioning if his brother [[spoiler:realizes how ridiculous "Señor Chang" sounds like a piece of HypocriticalHumor, until [[Recap/CommunityS1E24EnglishAsASecondLanguage it's revealed that he actually doesn't know the language]].]]

* HypocriticalHumor: Rabbi Chang pointing out how ridiculous "Señor Chang" sounds. Although it's worth noting that a Chinese rabbi at least has cultural and historical precedent on his side. Shanghai, in particular, has a surprisingly large Jewish community. Many Jews have immigrated to Eastern countries in the past seventy years or so, due in part to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara Sugihara]], the "Japanese Schindler." [[spoiler:It's also {{foreshadowing}} [[Recap/CommunityS1E24EnglishAsASecondLanguage the revelation of Señor Chang's abysmal knowledge of Spanish.]]]]

* OffScreenBreakup: [[spoiler: Jeff and Prof. Slater.]] Well, not quite, but the next closest thing. When we last saw them, their relationship was doing okay, but they break up before the opening credits. WordOfGod, this development occurred to have Jeff get together with the Guest Star of the week.

** Or [[WildMassGuessing maybe]] Rabbi Chang is [[spoiler:Jewish in the same way Señor Chang is fluent in Spanish]].

* BuyThemOff: Pierce's solution to getting a family involves writing check.

* GirlOfTheWeek: Pierce's ex-stepdaughter [[Creator/KatharineMcPhee Amber]] who serves as a TemporaryLoveInterest for Jeff this episode.

* InsistentTerminology: "Stepdaughter." "Technically, ex-stepdaughter."