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* {{Deconstruction}}: Abed's film is hyped up by the students of Greendale as a [[MetaFiction metafictional]] TrueArtIsIncomprehensible masterpiece. When Abed sees the final cut of the movie, [[CreatorBacklash he realizes it's too complex and self-indulgent and thinks it's a terrible product]]. Turns out, incomprehensibility won't inherently make something good.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Abed's vision for the film becomes increasingly complex, strange, and painfully meta. Most of the campus eats it up, but Abed ultimately realizes the final product is unwatchable, and fears what will happen when it's released.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Abed's vision for the film becomes increasingly complex, strange, and painfully meta. Most of the campus eats it up, but [[DeconstructedTrope Abed ultimately realizes the final product is unwatchable, and fears what will happen when it's released.released]].
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* YouJustRuinedTheShot: Shirley ruins the shot when stumbling into Abed's production.
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* YouJustRuinedTheShot: Shirley ruins the shot when stumbling into Abed's production. Abed insists they ThrowItIn.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Abed's vision for the film becomes increasingly complex, strange, and painfully meta. Most of the campus eats it up, but [[spoiler: Abed ultimately realizes the final product is unwatchable, and fears what will happen when it's released.]]
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Abed's vision for the film becomes increasingly complex, strange, and painfully meta. Most of the campus eats it up, but [[spoiler: Abed ultimately realizes the final product is unwatchable, and fears what will happen when it's released.]]
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: After spending the whole episode fighting against Abed's film, Shirley overhears him realizing that the final product was a self-indulgent mess, and praying that something will happen so he doesn't have to release it. Shirley then publicly destroys the film, knowing that she'll be publicly hated for it, just to give him a way out.]]
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: After spending the whole episode fighting against Abed's film, Shirley overhears him realizing that the final product was a self-indulgent mess, and praying that something will happen so he doesn't have to release it. Shirley then publicly destroys the film, knowing that she'll be publicly hated for it, just to give him a way out.]]
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* StandardFiftiesFather: Parodied with Jeff reading a newspaper while acting as Pierce's metaphorical "dad", which he seems to only notice halfway through the scene and throws it away in confusion.
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* MostWritersAreWriters:
-->'''Abed:''' I want to tell the story of Jesus from the perspective of a filmmaker exploring the life of Jesus.\\
'''Shirley:''' That sounds… very appealing to filmmakers.
-->'''Abed:''' I want to tell the story of Jesus from the perspective of a filmmaker exploring the life of Jesus.\\
'''Shirley:''' That sounds… very appealing to filmmakers.
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* {{Delinquents}}: InvertedTrope--instead of juvenile delinquents, they're senior delinquents. The "Hipsters" (so called because they all have replaced hips) are a clique of old students. They're rude, play poker, drink excessively, and drive unsafely. It uses the trope ScrewPolitenessImASenior, but the rest of the tropes are lifted straight from the youth. Piece falls in with the wrong crowd until he learns they aren't actually very good friends and returns to his old friends.
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* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Leonard and his elderly clique, the "Hipsters", so called because they all have replaced hips.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse. Abed's vision for the film becomes increasingly complex, strange, and painfully meta. Most of the campus eats it up, but [[spoiler: Abed ultimately realizes the final product is unwatchable, and fears what will happen when it's released.]]
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse. Abed's vision for the film becomes increasingly complex, strange, and painfully meta. Most of the campus eats it up, but [[spoiler: Abed ultimately realizes the final product is unwatchable, and fears what will happen when it's released.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: When the senior citizen group has the idea to take a joy ride in the Dean's car, Pierce is the only one to protest, partially because of it being theft and partly because [[DrunkDriver all of them have been drinking]]. After Richard crashes the car[[note]]read: has the car ''very slowly'' bump into a lamppost[[/note]], Leonard tells the rest of the group to run, but Pierce willingly stays behind to look after Richard, who it's just been revealed is suffering from dementia.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: When the senior citizen group has the idea to take a joy ride in the Dean's car, Pierce is the only one to protest, partially because of it being theft and partly because [[DrunkDriver all of them have been drinking]]. After Richard crashes the car[[note]]read: has the car ''very slowly'' bump into a lamppost[[/note]], Leonard tells the rest of the group to run, but Pierce willingly stays behind to look after Richard, [[BecomingTheMask who it's just been revealed is suffering from dementia.dementia]].
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* TemporarilyExaggeratedTrait: Pierce's pseudo-teenage petulance is highlighted against Britta and Jeff's parental roles in the group.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: When the senior citizen group has the idea to take a joy ride in the Dean's car, Pierce is the only one to protest, partially because of it being theft and partly because [[DrunkDriver all of them have been drinking]]. After Richard crashes the car, Leonard tells the rest of the group to run, but Pierce willingly stays behind to look after Richard, who it's just been revealed is suffering from dementia.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: When the senior citizen group has the idea to take a joy ride in the Dean's car, Pierce is the only one to protest, partially because of it being theft and partly because [[DrunkDriver all of them have been drinking]]. After Richard crashes the car, car[[note]]read: has the car ''very slowly'' bump into a lamppost[[/note]], Leonard tells the rest of the group to run, but Pierce willingly stays behind to look after Richard, who it's just been revealed is suffering from dementia.
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* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Jesus!Abed.
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* PrettyBoy: Jesus!Abed.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Abed's vision for the film becomes increasingly complex, strange, and painfully meta. Most of the campus eats it up, but [[spoiler: Abed ultimately realizes the final product is unwatchable, and fears what will happen when it's released.]]
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse. Abed's vision for the film becomes increasingly complex, strange, and painfully meta. Most of the campus eats it up, but [[spoiler: Abed ultimately realizes the final product is unwatchable, and fears what will happen when it's released.]]
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This is now Just For Fun, and should not be listed as a trope.
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* RecycledInSpace: This episode is ''Film/ManWithAMovieCamera'' [-WITH RELIGIOUS SUBTEXT-].
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: After spending the whole episode fighting against Abed's film, Shirley overhears him realizing that the final product was a self-indulgent mess, and praying that something will happen so he doesn't have to release it. Shirley then publicly destroys the film, knowing that she'll be publicly hated for it, just to give him a way out.]]
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Abed's vision for the film becomes increasingly complex, strange, and painfully meta. Most of the campus eats it up, but [[spoiler: Abed ultimately realizes the final product is unwatchable, and fears what will happen when it's released.]]
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved
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* NotSoDifferent: Jeff is clearly confused by some of the viral videos, just like Shirley and Pierce.
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* HeavenAbove: Shirley gives two thumbs up pointing at the sky to try to tell Abed she's talking about God, but he doesn't quite get it and she has to explain her own message.
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* ApatheticTeacher: Duncan admits he's completely given up any pretense of actually teaching Anthropology and just lets the class watch random [=YouTube=] videos instead.
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* ThrowItIn: In-universe, Jesus!Abed tells his camera crew to keep rolling when Shirley barges into the middle of his shoot, deciding to make it part of the movie.
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* DirectedByCastMember: Invoked by Abed when he plays Jesus in his own movie.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Jeff awkwardly dancing in the background in the ColdOpen.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Jeff awkwardly dancing in the background in the ColdOpen.TheTeaser.
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* PerpWalk: The "hipsters" give the Dean and Shirley a hard time when the two pass from the car to the school's entrance.
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* PerpWalk: The "hipsters" Hipsters give the Dean and Shirley a hard time when the two pass from the car to the school's entrance.
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** When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jesus, saying that some people have called ''Literature/TheBible'' "the greatest story ever told," Abed notes that [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/28/entertainment/ca-lyons28 Ben Lyons]] said the same thing about ''Film/IAmLegend''.
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** When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jesus, saying that some people have called ''Literature/TheBible'' "the greatest story ever told," Abed notes that [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/28/entertainment/ca-lyons28 Ben Lyons]] said the same thing about ''Film/IAmLegend''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Shirley doesn't quite get it.]]
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* WhatYearIsThis: Pierce uses the line when pretending to have dementia. Gets a dark reprise later on by Richard in the car.
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* WhatYearIsThis: Pierce uses the line when pretending to have dementia. Gets a dark reprise DarkReprise later on by Richard in the car.
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Concerned about a lack of what she considers to be wholesome entertainment, Shirley sets out to make a religious film and asks Abed for help. However, Abed is consumed in the project, which evolves into a gratuitously meta study of the relationship between Jesus and God, with Abed himself in the starring role. Shirley worries about the blasphemous implications while Abed sweeps the rest of the school into his vision.
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Concerned about a lack of what she considers to be wholesome entertainment, Shirley sets out to make a religious film and asks Abed for help. However, Abed is consumed in the project, which evolves into a gratuitously meta metafictional study of the relationship between Jesus UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} and God, {{God}}, with Abed himself in the starring role. Shirley worries about the blasphemous implications while Abed sweeps the rest of the school into his vision.
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* AmateurFilmMakingPlot: Abed's plot. Taking inspiration from Shirley, Abed decides to make his own religious film. While he's making it, the film starts to take on some MemeticBadass traits. Unfortunately, the result turns out to be terrible and Shirley destroys it to save Abed's reputation.
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* AmateurFilmMakingPlot: Abed's plot. Taking inspiration from Shirley, Abed decides to make his own religious film. While he's making it, the film starts to take on some MemeticBadass MemeticBadass[[invoked]] traits. Unfortunately, the result turns out to be terrible and Shirley destroys it to save Abed's reputation.
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* BatterUp: Shirley uses a baseball bat to [[spoiler:trash Abed's set.]]
* CryingWolf[=/=]PlayingSick: Leonard's comrade Richard continually says, "Where am I? What year is this?" and the rest of the seniors laugh at this genius ploy of getting out of trouble. This leads to a TearJerker moment towards the end when Pierce and the others discover Richard is actually suffering from dementia, and may or may not have been previously faking.
* DesignatedParents: Jeff and Britta even moreso than usual, although Jeff tries so hard to defy this. Pierce plays the role of the rebelling teenager and Annie is the concerned younger sister.
* DressesTheSame: In TheTag Abed and Troy both SpeakInUnison with and [[DressesTheSame dress the same]] as Jeff. Annie apparently wanted in on the gag too, but got stuck in traffic and arrives just after the joke has ended - only to become the impromptu next victim as the two imitate her, instead.
* CryingWolf[=/=]PlayingSick: Leonard's comrade Richard continually says, "Where am I? What year is this?" and the rest of the seniors laugh at this genius ploy of getting out of trouble. This leads to a TearJerker moment towards the end when Pierce and the others discover Richard is actually suffering from dementia, and may or may not have been previously faking.
* DesignatedParents: Jeff and Britta even moreso than usual, although Jeff tries so hard to defy this. Pierce plays the role of the rebelling teenager and Annie is the concerned younger sister.
* DressesTheSame: In TheTag Abed and Troy both SpeakInUnison with and [[DressesTheSame dress the same]] as Jeff. Annie apparently wanted in on the gag too, but got stuck in traffic and arrives just after the joke has ended - only to become the impromptu next victim as the two imitate her, instead.
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* BatterUp: Shirley uses a baseball bat to [[spoiler:trash [[TrashTheSet trash Abed's set.]]
set]].
* BookEnds: Duncan's anthropology class where he just shows online videos in lieu of anything like the actual curriculum -- only in the last one, he starts a video that Abed uploaded, which forces him to instruct the class, "Open your books, because Abed has broken the Internet."
* CryingWolf[=/=]PlayingSick: Leonard's comrade Richard continually says, "Where am I? What year is this?" and the rest of theseniors Hipsters laugh at this genius ploy of getting out of trouble. This leads to a TearJerker TearJerker[[invoked]] moment towards the end when Pierce and the others discover Richard is actually is, in fact, suffering from dementia, dementia and may or may not have been previously faking.
* DesignatedParents: Jeff andBritta Britta, even moreso more so than usual, although Jeff tries so hard despite all Jeff's efforts to defy this.such. Pierce plays the role of the rebelling teenager and Annie is the concerned younger sister.
* DressesTheSame: In TheTag Abed and Troy both SpeakInUnison with and [[DressesTheSame dress the same]] as Jeff. Annie apparently wanted in on the gag too, but got stuck in traffic and arrives just after the joke has ended- -- only to become the impromptu next victim as the two imitate her, instead.
* BookEnds: Duncan's anthropology class where he just shows online videos in lieu of anything like the actual curriculum -- only in the last one, he starts a video that Abed uploaded, which forces him to instruct the class, "Open your books, because Abed has broken the Internet."
* CryingWolf[=/=]PlayingSick: Leonard's comrade Richard continually says, "Where am I? What year is this?" and the rest of the
* DesignatedParents: Jeff and
* DressesTheSame: In TheTag Abed and Troy both SpeakInUnison with and [[DressesTheSame dress the same]] as Jeff. Annie apparently wanted in on the gag too, but got stuck in traffic and arrives just after the joke has ended
* ExactWords: Duncan shows Website/YouTube videos to the Anthropology class. When Annie protests, he says the descriptor of anthropology as "the study of humanity" is broad enough to justify practically anything.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Jeff awkwardly dancing in the background in the pre-opening credits scene.
* GiveMeASign: Abed asks and [[ExactEavesDropping is being heard]].
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Nobody besides Abed and Starburns will ever see whatever was the Abed's movie, since Shirley destroys the tapes, helped by the fact Abed actually does not wants anyone to ever see what's in the movies.
* GiveMeASign: Abed asks and [[ExactEavesDropping is being heard]].
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Nobody besides Abed and Starburns will ever see whatever was the Abed's movie, since Shirley destroys the tapes, helped by the fact Abed actually does not wants anyone to ever see what's in the movies.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Jeff awkwardly dancing in the background in the pre-opening credits scene.
ColdOpen.
* GiveMeASign: Abed asks and[[ExactEavesDropping [[ExactEavesdropping is being heard]].
heard]].
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Nobody besides Abed and Starburns will ever see whatever wasthe in Abed's movie, since Shirley destroys the tapes, helped by the fact tapes. Abed actually himself ''thanks'' Shirley for her intervention, since he does not wants want anyone to ever see what's in the movies.movie.
* GiveMeASign: Abed asks and
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Nobody besides Abed and Starburns will ever see whatever was
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* MyGreatestFailure[=/=]MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Abed refers to his movie as the worst piece of crap he's ever seen. He thinks that if the movie goes out, critics will turn against him and ending his career before he even has a chance to start it.
-->'''Abed:''' "It's a self indulgent adolescent mess, I can barely sit through it".
-->'''Abed:''' "It's a self indulgent adolescent mess, I can barely sit through it".
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* MyGreatestFailure[=/=]MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Abed refers to his movie as [[WorstWhateverEver the worst piece of crap he's ever seen.seen]]. He thinks that if the movie goes out, critics will turn against him and ending his career before he even has a chance to start it.
-->'''Abed:'''"It's It's a self indulgent self-indulgent, adolescent mess, mess; I can barely sit through it".it.
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* OneWomanWail: A female vocalist ululates Abed's name for a sort of joking Biblical epic effect many times throughout the episode, then in the "dramatic" ending, the singer eerily wails Shirley's name.
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* OneWomanWail: A female vocalist ululates Abed's name for a sort of joking Biblical biblical epic effect many times throughout the episode, then in the "dramatic" ending, the singer eerily wails Shirley's name.
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* ShoutOut: Multiple references to [[Creator/CharlieKaufman Charlie Kaufman]], a screenwriter known for his use of metafiction and MindScrew-y films.
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* ShoutOut: Multiple references to [[Creator/CharlieKaufman Charlie Kaufman]], Creator/CharlieKaufman, a screenwriter known for his use of metafiction and MindScrew-y films.
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** When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jesus, saying that some people have called the Bible "the greatest story ever told," Abed notes that [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/28/entertainment/ca-lyons28 Ben Lyons]] said the same thing about ''Film/IAmLegend''.
** When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jesus, saying that some people have called the Bible "the greatest story ever told," Abed notes that [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/28/entertainment/ca-lyons28 Ben Lyons]] said the same thing about ''Film/IAmLegend''.
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** When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jesus, saying that some people have calledthe Bible ''Literature/TheBible'' "the greatest story ever told," Abed notes that [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/28/entertainment/ca-lyons28 Ben Lyons]] said the same thing about ''Film/IAmLegend''.
** When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jesus, saying that some people have called
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I'm not even sure that's a word...but it's definitely not what he said
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* StylisticSuck: Shirley's attempt at making a video without Abed. Featuring BadBadActing by Tory and Britta.
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* StylisticSuck: Shirley's attempt at making a video without Abed. Featuring BadBadActing by Tory Troy and Britta.
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* TakeThat: When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jesus, saying that some people have called the Bible "the greatest story ever told," Abed notes that [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/28/entertainment/ca-lyons28 Ben Lyons]] said the same thing about ''Film/IAmLegend''.
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* TakeThat: TakeThat:
** When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jesus, saying that some people have called the Bible "the greatest story ever told," Abed notes that [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/28/entertainment/ca-lyons28 Ben Lyons]] said the same thing about ''Film/IAmLegend''.
** When Abed realizes his film is terrible and won't live up to the hype:
--->'''Abed:''' I think I've got a real ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'' brewing.
** When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jesus, saying that some people have called the Bible "the greatest story ever told," Abed notes that [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/28/entertainment/ca-lyons28 Ben Lyons]] said the same thing about ''Film/IAmLegend''.
** When Abed realizes his film is terrible and won't live up to the hype:
--->'''Abed:''' I think I've got a real ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'' brewing.
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* MyGreatestFailure[=/=]MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Abed refers to his movie as the worst piece of crap he's ever seen. He thinks thta that if the movie goes out, critics will turn against him and ending his career before he even has a chance to start it.
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* TakeThat: When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jeses, saying that some people have called the Bible "the greatest story ever told," Abed notes that [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/28/entertainment/ca-lyons28 Ben Lyons]] said the same thing about ''Film/IAmLegend''.
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* TakeThat: When Shirley tries to get Abed to help make a movie about Jeses, Jesus, saying that some people have called the Bible "the greatest story ever told," Abed notes that [[http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/28/entertainment/ca-lyons28 Ben Lyons]] said the same thing about ''Film/IAmLegend''.
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* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Pierce Has Standards]]: When the senior citizen group has the idea to take a joy ride in the Dean's car, Pierce is the only one to protest, partially because of it being theft and partly because [[DrunkDriver all of them have been drinking]]. After Richard crashes the car, Leonard tells the rest of the group to run, but Pierce willingly stays behind to look after Richard, who it's just been revealed is suffering from dementia.
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* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Pierce Has Standards]]: EvenEvilHasStandards: When the senior citizen group has the idea to take a joy ride in the Dean's car, Pierce is the only one to protest, partially because of it being theft and partly because [[DrunkDriver all of them have been drinking]]. After Richard crashes the car, Leonard tells the rest of the group to run, but Pierce willingly stays behind to look after Richard, who it's just been revealed is suffering from dementia.