History Recap / CommunityS4E11BasicHumanAnatomy

Troy and Britta's upcoming one-year anniversary falls on the the same day as Troy and Abed's three-year celebration since watching ''Film/FreakyFriday1976'' together. The two of them say the TriggerPhrase while holding the DVD and the next day finds the two of the them [[spoiler:feigning]] switching bodies. Abed goes on an awkward date with Britta as Troy, while Troy-as-Abed goes hunting for the DVD with an indignant Jeff to restore their former selves.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Troy and Britta break up, but they remain friends.]]

** Whilst the group split-up to resolve various issues, they simply tell Pierce to "stay alive". When they return after resolving the various plots, [[spoiler:it turns out Pierce did the assignment for their history class on his own, since after a while he just figured the rest of the group weren't coming back]].

** TheTag has [[spoiler:Troy, Abed, and the Dean doing (deliberate) outtakes like "[[Recap/CommunityS4E09IntroToFeltSurrogacy Intro to Felt Surrogacy]]"]].

** Troy and Abed. [[spoiler:Purposely invoked by Troy to avoid being the one to break up with Britta.]]

* HilariousOuttakes: Subverted. [[spoiler: Abed and Troy have a fun time messing up, until Jeff points out that the body-switch was last week and they can stop doing outtakes now. When the Dean turns up hoping to join in, they tell him they've stopped.]]

* ShipSinking: [[spoiler: Britta/Troy is no more.]]

** Troy pulls this on himself [[spoiler:when he breaks up with Britta as himself, acknowledging that his attempt to pretend to have switched bodies with Abed to avoid breaking up with her just proves his immaturity and unreadiness to be in a proper relationship with her.]]

* HiddenDepths: Who knew Pierce was good as creating banners?

** To a list of six body-swap movies: ''The Change Up'', ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'', ''Film/SeventeenAgain'', ''Eighteen Again'', ''Film/ViceVersa'', and ''Film/FreakyFriday1976''.

* AbsenteeActor : Ken Jeong as Chang

* TakeThat: To Judge Reinhold.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Britta tries to [[Opinion Myopia trigger]] Abed by encouraging the waiter to denigrate ''[[invoked]][[SacredCow Die Hard]]''.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Britta tries to [[Opinion Myopia trigger]] Abed by encouraging the waiter to denigrate ''[[SacredCow Die Hard]]''.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Britta tries to trigger Abed's BerserkButton by encouraging the waiter to denigrate ''Die Hard''.

* SweetOnPollyOliver: Annie suddenly becomes giggly and flirty when the Dean starts acting out a particularly jerky impersonation of Jeff.

** The Dean ''tries'' to invoke this with himself & Jeff, but Jeff refuses to play along. Instead, the Dean just acts as he would imagine Jeff to act, which is appealing to Annie. [[SweetOnPollyOliver For no reason that's apparent to her]].

* WrittenByCastMember: Jim Rash penned this one.

Troy and Britta's upcoming one-year anniversary falls on the the same day as Troy and Abed's three-year celebration since watching ''FreakyFriday'' together. The two of them say the TriggerPhrase while holding the DVD and the next day finds the two of the them [[spoiler:feigning]] switching bodies. Abed goes on an awkward date with Britta as Troy, while Troy-as-Abed goes hunting for the DVD with an indignant Jeff to restore their former selves.

** To a list of six body-swap movies: ''The Change Up'', ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'', ''Film/SeventeenAgain'', ''Eighteen Again'', ''Film/ViceVersa'', and ''Film/FreakyFriday''.

** Mildly invoked when it turns out that Troy can barely remember that it's a year since [[Recap/CommunityS3E16VirtualSystemsAnalysis his first date with Britta]], but remembers that it's three years since he & Abed first watched ''Film/FreakyFriday'' together.

* WrittenByCastMember: Jim Rash penned this one.

! The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Basic Human Anatomy" provides examples of:
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Annie suddenly becomes giggly and flirty when the Dean starts acting out a particularly jerky impersonation of Jeff.

** The Dean ''tries'' to invoke this with himself & Jeff, but Jeff refuses to play along. Instead, the Dean just acts as he would imagine Jeff to act, which is appealing to Annie. [[ShipTease For no reason that's apparent to her]].

--->'''Pierce:''' Leonard. He's ''old''.

Troy and Britta's upcoming one-year anniversary falls on the the same day as Troy and Abed's three-year celebration since watching ''FreakyFriday'' together. The two of them say the TriggerPhrase while holding the DVD and the next day finds the two of the them having [[spoiler:pretending to have]] switched bodies. Abed goes on an awkward date with Britta as Troy, while Troy-as-Abed goes hunting for the DVD with an indignant Jeff to restore their former selves.

** To a list of six body-swap movies: ''The Change Up'', ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'', ''Film/SeventeenAgain'', ''Eighteen Again'', ''ViceVersa'', and ''Film/FreakyFriday''.

** The blackboard behind Annie has a note regarding "[[{{Foreshadowing}} all lost & found items]]". The JohnFKennedy-inspired "Ask not what your [[TitleDrop community]] can do" from "[[Recap/CommunityS4E06AdvancedDocumentaryFilmmaking Advanced Documentary Filmmaking]]" is also there.

** Abed wears a shirt with an image of a [[DoctorWho Police Box]], along with a [[Creator/PatrickTroughton short man]] and man in a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders Highlander outfit]] during the [[ColdOpen cold open]].

* HilariousOuttakes: Subverted. [[spoiler Abed and Troy have a fun time messing up, until Jeff points out that the body-switch was last week and they can stop doing outtakes now. When the Dean turns up hoping to join in, they tell him they've stopped.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Troy and Britta break up, but they remain friends.]]
* BrickJoke: When Troy and Abed switch back, they look down the front of their pants again.
** Also possibly a reference to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mephJf3-zYE this]] [=BriTANicK=] sketch featuring Danny Pudi.

* FreakyFridayFlip: Troy and Abed. [[spoiler:Purposely invoked by Troy to avoid being the one to break up with Britta.]]

* HilariousOuttakes: ...subverted. [[spoiler: Abed and Troy have a fun time messing up, until Jeff points out that the body-switch was last week and they can stop doing outtakes now.]]

--->'''Pierce:''' Leonard. He's ''old''.

* ShipTease: Annie and the Dean (By proxy Annie/Jeff), while he has "Jeffrey inside of [him]".

* WhatTheHellHero: Troy pulls this on himself [[spoiler: when he breaks up with Britta as himself, acknowledging that his attempt to pretend to have switched bodies with Abed to avoid breaking up with her just proves his immaturity and unreadiness to be in a proper relationship with her.]]

** "Jeffrey inside of me"

Troy and Britta's upcoming one-year anniversary falls on the the same day as Troy and Abed's three-year celebration since watching ''FreakyFriday'' together. The two of them say the TriggerPhrase while holding the DVD and the next day finds the two of the them having [[spoiler:pretend to have]] switched bodies. Abed goes on an awkward date with Britta as Troy, while Troy-as-Abed goes hunting for the DVD with an indignant Jeff to restore their former selves.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Annie suddenly becomes giggly and flirty when Dean's Jerkass side surfaces.