History Recap / CommunityS5E01Repilot

* SituationalIrony: A rather bitter example -- Annie, who was ruined by an addiction to Adderall, can only find a job promoting a rather disreputable pharmaceutical company after graduation. Lampshaded by both Britta and later Annie herself.

* DramaticIrony: A rather bitter example -- Annie, who was ruined by an addiction to Adderall, can only find a job promoting a rather disreputable pharmaceutical company after graduation. Lampshaded by both Britta and later Annie herself.

** Jeff is also on this as well. When he was telling the group to sue Greendale, Troy protested that Jeff was a hero (in the commercials). But Jeff asserted that the commercial was a lie and that in real life, the robot (the system) does win. Troy came to believe that since Jeff returned to his old ways, then he was right and that Greendale should be sued.

** The bridge collapse does get treated with some jokes (such as the engineer designed a Lego bridge -- which wasn't even connected together -- for his thesis) but it is also treated as a serious fault of Greendale for not educating Humphries properly.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Jeff accuses Troy of having allowed his entire identity to be consumed by his codependent relationship with another man. Troy assumes that Jeff is referring to his Clive Owen Tumblr.

'''Abed:''' I didn't like the number. 5-5-5? It's derivative.\\

* FiveFiveFive: Abed wouldn't put the 555 number onscreen in Jeff's ad because it "[[LampshadeHanging sounds fake]]".
* {{Flanderization}}: Jeff compares everyone's original character with how they act now, and notes that they have turned into cartoon characters of themselves.

** Alan called Greendale a reckless school to give Humphries a degree and that it was a diploma mill that would shred the evidence. Jeff defended Greendale calling it a good place. But as it turned out, the Dean did shred the evidence and admitted that he gave Humphries (a guy who made a small Lego building as his thesis) his diploma because the school had to give out a minimum number of degrees in order to stay in business.

* KitschyLocalCommercial: Jeff's commercial, directed by Abed, has Jeff in a superhero costume fighting a giant robot.
** StylisticSuck
* ManipulativeBastard: Jeff goes back to his old ways after he found out the Dean shredded the evidence. He manipulates the study group into suing Greendale instead of saving it.
** Partly justified since as Jeff pointed out, Greendale really did deserve to be sued. And if his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Alan was anything to go by, he wasn't doing it just for himself but for the group as a whole because he authentically believed that they should ''all'' be getting some money for their pain.

** The Dean displays a similar attitude, saying that it's not Greendale's fault Humphries is incompetent, only to immediately reveal that it was actually Greendale's fault as Humphries was grossly under qualified but was allowed to graduate anyway to fill a quota.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** The Dean giving out diplomas in order to keep his job ends up with a bridge collapsing due to the engineer being an unqualified graduate from Greendale. His inability to run an efficient school also ends up ruining the gang's lives once they leave Greendale and are unable to find the jobs they wanted.
** Shirley also is culpable to this. She explained that the seperation was her fault this time as she put the family money into Shirley's Sandwiches only for the business to fail.

* OhCrap: Jeff had this look when he found out that his friends came back (while he was in the middle of suing the school they all once loved).

* {{Retool}}: Jeff returning to Greendale as a teacher is the catalyst for the show to show a greater focus on the Greendale faculty. Abed lampshades this by comparing the idea to the ninth season of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', which underwent a similar retool.

*** Also doubles as a TakeThat/AffectionateParody as they utilize Zach Braff's voice over at the end of each episode. When Abed points it out to the girls, they seem less than excited about the story device.

** Troy's plan for the future was to wait until [[TheSocialNetwork Abed finished his billion dollar social app and then sue him]].

** Several to Season 9 of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', which underwent a similar 'repilot' process. One of Zach Braff's voiceovers from this show closes out the episode.

* {{Reconstruction}}: After the lengthy deconstruction of Greendale throughout the episode, the ending implies that is on the way; Jeff confronts the Dean over his failure to manage the school effectively and agrees to take a teaching job partly to help the Dean improve the school, and the study group re-enrol when they realise that their problems were partially their own fault and that they need to either pursue what they really want to do or figure out what that really is to begin with.

* AmbiguouslyGay/AmbiguouslyBi/EvenTheGuysWantHim: When Jeff pointed out that Troy's identity had been consumed with his relationship with another man, he thought he was talking about his Clive Owen tumblr.

* AmbiguouslyGay/ AmbiguouslyBi/ EvenTheGuysWantHim: When Jeff pointed out that Troy's identity had been consumed with his relationship with another man, he thought he was talking about his Clive Owen tumblr.

** Pierce's hologram alludes to the fact that Pierce has 'no legal right' to be at Greendale. According to [[http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/01/03/community-how-the-season-5-surprise-chevy-chase-pierce-hawthorne-cameo-came-to-be this article]], this is a reference to the fact that Chevy Chase is legally barred from returning to the ''Community'' set as part of the terms of his contract being ended.

* TheAtoner: Chang, after spending the previous season faking Changnesia, has since dropped the charade & admitted to his crimes.

** The first thing Jeff sees at Greendale is [[Recap/CommunityS1E09Debate109 the formerly barren trophy case, with the trophy from Jeff & Annie's debate victory against City College, complete with newspaper clipping]].

* FoilerFootage: In addition to none of the trailers even hinting at Chevy Chase's return as Pierce Hawthorne, an alternate version of the script was used at table reads where, instead of Jeff coming across Pierce's hologram, Jeff would discover Starburns was still alive & the ensuing conversation about why he's been hiding out on the Greendale campus would be what motivates Jeff to not go through with the lawsuit; with the only people knowing about Chevy's return being the ones who absolutely needed to know to shoot the scene.

* ItsAllAboutMe: The Dean is more concerned with potentially losing his job due to not filling a quota of graduating students each year, essentially making Greendale into a diploma mill & allowing people like Marvin Humphries into positions they're really not qualified for, than the ramifications of doing so.

** Marvin Humphries trying to sue Greendale for giving him a degree & allowing him to work in construction when he's not really qualified to do so, leading to a bridge he worked on collapsing. Humphries is never seen on camera, but it's this attitude that sets the events of the episode in motion.

** Britta also called Annie out for working for a morally questionable pharmaceutical company (that apparently invented a disease & it's cure, and produced a pill that had the side effect of making people give up on their dreams).

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Pierce's ''Franchise/StarWars'' ShoutOut

* BreakTheHaughty: Alan isn't doing so well. He lost his job, got divorced and his affair with his wife's sister is revealed meaning the whole family is pissed at him. Him suing Greendale was the only thing he had left. Which he loses when the Dean shreds the evidence and Jeff cuts him out.

** VillainousBreakdown: Alan has a meltdown when he found out that Humphries' documents got shredded as it was the only job he had left. He also doesn't take it well when he learns that Jeff wasn't including him in the study group's lawsuit.

* AmoralAttorney: Jeff's attempts to subvert this as a "Hero at Law" are a dismal failure, and he gradually begins to revert back to type.

** Chang is also deconstructed; the fact that Greendale has rehired him to teach a math class despite hgis obviously not being capable of doing so is discussed, and the case is made that rehiring a homeless borderline lunatic who was fired for impersonating a teacher, rehired as a security guard, was fired ''again'' for ''trying to burn the school down'', has faked amnesia and has been arrested and convicted is at absolute minimum completely irresponsible, if not further evidence of how the people running Greendale simply don't care about their students and are actively ruining people's lives.

** Chang is also deconstructed; the fact that Greendale has rehired a homeless borderline lunatic who was fired for impersonating a teacher, rehired as a security guard, was fired ''again'' for ''trying to burn the school down'', has faked amnesia and has been arrested and convicted to once again work as a teacher for a class he is demonstrably not qualified to run is discussed... and the characters agree that it is at absolute minimum completely irresponsible, if not further evidence of how the people running Greendale simply don't care about their students and are actively ruining people's lives.

* AmbiguouslyGay/AmbiguouslyBi/EvenTheGuysWantHim: When Jeff pointed out that Troy's identity had been consumed with his relationship with another man, he thought he was talking about his Clive Owen tumblr.

* MoralityPet: The study group still serves as this for Jeff. After seeing how enthusiastic the group was to save Greendale, Jeff decided to tell the Dean the truth. It is then subverted when he decided to go forward to the lawsuit anyway when he found out the evidence got shredded. He then uses the gang's pain to further his own goals (and to get some money for them as well).

* MoralityPet: Subverted. After seeing how enthusiastic the group was to save Greendale, Jeff decided to tell the Dean the truth. But he decided to go forward to the lawsuit anyway when he found out the evidence got shredded. He then uses the gang's pain to further his own goals (and to get some money for them as well).

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'''Abed:''' You got a job teaching here, didn't you?\\

* MoodWhiplash: The episode started off with a cheesy commercial of how Jeff would help people fight the "system." It then cuts to Jeff getting all his stuff taken away, making it clear that his business failed horribly.

** You could pretty much say that the episode was a DeconstructorFleet of the whole show in general. The ending implies that a {{Reconstruction}} is on the way, however; Jeff confronts the Dean over his failure to manage the school effectively and agrees to take a teaching job partly to help the Dean improve the school, and the study group re-enrol when they realise that their problems were partially their own fault and that they need to either pursue what they really want to do or figure out what that really is to begin with.