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3	Annie is putting together a Dia de Los Muertos party to earn extra credit. To ensure her party is a success she needs everyone in the study group to attend. This however conflicts with Jeff's attempts to get together with his statistics professor. Jeff eventually promises to attend the party, but only after his advances are turned down.
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5	At Annie's party, events spin out of control: Jeff leaves with Chang to try again with Slater; Pierce suffers side effects from the drugs Star-burns gave him; and Shirley projects her feelings about her failed marriage onto Britta's misgivings over Jeff and Slater.
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8	!!The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Introduction to Statistics" contains examples of:
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10	* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Jeff invokes this as the reason Annie's crying would no longer work on him. It (the immunity) does not work.
11	* {{Bathos}}: The last scene of Abed using lip balm after delivering his dramatic Batman speech.
12	* BecomingTheCostume: Abed
13	-->'''Abed:''' I am Batman.
14	* BigDamnHeroes: The climax in which Abed (as Batman) drags Jeff and Pierce out of the CollapsingLair made out of desks.
15	* BirdsOfAFeather: Jeff and Slater.
16	* CallBack: Annie tries to convince Jeff to come to her party by being "assertive and making eye contact"; when he doesn't buy it, Annie mentions that it worked on Pierce; Jeff's response seems like a call back and a BrickJoke to [[Recap/CommunityS1E04SocialPsychology Pierce's ear-noculars]]:
17	-->'''Jeff:''' ''Infomercials'' work on Pierce.
18	* CollapsingLair: Pierce's [[BlanketFort Desk Fort]] collapses at the end.
19	* ComicSutra: "Mexican Halloween", a sexual position according to Chang, knowing nods from Troy and Jeff.
20	* DemBones:
21	-->'''Pierce:''' Those floating Mexican skeletons are right! My life is over!\
22	'''Jeff:''' Well, when we go to floating skeletons with our problems, we get what we pay for, don't we?
23	* DieForOurShip: Invoked in-universe by Shirley. She obviously [[ShipperOnDeck ships Britta/Jeff]] and doesn't like Slater getting in between them and proceeds to wreck Slater's car and office.
24	-->"You're stealing Jeff from a good woman!"
25	** She comes to her senses eventually, however, and realizes a lot of it was taking out her own internal issues.
26	* DisproportionateRetribution: Shirley channels her personal problems into unjustly punishing Professor Slater.
27	* DoYouWantToCopulate: Jeff takes Chang's advice and approaches Slater directly about his intentions. It seems to work, if only for PitySex.
28	-->'''Jeff:''' I haven't slept with anyone in a very long time, and you're so good-looking. Please do me the favor of having sex with me.
29	* DramaticHighPerching: The last scene of Abed/Batman standing on a wall watching things from above in good old Batman fashion.
30	* {{Facecam}}: Used for Pierce's MushroomSamba moment.
31	* FakeStatic: Pierce attempts this when he is unable to turn his phone off.
32	* {{Fanservice}}: Annie shows up at the Dia de Los Muertos party wearing a skeleton costume with a cape--which seems pretty innocent until she takes off her cape, revealing that the costume is ''skintight'' underneath it. There's a pretty deliberate shot of her [[MaleGaze from behind]] as she takes off her cape and walks away.
33	* FreezeFrameBonus: In the scene where Annie invites Jeff to the party, an Asian couple walk past them. Same couple re-enters the shot a few moments later.
34	* GirlfriendInCanada: As revealed during his accidental phone call, Pierce told his mother that he has one.
35	* GottaCatchThemAll: Annie has a breakdown if everyone doesn't show up to her party.
36	* GratuitousSpanish: At the party, Annie keeps peppering her speech with unnecessary Spanish phrases, prompting Chang to shout "You don't need to keep doing that!"
37	* HalloweenEpisode: Subverted: the episode takes place around Halloween, but actually revolves around a Dia de Los Muertos party (Dia de Los Muertos is traditionally celebrated on November 1st, one day after Halloween). Double subverted when Jeff bails on Annie's party to go to the faculty party, which is a more traditional Halloween celebration (Jack-o-Lanterns can be seen in the background).
38	* HotTeacher: Prof. Slater.
39	* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Troy has some questions he has wanted to ask Batman. Roughly three minutes' worth of questions on the DVD gag reel.
40	* INeedToIronMyDog: The last time Annie threw a party, everyone left, claiming that they couldn't miss the news. When someone attempts to leave her Dia de los Muertos party with the same excuse, she nearly has a conniption fit.
41	* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Jeff tries to win over Slater, everything he claims about himself is torpedoed by his friends.
42	-->'''Jeff:''' I have no friends.\
43	''(Cue Britta telling him to come back to Annie's party)''\
44	'''Jeff:''' What's great about community college is that a lot of the students are as mature as the teachers.\
45	''(Cue Abed in his Batman costume arriving and Troy mentioning Pierce tripping balls)''
46	* InsultBackfire: When Chang mocks Jeff for striking out with Professor Slater, Jeff retorts that Chang wasn't any more successful with her. Chang laughs it off, pointing out that he's, well, ''Chang'', and Jeff by definition should be able to do better than him.
47	* ITasteDelicious: One of Troy's greatest fears is that he'd wake up one morning as a donut and eat himself without even questioning it.
48	* LittleKnownFacts: Jeff's first pick up line.
49	* MarijuanaIsLSD: The pill Star-Burns gives Pierce has him acting like he's rolling on ecstasy... then it interacts with his prescription medication, and he starts having terrifying hallucinations.
50	* MontageOut: Abed's epic Batman speech over a tracking shot of people at the party.
51	* MsFanservice: Britta defies this trope by wearing the least sexualized-possible costumes for Halloween. Annie, meanwhile, plays it straight.
52	-->'''Britta:''' I hate it when women use Halloween as an excuse to dress up like sluts.\
53	'''Annie:''' Yeah. ''(takes off her cape revealing her skintight skeleton costume)''
54	* MushroomSamba: Pierce descends into one.
55	* TheOnlyOne: Due to the MushroomSamba.
56	-->'''Troy:''' Jeff! Pierce is freaking out... you're the only one that can help!\
57	'''Jeff:''' What makes you think ''that''?\
58	'''Pierce:''' ''[offscreen]'' Is Jeff out there? He's the only one that can help!
59	* PitySex: Played with. Professor Slater first agreed to sleep with Jeff because he made himself seem pathetic, begging and pleading enough until she finally said yes. It doesn't happen though when Jeff has to save a tripping Pierce.
60	* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Thanks to the age gap, nobody gets Pierce's ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' costume. Though it turns out Pierce hasn't seen the movie either and just wanted to be viewed as cool.
61	* ShoutOut:
62	** Shirley confesses to Britta that she's so sexually repressed from her divorcing her husband Andre after he cheated on her that the movie poster for ''Film/TheUglyTruth'' "[[UnusualEuphemism resonated]]" with her.
63	** Pierce dresses as Film/TheBeastmaster, and Shirley as Literature/HarryPotter (and is mistaken for [[Series/FamilyMatters Urkel]]).
64	** Troy dresses as Creator/EddieMurphy as he appeared in his 1983 Creator/{{HBO}} special ''Eddie Murphy Delirious'' (said getup was itself based on Music/MichaelJackson's costume in ''Music/MichaelJacksonsThriller'').
65	** Troy describes Pierce's bender as "like ''Film/GrumpyOldMen'', but not hilarious."
66	** Chang's motorcycle goggles are actually [[Literature/HarryPotter Quidditch goggles]]. The Snitch icon on the side is the give away.
67	** Jeff's exclamation "What the Music/PinkFloyd?" is a re-creation of (and reference to) Creator/BobHoskins' PrecisionFStrike in the film adaptation of ''Music/TheWall'', during the segue between "Bring the Boys Back Home" and "Comfortably Numb".
68	* AStormIsComing: Abed points this out during his arrival at the party.
69	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: After Abed and Troy's conversation in the tag about the possibility of eating yourself if you woke up to discover you were a donut.
70	-->'''Troy:''' It's cool to know other people think about this stuff too.
71	* TeacherStudentRomance: A rare example where the student (Jeff) is older than the teacher (Slater).
72	* VirtualAssistantBlunder: Pierce's line "It's like my mother" prompts his smartphone to call his mother. HilarityEnsues.
73	* WhatTheHellHero: When Jeff finally snaps and tells his friends to get lost and leave him to seduce Slater, they -- and Slater -- are quick to point out what they think of this (although Troy subverts it):
74	-->'''Britta:''' Way to go!\
75	'''Abed:''' I know I'm not Batman; you could try not being a {{jerk\|ass}}.\
76	'''Troy:''' [[{{Touche}} She's pretty hot]].\
77	'''Jeff:''' ''[Slinking back over to Slater]'' Well, where were we little doggy?\
78	'''Slater:''' ''[Unimpressed]'' Unseemly. ''[Walks off]''\
79	'''Jeff:''' ''[Deflated]'' Yeah... crap.
80	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Jeff gives Pierce a pep talk along these lines in the climax.

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