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TV Trope: Five Stages Of Grief

Britta: What Jeff's doing right now is denial and it's the first of five stages of grief that ends with acceptance. Jeff: Name any other stage.  Britta: What are you, my final?

[Here's a guide so you don't Britta it yourself]

01. Denial 02. Anger 03. Bargaining 04. Depression 05. Acceptance

TV Trope: Group Hug

Dean: Group hug - where I'm between Jeff and Troy. Here we go. [Jeff ignores him] Dean: Oh, you're walking away from the hug?

TV Trope: Suspiciously Specific Denial

Nurse: That's strange. I'm not finding any pepper spray on you. Troy: [whimpering] Well check harder. It's not like I'm crying because I was chased by a gang of scary twelve-year-olds... 

TV Trope: Lyrical Dissonance

Dean: 'Troy and Abed, off to Dreamland, catching the train to Sleepytown. And when they wake up, the Dean will be here staring at you'... Sweet Deans! Shirley: That's nice... I guess? 

TV Trope: Funny Background Event

A female extra walks out of a building wiping her mouth. A male extra soon surreptitiously follows, zipping up his pants.

TV Trope: Miranda Rights

Todd: What's this about? Abed: It's about the killing of our Biology yam. Will you please come with us? Todd: But I'm in the middle of making a handle. Abed: He wants it the hard way. Tell him what Shirley said. Troy: Todd Jacobson, you have the right to do whatever you want. Nothing you do say or do can be used against you by anyone, but we'd really like it if you came with us. Please and thank you. 

TV Trope: Circling Birdies

Pierce: Sounds like this has been a game-changing day for all of us. I nearly sat on my balls, but at the last second I made an adjustment. [The group congratulate him]  ... Pierce: OK I didn't really avoid sitting on them. Sat right on them. [The group murmur their sympathies] Pierce: Hurt like hell. I saw eagles.

TV Trope: The Peeping Tom

Jeff: Here we are. Annie: Where? Jeff: Where you wanted to go. The last night of school first year. The night we kissed. Annie: Abed wasn't there so whose memory is this? Jeff: Maybe it's yours. Maybe the Dreamatorium really works. Or maybe Leonard was watching from the bushes and told Abed about it. Leonard: I don't have cable!

TV Trope: The Match Maker

Annie: Maybe we should go to Senor Kevin's? Britta didn't you want to try that new cage-free bean burrito? Britta: The tortillas are made with micro-financed flour. Annie: Troy, you could drive. You always like that spiral parking ramp. Troy: You just keep turning left but you end up, up! Abed: I can't go to Senor Kevin's. The manager and I are enemies. He said Die Hard was bad. [to Troy] He said Die Hard was bad. Troy: I know, buddy. Annie: Well how about this. This lunch is already a runaway train, no point in stopping it. Troy, Britta, you go to Senor Kevin's. Abed promised he'd show me how the Dreamatorium works.

TV Trope: British Accents

Abed: Geneva! I need the Quantum Spanner, the big one! Annie: Oi guvnor! Quantum Spanner, up and at 'em, innit!  Abed: [long unamused pause] If we can't get out of orbital lock the Blorgons may intercept.  Annie: Tut tut, milord. Wouldn't give a tuppence for that sticky wicket!

TV Trope: Disaster Dominoes

Troy: What are you doing? Annie: Ending this. [She sends a text] Leave me alone.  Troy: That's so much worse. Annie: See? She stopped. [The phone starts to ring] She's calling him?! Troy: She was born in the 80s. She still uses her phone as a phone. Abed: Uh-oh. Annie: That's fine. It's fine. We just won't answer it. Abed: Won't it go to your voicemail?  [Annie answers & holds the phone out but the boys won't help] Britta: Hello? Blade? Annie: Aaaaayouuuuughhhaighhhhoohuhhuhoo...  [She hangs up. Troy & Abed stare at her] Dean: ... You did good. Annie: I don't know! Abed: Change your settings so it doesn't go to voicemail. [It rings again] Too late. Annie: You guys, act like a carnival. Be a carnival - now! Troy: ... Step right up! Abed: Ding, ding, ding! Dean: Get your popcorn here! Annie: [putting on a voice] Busy, babe. Britta: Blade just wait! Annie: [sending a text] I told you not to call me at work. [Britta answers] 'I'm sorry I forgot, don't be mad at me'? She's whipped by an imaginary douche! Dean: Hey, don't knock it till you try it.

TV Trope: Skewed Priorities

Britta: Can you check my messages for me and tell me if he called? Annie: I don't think that's a good idea. Britta: What if my mother died? Abed: You guys are really talking over Blade. [Britta grabs the remote and turns the TV off] Troy: Not cool! Abed: Annie, subdue your guest. Britta: Annie, think for one second. You have my phone and you're not even checking it. What if my mother is dying? Annie: This is junkie talk. You just want to know where your phone's hidden. Britta: I just want to know if my mother is dying. It's a simple yes or no. I'll cover my eyes, you go check my phone and then say 'no your mother isn't dying' or 'yes your mother is dying' and then we go back to watching the film.

TV Trope: Going Cold Turkey

Britta: I need your help, it is Blade's carnival that's coming. He's working the BB gun duck-shooting gallery - I guess he finally got that promotion - and he will call me. And left unattended, I will end up doing him like a crossword, and, I will regret it. So I need you to take my phone and don't give it back until Monday. Annie: Of course, OK. Jeff: For real? Britta: Pipe it! And I need to stay with you this weekend. Not just stay with you, I need to be on lockdown. You were a pill head, so think of Blade as Adderall and handcuff me to the radiator like a mother-flippin' carny-bangin' werewolf.

TV Trope: Covert Pervert

Annie: You're going to change your shirt? Jeff: Not if it's working. Annie: ... It's not working. Jeff: You're right, I knew it. [Jeff strips off, Annie ogles him] Student: I'll have what she's having. Annie: Hey! Grow up, lady! Britta: Annie! Annie: Hisshirtwasn'tworking. 

TV Trope: Giftedly Bad

Narrator: Unfortunately, the only photographer there to capture the scene is Britta Perry. [She accidentally takes a photo of her nostrils instead of Troy] Narrator: Yeah, gee, there's a good one. 

TV Trope: Malaproper

Troy: The Legit Republic of Blanketsburg says Pillowtown has until midnight tonight to surrender its territory. Abed: The United Force of Pillowtown declines the request. Troy: It's not a request. I'm giving you an all tomato. Meaning that you give me the whole tomato or else. Abed: Or else what? [Troy stands up and leaves the Dean's office] 

TV Trope: I Resemble That Remark

Jeff: Soldiers of Blanketsburg, we fight not because we want war, we fight that we might gain peace! Narrator: Winger's critics suggest he merely improvised hot-button patriotic dogma in a Ferris Buellerian attempt to delay schoolwork. Winger decries the accusation as, quote, 'a slanderous betrayal akin to 9/11', unquote. Later, out of the war, he would refer to the theory as 'essentially accurate'.