TV Trope: Significant Reference Date

Troy: I am mad at you.
Abed: You said you weren’t. We never lie.
Troy: I know.
Abed: We made a deal. October 15th, 2009, ‘friends don’t lie to each other’.
Troy: I know. 

* * *

Troy: From now on, Abed, friends don’t mess with each other. OK?
Abed: Cool.
Troy: Cool. 
[Episode air date: October 15, 2009]

(3.12 Contemporary Impressionists, 1.05 Advanced Criminal Law) 

TV Trope: Nudge Nudge

Chang: And then she yelled, ‘Screw you’ or, ‘Screw education’ or something like that. And then she stormed out of the room in her high-heeled boots like it was tampon time, if you know what I mean.
Jeff: Objection. I don’t know what he means.
Duncan: Please don’t encourage him, Winger.

(1.05 Advanced Criminal Law)

TV Trope: Sitcom Arch Nemesis

Dean: Our judges include myself, Dean Craig Pelton.
Duncan: Professor Ian Duncan.
Chang: Professor Ben Chang.
Duncan: Uh, no, you’re a teacher you’re not a professor.
Chang: Maybe because I don’t look like Ron Weasley.
Duncan: [sarcastic] That’s the difference, that’s the qualifying factor.
Jeff: Gentlemen, point of order. How can Senor Chang be one of the judges? He’s the one accusing my client.
Chang: And yet Prince Charles over here is your drinking buddy.
Duncan: Ooh, got me.
Dean: Well it sounds like there’s two biases, one on each side, and I go both ways. Oh, let’s strike that…

(1.05 Advanced Criminal Law)

TV Trope: Hypocritical Humor

Britta: I did it.
Chang: Well, you really took your sweet time with that one, baby.
Britta: How dare you terrorize a class by threatening their grades. It’s not that easy to get human beings to turn on each other.
Chang: TURN ON HER! [The class throws paper at Britta].
Britta: Oh, real mature! [She storms out].
Chang: That’s right, we are mature! Too mature to sit in a class with a cheating, lying poop face!

(1.05 Advanced Criminal Law)

TV Trope: Insanity Defense

Jeff: Gentlemen, I’m sure you suspected that Ms Perry was pretty odd before the recess. But if you could have heard all the stuff she just told me in the shower, you would realize she is all the way out of her entire damn mind. She doesn’t want to succeed because she doesn’t think she can. So she goes out of her way to fail. That’s crazy! But do we really want to make it a crime to be crazy at Greendale?

(1.05 Advanced Criminal Law)