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

(3.18 Course Listing Unavailable) 

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!

(3.16 Virtual Systems Analysis) 

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.

(3.16 Virtual Systems Analysis) 

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!

(3.16 Virtual Systems Analysis) 

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.

(3.15 Origins Of Vampire Mythology)

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.

(3.15 Origins Of Vampire Mythology)

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. 

(3.15 Origins Of Vampire Mythology)

TV Trope: Aesop Amnesia

Annie: Jeff? I wanted to apologize. I never realized I had my own issues regarding gender roles. And it was certainly unfair of me to take them out on Kim.
Jeff: Mmm… who’s Kim?

(3.13 Digital Exploration Of Interior Design) 

TV Trope: Call Back

Annie: (Abed) spent New Year’s locked in our bathroom with a bad Tom Hanks from Castaway.
Jeff: Abed was the volleyball?
Annie: You guys, focus! Where’s he getting the money for all this?
Britta: Intervention? Intervention? Intervention?

* * *

Jeff: I’m sure (Pierce) is almost through his prescription. Besides, he’s a Baby Boomer - they invented drugs.
Britta: Yeah, they also invented TV. Have you seen him control one of those?
Annie: Intervention? Intervention? Intervention? 

(3.12 Contemporary Impressionists, 2.15 Early 21st Century Romanticism)  

TV Trope: Punch Clock Villain

Black Rider: This school sucks.
Annie: Well then why do you go here?
Black Rider: I wouldn’t go to this toilet with my big sister’s toe. I take a class online. I was paid to be here and win the game so my boss could keep his prize money.
Annie: You work for the ice-cream company?
Black Rider: Sweetie, this thing is so much bigger than you could even imagine. I’m outta here, I got Coldplay tickets.
Annie: Coldplay?
Black Rider: Too late, bean allergy. You blew it.

(2.23 A Fistful Of Paintballs) 

TV Trope: Big “No!”

Abed: Pierce, truth or dare?
Pierce: Truth.
Annie: NOOOOO! … Sorry, go ahead.
Abed: What’s something you’re ashamed of?
Group: NOOOOO!
Jeff: … Sorry, go ahead.
Pierce: During trivia last night I answered a question wrong and it cost my team the game.
Jeff: That’s it?
Pierce: Yep [looking Shirley’s way] Turns out your uvula is in your mouth. I have one too. It’s in my mouth.

(S1 DVD Extra: Mini Episode #2 ‘Truth Or Dare’)

TV Trope: Musical Episode

Mr Rad: Guys! I am swelling with pride. You stepped up and you saved the Christmas pageant!
Jeff: And it’s all thanks to you, Mr Rad. I just hope we can repay you by making Regionals.

(3.10 Regional Holiday Music) 

TV Trope: Funny Background Event

Troy & Abed: We have to save Christmas to save our friends!
[Annie peeks through the blanket fort opening in fantasy-land & in reality]
Annie: Hey guys! Rapping?

(3.10 Regional Holiday Music) 

TV Trope: Monkey Morality Pose

Britta, Annie and Shirley do not want to feast their ear tongues on these Baby Boomer Santa memory pops

(3.10 Regional Holiday Music)