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?

(3.18 Course Listing Unavailable)

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? 

(3.17 Basic Lupine Urology)

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: Raging Stiffie

Subway Rep: Well if that’ll be all, I’ll be on my way [he looks down] … if someone could hand me my jacket.
[Silence]
Pierce: It’s right over there on the coat rack next to the door.
Subway Rep: If somebody could just hand it to me that would be great.
[Britta & the Dean glance at the coat rack, puzzled] 
Dean: I guess I’m confused. Why don’t you just grab it on your way out the door?
Subway Rep: Y’know what? Now I’m not leaving. Now I’m just going to sit for a while and focus on how unacceptable today was.

(3.13 Digital Exploration Of Interior Design) 

TV Trope: Getting Crap Past The Radar

Dean: Abed? Troy?
Troy: Don’t worry, Dean, we have all the proper permits right here… oh silly me, this is a coupon for 20% off at Bed Bath & Beyond.
Dean: No need to bribe me, Troy… Actually.
Troy: There’s plenty more where that came from.
Dean: Look, I was just Googling record lengths of stuff, and apparently there’s a Guinness World Record for the biggest pillow, or blanket, fort.

(3.13 Digital Exploration Of Interior Design)

TV Trope: Did I Just Say That Out Loud?

Dean: Maybe you can bring on some students as security interns. I’ll let you offer them a credit in ‘Safety’ or ‘Math’ or something.
Chang: Thank you, sir. You won’t regret this unless I rise up against you.
[The Dean looks concerned - Chang laughs]
Chang: I don’t know why I said that… Bye! 

(3.12 Contemporary Impressionists)

TV Trope: Call Back

Britta: This is a huge honor! This may come as a surprise to you, but I’ve never actually won anything before.
Dean: OK, well, you still haven’t. I’m just listing the nominees. So, not a great time to get cocky. [He continues] Christine Hollingsworth! Brittany Baker! Miss Danielle Harmon!

* * *

Abed: Blogons?
Troy: Blogons.
Girl: My name’s Danielle… 

[As per Dan Harmon’s tweet]

(1.25 Pascal’s Triangle Revisited, 3.11 Urban Matrimony And The Sandwich Arts)

TV Trope: Self-Deprication

Dean: How fiscal will the quarterly earnings be?
Shirley: Well initially the fiscal… wait, that question makes no sense.
Dean: I know! I just wanted to sound as good at business as you are. I probably shouldn’t say this, but I cannot believe you learned all this at Greendale. You’re very professional. 
Shirley: I am aren’t I!

(3.11 Urban Matrimony And The Sandwich Arts)

TV Trope: Political Correctness Gone Mad

Dean: Woah, what’s that sound? Is that the tippy-tapping of secular boots on the roof? It must be yet another sign that it ‘tis the season, because rumor has it that non-denominational Mr Winter is on his way to the student lounge!

(1.12 Comparative Religion)

TV Trope: Hypocritical Heartwarming

Mr Rad: What are you doing? Get off the stage!
Britta: Singing my heart’s song?
Mr Rad: Get off the stage and never sing again. You are the worst! 
Jeff: Hey!
Troy: You do not get to call Britta the worst.
Dean: Mr Radison I think it’s fine. Greendale is an all-inclusive school: why don’t we let Britta sing her awkward song!

(3.10 Regional Holiday Music) 

TV Trope: Serkis Folk

Dean: Garrett, you’re not taking advantage of the motion capture technology. You have to move.
Garrett: I forgot what I am again! 
Dean: Oh for crying out loud! You are a microscope.
[Garrett starts awkwardly moving around, but this does not please the Dean]
Dean: No, that’s a toilet. No that’s clearly a frog who can’t get out of a box. 

(3.08 Documentary Filmmaking: Redux)

TV Trope: I Can Explain

[The Dean stumbles upon the study group watching footage of his meltdown]
Dean: Ugh, before you say anything… Nope, I’ve got nothing. Can you just forgive me?
Jeff: … Yep.

(3.08 Documentary Filmmaking: Redux) 

TV Trope: Just Friends

Dean: Then you and Troy hug - if you’re comfortable with that.
Troy: Of course.
Britta: Yeah, Troy and I are buds. Best buds. Air Buds even.
[They hug but then break into hysterical giggles]

(3.08 Documentary Filmmaking: Redux) 

TV Trope: Pan Up To The Sky Ending

Britta: Oh, hey, Jeff, did you know that when it snows my eyes become large?
[Jeff has a horrible realization] 
Britta/Shirley/Troy/Abed: And the light that you shine can be seen! 
Jeff: He Tweeted it? [Jeff looks at his phone] HE TWEETED IT!
[The group keeps singing while Annie & Pierce look on, confused]

(3.07 Studies In Modern Movement) 

TV Trope: Blackmail Is Such An Ugly Word

Jeff: Dean, this is blackmail.
Dean: Call me Craig. And call blackmail, ‘a day at the mall with Craig’. Because that’s all I require, Jeffrey. You and I are going to have some fun and create a few memories and I suggest you get into it… because that counts.
Music Guy: Song for the señor, señor?

(3.07 Studies In Modern Movement)