Community TV Tropes
refresh » mssg » archive
Wrinkling your brain one trope at a time...

* TV Tropes Website *
theme: quinni ~ powered by tumblr.
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. Denial02. Anger03. Bargaining04. Depression05. Acceptance (3.18 Course Listing Unavailable) 

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 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: 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: 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: 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’. (3.14 Pillows And Blankets)

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’.

(3.14 Pillows And Blankets)

TV Trope: Friendship Moment Jeff: First entry in my stupid journal. Today I had to run and get two imaginary friendship hats from an office. I could’ve just walked around the corner and then come back, but, for some reason, I actually went all the way back to where they were supposed to be. One was crumpled up a bit, that was Troy’s. The other was just a little dusty, that was Abed’s. I fixed them up even though I was the only one watching, because I settled on a truth today that’s always going to be true. I would do anything for my friends, which I think is how everyone in the world feels, which finally makes me understand war. (3.14 Pillows And Blankets)

TV Trope: Friendship Moment

Jeff: First entry in my stupid journal. Today I had to run and get two imaginary friendship hats from an office. I could’ve just walked around the corner and then come back, but, for some reason, I actually went all the way back to where they were supposed to be. One was crumpled up a bit, that was Troy’s. The other was just a little dusty, that was Abed’s. I fixed them up even though I was the only one watching, because I settled on a truth today that’s always going to be true. I would do anything for my friends, which I think is how everyone in the world feels, which finally makes me understand war.

(3.14 Pillows And Blankets)

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Getting Smilies Painted On Your Soul Mr Rad: Glee! It’s the feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants. (3.10 Regional Holiday Music)

TV Trope: Getting Smilies Painted On Your Soul

Mr Rad: Glee! It’s the feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

(3.10 Regional Holiday Music)

TV Trope: Embarrassing Nickname Shirley: Once you make a boy pee his pants you start thinking about where your life is headed… Jeff, what’s wrong?Jeff: [horrified] You were Big Cheddar?Shirley: Who told you th— Oh dear Lord. You’re Tinkle Town?Jeff: Don’t call me that! All of your fake sweetness and religion is just a veil covering a horrible monster! [He starts to walk off but stops] And I had a lot of Mountain Dew that day! (3.09 Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism)

TV Trope: Embarrassing Nickname

Shirley: Once you make a boy pee his pants you start thinking about where your life is headed… Jeff, what’s wrong?
Jeff: [horrified] You were Big Cheddar?
Shirley: Who told you th— Oh dear Lord. You’re Tinkle Town?
Jeff: Don’t call me that! All of your fake sweetness and religion is just a veil covering a horrible monster! [He starts to walk off but stops] And I had a lot of Mountain Dew that day!

(3.09 Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism)

TV Trope: Noodle Incident Jeff: Shirley, I’m going to be perfectly blunt with you. The few times that you’ve been a little bad are the times I’ve liked you most.Shirley: Really?Jeff: Remember what you did to Pierce’s hoagie? That was so disturbing I almost proposed on the spot. (3.09 Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism)

TV Trope: Noodle Incident

Jeff: Shirley, I’m going to be perfectly blunt with you. The few times that you’ve been a little bad are the times I’ve liked you most.
Shirley: Really?
Jeff: Remember what you did to Pierce’s hoagie? That was so disturbing I almost proposed on the spot.

(3.09 Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism)

TV Trope: Victory Gloating Juergen: Free shot. I’m not even touching the foosen-shaften.Jeff: Sorry, Luftballons. I’m above it. [Cue dramatic twirl where Jeff tries to play a shot but fails]Juergen: I wish there was a word to describe the pleasure I feel at viewing misfortune. (3.09 Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism) 

TV Trope: Victory Gloating

Juergen: Free shot. I’m not even touching the foosen-shaften.
Jeff: Sorry, Luftballons. I’m above it. 
[Cue dramatic twirl where Jeff tries to play a shot but fails]
Juergen: I wish there was a word to describe the pleasure I feel at viewing misfortune.

(3.09 Foosball And Nocturnal Vigilantism) 

TV Trope: Expository Hairstyle Change Britta: Life has gone to hell, Abed! This is real. Look at us. Look at me!Jeff: Britta. You put one wash-away blue streak in your hair and I lost an arm.Britta: Exactly. Life got dark! (3.04 Remedial Chaos Theory) 

TV Trope: Expository Hairstyle Change

Britta: Life has gone to hell, Abed! This is real. Look at us. Look at me!
Jeff: Britta. You put one wash-away blue streak in your hair and I lost an arm.
Britta: Exactly. Life got dark!

(3.04 Remedial Chaos Theory) 

TV Trope: Dismotivation Jeff: I suggested to the Dean that we shoot my scenes in front of the Luis Guzman statue, because the Dean has no legal right to broadcast Guzman’s image, which means every shot will be unusable. I even put in a call to Guzman’s lawyers to alert them. I’m always willing to go the extra mile to avoid doing something.Leonard: Like sex with women.Jeff: Shut up, Leonard. You smell like Mentho-lyptus.  (3.08 Documentary Filmmaking: Redux)

TV Trope: Dismotivation

Jeff: I suggested to the Dean that we shoot my scenes in front of the Luis Guzman statue, because the Dean has no legal right to broadcast Guzman’s image, which means every shot will be unusable. I even put in a call to Guzman’s lawyers to alert them. I’m always willing to go the extra mile to avoid doing something.
Leonard: Like sex with women.
Jeff: Shut up, Leonard. You smell like Mentho-lyptus. 

(3.08 Documentary Filmmaking: Redux)