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: Cargo Ship

Chang: Hey Dean, thanks for the new digs.
Dean: Remember what we talked about? We have to keep this whole living situation kind of quiet. Y’know, on the Dean-low. 
Chang: Sure. I’m barely there. I’m married to the job - and to a mannequin leg I found in the boiler room.
Janitor: Homewrecker!

(3.03 Competitive Ecology) 

TV Trope: Mirror Monologue

Chang V/O: Forget about the girl, I told myself. Let her go, like a lobster claw letting go of a small balloon for lobsters. Still, I had a hunch… Hmm, a matchbook. Something about it seemed cluey. ‘Arizona Matchbook Company’. Arizona… Arizona backwards is still Arizona! It’s a palomino! Maybe I was crazy, or maybe I was finally sane. [He looks into the mirror] Why does this guy keep staring at me?

(3.03 Competitive Ecology)

TV Trope: Foe Yay

Chang: Mind the can, student.
[Lionel Richie’s dulcet tones kick in as ‘Hello’ begins to play - Britta defiantly tries to kick over the garbage can]
Chang: You just got yourself a warning.
Britta: I piss warnings, pig.
[Chang writes her a warning, which Britta decides to chew on… before nearly gagging on it - so she quickly spits it out]
Britta: And that’s how we do that.
Chang: Hey! I got my eye on you, missy.
[Britta smiles to herself]

(3.02 Geography Of Global Conflict)

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: Laughing Mad

Chang: I’ve been popping and locking for five hours and you threw it all away!
Annie: The contest doesn’t matter. What’s important is that we have each other. 
Chang: Then can I be in your study group?
Troy: Well that wasn’t the deal. We lost, so…
[The group turns around and ignores Chang, who suddenly breaks and starts laughing like a crazy person]
Dean: You know what, he’s bringing this down. Let’s move him. Can we move him?

(2.02 Accounting For Lawyers)

TV Trope: Hypocritical Humor

Jeff: I could eat powdered bran every day while you suck down figgy pudding and I still might die first. It’s unfair! I want my donuts back.
Duncan: Well, I think you’re being a little childish and… [he spies Chang] Hold on a sec, I need to use my forcefield to prevent Chang from getting food.

(2.03 The Psychology Of Letting Go)

TV Trope: Big No

Chang: I don’t believe this, it’s like a sentimental treasure pile. Oh, that’s my spoon!
[Annie’s Boobs runs past and steals it]
Chang: NOOOOOOOOO! … Ooh, Hubba Bubba! I thought they stopped making this.

(2.21 Paradigms Of Human Memory)

TV Trope: Everything Is Racist

Chang: Guess who I am.
Britta: Michelle Kwan?
Chang: Wrong.
Jeff: Kristi Yamaguchi?
Chang: Peggy Fleming. Just been proven racist by the racist prover.

(2.06 Epidemiology)

TV Trope: Alliterative Name

Chang: Congratulations, sir. After a fierce campaign I happily concede this baby to you. Pretty classy of me.
Shirley: Thank you, Chang. I couldn’t have done this without you.
Chang: No bigs.
Shirley: Andre…
Andre: Yeah?
Shirley: I think I want to name him after Ben. 
Chang: What? Really?
Andre: Really?
Shirley: Yeah, I mean you may not be his father but you helped bring him into the world.
Andre: Alright, well we’ll have our own little baby Ben… Bennett.
Shirley: Ben Bennett? Oh damn. No, OK, that’s fine - Ben Bennett.
Chang: Oh look he said Chang!
Shirley: No he didn’t.

(2.22 Applied Anthropology And Culinary Arts)

TV Trope: The Cheerleader

Head Cheerleader: Benjamin Chang. For your betrayal of the Cheerleader’s Alliance, I sentence you to pretendsies death.
Chang: Guys you don’t have to do this. I betrayed the Math Club for you!
HC: Ready… aim…
Annie: Fire.
[She shoots them all in quick succession - Jeff & Abed come running in]
Jeff: Holy crap.
HC: Not cool, bitch.
Annie: Yeah, so you told me at last year’s tryouts [she shoots her again]. Leave the guns.
HC: Whatev.

(2.23 A Fistful Of Paintballs)

TV Trope: Idiot Ball

Shirley: Senor Chang? We’re trying to find out whose Spanish book this was before Troy’s.
[Chang flips through the book before pretending to perform some mystical mumbo jumbo on it]
Chang: Mmmmmm… Jenny Adams.
Pierce: Oh come on. If all Chinese were psychic you would have started using birth control centuries ago.
Chang: Her name’s in the front of the book, morons.
Shirley: Yay! He’s right.
Chang: [to Annie] Them I understand, but how did you not think of that?
Annie: I may have been thrown off by Britta’s pronunciation of the word bagel.
Chang: How do you pronounce bagel?
Britta: I don’t.
Chang: Come on.
Britta: Baggel.
Chang: Ugh, you’re the worst.

(1.17 Physical Education)

TV Trope: Incoming Ham

[The kids in the audience are chanting ‘We want drugs!’]
Jeff: Listen to those kids. We just created fifty potential meth-heads, and the least we can do is hit the reset button and get that number down to the national average.
Shirley: That’s a suicide mission.
Chang: Did someone say CRAZY PERSON?!
Everyone: No.
Chang: Well I heard it.

(2.13 Celebrity Pharmacology)

TV Trope: Never My Fault

Britta: What are you guys doing?!
Troy: Chang made me open it! He seduced me with his dark Chinese powers.
Chang: Why do you leave him alone with me?!

(2.19 Critical Film Studies)

TV Trope: Homage

Something always brings me back to you
It never takes too long

Check out ‘Gravity’ on YouTube by VeritasProductions - the inspiration for the montage.

(2.21 Paradigms Of Human Memory)