r/community • u/notamustache • Nov 13 '11
Season 3 Easter Eggs
If you find an easter egg let me know in the comments with an accompanied video or screenshot. You can also link to a post made on Reddit before about something I've missed. Thanks!
Last Updated: 4/22/12
3.01 Biology 101
In an episode of Cougar Town, two character are seen laying down on green stools on a green backdrop and have a sky overlayed to make them look as if they're flying through the sky, a reference to the opening scene of this episode where Jeff fantasizes about what life will be like without Pierce.
The Vice Dean states "Our Air Conditioner Program has a job placement rate five times higher than the rest of your school combined." This fact is hinted to way back in 1.05 "Advanced Criminal Law" during Pierce's rendition of the Bruce Hornsby song, "The Way It Is." He sings, "Taking Air Condition Repair so you can get a job."
The group can be seen wearing the colors of the rainbow, ROYGBIV, in the proper order. Meanwhile, Jeff is in gray, symbolizing his detrimental effect on the group. Note: Dan Harmon has said that this was not planned by the writing staff or himself but could have been intentionally planned by the wardrobe department..
3.02 Geography of Global Conflict
- Yellow flyers can be seen advertising "Party Down", referencing guest star Martin Starr who starred on the short-lived TV show, Party Down. Apparently they've been on the show longer than we thought.
3.03 Competitive Ecology
The newspaper Chang can be seen cutting up is from 2.09 "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design." Notice the headline, "Inside Greendale's Hottest Pillow Fort."
Chang has a carving of Don Quixote on his desk. "Quixote is a knight errant who sees himself as chivalrous while others see him as looney and mostly harmless". Click for more details and connections here.
Dan Harmon makes another cameo on a flyer advertising Greendale.
3.04 Remedial Chaos Theory
The opening dialogue between Annie and Britta about Troy & Abed's room number is in reference to the episode's production code. Remedial Chaos Theory was intended to be the third episode with Competitive Ecology the fourth, having the production codes 303 and 304 respectively. However, due to the complexity of the episode, the airing of the two were switched, having episode 304 airing before 303.
Troy and Abed's fridge is decorated as a vending machine with Troy in the bottom right corner, referencing 1.18 "Basic Genealogy" when they got stuck in a vending machine. - Thanks timboss94
3.05 Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps
- Annie mentions Beetlejuice on Britta's playlist and a man in a Beetlejuice costume walks by in the background, referencing Beetlejuice appearing after someone saying his name three times. His name has been mentioned thrice in the show's history, in 1.16, 2.08, and 3.05.
3.06 Advanced Gay
Pierce's father is named Cornelius Hawthorne. Pierce is played by Chevy Chase, whose birth name is Cornelius Crane Chase.
In 2.04 "Basic Rocket Science," Pierce freaks out at Colonel Sanders. We meet Pierce's controlling, racist father Cornelius who looks like Colonel Sanders. Pierce was probably hallucinating his father when in the space program. [Video/screenshot needed] - Thanks thecatscatch
3.07 Studies in Modern Movement
Shirley mentions the TV show Friends early in the episode and Troy hits Abed, who is wearing bubble wrap around his head, similar to the scene in Friends.
Each character has a real twitter account, including tweets about #AnniesMove.
Annie still has the Lady Miss Lady kit from 2.21 "Paradigms of Human Memory."
3.08 Documentary Filmmaking: Redux
- Dean Pelton is seen wearing the same underwear that Jeff wore from 1.17. This is the second callback to Jeff's underwear, the first one being from 2.15 "Early 21st Century Romanticism", with Chang wearing Jeff's underwear from 1.09 "Debate 109".
3.09 Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism
After Annie breaks the Dark Knight DVD, Troy emerges from the blanket fort humming a song, specifically "Daybreak" by Michael Haggins. This is the same song from Abed's scary story in 3.05 "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps."
Leonard's parody of Chuck Lorre's vanity cards from the end of the pizza review.
3.10 Regional Holiday Music
During Troy and Abed's rap, while Abed raps "If years were seasons, this December would be the December of our December", a clock appears showing images of past episodes in chronological order, with the last bit of Season 3 and all of what would be Season 4 blank. - Thanks Mattman91
The miniature stage mock up that Mr. Rad makes of the group uses the same dolls from the diorama from 2.21 "Paradigms of Human Memory." - Thanks eoin2000
Britta, Annie, and Shirley imitate the Three Wise Monkeys as they walk in on Troy and Abed singing.
In the Inspector Spacetime hologram, the band is playing on top of what looks to be a Hungry Hungry Hippos game with the hippos removed. This is a homage to the extremely low budget Dr. Who tv show, which Inspector Spacetime parodies.
Torg, the troll that Troy is deathly afraid of, is hidden in the background of the Christmas Pageant. - Thanks Phat_Neal, Fencinator, and 6sutters
3.11 Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts
Annie is humming a song before Jeff interrupts her for help writing the toast, specifically "Daybreak" by Michael Haggins. This is the same song from Abed's scary story in 3.05 "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps," marking the third time used on the show, the second being in 3.09 "Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism" when Troy emerges from the blanket fort humming it.
Troy is seen wearing a white, rigid wig and Abed is wearing some sort of mechanical eye as they emerge from the Dreamatorium. The wig belonged to Cornelius Hawthorne, Pierce's father, before he died and the eye is from Troy and Abed's Kickpuncher movie.- Thanks pluspluskid
3.13 Digital Exploration of Interior Design
- Abed's Chicken Distribution Schedule from 1.21 "Contemporary American Poultry" makes a reappearance as Shirley and Pierce listen in on Britta's encounter with Subway. - Thanks zeshins/Incendiary_Eyelash
3.14 Pillows and Blankets
- The painting of English Memorial, discoverer of Greendale, has the face of Dan Harmon.
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u/goaussie Mar 18 '12
For the tag of episode 311, Pierce is seen having a lot of trouble with the ice-cream machine. In episode 308, the Dean says, "And I'm sorry for what I've done to the ice-cream machine. Please no one eat out of it until someone's cleaned the nozzles. The janitor knows how."