Love how anytime there is an episode with explicitly gay themes you can tell that there will be a focus on Troy and Abed’s relationship (early 21st century romanticism, advanced gay)
not to give away the entire plot of a fic im (attempting to) write but. if annie is struggling so much financially, why is she living alone before she moves in w troy and abed. wouldnt having a roommate make bills easier? moving in with someone who needs a roommate at the beginning of her freshman year would be really easy. and pretty cheap. and maybe her roommate is just a bit standoffish at first, but really they're very similar people. and they take a lot of the same classes. and maybe one night they're up late studying, but really they both have it pretty much down and maybe they've split a bottle of wine between them and maybe annie is all loose and maybe her roommate's eyes sort of shine against the streetlight from the window and maybe she gives annie a math problem to solve and all annie can focus on is the way her mouth moves around the numbers and maybe. maybe they kiss. maybe annie kisses her. and then. maybe she wakes up the next day and freaks out, moves out within the month. decides she cant have a roommate. cant take the risk. besides, itll be easier to focus on school without the distraction. and she hardly even thinks about her old roommate. until they go head to head at the model un, of course
love the dvd pilot for many reasons one of which is the dean's "uh oh. uh oh. uh oh." when he cant turn the boom box off bc honestly. i do that all the time when im trying to fix something. "uh oh. uh oh. uh oh."ing makes it easier to fix. if im honest.
im not a romantic trobedison shipper but if i were i do think that abed would invite them both seperately out to a date at a restaraunt so that he could do the "2 dates at once" trope again but better this time. annie'd figure it out about halfway thru and call him on it but troy would never realize. he'd just be sitting there going "huh. abed has a lot of last minute emergencies popping up tonight. probably because abed can fix anything 🥰🥰"
You're afraid you don't fit in. you're afraid you'll be alone. Great news! You share that with all of us, so you'll never be alone and you'll always fit in.
What if the ac unit broke in apartment 303 and Abed and Annie just suffered for a while before doing anything about it because they didn't want to acknowledge that the person who usually fixes it isn't there