What was the inspiration for the trampoline storyline in "Aerodynamics of Gender"?

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In Community season 2, episode 7, Aerodynamics of Gender, Troy discovers a place of peace with a magical trampoline. What movie/television show inspired this storyline?



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It was inspired by The Secret Garden. It's a book I'm not familiar with, but The Onion's AV Club says:

This trampoline storyline was like something out of Simpsons, almost directly. (That show also had a famous trampoline B-story.) However, Community makes its own story out of this basic premise by weaving together the idea of trampolines being hideously unsafe with an elaborate parody of The Secret Garden (complete with lush imagery out of the final season of Lost) and the end of every story where people discover paradise but then ruin it by ... leading other people to it.

emphasis mine

Reading over the Wikipedia summary of The Secret Garden, there are some obvious parallels. The servants who introduce the protagonist to the garden, parallels the janitor in the Community episode. Both works share the lush greenery, and the gardens in both share magical properties.




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What is the trampoline episode of community based on?

It was inspired by The Secret Garden. It's a book I'm not familiar with, but The Onion's AV Club says: This trampoline storyline was like something out of Simpsons, almost directly. (That show also had a famous trampoline B-story.)

What does the trampoline mean community?

Troy and Jeff feel really good when they get high, then come back down. Pierce pressures them into doing it in an unsafe way. And as the become more addicted, their dealer turns from a groundskeeper to a neo-Nazi.



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the opening scene when Troy first goes to retrieve the basketball reminded me of Six Feet Under- the musicals cues (which after this first time, are used throughout the series) are very much in the foreground & super similar to six feet under's - the lighting is kind of hyper-soft & supernatural like SFU used to do in dream sequences & then there's that flash to white heading in to the title sequence

Not sure if it's a direct nod, or if the show's just being it's style-jumping self.

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