The darkest of these timelines, which results in the death of Pierce by Annie Edison’s (Alison Brie) accidental gunshot, Jeff losing an arm trying to put out a fire, and Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown) succumbing to alcoholism, also inspires that reality’s Abed to sport a makeshift black goatee and turn evil and eventually becoming a lingering threat to his uncorrupted alternate counterpart for future episodes.
In the classic Season 3 episode of Community, “Remedial Chaos Theory,” Jeff, despite Abed’s warning, creates six concurrent, alternate timelines by rolling the die to determine which member of the study group will bring the pizza delivery up to Troy and Abed’s apartment.