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2026-09-06 21:00 The documentary episode is an homage to the documentary Hearts of Darkness, which is about the making of Apocalypse Now. They bring it up a few times in the episode.
2026-09-02 14:44 The documentary episode is an homage to the documentary Hearts of Darkness, which is about the making of Apocalypse Now. They bring it up a few times in the episode. Edit: Those #anniesmove tweets made by Troy and Abed are still up on Twitter, dated on the day the episode first aired. The dean also has some tweets about it.

The documentary episode is an homage to the documentary Hearts of Darkness, which is about the making of Apocalypse Now. They bring it up a few times in the episode. Edit: Those #anniesmove tweets made by Troy and Abed are still up on Twitter, dated on the day the episode first aired. The dean also has some tweets about it.

Kris

The commercial episode is heavily referencing "Hearts of Darkness", the documentary following the production of Apocalypse Now, which was by all accounts completely insane.

David Arroyo

They literally say it in the episode a million times its hearts of darkness and the dreamatorium is the holodeck which is from Star Trek, i get why you wouldn't get that reference but they literally make it a point to reference hearts of darkness and are blatantly telling you

dhjjkl

im crying at the 3 comments all being about heart of darkness

dhjjkl

tbh I usually just watch these homage episodes enjoying the genre vibe and got confused seeing people put so much stock into which specific media its referencing but now I kinda wanna watch heart of darkness. I know the episode is specifically referencing heart of darkness now but I always just assumed it was just a general mockumentary style thing

DaddyChill

the yellow lines in the dreamatorium are a reference to the holodecks from star trek, that sequence in the commercial episode with the dean in his office covering his face in ash is a reference to apocalypse now as mentioned by Abed in the beginning, which is a retelling of a novel called heart of darkness set in the vietnam war instead of the congo.

DaddyChill

sure but if you dont know what either apocalypse now or heart of darkness is how would you know thats what theyre referencing

DaddyChill

to tldr all the comments, go watch apocalypse now and then go watch heart of darkness and or read Coppola's Monster Film: The Making of Apocalypse Now.