I think he said “I’m not an ambassador.”
I don’t believe that ‘How I met your mother’ has done an episode-length musical. They’ve had one big song-and-dance number that I can recall, (that was hyped) but that’s not the same thing.
Either way: Codpiece!
Ya, that sounds right.
It was. The classic moment from that movie is a bad guy from a rival gang clinking bottles together, chanting “Waaarriors…Come out and plaaaayyyyy”, parodied in this episode.
Chang’s entry was wearing the linen suit and sunglasses from John Woo’s The Killer. His pair of golden pistols was from another Woo movie. Hard Boiled, I think. The paintballs colliding in mid-air was from yet another of his movies.
Chang’s green paint bomb was reminiscent of Predator. Man, now I want to watch it again and annotate everything.
The first part with the machine paintball gun was Scarface to me, then when they brought out the double pistol’s with Britta and Chang going at it and diving and shooting that was John Woo’s Hardboiled?
Of course, Abed’s entrance (“Come with me if you don’t want paint on your clothes”) references the Terminator movies (“Come with me if you want to live.”)
I was thinking Jeff’s speech in the dean’s office was a Rambo or First Blood reference.
The opening with Jeff walking the empty campus feels like a nod to 28 Days Later or Resident Evil.
I thought the gold pistols were from “Face Off”.
Best. episode. ever. 2nd place goes to “Goodfellas”.
That’s what I was thinking at the time as well.
Joel McHale, how* you* doin?
It’s bugging me too - especially, “You think this is over? This is still happening!”
In fact, almost every reference rang a general bell, but I’m not sure I could place any of them specifically, except the Die Hard taped gun. I still enjoyed the hell out of it.
What about the whole, “There’s no such thing as priority registration, hahahaha!” This seems to be frequently used as a trope, but again I can’t name a specific instance.
Did you see the pool episode (when he played a game in his briefs)? Damn.
The mechanical whirring sound when Jeff meets Abed and Troy was great- out of ALIEN or every other techno disaster setting.
The Glee Club sounded like Rosemary’s Baby soundtrack.
Loved the old standard of Abed smiling in victory then looking down to see he’s been hit.
The “what will you do if we ever get out of this?” scene.
Poor Starburns.
“You son of a bitch… we thought you were dead!” after he’d been in his car for only an hour.
“I’m going home… no, I’m going home.”
“EZ there sugar bear… talk him through the hunger Abed.”
What was the “no such thing as priority registration” a take-off on? RUNNING MAN (which is where I thought they got the “put me in the game” from, though that’s also MATRIX.)
So now they’ve done gangster movies and zombie movies, what other genre can they take on?
Definately a 28 Days Later reference. Now if only they’d gone whole hog and found an excuse for Jeff to wake up buck naked. 
I thought the “You sit up here in your ivory towers” line towards the end was a Running Man reference.
And I second Naked Jeff! 
Am I the only one who was bothered by the fact that almost nobody was wearing eye protection?
The paint dripping down the wall in the bathroom felt like a reference, but damn if I know what it was. The only thing I could think of was Doom, but that would be a bit obscure, and it didn’t even fit particularly well. Maybe Species? It’s hard to come up with bathroom scenes.
Who needs eye protection? There was a PRIORITY REGISTRATION on the line!
I love this show. “Priority registration” is about the funniest thing ever on TV.
It’s bugging me too that I can’t name the “we turned on each other like animals” reference.
I think it was intended to symbolize every movie that has blood running down somewhere, and the person seeing it looks up or around and then gets blown away/eaten/etc. Or it could be a specific movie that I can’t put my finger on. I loved it, anyway, with him looking around and seeing the outlines of a man’s head and shoulders at every urinal, outlined in paint.
Oh God, that was a funny, funny episode. It was streets ahead of any other show I can think of.
I caught many of the referneces when I was watching it, like Terminator and Warriors, but I just kind of gave up and just started enjoying it as a send up of all those genre movies as a whole. It was brilliant.