Station Sale and the sale of Greendale · SALE-01
The institution goes on the market
Ownership changes hands over the heads of the people who live inside the institution, and the first reaction is fear of dispersal.
What this relationship type claims
mirrors the plot of. An ordered sequence of beats corresponds across two works. Distinct from subplot-mirror, which is confined to a secondary strand.
Read from the other side, the same record says is mirrored by. There is one record here, not two. Chronology rule for this type: Source must predate target. Violation is a hard validation error.
Chronology
| Side | Work | Where | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| ↑ earlier | NewsRadio | NewsRadio S02E11 “Station Sale” | 1996 |
| ↓ later | Community | Community S05E12 “Basic Story” | 2014 |
The earlier side
Jimmy James announces negotiations with Robertson Communications, and the staff immediately fears firings, pay cuts, format changes, and the destruction of the workplace they recognise.
“Sir, who are you in negotiations with? Robertson Communications.”
S02E11:L45 speaker not attested in the transcript
The later side
The school board learns that Greendale has become a property asset and immediately reads that success as a reason to sell the campus into the private sector.
“Are we sure we can't stop the school from being sold to Subway? I'm afraid so, Chang.”
S05E12:L242 speaker not attested in the transcript
What changes on the way
A negotiation the owner opens becomes a decision a governing body makes about people who were not consulted.
The changed element is part of the evidence rather than noise. A function can move to a different character, a power relation can reverse, several sources can combine, and the same mechanism can produce a different result.
Part of a mirror
Station Sale and the sale of Greendale
Beat SALE-01 of 7: The institution goes on the market
How this record is graded
Established interpretation Combines several matching elements across text, performance, production, or reception.
The source research wrote this status as: “Established exhibit”
Sources
- Community Show Bible, Project research (Google Docs), 2026-09-22What it proves: Nothing on its own. It is the canonical statement of the project's evidence standard and its episode dossiers.