Plot[]
 You got to have Jeff, Jeff, JEFF!!!
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| Pierce relates to the study group his time at rehab where he met celebrities. After they officially welcome him back to the group, they decide to study but are unsure of how to proceed. The Dean walks into the study room and interrupts the awkward situation. He tells them that the Vice President is doing a tour of community colleges to promote education, and Greendale is his next stop. The Dean and the president of the student body are supposed to meet him. Since they don't currently have a student president, an election needs to be held before he arrives. Abed mentions this must be why the school has been under secret surveillance. Later in the cafeteria, the Dean has set up an impromptu election for class president. |
| Annie's enthusiasm for the election is dampened by Jeff's cynical attitude towards it. After he fails to help her with her campaign flyers, Annie cuts him down with a scathing remark about his status as a lawyer. Abed is watching the selection process when Agent Robin Vohlers introduces herself. She begins interrogating him, intrigued that he was able to spot the undercover agents they planted at school. On stage, Annie is pushed through the preliminary round along with a few other students. She is shocked when Jeff nominates himself, charming the audience with his meaningless rhetoric. Over in the student lounge, Troy and Abed are shooting a closed circuit campus TV news show covering the election. Later, the stage for the opening debates is set up and Annie asks Jeff to quit since he's not taking it seriously.
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| Jeff, however, is intent on proving how much of a joke politics are. Meanwhile, Pierce is also on the dais taunting Vicki before being reminded by the Dean that all the microphones are on. The debate officially starts and Annie is the first candidate to present her ideological platform which Jeff counters with more insincere rhetoric. Out in the crowd, Agent Vohlers approaches Abed again with more questions and Troy notices the attraction between the two. Back on stage, Pierce uses his mic time as an opportunity to cruelly provoke Vicki into leaving. Having gotten his revenge for her not lending him a pencil, Pierce leaves as well. Annie tries to get the debate focus back on track by bringing up her stance on cleaning up the school's black mold problem.
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 "You're about to feel my foot coming in from the south." |
| Jeff twists Annie's words saying she believes Greendale to be dirty and drums up support from the audience by disagreeing with her. Annie then reduces her platform to one issue, the black mold, and makes it into a rhyming sound bite that wins over the crowd. Elsewhere, Troy and Abed take a break from their election coverage when Pavel shows up. He tells Abed that the Secret Service are trashing his dorm room. Arriving at the scene, Abed finds his dorm in disarray and confronts Robin on her true reasons for investigating him. She weakly denies any hidden agenda but offers him an apology of sorts for her actions and leaves. Back at the debate, Annie again tries to get Jeff to quit. She argues that his participation could cause the vote to split and give an unworthy candidate the presidency. After Jeff refuses she threatens that she won't hold back anymore and has a surprise for him.
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 potential threat to the country." |
| As the debate starts up again, Star-Burns drops out not wanting to tarnish his reputation as a drug dealer. After Magnitude offers his view on the black mold issue, Annie then makes good on her threat and presents a special audio/video presentation. She plays a copy of Jeff's embarrassing 1997 audition tape for "The Real World". Humiliated, Jeff runs off stage as the crowd laughs and Annie realizes she went too far. She finds him later in the storage room but Jeff stops her from apologizing admitting he deserved it. Troy interrupts and tells them that they are missing the debate. Jeff reminds him that he quit and is surprised to hear Annie say she dropped out as well. Troy replies he was referring to a captivating debate Leonard and Magnitude are having and leaves to watch the rest of it. |
| Jeff and Annie finish their conversation and she confesses she lost sight of the issues and became focused on winning. Jeff then suggests this all happened because they both cared what they thought of each other. In the middle of hugging out an apology, they are again interrupted this time by Pierce. He offers a poignant take on their conflict before revealing he had been stabbed in the face by Vicki with a pencil. Back at the election, the Dean is angered when the final votes show the winner of the election to be "South Park". Abed wraps up his and Troy's election coverage by mentioning how to create napalm from common household items. Over at the Vice-President's motorcade, Agent Vohlers gets wind of this statement. She advises the VP skip Greendale and go to City College due to the elevated threat level. She says she will look into the matter personally and slowly smiles.
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| Abed is alone in his dorm room watching the movie "Kickpuncher". Outside in a van, Secret Service Agent Robin Vohlers is watching the film as well through a pair of binoculars. After the film ends, he talks into his lamp which is wired; he tells her he had fun and suggests they "see" each other again.
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Trivia[]
- In the Community The Complete Second Season DVD commentaries, episode writer Adam Countee mentions there was a scene shot of Abed and Agent Vohlers kissing but it was cut. In an interview with Hitfix regarding Abed's later girlfriend Rachel, Dan Harmon explained they made this choice as it took Abed's relationship with Vohlers too far, and thematically it worked better that they were two romantically compatible people who ultimately could not be together.
- Frequent background extra Long haired guy makes another of over 65 episode appearances. He's about to go on stage to make his pitch when Britta shoves him and takes his place. Frequent background extra Jeremy (who was Ken Jeong's stand-in) makes another of 45 episode appearances and is named by Jeff in this episode.
- When Jeff's biography is flashed up on screen, "kryptonite" is misspelled as "KRYTONITE."
Quotes[]
- “Ah. What am I gonna wear? I mean, I could borrow my sister's Uncle Sam outfit. It's tailored for ladies, but what else can I do on such short notice?”— Dean
- “Well, you could not dress up like Uncle Sam. Or admit you don't have a sister.”— Jeff
- “I'm sorry, Annie. I'm not the worker bee type. I'm more of a silverback gorilla with the claws of a lion, the teeth of a shark, and the quiet dignity of a tortoise.”— Jeff
- “Face it, Annie. Politics are all about ego, popularity, and parlor tricks. Don't kid a lawyer.”— Jeff
- “Well, if I see one, I will.”— Annie
- “My name is Annie Edison and if elected I promise to make Greendale the signature community college of the entire western three quarters of the Greendale area.”— Annie
- “Garrett.”— Abed
- “That guy's such a mess. It's like God spilled a person.”— Troy
- “Who's that?”— Troy
- “Special Agent Vohlers. United States Secret Service.”— Abed
- “Do you just constantly have your own little side adventures?”— Troy
- “Yep.”— Abed
- “...Me too.”— Troy
- “I suggest you drop out right now, because not only will I beat you, I will make you cry.”— Annie
- “Oh, I feel a slight ego blowing in from the east.”— Jeff
- “You're gonna feel my foot blowing in from the south.”— Annie
- “This election's become a real horse race. According to our polls the campus is almost evenly divided. Now keep in mind the margin of error on this thing is about 98%.”— Troy
- “Could be higher. We don't even know how to do margins of error. We talked to two people at a vending machine.”— Abed
- “I actually withdraw my candidacy. I fear a political career will shine a negative light on my drug dealing. Thank you.”— Star-Burns
- “When we seek to destroy others, we often hurt ourself, because it is the self that wants to be destroyed.”— Pierce
- “Pierce, you're not usually so poignant.”— Jeff
- “Two men fighting for the same piece of earth, one recently born, one soon to die. A competition reflecting the pointlessness of life.”— Abed
- “As the confetti gets swept away and we begin gearing up for next years election for GCTV I'm Abed Nadir saying. Did you know you can make napalm out common dish soap and cat food?”— Abed
- “What!? Why would you say that?”— Troy
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