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 Well it’s funny, I enrolled here as a selfish loner but you and the group have given me a crash course in friendship.
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| In Spanish class, Señor Chang introduces Annie who announces that she'll be hosting a Día de los Muertos party at the library that evening. Students who attend get extra credit but Chang is being forced to supervise without being paid. Shirley enthusiastically agrees to go while Britta scolds Jeff for being noncommittal. Pierce checks his cell phone to see if he sent the e-vite for the party and accidentally calls his mother.
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| During Statistics class, Jeff flirts with his professor Michelle Slater. After class, Slater admits to Jeff she is attracted to him but declares she doesn't date students. Shirley and Britta watch on as Jeff chases after Slater in the hallway. Annie interrupts his pursuit to ask Jeff if he's attending her party. As the coolest guy on campus, his presence can ensure its success. Jeff tries to refuse but relents when she starts to cry. During lunchtime, Pierce attempts to secretly take his pills, but Abed notices, much to his embarrassment.
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| That night in the study room, Annie's party begins, and the study group members arrive in costume except for Jeff. Pierce arrives dressed as the Beastmaster. He goes to the restroom to take his evening meds and runs into Star-Burns. He convinces Pierce to trade two of Pierce's pills for one of his own, unaware that Pierce's medications are not recreational. Pierce is equally oblivious of the nature of Star-Burns' drugs. Back at the party, Jeff sees Chang leave and follows him to the faculty Halloween party to see Slater. Britta and Shirley team up to bring him back angry that he bailed on Annie. When Annie calls for Jeff and the attendees realize he isn't there they begin to talk about leaving early.
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| Nearby, Pierce and Star-Burns begin to experience the effects of the pills they swapped. At the faculty party, Slater continues to resist Jeff's advances, worrying that word of a relationship would spread from his friends to the whole school. Jeff claims that he has no friends, but immediately they all start to appear. Britta confronts him about skipping out on Annie followed by Abed as Batman, who also condemns Jeff for his actions. Then Troy, dressed as Eddie Murphy, reports that Pierce is high and needs Jeff's help. It's then that Dean Pelton points out that Shirley is outside in the parking lot breaking the antenna off of Slater's car. Finally, Pierce arrives, high on Star-Burns' drugs, and makes a huge scene. Fed up with their interference, Jeff lashes out at each member of the group, driving them away.
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| Britta finds Shirley attempting to destroy Slater's office. Shirley admits that she is misplacing her anger and reveals that her ex-husband returned for their wedding ring in order to give it to his new girlfriend. Shirley confesses that she pretended Britta was hurt in order to avoid her own pain. Britta realizes that she is also guilty of avoiding her own feelings regarding Jeff and Slater. As he returns to Annie's party, Pierce's drug trip progresses to hallucination, and Annie is unable to calm him. Back at the faculty party, Chang mocks Jeff's failure to score with Slater, and Jeff blames Greendale for draining his coolness. At Chang's suggestion, Jeff approaches Slater and straightforwardly pleads with her to have sex with him only to be shocked when she agrees.
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| They leave and walk past the library, where a crowd has gathered. Troy runs up and tells Jeff that Pierce is in the middle of a mental breakdown and only Jeff can help. Reluctantly, Jeff leaves Slater and approaches Pierce, who has barricaded himself inside a sizeable fort made of tables and chairs. Pierce tells Jeff that the real reason for his freakout is having to face the fact that he is old. Jeff responds that Pierce has done a lot of living in just the last two months and should be proud. Reassured, Pierce pumps his fist which causes the fort to collapse. Abed swoops in at the last second and drags both men to safety. The episode closes with a dramatic Abed/Batman voice over as the group recovers and continue the party together.
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| Eating candy after the party, Troy and Abed practice the Batman voice while musing about mundane thoughts.
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- “Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is sometimes referred to as Mexican Halloween.”— Annie
- “Which is actually quite offensive to people familiar with Mexican Halloween as a sexual position.”— Chang
- “Are you trying to get formidable with me?”— Jeff
- “It worked on Pierce.”— Annie
- “Infomercials work on Pierce.”— Jeff
- “You know what the crazy thing is, Britta?”— Shirley
- “Everything you've done tonight?”— Britta
- “You feel a breeze here? Cause someone just struck out.”— Chang
- “She blew you off too, Chang.”— Jeff
- “Is that what you have to fall back on? Dude. Look at me, bro. Look at me. I've got the body of a fifth grader. M'Kay? If I was workin' with what you've got, she'd be at the Comfort Inn right now giving me a Mexican Halloween.”— Chang
- “Please sleep with me. Please. Pretty please. I'm so lonely. I haven't slept with anyone in a very long time, and you're so good-looking. Please do me the favor of having sex with me.”— Jeff to Professor Slater
| Season One Episodes | ||
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1. "Pilot" |
14. "Interpretive Dance" |
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