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Although the study group planned to take the History of Ice Cream together to kick off their senior year at Greendale, everyone except Jeff is ready to find a new course when they discover that their top choice is overbooked. When pressed to explain his eagerness to participate in the series of bizarre contests Dean Pelton has designed to determine who will be admitted to the popular class,...

As the study group is getting ready for a Halloween party, Pierce frantically calls claiming he accidentally locked himself in his mansion’s panic room. Despite Jeff’s insistence that he’s lying to get attention, the group agrees to help and heads to Pierce’s tackily decorated home. Communicating via video monitor from inside the panic room, Pierce tells them that he became trapped after...

When Britta accompanies Troy and Abed to an Inspector Spacetime convention, Jeff and Annie tag along to go skiing. While Troy is particularly excited to take a “gluon photo” of their bodies fused together, Abed stalls so he can meet Toby, another passionate Inspector Spacetime fan he’s been talking to online. When Jeff discovers that the ski slopes are closed, he decides to head home, despite...

Shut out of the History of Ice Cream, the study group signs up for a class whose professor encourages them to look at history from multiple points of view. As Troy struggles with Jeff’s historical puns, the group finds that Greendale’s annoying group of German students and their new ringleader Reinhold are their classmates. And when they arrive at their usual study room, the group is shocked...

With the arrival of Thanksgiving, Shirley invites the study group to dinner with her family and in-laws. Because no one is happy with their own holiday traditions, they all accept, save for Jeff, who has secretly planned to see his estranged father, William. Though Jeff asks everyone to butt out of his family affairs, Britta can’t resist taking credit for his decision to seek closure with his...

To bolster Greendale’s application for a McGuffin Neurological Institute grant to research “Changnesia,” Dean Pelton enlists Abed to make a documentary about the disease. Interviewing everyone from school psychiatrist Dr. Ken Kedan (and armchair psychologist Britta Perry) to Chang, the disease’s namesake, Abed examines all sides of the controversial issue. While Annie asks everyone to lend a...

To raise money for the school, Dean Pelton sets his sights on enticing Archie DeCoste to enroll at Greendale. Because Archie is a wealthy but terrible student with little prospect of ever graduating, Pelton sees him as just like Pierce, a perpetual cash cow – or “whale” – who won’t hesitate to pay whatever he’s asked. But because Pierce throws temper tantrums whenever anyone else gets any...

Under fire over a series of problems plaguing the campus, Dean Pelton looks to placate the restless student body with an old-fashioned Sadie Hawkins Day Dance. Unhappy that the event uses a single day to celebrate women’s freedom, Britta organizes a parallel dance honoring the feminist icon Susan B. Anthony. When she announces that she is having a Sophie B. Hawkins Day Dance instead, Jeff...

When Dean Pelton finds them nervously sitting around in the study room, it’s clear that something is troubling the group. Though no one wants to talk about it, the dean encourages them to use puppet therapy to give voice to what’s bothering them. So everyone takes up their felt puppet likenesses to recall a recent boring Friday at Greendale. Following an embarrassing game of Study Group...

As they gather at Jeff’s condo for their first ever grown up Christmas party, Annie tells the study group that Professor Cornwallis has given their paper for his history class an F. Though everyone else is upset to learn that Annie has invited Cornwallis to the party, Jeff insists they seize the opportunity to persuade the professor to change their grade to a C. When Cornwallis’ imperious and...

As Jeff advocates doing the bare minimum for the study group’s final history project, Shirley points out that it is the first anniversary of Troy and Britta’s first date. At Annie’s suggestion, the couple reluctantly agrees to do something romantic to mark the occasion. However, after recalling that it is also the anniversary of he and Abed first seeing the classic role-switching film Freaky...

Though Jeff wants them to concentrate on their upcoming final, Abed distracts everyone with his graduation gift – a history of the study group that uncovers the series of coincidental encounters that preceded their meeting at Greendale. Recalling the year when Annie and Troy were still high school classmates, Abed produces evidence that he and Shirley were at the mall at the same time back in...

Now that he’s completed his history class, Jeff is ready to graduate early and return to work with his old law partner. Though the rest of the study group is staying through the remainder of the school year – or beyond – they are all eager to celebrate. So after Jeff submits his graduation paperwork, Dean Pelton launches plans for a diploma signing party that takes on all the trappings of a...