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Michelle and Jeff arrive at the school as she informs him that she has volunteered to chaperone the Valentine's Day dance tomorrow. Jeff agrees to join her at the dance and asks what exactly she expects from him on the holiday. She tells him to do whatever makes him happy before heading off to her class. As Jeff walks to the study room, he checks messages on his cell phone and notices an interesting voice mail left by Britta. Later in the study room, the Greendale Human Being delivers gifts for Shirley, Annie, and Abed. Pierce and Troy are upset that they didn't get anything.
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Britta finally arrives, looking dishevelled and hung over. After the rest of the group leaves to go to their classes, Jeff stays behind to talk to her. He plays her voice mail back to her which consists of a rambling drunken rant laced with BCI. Embarrassed, she runs out of the room as Jeff laughs at her. On her way out, she passes Abed who asks Jeff what happened. When Jeff gleefully explains the situation, Abed warns him about its possible ramifications. He explains that the balance between Jeff and Britta has shifted and that he now has something he can hold over her. Jeff is skeptical until he observes a noticeable change in Britta's attitude towards him in Spanish class. Señor Chang's "lecture" is interrupted when the Greendale Human Being arrives.
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He delivers two Valentine's gifts for Troy and Pierce. Chang sees through their ruse and points out to that they bought and sent the gifts to themselves. He leads the class into laughing at the embarrassed duo. Later in the cafeteria, Shirley and Annie are angry at Chang for humiliating their friends and decide to do something about it. Meanwhile, Jeff is trying to smooth things over with Britta, but she interprets his efforts as pity and asks him to leave her alone. Afterwards, Jeff interrupts Abed's movie shoot in the Spanish classroom with Abed's Chang to ask his advice on how to resolve the situation. Abed suggests that he pretend to drunk dial her back. When Jeff is unable to convincingly act drunk Abed offers to help him with his performance.
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Later, Abed is trying to inspire a realistic performance out of Jeff back in his dorm room by having him drink. Jeff is annoyed at the entire situation, even more so after Abed offers his personal observations about his attraction to both ladies. He points out that Britta challenges him to be better while Slater is low maintenance and is fine with him the way he is. Jeff tells Abed that he can't do this while being studied by him. Abed agrees and starts to drink along with Jeff. Pretty soon, no performance is necessary as they both get extremely drunk and party the night away. The next morning, they are both noticeably absent from Spanish class. The Greendale Human Being arrives and delivers a letter to Chang that supposedly contains a job offer from the Princeton Spanish Department.
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Chang easily sees through the prank and pins the blame on Pierce and Troy. He orders them to accompany him to the Valentine's Day dance as his dates while wearing ladies pantsuits. They start to protest, but Chang threatens to fail them if they don't comply. Meanwhile, back in Abed's dorm room, Jeff and Abed finally awaken with bad hangovers unable to remember the night before. When Abed checks Jeff's cell phone, it reveals that not only did he call Britta last night but Slater as well.
At the Valentine's dance, Annie and Shirley see Pierce and Troy dressed up as ladies and confess. Troy and Pierce decide to go through with their deal anyway, and are seen on the dance floor with Chang. Slater is annoyed at Jeff for calling her only to hang up when she wasn't Britta. Britta shows up in makeup and wearing a nice dress, making Jeff believe he asked her out, just to mess with him. When Slater sees them together she starts to walk out until Britta reveals that the real drunken call has Jeff saying "Michelle is the perfect girlfriend". Slater and Jeff make up and thank Britta. They leave, but not without Jeff looking back at dancing Britta one last time.
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Troy and Pierce exit the Valentine's dance, glad that their ordeal is over. Troy is surprised when it turns out that Pierce has plans to go out with Chang for frozen yogurt. He screams "Slut!" as Chang and Pierce drive off.
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Trivia[]
- Frequent background extras Long haired guy and Jeremy make another of over 65 and 45 episode appearances respectively. They are both dancing with Chang to "Going Crazy". Long haired guy is in a white fedora.
- After his drunken night, Jeff wakes up wearing the pizza delivery guy's t-shirt.
Quotes[]
- “It's Valentine week when the Greendale Human Being is the Cupid Being, delivering your gift to that special someone. But remember, Cupid's face is magic marker on nylon so love is not only blind but also dizzy and a little belligerent.”— Dean Pelton
- “As punishment, because you two obviously don't have any girlfriends, escort me to the Valentines Dance wearing elegant ladies pantsuits.”— Chang
- “Yeah, right.”— Troy
- “You'll do it or you'll fail my class.”— Chang
- “You can't do that.”— Pierce
- “Have you met me?”— Chang
- “I can't remember the name of that girl from The Breakfast Club. Mary. Margo. Molly Ringworm. You broke me.”— Abed
- “Michelle, I was trying to call Britain to order you toffees. Now, that may sound dumb but I needed to open with it to make the truth sound less ridiculous.”— Jeff
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1. "Pilot" |
14. "Interpretive Dance" |
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