When the legitimacy of his degree is challenged, lawyer Jeff Winger must return to school, where he meets a clan of misfit community college students.
While Jeff looks to use a Spanish class assignment to get close to Britta, Pierce has something altogether different in mind.
Jeff struggles to get a good grade, and Britta's offer to bankroll his film class exposes a rift between Abed and his angry father.
As Annie recruits Abed and Troy for a psychology class experiment, Jeff and Shirley bond over their mutual fondness for gossip.
As Pierce volunteers to compose a new school song, a cheating episode in Spanish class leaves Jeff defending Britta before a disciplinary tribunal.
Annie's dream of being the ex-football star's girlfriend is in jeopardy when Jeff is blackmailed into getting Troy to join Greendale's football team.
Jeff sets his sights on an attractive professor, and Annie looks to boost her social standing by hosting a Day of the Dead party.
Jeff is forced out of his condo and into Abed's dorm room, and Annie looks to get Troy's attention by helping him plan a romantic picnic.
As Jeff is drafted to help lead Greendale's debate team against the formidable City College, Abed's film-class projects appear to predict the future.
Faced with an unreasonable amount of Spanish homework, Jeff's efforts to handle Señor Chang manage to help him, but not the rest of the class.
With his high-price "escort" girlfriend on his arm, Pierce pressures Jeff into asking Dean Pelton's airhead secretary to double date at the STD Fair.
Shirley's plans for a holiday party are in jeopardy when Jeff is drawn into a fight with a campus bully.
Jeff accepts an invitation to be the editor of the school paper as he and his friends fend off an interloper who wants to join their study group.
As Jeff and Prof. Slater try to keep their student-teacher romance under wraps, Britta and Troy tell everyone about their shared passion for dance.
Jeff and Britta team up to derail Annie's fledgling romance with Greendale's resident hippie singer-songwriter, Vaughn.
As Valentine's Day finds Jeff struggling with his feelings for Britta and professor Slater, Pierce and Troy are wrongly blamed for a prank.
The study group helps Abed land a date with a girl, and Jeff squares off with a P.E. coach who insists that he wear gym shorts to a billiards class.
As Family Day lands Jeff in the middle of an affair with Pierce's sexy ex-stepdaughter, Shirley's unruly sons help liberate Abed's Afghani cousin.
A pottery class he takes for an easy A reveals Jeff's deep-seated need to succeed.
When her April Fools' Day prank inadvertently sends a human cadaver out the anatomy lab window, Britta looks to place the blame on Jeff.
A scheme to replace a corrupt cafeteria employee transforms the study group into a criminal gang run by a power-hungry Abed.
While a tasteless prank ends with Pierce being tossed out of the group, Britta and Jeff are forced to team up against some teen newcomers at school.
The first prize of priority registration engulfs Greendale Community College in a Spring Fling paintball war.
On the eve of an important final exam in Spanish, everyone's grades are jeopardized when it is discovered that Señor Chang has a damaging secret.
As the end of the school year finds Jeff at the apex of a romantic triangle, Annie ponders moving away with her hacky sack-playing boyfriend.
When the semester starts, Jeff is stunned that his rejection of Britta has made her a campus star; Chang wants to be accepted into the study group.
When an old friend from Jeff's past appears unexpectedly, his friends discover that he was the one responsible for Jeff's disbarment.
A death provokes a fierce debate about Pierce's religious beliefs. Britta and Annie are at odds over tactics in the Gulf oil spill fund-raising drive.
Jeff and the group must salvage an aging museum exhibit that Dean Pelton wants as the centerpiece of Greendale's proposed aerospace training program.
Shirley and Abed are at odds over his plan to direct and star in his own epic religious film.
Dean Pelton's army surplus party food sparks an outbreak of zombie-ism at the Greendale Halloween party.
Abed endears himself to the girls after he offers to take down their enemies on campus; Jeff and Troy stumble onto a groundskeeper's secret paradise.
Annie's missing pen leads to friction within the group.
When Jeff tries to obtain credit for a fictitious class, the unintended consequences rock Greendale. Abed and Troy build an elaborate blanket fort.
Troy's friends help him celebrate his 21st birthday.
The meaning of Christmas is lost and Abed's intense fixation on the holiday concerns the group in this special stop-motion animation episode.
With Chang pressing for membership in the study group, Annie's latest crush has Jeff reeling as Shirley unveils some stunning news.
Pierce's efforts to bribe director Annie may undermine the theater group's antidrug play; Jeff's texting prank puts Britta in an awkward situation.
On Valentine's Day, Troy and Abed compete for the attention of an assistant librarian, while Britta tries to show she's open-minded about lesbians.
Claiming that he is about to die, Pierce summons the study group to the hospital to bequeath his belongings to them.
For an upcoming vice-presidential visit, Glendale's Dean Pelton hastily organizes an election for student body president that pits Annie against Jeff.
Although Shirley and Andre don't want Chang involved with her baby, he resolves to be a good dad. Abed and Troy's new friend may be a war criminal.
Jeff and the group arrange a Pulp Fiction birthday party for Abed, but he has his own plans, starting with an expensive dinner for himself and Jeff.
Jeff is suspicious of Pierce's engagement to a pretty classmate. Troy invents a childhood trauma to impress Britta, and Abed challenges a professor.
Working on their final anthropology diorama, Chang finds a cache of items stolen by Troy's monkey that dredge up unhappy memories for the study group.
As the semester ends, the anthropology final is disrupted when Shirley goes into labor and her husband, Andre, is summoned to school for the birth.
A $100,000 paintball war prize pits members of the study group against one another, until they decide to join forces to stop a mysterious challenger.
As the paintball war is revealed to be a City College plot, Jeff and Troy vie for control of Greendale's ragtag army, while Pierce betrays the group.
As Jeff tries to keep Pierce from rejoining the study group, Dean Pelton faces off with Vice Dean Laybourne for control of Greendale.
As Annie competes with an overachieving rival in a Model United Nations competition, Jeff wrestles with his feelings for his ambitious friend.
The study group struggles to incorporate a fellow classmate while working on a project for Professor Kane's class.
When Jeff introduces an element of randomness into Troy and Abed's housewarming party, reality splits into six timelines.
When a personality test suggests that one group member is a homicidal maniac, they use a series of scary Halloween stories to expose the killer.
When a drag queen's song makes Hawthorne Wipes an iconic gay product, Pierce embraces it, until his homophobic dad shows up to squelch the idea.
Annie has second thoughts about moving in with Troy and Abed once she realizes that they expect her to live in a blanket fort.
As Dean Pelton films a new commercial for Greendale, the production takes a wild turn once he discovers that a famous alum has agreed to appear in it.
When Shirley agrees to coach Jeff in foosball, they realize that she bullied him mercilessly when they were kids.
The study group is slowly convinced to fill in for the Glee Club at Greendale's Christmas pageant.
When Shirley's remarriage to Andre threatens to put her dreams of starting a business with Pierce on hold, Britta steps in.
The study group must work as celebrity impersonators at a bar mitzvah to pay off Abed's debt to a talent agency owner.
When Britta falls for the human embodiment of the Subway sandwich chain, Shirley and Pierce hope to use the situation to their advantage.
The students of Greendale are drawn into an epic pillow fight as Troy and Abed start a war that threatens to destroy their unique friendship.
When a carnival comes to Greendale, Annie goes to great lengths to make sure that Britta doesn't contact her carnival worker ex-boyfriend.
After sending Troy and Britta on a date, Annie volunteers to keep Abed company in his Dreamatorium.
When the yam the study group was growing for biology class is killed, Troy and Abed are on the case.
After a classmate suddenly dies, the study group decides to host a memorial, but Jeff turns his speech into an angry anti-Greendale rant.
After Abed is caught trespassing at Greendale, he and his friends visit a psychiatrist.
Pierce and his closest friends are summoned to Hawthorne Labs to play a video game that will determine who will inherit his father's fortune.
The study group stages an elaborate heist to break in to Greendale and free Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) from the clutches of Chang (Ken Jeong).
Jeff agrees to represent Shirley in a case against Pierce to determine official ownership of their new sandwich shop.
On the first day of senior year, Jeff reveals some news that might tear apart the study group. Meanwhile, Dean Pelton holds an elaborate competition.
On the way to a Halloween party, the study group must free Pierce from his panic room and slowly comes to suspect that his mansion is haunted.
Troy worries about losing Abed to a fellow Inspector Spacetime fan at a convention for the show, while Annie fantasizes about being married to Jeff.
The study group contends with a group of German students who take over the study room. Chang makes his return to campus.
Britta joins Jeff to see his estranged father on Thanksgiving. Shirley invites the rest of the group to spend the holiday with her judgmental in-laws.
Greendale comes together to get to the bottom of Chang's amnesia, which Abed films as a documentary. Jeff, however, suspects Chang is faking it.
Dean Pelton enlists the study group to beautify the campus to woo a wealthy student to Greendale. A class on teaching P.E. pits Shirley against Troy.
Jeff sets out to embarrass Britta when she announces a dance for women's empowerment. Abed dreams of shuttling between two dates in one night.
Dean Pelton prompts the study group to use puppets to relive the traumatic events of a recent adventure.
Jeff organizes a lovely holiday gathering at his apartment, but Annie secretly invites Professor Cornwallis to get in his good graces.
When Annie and Shirley learn that Leonard is actually holding the spot as the class valedictorian, they join forces to bring him down.
Abed's research into the study group's history uncovers an overlooked series of chance encounters that led each of them to Greendale.
A plan to celebrate Jeff's early graduation is unexpectedly disrupted by the study group's evil doppelgangers from the Darkest Timeline.
With his law practice doomed, Jeff returns to Greendale to start a class action suit against the school, but a hologram of Pierce has him reconsider.
Abed tackles a two-day crash course on Nicolas Cage, while a clueless Jeff begins his teaching career with Annie as his most demanding student.
With the mysterious Ass Crack Bandit back at Greendale, Annie and Jeff are on the case. As clues and suspicions mount, Shirley delivers shocking news.
Pierce's funeral leaves the study group with mixed feelings, especially after their late tormentor leaves one last test to reveal everyone's secrets.
For Troy's last day at Greendale, Abed holds a campus-wide "hot lava" fantasy game. With a comic book worth $50,000 as the prize, it's an all-out war.
While Annie and Hickey's fight to get a bulletin board repaired spirals out of control, Abed and Britta go to war over spoilers of his favorite show.
Jeff counsels a smitten Duncan on how to get a date with Britta but is developing feelings of his own. An angry Hickey tries to teach Abed a lesson.
A new caste system takes over when Greendale beta tests an app that ranks everyone. Shirley loves her new status, but Jeff and Britta want it stopped.
Abed and Annie try to solve their new roommate dilemma with a retro VCR game, while Jeff, Shirley and Hickey hatch a plan to sell stolen textbooks.
To help Hickey be a more involved grandfather, which means patching up a bad relationship with his son, the gang creates an epic role-playing game.
Jeff's depression over turning 40 leads him to drink himself unconscious. In his dreams, he and the gang are part of the "G. I. Joe" cartoon team.
The Save Greendale Committee's success is short-lived when the board votes for a corporate sellout, but Pelton, Annie and Abed might find a solution.
To save Greendale from being sold, the gang searches for an eccentric computer science professor's legendary treasure hidden beneath the school.
New administrative consultant Frankie's strict — and sobering — changes split the group when Abed goes rogue to side with the enemy.
When Dean Pelton loses himself — and a chunk of the college budget — in a virtual reality system, Jeff seeks help from its cantankerous inventor.
A rival's attack ad puts the group into defensive mode — and a moral quandary. Britta and Chang find new ways to gross everyone out.
Dean Pelton's sexuality gives him an uncomfortable edge for a school board seat. Chang scores a surprise win in a stage adaptation of "The Karate Kid."
When prisoners roll into Greendale via telerobot, Jeff meets his match in a clever convict. Britta's plans for a raging house party backfire.
A hacker angry over a racist comic's planned campus performance threatens to publish the activity committee's personal emails.
Britta's ex-boyfriend, Rick, returns, reigniting her far-fetched dreams of a normal relationship. Annie goes to extremes to win Elroy over.
A commercial catchphrase catapults Chang to viral fame and a life-changing move. The group bands together to make movie magic for Abed.
Visiting Professor DeSalvo gives Jeff and his friends a master class in grifting and a bonus lesson on the art of revenge.
A 19-foot plaster hand guides the group on an emotional journey as they travel through mountains and flashbacks while aboard Elroy's RV.
Heroes are born, promises are broken and the stakes are raised when paintball makes an explosive return to Greendale's campus.
When two Greendale students get married, the wedding reception takes a turn after Jeff unwittingly exposes an inconvenient truth.
The former study group's future — and friendships — are put to a test when one chapter of their lives closes and a new one begins.