Community Season 1 Episode 14: Romantic Expressionism
As Jeff and Britta walk across campus together they notice Vaughn is singing a song to Annie and they are flirting with each other. Jeff is freaked, thinking if Annie hooks up with Vaughn every creepy guy on campus is going to hit on her. Britta is surprised but generally ok with them dating. At study group Abed and Troy plan their next movie night, telling the gang they make fun of bad B movies while watching them. Shirley wants to join in and is invited while Pierce invites himself to movie night.
Annie pulls aside Britta and asks if she minds if she dates Britta’s ex Vaughn. Britta tells Annie she is fine with her dating Vaughn but really isn’t ok with the idea. Jeff and Britta meet at the cafeteria where Britta talks about Annie asking permission to date Vaughn. Jeff feels he and Britta should watch out for Annie since they are her “Greendale parents.”
Troy, Abed, Shirley and Pierce watch “Kickpuncher” together on movie night, with Senior Chang a last minute drop in. The rest of the gang jokes and laughs about the movie but Pierce doesn’t feel like he fits in. His lame movie jokes aren’t going over well.
Jeff and Britta see Vaughn and Annie together on campus. They decide the best thing to do is hatch a plan to break them up. Britta suggests convincing Troy to date Annie since Annie has had a crush on Troy for years. They think if Troy was a real option to Annie she’d drop Vaughn for him. Britta and Jeff tell Troy Annie has always been crazy about him. Jeff has a private conversation with Troy convincing him that Annie is hot. Britta tells Troy Annie is dating Vaughn to make Troy jealous. Troy decides he needs to check Annie out.
Pierce hires an on campus comedy sketch group to write jokes for him for the next movie night in Abed’s dorm room. Troy sees Annie in the cafeteria and hits on her, putting his arm around her. Annie doesn’t understand why Troy is acting so weird. Vaughn brings ice cream to Annie and sees Troy’s arm around her. Troy announces to Vaughn that Annie has always had a crush on him, which crushes Vaughn who walks away dejected, eating his ice cream. Annie discovers it was Jeff and Britta who convinced Troy to break up Annie and Vaughn.
As Jeff and Britta bask in the glow of breaking up Annie and Vaughn, Annie comes into the room and sarcastically thanks them for meddling in her love life. Next Troy storms in thanking them for getting him interested in Annie so that she can reject him.
The gang gets ready to watch another movie. Abed tells the group they are watching a different movie. Pierce, who has prepared jokes for “Kickpuncher 2″, fabricates a story about a family member who died making the movie. Abed and the rest of the gang go along with Pierce’s request to see “Kickpuncher 2″, only to find Pierce whipping out fast jokes for every scene. Shirley calls Pierce on preparing jokes for the movie and Pierce decides to leave for the evening but manages to fall over the coffee table and knock over the popcorn. The gang laughs at Pierce who joins in knowing he finally got the laugh he was looking for.
Jeff and Britta talk to Annie about Vaughn and feeling like protective parents. Britta admits she’s not ok with her friend dating her ex-boyfriend. Jeff accuses Britta of jealousy, Britta accuses Jeff of thinking Annie’s hot from the debate team make-out kiss, then the rest of the study group starts on a list of wild accusations about each other.
Annie hears Vaughn’s guitar and runs outside to see him as the gang follows her. Vaughn sings a sweet song written just for her and Annie is estatic. Annie asks Jeff and Britta if they are still is upset with her dating Vaughn and Jeff and Britta gives Annie their blessing, trusting Annie is a grown up after all.
