Community Season 1 Episode 15: Communication Studies
The GCC Mascot delivers Valentines gifts across campus as Jeff and his girlfriend, Professor Slater, talk about what expectations she may have for Valentine’s Day. Professor Slater tells Jeff she will be chaperoning the GCC Valentine’s Day dance, and Jeff plans on meeting her there. Jeff listens to his voice-mail messages and finds a drunken message from Britta, known as a late night booty call. Jeff can’t wait to tease Britta about the call.
The study group gets Valentine’s from the GCC Mascot as a very hung-over Britta enters the room with dark sunglasses and a cup of coffee. Everyone in the study group except Troy and Pierce receive Valentine’s gifts. Jeff ribs Britta over the booty call and, embarrassed that she left the message, she leaves the study group in a hurry. Abed warns Jeff he must drunk dial Britta back or awkwardness will ensue between them.
During Spanish class Senor Chang is disgruntled when the GCC Mascot appears and delivers Valentine’s gifts to Pierce and Troy. Senor Chang knows Pierce and Troy sent themselves Valentine’s gifts and calls them on it in front of the class, making fun of them and leaving Pierce and Troy humiliated. Shirley and Annie are angry with Senor Chang’s mean rant at Pierce and Troy and decide to get back at him. Jeff tries to talk to Britta at the cafeteria buts she seems embarrassed about the call and leaves.
As Jeff enters the room, Abed is filming another episode of Community College Chronicles. Jeff asks Abed for advice and Abed plans a practice fake drunk dial for Jeff in his dorm room. Director Abed asks Jeff about his feelings for Professor Slater and Britta to get a believable drunk dial performance out of him, but Jeff scoffs at Abed’s methods. Abed goes all Stanislavski on Jeff and decides they must get drunk for Jeff’s call to Britta. Jeff and Abed have a little too much fun drinking and get plastered, passing out in the dorm room and missing their Spanish class the next morning.
The GCC Mascot brings Senor Chang a fake Valentine, a letter from Princeton offering him a new job in the Spanish department. Senor Chang knows the letter is fake and vows to get back at whoever sent it. Senor Chang accuses Troy and Pierce of trying to get back at him and perpetrating the crime. Senor Chang demands that Troy and Pierce be his escorts at the Valentine’s Day dance, dressed in ladies’ pants suits, if they don’t he will fail them.
Jeff and Troy wake up from their drunken extravaganza to find it is three in the afternoon. Abed confirms Jeff drunk dialed Britta and Professor Slater, neither of which Jeff remembers. Jeff meets up with an upset Professor Slater at the Valentine’s Day dance, to find that he called her thinking she was Britta. Pierce and Troy arrive at the dance in trench coats covering their ladies’ pants suits for their evening of Chang punishment. Shirley and Annie confess to Pierce and Troy they were the ones who pranked Senor Chang, and should be punished. Pierce and Troy tell the girls they will take the fall to spare them Chang’s wrath, realizing that Shirley and Annie care enough to stick up for them against Chang. Pierce and Troy make the walk of shame to the dance floor in ladies’ pants suits to dance with Chang.
Britta arrives dressed in a slinky red dress with her cell phone in hand. She teases Jeff about his booty call, then plays the first 20 seconds of the call, assuring Professor Slater Jeff’s call was innocent. As they hug, Britta whispers to a surprised Jeff there was much more to the drunken call, but that’s their secret.
