
When fast-talking lawyer Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) finds his degree has been revoked, he is forced to go back to school at Greendale Community College. Hoping to score points with a pretty coed, he invents a study group and invites her to join it. Imagine his surprise when she's not the only one who shows up for help with Spanish from the "board-certified tutor" he proclaims himself to be. Though his command of the language is anything but good, the members continue to meet and end up learning a lot about themselves.

Jeff signs up for a class thinking it will be an easy A, but the professor (John Michael Higgins) has other ideas.

Shirley and Jeff bond by gossiping about Britta's boyfriend; Annie recruits Abed and Troy as test subjects for professor Duncan's psychology research team.

When the study group's science experiment is destroyed, the gang tries to find the criminal and save the grade; when Troy and Abed think they have discovered the perpetrator, a professor (Michael K. Williams) reluctantly presides over a trial.

When a beloved classmate dies unexpectedly, Britta uses skills from psychology class to counsel the study group; Chang tries to seize more control over campus security.