The main focus of this episode is about Britta cheating in Senor Chang's Spanish class, but meanwhile in the background, the writers are doing some major world building. So many of the show's future developments have their roots in this episode. We see an almost familial relationship developing between Annie and Pierce as she encourages him to compose the Greendale school song. The Luis Guzman statue goes up in the quad. (Really?! This is only episode 5!) The dean makes his first dramatic entrance into the study room, and his first bad dean pun. Troy and Abed decide that friends don't mess with each other, and seal the deal with their first best-friend handshake. Jeff's big speech is actually a closing argument this time in Britta's poolside cheating trial, and on our side of the screen, Matt gives his own big speech about how fictional characters can fill a very real emotional void. Sh#! gets real, you guys.

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