Advanced Criminal Law
| "Advanced Criminal Law" | |
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| Community episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Joe Russo |
| Written by | Andrew Guest |
| Production code | 105 |
| Original air date | October 15, 2009 |
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"Advanced Criminal Law" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American comedy television series Community. It aired in the United States on NBC on October 15, 2009. The episode centers on three main story lines. First, Jeff (Joel McHale) defends Britta (Gillian Jacobs) when she is accused of cheating on a Spanish test. Meanwhile, Pierce (Chevy Chase) tries to help Annie (Alison Brie) write Greendale a school song. Finally, Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) test each other's gullibility.
Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) cheerfully announces that the school is going to unveil a statue of prized Greendale alumnus Luis Guzmán at a ceremony in which a new school song will debut. The students seem uninterested. Psychology professor Ian Duncan (John Oliver) accosts Jeff (Joel McHale) in the hall to ask if Jeff and Britta (Gillian Jacobs) are a couple, and if that couple might be successfully sabotaged. Meanwhile, Troy (Donald Glover) begins to mess with his friend Abed (Danny Pudi), taking advantage of Abed's gullibility to tell him ridiculous lies.
When the students arrive in Spanish class, their instructor Ben Chang (Ken Jeong) refuses to give back their grades on a recent test because he had discovered a tiny cheat sheet on the floor of the classroom. He threatens the whole class with a zero on the test if the perpetrator fails to come forward within 24 hours.
The group meets up in the library for their usual study session, in which Annie (Alison Brie) discusses her nervousness, as she is on the school song committee and only has until Friday to come up with a song. Pierce (Chevy Chase) offers to help Annie, while Abed assures her that Troy can help, as he invented rap music, and is related to Barack Obama and Danny Glover (likely a reference to a real rumor, as the actors share a surname despite not being related). Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) is shocked by this display of seeming racism, and Troy tells Abed that he's been "messing with him", but Abed seems not to understand the concept.
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