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[TICKING]

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[ANNIE HUMMING]

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[GASPS]

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[BUZZING]

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<i>Frankie, are you awake?</i>

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<i>I'm in bed,
but I only rest half my brain. Go.</i>

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<i>Greendale in jeopardy.</i>

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<i>Need to call emergency meeting ASAP.
No time to explain.</i>

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<i>I can be at the school in 30 minutes
and I'll have the dean notify the others.</i>

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<i>Could you notify the others?</i>

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<i>You don't think
the dean can handle it?</i>

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<i>Do what you think is best.</i>

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[CELL PHONE BUZZING]

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<i>Annie Edison requesting
emergency meeting at school in 30.</i>

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<i>- Greendale in trouble.
- I'll notify the others.</i>

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<i>I can do that if you like.</i>

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<i>I think I can handle notifying others,
thank you very much.</i>

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<i>Annie, Jeffrey, emergency meeting
at the school in 30 minutes.</i>

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<i>I already know.
I'm the one calling the meeting.</i>

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TAKASHI [IN JEFF'S VOICE]:
<i>What up, yo?</i>

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<i>Who is this other number?</i>

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<i>It's a group text.
I'm texting you and Jeffrey.</i>

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<i>It's me.
I am Jeffrey, best friend of Dean.</i>

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<i>Hi, Jeffrey. Hmm.</i>

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<i>Dean, that number is not
in my phone as Jeff's.</i>

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<i>And it doesn't even look like
an American phone number.</i>

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Oh, my God. How stupid can I get?

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<i>You never told me
you gave Annie a fake phone number.</i>

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<i>Yes, Dean. This is me, Jeffrey.
You are best friend.</i>

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<i>Hold on, I'll cover.</i>

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<i>You're right, I had the wrong number.</i>

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<i>See you at the school.</i>

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<i>I am so sorry, Jeffrey.
I hope I didn't get you in trouble.</i>

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<i>No worries, Dean. I love you.</i>

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<i>You're always so sweet when
we're texting, but then in real life, grr.</i>

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<i>Bro, I just secret that way with love.
You know my style.</i>

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<i>We keep loving in text,
but then secret forever. Meow.</i>

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[TAKASHI LAUGHING]

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PELTON: <i>Meow.</i>
- Meow.

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[SIGHS]

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[THE 88'S "AT LEAST IT WAS HERE"
PLAYING]

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♪ <i>Give me some rope</i>
<i>Tie me to dream</i> ♪

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♪ <i>Give me the hope</i>
<i>To run out of steam</i> ♪

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♪ <i>Somebody said</i>
<i>It can be here</i> ♪

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♪ <i>We could be roped up, tied up</i>
<i>Dead in a year</i> ♪

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♪ <i>I can't count the reasons</i>
<i>I should stay</i> ♪

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♪ <i>One by one</i>
<i>They all just fade away</i> ♪♪

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<b><font color="#0E7521">Ripped By mstoll</font></b>

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Annie, if you're not dying,
I'm gonna murder you.

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I had to remove my night cream.
It's $200 an ounce.

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It's 3 a.m. In the freaking morning.

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What gives you the right
to haul us in here?

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Chang, how did you even
find out about this?

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I have a right to be here.

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Hi.

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- Why are you so awake?
- I have a theory. Britta may be twins.

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- No, I was working.
ANNIE: At the bar?

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- Does that mean you're drunk?
- Could a drunk person do this?

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Hi, everybody.

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Jeffrey.

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Okay, 41 minutes ago,
I received this e-mail...

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...from a friend that interns at KZBC.
- The TV station?

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No, the unrelated, totally random
combination of those four letters.

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Mee-yow.

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"Subject: Heads Up.
Annie, still going to Greendale?

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Thought you should know
City College is running a negative ad...

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...about your school at 7 a.m.
Heard it's pretty bad."

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Let me see that.

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City College is running an attack ad?
That's a first.

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They're desperate. Our registration
numbers are trending upward.

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Because the population keeps growing
and no one here ever graduates.

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Actually, our numbers are up
because of improvements Frankie's made.

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Those improvements were only possible
through your hard work, Annie.

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- Get a boardroom.
- Interesting. When were you gonna...

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...share the whole truth about this,
not just the parts that suit you?

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- What?
- "P.S., I was glad...

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...to hear Brenda's doing better"?

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Huh? Huh?

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[WHIMPERS]

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Just because City College is scared
doesn't mean they're not dangerous.

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Is there anything in particular
they could smear us with?

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JEFF:
Nothing in particular...

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...just overlapping clouds of many
thousands and thousands of things.

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- Don't forget the Brenda factor.
- There isn't a Brenda factor.

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He says she's doing better.
Better than what?

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Her thyroid condition. Can you focus?

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- Can Brenda?
- Probably more so now.

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- We need to see this ad before it airs.
- I'm getting a copy.

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I have friends in the AV Department
at City College.

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The brotherhood of AV exists
beyond your factionalism.

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We serve only Video, the true queen,
and her consort, Audio.

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Could you be bigger nerds?

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No, we've achieved
our maximum potential.

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Well, Annie's right.
We do have a situation here.

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So we will make this our situation room.

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Yes. We need white boards,
cork boards, laptops...

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Clocks with different times,
a red phone...

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...a big map with tiny Nazi tanks,
and/or a Godzilla.

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The ad airs at 7 a.m.

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That means we have four hours
and 13 minutes to figure out...

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...what they're throwing at us
and how to respond.

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You know, it's the darndest thing.

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I think Britta somehow crapped
in my pants too.

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- Heh. I'd better head home.
- You can't just leave a situation room.

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It's only a situation room
because she called it that.

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I mean, I could declare it
a cookie room.

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There are no cookies.
There is a situation.

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You guys,
where's the Greendale spirit?

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Where's the pride?

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- I'm fine.
- Found it.

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She was wondering around campus
without pants.

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- What's going on here?
- Situation room.

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- What's the situation?
- Brenda's thyroid.

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Sorry to hear that. Keep the pants.
I'm going back to bed.

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- I'm going with him.
- I'm gonna watch.

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Got it. Downloading it now.

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ANNOUNCER [OVER COMPUTER]:
<i>You work hard to earn your degree.</i>

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<i>And your school should work hard
to make that degree valuable.</i>

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<i>So why is Greendale Community
College giving degrees to dogs?</i>

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<i>In 2001,
a Staffordshire terrier named Ruffles...</i>

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<i>...took up residence
on Greendale's campus.</i>

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<i>By 2008, Ruffles had earned
a bachelor's degree.</i>

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<i>Not a two-year degree,
a four-year degree.</i>

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<i>Where will you get your degree?</i>

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<i>If the answer is Greendale,
prepare to get boned.</i>

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<i>Paid for by City College.
License 264392.</i>

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Did we give a degree to a dog?

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- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- Ugh.

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Okay. It's okay. It's all right.

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[♪♪♪]

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So this is Greendale,
not City College?

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I'm gonna get more pants.

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[♪♪♪]

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[♪♪♪]

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They've been calling me in
to do more stuff. It's exciting.

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We'll be lucky
if we get in three words...

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The first step is to pool our facts.
The most important one being:

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Dean Pelton,
did Greendale Community College...

139
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...give a degree to a dog?

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Oh. I seem to recall...

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No. No way.
There's absolutely no way.

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- Not that dog.
- "That dog"?

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You remember the dog.
Was it enrolled in classes?

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- Mm...
- How are these hard questions?

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Why are these the questions
you're asking?

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You don't wanna know
if a dog got a degree here?

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It's not important.
What I wanna know is...

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...did a dog get a degree here
in any way that can be proven?

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- Oh, I like that, Jeffrey.
- I don't like that. I like the truth.

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Play lawyer on your own time.

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This is my own time.
You wanted me invested?

152
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Well, this dump cuts my paychecks,
and I've got three hours to defend it.

153
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So how many seconds of that
should I waste on truth?

154
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Which is an artificial construct
that rarely holds up in court...

155
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...and has never changed
the outcome of a fight.

156
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- Sorry you have to see him like this.
- He's right.

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If City College can't support their claim,
it's libel.

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We can have the station pull the ad.
But that is precisely...

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...why the truth does matter.

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The Brenda Paradox.

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I found the dog. I also found a lot
of Social Security numbers.

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- This Internet has gone too far.
- Yeah.

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- She's registered as a border terrier.
- They said Staffordshire.

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JEFF:
Isn't that something?

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We've known this animal 30 seconds
and she's already unreliable.

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- Who is the real Ruffles?
FRANKIE: I'm sorry.

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Our strategy is to go after the dog?

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Our strategy is denial,
which includes discrediting the source.

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Abed, can you make an attack ad?

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Jeff wants me to make an attack ad.
So why is he a pedophile?

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- Just demonstrating the formula.
- Refine your technique as you go.

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I wanna know everything
about this Ruffles.

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She thinks she went to this school, fine...

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...but maybe she thinks
cat turds are delicious.

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And maybe she barks just
a little bit more at black mailmen.

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And she's spayed now,
but how many puppies are out there?

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You do this,
we're no better than City College.

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We've never been better than
City College. We gave a degree to a dog.

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Allegedly.
This conversation is privileged.

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I could do a Banksy-style stencil
of a dog...

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...and spray-paint it all over the school.
- That sounds great.

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First, why don't you go get
a bunch of coffee, drink all of it...

183
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...then go get some more
and bring it back here?

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- I actually love that idea.
ELROY: I'll go with her.

185
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She's wearing my pants.

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I know this is crazy, but I'm gonna
go check the school records to see if...

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...you know, we gave a degree to a dog.

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- We didn't.
JEFF: That's good.

189
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You guys go find that truth
you love so much.

190
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If it's the kind we can use,
bring it back.

191
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If not, you know, stuff gets lost.

192
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No. No. Bad.

193
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We are better than City College.
We always have been.

194
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Which is why I know
that we did not give a degree to a dog.

195
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[ANNIE GROANS]

196
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I say we fight fire with fire.

197
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City College tries to embarrass us...

198
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...we should embarrass them, right?
- Right.

199
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I say I go to City College
with a camera...

200
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...shoot a really gross porno movie
on their campus and put it online.

201
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- Fine.
- Cool.

202
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Wait, what?

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[SIGHS]

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PELTON:
<i>It's very inspiring to watch you work.</i>

205
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<i>You are inspiring too.</i>

206
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<i>In what way?</i>

207
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<i>I need olives.
Can you bring me olives?</i>

208
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[LAUGHING]

209
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<i>Not again. You did this a month ago...</i>

210
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<i>...then I brought them to you
and you acted like you hated them.</i>

211
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<i>It's only my style to be secret.</i>

212
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<i>Please bring me five can of olives.</i>

213
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<i>Five cans?</i>

214
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<i>But don't believe me
if I say I don't like.</i>

215
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<i>I'm just pretending I hate olives.</i>

216
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Honestly, I couldn't care less
if they gave a dog a degree.

217
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Me neither. Ha-ha-ha.

218
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In fact, I kind of hope they did.

219
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- Why is that?
- I don't know.

220
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They all treat me like I'm a joke.

221
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But if a dog got a degree,
that means we're all a joke.

222
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- Mm. Ha-ha-ha.
- Whoa.

223
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Natalie is Freezing?

224
00:11:37,396 --> 00:11:39,057
- You know them?
- Yeah, I know them.

225
00:11:39,231 --> 00:11:40,391
But how do you? You're...

226
00:11:40,566 --> 00:11:41,863
- Black?
- No. Old.

227
00:11:43,002 --> 00:11:45,129
Oh. Sorry, I just meant that...

228
00:11:45,304 --> 00:11:47,033
When I was into them, I was like 15.

229
00:11:47,206 --> 00:11:50,767
And I was 40. I never really listened
to music when I was growing up.

230
00:11:50,943 --> 00:11:52,843
I was in my own world.

231
00:11:53,012 --> 00:11:55,708
But one day at work,
I heard this sound...

232
00:11:55,881 --> 00:11:57,872
...it was "Pillar of Garbage."

233
00:11:58,050 --> 00:12:01,213
Oh, that is their best song. Best song.

234
00:12:01,387 --> 00:12:03,355
- I got it right here.
- Would you play it?

235
00:12:03,522 --> 00:12:05,046
Yeah.

236
00:12:05,224 --> 00:12:09,058
[SONG STARTS PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS]

237
00:12:09,528 --> 00:12:14,488
♪ <i>Moonlight</i>
<i>Bleeding glass and healing needles</i> ♪

238
00:12:14,667 --> 00:12:19,468
♪ <i>Amputated hearts are never whole</i> ♪

239
00:12:19,638 --> 00:12:24,701
♪ <i>Too bright</i>
<i>Dreaming as the screaming seagulls</i> ♪

240
00:12:24,877 --> 00:12:29,746
♪ <i>Feed on parts of me I keep below</i>
<i>Oh, oh, oh, oh</i> ♪

241
00:12:29,915 --> 00:12:35,182
♪ <i>Orion, take off your belt</i>
<i>Let me go to where you've been</i> ♪

242
00:12:35,354 --> 00:12:41,782
[OFF-KEY] ♪ I'm flying, overhead
Buffalo are falling dead inside the... ♪

243
00:12:41,961 --> 00:12:42,985
[MUSIC STOPS]

244
00:12:43,162 --> 00:12:46,097
You know what?
Those guys are gonna need coffee...

245
00:12:46,265 --> 00:12:48,927
...if they're gonna keep that dog
from having a degree.

246
00:12:49,101 --> 00:12:51,092
There are things at stake here.

247
00:12:51,270 --> 00:12:53,795
I get that now. Mm.

248
00:12:56,942 --> 00:12:58,500
I found the smell.

249
00:12:58,677 --> 00:13:01,305
- Someone filed a taco.
- Wha...?

250
00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,449
"Things That Will Otherwise Get Filed
Straight To My Thighs."

251
00:13:04,617 --> 00:13:05,982
Hmm.

252
00:13:06,819 --> 00:13:10,220
So I know you agree with me
that we need to find the truth...

253
00:13:10,389 --> 00:13:13,324
...but do you agree
that the truth won't be horrible?

254
00:13:13,492 --> 00:13:14,720
I'm not psychic, Annie.

255
00:13:14,894 --> 00:13:17,294
That's an illusion caused
by extreme preparedness.

256
00:13:17,463 --> 00:13:19,363
But what do you hope is true?

257
00:13:19,532 --> 00:13:22,296
Oh, God, no, I never hope.
Hope is pouting in advance.

258
00:13:22,468 --> 00:13:24,800
Hope is faith's richer, bitchier sister.

259
00:13:24,970 --> 00:13:28,133
Hope is the deformed, attic-bound,
incest monster offspring...

260
00:13:28,307 --> 00:13:29,797
...of entitlement and fear.

261
00:13:29,975 --> 00:13:32,136
My life results tripled
when I gave up hope...

262
00:13:32,311 --> 00:13:35,109
...and every game on my phone
that had to do with farming.

263
00:13:35,281 --> 00:13:39,377
What's true will be true, Annie.
Our job is to deal with that truth.

264
00:13:39,552 --> 00:13:40,985
You sound a little like Jeff.

265
00:13:41,153 --> 00:13:42,745
Jeff said I sound like Abed.

266
00:13:42,922 --> 00:13:45,186
I wonder if Britta thinks
I sound like Chang.

267
00:13:45,357 --> 00:13:49,350
I assume Chang thinks I sound like
distant explosions and crying babies.

268
00:13:49,528 --> 00:13:51,018
You know, he's unstable, right?

269
00:13:51,197 --> 00:13:53,062
- Yep.
- Oh.

270
00:13:54,233 --> 00:13:56,531
A transcript for Ruffles.

271
00:13:56,702 --> 00:13:59,728
- You think that's our guy?
- I do.

272
00:14:04,310 --> 00:14:06,301
Oh, my God.

273
00:14:06,478 --> 00:14:08,639
So many classes.

274
00:14:08,814 --> 00:14:10,782
[♪♪♪]

275
00:14:10,950 --> 00:14:12,884
See what hope does?

276
00:14:13,252 --> 00:14:15,777
Screw you, Frankie.

277
00:14:15,955 --> 00:14:19,550
I'm sorry, Annie, but I don't think
you're seeing this for what it is.

278
00:14:19,725 --> 00:14:21,920
It's a transcript for a dog.

279
00:14:22,094 --> 00:14:24,824
A really, really long one.

280
00:14:24,997 --> 00:14:27,898
It's proof that Jeff was right.
This school has no value.

281
00:14:28,067 --> 00:14:30,535
Yeah. But this folder has no degree.

282
00:14:30,703 --> 00:14:32,193
Look.

283
00:14:32,504 --> 00:14:34,301
- What's that?
- Heh-heh-heh.

284
00:14:34,473 --> 00:14:35,599
Victory.

285
00:14:35,774 --> 00:14:38,004
You know,
within the context of Greendale.

286
00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:42,040
- Would it be better if we...?
- No.

287
00:14:42,214 --> 00:14:43,408
Never know until you try.

288
00:14:43,582 --> 00:14:45,049
- Never know until I try.
- What?

289
00:14:45,217 --> 00:14:48,243
- I said we're quite a team.
- Here's the coffee.

290
00:14:48,420 --> 00:14:50,581
Let me know
if there's anything else I can do.

291
00:14:50,756 --> 00:14:53,247
- We could use fresh eyes on this cut.
- We could?

292
00:14:53,425 --> 00:14:56,826
- Has anyone told you you're difficult?
- Everyone in your line of work.

293
00:14:56,996 --> 00:14:58,122
[MUSIC PLAYS OVER COMPUTER]

294
00:14:58,297 --> 00:14:59,389
ANNOUNCER:
<i>This is Ruffles.</i>

295
00:14:59,565 --> 00:15:01,965
<i>She'd like you to believe
she's a graduate and a good girl.</i>

296
00:15:02,134 --> 00:15:03,897
<i>But Ruffles is anything but.</i>

297
00:15:04,069 --> 00:15:06,970
<i>When Ruffles moved
into her neighborhood in 2007...</i>

298
00:15:07,139 --> 00:15:09,266
<i>...dead squirrels went up
by 17 percent.</i>

299
00:15:09,441 --> 00:15:11,568
<i>Coincidence? Ask this bunny.</i>

300
00:15:11,944 --> 00:15:16,005
<i>Ruffles stole cookies from a Girl Scout,
impersonated a lobster...</i>

301
00:15:16,181 --> 00:15:18,547
<i>...had 27 children
with five different fathers...</i>

302
00:15:18,717 --> 00:15:20,981
<i>...and according to one local doctor,
has worms.</i>

303
00:15:21,153 --> 00:15:24,987
<i>Ruffles might claim she doesn't.
Ruffles claims a lot of things.</i>

304
00:15:25,157 --> 00:15:28,593
<i>Maybe that's why Ruffles
once spent time on death row.</i>

305
00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:32,857
<i>Ruffles: Not a lobster, not a student,
not a good dog.</i>

306
00:15:33,032 --> 00:15:35,125
<i>Paid for by Humanity Versus Ruffles.</i>

307
00:15:35,968 --> 00:15:38,562
I wanted the voice-over
to be like James Earl Jones...

308
00:15:38,737 --> 00:15:41,638
...but the James Spader impersonator
turned out pretty good.

309
00:15:42,074 --> 00:15:43,302
I wish he'd leave, though.

310
00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:47,810
- You really let that dog have it.
- Yeah.

311
00:15:47,980 --> 00:15:51,006
Which I realize is important now.

312
00:15:51,183 --> 00:15:52,514
Is it okay if I crash on...?

313
00:15:52,685 --> 00:15:54,414
- Yes.
- Yes.

314
00:16:00,559 --> 00:16:02,459
- What are you doing?
- Nothing at all.

315
00:16:02,628 --> 00:16:05,756
I wouldn't say that. You put
five huge cans of olives next to me.

316
00:16:05,931 --> 00:16:07,660
Just something I felt like doing.

317
00:16:08,701 --> 00:16:10,760
This isn't the first time
you've done this.

318
00:16:12,771 --> 00:16:15,706
I'm really confused by this.

319
00:16:16,709 --> 00:16:18,836
- Is it code for something?
- I don't know.

320
00:16:19,945 --> 00:16:21,776
And I don't care.

321
00:16:22,648 --> 00:16:23,910
[PELTON CHUCKLES]

322
00:16:24,083 --> 00:16:27,075
Jackpot, relative to Greendale.

323
00:16:28,387 --> 00:16:31,618
Oh, my God. Look at this course load.
This dog was an animal.

324
00:16:31,790 --> 00:16:35,385
- Most of them were attendance based.
- How is this good news?

325
00:16:35,894 --> 00:16:38,124
"Unpaid library fees, $15.

326
00:16:38,297 --> 00:16:41,323
Diploma withheld
until payment remitted."

327
00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,435
No degree. The commercial's a lie.

328
00:16:44,603 --> 00:16:47,128
I'm gonna call the station
and have them pull the ad.

329
00:16:47,306 --> 00:16:49,240
Eat crap, Ruffles,
and not just your own.

330
00:16:49,408 --> 00:16:52,935
- Guys. Let it go.
- What are you talking about?

331
00:16:53,112 --> 00:16:55,580
The sad truth is that
a dog can get a degree here.

332
00:16:55,748 --> 00:16:57,875
Yeah, but the happy truth is none did.

333
00:16:58,050 --> 00:17:00,348
There's a difference between truth
and honesty.

334
00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:03,979
Library dues? Who cares?

335
00:17:04,156 --> 00:17:06,590
Ruffles put the work in,
relative to Greendale.

336
00:17:06,759 --> 00:17:10,024
That City College ad
may be technically a lie...

337
00:17:10,195 --> 00:17:13,722
...but it's really dishonest
to kill it on a technicality.

338
00:17:13,899 --> 00:17:16,834
And dragging this dog's name
through the mud?

339
00:17:17,002 --> 00:17:19,732
That's worse than dishonest.
That's evil.

340
00:17:19,905 --> 00:17:21,770
Evil? I'll cop to silly.

341
00:17:21,940 --> 00:17:25,000
Some things are silly and evil,
like candy cigarettes.

342
00:17:25,177 --> 00:17:27,645
And remember when Flavor Flav
had that reality show?

343
00:17:27,813 --> 00:17:30,179
I don't own a TV.

344
00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:36,912
Honestly, I think the most honest thing
we can do right now...

345
00:17:37,089 --> 00:17:40,115
...the only thing that will make us
better than City College...

346
00:17:40,292 --> 00:17:43,193
...is to let that ad run
and take our lumps.

347
00:17:43,896 --> 00:17:47,855
Annie, this started with me sleeping
and getting yelled at for not helping.

348
00:17:48,033 --> 00:17:51,628
If it ends with you yelling at me
for not sleeping, that's not a story...

349
00:17:51,804 --> 00:17:54,034
...that's a German art film.

350
00:17:54,940 --> 00:17:55,998
What...? Let it go.

351
00:17:56,175 --> 00:17:59,508
I am a female student being physically
overpowered by a male teacher!

352
00:17:59,678 --> 00:18:01,270
Damn it. Britta, get her.

353
00:18:01,447 --> 00:18:02,812
[SNORING]

354
00:18:02,981 --> 00:18:05,074
- Frankie, get her.
- Annie, sweetie...

355
00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:07,081
...think about this practically.

356
00:18:07,252 --> 00:18:10,585
If being better than City College
means letting them destroy us...

357
00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:12,018
...what is the point?

358
00:18:12,191 --> 00:18:17,185
If surviving means being like them,
what's the point?

359
00:18:17,496 --> 00:18:18,929
Why not let one school die...

360
00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:21,760
...and enroll at the one
where my grades matter?

361
00:18:21,934 --> 00:18:23,162
[♪♪♪]

362
00:18:23,335 --> 00:18:24,962
If those are your terms...

363
00:18:25,137 --> 00:18:28,800
If the price of that transcript
is you transferring...

364
00:18:33,312 --> 00:18:34,404
[SCOFFS]

365
00:18:34,580 --> 00:18:35,774
...we accept.

366
00:18:35,948 --> 00:18:37,745
Personally, I hope you're bluffing.

367
00:18:39,418 --> 00:18:41,909
Yeah?
Well, here's what hope gets you.

368
00:18:42,087 --> 00:18:44,351
Hope and a dollar forty-nine
will get you a candy bar.

369
00:18:44,523 --> 00:18:47,492
- A buck seventy-nine.
- Are you serious? Jesus.

370
00:18:47,926 --> 00:18:52,158
Have fun with your lying, cheating...

371
00:18:52,331 --> 00:18:56,199
...dog-smearing, truth-blurring...

372
00:18:56,368 --> 00:18:59,531
...trouser-swapping school!

373
00:19:01,006 --> 00:19:03,668
ELROY: I remember
when candy bars were 50 cents.

374
00:19:03,842 --> 00:19:07,107
If someone says,
"Hey, I just joined Mensa"...

375
00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:10,214
...or, "I consider myself
a post-modern this or that."

376
00:19:10,382 --> 00:19:13,579
You could say, "Yeah, that and 50 cents
will get you a candy bar."

377
00:19:13,752 --> 00:19:16,812
Or, "That and a quarter
will get you a phone call." Heh.

378
00:19:17,556 --> 00:19:20,047
It was easier
to be unimpressed back then.

379
00:19:20,225 --> 00:19:22,921
I mean, it was literally cheaper.

380
00:19:23,095 --> 00:19:25,325
Elroy, we're kind of bummed out
right now.

381
00:19:25,497 --> 00:19:27,988
- Annie just left.
ELROY: Oh.

382
00:19:29,535 --> 00:19:31,059
Were you guys close?

383
00:19:31,236 --> 00:19:33,329
[♪♪♪]

384
00:19:39,912 --> 00:19:42,005
[♪♪♪]

385
00:19:55,260 --> 00:19:56,693
[KNOCK ON DOOR]

386
00:19:57,196 --> 00:20:00,359
- Abed, I don't wanna talk right now.
- Okay.

387
00:20:03,335 --> 00:20:06,793
The Greendale ad is gonna go up
any time now. You might wanna see it.

388
00:20:06,972 --> 00:20:09,167
- I don't wanna be a part of that.
- Trust me.

389
00:20:14,246 --> 00:20:15,372
<i>This is Ruffles.</i>

390
00:20:15,547 --> 00:20:18,209
<i>Ruffles was a student
in Greendale Community College.</i>

391
00:20:18,383 --> 00:20:20,578
<i>She came really close
to getting a degree.</i>

392
00:20:20,752 --> 00:20:22,014
<i>Which means two things.</i>

393
00:20:22,187 --> 00:20:24,121
<i>She's an exceptional dog...</i>

394
00:20:24,289 --> 00:20:27,258
<i>...and Greendale really needs
to get its **** together.</i>

395
00:20:27,426 --> 00:20:29,553
<i>We're working on it.
We're working hard.</i>

396
00:20:29,728 --> 00:20:32,390
<i>And the good news is,
when you work hard at Greendale...</i>

397
00:20:32,564 --> 00:20:38,093
<i>...no matter who or what you are,
it pays off. Right, Ruffles?</i>

398
00:20:38,270 --> 00:20:39,294
[BARKS]

399
00:20:39,471 --> 00:20:40,529
<i>Jesus.</i>

400
00:20:40,706 --> 00:20:42,264
ANNOUNCER:
<i>Greendale Community College.</i>

401
00:20:42,441 --> 00:20:44,875
<i>You're already accepted.</i>

402
00:20:46,578 --> 00:20:50,480
You guys.
I knew you wouldn't do that to Ruffles.

403
00:20:50,649 --> 00:20:52,947
- You hoped.
- I hoped and it worked.

404
00:20:53,118 --> 00:20:55,450
- Hope points.
- Hope points.

405
00:20:55,621 --> 00:20:58,954
You do understand that what we did
was the most prudent tactical move?

406
00:20:59,124 --> 00:21:01,922
Getting in front of the scandal,
Letterman style.

407
00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:04,562
Yes, Jeff, don't worry.

408
00:21:04,730 --> 00:21:07,221
I promise I'll never mistake you
for having a heart.

409
00:21:07,399 --> 00:21:10,596
- Thank you.
- Ahem. Kiss City College goodbye.

410
00:21:10,769 --> 00:21:12,703
- I did it.
- Did what?

411
00:21:12,871 --> 00:21:14,930
That stuff we talked about.

412
00:21:15,674 --> 00:21:17,972
CHANG 1: <i>Who are you?</i>
CHANG 2: <i>I'm the plumber.</i>

413
00:21:18,143 --> 00:21:19,940
CHANG 1: <i>Why?</i>
CHANG 2: <i>Here's why.</i>

414
00:21:20,112 --> 00:21:21,875
- Oh.
- Oh, my God. Oh, my...

415
00:21:22,047 --> 00:21:24,242
MEN: Oh!
- Ugh.

416
00:21:27,486 --> 00:21:29,613
- Is this pornography?
- Doy.

417
00:21:30,022 --> 00:21:31,819
- You're the only actor.
- So?

418
00:21:31,990 --> 00:21:33,924
- What kind of lens is this?
- Who cares?

419
00:21:35,894 --> 00:21:38,556
You might be a genius.
Why did you do this?

420
00:21:38,730 --> 00:21:42,131
What parent will let their kid go
to this school if a porn got shot there?

421
00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:44,929
You shot it in front of a wall
that could be anywhere.

422
00:21:45,103 --> 00:21:47,094
And you're wearing
your Greendale T-shirt.

423
00:21:47,272 --> 00:21:52,539
Okay, genius,
but the title is <i>Chang Does Greendale</i>...

424
00:21:52,711 --> 00:21:54,338
Oh, wait.

425
00:21:57,449 --> 00:21:58,814
[CHUCKLES]

426
00:22:00,652 --> 00:22:02,552
Reshoot.

427
00:22:07,125 --> 00:22:10,424
[IN JAPANESE]
Forty thousand yen in data charges?!

428
00:22:10,595 --> 00:22:13,393
I'm looking at my son, but all I see
is the ghost of your uncle!

429
00:22:13,565 --> 00:22:15,897
[IN JAPANESE]
I imagine many people look the same...

430
00:22:16,068 --> 00:22:18,059
...when you reduce them all to finance.

431
00:22:18,236 --> 00:22:22,502
In your eyes I am the enemy
because I'm the edge of your world...

432
00:22:22,674 --> 00:22:24,869
...but when your eyes move past me,
they will weep.

433
00:22:25,043 --> 00:22:28,535
Tokyo is a machine,
caked with blood, running on flesh.

434
00:22:29,481 --> 00:22:31,574
I reduce you?

435
00:22:31,750 --> 00:22:34,446
You will learn true reduction.

436
00:22:35,087 --> 00:22:41,048
You will be as small as me.

437
00:22:44,196 --> 00:22:46,960
[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]

438
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,893
[CELL PHONE BUZZES]

439
00:22:56,041 --> 00:22:58,669
[IN ENGLISH]
<i>The Dean? Hellos.</i>

440
00:22:58,844 --> 00:23:00,869
<i>Are you in trouble?
Is everything okay?</i>

441
00:23:01,046 --> 00:23:04,243
<i>Is life hard everywhere?
Is everyone alone?</i>

442
00:23:04,416 --> 00:23:05,542
<i>All the time.</i>

443
00:23:05,717 --> 00:23:07,878
<i>Are you at home, Jeffrey?
Should I come over?</i>

444
00:23:08,053 --> 00:23:11,022
<i>You cannot come to me.
I must confession you.</i>

445
00:23:11,189 --> 00:23:12,213
<i>I am not Jeffrey.</i>

446
00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:14,951
<i>I understand. I rarely know who I am.</i>

447
00:23:15,127 --> 00:23:17,027
<i>No, I mean, I am not Jeffrey.</i>

448
00:23:17,195 --> 00:23:18,219
<i>Let it out.</i>

449
00:23:18,397 --> 00:23:20,831
<i>I am Takashi.
I am teenage boy in Tokyo.</i>

450
00:23:20,999 --> 00:23:23,763
<i>I think we all are sometimes.</i>

451
00:23:23,935 --> 00:23:27,632
<i>I am sorry for making fun before,
but now I need a friend.</i>

452
00:23:27,806 --> 00:23:30,331
<i>Why don't I bring you
some olives tomorrow, Jeffrey?</i>

453
00:23:30,509 --> 00:23:32,033
<i>I am not Jeffrey.</i>

454
00:23:32,210 --> 00:23:35,373
<i>I am not the dean.</i>

455
00:23:37,783 --> 00:23:39,114
[♪♪♪]

456
00:23:39,284 --> 00:23:41,946
TAKASHI:
<i>I often think about that night.</i>

457
00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:43,849
<i>Such a small event...</i>

458
00:23:44,022 --> 00:23:47,287
<i>...but ultimately,
the moment that would lead me...</i>

459
00:23:47,459 --> 00:23:54,092
<i>...to becoming oyabun,
highest leader of the Yakuza.</i>

460
00:23:54,966 --> 00:23:56,957
[♪♪♪]

461
00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:06,500
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