02x09 - Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design

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Jeff Winger is disbarred and suspended from his law firm when it is discovered that he lied about possessing his bachelor's degree. This leaves him with no choice but to enroll at Greendale Community College to earn a legitimate degree with an eclectic staff and student body.
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02x09 - Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design

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Dean Pelton: Agnes, cancel my appointments.
Agnes: What appointments?
Dean Pelton: Wishful thinking.

Annie: It's called, "Alternative Energy: The Key to a Brighter Tomorrow." Notice all the animals wearing sunglasses?
Abed: Because it's a brighter tomorrow?
Annie: Yeah.
Shirley: My boys are in elementary and don't make as many dioramas as we do. The Environmental Club is making them for Green Week. This afternoon, in the cafeteria, we're having a Bio-Diorama-Rama. I heard one kid made a diorama about a world without dioramas.
Troy: I sleep over at your place tonight?
Abed: Totally. We're both done with classes, we can start the sleepover now.
Let's get in our pajamas and build a blanket fort.
Britta: A blanket fort. Wow.
Abed: You can come hang out with us.
Britta: Uh, thanks, but I think I’ll find something more grown-up to do.
Troy: Hmph. Okay, enjoy eating fiber and watching The Mentalist.
Shirley: Britta, that wasn't nice.
Britta: I’m sorry, Shirley. But who wants to hang out in a blanket fort with grown men in tiny Underoos?
Dean Pelton: Hello. [TO JEFF] So, Jeffrey, I was just looking over your class schedule.
Jeff: Why?
Dean Pelton: Uh, maybe it was a random spot check. Maybe it was a specific spot check. Maybe I'm making a scrapbook. The point is, you will not be receiving credit for your independent study: "Conspiracy Theories in U.S. History."
Jeff: What? Why not?
Dean Pelton: Because the class doesn't exist and neither does the teacher, Professor Professorson?
Jeff: What? That's his name, it's Dutch. I think it means professor.
Dean Pelton: I think it means poppycock.
Britta: The ultimate Jeff Winger blow-off class. The one that doesn't exist.
Dean Pelton: Now I have to audit an entire system for shenanigans, which means, bye-bye, weekends. Bye-bye, writing at Starbucks till a certain Persian barista asks me about my novel.
Annie: God, Jeff, it's one thing to blow off regular classes, but this devalues all the credits I work very hard for.
Jeff: Can I defend myself and say this is nuts? I've been meeting with this professor, in his office, every Wednesday, all semester.
Dean Pelton: Professor Professorson?
Jeff: Yes.
Dean Pelton: Really? You're gonna commit to this?
Jeff: Commit to what? Reality?
Dean Pelton: Okay, then, please, lead me to Professor Professorson.
Jeff: Gladly.
Annie:This I got to see.
Dean Pelton: I have always dreamt of playing charades with you, just not like this, and not on dry land.

[THE 88'S "AT LEAST IT WAS HERE" PLAYING]

Troy: You thinking what I'm thinking?
Abed: We're too big for this, aren't we?
Troy: Yeah. But if we went two pillows higher in the corner we could vault the ceiling. Bump up the square footage. Make this a blanket fort for men.
[BOTH BEATBOXING]

Jeff: Well, here we are, Professor Professorson's office.
Dean Pelton: Oh. Oh.
Jeff: I don't know what's going on. Believe me. I've spent a whole year studying conspiracy theories with Professor Professorson right here. Wait. Of course. Conspiracy theories. This is a test. He's teaching me about real conspiracies by erasing his existence.
Annie: My God, do you know what this means? That's how stupid Jeff thinks other people are.
Dean Pelton: I always knew you were lazy, but I didn't realize you'd stoop to such pathetic lies.
Professor Professorson: One man's lies are another man's truth, wouldn't you say, Jeff?
Dean Pelton: I’m sorry, and who are you?
Professor Professorson: I’m Professor Professorson.
Jeff: Wow. You really had me going there for a second, professor. I thought I was going insane.
Professor Professorson: Precisely. An actual conspiracy to round out your education in conspiracies and theories thereof.
Dean Pelton: Your real name is Professor Professorson?
Professor Professorson: My family name is Professorberg, but we changed it when we were fleeing from the Nazis.
Dean Pelton: I’m so sorry.
Professor Professorson: You've probably never heard of me, I primarily teach night school. My faculty ID.
Dean Pelton: Huh. Well, I guess I’ve never stuck around late enough to meet you night school professors. TV's gotten crazy good, you know. [PHONE RINGS]
Professor Professorson: Well, I have to take this. Thank you for indulging me, dean. Jeff, read chapters 10 through 12 of Douglas and see you next week. That is, if I still exist. [CHUCKLES]
Jeff: See you, professor.
Dean Pelton: Sorry to doubt you, Jeffrey. More importantly, out with this audit, back to chapter one of Time Desk: The Chronicles of Dean Dangerous.
Jeff: That is gonna be the worst book I'll ever read cover to cover.
Annie: I’m a terrible friend. I accused you of being a lying cheat. Can you ever forgive me?
Jeff: Sure. Here's the thing, though: I’ve never seen that guy in my life.
Annie: What? That wasn't Professor Professorson?
Jeff: There is no Professor Professorson. I made him up. I forged a form with a phony teacher and class for a free credit.
Annie: I knew it. Oh. You lying cheat. Wait, then, who was that?
Jeff: I don't know.
Annie: Wait, what?
Jeff: I don't know!
Annie: What should we do?
Jeff: We should grab some lunch.
Annie: I’m serious.
Jeff: So am I. I saw Fat Neil headed to the cafeteria. We got 10 minutes to grab the last lima bean.
Annie: Jeff, you made up a professor and he appeared out of thin air. You're not curious how that happened?
Jeff: My latest theory? I'm a god. I've denied the signs for too long.
Annie: So typical, you're gonna blow off what happened?
Jeff: Yes, especially when not blowing it off might cost me my free credit. Now, do me a favor, be very un-Annie and blow it off too.
Annie: Oh, sure. Oh, I’ll just blow it off. I'll just blow everything off. Heck, I guess I’ll blow off walking. Okay. And now I’ll just blow off standing. I'm just blowing everything off.
Man: Excuse me.
Annie: Maybe I’ll blow off talking language.
Jeff: Okay.
Annie: [SPEAKING GIBBERISH]

Pavel: Hey, bros, what's the haps? Whoa. Sweet fort. Can I come inside?
Abed: [IN POLISH] Can you give us a second?
Troy: Corn you gorben... Bluh...
Abed: You could, Pavel. Or maybe the inside could come to you.
Troy: How would you characterize the amount of blankets and pillows you have?
Pavel: A buttload. I get wicked cold, bros. Mad sleepy.

Annie: If you're here to help me take my diorama to the Bio-Diorama-Rama, I can do it myself.
Jeff: Yes, you made that clear in your 11th "I can do it myself" text. You even work too hard at passive aggression, you know that?
Annie: Hey, so do you know anything about Greendale's night school?
Jeff: Yeah, I'm assuming it's the worst thing you could ever hope to be in, only at night. Damn it, Annie. You've been playing detective? You are going to Nancy Screw me out of my credit.
Annie: Relax. I only asked the administration desk if I could borrow a faculty directory. And take a look at this.
Jeff: Is that Professorson?
Annie: His real name is Professor Woolley. And he actually does teach night school here. Why would someone you've never met pretend to be your professor? He was already carrying falsified faculty credentials. You know what this means?
Jeff: Yes, you are making me do work for my fake conspiracy class.
Annie: Exactly, there's a conspiracy here. A dark, vast conspiracy that may just go all the way to the top.
Jeff: This is Greendale, Annie. If there's a conspiracy, it goes all the way to slightly below the middle.
Annie: Wait a minute. Something's wrong. My car won't start.
Jeff: Hold on one second. [INTO PHONE] Hello.
Unknown man [in distorted voice over phone]: Tell your little friend to stop snooping around night school. Otherwise, things might get expl*sive.
Jeff: Annie! You okay?
Annie: Yeah.
Jeff: I probably didn't need to tackle you.
Annie: Probably not.
Jeff: Looks like someone sent us a message. A tiny, thoroughly underwhelming message. I hope you've already laid out your outfit for tomorrow morning. Because we're going to night school.

Leonard: I stole these from my son's house.
Troy: When does a fort stop being a fort?
Abed: Hey, as long as it's still made out of blankets, right?
Troy: These will be perfect for the Pierce's Mom Memorial Tunnel.

Jeff: So this is night school, but where's Professor Woolley's class? How about this one?
Annie: No, that's Professor Huyck's class: "History of Something."
Jeff: You can't pronounce it?
Annie: No, it literally says "History of Something."
Jeff: Let me see that. "Principles of Intermediate"? "Studyology"? "Class 101"? Look, this one just says "Learning!" With an exclamation point. [TO PROFESSOR PROFESSORSON] Hello, Professor Professorson. Or should I say Woolley?
Annie: What class are you teaching tonight, professor?
Professor Woolley: Math.
Annie: Math?
Professor Woolley: Uh-huh.
Jeff: Do you mind if we sit in?
Professor Woolley: Not at all. Right this way.
Annie: So, what kind of math do you teach, professor?
Professor Wolley: Oh, you know, math. Uh... Numbers. Pi. New math. Um...
Annie: Get him! He went into that blanket fort. I think he went this way.
Jeff: You see him?
Annie: No.
Woman: Come on.
Annie: Troy, Abed.
Abed: Hey, guys. Welcome to Fluffy Town. No smoking, no farting.
Annie: We're in a chase.
Abed: That's allowed.
Jeff: There he is.
Abed: Follow us.
Troy: But afterwards you should really check out our civil rights museum.
Jeff: Leonard, back up.
Abed: You shouldn't even be in here, Leonard. You already have three farting strikes.
Annie: He's getting away!
Troy: I know a shortcut. Through the Turkish district!
Woman: Hey, man.
Troy: Britta?
Britta: Hey.
Annie:Go
Jeff: There he is. What the hell is this?
Troy: Latvian Independence Parade. Don't look at me, they had the proper permits.
Annie: Dang it. We lost him. Luckily, I sent the diorama car to the chem lab to have the expl*sive analyzed. We could...
Troy: Isn't that him playing the trejdeksnis?
Jeff: Nice try, Woolley. Now tell us everything.
Professor Woolley: Tell you? [CHUCKLES] I'll show you.

Annie: What is this place?
Professor Woolley: This, Annie, is night school. Every student, every teacher, every class. Figments. Puffs of hot air from the lips of a ghost in the shadow of a unicorn's dream. I made it up. Night school doesn't exist. I used to be a student here at Greendale like you. Then one day, I invented a fake course to get a free credit. I had to create a fake teacher, who needed other fake classes that needed to be filled with fake students and so on, and so on, and so on, exchetera.
Jeff: Did you just mispronounce "et cetera"?
Professor Woolley: My Latin class was fake, Jeff. Like all my classes, like my life. Aren't you listening?
Jeff: Yeah, I am. And a very familiar feeling is starting to come over me. Someone is trying to teach me something.
Professor Woolley: Jeff, the only thing that's ever been learned in this room is regret. Would that this desk were a time desk so that I could correct my past mistakes, ride dinosaurs. Fight with Jack the Ripper.
Jeff: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Unicorns? Ghost lips? Time desks? Doesn't any of this overly stylised garbage remind you of anyone? Everything this guy says is ripped from the sure-to-be-unpublished pages of Dean Dangerous.
Professor Woolley: I don't know what you mean.
Jeff: Oh, I think you do. By the way, next time you walk someone to your fake lair, don't pass the Theater Department. Drama Professor Sean Garrity.
Annie: Whoa.
Professor Garrity: Thank God. That character was k*lling me. Word of advice, if you ever scrape the dean's car, don't tell him you're gonna pay him back in acting. On Thanksgiving, I'm supposed to crash his family dinner and accuse him of stealing my girlfriend.
Annie: Wow. I guess this did go all the way to the top. I'm calling the dean right now and giving him a piece of my mind.
Jeff: No, wait. Garrity. Does the Theater Department have any of those prop g*ns that fire blanks?
Professor Garrity: Of course. We did a modern retelling of Macbeth set in gangland Chicago.
Jeff: Oh, fresh take. [TO ANNIE] And you think I'm lazy.
Annie: Prop g*ns? Jeff, what do you have in mind?
Jeff: A little demonstration for the dean on the dangers of trying to educate me. He doesn't like fake classes? Well, he's about to get a real lesson on the fact that Jeff Winger never learns.

Annie: Here he comes. Get set.
Dean Pelton: You wanted to see me? Oh. Hi, Mr. Professorson.
Jeff: His real name is Woolley. And he's defrauded your school to the tune of dozens of credits per year and nearly twice as many dollars.
Dean Pelton: That's serious. Fortunately, I'm a big believer in second chances.
Annie: I'm not.
Dean Pelton: Annie! Annie. Oh, my God! You sh*t him.
Annie: Of course, I sh*t him. He was being dishonest. And if there's one thing Greendale's taught me, it's...
Jeff: What the hell?
Dean Pelton: She had a g*n.
Jeff: It was a fake g*n. We staged this to get back at you.
Dean Pelton: Oh, you're the deceiver, Jeffrey.
Jeff: Yeah? Well, now you're the dead guy.
Annie: Jeff, what are you doing? Why do you have a real g*n? Why did you sh**t the dean?
Jeff: Well, he sh*t you.
Annie: Not really. He and I were in on this from the start. He found out you were faking a class he came to me and we cooked up this thing to illustrate the slippery slope of academic fraud.
Jeff: You know what you actually illustrated, Annie? How to be a crappy friend. Once it was obvious the dean had orchestrated everything, it was even more obvious the dean was too stupid to orchestrate anything.
Dean Pelton: Mm-hm.
Jeff: So on a hunch, I called him and we hatched a plan to teach you a lesson or two about friendship.
Annie: But, Jeff, I only did it because I love you.
Jeff: Well, when you love someone, you have take them as they are. People aren't playthings, Annie.
Dean Pelton: No, they are not.
Annie: Look who's talking. After everything you've put me through?
Dean Pelton: Okay, where did you get that g*n? There were only three prop g*ns.
Annie: Yeah, well, I live in a terrible neighborhood.
Jeff: Annie, put the g*n down.
Annie: After we kissed, I waited all summer to see you. You buried me like a shameful secret.
Dean Pelton: Whoa.
Annie: What's the matter, Jeff? Afraid crazy Annie would go crazy for you? Well, guess what. Annie's got a g*n.
Jeff: Annie, just put the...
Dean Pelton: Annie, what have you done?
Annie: If you love Jeff Winger so much, why did you conspire with me against him?
Dean Pelton: I don't know. I can't keep track of any of it anymore. I just keep teaming up with whoever suggests it.
Jeff: Glad to hear you admit it.
Dean Pelton: Aah! Aah-aah!
Jeff: When I called you to ask you to double-cross Annie, you didn't hesitate.
Annie: Do you even understand what a conspiracy is? If you conspire with every person, you're not even really conspiring with anyone, you're just doing random crap.
Dean Pelton: I know, I'm sorry. I just... I just want to have fun with you guys. I go crazy cooped up in my little office and... Time travel is really hard to write about.
Professor Garrity: Okay. If I'm keeping track right, we should be done. I'll just take these back to the theater department.
Officer Cackowski: Police! Drop the weapons! Down on the ground.
Jeff: Don't sh**t, officer, don't sh**t! Please, they're fake.
[ANNIE SCREAMS AND DEAN PELTON SOBS]
Annie: Those were prop g*ns!
Officer Cackowski: Well, I guess it just goes to show you, prop g*ns belong backstage.
Professor Garrity: And scene.
Dean Pelton: You have got to be kidding me!
Officer Cackowski: Professor Garrity told me what all of you were up to. Made me mad. g*ns aren't toys. Fact, in 100 percent of all fake-g*n-related sh**t, the victim is always the one with the fake g*n.
Officer Cackowski: Hey, Sean, you got breakfast plans?
Professor Garrity: I do now.
Dean Pelton: So, Sean? We're still on for Thanksgiving, right?
Professor Garrity: Just talk to your father, Craig.
Dean Pelton: Would that this hoodie were a time hoodie.
Jeff: Hey, dean, how about that credit?
Dean Pelton: No!
Jeff: Damn it.

Jeff: I'm not sure what lessons we've managed to teach each other, but I'm proud of Annie. She took to deception like Abed took to Cougar Town.
Abed: It's really good.
Jeff: Especially when she went off-script.
Annie: You said to be convincing.
Pavel: Check it out, bros. You made the front page.
Abed: You know what this means?
Troy: We've gone mainstream.
Abed: Initiate Protocol Omega.
Man: Hey.
Leonard: We've started looting.
Woman: Hey, that old, crabby man just stole my TV.
Abed: Wanna build a cardboard submarine?
Troy: Get out of my brain.

Abed: Once.
Troy: Upon.
Abed: A.
Troy: Time.
Abed: There.
Troy: Was.
Abed: A...
Troy: Big.
Abed: Spaceship.
Troy: And.
Abed: Aliens.
Troy: And.
Abed: Mercenaries.
Troy: And?
Abed: w*r.
Troy: And?
Abed: Betrayal.
Troy: And?
Abed: Romance?
Troy: And?
Abed: Karate.
Troy: And?
Abed: Credits.
Troy: The.
Abed: End.
Troy: We should write a screenplay together.
Abed: Cool. Cool, cool.
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