The episode begins with Annie and Britta arriving to charming grins and a chorus of “Troy and Abed’s new apartment!” They’re a little put off at how formal the entire affair seems to be, but Abed assures them that they’ve read everything about how to be a perfect party host. They also find out from Troy that Shirley has apparently been there all afternoon baking – something that hasn’t made either roommate extremely happy. Annie's concerned at the apparent "unsafe" building, while Abed shows off his Raiders Of The Lost Ark model, complete with a boulder and an Indiana Jones figure.
"Bienvenue de la casa de Trobed," says Troy as he brings up Pierce and Jeff. Pierce tries to make Troy feel bad about not living with him anymore, while Jeff tries to get out of the party by saying he can only stay so long because he has an invite to an opening of a new club. Abed says he tricked him by making fake flyers so he would save the date.
The group begins playing a rousing game of Yahztee when the buzzer rings with pizza delivery. Abed says that because they can’t let the guy in, therefore someone has to go downstairs. The group can’t decide, so Jeff volunteers that they all count off – whoever’s number comes up on the dice is the person who will go downstairs. Abed is quite upset by this, noting, "you’re creating six different timelines!”
Annie gets picked to go first. In her timeline, Pierce starts talking about Eartha Kitt while Britta attempts to sing along with "Roxanne" before Jeff shuts her up. She goes to the bathroom instead, leaving Troy to find a gun in Annie's purse. As Jeff gets up, he hits his head on the fan and Shirley presents the group with her pies as Abed accosts Britta in the bathroom. Annie brings the pizza back, leading a nonchalant Abed to muse, "I wonder what happened to those other timelines." Cue flashing to...
The timeline of Shirley. As she leaves, Jeff says no one should eat her pies. Annie says they should take to her and Jeff says they can't enable her baking. Britta still gets shut up, still goes to the bathroom, and Pierce still talks about Eartha Kitt. In this timeline, Pierce gives Troy a gift - a Norwegian troll that he had on display when Troy and him were living together as a token of what they shared. Shirley returns with the pizza, asking if anyone remembered to take out her pies which are now burned and ruined. Shirley gets upset with the group and when Jeff tells her that she's not allowed having baking things as an identity, Shirley runs off upset.
Pierce still manages to make an Eartha Kitt joke before he leaves in his timeline. Shirley checks on her pies while Jeff shuts Britta up from singing. Annie tells Troy he likes his place, and when Jeff makes a crack about their bunk beds, Troy leaves upset and finds Britta in the bathroom. The two bond over candy cigarettes and Troy asks why everyone is always picking on him - he is a man, after all. Britta tells Troy he doesn't have to be guarded to be a man, and they have a cute moment together over the pizza. Back in the kitchen, Jeff hits his head on the fan and a concerned Annie attempts to check him out which leads to slight flirting.
We flash to Britta's timeline. Pierce tells his Eartha Kitt story, Shirley goes to check her pies and Jeff goes to get a drink, hitting his head on the fan. Annie and Jeff go to the bathroom to look at Jeff's head, and Pierce gives Troy his housewarming gift. Jeff tells Annie she needs to get out of her unsafe apartment and Annie says he can't treat her like a kid anymore. Jeff says he can't help but worry about her because he cares about her. They almost kiss but are interrupted by Pierce terrorizing Troy with his Norwegian troll because he doesn't like that Troy has abandoned him to move in with Abed, who he sees as a threat. Britta brings up the pizza delivery boy and in true Britta fashion, announces that they're in love and getting married.
In Troy's timeline, he speeds downstairs so as not to miss anything important. Upon closing the door, the boulder from the Raiders Of The Lost Ark model falls to the floor where Annie trips on it after getting up to help Jeff. She falls onto the table and Pierce, trying to get up from his chair, knocks Annie's purse to the floor and gets shot in the leg with her gun. As Annie freaks out and tries to help Pierce, Britta comes out of the bathroom with her cigarette to see what's wrong. Seeing the chaos, she drops her cigarette to the ground by accident and ends up lighting the entire apartment on fire. Troy returns with the pizza, sees the chaos, and freaks out.
Abed's timeline starts with him asking everyone for money for the pizza. Pierce makes an Eartha Kitt joke, Shirley checks on her pies and Britta tries to sing to Roxanne. When she comes out of the bathroom, she says something smells amazing and Shirley offers her the pies that she's just cooked. Britta eats one happily before accidentally admitting to Shirley that they made a pact not to eat her cooking, leading them to argue. Pierce gives Troy his gift, and Troy thanks Pierce for allowing him to live at his house last year. He says that while it was fun, it's now time to make it on his own, which leads Pierce to get upset and they start fighting. Annie and Jeff, who have gone into the kitchen to check Jeff's head wound, start flirting which leads to an all-out, actual kiss between the two - go, Community! Annie breaks the kiss telling him he reminds her of her dad, effectively ruining the mood and leading them to begin an argument about Jeff worrying about her because she's a kid. When Abed returns with the pizza, he finds the entire group mad at each other.
As the group tries to create another timeline, Abed catches the dice and gives his friends a speech about how life throws many things their way. But as long as they remain together as friends and remain accepting of everyone's personalities and virtues, they can get through anything. Abed deduces that Jeff manipulated the game so that he never would have to go down and get the pizza, which makes him, in Abed's words, "a conniving son of bitch." As Pierce talks about Eartha Kitt and Jeff gets up (again hitting his head on the fan), Britta starts singing and dancing to "Roxanne" again. In this timeline, however, Jeff is the one that goes to get the pizza, thus leaving them alone to dance together. "I really love your place," Annie tells Abed as they dance together. Jeff is left to watch with as smile as he sees his friends dance around the apartment, being their crazy selves and wholly embracing their personalities.
In the last timeline, we finally see the group back in the study room. Of course, this is the "darkest, most terrible timeline." Shirley is a drunk, Annie's in a mental ward from going crazy, Troy has lost his larynx because he tried to destroy the troll doll by eating it, Pierce died from his leg wound, Jeff lost his arm in the apartment fire, and Britta put a streak in her hair (always evil, that Britta.) Abed makes everyone fake goatees because he's decided they're all evil, which of course leads to a chorus of "Evil Troy and Evil Abed!"
In this week's tag, Troy and Abed are watching Inspector Spacetime in their new apartment.
What did you think of the episode, which I personally feel was one of the show's strongest to date? Did you laugh as much as I did?
Best episode of the season thus far!!!!!! I was laughing through the whole episode. I can't wait for next week.
It's a die, not a dice.