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Greendale Community College Dean Craig Pelton announces the unveiling of a statue of one of their most famous alumni, Luiz Guzman. Abed is excited to ask him about his movie choices, especially Carlito’s Way, The Cowboy Way, The Hard Way, and Q&A. Troy retorts that he just got off the phone with Guzman, and he can’t wait to get on his private jet from Honolulu to have that conversation with Abed. Abed is surprised Guzman would call Troy about him, and that Guzman knows him at all. “You don’t know,” Troy asks, after some surprised looks on his face, “I’m President Obama’s nephew.” He explains he didn’t tell Abed before, because he didn’t know if he could trust him. But now’s the time to tell him everything, starting with his invention of the Ferrari. Jeff’s dismayed Britta gave him a fake cell phone number, discovering he’s been texting with some guy in Boulder for a month, but when Britta asks him if he will agree only to use her number for friendly purposes, Jeff passes.

Meanwhile, Señor Chang has discovered a crib sheet and threatens to give the whole class a zero unless the cheater comes forward. When the study group starts discussing who may have cheated, Abed discovers that Troy has been messing with him and learns the joy of lying as a joke. “This isn’t a table, hahah!” Next day in class, Britta admits having cheated and is threatened with expulsion. Jeff offers to represent her in the hokey tribunal. The enfolding scene is too funny to convey. You’ve got to see it for yourself. In the end, she gets exonerated on the condition that she receives weekly psychiatric counseling of professor Duncan. For his part, Abed conjures up an elaborate scheme just to mess with Troy, pretending to be communicating with aliens. Troy eventually tells him it would be less worrying if he were an alien than to see him go through such great lengths to mess with him – and still fail dramatically. And they’re my best buddies for it!