In the middle of the night, Annie receives a text message from a friend who warns her that the rival City College are planning to run an attack ad on Greendale in the morning.
Jeff is unconvinced that the meeting is worth his time as Elroy arrives with Britta in tow, who is wearing a spare pair of his trousers.
Abed has obtained a copy of the attack ad from City College's AV Club—it claims that Greendale once gave a degree to a dog, Ruffles.
After the Dean refuses to deny the claim, Jeff plans to discredit the dog while Frankie and Annie investigate the veracity of the assertion.
Chang arrives and shows off his porn film, in which he was confusedly wearing a Greendale T-shirt and standing in front of a wall that is not clearly at City College.
[4] Emily VanDerWerff of Vox praised the storyline of the Dean communicating with the boys pretending to be Jeff, finding it a "hilarious gag" and reviewing that it would be cut from most network television episodes, as the main plot does not depend on it, but that on streaming television the runtime can be expanded to include the storyline.