[1] Ian Duncan (John Oliver) asks for advice from Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) on seducing Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs).
While Ian drives Britta home, they discuss the strange and fleeting nature of friendships, and he admits that Jeff is his only real friend, and not an extremely close one at that.
Ian ultimately decides not to take advantage of Britta's emotional vulnerability; instead he drives her home and goes out drinking with Jeff, which ends up strengthening their friendship.
Meanwhile, Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi) carelessly damages Professor Buzz Hickey's (Jonathan Banks) drawings with foam shot from his Kick-Puncher costume.
Ben Chang (Ken Jeong)—while at the function with Jeff, Britta, Ian, Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown), and Annie Edison (Alison Brie)—walks through an unmarked door and performs an impromptu one-man show for an unknown audience.
Suspenseful music builds up as the camera zooms in on an old-fashioned-looking black-and-white group photo featuring Chang—a reference to the climactic scene of The Shining.
In the credits scene, Ian asks the Dean (Jim Rash) for a restaurant recommendation, and they awkwardly try to figure out whether or not they will have lunch together before crying in each others arms about their neglectful fathers.
Club gave the episode a positive review, grading it an A, saying "Community slips pretty easily between outright silliness and bittersweet optimism (along with everything in between), depending on the week.
"[4] Gabrielle Moss of TV Fanatic gave the episode a highly positive review, rating it 4.8 out of 5, saying "Community Season 5 wants you to feel real things, even as it delivers perfectly crafted jokes about cop movies and Dane Cook—and Community Season 5 Episode 7 was perhaps the show's finest achievement in the field of actually, you know, feeling stuff.