Jeff (Joel McHale) gets angry when he notices Star-Burns (Dino Stamatopoulos), the fry cook, skimming chicken fingers for his friends.
This concerns everyone until he reveals that Chang is giving them higher Spanish grades in return, at which point the group (except for Jeff) enthusiastically supports the deal.
Abed notices that the remaining members of the study group are growing greedier and pettier from their spoils, so he sends the group a message by taking away or ruining the things he had given them, including letting Troy's monkey, named "Annie's Boobs," out of his cage.
[4] Several moments in the episode, such as the usage of "Layla" and the inclusion of freeze frames, are references to specific scenes in the movie.
[6] A newspaper heading in one scene reads "Star-Gate", with clarification underneath that the reference is to the Watergate scandal, not the 1994 film Stargate.
[6] Toward the middle of the episode, Pierce kisses Abed’s hand and Jeff glares and Troy closes the door, mirroring the final scene of The Godfather.
Near the end of the episode, Abed and Jeff recreate a scene from Sixteen Candles by dining on a table.
Club gave the episode an A−, calling it "an elaborate Goodfellas parody, executed with panache" and praising the show for how "it manages to find a way to balance all of this with character moments that are genuinely winning and sweet.
"[8] Andy Greenwald of Vulture also praised the episode, deeming it "the best half-hour of the series to date, featuring zingers that zinged, pop-culture riffs that popped, and a tiny monkey in a cage named 'Annie’s Boobs.
[4] Sean Gandert of Paste gave the episode a 7.3, noting that "the show is doing something more than just taking laughs off of references, that the jokes stand on themselves and are only enhanced by knowledge of their sources.