[1] [2] While the study group finishes their diorama for their anthropology class, Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) invites everyone for a puppy parade.
Enraged, Annie claims she's tired of lending her stuff and not getting it back, and demands everyone to stay to find the pen, as the television-savvy (occasionally metafictional) Abed (Danny Pudi) notes they are on the precipice of entering a bottle episode within the sitcom that encompasses their lives.
They discover a pregnancy test in Shirley's (Yvette Nicole Brown) bag; she claims that she rekindled her relationship with her ex-husband over Labor Day weekend, but Abed points out that his charts show that she was last ovulating during Halloween.
[3] The episode received positive reviews from critics, with Michelle St. James of Daemon's TV writing, "From Annie’s primal scream to almost every single Troy line ('Do they find thoughts in our butts?
It’s a reminder that Community can be just as hilarious when telling intensely personal and small-scale stories as it is when riffing on pop culture’s biggest genres and formats.