Despite positive reviews from critics, however, the episode maintained the previous two weeks' ratings low with a 1.0/4 in the 18-49 rating/share with an audience of 2.77 million American viewers.
Abed (Danny Pudi) and his girlfriend Rachel (Brie Larson), have been dating for a month and she recently purchased him an old VCR videogame called "Pile of Bullets."
Abed eventually makes a deal with Annie that whoever wins a game of "Pile of Bullets", their preferred candidate will become their roommate.
Meanwhile, Jeff, Shirley and Hickey stumble across a pack of mint condition chemistry textbooks while they are cleaning the storage room.
When Shirley meets with Britta's contact (Paul Williams), he reveals that the textbooks have no page numbers, and the whole bundle is only worth $20 as recycled paper.
(In fact, Apple's market valuation did plunge in 1993, not reaching similar levels until the tech boom five years later, and not fully recovering until more than a decade later.
[1] The show placed fourth in its time-slot, behind The Big Bang Theory, Hell's Kitchen, and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland; and thirteenth for the night.
"VCR Maintenance And Educational Publishing" was met with positive reviews from critics, with many praising Yvette Nicole Brown's performance.