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Liz and Pete wonder about Jenna’s happy, peppy attitude and ask her what’s going on. Jenna admits she met someone who makes her happy. Liz and Pete are worried when they remember other relationships of Jenna’s that have crashed and burned, with the staff taking the brunt of Jenna’s crazy in the aftermath.

Jack inherits Don Geiss’s pet peacock, Argus and thinks Don’s soul may be inhabiting the bird. As Liz talks to Jack, Argus hangs over her shoulder checking her over. When Argus brushes her with his wing, Jack tells Liz Argus has marked her as his “wife.”

Grizz announces to the TGS staff that he is getting married. Liz is already bummed out by the tiny bridesmaids dress she has to try to fit into for Cerie’s wedding. Grizz wonders how he can tell Tracy he wants Dotcom as his best man instead of Tracy, and asks Liz to help him tell Tracy the news. When Liz tries to tell Tracy he can be the lead singer instead of best man at Grizz’ wedding, Tracy insists he will be best man instead.

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Jim and Pam are getting ready to do their first sales pitch to Michael’s crush Donna, the bar owner. Pam makes stupid puns to gear up for the meeting while Jim cringes at her bad jokes. Michael introduces Jim and Pam to Donna as “The Wonder Kids” and sends them on their way to the meeting about printers.

Dwight walks in to hear Gabe trying to convince Darryl to join Sabre’s Executive Minority Training Program. Dwight thinks he should be eligible for the program so he can move into upper management. Dwight does not like the idea of Darryl being head of the company some day, so he devises a plan to talk Kelly into joining the program.

Michael interrupts Jim and Pam’s meeting with Donna to present a slide show of business information along with photos of himself and other GQ looking guys to convince her he is as appealing as they are. Michael tries to kiss Donna and she pulls away. The rest of the office staff tell Michael to stop coming on to Donna. Pam encourages him to approach her again, speculating if she was put off by Michael she would have left by now. Michael decides to try one more time with Donna.

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Jeff and Britta are hanging at the Greendale cafeteria when three high school teens torment them about why they are so old and at college, they want to avoid making their same mistakes. Jeff tries to ignore the brats while Britta takes it personally.

In study group Pierce plays his guitar badly as the group cringes. Abed picks up Pierce’s guitar and smashes it on the table, then references his Quintessential College Experience bucket list and the movie Animal House. Jeff approves of the movie reference. Troy offers to help Abed with his bucket list and Abed promptly pants Troy. When Troy pants Abed back, Abed thanks him because it is one more item to cross off his bucket list. Pierce gets into the swing of things by pantsing Shirley, which horrifies the study group and upsets Shirley. Pierce refuses to apologize to Shirley and she threatens to leave the group. The study group sides with Shirley and kicks Pierce out of the group.

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A tribal police officer gets a dispatch to check on an elderly woman whose family has not heard from her recently. The police officer arrives at the home and is unable to get into the house. The officer finds a women’s body back behind the shed. The officer pulls his weapon, looking through the windows and announcing himself, and sees a man walk by the window. Men’s clothing is drying on the wash line. One of The Cousins walks out of the door. As the officer instructs the cousin to lie on the ground, the other cousin hits him from behind with an axe.

Skyler calls Walt to discuss the divorce papers she has found in the baby’s crib. When Walt offers child support money, Skyler starts talking to Walt about the drug money making her and Walt Jr. accessories to his crimes. “You’d be making us accessories after the fact,” says Skyler. “How do you think we’ve been paying our bills these last six months?” replies Walt. He hangs up and makes a deal on the fully furnished condo he is looking over, a new beginning for him.

The Cousins enter Los Pollos and sit, ordering nothing. Gus watches them carefully from his position behind the counter. The Cousins continue to arrive every day and sit at a Los Pollos table, waiting for Gus to talk to them.

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This Earth Day episode centers on Homer’s quest for cheap electricity and Lisa’s concern over a beached whale. Homer’s electric bill is sky high and he’s not going to take it anymore. Homer decides to look into a cheaper energy source at the Earth day event. Homer and the family decide on a wind turbine which works fine when the wind is blowing. When the wind is not blowing Lisa and Bart take turns turning the turbine so they can keep watching their favorite shows on TV. Homer becomes disillusioned with wind turbines, even more so when a huge storm hits the area, creating disaster throughout Springfield and beaching a whale in the process.

Lisa finds the beached whale and becomes attached to Bluella. Marge worries that Lisa is becoming too attached to the whale and realizes most beached whales don’t survive. Homer talks the whole town into turning out to help free the beached whale. After numerous attempts at saving Bluella, the town realizes they cannot help the whale. Lisa sits by Bluella keeping her company and falls asleep on the beach. When Lisa wakes up she finds that Bluella has died. Lisa is devastated at the loss of Bluella. Marge and Homer try to cheer Lisa up. The townspeople decide to blow up the remains of Bluella but mostly end up exploding whale blubber all over the themselves.

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Jack tells Liz he is prepared to lock himself in his office with no distractions so he can choose which woman to date, Nancy or Avery. Jack has taken anything that might sway him or take his interest in a different direction out of his office.

Liz is walking down the street on a Thursday night when she sees her office staff in a bar having an after hours party without her. Liz can’t believe they didn’t invite her because she thinks she is a fun person too. Liz seeks Jack’s advice and he tells her not to take things personally, no one wants to hang out with the boss. Jack invites Liz to have a drink with him, but Liz is still fuming. In the writers room Liz asks sarcastically how everyone’s evening was the night before. Liz is ready to launch into a tirade when Cerie interrupts her, asking her and Jenna about putting together a bridal shower that week before she gets married. Liz wants to prove to the staff she can throw a fun party. Liz tells the writers and Jenna she plans to throw a bridal shower for Cerie and that their attendance at the party is mandatory.

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Pam is back at the office after maternity leave, she is missing the baby already but adjusting to her office work schedule. Pam looks at her baby’s framed picture on her desk wistfully.

Oscar shows the office staff a video he made of Cookie Monster from Sesame Street using Kevin’s voice. Everyone laughs hysterically as they watch the video since they all agree Kevin talks like a muppet. Kevin walks into the room and feels hurt. Kevin tells Gabe, the consultant from Sabre, about the incident and he decides to show the office staff who’s boss by taking matters into his own hands. When Gabe tells the staff no mocking is allowed, they ignore him.

Andy has big plans for Erin for Secretary’s Day. Andy wants Secretary’s Day to be special for his girlfriend, so he talks Michael into taking Erin out to lunch. Erin wants to go to a fancier restaurant which Michael doesn’t want to go to, but through Andy’s prodding, Michael agrees to take Erin there. Michael thinks Erin is a bit of a bumpkin and their conversation in the car is awkward at best.

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Liz signs up for singles activities begrugingly in order to meet the man of her dreams. Jenna offers to join Liz at the singles activities. Jenna suggests Liz get less aggressive playing dodgeball after she bounces the ball off of a guy she is interested in. Jack has plans with Avery to go to a party that night. Jack’s plans are blown when Nancy arrives unexpectedly to visit Jack. Nancy is divorced from her husband and ready to start a relationship with Jack, asking if she can take him out for his birthday the same night that the party is scheduled. Jack tells Nancy he has an event he has to attend but will meet her at her hotel room for drinks afterwards. When Jack asks Liz who she’d rather date, Lee Marvin or Derek Jeter, Liz tells Jack Lee Marvin of course. Liz tells Jack he has to decide between Avery and Nancy but Jack thinks he can juggle the relationships until he decides who he should be with.

Toofer finds out the only reason he was hired at TGS is because of affirmative action. Liz admits Toofer was hired for a diversity quota and Toofer decides to quit. Jack meets Nancy at the hotel, Nancy is so tired from sightseeing she asks Jack if they can have a raincheck in the romance department and instead hang out watching movies and drinking beer. Jack gets cosy with Nancy until Avery calls telling him he has to meet her at Derek Jeter’s after-party. Jack makes up an excuse, leaving Nancy at the hotel and heads to back to Avery. Jack and Avery have dinner the next night for Jack’s birthday and their age difference comes up in their relationship. Avery gives Jack his birthday present, the cufflinks that Ronald Reagan wore when he was buried. Jack is touched and amazed Avery could get Reagan’s cufflinks. Nancy meets with Jack and gives him his birthday gift, a box of salt water taffy in their favorite flavor which touches him, reminding him of their days together in Boston.

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Jeff tries to rush the Spanish Club along so he can get to the cafeteria on time for chicken fingers. Hoards of students start running out of the building and the rest of the Spanish Club follows, leaving vegetarian Britta behind. Jeff and the Spanish Club get online for lunch and just as Jeff and Pierce are being served the cafeteria runs out of chicken fingers. Annie, Shirley, Abed and Britta wait at a table for Jeff and Pierce to bring a pile of chicken fingers. Shirley checks a younger student with dreadlocks who she is crushing on. Jeff notices the college cafeteria always runs out of their favorite food. Jeff sees fry cook Starburns, the old-rocker cafeteria guy, is hoarding chicken fingers and portioning them out for his favored friends while the rest of the students go without their delicious chicken.

Jeff decides to take action about the chicken finger shortage at Greendale. Jeff tells the Spanish Club that they must get Starburns fired and have one of their group take over the fry station. Jeff convinces Abed, who worked in his father’s falafel restaurant, that he must take over the fry cook position so they can control the chicken finger situation. Jeff tells Britta to sweet-talk Starburns into giving her take-out chicken fingers. Pictures are taken of Starburns giving the contraband to Britta and he is fired. When posters for the fry cook job are posted around school, Shirley rips them down so Abed is the only qualified applicant. Troy interviews in a golden pharaoh helmet and garb to appear crazy and gives the world’s worst interview so Abed will appear to be the ideal candidate for the job. The Spanish Club’s plan works and Abed is hired as the fry cook for the cafeteria.

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Food Porn 2 starts with an ad that is similar to a phone sex ad, but the ad is for food. Yes, the entire episode has this tongue-in-cheek, old style porn film feel, including cheesy porn style background music, snippets by porn star Ron Jeremy and porn-like descriptions of food Tony enjoys in the episode.

Tony visits various New York restaurants to imbibe in delicious food. As Tony narrates about the wonders of food there are filmed bits following regular people on the street, showing pixelated portions of bodies and blacked out eyes, all in jest of course. Tony begins his venture into food porn reciting the glories of homemade broth with noodles, one of Tony’s favorite foods.

Tony visits Chef Daniel Boulud at his restaurant Bar Boulud in New York. Chef Boulud shows Tony the head of two boars, which they both hold with reverence. Tony samples some of New York City’s best charcuterie. The house special is engorged with blood, blood sausage that is. The sausage is presented with onions and mashed potatoes. Next is head cheese, made of bits of head and tongue. A chicken liver pate, rabbit terrine and the best, according to Tony, is pate en croute, a puff pastry stuffed with wild boar, pheasant, elk, foie gras and wood pigeon, then served with golden aspic.

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