Sharp-tongued lawyer Jeff Winger finds himself returning to school at Greendale Community College. He accidentally creates a study group when attempting to get closer to a pretty student.
Jeff and Britta engage in a game of relationship one-upsmanship in response to Britta's embarrassing moment at the end of the previous school year. (S2, ep 1)
Jeff blows off the study group to hang out with his old co-workers at the law firm, but Annie believes one of them got him fired. (S2, ep 2)
Pierce's religion convinces him that the spirit of his dead mother is captured in a cheap lava lamp and Jeff has a crisis of faith about his body. (S2, ep 3)
Everyone in the study group except Abed is stuck in a crude 1980s space simulator as it is towed off campus, and Abed leads the team home. (S2, ep 4)
Shirley asks Abed to make a film about Jesus, but he quickly angers Shirley by turning it into a self-indulgent mess. (S2, ep 5)
The study group is left to fend for themselves by Dean Pelton during a rabies outbreak due to tainted food at Greendale's Halloween party. (S2, ep 6)
Britta, Annie and Shirley discover that Abed is skilled at insulting the mean girls. Meanwhile, Troy and Jeff find a secret garden with a trampoline. (S2, ep 7)
Chaos and mistrust tear the study group apart as they try to figure out who stole Annie's pen, causing them to miss the Greendale Puppy Parade. (S2, ep 8)
Dean Pelton tries to bust Jeff for a phony night school credit, which only unveils a series of conspiracies, plots, and double-crosses. (S2, ep 9)
The study group takes Troy out to a bar to celebrate his 21st birthday. While there, chaos ensues throughout the group. (S2, ep 10)
When Abed wakes up to discover that everything is in stop motion animation, the study group help him try to discover the meaning of Christmas. (S2, ep 11)
Annie lobbies for her new crush to join the study group, but a jealous Jeff counters with Chang. Shirley announces that she's pregnant. (S2, ep 12)
Pierce bribes Annie into getting him a bigger role in her play, Jeff gets in trouble over a lewd text message and Shirley rejects Chang's attempts. (S2, ep 13)
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: The group plays Dungeons & Dragons with another classmate to improve his spirits, but Pierce's jealousies cause their intentions to backfire. (S2, ep 14)
Jeff hangs out with Professor Duncan after a fight with the study group, but Chang tags along. Abed and Troy fight for a librarian's affection. (S2, ep 15)
Pierce pretends to be dying so that he can bequeath a series of cryptic gifts to his study partners and Abed decides to shoot a documentary. (S2, ep 16)
Dean Pelton holds an election for student body president. An idealistic Annie decides to run, but Jeff decides to run against her to spite her. (S2, ep 17)
Jeff uses Shirley's parental rights waiver against Chang as a way to get him out of the apartment. (S2, ep 18)
Jeff's "Pulp Fiction"-themed surprise party for Abed is spoiled when Abed tells him over dinner that he's done with pop culture. (S2, ep 19)
Jeff suspects something isn't quite right when an attractive classmate gets engaged to marry Pierce. (S2, ep 20)
While working on the final diorama for their anthropology class, Chang discovers the cache of items stolen by Troy's monkey. (S2, ep 21)
As the semester draws to a close, the anthropology class final is disrupted when Shirley goes into labour one month early. (S2, ep 22)
In a "spaghetti western" parody, Pierce tries to get revenge on the rest of the study group during this year's paintball tournament. (S2, ep 23)
When the study group learns that there's a sinister plot behind the paintball tournament, they unite the remaining players to defeat the enemy. (S2, ep 24)