Studies in Modern Movement

"Studies in Modern Movement" is the seventh episode of the third season and 56th overall episode of the American sitcom Community. It was originally broadcast on November 10, 2011, on NBC.

In the episode, the study group helps Annie move in with Troy and Abed. Annie is worried about living with Troy and Abed's "manchildren" antics. Meanwhile, Britta and Shirley lock horns over religion and morality, while Jeff is forced to spend the day with Dean Pelton.

The episode was written by Adam Countee and directed by Tristram Shapeero.

Annie (Alison Brie) is moving into Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed's (Danny Pudi) apartment. The rest of the study group are helping her move, except Jeff (Joel McHale), who is shopping but concocts an elaborate plan to convince Britta (Gillian Jacobs) he is ill. While packing at Annie's old apartment, Britta warns Annie that being roommates with Troy and Abed will not be easy, because the reasons she adores them will become the reasons she will despise them. Troy and Abed wear special T-shirts with a Twitter hashtag—#AnniesMove—for the occasion, and are live-tweeting the event.

Troy and Abed's childish antics, such as using all of Annie's packing tape to tape Troy to the bathroom door, start to annoy Annie, but she tries to play along. Troy damages one of the apartment's electrical outlets, but Pierce (Chevy Chase) offers to fix it before her landlord comes. Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) is concerned that Annie's "cohabitation" with Troy and Abed will lead to her moral decay, and Britta slams her religious uptightness.

While shopping, Jeff runs into Dean Craig Pelton (Jim Rash). "Craig" knows that Jeff is avoiding helping Annie move from Troy and Abed's tweets and blackmails Jeff into spending the day with him. Jeff reluctantly has lunch with him at a Mexican restaurant and joins him in a green screen karaoke session singing "Kiss from a Rose" in matching outfits. Jeff starts to enjoy himself, but the dean lets it slip that their accidental run-in and day together happened only because he read Jeff's Greendale e-mails. Jeff becomes violently outraged at this invasion of his privacy.

Britta and Shirley ride in the same car on the way to Troy and Abed's place and once again argue over religion and morality. Britta picks up a hitchhiker (Brendan Hunt) to prove that she is moral without being religious. The hitchhiker immediately begins talking about Jesus, to Shirley's delight and Britta's dismay. He and Shirley have a friendly chat until he claims to be Jesus himself. This upsets Shirley but delights Britta, who annoys Shirley by getting "Jesus" to endorse marijuana legalization. Eventually, the hitchhiker starts to sing about drinking human blood and the evils of race mixing, leading Shirley and Britta to throw him out of the car and reconcile with each other.

Meanwhile, attempting to fix the electrical outlet, Pierce damages the circuit and the wiring burns a line down the wall. Attempting to cover it with new paint, he makes a mess and gets dangerously high on paint fumes, hallucinating that he is playing piano while accompanied by hula dancers. He is rescued by the landlord.