Handsome Jeff (Joel McHale) had his lawyer license revoked for forging a college diploma. In order to get a diploma, he chose to join Greendale Community College. In order to get close to Britta (Gillian Jacobs), a beautiful girl in Spanish class, Jeff forged a Spanish study group, but unexpectedly attracted a group of members with different personalities. Abed (Danny Pudi), an Arab who loves making movies, Troy (Donald Glover), a former football player, Annie (Alison Brie), an insecure Jewish beauty, Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), a divorced black middle-aged woman, and Pierce (Chevy Chase), who has been divorced seven times and has a crush on Shirley. What kind of hilarious stories will this study group full of "strange people" bring?