Joe Russo

Alex is sponsoring a team for the city Kickball Tournament and convinces everyone but Jane to be on her team. They might have a shot at winning except that Dave freezes when it's his turn.

The founder of an animal hospital dies and leaves the hospital to her granddaughter who is the ex-girlfriend of the anti-social veteranarian and hospital director. The new owner has a lot of changes planned.

It's another wedding for the gang. Derrick and Eric are getting married but the big question looming is whether there will be, as Derrick likes to say, "DRAMA". Brad has something important to tell Jane but she's busy helping Eric with reception details. Max tries to work up the nerve to perform with his old band. And Penny is again all alone at a wedding until she meets a guy via Skype.

When a Subway open's in Greendale's cafeteria, Pierce and Shirley plot to shut it down. Meanwhile, Vice Principle Laybourne starts to turn Abed and Troy against each other while in the midst of another school-wise blanket fort.

Penny's white lie to an annoying childhood friend rapidly grows out of control with the whole gang getting caught up in the lie. Max and Dave's landlord wants to evict them but that's before he falls hard for Alex.

Former bully Alex teaches Dave how to fight back against the bully at the gym. Jane's controlling ways as president of the condo association have the other residents fed up and challenging her for the job. But Penny's advise to Jane produces unexpected results.

Alex teams up with Jane to convince Dave that something he's certain happened never did. Penny and Max are determined to finally beat Julie and Justin in the annual Rosalita's Run and Scavenger Hunt.

Dave's new liquor license brings in lots of new business to the "Steak Me Home Tonight" truck but his friends are avoiding him. He thinks they're jealous of his success but it's really all about the effects of his new signature drink.

Jane persuades Penny to change her dates to how she wants them to be rather than the other way around. But when Brad hears Jane boasting to Penny how she made over Brad after they met, he rebels. Alex and Max are convinced an in-T-vention is needed to break Dave's obsession with v-necked T-shirts.

Big Dave comes for a visit to show off his new girlfriend, who it turns out is Penny's mother. Penny's thrilled but Dave reacts differently. Alex adopts a parrot whose nonstop verbal rhetoric is not so charming. Brad and Max are enlisted by Alex who thinks the Chinese restaurant next door is really a house of prostitution.

Penny starts dating Dave's shrink. Jane and Max's fight over who owns a sweater leads to another strange competition, this one involving vanity and ugly outfits. Jane wants Brad and Alex to bond which is tricky, until they discover their shared love of romantic comedies.

Penny's charity event has Max playing Santa. When Jane accidentally gives the housekeeper the wrong envelope of money – the one Brad filled with cash for their holiday getaway to the islands – she must come up with a way to get it back.

Alex designs a dress for Jane to wear to her charity event while Penny helps out Max with babysitting duties. Dave and Brad decide to strike up a friendship with their odd mailman.