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Crow College

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"Crow College" is the fourth episode of Season 3 and the twenty-fourth episode of China, IL.

Summary

The Dean enrolls a murder of crows at UCI as new students while Frank intrudes on Stacy Megan and Billy's relationship.

Plot?

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Frank wonders about Stacy's intentions.

Reading a paper issue, the Dean learns crows have the intelligence of a typical four-year-old. That night, Frank plays a game with couple Stacy Megan and Billy, then notices Stacy place her hand on his arm while Billy leaves for the restroom. The following day, the Dean introduces crows into each of the professors' classes, regardless of any potential objections as Frank posts a personal ad, which instructs Stacy to mention the title of a now-obscure movie, in a paper Stacy often reads in order to ascertain more information about the student's intentions.

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The crows demonstrate their intelligence.

Meanwhile, the crows demonstrate their intelligence by constructing a plane model similar to one Amelia Earhart used. Later, Frank gathers at Stacy and Billy's, where the couple discuss plans for a movie. Stacy, listing the movies she has, happens to list the movie from Frank's ad, leaving Frank more confused about Stacy's intentions.

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The staff unsuccessfully try to starve the crows to death.

Later, during Steve's class the following day, the crows bring in the corpse of Amelia Earhart, and afterward, Steve and Pony discover the crows, because of their intelligence, are replacing the professors. Meanwhile, Frank makes another personal ad directed at Stacy, this time instructing her to say a phrase he thinks no one will ever say. Instead, Stacy utters the phrase verbatim in casual conversation, leaving Frank frustrated once again as the rest of the staff try fruitlessly to rid the campus of the crows.

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Frank causes tension between Billy and Stacy.

Still confused at Stacy's intentions after being completely honest to the young couple, Frank brings up the incident during which Stacy groped his arm, leading Billy to question this, and Stacy claims she will do this to anyone. A frustrated Billy misinterprets her assertion, and a comment from Frank drives Stacy away from the two as Steve notices the crows' enjoyment of construction. Taking advantage of such, Steve shows the crows blueprints, which leads to the crows building a Rube Goldberg machine that traps the crows in the cage, at which point the professors kill the crows.

Trivia

  • Yearbook superlatives:
    • Hoh-Hoh: hairiest back
    • Frank: most likely to not have any friends
    • Cravid: lowest self-confidence
    • An unnamed cheerleader: least cheerful
    • Steve: most likely to not give a [shit]
    • Baby Cakes: most thoughtful.
  • In a minor subplot, Baby Cakes demonstrates his title by uttering out loud what goes through his mind. The end of the episode reveals this happens as he gets sidetracked while signing Pony's yearbook. In total, this subplot takes up about three minutes and seven seconds; Baby Cakes spends approximately twenty-one seconds of this time drinking a soda.
    • This subplot is similar to one in "Displays of Manhood", when Steve spends most of his screen time listing his list of sexual experiences before his date, thinking Steve is crazy, abandons him.
  • Baby Cakes conjectures heaven is "full of those types of guys that obsess over the backs of baseball cards," when in "Coming Out of the Casket", he conjectures only Jesus Christ and Old Yeller resided in heaven.
  • The Dean burns money in a fireplace.
  • Adult Swim's closed captioning spells Stacy Megan as Stacey, though it was shown as Stacy in "Dream Reamer" outside of the closed captioning.
  • The relationship between Billy and Stacy Megan is never brought up again after this episode.
  • The crows find Amelia Earhart's corpse despite her location at the time of her death being unknown.
  • Debra is evidently interested in having an affair with Frank even though in "Kenny Winker Rules", Debra despised Frank for his lustful nature.
  • The layout of the Scrabble board used is different from the one in real life.
  • Two of the crows are named; one is named Donny, and the other Mimev.
  • The Dean's office tower contains eleven floors.
  • Among the movies Stacy has are Roman Holiday, Stand by Me, and Mississippi Burning, the last one being the name of the movie Frank used in his ad.
  • In Frank's second ad, he instructs Stacy to say, "The blacks were wrong," if she wants an affair. Stacy says the line verbatim when talking about her neighbors, whose last names are Black, thinking they were wrong in not shoveling the walkway on what is legally their property.
  • As opposed to most episodes, Crystal calls Steve Steve and not Steven.
  • Running Gags:
    • As a result of Frank's first ad, people mention the film Mississippi Burning to the people with whom they want an affair. The people who do this:
      • Stacy Megan to Billy and Frank
        • This instance is the only time Mississippi Burning is mentioned by someone not seeking an affair, as well as the only time it is said to multiple people at once.
      • Debra to Frank
      • Sammy to Frank
      • A crow to Pony
    • Frank using the word bush, mainly when referring to Pony.
    • Steve mentioning his tennis lessons and his tennis coach, thinking of her as attractive.
  • The attempts at ridding the crows:
    • Pony tells the crows that working at UCI will ruin their chance at getting published, but a crow brings up a news article claiming a crow landed a book deal.
    • Steve disguises himself as an owl in an attempt to scare the crows; instead, the crows attack him.
    • As suggested by Leonard, Cravid removes the door knob from the door leading to the teacher lounge, trapping the crows inside the room to theoretically force the crows into starvation. Instead, the crows use a makeshift doorknob—a knife and a stapler—to free themselves.
    • Steve shows the crows blueprints, and when the crows follow them, they build a Rube Goldberg machine that traps them, allowing the professors to shoot them.
      • The Dean claims he told the crows to trap the professors and shoot them instead, but according to the Dean, the crows were reluctant to comply.

Quotes

[Pony and Steve look through the school yearbook.]
Steve: See that girl right there? That's a student body.
Pony: Jeez.
Frank: I have been hanging out quite a lot with my friends Transfer Billy and Stacy Megan. Yeah, and it's great.
Pony: It's a lie is what it is.
Frank: You're a bush is what you is—are.
Stacy Megan: I like to read the personal ads—they're charming.
Billy: Speaking of charming, I gotta piss.
Steve: [To his class] Sign the yearbooks later—
[No one complies.]
Steve: —or now.
Baby Cakes: When everyone got showers in their home, I bet this is what caused the "Sexual Revolution." First, daily showers, then privates went into the nearest mouths, now butt holes are getting jealous of the Christmas kisses.
Baby Cakes: If there's a stairway to heaven, it must be invisible; otherwise, I bet a lot of people up there would be coming down to explain everything to their non-dead friends.
[The crows find the body of Amelia Earhart.]
Steve: I guess they're smarter than four-year-olds now.
The Dean: Steve! Girl!
Debra: Have you seen Mississippi Burning?
Frank: Fuck off!
Cravid: Just like in every movie ever made: the guy who doesn't give a shit at first is best at giving the biggest kind of shit in the end.
Crystal: Please, Steve, please. I hate to say it, but none of us can make a thing happen like you. When you want a girl, you get her, so get our jobs!
Steve: Fuck those crows—the school is ours.
[As the crowd barring Sammy and Frank cheers, Sammy approaches Frank.]
Sammy: Say, Franklin, have you ever seen that Mississippi Burning?
Frank: [Groans] It wasn't meant for you.
Crow: Mississippi Burning?
Pony: Ugh!
[Steve disguises himself as an owl in an attempt to scare the crows.]
Cravid: Go in there and start shaking around and screaming—they'll hate it; then, you can just leave—like a father.
Leonard: Has anyone seen my son?

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