Inmates run the asylum (more than usual) and Abed produces a party on Community season 6, episode 5. Check out our recap and share your thoughts on “Laws of Robotics and Party Rights.”

The gang finds out what happens when you introduce inmates into the Greendale environment: one of them will become a professor within a week.

Frankie calls a meeting, and while the gang is interacting with Elroy (“I have a brain the size of Jupiter, I’m nobody’s fourth Ghost Buster.”), she arrives via iPad on a stick with wheels. The local prison is looking for community colleges to try out a telecommunicating program for its inmates. The gang is split: it will mean having iPads on wheels wandering around the school, but it will also mean $300,000 for the school. Jeff argues for the money, so obviously Dean agrees.

The inmates arrive and after a stern warning from Dean Pelton (“If I see any race gangs forming I’ll have no choice but to adjust the settings on your monitors.”), they’re off to join their classes. Convicted murderer Willy (Cougar Town’s Brian Van Holt) is in Jeff’s law class. The classmates are very taken with him and Willy is very taken with Jeff, namely how bad a teacher he is. Jeff and Willy exchange some classic “Winger Zingers,” but Willy doesn’t respond well to Jeff just turning on a VHS of Planet Earth and calling it a day. Later that night, Willy tries to murder Jeff by pushing him down some stairs. But naturally, his frail iPad body cannot do so.

Meanwhile, Britta is trying to come up with a loophole to get past Annie’s “no partying in the apartment” rule and her general “coucher” status. So she writes a script for Abed to film called “Britta’s Party” in which every scene is just a life-changingly awesome party. Annie is upset but warns Britta, “Before this is over you’ll beg for my forgiveness.”

Annie is right. It doesn’t take long at at all. Britt did not know what she was dealing with in enlisting Abed and he becomes obsessed with capturing the perfect party, going so far as to bring in actors to dance every waking moment. Britta needs Annie’s help to make it all stop, for which Annie promises her that she will pay dearly.

At the aforementioned party, all the inmates are invited by Dean Pelton and Frankie and the Greendale-ians are even more enchanted by them. But Jeff still isn’t. In response to Willy’s first “murder” attempt, Jeff throws the iPad Willy down the stairs, breaking him and breaking Dean Pelton’s heart. Dean Pelton is enchanted by Willy, largely because he’s Jeff with the added mystique of having killed somebody. Pelton is going to make Willy a professor and Jeff needs to stop him.

With the help of Elroy, Jeff infiltrates the “Professor-ing” ceremony as an iPad and objects to Willy’s appointment. The two have an incredibly low-stakes tablet battle, with Willy knocking down Jeff then Dean Pelton turning Willy off. The prison official who came to officiate the ceremony is baffled. We can’t blame him. Greendale makes little sense to anyone observing from the outside, but it makes perfect sense to us.