113 Facts About Jeff Winger

1.

Jeff Winger was born in Denver, Colorado, to parents William and Doreen Winger.

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2.

Jeff Winger's father divorced his mother when he was very young and later had another child named Willy Jr.

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3.

Jeff Winger tells her that he had to change schools, as well as his hair, his clothes, even his personality because of the incident.

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In 1997, around age 19, Jeff submitted an audition tape for MTV's The Real World: Seattle, which would later come back to haunt him during an election for Greendale's student-body president.

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5.

Jeff Winger was once a highly successful defense attorney with Hamish, Hamish, and Hamlin founded by Ted.

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6.

Remembering that Ian Duncan was a professor there, Jeff Winger decided to attend, hoping that Duncan would help him graduate as quickly as possible.

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7.

At the beginning of season 2, Britta recants her declaration of love for Jeff Winger, saying she was caught up in the spirit of competition.

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8.

Jeff Winger comes to an uneasy understanding with both Britta and Annie.

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9.

Later in the season, the study group finds out that Britta and Jeff Winger had been hooking up in secret throughout the year, and both of them then realize they have no interest in continuing to hook up.

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10.

Jeff Winger is continually sarcastic, suffers occasional bouts of rational-agent sociopathy, and often displays much less enthusiasm for Greendale activities than other members in his Spanish study group.

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11.

Jeff Winger enjoys being in positions of authority and command and acts as the effective leader of the group.

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12.

The other members have bristled at how Jeff Winger is the "obvious" person to be their group leader but regularly mocks or disregards such responsibilities, leading to times when they have been receptive to leadership from other members.

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Jeff Winger's adventures include stints as a member of the debate team and substitute glee club, and editor of the school newspaper, as well as efforts to improve Chang's professional and love lives.

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14.

Also, while attempting to come up with a toast for Shirley's wedding, Jeff Winger drunkenly reveals that his jaded views on marriage result from the failure of his parents' marriage and his father subsequently leaving them.

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15.

Jeff Winger eventually reveals that after his father left, he told his classmates in seventh grade that he had to get an appendectomy, to have someone "worry about [him]".

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16.

When one of them asked to see the scar, Jeff Winger intentionally gave himself a scar with his mother's scissors on his abdomen to keep up the charade.

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17.

Jeff Winger still possesses all of the get-well cards he received from his classmates in a box under his bed because "it proves that someone, at some point, cared about me".

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18.

Jeff Winger is approached by Alan, who convinces him to sue Greendale.

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19.

Jeff Winger becomes a law teacher at the school and forms the Save Greendale Committee.

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20.

Jeff Winger has trouble getting used to being a teacher at the school and struggles with a drinking problem.

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21.

In season 6, Jeff Winger continues to be a subpar teacher with alcohol problems and has an existential crisis when he realizes that he is the member of the group with the least direction in life, and will likely be the last of them ever to leave Greendale.

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22.

Jeff Winger was conceived in Riverside, Colorado, to George and Deb Perry.

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23.

Jeff Winger is prone to be vain and hypocritical in her actions.

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24.

Jeff Winger experienced an unexplained trauma in her childhood during a birthday party involving a man in a dinosaur costume.

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25.

Jeff Winger decided to drop out of high school because she thought it would impress Radiohead.

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26.

Jeff Winger became friends with others and created a small group of "anarchist, billboard vandals".

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27.

Jeff Winger is not always adept with everyday female bonding, which creates a bit of distance between her and the other women in the group, though they generally bond.

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28.

Jeff Winger eventually sleeps with Jeff during a prolonged paintball match.

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29.

Abed later reveals it that Britta and Jeff Winger had a secret affair throughout season 2 that began in season 1.

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30.

Britta and Jeff Winger get engaged in "Basic Story" once Greendale is sold to Subway, but once they save Greendale, they break the engagement off.

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31.

Jeff Winger is proud to be an African American woman but appreciates not being defined by those characteristics.

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32.

Jeff Winger is very friendly to everyone but sometimes has problems minding her own business or keeping secrets, and she gossips compulsively.

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33.

Jeff Winger then set out to earn an Associate's Degree in Business to start her own company.

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34.

Jeff Winger relates to the other members as people she simply likes being friends with and vice versa.

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35.

Jeff Winger eventually becomes the personal chef of a suicidal former detective attempting to solve the mystery behind his wife's death and his paralysis.

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36.

Jeff Winger was an acquaintance of Troy Barnes, a popular athlete, and harbored a crush on him.

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37.

Jeff Winger is, for example, the only student of Greendale to have ever made use of the extra credit program that the college offers by hosting a Dia de los Muertos party.

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38.

Jeff Winger takes audio notes of every class and transcribes them, prompting Pierce to exclaim and misuse the term "spoiler alert".

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39.

Jeff Winger is very intensely focused on grades, school activities, and group cohesion.

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40.

Jeff Winger takes the cohesion of the study group more seriously than the other members and, in trying to get the group to retake Spanish 102 together, gets Senor Chang fired for his fake degree in "English as a Second Language".

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41.

Annie learns from the experience that the way she responds to her feelings for Jeff Winger is shallow and immaterial and that any kind of love or feelings like this isn't fair to herself or the other person.

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42.

Jeff Winger becomes the leader of the Save Greendale Committee.

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43.

Jeff Winger later made a name for himself as the varsity quarterback of his high school football team and was prom king.

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44.

Jeff Winger quickly inferred that this was a sign of Troy's insecurity.

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45.

Jeff Winger is afraid of tarantulas, rats, centipedes, lakes and automatic toilets.

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46.

Jeff Winger now plays quarterback for the nonathletic Greendale Human Beings, saying he would rather play football for fun.

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47.

Jeff Winger's father founded Hawthorne Wipes, the award-winning moist towelette company.

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48.

Jeff Winger enrolled in Greendale in 1999, looking for friendship and popularity, but is held back by his clumsiness and lack of tolerance.

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49.

Jeff Winger's religion plays an important role when his mother dies in the season 2 episode "The Psychology of Letting Go" and Pierce believes his "Buddhist" teachings that she will be reborn, carrying a canister of what he thinks is his mother's soul around.

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50.

Jeff Winger is the author of Greendale's unusual school song and was a member of Vaughn's band for a brief time.

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51.

Jeff Winger temporarily joins an elderly group of students who act like teenagers called the Hipsters to feel accepted.

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52.

Jeff Winger begins to play the role of the study group's villain, but both trends seem to subside when he comes to terms with the group after overdosing on his painkillers.

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53.

Jeff Winger tells the group that he assumes all of his relationships will end, so he continually tests and provokes people and why all seven marriages failed.

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54.

Jeff Winger had never kept a group of friends at Greendale for longer than a semester.

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55.

Jeff Winger later appears in a cameo during the season 5 premiere, "Repilot", as a pre-recorded holographic projection in a courtyard at Greendale.

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56.

Jeff Winger can be quite theatrical at times, and has a huge ego.

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57.

Jeff Winger starts hunting for clues to solve a "case" after meeting a distressed student and later burns down a school section while doing so.

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58.

Jeff Winger is on terrible terms with Professor Duncan, who potentially foreshadows Chang's lack of teaching qualifications when in "Advanced Criminal Law", he notes Chang demands to be called "Senor" because he is not a real professor.

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59.

Jeff Winger's brother is Rabbi Chang, who criticizes Senor Chang's confusing title and behavior.

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60.

Jeff Winger enjoys jetting around on a scooter, plays the keytar as an instrument, and has a history of having his clothes stolen from the local YMCA.

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61.

Jeff Winger's self-proclaimed nickname is "El Tigre Chino", and he owns a black jacket which has on the back that moniker and the image of a tiger.

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62.

Jeff Winger eventually joins the study group in the episode "Asian Population Studies" after being voted in over Rich.

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63.

Jeff Winger proves his worth in the next episode helping Annie and the group save their drug awareness play from Pierce's antics.

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64.

Jeff Winger is not good at his job, and the school cannot afford more human resources.

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65.

Jeff Winger then calls Dean Stephen Spreck, Dean of City College, that he is out of the plan to destroy Greendale.

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66.

Jeff Winger wants his school to be more like a "real" university, and is often asking favors of the students.

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67.

Pelton has clearly displayed an obsessive crush on Jeff Winger, treating Jeff with favoritism and often inappropriately touching him when he is nearby, even though Jeff does not reciprocate the sentiment.

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68.

Jeff Winger has taken a habit of dressing in an elaborate costume, often when visiting the study-group.

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69.

Jeff Winger provides free therapy to several students, including Britta and, at one point, hopes to write about Abed's issues for a book deal.

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70.

Jeff Winger has a rivalry with Senor Chang and willingly mocks Chang over being fired and subsequently becoming a Greendale student.

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71.

Jeff Winger never knew the identity of his father and later admitted his mother worked as a prostitute in a pub in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.

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72.

Jeff Winger is absent again in season 6, though in the premiere episode "Ladders", Abed is seen wiping the nameplate on his door.

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73.

Jeff Winger serves as a mentor to Jeff, helping him to make the transition from student to teacher.

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74.

Jeff Winger has a strained relationship with his son Hank, resulting in his being excluded from his grandson Sebastian's life.

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75.

Jeff Winger has a better relationship with his other son, Furio, who is gay, and spends Christmas and Thanksgiving with his sister, Rachel.

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76.

Jeff Winger developed a virtual reality company and lives in a recreational vehicle.

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77.

Jeff Winger decides to enroll at Greendale to reinvent his life in "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care", joining the "Save Greendale Committee" shortly after.

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78.

Jeff Winger is hired as head of Greendale's IT Department in "Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing".

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79.

Jeff Winger is a fan of the 1990s alternative rock band Natalie is Freezing, and briefly dated the lead singer Julie.

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80.

Jeff Winger had a strict policy against dating students, but became romantically involved with Jeff, after he begged her to sleep with him during a Halloween party.

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81.

Jeff Winger gets involved in a conspiracy intrigue with Jeff, Annie, and Dean Pelton, when he mysteriously poses as Jeff's fake Conspiracy Theories night school class teacher, "Professor Professorson" in the episode "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design".

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82.

Jeff Winger later teaches Troy and Britta in an elective acting class and directs Troy in an all-black cast stage production of Fiddler on the Roof, entitled, "Fiddla Please".

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83.

Jeff Winger just came off of a twenty-year prison sentence in which he completed his PhD and is baffled by some of how the world has since changed.

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84.

Jeff Winger has a hard-line policy against accepting bribes, but only Jeff and Pierce know of this.

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85.

Jeff Winger plays a very prominent role in "Intro to Knots" when he is tied up by Chang and the study group at a party at Jeff's apartment for supposedly giving them a failing grade on a group assignment.

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86.

Jeff Winger takes several classes with the main characters, including Spanish and Boating.

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87.

Jeff Winger is a music lover, and in particular likes the band Styx.

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88.

Jeff Winger worked in the school cafeteria until the events of "Contemporary American Poultry", when the group causes him to be fired for siphoning off chicken fingers—the most edible foodstuff served by the cafeteria—for his friends.

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89.

Jeff Winger begins wearing the aforementioned top hat at the beginning of the second season to draw attention away from them.

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90.

Jeff Winger is assumed dead when a meth lab that he has been operating out of from his car's trunk explodes in the episode "Basic Lupine Urology".

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91.

Jeff Winger ends up being accused of being the Greendale Ass-Crack Bandit, only for Jeff to find out this was a ruse by the Dean to deflect attention, in exchange for the Dean hiding Star-Burns' meth charges and allowing him to remain in the stables.

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92.

Jeff Winger briefly appears in the season six episode "Intro to Recycled Cinema" as an extra in Abed's sci-fi film, Raiders of the Galaxy.

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93.

Jeff Winger leads a rowdy, disobedient band of elderly Greendale students called the "Hipsters", with whom Pierce temporarily hangs out in "Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples".

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94.

Jeff Winger was the cause of the bond between Jeff and Shirley in the first season due to his small nipples, which Shirley finds hilarious.

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95.

Jeff Winger spends time with the study group again in "Epidemiology", when he attempts to treat the infected students while dressed as a banana and causes Jeff to admit his hatred for him openly.

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96.

When he turns down a date with Annie due to her youth, Jeff Winger begins to admire his ethics and seeks life advice from him, although he wants to abuse the power Rich gets from everyone loving him.

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97.

Jeff Winger was first introduced in the episode "Asian Population Studies".

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98.

In season 5, Neil is shown to be friendly with the group, and Jeff Winger expresses pride at the fact that the group saved his life so that he could return to "doing stuff in the background".

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99.

Jeff Winger appears in "Basic Lupine Urology", in which he is accused of destroying the study group's biology project.

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100.

Jeff Winger makes another appearance when she is Abed's girlfriend in "VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing".

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101.

Jeff Winger has appeared several times since, often in a cranky mood when the study group asks him to find or fix things in the school.

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102.

Jeff Winger kills Vice Dean Laybourne, briefly becoming the new Vice Dean before being exposed by Troy, who is revealed as the "truest repairman".

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103.

Jeff Winger becomes her boyfriend again after learning of her pregnancy; he remains loyal to her even after discovering that Chang could be the father.

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104.

Alan Connor is a lawyer and former colleague of Jeff Winger's who attends Narcotics Anonymous sessions at Greendale, where he had once met Annie.

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105.

Alan reveals that he now heads the law firm that Jeff Winger worked at and threatens Jeff Winger to drop the case or not come back to work at the law firm.

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106.

Jeff Winger appears again in "Repilot" when he tries to convince Jeff to help him launch a major lawsuit against Greendale.

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107.

Jeff Winger initially appeared as a member of campus security before inexplicably becoming a police officer.

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108.

Jeff Winger seems to be friends with Professor Sean Garrity, referring to him by his given name.

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109.

Jeff Winger appears in "The Science of Illusion" to investigate a body Britta drops out of the biology labs; in "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design", he teaches Jeff and Annie the dangers of fake gun shootouts.

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110.

Jeff Winger appears briefly during a montage at the end of season three, apparently forming another plot.

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111.

Jeff Winger is a cybernetically enhanced police officer, reminiscent of RoboCop.

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112.

Jeff Winger first appears piloting Pierce's drone and urging him to ignore the dosage recommendations on his medication.

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113.

Jeff Winger often gives Pierce bad advice, influencing him into a painkiller addiction and overdose in "Early 21st Century Romanticism".

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