Dean Pelton interrupts the study group wearing a train conductor's uniform (for no apparent reason) to let everyone know that a carnival's coming to Greendale. Britta's visibly affected and makes a confession: her ex-boyfriend, Blade, works with a traveling carnival. Unsurprisingly, the gang gets a good laugh out of this one. Is having the name Blade legal? Shouldn't New Line Cinema be suing him? But for Britta this is no laughing matter; Blade has a control over her that she just can't explain. Britta owns up to an embarrassing truth: she doesn't believe in love because of a traveling carnie named after a kickboxing vampire movie.