Rolling "New Girl" televison show thread

oh yeah, i was thinking about that episode today and laughing

schmidt-goes-to-the-gynecologist bit this week is next-next-level

died at "meet the troll under the bridge and answer his three riddles"

ahem, riddles three

god damn, somebody change the title of this thread so it's searchable.

nu-promo-art sez 'this show is not about the title character so much now'

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Winston getting Schmidt to go out searching for crack was so good.

OTM!

Everything about that plot line was amazing

The cabin story fizzled for me aside from the absinthe reactions, which were pretty lol

Yeah, that was a little boring to me. I don't really care about the relationship drama on this show.

found the idea that schmidt would really be that clueless abt Winston kinda far fetched

my favorite part of that whole sequence (aside from Nick and Cece being "oh hell no" when Schmidt first broached race with them) is when Winston accused Schmidt of thinking Winston smoked crack because he was black and Schmidt saying he thought Winston smoked crack because that's what Winston had just told him

i loved that the drug dealer was just some dude named rob who thought they were trying to rob him

"I just thought you needed directions!"

yeah it was a great handling of the storyline i wouldve just appreciated like one line explaining why schmidt apparently doesnt know his best friend in the world very well at all

not saying it wasn't a stretch, but it was funny enough that I didn't really care

(also I thought Nick was Schmidt's best friend in the world? I assume Winston and Nick are closer to each other because they grew up together)

schmidt's description of jewish soul food was also hilarious

Schmidt as a character is not in touch with reality to the point that it didn't bother. probably one of the best (funniest/not offensive) sitcom plots about race that i've ever seen.

The cabin story fizzled for me aside from the absinthe reactions, which were pretty lol

Has a sitcom ever had a good cabin story?

Do the scary stories in the last Community Halloween episode count?

Has a sitcom ever had a good cabin story?

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Cheers and Seinfeld both had classic cabin episodes, wtf kinda theory is this that they're inherently bad

Remember when Carlton crashed the rented BMW?

i got sick this week and caught up with the past season. still kinda embarrassed about it, but i do really enjoy this show

get your crap together, india

i really like this show again. the odd episode disappoints - like the one with rob reiner in it - but any episode with that game they play, true american, is a keeper. also, i'm gonna cast winston as roast beef in my eventual live-action achewood movie project.

they showed this on a plane a few weeks ago and while I only laughed at one part I was impressed by how tolerable Zooey's character was

I love this show.

man, schmidt's whole speech about how india had to get its shit together really pissed me off. that whole episode really annoyed me. i'm pretty sure all the guys at that dating thing didn't need douche schmidt to tell them cece was very hot for them to actually realise it and go talk with her.

i thought that was a little much

boy some episodes of this seem like they're about ready to collapse

if they're taking Jess and Nick through a horrifically destructive relationship this may be a good direction. i doubt it though

If Jess disappeared the show would instantly be exponentially better.

they could replace her with another wacky female roommate played by Kristen Schaal

Gonna be honest, would give up on the show is she wasn't on it. I'm weak.

then after two years, Kristen Schaal could be replaced by Anna Feris

perpetual "New Girl"

perpetual "New Girl"

yes

maybe around season 8 Big Bang Theory will have finished so Kaley Cuoco or Melissa Rauch could come on board

also I'm pretty sure Megan Good will need a job at some point

i think they've ditched almost all of the 'eccentricities' by this point.

though there was a little bit of jess's nervous sex voice on the recent ep.

haha they have in no way ditched the eccentricities, we're just used to them now

also they made each of the guys equally crazy so she doesn't stick out nearly as much as the pilot would make you think

since when did she make up a song about something?? (that was always the real sticker for me)

This show is really great. I've been worried about the Nick/Jess storyline capsizing the whole thing ever since the Ross/Rachel-Sam/Diane dynamic first raised its head in season 1, but now I reckon they'll handle whatever comes inventively.

since when did she make up a song about something?? (that was always the real sticker for me)

I haven't seen an episode since "Table 34" but she definitely did it in "A Father's Love" and I think it also happened in "Pepperwood" and "Cooler"

her singing is still in the show. sorry!

Since pretty early on, like the first ep with lizzy caplan, they've done a kind of brilliant job of alternately critiquing/defending/ridiculing/embracing the 'adorkable zooey persona' that got the show on the air in the first place

This show is really great. I've been worried about the Nick/Jess storyline capsizing the whole thing ever since the Ross/Rachel-Sam/Diane dynamic first raised its head in season 1, but now I reckon they'll handle whatever comes inventively.

exactly. I was bummed at first, figured they'd put it off till later. Then I was like ok, they're going there, but it didn't work so now they've moved on and they'll eventually come back to it. Instead they're accepting it's there and just having fun playing with it.

yeah i'm fine w/ zooey now, which i couldn't have predicted even back when i started liking the show. i would love it if there were a perpetual new girl though. lol @ dan if he think big bang is gonna wrap after 8 seasons, which is kinda a shame cuz i would like to see cuoco working w/ better scripts but at the same time good for her for getting paid serious money which is what happens in the later seasons.

they're doing a better job w/ winston also. should i go back and watch the first season of this at some point? pretty big lizzy caplan fan fwiw.

I haven't seen an episode since "Table 34" but she definitely did it in "A Father's Love" and I think it also happened in "Pepperwood" and "Cooler"

i guess but doesn't it seem like the balance was real out of whack early on, when they seemed to want to define her as (among other things) 'this girl who sings everything!'? and it's gone from whatever that would be, as a trait of a character, to something more like… one affectation/quirk among many of one character among eccentric other characters

I also thought they'd toned down her character's 'quirkiness' quite a bit (including the singing) but they seemed to be bringing it back in "Quick-Hardening Caulk" (probably why it was slightly disappointing to me).

Winston was the absolute best character. I would watch a spin off with him.

I am reading the summaries of the episodes from this season. I missed a couple (I really didn't like the first 2 epis) but the wedding episode was great and I am excited about the True American last epi. When I think of New Girl I think of True American and Winston.