Air Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2011, 9/8c
Jess doing her best to look great for the wedding
Now this is the New Girl I know and love. What a great episode! I totally think Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) are going to hookup. I keep seeing these looks pass between them and they do have chemistry. Might be a little foreshadowing at least. Nick grows up a bit in “Wedding” and we have to wait until next week to find out how his new stance in life will pan out. I think he can succeed at being single—truly single.
Weddings are supposed to be fun and this one looks like a blast. There’s a dance-off, an awkward moment where Jess totally ruins the happy couple’s introduction, and of course, Gretchen (guest star Natasha Lyonne of American Pie fame), who has a thing for Schmidt (Max Greenfield). Speaking of Schmidt, I’d love to hear more about his younger days. “Fat Schmidt” explains a lot. Now I know why he always pulls up his shirt to show everyone his abs.
Observations:
Schmidt is still a douche. But he’s coming around. It seems to me Greenfield is overacting a bit. If he relaxed, he could do great things with his character aside from making him a douche.
Winston (Lamorne Morris) has endeared himself to me. He is so sweet with Jess and absolutely hilarious during the dance-off with the alternate usher. He made the kid go running for his mommy!
The plan to make Caroline jealous backfires
Deschanel rocks this episode. Seeing her in the bathroom wielding a cake knife to remove her undergarments is ridiculously funny. I laughed so hard I couldn’t hear what was going on. Though I have to admit, at times, she seems a bit overdramatic with some scenes. I sometimes feel she’s trying to portray Jess as something she isn’t—an idiot.
Funny lines:
Winston in response to Schmidt about his urgency to be an usher: “This is the first job I had in like two months dude and I really want to get in there and ush this wedding in the face!”
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Jess after revealing her beauty secret of wearing little girls’ biker shorts under her dress: “I will not be peeing tonight.”
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Jess to Nick with her fake ‘billy teeth: “I just done what my momma learnt me.”
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If New Girl continues at this pace, the show will make it to the top. Drunken Nick needs to make an appearance in every episode. His performance is so realistic. I could feel his heartache and the solace the picture booth gives him in his drunken rage. Yes, I think we’ve got a hit on our hands, folks!
Tune in to New Girl, Tuesdays at 9/8c on Fox. For more on the show, visit http://www.fox.com/new-girl/.
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