Let me begin this post by
saying that as a hardcore Jess/Nick shipper, this is the episode that I’ve been
dying to see pretty much since New Girl began. I’ve said this before, and I’ll
say it again; I’ve always loved the way the writers have handled the will they
or won’t they get together element of Jess and Nick’s relationship. Personally,
I’ve always found Jess and Nick’s relationship rather refreshing and original
when you compare the writing for their relationship to couples on other TV
shows, such as Ross and Rachel on Friends.
If you ask me, it was very
risky on the writers’ part to have Jess and Nick kiss each other fairly early
on in the show’s run, but after seeing how the whole episode played out I think
it really paid off to have them kiss in this episode. I thought it was handled
very well. As I mentioned in this post (Why Jess and Nick's [SPOILER] almost didn't happen), the creator of the show, Elizabeth
Meriwether, had originally planned to have Jess and Schmidt be the ones who
went into the other room to make out, and not Jess and Nick when they were
playing a new version of the game True American. I’m not sure how that would have
impacted the Jess and Nick material in this episode if the writers had gone
that route, but I’m glad that they changed it to Jess and Nick being the ones
who ended up being sent into the other room to make out. The idea of Jess and
Schmidt kissing each other in any situation just seems beyond weird to me, and
I’m not sure that I’d want to see that.
Nick absolutely cracked me
up in every scene that he was in, especially when it came to him wearing the
women’s trench coat that he found and the way he and everybody else was talking
about it. Nick thought that he looked really cool wearing the trench coat and
kept saying that it made him feel very confident, but everybody else just kept
reminding him that it was a women’s trench coat. The way that he was acting
about the trench coat in this episode was classic Nick, and it once again
reminded me why I think Jake Johnson is the true breakout star of New Girl.
The whole bit with Nick and
the trench coat wasn’t the only thing that I found rather amusing when it came
to Nick in this episode though. Nick and Schmidt met a girl named Holly at a
bar who was basically aroused by sadness, which just sounds beyond weird to me,
but I suppose there are probably people in the world who are really like that.
Personally, I thought that Brooklyn Decker did a great job of playing the role
of Holly and I really liked how she played Holly’s fetish for sad men in such a
comedic way. Anyway, Nick and Schmidt spent most of the episode trying to
one-up each other when it came to convincing her that they had the saddest
life, which I thought was hilarious. It actually kind of reminded me of the
first episode of the TV show Go On and the whole “March Sadness” competition
that Ryan came up with for the other people in the support group to play in
order to decide which person in the group had the best sob story.
