Once again the writers have
managed to reinforce my belief that New Girl is one show that was fortunate
enough to avoid the dreaded sophomore slump, which is a very rare thing in my
opinion. Personally, I absolutely loved New Girl’s first season, but I’ve
actually enjoyed this season even more. A big part of that is due to the
direction that the writers have taken the Jess and Nick relationship in this
season. Most shows typically drag things out forever before anything even
remotely significant happens between two characters that the viewers know will
ultimately get together and become a couple, and one couple that constantly
comes to mind when I think about how the writing for Jess and Nick’s
relationship is different from most shows would be Ross and Rachel from
Friends, and honestly the writing for Ross and Rachel’s relationship often
annoyed me at times. That’s also why I applaud Elizabeth Meriwether for being
fearless enough to deviate from the typical format of will they or won’t they
couples on TV shows.
The writers definitely had
Jess and Nick take a major leap forward in their relationship, but I’ll talk
more about that later since I’m getting ahead of myself. The episode began with
Nick, Winston and Schmidt walking in on Jess shaving Cece’s armpits, but she
soon got a text message from a guy named Teddy, who Jess quickly revealed was
the guy that she lost her virginity to. Anyway, Teddy was back in town and
apparently wanted to get together with her for a drink, which prompted Nick to
quickly become fixated on wanting to know about Teddy. The whole thing with
Nick fixating on Teddy throughout the episode was very funny in my opinion. Jess
telling Nick, Winston and Schmidt that she lost her virginity to Teddy quickly
led to them each telling the story of how they lost their virginity, and they made
it a contest to see who had the worst story.
Jess started off her story
by telling them about her prom night. She went to the prom with a guy that she
had started a gender equality society with, which led to some very awkward
moments between her and her date. Jess ended up storming off, only to run into
Teddy in the hallway and they ended up singing together as Teddy played the
guitar, which is apparently how they met. However, they didn’t sleep to
together that night, which quickly prompted the guys to ask Cece to tell the
story of how she lost her virginity.
Cece’s story was pretty
short, but it was pretty funny. Cece apparently lost her virginity to Mick
Jagger, which is just…bizarre in my opinion. The flashback started with Cece
telling a bartender that she just wanted to lose her virginity in a very
spontaneous way and not plan it out. A moment later Mick Jagger came up to Cece
and told her that he wanted to sleep with her. Mick Jagger didn’t actually
appear in this episode, and according to Elizabeth Meriwether, they never approached
him about actually appearing in the episode, and honestly I think it was fine
that they used a body double to be Mick Jagger since the flashback was so
quick. My favorite thing about Cece’s story was the way Hannah Simone was very
matter of fact in her delivery when Cece told the others that it wasn’t an
embarrassing story for her, she simply likes telling people that story.
