The love affair had to end at some point for me on New Girl … right?
Hokay … it’s not quite as drastic as that, but I wasn’t over-the-top thrilled with this episode. Some funny moments … some good lines, of course … but there just wasn’t any real *umph* to sink my teeth into.
I got the biggest guffaw out of the introduction of Ensembell as it took the stage. The (extremely sparse) audience was panned over and there was one homeless dude in the “crowd” occupying a space all his own, pulling karate moves out of the air, yelling at himself silently. This struck me as funnier than all get out and took me a bit by surprise. (You see this type of thing all over Los Angeles so it’s pretty common place, but catching it just prior to the beginning of Ensembell’s performance was particularly funny.)
The other interesting thing I found about the episode was the exchanges between Schimdt and Nick. Wow. Such theatrics, such machismo, such vehemence. Living close quarters as they do something’s got to give on occasion … and it did. And, as usual, the writers did a bang up job keeping the flow of conversation motoring along such that you (or at least me, anyway) kept invested throughout their little tête-à-têtes.
But overall? This airing didn’t leave me cheering. There wasn’t anything really noteworthy in my book to make me want to go back and catch it again … you know what I mean? Yeah, I was a little premature up there in insinuating the love affair with New Girl is over, I know … but a few little sighs of fizzle escaped from me while I was watching. I just expected more guffaws than I received.
Notes:
Quotes:
“You know you want in on this, man! A little fatty tune, yellow-T, Cali roll, Samurai snack. So scrummy!” — Schmidt offering up sushi
“No, no, no! It’s not that hard, people! It’s an instrument that a cat wears around its neck!” — Winston to all the bell ringers of Ensembell
Wow, I thought this episode was hilarious. Maybe because I was forced to play hand bells as a child or Schimdt’s usage of “Scrummy”? The whole Conditioner/Shampoo exchange was hilarious too; in fact I thought every argument between Schimdt and Nick was hilarious. I laughed out loud on multiple occasions.