Rolling "New Girl" televison show thread

From the thread: [b]zooey deschanel - damn, damn, damn does this woman look good [b]

I wish there was a separate New Girl thread, this thread title is a little awkward.

― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Saturday, April 7, 2012 6:37 AM

dylan thomas/bob dylan bit was gold.

you already borked the search on this by putting New Girl in quotes. board flawwwww

excuse moi

this just isn't the same when it doesn't tail-end the zooey deschanel thread and thereby underscore how she is the worst part of her own show

She's not bad she's just settled into an effective straight-woman role.

true, she's not nearly as annoying as when the show started. but i guess it's still embarrassing to admit i enjoy this show?

Is "True American" a real game people play?

Dermot Mulroney looks like a piece of leather whose hair changes color every scene.

Is "True American" a real game people play?

― LaMonte, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:17 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark

of course not, that's why it was so funny! when it started i was a little ehhh because How I Met Your Mother already had a good made-up game bit but once it got going it was pretty incredible

New Girl just got renewed for a 2nd season btw

i watched this show tonight because it's constantly been on top of ILX, like week in week out for months. it was horrible. generic buddy sitcom non-laffs with no charisma or distinct personality. and zooey is the worst, just staggering around the set looking poleaxed and winsome. i have a feeling that it would be equally successful with no soundtrack as the "pictures of zooey deschanel" show.

the 2 episodes before tonight were significantly better
the guys are worth getting to know. there's more to them

yeah, maybe it was just an off night. tbf, the raising hope show that came on afterwards was so much worse that it make new girl seem pretty ok in retrospect.

Q: is it always so it's always sunny meets friends?

can we blame zooey for this show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7MZlFYzD9E

I think we can only blame the vengeful gods.

zooey reminds me of a baby. i'd watch her stare at things for a half hour.

Scott, there is actually a thread for that show!
James Van Der Beek as Himself - Apartment 23 on ABC

And the show itself is not bad!

zooey reminds me of a baby. i'd watch her stare at things for a half hour.

This is pretty close to something Lizzie Caplan actually said on the show. ("It's a great 'thing': big beautiful eyes like a frightened baby. Probably gets you out of all kinds of stuff" iirc.)

that episode was so great

The kid saying "You pregnant! You pregnant" with the pillow on her stomach was hilarious.

Ol' Poop-Eyes

wow last night had everything. so fast

Mick Maus! Mick Maus!

I thought she was talking about Motley Crue's guitarist at first.

bump

There it is. Thought the finale was disappointingly terrible.

i think they pushed nick's schtick a little too hard over the course of the season.

funny how jess never, ever walks around singing now.

I was really relieved when they stopped doing that.

Anyway, like I said on the other thread, I was actually sad about Schmidt and Cece but it could just be me.

i like this show but it's awfully hard for me to hear or understand what the hell anyone is saying half the time. maybe my hearing is going.

I don't think the sound or speaking is any more or less intelligible than any other show. Maybe your TV? Or that particular channel?

they do a fair bit of talking over each other when things get agitated?

Anyway, like I said on the other thread, I was actually sad about Schmidt and Cece but it could just be me.

i'm hoping they'll reconcile.

i really came around to this show over the season. i think this last episode was one of the weaker ones, though, but i was glad to see thomas lennon.

Schmidt has overtaken Ron Swanson as the best sitcom character on American television right now.

Woah, let's not lose our heads here.

Well, to be fair, its only because the writing for Ron Swanson has been really lazy for the second half of the most recent P&R season.

schmidt is great though. i thought he was awful in the pilot, but he really grew over the season.

jon otm

they have an ad for the show now that's basically a highlight reel of schmidt-isms, i'm glad fox realizes who the breakout character of the show is

Premiere was funny.

new season killing it. has a real Friends-in-its-prime vibe. the ep with the younger hipsters across the hall killed. and they're handling the inevitable Nick'n'Jess romance subplot well - though I reckon the minute they really Ross'n'Rachel it, this show's dead in the water. But right now, it's my favourite thing on TV.

... corn...

Rob Riggle always plays the same guy, doesn't he?

pretty much, but it's not like there's a ton of other comedic actors out there filling that niche

maybe there aren't a lot who are actually marine reservists

disappointed by this ep. situations seemed forced, parents didn't seem 'real', cast not given space to do what they usually do well.

Nothing in this show seems "real", but I still thought this ep was fun. I think that's why I like this show -- it works when it's emo, and it works when it's just a shallow punchline dispenser

^ this. I was pretty lukewarm towards it at first, but it's been consistently good this season. Also, they really need to involve Winston more. Every scene he's in is reliably hilarious.

the episode where he had a sympathy period was funny

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

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

It's still OK if you think of it as "The Coach and Winston show plus ZoDesh does some slapstick."

PS must credit me for "ZoDesh."

season 3 really sucked for a while (imo "birthday" through the end of the linda cardellini stretch, and i say that as linda cardellini) but got funny again in its last few eps, S4's been on and off laffs-wise. wayans jr is great. i wish they'd quit it with the endless "every character meets the perfect person who is perfect for them in every way and then they suddenly have to break up" cycle. just marry nick/jess schmidt/cece coach/winston and move on.

oh shit, hi Linda! loved you on ER

i dont mind the schmidt/cece thing but i thought them killing off nick and jess so quickly was weird. nick and schmidt are "self" "parodies" at this point but get some laughs, i find wayans irritating, not even winston has been doing it for me lately, but honestly i still laugh 3-4 times an episode which is enough for 22 minutes

thanks for confirming this show hasn't recovered past a "frustrating, but better than staring at a wall" level of tolerability, guys

when it's funny it's funny.

nick/jess in S3 was horrible, both together and not. it sucks when they lean on their great will-they-won't-they run-up for a season and then have no idea what to do when the actual relationship starts. so they just run through all the sitcom tropes. nick came out of it with all his edges sanded off and he's been mostly tough to watch since.

i'm apparently the only one who hates what they've done to winston?? he started off as an actual human being, they didn't really know what to do with him, so they turned him into a cartoon vegetable who needs to be reminded how to walk and which hole food is supposed to go into. the "winston loves puzzles and winston has literally no idea how a puzzle works" story made me want to punch a wall. S4's been better but that was all he was in S3.

Yeah, I quit after that awful bottle episode with Winston's police examiner. Seems like it hasn't really improved?

i wish they'd quit it with the endless "every character meets the perfect person who is perfect for them in every way and then they suddenly have to break up" cycle. just marry nick/jess schmidt/cece coach/winston and move on.

see this is pretty much how i felt about s3, tbh. but if you promise there's lots of Winston in it now I just might check it out.

good news: more winston than before
bad news: it's all really unsatisfying police hijinks

jess' disappearing/reappearing nail polish is really cluing me in on many scenes take multiple days to shoot apparently

i lold a lot @ this spider ep, lotsa good winston

The Nick/Jess vaudeville routine ("They all smell terrible!" "I'm a good friend, but I'm not that good a friend!") had me breathless & in tears.

that was some Three's Company stuff and i admit i loved it

Wow no posts in this thread for a year. It's show malaise of the cursed ILX quotation mark topic search syndrome.
Show has definitely had a bit of decline for the last season or so, but I'm still enjoying it. Some thoughts about the recent half season:

1) a little ashamed to admit this but Megan Fox is still crazy mean/hot and i found her run watchable on that basis alone
2) glad they seem to actually be giving Winston and CeCe more time and jokes, especially CeCe who gets a lot more room to go wacky
3) Nasim Pedrad is adorable and great but I hope she actually gets a full role on this show eventually rather than what seems inevitable - that she gets weakly written off when her and Winston don't pan out
4) Nick has kinda become the defacto leader of the show this season, weird since Jess was out for so long and Schmidt got so much focus last year

it's turned a lot into HIMYM for me - it's still enjoyable often enough and i'm invested enough in the characters that i still watch every week. but it's never remarkable. i agree w/ everything else you just wrote.

it's the perfect show to not expect anything from. sometimes it lands, sometimes it doesn't. i fear that they are occasionally joey'ifying nick (i.e. making him more stupid than any human could be for cheap jokes) but so far they've kept that weakness in check. im perfectly content for it to persist or really to wrap at any pt

Peter Gallagher was a nice twist this week, i am not sure when i last saw him in anything

hes in togetherness also

yea I still love this show

Man, the writing in this still crackles in a way HIMYM's never did. Even in the dud episodes, there are a least a dozen brilliant, undersold little lines tucked into the dialogue

otm i watched the entirety of himym and the more i look back on it the more that feels like wasted time on a subpar show

Agree w/ Evan, though it hasn't been as great as I'd like. Also agree about making Nick too unbelievably stupid.

man if you guys think nick is being unbelievably stupid you should go back and watch season 3 for the "suddenly 100% incapable of understanding basic human functions and customs" version of winston

i'm fine with this nick (and this winston, i guess)

it's not as funny as it once was but they've banked a lot of goodwill for "badbye, reagan. badbye."

Winston is carrying this show, and the Schmidt/CeCe wedding arc is weighing it down like a giant anchor

"you know for a guy that eats his raisins hot, your opinion means a lot to me"

you can tell they had megan fox for like one day to shoot all her scenes or else something went screwy w editing

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/truck-plows-analtech-odor-leads-hazmat-situation-article-1.3189762

❤️ pic.twitter.com/1hOEsD0jQd

— zooey deschanel (@ZooeyDeschanel) February 9, 2018

they're putting it down

Had a good run. Jake needs to make more post-mumblecore movies.

6-8 more episodes will be fine, it's time for it to end.

finale tonite

Already!? Granted, it's pretty bad this season.

They've been burning two episodes a week for the past few weeks, including tonight.

oh I think I am missing a few episodes then. thx.

I just checked IMDB, it was just two episodes last week and two tonight for the final four.

I've loved this season. I stand by this show.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/new-girl-legacy.html

Yeah, I am in the camp that thinks it should've ended last season. It's fine now but feels like a different show.

I am trying to remember if there have been outright laughs so far.

I'm enjoying this season, but mostly because the writers have clearly just decided to let it be completely silly and cut the last remaining tethers to believability, which is fine by me.

Nick and Schmidt's interaction over the mustache was great, also liked the Winston masturbation flashback.

I had to google what this masturbation flashback was because I may have fallen asleep during that episode.

The rest of the episode wasn't great, so that's fair, it might just be that college Nick always makes me laugh.

I have absolutely no recollection of this. This was the elementary school episode?

I think so? The B-plot was Nick hiring someone offa craigslist to punch him in the face if he didn't write x number of words and Winston prepping to testify at a trial.

the show is really stupid and really funny. Winston going on the stand and introducing himself as Winston Pants or whatever, that was great.

I have to go back and find this. I had thought they weren't giving Winston enough weird comedy to do this season. I could only recall the thing about his "not dad."

man, those last few episodes were delightful
i hated the cat funeral ep but evetything after was 👌🏻

i want to play True American so bad, it’s my life’s dream u guys

Bim Adewunmi on Buzzfeed wrote a nice piece abt Winston that I enjoyed

I wrote about Winston Bishop, a man I love very, very much: https://t.co/qraKuz7vR7

— Bim Adewunmi (@bimadew) May 17, 2018

Rob Reiner's "Oh, NOW you can read the room?" was an A+ laugh line for me.

Gonna miss this show. Winston 4-eva.

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.