New Girl: Enchanted Thanksgiving

New Girl: Thanksgiving


While I'm not blogging about TV as much as I used to, I'm still watching plenty of it. And I loved this week's episode of New Girl so much that I couldn't resist blogging it. And I mean, I really liked this episode - I literally watched it twice in a row.


I can officially announce that I wicked love New Girl. The show's first six episodes have been a bit of a journey: I really liked the pilot, and I loved the second episode ("Kryptonite") where they went to get Jess' stuff back from her ex, but I thought the next two episodes - "Wedding" and "Naked" - were rocky (or at least uneven). I was getting a little nervous, but the show's last two episodes - the adorable "Cece Crashes" and the riotous "Thanksgiving" - have washed away all my worries. I think the show is finding its stride.

Full disclosure: I have adored Justin Long since he played Warren Cheswick on Ed way back in the day. In fact, the time he got his foot stuck in the escalator at the movie theater is still one of my favorite TV moments ever.


Highlights:

• Nick: "...then we're going to Best Buy for Black Friday."
  Winston: "Or as I like to call it, 'Friday'."
• Schmidt: "Jess, be honest: is the turkey named Paul?"
• Nick: "That's a great plan, Jess. Be the girl who replaces his dead nana."
• Don't any of these people have families? Do they all live too far away to visit?
• Schmidt: "I don't want to hear, 'Schmidt, Schmidt, you're using too much tarragon,' because I'm not."
• Jess: "I can't get it in!"
  Schmidt: "We've all been here, am I right?"
  Nick: "Jar!"
• Jess: "I put it on permanent press..."
  Nick: "Good, so you don't have to iron it."
• Nick (after Jess and Paul sing extemporaneously about Thanksgiving): "Oh my God, there's two of them!"
• Jess: "Paul brought his violin, and with a little coaxing, he might fiddle with the old horsehairs."
  Paul: "Only if you don't mind being enchanted!"
• Winston: "I'm going to say something, and you're going to say the first thing that pops into your head."
  Paul: "Kazoo."
  Winston: "We haven't even started yet."
  Paul: "Okay. I'm going to stick with kazoo."
• Schmidt (to Cece): "Beautiful savage!"
• Winston: "This is the first time he tried gelato. He did not like that!"
• Paul: "Where are you from?"
  Nick: "Chicago."
  Paul: "Ahh, the land of plenty."
• Schmidt: "Look at this recipe! Where in this recipe does it say, 'Put potatoes on Schmidt's nose'?!"
• Schmidt: "It's like a Prince video!"
• Winston: "Remember when it was only dudes living here and we had no fires?"
  Nick: "This is ridiculous! Three months ago, we didn't even know this girl!"
• Paul: "What's your name?"
  Schmidt: "It's Schmidt. It's my last name."
  Paul: "Well, my last name is Gunslinger, and I want to eat the food you've been cooking all day."
• Winston: "Play through."
• Schmidt: "I've done 'Give Me That Hat.' Only for me, it was more like, 'Here, Take My Hat,' you know what I mean?"
• Cece: "He's got this rage, this fury, inside him, and I just love it."
• Nick: "Schmidt, it's hour 9. I'm starving!"
  Schmidt: "Well, I can blanch or I can talk, but I can't do both!"
• Paul: "I feel like you think I'm annoying."
  Nick: "You didn't have to come here to say that; you could have said that from other there."
  Paul: "All right, if that's the case, which I don't know that it is..."
  Nick: "It is."
• And there's a dead body! Wow.
• Schmidt: "Are you cold? Do you want my cardi?"
• Schmidt: "This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better."
• Nick: Where in the hell are they going?

(Photo: FOX.com)