by Vochelle
Watching New Girl is like drinking hot chocolate topped with
marshmallows on a cool Christmas morning. It gives off a certain kind of warmth
and comfort that you’ll always look forward to. But it’s also like accidentally
letting your crush know that you have a crush on him, or watching an awards
show where Taylor Swift gets interrupted mid-speech by Kanye West. It makes you
feel awkward and embarrassed and it makes you cringe (and laugh). In the latest
episode, entitled “Models,” we get a lot of both of those feelings.
Here are some things that I liked about the episode.
1.
Jess’ monkey look-alike.
It’s Cece’s birthday! Jess visits her at her
apartment, all ready to eat home-baked birthday cake and watch Clueless on DVD,
like they do every year. However, Cece has other plans. She wants a night-out
with her model friends and Jess. Jess feels uncomfortable about the whole
set-up, because of her lack of things to talk about with the models. Plus, they
also think she looks like a cartoon monkey from a Russian cracker ad.
Look how cute the monkey is! It
totally beats Katy Perry at being a Zooey Deschanel look-alike!
2.
Jess and Cece’s fight
Cece overhears Jess making a comment about
how years of modeling has made her dumber. Rightfully, Cece gets mad. Clearly,
Jess is being a little bit of a judgmental snob, who thinks that modeling is a
dumb job. That leads to them having a fight, which leads to some…
… boob-slapping.
1 3. You Make My Dreams Come True by Hall and Oats.
So, after all the boob-slapping that happened
between Cece and Jess, Jess goes to Cece the next day. Cece’s hung-over, but
she has a modeling job to go to. It turns out that she has to stand on a
spinning wheel at a car show. Jess takes the job to save Cece.
I felt so much second-hand embarrassment
for Jess in this scene! But one thing that made me smile is the use of Hall and
Oats “You Make My Dreams Come True” as background music. It’s the song from the
famous early morning musical number in 500 Days of Summer!
4.
Winston being the voice of reason, as per usual.
Oh, Nick, Nick, Nick and your inability to
show that you care. (I can totally relate.L)
1 5.
Nick and Schimdt in college flashback.
Because of a fight with Schidmt (which I
will discuss in the next item), Nick talks to Jess about the first time he met
Schidmt in college.
We are shown a hilarious flashback scene to
the moment where they first met.
Here’s Schidmt eating ramen noodles… without water.
6.
Nick and Schimdt’s fight (lover’s quarrel?)
Schimdt comes home to the loft one day with a
cookie for Nick. Nick is baffled because he doesn’t get why a friend- who’s a
dude- would ever randomly bring his friend- who’s also a dude- a cookie. Schidmt says it’s because he’s thinking about
him. Nick says he doesn’t think about Schidmt.
The next day, Schidmt refuses to talk to Nick.
And he is
crying. Like, really crying. With actual tears and a dialogue that goes like,
“I am a human being, I am entitled to my own emotions!”
Lol. I
couldn’t stop lauging at this scene.
Schidmt isn’t too happy about the gesture.
Nick says, “You got me cookie, I got you
cookie. You got me cookie, I got you cookie.”
In the end, they all hugged it out. Aww.
And then, comes the awkward moment…
