New Girl: Wedding

Wedding mainly does 2 things differently from the last episodes of New Girl. It: A. sets the entire episode at a wedding (except for the first scene where they establish they're going to a wedding and set up the stories for the wedding), and B. switches it up at the end, so Jess helps all her roommates instead of them all helping her. This helps and makes this episode of New Girl the most successful one yet. Probably even better than the pilot. Crazy talk that a show would start to improve I know, but true.

Basically, Jess is going with the guys to a wedding as Nick's date. The idea is for her to scare off Caroline, so Nick doesn't get hurt by her again. The guys however request that she not act like herself (she has props like fake hillbilly teeth ready to go.). Meanwhile Winston is taking his duties as an usher at the wedding super seriously, so people don't ask him questions about what he's doing now but he butts heads with a small boy who also takes his usher duties seriously. And Schmidt finds Brooke, a woman he always wanted to sleep with is at the wedding, as is Gretchen, a girl he dislikes but always ends up sleeping with at weddings.

Jess playing the role of Nick's girlfriend is funny. Of course, after it seems to have scared off Caroline, who seems kind of jealous, Nick decides that he's ready to talk to her alone. Of course this goes poorly when Jess tries to intercede on her own (the other two guys are distracted) by acting betrayed and Caroline assures her that she's not into Nick and has a new boyfriend. This revelation causes a drunk Nick to take over the nearby photo booth in a funny sequence, that shows Nick as being more than the straight man.

Meanwhile Schmidt finds that Brooke has changed from when he last saw her (She's sober now) and pretends that he is also not drinking. When Jess tries to get his attention, he claims Jess is an ex and a bit crazy. This backfires on him when Brooke encounters Jess in the bathroom trying to cut off the little girl bicycle shorts she's wearing to fit into her dress. Jess nicely tells her not to hurt Schmidt, but inadvertently threatens her with a knife, scaring her off completely. This means he'll inevitably wind up sleeping with Gretchen and he gets angry with Jess. And Winston gets into a dance-off with the kid usher that turns really creepy, really fast. In a funny way. With all the guys mad at Jess, she gets mad back and tells them she's happy being herself.

Of course, there has to be a happy conclusion so Winston talks to Jess and assures her that they're all happy to have her, even if they don't always act like it. Jess tells Schmidt that maybe Gretchen isn't so bad (She later rejects his attempt to ask her out because she's just using him for his body.) and she talks Nick out of the photo booth, where he finally gets the nerve to break things off with Caroline completely. Then they all dance together with Jess' modified chicken dance (She pecks her head forward instead of clapping because it's more realistic.

Once again, Schmidt was thefunniest non-Jess character. But Winston was way funnier than he was last week, and his scene with Jess was genuinely sweet. Nick was a lot funnier this week too. All in all, this episode shows that New Girl was definitely deserving of getting that full-season plus 2 pick-up. Honestly, I'm this close to having one of my infamous "Moments of Truth" with this show. It's growing on me.

Grade: Awesome! (Good)

Memorable Moments

-No Cece this week. Assumedly, she'll pop up next week as the episode is called Cece Crashes.
-Schmidt: "When I see you, I want to be thinking, " Who let the dirty slut out of the slut house?" Jess with hilarious British accent: Probably the slut butlah, raaaight? 
-Jess: “One more time- Carol Lee? Cara Lou? Coraline?”
-Gretchen was a funny character. Hopefully she comes back to say more things like: "I'm gonna tie you down and show you pictures of my river rafting trip. It's a two-hour slide show."
-Jess: “I’m just cutting off my underwear—girl stuff.”
-Nick: “The photobooth is a liar, FYI.”