New Girl – The bells weren’t quite ringin’

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:

• I’m venturing into dangerous territory here, I know, but … I need something less cutesy on Jess than what she’s been wearing of late. Look, I’m not a fashion guy in the least (no comments from the peanut gallery please, An) but the pixie-ish duds Jess has been sporting of late are b-b-boooooooooooring. (Yeah … even I’m surprised at this admission coming out of me.)
• And, since I’m delving into verboten territory here, I might as well stick my leg all the way in, right? Let’s do something with that hair! Gah! It’s in her eyes! It’s too long! It’s drab! It makes her look dumpy! I know … it’s a personal preference and there’s nothing I can do about it other than gripe. But I’ve said what I have to say and I feel just a smidge better for having done so. *whew*

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

Clacked by Michael Noble
on Nov 30, 2011 @ 15:00 EST5EDT