He even had a painting flown in from Minnesota to hang on the wall. Prince had opinions on where and what art should be hung, what the name of the non-speaking chef should be, hairstyles, the linens on the bed, and what Zooey Deschanel should be wearing in the scenes. Prince had some specific demands when he agreed to appear in the episode “ Prince ,” which largely takes place inside the singer's home. The lawsuit stuck around for about 2 years until a judge ruled it was just a case of parallel thinking. While the ideas are similar, aren’t all sitcoms just ways of trying to get hot people into an apartment together? Not THAT original. Their pilot also told the story of a woman who is kicked out of her home and forced to live with some bachelors. Stephanie Counts and Shari Gold claimed that the pilot episode of New Girl was stolen from their proposed pilot called, Square One. 15 The Production Had Been Sued For Intellectual Property Theft Here are 15 facts about everyone's favorite Los Angeles apartment. The story of a twee girl who moves in with some whacky bachelor roommates leads to so many zany situations, you'll want to have it playing in the background while you nap for the rest of your life. The writing for both characters (Alex in particular) has gotten much better, but they still tend to work best when dealing with the rest of the group rather than each other.Īs has been the case with this show since midway through season 1, the sheer volume of jokes helps compensate when the stories are weak, but I was much happier with the set up of next week’s episode.New Girl is a comfort show at this point no doubt about it. (Though, oddly, I enjoyed Sinbrad.) Also, though I’m keeping an open mind re: Dave/Alex 2.0, this was not a very promising start, and was evocative of the show’s bumpy early episodes. 23” review, I was not a big fan of the “Happy Endings” premiere, which did two things I don’t usually like out of the show: 1)It pushed the behavior of one of the characters (in this case, Max as Annie Wilkes) well beyond the boundaries of what’s acceptable even within this group (and the attempt to justify it with the flashback to Penny doing the same to him didn’t work), and 2)It had the characters (Brad pretending not to have a job in particular) behaving like they were on bad old sitcoms. I enjoyed Mustache Nick’s reactions to the sheer weirdness of Schmidt at that age (though both share a love of Brian Austin Green’s hip hop skills), but all of it could’ve been accomplished without the prosthetics.Īs I mentioned briefly in yesterday’s “Don’t Trust the Botulism in Apt. I understand that his personality is shaped from being a loser who turned himself into a good-looking guy, but like Fat Monica on “Friends,” it’s a really cheap joke. (*) One exception: I wish the show would forget that Fat Schmidt ever existed. This was an instance where the two stories were both about the same thing, and asked a universal question (would your longtime friends still be your friends if you were just meeting each other today?), but in the context of a lot of excellent jokes(*), well played by this strong cast. There are times when “New Girl” does episodes that are just silly, and other times when it does ones that are more thoughtful about having friends and growing up (Nick’s health scare last season) but are lighter on the laughs. Lots of great physical comedy (the boob slapathon, Jess struggling through the product-integrated car show), a good use of Nadia and the rest of Cece’s vapid, racist model friends, and an excellent understanding of how Jess and Cece’s friendship works. Though “Models” had a terrific B-story about the guys grappling with their feelings for one another – Johnson’s increasingly inarticulate delivery of “You gave me cookie, got you cookie” was genius – this was the first episode in a while that Jess carried the comedy load for without the help of any of the guys. “New Girl” was designed as a Zooey Deschanel vehicle, but somewhere along the way, the balance shifted towards Max Greenfield, and then Jake Johnson, until eventually the show seemed less like it was about three guys dealing with their weird female roommate than about one woman reacting to the weird guys she lives with. It’s morning round-up Time, with reviews of last night’s “New Girl” and the “Happy Endings” season 3 premiere, coming up just as soon as I look like a monkey from a Russian cracker ad…
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