Background Check

New Girl Recap: Background Check

Hoorah for a new opening credit sequence, where we no longer have listen to Jessica Day’s annoying voice singing, “Who’s that girl? Who’s that girl? It’s Jess!”  It was so refreshing to see this sleek and modern photo collage of my favorite characters (except for Jess) accompanied by the rockin’ sounds of guitars and drums, eliminating Jess’s mousy solo performance. BRA-VO! This upgrade has been long overdue and this new change pleases me. I even would have been able to tolerate Nick’s tone-deaf acapella rendition of Landslide for this season’s opening credits. Nevertheless, I think it was another wise decision of the producers to save this little treat for later in the episode.

And so we have a change of pace here this week where we can finally focus on Plot Story C: Winston and the police academy. But of course, once again, we can thank Ms. Jessica Day for having shenanigans occur in this week’s episode. This week’s opening havoc is due to her possession of what she thinks is “meth”, the day Winston’s boss is supposed to come and evaluate him for his background check for the LAPD. Typical.

Obviously we could easily suspect that Jess is an owner of several, “bad decision hats” she bought on impulse, but the possession of meth…really?! Why would she wait this long to do something about it? (Especially knowing that Winston wants to be a cop!) 

No worries, we find out later they were just aquarium rocks. Need I remind myself why I watch sitcoms like these again? Oh yes, because we always have our quoteable quotes!

Schmidiest of Schmidt quote: “Put on some pants, it’s like a bounce-house down there.”

Winston: “You guys are like rubbing alcohol, you sting me in the now, but you save me in the later!”

Nick: (Responding to why Bishop (Winston) would make a good police officer?) : “MUSTACHE!—Because Winston has a mustache. And police officers all have mustaches. No they don’t, not the ladies; unless the ladies want to; why can’t a lady have a mustache? She can. And it would look sexy.

Couldn't have phrased it any better Nick! By the way, that royal-blue Kimono you wear suits you quite well--commendations to the costume design and props department. 

Needless to say, I am sort of happy that Winston got past this point and was cleared in his evaluation. Do I personally think he's qualified? Absolutely not. However, I will give it to him that he does have passion. Perhaps Winston's dreams will now finally come true of having a partner named Robertson. We can only wait now. The only other thing we'll also have to wait for is Schmidt and CeeCee getting back together. 

Last thought, the burning question that still has not yet been answered: WHERE THE HELL IS FERGUSON?

Writer Emulated: Jenny Jaffe who writes for Vulture in blog form, links present on Entertainment Weekly.