One Night Stand Disaster

 New Girl, S01E13

This episode was the Valentine's Day episode.  This was the last Valentine's story that I watched, and I can't say that it was my favorite.  I was still a little hyped up from the last episode about the landlord, which made me more expectant than I should have been.  Their Valentine's story was a little different from some of the typical ones you see, but I didn't laugh a lot.  I think the developments that occurred were pretty significant toward the overall dynamics of the show, though.

Jess and Schmidt are the only singles in the apartment, so Jess convinces him to help her go out and find someone to randomly hook up with.  I was worried about Jess using Schmidt as her guide, but luckily Cece volunteers her help as well.  I like that Jess calls her horny side "twirly."  That's as cutesy as calling your vagina a vajayjay.  She struggles to leave emotions out of the equation; Cece says that she gets attached to a single show on the side of the road.  However, after failing a sexy cherry-eating move, a hot potential guy comes her way.  I was happily surprised to see that this guy was Ryan Kwanten from True Blood!  This is the guy I kept calling the Manwhore of the show.  I was a little bored before he showed up, but I really wanted to see Jess hook up with him.

While Jess is getting her "twirl" on at the bar, you can definitely see that chemistry that Cece and Schmidt have.  Seeing them talk and fake flirt with each other brought up the question again whether they would finally get together.  It didn't seem so when Kyle showed up for Cece's surprise that ended up being shrooms.  I wouldn't be too stuck up to dump a guy that did drugs like that, but if that was supposed to be our activity for Valentine's, he would have to go.  Schmidt is no saint, but you can plainly see that he is much less of a scumbag than Kyle is.

Schmidt has to drive Jess to Oliver's place (how did he get there in the first place?), but he stays to watch the movie.  I thought that would be the most awkward part of her hookup.  Just when they started to make out, in comes Oliver's ex, Amy, who still lives with him.  She's not the only unwanted guest who arrives.  We also get Cece, who had come to pick Schmidt up, a high Kyle, and Schmidt again (who returned after "street youths" had taken his tires).  It looked like it was hopeless for her and Oliver to get it on.  Luckily, Schmidt hauls off Cece before she beat the hell out of Amy, and Jess sends Kyle out the door by distracting him with something shiny.  That should be the end of all of her distractions, right?


Nope.  The forces above were certainly not wanting her to go through with it.  Uh...  I admire Jess for committing to her one-night-stand, but I don't think anyone beyond a huge slut could get into the mood while the ex is watching you and eating tacos loudly.  Eventually, Jess realizes this is a mistake and goes home.  Damn.  We didn't even get to see Oliver with his shirt off!  Not that we don't get to see enough of that and more on HBO.

When Jess comes home and sees Schmidt, you can tell that something is up with him.  Since we know that the last person he was with was Cece, you can't help but think that they're doing it!  Jess doesn't pick up on this obvious fact and thinks about what Schmidt says about hooking up with someone you know being better.  Instead her light bulb goes off in her head to sleep with Schmidt!  Oh, God!  It's not as gross as I would have thought because I can see that Schmidt is a sweeter guy than his sexual comments might suggest.  She is saved by Nick coming home and making her drop her giant box of condoms.  There's no way for her to play off what she was about to do with 50 condoms scattered on the floor.  I just wonder what Schmidt would think if he ever found out.  We then see that Cece and Schmidt did indeed sleep together.  Hmm.  I hope Kyle is out of the picture, but I think that Cece won't so easily date Schmidt.  After all, Jess might think less of her.

The Nick and Julia story was only interesting in that it showed that Julia is a work-obsessed control freak.  Nick, who is the most negative guy in the world, finally wants to do a real Valentine's with her, but she just can't get off work.  Nick convinces her intern Cliff to quit, but isn't completely appreciative of Nick trying to do some of the work Cliff left behind.  Also, she kept screaming at this lady on the phone most of the time.  She's a good match for someone like Nick, but she may be even less caring than he is about most things.  I think this episode encouraged me to root for their speedy breakup.

Winston...  Again, I don't really give a damn about him trying to mend things with his ex-fling.  It was merely a sidestory to distract you a moment from Jess and Oliver.  I kinda wish that Winston would go on a trip and be gone from the next season, if possible.

This was a mildly funny episode that made me glad there will be no more Valentine's episodes for me to watch.  Can't wait to see what happens next with Cece and Schmidt!