Lies Hold This Group Together

New Girl, S01E19

Winston's inability to live with the heavy burden Schmidt and Cece's fling forced him to tell Nick, the worst liar of all.  Jess found out about the secret within seconds of Nick knowing, thus ending their two month-ish secret affair.  Jess, feeling hurt from her best friend lying to her (as well as the others), thought it would be a good idea to clear the air about everything from then on.  That worked out horribly, but in the end she realized that Cece didn't hide the truth from her because she was afraid of Jess' opinion, but was only afraid of how much she actually cared for Schmidt.

Seeing Schmidt hiding in the cushions of Cece's couch made me groan for a minute that the two were continuing to sneak around.  But Winston (still looking as crazy as he did the first night he found out) threw his secret upon Nick, who tried to run away in vain.  I can't believe how bad Nick is at lying.  It does make him a little adorable--almost like a child who hasn't had the experience yet to master the art of telling tall tales.  What makes his disability even funnier is that his back gets extremely sweaty when he tries to lie.  I love that everyone already knew about his back sweat giveaway, and Jess only had to say "fold" a few times before he told her everything.  Although this could be looked upon as another of Nick's flaws, it kinda makes me like him even more.

When the truth came out, Schmidt was only mad that Winston told "sweat back" for a second before he was eagerly bragging about Cece with a horrible line:

I mean, I'm having Indian every night.

I'm extremely happy that Jess ran after him, screaming "No!"  Seriously, Schmidt, did you have to take it there like right away?  Before Jess even got a second to wrap her mind around the idea of you and Cece together?  Ugh.  But worse than that was when Jess learned that all of her roommates occasionally use her image when they are masturbating.  Now, that's all on Jess, though, for opening that can of worms with secrets about the boys in the first place.  Still, I'd never want to hear that from people that I see on a daily basis.  I also wouldn't dress in thick clothes and wear a ski mask to prevent them from doing it again either (Schmidt said it wouldn't work and Nick joked about being a little turned on about it, anyway).  So I couldn't really take Jess' side about the lies ruining things--seemed like the truth and her inability to handle it was.  And Cece was on the money about her judging too much.  If not, she could have just shrugged off her roommates' disgusting habits.

As much as I wanted Schmidt and Cece's relationship to come to light, I never imagined that the timing would coincide with Nick needing so much help lying to women.  This, unfortunately, led Nick to ask for Schmidt's advice.  I think I was just as unwilling to watch Nick be schooled by him (complete with annoying air chalkboard), as Nick was to be schooled himself.  I did like when Schmidt was giving Nick a lesson in bed, and Jess walked in and misunderstood what they were doing for a second.  Ha.  But if any of them were going to hook up in a same-sex way, I'd bet on Nick and Schmidt above anyone else.

I think my favorite part of the episode was when Winston had had enough of all of the lies tearing everyone apart and the college girls fighting over Nick/a round scarf.  He had the scariest voice I've ever heard him use to tell everyone to sit down.  Loved it.  Then he tells the girls to get out and starts on this ridiculous rant about being Nick's secret lover and racial equality...  It was a lot of crazy nonsense that worked brilliantly to make the girls get out quickly.  After Winston had said his piece, he ended his rant with a few good lines.

Now go away.  I'm having cereal.

You know, this is starting to be a pattern with Winston.  He's the speech maker.  With things get a little too intense, he can come in and lay it down for everyone.  Totally reminds me of that science fair mess with Jess' bratty student.  Good thing he was there.  And good thing Winston was just trying to relax on a Saturday so he would be angry enough to want to get that lying situation under control.  Schmidt may be the mom of the loft, but Winston is kinda the dad (guess then Nick and Jess are the nutty kids?).

 I'm not too happy that Nick is continuing to date these young girls and now he's gotten better at handling them thanks to Schmidt.  That might mean that next time, we'll still see him with some insignificant, little girl by his side.  Come on!  Nick can do better--he's got to.  With the Cece and Schmidt secret out, I guess now it's just a matter of whether Cece will try to get Schmidt as serious about her as she is about him.  I don't care too much about that, but it's better than a naked Schmidt hopping out of a couch.  I guess, I'm not sure if there's anything at all I really want to see in the next episode, the way things are progressing at the moment.