“New Girl” often has two plot-central story lines which usually revolve around Nick and Jess in one story line and Schmidt and Cece in the other. Frequently, there is roughly an even amount of time for both story lines showing how both relationships are advancing. On the contrary the most episodes, Season 3 Episode 13 titled “Birthday” was different in the ratio of Nick+Jess vs. Schmidt+Cece. This episode was all about Jess’s birthday, and more importantly, it was Jess’s first birthday with her boyfriend, Nick. This episode opens up with a cold open, which is how “New Girl” usually opens. The show jumps right into the developing surprise party for Jess, which is all planned by Nick, who is usually very lazy and unorganized. Nick hangs out with Jess for the entire day in order to surprise her with the party at the theater, so this obviously takes up most of the episode.
But Schmidt and Cece’s relationship is not forgotten because Cece covers for Nick at the bar in order for him to spend the day with Jess, but Cece does not know what she is doing behind the bar. Of course Schmidt is there to save her, so he goes to check up on her and ends up helping her out with the different orders and tasks that were needed to be completed before they left for the party. They have a small “development” in their relationship when Cece calls Schmidt her friend………but this is just about all that happens for them in this episode.
The episode ends with a tag of Schmidt and all of his different versions of saying “happy birthday” for Jess’s birthday video. Tags are quite frequent in “New Girl,” and they are very entertaining, well at least for me they are. The tag usually provides that comedy to end the show on a laughable note. And on that note, I’ll end this blog post here.
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