New Girl
Episode 25: Elaine's
Big Day
The Season Finale
By: Carlos Uribe
New Girl is a show about Jess and her three best friends (Winston,
Nick, and Schmidt)
Spoilers
Ahoy!
There
are three recurring plot threads that basically converge in this
episode to end the season. The first is Winston's love of pranks.
It's been a nice running gag that Winston loves to pull a good prank
but he's pretty bad at coming up with them. This culminates this week
when it's decided that the guys are going to prank Cece's wedding
because she's not committed to spending the rest of her life with
Shivrang. Winston is a bit resistant to join in on the pranking
because he's not very good at it but Schmidt convinces him to join.
The two of them basically come up with three phases. The first is
when Schmidt uses an airhorn to make the white horse that Shivrang
rides into the wedding run away. The second is when Shchmit and
Winston hijack the wedding's music with inappropriate music to the
event. They even hijack the controls to make it impossible to go back
to the original music. These two phases are Schmidt's plan but the
third goes to Winston. Winston is a bit surprised that the guys
actually went along with his plan but that's largely because Nick
isn't aware of it. The two go into the airducts when Nick finds out
that the prank is to throw an angry badger into a priest. Once again,
Winston goes too far in his pranking ideas. Nick tries to salvage the
plan but they accidentally let the badger lose while they're in the
air ducts. This is until Jess goes in to the air ducts to apologize
to Nick and most of the characters cause the ceiling to collapse
right on top of where the wedding ceremony is being performed. Nobody
gets hurt and the wedding is ruined but Cece is actually happy
because she finally admits that she's in love with someone else.
Shivrand is relieved because he's been in love with an American girl
this whole time and this pronouncement entitles him to finally be
with her. It was a great way to use Winston's recurring pranking
running gag to create the hilarious comedic climax for the finale.
A
major plot thread this season for Schmidt is his feelings for Cece.
He had been in love with her and it took him a while to accept she
was going to marry someone else. He's now dating Elizabeth but he
still has feelings for Cece. He might claim that he tried to ruin
Cece's weddings because he realized she didn't want to go through
with it but there's no doubt that it's really because he has yet to
get over her. Elizabeth is a nice foil for Schmidt as she forces him
to be a better human being but it's hard to believe he's actually in
love with her even if he doesn't realize it himself. He succeeds in
his plan in stopping the marriage from going forward but he finds
himself in an impossible situation. Cece admits that the other person
she was talking about is Schmidt. The big problem is that Elizabeth
knows this but she's still with Schmidt. The two confront him and
demand that he picks one of them. He freaks out because he doesn't
know what to do. He's in love with Cece and he's been trying to win
her back but he's currently in a relationship that he's happy with.
He might be in love with Elizabeth but he still has feelings for his
girlfriend. He finally gets Cece but he's not in a position to
immediately accept her. His solution isn't to pick one of them but to
run away. It makes sense that he would flee from this tough choice as
it helps the show drag out who he's going to pick into the next
season. Winston is terrible at pranking but it doesn't leave the
viewers with any dangling plot threads. Schmidt having to chose
between Cece and Elizabeth definably does and would have been enough
to make me want to tune in for the next season. Making matters more
complicated is I'm not sure who I want him to pick. I think Schmidt
and Cece simply belong together but I've found myself really liking
Schmidt and Elizabeth almost as much.
Schmidt
might not know who he's going to be with but Nick and Jess know that
they're going to give each other a shot. It basically begins with
Jess trying to assure Nick that she doesn't see him in the same way
as her father does. This makes sense but Schmidt brings up a great
point. In rejecting that Nick is an immature bartender who has yet to
have his life figured out, she's not really loving Nick for who he
is. When she finds out that his CD is being used to hijack the
wedding's music, Jess automatically assumes that Nick is helping the
guys prank the wedding. He hadn't been as he's actually been trying
to stop them. That is until Jess basically thinks he hasn't changed
at all and that he's childish. Nick changes his tune by joining in on
the pranking. When Jess finds out the truth, she tries to apologize
to Nick and the two try to talk about their feelings. It's rough
going and the two actually split up for a little bit. The two are
scared and Jess' fear that being with him might be a mistake seems
like it might keep them apart. That is until the two get the courage
to admit that it might be a mistake but it's one their willing to
make. The two kiss and basically drive into the sunset. It's a pretty
great way to end the second half of this season as their sexual
attraction has basically dominated this show's recent episodes. This
is actually a good thing as it has allowed New Girl to reach new
heights comedic and otherwise. It'll be interesting to see how their
relationship develops over the next season especially since doubts
that this is going to work linger.
Elaine's
Big Day is a pretty good season finale of New Girl. It takes all of
the recurring plot threads of each character (Winston's pranks,
Schmidt's relationship drama, Nick and Jess sexual attraction) and
uses each of them to create a cohesive and tight narrative. The
episode is simply hilarious and was basically the perfect finale to a
really great second season. New Girl is quickly solidifying itself as
one of television's best comedies.
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