Cranberry October 11, 2014 Share October 11, 2014 When Coach's liaison with the school nurse gets messy, vice principal Jess must enforce a new, "no fraternization" policy among the teachers. But the tables soon get turned when she finds herself attracted to the hot new science teacher. Meanwhile, Nick is enjoying being Schmidt and Winston's secretary, after the loft gets a new home phone. 1 Link to comment
ElectricBoogaloo October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 (edited) Writers room first look: http://youtu.be/IjOD0a-PQLo Hannah Simone and Julian Morris talk about Jess's new crush: http://youtu.be/UzxsG9QW7Ug Clips: http://youtu.be/zPKhPzUKSis http://youtu.be/ceNbZ6pQius http://youtu.be/8gMqpjOkeMU Edited October 15, 2014 by ElectricBoogaloo Link to comment
desertflower October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 I liked the phone stuff and Nick enjoying his secretary role but I thought the school plot was kind of dumb. I just kept thinking how I wouldn't want my middle school kid going to a school filled with teachers like that! Link to comment
againstthewind October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 I liked the phone stuff and Nick enjoying his secretary role but I thought the school plot was kind of dumb. I just kept thinking how I wouldn't want my middle school kid going to a school filled with teachers like that! Oh, you'd be surprised. The teachers I know party harder than the high schoolers they teach. I lost it with the homage to Say Anything at the end. Link to comment
desertflower October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 It wasn't so much teachers partying as it was Coach and the Nurse having sex at the school that I found icky. The CPR poster was pretty funny, though. Link to comment
ElectricBoogaloo October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 I have some crazy stories about elementary school teachers. Sometimes it is weird to think that these people are teaching 7 year old kids! Link to comment
MartinKSmith October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 I liked the phone stuff and Nick enjoying his secretary role but I thought the school plot was kind of dumb. I just kept thinking how I wouldn't want my middle school kid going to a school filled with teachers like that! My Mum knows nothing about Shakespeare because when they were meant to be taught it in high school, her teacher was having an affair with one of the other teachers and was never there. I enjoyed the episode. I love how smooth Winston was on the phone. 1 Link to comment
tominboston October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 I really liked the scene towards the beginning where the gang was staring at the landline phone as if it was some strange and mysterious object from an ancient time. I also enjoy the periodic appearances of the really weird (geology, is it?) teacher, the big bearded guy. And Angela from The Office! 1 Link to comment
Ms Blue Jay October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 (edited) I thought this was incredible. Nick's monologue about the phone was great, about the technology eventually becoming self-aware to destroy everyone. Nick was so funny in this one. Everything about the landline was perfection, agreed with the above that the scene at the beginning was great. "Why does it have a rope?" Schmidt mentioned Weird Science, and Winston mentioned Splash, but I couldn't understand what movie Nick mentioned if any. Anyone? I have no problems with teachers sleeping with one another. I had no suspicion of anything in my high school. The only thing that we noticed was if the teachers seemed too way interested in the students. And that is the absolute worst. Adults and adults, if it doesn't interfere with their jobs, then fine. Edited October 15, 2014 by Ms Blue Jay 1 Link to comment
peeayebee October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 Schmidt mentioned Weird Science, and Winston mentioned Splash, but I couldn't understand what movie Nick mentioned if any. Anyone? Nick says maybe he got what he said from War Games. Schmidt says Short Circuit, then Winston says Splash. I don't think anyone says Weird Science. I enjoyed this ep. The opening scene with everyone coming into Nick's room because it was the only place with cell reception was great. Loved their reaction to the landline phone. Great lines: "Why is there a rope?" "Ah forget it man! I'm storming off!" "I wish I would have said "Spoiler alert!'" "Who are you, Blanche from Golden Girls?" "I'm as mad as a dad in traffic." "I call mine my Sam Jackson, because he's in everything." Sometimes I can't understand what they're saying. Closed captioning didn't work. When Coach and Jess are talking in his bedroom, she refers to Ryan's crotch/penis/balls as du-geels? That can't be what she said. 2 Link to comment
iMonrey October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 Another great episode, the show is really firing on all cylinders this season now that they've ditched the whole Nick and Jess thing. I couldn't help but crack up like a 12-year old at the name Ryan "Goes In You" - however they spelled it. Geauxineaux? Something like that. It was silly but just the kind of thing this show does so well. "British people like to do stuff!" "No, they don't!" I also loved CeCe trying to be as monotone as possible and still turning on Schmidt. Then he listened to her phone message a hundred times and "touched his peen." Again, so silly and even a bit childish, but someone this show makes it work. 3 Link to comment
Traveller519 October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 It's incredible how much looser the show feels post Nick & Jess. Season 3 may go down as the lost season of this show, which is unfortunate, because that is usually the peak for most comedies. Winston pose when needing to lay down, and his kick, while on the phone was rather reminiscent of Taye Diggs in Jess's bed last season. Link to comment
ElectricBoogaloo October 15, 2014 Share October 15, 2014 (edited) I really liked the scene towards the beginning where the gang was staring at the landline phone as if it was some strange and mysterious object from an ancient time.Although it was funny, it also took me out of the moment because they are all supposed to be in their 30s which means they grew up with landline phones in their houses, as evidenced by the flashback of Winston being smooth back in high school. They may not have seen one since they moved out of their houses after high school, but they definitely would know what it is, unlike, say, a five year old today. I love that Winston needs to drape himself across the sofa to relax enough to be smooth on the phone. Plus a soda with a straw - that's crucial. Edited October 15, 2014 by ElectricBoogaloo 4 Link to comment
Ms Blue Jay October 16, 2014 Share October 16, 2014 (edited) I'm in my 30s. I used a landline as a child. And then between the ages of 18-28, I didn't. Now I have to work a job where I have to use a landline and I absolutely hate it. I can hardly get through dialing a number without making a mistake and having to start over. So that's why it's very funny to me. Landlines and answering machines are weird pieces of technology to me now, just like a VCR would be. Some people have bad memories also; it's not like picking up a phone suddenly sends us back in time to when we used it every day. Edited October 16, 2014 by Ms Blue Jay 1 Link to comment
ElectricBoogaloo October 16, 2014 Share October 16, 2014 True, but if you saw a landline at work, you wouldn't stare at it like it was an ancient artifact the way Jess and the gang did when confronted with the phone in their apartment. They were all acting like they had never seen one before ("Why is there a rope?") when they all had them in their houses growing up. The way they acted, I expected one of them to poke at it with a stick! Is it the landline you hate or just talking on the phone in general? I have no issue with either since I have a landline phone on my desk at work and I love talking whether it's on a phone (cell or otherwise) or in person! Link to comment
peeayebee October 16, 2014 Share October 16, 2014 I don't care about the realism. I just thought the scene was hilarious. 2 Link to comment
BoogieBurns October 16, 2014 Share October 16, 2014 Landlines and answering machines are weird pieces of technology to me now, just like a VCR would be. Um, yes on the VCR! I tried to watch an old recital of mine on VHS, and bought a VCR at Goodwill. I put the tape in and could not figure out where the DVD menu was because it wasn't showing up on the screen. I didn't want to watch 2 hours of other kids dancing... I wanted to skip to mine. But I completely forgot we used to do things without being able to skip ahead quickly. 1 Link to comment
maplebrew October 17, 2014 Share October 17, 2014 A rotary dial phone would have blown their minds. 1 Link to comment
LJonEarth October 17, 2014 Share October 17, 2014 A rotary dial phone would have blown their minds. I'm so confused about how old these characters are supposed to be. I think I'm a year of two younger and I have memories of using rotary until at least 7 years old. But I'm also still hanging on to my VCR, so I'm just a weirdo. True, but if you saw a landline at work, you wouldn't stare at it like it was an ancient artifact the way Jess and the gang did when confronted with the phone in their apartment. They were all acting like they had never seen one before ("Why is there a rope?") when they all had them in their houses growing up. The way they acted, I expected one of them to poke at it with a stick! Sometimes I think people around my age are being intentionally ignorant about this stuff. I had to explain a floppy disk to a guy at work. I kept thinking, "I've heard you talk about playing Oregon Trail and Reading Rabbit games in elementary school. You're 32! There's no way you don't know what a floppy disk is!" 2 Link to comment
Tony October 17, 2014 Share October 17, 2014 I thought the beginning of the episode was ridiculous. I'm 30, which is one year younger than these guys, and I've used landlines until the end of high school, so the whole phone schtick was eye-rollingly bad. Link to comment
Nightbaron October 17, 2014 Share October 17, 2014 I think they did exaggerate their reactions to the landline phone for comedic effect, and I thought it worked. Yes, they would have been using regular phones until adulthood considering their age, but the point that they are almost extinct in our age group still remains. 1 Link to comment
shelley1234 October 18, 2014 Share October 18, 2014 I enjoyed the dumb jokes about the landline. And I am reminded that Nick is the reason I watch this show. He's charming and funny and makes New Girl work for me. I have some crazy stories about elementary school teachers. Sometimes it is weird to think that these people are teaching 7 year old kids! Why? As long as people do their jobs aka educating your children, I don't think what they do in their personal time makes a lick of difference. Link to comment
ElectricBoogaloo October 18, 2014 Share October 18, 2014 (edited) There is a reason that teachers have a morality clause in their contracts. While I agree for the most part that your personal life is your business, when elementary school teachers are doing cocaine before supervising kids, it's no longer your private business, even if you give the appearance of doing your job properly. ETA: for the record, I don't care what legal activities consenting adults do on their own time. In fact, I find it sad that some teachers I know are so paranoid about their morality clause that they hide their casual social drinking to the point that they won't let anyone take pictures of them holding any kind of alcohol and they cover up their very small tattoos every day before school. If you want to drink and get tattoos in your free time, you shouldn't have to keep either a big secret. It's not like you're doing shots in front of the kids during school hours! Edited October 18, 2014 by ElectricBoogaloo Link to comment
shelley1234 October 18, 2014 Share October 18, 2014 There is a reason that teachers have a morality clause in their contracts. While I agree for the most part that your personal life is your business, when elementary school teachers are doing cocaine before supervising kids, it's no longer your private business, even if you give the appearance of doing your job properly. That's apples and oranges. Someone doing drugs right before beginning their job is something that would be an issue for any job, teaching including. That isn' a moral issue, it's a criminal one. Someone who goes out to parties and has a good time or does something you would not do when they are not teaching is a completely different animal. Also, not all teachers have a morality clause and most unions will fight tooth and nail if a school district tries to fire a teacher for something they consider unbecoming outside of work. Now many communities harass a teacher and get her/him to resign, but it is rare that they can just fire a teacher for what they consider a moral and not a criminal issue. And since this has nothing to do with the episode, I will leave it here. In New Girl many of the teachers seem eccentric, but none of them seem like they are doing anything that would be damaging for the children or the community. They just look like quirky, kinda fun teachers. Link to comment
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