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post #1 of 85
9/20/11 at 11:40am
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"New Girl" gets the "Glee" lead-in spot on Fox with a 9 p.m. EDT timeslot. I'll check out it for the Zooey Deschanel factor. I was confused by the Damon Wayans Jr. appearance in the early promos for this show, as he was on "Happy Endings" on ABC last season, but it appears that he's been replaced by another actor since his "Happy Endings" show got renewed.
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post #2 of 85
9/20/11 at 7:24pm
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I have to admit, this show made me LOL a few times, and the douchebag jar is a good runinng gag if they continue with it. It'll be funny if they replace the Coach character (due to the recasting), and just not make hay about it at all.
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post #3 of 85
9/20/11 at 8:04pm
Ugh. I wish this was on after "Raising Hope", because the laugh quotient was just too low to sit through. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't entertaining enough to keep me invested. I wish they were dumping the main white guy instead of Coach, because they should stuff whole character into the douchebag jar. I did like the other white guy whose ex was the Waitress from "Always Sunny."
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post #4 of 85
9/20/11 at 9:52pm

They pretty much showed the whole pilot in the endless previews, but I found every one of those previews funny and entertaining.

 

The Douchebag Jar is eeirly similar to the D-Bag Criteria my friends have been working on...(but not for me).

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post #5 of 85
9/21/11 at 10:41am
I thought it was awful. Aside from the DBag jar, I don't think I laughed once.

Oddly enough, it was the highest rated show on Fox last night, beating even the premiere of Glee, from EW.com:
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New Girl was seen by 10.1 million viewers at 9 p.m. and delivered a strong 4.7 adults 18-49 rating. That’s the highest-rated fall sitcom premiere on Fox since The Bernie Mac Show 10 years ago. What’s particularly impressive about this number is how much the comedy built from its Glee third season premiere lead-in. Glee (8.9 million, 3.8) was down 32 percent from its first episode last fall, yet New Girl was up a whopping 52 percent from the debut of Raising Hope in its slot last year. Speaking of Hope (6.8 million, 3.1), the second season of the comedy successfully matched its first season premiere rating at 9:30 p.m.
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post #6 of 85
9/21/11 at 11:19am
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Oddly enough, it was the highest rated show on Fox last night, beating even the premiere of Glee...

I think that shows that Glee's 15 minutes is up.
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post #7 of 85
9/21/11 at 11:30am
I'll watch Zooey no matter how bad New Girl is,
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post #8 of 85
9/21/11 at 11:46am


I realized too late I forgot to record the Glee season premiere, and I found ... I didn't really care all that much. :) Still, I plan to watch it on Fox.com.

 

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Oddly enough, it was the highest rated show on Fox last night, beating even the premiere of Glee...

I think that shows that Glee's 15 minutes is up.
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post #9 of 85
9/23/11 at 8:21am
I thought new girl was funny. I love Zooey's character. She is just so darn cute! The scene where she is watching Dirty Dancing had me laughing so hard. Especially when she does the Lord of the Ring bit..... "Except Gollum, he lives in a cave". OMG so funny! When she comes out all dressed up and then does that stupid dance.... how can you not find that funny? I don't know...maybe it's a girl thing!
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post #10 of 85
9/23/11 at 10:21am

Nope, not a girl thing. Everything with Zooey I thought was hilarious, even after seeing it played constantly in previews. I particularly like the "cute guy alert" cartoon impression and the "Hey sailor!"

 

The stuff with the guys needs some work, particularly the Schmidt character whose d-baggery needs to be dialed down a bit if they want him to be likable. It kind of shows how fine a line How I Met Your Mother's writers and Neil Patrick Harris walk with the Barney Stinson character. 
 

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I thought new girl was funny. I love Zooey's character. She is just so darn cute! The scene where she is watching Dirty Dancing had me laughing so hard. Especially when she does the Lord of the Ring bit..... "Except Gollum, he lives in a cave". OMG so funny! When she comes out all dressed up and then does that stupid dance.... how can you not find that funny? I don't know...maybe it's a girl thing!
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post #11 of 85
9/23/11 at 12:15pm

Deschanel's character was so OTT cutesy-woosty and precious it made my skin crawl.  And I like Zooey Deschanel.  But the character came off as semi-retarded.

 

The rest of the show has been done a million times.  I may give it another go, but this does not look like it's happening.

 

Maybe it did well in the ratings because some people thought this was a new Katy Perry show.

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post #12 of 85
9/23/11 at 2:42pm
"I'm doing sexy things to a pillow!"

" I'm doing sexy things to this plant..... I'll have to clean that up laterrrrrr!"


I agree that the d-bag charater was a bit much. he sort of got on my nerves, but I liked every time they called him on it.
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post #13 of 85
9/25/11 at 7:03pm

My wife was dying; laughing the whole show. For me, it's the best new comedy so far (and crushes 2.5 Men's return) and had a stronger start than 2 Broke Girls. But why would they replace "Coach"? He was awesome!

 

Looking forward to the next episode!

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post #14 of 85
9/25/11 at 7:21pm
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But why would they replace "Coach"? He was awesome!

Because Damon Wayans Jr. is under contract to "Happy Endings." I assume he shot the "New Girl" pilot before "Happy Endings" was renewed for a second season.
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post #15 of 85
9/25/11 at 9:42pm
I've always found Zooey to be cute as all hell but you put those Deschanel eyes behind a pair of Tina Fey-ish glasses and make her all goofy and quirky? Oh yeah. cool.gif

I loved it, out of all of the new shows I've seen so far this one made me laugh the hardest and the most often.
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post #16 of 85
9/27/11 at 10:07pm
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Did not really like much of the 2nd episode.
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post #17 of 85
9/27/11 at 10:13pm
I guess I feel better because I had problems with my dvr tonight and only caught the last 10 minutes.
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post #18 of 85
9/28/11 at 4:49am
Zooey's cute act is getting a bit old. These is so nauseating in this that it made me want to throw the TV around or maybe mute it so I don't have to hear or voice.
The other cast members are no funny and the show premise, other than its quirky references is DOA.
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post #19 of 85
9/28/11 at 7:31am

My wife and I still love this show :) (But I miss Coach).

 

It's so silly, predictable in some ways, but adds its little twist to the sitcom tropes. Also a plus, it avoids making every third joke a lazy vulgarity (ahem Two Broke Girls)

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post #20 of 85
9/28/11 at 3:09pm

Fox has ordered 11 more episodes to make it a 24-episode season.

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post #21 of 85
9/28/11 at 6:39pm

Glad to hear it! You Negative Nancies were making me worried it would be a flop! :)

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post #22 of 85
9/28/11 at 7:59pm
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Zooey's cute act is getting a bit old. These is so nauseating in this that it made me want to throw the TV around or maybe mute it so I don't have to hear or voice.
The other cast members are no funny and the show premise, other than its quirky references is DOA.

I am also a paraplegic who cannot move from my chair, and I used to have a TV exactly like yours.
The damn thing wouldn't turn off, and I couldn't change the channel or volume.
I am SO glad I got rid of that thing!
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post #23 of 85
9/28/11 at 8:21pm
Excellent news about the pick up! I loved the second episode just as much as the pilot, I just get all starry eyed when Zooey is on-screen, my ideal woman lol.

Is it wrong that I wept openly when Jess broke the flatscreen?
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post #24 of 85
9/30/11 at 11:54am

Second episode: even worse than the pilot.  I'm beginning to think it's a hipster attempt at a sitcom parody.  Like, it's a huge inside joke and the creators are laughing at the audience for enjoying the garbage they're shoveling out.

 

First DVR casualty of the season.

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post #25 of 85
10/11/11 at 4:57am
I think New Girl is a breath of fresh air considering the other crap on tv. I enjoy it and hope it stays for a while.
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post #26 of 85
10/11/11 at 12:28pm
I think it's cute but Zooey goes a little overboard sometimes, to the point of cringe-worthiness.
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post #27 of 85
10/24/11 at 9:40pm

Woah. That was Natasha Lyonne! Last I heard she was pretty messed up.

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post #28 of 85
11/1/11 at 10:14pm

"I feel like knowing what you're feeling."

 

I thought Lake Bell was acting a lot like the Jess character on the first date, which I thought was interesting. I'm kind of hoping Nick and Jess get together at some point.

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post #29 of 85
11/2/11 at 5:38am
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I thought it was painful for the first 3/4 of the episode, but the last bits help offset annoying Jess. The other subplot (small talk and current events) was dull.
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post #30 of 85
11/2/11 at 7:10am
I thought it was a terrible, stupidly written episode, but I'll continue watching because of Zooey.
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