This podcast covers New Girl Season 3, Episode 13, Birthday, which originally aired on January 21, 2014 and was written by Kim Rosenstock and directed by Richie Keen.
Here’s a quick recap of the episode:
It’s Jess’s birthday and Nick has gone all out to plan her a surprise birthday party but forgets to plan the day of… meanwhile Coach and Winston have a bake off of who can make the best birthday cake and Schmidt helps Cece at her new bartending job.
We discuss Pop Culture References such as:
Additional Pop Culture References such as:
This episode we discuss which one of us is most likely to guide someone through how to make a great cocktail, mess up a standard drink recipe, plan a surprise party, and get really excited about their birthday. We give an honorable mention to Schmidt’s contribution to the birthday video but cover the scene where Schmidt walks Cece through how to make an old fashioned as our “Schmidtism” this episode. For our “Not in the 2020s”, we briefly touch on Mike’s comments about Cece’s body and also the flip phone during the video Nick put together. In our “Yes in the 2020s” we discuss the lack of toxic masculinity with Winston and Coach doing a bake off and Winston standing up for himself regarding basketball. We also explore the career of Ben Falcone (Mike), the guest star of this episode and specifically mentioned an Instagram story where Ben and Melissa asked to be in Thor and a recent link of Ben and Melissa on James Corden.
Also in this episode were the following guest stars who we do not discuss in the podcast: Jamie Lee Curtis (Joan Day - Previously Discussed in S2E8), Angela Kinsey (Rose - Previously Discussed in S3E2), Jessica Chaffin (Bertie - Previously Discussed in S3E9), Josh Gad (Bearclaw - Previously Discussed in S2E2), Curtis Armstrong (Principal Foster - Previously Discussed in S2E24), June Diane Raphael (Sadie - Previously Discussed in S1E15), Steve Agee (Outside Dave - Previously Discussed in S2E17), Ralph Ahn (Tran - Previously Discussed in S2E7), Rob Reiner (Bob Day - Previously Discussed in S2E8), Cheyenne Nguyen (Jenny), and Tom Lommel (Patron).
We also touch on an editing goof on this podcast when Coach throws a bag into the kitchen and it is missing in the next shot. Additionally, we do a deep dive on the character’s birthdays and what we have seen so far in the show. This episode we did not find any new bears.
While not discussed in the podcast, we noted other references in this episode including:
This episode got a 9/10 rating from both Kritika and Kelly; Kritika’s favorite character was Nick and Kelly’s favorite was Schmidt.
Thanks for listening and stay tuned for Episode 14!
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