New Girl
Sitcoms writers love to throw their characters into ill at ease holiday situations , andNew Girlis no exception . Throughout the serial publication , the roommates of 4D celebrated Halloween , Thanksgiving , Christmas , and Valentine ’s Day on - screen almost every season .
While fans might find the Christmas and Thanksgiving episodes the most memorable , ratings compiled on theInternet Movie Databaseactually signal that the audience enjoyed the big variety of the vacation sequence . The highest - fink holiday episode swan from a 7.1 to an 8.1 . Only seasons 5 and 7 do n’t feature vacation episodes for the serial publication .
update on November 28th , 2022 by Amanda Bruce : Since New Girl actors Zooey Deschanel , Hannah Simone , and Lamorne Morris reunited for a podcast about their time on the show in early 2022 , New Girl has continued to maintain that popularity on pullulate platform . devotee have rewatched episodes of the show alongside the actors to gain behind - the - scenes information from the podcast . With all of those rewatches , fan have also continued to rate the holiday installment on IMDb , allowing for the ranking of the episodes to continue to exchange .
S6E07 Last Thanksgiving (7.1)
Because time of year 7 is a truncated season , there are no holiday episode within it to place . As a effect , this is the , as the claim implies , the last Thanksgiving episode of the series . It ’s also the last one drop in the loft with all of the primary fiber together , though the installment also features a lot of family relationship dynamics that the consultation is n’t interested in .
Nick spends much of the episode worried about Reagan while Jess is touch on with Robbie ’s interest in her . Schmidt spends the episode try on to reconnect with his begetter . While these are all graspable directions for the show at six season in , the audience was waiting for Jess and Nick to get back together , and they need to see a focussing on Schmidt and Cece ’s relationship as it changed .
S3E10 Thanksgiving III (7.4)
This episode took the holiday solemnisation out of the loft , as so many did . It did n’t take the main characters to another apartment or to a series of parties though . rather , the group maneuver into the wild to have a more classic translation of a Thanksgiving celebration . Nick wants them all to use what they find in the natural state to celebrate the holiday the same way the first Thanksgiving would have been celebrated .
The episode learn the grouping rallying together to attempt to make Nick experience good , but it also sees some of them eventually give up and purchase green goods from a local store so that they have something edible for their dinner party . It ’s got the classic compounding of heart and humor thatNew Girlis best known for .
S4E11 LAXMas (7.5)
While most of the vacation episodes in the series involve the chemical group spending their time together , this one affect them all planning to split up . Each of the master characters has a plan to spend their Christmas away from the loft , and much of the instalment is spent in their aerodrome as the group fix to go their disjoined ways .
As is often on-key in the sitcom reality , nothing go according to programme for the characters . Much of this episode is predictable , but that does n’t give up it from being fun for the audience .
S6E10 Christmas Eve Eve (7.5)
It might not be the good Christmas installment of the serial publication , but “ Christmas Eve Eve ” in spades has its magic spell . It features a hush-hush Santa gift rally in the garret that develop a little out of hand with gifts that do n’t entirely make sense without in - show explanations and Jess leaving herself out of the exchange completely .
The episode features one of the best melodic sequence in the show , which is a tall ordination view how much Jess loves a good musical number .
S3E06 Keaton (7.6)
Thisseason 3 Halloween episodegives the audience quite a bit of backstory on Schmidt — and place up an awkward situation for the roomy that make a big change to the show .
Jess discovers that Schmidt grew up exchange letters with Michael Keaton , but in world " Keaton " was first Schmidt ’s mother , and then Nick in college . Jess takes it upon herself to save to Schmidt as Keaton as well in an travail to put him in a better mood , with Nick and Winston joining in . When Schmidt discovers their treachery , he ’s so weakened that he resolve to move out of the loft — across the hall . It sets an arc in movement that the show almost ca n’t occur back from .
S4E15 The Crawl (7.6)
Valentine ’s Day is always an event onNew Girl , especially for the individual characters . Instead of wallow in his individual status , Nick decide to be after an epic pub Australian crawl with Winston as the mathematical group ’s designated chaperone .
Along the way , the group picks up more ace at each bar , but Jess and Ryan , who are supposed to be staying sober to still go to dinner party , find themselves salute the nighttime away and worried about the future . The installment even pose up a big plot line for Coach and this is when he first meets May , the woman who would finally get him to move to New York . In the remnant , Nick starts to let out down when he realize he ca n’t fill out his pub front crawl , but the always prepared Winston make unnecessary the day by creating their own last stop for the front crawl just outside the pub .
S1E09 The 23rd (7.6)
With everyone going home for Christmas except for Schmidt , the chemical group decides to have one last dark out by attending the holiday party at Schmidt ’s work . The nighttime does n’t go well for Nick and Jess when Nick unintentionally spill the attic to her boyfriend Paul that she does n’t retrieve she ’s in love with him .
Jess and Paul end up breaking up while Winston spend most of the night hanging out with Schmidt ’s boss ' boy and Nick finds himself trapped on a balcony with a fighting Jess and Paul . When Nick see how upset Jess is after they impart the party to go to the drome , he stops in " Candy Cane Lane " to cheer her up , a place she had previously wanted to visit with the group . All of the home already have their lights off , but after some rallying from the Quaker , the entire neighbourhood light everything back up just for them . It ’s one of the most heartwarming endings to an sequence of the show .
S2E08 Parents (7.6)
The 2nd Thanksgiving - theme episode of the series focuses onJess ' relationship with her parent . She invites both of them to the loft for Thanksgiving , supposedly at different fourth dimension , but as it twist out , she ’s seek to " Parent Trap " them .
Jess might refuse it , but she ’s always wanted her parent to get back together . That means awkwardly trying to get Nick to flirt with her mommy and bond with her pop while Cece and Winston encourage competition between Schmidt and his first cousin .
S1E06 Thanksgiving (7.7)
In the first time of year , Jess spends a lot of meter attempt to move on from her ex-husband , Spencer . When she connects with Paul , a fellow teacher , she invite him for Thanksgiving dinner . Though her roommates are n’t ab initio interested in keep the holiday , they resolve to find a mode to attract it off as long as Schmidt does all the cookery .
The guys are surprised to see that Paul is essentially a manlike interlingual rendition of Jess , complete with impromptu tattle . Winston interrogates Paul to see if they ’ll get along , while Nick is n’t initially thrill with him . Cece decides to serve Schmidt with dinner , but her tendency to not wash her hands , put her finger in the food , and get under Schmidt ’s cutis make preparation dinner difficult . The evening is topped off by their neighbor turning up all in .
S6E16 Operation: Bobcat (7.7)
" cognitive process : Bobcat " is another Valentine ’s Day jaunt . Unlike late seasons , the group goes their disjoined ways .
Jess spends the day single , but she also cash in in on a dinner educate by Gordon Ramsey that she win at an auction , and decides tohelp Winston with his planto propose to Aly . Forced to speed things along when Aly voices that she want to get hitched with him , Winston watch a portion of his programme go haywire , but finally , he ends up in the place where they went on their first call together and is capable to pop the question — in costume as a bay lynx .
