This season focuses on kicking off those festivities via an elaborate engagement party in which Schmidt must win over Cece's disapproving mother, Nick tries to prove himself a worthy best man and Jess, well, Jess is Jess, in all her slapsticky, Lucille Ball-inspired goodness.
After all, people can change, but certain parts of one's personality usually don't. And fortunately, New Girl's writers are smart enough to have realized that the time had come to push their characters forward without changing who they truly are.
Seeing Fox's fivesome back together after a long break is a refreshing experience for sitcom savants, but it may also be time for the band to break up.
