Meanwhile, Fatty’s owner shows up to the apartment with her cats and a bottle of wine. Winston is clearly preoccupied with Ferguson’s mating attempts, but Fatty’s owner still believes Winston to be interested in her, especially after leading her to his room.
When Nick and Jess head to their room after making progress, Schmidt tries to literally break them up by forcing himself between the two. “If I’m not having sex in this loft, no one’s having sex!” Schmidt declares, as he goes on a frenzy chopping up Nick’s condoms and eating Jess’s full wheel of birth control. Winston and Fatty’s owner walk in to the bathroom to check on the commotion, and Winston yells at the roommates for ruining the cat hook up. It finally dawns on Fatty’s owner that Winston was being literal, and Winston realizes he’s blindly ruined a date because of an obsession with Ferguson.
In the house meeting, Winston reads each roommate the riot act. “You’re having sex, not inventing it,” he tells Nick and Jess, emphasizing their need for boundaries, and demands that Schmidt stop taking out his transgressions on Nick and Jess. “Ain’t no way in hell I got a cat brothel in my room and I’m the only normal one in this apartment.” Nick and Jess take their leave, telling Schmidt, “You did a bad thing, deal with it.”
Later, Schmidt goes to slip an apology letter under Cece’s door, but Cece throws it away while exiting with a date. Nick leads Jess into his crudely soundproofed room, and overdoes it with the feelings talk.
Final notes: this is one of those episodes of “New Girl” that remembers that Winston is often the voice of reason despite the writers’ penchant for sidetracking him with absurd storylines. I’m starting to think more and more that an interstitial Winston is actually quite smart and refreshing, given that Nick and Jess working through issues and Schmidt trying to win back Cece seem to be the long game of the season.
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