New Girl S4 E18 – Walk of Shame

Last updated on November 19, 2024

This podcast covers New Girl Season 4, Episode 18, Walk of Shame, which originally aired on March 3, 2015 and was written by Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and directed by Christine Gernon.

Episode Recap

Jess and Cece, emboldened by their new blowouts, are out for a good time, meanwhile, Coach and the rest of the loft is invited to watch May perform at an art show.

References

While not discussed in the podcast, we noted other references in this episode including:

• Hillary Clinton – Cece and Jess were remarking on their blow-outs and Schmidt shared they can give a woman too much confidence and he then referenced Hillary Clinton.
• Property Brothers – Bearclaw shared that twin architects would be at his party, referring to the “Property Brothers”, Jonathan and Drew Scott. 
• Taylor Swift – Jess and Cece were remembering what their hairdresser said while they got their blow-outs, which was that he was worried about Taylor Swift living in New York alone.
• [Johann Sebastian] Bach / “Cello Suite No. 1” – May mentioned that she was playing Bach’s “Cello Suite No. 1” for her performance. 
• Oscar Pistorius – Jess was making the point that “If that South African runner who killed his girlfriend can run with no legs, [she and Cece could] walk in heels.”
• Neoromanticism / [Wolfgang] Rihm / [George] Rochberg / [Ellen Taaffe] Zwilich / Shine / [Sergei] Rachmaninoff – When we saw Coach at coffee with May and her friend, they were talking about classical music and mentioning Neoromanticism and composers like Rihm, Rochberg, Zwilich. Coach they tried to say he knew about classical music because he “played the ghost of Rachmaninoff in a loosely based high school production of Shine.” 
• Liza Minnelli – When Jess and Cece were found at the kids birthday party, Jess tried to pass as a Liza Minnelli impersonator. 
• Dukes of Hazzard / Isaiah Thomas – When in the bathroom at the art show, they guys mentioned that Coach embarasses them by sitting on the hood of his car when he pumps gas into it. They thought he was doing it to be like the TV show Dukes of Hazzard, but really Coach shared that he saw Isaiah Thomas do it on a poster once and he thought it looked cool.

This episode got a 8/10 rating from Kritika whose favorite character was Coach and Kelly rated this episode a 8.5/10 and her favorite character was Bearclaw!

Podcast Notes

• Most Likely To:
  • Have increased confidence from a blow out / great haircut
  • Perform something you wrote for your friends
  • Shenanigans (like Coach/Schmidt and Nick/Winston)
  • Run into an ex / ex-bff
• Schmidtism:
  • Learning sarabande
• In the 2020s:
  • Not: specifically calling out that Paul’s kid would be half-asian, blowouts giving women confidence that they can’t handle, and watching Italians fall down
  • Yes: Jess calling out the inequality of the “walk of shame”, the varying definition of living right, Coach being vulnerable, and May learning “Heavy Action” on the cello.
• Pop Culture:
  • Heavy Action
  • Monday Night Football
• Guest Stars:
  • Billy Snow (Ken)

Thanks for listening and stay tuned for Episode 19!

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