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- Laugh meeting. - Laugh meeting. - Laugh meeting, we're calling a laugh meeting.

All right, this is our Loft Mate show where we welcome special guests and fans to the loft to talk about all things New Girl. We've got some great emails and messages sent in. So we are going to kick it off. All right, Lamorne, you want to read it? Okay, so hi, Hannah and Lamorne. My name is Cassie.

I am from Georgia and have been a longtime watcher and lover of all things New Girl. I wanted to ask what your guys' favorite episodes were to shoot. My favorite episodes are probably The Crawl, season four, episode 15, or Spider Hunt, season four, episode 17. You all are incredible as an ensemble in the show. And when I'm really feeling down, New Girl and the incredible work you guys did on the show always bring me joy.

I love you guys and love this podcast. Love, Cassie. P.S. You guys should do a meet and greet in either Georgia or New Jersey. I'll be there. Okay. All right. I know which one first came to mind for me. What first came to mind? What is it? You're just going to try to buy time now? No, you just said you know what first came to mind for you. So I thought you were going to say it. I don't want you to have more time to think. So I'm just saying like...

First came to mind. First came to mind, finale. Oh. Final episode. That's probably not the real answer, but that is an answer that just popped in my head. And it was a great episode to film. And here's why. It was filled with so many things. Yeah.

Not just on camera, but off camera. On camera, we got to flash forward, which I thought was really cool to see. So many kids. You had so many kids. I had so many kids. Winston had so many kids. Winston and Allie were getting after it. So many kids that gave up true America and it was like, oh my God, they really got after it. Yeah. And,

That was cool to see everyone a little older with their families, with their children. And off camera and on camera, it was cool. You know, Ingram Piotrowski, that was the... Oh yeah, Ingram Piotrowski. It was so cool to see that that whole season was one big prank.

by Winston and his elaborate ruse to get them out of the place and that they didn't have to move. I thought that was funny that we end on, and you know, narcissistically, it was that we ended on my face. It's all about you. It's all about you. I thought that was pretty interesting. You know what's a really fun Easter egg from that finale, I will say, is at the end when we are walking to the U-Haul

there's a group of people that walk past us that kind of look exactly like us. And it was the wonderful talented stand-ins that we had for many seasons that are supposed to look

kind of like us because they stand in for lighting but are also so wonderful in helping us with any like script adjustments or blocking or props and stuff they would always convey everything to us and so it was a really cool moment to have them on camera and to have that moment in passing and to have them honored in the finale like that was very cool okay but that's not my episode what's your episode first one that came to mind oh wait wait wait i'm not done with my answer oh

off camera. The reason why I say this is my favorite to film was that everybody from the office, from accounting, from production, from staff, people you don't see every day, they would always drop by the set. And I remember on that last day, the last moment that we shot

was us all standing on that box. - In an empty loft. - In an empty loft. And I remember everybody off camera just watching. And you definitely felt it. It was a very emotional moment. - I'm gonna cry now. - I know, and I just remember after people were saying their goodbyes and looking up, everybody looked around and they wondered where Jake was. - It was already gone. - Jake had already left. - By the way, first of all, I will say, it was something like seven in the morning.

We shot all through the night, I feel like. And it was long. But it was a weird feeling because the loft was really empty. It was done. And it had never been empty. Even from the pilot, we'd never seen it like bare bones before it had all of that history and story to it. And it was unnerving. Yeah.

But yes, it had been a long week and a long decade. And I'm sure he's like, I need to go to bed. Yeah, that's really funny. That's really true. That's funny. All right, my episode. First one that came to mind. So I might say something if the same question came up in a week. Might say something else. Was background check. Background check. Background check.

Honestly, you know what I'm talking about. It's a sixth season or fourth season, sixth episode. That's the 78th one we shot. I just learned that. It was so fun where they think they have meth.

that a cop shows up we're all lined up against the wall it was such a fun episode to shoot because i feel like those box episodes where we all got to be together we're all in like this big a storyline basically and we're all now just like interacting with each other and bouncing off of each other as opposed to like separated something happening in the loft something happening at the bar something happening here we all just got to spend the week together and that was always just fun

for us because we weren't running around town. We got to just show up at work for five days, walk into that one set and off camera like you were talking about was just super fun because we had all this downtime. We could just laugh and it was such a silly episode of us acting like kids that got in trouble. So it was super fun to shoot. I loved shooting that one. Ah, background check. That's good. That's a good answer. Background check.

Next question. Hi, I had to share something. My son was born on March 30th, which happened to be my husband's 30th birthday. There were a lot of complications. So both myself and our baby had to be in the hospital for 10 additional days. He was in the NICU during those 10 days, especially the hours where I couldn't be in the NICU with him. I watched new girl. It was on when I was learning to pump and breastfeed. It was on when I was crying because I didn't know what would happen. Oh,

It was on when I didn't know what else to do, literally couldn't do anything else. It was on when my husband couldn't be at the hospital with us.

Emily. Oh, Emily. Thank you.

Oh my goodness. That's so sweet. So much love to your sweet baby. I'm in husband and you, my goodness. I will say I've had so many women come up to me who have had babies and who are in the hospital. So if so many women who have come up to me and said, because I,

you know, when you have a baby and you're in the hospital and you have this brand new experience and it's overwhelming and you feel a little bit alone and you're just like, you're breastfeeding, you're sleeping, you're tired, you're in and out. And you put on something to distract yourself. So many people said they've scrolled through and tried to watch different things. And they all landed on New Girl. So many little babies. First voices that they heard outside their mom and dad and a nurse or something was the New Girl.

New Girl Loft voices. And I don't know, it always makes me feel really emotional. It's really special to think that that was comforting and it was like this kind of chosen family to make you laugh and smile and distract your mind while you were going through something so challenging. And I hope you all are well now and we send you love.

So much love. You know, something very similar. I've had people tell me that not just when they're having a baby, but when they are conceiving a baby, they are watching New Girl sometimes. And I just want to say, you're welcome. We got you there. We got you there. Has anybody named their babies after us? By the way, if they name it like Cece or Winston, I'm going to be upset. My name is Hannah. I would like to see a whole new generation of Hannah.

We would like to, has anybody named their babies Hannah or Lamorne? I don't think so. Please let us know. Winston for sure. I've known, people have sent me messages like, oh, this is Winston. It's mostly dogs. I was about to say it's cats. I have a lot of kittens called Cece. Yeah. A lot of Schmidt Cece kittens. I want to know if a real human baby got named after me. If so, please let me know. I'll take it. Lamorne will send you a gift in the mail.

All right, number three. I will. Hi, I've been a fan of New Girl for years now, and I've just started listening to the Mess Around podcast. It made me want to tell you what the show means to me.

I think New Girl was always ahead of its time in terms of diversity, but Cece's character always stood out to me as a brown woman. Others always tell me that I'm Cece because we have very similar personality traits. But the main reason I love her and what cemented this show as one of my favorites of all time is the fact that Cece is the first time I've seen an Indian character be portrayed as a main love interest and a desirable character.

Before that, although things are definitely better now, Indians were used very frequently in media as a punchline or the butt of a joke. But as an Indian woman, seeing Cece as attractive, strong, and a well-rounded character who was not simply used for comedic relief was so important to me. Karina. I'll say this, Lamorne, you know this. For many years, when we would wrap a season...

I would write my dear friend, Liz Merriweather, a letter, an email. And I would say, I don't know if you fully realize what you've done in the world of representation. Like, I just don't know if you fully realize it because I never grew up seeing anyone that looked like me on mainstream North American television. I knew what roles were kind of being like, you know, parts to audition for.

You know, when I moved to L.A. and all of them were just like deep stereotypes. And I was not comfortable with perpetuating any of those, which means I didn't work. And then I just, you know, happenstance fell into this role of Cece. And it just it meant so much to me.

because I can just remember myself as a little girl and how cool it would be to see an Indian woman just in a group of friends hanging out in this American loft. And I was like, it's so cool. And I remember like saying it to her face once, Liz. And, you know, Liz being Liz, she kind of looked at me and she was like, I just cast the funniest person.

That's even better. That's an even better response than just like you're a diversity hire or we needed somebody or whatever. It was the fact that it was also, I was like, that's also huge progress that I wasn't like just filling some sort of like list, like ticking a box for you. And so Karina, I totally understand because I felt the same way as someone who was out of my body watching the show and seeing myself do

do this. I know how important it was. And I give so much credit to Liz and Brett and Dave and Jake Kasdan and the studio and the network for not limiting me because of, you know,

my ethnicity and just seeing me for my talent and my comedy choices and believing in me and believing that everybody else would be cool with it and doing something that was huge in the world of representation for like Indian women. So yes, I feel the same way. And I don't even think you, I don't even think you can do a stereotypical Indian accent. That'd been funny. Yeah.

You know what's really wild? I will say this. That would be hilarious. Growing up, my family moved all over the world. And I never wanted to feel like an outsider. But I couldn't... I'm not very good at learning languages. Or especially learning them very quickly. But I was really good, really young at parroting accents. And then I would just...

pretend I was learning English. And that's how I would get away with it so I could feel like a local. So I lived in India and I didn't want to feel like this Canadian girl living in India. I wanted to feel like Indian, an Indian woman living in India. And I didn't want to feel like I didn't belong in my own country. It's very complicated. And I so...

I remember talking like this the entire time I was there, just to kind of explain that I was really trying to work on my English so that I could just be a part of the normal conversations.

And so I remember I would just like practice so that I could feel like I could belong to where everybody else in the world is like, where are you from? India? And I was like, yeah, I'm going to go to India. And they're like, where are you from? I'm from here. Just believe me. So I remember being young and trying to work on like, like how I spoke and my, you know, dictation and everything. Really funny. Oh, that's very nice.

That is very nice. I think that's it. I think that's it. That's our last meeting. These are great, great emails. That is our last meeting. Please keep them coming. We have a big episode. Huge episode coming out on Tuesday. Very, very special episode. Cooler. Cooler. Episode 15, Cooler. You know the one with the...

A little Winston and Daisy kiss. Yeah, I'm into the one. Also like a Nick Jazz kiss. Like no big deal, but just like a low-key kiss in a game of Drew American. But no big deal.

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