"We don't have that many continuing stories, so we can't reveal that much," executive producer Jake Kasdan admitted near the start of Monday night's New Girl panel during the annual PaleyFest in Los Angeles.
The result? An entertaining and laugh-filled panel that was much like an episode of New Girl. There was dancing (thanks, Jake Johnson!), awkward glances, a Douchebag Jar (to which Max Greenfield contributed a wad of cash), Zooey Deschanel pretending to eat like a turtle, little talk of the few overarching plots on the series, and a hearty collection of quotable moments. (See our personal list of faves below!)
And while the panel had a few nuggets of scoop (an upcoming episode will introduce a new game and Schmidt will deal with his OCD), the real intel flowed on the red carpet. Here's some of what we gathered up:
+ Nick's going crazy!
Tomorrow night's episode finds Nick facing a cancer scare (it's more hilarious that it sounds!) but Johnson revealed that Nick continues to have tough times in a few of the episodes coming up. And one scene finds him at odds with Winston like we've never seen before. "My character goes a little crazy in the next few episodes and when he starts to pull it together, he snaps at Winston and has to apologize. So figuring out a way to apologize and making it feel real to the character was a little tricky," he says.
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