Whereas we’ve seen plenty of holidays spent together in the loft, New Girl Season 4 Episode 11 saw the gang was stranded at the airport en route home.
The result? A very merry LAXmas to all and a good night … for fans.
For Nick, Jess and company? That depends how you look at it …
When New Girl Season 4 Episode 11 began, the gang headed to the airport, bound for Chicago, New York and beyond, only to be grounded by a storm.
In the Midwest and East, obviously. Not in L.A. proper.
Nick and Winston, desperate to return home to Chicago to see family, but now relegated to standby, go to hilarious, failed lengths to move up that list.
Fortunately, Jess becomes friends with an airline employee and is able to get the guys onto a flight. First class style, no less. As for their other buddies?
Things with Jess and Ryan are heating up, as you know if you watch New Girl online, but things were taken to a new level when he invited Jess to London.
She agrees to spend the holidays in Britain with his family, but starts to get cold feet at the airport … then REALLY gets cold feet after Ryan texts photos.
Feeling like she will never be good enough for his affluent family, she texts Ryan that she can’t make it, only to have the gang intervene and force her go to …
… and only to have Ryan hop a flight back to LAX.
When the episode ends, they’re both in opposite cities, having completed the longest romantic trip of their lives just to be alone. But it only proves their love.
Meanwhile, Coach decided to skip the Coach family Christmas and books a ticket to Hawaii instead, but is sweetly guilted into heading to Detroit after all.
Finally, Cece and Schmidt are determined to live the high live en route to NYC, finagling their way into the Sky Lounge, where he meets a rich guy.
He’s loving it in there, but when the guy attempts to bribe him to "make a run" at Cece, Schmidt tears him a new one, Long Island gangasta style.
5-1-6 4-eva. Beeyotch.