Warning: Full spoilers from the episode to follow.
Following up on Schmidt's utter misery from these last couple of episodes, this week's "Keaton" gave New Girl a much-needed kick in the pants for Halloween. Instead of splitting the group up into separate storylines, this episode was more or less all about Jess, Nick and Winston trying to get Schmidt out of his slump, and for the first time in a long time, each cast member pulled their own weight.
But the highlight, of course, was the titular addition of Schmidt's alleged pen pal, Michael Keaton. As in Batman. ("Not the confusing new one.") The idea that Schmidt's pseudo father figure was a made-up version of his favorite actor was indeed quite funny, and made for some amusing sequences behind the scenes with Nick, Jess and Winston, who spent most of the episode hiding out in the abandoned (and haunted?) apartment across the hall. There were several moments that really stuck out here, including Nick's line, "He saw the hit movie Multiplicity 25 times," and Winston wanting to be the Robin to Nick's Batman ("Robin's the joke.") -- also the fact that Winston had never seen The Truman Show.
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