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" Last night in the land of TV for women that&amp;#039;s also for men, New Girl reached a new high in meta-humor. I don&amp;#039;t mean stunt casting, though it&amp;#039;s hard to complain whenever Megan Mullally is opposite real-life husband Nick Offerman on Parks and Recreation. And I don&amp;#039;t mean the kind of in-joke in which Charlie Sheen plays someone with anger-management issues. (We all know that was never his biggest problem.) New Girl capitalized on a phenomenon that has become so well-known that a magazine cover has been devoted to it: Zooey Deschanel&amp;#039;s appeal to a certain demographic of younger, twee city dwellers. Where once the show dutifully played into this idea (see: jam T-shirt, now available for purchase, naturally, on Tumblr), it now openly acknowledges and subverts it. On the &amp;quot;Neighbors&amp;quot; episode, a group of twenty-somethings in gaudy sweatshirts moves across the hall from the main characters and immediately takes a shine to Deschanel: her cascading waves of hair, her Urkel and Full House impressions, her casserole from her new job at the Casserole Shanty. The whole thing is a ukulele and a Michael Cera appearance away from Saturday Night Live parody. And by mocking Deschanel&amp;#039;s fan base, it also sort of compliments them. See? You can laugh, too. PREVIOUSLY: Why You Need to Start Watching New Girl Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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