Nick's Got A Name For The Barely-Desirables He's Banging These Days

I feel like TV characters who used to sleep together but don't anymore try cohabitation a lot more often than people in the real world. ...Okay, the only example I can think of offhand is Rachel moving back in with Ross during her pregnancy, but still, that's one more example than I can draw from my own real life or the lives of literally anyone I've ever heard about -- and remember: I used to live in New York. After addressing, in an earlier episode, how sad Nick and Jess's breakup (obviously) made them both, enough time has passed for New Girl to take on the question of how Jess and Nick would not only continue living together and seeing each other EVERY DAY, but how they could possibly try to date any new people given their current, rather unorthodox living situation. For Jess, who's only been dating complete losers of late, this hasn't been an issue until now, and the episode MOSTLY revolves around her telling Ian she still lives with her ex and then frantically trying to do damage control by selling the lie that Nick is gay now. (For his part, Nick is game -- "I'm terrible at lying; I'm terrific at make-believe" -- if somewhat out of touch with gay culture if his speculation that his character, Gay Nick, might be a "twinkle" is anything to go by.)

But before we get there, we make a pit stop to look at Nick's dating life, such as it is: he's been using "I live with my ex" as an ejector seat to get him away from the less-than-perfect ladies he's been bringing home since breaking up with Jess. He's been "seeing" so many women in this cohort, in fact, that he's even coined a name for them. No, not "tavern folk," which is Jess's euphemism. Nor are these women "pork pals," "bone cronies," or "C-plussy hussies." "Very reverent." - Jess.) But after test-driving and rejecting all these terms -- much as he's test-driving and rejecting all the girls he's described with them -- he's settled on le mot juste.