Ten Years After New Girl, Zooey Deschanel Is Still an Underrated Comic Genius
New Girl premiered on Fox ten years ago this week. And if there's any justice in this world, Zooey Deschanel's performance will go down as on the level of Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore, or at least Seth Rogen. It gave Deschanel the opportunity to deliver lines like, "My first crush was on a Batman cake, but my first sexual feelings were about teenage Simba." Or, while on her period, "I feel like I've laid a million eggs and they're all hatching!” And while the show's seven seasons did well when they originally aired, it's become a cult classic thanks to streaming on Netflix.