- I love when--
[CROWD CHEERS]
- Settle down.
Settle down.
- People always think they have to dance.
She said, am I supposed to dance?
[LAUGHTER]
- Well, I can't really dance in these shoes.
- Well, then--
- They're not made for dancing.
- No, they're not?
- Mm-mm
- Welcome--
- Thank you!
- And good to see you.
We last saw each other at the Teen Choice Awards.
- Yes, I loved your speech.
It was amazing.
- Thank you.
You presented me with the award, so I was very happy.
- That's right.
That's right.
And I liked your speech, that you said, when you were a teen,
you weren't teens' choice.
- No.
- I also was not teens' choice--
- Really?
- --in teen land.
- No.
Were you?
I don't believe that with you, though, somehow.
- (LAUGHING) I was not teen choice.
- Really?
I'm a fan of yours from all of your movies.
- Thank you.
I'm a fan a fan of yours too.
- Thank you very much.
- And your outfit, love it.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
So, this new show which is very, very funny--
- Thank you.
- And the cast is very, very funny--
- Thank you.
- The writing is very, very funny--
- Thank you.
- All that, combined, makes it very, very funny show.
- Thank you.
[APPLAUSE]
It's a very, very fun show to make.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- Because let's face it, there are talented actresses
and actors, and if you don't have all the right ingredients,
it doesn't matter how great you are, it just doesn't work.
- Right.
But it all came together.
We got we got very lucky.
And it's actually really a great thing.
Our show was created by a woman, Liz Meriwether,
who is just 29 years old.
- What has she done before?
- She wrote "No Strings Attached."
She's amazing.
And so, it's really fun for me, because I've been
doing comedies for a long time.
I love doing comedies.
But this show is the first time I've actually
been able to not just be playing somebody's girlfriend,
not just be, like, mm, what are you doing?
You know?
And I actually get to carry a lot of the comedy.
So, it's fun.
- No, it's great.
And I really like the guys too.
- Yeah.
Oh, my god.
They're amazing actors, great, great comic actors.
- You had to change out the actor from the pilot--
- Right.
Well, he left.
He moved to Santa Monica.
[LAUGHTER]
- I see.
Is that what happened?
He got another apartment off Craigslist?
- He wanted to be near the beach.
- I see.
All right.
Anyway, that happens in TV land.
- Yeah.
It happens.
It was kind of like a "Three's Company" sort of situation.
Remember, Chrissy's cousin comes and then that nurse comes?
- Right.
Well, the worst was Darren on "Bewitched."
They didn't even explain--
- They didn't explain it.
- She had a whole new husband and they didn't even explain.
- Or Becky on "Rosanne?"
- Right.
It happens all the time.
- Different girl, just for one season though.
- That's right.
That's right.
- I love sitcoms, so--
- And the show has been picked up
for the entire season which is rare.
That's--
- Yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
- You feel that support.
- Oh, yeah.
I mean, the network and the studio
have been so supportive to us.
- And your sister is on "Bones."
- Yes.
- Emily.
And you're both on the same lot?
You're both working--
- Yeah, we're on the same lot, same network.
She just had a baby though.
- She did?
- So, she's not currently on the lot.
But when she comes back, you bet your bottom dollar
I'm going to be riding my little imaginary bicycle over there--
- Oh.
- --to her set.
- Is it far away from your set?
- It's not.
I could walk there.
- You could walk it.
- It would be cooler if I had a bicycle.
- If you had a bike?
We have bikes on the lot here.
- And a puppy.
- A bike and a puppy.
- Yeah.
- To carry like that and pedal?
- No, probably put it in the basket.
- Oh, you'd have a basket.
- Oh, of course.
- I see.
So, it would have to be a small puppy.
It couldn't be like a large great Dane or anything.
- No, a tiny--
Well--
- What kind of puppy are you imagining?
If you're imagining everything, what kind of puppy?
- Just a tiny little guy.
- Its paws would be like this?
What?
Like a Maltese or a Lhasa apso?
- A Yorkie, or yeah, something small.
- Something small.
- Yeah.
- Like a basket size dog.
- And maybe a fawn to run alongside me.
- Oh.
- A butterfly--
- You want a butterfly?
- A rainbow--
- And a baby deer to--
Wow.
- A baby deer.
- OK.
A doe or a fawn.
- A doe or a fawn, yes.
Well, maybe a doe and a fawn.
- Oh, you want two deer now.
- Yeah.
- OK
[LAUGHTER]
That's great.
And you're very talented.
You also wrote the song as well.
- The theme song.
- The theme song as well, because you're in a band called
She and Him, which I know that.
I didn't know that was you.
- Thank you.
[APPLAUSE]
- And your husband's in a band that I love.
- True.
Thank you.
- I love that band.
And so, do you write songs all the time?
- Yeah, I do.
I mean, I write songs a lot.
Now, that I'm working the long television hours,
I have to reserve my writing to weekends and late nights.
But yes, I'm writing songs a lot, yeah.
- Well, good.
Maybe you could write a song about an imaginary bike
or something like that.
- Maybe I would.
- Maybe you don't need to write a song about an imaginary bag,
because maybe I bought you a bike.
- What?
- Bring on her bike.
- No!
[MUSIC PLAYS]
[CHEERING]
- Oh, my god.
No you didn't.
And it has your face on the wheels.
- Well, of course!
I need promotion.
- Oh, my god.
- You have a butterfly.
- This is amazing.
- You have a little--
- That's amazing.
Thank you for the bike.
[HONKING]
[LAUGHTER]
[HONKING]
- Where's the deer?
Oh, the deer is on the flag.
We didn't think--
- Oh, you guys!
- That wasn't safe to have something running alongside.
- You're like mind readers.
- Yeah, as you were saying it, they
were building it back there.
- You're dream builders is what you are.
Dream builders, mind readers--
- Yes, we do it all here.
- --and fun havers.
- Yes, we're fun havers.
And speaking of fun havers, you and I both love games.
- Yes.
- And we're both competitive, I understand.
- Yeah.
- I know I am.
I heard you are.
So, we're going to take a break, we're going to come back,
and we're going to play a game that I've never played before.
So, it's going to be really--
- I don't think I've played it either.
- I hope not.
We're at the same disadvantage.
- Great.
- All right, we'll be back with Zooey.
All right.
We're back with Zooey Deschanel, star of "New Girl."
We thought we're going to play a little game.
We both have a stack of movie titles here, a bunch of props,
and using the props, we're going to have
to get the other person to guess which movie we're
talking about.
We can say a line from the movie.
We can make noises.
- OK.
- But you can't say the name of the movie or the actors in it.
All right?
And we each have 45 seconds.
I'm going to start.
So, you're going to grab props and try to get me to guess.
- Yeah.
- All right?
- Oh, yeah.
[TICKING]
It's a twister.
- Yeah, "Wizard of Oz."
[DING]
[APPLAUSE]
- "The Boxer."
"Rocky."
[DING]
[APPLAUSE]
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
[DING]
[APPLAUSE]
"Harry Potter."
[DING]
[APPLAUSE]
This is the stupidest game.
[LAUGHTER]
"Psycho."
[DING]
[APPLAUSE]
"Lion King."
[DING]
[APPLAUSE]
Seriously!
[BUZZER]
[CHEERING]
- Good job.
- I mean--
That was impressive.
- All right.
- "The Lion King" was hard to guess.
- Yeah, it really was.
All right.
- OK.
Are we ready?
- Yep.
- OK.
[TICKING]
- (STUTTERING) Th- the-
- "The King's Speech."
[DING]
[APPLAUSE]
Oh, "Black Swan."
[DING]
[APPLAUSE]
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, gosh.
"Dances with Wolves."
[DING]
[APPLAUSE]
Oh.
"Hunchback of Notre Dame."
Oh, oh, "Jaws."
[DING]
[APPLAUSE]
[BUZZER]
[CHEERING]
Aw.
- "The New Girl" airs Tuesdays at 9 on FOX.
We'll be back with Ricki Lake and Derek Hough.
[MUSIC PLAYS]