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8. Parents

Jess invites her divorced Mom and Dad over for Thanksgiving dinner and enlists Nick and Cece to help her with a "Parent Trap" to reunite them. Meanwhile, Schmidt's cousin, Big Schmidt, visits, and Winston manipulates them into an escalating battle to prove their manhood.

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Jess' divorced parents, Joan and Bob ( Jamie Lee Curtis and Rob Reiner ), come over to the apartment for Thanksgiving; Jess tries to get them back together despite numerous failed Parent Trap -like attempts in the past. Schmidt's cousin ( Rob Riggle ), also named Schmidt, comes over, spurring a manly competition between the two with Winston as the judge and the winner getting the rights to be called Schmidt.

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