- Nick's father dies and the friends travel to Chicago. Nick's family views him as the responsible one and has him plan an Elvis funeral. Jess impersonates as Elvis to help cut costs. Winston helps Schmidt get over his fear of funerals.
- Jess comes home with balloons she got from a guy on the street. Nick gets attacked by them as he goes to answer a call from his dad.
Jess, Winston and Schmidt huff the helium and have fun with munchin voices. Then Nick comes back and relays the content of the call: his dad died.
The gang waits to respond, then offers the only thing they can -- very high-pitched condolences.
Everyone is in Chicago for the funeral. They try to support Nick. "I really did love Walt. He really did love me more than he loved you, he told me that," Winston says. "Yea, he told me that, too," Nick says.
Schmidt is focused on the fact the airline lost his luggage. He wanted to look fabulous for Walt's funeral.
On the way in, they warn Jess that Nick's family is kind of weird.
Inside, Nick's cousin Bobby is arguing with Nick's brother Jamie (Nick Kroll) on the eternal soda vs. pop debate. Jamie is emotional, and cries all over Nick, wrapping around him. "Don't do the hair pull, it's so intimate," Nick says, comforting him.
Nick hugs his mom. "He was a saint, that bastard," she says.
Nick asks what needs to be done. Grocery shopping, plan the funeral, call the newspaper...
Jess can't believe that in his family, Nick is the responsible one. She introduces herself to Nick's mom and tries to offer to help. His mom is mostly concerned that Jess is "a Spanish."
Walt always wanted the funeral that Elvis had, with 12 white limos and an impersonator. She asks Nick to give the eulogy and he has no way to say no.
Jess checks on Nick late at night and finds him running numbers to find out what level impersonator they can afford -- a white one is out. Jess offers to help. He asks her to do the eulogy, even though she only spent that one hour with him committing fraud. That's pretty much all there is to know, Nick says.
Schmidt tries on Walt's best double-breasted suit, but freaks out about the idea of going to the funeral. "I'm scared of death," he says.
Jamie tells Jess about his dad, including that he had a table at every diner in town and silverware from the finest hotels and a gold chain as thick as floss -- thick floss. Bobby argues the chain belongs to his father. Jamie gets distracted wanting to know if Jess and Nick are doing it.
Winston tries to prepare Schmidt for seeing Walt in the casket. "Find a joyful memory and let it lift you to the sky," Winston says.
Schmidt kneels at the bed beside Winston. "You left us too soon, you beautiful black butterfly --"
Winston makes him starts over. "We've laughed, we've swum, you cut my toenails...." Winston tells him he's doing well, then Schmidt freaks out again.
Nick makes more calls for the funeral and Bonnie comes in to check that the food will be Elvis-themed. Nick's Grandma contributes by offering everyone some of her weed.
Jess tries to suggest maybe the food could diverge from the theme, which Bonnie takes as an affront to Elvis.
Jess tries to tell Nick she can't write his father's eulogy, but he won't hear it. He leaves the house.
At the funeral, Schmidt hides behind a door. Jess wonders where Nick is, then sees him stumble in drunk with a guy from the bar that he paid $20 to be Elvis. (The guy thought Nick wanted him to kill Elvis and the costume was for the element of surprise.)
Nick has had one dozen beers and announces he wrote the "gigliography." He takes out his Post-It: "Walt Miller. Am I right?"
Jess gives orders: Winston will deal with Elvis, she'll sober up Nick and Schmidt has to stop asking people if they can smell the body.
Schmidt sees Bobby over the casket trying to retrieve the gold chain he thinks belongs to his dad from Walt's body. With no one else around, Schmidt intervenes. Bobby chicken wings him so he's face down in the casket against Walt. Schmidt collects himself, sticks his head back in and triumphantly announces he's not afraid. Then he gets a little over-enthused and continues dunking his head in the casket, announcing he could do it all day.
Jess tries to sober up Nick in the bathroom, telling him she'll be there to hold his hand no matter how stupid it gets. Drunk Elvis comes out of a stall and Jess races to deal with him.
In the church, Bonnie asks Winston to say a few things, but to keep it light. "Don't mention the felony thing, or Paraguay, or the storage space," she says.
Winston says they should look at today as a celebration, because it's what Walt would have wanted. But then he looks at Walt in the casket and breaks down.
Bonnie checks on Elvis in the hall and is horrified. She wants to send everyone home. She doesn't want Jess there because she doesn't know her people, and doesn't want to wait for Nick. Elvis passes out.
Bonnie is in the process of sending everyone home when Elvis appears. It's Jess, in full rhinestone costume. She pelvic wiggles down the aisle singing "In the Ghetto."
Bonnie threatens to hit her, but Nick says Walt would have liked it. "He would have faked a slip and fall and sued the funeral home, but he would have like this," Nick says.
Nick stands at the lectern. "I used to always tell my dad that I hated Elvis just to piss him off.... He was very good at gambling. He had a great mustache. He was so mean to cabbies in such a cool way, and he never was scared. How did he do that? I don't know if Walt was a good guy or a bad guy in the whole scheme of things, but he was my dad and I'm sure gonna miss him."
Jess tries to get Nick sing and when he finally does, it inspires Bonnie to get up and do a hip wiggle and sing along with all the other mourners.
Leaving later, Bobby warns Schmidt that he'll have his dad's gold chain one day. But Schmidt's faced touched a dead man's mustache so he's feeling no fear.
Bonnie catches Winston trying to leave with Walt's hat and Wrigley ticket stub and leg from his favorite chair, but lets him keep it all. Jess tells Bonnie she's afraid of her, but Bonnie gives her a snack for the trip and a hug.
Jamie asks Nick when he might get married. Nick clarifies that brothers don't have to get married in order. Jamie runs off to propose to his girlfriend.
Bonnie apologizes to Nick for relying on him too much when he was growing up. She's glad he has someone (Jess) to take care of him.
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