Schmidt: It all began back-
[flashback to a black newborn being handed a basketball in the hospital]
Jess: Come on, Schmidt!
Schmidt: What? Only one story in the whole wide world can begin in a hospital? I volunteered a lot in college. But I shone brightest as a candy striper.
[flashback to Schmidt handing basketballs to babies in the hospital; v.o.:]
Winston: Sick people wanted me. Dying people wanted to be me. I was the total candy-striping package. And yet I remained invisible to the one whose gaze I desired the most.
Schmidt: Invisible? You were like a 300-pound wall of peppermint bark.
Schmidt: Her badge said "RN" for registered nurse, but as far as I was concerned, it said "NILTH," "Nurse I'd Like To Hug." Not even the baggiest of scrubs could hide her splendid form.