The episode was called "When Mindy Met Danny," naturally, and it was a backstory episode, tracing Mindy's first day at work.
Because what it means to me is: 'You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a marginalised person.
Mindy goes to "booty camp" to pick up sex lessons from her colleague.
Mindy Corporon, mother of the boy and the daughter of William Corporon, did not attend the service because she felt it too soon to return to the community center, said Rev Adam Hamilton, the Corporon family's minister.
Mindy roofies herself to prove she's not an old shoe.
A bit like Seinfeld's Elaine Benes and Sweet Dee in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia before her, Mindy Lahiri is the pugnacious antihero it is compelling, rather than just OK, to like.
That is partly because Mindy has spent a full 22-minute episode navigating why "my office only has one entrance and I don't know if that's good enough for you any more".
Could Mindy Lahiri, the boy-crazy, Kardashian-obsessed, thirtysomething New York gynaecologist who thinks "recycling makes America look poor" be the greatest television character of 2014?
Mindy misses a major life-changing moment for a devoted pal because "all I've wanted in my life is to abandon all my friends for a boyfriend", and admits to watching only anime porn because it's a victimless crime, unless you count the animators ("They pay them next to nothing in Korea!").
And in the tradition of great sitcom characters, so is Mindy Lahiri – doctor, monster, poster girl for the serially unhinged.
New Mindy Kaling show The Mindy Project will follow in Zooey's perky footsteps.
