New Girl is one of my all-time favorite comfort shows, so I've watched it in its entirety A BUNCH of times. And who can blame me?! It's great.
However, when you binge the show as often as I do — I really kicked it into high gear in 2020 — you start to notice a few things. Here are all the inconsistencies I've caught after watching New Girl a zillion times:
1.The loft door is different in the pilot than the rest of the series.
2.The exterior of the bar is also different in the pilot than the rest of the series.
3.In the pilot, Coach comes to Jess for advice because he has trouble talking to women, but in Season 4, he says he knows exactly how to deal with women because he grew up with sisters.
4.When Jess and Cece have their big purse fight in Season 4, Jess explains that she and Cece have remained friends because they never confront anything. But, up until that point, they have a ton of confrontations:
5.Schmidt's mother is played by a different actress in his first flashback than in later episodes.
6.Speaking of flashbacks, young Jess also goes through some casting changes throughout the series.
7.Nick pretty much wants nothing to do with Jess when she first moves in, but later it's revealed that he had such a crush on her that the other roommates had to write up the "No Nail Oath."
8.Jess listens to Taylor Swift after her breakup with Sam in Season 2, but in the Season 2 finale, the character Elaine is played by none other than...Taylor Swift.
9.In Season 3, Jess confides in Nick that she's "weirdly good at volleyball," but then — in the same season, no less! — she tries some volleyball moves with Coach and can't even get the ball over the net.
10.Jess's sister Abby comes to visit/briefly moves in during Season 3, and then is never seen or talked about again. She isn't even at Jess's wedding!
11.In Season 2, Robby tells Schmidt he doesn't like music. But later on, not only does he play guitar and sing with Jess, he reveals that he used to be a working musician.
12.Schmidt's a total neat freak throughout the series, but there's a plot point in Season 4 where he doesn't know how to do laundry???
13.When we first see the erotic alien mural Schmidt had painted in his old room/Winston's room, it's in the closet and relatively small. Later on, it's a giant art piece on the wall behind Winston's bed.
14.Jess tells Winston in Season 2 that she's extremely claustrophobic, but after that, we see her in a ton of tight spaces and it's NBD.
15.In the same episode where Jess mentions her "claustrophobia," she grabs the loft's landline when she and Winston are faking a robbery. Then, two seasons later, Jess gets a landline for the loft and everyone acts like they've never seen one before.
16.The timeline of Schmidt and Nick living together in the loft is shaky at best.
17.Even though it's established in Season 6 that New Girl and Brooklyn 99 exist in the same universe (thanks to two crossover episodes), Nadim Pedrad — who plays Ally — also appears as Jake Peralta's half sister, Kate, in Brooklyn 99 two years after the crossover happens:
18.And finally, the shape of Jess's glasses changes ever-so-slightly between Season 1 and the rest of the series.
With all that being said, New Girl is still one of my go-to comfort shows and probably always will be!
Are there any inconsistencies I missed? Share them in the comments!
