History YMMV / NewGirl

* HoYay: There's a one-sided element of this to Nick and Schmidt's friendship, much to Nick's dismay. Also, there's those times when Nick accidentally says borderline-romantic things to childhood friend Winston and then scrambles to correct himself.

* FanPreferredCouple: Nick/Jess.

* LesYay: While it can be explained as them being best friends since childhood, Cece really is very protective and caring of Jess.

* GeniusBonus: Winston thinking Crispin Glover was the first person to die in the Boston Massacre is funny. However, knowing that the name Winston meant to say was Crispus Attucks makes it hilarious.

* JerkassWoobie: Schmidt is an insufferably pompous windbag with delusions of grandeur, whose very presence summons memories of Ted Baxter and who is frequently insensitive, cruel and overly controlling of his friends. But he is on the receiving end of a lot of abuse at work due to being the only male, he seems incapable of forming meaningful relationships, his childhood was very unhappy (His mother was also a control freak), he spent much of his life being teased due to his weight (Which came about due to his unhappy homelife) and he is overall an enormous bundle of neuroses and compulsions barely keeping himself together.

*** Nick is getting there more and more. He is stuck in a low paying job, his best friend is an egotistical douchebag who constantly judges him, his relationships never seem to work out, he is extremely fragile emotionally, he has many dreams and ambitions he never fulfilled because he lacked confidence and he is filled with regret and self-loathing about his life. Then the writers made him think he had cancer. Which only became apparent through a severe back injury he had to go to a gynecologist for because he can't afford health insurance. To make matters worse, Nick is already incredibly cynical, not having the luxury of Jess' rose-tinted glasses.

*** Nick is getting there more and more. He is stuck in a low paying job, his best friend is an egotistical douchebag who constantly judges him, his relationships never seem to work out, he is extremely fragile emotionally, he has many dreams and ambitions he never fulfilled because he lacked confidence and he is filled with regret and self-loathing about his life. Then the writers made him think he had cancer. Which only became apparent through a severe back injury he had to go to a gynecologist for because He can't afford health insurance. To make matters worse, Nick is already incredibly cynical, not having the luxury of Jess' rose-tinted glasses.

*** Nick is getting there more and more. He is stuck in a low paying job, his best friend is an egotistical douchebag who constantly judges him, his relationships never seem to work out, he is extremely fragile emotionally, he has many dreams and ambitions he never fulfilled because he lacked confidence and he is filled with regret and self-loathing about his life. Then the writers made him think he had cancer. Which only became apparent through a severe back injury he had to go to a Gyneacologist for because He can't afford health insurance. To make matters worse, Nick is already incredibly cynical, not having the luxury of Jess' rose-tinted glasses.

* PortmanteauCoupleName: Nick/Jess is already being called Ness and/or Nessie. Jick doesn't quite sound right. No one seems to have come up with anything for Jess/Schmidt, probably because Schmidt is hard to work with and we don't know his first name. Schmiday? It will probably end up going by S/J.
** Eventually the people decided to use Schmess for Schmidt/Jess.
* {{Shipping}}: If {{Tumblr}} is anything to go by, there is already a small fandom of people who ship Nick/Jess, and a handful for Jess/Schmidt.

* TheWoobie: Jess.

* LesYay: While it can be explained as them being best friends since childhood, Cece really is very protective and caring of Jess.

* LesYay: While it can be explained as them being best childhood friends, Cece really is very protective and caring of Jess.

** And as of the third episode, for this troper [[{{YMMV}} anyway]], Jess/Winston.

** And as of the third episode, for this troper anyway({{YMMV}}), Jess/Winston.