* ActorSharedBackground:
** Nick and Winston are from Chicago as are their actors Creator/JakeJohnson and Creator/LamorneMorris.
** Hannah Simone is also of (partially) Indian ancestry and has worked as a fashion model.
** Big Scmidt is played by Creator/RobRiggle, and both are former marines.
** Ashley is an Oregon native, just like her actress Creator/KaitlinOlson.
* TheCastShowoff: If something has Zooey Deschanel in it, it ''will'' have singing. Jess will [[CharacterTics randomly burst into song]] for no reason.
* TheDanza: Jess’s father, Bob, was played by a man named Creator/{{Rob| Reiner}}. Both names are short for Robert.
* LoopingLines: "Injured" was intended as Sadie's debut, but aired after an episode where she was shown knowing Nick. So her actress recorded some terrible, rushed [=ADR=] in the two seconds her face was conspicuously off-camera to iron out the continuity error.
* PromotedFanboy:
** ''Music/{{Prince}}'' was a big fan of the show and actually wrote Fox and the producers asking if he can cameo on the show. Obviously, they did and he apparently told them that the show was the only thing he watched besides the news.
** Music/TaylorSwift is also a fan of the show, so the cameo part of Elaine was written for her.
* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Creator/MeganFox is bisexual, like her character Reagan.
* RealLifeRelative:
** Creator/DamonWayansJr (Coach)'s real life aunt Creator/KimWayans plays Schmidt's mother's girlfriend Susan.
** In "James Wonder", Creator/DavidHornsby (Ed) is Creator/ZooeyDeschanel's brother-in-law.
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Both of the actresses playing young Cece and Jess look uncannily like them. Young Cece even manages a MatchCut with present day Cece and it is flawless.
* ThrowItIn: The cast is allowed to improvise, and Jake Johnson is the most notable improviser. The showrunners also admit to relying on the cast members a bit more than they should on the direction of their characters.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: According to this [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-new-girl-showrunners-on-wrangling-season-twos,97504/ interview]], entire scripts could be changed days before table reads and spontaneous decisions made on the fly. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]] since it's led to great subversions like [[spoiler: resolving major UST between the leads in season 2, much earlier than most shows out there]].
* YouLookFamiliar:
** Creator/DamonWayansJr (Coach) also played "Stevie", an old partner of Jake Peralta in one episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', which is set in the same universe as ''Series/NewGirl''.
** Creator/MaryElizabethEllis (Caroline) played a medical examiner in the first season of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', which is the sister show to ''Series/NewGirl''.
** Creator/NasimPedrad (Aly) played Kate Peralta in season five of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', which is set in the same universe as ''Series/NewGirl''.
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