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* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: Jess's ex called her "Jess-Jess," apparently.

** Precisely two people (including Jess) have called Nick "Nicholas", and the other one got snapped at for it.

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Averted with Paul. Played straight with Schmidt. Also played straight whenever Cece is involved.

** Played straight while self-completing, as far as Jess is concerned.

* [[All Women Are Lustful]]

* [[Almost Kiss]]: Jess and Nick in "The Landlord." In the most awkward and hilarious context possible.

** Specifically, when about to engage in an accidental threesome with their landlord. Yeah.

* [[Dance Party Ending]]: The roommate chicken dance at the end of "Wedding", and all dancing to the same song in their various rooms in collective joy in the season 1 finale -- the chicken dance even comes out again.

* [[Discontinuity]]: In the pilot, Jess says the word "penis." In the third episode, she is unable to say it. (Then again it was a little sing-songy in the first episode.)

* [[Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune]]:

** Co-written<ref>with [[Donnie Darko|Michael]] [[Freaks and Geeks|Andrews]], show creator [[No Strings Attached|Elizabeth Meriwether]] and executive producers Dave Finkel and Brett Baer</ref> and performed by Deschanel.

** Jess creates one in-universe, as seen below in [[Pep Talk Song]].

** Schmidt also has one in universe, but it's not exactly a pep talk.

* [[Do Not Try This At Home]]: As demonstrated in one episode, defrosting your turkey in a dryer? ''Bad idea!''

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Everyone in the apartment to some extent.

** [[The Heart]]: Nick

* [[Formerly Fat]]: Both Jess and Schmidt.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Winston, seemingly.

* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Nadia, Cece's Russian model roommate.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Part of the reason why Julia doesn't like Jess is because she can see that she is the "mean lawyer girl" while Jess is the "nice teacher girl."

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: This is basically what happens when people find out Schmidt and Cece are sleeping together. Winston, especially.

** "Is that a stop sign? Maybe its a go sign. Because if somebody like you is sleeping with somebody like her, then maybe the whole damn world is upside down."

* [[Hello, Attorney!]]: Nick's girlfriend, Julia.

* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Cece. Even Nick goes a little crazy for her.

** When trying to hire a stripper for Schmidt's birthday, she asks for one with a heart of gold "and a crotch of gold, too."

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Socially, Cece's this to Jess.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: The majority of the episodes thus far have consisted of a single-word title.

* [[Inelegant Blubbering]]: Both Paul {{spoiler|and his girlfriend}} are "ugly criers".

* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Dip your toe in the pool of possibilities".

* [[Its Pronounced Tropay]]: Schmidt's pronunciation of the word chutney. He pronounces it ''chuh-te-nay''. [[Running Gag|In several episodes.]]

* [[Jiggle Show]]: The girl dressed as a Native American in the pilot.

* [[Large Ham]]: Winston's strategy for getting a girl out of the apartment involves a dramatic monologue about his love affair with Nick.

* [[Once an Episode]]: In each of the first four episodes, the roommates do something embarrassing or un-manly in support of Jess: singing songs from ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'' in public, wearing her hats, dancing in slow-motion, and using the feeling stick.

** Inverted in Bully, where Winston insulting one of her students on her behalf to the kid's parents and Nick tearfully protesting a threat to have her face disciplinary action just make Jess' situation worse.

* [[One Steve Limit]]: She isn't seen, but it's averted when Cece and Jess discuss a "Jessica freaking P." they went to school with as kids.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Alternates between Winston and Nick, but usually it's Nick.

** As of Fancyman pt. I, it's highly arguable that this is untrue in Nick's case. Meanwhile, Winston is the one person to suggest Jess handle a problem with a simple, mature apology...he gets shouted down. Of course, Winston gets dating advice from a little boy in the same episode, so maybe no one is sane.

** It could be argued that Nick is crazy but is able to avoid letting get in the way of his life too much and is much better at hiding it than Schmidt or Jess. Nick can observe the madness but doesn't necessarily take part.

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: Jess is generally pretty gentle, so on those occasions where she does raise her voice or throw her weight around, the others are taken aback and stop offering resistance because this is obviously a big deal.

* [[Operation: Jealousy]]: Two episodes in a row, Schmidt did this to Cece.

* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]: After Nick spends all day disapproving of Paul, Jess gives us this gem:

{{quote|'''Jess:''' I want to have sex with him big time! Big time! I want to take him down to Chinatown and slice him off a piece of this pumpkin pie, okay? I want to do all the things that you do in a bedroom with him! I want to do it standing up and sitting down and half-up and half-down and the Wiggly One and the Bear Attack and the claws in the head and the one that figure skaters do and the "what's for lunch?" and the "gimme that hat!" The point is that I'm good. I'm really good and I don't care what you think!}}

* [[Really Gets Around]]: Schmidt, and possibly Cece.

** Nick, for awhile there.

* [[Recurring Character]]: Cece.

** The show's already racked up a lot of recurrers to smaller degrees.

** Schmidt, hilariously enough.

** Jess to her students, or when her friends are in trouble/being idiots. Nick remarks on her tendency to take care of everybody.

* [[The Tell]]: Everyone knows when Nick is hiding something.

{{quote|'''Schmidt:''' Sweatback? You told ''Sweatback''?!}}

* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: Jess has performed the show's theme song in-universe a lot. ♪ A Lot! ♪ Starting with ''the pilot''.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: On several occasions.

* [[This Loser Is You]]: Nick is a bartender who dropped out of law school shortly before getting his degree, who comes off as rather bitter. Winston is currently unemployed and clueless about what he wants to do.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Jess and Winston seem to be the most likely to pair up to geek out or snark on their roommates. Or, you know, have a Sophisticated Man Dance-Off. And at one point Jess created a theme song for their hang-out time.

* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: Jess (child), Cece (seductress), Sadie (mother)

* [[A Threesome Is Hot]]: Completely and irrevocably averted in "The Landlord." It's somewhere in between [[Cringe Comedy]] and [[Nightmare Fuel]], [[Your Mileage May Vary|depending on who's watching]].

** [[A Threesome Is Manly]]: Also averted in the same scene. To top it off Remy is okay with one other guy, but not two.

* [[True Companions]]: As an example, two of Jess' roommates show up to her students' science fair -- Winston to help her fix a project for one student, and Nick in turn because Winston is also in the middle of baby-sitting him through a meltdown. There are also the many occasions where they all come together as a group in defense of one of them, and stuff like Jess' ease with telling all of them she loves them, or Schmidt and Nick's comfort with showing affection for each other in public.

* [[The Un-Smile]]: When Nick smiles disingenuously...he suddenly has an awful lot of teeth.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Hector J, Harold & Kumar, White Castle, and most of Jess' alternative words for penis.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Jess has seen male nudity so often since moving in with the guys that she doesn't even blink anymore (she used to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3E1t1rVwYc gigglescream]). In Jess & Julia, Schmidt can't find his towel so he walks through the house naked. She doesn't even look up (as much as he wishes she would). First thing in the morning in Fancyman pt. II, she walks in on Nick's friend in the bathroom with his pants down without having bothered to close the door behind him and simply walks sleepily out again.

* [[Welcome Episode]]

* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: Becomes the plot of "Control." Jess gets Schmidt to finally stop being so uptight and nitpicky and to finally relax. Unfortunately, he becomes a little ''too'' relaxed, and joins some sort of hippie commune on the beach, stops going to work, and spends the whole day playing a bongo drum. And it turns out that without Schmidt there to nag the other roommates, the apartment falls into chaos, as Winston and Nick have no idea how to shop on a budget (they are in awe at the fact that Schmidt, thanks to his finickiness and obsession with detail, is able to get the groceries with less than $100), all three of them apparently can't dress without Schmidt's fashion advice, and the apartment starts becoming dirty. At the end of the episode, they coax him back to the apartment, partially by offering him Calvin Klein slacks. By the end, he's obsessively cleaning the apartment, tells Nick "Your hair is doing that thing that I just HATE," and in general is back to his usual self...and the roomies couldn't be happier about it.

* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: Seems to be ''everybody's'' opinion about any woman who dates [[Cool Loser|Schmidt]], but turned [[Up to Eleven]] when the group finds out about him and Cece.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Schmidt is terrified of the birdcat (cat raised by birds) which lives on the roof.

** Winston is deathly afraid of the dark.