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** Hurting Jess will pretty much anger any member of the main cast and Cece.

** Don't insult Winston's joblessness--or, really, his pride in general. He will go to a strange place and drag you with him.

* [[Beta Couple]]: Schmidt/Cece. [[He Is Not My Boyfriend|Sort of]], then really.

** Winston and Shelby.

* [[Black Best Friend]]: In the pilot, Coach. Currently, Winston.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: The look on Jess' face when she promised not to talk to the landlord, and later her claim to have found her keys lying on the cliff off of which she was meant to have thrown them.

* [[Bridal Carry]]: It's usually around the waist, but Nick has a habit of picking Jess up.

* [[Brief Accent Imitation]]:

* [[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.)

{{quote| '''Schmidt:''' We've all been here, am I right?<br />

'''Nick and Winston:''' Jar. }}

* [[Fan Service]]: Cece in "Cece Crashes."

* [[Fauxreigner]]: Schmidt, in an attempt to fool the landlord.

** [[The Hero]] and [[The Chick]]: Jess

** [[The Lancer]]: Cece

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: It's a [[Zooey Deschanel]] character, what did you expect? Unlike most examples, though, it's frequently [[Played for Laughs]] and is actually something of a [[Inverted Trope|inversion]], in that while she has a lot of the characteristics and quirk of a classic MPDG (and, of course, is played by [[Zooey Deschanel]]), it's ''Jess'', not the guys, whose life is a mess and needs help, which is the opposite of how the trope is usually set up. We'll see where it goes from here though.

** They're all a mess. They all try to help each other. Sometimes they actually succeed.

* [[Metaphorgotten]]

{{quote| '''Schmidt''': Nick is delicate, like a flower. A chubby, damaged flower who hates himself.}}

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: When doing Nick the favor of pretending to be his girlfriend to make his ex jealous, Jess adopts a ditzy personality that involves persistently getting the ex's name wrong.

* [[Nerd Nanny]]: They take turns. Even Jess!

** It's more that {{spoiler|his series of messages make her decide she can't deal with someone that neurotic.}}

* [[Noble Male Roguish Male]]: Nick and Schmidt. The former is emotional, unused to casual flings, and dislikes "throwing a woman out like a piece of meat;" the latter identifies that as exactly his problem and coaches him on how to be a douchebag.

* [[No Name Given]]:

** Schmidt, as that is obviously a last name and not his first.

* [[No Sparks]]: In "Tomatoes", Jess breaks up with Russell when she realizes she'll never have the passion she wants with him.

* [[Not So Different]]: A big theme of the show is how however they may seem, everybody is a big weirdo on the inside. The guys are initially unsettled by Jess' quirks, but their own quirks become rapidly apparent.

* [[Put On a Bus]]: Due to the unexpected renewal of Damon Wayans Jr.'s series ''[[Happy Endings]]'', his character Coach was sent away after the pilot and replaced with Winston.

* [[Random Events Plot]]: A lot of the episodes are a sequence of thrown-together character scenes that don't prioritize punchlines.

{{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!}}

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: For all that they have some typically male tendencies and insecurities, the three guys have never exhibited any trouble hugging each other, telling each other or other people they love them, or crying. Schmidt in particular is also not averse to kissing his male friends (although Nick tells him multiple times to stop "Fredo-kissing" him when they think {{spoiler|that Nick has cancer}}). There's also his cooking, Winston's comfort with girl talk, and Nick's claim to be good with babies.

{{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''.

{{quote| '''Jess:''' I'm going to pay this $800 fine. And my checks have baby farm animals on them, ''bitch!''}}

* [[This Is Sparta]]: "SPENCER. WORE. JELLIES."

* [[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.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Nick and Jess, occasionally [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|belligerently so]], like when she goes home from breaking up with a boyfriend over their lack of passion and immediately gets into a fight with Nick about his horrible life decisions, but usually of the variety where they get along well.

* [[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.

* [[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 Do You Mean Its Not Horrific]]: Jess' Kermit impression scares the crap out of Cece.

** Winston is deathly afraid of the dark.

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: "You know what happens? Schmidt Happens!" Later in the same scene:

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Jess returns home early in hope of surprising her live-in boyfriend with some [[Sexy Coat Flashing]], but he's cheating with another woman. This leads to her breakup and search for a new apartment.