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11/25/2024
New Girl

Season 1

After her boyfriend cheats on her, quirky teacher Jess moves in with three freewheeling bachelors, who have plenty of issues of their own.

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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 1

Pilot

Aired
09/20/2011
After leaving her long-time boyfriend, Jess moves into an apartment with three men, and tries to re-enter the dating world.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 2

Kryptonite

Aired
09/27/2011
Nick and Schmidt convince Jess to get her stuff out of her ex-boyfriend Spencer's apartment; Jess meets new roommate Winston, who has returned from playing basketball in Latvia. Winston tries to get his old room back from Schmidt.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 3

Wedding

Aired
10/04/2011
The guys are invited to a wedding, and Nick is fearful that he'll run into his ex, so he asks Jess to be his date. Meanwhile, Winston takes his role as usher very seriously, and Schmidt catches the eye of two women.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 4

Naked

Aired
11/01/2011
Jess accidentally walks in on Nick naked, sending his self-confidence to an all-time low - just after an attractive co-worker agrees to go out on a date with him. Meanwhile, Winston becomes obsessed with learning pop-culture references online.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 5

Cece Crashes

Aired
11/08/2011
Cece convinces Jess that Nick likes her more than just as a roommate and Schmidt tries to seal the deal with Cece.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 6

Thanksgiving

Aired
11/15/2011
Jess invites Paul, a music teacher at her school on whom she always has had a crush, to the gang’s big Thanksgiving dinner at the loft, which naturally goes horribly awry.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 7

Bells

Aired
11/29/2011
Jess gets jealous when Winston joins her troubled-youth handbell quartet and instantly becomes a natural. Meanwhile Nick and Schmidt engage in class warfare when the toilet breaks and they each have their own idea of how to get it fixed.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 8

Bad In Bed

Aired
12/06/2011
When Jess decides to take her relationship with Paul to the next level, she consults with the guys for some sex advice. Meanwhile, Schmidt worms his way into his boss' baby shower to compete with his office female counterpart.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 9

The 23rd

Aired
12/13/2011
The gang attends Schmidt's holiday office party and Jess frets when she receives an expensive gift from Paul.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 10

The Story of the 50

Aired
01/17/2012
When Schmidt's plans for his 29th birthday fall apart, Jess takes charge and enlists the help of her school's party hungry vice-principal. Meanwhile, Nick begrudgingly has his first date at Schmidt's party with a beautiful lawyer who harbors a secret, and the gang wonders who placed a 50 dollar bill in the douchebag jar.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 11

Jess and Julia

Aired
01/31/2012
Nick panics when Julia doesn't want to put a label on their relationship. Meanwhile, Jess enlists Julia to help her get out of a traffic ticket, Winston reconnects with a former booty call and Schmidt is baffled as to why his shower towel is always damp.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 12

The Landlord

Aired
02/07/2012
Against Nick's wishes, Jess makes it her mission to get the loft's cantankerous landlord to like her. In doing so, she inadvertently jeopardizes their living situation and the guys are forced to admit they've made some "unofficial" changes to the apartment. Meanwhile Schmidt tries to decipher what he thinks are mixed signals from his boss Kim.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 13

Valentine's Day

Aired
02/14/2012
Single for the first time on Valentine's Day, Jess convinces Schmidt to be her wingman as she attempts to have an attachment-free fling with a handsome stranger. Nick's romantic plans are foiled when he finds himself spending more time with Julia's law firm assistant than with her. Winston becomes one of the girls when Shelby invites him over on the holiday.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 14

Bully

Aired
02/21/2012
When Jess tries to intervene with a classroom bully she finds herself the target of the bad seed student. Schmidt, meanwhile, is thrilled over his post-Valentine's sexcapades, but hates that his paramour wants to keep it a secret; and Nick goes into a tailspin when Julia sends him a cactus.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 15

Injured

Aired
03/06/2012
When Nick is hurt playing a game of touch football and Jess discovers he doesn't have insurance, she takes him to her doctor friend -- an OB-GYN. The gang rallies together and Nick evaluates his life when his seemingly innocuous back injury may prove to be more serious than thought.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 16

Control

Aired
03/13/2012
After Jess realizes that Schmidt is unfairly doing all of the housework, she pushes him to "go on strike," and the entire ecosystem of the loft is thrown off balance. Meanwhile, Nick scrambles when he must pay up to Winston after losing a poker game.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 17

Fancyman (1)

Aired
03/20/2012
Jess reluctantly dates the wealthy father of one of her students. Meanwhile, Nick attempts to buy a new cell phone and Schmidt and Winston get ultra-competitive playing bar trivia.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 18

Fancyman (2)

Aired
03/27/2012
Jess' sophisticated date with Russell doesn't go as planned. Meanwhile, Nick's college friend visits and brings out Nick's inner frat boy to help him get over his break-up with Julia. Also, Winston panics when Shelby goes on a "girls" vacation and Schmidt and Cece try to keep their relationship under the covers, but one of the friends finds out their secret.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 19

Secrets

Aired
04/03/2012
While training for a marathon, Jess discovers that Cece has been keeping a secret from her, and their friendship is put to the test. Meanwhile, Winston can't handle being the only one who knows about Cece and Schmidt, and Nick reluctantly asks for Schmidt's help as he tries to juggle dating two women at once.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 20

Normal

Aired
04/10/2012
A nervous Jess invites Russell to spend the weekend at the loft, and her fears are amplified when he gets along better with the guys than she hoped. Meanwhile, Winston begins work at a sports radio station, but quickly finds out his boss is more of a shock jock, and Nick tries to make an invention from his "Idea Notebook" into a reality.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 21

Kids

Aired
04/17/2012
Jess babysits Russell's pre-teen daughter for the weekend and meets his ex-wife. Then, Schmidt and Cece panic when they think she's pregnant. Also, Nick's new girlfriend may be too young and Winston discovers his new boss is a big baby.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 22

Tomatoes

Aired
04/24/2012
Jess fears she and Russell don't share the fiery passion he exhibits with his ex-wife Ouli. Meanwhile, Cece is not yet willing to admit her true feelings for Schmidt, so she encourages him to go on a date with one of her Russian model roommates. Then, a down-in-the-dumps Nick channels all of his energy into a new vegetable garden.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 23

Backslide

Aired
05/01/2012
When Jess and Nick run into their exes Paul and Caroline, the gang fears they both may "backslide" into romantic relationships. Meanwhile, Schmidt desperately tries not to get aroused as he deals with a delicate medical issue, Winston suffers the consequences of a wild night out with his boss and Cece brings Schmidt to a nursing home to meet her grandmother.
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New Girl
Season 1 Episode 24

See Ya

Aired
05/08/2012
When one of the roommates decides to move out of the loft, the gang makes an unexpected trip to the desert where Winston faces his fear of the dark, Cece and Schmidt’s relationship reaches a turning point and Jess and Nick square off with a coyote.
Cast for New Girl Season 1
Zooey Deschanel as Jessica 'Jess' Day in Season 1 (09/2011)
Zooey Deschanel

Jessica 'Jess' Day

Jake Johnson as Nick Miller in Season 1 (09/2011)
Jake Johnson

Nick Miller

Max Greenfield as Schmidt in Season 1 (09/2011)
Max Greenfield

Schmidt

Lamorne Morris as Winston Bishop in Season 1 (09/2011)
Lamorne Morris

Winston Bishop

Hannah Simone as Cecilia 'Cece' Parikh in Season 1 (09/2011)
Hannah Simone

Cecilia 'Cece' Parikh

Crew for New Girl Season 1
Zooey Deschanel as Jessica 'Jess' Day in Season 1 (09/2011)
Zooey Deschanel

Jessica 'Jess' Day

David Walpert

Co-Executive Producer

Dana Fox as Producer in Season 1 (09/2011)
Dana Fox

Producer

Lesley Wake Webster

Supervising Producer

Joe Wiseman

Co-Executive Producer

Joe Port

Co-Executive Producer

Rachel Axler

Co-Producer

Luvh Rakhe

Co-Producer

Megan Mascena

Associate Producer

Donick Cary as Co-Executive Producer in Season 1 (09/2011)
Donick Cary

Co-Executive Producer

Erin O'Malley as Producer in Season 1 (09/2011)
Erin O'Malley

Producer

Jorjee Douglass

Makeup Department Head

J. J. Philbin as Consulting Producer in Season 1 (09/2011)
J. J. Philbin

Consulting Producer

Chris Philp

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Michael Whetstone

Production Design

Katherine Pope

Executive Producer

Peter Chernin as Executive Producer in Season 1 (09/2011)
Peter Chernin

Executive Producer

Elizabeth Meriwether as Executive Producer in Season 1 (09/2011)
Elizabeth Meriwether

Executive Producer

Dave Finkel as Executive Producer in Season 1 (09/2011)
Dave Finkel

Executive Producer

Brett Baer

Executive Producer

Jake Kasdan as Executive Producer in Season 1 (09/2011)
Jake Kasdan

Executive Producer

Ludwig Göransson as Original Music Composer in Season 1 (09/2011)
Ludwig Göransson

Original Music Composer

Debra McGuire as Costume Design in Season 1 (09/2011)
Debra McGuire

Costume Design

Tom Wolfe

Music Supervisor

Manish Raval

Music Supervisor