New Girl's Original Plan For Nick & Jess' First Kiss Was Much Worse
Nick and Jess' first kiss in New Girl is an iconic and memorable scene, but the original plan for their kiss would've been much worse. The FOX sitcom, which focused on bubbly teacher Jess Day (Zooey Deschanel) and her male roommates, featured an endearing friends-to-lovers relationship between Jess and sarcastic slacker Nick Miller (Jake Johnson). However, the writers' original plan for the characters' first kiss wouldn't have worked as well for the show.
Nick and Jess' first kiss happens in New Girl season 2, episode 15, «Cooler.» In the episode, the guys, who consider Jess to be a «cooling force,» leave her in the loft while they go to meet women at a bar. Jess gets scared after hearing mysterious noises and convinces the guys and their dates to come back. To make up for being Nick's «cooler,» Jess initiates a round of the New Girl game True American. After witnessing Nick and Schmidt (Max Greenfield) competing over Holly (Brooklyn Decker), Jess gets the idea to settle the score by selecting two people to go «behind the Iron Curtain» to make out. Her plan was to get Nick and Holly together, but Nick and Jess end up being the participants instead. Nick panics, saying he doesn't want to kiss Jess as part of the game. At the end of the episode, Jess calls for Nick when the mysterious scratching noises return, which turns out to be the neighbor's dog. Jess says goodnight to Nick and prepares to go back to her room, but Nick grabs her and the two characters passionately kiss.
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Creator Liz Meriwether's original plan for Nick and Jess' first kiss in New Girl was very different. It was revealed (via EW) that Jess and Schmidt were originally going to
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