New Girl

Season 6

House Hunt

1. This episode features the character Aly Nasim Pedrad's sister. Nasim Pedrad's sister actual sister, Nina Pedrad, is a producer and writer for the show.
2. At the end of the episode, the song "One Foot in Front of the Other" plays as they demolish the house. This is the same song played during the Lambda Lambda Lambda house remodeling montage in Revenge of the Nerds (1984). Curtis Armstrong, who plays recurring character Principal Foster on the show, was one of the main characters (Dudley 'Booger' Dawson, Esq.) in the Revenge of the Nerds film series.

Hubbedy Bubby

1. This episode has the lowest IMDb rating of the series (a 6.5 as of October 2021).
2. Bear Hunt: Jess says "I stood frozen, like you're supposed to when you see a bear in the woods."

Single and Sufficient

Homecoming

1. Although Stephanie Beatriz doesn't appear in the New Girl portion of the two-part Brooklyn Nine-Nine/New Girl crossover, she does appear with Zooey Deschanel in the Brooklyn Nine-Nine half of the crossover. This means she has appeared in projects with every main cast member of New Girl, with the exception of Jake Johnson. She was in Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) with Max Greenfield, The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (2019) with Hannah Simone, and Human Discoveries (2019) with Lamorne Morris.
2. Part two of a crossover with Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013), which began with that show's episode, The Night Shift (#4.4). Coincidentally, Damon Wayans Jr. played different characters in both shows: he was a regular on New Girl over two seasons and had a guest appearance on Brooklyn Nine-Nine in The 9-8. Wayans, Jr. makes a cameo appearance at the end of this episode as Coach, his character on New Girl.

Jaipur Aviv

1. Winston thinks the shade of green Cece picked is yellow - as mentioned in a much earlier episode, he is colorblind (albeit with a very unusual form of the condition).
2. Nick and Winston determine that Schmidt and Cece's house wasn't the setting of the porn movie because you can see the space needle in the window. Movies often have green screen shots of landmarks to show the location. It's possible that the movie was filmed in their house after all.

Ready

Last Thanksgiving

1. Gavin's ex, Ann Kim, shares a name with future New Girl staff writer Ann Acacia Kim, who was on the writing staff in the final season of the show.

James Wonder

1. David Hornsby (Ed) is Zooey Deschanel's brother-in-law.

Es Good

Christmas Eve Eve

1. In the opening scene, Jess and the gang are dressed for Halloween as the cast of The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Schmidt is John Travolta/Robert Shapiro, Nick is David Schwimmer/Robert Kardashian, Winston is Sterling K. Brown/Christopher Darden, Cece is Kenneth Choi/Judge Lance Ito and Jess is Sarah Paulson/Marcia Clark.
2. When Jess and Robbie are trying to figure out a new gift for Nick, Robbie suggests tap shoes. This is a reference to the fourth season opener, where Nick mentions having bought shoes due to their being shiny, only for them to have turned out to actually be tap shoes.
3. Jess' Secret Santa should have been Schmidt, but she admits she may have forgotten to write her own name down and put Winston in twice. The Secret Santa and their gifts are as follows: Winston picks Cece and gifts her a bean bag chair; Nick picks Schmidt and gifts him kashmir socks; Cece picks Winston and gifts him a check for his phone company; Schmidt picks Winston and gifts him a hamster; and Jess picks Nick and gifts him a visit from Reagan.

Raisin's Back

1. Bear Hunt: Jess says, "pictures of bears wearing backpacks".

The Cubicle

Cece's Boys

1. Bear Hunt: Nick says, "If there's a loose bear in the park, I'm not going in it".

The Hike

1. The storyline of Jess and Robbie's relationship was ended as a result of there being no chemistry between Zooey Deschanel and Nelson Franklin and fan dislike of the relationship.

Glue

1. Bear Hunt: The glue being used to bind the first books is "BAER" brand glue.

Operation: Bobcat

1. Zooey Deschanel was pregnant with her second child during filming of this episode.
2. This is the third time Jess assisted in a proposal. The first was Paul Genzlinger's to Jen, the second was her father's to Ashley.
3. While Cece and Schimdt are waiting for the elevator, Schimdt references "Sterling-Cooper". This is one of the firms on the show Mad Men, a series Schmidt is known to idolize.

Rumspringa

1. When Jess, Nick and Schmidt go to Solvang, they encounter several different Danish things: Jess drinks akvavit, which is a danish liquor, while Schmidt eats æbleskiver, a Danish pastry traditionally eaten at Christmas. While locked in the cellar, the trio try to turn the dørhåndtag, which is the Danish word for doorknob. All the boxes in the cellar are labeled "Hyggelig Bornholmer Akvavit", which loosely translates to "Cozy Bornholmer akvavit", with Bornholm being a Danish island.

Young Adult

1. Toward the end of the episode, a portrait of Nick is visible in his own desk. This is a reference to a third season episode in which Nick inherits money from his father after his death. He then goes on a shopping spree, with one of his impulse purchases being glamour photos of himself taken at a mall portrait studio.

Socalyalcon VI

1. When Jess declines a call from Nick on her cell phone, you can briefly spot the infamous "puppy in a cup" picture set as her phone's wallpaper. This is a reference to Season 2 Episode 7, Menzies.
2. Reagan makes a joke about making a deal with the Devil. Megan Fox played a possessed character in Jennifer's Body (2009).
3. Cece tells Jess she is acting like Nick's girlfriend instead of his friend. This is a reference to Season 2, Episode 3, when Schimdt informs Nick he's acting as Jess's "fluffer" boyfriend when she first starts sleeping with Sam.

Misery

1. Jess's plotline in this episode is loosely based on The Stephen King book Misery. Rob Reiner, who plays Jess's father, directed the film adaptation of that same book.
2. Reading from the unauthorised Lindsay Lohan biography, Jess reads, "She was born on the freakiest of Fridays". This is a reference to Lohan's film Freaky Friday, which also starred Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays Jess' mother on New Girl. As an aside, Lohan's birth was actually on a Wednesday: July 2nd, 1986
3. Jess is seen reading from Lindsay Lohan's autobiography - Jamie Lee Curtis was Lohan's costar in "Freaky Friday," and Curtis plays Jess' mom in New Girl.
4. Bear Hunt: Nick uses the name "Mr. Cub".
5. While Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata plays, Jess's father wakes up in bed to Jess sitting next to his exposed foot, saying she knows he got out of bed. This is an homage to the movie Misery (hence this episode's title), where that melody plays in the background while the Kathy Bates character uses a sledgehammer on James Caan's foot. As mentioned in another trivia entry, Rob Reiner directed the film adaption of Stephen King's Misery.

San Diego

1. The "About the Author" page in Nick's novel reads: "Nick Miller is a law school graduate, professional bartender, and small business owner. Originally from Chicago, Mr. Miller currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He has also lived in New Orleans, although that was mostly a frenzied, barely remembered fever-dream bender, during which he wrote the majority of his magnum opus, The Pepperwood Chronicles. He thinks it's fun and cathartic to write about himself in the third person. Nick Miller wants the world to know that Nick Miller is a wonderful and handsome man, and his father would be very proud of him, had he lived to have the opportunity to steal his son's first novel."
2. Zooey Deschanel was pregnant with her second child during filming of this episode.
3. As a distraction, Jess says that her dad just dislocated his thumb getting off the couch. Earlier in the season, Winston tells Aly a secret about him doing the same thing.
4. Writer's Mistake: In the episode, Schmidt mentions that he wasn't allowed in a frat in college because the hazing required a visible penis. But In an earlier season he told a rival coworker that he was in two frats in college because he "just couldn't decide".
5. Jess is shown crushing aluminum beverage cans in her dad's kitchen. Because her dad lives in Portland, Oregon, this is unlikely as one needs to scan the UPC code on the can to collect the deposit there.
6. Bear Hunt: There is a bear poster visible in Winston's room when Nick says, "oh, the hell with you" to Aly.
7. Schmidt's first name is revealed: Winston.
8. Final appearance of Megan Fox as Nick's girlfriend Reagan.

Five Stars for Beezus

1. This was intended as a "just in case" series finale if the show wasn't renewed due to falling ratings. It was eventually renewed for an abbreviated final season.
2. Due to uncertainty from the writers of whether Fox would renew the show, this episode was written as a satisfying series finale just in case. Fox ended up announcing that they would renew the show for a final season on May 14th, 2017, over a month after this episode aired.
3. This is the highest rated episode of the series with a 9.2
4. When Nick is at the book reading at the start of the episode, he is standing beside a 'meet the author' sign, featuring Nick. Both sign-Nick and real-Nick are wearing the same clothes (Blue blazer and green shirt).
5. As of the airing of this episode, FOX Network haven't yet revealed whether or not the show will be renewed for another season. This has prompted the writers to write the season finale as if it was a series finale, giving each character and ending and closure. Because of the hesitance about the renewal/cancellation, fans have created a hashtag (#reNewGirl) to show the show their support and to encourage a renewal.
6. Merle Streep, the book publisher, tells Nick that he has published the whole "Bitch Witch" series. In season 6, episode 19 at the book fair when the kid delivers Jess' note to Nick and Reagan, the booth behind him says "The Bitch Witches."