New Girl’s Shared Universe Explained: How It Connects To Other Sitcoms
New Girl has a lot in common with other sitcoms, and some specific elements make them part of an unofficial connected universe. Let’s take a look.
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New Girl shared the spotlight with another sitcom in a crossover, but it actually shares enough elements with many other sitcoms to make them a connected universe – and here’s how New Girl fits into it. Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, New Girl premiered on Fox in 2011 and came to an end in 2018 after seven seasons. New Girl was very well received from the beginning and was praised for its sense of humor and the performances of its main cast, which allowed it to continue for a couple more years.
New Girl followed Jess Day (Zooey Deschanel), a young teacher who after finding out that her boyfriend was cheating on her, moved into a loft with three strangers she found on the internet. After a period of adjustment with a lot of laughter, tears, and misunderstandings, Jess became very close to her roommates Schmidt (Max Greenfield), Nick Miller (Jake Johnson), and Winston (Lamorne Morris), with her best friend Cece (Hannah Simone) also joining the fun. These characters went through all types of situations throughout the series, and they once had a crossover with Brooklyn 99, but their connection to other sitcoms goes beyond that.
Through this crossover, it was confirmed that New Girl and Brooklyn 99 exist in the same universe and timeline (though it also made way to a Damon Wayans Jr. plot hole), but they might not be the only ones sharing a universe. New Girl actually has other, sneaky but clever Easter eggs that connect it to many other sitcoms, without them having to take place in the same timeline, city, and without their characters casually crossing paths – and it’s all about the props these sitcoms use, thus making way to a sort-of connected universe between these TV shows.
Like most TV shows, New Girl had its own fictional brands, which saves producers a lot of money as they don’t have to get involved with actual brands and product placement deals, but these aren’t always exclusive to each TV show. New Girl, for example, had its beer of choice in Heisler and the characters’ favorite chips were from a brand called Let’s, but these have also shown up in many other sitcoms – case in point, Jake Peralta and the crew from Brooklyn 99 also drink Heisler, Janet served this beer during her time on Earth in The Good Place, and it also appeared as background decoration in Parks & Recreation. Let’s, on the other hand, have been spotted in so many sitcoms that they have become a sort of legend, one that the audience likes to look out for when watching a new show.
The Let’s chips have been found in TV shows like It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Modern Family, 2 Broke Girls, and Arrested Development (and, of course, Brooklyn 99), though it has been spotted more frequently in Community. The reason for so many sitcoms to share the same brands is because these are made by one company (in this case, ISS Prop House), and then distributed to those TV shows that need some props. These fictional brands inevitably form a connection between all those shows, forming a type of shared universe of sitcoms where New Girl has a spot.
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