Part of the fun of watching a sitcom like New Girl is that the characters evolve from a group of people who in no way have their lives together into real grown-ups. They are relatable characters you can root for, even as they make one bad decision after another.
In fact, New Girl is so full of people flagrantly acting outside their best interests — or others' — to determine the biggest questionable life choices on the show. Some of the choices the main characters make have long-lasting consequences that affect larger storylines, while others narrowly avoided disaster.
10 Jess: Staying With Spencer For Six Years
The entire series kicks off because Jess discovers that her boyfriend of six years is cheating on her. She needs a new place to live after staying with a friend. When her new roommates, and by extension the audience, meet Spencer in the second episode, it's hard to understand why someone as vibrant and creative as Jess would have stayed with him for so long.
Spencer talks over her, ignores her feelings, and is a lot more interested in bikes than she is. It's hard to imagine that they actually stayed together as long as they did. As Jess points out, if she'd never found out that he cheated on her, she probably would have ended up married to him, and her life would have been drastically different.
9 Winston: Moving Back In With Nick
When Winston is introduced in the second episode, it's revealed that he's been in Latvia on a basketball team for two years. He moves back to the U.S. when he's replaced due to an injury, and instead of going back to Chicago, he chooses to move in with Nick and Schmidt in Los Angeles.
This isn't necessarily a horrible decision, but it is an odd one. As it's later revealed in the show, Winston has a mother living in Chicago and a sister who is also a professional basketball player. Why didn't he live with his sister for a while to see if between the two of them he could find a basketball-adjacent career when he returned? Instead, he flounders through temp jobs, becomes a nanny for Schmidt's boss, and works in a sports radio job he hates before deciding to become a police officer in Los Angeles.
8 Coach: Abandoning His Friends For Women
Coach is an interesting addition to the loft, but the audience doesn't get to know him very well because of one specific trait: he keeps leaving his friends to move in with his latest girlfriend. According to Nick and Schmidt, it's a pattern of behavior he's exhibited before when he returns in the third season.
Coach falls quickly for women, moves in with them, and then when things don't work out, moves back into the loft. That's what happens between the pilot and the second episode: he moves in with Malia. When Malia breaks up with him, he returns. At least when he leaves again in the fourth season, it seems to be a permanent move-in with May as the audience only sees him for a few special occasions after that.
7 Nick: Repeatedly Clinging To Caroline
Nick is the king of questionable life choices. He keeps meat drying out in his closet, avoids going to the doctor, and spends most of his life not knowing he should wash his bath towel. The most questionable of his life choices, however, is his tendency to cling to the idea of Caroline.
When the series opens, it's six months after their break-up, but Nick is still drinking away his sorrows and calling her when he's had too much. He's also still holding out hope that they'll get back together and even goes back to her at the end of the first season, briefly, making the jump to moving in with her. As Jess points out not long after meeting him, Nick's issues with confidence and drinking stem from his relationship with Caroline, and going back to her over and over only makes him worse.
6 Schmidt: Dating Elizabeth And Cece
If someone asked Winston and Nick, they'd likely be able to point out dozens of poor decisions Schmidt makes over the years. Within the context of the show, however, Schmidt's most questionable choice leads to him hurting everyone he cares about.
When faced with the reality that Cece has feelings for him while he's dating Elizabeth, Schmidt is told he has to choose one of them. Instead, he chickens out of breaking up with either of them, choosing not to "hurt" anyone. When he's found out, it leads to breakups with both women, and it also leads Schmidt to blame Nick and Jess for his unhappiness. Not only does he hurt Elizabeth and Cece, but also his roommates when he tries repeatedly to break them up.
5 Cece: Rushing Down The Aisle
When Cece realizes that she might not have many childbearing years left, she turns her plans for the future into overdrive. She allows her mother to set her up with eligible bachelors that meet her mother's standards for her. This leads her to Shivrang and a rushed courtship that has her walking down the aisle.
Schmidt is the only one who sees that Cece doesn't actually want to marry Shivrang, but he doesn't see it until her wedding day. If the pranks hadn't interrupted her wedding and if Shivang's childhood sweetheart Elaine wasn't in attendance, Cece would have likely gone through with the wedding. It would have led to a whole lot of unhappiness for her.
4 Reagan: Moving Into The Loft
When Reagan is introduced, she's a woman who is quickly rising through the ranks at work. She travels so much that she often stays in hotels instead of finding a more permanent residence in the cities she goes to.
Reagan is invited to sublet Jess' room while Jess is sequestered on jury duty. Initially, Reagan turns the offer down because she doesn't want to get in the middle of anyone's drama. That would have been the better choice. Instead, after Winston, Schmidt, Nick, and Cece sneak into her hotel room and wait for her to get back, she agrees to move in. While their intentions are good, it's a little creepy, and it leads to an unsuccessful relationship with Nick.
3 Nick: Kissing Jess
Nick and Jess might be one of the most beloved sitcom couples of the last decade, but Nick's decision to kiss Jess could have been disastrous — and it almost is.
When Nick first kisses her, it's in the middle of the night after refusing to do it during a game of True American while her boyfriend is in the other room. His actions lead to a lot of confusion and drama in the loft as well as another breakup for Jess. The kiss clearly isn't unwelcome, but it changes everything and could have cost him one of his best friends.
2 Jess: Being Katie
When Jess first meets Sam, she's looking for an exciting new relationship in her life. She's been so unlucky in love that when Sam asks if she's Katie, the woman he's supposed to be meeting from a dating app, she allows him to think that she is.
While Sam and Jess do attempt a relationship three times in the series, the foundation is a rocky one. As Katie, Jess can't be honest with Sam, leading to a lot of inner turmoil. She's also not technically dating Sam, and thus needs her roommates — specifically Nick — to help her feel like she's getting the full relationship experience, leading to tension in the loft as well.
1 Everyone: Living In An Unsafe Loft
It's no secret that the loft is in need of some serious repairs. The plumbing is out of whack, one of the light switches electrocutes anyone who tries to use it, and the disposal is controlled with a stick.
As Jess also reveals to Russell at one point, they all had to sign a waiver because the elevator isn't up to code. The loft might be the most dangerous place for them all to live, and yet, it's what they call home.
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