Chicks & Dicks sounds alarmingly like something that would have Schmidt contributing to the Douchebag Jar. And yet that was the series we almost tuned into every Tuesday.

Admittedly, it was a placeholder, insists New Girl creator Liz Meriwether , who told Glamour in 2018, "There's so many pilots during any given pilot season that it's nice to have a title that catches people's attention."

And it does succinctly summarize her brainchild, inspired from her years "of bouncing from Craigslist sublet to Craigslist sublet" in Los Angeles: A heightened, yet, not all that unrealistic look at twentysomethings living in a loft and trying to get their s--t together.

"It came from me kind of looking around my life and realizing a lot of my friends were guys," Meriwether explained to E!

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