We just knew there were presidents and historical references in it.īrett Baer: When we were writing, we decided to basically go at it from a standpoint of, “What’s the funniest thing we can put on paper from page to page?” We thought it would be funny to have them shouting out president’s names and odd tangents of historical facts. When that episode was written, were there True American rules?ĭave Finkel: The truth is, the idea of True American came from one of the writers who played a similar game in college that she couldn’t remember the rules for. I leave that to you true “New Girl” viewers to decide. Some or all of what was said by them may be true (and American), or maybe none of it was.
What I instead got, I think, was something less like molten lava than like quicksand, where the more I struggled to understand, the deeper I felt I was being pulled into a confusing abyss. I figured if anyone would know how the game actually worked, it would be “New Girl” executive producers Dave Finkel and Brett Baer, so when I ran into them at FOX’s press tour party, I attempted to get more concrete detail.
