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00:00Sometimes I think that I'm just a riddle that, well, even I can't sell.
00:06Among one of TV's best ensembles, new girl's Schmidt can't help but stand out.
00:11For countless viewers, his quirky charms made him the best part of the show.
00:15I'm gonna have to run all the way home.
00:17I have my slippiest loafers on.
00:19This is even more remarkable considering Schmidt is, well, a douchebag.
00:23He's the kind of guy who spends his whole life desperately trying to be cool,
00:27which usually makes him seem anything but.
00:29Who wants to start an arcade fire?
00:31But beneath his jerky surface, Schmidt is actually incredibly genuine.
00:35You're a good guy, you know, if you ignore everything that you do on purpose
00:40and concentrate on all the things that you do by accident.
00:42He cares about everything, some would say too much.
00:45We also learn that his need to be cool comes from growing up painfully uncool.
00:51Schmidt's douchey persona masks some deep-seated insecurities.
00:55I guess I'll just never be cool enough, Jess.
00:57And his emotional immaturity makes it difficult for him to move on.
01:00I'm not actually quite sure how to stop this.
01:02But knowing who he is and where he came from
01:06also gives him the confidence he needs to be unapologetically Schmidt.
01:10It's after Labor Day. I'm wearing wells.
01:13Here's our take on how Schmidt is defined by his lack of cool,
01:16and how his uncool past is both a blessing and a curse.
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02:07Schmidt prides himself on keeping up with trends,
02:10often before anyone else has heard of them.
02:12It's so nectar.
02:14Do you just make up nectar?
02:15No, it's a volleyball term.
02:16But chasing fads is relatively new for Schmidt.
02:19The glimpses we see of his earlier years paint a very different picture.
02:23I met Schmidt a long time ago when we were in college,
02:26and he was a sweet, chubby communications major who wore cargo shorts.
02:30Being raised by his mom, Schmidt is used to, and comfortable with,
02:34displaying a more feminine energy.
02:36I had finger skating lessons until I was 13,
02:38and then my mom sobered up and realized I was a boy.
02:40Being repeatedly abandoned by his father
02:43makes Schmidt want to be a better, more feeling man.
02:46My dad never showed up.
02:47He didn't?
02:48It hurt so bad!
02:50Young Schmidt is characterized by his sweet,
02:52albeit dorky, disposition and eagerness to please.
02:55So you like a foot rub?
02:57It's softer, harder?
02:58That's perfect, big guy.
03:00But by the time we meet him, Schmidt has changed.
03:03He's insensitive, inappropriate, and far too eager to take off his shirt.
03:07It doesn't take long for us to realize that Schmidt is overcompensating.
03:16In his formative years, Schmidt's weight was an excuse for his peers
03:19to isolate him from important social inclusion,
03:22ignoring him altogether or mocking him under the guise of friendship.
03:26We used to make him sing that because he was fat.
03:29You know I'm just playing at you.
03:31Yeah, hilarity, my man, hilarity.
03:34There's a long history of turning a character's weight into a joke on screen.
03:38Using fat suits is a common visual punchline,
03:41and we often see them deployed to mark an out-of-control chapter
03:44in a character's life.
03:45I started gaining weight after I joined the Brown Birds.
03:48Remember? Dad bought every one of my boxes and I ate them all.
03:51Dad had to buy every one of your boxes because you ate them all.
03:55Putting Schmidt in a fat suit certainly earned its own share of criticism.
03:59Yet it's notable that Schmidt's experiences go beyond a throwaway joke.
04:03Being overweight informs his internal life.
04:06Sorry that Cece did this to you.
04:08That's okay. I'm used to it.
04:11I guess I'll just always be the fat kid with the big dreams.
04:13Studies show that weight bias can foster higher levels of loneliness or anxiety.
04:18It's difficult for Schmidt to see the value in himself
04:21after so many years of being mocked and excluded.
04:24Want to dance?
04:25Yeah, right.
04:26Fat kid wants to dance at a cool college party.
04:29Nice joke, stranger.
04:30By the time he loses the weight, the damage has been done.
04:33He learns that changing your image won't necessarily fix how you feel.
04:37In hopes of fitting in with a world that hasn't been kind to him,
04:40Schmidt adapts by becoming an arguably worse person.
04:44You were the greatest boyfriend.
04:46I loved the big guy, but then you lost weight and you got mean.
04:51But rather than improving his life,
04:53putting all his focus into his new baller lifestyle
04:56only seems to make him more insecure.
04:58As actor Max Greenfield puts it,
05:00he thinks he's a different person now, but he's not.
05:03I think he was far more lovable and likable when he was a little bit bigger.
05:06Now that he's lost the weight, he thinks he has to act a certain way.
05:09You've got so many boots.
05:11You know who doesn't have a lot of boots?
05:12Guys who aren't getting laid on the reg.
05:14Schmidt's new lifestyle creates the trendy narcissist
05:17we meet in New Girl's pilot,
05:19but his high self-esteem remains colored by self-doubt.
05:23For every great friend, like Nick,
05:25he keeps a fellow douche like Benjamin around,
05:27reinforcing his negative feelings about himself.
05:30We have a very weird girl-style friendship,
05:33where we kind of hate each other.
05:35We're bro enemies.
05:37It's my premises.
05:38He even flexes on his real friends,
05:40fabricating a rivalry with Winston over his compulsive need to prove himself.
05:45Look, I'm not jealous of Winston, okay?
05:46It's been two years.
05:47He's going to have to recognize.
05:48I'm a lot flyer now.
05:49Want to see me flex my bass?
05:50No, no, no, no, put your shirt on.
05:52Let me flex my bass, man.
05:53The more we learn about him, the more obvious it becomes.
05:56Schmidt is obsessed with his image,
05:58and it seems to explain almost everything he does.
06:01He regularly brags about his success at work.
06:04I crushed it.
06:05I crushed it all day today, and then I crushed it some more,
06:08and then it asked me what I was doing,
06:09and I told it that I was crushing it.
06:11But in reality, his job is far from fulfilling,
06:14or even very healthy.
06:16I'm just trying to do my work.
06:17I'm trying to do a good job here.
06:19Nice tie.
06:20Can I borrow a tampon?
06:21His pursuit of status feels endless,
06:24because he wants it to fill the much bigger hole within himself.
06:27A friend in Kanye is the most efficient way for me
06:30to jump social strata.
06:31Instead of looking for what will actually make him happy,
06:34he sets his sights on everything he couldn't have before.
06:37I have to go home with Brooke tonight.
06:39I deserve someone like Brooke.
06:40She's perfect.
06:41And being so unable to move on from the pain of his past
06:44ends up ruining the things that matter most.
06:46And I got caught up in this thing,
06:48and I used to be so fat, and now I'm not,
06:51and girls like me, and I don't know how to do this.
06:56This is LLS.
07:02Ladies love Schmidt.
07:04The area where Schmidt's life changes the most is female attention,
07:08from his socially awkward college years,
07:10Back in high school, they used to call me the sex, the sex haverer,
07:16to the unrepentant womanizer we meet as the series begins.
07:20Oh my god, you slept with the same girl twice in a row?
07:22Was it a mistake?
07:23Was she wearing some kind of disguise?
07:24When his romantic life picks up,
07:26Schmidt's experience with women is still fairly limited.
07:29He regards them as an other, not as equals or even real people.
07:34And some of his attitudes toward them are borderline offensive.
07:37Without sex, she's not your girlfriend, okay?
07:39She's a friend that you buy meals for.
07:40But Schmidt wants to be there for the people that need him.
07:43By including Jess in his inner circle,
07:45he demonstrates that, despite some of his behavior,
07:48he doesn't really think of women solely as conquests.
07:52You used to inspire me, you know, in a vague kind of,
07:55look at that go-getter in a brightly colored sweater kind of way.
07:58Through Jess, he meets Cece, the most frequent target
08:01of Schmidt's douchebag behavior,
08:02but also the best catalyst for him to finally start growing up.
08:06Over the course of the show, it becomes clear that Schmidt and Cece
08:09truly belong together, but it takes time to get there.
08:13Schmidt's hangups continue to sabotage their relationship
08:16from season to season.
08:18Because I'm in love with you, deeply.
08:22I assume that you would never because I've messed this up so many times.
08:25Schmidt doesn't consider himself worthy of Cece,
08:28so he accepts that she doesn't want to be seen with him.
08:31Okay, come on Schmidt, I can't be the first woman who's ashamed to be with you.
08:35Their secret fling eventually does blossom into something more equal,
08:39but even then, Schmidt can't make peace with their imbalance.
08:43He can't help feeling inadequate, especially when comparing himself
08:46to the men in Cece's world.
08:48That's my job.
08:50Gino is just some guy that I see around the office,
08:52except for in my office, they rub us down with baby oil before we start.
08:56We see that relatively early in their connection,
08:59Cece actually does like Schmidt.
09:01You like my personality?
09:03I was surprised too.
09:04But he just can't seem to accept that someone like her
09:07could be fulfilled with him.
09:08Schmidt's low self-esteem and the trauma of his past
09:11makes him naturally more prone to feelings of rejection.
09:14Why are you trying to push me away?
09:16I saw the text message from Gino.
09:18Eventually, he realizes he'd rather end things with Cece
09:22than risk getting hurt, and he frames the breakup
09:24as him doing her a favor, that he loves her enough
09:27to think she deserves someone better.
09:30She's a good egg.
09:32She's never going to be happy with somebody like me, Jess.
09:35Schmidt only becomes ready to be with Cece by dating other people,
09:39which allows him to outgrow his old bad habits.
09:42When he reconnects with his college girlfriend Elizabeth,
09:45his reasoning is just as immature and selfish as ever.
09:48I want you to pretend to be my girlfriend so she gets very sad
09:52and then breaks off the wedding and then runs away with me.
09:54But it proves to be an important step in his self-improvement.
09:57For the first time, he revisits his uncool past willingly.
10:00He deliberately brings someone into his life who reminds him of a time
10:04before his personality was all cardigan collections and celebrity trivia.
10:08You knew me when action sandals were my necessary footwear.
10:12And while at first he acts embarrassed of Elizabeth,
10:15just like Cece did with him,
10:17Do you know her?
10:18Mmm, no, no.
10:21No?
10:23I feel like I'm trapped.
10:24I'm being trapped, am I not?
10:25Unlike Schmidt, Elizabeth is happy with herself.
10:28But why are you wearing that shirt?
10:29I'm not going to let you make me feel bad about myself.
10:31I love this shirt.
10:33And dating her for the second time
10:34helps Schmidt access the side of himself
10:36that doesn't care so much about what others think.
10:39Welcome home, melted cheese.
10:41It's like waking up from a bad salad dream.
10:43And while he and Elizabeth end pretty terribly,
10:46even that experience teaches Schmidt something about himself.
10:49When he cheats on her and gets caught,
10:51Schmidt sees that he's important enough to hurt Elizabeth.
10:55He can't play the victim forever.
10:56You broke my heart.
10:59Mail me my mouth guard.
11:00His next significant relationship is the other side of the same coin.
11:05For a while, Schmidt likes being arm candy to Fawn,
11:08an ambitious politician.
11:09And at least at first,
11:10he doesn't mind being used by Fawn as a tool in her campaign.
11:14You let me humiliate myself in public for your own political gain.
11:19Yes.
11:20You're the sexiest woman that I've ever met.
11:22But eventually, being with Fawn helps Schmidt realize
11:24that he deserves more.
11:26You'll be rich, I'll be powerful.
11:27I'm realizing just now that that's not what I want.
11:32Over time, and through much trial and error,
11:34Schmidt begins to let go of the insecurities at the root of his relationship problems.
11:39He comes out the other side with none of the baggage
11:42and all of the good qualities his true friends always knew were there.
11:45And by the time he proposes to Cece, he's fully his own man.
11:49Oh God, you're gonna say something stupid, aren't you?
11:52Girl, will you marry me?
11:58But I mean, can we just take a moment to celebrate me?
12:00Schmidt is easily one of New Girl's most popular characters outside the show,
12:05even if that sentiment isn't always shared inside it.
12:08If I had a dollar for everybody I couldn't hang out with
12:11because they hated Schmidt, I'd be rich.
12:13Like, fill my gas tank all the way up, rich.
12:16We're used to seeing the jerk-turned-hero on screen.
12:19Many of them with their own sympathetic backstories,
12:21most of them equally well-liked, yet few seem as easy to love as Schmidt.
12:26So what is it that makes us see past his douchiest qualities
12:30and focus on the sweeter side of Schmidt?
12:32Unlike similar character types, he owns his emotional baggage.
12:36I think we're all a little bit crazy, don't you think, Jess?
12:38Schmidt wears his heart on his sleeve, which makes him sympathetic,
12:41even when he doesn't deserve much sympathy.
12:44I'm a mess, I can't sleep, I urinate constantly.
12:46I cried the other day listening to a techno song.
12:50He also sincerely cares about his friends,
12:52in contrast to cynical characters whose inner pain
12:55sees them keeping everyone else at a distance.
12:58How long did it take you in the morning to make it look like you have bedhead?
13:02How many sweatpants-sport jacket combos did you try
13:05before you found the one that said,
13:06I don't care?
13:07Schmidt's blossoming friendship with Jess helps us track this good in him.
13:11From the beginning, his earnest attempts to help her move on from Spencer
13:14prove just how loyal he can be, and his unconditional love for Nick
13:18sometimes feels more passionate than any of his romances.
13:21Schmidt loves me so much, and to be honest, Jess, it scares me.
13:26I mean, I don't think I deserve all of Schmidt's love.
13:29While some characters' scumbag improprieties are impossible to overlook,
13:33Schmidt's willingness to atone allows us to believe he has a good heart,
13:37and that he has the capacity to get better, even if it's a slow process.
13:41I can't believe I have to have feelings to have good sex.
13:44I was hoping I would be dead before this happened.
13:46Although he has a clear chip on his shoulder,
13:48he also doesn't brood about it like some others.
13:51He lives with the trauma of his past,
13:53but the show also lets us laugh at and with Schmidt,
13:56which makes him easier to connect with emotionally.
13:59And I have a broken penis.
14:01Don't pretend to know my pain.
14:03In the end, his redemption doesn't seem like a reversal or a surprise.
14:07We already know he's a lovable jerk, so we root for him,
14:11and when he actually improves, we celebrate.
14:14I am delighted for you to marry this man.
14:17As Schmidt marries and settles down with Cece,
14:20we watch him grow into the kind of dedicated father he always lacked,
14:24one who wants only the best for little Ruth Bader Perique Schmidt.
14:27If she gets into Harvard, it's a bullet train to the Oval Office.
14:31Don't you want Ruth to be the president?
14:33Schmidt outgrows the behavior that makes him a douche,
14:36and keeps what makes him Schmidt.
14:37DRILL is an acronym.
14:40D, do it.
14:40R, redo it.
14:41I, imitate what you just did.
14:43L, learn to keep doing it.
14:44L, live the rest of your life doing it.
14:47The fact that Schmidt, for all his cool guy bluster,
14:49is inherently uncool only makes us like him more.
14:53Caring too deeply about everything might not make him popular
14:56with the people he wants to impress, but it does make him relatable,
15:00and far more enjoyable for us to spend time with.
15:03You, I will never give up.
15:05And when he applies this attitude to helping his friends,
15:07we can even see the benefit in having someone like Schmidt around.
15:11I may have your entire life planned out on my computer.
15:15I made a spreadsheet and everything.
15:16I worked on it this morning.
15:17Being unpopular, especially in our youth,
15:19can be detrimental to our self-esteem,
15:21but Schmidt shows us how it can sometimes be a blessing in disguise.
15:25Our inner dork allows us to remain genuine,
15:28to be unusually sensitive, and to find people who like us for who we are.
15:33In the long run, embracing just how uncool we are
15:36makes us much happier than being cool ever will.
15:40I'm the cool rebel brother.
15:41You're the mom.
15:41The mother.
15:42Mom.
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