Schmidt and Cece is a relationship on FOX comedy New Girl. They are portrayed by Max Greenfield and Hannah Simone.
History[]
Since Schmidt and Cece met, he - along with all the other guys in the loft - showed an awkward mostly physical interest over her. In the episode Cece Crashes, she manipulates the guys into doing everything she wants, but she only apologizes to Schmidt, the one who suffered the most trying to conquer her. They sleep in the same bed together and hold hands. Until the episode Secrets, Schmidt and Cece secretly dated, although they tried not to get feelings involved into it and kept their relationship mostly physical, because Cece could not deny she was physically attracted to Jess' roommate. Its in this same episode that the truth comes out, but is only later that she grants Schmidt a real life date where he can "show her off". After getting to know about the truth, Nick and Winston are mostly stunned about it, not able to believe what Schmidt has done and Jess is a little reluctant to accept it, but ends up surrendering to her friends' relationship. Jealousy starts to grow around their relationship. Cece's job becomes a major influence on Schmidt's feelings due to the fact that she's dealing with attractive men. They even have a minor break-up where Schmidt shows he's done with Cece by sleeping with her friend Nadia and accidentally breaking his penis during sexual intercourse with her. They get back together as Cece apologizes, but she needs to stay away because of his medical condition. In the final episode of the first season, See Ya, Schmidt is possessed by jealousy and can't endure Cece texting the guy she's working with and goes through her cellphone. She's mad at him and they break-up, with Schmidt playing a "White Fangs" style to scare her off, which just makes her angry and heartbroken. Then, they go through an on-again, off-again relationship for the next three seasons: in season 2 they’re both still in love with each other, but they don’t want to admit it, so Cece, thinking she’s getting old, agrees to have a pre-defined wedding, but Schmidt tries to sabotage it because she wants to get back together with her and also Cece and her fiancé, Shivang, both agree that they don’t want to get married and break the engagement, then she admits her feelings for Schmidt, getting back together with him in the season 3 premiere, but their rekindled romance is short-lived because Cece discovers he is dating his ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth, at the same time and breaks up with him. Then, after going through a rough time because of what happened, they decide to remain friends despite still being in love with each other as they both admit in season 4: finally, in Clean Break, they admit their feelings to each other and Schmidt proposes to Cece and she happily accepts. In season 5, they’re engaged, and we can finally see they’re romance blossom in the happiest and healthiest way and in the finale they get married. Then, in season 6, they’re preparing to settle down together and they buy a house where they move in and in the finale they discover Cece is pregnant with their first child. In the season 7 premiere they are revealed to have a three-year-old daughter, Ruth, and they’re still happily married. In the series finale’s flashforward they’re revelead to have another child, a son named Moses.
Season 1[]
Cece comes over to help Jess get ready for a date. She waits in the living room while she gets dressed; it's there that Coach, Schmidt, and Nick are sitting on the couch and staring at her, Coach and Schmidt specifically trying to act cool. Schmidt proceeds to talk himself up and take his shirt off.
"Please put your shirt back on. Please don't make me laugh at you." ― Cece to Schmidt
Even after all this, Schmidt continues and offers her tea with some "teabag action," to which Nick follows it up by handing over the Douchebag Jar.
Jess calls Cece to tell her about what almost happened the night before. Cece is still in Schmidts bed in her underwear and tells Jess if she had hit on Schmidt it would have been "pretty crazy". Cece ends the call and Schmidt rolls over and hugs her implying they both go back to sleep.
The two then decide to have a no strings attached relationship based entirely on sex, however they decide to keep it secret as Cece is embarrassed to be seen with Schmidt.
Cece allows Schmidt to choose a place for them to have sex, he chooses his car or 'the manbulance' which Winston uses to drive to Mexico, still with them in the back of the car naked. He does not realise they are in their until going through US customs on his way back to the loft. Winston's discovery means he is the only person other than Cece and Schmidt to know about their relationship.
Jess and Cece are set to run a 5K run together for an unknown cause, however Cece boycots training one morning because she is with with Schmidt who stayed over at her appartment the night before. Meanwhile Winston tells Nick about Cece and Schmidt, who tells Jess. Jess is angry that Cece didn't tell her and the two fight for the rest of their training and the 5K run until Jess sees Schmidt in a T-shirt saying "See Cece run". When she asks Schmidt he says apparently Cece thought it was funny leading Jess to realise that Cece has feelings for him. Jess then confronts her and Cece admits that she 'likes' him.
CeCe is concerned that she is pregnant with Schmidt's baby. She spends the majority of the episode vascillating between being freaked out and trying to practice her somewhat suspect brand of parenting on Jess's student/boyfriend's daughter. Schmidt asks CeCe out on their first official date to Italy on Ice, but CeCe declines because she is trying to keep her worry about being pregnancy a secret. Schmidt thinks that she wants him to date someone else and so asks Nick on a fake date over the phone while CeCe is watching to try to make her jealous. He finally discovers CeCe's secret and quickly transitions from scared to ecstatic.
He tells her that he is excited to help her take care of the baby. Unbeknownst to CeCe, he also plans to ask her to marry him using a sky-writing airplane. Before he can do this however, CeCe discovers that she is not truly pregnant. Schmidt is able to hide the marriage proposal from CeCe by quickly helping her into her car so that she can drive away without seeing it. It is clear that he is highly disappointed in the outcome of the proposal and even the pregnancy scare.
Cece decides she and Schmidt should take a step back from their relationship after the pregnancy scare. Nadia overhears the conversation and decides that she will date Schmidt. He is fine with this only to make Cece jealous. The date ends with Schmidt going to the hospital with a broken penis. Cece meets him there and the two reconcile.
Schmidt starts to think that Cece is cheating on him with an attractive and dangerous model she works with. Unable to open himself up about it to her, he finally confronts her when the guys are lost in the desert. He first goes through her cellphone and find a incriminating message from that same model. Cece's angry at him for doing such private invasion, and unable to keep living with that creepy feeling, Schmidt break-up with Cece the "White Fangs" way, telling her to go away and saying he doesn't love her anymore and she must find some friends, because there are none. She's heartbroken for him doing that an uncover his breaking up trick because she just knows Schmidt too well and also knows that "White Fangs" is the only e-book on his tablet.
Season 2[]
Initially, Schmidt is disturbed when he comes back and finds that Cece is dating Robby. They share many moments, although Cece is persistent on staying with Robby, who is a nice guy. However, Schmidt has no intentions of leaving her alone. In the middle of this, Schmidt's boss wants to start a sexual relationship with him, which he accepts after Cece flees from their kiss. The failings sexual relationship with his boss makes Schmidt realize that the sex with Cece was always successful because it was love. Cece and Schmidt share that kiss while she is still dating Robby, although they break up shortly after, since Robby doesn't like the idea of having children.
After Robby and Cece break up, Schmidt is determined to win Cece back. He puts on his best suit, and goes to her place to confess his feelings. Schmidt brings a pigeon into her house, confusing her at first, but then he explains why he came— he confesses that he doesn't just like her... he loves her. Cece is hesitant at first, due to so much going against their relationship, but Schmidt is able to persuade her, even mentioning that he would want a kid with her. Cece agrees to have dinner with him. However, this is all ruined when Schmidt's boss gets him drunk for a vodka-testing. When Cece sees him drunk, and finds out he was with his sexually-relationed boss, she turns him down, and calls her mother to set her up with an Indian man.
Cece begins looking for an Indian man, much to Schmidt's dismay. His friendship with Cece is strained, due to the pain of rejection. Soon after, they patch their friendship up, but Cece is still on her way to arranged-marrying an Indian man. She starts seeing Shivrang, but continues looking at more options. She goes to an event to meet an Indian match, but Schmidt decides to show up. She tries to keep her distance from him at the Indian event. Schmidt is shocked when no Indian man wants to be with Cece's at the event, since she's at "table 34", which is the unemployed and "bad" table. Schmidt defends her to all the Indians for being rude to her, telling them how great of a girl she is. Schmidt's speech causes many Indian men to suddenly go for Cece, which begins to irritate Schmidt. At the end of the day, Schmidt goes home with Cece, and they end up having sex, although Cece says she is still going to marry an Indian man, which Schmidt claims he's fine with.
Schmidt is heartbroken when he has to watch Cece and Shivrang together. He is miserable when Cece and Shivrang get engaged, and even goes to the lengths of having a symbolic fish that represents Cece, since it is so rare. Originally, Cece promises him a plus one if he gets a date by her wedding, which Schmidt agrees. He tried to ask a countless amount of his former hook-ups, but they all reject him. Schmidt finally tries asking his college ex-girlfriend Elizabeth to be his date. She turns him down at first, since he's no longer fat, and is a big jerk. Schmidt and Elizabeth reconnect, and begin a relationship again, and Elizabeth does become Schmidt's girlfriend and date to Cece's wedding, although he doesn't make Cece give the plus one.
During Cece's wedding with Shivrang, Schmidt accidentally walks in on her before the ceremony, and claims they had an "eye-conversation" where Cece told him that she doesn't want to marry Shivrang. Everyone thinks he's delusional at first, but Schmidt and Winston team up to sabotage her wedding, and Nick finally agrees to help in the end. They fall on the stage right before Cece can finish her final circle, which would finish the marriage ceremony, conveniently. But this is not the reason the wedding is stopped. Cece confesses that she still has feelings for someone else, and Shivrang says he does, too, and runs away with Elain, his lover, portrayed by Taylor Swift. When Elizabeth asks Cece who she was talking about, she confirms that she was talking about Schmidt, and both girls ask Schmidt to choose between them, thus beginning the love triangle. Schmidt runs away, unable to answer, since he's in love with both of them.
Season 3[]
Cece and Schmidt are alone at the Bar talking about the dress code for Winston's banquet when Schmidt discovers Cece is studying for the GED (high school equivalent diploma) under the bar. Cece makes a self-deprecating comment and in response, Schmidt says that he is proud of her, and he will be supportive. Cece says she has failed the last 5 practice exams and doesn't think she will pass anyway. Schmidt then criticises her studying techniques and comments that studying while at work in a crowded bar is counterproductive. He is stunned when she doesn't even have flashcards and then says she needs a tutor, immediately saying that he will do it. Cece reminds him that she has a boyfriend, Buster the 20-year-old Australian, and this is the first time she has referred to Buster being her boyfriend. Schmidt then says this is about her education and nothing more, to which she sarcastically agrees. Cece then reminds Schmidt that Buster is from Perth, not Australia, and Schmidt is shocked and tells her Perth is a town in Australia and that they will start by studying Geography. They are studying in Cece's apartment when Jess barges in to tell Cece that she and Nick broke up, but when she finds Schmidt there, Jess and Cece's go into the bedroom to chat with Schmidt impatiently pounding on the door insisting that Cece needs to get back to studying. After Jess tells Cece about the breakup, Schmidt loudly knocks on the door asking if Jess is pregnant and the girls roll their eyes. There is an awkward silence before Schmidt admits that he feels like he made it weird with the pregnancy comment and apologises at length, rambling before joking that Cece can't even spell pregnancy. Schmidt arrives at the loft for Winston's Honey Roast/Banquet and tells Cece that they are supposed to be studying, clearly caring a lot more about it than Cece does. Cece tells him that something more important came up, not able to tell Schmidt about the breakup yet, and Schmidt gives her a lecture stating there should be nothing more important than her future, because nothing matters more to him than her future. He goes on to say that it makes him look very stupid to care more about it than she does, and she has an affectionate look on her face before blurting that she had to leave because Nick and Jess broke up. She tells him it was very sweet and thanks him for believing in her, but he is now wrapped up in the Nick and Jess news, not caring about Cece's studies and making a big deal as he is already a delicate child of divorce. During the Honey Roast, Schmidt and Cece sit next to each other, but Schmidt is struggling to keep up the charade that he doesn't know about the breakup and is visibly sad, despite Coach and Cece trying to coach him through the terrible puns and jokes. Jess and Nick finally announce they broke up and the group has a round circle, hand hold to finish off the Roast.
Season 4[]
Schmidt has had a slutty summer to get over the fact that Cece and Buster are together. During the last wedding the gang is going to, Schmidt plans on hooking up with another girl, although his feelings for Cece are shown in many cases, such as when he becomes aroused while watching Cece show Jess how to dance to attract the best man at the wedding. However, some girls at the wedding want to have a foursome with both Schmidt and Nick. Nick is immediately disgusted by the idea, although Schmidt continuously tries to convince him so he can get over Cece and Buster. Nick reluctantly changes his mind after Cece tells him that she and Buster broke up, as he knows he has to do this foursome for Schmidt now. Schmidt, however, bows out after finding out that Nick's hand feels like a hoof. Nick then reveals that Cece and Buster broke up, but Schmidt reacts very oddly, and continuously repeats that it's interesting. Later, Schmidt tells Cece that he's sorry that she and Buster broke up, and Cece tells him that she's waiting for Schmidt to do something weird. Schmidt confesses that he feels that, too, and leaves to stop himself before he does something weird.
Winston and Cece find that Schmidt and Coach act extremely conceited about their looks, so the two of them schemingly encourage them to become models. However, both Cece and Winston feel bad after finding out how much modeling means to Schmidt, since he used to have self-confidence issues when he was fat. To ensure that he doesn't find out the whole modeling thing is fake, they pay money to have Schmidt's image placed on an ad.
Schmidt has Cece record the voice for their landline's voicemail. No matter how Cece says the voicemail, Schmidt says it's sexy and arousing him (and the entire world).
Schmidt snoops on Jess's phone while she's texting Cece and finds out she went on a date with a guy named Paul. Schmidt tries to play it cool about Cece going on a date with another guy. Schmidt continuously makes fun of Paul's name. Then, during Winston's background check, Cece comes in to help with the supposed meth that Jess has. She almost says meth aloud when the woman from the LAPD is sitting there, but Schmidt stops her by surprising her with a kiss. Schmidt tells her to play along, or they go to jail. He announces that Cece is his girlfriend, and pretends like they are dating in front of the LAPD cop. They later share a short moment while talking about the new guy she is seeing named “Paul”
Cece wants to get a breast reduction and Schmidt goes through the “stages of grief”. During her consult Schmidt comes to say his last goodbyes to her breasts and he gives her earbuds with music so she does not hear his “private conversation”. She sneakily removes the earbuds and hears him call her beautiful and the size of her breasts did not matter. He does not notice that she hears him, she smiles and puts back the earbuds.
Schmidt is in charge of picking Cece’s date for “Bangs-giving”. He tells her that her dates name is Geoff. He never shows up and she thinks he isn’t real. When Schmidt leaves the room Geoff shows up late. Cece speaks Hindi to him and kicks him out because she wants to spend time alone with Schmidt. They then spend the night playing board games.
Schmidt and Cecelia buy guest tickets to an exclusive lounge and meet a rich man there. When Cece goes to the bar the man asks Schmidt if he could “take his girl for a spin”. Schmidt refuses and makes a scene. Cece and Schmidt leave the lounge and go eat together. Cece asks him what the man said and he said that he disrespected something very important to him (Cece) and something priceless. She then tells him she stole a pillow he liked from the lounge for him and tells him she likes being his friend and he says he likes being her friend too and they wish each other a Merry Christmas.
Schmidt tells Cece that she is the most amazing women he has ever met and that he will never stop trying to make her happy. He says that he promises for the rest of his life.. then gets cut off by a phone call. Later Cece’s former crush comes to see her but she tells him that she’s in love with someone else (Schmidt) but it’s complicated and that Winston knows.
When helping Coach pack to move to New York, Schmidt reveals that he has kept a "Cece Box" since they last broke up. It is full of items that remind him of Cece and their time together, including a birthday card, a drawing of their "mixed race child", a pair of underwear, a sports bra and a $5 note. The note is revealed to be from the night he first met Cece, and he said something stupid to her, resulting in Schmidt having to put the $5 in the Douche-Bag Jar. He won't reveal what he said, claiming that he needs a clean break just like Coach and he is getting rid of it all.
Winston, knowing that Cece is still in love with Schmidt, tells Jess they need to tell Schmidt now that he has broken up with Fawn Moscato. Cece is on a trip to climb Mount Shasta, just like the lady in her self-empowerment book, and is not contactable by phone due to the remote location. Jess says that she promised Cece she wouldn't get involved, as Jess always meddles. They have left voicemails trying to tell Cece that Schmidt and Fawn broke up, so that Cece will come back and tell Schmidt herself, but she hasn't called Jess back and they don't know if she has got the message yet. They leave another voicemail, surprisingly smooth from Winston, to let Cece know that "Schmidt dropped Fawn like a bad habit, so ain't nobody riding shotgun, so [Cece] better get on while the getting is good".
Schmidt is at a Goodwill donation bin, when he hesitates putting the Cece Box down the chute. He takes one last forlorn look, before pushing it down the chute, smiling and nodding before walking away. The frame pauses for a moment, before Schmidt comes rushing back shouting "No, no no! Cece! I want it back!" and trying to climb into the Goodwill bin. He kicks the bin, tries to break it open with a cinder block, runs into it from the side hurting himself, climbs on top and stomps on it repeatedly, rams it with a shopping cart, tries to break the padlock with a rock and finally shouts "Why are you so secure?! You're filled with this nobody wants!" before giving up. A Goodwill employee named Wally arrives to collect the donation and Schmidt tells him he dropped something in there and he needs it back. Wally is skeptical and asks if he is Jewish. Schmidt is taken back by his racial stereotyping and pauses before saying he just needs the box. Wally argues with Schmidt about why he needs the box, and Schmidt tells him its a box full of memories he's not ready to let go of yet. They wrestle over the box, and Wally begins to blow a rape-whistle, while Schmidt shouts "Stop blowing the whistle, you are sexually safe!".
Schmidt bursts into Jess's room while she and Nick are talking about the Sex Mug and tells them that he spent $500 to get back a $5 note. The scene pans back to Wally with a wad of cash in his hand, still holding the box and shouting to Schmidt that he is a fool. Schmidt then says he needs to move on as he is never going to get Cece back and that it is his fault he lost her. Nick reminds him that he lost Cece twice, and Jess begins to look conflicted about the knowledge she has regarding Cece's true feelings for Schmidt. Jess hints to Schmidt, asking if he is sure he knows about how Cece feels, to which Schmidt replies that Cece has said a thousand times that she only wants to be friends with him, and he goes on to sadly state that Cece doesn't love him and she never will so it's time to let go. He offers the $5 to Nick before Jess bursts out that she has to tell Schmidt something, but she isn't supposed to tell him. Schmidt looks concerned, before Jess says she found a loophole and she will tell Nick while Schmidt is in the room to hear. She says that Cece is in love with Schmidt, for real. She attempts to say that Winston promised not to tell him, but Schmidt interrupts asking why the hell they are talking about Winston when Cece loves him.
He runs away, shouting that he has to go after her as he can't wait for her to get back from her trip. He goes to leave, opening the door to find Cece standing there, covered in dirt. The gang run away while Cece and Schmidt talk, and Cece says she was on the top of the mountain when she finally got cell reception and found 20 voicemails from Jess and Winston. Schmidt interrupts her, asking if she is in love with him and she stands there in stunned silence, not knowing what to say. Schmidt has a serious and longing look on his face, and Cece looks close to crying, before he goes on to say;
"Because I'm in love with you. Deeply. But I assumed that you would never because I've messed this up so many times. And you've made it very clear that you just want to be friends with me and I value that friendship so much. So if I'm ruining it by doing any of this, please, please stop me!"
Cece interrupts him and softly says that she is in love with him too. The gang cheer quietly, listening from the kitchen, as Cece says;
"Yeah, it's kind of stupid how much I'm in love with you. You should've seen how fast I came down that mountain. I mean, a lot of it was falling. Luckily, the ground just stopped me, but..."
Schmidt is smiling as he holds up the $5 bill, he paid $500 to get back and asks Cece if she remembers it. The scene flashes back to the first time Cece and Schmidt met, and Cece is asking if he's about to say something stupid. He holds up the $5 bill and says "Girl, imma marry you." to which Cece responds, "Jar.". In the present time, Schmidt says he might seem crazy and impulsive, but it doesn't feel that way to him. He says since the minute he met her, he knew. Schmidt gets down on one knee and Cece gasps and covers her mouth before again asking if he is going to say something stupid, to which he interrupts with "Girl, will you marry me?". The gang gasp and laugh while Cece says "Yes!". They all hug and celebrate, and then say goodbye to Coach.
At the end of the episode, Nick and Jess are talking when they hear loud crying coming from Schmidt and Nicks room, and they think it is Cece crying with happiness. It's actually Schmidt sobbing and telling Cece he can't believe this is happening as it's everything he's ever wanted. Cece consoles him but says he needs to stop crying if they are going to have sex. Schmidt tries again but ends up sobbing again and Cece holds him while he cries.
Season 5[]
Cece and Schmidt's relationship in season 5 of New Girl is a major plotline that is explored in great detail. The couple is planning their wedding, and they ask Jess and Nick to play important roles in their big day. Cece and Schmidt have come a long way since their early days of dating, and their relationship has grown stronger with each passing day. They have learned to support each other through thick and thin, and they are both excited to start this new chapter of their lives together. As they begin the wedding planning process, Cece and Schmidt face a variety of challenges. They must navigate family drama, budget constraints, and other unexpected issues that arise along the way. But through it all, they remain committed to each other and to creating the perfect wedding. Meanwhile, Jess and Nick are honored to be asked to be the Maid of Honor and Best Man, respectively. They take their roles seriously and work hard to make sure that everything goes smoothly for their friends. Along the way, they also reflect on their own feelings for each other, which adds an extra layer of complexity to the story. Throughout the season, viewers get to see the ups and downs of planning a wedding. From choosing a venue and picking out a dress to dealing with last-minute emergencies, Cece and Schmidt's journey is both hilarious and heartwarming. Ultimately, their wedding is a beautiful celebration of love and friendship, and it marks a major milestone in their relationship.
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Trivia[]
- They’re classified as a supercouple along with Nick and Jess.[1]
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