No, the kiss isn’t one of them.

*Nobody Wants This *creator breaks down her 3 favorite moments from season 1

No, the kiss isn't one of them.

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Published on August 15, 2025 06:54PM EDT

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Adam Brody and Kristen Bell go in for a kiss in the season 1 finale of 'Nobody Wants This'. Credit:

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- *Nobody Wants This* says creator Erin Foster knew one particular Noah scene was 'gonna get women.'

- Foster reveals which of her favorite scenes she didn't write — and why it was perfect the first time she read it.

- Foster explains the *16 Candles* inspiration in the finale.

In its first season, *Nobody Wants This *swept viewers off their feet as if Joanne and Noah just told them to put down their ice cream.

The Netflix comedy, which follows the love story of unfiltered podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell) and hot rabbi Noah (Adam Brody), was an instant hit for the streamer and has landed three Emmy nominations: Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

** spoke with series creator Erin Foster about her favorite moments from the highly successful first season.

Noah walks Joanne to her car

Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Noah on 'Nobody Wants This'.

Courtesy of Netflix

It's a crucial early moment for the couple: After they meet at a friend's dinner, Noah walks Joanne to her car, claiming that he's parked nearby. The banter's incredible. You can see Joanne's idea of a rabbi changing with every part of the exchange.

And then the kicker? The reveal that Noah is parked nowhere near Joanne and went entirely out of his way. "It's something that I wrote before we sold the show to Netflix, and it never changed," Foster says of the scene, which she reveals was used in the auditions for Noah.

"I was looking for ways for Noah to be romantic and sexy and hot in an unexpected way," Foster says. "There's only so many ways two people can meet in a show or get to know each other. There's so many tropes. I really wanted to not hit any of those and try to think of a way that a guy like Noah would charm a woman like Joanne and disarm her and surprise her. That's what was so important to me was that you would meet Noah and he would be this good, wholesome, lovely, warm, moral person, but then he also would be confident enough and have enough rizz and swag and game to pretend like his car was the same place her car was. Because he knows that a woman like Joanne's not gonna let a guy walk her to her car."

As Foster puts it, he "tricks her into him being chivalrous."

As for the amazing "There's a fiddler on the roof" line at the end of the scene when she asks him to say something rabbinical? That was an alternate that they came up with on set. "Kristen didn't know it, so when he said it and she laughed, it's the first time she's hearing it, and it really did make her laugh," Foster says.

In the end, the scene is one of Foster's favorites because, "I was like, 'Oh, this is gonna get women.' Because it's the kind of romance we want from a guy."

Joanne and Morgan fight

Justine Lupe, Stephanie Faracy, and Kristen Bell on 'Nobody Wants This'.

When Noah's ex Rebecca (Emily Arlook) — trying to sabotage Joanne and Noah's relationship — successfully tricks Joanne's sister Morgan (Justine Lupe) into thinking that she and Noah have been in contact (when they haven't), it leads to the kind of big blowup that only two sisters could pull off. "That scene always stood out to me as a really well-written scene. I did not write it," Foster admits. Furthermore, as the season 1 showrunner, Foster adds, "I touch every scene pretty much. I'm always gonna be the last person to write on a scene, and anything that doesn't feel right, I'm gonna tweak to feel right to me. And that was one of the only scenes in the entire season that I didn't touch, and that was really exciting because it was so in the voice of the show."

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Foster continues, "It just felt like two sisters really fighting about something. No one can push your buttons like your sister, no one can say darker s--- to you than your sister. In a rom-com, you can't always go too heavy, too dark, too emotional. You have to kinda keep things a little bit light. And I was really nervous that the network might say like, 'This is too intense. I don't want these girls screaming this at each other.' And they didn't. They fully let us have it exactly how we wanted to. So I felt really proud that it stayed intact."

Noah chooses Joanne

Adam Brody as Noah on 'Nobody Wants This'.

Adam Rose/Netflix

In the final scene of season 1, after Joanne breaks things off with Noah because she's worried that he can't date her *and* be head rabbi, and she decides not to convert to Judaism after all, he runs after her, beating the party shuttle to her car. As the shuttle pulls away, he's standing there, out of breath, to tell her, "You were right, I can't have both." Then he kisses her.

"We had a really complicated season 1 schedule-wise. And we were really scrambling to keep up, so by the time we were shooting the finale, we were writing it and shooting it at the same time," Foster says. "And there was a lot of discussion about the ending. At one point, someone had said, 'Maybe he gets on the bus and says it while there's kids on the bus looking at them.' But I really wanted to make us believe that she is leaving and he is not following her so that you didn't give it away. And that's a really delicate balance."

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And yes, the writers discussed the actual reality of how far away the parking lot had to be in order for him to be able to run there. (Spoiler: The lot was two blocks away.) "We had a lot of people that were really smart figuring it out together, and we figured out how to make the reveal feel special," Foster says. "In the writers' room, we watched the end of *16 Candles *with the reveal of him leaning up on the car. So we wanted to pull a little inspiration from that and then just do a modern update."

*Nobody Wants This *season 2 premieres October 23 on Netflix. **

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