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Who From 'New Girl' Played Young Sandy Cohen?

by Kristie Rohwedder

May 1, 2014

I have a confession to make: I, a self-proclaimed O.C. fanatic, only recently realized New Girl 's Max Greenfield played the younger version of Sandy Cohen (the perfect patriarch played by Peter Gallagher) on The O.C. And by "only recently realized" I mean "realized it less than 24 hours ago and I'm incredibly embarrassed it took me this long and now I'm questioning everything I thought I knew." MAX "SCHMIDT" GREENFIELD PLAYED A YOUNG SANDY COHEN. Incredible. Just incredible.

How'd I figure this out? The information came to me in a dream. I supposed I'd always known it, and it had been buried in my subconscious for years. I woke up with a jolt from a deep slumber and blurted out, "SANDY AND SCHMIDT." The truth hit me like a freight train.

Just kidding. That isn't at all what went down. The reality: Wednesday night, I was looking at Greenfield's IMDB page. And then, I saw The O.C. credit. I honestly don't remember the specific reason I pulled up his IMDB page in the first place, but hey. That doesn't matter. All that matters is that the page was pulled up and I was just so happened to scroll down far enough to see three magical words:"Young Sandy Cohen." SCHMIDT. SANDY. AUGHHHHH.

Okay. I'm not about to posit a theory that Schmidt is Sandy and Sandy is Schmidt (if only because I wouldn't know what to make of Adam Brody's New Girl cameo). That'd be bonkers. Sandy and Schmidt are not one in the same. However, they are much more alike than I'd ever realized. (Granted, I'd never thought about it before finding out Greenfield played college Sandy.)

You know what I am about to do? Share the Schmidt/Sandy similarities (ooh, look at that alliteration). Here we go!