50 Fun Facts About Never Have I Ever

Who co-created Never Have I Ever with Mindy Kaling?

Lang Fisher, like Kaling, lost a parent unexpectedly, so the pair built the comedy around a teenager grieving her father.

Which animal does Devi Vishwakumar believe might be her late father reincarnated?

Coyote: Devi sees one play with her dad's old tennis ball, and when she drunkenly talks to a coyote, it attacks her.

Devi lives in which Los Angeles neighbourhood?

Sherman Oaks is in the San Fernando Valley, and the pilot opens with Devi praying to the Hindu gods for a popular sophomore year.

Who plays Devi Vishwakumar?

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan sent in a video audition, made with a friend's help, after spotting Kaling's casting call on social media.

Which country did the winner of Mindy Kaling's 15,000-response casting call come from?

Canada: after her first tape, Kaling's team called her back and brought her to Los Angeles to screen-test in person.

Which tennis great narrates most of Never Have I Ever?

John McEnroe was the idol of Devi's late father, which is why a tennis star voices a teenage girl's inner thoughts.

Devi's family is Indian-American from which linguistic community?

Tamil: in the Kaling-written episode about feeling 'super Indian', Devi squirms through a Ganesh Puja celebration with her family.

What is the name of Devi's late father?

Mohan: in the season 1 finale Devi, her mother and Kamala scatter his ashes at the beach, and Devi agrees to move back home.

At which school event does Devi's father die suddenly in Never Have I Ever's backstory?

Orchestra concert: the shock then left Devi psychologically paralysed and unable to walk for three months.

What is Nalini Vishwakumar's profession?

A dermatologist: when lonely Ben Gross breaks down while she treats his pimple, Nalini invites him home for a family dinner.

Devi's cousin Kamala is completing a PhD at which institution?

Caltech: her lab's research article credits everyone but Kamala until, inspired by Devi, she puts her own name on it.

Who is the engineer Kamala's family sets her up with for an arranged marriage?

Prashant: he and Kamala really do like each other, but she runs out of their dinner because she isn't ready to marry.

What does Kamala hide from her family in Never Have I Ever's first season?

A secret boyfriend, Steve: she dumps him over her arranged match, then takes him back after a Riverdale scene inspires her.

Devi's friend Fabiola is a member of which school team?

Robotics: Fabiola captains the team until she skips so many meetings to spend time with Eve that Eric tells her she's out as captain.

Where does Paxton say he saw Eleanor's mother working?

A restaurant: Eleanor believed Joyce was acting on a cruise ship, but she had been back in town for months without a word.

Paxton captained which school sport before a car accident ended his career in it?

Swimming: Paxton blames Devi for the broken arm that ends his swimming-scholarship hopes, and makes her do his homework.

Where does Paxton enrol after graduating from high school?

Arizona State University: Paxton quits it to work at his old high school, then goes back to college at the end of the series.

What does Ben Gross's father do for a living?

An entertainment lawyer, and one so absent that Ben is left mostly in the care of the family housekeeper.

Which popular student dates Ben Gross for his money in Never Have I Ever's first season?

Shira: Ben knows she only likes his money, yet he keeps dating her because being with her raises his social standing.

Who plays Devi's therapist, Dr. Jamie Ryan?

Niecy Nash plays Dr. Ryan, the therapist Devi at first stubbornly refuses to talk to about her father's death.

Aneesa, who arrives in Never Have I Ever's second season, practises which faith?

Islam: a jealous Devi starts a rumour that Aneesa is anorexic, unaware that it is true and the reason she switched schools.

Which rapper and actor plays Dr. Chris Jackson, Nalini's love interest in Never Have I Ever?

Common plays Dr. Jackson, a star doctor who laughs off Nalini's offer to sell him her patients before the two fall for each other.

Manish Kulkarni, who ends up with Kamala, teaches which subject at Devi's school?

English: Manish has his class stage a mock trial over whether The Great Gatsby's Daisy Buchanan was responsible for Gatsby's murder.

Malcolm Stone, a transfer student in Never Have I Ever, was formerly a child actor for which company?

Disney: the former child star turns Eleanor against Devi and Fabiola when they suspect he is cheating, then dumps her anyway.

Which university has Devi dreamed of attending since childhood?

Princeton: rejected by every other Ivy and waitlisted there, Devi writes an essay about her father and finally gets in.

Fabiola ultimately enrols where, turning down Devi's dream school?

Howard University: Fabiola had got into Devi's dream school while Devi was deferred, and at first she hid it from her friend.

Where does Kamala move for a promotion at the end of Never Have I Ever?

Baltimore: Kamala first turns her advisor's offer down to stay and protect the family, until Nalini urges her to take it.

Who plays Len, who marries Devi's grandmother in Never Have I Ever's finale?

Jeff Garlin plays Len, whom Kamala suspects of scheming to take her grandmother's money, until she is proven wrong.

Who plays Ethan Morales, the rebellious senior Devi briefly dates in Never Have I Ever's final season?

Michael Cimino plays Ethan, the 'bad boy' Devi dumps after he steals the wallet of a visiting college representative.

Why does Des's mother Rhyah tell him to break up with Devi?

She 'has too many problems', says Rhyah, and Nalini storms back that Devi does not have problems, she has survived something unimaginable.

Margot's father Andres, who becomes Nalini's love interest, works at her house as what?

Contractor: Andres butts heads with Nalini while fixing her stairs, until Devi and Margot, once rivals, set the two of them up.

What is the name of the popular friend group that Paxton and Trent belong to?

The Hot Pocket: its core member Trent, Paxton's best friend and later Eleanor's boyfriend, ends up having to repeat his senior year.

Which staff member at Devi's school is worn out by her academic rivalry with Ben?

Principal Grubbs: the same weary principal is impressed by the college essay Ben helps Paxton write about looking after his sister.

Mr. Lyle Shapiro, who tries hard to be the 'cool' teacher, teaches which subject?

History: once Devi starts tutoring Paxton, he scores a B on an exam soon after.

Paxton's sister Rebecca is interested in which field?

Fashion design: Paxton is so protective of Rebecca that he tells Devi to leave the first time she stops to chat with her.

Who narrates the two episodes told from Ben Gross's point of view?

Andy Samberg voices Ben in the lonely episode where his girlfriend and then his dad both bail on courtside basketball tickets.

Which supermodel narrates the two Paxton-centred episodes?

Gigi Hadid re-recorded Paxton's narration after Chrissy Teigen, first set for the job, stepped away amid scrutiny over past online bullying.

Where did Kaling approach the show's narrator to offer him the job?

The temperamental tennis star was Devi's late father's idol, which is why he tells her story.

Though set in Los Angeles, the show is reportedly loosely based on Kaling's childhood in which area?

Kaling herself says it is 'in the spirit of my childhood' and that she was a shy nerd without Devi's confidence.

Ben Gross overworks himself into emergency surgery trying to get into which university, to impress his father?

Columbia: while he recovers in hospital, Ben ends up helping Paxton, his old romantic rival, write a college essay.

Which event do Devi, Eleanor and Fabiola skip after their limo crashes?

Prom: Devi's scream makes the driver crash, and she finally admits to her friends that none of her colleges accepted her.

Paxton's grandfather tells his class about what?

Internment camps: heeding Devi's advice not to lean on her for grades, Paxton brings him in for extra credit.

Ben tricks Devi into getting what, in exchange for him getting a tattoo?

A nose ring: Ben's tattoo turns out to be fake, but when Nalini spots the ring next morning, Aneesa covers for Devi.

Which school rejects Eleanor after her audition?

Juilliard: after the rejection, Eleanor decides to graduate a semester early and pursue an acting career full-time.

Which NBA star appears as himself in Never Have I Ever's final season?

Dwight Howard plays himself in the final season, which opens with Ben ignoring Devi all summer after their awkward first time.

Paxton's girlfriend Lindsay Thompson substitutes in which class?

AP Literature: by the series finale Paxton heads back to college, planning to become a teacher himself.

What false rumour does Devi fuel on the Model UN trip in Never Have I Ever?

That she's sleeping with Paxton: a girl still on the bus overhears it and spreads it all over school, and an angry Paxton demands to know why she lied.

Devi's counselor who helps her get off the waitlist is played by which actress?

Alexandra Billings plays counselor Jennifer Warner, one of the chaperones who cut the senior class trip to New York short.

In Never Have I Ever, Fabiola's partner Addison is a friend of which other character?

Des: Fabiola meets Addison when Des brings his friends to Devi's game night, and after it she and Aneesa agree to break up.

Who plays Joyce Wong, Eleanor's absent and self-absorbed actress mother?

Jae Suh Park plays Joyce, who reunites with Eleanor after Devi's nudge, then walks out mid-rehearsal to give Broadway another shot.