Sorry, Veronica and Logan ‘shippers. As far as Kristen Bell is concerned, her best on-screen kiss isn’t the memorable Camelot Motel smooch she shared with the reformed bad boy on Veronica Mars. Instead, it comes courtesy of a charming rabbi (played by The O.C. vet Adam Brody) in the new Netflix romantic comedy Nobody Wants This.

The series stars Bell as Joanne, an agnostic podcast producer/host with a track record of picking the wrong guy — that is until she meets Brody’s Noah at a dinner party. Immediately, the two click and flirt, all while Joanne fails to realize that Noah is a rabbi. When the truth comes out, both Noah and Joanne recognize that their differing belief systems and lifestyles make them ill-suited for each other in many ways, but they can’t deny their attraction.

As Episode 2 comes to a close and the pair agree to be friends, Joanne says that she can’t believe they haven’t kissed, and Noah adds that he is very aware that he hasn’t kissed her… yet. With that, he tells her to hand over her ice cream and put her purse down, then he slides his hands onto her face. Following breathless anticipation, the two finally kiss, leading Noah to ask if there’s a world where this relationship works.

While Bell acknowledges that Veronica and Logan’s lip-lock was “a very good kiss,” it can’t beat Joanne and Noah’s first kiss.

“You don’t know it when you’re in it, I guess, but you know it when you watch it, and I can always sort of, like, just take myself out of it and go, like, ‘Oh, yeah, that was a good one. Oh, you missed,’” Bell tells TVLine in the above video. “But I do feel like this is probably the best on-screen kiss I’ve ever done.”

Bell credits several factors for that top-kiss placement, starting with the buildup to that passionate smooch.

“We really wanted to, like, pump up the anticipatory value of it. Like, the actual lip-lock wasn’t nearly as important as all the elements that led up to it,” Bell explains. “And we wanted to extend that for as long as we possibly could, because I think we all were in agreement that, like, yes, once you’re watching someone kiss, they’re just kissing, but it’s all the tiny things that lead up: It’s the eye contact. It’s the hands on the face. It’s when you blink. It’s when you breathe. It’s how your bodies are touching or your shoulders are touching… We really gilded the lily there, and they kept every single moment, and then it worked.”

Brody, too, has been part of a memorable TV lip-lock before during his time on The O.C., when Seth and Summer staged an homage to Spider-Man’s iconic upside-down kiss. While that moment is unforgettable, Joanne and Noah are “coming in with more experience, I think, more layers, texture, detail, wisdom. It’s a wiser kiss,” Brody says.

There was, however, some debate about just how Noah should go about kissing Joanne. Creator Erin Foster — on whose life the show is loosely based — reveals that the scene was “a point of discussion” with her leading man.

“Adam really didn’t want to tell her to put her ice cream down, and it was really important to me, and I, like, basically made him do it,” Foster shares with TVLine. “Because he thought that it was like, ‘Why am I, like, bossing her around and being a d–k and telling her what to do?’ and I was like, ‘No, no, no, it is hot. It is so sexy, because you’re this sweet guy, and you’re emotionally available, and you’re kind, and you need to be able to say to her, “OK, you want me to kiss you? Put your s–t down. I’m about to give you the best f–king kiss of your life.” And then, once we did it, I think he really understood why it was so important to me, and it really worked.”

When Foster watched the pair shoot the moment, she knew that, in Brody and Bell, the series had found that elusive and all-important quality known as chemistry. But the stars knew even earlier that they could deliver, having worked together before a number of times on projects such as House of Lies, Some Girl(S) and Scream 4.

“I knew we had great chemistry. I knew how talented and fun she is,” Brody shares. “But it actually wasn’t until I saw the first episode shortly thereafter, that I, like, saw the chemistry and said, ‘Oh, OK, this is real.’”

Bell was also confident that she and Brody would have chemistry “because I knew Adam can look longingly into someone’s eyes and really just, like, let you revel in that,” the actress says. But her expectations were surpassed “when I was showing my husband [Dax Shepard] the first episode, and he grabbed my arm during that scene and goes, “God, I want you guys to kiss so bad!’ Like, it was affecting him, and I’m like, ‘Oh, we’ve done something really special.’”

Adds Foster: “They just have, like, unreal chemistry. It’s crazy, because they’re friends in real life. They don’t have that chemistry off-camera. There’s no, like, sexual tension on set, and then the camera goes, and it’s like, ‘Holy s–t!’ It’s really there.”