Dan Goor on Brooklyn Nine-Nine: "Every Time We Pitch Something Crazy, the Advisors Say They've Done Worse"

Dan Goor said it plainly: "Every single time we pitch something really crazy or dangerous or outlandish, the technical advisors are like, 'Yeah, I'…" — and Premier Guide Miami was in the room when it happened.

On September 3, 2013, FOX hosted a press conference call with Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg and show creators Mike Schur and Dan Goor ahead of the series premiere on Tuesday, September 17 at 8:30/7:30 Central on FOX. Below are Dan Goor's key exchanges from the call. Premier Guide Miami's Daedrian McNaughton was among the journalists on the call.

How has your perspective of being a cop changed through making this show?

We have some great technical advisors and I think — it's funny. When we're pitching stories and trying to come up with funny and interesting things for Jake and the other characters to go through, sometimes we'll pitch something really crazy or dangerous or outlandish and every single time the technical advisors are like, 'Yeah, I've done that. I've done worse. I've seen worse. I've seen tougher.' And I think over the process we already had a tremendous amount of respect for police officers in general, but we've gained even more respect and are sort of drop-jawed at the sort of things that these guys have been through.

Why did having Andy Samberg give you a leg up in the pilot?

The first five minutes of a pilot, especially a comedy pilot, there is so much pressure to make every line funny — and that's before you know any of the characters. We had a tremendous leg up because people love and know Andy. The first shot of the episode is his face and it's a shortcut that we get to take where people know at least who the actor is and they're inclined to laugh. You're not just seeing a random person who then has to say a kind of crazy thing to make you laugh because you have no idea who they are, what the context is, or anything else about the show.

How does the show handle Captain Holt being gay?

It's a part of his character. We think of it as a character trait that's like a guy who's from Orlando or something. It's a fact of his life and it has certainly influenced what kind of person he is and the shape that his career has taken, but it doesn't overwhelm him. It doesn't define him. It's not the entirety of who he is. It's usually mentioned once an episode or something and we have plans in the future to get more into his personal life and possibly meet his partner, but that won't happen in the first little batch of episodes. We really wanted to focus on the precinct and the work family before we got into the personal lives of the characters.

On why the cop world is a rich setting for comedy:

We really liked the world because we thought it was a cool way to have interesting characters — both in the police department and in terms of the people that they interact with. It's an interesting subsection of humanity that cops get to deal with.

On Andy Samberg's on-set ad-libbing:

Andy frequently has the best joke in an episode. He will come up with it on the set. He's an incredibly funny performer and writer, and so, thank goodness there is a lot of spontaneity.

On the gelato cabinet scene from the pilot:

To Joe Lo Truglio's credit, we were doing that scene and he was getting his face smashed in and he was like, 'You should just throw me entirely into this gelato cabinet.' By the way, it wasn't gelato — it's like Crisco or something with food coloring because the actual ice cream was melting so fast. So he said to the guy playing Ratko, 'Yeah, just pick me up and throw me entirely into this gelato cabinet.' The fun part of the pilot was coming up with ways that we could shoot legitimate action sequences, even if they were brief, that also had some comedy in them. Shoving Joe Lo Truglio into a giant glass cabinet full of Crisco definitely qualified as one of the more enjoyable moments.

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