Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator Dan Goor

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Maybe you're stuck at home, like the rest us. Maybe you're looking for something to binge, like the rest of us. May we suggest Brooklyn Nine-Nine? You've seen the premise of the police procedural on network television countless times. The cops are good at their jobs. They're quick and witty when it comes to solving crime. Brooklyn Nine-Nine has some of that – but subverts the genre through comedy. It's a deeply warm, deeply funny office sitcom. The police at the precinct care about their jobs, they care about each other. The show was created by Dan Goor, along with Mike Schur. These days, Dan's the showrunner of the show. We talk with Dan about the latest season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Plus, why he left working for Conan to work on Parks and Recreation – and why the shift was a struggle at first. You can stream all seven seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, including the new episodes on Hulu.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.0	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:21.8	Maybe you're stuck at home just like I am.
0:24.6	If you are, now is a great time to watch Brooklyn 9.9.
0:28.9	If you haven't already, it's my favorite sitcom on network television.
0:33.4	The premise for Brooklyn 9.9 isn't really groundbreaking.
0:36.8	Essentially, it's funny cop show.
0:40.5	The 9.9 is a precinct in Brooklyn, but it could be in almost any big city.
0:46.2	The cops are good at their job and you're reminded about that every now and then by a clever
0:50.4	case solution or a quick cut action sequence.
0:54.6	Neither of those things are really the point of the show.
0:57.4	It's a deeply warm, deeply funny office comedy with a lot of great jokes, so many jokes.
1:04.3	The police at the precinct care about their jobs and they care about each other.
1:08.6	The show was created by my guest Dan Gore, along with Mike Sure.
1:13.2	And Dan is now the day-to-day showrunner of the show.
1:17.0	Let's listen to a little bit from the show's latest season, which is airing now.
1:22.1	The season kicks off with a kind of roll switch.
1:24.7	Raymond Holt, the precinct's captain, is played by Andre Broward.
1:28.3	Holt has been demoted to patrolmen for a year.
1:31.4	That means Holt is now a subordinate to all of the detectives that used to work under him,
1:36.7	including Jake Peralta, played by Andy Sandberg.
1:40.2	On the first episode of the new season, there has been a crisis.
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