Brooklyn Nine Nine houses New York's funniest... And also, all our hearts that they stole.
With the show's NBC resurrection, I can't wait until next year to see what season 7 has in store for us. But until then I'll stick to re-bingeing it and reading these behind-the-scenes secrets.
Just like Gina and Jake, the two have been friends for decades.
Chelsea even had a childhood crush on Andy! Wonder if that's canon for their characters too?
She and Melissa Fumero were considered for the role at the same time.
Fumero was cast and Beatriz was later invited back to audition for Rosa.
The most intimidating part of the audition process was doing improv with Andy Samberg.
Being able to joke around with co-stars is important for a comedy series.
Especially considering how many improvised moments made it into the final cut.
In fact, Captain Holt's "hot damn" was improvised by Andre Braugher.
Writer Dan Goor specifically sought out input from a bisexual person to write the arc.
And Stephanie just so happened to be the perfect candidate.
Rosa's first female love interest was Uber driver Alicia played by Rodriguez.
She shot all her scenes in a single day and had to skip out on her vacation for it.
Despite Amy Santiago's legendary but terrible dance skills, Fumero herself danced professionally until her late 20s.
In fact, her first job was teaching a kids ballet class as a high schooler.
In fact, his first job was as a courtroom sketch artist.
In episode 4 of season 1, "M.E. Time," had Terry fill in for a sick sketch artist. Art really does imitate life.
All of them have firearm training.
As is standard procedure for police officers, they went through a training course about how to handle guns safely before they could begin their job.
Jake's catchphrase is something that Andy Samberg would say between takes to make his costars laugh.
And now, almost half the characters have repeated it.
Samberg would constantly make these jokes on and off camera until the writers finally put it in the scripts.
The running gag is so funny that even Captain Holt tried one.
During episode 5 of season 1, Boyle tells everyone about the "Transformer-like" granny he had sex with in his 20s.
Andy Samberg's reaction is genuine as he couldn't keep a straight face.
Dan Goor briefly worked with Peretti on the set of Parks and Rec and pretty much instantly wanted to write a character for her.
Turns out Jake's obsession with it is partially inspired by Andy's love for the movie.
The cast hope they'll be able to get Bruce Willis on the show eventually.
We all know she has seven brothers, and but we've only met one so far.
The writers have plans to introduce all of them but we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed.
Stephanie has revealed she was a fitness instructor — but thankfully, she was a lot more encouraging than Rosa would've been in the same spot!
Andy Samberg and Melissa Fumero have stated that to try to make kissing a friend less awkward, they had a competition to see who could have "the most stank breath" for the on-screen kiss.
In 2013, the show Community used a very familiar sounding music as the background for a character's rap song. Looks like that tune has been floating around NBC for a while!
The app that Gina and Holt get addicted to playing is a real one you can play on your own phone — although you might be better off just downloading Candy Crush instead!
Most of her acting is done while she can't see much of anything, since Rosa doesn't wear glasses. Stephanie explained, "Like, I’m legally blind. Contacts really bother my eyes, so I can’t wear them very often or for long periods of time."
When Melissa Fumero was pregnant, rather than writing a pregnancy into Amy's storyline, they simply hid it with camera angles and large bags. Oh, and they had Amy go undercover as a pregnant woman in the season three finale.
That's because the voice that says "Fremulon" is none other than Nick Offerman, the actor who plays Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation.
As Melissa Fumero revealed on her Instagram, sometimes the show uses old props and documents from Parks and Rec, which makes me believe that maybe these shows are set in the same universe. It could happen!
