Part 1: Getting the Squad Together
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The Podcast
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The Importance of Humor in Parks and Recreation
The humor of the show was not going to come from the ineptness of the plot. That was also, I thought, a very smart approach to doing a comedy about police officers. We have our Hitchcock's and skullies, but by and large, these are good detectives,. Well, Hitchcock and Scully were set up as foils so that we could make those kinds of jokes. The stuff that they do in the Parks department is not necessarily stuff that people understand or know about. So you definitely don't want to put forward someone who's messing up or hurting someone.
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