TVLINE | Dan, take us back to 2013, when you and [co-creator] Mike Schur were first putting “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” together. What was the original pitch, and how much of the show we eventually got to know was there from the beginning?

DAN GOOR | Mike and I had been working on “Parks and Recreation.” We were very proud of it, and we wanted to make another show.

Now, “Parks” is so in the world of streaming and in the lexicon of culture, but when it started, it was a little bit of a tough sell. It was a show about government workers. We were like, wouldn’t it be easier if, instead of an episode starting with, “You have to do an environmental impact report,” and then having to explain what an environmental impact report is, Terry walks out and says to Jake, “There’s been a murder”? That’s it. You know exactly what’s going on.

Then it turned out figuring out how to solve murders and stuff was actually tougher than the environmental impact report. That was kind of the starting place.

TVLINE | What do each of you remember about auditioning for the show?

JOE LO TRUGLIO | I was nervous. One memory was doing some improv with Andy [Samberg] in the room. I had met Andy before. We were in a movie together called “I Love You, Man.” It was a bit nerve-wracking because I wanted to do well, but it went great.

MELISSA FUMERO | I remember Amy was really different in the beginning. In the audition material, she was a bit more of the straight man, kind of tough. There was less bantering. I remember having a really funny run about loving “Fargo.” It was like, “Fargo made me want to be a cop.” It was a whole funny run in the audition material.

GOOR | That became a cold open we did [in Season 1] where everyone said their favorite cop movie.

STEPHANIE BEATRIZ | My experience was weird because I auditioned for the role of Amy, but then Allison Jones, our casting director, had me come in for this other role. Megan, I think, was the name at the time. She was redheaded, tough, all her brothers were cops… and I was like [deadpans] “sounds like me!”

GOOR | With all three of you, as soon as we saw you, we wanted you. Even when it was not necessarily the right fit for a part, it was like, “Let’s make a part.” And the part of Gina didn’t exist — and so, in a way, Rosa was both Gina and something else, and it turned into Rosa and Gina.

One thing we would do is have meetings with all of the actors before we started shooting — before we started writing, really — and tried to incorporate aspects of their personality and their comedy into the show. Maybe with the exception of Stephanie, who was playing the most drastically different character from her actual personality.

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TVLINE | Do any of you remember a moment making the pilot when you realized you might have something special?

BEATRIZ | Me, Melissa, Joe, and Andy were shooting something downtown… and it was late, late, late at night. We were sitting around at a little table, and Andy looked at us and was like, “Well, you guys want to do this for the next seven years?”

FUMERO | I remember the first time he and I sat at our desks. We just looked at each other, and he went, “Could be your view for the next seven years.” I was like, “I hope so!”

LO TRUGLIO | I remember when we’d shot about six episodes that first season, and we were waiting for the back nine. Our producer came in and said, “We have an announcement,” and we got picked up for the back nine. At the time, that was a big deal. It showed the network had confidence in the show, and the whole room went up in a roar of applause and cheers. It’s a great memory for me.