The team behind Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s iconic Backstreet Boys cold open reveal it was a last-minute addition and the other songs they considered.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Brooklyn Nine-Nine's iconic open centered around Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" was a last-minute addition. For a show that was famous for its hilariously random cold opens, occasionally delivering the episode's biggest laugh before the credits even roll, the Backstreet Boys tribute in season 5, episode 17 is seen by many to be the comedy's best.
Luke Del Tredici, executive producer: I actually remember this pretty well. I was with Dan Goor, who created the show, and Jeff, and we were going through the rewrite of the episode, and it was just getting late in the day. As we were falling behind in the rewrite, Dan sent me over to the story room to push Pause on whatever they were doing and come up with a cold open for the episode. I went in there, and we just batted around ideas.
Jeff Topolski, writer: There was a day that I spent looking up other songs, and all of the royalty-free songs are all really old, lame songs. It’s like “She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain When She Comes.” After that the producers were like, “Okay, we can make it work.” So that was a huge relief. We were moving very quickly. Our table read was on a Wednesday, and we started shooting on the following Monday.
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