When all your favorite fall shows are on summer break, what better way to spend your night than with the ladies of Fox! TV Goodness was lucky enough to be on the scene as Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project), Jane Lynch (Glee), Yeardly Smith (The Simpsons), Alex Borstein (Family Guy), Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Liz Meriwether (New Girl) and Heather Kadin (Sleepy Hollow) all came together for a girls’ night panel and to give us some scoop on costars, challenges and how they spend their downtime.

Here are some of the highlights:
– Chelsea Perretti showed up looking STUNNINGÂ in a burnt orange dress and despite her backstage nerves, managed to keep the audience laughing the whole time. When asked about growing up with her Brooklyn Nine-Nine costar Andy Samberg, Peretti admits that his alluring charm is nothing new to her.
Peretti: Andy used to play basketball. I thought he was very dreamy at the time and I showed that by calling his house and hanging up on his mom. I’m sure she loved that.

– When asked how she plans to deal with the will they/won’t they relationship drama of Danny and Mindy, Mindy Kaling admitted that longing is far more intriguing… “who cares about happy people?” However, she also admits that some of her favorite shows such as I Love Lucy and Modern Family, deal with real, relatable relationship issues so she has great predecessors to guide the way. That being said, with Chris’ “superhuman ability to smolder,” Kaling admitted it was actually harder to keep this couple apart than put them together. With his “Marlboro Man” energy and her frenetic pace, their chemistry was natural and something that became a focus of the show due to Messina‘s tremendous talent.

– Before telling us about an amazing moment involving Prince and a dark bathroom (don’t worry, it’s not as scandalous as it sounds), New Girl creator Liz Meriwether admitted that the Superbowl episode was not their initial idea for a Prince cameo. She and the creators first reached out to the superstar in season 2 for the “Virgins” episode, thinking it would be funny if  a flashback revealed that Cece had lost her virginity to Prince. Unfortunately, Prince’s people didn’t approve, but they did respond that Prince was a big fan of the show. Meriwether brushed it off as a kind compliment, but a year later they reached out again so when Meriwether got word that New Girl would have the post-Superbowl spot, she knew it was time to give the Prince cameo another shot.

-Smith admitted to having no interest in voice-overs when she first was tapped for The Simpsons, initially for the role of Bart and eventually cast in the role of Lisa. Her goal was “to rule the world and voice-overs weren’t a part of that.” Revealing that she’d been teased as a child for her voice, she never imagined that it would one day be her fortune. And now as part of the longest running show in prime time, she joked that its pretty clear who’s getting the last laugh.

-Kadin admitted to dealing with her own share of challenges as the Executive Producer of Sleepy Hollow, including how to capture and interrogate a headless horseman. Apparently many ideas were pitched, including having him write on a white board but when it was decided that he would speak through John Cho, Kadin admitted it “could’ve been really, really stupid but we were really happy with it.”

– After gushing over Seth MacFarlane‘s “creative genius” and revealing which part of the female anatomy hurts most after a SoulCycle class, Borstein joked that over at Family Guy “we’re method, so a lot of the love-making [scenes], we do in the booth.”

– When a Twitter fan asked what Peretti and her character have in common, Peretti enlightened us before going on a very Gina-like tangent about Candy Crush:
 Peretti: It’s harder to say what we don’t have in common. I text constantly. I definitely pitched that for [my character] Gina and it worked and now I get to text during scenes.
– Jane Lynch shared with us one of her favorite Sue Sylvester quips —- ‘Loving musical theater doesn’t mean you’re gay, it just means you’re awful’ —before gushing about how excited she was to have the cast reunited for the final season.
-Finally, when asked what they like to do when they finish shooting, go home and have a moment of free time, Peretti quipped “do a panel” before Mindy enlightened the audience with an unexpected answer.
Kaling: I think it’s because of my genre. I love violent dramas. Like The Walking Dead. I could watch them get stabbed in the head again and again. [Unlike my show] There is purely no overlap with The Walking Dead and my show — not that there shouldn’t be.
We couldn’t agree more. If anyone can fit a zombie storyline in to the life of a single New York doctor, it’s Mindy.
Big thanks to all the ladies for coming out and giving us a little something to hold us over until The Mindy Project, Glee, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Sleepy Hollow, Family Guy, New Girl and The Simpsons return.

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