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And there's an episode where he's sort of going through a an existential crisis and he's just sort of walking around lost in a daze. And he, like he goes into- he's like walking around and some sprinklers go off and they just soak him and he just kind of stands there and just gets soaked by the sprinklers. And then he just kind of like takes his shirt off and just kind of keeps walking. And then you cut to him and he's in a grocery store shopping shirtless. And then- excuse me- and then like a woman comes over and is like, sir, you have to wear a shirt in here. And he just grabs like a shirt off a rack and just puts it on and smiles and keeps walking. And it turns out that William Jackson Harper is like, cut. Like he's he's like a very like, physically fit person, which I did not know. Like that, which I had never seen him with his shirt off before he shot that scene. But him taking his shirt off caused the internet to, like, explode because it was like, Oh my God, the like the dorky philosophy professor guy is also jacked. And and I mean, it was he was only good for him. Like, it wasn't like th- everybody was happy with the result. But I was like, Oh my God, I never asked him if it was OK that I wrote this thing where he takes his shirt off. Like I should- I should ask actors that more. Like I should say, Are you OK with this? And I think if there were, it's a it's a gendered thing in a way it shouldn't be, right? Like if it obviously if there had- if it had been a woman, I would never in a billion years have written any scene where a woman disrobe in any way without clearing it with her first. There would have been a million discussions and meetings and whatever. And it didn't occur to me that a man might also be uncomfortable with that. And so I remember thinking, like, I'm so happy that it was OK, that he was OK with it, that whatever. -Mike Schur
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