50 Fun Facts About The Mindy Project

Which streaming service rescued The Mindy Project days after its broadcast network cancelled it?

Hulu ordered a 26-episode fourth season nine days after Fox dropped the show in May 2015. It stayed there until its sixth and final season.

What kind of doctor is Mindy Lahiri, the romantically frustrated lead of The Mindy Project?

An OB/GYN was a choice close to home: Mindy Kaling modelled the character on her own mother, who practised the same specialty in Boston.

Mindy Kaling, creator of The Mindy Project, first found fame playing which character on the sitcom The Office?

Kelly Kapoor made Kaling a familiar face, but she was hired as a writer first, joining The Office at 24 as the only woman on a staff of eight.

Which late-night host guest-starred on The Mindy Project as the strict new priest at Danny Castellano's church?

Stephen Colbert played the priest as a reformed bad boy from Danny's old neighborhood, and Mindy pretends to be Catholic to win his approval.

Which actress appears as herself in a hallucination when Mindy Lahiri gets trapped on a hike in The Mindy Project?

Reese Witherspoon turns up as a vision while Mindy is pinned 127 Hours-style, having finally taken her unused honeymoon by herself.

On The Mindy Project, lovable nurse Morgan Tookers arrives at the practice with which surprising background?

Time in prison is Morgan's backstory: the character was written as a quirky, rehabilitated ex-con who talks his way into a nursing job.

Mindy Lahiri's younger brother Rishi visits in The Mindy Project and announces he is quitting college for which career?

Rapper is the dream Rishi announces on his visit, and the aspiring MC stays a recurring character, played by Utkarsh Ambudkar.

Which network first commissioned The Mindy Project's pilot, then released it for a rival to pick up days later?

NBC let the pilot go on January 27, 2012, then sent the script to Fox, whose executives read it over the weekend and green-lit it three days later.

Which Cheers star played Annette Castellano, Danny's hovering mom, on The Mindy Project?

Rhea Perlman, Carla the waitress on Cheers, recurred as Annette, whose approval Mindy sets out to win as soon as the two meet.

In which city is Shulman & Associates, the medical practice at the centre of The Mindy Project?

New York gives the show its rom-com backdrop, and the fictional practice keeps the Shulman name long after its senior partner retires.

Dr. Jeremy Reed, the partner who manages the practice on The Mindy Project, comes from which country?

England is Jeremy's homeland, and in one episode he even prepares a one-man show about his early life and his emigration to America.

Which actor, also seen in Argo and Julie & Julia, played Dr. Danny Castellano on The Mindy Project?

Chris Messina starred as Danny for four seasons, then stepped back to guest appearances, returning in time for the series finale.

At the end of season one of The Mindy Project, Mindy plans to move to which country with boyfriend Casey?

Haiti is the plan, for a whole year, and Mindy tries to prove she can rough it by inviting herself along on a camping trip.

What was the working title of The Mindy Project's pilot, changed two days after the series was ordered?

It's Messy was the name on the script while two networks passed it between them, and it became The Mindy Project two days after the series order.

Which actor guest-starred on The Mindy Project as Dr. Paul Leotard, the rival who takes over Mindy Lahiri's office?

James Franco played Leotard at the start of season two, and Mindy, back from abroad, has to challenge him to win her old office back.

On The Mindy Project, the Deslaurier brothers run a rival business in the same building, working as what?

Midwives Brendan and Duncan Deslaurier threaten to poach the practice's patients, and the pair are played by Mark and Jay Duplass.

What name do Mindy Lahiri and Danny Castellano give their son, born in season four of The Mindy Project?

Leo arrives after Mindy's water breaks on the way to an expo, leaving Danny racing to get there in time for the birth.

Which actor played nurse Morgan Tookers on The Mindy Project while also writing episodes of the series?

Ike Barinholtz co-wrote episodes with David Stassen, served as a story editor and later directed several instalments too.

In season three of The Mindy Project, Mindy Lahiri heads west for a medical fellowship at which university?

Stanford is where Mindy starts the fellowship after a string of bad first impressions, facing a hostile doctor who was Danny's friend in med school.

What kind of business does Mindy Lahiri open on her own in season three of The Mindy Project?

A fertility clinic is Mindy's venture, but it struggles to attract patients at first because she has little experience helping women conceive.

While Mindy weighs staying out west on The Mindy Project, Danny Castellano surprises her by buying what?

A brownstone back east, meant for the two of them, lands just as Mindy is thinking about going into business with a colleague in San Francisco.

Which pediatric nurse does Mindy Lahiri marry, and later divorce, in the final seasons of The Mindy Project?

Ben first appears leading a nurses' strike against the doctors, and Mindy falls for him while he is supposed to be the enemy.

Which Happy Endings actor joined The Mindy Project in season two as frat-boy doctor Peter Prentice?

Adam Pally arrived in a recurring role and was promoted to the main cast after filming only two episodes.

Which It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star played Cliff Gilbert, a lawyer Mindy Lahiri dates on The Mindy Project?

Glenn Howerton's Cliff first turns up suing Mindy for $200,000 on behalf of a co-worker, and ends up as her boyfriend instead.

In season three of The Mindy Project, it emerges that Mindy Lahiri has spent years committing which crime?

Tax fraud puts the whole practice at risk, so Mindy has to ask an ex-boyfriend, a lawyer, to help clear her name.

What does Mindy catch Annette Castellano, Danny's mom, doing in season three of The Mindy Project?

Shoplifting is Annette's secret, leaving Mindy to work out how on earth she can break the news to Danny.

Before becoming a dad on The Mindy Project, Danny Castellano tries to quit which habit?

Smoking is Danny's vice, while Mindy's side of the get-healthy pact is to give up junk food before the baby arrives.

On The Mindy Project, Dr. Peter Prentice leaves the practice to follow Lauren to which state, where they marry?

Texas becomes Peter's new home, and the whole office travels there for his wedding at the end of season three.

Which actor played Graham, the wild skateboarder Mindy dates on The Mindy Project to prove she isn't picky?

Timothy Olyphant played the skater as Mindy's complete opposite, a date she accepts only after Danny calls her too judgmental.

Which Orange Is the New Black actress played Sheena, the stylist cousin of nurse Tamra, on The Mindy Project?

Laverne Cox's Sheena helps Mindy regain her self-confidence as she gains pregnancy weight, in an episode that also sends Jeremy back into dating.

Dr. Peter Prentice of The Mindy Project was a fraternity jock at which Ivy League college, Mindy Kaling's alma mater?

Dartmouth is where Kaling studied playwriting and wrote for the campus humor magazine before graduating in 2001.

Which co-star of Mindy Kaling on The Office executive-produced The Mindy Project's pilot and guest-starred as Jamie?

B. J. Novak also directed two first-season episodes and co-wrote another with Kaling, his old writers' room colleague.

Which Shulman & Associates staffer starts The Mindy Project as a terrible nurse, then returns as a receptionist?

Beverly was so bad at nursing that Jeremy was told to fire her, a job he simply could not bring himself to do.

In season five of The Mindy Project, what strange thing happens to Mindy after a painful breakup?

She relives the same day again and again, and works out that the only way to break the spell is to make things right with her ex.

Passed over for a promotion on The Mindy Project, Mindy Lahiri wakes up one morning in whose body?

A white man's body is where she finds herself, and she quickly discovers the perks that supposedly come with the switch.

In The Mindy Project episode "Mindy's Minute", where does Mindy Lahiri's new educational TV segment air?

In taxi cabs is where the segment plays to a captive audience, and Mindy turns to Danny for on-screen coaching.

In the Halloween episode of The Mindy Project, Danny Castellano retakes which exam he keeps failing?

His driving test has beaten Danny again and again, so he heads to the DMV with Jeremy for one more attempt.

Guests at a costume party hosted by Dr. Jeremy Reed late in The Mindy Project all dress as which actress?

Meryl Streep is the theme of the party Jeremy co-hosts in the final season, a rare office event everyone is excited to attend.

What is the title of the final episode of The Mindy Project, in which two of the office nurses marry?

It Had to Be You closes the series at Morgan and Tamra's wedding, with Mindy and Danny waiting on news of his mom's surgery.

Which Workaholics star played Casey, the minister who becomes engaged to Mindy on The Mindy Project?

Anders Holm's Casey meets Mindy as a young pastor who takes an interest in her, then worries the two value different things in life.

Which actress played Christina, the ex-wife Danny Castellano briefly reconciles with on The Mindy Project?

Chloë Sevigny's Christina later stages an art show featuring nude photos of Danny, which he scrambles to have shut down.

Which hit-making TV producer do the doctors of The Mindy Project face in an alumni beer pong matchup?

Shonda Rhimes is the opponent, and the looming match forces feuding doctors Peter and Jeremy to work together again.

Which R&B singer played Marcus, the trendy friend of Casey whom Mindy Lahiri dates on The Mindy Project?

Ne-Yo's Marcus is a hipster whose taste for whatever is trendy clashes with Mindy's love of the familiar.

Just as Mindy settles into dating Danny Castellano on The Mindy Project, he falls ill with which disease?

Meningitis strikes Danny in the very episode where an embarrassing old video of Mindy and an ex surfaces online.

Mindy Kaling named her Mindy Project character after the author of which Pulitzer Prize-winning book?

Interpreter of Maladies is the debut story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri, whose surname Kaling borrowed for her TV doctor.

Mindy Kaling published which memoir on the very day the fourth season of The Mindy Project premiered?

Why Not Me? picks up her life story from 2011, the year her first memoir became a best seller.

Which actor, Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day, played senior partner Dr. Marc Shulman early in The Mindy Project?

Stephen Tobolowsky's role was cut after the second episode because the writers decided Mindy should not have a boss in the office.

Xosha Roquemore, nurse Tamra on The Mindy Project, had her first major film role as Jo Ann in which drama?

Precious put Roquemore on screen in 2009, and she joined the sitcom's main cast after a three-episode guest stint.

In The Mindy Project, Mindy Lahiri escapes to her childhood home in which state, where her mom acts in local theater?

Massachusetts is home for the Lahiris, in the town of Concord, and it is also where Mindy Kaling herself was born, in Cambridge.

Garret Dillahunt, Dr. Jody Kimball-Kinney on The Mindy Project, had earlier starred as Burt Chance on which Fox sitcom?

Raising Hope ran from 2010 to 2014, and Dillahunt joined the practice the next year as a doctor hired during Mindy's maternity leave.