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When Brooklyn Nine-Nine super-couple Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) and Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero) finally walked down the aisle in Sunday night’s finale, fans of the show’s co-creator Michael Schur might have gotten a jolt of déjà vu. Their wedding-day plans thrown into chaos by forces outside of their control, Jake and Amy enlist their friends (who also happen to be their co-workers) to help with various elements of the ceremony. When all those plans also go awry, the duo still manage to finish the episode by getting hitched in their shared workplace.

Despite the last-minute wedding dress, the impromptu decorations, and the unconventional vows, “Jake & Amy” delivers an enviable dream TV wedding. The episode also happens to be a near carbon copy of “Leslie and Ben,” the 2013 dream-wedding episode from Parks and Recreation—another Schur production. The similarities are so clear (and the episode titles such obvious mirrors) that the parallels here can’t be unintentional. And if Schur wants to deliver the same heartwarming love story over and over again with only slight variations, his fans likely won’t mind—because he may be the only TV creator (along with collaborators Greg Daniels and Dan Goor) who knows how to write the kind of realistic-yet-aspirational love stories our divided country needs right now.

Pay close enough attention to the Schur-verse—which, in addition to Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Parks and Recreation, also includes The Office and The Good Place—and you’ll see repeating patterns everywhere. All four shows started with broad, hard-to-love protagonists played by likable actors Samberg, Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, and Kristen Bell before softening their edges and finding passionately devoted (if often small) audiences who would tune in weekly for a dose of feel-good comedy.

There are repeating character types across all Schur shows: lovable dummies (Chris Pratt’s Andy or Manny Jacinto’s Jason), type-A overachievers (Poehler’s Leslie, Fumero’s Amy, or William Jackson Harper’s Chidi), father-figure bosses (Nick Offerman’s Ron Swanson or Andre Braugher’s Captain Holt). But the most cohesive similarity across all these shows is an unwavering acceptance for what makes flawed, passionate humans both loving and worthy of love. It’s the gooey core at the center of Schur’s sharp wit, and what makes his the rare “will they, won’t they” relationships that continue to grow past the “I Dos.”

TV history is littered with the corpses of shows that couldn’t survive once the central couple got together. Moonlighting is the most common example, famously fizzling once Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd acted on their addictive, combative chemistry. And Schur is as comfortable as anyone in that pre-consummation Moonlighting space, having helped craft two of TV’s sweetest “will they, won’t they story lines: The Office’s Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer), and Parks’ Leslie and Ben (Adam Scott). (Schur has writing credit on perhaps the most romantic Jim and Pam story line, which involved a teapot, a Secret Santa, and an undelivered letter.)

But while Schur knows his way around the first stages of a TV show romance, he breaks with tradition when it comes to what happens next. So many shows, hoping to recapture the watchable tension of a “will they, won’t they,” throw up false-feeling obstacles or hard-to-believe acts of infidelity in order to bust up couples that are clearly meant to be. For example, some time after Schur stopped receiving full writing credit on episodes of The Office—he was busy launching Parks and Recreation—the show made the mistake of driving a wedge between Jim and Pam in its final season. That’s not to say real couples don’t go through tumult, but the character assassination of Jim Halpert in the pursuit of high-stakes drama caused a beloved show to end on a sour note.