In a fitting setup even he couldn’t have written, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” co-creator Dan Goor was in the bathroom when he got the call that Fox had canceled the comedy after five season.

There had been rumblings about the fate of the show, but as Goor will tell you, there’s always talk like that these days unless a show is a mega hit. But this time, Goor’s agent was cautioning that cancellation was a real probability: “It was the first time anyone had seriously ever used that word.”

So when the call came in on Thursday, May 10 — a day and date Goor won’t soon forget — any usual phone protocols were out the window: “I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to take this call. I’m not going to give them the courtesy of not being in the bathroom,” Goor says wryly with a bit of hindsight.

The oddball workplace comedy about a ragtag group of NYPD officers became another TV casualty unable to fend off growing trends in TV’s modern era. It never pulled in stellar enough ratings — its fifth season averaged around 2.7 million viewers with delayed viewing over a week factored in — and Fox didn’t have an ownership stake in the show at a time when TV networks push to own as much of their content as possible. (The comedy is owned and produced by Universal Television, the studio arm of NBC.)

That was the story for 31 hours.

But by late Friday night, through a combination of network musical chairs and a Twitter uproar fueled by stunned fans — including the powerhouse likes of Guillermo del Toro, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Mark Hamill — “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” became the latest example of how a cancellation verdict in today’s TV isn’t always the death knell it used to be.

When it returns for its sixth season on Thursday, it will start its second life on a new network — one that originally passed on the comedy during its inception in 2012: NBC.

It’s just after 11 a.m. on a day in early November and production is underway at the show’s precinct set at the CBS Studio Center lot in Studio City. One would be forgiven for thinking those fraught days in May were a weird fever dream.

The show’s ensemble cast members — Andy Samberg, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, Joe Lo Truglio, Andre Braugher, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller — are back at it, gathered in the precinct’s briefing room as their characters learn about a new he said/she said case in what will be the show’s #MeToo episode. Beatriz, making her TV directorial debut, shuffles in and out of the scene as her character, Det. Rosa Diaz, while also reviewing footage. At the same time, Samberg is coming up with ad-libs for the final beats of the scene — suffice to say, when you have the group talking about a broken male sex organ, things get colorful and absurd.

Off-camera, when the topic of the show’s summer fiasco is brought up, it’s clear that “Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s” boomerang from death is still a bundle of confusion, sadness and ultimate joy.

For Samberg, who is also an executive producer on the show, it resulted in some pretty funny text chains: “I have two texts in a row from people a few hours apart where they go, ‘Dude, I’m so sorry,’ to, ‘Never mind, congratulations.’”

“It was so surreal,” is how Crews (Sgt. Terrance “Terry” Jeffords), describes the situation. “I’ve had a rental car stolen. That’s the only thing I can really compare it to. I was like: ‘What is happening? Is this real life or am I trippin’?’”

Now back in the swing of things, Fumero, who plays Sgt. Amy Santiago, says there are moments when it feels a bit like a do-over — pointing out how NBC’s social media team has been working overtime to promote the show’s move to the network.

“It’s almost like we’re a new show,” Fumero says, “but we’ve been doing it for so long. I’m definitely trying to check myself more to be just really present and enjoy it because who knows? Who knows how much longer we have?”

So what to do in the meantime?

“We want to make sure people who like the show still really like it,” Samberg says. “As far as ratings and all that other stuff, it’s completely out of our control. All we can do is show up for press, make the show as good as we possibly can and hope that everyone keeps watching it.”