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With the move from Fox to Hulu this season, Mindy Kaling could have made her sitcom a lot more adult.

She chose to keep "The Mindy Project" pretty much the same show it was when it aired for three seasons on a broadcast network. No nudity. No explicit sex. Not much difference in terms of language.

Of course, the show has always been rather racy. There was a Season 3 episode, titled "I Slipped," that was about, um, anal sex and Mindy's belief that she had to go through with it to keep her boyfriend, Danny (Chris Messina), happy.

Kaling and her writing team came up with a script that handled the subject, well, tastefully — at least tastefully enough so that it could get past Fox executives, who were more than a bit uncomfortable with the subject matter.

Scripting it to broadcast standards made the episode "harder to write, and I kind of like that," Kaling said. "It's more challenging. And for all the episode is very racy and the implication was very adult, I think that I'd rather do that than be able to have the complete freedom of saying things. It's more fun that way, actually."

Season 4 of "The Mindy Project" is streaming on Hulu. Subscribers to the service get a new episode every Tuesday — the same day the show aired on Fox for three seasons.

And while the story has moved on — Mindy has given birth, and she and Danny are planning to get married — it's not as if they're suddenly dropping F-bombs all over the place.

"I don't think much has changed," said Ike Barinholtz, who not only co-stars as Morgan Tooker — a nurse in the obstetrics practice where Mindy and Danny work — but is a producer, working in the writers room with Kaling and the rest of the team.

"If we really changed the show too much and made it more risqué and kind of put it more on a tilt towards stuff you might find on HBO or Showtime, I think we would maybe turn off some of our core viewers," he said. "So we've really kind of made a conscious effort, I think, to keep it similar in tone."

At the same time, Kaling and Barinholtz are happy that things are looser in terms of language.

"Every once in a while, it's great to have a scene that ends and Mindy can be, like, 'God dammit,' " Barinholtz said. "So there is a little bit more freedom, which I think is really nice for us to not have to worry about."

He recalled one episode when his character said to another character, "Jesus, you're strong" — and Fox execs nixed it. So they changed the line to, "Jeez, you're strong."

"And they said, 'You can't say 'jeez,' either. And we were, like, 'What are we doing?' " Barinholtz said.

The structure of "The Mindy Project" is more traditional sitcom than it was on Fox. In recent years, network sitcoms have gone to four acts to accommodate commercial breaks.

"It is a little bit more boringly technical, but we returned to three-act structure, which falls beginning, middle and end," Kaling said. "Which is natural storytelling techniques. So that was kind of nice to go back to that."

And episodes don't have to be as rigidly structured in length — they don't have to come in at exactly 21 ½ minutes.

Which doesn't mean "The Mindy Project" is stretching things out to 45 minutes, but it does mean that maybe 24 or 25 minutes works.

"The thing that has been sacrificed in our show is often the ensemble [cast], because Mindy has such a very big storyline," said executive producer Matt Warburton. "So I think one thing we're already seeing is we don't have to sacrifice all those moments. The show can breathe a little bit more.

"And I think, especially with the great ensemble that we have, it's going to let everybody kind of shine even more than they have."

The "Mindy" cast includes regulars Ed Weeks, Beth Grant and Xosha Roquemore. Each of them expressed how happy and grateful they are that the show was saved from cancellation — and no one more than Kaling herself.

"Personally, I wasn't ready to say goodbye to the show. And I'm so grateful," she said. "I just want to make the show better than it's ever been."

And Hulu didn't just order a handful of episode. The streaming service picked up 26 episodes for Season 4, which is "more than I've done in any series I've ever been on," said Kaling, who was a writer/producer/co-star on "The Office" from 2005-12. "So it went from being, like, 'Oh, we're never going to do the show again' to 'We're going to have more work than we ever had,' and be able to tell 150 people in my crew that that's the commitment that Hulu had made." —

Everyone knows it's Mindy

New episodes of "The Mindy Project" are released, one at a time, to Hulu subscribers on Tuesdays. All episodes from Seasons 1-3 are also available.