![]() ![]() “Cheddar” ( Episode 3.18)Īside from his seriousness and ethical dedication, Captain Holt is known as a man who is obsessive in his efforts to keep his professional and private lives separate-and yet, over the course of four and a half seasons, the 9-9 has spent a not insignificant amount of time all up in his house and/or clothes and/or marriage. “Because I do my job, and I do it right.” AKA: Brooklyn Nine-Nine in a nutshell. ![]() “You know why I’m still standing here?” Captain Holt asks Jake at the end of the episode when Jake is kicking his own moral core for forcing him to arrest the boss’s boss’s boss’s son for the graffiti, even after he was directed to sweep it under the rug. Terry Jeffords (Terry Crews) is the snuggly boss who will always take care of his detectives, and who really, really loves yogurt. Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) is the goofball man-boy with latent dad issues who chafes under too much authority but is nevertheless a dedicated, ethical detective Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) is the serious authority/dad figure whose own ethical dedication will drive the precinct forward and whose stoic lessons will turn Jake’s slacker attitude in a gentler direction Sgt. For Brooklyn Nine-Nine, it was the second episode out-“The Tagger,” written by Norm Hiscock and directed by Craig Zisk, AKA “the one where Jake and Holt uncover the dirtbag teen vandalizing NYPD squad cars with wieners”-that solidified not just the characters populating the 9-9, but also their central interpersonal dynamics. Some single episodes stand out, but often it is the iterations of inside jokes observed over time and again that best reflect the show’s genius.Ĭheat code thus unlocked, here’s my list of the 9-9 at its best:Īs is so often the case, it’s not a sitcom’s pilot that marks the true tone of the series to come, but an episode some weeks into its freshman run. Too much of the show’s comedic success lies in its tendency towards “referential and self-contained franchisement” to only single out specific episodes as best. ![]() ![]() But Brooklyn Nine-Nine is no ordinary show, and it works to ensure that its signature gags are not repetitive, but iterative-familiar enough to invoke excitement and/or fondness, but with a fresh enough twist that the gag, and the Brooklyn Nine-Nine gang participating in it, gains a new layer each time it’s called back into service.Īll of this is to say: This list of Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s best 9 episodes cheats. In many sitcoms’ hands, so much retreading of comedic ground could tip the show towards doom: There is little more tragic on scripted television than a sitcom really leaning into its ruts. Jake has Die Hard-ed at least once more since “Yippie Kayak,” Doug Judy resurfaced to chase down his fugitive foster brother in last year’s winter finale, and with “Halloween IV” and “HalloVeen” in the bank, it is clear that the 9-9 will be pulling Halloween heists until the day Jake’s ego stops needing validation. “All trilogies must come to an end.”Īs anyone who has been tuning in to Brooklyn Nine-Nine in the years since “The Cruise” is well aware, though, Michael Schur and Daniel Goor have no interest in trilogies. It already solved the mystery of who drew the dicks, in an episode featuring a psychic, no less.īack when Craig Robinson’s teddy bear conman Doug Judy charmed Jake (Andy Samberg) into professional failure for a third time, in the back half of Season Three, Andy Crump began his recap with an observation of Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s endless “fondness for referential and self-contained franchisement.” “The Cruise” was, he proposed at the time, a likely cap to a Pontiac Bandit trilogy, as “Halloween III” had been to the 9-9’s Halloween heist trilogy a few months before that, and as “Yippie Kayak” had been, to a less concrete extent, to Jake’s Die Hard obsession just a month earlier. The Vulture is never not the absolute very worst. Its low-key fave is inter-law-enforcement rivalries. It is high-key and unfalteringly socially progressive. It has never met a holiday episode it didn’t barrel into with gusto. Here are some of the things that I’ve confirmed and/or discovered about the excellently consistent Brooklyn Nine-Nine as I’ve mainlined a re-watch in preparation for December 5th’s epically toit 99-episode milestone: ![]()
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