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* {{Retcon}} : Jake having another nemesis than the Pontiac Bandit (with a less friendly relation than with the later). Played for laughs and parodied, as according to Jake, he is tracking Franzia since before the beginning for the show, he even suspected the Captain Holt to be Franzia throughout all the first season ; while out-universe Franzia never was mentioned in the show before (outside of one quick joke in the season 5) meanwhile this is one of the last Brooklyn 99 episode ; and in-universe, Jake is mildly angry than Holt doesn't pronounce Franzia's surname well and that Holt doesn't want to know any detail about it.

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* {{Retcon}} : Jake having another nemesis than the Pontiac Bandit (with a less friendly relation than with the later). latter). Played for laughs and parodied, as according to Jake, he is has been tracking Franzia since before the beginning for the show, he show and even suspected the Captain Holt to be Franzia throughout all the first season ; while out-universe season; out-universe, Franzia never was mentioned in the show before (outside of one quick joke in the season 5) meanwhile 5)...meanwhile, this is one of the last Brooklyn 99 episode ; episodes; and in-universe, Jake is mildly angry than that Holt doesn't pronounce Franzia's surname well and that Holt doesn't or want to know any detail about it.

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* PowerWalk: Parodied. Jake and Amy walk into the precinct to the sound of a sick rock riff, with Jake pushing Mac's stroller, Amy carrying a large bag filled with baby daycare products, and both of them wearing disposable hair nets (because they put [[ItMakesSenseInContext maple syrup on their heads to kill lice]]).


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* TeamPowerWalk: Parodied. Jake and Amy walk into the precinct to the sound of a sick rock riff, with Jake pushing Mac's stroller, Amy carrying a large bag filled with baby daycare products, and both of them wearing disposable hair nets (because they put [[ItMakesSenseInContext maple syrup on their heads to kill lice]]).
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*ArmourPiercingResponse: Terry delivers an absolutley brutal one to Jake when he taunts Terry over not having an Arch Nemesis.
-->'''Jake:'''This is why you don't have an arch nemesis, Terry, because you focus on all the wrong details.\\
'''Terry:''' Maybe, I don't have an archnemesis because ''I'' solve all my cases. ''[smiles smugly]''\\
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'''Jake:''' That's a real f[beep]ed up thing to say to me.
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* {{Retcon}} : Jake having another nemesis than the Pontiac Bandit (with a less friendly relation than with the later). Played for laugh and parodied, as according to Jake, he is tracking Franzia since before the beginning for the show, he even suspected the Captain Holt to be Franzia througout all the first season ; while out-universe Franzia never was mentioned in the show before (outside of one quick joke in the season 5) meanwhile this is one of the last Brooklyn 99 episode ; and in-universe, Jake is midly angry than Holt don't pronunce Franzia's surname well and that Holt don't want to know any detail about it

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* {{Retcon}} : Jake having another nemesis than the Pontiac Bandit (with a less friendly relation than with the later). Played for laugh laughs and parodied, as according to Jake, he is tracking Franzia since before the beginning for the show, he even suspected the Captain Holt to be Franzia througout throughout all the first season ; while out-universe Franzia never was mentioned in the show before (outside of one quick joke in the season 5) meanwhile this is one of the last Brooklyn 99 episode ; and in-universe, Jake is midly mildly angry than Holt don't pronunce doesn't pronounce Franzia's surname well and that Holt don't doesn't want to know any detail about it it.
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* {{Retcon}} : Jake having another nemesis than the Pontiac Bandit (with a less friendly relation than with the later). Played for laugh and parodied, as according to Jake, he is tracking Franzia since before the beggining for the show, he even suspected the Captain Holt to be Franzia througout all the first season ; while out-universe Franzia never was mentioned in the show before (outside of one quick joke in the season 5) meanwhile this is one of the last Brooklyn 99 episode ; and in-universe, Jake is midly angry than Holt don't pronunce Franzia's surname well and that Holt don't want to know any detail about it

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* {{Retcon}} : Jake having another nemesis than the Pontiac Bandit (with a less friendly relation than with the later). Played for laugh and parodied, as according to Jake, he is tracking Franzia since before the beggining beginning for the show, he even suspected the Captain Holt to be Franzia througout all the first season ; while out-universe Franzia never was mentioned in the show before (outside of one quick joke in the season 5) meanwhile this is one of the last Brooklyn 99 episode ; and in-universe, Jake is midly angry than Holt don't pronunce Franzia's surname well and that Holt don't want to know any detail about it
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* CharacterCheck: Santiago's competitive side that had been overshadowed by her nerdy and bookish briefly reappears.

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* CharacterCheck: Santiago's competitive side that had been overshadowed by her nerdy and bookish side briefly reappears.

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* AdultFear: Jake has a horrified expression when realizing the "creepy babysitter" handling his child was the serial killer he was hunting and planted a bug in one of the toys. When Amy scream-suggests that giving Mac to the creepy babysitter would kill two birds with one stone, Jake has to point out that letting a serial killer watch their child is a recipe for disaster.


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* OhCrap: Jake has a horrified expression when realizing the "creepy babysitter" handling his child was the serial killer he was hunting and planted a bug in one of the toys. When Amy scream-suggests that giving Mac to the creepy babysitter would kill two birds with one stone, Jake has to point out that letting a serial killer watch their child is a recipe for disaster.
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* {{Retcon}} : Jake having another nemesis than the Pontiac Bandit (with a less friendly relation than with the later). Played for laugh and parodied, as according to Jake, he is tracking Franzia since before the beggining for the show, he even suspected the Captain Holt to be Franzia througout all the first season ; while out-universe Franzia never was mentioned in the show before meanwhile this is one of the last Brooklyn 99 episode ; and in-universe, Jake is midly angry than Holt don't pronunce Franzia's surname well and that Holt don't want to know any detail about it

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* {{Retcon}} : Jake having another nemesis than the Pontiac Bandit (with a less friendly relation than with the later). Played for laugh and parodied, as according to Jake, he is tracking Franzia since before the beggining for the show, he even suspected the Captain Holt to be Franzia througout all the first season ; while out-universe Franzia never was mentioned in the show before (outside of one quick joke in the season 5) meanwhile this is one of the last Brooklyn 99 episode ; and in-universe, Jake is midly angry than Holt don't pronunce Franzia's surname well and that Holt don't want to know any detail about it
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* {{Retcon}} : Jake having another nemesis than the Pontiac Bandit (with a less friendly relation than with the later). Played for laugh and parodied, as according to Jake, he is tracking Franzia since before the beggining for the show, he even suspected the Captain Holt to be Franzia througout all the first season ; while out-universe Franzia never was mentioned in the show before meanwhile this is one of the last Brooklyn 99 episode ; and in-universe, Jake is midly angry than Holt don't pronunce Franzia's surname well and that Holt don't want to know any detail about it
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* CallBack: Franzia is briefly mentioned in the Season 5 episode [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS5E21WhiteWhale "White Whale"]] as Jake's archnemesis (and someone that he apparently talks about constantly off-screen).

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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Rosa suggests to Holt [[DrowningMySorrows drinking to forget about Kevin]] which instead leads him to sending Kevin a dick pic.

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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Rosa suggests to Holt [[DrowningMySorrows drinking to forget about Kevin]] which instead leads him to sending send Kevin a dick pic.pic.
* BittersweetEnding: Jake is bummed that he had to let Boyle become Franzia's nemesis and let his best friend arrest the perp. Similarly, Amy is disappointed when she finds out that she missed Mac hitting a milestone. On the other hand, Jake gets to see Mac pull himself up, and Amy's presentation is a success. They talk about it and agree that sometimes they have to let things fall through the cracks now that they have a kid.
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* FairCop: Amy's competitor is the "HUD" (hot dud) Austin Grant.
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* SomethingWeForgot: Jake and Amy congratulate themselves for their awesome parenting skills as they're walking down the hallway... only to realize that they left their child inside the house.
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* ExpospeakGag: After a night of heavy drinking, Holt discovers that he drunk-texted Kevin a "digital phallus portrait". It takes Rosa [[DoubleTake a moment]] to realize what that means.


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* PowerWalk: Parodied. Jake and Amy walk into the precinct to the sound of a sick rock riff, with Jake pushing Mac's stroller, Amy carrying a large bag filled with baby daycare products, and both of them wearing disposable hair nets (because they put [[ItMakesSenseInContext maple syrup on their heads to kill lice]]).

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A murder briefing sparks Jake Peralta's obsession with an arch nemesis killer, and the positive example of downsizing police in the last episode opens the opportunity for Sgt. Santiago to present a plan on reformation.

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A murder briefing sparks Jake Peralta's obsession with an arch nemesis archnemesis killer, and the positive example of downsizing police in the last episode opens the opportunity for Sgt. Santiago to present a plan on reformation.



* AdultFear: Jake has a horrified expression when realizing the "creepy babysitter" handling his child was the serial killer he was hunting and planted a bug in one of the toys. When Amy scream-suggests that giving Mac to the creepy babysitter would kill two birds with one stone, Jake has to point out that letting a serial killer watch their child is a recipe for disaster.



* EveryoneHasStandards: Boyle is as horrified as Jake is when Amy scream-suggests leaving Mac with the creepy babysitter. He agrees it's not a good idea.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Amy with twenty minutes left to prepare her presentation shouts at Jake to let the creepy babysitter take Mac and when he says [[PapaWolf "I'm not leaving my child with a serial killer!]]" she says he'd kill two birds with one stone. It shows how stressed she is until Boyle calls a timeout during their argument.



* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Among the three babysitter candidates are a lady who admitted to being arrested by that very precinct, a long-haired man with an unhealthy obsession with cuddling, and a nanny who sings a song about slapping kids. And then the cuddling babysitter turned out to be the serial killer Jake was hunting for.
* ToTheTuneOf: To keep Mac from waking up, Jake and Charles have to speak to the tune of Brahms' lullaby.

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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Among the three babysitter candidates are a lady who admitted to being arrested by that very precinct, a long-haired man with an unhealthy obsession with cuddling, and a nanny who sings a song about slapping kids. And then the cuddling babysitter turned out to be the serial killer Jake was hunting for.
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* ToTheTuneOf: To keep Mac from waking up, Jake and Charles have to speak to the tune of Brahms' lullaby.lullaby.

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* AffablyEvil: Austin Grant seems like a friendly guy, he just so happens to be pitching "Predicted Algorithmic Policing" to the Police Plaza which Santiago points out is "High-Tech Racial Profiling".

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* AffablyEvil: Austin Grant seems like a friendly guy, he just so happens to be pitching "Predicted Algorithmic Policing" to the Police Plaza which Santiago points out is basically "High-Tech Racial Profiling".
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* AffablyEvil: Austin Grant seems like a friendly guy, he just so happens to be pitching "Predicted Algorithmic Policing" to the Police Plaza which Santiago points out is "High-Tech Racial Profiling".


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* CharacterCheck: Santiago's competitive side that had been overshadowed by her nerdy and bookish briefly reappears.
-->'''Jeffords:''' Apparently there are several other groups presenting reform proposals to 1 Police Plaza and only one will get funded.\\
'''Santiago:''' Why would that make freak me out?\\
'''Jeffords:''' Because you can be a little competitive.\\
'''Santiago:''' Pfft, that's not true! No one is less competitive than me. ''[[IResembleThatRemark No-one.]]''
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Among the three babysitter candidates are a lady who admitted to being arrested by that very precinct, a long-haired man with an unhealthy obsession with cuddling, and and a nanny with perverted lyrics in his nursery rhymes. And then the cuddling babysitter turned out to be the serial killer Jake was hunting for.

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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Among the three babysitter candidates are a lady who admitted to being arrested by that very precinct, a long-haired man with an unhealthy obsession with cuddling, and and a nanny with perverted lyrics in his nursery rhymes.who sings a song about slapping kids. And then the cuddling babysitter turned out to be the serial killer Jake was hunting for.

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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Rosa suggests to Holt [[DrowningMySorrows drinking to forget about Kevin]] which instead leads him to sending Kevin a dick pic.



* MissedMomentOfAwesome: As Jake is busy taking care of Mac, he has to take a backseat in pursuing his nemesis.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Charles becomes the serial killer's new adversary, resulting in genuine moments of suspense and danger that Jake only gets to hear about after the fact, which is the most awesome episode ever.

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* MissedMomentOfAwesome: OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: As Jake is busy taking care of Mac, he has to take a backseat in pursuing his nemesis.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
Charles becomes the serial killer's new adversary, resulting in genuine moments of suspense and danger that Jake only gets to hear about after the fact, which is fact.
*RepeatAfterMe: Jake tries to interrogate a suspect and care for Mac by feeding Boyle lines. This gets weird when Boyle repeats Jake's comments about his son's diaper to
the most awesome episode ever. suspect.
* ShoutOut: The killer leaves one of his clues at the [[Film/Joker2019 Joker Stairs.]]
* StealthInsult: Amy's competitor in the reform proposals calls her disheveled appearance "Brave."
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Among the three babysitter candidates are a lady who admitted to being arrested by that very precinct, a long-haired man with an unhealthy obsession with cuddling, and and a nanny with perverted lyrics in his nursery rhymes.

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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Among the three babysitter candidates are a lady who admitted to being arrested by that very precinct, a long-haired man with an unhealthy obsession with cuddling, and and a nanny with perverted lyrics in his nursery rhymes. And then the cuddling babysitter turned out to be the serial killer Jake was hunting for.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Charles becomes the serial killer's new adversary, resulting in genuine moments of suspense and danger that Jake only gets to hear about after the fact.

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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Charles becomes the serial killer's new adversary, resulting in genuine moments of suspense and danger that Jake only gets to hear about after the fact.fact, which is the most awesome episode ever.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Charles becomes the serial killer's new adversary, resulting in genuine moments of suspense and danger that Jake only gets to hear about after the fact.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: When faced with the choice to go off and chase down a serial killer or staying with his baby so Amy can make a pitch for major police reforms, Jake makes the decision to be with Mac. While he's bummed that he couldn't get to engage in an action-movie-worthy pursuit, he's ecstatic to have been present to see his child pull himself up for the first time and also happy to learn that Amy's presentation was successful.
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* TakeYourChildToWorkPlot: With their daycare closed due to lice and no suitable baby sitters available, Jake and Amy have to bring Mac to the station.

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* TakeYourChildToWorkPlot: TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot: With their daycare closed due to lice and no suitable baby sitters available, Jake and Amy have to bring Mac to the station.

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* HiddenInPlainSight: The second of the interviewed nannys was the suspect Jake was looking for, putting a remote microphone in the stuffed lion he offered him.

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* FleaEpisode: Jake and Amy get lice from Mac after their daycare is closed due to an infestation. They try putting syrup on their hair to kill them... which also results in ants on their bed.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The second of the interviewed nannys nannies was the suspect Jake was looking for, putting a remote microphone in the stuffed lion he offered him.him.
* IrrevocableMessage: While drunk, Holt sends Kevin a photo of his penis, so he and Rosa have to sneak into his home and delete it from his computer before he returns.



* TakeYourChildToWorkPlot: With their daycare closed due to lice and no suitable baby sitters available, Jake and Amy have to bring Mac to the station.



* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Among the three babysitter candidates are a lady who admitted to being arrested by that very precinct, a long-haired man with an unhealthy obsession with cuddling, and and a nanny with perverted lyrics in his nursery rhymes.

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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Among the three babysitter candidates are a lady who admitted to being arrested by that very precinct, a long-haired man with an unhealthy obsession with cuddling, and and a nanny with perverted lyrics in his nursery rhymes.rhymes.
* ToTheTuneOf: To keep Mac from waking up, Jake and Charles have to speak to the tune of Brahms' lullaby.
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A murder briefing sparks Jake Peralta's obsession with an arch nemesis killer, and the positive example of downsizing police in the last episode opens the opportunity for Sgt. Santiago to present a plan on reformation.

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* ContrivedClumsiness: Terry squirts his water bottle on one of Amy's competitors to ruin his immaculate appearance, on top of claiming he soiled himself.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The second of the interviewed nannys was the suspect Jake was looking for, putting a remote microphone in the stuffed lion he offered him.
* MissedMomentOfAwesome: As Jake is busy taking care of Mac, he has to take a backseat in pursuing his nemesis.
* TaughtByTelevision: Jake and Amy wanted to avoid giving Mac screen time until he was 2, but reluctantly attempt when left with no options. He immediately tosses the phone out of the stroller.
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Among the three babysitter candidates are a lady who admitted to being arrested by that very precinct, a long-haired man with an unhealthy obsession with cuddling, and and a nanny with perverted lyrics in his nursery rhymes.

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