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* ElderlyAilmentRambling: Norm Scully, who is close to retirement, has a habit of going into way too much detail about his various medical problems and ailments, much to the disgust of the rest of the squad.
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--->'''Peralta:''' You did it, Fuzzy. You busted 'em. It's time to come home. ''[as 'Fuzzy Cuddlebear' in faux-BadassBaritone]'' I'm not sure if I can. I've been undercover so long, I've forgotten who I am. I have seen...[[ConditionedToAcceptHorror terrible things]]. I haven't known the [[IntimatePsychotherapy touch of a woman in many moons]]...\\

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--->'''Peralta:''' You did it, Fuzzy. You busted 'em. It's time to come home. ''[as 'Fuzzy Cuddlebear' in faux-BadassBaritone]'' faux-BaritoneOfStrength]'' I'm not sure if I can. I've been undercover so long, I've forgotten who I am. I have seen...[[ConditionedToAcceptHorror terrible things]]. I haven't known the [[IntimatePsychotherapy touch of a woman in many moons]]...\\
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* TeamKids: while Terry and Holt are the TeamMom and TeamDad respectively (with Holt's husband Kevin also being referred to as the squad's dad sometimes), the rest of the squad are collectively the Team Kids, with Jake and Amy in particular both referring to Holt as their dad on separate occasions. This dynamic is even lampshaded a couple of different times.
-->''(in the season 1 episode "Thanksgiving")''
-->'''Jake:''' So, I'd just like to say I'm happy to be here... With my family. My super-weird family, with two black dads and two Latina daughters and two white sons and... Gina, and... ''(to Scully)'' I don't know what you are... Some strange giant baby?

-->''(in the season 8 episode "Lake House")''
-->'''Jake:''' The point is, we can't let that [divorce] happen to Daddy Holt and Daddy Kevin.
-->'''Rosa:''' So we're just dispensing with subtext now?
-->'''Jake:''' Yes, this workplace is my family. Was that not clear? Holt is my dad, you're my mean older sister...
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** Jake offhandedly makes a ''Series/{{Friends}}'' reference to Terry in the episode where he wanted to get a Vasectomy. Creator/CraigRobinson, who plays Doug Judy, appeared in the final season, when Phoebe tried to change her name.

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** Jake offhandedly makes a ''Series/{{Friends}}'' reference to Terry in the episode where he wanted to get a Vasectomy. Creator/CraigRobinson, who plays Doug Judy, appeared in the final season, when Phoebe tried to change her name. In addition to that, Mr. Treeger, the building superintendent of Monica, Rachel, Joey and Chandler's apartment and Captain [=McGintley=], the commanding officer at the 99th precinct prior to Captain Holt were both played by the [[Creator/MikeHagerty same actor]].
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* GenericCopBadges: In [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS6E18SuicideSquad "Suicide Squad"]], the Vulture wears a detective badge despite being a captain.
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* DroppedInTheToilet: Jake shows up to work late and tells Captain Holt he had problems with his alarm clock. Cut to a flashback of Jake sleeping when the alarm clock on his smartphone went off and Jake threw it into the toilet.
-->'''Jake:''' Also, I'm going to need a new department issued phone.

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* StupidStatementDanceMix: Done InUniverse to Diaz by a bunch of street punks that she and Santiago are trying to recruit into the Junior Police program.

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* RelationshipUpgrade:
** Subverted in the last scene of Season 1's last episode. After a WillTheyOrWontThey plot that's been going on for the whole season, the penultimate scene with Diaz and Boyle suggests something might actually happen between the two. The final scene then shows Boyle in bed, the camera slowly panning to what will obviously be a BedmateReveal... Except that said bedmate turns out to be Gina!
** After 2 seasons of relentless {{UST}} Jake and Amy finally get their {{Big Damn Kiss}} at the very end of season 2. [[spoiler:The wedding happens exactly three seasons later.]]



* TheyDo:
** Subverted in the last scene of Season 1's last episode. After a WillTheyOrWontThey plot that's been going on for the whole season, the penultimate scene with Diaz and Boyle suggests something might actually happen between the two. The final scene then shows Boyle in bed, the camera slowly panning to what will obviously be a BedmateReveal... Except that said bedmate turns out to be Gina!
** After 2 seasons of relentless {{UST}} Jake and Amy finally get their {{Big Damn Kiss}} at the very end of season 2. [[spoiler:The wedding happens exactly three seasons later.]]
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* FlushTheEvidence: Parodied when everyone realizes what a terrible cook Amy is, they flush their food down the toilet to avoid telling her.
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* LoveTriangle: Between Amy, Teddy, and Jake. A [[TriangRelations Type 4 Triang Relations]]. Jake realizes his feelings a little too late, Amy's already with Teddy and Jake funnels his emotions into drinking, brooding, and working overtime. Until he gets called into a dangerous undercover mission, that is.

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* LoveTriangle: Between Amy, Teddy, and Jake. A [[TriangRelations Type 4 Triang Relations]]. Jake realizes his feelings a little too late, Amy's already with Teddy and Jake funnels his emotions into drinking, brooding, and working overtime. Until he gets called into a dangerous undercover mission, that is.
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* BrokenPedestal:BrokenPedestal: Somewhat of a [[RecurringElement recurring theme]] in the series. Chances are, if a main character meets someone they admire, this trope will come into effect by the end of the episode or story arc.
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* FunnyAnsweringMachine: Gina's voicemail, fittingly with her [[ProfessionalSlacker personality]], simply says that she won't check any of her messages.
-->"It's Gina's phone. Leave me a voice-mail. I won't check it 'cause it's not 1993."
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* BeatWithoutABut: When Jake arrested a suspect without any real evidence just for mouthing off, the entire squad had 48 hours to get the necessary proof in order to avoid a lawsuit.
--> '''Holt''': I know everyone is upset about having to give up their weekend.
--> '''Jake''': But?
--> '''Holt''': No "but," I was simply demonstrating for Peralta what a fact is.
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** Gina Linetti is certifiably insane. Eccentric, genius, and quirky. At one point she finds herself at a party being interviewed by a Psychologist who specializes in psychotic personality disorders. The Psychiatrist ends up interviewing her for the duration of the party because she displays so many abhorrent personality traits that hed only ever heard about in theory.

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** Gina Linetti is certifiably insane. Eccentric, genius, and quirky. At one point she finds herself at a party being interviewed by a Psychologist who specializes in psychotic personality disorders. The Psychiatrist ends up interviewing her for the duration of the party because she displays so many abhorrent personality traits that hed he'd only ever heard about in theory.

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* CloudCuckoolander: Gina Linetti is certifiably insane. Eccentric, genius, and quirky. At one point she finds herself at a party being interviewed by a Psychologist who specializes in psychotic personality disorders. The Psychiatrist ends up interviewing her for the duration of the party because she displays so many abhorrent personality traits that hed only ever heard about in theory.

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Gina Linetti is certifiably insane. Eccentric, genius, and quirky. At one point she finds herself at a party being interviewed by a Psychologist who specializes in psychotic personality disorders. The Psychiatrist ends up interviewing her for the duration of the party because she displays so many abhorrent personality traits that hed only ever heard about in theory.theory.
** Adrian Pimento did twelve years deep cover with the crew of Jimmy "The Butcher" Figgis; a powerful and ruthless mob boss. Understandably, this experience has left Adrian with severe paranoia, PTSD, and lingering psychosis tied to his time away and the things he witnessed and did while working for Figgis. He is prone to violent outbursts, and erratic behavior. He also has a variety of strange eccentricities as a result.
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** Sheriff Reynolds in ''Coral Palms Pt. 2 & 3''. The Coral Palms sheriff's department had just hired their "first woman" '''ever'''. In '''2016'''! The Sheriff takes exception to the accommodations she needs, such as a "separate bathroom". He is also shown to be extremely homophobic. It's not known if his prejudices extend toward racism; he isn't racist to Holt and has at least one African American deputy.
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* CreatorCameo: Longtime executive producer Creator/MayaRudolph finally gets in front of the camera as U.S. Marshall Karen Haas in the Coral Palms arc in season 4.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Gina Linetti is certifiably insane. Eccentric, genius, and quirky. At one point she finds herself at a party being interviewed by a Psychologist who specializes in psychotic personality disorders. The Psychiatrist ends up interviewing her for the duration of the party because she displays so many abhorrent personality traits that hed only ever heard about in theory.

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* VanityPlate: For Doctor Goor Productions. "Not a doctor, shh."

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For Doctor Goor Productions. "Not a doctor, shh.""
** There's also a brief one for Fremulon which might be otherwise unremarkable if not for the fact that it is voiced by Creator/NickOfferman.
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* ThemeNaming: During the Coral Palms episodes set in Florida, most referenced local places are named for famous Miami Dolphins; there's a street named for Don Shula, a storage facility named for Larry Csonka, and a high school named for Dan Marino.
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-->'''Gina:''' If people knew how smart I was, it would have been harder to control them.

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-->'''Gina:''' --->'''Gina:''' If people knew how smart I was, it would have been harder to control them.

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** They also have a moral compass deep down. In season 7, they voluntarily mess up a case to [[spoiler:make sure the main witness, an undocumented immigrant, would not have to testify in court, where ICE would likely arrest him]].

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** *** They also have a moral compass deep down. In season 7, they voluntarily mess up a case to [[spoiler:make sure the main witness, an undocumented immigrant, would not have to testify in court, where ICE would likely arrest him]].


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** Gina uses this to manipulate people, going so far as to forge her report cards (with lower grades) to cement the illusion.
-->'''Gina:''' If people knew how smart I was, it would have been harder to control them.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Amy is just as likely as Jake to suffer physical harm for comedy, and is equally likely to earn physical threats from Rosa. Though the shows plays the sexual harassment of men by women for laughs (such as Terry from Gina and Holt from Wuntch), Hitchcock's blatant objectifying of women is similarly treated humorously, and becomes almost his primary character trait (with frequent jokes about his increasingly predatory behavior), and Jake making crude jokes about Amy's sex life ("title of your sex tape") is a running gag.
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** ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', which had B99 star Andy Samberg on it for several years, apparently exists in this world, and Peralta even interacts with the real Creator/AdamSandler... who apparently doesn't notice how much the detective resembles his ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' co-star.
** NY Times crossword editor Will Shortz cameos as failed crossword designer Sam Jepson, despite Shortz being mentioned by name multiple times in the series.
** ''Series/MrRobot'' has been mentioned multiple times throughout the show. Craig Robinson, who plays Doug Judy aka The Pontiac Bandit, has a recurring role in its second season.
** ''Series/ThisIsUs'' gets a shoutout in "Grey Star Mutual"...four episodes after star Sterling K Brown appeared as a suspect Jake interrogates.
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** This isn't the first time that Andre Braugher has played [[Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet an uber-serious and imposing police officer]]. But unlike the grim and gritty environment of urban realism that Detective Frank Pembleton starred in, Captain Ray Holt operates in a comedic setting populated by goofy eccentrics. On top of that, Frank Pembleton was the brilliant-but-arrogant lone-wolf cop who refused to play with others and had to be pressured into doing so by his commanding officer. In ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'', Ray Holt is the commanding officer who has to deal with an arrogant lone-wolf detective who refuses to play with others and has to be pressured into doing so (Peralta). And to finish the gag off, on the earlier show Braugher played the partner of a detective who eventually came out as bisexual, while in this show he plays an openly gay police officer.
*** Braugher won awards for his dramatic character role on Homicide (and ''Thief'', and ''Men of a Certain Age''), and Captain Holt's main character trait is...being TheStoic. It takes a really good actor to emote that little.
** Melvin Stermley, the crossword puzzle writer who Jake worries Amy has more chemistry with, is played by David Fumero, [[RealLifeRelative Melissa Fumero's real-life husband]].
** Failed crossword designer Sam Jepson is played by the famous NY Times crossword editor Will Shortz
** Peralta and Santiago's respective fathers are [[Series/TheWestWing Josh Lyman and Matt Santos]]
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* HollywoodBoardGames: In [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS5E10GameNight "Game Night"]], Rosa is playing ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}'' with her conservative family. She's in the middle of her [[ComingOutStory coming-out arc]] and, predictably, her family is writing off her bisexuality as a phase despite Rosa being a grown-up woman. Being as HotBlooded as she is, Rosa devices to throw a jab at her homophobic parents and draw a lesbian wedding. Her mother is so delusional in that nobody can't truly fall in love with people of their same gender that she writes them off as very close friends, then sisters, then business partners. Queer erasure at its finest.
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* InnocentAwkwardQuestion: In the episode "Moo Moo," when Jake and Amy are babysitting Terry's elementary-school aged twin daughters, Cagney and Lacey. The girls accidentally learn the word "orgasm" from Jake and Amy and Amy hastily tries to fix things by teaching them that it's another word for "orange." This leads to an awkward moment the next morning when the twins ask Terry for "orgasm juice."
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* SmokescreenCrime: In the season 7 finale, Jake and Charles arrest a man who caused a citywide blackout by getting drunk and driving into a power substation. Jake and Charles notice that something is off when the man is not only sober, but is revealed to be a recovering alcoholic who has been clean for two years. [[spoiler:It turns out that the man simply caused the blackout as a distraction so his friends could rob a bank.]]
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* GloriousDeath: When Charles' stew blows up Terry heavily scolds him for being reckless, revealing he had no intention of dying this way.
--> '''Terry:''' I'm not going out in a stew-making accident! Terry's gonna die saving the president, or Terry's never gonna die!
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* FreezeFrameIntroduction: The intro does this for the main cast at the end of their respective scenes.

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