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* {{Tuckerisation}}: [[FanDisservice Hitchcock's habit of going shirtless]] is actually a habit of Terry Crews in RealLife.
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** Luis Moncada plays Tito Ruiz, the Giggle Pig kingpin, and is wearing the exact same suit he wore on ''Series/BreakingBad'' where he played Marco Salamanca, another menacing guy involved in the drug trade. As a bonus, Jake is very obviously dressed up like Jesse Pinkman in the same scene.
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** Terry is a talented artist. Terry Crews originally went to university on an art scholarship before earning a spot on his school's football team and going onto the NFL.
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That is nowhere near enough to be an allusion.


* When Rosa goes undercover in the second season, she wears pink glasses. Stephanie Beatriz wears glasses in real life.
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* When Rosa goes undercover in the second season, she wears pink glasses. Stephanie Beatriz wears glasses in real life.
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* SpecsOfAwesome: Stephanie Beatriz is a real-life glasses wearer (she can't use contacts) and when she put them on attending the Golden Globes, it attracted a lot of comment.
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* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: Subverted with Music/KidCudi, who's just a regular old perp, but played straight with Craig Robertson aka the Pontiac Bandit, who manages to play the entire 99 for chumps.

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* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: Subverted with Music/KidCudi, who's just a regular old perp, but played straight with Craig Robertson aka the Pontiac Bandit, who manages to play the entire 99 for chumps.chumps.
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** Rosa's character was named Meghan during initial development of the show.
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*** "Operation Broken Feather" has Peralta and Santiago searching a hotel, and being directed to the Salieri Ballroom. Samberg actually played Salieri in a ''SaturdayNightLive'' skit with JustinTimberlake as Mozart. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgnHHP4gQCg Yes, really.]]
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** Kyra Sedgewick plays a Deputy Chief sent to evaluate the 99, just like she played Deputy Chief Johnson in ''Series/TheCloser''. She even has a rivalry with another straight-laced cop. At least she's using her actual accent this time.
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* CelebrityParadox: ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', which had B99 star Andy Samberg on it for several years, apparently exists in this world, and Peralta even interacts with Adam Sandler...who apparently doesn't notice how much the detective resembles his ''ThatsMyBoy'' co-star.
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**Dennis Duffy: from Subway Hero to The Vulture.
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** Stacy Keach plays a ManipulativeBastard, politically incorrect older man who seems to love drinking, much like [[Series/Titus another role he did.]]

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** Stacy Keach plays a ManipulativeBastard, politically incorrect older man who seems to love drinking, much like [[Series/Titus another his role he did.]]on Titus.
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** Stacy Keach plays a ManipulativeBastard, politically incorrect older man who seems to love drinking, much like [[Television/Titus another role he did.]]

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** Stacy Keach plays a ManipulativeBastard, politically incorrect older man who seems to love drinking, much like [[Television/Titus [[Series/Titus another role he did.]]
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** Stacy Keach plays a ManipulativeBastard, politically incorrect older man who seems to love drinking, much like [[Titus another rule he did.]]

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** Stacy Keach plays a ManipulativeBastard, politically incorrect older man who seems to love drinking, much like [[Titus [[Television/Titus another rule role he did.]]
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** Stacy Keach plays a ManipulativeBastard, politically incorrect older man who seems to love drinking, much like [[Titus another rule he did.]]
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* DawsonCasting: Inverted; while his age [[VagueAge has never been specified]] Captain Holt is old enough to have been an active (albeit young) detective in 1979. Andre Braugher, the actor who plays him, would have been 17 at the time.

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* DawsonCasting: Inverted; while his age [[VagueAge has never been specified]] Captain Holt is old enough to have been an active (albeit fairly young) detective in 1979. Andre Braugher, the actor who plays him, would have been 17 at the time.
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* DawsonCasting: Inverted; while his age [[VagueAge has never been specified]] Captain Holt is old enough to have been an active detective in 1979. Andre Braugher, the actor who plays him, would have been 17 at the time.

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* DawsonCasting: Inverted; while his age [[VagueAge has never been specified]] Captain Holt is old enough to have been an active (albeit young) detective in 1979. Andre Braugher, the actor who plays him, would have been 17 at the time.
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* DawsonCasting: Inverted; while his age [[VagueAge has never been specified]] Captain Holt is old enough to have been an active detective in 1979. Andre Braugher, the actor who plays him, would have been 17 at the time.

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* TheDanza: Terry Crews as Terry Jeffords.



** Captain Holt's husband is also [[Podcast/ThrillingAdventureHour Sparks Nevada, Marshall on Mars]].
* TheDanza: Terry Crews as Terry Jeffords.

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** Captain Holt's husband is also [[Podcast/ThrillingAdventureHour Sparks Nevada, Marshall on Mars]].
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* TheDanza: Terry Crews as Terry Jeffords.NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: Subverted with Music/KidCudi, who's just a regular old perp, but played straight with Craig Robertson aka the Pontiac Bandit, who manages to play the entire 99 for chumps.

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** Another occurs at the beginning of Operation: Broken Feather. The team plays a football game against the Fire Dept. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Crews Guess which actor is a former NFL player?]]
** In "The Apartment", Gina and Jake reference being friends since they were kids and hanging out together. Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti, who play Jake and Gina, have actually known each other since they were kids.


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* ActorSharedBackground:
** In Operation: Broken Feather, the team plays a football game against the Fire Dept in which Terry is TheAce. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Crews Guess which actor is a former NFL player?]]
** In "The Apartment", Gina and Jake reference being friends since they were kids and hanging out together. Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti, who play Jake and Gina, have actually known each other since they were kids.
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** Jake was a member of TheLonelyIsland.

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** Jake was a member of TheLonelyIsland.TheLonelyIsland (and a ''SaturdayNightLive'' cast member who put his Lonely Island short films on the show).
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They always call themselves a fake rap group when they talk about themselves so


** Peralta's remark about singing along to his favorite rap songs is one to Andy Samberg's rap group Music/TheLonelyIsland.

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** Peralta's remark about singing along to his favorite rap songs is one to Andy Samberg's fake rap group Music/TheLonelyIsland.
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*** He also starts rapping apropos of very little in "Unsolvable".
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** In "Unsolvable", a sleep-deprived Jake hallucinates "[[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike Terry's biceps mocking him]]".
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* ActorAllusion:
** Peralta's remark about singing along to his favorite rap songs is one to Andy Samberg's rap group Music/TheLonelyIsland.
** Another occurs at the beginning of Operation: Broken Feather. The team plays a football game against the Fire Dept. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Crews Guess which actor is a former NFL player?]]
** In "The Apartment", Gina and Jake reference being friends since they were kids and hanging out together. Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti, who play Jake and Gina, have actually known each other since they were kids.
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** Captain Holt's husband is also [[Podcast/ThrillingAdventureHour Sparks Nevada, Marshall on Mars]].
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** Captain Holt was previously [[Series/LastResort Captain Chaplin]].

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** Captain Holt [[Creator/AndreBraugher CaptainHolt]] was previously [[Series/LastResort Captain Chaplin]].
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*** Also hilarious because he's mostly known for his work as [[HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Frank Pembleton]], a detective who also used to butt heads with his colleagues.
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** Jake was a member of TheLonelyIsland.
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Captain Holt was previously [[Series/LastResort Captain Chaplin]].
** Sergeant Jeffords is more famously known as [[Film/TheExpendables Hale Caesar]].
* TheDanza: Terry Crews as Terry Jeffords.

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