"Pimemento" is the third episode of Season Seven of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Adrian Pimento shows up unexpectedly to seek Jake and Charles' help after claiming someone is trying to kill him; the rest of the squad endures a workplace conflict seminar.
This episode contains examples of:
- Beat: At the end of the episode, Pimento tells Jake that he finally saw Memento but that he thought the movie was just OK. The episode closes with the two men silently staring at each other for an uncomfortably long time.
- Brick Joke: All the way from Season One's "The Ebony Falcon" — Kelly was the name of Scully's wife AND the name of one of his dogs.
- Call-Back: Hitchcock nearly dying because of an innocuous prank by Jake is a call back to when he nearly drowned in a bowl of water in the cold open to Season 4's "Cop-Con".
- Cannot Keep a Secret: Jake has been avoiding Charles so as not to blurt out that Amy and him are trying to have a baby. He thinks he can tell Pimento without him telling Charles because of his short term memory loss. He's wrong.
- Celebrity Paradox: When discussing Christopher Nolan movies, Jake mentions The Dark Knight and says that Pimento has watched it. Yet neither seem to notice that Sal Maroni looks exactly like Jimmy "The Butcher" Figgis, the crime boss Pimento was working for undercover for years.
- Chekhov's Gun: One of Pimento's tattoos reads "Don't trust your D", which he assumes means his dick. But when Jake and Charles go to the tattoo artist to find Pimento, he tells them that it was supposed to read "Don't trust your doctor."
- Continuity Nod: Once again, Jake pulls a prank on a sleeping Hitchcock. And once again, Hitchcock somehow manages to almost kill himself because of it.
- Everyone Has Standards: Even Amy and Holt, who normally love seminars, hate the annual workplace conflict seminar.
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Holt finds Amy's habit of doing this annoying.
- Funny Background Event: While Jake and Charles are arguing, Pimento is seen in the background freaking out and running away.
- Gaslighting: Dr. Jones is the one who is trying to kill Pimento because he's investigating his affair with another man's wife; the pills he's giving him don't cure his short term memory loss, they're causing it so that everyone thinks he's just crazy.
- Gilligan Cut: Of Jake remembering just one of many instances in which Pimento uses his head as means of breaking something (in this case, a car window).Pimento: Everyone knows the skull is the hammer of the body!
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Amy tries to get the Workplace Conflict Resolution Seminar over as fast as possible by memorizing the entire thing so that she can answer the questions as fast as they come. It manages to get the six-hour seminar over in four hours... but, unfortunately, the seminar is legally required to last six hours. So the HR guy decides to use the remaining two hours resolving the interpersonal conflicts in the Nine-Nine.
- Human Notepad: As in Memento, Pimento has tattoos of things he needs to remember. Most of them are innocuous things like remembering to buy more toilet paper and ideas to improve a salad from Panera.
- Noodle Incident: Both of Pimento’s parents died falling out of lighthouses ("Separate incidents!"). Jake has a lot of questions but no time to follow up on them.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Neither Pimento and Boyle has ever seen Memento, causing Jake's references to the film to go over their heads. Amusingly, references to Finding Dory make immediate sense to them. As they quickly point out, the latter film was much more widely seen, making it a more useful reference.
- The Precarious Ledge: During one of his blackouts, Pimento winds up on a high building ledge. Jake tries to help him, but he's also afraid of heights, and it's up to Charles to save them both.
- Properly Paranoid: Everyone assumes Pimento thinking someone's trying to kill him is just his natural paranoia and that his memory lapses are a result of his many physical injuries. Turns out there is someone trying to kill him, and it's the very doctor that is "treating" (actually causing) his memory loss.
- The Reveal: We finally find out who Kelly was to Scully. It turns out that was the name of both his ex-wife and his dog.
- Running Gag: Due to Pimento's short-term memory loss, Jake constantly has to remind Pimento that he keeps forgetting things a la the movie Memento. Pimento always responds that he's never seen that movie (despite having seen Nolan's other films, which baffles Jake to no end), before Charles usually pops in to offer Finding Dory as a better analogy instead (which Pimento has seen and does remember).
- Pimento's watch alarm makes him think that a bomb has been implanted into his chest as a result of his memory lapses.
- Too Dumb to Live: In the Cold Open, Jake pranks a sleeping Hitchcock by tying his shoelaces together. Rosa tells him to untie Hitchcock before he gets hurt.Jake: Come on, what's the worst that could happen?
[Cut to Hitchcock somehow being strangled by the laces]
Scully: He's being strangled to death!
Jake: HOW?! - Use Your Head: When Jake thinks Pimento's memory loss may be due to his many head injuries, it cuts to a flashback of Pimento breaking a car window with his head.Pimento: Everyone knows the skull is the hammer of the body!
- Whole-Plot Reference: To Memento. Ironically, Pimento didn't see the movie, instead associating his condition to Finding Dory.
- Why Am I Ticking?: A Running Gag with Pimento thinking he has a bomb implanted in his body every time the alarm in his wristwatch goes off to remind him to take his pills.
