History Headscratchers / BrooklynNineNine

** They've also gotten married fairly well into what appears to have been a very long-term relationship. Could be, they're just both used to / comfortable with keeping their previous names and feel no need to change them. They also simply might not believe in doing so; it's a tradition, certainly, but it is increasingly common for married couples to keep their prior names.

* How could Charles and Genevieve adopt a kid together without being married?

** But did he ever have time to do that? It doesn't seem like the Cummerbund was ever back in his possession since Charles betrayed him right at the beginning of the heist.

** It's possible that he made a second plate for the Cummberbund beforehand and simply switched them when he got possession of it after stealing Amy's safe.

* It's a lovely, heartwarming moment, but... in "[=HalloVeen=]", when did Jake find an opportunity to have his message engraved onto the Championship Cummerbund?

* It's a lovely, heartwarming moment, but... in "HalloVeen", when did Jake find an opportunity to have his message engraved onto the Championship Cummerbund?

** They've also gotten married fairly well into what appears to have been a very long-term relationship. Could be, they're just both used to / comfortable with keeping their previous names and feel no need to change them. They also simply might not believe in doing so; it's a tradition, certainly, but it is increasingly common for married couples to keep their prior names.

** Could be for professional reasons. They've both built up impressive professional careers in the respective fields, and when professionals do that it is not unheard of for them to keep their unmarried names because it makes it easier to track professional progress and name-brand familiarity. Holt may also feel he's faced enough stigma in his career with the NYPD being a black gay man in an interracial marriage without adding in changing his surname.

* Why do Holt and Kevin have separate last names? They're married and very much in love, yet they have't taken each other's last names yet.

** The guy is likeable and knows the rules, he knows enough to skate by if you are not listening him to closely. He could certainly rise based on that, plus he seems good at taking credit for others work. It happens often enough in real life that people can get promoted based less on competence and more on personality. Exaggerated for comedy, of course, but not that unbelievable.

** A combination of RuleOfFunny and, unfortunately, TruthInTelevision. Quite often people are promoted ''because'' they can't do anything else, removing them from the ground-level work and letting their subordinates get on with the job. Of course, it often ends in disaster, but it's usually just a quick-fix method of removing someone from a job without firing them. Given that the Nine-Nine have a reputation for chaos, the high-ups probably just dumped C.J. there and thought it couldn't get much worse.

* How in Gods green Earth did C.J. become a captain!? All he did was accidentally help a drug bust as, most likely, a beat cop! He is clearly incompetent and lacks the brains and ability to do even a half-way decent job! He also took nine years to complete a 6 month program!

* How in Gods green Earth did C.J. become a captain!? All he did was accidentally help a drug bust as a civilian! He is clearly incompetent and lacks the brains and ability to do even a half-way decent job!

* How in Gods green Earth did C.J. become a captain!? All he did was accidentally help a drug bust as a civilian! He is clearly incompetent and lacks the brains and ability to do even a half-way decent job! Did the NYPD just offer him a reward and gave him the position of captain when he said so? From what we've seen, he didn't do any of the tests nessessary to obtain that position. Even if the criminal had been Osama bin Laden, the NYPD wouldn't just give a dim-witted civilian the job of police captain!

** RuleOfFunny, mainly. Although it's worth noting that there actually ''is'' a bravery medal for animals (it's run by a British animal welfare charity, however; the NYPD doesn't award them that I'm aware of), usually for ones which do something incredibly brave and/or risk their lives to benefit their human handlers.

** Wuntch also benefits from being the boss. As many an underling will tell you, a jerkass boss can be very hard to get rid of because (a) they're the ones who are in charge of setting and enforcing the rules, (b) the other bosses are generally going to be more inclined to close ranks and protect their own if anyone complains unless the jerkass boss is ''really'' bad, and (c) a jerkass boss is both usually the kind of person who'll spitefully go after anyone who tries to undermine or complain about them out of petty revenge and is in a position to make a subordinate's life a ''real'' misery, thus discouraging more junior members from doing anything. So people will just likely keep their heads down and not make waves unless Wuntch does something she ''really'' can't wriggle out of.

** Wuntch also benefits from being the boss. As many an underling will tell you, a jerkass boss can be very hard to get rid of because (a) they're the ones who are in charge of setting and enforcing the rules, (b) the other bosses are generally going to be more inclined to close ranks and protect their own if anyone complains unless the jerkass boss is ''really'' bad, and (c) a jerkass boss is usually the kind of person who'll spitefully go after anyone who tries to undermine or complain about them out of petty revenge, thus discouraging more junior members from doing anything. So people will just likely keep their heads down and not make waves unless Wuntch does something she ''really'' can't wriggle out of.

** Same as with Gina. She does the rest of her job fine and unless Holt is going to complain himself (and he's put himself at risk of counter complaint with his own petty acts against her, so he really can't) then nobody is going to care. Bad behaviour on its own is not enough to get a person fired, somebody also has to lodge a complaint about that behaviour before anything happens.
** Wuntch also benefits from being the boss. As many an underling will tell you, a jerkass boss can be very hard to get rid of because (a) they're the ones who are in charge of setting and enforcing the rules, (b) the other bosses are generally going to be more inclined to close ranks if anyone complains unless the jerkass boss is ''really'' bad, and (c) a jerkass boss is usually the kind of person who'll spitefully go after anyone who tries to undermine them out of revenge, thus discouraging more junior members from doing anything. So people will just likely keep their heads down and not make waves unless Wuntch does something she ''really'' can't wriggle out of.

* At the ceremony where Boyle gets his Medal of Valor, a police horse gets the same Medal. How could a horse have also gotten a Medal of Valor? I know that the horse was there to get all the attention because of Boyle's bad luck but are police horses ever given high-honor medals? If so, what for?

** Same as with Gina. She does the rest of her job fine and unless Holt is going to complain himself (and he's put himself at risk of counter complaint with his own petty acts against her, so he really can't) then nobody is going to care. Bad behaviour on its own is not enough to get a person fired, somebody also has to lodge a complaint about that behaviour before anything happens.

** If they release him then, knowing he is onto them, he has time to hide or destroy the evidence they need. Plus there was an insinuation that Peralta was probably going to be in trouble if they didn't find ''something'' to charge the guy with before the timer ran out.

In the episode 48 Hours, Jake arrests someone without any evidence and they have 48 hours to find proof. Here's a question; If Jake didn't have any proof, couldn't they just release the guy, find evidence, and re-arrest him? Did they really need to keep him there for 48 hours? Could they have just released him upon finding out Jake didn't have any proof?

How has Gina not been fired? She's constantly rude to everyone except Holt, gets next to no work done, assaults other employees, steals workplace supplies, hits on Terry repeatedly even though she knows he's married, throws important case files in the garbage, and generally makes work harder for everyone else. Any real secretary would've been fired within a week.

How has Wuntch not been fired, either? She's made it clear that she doesn't care about the community, only ruining Holt's career, she constantly abuses her position, is willing to ruin the career's of Holt's employees just to spite hom, and once even broke the law by hiring a spy to spy on the Nine-Nine.

In the episode 48 Hours, Jake arrests someone without any evidence and they have 48 hours to find proof. Here's a question; If Jake didn't have any proof, couldn't they just release the guy, find evidence, and re-arrest him? Did they really need to keep him there for 48 hours? Could they have just released him upon finding out Jake didn't have any proof?