History Recap / BrooklynNineNineS3E14KarenPeralta

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Despite being an overall good person, Jake turns out to be this when it comes to motivation to be a cop. His mother theorizes because he is very protective and wants to help people, only for Jake to make it clear that it was because he watched Die Hard

* BrokenRecord: Jake list topics to avoid during Amy's visit: "Jake: Topics to avoid — how my dad left us and ruined our lives, how my dad got remarried twice and ruined our lives, how my dad moved to Canada and ruined our lives."

* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Scully recognizes the dial tone on the phone as morse code, which he learned from communicating with his father while he was a prisoner of war.

* YourCheatingHeart: Much of the conflict stems from young Jake witnessing Roger cheating on Karen. It turns out that Karen already knew about this affair (and a few other that Jake hadn't learned about), and wants to take him back anyway.

* {{Adorkable}}: Amy reacts to the stress of meeting Jake's mother (and Jake's father unexpectedly) and having to manage Jake's freakout about the latter with adorable geekiness. She ends up singing "Itsy-Bitsy Spider" at two different points because that's how she made her friends' parents like her when she was little. Amy also reacts to Karen telling Jake that she likes her (which she learned by lip-reading their conversation from the car) with incredibly delighted squeeing and excitedly telling Karen that she likes her, too.

* FreudianExcuse: Karen muses that Jake spending his entire childhood trying to protect her from Roger is why he ended up becoming a police office; so he could keep protecting everyone, but Jake just says it's because he loved ''Die Hard''.

* {{Adorkable}}: Amy reacts to the stress of meeting Jake's mother, Jake's father unexpectedly arriving and having to manage Jake's freakout about the latter with [[SarcasmMode all the dignity and calm maturity you'd expect from her]]. Which is to say, [[ItMakesSenseInContext she ends up singing "Itsy-Bitsy Spider" at two different points]], which should tell you all you need to know about the situation. Amy also reacts to Karen telling Jake that she likes her (which she learned by lip-reading their conversation from the car) with incredibly delighted squeeing.

* CharacterTitle

'''''Karen Peralta''''' is the fourteenth episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'''s third season.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Jake list topics to avoid: "Jake: Topics to avoid — how my dad left us and ruined our lives, how my dad got remarried twice and ruined our lives, how my dad moved to Canada and ruined our lives."

* {{Retcon}}: Jake's mother was originally described as a waitress who had to constantly work extra shifts to support herself and Jake (leading to his hatred of Thanksgiving since she was always working during holidays). Here she's an elementary school art teacher who raised Jake in a decent-sized house and provide him and herself with the occasional luxury.