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* LostInCharacter: Mark at first appears to actually believe he's his detective character and constantly gets in Jake and Rosa's way trying to "solve" the case with them. [[ObfuscatingInsanity Turns out this is a ruse to detract attention from him as the real culprit]].
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* ActorAllusion: Where Creator/NathanFillion goes, ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' references follow. In this case, the use of blue latex gloves is a plot point, as in "Two by two/Hands of blue". Fillion also played a similar part as the titular Richard Castle on the tv series ''Series/{{Castle}}''. In this case, a novelist rather than an actor, assisting actual NYPD officer Kate Beckett (Creator/StanaKatic) solve murders.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Terry ended up hurting Veronica a great deal with their breakup. He stayed with her for another 12-18 months after her mother died, because he didn't want to cause additional heartbreak. When they broke up and he gave her a present to commemorate their time together, he forgot to remove the receipt.
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* InsultBackfire: After Jake accuses the producer of stealing the laptop, [[EvilIsPetty he retaliates]] by creating a fictional villain who is "the grossest pervert in the world", naming him Jake Peralta, and having him die a painful death by BottomlessMagazines. Jake was just thrilled to have his name used on a TV show.
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The Nine-Nine is on edge because, after being [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS4E13TheAudit audited by Amy's ex-boyfriend]], they're now being audited by Terry's ''extremely'' vindictive ex-girlfriend.
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The Nine-Nine is on edge because, after being [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS4E13TheAudit audited by Amy's vindictive ex-boyfriend]], they're now being audited by Terry's ''extremely'' vindictive ex-girlfriend.
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* WritersSuck: The writers of ''Serve & Protect'' are described as being so socially stunted that they can't hold a conversation for more than a few words at a time. Though we really only have [[{{Jerkass}} the producer's]] word on this, and we don't get to see it ourselves.
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* WritersSuck: The writers of ''Serve & Protect'' are described as being so socially stunted that they can't hold a conversation for more than a few words at a time. Though we really only have [[{{Jerkass}} the producer's]] word on this, and we don't get to see it ourselves.ourselves.
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Rosa is convinced that the precinct will close and is lashing out because she's afraid that it will also mean the end of all her friendships. Wanting to help calm his friend, Jake snags a stolen property case that occurred on the set of ''Serve & Protect'' a LawProcedural and the detectives' favorite show. Unfortunately, their investigation is hampered by an executive producer who clearly doesn't want them there and the mad antics of Mark Devereaux (Creator/NathanFillion), the show's star who's been playing a cop for so long that he can't drop character.
Back at the precinct, Charles becomes so desperate to save the Nine-Nine that he decides to be proactive for once and convinces Holt to try and suck up to the deputy commissioner who will make the ultimate decision regarding precinct closures. As the two prepare to do so, however,a juicy tidbit falls into their laps and they hastily try to rework their plan in order to take advantage.
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Rosa is convinced that the precinct will close and is lashing out because she's afraid that it will also mean the end of all her friendships. Wanting to help calm his friend, Jake snags a stolen property case that occurred on the set of ''Serve & Protect'' Protect'', a LawProcedural and the detectives' favorite show. Unfortunately, their investigation is hampered by an executive producer who clearly doesn't want them there and the mad antics of Mark Devereaux (Creator/NathanFillion), the show's star who's been playing a cop for so long that he can't drop character.
Back at the precinct, Charles becomes so desperate to save the Nine-Nine that he decides to be proactive for once and convinces Holt to try and suck up to the deputy commissioner who will make the ultimate decision regarding precinct closures. As the two prepare to do so,however,a however, a juicy tidbit falls into their laps and they hastily try to rework their plan in order to take advantage.
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* HatesBeingTouched: Rosa vents to Jake about the precinct getting shut down. She's feeling despondent about the idea of having to "meet a whole new group of people", and the idea that they "won't be friends any more." Jake assures her:
-->'''Jake:''' Rosa, we will never not be friends.\\
'''Rosa:''' Thanks, man. Get your hand off me.\\
'''Jake:''' Yep. Forgot the Rosa rule. No touchy.
-->'''Jake:''' Rosa, we will never not be friends.\\
'''Rosa:''' Thanks, man. Get your hand off me.\\
'''Jake:''' Yep. Forgot the Rosa rule. No touchy.
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* WritersSuck: The writers of ''Serve & Protect'' are described as being so socially stunted that they can't hold a conversation for more than a few words at a time. Though we really only have [[Jerkass [[{{Jerkass}} the producer's]] word on this, and we don't get to see it ourselves.
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* WritersSuck: The writers of ''Serve & Protect'' are described as being so socially stunted that they can't hold a conversation for more than a few words at a time.
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* WritersSuck: The writers of ''Serve & Protect'' are described as being so socially stunted that they can't hold a conversation for more than a few words at a time. Though we really only have [[Jerkass the producer's]] word on this, and we don't get to see it ourselves.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Invoked with Jake asking the producer of ''Serve & Protect'' to name a character after him. In the end, the writers name a criminal after him, a cannibalistic serial killer and self-proclaimed "biggest pervert in the world", who then gets a ridiculously gory death scene. Jake is delighted nonetheless.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Invoked with Jake asking the producer of ''Serve & Protect'' to name a character after him. In the end, the writers name a criminal after him, a cannibalistic serial killer and self-proclaimed "biggest "grossest pervert in the world", who then gets a ridiculously gory death scene. Jake is delighted nonetheless.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Jake is elated that the producers of ''Serve & Protect'' use his name... even when the character they use it for is a cannibal, a serial killer and the self-described "biggest pervert in the world".
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Jake is elated that the producers of ''Serve & Protect'' use his name... even when the character they use it for is a cannibal, a serial killer and the self-described "biggest [[CardCarryingVillain self-described]] "grossest pervert in the world".
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Terry regrets cutting ties with all his and Veronica's mutual friends, especially Tommy because "Tommy turned Terry on to tennis."
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* OhCrap: Terry when he realizes Veronica ''knew'' he'd wanted to break up with her ''way'' before he actually did it.
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* StylisticSuck: From what little we see of ''Serve & Protect'' it is... not great television.
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** Mark Devereaux is an actor who plays Detective Cole Tracker on a show ''Protect & Serve''. He's a crazy-ish actor who acts like his character all the time. He sits backwards on a chair when he "interrogates" a production assistant on the set in front of real detectives.
** Jake sits backwards when he interrogates Mark Devereaux in the precinct. It's Mark's character's shtick and Jake wants to throw him off balance a bit. And he ''loves'' reenacting scenes from movies and TV shows. Rosa joins Jake in the fun and also sits backwards, while Mark only mumbles "a double Tracker".
** Jake sits backwards when he interrogates Mark Devereaux in the precinct. It's Mark's character's shtick and Jake wants to throw him off balance a bit. And he ''loves'' reenacting scenes from movies and TV shows. Rosa joins Jake in the fun and also sits backwards, while Mark only mumbles "a double Tracker".
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** Mark Devereaux is an actor who plays Detective Cole Tracker on a show ''Protect ''Serve & Serve''.Protect''. He's a crazy-ish actor who acts like his character all the time. He sits backwards on a chair when he "interrogates" a production assistant on the set in front of real detectives.
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** Mark Devereaux is an actor who plays Detective Cole Tracker on a show ''Protect & Serve''. He's a crazy-ish actor who acts like his character all the time. He sits backwards on a chair when he "interrogates" a production assistant on the set in front of real detectives.
** Jake sits backwards when he interrogates Mark Devereaux in the precinct. It's Mark's character's shtick and Jake wants to throw him off balance a bit. And he ''loves'' reenacting scenes from movies and TV shows. Rosa joins Jake in the fun and also sits backwards, while Mark only mumbles "a double Tracker".
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'''Jake:''' Oh, I'm aware.
** Mark Devereaux is an actor who plays Detective Cole Tracker on a show ''Protect & Serve''. He's a crazy-ish actor who acts like his character all the time. He sits backwards on a chair when he "interrogates" a production assistant on the set in front of real detectives.
** Jake sits backwards when he interrogates Mark Devereaux in the precinct. It's Mark's character's shtick and Jake wants to throw him off balance a bit. And he ''loves'' reenacting scenes from movies and TV shows. Rosa joins Jake in the fun and also sits backwards, while Mark only mumbles "a double Tracker".
-->'''Mark Devereaux:''' That's my move!\\
'''Jake:''' Oh, I'm aware.
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'''''Serve & Protect''''' is the fourteenth episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'''s fourth season.
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* ActorAllusion: Where Creator/NathanFillion goes, ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' references follow. In this case, the use of blue latex gloves is a plot point, as in "Two by two/Hands of blue".
** Fillion also played a similar part as the titular Richard Castle on the tv series ''Series/{{Castle}}''. In this case, a novelist rather than an actor, assisting actual NYPD officer Kate Beckett (Creator/StanaKatic) solve murders.
* {{Adorkable}}: When Gina throws yogurt all over the interrogation room, Amy's first concern is that it's seeped into the grouting and that the smell will be there for months.
** Fillion also played a similar part as the titular Richard Castle on the tv series ''Series/{{Castle}}''. In this case, a novelist rather than an actor, assisting actual NYPD officer Kate Beckett (Creator/StanaKatic) solve murders.
* {{Adorkable}}: When Gina throws yogurt all over the interrogation room, Amy's first concern is that it's seeped into the grouting and that the smell will be there for months.
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* ActorAllusion: Where Creator/NathanFillion goes, ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' references follow. In this case, the use of blue latex gloves is a plot point, as in "Two by two/Hands of blue".
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* ActorAllusion: Where Creator/NathanFillion goes, ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' references follow. In this case, the use of blue latex gloves is a plot point, as in "Two by two/Hands of blue".
** Fillion also played a similar part as the titular Richard Castle on the tv series ''Series/{{Castle}}''. In this case, a novelist rather than an actor, assisting actual NYPD officer Kate Beckett (Creator/StanaKatic) solve murders.
** Fillion also played a similar part as the titular Richard Castle on the tv series ''Series/{{Castle}}''. In this case, a novelist rather than an actor, assisting actual NYPD officer Kate Beckett (Creator/StanaKatic) solve murders.
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* LudicrousGibs: As revenge for Jake and Rosa sticking their noses into show business, the executive producer of ''Serve & Protect'' names a cannibal serial killer "Jake Peralta" and has him die in a hail of bullets in the stinger.
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* BottomlessMagazine: At the end of the ''Serve & Protect'' episode in the stinger, "Jake Peralta" gets at least a hundred bullets fired into him from one cop's gun without the need for reloading.
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* BottomlessMagazine: BottomlessMagazines: At the end of the ''Serve & Protect'' episode in the stinger, "Jake Peralta" gets at least a hundred bullets fired into him from one cop's gun without the need for reloading.
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* KnowWhenToFoldThem: When confronted with accusations that he's the one who stole Cassie's laptop, Mark dramatically challenges Jake and Rosa to provide some proof:
-->'''Mark:''' Ridiculous. I've never been more insulted in my life. ''[Standing up, getting increasingly dramatic]'' Your theory is outrageous, and what's more it's just a theory. I dunno how cops around here do things, but where I come we're burdened with a little thing we like to call evidence, of which you don't have a shred.\\
'''Rosa:''' ''[Drops an evidence bag on the table]'' We found Cassie's laptop in the trunk of your car.\\
'''Mark:''' ''[Instant capitulation]'' I stand corrected. Yeah. You got me. I did it. Good job.
-->'''Mark:''' Ridiculous. I've never been more insulted in my life. ''[Standing up, getting increasingly dramatic]'' Your theory is outrageous, and what's more it's just a theory. I dunno how cops around here do things, but where I come we're burdened with a little thing we like to call evidence, of which you don't have a shred.\\
'''Rosa:''' ''[Drops an evidence bag on the table]'' We found Cassie's laptop in the trunk of your car.\\
'''Mark:''' ''[Instant capitulation]'' I stand corrected. Yeah. You got me. I did it. Good job.
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* {{Adorkable}}: When Gina throws yogurt all over the interrogation room, Amy's first concern is that it's seeped into the grouting and that the smell will be there for months.
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* CallBack: Amy getting upset over yogurt getting into the interrogation room's grouting is a call back to "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS2E21DetDaveMajors Det. Dave Majors]]", when she gets preoccupied with a crime scene photo that showed blood staining some grouting.
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* PerpSweating: Poor Terry gets thrown into the interrogation room and is put through the wringer by Amy and Gina playing GoodCopBadCop.
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* EyebrowWaggle: Instead of blackmailing the deputy commissioner about his affair, Charles tells Holt to make him think that they will, and suggests that Holt waggle his eyebrows in an insinuating manner. Unfortunately, Holt never quite grasps the concept, and the commissioner just thinks he's got a facial tic.
* GoodCopBadCop: While Amy tries to get Terry to remember what he did to Veronica, Gina tags along and plays bad cop, which is completely unnecessary and counterproductive.
* GoodCopBadCop: While Amy tries to get Terry to remember what he did to Veronica, Gina tags along and plays bad cop, which is completely unnecessary and counterproductive.
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* RedHerring: Rosa suspects the executive producer of stealing the laptop, and accuses Jake of falling for his flattery. They find security footage of him entering the lead actress' trailer, but when they confront him, it turns out he went there to take away some pills she had been abusing. The real culprit is the male lead Mark, who earlier mishandled the bag the laptop was in to throw off suspicion.
* ShaggyDogStory: Terry finally apologizes to officer Hopkins. She forgives him, but by then she had already sent the report, and it was not good.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Invoked with Jake asking the producer of ''Serve & Protect'' to name a character after him. In the end, the writers name a criminal after him, a cannibalistic serial killer and self-proclaimed "biggest pervert in the world", who then gets a ridiculously gory death scene. Jake is delighted nonetheless.
* ShaggyDogStory: Terry finally apologizes to officer Hopkins. She forgives him, but by then she had already sent the report, and it was not good.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Invoked with Jake asking the producer of ''Serve & Protect'' to name a character after him. In the end, the writers name a criminal after him, a cannibalistic serial killer and self-proclaimed "biggest pervert in the world", who then gets a ridiculously gory death scene. Jake is delighted nonetheless.
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The Nine-Nine is on edge because, after being [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS4E13TheAudit audited by Amy's ex-boyfriend, ex-boyfriend]], they're now being audited by Terry's ''extremely'' vindictive ex-girlfriend.
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* BecomingTheMask: Mark Devereaux has been playing a cop for 15 years and now thinks he can do the job just as well as professional detectives.
* BetterThanABareBulb: The episode hangs a lampshade on its own tropes.
* LudicrousGibs: As revenge for Jake and Rosa sticking their noses into show business, the executive producer of ''Serve & Protect'' names a cannibal serial killer "Jake Peralta" and has him die in a hail of bullets in the stinger.
* WritersSuck: The writers of ''Serve & Protect'' are described as being so socially stunted that they can't hold a conversation for more than a few words at a time.
* BecomingTheMask: Mark Devereaux has been playing a cop for 15 years and now thinks he can do the job just as well as professional detectives.
* BetterThanABareBulb: The episode hangs a lampshade on its own tropes.
* LudicrousGibs: As revenge for Jake and Rosa sticking their noses into show business, the executive producer of ''Serve & Protect'' names a cannibal serial killer "Jake Peralta" and has him die in a hail of bullets in the stinger.
* WritersSuck: The writers of ''Serve & Protect'' are described as being so socially stunted that they can't hold a conversation for more than a few words at a time.
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The Nine-Nine is on edge because, after being audited by Amy's ex-boyfriend, they're now being audited by Terry's ''extremely'' vindictive ex-girlfriend.
Rosa is convinced that the precinct will close and is lashing out because she's afraid that it will also mean the end of all her friendships. Wanting to help calm his friend, Jake snags a stolen property case that occurred on the set of ''Serve & Protect'' a LawProcedural and the detectives' favorite show. Unfortunately, their investigation is hampered by an executive producer who clearly doesn't want them there and the mad antics of Mark Devereaux (Creator/NathanFillion), the show's star who's been playing a cop for so long that he can't drop character.
Back at the precinct, Charles becomes so desperate to save the Nine-Nine that he decides to be proactive for once and convinces Holt to try and suck up to the deputy commissioner who will make the ultimate decision regarding precinct closures. As the two prepare to do so, however,a juicy tidbit falls into their laps and they hastily try to rework their plan in order to take advantage.
Amy and Gina team up to try and figure out why Lieutenant Hopkins is so angry at Terry and lock him in the interrogation room until they get to the bottom of things.
!!This episode provides examples of:
The Nine-Nine is on edge because, after being audited by Amy's ex-boyfriend, they're now being audited by Terry's ''extremely'' vindictive ex-girlfriend.
Rosa is convinced that the precinct will close and is lashing out because she's afraid that it will also mean the end of all her friendships. Wanting to help calm his friend, Jake snags a stolen property case that occurred on the set of ''Serve & Protect'' a LawProcedural and the detectives' favorite show. Unfortunately, their investigation is hampered by an executive producer who clearly doesn't want them there and the mad antics of Mark Devereaux (Creator/NathanFillion), the show's star who's been playing a cop for so long that he can't drop character.
Back at the precinct, Charles becomes so desperate to save the Nine-Nine that he decides to be proactive for once and convinces Holt to try and suck up to the deputy commissioner who will make the ultimate decision regarding precinct closures. As the two prepare to do so, however,a juicy tidbit falls into their laps and they hastily try to rework their plan in order to take advantage.
Amy and Gina team up to try and figure out why Lieutenant Hopkins is so angry at Terry and lock him in the interrogation room until they get to the bottom of things.
!!This episode provides examples of:
