"I do not slump. I do the opposite of slump. I P-muls."
—Peralta
Jake struggles to work his way through a slump, Amy, Rosa, and Gina struggle to recruit at-risk kids for the Junior Police Program, while Terry and Charles struggle to assemble a dollhouse for Terry's daughters.
Tropes present in this episode:
- Amusingly Short List: When the 99 guys discuss their favourite cop movies and try to find the best one, Rosa lists things she likes about Robocop: Gratuitous violence.Diaz: No. Robocop. It's got everything I like: Gratuitous violence [the intonation signifies she will list more; long pause ensues]
Peralta: ...Oh, I thought you were listing things.
Diaz: I was. I'm done. - Artistic License: Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless is a crime film, not a cop film.
- Delinquent: Ostensibly the targets of the Junior Police Program.
- Determinator: Mentioned as the reason Boyle never "slumps" — he just keeps working until he's done.
- Dismissing a Compliment: Amy starts conversations with Rosa and later Gina by complimenting something they're wearing. In both instances, she gets cut off in the middle of the sentence with the correct assumption that she's asking for a favor.
- Disorganized Outline Speech:Holt: There’s a community outreach program that’s very important to me. I was wondering if you’d like to head it up.
Amy: Absolutely, sir! I won’t just head it up, I will head and shoulders it up. I will dive in, swim around it, just be… altogether… g-good with it.
Holt: Be more articulate when you speak to the children.
Amy: Yes, sir. I will make better mouth. - Dumbass Has a Point: Scully seems ridiculously pleased to be "1%" through the case files he's working on digitising. When challenged by Sgt. Jeffords over how this is a pathetically small amount to have actually done, he points out that the digitising process involves him laboriously working through thousands of case-files "clicking two hundred box-thingies on fifty different screens", so 1% of that — while still a pathetically small number — still involves quite a lot of files.
- Former Teen Rebel: Apparently, Gina was one of the "at-risk" kids targeted by the Junior Police program, and like the kids in this episode, she was lured in by the benefits and not the do-gooding of police work.
- Humble Pie: When Gina offers her services to help with the junior police program, Amy dismisses her by saying she's not a cop. Later, after Amy and Rosa have crashed and burned with the kids, they humbly admit they need Gina's help.
- Insistent Terminology:Charles: Okay, this is Ethel Musterberg from the Prospect Heights senior center. There was an ID card in her back pocket.
Terry: Why was your hand in her back pocket?
Jake: Well, she told me she didn't have any ID, and unlike Boyle, my first instinct was not to caress her butt.
Charles: Frisked! I frisked her butt! - Lucky Rabbit's Foot: Holt gives Peralta one in an attempt to mess with him. It worked.
- Mistaken for Racist: When Amy starts voicing a drug dealer character for the kids, one of them questions why the character sounds black. Gina plays along to mess with her.
- Noodle Implements: The individual parts of the dollhouse Terry is building. It has a three-headed screw (with nowhere to screw it in) and wheels. Notably, when Boyle assembles the castle at the end, the wheels are nowhere visible.
- Not So Stoic: Impassive tough lady Rosa appears close to tears after her threat gets turned into a Voice Clip Song.
- Product Placement: Gina wears Nike Dunk Sky wedge sneakers in this episode.
- Rage Quit: Frustrated with doll-house building, Terry throws the whole set-up onto the floor. Repeatedly.
- Rule of Funny: Terry was too busy to be in a lineup so he told Boyle to ask Hitchcock instead. It seems Hitchcock taking his shirt off for no reason was supposed to be so funny that no one would stop to ask what kind of lineup could Hitchcock replace Terry in.
- Stylistic Suck: The dance moves Gina shows the kids.
