"Fancy Brudgom" is the twentieth episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine's first season.
Charles asks Jake to be the best man at his wedding to Vivian Ludley. Jake happily accepts and goes about trying to help arrange a wedding that suits Charles' odd sensibilities, using Fancy Brudgom, a Danish wedding magazine for men, as his guide. He's thrown for a loop, however, when Charles suddenly announces that he intends to take early retirement and move to Canada with Vivian.
Amy, Gina, and Terry embark on a diet but find themselves hungry and frustrated due to the comically small amounts of food they are given to eat.
Rosa insults a patrolman whom she considers to be incompetent. Holt tries to get her to apologize but she resists him every step of the way.
This episode provides examples of:
- Armor-Piercing Question: Amy to Jake when he's trying to figure out what's wrong with Charles:Jake: I just don’t understand why he’s being so weird. I can’t believe he would turn on me like this. He’s not being himself.
Amy: Maybe because he’s facing a terrible decision and he doesn’t know what to do?
Jake: (Beat) …Yep. That sounds right. - Black Comedy Suicide: When Jake learns that Vivian wants Boyle to retire and move to Ottawa, he reminds Boyle that they both planned to die on the force together: Jake in a big explosion and then Charles committing suicide at his funeral out of respect.
- Diet Episode: Played With. None of the dieters are actually out of shape, as is mentioned a few times. However, Terry only went with the diet to support his wife, who is on the diet because she's feeling self-conscious about how she looks after having twins. Terry just wanted Gina and Amy to join along so he could get through it. Although they both break their diets, they agree to continue helping Terry.
- Growling Gut: Happens to Terry when he attempts to prove he's stronger than ever by lifting a car. It is followed by copious amounts of flatulation.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Terry, Amy, and Gina try to insist that the tiny portions in their diet are more than enough; Amy even claims that sometimes her breakfast is too much for her to finish. Then Terry starts licking the plastic bags his fruit came in, and when he explains that there are "food molecules" stuck to the inside, Amy and Gina eagerly join in.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Jake quitting as Charles's best man in frustration isn't exactly depicted as admirable, but as he points out he's not without justification:Jake: I tried to help him and he totally threw me under the bus. So I quit as best man.
Amy: Jake!
Jake: What? I did everything right! I was loyal, I put up with all his dumb ideas: his spicy cake, his champagne made out of olives, reading his vows as a recipe! "One teaspoon, eternal love. A dash of peeing with the door open —"
Amy: [Slightly squicked out] Okay, that's hard to hear. - Low Count Gag: Terry, Amy and Gina go on a very 'scientific' diet, despite them all being in perfect shape, as Captain Holt points out. All the meals are pre-planned and delivered. For example, the breakfast consists of an orange wedge, three cashew nuts and a solitary grape. Another meal is a single baby carrot (the container says "ingredients: carrot") or one almond.
- Micro Dieting: Terry, Gina, and Amy are all dieting.note It's a "very scientific" diet with individually packaged portions delivered straight to them for every meal, all of them ridiculously tiny. For example, at breakfast, each of them gets a single orange wedge, three cashews, and a solitary grape. They try to insist these meals are more than enough for them—then start licking the inside of the food bags, in hopes of getting the last remaining "food molecules" stuck inside. By the end of the day, all three of them fall off the wagon and eat a properly-sized meal.
- Old, New, Borrowed and Blue: Jake is Charles's best man and he helps him to plan the wedding. When they're choosing clothes, Charles is seen wearing a thong. He claims it's his something borrowed. It's part of the running joke that Charles is very emotional and more like the stereotypical bride in his relationship with his fiancée.Jake: Summer linen suit... casual but classic. Actually not bad.
Charles: One question... can you see my underwear?
Jake: Ah, thong! Why are you wearing a thong?
Charles: It's my something borrowed. - Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Rosa talks about wanting to throw lightning bolts like Emperor Palpatine. Holt has no idea who that is.
- Rage Breaking Point: Amy has been struggling to make it through her diet, but has mostly kept it together. Then Hitchcock accidentally knocks an almond out of her mouth and steps on it.Hitchcock: Oops! Butter feet. Sorry about that.
Amy: Sorry?! You bumbling SON OF A BITCH!! You just ruined my life! I hope you get hit by a truck and a dog takes a dump on your face!!
Terry: Nothing to see here. Just a little hypoglycemic rage. Move along.
Amy: I’m so sorry, Hitchcock. That’s not me. I’m never like that.
Hitchcock: That’s okay. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have bumped your cashew.
Amy: Cashew?! It was an almond, you idiot! I hope you drown in a tub! I hope you have aneurysm after aneurysm after aneurysm!! - What the Hell, Hero?: Jake is righteously pissed that Charles threw him under the bus because he was too scared to talk to Vivian himself.
