Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The Last Ride
April 26, 2017 10:55 AM - Season 4, Episode 5 - Subscribe
It comes down to either the Nine-Nine or the 74th Precinct being shut down, and the 74th has a special tactical squad. Terry learns he needs to work one more case to catch Hitchcock, who has closed the most cases in the history of the 99th. Gina continually pranks the detectives while live-streaming in front of her audience of "G-noes". Amy convinces Holt to speed through five years of mentorship before the Nine-Nine closes. Jake and Charles set out on their last case together - a kid's stolen bike.
YOU JUST DRANK CEMENT!
I'm glad they didn't decide to drag out the will-they-or-won't they shut the Nine-Nine out to the end of the season.
YOU JUST DRANK CEMENT!
I'm glad they didn't decide to drag out the will-they-or-won't they shut the Nine-Nine out to the end of the season.
I'm still laughing about Hitchcock's tattoo.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 2:53 PM on April 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by paper chromatographologist at 2:53 PM on April 26, 2017 [2 favorites]
There's an inner circle?!?!
posted by General Malaise at 4:32 PM on April 26, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by General Malaise at 4:32 PM on April 26, 2017 [4 favorites]
The whole subplot "Holt has been secretly mentoring Amy with binders and everything without telling her" filled me full of so many emotions that would be inappropriate to share at work. I know it's ridiculous to have so many feelings about a high-strung sit-com character getting her greatest wish, but I cannot help myself.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:19 AM on April 27, 2017 [15 favorites]
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:19 AM on April 27, 2017 [15 favorites]
Something about this episode reminded me of News Radio. Chelsea Peretti might be her generation's Andy Dick. But, you know, funny.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 6:01 PM on April 27, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by ActingTheGoat at 6:01 PM on April 27, 2017 [1 favorite]
It was the inner circle line that reminded me of NewsRadio. They are both workplace comedies that completely ignore the rest of the employees most of the time. Brooklyn 99 at least acknowledged the night shift where I think the conceit on NewsRadio was they shifted to a national feed after hours? I might be misremembering that.
I would have put Chelsea Peretti as the counterpart to Vicki Lewis' Beth. Boyle kind of lines up with Andy Dick's Matthew, but Scully & Hitchcock take over most of the incompetence and physical comedy. Rosa Diaz is Joe Garelli and Amy Santiago is clearly Lisa Miller.
There's the employee / boss relationship with Jake / Captain Holt and Dave / Mr. James, but the characters are very different.
Terry is also different than Bill McNeal but both serve a utility player role. They make any story better and can be counted on for a good B-plot. Yogurt is this generation's vending machine sandwiches?
posted by Gary at 9:26 AM on April 28, 2017 [3 favorites]
I would have put Chelsea Peretti as the counterpart to Vicki Lewis' Beth. Boyle kind of lines up with Andy Dick's Matthew, but Scully & Hitchcock take over most of the incompetence and physical comedy. Rosa Diaz is Joe Garelli and Amy Santiago is clearly Lisa Miller.
There's the employee / boss relationship with Jake / Captain Holt and Dave / Mr. James, but the characters are very different.
Terry is also different than Bill McNeal but both serve a utility player role. They make any story better and can be counted on for a good B-plot. Yogurt is this generation's vending machine sandwiches?
posted by Gary at 9:26 AM on April 28, 2017 [3 favorites]
if there's a mod around, this was actually episode 15
I'm finally caught up to the current episode and the secret mentor binder from Holt for Amy filled me with such joy that I'm now incapable of expressing more emotions in this sentence.
posted by numaner at 7:58 PM on May 15, 2017
I'm finally caught up to the current episode and the secret mentor binder from Holt for Amy filled me with such joy that I'm now incapable of expressing more emotions in this sentence.
posted by numaner at 7:58 PM on May 15, 2017
OK, I'm way behind on this show and catching up, but this was a great episode - it felt like everything was hitting on all cylinders. All the characters were spot on. Holt was very Holt (and I am still in awe of Andre Braugher - who will always be the intense Det. Pembleton of Homicide to me - and his skill at comedy), which made the mentoring work with Amy fantastic - and the stinger, with the reveal that there are more! binders! just...yeah. Jake and Boyle have their epic case, but the decision to be responsible and wait for the larger bust - it was a good reminder that for all the slapstick, wacky comedy, this show is also about a group of detectives who are good at what they do. Same goes for Rosa & Terry.
And Gina was staring to get under my skin, until it's revealed that her social media shenanigans save the day and the 99. I mean, you know that the 99 isn't going to close, but the bait & switch on the reason for it is fantastic.
Anyways, it is a fantastic ensemble comedy and I enjoy the fact that the show can juggle the pairings of actors around a fair bit and produce solid fun every week; it isn't always completely even, but it's reliable. And I think one of the differences between the 99 and a show like NewsRadio is that the 99 characters have a bit more depth; some of the characters on NewsRadio became caricatures pretty quick (Matthew especially) and it sapped the fun because there was less chance to surprise us. I still love me some NewsRadio (and Bill McNeal is perhaps Phil Hartman at his best; I miss you Phil!), but I'm hesitant to draw comparisons - though clearly the 99 owes a debt to how that ensemble worked together.
Blerg. Anyways, sorry for the thread resurrection, but I love this show and needed to babble excitedly about it.
posted by nubs at 7:51 AM on June 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
And Gina was staring to get under my skin, until it's revealed that her social media shenanigans save the day and the 99. I mean, you know that the 99 isn't going to close, but the bait & switch on the reason for it is fantastic.
Anyways, it is a fantastic ensemble comedy and I enjoy the fact that the show can juggle the pairings of actors around a fair bit and produce solid fun every week; it isn't always completely even, but it's reliable. And I think one of the differences between the 99 and a show like NewsRadio is that the 99 characters have a bit more depth; some of the characters on NewsRadio became caricatures pretty quick (Matthew especially) and it sapped the fun because there was less chance to surprise us. I still love me some NewsRadio (and Bill McNeal is perhaps Phil Hartman at his best; I miss you Phil!), but I'm hesitant to draw comparisons - though clearly the 99 owes a debt to how that ensemble worked together.
Blerg. Anyways, sorry for the thread resurrection, but I love this show and needed to babble excitedly about it.
posted by nubs at 7:51 AM on June 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
FYI: This is S04E15, not E05.
posted by mikelieman at 9:35 AM on November 14, 2020
posted by mikelieman at 9:35 AM on November 14, 2020
I've been rewatching through the show this week, and honestly, I feel like every workplace sitcom that works at all from the past twenty-five years owes a debt to NewsRadio. (I'm a little biased - NewsRadio is one of my favorite shows of all time, though the Joe Rogan, Andy Dick, and general 90s-era homophobia of it all makes it much harder to watch now.) It was the show that really cracked how to make a full ensemble work over the long haul, finding the juice in different character combos and playing with how to juggle its A/B/C plots to create big set-pieces, etc. The writing (dated jokes aside) still feels fresh, as do the performances.
Of course, NewsRadio was a three-camera sitcom (and Tom Cherones made better use of the necessities of that format than basically any other director ever did, using the proscenium space to its absolute fullest) with a laugh track (sadly probably necessary for 3-camera - I think even HIMYM had to use a laugh track in order to not feel "off.") For single-cam, The Office and 30 Rock are really the other big comedies that have shaped the genre, and their DNA exists in B99 as well of course, but NewsRadio really forged how this kind of workplace sitcom can operate over the long-term. (As much as I love SportsNight and admire its place as the first of the single-camera workplace sitcoms, the writing was way too specifically Sorkin and the direction too specifically Schlamme for it to be a blueprint for what followed.)
Anyway, this episode is awesome. Gina pranking everyone (with the same prank over and over again, which is funny to me on its own, but they let that joke play out several different ways), just popping in like an imp throughout the episode, is a great use of that character that makes the whole thing feel more unified, especially with the precinct-saving capper to it all. The Peralta/Boyle story hit the emotional beats while still being funny, Terry's moment with Rosa was sweet and appropriate, and the Holt/Santiago speed-mentorship was fantastic. And Hitchcock's tattoo is horrifying.
posted by Navelgazer at 9:25 AM on May 2
Of course, NewsRadio was a three-camera sitcom (and Tom Cherones made better use of the necessities of that format than basically any other director ever did, using the proscenium space to its absolute fullest) with a laugh track (sadly probably necessary for 3-camera - I think even HIMYM had to use a laugh track in order to not feel "off.") For single-cam, The Office and 30 Rock are really the other big comedies that have shaped the genre, and their DNA exists in B99 as well of course, but NewsRadio really forged how this kind of workplace sitcom can operate over the long-term. (As much as I love SportsNight and admire its place as the first of the single-camera workplace sitcoms, the writing was way too specifically Sorkin and the direction too specifically Schlamme for it to be a blueprint for what followed.)
Anyway, this episode is awesome. Gina pranking everyone (with the same prank over and over again, which is funny to me on its own, but they let that joke play out several different ways), just popping in like an imp throughout the episode, is a great use of that character that makes the whole thing feel more unified, especially with the precinct-saving capper to it all. The Peralta/Boyle story hit the emotional beats while still being funny, Terry's moment with Rosa was sweet and appropriate, and the Holt/Santiago speed-mentorship was fantastic. And Hitchcock's tattoo is horrifying.
posted by Navelgazer at 9:25 AM on May 2
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I liked acknowledging all the other cops in the building who aren't part of the inner circle.
posted by Gary at 11:51 AM on April 26, 2017 [5 favorites]