Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Pimemento

February 15, 2020 7:38 AM - Season 7, Episode 3

Just keep swimming!

Guest starring Jason Mantzoukas, Paul Welsh, and Academy Award winner Jim Rash.

"Don't trust your D"

posted by Huffy Puffy (13 comments total)

Jim Rash! I wish he had a little more to do. Same goes for Paul Welsh, from the late, great Hard Nation podcast.
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 7:48 AM on February 15, 2020 [2 favorites]

This one just felt more like B99 to me, in a way that the first couple of the season didn’t, and I didn’t even realize that they didn’t until I saw this one.
posted by Etrigan at 9:54 AM on February 15, 2020 [3 favorites]

We finally got a resolution to S1E14’s conundrum!
posted by Monochrome at 9:36 AM on February 16, 2020 [3 favorites]

We finally got a resolution to S1E14’s conundrum!

Which was...?
posted by Mogur at 11:30 AM on February 16, 2020 [1 favorite]

Kelly: Wife or Dog?
posted by Monochrome at 11:31 AM on February 16, 2020 [8 favorites]

This one just felt more like B99 to me, in a way that the first couple of the season didn’t, and I didn’t even realize that they didn’t until I saw this one.

Well...this episode was hilarious. I tend to find the first few seasons of B99 a lot funnier than the last few, though I enjoy it enough to keep watching anyway.

Doug Judy and Pimento are absolutely my favorite recurring characters, so I loved this episode.
posted by grandiloquiet at 12:55 PM on February 17, 2020

I find Pimento overused and I continue to argue that Amy and Rosa are underused so this was really a lose-lose for me.
posted by jeather at 1:13 PM on February 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

I spent this whole episode imagining an Adrian Pimento spin-off where he’s like an anti-Columbo. Taking cases involving the New York elite, and being wild and intense but surprisingly effective.
posted by The Man from Lardfork at 5:52 AM on February 18, 2020 [6 favorites]

I like how it's getting back to it's roots of Jake being juvenile but effective.
posted by gryftir at 1:06 PM on February 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

I continue to argue that Amy and Rosa are underused so this was really a lose-lose for me.

I really love Mantzoukas, but I agree with you entirely otherwise. The conflict about Jake/Amy "trying" was about Jake feeling weird about Charles' feelings, not about AMYs which.... was the wrong call. And how could you have Pimento without somehow having him cross paths with Rosa. Super concerned that Amy is somehow going to start going baby-crazy and that's going to be played for sitcom-tension in ungreat ways (See also: Joan Watson on Elementary).I still continue to love this show but I was a little concerned about some of the directions in this episode.
posted by jessamyn at 7:42 PM on February 18, 2020 [2 favorites]

Rosa’s appearances are limited so far this season because she’s off shooting a movie.
posted by Servo5678 at 11:35 PM on February 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

So that explains season seven, but not the earlier ones. I guess when you are down to two women and six men, that is what happens.
posted by jeather at 4:28 AM on February 19, 2020 [1 favorite]

On the B99 podcast, they mentioned that they came up with the title first and then worked out the story after. Which makes all the references to "It's Finding Dory Disease" more funny to me, somehow.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 11:02 PM on February 28, 2020 [1 favorite]