Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Ransom

April 18, 2020 1:13 PM - Season 7, Episode 12

Holt asks for Jake's help in a case that is exceptionally meaningful to him. Charles and Terry work together on a side business.

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posted by kitten kaboodle (13 comments total)

Quite the fistfight at the climax!
posted by lazaruslong at 2:17 PM on April 18, 2020 [4 favorites]

That was, like, most of the action of this entire show’s history.
posted by Etrigan at 4:29 PM on April 18, 2020 [9 favorites]

Yes but how do you beat Wario?
posted by ckape at 7:31 PM on April 18, 2020 [7 favorites]

i feel the subtitles should have reflected the correct spelling which is "fluffy boi" :)
posted by alchemist at 1:43 AM on April 20, 2020 [9 favorites]

I would have expected Holt to ask for help off-hours and to maybe decline to beat up someone already in custody.

I realize I genuinely dislike this show and Peralta or The Peralta Show. It gives off the same vibe as South Park (ha, ha, we're actually laughing at you and revealing our true selves in deniable sketches).
posted by jojo and the benjamins at 11:36 AM on April 20, 2020

Watching the beginning (Hitchcock and Scully alone wondering why they're the only ones with enough work ethic to be in the building, interrupted by Peralta in a full hazmat suit) was so surreal. Of course my first thought was "Wait -- they're making a coronavirus episode -- but how/why did they actually gather together to do it?" And all that right on the heels of the episode that opens with a conversation about the NBA combined with a precinct filled with Easter bunnies.

The highlight for me: Peralta's range from worst-possible impression of Kevin to a highly passable one whose subtle levels of excitement about warblers could only be detected by the other two.

I'm 95% sure the laptop was a Mac Air and thus couldn't really knock someone in the head very hard.

i feel the subtitles should have reflected the correct spelling which is "fluffy boi" :)

Neither Holt nor Kevin would ever pronounce a nonstandard spelling!
posted by InTheYear2017 at 11:41 AM on April 20, 2020 [11 favorites]

Holt had to team up with Jake because if he teamed up with Rosa, they'd have gone all John Wicks at the halfway point.

so weird to realize that Kevin and Holt might be my favorite couple on TV right now
posted by grandiloquiet at 6:57 PM on April 20, 2020 [6 favorites]

The highlight for me: Peralta's range from worst-possible impression of Kevin to a highly passable one whose subtle levels of excitement about warblers could only be detected by the other two.
It was truly impressive.

I love Teddy in this episode. The thing about the way he was written here is that a lot of times, people being excited about obscure (or seemingly boring topics) are some of my favorite conversations. We all read the news and I do NOT want to talk about it! But if you know a weird aspect of the design of highway interchanges I will probably be fascinated. Once I was talking to a friend of a friend about his job as a nutritionist for zoo animals. He was getting into some specifics about mixing bird food and suddenly stopped himself, thinking he was dominating the conversation too much, to ask what I did for a living. I told him I had a boring office job that is not nearly as interesting as him mixing bird food. "Oh! ok." and he launched back into his topic. That was 6 years ago and I still think about it.

I would 100% love to hang out with Teddy right now.
posted by Emmy Rae at 11:04 AM on April 21, 2020 [2 favorites]

I, too, would like to know more about mixing bird food for zoo animals.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 4:55 PM on April 21, 2020 [1 favorite]

I, too, would like to know more about mixing bird food for zoo animals.

Well yeah but what does Teddy know about mailboxes?
posted by Emmy Rae at 5:11 PM on April 21, 2020

I would have expected Holt to ask for help off-hours and to maybe decline to beat up someone already in custody.

When did Holt beat up somebody already in custody ?
posted by Pendragon at 9:04 AM on April 26, 2020 [1 favorite]

Yeah. ACAB, obviously, but the perp in that fight scene was definitely not already in custody when Holt beat the crap out of him.
posted by tobascodagama at 7:46 PM on April 26, 2020

Fluffy boy!!!!

John Wicks!

Jake actually doing a pretty good Kevin!

I finally got around to watching this and it had corgi goodness.
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:42 PM on September 8, 2021