Netflix announced on its Facebook page that the eighth and final season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine will finally be available on their platform on August 13th. This is great news for those who didn’t get to see the ending of this TV show, as well as those fans who want to watch it again.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is one of those highly replayable series that makes it fun to find the little touches that viewers miss on their first watch, thanks to Jake’s obsession with pop culture. Out of Lord of the rings to war of starsthese thousands of jokes and references to popular culture enrich the show’s dialogue and create some of the series’ most iconic moments.
10 Back Street Boys
The ’90s boy band is only mentioned twice during the show, but one of them has become one of the most emblematic scenes Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The chilling opening where Jake gets a bunch of suspects to sing “I Want It That Way” is an epic scene that will live forever in the heart of fandom.
Despite Jake neglecting to do his job properly, this moment became so popular that most people would recognize another Brooklyn Nine-Nine Fan by listening to them sing “Now number five” alongside the other song lyrics.
9 The Wizard of Oz
Unlike most popular culture references, Captain Holt understands this reference and actively uses it to insult his nemesis, Madeleine Wuntch. Captain Holt always compares her to the book’s main antagonists, the Wicked Witch of the East and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Captain Holt rarely uses creative puns to insult opponents, but this time he’s doing his best to outwit his enemy, and these are some of Holt’s funniest quotes. First, Holt asks for a bucket of water when Wuntch visits the precinct, the method used to melt The Wicked Witch of the West. He later tells her he thought she was still under the house in Munchkin country, and so the Wicked Witch of the East is killed. Lastly, he asks if she has been trying to get revenge on Dorothy since she killed her sister.
8th Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls is one of the best shows from the 2000s and it would have been very disappointing if Brooklyn Nine-Nine didn’t mention it. Against all odds, Rosa is the show’s biggest fan, and she’s incredibly pissed off at the revival’s finale because she “just wants to see Lorelai happy.”
Also, in one of the funniest quotes from the show, Charles tells Terry that he learned parenting from the best, and while Terry thinks he’ll mention him, Charles actually says it’s Lorelai. Although Terry is also a great dad there is no comparison to Lorelai Gilmore who is definitely the coolest mom.
7 Batman
It’s very common for Jake to make references to Batman, and it makes sense that he’d be a fan of a cool vigilante stopping crime in one of the world’s most dangerous cities while using his amazing gadgets.
What makes this reference so special, however, is that Jake uses Batman’s story as a metaphor in one of the most important moments of his friendship with Gina. He says he will murder Gina’s parents so she can start her ideal career as it would be her “origin story”. Gina, too, had compared herself to Spider-Man’s spider as if she were the one who gave Jake his “superpowers”.
6 Lord of the rings
Lord of the Rings is one of the best fantasy book series of all time, with most people knowing this franchise from either the books or the movies. Obviously Amy read the books as a kid, but other characters on the show reference this franchise and make some of the funniest jokes.
Although Gina pretends not to know Lord of the rings When Jake calls her a Gollum for asking him about her mother’s wedding ring, she later calls Charles’ father a hobbit. Terry is also a big fan of these stories and even compares Captain Holt to an Ent, a tree-like creature. Probably the funniest though Lord of the rings moment is when Jake refers to a doula as “Vaginal Gandalf”.
5 Taylor Swift
One of the show’s funniest running jokes is Jake’s “secret” obsession with Taylor Swift. Viewers first find out that Jake likes the singer when Terry asks him during a lie detector test if Taylor Swift is his favorite singer, and Jake has to admit that she is. He explains that she “makes him feel things”, to which Terry replies that “she makes us all feel things!” – and he doesn’t lie.
Also, Amy’s father discovers that Jake can’t get closer than 500 yards to Taylor because he got too close to her at an event. Sadly, Jake never mentions the singer again, which is odd as he would certainly have something to say about Taylor’s two latest albums, folklore and always.
4 war of stars
A franchise that began in 1977, war of stars has been going strong for more than 40 years, and with Disney’s expansion of this universe, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to end anytime soon, like e.g The Mandalorian one of the best sci-fi series of all time. Once again, Brooklyn Nine-Nine doesn’t disappoint its audience by making some hilarious references to this franchise.
In “Fancy Brudgom”, Rosa pokes fun at her colleagues when they make a mistake when zapping lab rats, mistaking for Palpatine using Force Lightning. In “Tactical Village,” Charles amusingly compares Amy and Jake’s relationship to Luke and Leia’s. However, the best reference is to war of stars is Amy, who the franchise calls upon for her misuse of the parsec as a measure of speed rather than a measure of distance.
3 Harry Potter
There is probably no more famous franchise than Harry Potterand Brooklyn Nine-Nine constantly references these books and films. Amy is a big fan of the books and Jake reads them because he wants to make her happy but ends up being a big fan as well. Hence, this mutual interest becomes a big part of their relationship.
For example, when Jake and Amy are trying to have a baby, Amy complains about Jake saying “Mischief Managed” after the couple ended the sex as a reference to the Marauders’ Map. The weird references don’t stop there, as Jake describes her attempts at having a baby as “growing a whomping willow in your Chamber of Secrets.”
2 game of Thrones
Nobody doubts that game of Thrones is one of the most relevant shows in the last decade, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine honors its place in popular culture by featuring at least one reference to the series throughout most of its seasons, including the iconic phrase “Winter is Coming”.
Most of the characters in Revier are fans of the fantasy series and spend a lot of time exchanging theories in their group chat about how Gina comments in The Fugitive: Part 2. Even Rosa is a huge fan, and when the team has to go to a convention for a case in Return To Skyfire, she stands in line to meet Bran Stark.
1 Die Hard
Jake’s obsession with the Die Hard Movies are so well known that most fans can’t think about them anymore Die Hard without associating it with this series. Jake’s biggest dream is to become a cool cop like John McClane and solve tough cases while everyone praises him for his heroic deeds. He likes these films so much that he even names his first son after McClane.
In “99,” Jake is allowed to go to Nakatomi Plaza, a Los Angeles skyscraper that has become a permanent feature Die Hard Culture because one of its most important scenes was filmed there. Amy also buys him a cake in the shape of the building for her wedding, and Jake says he appreciates that she pretends to like it as much as he does.
