# Brooklyn Nine-Nine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433 "2014-01-22T04:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/21 "2014-01-22T14:48:02Z")
Chelsea Peretti’s awesome and one of the best characters on the show in my opinion. [/QUOTE] Best new show? I have to question that. I do like the actors and enjoy the show but I do not recall ever laughing a big laugh at anything yet on the show. I think the concept was once an hr and 1/2 movie that they decided to drag out every cliche police joke and make it a series. Also Dads … how can 4 great actors make this such an unwatchable show ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/22 "2014-01-22T15:47:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > In any case, Sandberg is definitely the weak link in the show, but once you learn to tolerate him, the show is very good. And his jokes are often funny; it’s just his delivery that stomps on the humor. Braugher is excellent and his presence damps down Sandberg’s over-manic performance. Well, they work together well. Braugher’s stoicism without Samberg’s manic performance would just be boring and unfunny. I think this show has a wonderful balance between straight and goofy characters. Braugher balances Samberg, Beatriz balances Joe Lo Truglio, etc. The show leans towards more of the silly side (but, as pointed out above that the silliness doesn’t fall into stupid humor), but you have enough ‘straight guys’ to get a good mix. Personally, I really enjoy Samberg’s Peralta. He’s incredibly silly, but in a fairly realistic way - I’ve met people who have that same sort of charismatic silliness. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/23 "2014-01-22T16:42:03Z")
This is definitely my favourite new show – like The Office or 30 Rock in a police station. My favourite actor is Joe Lo Truglio. Everything he does is funny! ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/24 "2014-01-22T17:40:48Z")
Pretty much everybody I’ve mentioned this show to is watching and loving it. I enjoy it far more than I expected to, and it’s one of the few sitcoms I still watch. (If fact, I think it’s 50% of all the sitcoms I watch. :)) For some reason, Terry Crews completely cracks me up with almost every word out of his mouth, and Andre Braugher is just absolutely amazing. Sure, it’s goofy and sometimes it’s a little silly, but it somehow feels fresher than most of the stuff I’m seeing these days. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/25 "2014-01-22T17:45:55Z")
I tried watching the more touted new sitcoms, like the ones with Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes. Let me summarize them. Sitcom cliche line, sitcom cliche scene, sitcom cliche character, sitcom cliche plot. The end. The only two that weren’t straightout cliches were The Crazy Ones and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. They’re oddly alike once you dig beneath the surface. Both have goofball comedians as stars, but the plot usually plays against their goofiness and they are far more self-deprecating than expected. Both are single camera shows without being fake documentaries. Both have outstanding supporting casts. Both nod to sitcom cliches but spend as much time rejecting them. The Crazy Ones is spoiled by Sarah Michelle Geller, who either can’t act at all or is totally miscast. Dump her and bring back Brad Garrett who makes every scene funny. Brooklyn Nine-Nine is allowing its characters to become slightly more human and less crazed caricatures but the in-office hijinks are still too over-the-top. Good writing, though. The best of the new bunch by a hair, with lots of room to grow. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/26 "2014-01-22T18:08:05Z")
It’s the best show on the air that doesn’t star H. Jon Benjamin. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/27 "2014-01-22T18:09:10Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > The only two that weren’t straightout cliches were The Crazy Ones and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. _Trophy Wife_ is also pretty good. Check it out if you haven’t. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/28 "2014-01-22T19:19:49Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I do like the show, and would watch it more often if you didn’t have to catch the tail end of the execrable **Dads** , which gives the original **Dads** a run for its money as the most terrible show ever to be on TV, something I never even thought possible. Strangely enough, I find you can just turn the channel at 8:30 (or set your DVR) and not have to see a single moment of “Dads”. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/29 "2014-01-22T20:19:44Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _Trophy Wife_ is also pretty good. Check it out if you haven’t. I also like The Goldbergs, which is, I think, on before Trophy Wife. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/30 "2014-01-22T23:21:14Z")
I love 99 and I love The Goldbergs even more. Embrace the silly, the precinct isn’t in the real world, it’s in a sitcom. And it’s wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/31 "2014-01-22T23:46:41Z")
Best thing on TV right now. I get where you are coming from, though. At first you think that the whole thing is just a protracted SNL sketch about a police detective who acts like Jim Carrey, but once you start getting it, it’s just plain wonderful. And Lo Truglio totally steals the show, ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/32 "2014-01-22T23:50:17Z")
I am loving Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Andre Braugher is one of my favorite actors. He is the only reason I gave this show a chance, and I’m so glad I did. His character in this is very like the character Frank Pembleton from Homicide: Life on the Streets, only played for laughs. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/33 "2014-01-22T23:51:05Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I also like The Goldbergs, which is, I think, on before Trophy Wife. _The Goldbergs_ doesn’t work for me. Ideally, _Brooklyn Nine Nine_ and _The Goldbergs_ would swap timeslots. Then I could watch _Agents of Shield_, _Brooklyn Nine Nine_, and _Trophy Wife_ in a row. Now I watch _Agents of Shield_ and catch _Brooklyn Nine Nine_ the next day on Hulu. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/34 "2014-01-23T01:10:06Z")
Everyone be aware that Brooklyn 99 is moving to 9:30 Tuesdays. I really enjoy the show too. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/35 "2014-01-25T05:26:04Z")
Looking at the ratings, I notice that _Brooklyn Nine Nine_ has significantly better numbers than _Dads_ - and all the shows they’re up against are hour long shows. That means people are either watching the first half of another show or leaving their TV off before watching _Brooklyn Nine Nine_ at 8:30. They’re making a conscious decision to not watch _Dads_. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/36 "2014-01-25T05:49:54Z")
Are these promos indicative? https://player.vimeo.com/video/71446904 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/37 "2014-01-25T08:28:36Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Are these promos indicative? > > [Brooklyn 99 Promos](http://vimeo.com/71446904) They certainly seem to look like the show. It’s hard to judge how accurate the content is however. Did you like the promos? ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/38 "2014-01-25T14:52:09Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Are these promos indicative? > > [Brooklyn 99 Promos](http://vimeo.com/71446904) Pretty much. The last two moreso than the first two. The cold opens sometimes are just improv game-type scenes like the 3rd promo. Last week it was one of the officers coming in and saying they had a wonderful weekend with Kelly at the park but it’s unclear if Kelly was his dog or his wife so they ask questions. What’s Kelly’s favorite food? Peanut butter. What’s Kelly’s favorite thing to do at the park? Just walk around but it’s hard to do after she was hit by that car. What was she doing that she got hit by the car? Getting the morning paper. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/39 "2014-01-25T15:46:13Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > What’s Kelly’s favorite food? Peanut butter. Sometimes she eats it right out of the jar! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433/40 "2014-01-25T16:50:51Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Looking at the ratings, I notice that _Brooklyn Nine Nine_ has significantly better numbers than _Dads_ - and all the shows they’re up against are hour long shows. That means people are either watching the first half of another show or leaving their TV off before watching _Brooklyn Nine Nine_ at 8:30. They’re making a conscious decision to not watch _Dads_. Given the availability of 200+ channels, Video on Demand, or DVR-ed shows, people aren’t necessarily watching 1/2 of another show and leaving to watch B99. Lots of 30 minute options out there, assuming someone didn’t start an hour show off the DVR at 7:45. Most viewers are no longer chained to the schedule. But yes, they are rightly making a conscious decision to not watch _Dads_. Every actor on that show should be renting, not buying…and they should leave it off their resumes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brooklyn-nine-nine/679433.md?page=3)