After Charles told Jake that his Christmas gift for him “took a lot of time and cost a lot of money,” I actually thought that the whole scenario might have been staged as a massive present for Jake’s benefit, which would have lightened things up. But Jake, Charles, and Gina being caught in a hostage situation - while unarmed, no less - is a longer game, and the result is neither tense enough to be exciting nor tension-free enough to be completely loose and funny. ![]() The rare action scenes on the show tend to happen in very short bursts that play it completely straight the cops only crack jokes before and after they book the perp. Needless to say, Jake is less scared of the situation than righteously pumped: “Oh my God, it’s real-life Die Hard! I mean … oh no, crime!”ī99 has always had some issues figuring out the right Lethal Weapon-esque balance between the tension of an action movie and the goofiness of a half-hour sitcom, and this particular scenario doesn’t exactly play to its strengths. Our trio manage to stay on the down-low as they stalk the perps, until Gina, presumably the Holly Gennaro in this scenario, gets captured while trying to swipe some hairspray to make a makeshift flamethrower. In true Die Hard fashion, the store is overrun by a gang of robbers, who take the employees hostage while they break into the vault to snag the store’s cash. Not having a skyscraper at its disposal for the purposes of this episode, B99 shifts the setting to a Brooklyn big-box store, where Jake and Gina are attempting to purchase a last-minute gift for Boyle (who’s tagged along, thinking Jake has forgotten to get a gift for Amy). Three seasons in, it makes sense that someone on the writing staff would realize that Die Hard is a great Christmas movie, and thus a great framework for a Christmas episode. The odds are against John McClane … and that’s just the way he likes it.” Is anyone even slightly surprised that the tagline for Die Hard was Jake Peralta’s high-school yearbook quote? Longtime Brooklyn Nine-Nine viewers know that Die Hard isn’t so much Jake’s favorite movie as it is his sacred text - here’s a catalog of references to it, which misses the time Jake encouraged Terry to name his baby daughter Nakatomi. ![]() Andy Samberg as Jake, Chelsea Peretti as Gina.
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