Which is all to say, duh-what else was this week’s blow-out series finale going to be than one last heist? It had to be! And while, sure, pretty much 99% of it was utterly predictable (the remaining 1%? Chekhov’s Kool-Aid Man), there wasn’t anything disappointing about that. “ Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” I wrote, “works to ensure that its signature gags are not repetitive, but iterative-familiar enough to invoke excitement and/or fondness, but with a fresh enough twist that the gag gains a new layer each time it’s called back into service.” Ever ready to tap old set-ups for new punchlines, Brooklyn Nine-Nine had made an art, even by then, of building (and building, and building) on its own best jokes.
When I put together this list of the 9 best episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, back when the long-running series had just hit its milestone 99th episode, I landed on the theory that Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s comedic strength lay primarily in iteration.
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