Boyle-Linetti Wedding is the seventeenth episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine's second season.
It's the big day for Lynn Boyle and Darlene Linetti, and everything has to go perfectly. Of course, with Gina delegating tasks to the 99, things don't always go incredibly smoothly. Lynn, for example, is getting cold feet, and it's up to Diaz to calm him down. Meanwhile, Jake is in charge of picking up the ring and bringing it to the wedding, at which his former childhood crush Jenny Gildenhorn is attending. However, he also gets roped into busting the head of Amy's counterfeiting ring on the way to the wedding. And with the officiant dropping out, it's up to Holt and Jeffords to handle the wedding.
This episode provides examples of:
- Alliterative Name: Lynn decides to take Darlene's name and becomes Lynn Linetti.
- Bait-and-Switch: Amy teases Jake by pretending it's her asking him to dance, when really she's asking on behalf of Gina's elderly great-aunt.
- Busman's Vocabulary: Terry has trouble coming up with a speech for the wedding because he had only officiated gym-themed weddings and wasn't comfortable finding non-workout related metaphors.(flashback cut)
Terry: Mario, Karen, yesterday it was chest and shoulders. Today, and for the rest of your life, it's heart and soul.
(back to present)
Holt: Smart. You tailored the ceremony to the bride and groom's interests.
Terry: (Beat) Yeah, that's totally what I was doing. I mean, working out is not the only thing I feel comfortable talking about. (to Gina) Um, what would you say is your mom's favorite move at the gym? - Call-Back:
- Jenny Gildenhorn was mentioned in The Bet, shown in flashback both in Charges and Specs and this episode, and finally appears in adult form in this episode, complete with blue dress mentioned in The Bet.
- Gina brings back speaking in emoji, previously mentioned in Charges and Specs.
- "Charges and Specs" was also the last time Jake and Amy got a Dance of Romance. When Amy asks Jake to dance it looks like a Gender Flip of the same scenario is going to play out again, until Amy reveals she was just messing with Jake.
- Cue Card Pause: Holt's first attempt at the officiating speech.Holt: "Marriage is a con / tract between two adults of / different families." It's a haiku. And a fact. It works on two levels.
- Dance of Romance: Gets Parodied with Jake and Amy at the end. When Jake is depressed to see Jenny dancing with her date, Amy coyly tells him that while she knows it's not the same, there's someone else there who's been wanting to dance with him all night. Then when Jake agrees, she introduces him to the very elderly lady standing next to her who's "been asking about [him] all night". Weirdly, though, it still ends up in a nice moment of Ship Tease for Jake and Amy, who end up smiling at each other through the whole dance.
- Dirty Old Woman: Jake dances with Gina's Great Aunt Susan, who is very handsy.Amy: She's been asking about you all night. She thinks you're very handsome; says you have a dancer's frame.
- Fourth-Date Marriage: Lampshaded — one of the reasons Lynn Boyle panics and gets cold feet before his wedding is because he's once again leaping into marriage after only knowing his would-be wife a short period of time.
- Grammar Correction Gag: Amy is riled up about Gregor Minsk because he has a typo in his counterfeits.Amy: Two 'r's in "pluribus"? I mean, did none of those cashiers take Latin?
- History Repeats: Jenny Gildenhorn broke Jake's heart at his bar mitzvah and he had to watch helplessly as she danced with another boy. She does it again at the Boyle-Linetti wedding, leaving Jake watching helplessly as she dances with another man.
- The "I Love You" Stigma: Rosa isn't comfortable saying this, and doesn't invite Marcus because she's afraid he will. Of course, by the end she does say it and he reciprocates.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Terry's attempt at a wedding speech provokes this... from Terry.Terry: Darlene and Lynn, I want you to remember the words of Luther Vandross: "A thousand kisses from you..." [Begins to break, but forces himself together] "A thousand kisses from you... is never... too... much."
[Terry dissolves into tears; Gina stares incredulously]
Holt: Every time he reads it, he breaks down. - It's Personal: Amy is hellbent on capturing Minsk the counterfeiter, especially because he misspells "E Pluribus Unum" on his fake money. She ropes a reluctant Jake into the investigation by comparing her target to Eddie Fung, the guy who stole Jake's crush at Jake's bar mitzvah.
- Lost Wedding Ring: Jake loses the ring while apprehending Minsk.
- Lower-Deck Episode: In a way. Jake gets relegated in the B-plot of the episode.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Rosa ends up letting her own neuroses about her relationship with Marcus drive Lynn Boyle into a complete panic about whether the wedding is a mistake.
- Overly Long Gag:
- Once again, Jake drags out a syllable for much longer than necessary, this time in reaction to Amy's revelation that she used to play french horn in her high school jazz band and still practices the instrument. The camera even zooms in as if to show that there's nothing wrong with the TV signal.Jake: Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
- Jake later screams from a combination of horror at seeing Jenny Gildenhorn jilting him yet again and Terry ripping the wedding ring off his finger.Jake: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
- Once again, Jake drags out a syllable for much longer than necessary, this time in reaction to Amy's revelation that she used to play french horn in her high school jazz band and still practices the instrument. The camera even zooms in as if to show that there's nothing wrong with the TV signal.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Terry has to step aside as officiant because he can't get through his speech without blubbering. He also weeps through the actual ceremony as Holt officiates.Terry: You told me to get gorgeous with it and it took me to some very real places.
- Runaway Groom: Lynn considers this trope, but it's ultimately averted.
- Ship Tease: Jake and Amy spend most of the episode Trolling each other by "pretending" to flirt. It's so blatant by this point that the other characters openly acknowledge it in front of them.
- Skip to the End: Holt recalls that he had to rush his own marriage ceremony, not knowing how long gay marriage would stay legal.Officiant: Do you, Kevin—
Kevin: Yes.
Officiant: And do y—
Holt: Yes yes, we do. We're married. - Stalker with a Crush: Jake's been keeping fairly close tabs on Jenny Gildenhorn ever since she broke his heart at his bar mitzvah, with some fairly detailed knowledge about her social media activity.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Overlapping with Birds of a Feather — both Holt and Kevin were very impressed with Holt's post-wedding remark about wishing the officiant of their wedding had been more efficient:Holt: I simply said what I wish had been said when Kevin and I got married.
Kevin: Oh, but then I wouldn't have heard your hilarious officiant/efficient quip.
Holt: You're right. I Regret Nothing. - Wedding Episode: Boyle's dad and Gina's mom marry in this episode, and in the grand tradition of sitcom weddings, nothing goes smoothly.
- With This Ring: Naturally, with the Wedding Episode and Jake in charge of the wedding ring, things go wrong. First, he loses it while busting the counterfeiter; secondly, when they find it, Amy slips the ring onto his finger and it gets stuck.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: The episode is just a lot of chain-yanking for Peralta.
- First, he gets the chance to see Jenny Gildenhorn again, and she asks to sit next to him... but when he leaves to help out Amy, Jenny hooks up with another guy.
- Secondly, at the end, the hinted dance that Amy offers him is actually a dance with an old lady.
