The Venue is the sixth episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine's fifth season.
Jake and Amy spend a day lining up vendors for their wedding, delighting in making sure that their nups as as TOIT as possible. Everything seems to be going well until they reach their desired venue, a picturesque mansion, only to discover that someone else had swooped in and laid down a deposit just before they arrived. That person is no other than the NYPD's own VULTURE (real name: Keith). Jake and Amy proceed to try and plot their way into getting the venue back, only to discover that the Vulture seems to have genuinely fallen in love with a truly nice woman.
Meanwhile, Sergeant Peanut Butter, the horse who upstaged Charles in "The Bet", has been kidnapped and Holt puts Charles and Rosa on the case. Charles finds himself becoming increasingly jealous of his equine colleague as it seems as if he's doomed to be overshadowed in all respects by Peanut Butter.
Also, Terry's need to be liked by everyone in the precinct begins to become a distraction and Holt decides to try and get the sergeant to be more distant from his fellow cops, but this only results in Terry doubling down and making even more of an effort.
This episode provides examples of:
- Ambiguous Situation: A mild example, but Keith swears, to the bitter end, that he actually loves Jean, doesn't care about her money, and is willing to stop chasing other women. It doesn't end up mattering, because revealing his previous cheating is enough for Jean to dump him, but whether or not he really cared about her is never resolved.
- Beware the Nice Ones: After learning just how scummy the Vulture truly is, the kind and generous Jean furiously introduces his face to a handful of uncooked rice.
- Birds of a Feather: Jake and Amy are almost completely in sync this episode, each of them has already come up with elaborate plans that they knew the other one would love, causing them to zoom through most of the wedding plans without a hitch.
- Bittersweet Ending: Jake and Amy don't get the venue they wanted, but they manage to get Jean away from the Vulture and agree that they'd be happy to marry each other anywhere.
- Blatant Lies: Rosa complains about Charles in an overly-specific manner and immediately tries to claim she wasn't.Rosa: A horse is a perfect partner. Tough, scary, and they don't show you 30 pictures of their kid dressed as Wario for Halloween. I'm not talking about Nikolaj.Charles: I literally just showed you those pictures five minutes ago.Rosa: Really? I don't remember that.
- Blooper: Charles claims that when you search "Charles Boyle Medal of Honor", you instead get a picture of Sgt. Peanut Butter. However, when he shows his phone to the camera, the search bar actually reads "peanut butter the horse".
- The Dog Walks You: While trying to lead Sergeant Peanut Butter out to safety, Charles gets dragged down the street when the horse panics. Phone video of it goes viral, furthering Charles' humiliation.
- Everyone Has Standards: Jake and Amy end up running the gamut in this episode due to The Vulture stealing their wedding venue.
- At first they try to confront his fiance, Jean, convinced that she must be as huge of a scumbag as he is, only to learn that she is a completely selfless philanthropist. They end up becoming donors to her cause instead.
- They later realize that the Vulture has been cheating on Jean and end up "catfishing" him in order to gain blackmail material. Vulture ends up promising to give up the venue if they were to stay silent about his affairs, but also threatens to hold the venue out of spite if they out him and Jean breaks off the engagement. While Jake and Amy briefly consider taking the deal, Jean ends up being such a good person they can't let her marry someone as terrible as the Vulture.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: We get to see Hitchcock's dating profile.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: Terry's plotline is a downplayed example. His desire to be liked by everyone in the precinct is front and center here; when he accidentally insults a co-worker, he plans to throw an elaborate apology party for her. Holt talks him out of it, and also wants Terry to stop being so chummy with the other cops, but Terry is too much of a people pleaser for that.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: The Vulture claims to have been changed by his love for Jean, his new fiancee. But nope, he's still a jerk, and it turns out he's been using a dating app to cheat on her.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted in this episode. Teri is a uniformed police officer who overhears Terry compliment his own butt, and thinks he's making a pass at her.
- Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: Terry's Third-Person Person tendencies bite him in the ass here when an officer named Teri overhears his boast that "Terry's got butt for days" and thinks it was a sexist comment aimed at her.
- Parody Sue: Jean Munhroe is a charity worker who can get food to remote third world locations without regard to red tape or military road blocks, will pay for huge amounts of food shipments out of her own pocket, and do it all with a smile on her face.
- Rain of Something Unusual: Invoked in the Cold Open when Scully catches a donut hole thrown out the window and yells "It's finally happening!"
- Reusable Lighter Toss: Done by Peanut Butter's kidnapper, who throws a lighter on some spilt gasoline as a distraction.
- Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Jake and Amy go into Jean's charity fully expecting her to be as slimy and awful as the Vulture, only to learn that the seemingly kindhearted philanthropist is exactly that: a kindhearted philanthropist whose desire to help people is completely sincere. Not long after learning that she's a genuine Nice Girl, they quickly resolve to get her away from her scumbag of a fiance.
- Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: Terry's subplot in this episode. He takes pride in being on good terms with all his colleagues, so naturally when another officer mistakenly thinks he's coming on to her his attempts to apologize quickly spiral out of control.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: In a Freeze-Frame Bonus, both Hitchcock and the Vulture list their occupation on the hook-up site as "Wealthy".
- Sudden Name Change: The Vulture's name is shown to be "Keith" here, when in the previous four seasons, it was "Warren".
- Third-Person Person: Terry's happy declaration that "Terry's got butt for days!" nearly gets him in trouble when a female cop named "Teri" thinks he's talking about her.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: After Charles spends all day seeing that people prefer a horse over him, Rosa leaks dashcam footage of Charles saving Peanut Butter to show the public that Charles is a hero.
- Why Waste a Wedding?: Terry uses everything he organized for Terri's apology party (and altering the banner) to throw an appreciation party for Charles.
- The Vulture keeps his venue booking and decides to throw an 'all female Mud Wrestling party' that day instead.
