Whether it's seeing Terry broken-hearted in Japan or Captain Holt calling someone a 'punk' with a full head of hair, everyone loves a good flashback episode.

Throw in the revelation that Jake's spending habits are so bad that his bank freezes his account for trying to subscribe to The New Yorker and you've got an episode for the books. The audience knew that Holt was a decorated police captain, but it wasn't until this moment that they understood the discrimination and hardship he went through to reach to his position. 'The Party' humanizes the captain in many ways, including a glimpse inside his home life. When the married couple host a fancy dinner party, Holt seems reluctant to invite the gang, but it's eventually revealed that Kevin was the one who didn't want police at their social gathering after seeing the way Holt's fellow officers treated him for being gay in the past. You said so many things about shorts, I got confused…' If that line from a shorts-in-winter-clad Scully alone isn't enough to solidify this episode's position on this list, perhaps it's the fact that it's where fans got their first look at after-hours Holt and meet his husband, Kevin Cozner (Marc Evan Jackson).

However, as the show prepares to enter its seventh season - the second at its new home on NBC - it's worth taking a page out of the detectives' books and buckling down until the work is done and the problem is solved. Ranking 25 episodes of a series as consistently funny Brooklyn Nine-Nine is no easy task. Whether it's busting a perp at a fantasy novel convention, infiltrating the FBI, or simply taking a mid-winter beach vacation, the entire crew of the 99th precinct - Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero), Terry Jeffords (Terry Crews), Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz), Charles Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio), Gina Linetti (Chelsea Peretti), Michael Hitchcock (Dirk Blocker), Norm Scully (Joel McKinnon Miller), and, of course, Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher) - have proven time and again that fans will follow them anywhere a case takes them. Standing on the shoulders of other Michael Schur-produced projects like Parks and Recreation and The Office, Brooklyn Nine-Nine takes a tired sitcom format (a diverse cop comedy) and finds ways to constantly make it feel original, surprisingly action-packed, and hilarious. Where most sitcoms fall into wacky, shark-jumping tropes, the intrepid members of the Nine-Nine innovate and thrive as one of the most charming ensembles on the air. Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a rare genre comedy in the modern TV landscape.

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