Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that. I'm hesitant to call it because that was never definitively closed off, and because that show fell in to the same trap with Dave/Alex being off and on again, but it might be the closest we can get.

I like my TV big, loud, and audacious, so there's the disconnect. And this was a very big, audacious Brooklyn Nine-Nine (by its low-key standard).

Combative was the wrong way to put it, but it still never struck me as serious, it was always so exaggerated. Same thing with all the Jerry jokes.

The extra points didn't ever come into play I guess.

She is the terrorists! #DesperateSeason7Plotline

Leslie/Ben might be the best couple on TV. That's stiff competition, but they are just so perfect together.

That's a valid read, though one I don't really share. Her as a love interest is only an issue in, what, 2-3 episodes? Plus there's Park and Robinson, whose marital/dating status are tertiary to their characters at best.

Jury's out on Jeff/Annie still, but I hope it stays "they won't". I'd consider Jeff/Britta still a version of dating then breakup.

I was going to mention that, then thought that no one else was going to even recognize that as a will they-won't they, I only even thought of that because I was racking my brain. It counts, but only because the writers quickly aborted that angle in between seasons one and two, probably because Poehler and Schneider…

"Without the characters dating then breaking up"

*leans in uncomfortably close* "I am."

"Awful to Ann"? Sometime around mid-season 3 it was clear this was just a running joke for her and she didn't really mean it. Not like she'd ever admit to being friends with her, but it always felt like just this kind of mutually accepted running gag between them. Obviously exaggerated and overblown, but I've seen…

Not to knock those episodes, but even on first run I saw them as A- efforts. Very good, definitely hooked me, but the two episodes I mentioned were the first time I instantly wanted to rewatch it, the first time I was surprised, that I really thought the show was confident in what it wanted to do, and not wasting a…

I really need to watch 30 Rock someday.

Now that I think about it, this really applies to a lot of this modern wave of sitcoms. Parks and Rec, Community, Happy Endings, Bitch 23, Ben and Kate, Enlisted. Part of why it sucks so many of them get so quickly canceled.

How many sitcoms have answered a will they-won't they with "they won't", without the characters dating then breaking up? There has to be at least one, though none come to mind.

You've found my secret, I have to go.

I thought this was Brooklyn Nine-Nine's equivalent to Sweetums or Modern Warfare, the first episode where I felt it was truly firing every cylinder. The first peak, not the highest or last, but the earliest episode where, after God willing this becomes a classic, we can look back and say "this is where they figured it…

Spoken like a true Victor Emmanuel III.

Think you meant Diaz, though Gina being a task force leader sounds pretty funny.