10 Smartest Brooklyn Nine-Nine Characters

10. Hitchcock & Scully

Over the course of the series, Hitchcock and Scully have gained themselves a reputation as the lowest rung on the 99th precinct ladder. They are gross, lazy, and care more about their food than solving their cases.

They may not seem like the smartest detectives in Brooklyn - in fact most of the time they seem like the absolute dumbest - but in reality, Michael Hitchcock and Norm Scully were once the very best at what they do.

In the 1980's, the two were the kings of the NYPD, bringing down high profile drug rings, and even still looking after those that were potentially in danger over thirty years later.

They have proved that they still have the intelligence it takes to be great detectives after all these years, when they figured out Gina, Rosa, and Boyle had a secret bathroom, and expertly got to the bottom of what happened to Captain Holt's pie. In the very first episode of the show, Terry described them as useless, but it's not that they aren't smart, it's just that they are very, very lazy.