15 Best Brooklyn Nine-Nine Episodes

4. Game Night (Season 5, Episode 10)

Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Box Jake Holt
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Like Moo Moo, Game Night allowed the writers to take a step back and focus on something much more dramatic than usual.

After coming out as bisexual to the precinct, Rosa enlists Jake's help to confront her bigoted parents with the news. Though this all starts off an hilarious little story, in which Jake struggles with the pressures of social interaction and confrontation, things quickly take a turn when Rosa tells her parents about her identity and they shoot her down.

Game Night is one of the show's most important episodes, bringing a whole new level of representation to a series that was never shy of such important discussions, and allowing the ever-brilliant Stephanie Beatriz to give a deeply personal and tear-jerking performance in the process.

All of this makes for great TV, but it's fair to say the finale - in which the precinct come to Rosa's side right when she needs them most - is the crowning achievement of the episode. Tears. Every. Time.

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