18 Best TV Moments Of 2018

10. The Backstreet Boys Cold Open - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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There are lots of things great about Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but if you want to boil the show's purely joyous, hilarious comedy down to just 1 minute 8 seconds, then this is the moment for you.

What should be a routine lineup of suspects becomes a moment of musical genius as Jake Peralta has all of the suspects sing Backstreet Boy's I Want It That Way, the song the criminal, from a crime we don't yet know about, was heard singing by the witness.

Andy Samberg, as always, gives it absolutely everything, while the lineup absolutely nails the transition from confusion to singing their hearts out. The real kicker, though, comes when the witness realises which one of the suspects... killed her brother. The whole sequence is side-splittingly, drink-spittingly funny, and even better given it was the cold open to the episode.

Chills. Literal chills.

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