‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Gave Jake and Amy The Perfect Sitcom Wedding They Deserved

Leave it to the brilliant Brooklyn Nine-Nine to totally nail the perfect sitcom wedding. Spoilies ahead!

Last night’s season 5 finale (and luckily not series finale) of Brooklyn Nine-Nine ended with Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) and Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero) learning that their “honeymoon vacation request status has officially been moved from pending to approved,” and with that they were married. Of course it wasn’t that simple to achieve. In true comedy fashion, everything went wrong the day of their wedding. In true Brooklyn Nine-Nine fashion, there was a bomb threat at their venue that they had to solve before any nuptials could happen.

The ensemble, as this one is especially good at doing, sprung into action working together to make their pals’ dreams come true. Terry (Terry Crews) and Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) were on veil cleaning (and hot driver flirting) duty, Hitchcock (Dirk Blocker) and Scully (Joel McKinnon Miller) were off to find a band just to keep them busy, and Gina (Chelsea Peretti) and Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) were busy training and cleaning up after Cheddar the dog (only appropriate to associate another Corgi with a wedding this weekend, really), while Charles (Joe Lo Truglio) stuck by Jake and Amy’s side. Just as these characters played a role in the show’s central relationship (from discovering to encouraging it) over the seasons, it was only right that they were part of the wedding planning as well. So when plan A didn’t work out, as it rarely does, there’s really no better crew to come up with a plan B.

Seeing Jake and Amy standing in front of string lights as Captain Holt officiated a ceremony arranged by Charles & co. made it the perfect occasion. Amy could spend the rest of her life and her whole bank account on event-planning binders and it still wouldn’t result in one this perfect. Their vows were everything this couple has proven to be: totally weird and silly and so genuine and sweet all at the same time. Having a robot serve as the ring bearer was not just fun, but an excellent call back to a joke earlier in the episode. Hell, even having Amy’s ex Teddy (Kyle Bornheimer) ultimately turn out to be a nice (enough) guy by letting the two get on with their ceremony was a fantastic way to show off the good-natured and heartfelt vibe this show is always putting forth. They’re so damn good at reminding us that even total pains in the butt can turn out to be okay from time to time.

The best part of this wedding was that if this season finale turned into a series finale, it would’ve been okay. Watching Jake and Amy make it down the aisle was so satisfying and touching that it would’ve left off on a respectfully high note. If we had to, we could’ve imagined what it would be like to see them as an official married couple and what Holt’s email probably said. That we’ll actually get to see for ourselves is as sweet as the statues on top of the Nakatomi Tower cake.

It was no surprise that the actual wedding ceremony didn’t go as planned – it’s been thrown speed bumps for a whole season now — but it was a delight to see how it all came together for the couple that did deserve a proper celebration of their love. The episode expertly blended cop stuff with couple stuff and still managed to make viewers get teary with a couple of butt jokes, as only this very worthy of another season show could do.

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