This article contains spoilers for the first episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 6.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine returned for a sixth season Thursday night, and the first episode aired on NBC—its new home after getting canceled by Fox in 2018. Fans of the show need not worry that having a new home network would change anything else about the show. “The Brooklyn Nine-Nine that premieres Thursday night on NBC is essentially the Brooklyn Nine-Nine you remember from Fox. That’s a very good thing, indeed,” the Hollywood Reporter noted.
The season opened with a bang on Twitter, as the platform instantly exploded with fans “going coconuts” about the episode while it was airing, spurred on by cast members like Melissa Fumero (Amy Santiago), Joe Lo Truglio (Charles Boyle), Stephanie Beatriz (Rosa Diaz), and Chelsea Peretti (Gina Linetti), who were livetweeting their reactions to scenes and responding to fans.
Landed! Gonna do my best to tweet with you guys. Who’s watching?!! Here we gooooo Nine Niners!!!! #Brooklyn99
— Melissa Fumero (@melissafumero) January 11, 2019
Is anyone surprised? 😝🚨🚨#Brooklyn99 https://t.co/T5F5pxe5NH
— Melissa Fumero (@melissafumero) January 11, 2019
All you need to know is the water was too hot and we were sweating so bad #Brooklyn99 https://t.co/7v2xJ7DNDj
— Melissa Fumero (@melissafumero) January 11, 2019
Watching the sitcom @nbcbrooklyn99 curled up w my dog @iamstephbeatz and her husband
— Chelsea Peretti (@chelseaperetti) January 11, 2019
same 😢🥰 https://t.co/lzBSrgo2sV
— Chelsea Peretti (@chelseaperetti) January 11, 2019
andre in these shirts and melissa w this wig I CAHNT DO IT CAPTN
— Chelsea Peretti (@chelseaperetti) January 11, 2019
DOWN TO FIESTA #Brooklyn99
— Stephanie Beatriz (@iamstephbeatz) January 11, 2019
I will be live tweeting East Coast so get ready for brief, misspelled comments! #Brooklyn99
— JoeLoTruglio (@JoeLoTruglio) January 11, 2019
Too early to call, Joe. #Brooklyn99 https://t.co/IVx5uTQE6O
— Melissa Fumero (@melissafumero) January 11, 2019
Guys this is all improv, not choreographed @chelseaperetti pic.twitter.com/kFQj86Oi9g
— JoeLoTruglio (@JoeLoTruglio) January 11, 2019
The first episode, called “Honeymoon,” picked up right where the fifth season left off, with newly married Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) and Santiago off to their honeymoon, but with an unexpected companion: Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher), who went on vacation at the same resort after he lost his bid to become NYPD commissioner (the answer to the previous season’s final cliffhanger).
“Honeymoon” was successful as an opener on its brand-new network. “Not only does it impressively accomplish everything it needs to do in one fell swoop, it also does so while keeping the humor level up and setting up for some interesting dynamics moving forward. In that case, it is absolutely exemplary,” observes the AV Club.
If there’s one thing “Honeymoon” definitely succeeded in doing, it’s providing fans a wealth of memes to tide them over until the second episode airs next Thursday or longer. Here are some of our favorites:
Stranger: “Hey, I’m thinking of watching #Brooklyn99, what’s it about?”
— Nora Dominick (@noradominick) January 11, 2019
Me, an intellectual: pic.twitter.com/HkKwirRDsH
https://twitter.com/peraltaries/status/1083552704499253248
Boyle: GINA!
— Kait 🇨🇦ミ☆ (@1Band1D1Dream) January 11, 2019
Gina: new phone who dis?
Boyle: you can’t do that in person
@nbcbrooklyn99 #Brooklyn99 #BrooklynNineNine pic.twitter.com/DazRnRvNnB
Amy: For the first time in days, we’re alone….
— Kait 🇨🇦ミ☆ (@1Band1D1Dream) January 11, 2019
Holt: i’m right here
@nbcbrooklyn99 #Brooklyn99 #BrooklynNineNine pic.twitter.com/AgzDiZHPWT
Even if you hate spoilers, we bet you wouldn’t mind these random images users posted as “spoilers without context”:
https://twitter.com/matchaflans/status/1083552713239982080
#Brooklyn99 spoilers without context pic.twitter.com/VaOcKesNXU
— Key (@TheKeyPotato) January 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/aerglos/status/1083556727902089216
True to form, Gina is the queen of memes:
EVERY NIGHT WHEN I TRY TO TURN MY PHONE OFF & GO 2 BED, BUT I WONT LET MYSELF DO IT pic.twitter.com/qNULjjyea0
— Chelsea Peretti (@chelseaperetti) January 11, 2019
Me to myself ATDT (all the damn time) #Brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/Xu2dHYLs1p
— Natalie Sayth (@NatalieSayth) January 11, 2019
MY FAVORITE RASCAL @chelseaperetti #Brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/egVpnoIz65
— Stephanie Beatriz (@iamstephbeatz) January 11, 2019
A lot of fans would argue Holt’s statement vacation shirts are “the best part of the episode.”
Captain Holt in a beach tank is the only Captain Holt I need in this life tbh #Brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/QNKn4QbS2n
— GIPHY Pop (@GiphyPop) January 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/ironspiderpete/status/1083546052953808896
all of holt’s different t-shirts was the best part of the episode and you can’t change my mind #brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/XypplYh6lH
— domi (@melissafumeros) January 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/amwysantiago/status/1083548544101961729
holt’s outfits this episode were absolute perfection #brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/BOxnjKvZOm
— domi (@melissafumeros) January 11, 2019
Spiraling Captain Holt in his t-shirts is kind of my favorite thing ever?! #Brooklyn99 @nbcbrooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/HpzGy47nyi
— Nora Dominick (@noradominick) January 11, 2019
Anyone know where I can get those shirts? Asking for a friend. #Brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/jipUZc9Pi5
— mar 💜⁷ 🃏👨🏻🚀💙🪞🥢ꪜ ⭐️| fan acc (slow) (@justadreamerr13) January 11, 2019
Holt’s outfits are giving me life #Brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/U3rB9dVwOZ
— SZAB (@zabdahili) January 11, 2019
Jake: “Your new shirt is very aggressive and confusing. Is the pineapple a slut or is it calling someone else is slut?”
— 🌸ᗷEᑕKYᔕᒪᗩYᔕ🌸🍉✌🏻 (@BeckySlaysGH) January 11, 2019
Holt: “Clearly the pineapple is the slut” #Brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/ITqOSJQLOe
Meanwhile, Boyle’s quotable, as always:
https://twitter.com/listenboitae/status/1083656195754340352
We love how @nbcbrooklyn99 even turned screenshots of the show trending on Twitter into one of the show’s favorite inside jokes:
…………title of your sextape. #Brooklyn99 https://t.co/pMCU4gs4xF
— Brooklyn Nine-Nine (@brooklyn99) January 11, 2019
Jake and Amy may have just set a new standard for honeymoons:
I meannnn could a honeymoon rly get better than this ?!???? 😂😩#BrooklynNineNine pic.twitter.com/P2dZtKNxZM
— D U M B O | [ inactive ] (@preeeeran) January 11, 2019
“Coconuting” just became a thing…
https://twitter.com/Chocmilksheikh1/status/1083565303840366593
@nbcbrooklyn99 nearly an hour later and.. i’m still coconutting??? 😂🚨❤️
— char ♱ (@kats_zamo) January 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/peraltaries/status/1083554088078458880
And “This B needs a C in her A” just became a thing, too:
https://twitter.com/maddiemourns/status/1083547648962031618
https://twitter.com/dorkperalta/status/1083575301815320576
“This B needs a C in her A.” Yes, put that on a novelty shirt and sell it #Brooklyn99!
— Ryan (@sortathatguy) January 11, 2019
Clearly, everyone gives “many hoots” about this show.
https://twitter.com/validodie/status/1083552222988984320
She’s all out of hoots! (Wasnt that an Air Supply song?) RT @nbcbrooklyn99: SCREW! THAT! NOISE! #Brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/fKd6nlFjFC
— JC Haze (@JCHazeVoiceOver) January 11, 2019
New resolution for 2019: don’t give no hoots!#Brooklyn99
— jocelyn (@lRWEENIEE) January 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/wroteuasong/status/1083595051052068865
The show’s cast and official Twitter account livetweeting the episode alongside fans proved to be a sharp engagement strategy for NBC. The debut was filled with meme-ready moments and most of them hit—“for humor reasons.”
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