'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Season 7 Episode 6 is one of the greatest Hitchcock and Scully episodes of all time
Hitchcock and Scully (Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller) have one of the most wholesome (and weirdest) friendships not just in the ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ universe, but possibly in all of known reality. They are also arguably the funniest characters on the show. At any given moment, even when the show sometimes drags on, the duo of incompetent old detectives can make one laugh till tears start to flow.
In season 7 episode 6 of the NBC police comedy, ‘Trying’, we once again witness their great friendship at work. And mind you, they have been part of some of the most glorious moments on the show (like drinking a fish).
It begins with a party celebrating Hitchcock’s seventh divorce -- his last wife cheated on him; Hitchcock caught her in action, recorded it and threatened to release it on the internet; she did it herself and started making money from it; Hitchcock sued her for half the amount -- when the man sees a woman he is immediately attracted to; actually he was attracted to her backside because one really couldn’t see her face.
Soon afterward, he tells the precinct that they hit it off and he saw her as a soulmate. There was, of course, a problem. In classic Hitchcock fashion, he had wiped his hands with the same tissue paper on which she’d written her number. All was lost. Or was it?
Again, on-brand for the detective, he had picked up a loose tooth of hers which fell out when she was eating pizza. In what is possibly the most Michael Schur reimagining of the classic fairytale, Hitchcock and Scully decided to match the glass slipper to the feet, just like in ‘Cinderella’. Only instead of a glass slipper, it was a loose tooth; and instead of feet, it was an empty patch of gum.
Over the course of a few months, Hitchcock and Scully wandered around, looking for women who had a tooth missing, trying to find the one, but they had no such luck. Finally, sitting at a bar, trying to drink his despair away, Hitchcock accidentally runs into the woman he had met at the party!
If only it ended there. Hitchcock and his new girlfriend Anna somehow managed to get pregnant (much to the annoyance of Jake and Amy who have been trying for months now) and even decided to get married. It was officiated by Scully. And the very same evening, merely hours after their wedding, at the same party, Hitchcock discovered that he was, in fact, not the father of Anna’s baby. Shocker, isn’t it? No, it absolutely is not a shocker.
The episode ended with divorce number eight (and a party to celebrate that) and Hitchcock and Scully focusing on what was really important -- chicken wings. The episode had an actual tender moment involving Jake and Amy. But does that even compare to Hitchcock and Scully walking arm-in-arm to get chicken wings at a divorce party? Nope. And it never can.
'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Season 7 airs on Thursdays at 8.30 pm only on NBC.