TMC
11-03-2025, 07:48 PM
https://www.looper.com/2011552/plot-holes-hurt-perfect-tv-shows/
https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/12-plot-holes-that-hurt-otherwise-perfect-tv-shows/jakes-ability-to-grow-and-then-not-grow-facial-hair-in-brooklyn-nine-nine-1761771263.webp
There aren't many police sitcoms that are as funny as "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," (https://www.looper.com/473820/brooklyn-nine-nines-funniest-moments-ranked/) but that's what happens when a perfect cast comes together. The series is primarily centered around Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), an immature but excellent detective who drives much of the show's plot. He lives in squalor and is disgustingly unclean, and it's stated on more than one occasion that he cannot grow facial hair.
Specifically, he insists that he can't grow a mustache, which upsets him. But when Jake is sent to prison in Season 5, he's shown with a full beard and mustache, proving that he has no problem sprouting whiskers from all the right places on his face. It makes sense that he'd be a little less interested in grooming in prison, but it's a plot hole nonetheless.
Throughout B99, Jake goes from being an immature adult child to someone who you'd have no problem leaving your children with, as he matures into a proper adult. It's possible that the show wanted to convey his growing maturity, brought through incarceration, and his facial hair was a subtle visible indication of this. If that's true, it's certainly understandable, but it doesn't detract from the plot hole created by Jake's earlier lamenting his lack of facial hair.
https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/12-plot-holes-that-hurt-otherwise-perfect-tv-shows/jakes-ability-to-grow-and-then-not-grow-facial-hair-in-brooklyn-nine-nine-1761771263.webp
There aren't many police sitcoms that are as funny as "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," (https://www.looper.com/473820/brooklyn-nine-nines-funniest-moments-ranked/) but that's what happens when a perfect cast comes together. The series is primarily centered around Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), an immature but excellent detective who drives much of the show's plot. He lives in squalor and is disgustingly unclean, and it's stated on more than one occasion that he cannot grow facial hair.
Specifically, he insists that he can't grow a mustache, which upsets him. But when Jake is sent to prison in Season 5, he's shown with a full beard and mustache, proving that he has no problem sprouting whiskers from all the right places on his face. It makes sense that he'd be a little less interested in grooming in prison, but it's a plot hole nonetheless.
Throughout B99, Jake goes from being an immature adult child to someone who you'd have no problem leaving your children with, as he matures into a proper adult. It's possible that the show wanted to convey his growing maturity, brought through incarceration, and his facial hair was a subtle visible indication of this. If that's true, it's certainly understandable, but it doesn't detract from the plot hole created by Jake's earlier lamenting his lack of facial hair.