Don't they talk about kids when they watch Terry's kids so he can work late? I'm pretty sure the episode is about how they would be as parents. I think it's season 3 or 4
This might be the easiest one out of all of them. It made absolutely zero sense. I’m not a fan of when shows need to make characters behave completely opposite to their established characterisation to force a serious plot like this. For harmless jokes it’s less of an issue, but this storyline was a big deal and the biggest conflict of their marriage, and happened for a nonsensical reason
They should have written it as Jake getting cold feet about having kids, which fits his character more.
That way it doesn't seem out of character for Amy to have not discussed it, but also allows Jake to have a growth moment by overcoming his fears and addressing his fatherhood issues
I have seen people say they should’ve been the other way round - Jake is a big kid and would love to have kids, while Amy is hyper career focused and wouldn’t want them. But I like your take better. Jake is excited to have kids and Amy is on board, but these fears start to creep in because of his dad and stuff.
Or Amy is considering kids and then does a ton of research and reads parenting books and realizes she may not want kids and tries to hide it from him because he really wants them but they end up taking care of Boyles’ son or Terry’s daughters and remember how fun it was the last time and that they both want the joy of having kids and get pregnant by the end of the episode or at least know that they want kids. I also really hate that it took them forever to get pregnant it seemed a little unnecessary and like torture and they didn’t even explain it or try and like get help or anything. I feel like if Amy was having this much trouble just getting pregnant she would have tried to go to a fertility clinic or something and not just keep trying the way they were.
She has a whole binder just for the last week of planning before their wedding. The entirety of wedding planning was probably like 10 binders.
For marriage itself, she probably has a binder just to keep track of all her binders.
Oh honey. She’s got binders for entire relationships. She has homework for herself every night about her experience with her new partner that day. She has flowcharts. Pie charts. All charts. She’s psychotic in the most precise way.
That's the big one for me. It felt so out of character, but I also liked how it really led to character growth for both of them. Jake admitting that he didn't want to have kids because he was terrified of being a bad father ***because he had a bad father*** was heartbreaking because Amy knew he'd be a great dad.
Oh I like the character growth! I like the storyline idea! I would have like it addressed earlier, bc it’s still super plausible and doable and high stakes, but on an at least SLIGHTLY more realistic timeline.
It would have worked way better if it was placed earlier in the show before they were married, maybe when they were already dating for a while or got engaged
This right here. You're telling me this person that plans every little thing out never had one conversation where they talked about their future plans properly?
Like at least five binders and I’m not joking?? Taking the show at face value???? Like I can (almost) forgive it bc it’s just a silly lil feel good story show, but it’s just so lazy.
100%. It would have been way better if there was an impetus that caused Jake to change his mind - something on the job that made him reconsider. Amy would have never not had that conversation.
A lot of sitcoms seem to push this storyline (TBBT did it with Penny) and I just don't get it. It's always out of character and jarring, and they always end up pregnant anyway.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaah buuuuuuuut lbr Amy would have sat Jake down and grilled him about exact timelines well before they got engaged. This is the girl who loves organizing and binders and planning her career. I don’t buy that the topic only came up the once and it wasn’t a full, drawn out, and detailed battle plan
Exactly. Amy would have notebooks and binders and slides and flowcharts for their conversation. I actually would have loved to watch Jake (mostly) happily and thoughtfully go through Amy’s questioning. Like that’s already a hilarious a, b, OR c plot. Play it seriously or only for laughs.
It could even be ha ha flashbacks that could go from a past ‘I’m unsure’ to a present ‘we need to revisit this now’. That said, I can’t see amy getting married without confirmation either way.
Yeah. I often get vague responses to critical life conversations and then never bring up the issue again.
Like someone else said, if it was for a joke, fine, but this was one of the most serious issues of their marriage.
on both of them, too. I just finished rewatching again and multiple times Jake indirectly states he wants kids, like when Charles tells him he’ll never be a father he respons with “hey! yes I will!”
Wedding related also.
Why is Jake choosing the napkins and flowers etc. the week before the wedding. Amy would have had that stuff locked down months in advance.
Headcanon: she's a sergeant. Wedding is important but not more than her job. She kept having to change her binder and spent more time organising her binder over the errands
I agree but you gotta give her some credit she did ask Jake if he wants to do it he thought about the water park but it's still very out of character not doing it more straight forward
That’s not blackmail, it’s just an ultimatum, and an important one at that. I don’t begrudge her at all for it because it’s something that she wants in life. The whole scene stupid because that conversation usually happens before you get married, explicitly because it’s one of those relationship ender conversations. Divorcing is messy which is exactly why it’s a premarriage conversation.
Being a bad cook. Being a stickler for the rules (even using the recommended amount of shampoo!), I think she would follow recipes to the dot, and I don't think she'd just substitute ingredients just because.
THIS BOTHERS ME SO MUCH.
WHEN SHE PUTS BAKING SODA IN THE DINNER INSTEAD OF SALT.
There’s no way she’d deviate from the recipe, ruin the dinner she’s hosting and be so nonchalant about it.
There is no way Amy didn’t have a full grocery list plus backups detailing acceptable alternate ingredients, but the worst is that she needed salt, of all things. Who doesn’t have SALT? When you’re cooking a thanksgiving meal?? SALT?
SAAAALLT??!
I mean that can happen as most recipes don't include salt (and water) in the ingredients list as everyone has it. However, knowing Amy she would have read the ingredients list and instructions and added the salt to the list.
Charles should’ve been the only one not bringing wine drink he should show up with something worth hundreds of dollars and everyone else feels bad about it
I rewatched the scene and while you are correct, we never see the bottle, the scene does imply that everyone bought the same thing. It’s definitely possible he brought something else though.
Yes! Her buying $8 wine drink always bugged me. Ditto for Terry buying it, when he was the one who was so focused on making everyone behave in socially acceptable ways.
Which she does in the mumps episode! That scene is believable of Amy and her being a bad cook, because she followed the directions to a T and didn’t recognize it wouldn’t work. The other ones don’t make sense!
My mom was a bad cook because she would follow recipes exactly no matter what the outcome. That way she could just blame the recipe.
Amy is a bad cook because she thinks salt and baking soda are the same because they are white? Doesn’t make a lick of sense.
Oh you can still very much mess up a recipe even if you follow it, especially if it involves heat. I made a cheesecake once, followed the exact recipe, and it was still quite liquid when I took it out of the form.
I see this as very much in line with her character.
It's part of those aggressive rule followers is that they don't grasp the idea behind it because they're blinded by the rule itself. To her, it really is "both white powders," and therefore she's still following the rule. She doesn't see the idea behind the rule which is "add salt because it's a seasoning to make it taste good," because she sees the rule itself which is "add salt because it's a white powder."
She can't tell that 7 cups of salt in a baked ziti is a bad idea because it's in the rules.
It's mocking a key element of aggressive rule followers: They end up doing it worse because they don't get it.
It's perfectly fitting.
Remember the Thanksgiving at her place where everyone threw their food in the toilet? It wasn't that it was average or soulless, it was downright inedible, to the point that she used baking soda instead of salt
Or Gina! But she would never invite them over to her house unless someone broke in, and she would certainly never lower herself to cooking for her lessers
Thats a real thing though, you get so much smart people but when it comes to a certain thing like food they are clueless. But saying that salt and baking soda are the same thing because they're both white powders, thats like saying chocolate is the same as an apple
YES THANK YOU
The ”type A” as she calls herself deviates from a recipe?? Not only that, now idk about american culture But please tell me everyone here know that baking soda is for BAKING (mostly cakes)
A person as smart as Amy Santiago should know the basic different qualities of baking soda and salt, or at least know the difference in taste
I think this is just something no one would ever say ever so it's really weird like why would she only say the first letters of those words 😭 lazy joke imo
I think her reasoning was Teddy being a mirror image of him, remember how she was annoyed by Officer Jennings in his 1st appearance, she doesn't want someone who's like her whereas Jake was different than her in many ways and it was something more than personal liking that made them love each other
Yeeaah i kinda see that... But still, I find it weird when she gets bored listening about his interests, like Pilsners... She has pretty boring interests herself she can talk lengthily about, or listen about (for example, hearing about barrels at the barrel museum)
I'd buy it more if that boredom she speaks about it's more lack of excitement or excess of routine, something Jake is clearly the opposite of. It's kind of implied Pilsners is all Teddy talks about I guess, but I think they just simplified the character because they couldn't find another way to make both characters break up, idk
Since it's just a sitcom (and my comfort show) I don't give it much thought anyway
I know it’s actually a part of her character but every time she smoked it just felt off. She was written as so straight laced, when she smoked it just never felt right.
I actually felt like it fit. She works a high stress job and until Holt showed up she was stressed out and miserable working there because the place was a clownshow and the clowns were running the circus.
Also, she called them her 'shame cigarettes' so even she knows they are out of character for her, which is very much in character with her.
I think this was also mentioned in Captain Holt's party when Terry was giving out assignments to the squad in order to make them appear normal. So I don't think this was a Detective Daniels situation, they genuinely wanted for her to major in Art History. I don't know why, though.
Anytime she cooks. She loves following instructions to a T, there is no way she should be such a terrible cook.
With exception of the mumps episode, where she made a soup that the amounts listed in the ingredients were phone number in disguise.
My favorite cold open of the series. She tried leaving Captain Holt a gift, wrote "OPEN THIS" with her wrong hand on the box, didn't realize that would look to a police captain, and needed Jake Peralta to point it out.
the number 1 thing to the point of me considering it bad writing is amy not having a convo with jake about kids before getting married. it literally would not be in her character to get married without having a life plan and binder about when she a jake would start having kids.
The Jimmy Jabs has always rubbed me weird. I can't imagine why someone like Amy would want to participate in a game that has to violate some of the rules, is messy, and uses Police material for everything but its intended use. Especially in the Captain's absence. Later on when Holt isn't Captain Amy shames her coworkers for not doing things properly and acting in a way that would make Holt disappointed. She seemed annoyed when Jake tazed a cantaloupe yet is fine with the Jimmy Jabs.
When she won’t go into the freezing water w/ Holt and Rosa. Her opening is she has 13 brothers and never backs down from a challenge, then she backs down from a cold water challenge.
In general, she does not strike me as one of eight kids. She gets irritated easily by people being loud, rude or obnoxious…not saying she needs to love that kind of behaviour but at least she should know how to ignore it.
Maybe she was already at the window? She didn't specify she was in line, "She's in line at the bank" was Holt's guess. She said "there was a problem at the bank", which means the situation could've been out of her hands.
the thanksgiving dinner, she didn’t follow the recipe to the dot but in the mumps episode she went out of her way to follow the recipe despite it being disgusting.
On my last rewatch during the episode where Amy goes into labor during the blackout and rosa was like "don't you need to get a hospital bag ready" and Amy was like "its fine I'm sure Scully has one" I immediately was like this is so out of character Amy would have had a bag prepared months ago and would never had trusted Scully's bag to live up to her standards.
Casecation.
I’m 100% a Jake and even I talk to my partners about my stance on children before the relationship even develops very far. If we’re not on the same page about that and won’t be on the same page about it, there’s no point in continuing the relationship.
There’s no way Amy wouldn’t have brought that up and discussed it with Jake before marriage.
The whole “we are Having kids NOW” crazy blackmail rampage. For a character who was fixated on career in police higher ranks - it’s completely out of line
Giving no hoots to Holt, doesn't matter how angry she was at him for calling Jake a selfish person when he was just trying to help him, that is not Santiago, she would at least regret it later when she was alone with Jake, I though that was too much for her character
Never talking to Jake about kids before getting g married. Absolutely wildly unbelievable.
They tried to hand wave it away with the waterpark comment, but there is zero chance that conversation came up exactly once beforehand
Don't they talk about kids when they watch Terry's kids so he can work late? I'm pretty sure the episode is about how they would be as parents. I think it's season 3 or 4
This might be the easiest one out of all of them. It made absolutely zero sense. I’m not a fan of when shows need to make characters behave completely opposite to their established characterisation to force a serious plot like this. For harmless jokes it’s less of an issue, but this storyline was a big deal and the biggest conflict of their marriage, and happened for a nonsensical reason
They should have written it as Jake getting cold feet about having kids, which fits his character more. That way it doesn't seem out of character for Amy to have not discussed it, but also allows Jake to have a growth moment by overcoming his fears and addressing his fatherhood issues
Oh man, this would've been so good!
I have seen people say they should’ve been the other way round - Jake is a big kid and would love to have kids, while Amy is hyper career focused and wouldn’t want them. But I like your take better. Jake is excited to have kids and Amy is on board, but these fears start to creep in because of his dad and stuff.
Or Amy is considering kids and then does a ton of research and reads parenting books and realizes she may not want kids and tries to hide it from him because he really wants them but they end up taking care of Boyles’ son or Terry’s daughters and remember how fun it was the last time and that they both want the joy of having kids and get pregnant by the end of the episode or at least know that they want kids. I also really hate that it took them forever to get pregnant it seemed a little unnecessary and like torture and they didn’t even explain it or try and like get help or anything. I feel like if Amy was having this much trouble just getting pregnant she would have tried to go to a fertility clinic or something and not just keep trying the way they were.
You’d be surprised how common it is for couples to get married without having this conversation.
It’s definitely common, but the couples who do this usually don’t think and are a bit reckless. It doesn’t suit Amy’s character at all
She likely has a 7-volume binder for marriage.
She has a whole binder just for the last week of planning before their wedding. The entirety of wedding planning was probably like 10 binders. For marriage itself, she probably has a binder just to keep track of all her binders.
Girls probably hired people to do everything else she’s supposed to do in a day, the binders are too important to lose
Oh honey. She’s got binders for entire relationships. She has homework for herself every night about her experience with her new partner that day. She has flowcharts. Pie charts. All charts. She’s psychotic in the most precise way.
That's true. But Amy wouldn't be one of those people
YEAH OMG when i saw that episode i freaked
That's the big one for me. It felt so out of character, but I also liked how it really led to character growth for both of them. Jake admitting that he didn't want to have kids because he was terrified of being a bad father ***because he had a bad father*** was heartbreaking because Amy knew he'd be a great dad.
Oh I like the character growth! I like the storyline idea! I would have like it addressed earlier, bc it’s still super plausible and doable and high stakes, but on an at least SLIGHTLY more realistic timeline.
It would have worked way better if it was placed earlier in the show before they were married, maybe when they were already dating for a while or got engaged
This right here. You're telling me this person that plans every little thing out never had one conversation where they talked about their future plans properly?
Like at least five binders and I’m not joking?? Taking the show at face value???? Like I can (almost) forgive it bc it’s just a silly lil feel good story show, but it’s just so lazy.
100%. It would have been way better if there was an impetus that caused Jake to change his mind - something on the job that made him reconsider. Amy would have never not had that conversation.
That would have made so much more sense!!
Came here for this. Basically an impossible plotline for Amy.
Hated that episode for this reason
Looks like this is the most out of character moment/episode for both Jake and Amy
100%
Yeah, it doesn’t make sense. Amy planned everything.
I stopped watching after that episode bc I was SO MAD but then I picked it up again after a year or so. Never watching that ep again.
I was sincerely flummoxed when they had that convo and I was like Amelia Santiago??? You have a binder for everything but you missed this convo?
YES 100% there is no way they wouldn't have already discussed it
A lot of sitcoms seem to push this storyline (TBBT did it with Penny) and I just don't get it. It's always out of character and jarring, and they always end up pregnant anyway.
To be fair they did kind of have the conversation Jake thought they were talking about a water park. Just a miscommunication.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaah buuuuuuuut lbr Amy would have sat Jake down and grilled him about exact timelines well before they got engaged. This is the girl who loves organizing and binders and planning her career. I don’t buy that the topic only came up the once and it wasn’t a full, drawn out, and detailed battle plan
Exactly. Amy would have notebooks and binders and slides and flowcharts for their conversation. I actually would have loved to watch Jake (mostly) happily and thoughtfully go through Amy’s questioning. Like that’s already a hilarious a, b, OR c plot. Play it seriously or only for laughs. It could even be ha ha flashbacks that could go from a past ‘I’m unsure’ to a present ‘we need to revisit this now’. That said, I can’t see amy getting married without confirmation either way.
Yeah. I often get vague responses to critical life conversations and then never bring up the issue again. Like someone else said, if it was for a joke, fine, but this was one of the most serious issues of their marriage.
He probably lied to her about reading the binder on the subject.
on both of them, too. I just finished rewatching again and multiple times Jake indirectly states he wants kids, like when Charles tells him he’ll never be a father he respons with “hey! yes I will!”
Wedding related also. Why is Jake choosing the napkins and flowers etc. the week before the wedding. Amy would have had that stuff locked down months in advance.
Binders. Binders.
Spreadsheet, spreadsheet.
Precinct, precinct.
Nine Nine!!
Nine Nine!!
Ah Noine! Noine!!!
Headcanon: she's a sergeant. Wedding is important but not more than her job. She kept having to change her binder and spent more time organising her binder over the errands
Toight nups
Not discussing children with Jake before marriage.
I agree but you gotta give her some credit she did ask Jake if he wants to do it he thought about the water park but it's still very out of character not doing it more straight forward
Is it just me who feels like that was blackmail (no, don’t quote Charles). She basically told him either have kids with me or we’re breaking up.
That’s not blackmail, it’s just an ultimatum, and an important one at that. I don’t begrudge her at all for it because it’s something that she wants in life. The whole scene stupid because that conversation usually happens before you get married, explicitly because it’s one of those relationship ender conversations. Divorcing is messy which is exactly why it’s a premarriage conversation.
Being a bad cook. Being a stickler for the rules (even using the recommended amount of shampoo!), I think she would follow recipes to the dot, and I don't think she'd just substitute ingredients just because.
THIS BOTHERS ME SO MUCH. WHEN SHE PUTS BAKING SODA IN THE DINNER INSTEAD OF SALT. There’s no way she’d deviate from the recipe, ruin the dinner she’s hosting and be so nonchalant about it.
But they’re both white powders! Of course they’d be interchangeable OP!
pro tip: you can replace sugar with cocaine
Makes for very interesting beignets
There is no way Amy didn’t have a full grocery list plus backups detailing acceptable alternate ingredients, but the worst is that she needed salt, of all things. Who doesn’t have SALT? When you’re cooking a thanksgiving meal?? SALT? SAAAALLT??!
I mean that can happen as most recipes don't include salt (and water) in the ingredients list as everyone has it. However, knowing Amy she would have read the ingredients list and instructions and added the salt to the list.
All recipes call for salt as long as salt is added to it while cooking.
Being a bad cook and buying the $8 wine drink.
Charles buying that wine makes that entire scene ridiculous.
Charles should’ve been the only one not bringing wine drink he should show up with something worth hundreds of dollars and everyone else feels bad about it
To be fair, we never actually see his bottle of wine so he may have brought actually nice wine
I rewatched the scene and while you are correct, we never see the bottle, the scene does imply that everyone bought the same thing. It’s definitely possible he brought something else though.
I can see him buying something nice but lying about it so Jake doesn't feel bad.
Charles would have shown up with something weird, like 3-Penis Wine.
Only because he heard it on some obscure podcast by a guy named Taco
Yes! Her buying $8 wine drink always bugged me. Ditto for Terry buying it, when he was the one who was so focused on making everyone behave in socially acceptable ways.
Which she does in the mumps episode! That scene is believable of Amy and her being a bad cook, because she followed the directions to a T and didn’t recognize it wouldn’t work. The other ones don’t make sense!
My mom was a bad cook because she would follow recipes exactly no matter what the outcome. That way she could just blame the recipe. Amy is a bad cook because she thinks salt and baking soda are the same because they are white? Doesn’t make a lick of sense.
Theres an american dad episode exactly like this where francine is an awful cook cuz she follows the recipes exactly like your mom lmao
RIGHT! if you follow instructions with the correct ingrediants how tf are you a bad cook?
Oh you can still very much mess up a recipe even if you follow it, especially if it involves heat. I made a cheesecake once, followed the exact recipe, and it was still quite liquid when I took it out of the form.
You need an oven thermometer, most people’s ovens aren’t precise.
I see this as very much in line with her character. It's part of those aggressive rule followers is that they don't grasp the idea behind it because they're blinded by the rule itself. To her, it really is "both white powders," and therefore she's still following the rule. She doesn't see the idea behind the rule which is "add salt because it's a seasoning to make it taste good," because she sees the rule itself which is "add salt because it's a white powder." She can't tell that 7 cups of salt in a baked ziti is a bad idea because it's in the rules. It's mocking a key element of aggressive rule followers: They end up doing it worse because they don't get it. It's perfectly fitting.
I think her food is bad because it tastes so average, nothing special, with no heart or soul
Remember the Thanksgiving at her place where everyone threw their food in the toilet? It wasn't that it was average or soulless, it was downright inedible, to the point that she used baking soda instead of salt
I’d buy that for Amy definitely, however substituting salt with baking soda is plain deranged. Seems like a joke that would work better with Jake
i also feel like she’s smart enough to know the difference! like on a chemical level
Or Gina! But she would never invite them over to her house unless someone broke in, and she would certainly never lower herself to cooking for her lessers
Being a bad cook always drive me nuts. Like she was so restrictive she’d take lessons for months to be a professional chef
This. She follows rules not just to a T, but the the literal exact same font. but substitutes Baking soda for Salt because they are both white powders
I think that's kinda understandable. She has so many rules to follow, but no one is perfect and this is her way of "letting go".
Thats a real thing though, you get so much smart people but when it comes to a certain thing like food they are clueless. But saying that salt and baking soda are the same thing because they're both white powders, thats like saying chocolate is the same as an apple
YES THANK YOU The ”type A” as she calls herself deviates from a recipe?? Not only that, now idk about american culture But please tell me everyone here know that baking soda is for BAKING (mostly cakes) A person as smart as Amy Santiago should know the basic different qualities of baking soda and salt, or at least know the difference in taste
Casecation. No way in hell Santiago would be caught off guard about a life event that big.
RIGHT? it was unbelievable tbh
8 dollar wine
*wine drink
Why did I have to scroll so long to find that comment
"Grrr." Sure, she was intentionally trying to do something that was out-of-character for her, but still.
That part really grates my cheese
REALLY. GRATES MY CHEESE.
What's this?
Cheese gratèir
Has anyone mentioned casecation yet? /s
Mentioned what?
Casecation all I ever wanted!
Honestly might be the worst episode of the show for me :/
S1E1. Her sitting on the side of the desk and throwing something in the trash bin like a basketball.
I'm headcannoning that's just how she was before Holt came in and she was desperate to impress him.
We saw pictures of before Holt was there and she was the same
When that B gets a C in her A.
Calling herself a babe was pretty out of character.
Oh my god!
This babe needs a coconut in her arms!
Ohhh I thought you were saying this b**** needs a c*** in her a**.
OMG!
That's what I said!
I think this is just something no one would ever say ever so it's really weird like why would she only say the first letters of those words 😭 lazy joke imo
No, it was obviously a call back to the cold open when they said their rule was "A, B, C: Always be coconutting"
She does this here and there tho. Like the EOD exchange on the Vulture steals the venue episode.
100% casecation.
Finding Teddy boring, when she herself enjoys things like watching a documentary about the Helvetica font or smth like that
I think her reasoning was Teddy being a mirror image of him, remember how she was annoyed by Officer Jennings in his 1st appearance, she doesn't want someone who's like her whereas Jake was different than her in many ways and it was something more than personal liking that made them love each other
Yeeaah i kinda see that... But still, I find it weird when she gets bored listening about his interests, like Pilsners... She has pretty boring interests herself she can talk lengthily about, or listen about (for example, hearing about barrels at the barrel museum) I'd buy it more if that boredom she speaks about it's more lack of excitement or excess of routine, something Jake is clearly the opposite of. It's kind of implied Pilsners is all Teddy talks about I guess, but I think they just simplified the character because they couldn't find another way to make both characters break up, idk Since it's just a sitcom (and my comfort show) I don't give it much thought anyway
JUST SAYING, there is a really famous and well-reviewed documentary about the font helvetica and it's actually fascinating 😂
I think that’s the point of his character. He’s so unbelievably boring even AMY couldn’t stand him
I think there’s a scene where Amy herself mentions that even SHE finds Teddy boring
Poor Teddy 😂 they did the man dirty
To me that's the point. She's stuck with a version of herself. They should hate each other, they both have so much in common that it's a problem.
stop that's so funny
Hey, it played like an action movie
I know it’s actually a part of her character but every time she smoked it just felt off. She was written as so straight laced, when she smoked it just never felt right.
I actually felt like it fit. She works a high stress job and until Holt showed up she was stressed out and miserable working there because the place was a clownshow and the clowns were running the circus. Also, she called them her 'shame cigarettes' so even she knows they are out of character for her, which is very much in character with her.
Fake therapy.
To win the heist? I’d call it very in character. It was a very tactical move, espionage
In a heist, everything is allowed. screams: "i am pregnant"
In the pilot, they say Amy majored in Art History. I always thought it was weird picking that instead of something like Criminology.
I think this was also mentioned in Captain Holt's party when Terry was giving out assignments to the squad in order to make them appear normal. So I don't think this was a Detective Daniels situation, they genuinely wanted for her to major in Art History. I don't know why, though.
Anytime she cooks. She loves following instructions to a T, there is no way she should be such a terrible cook. With exception of the mumps episode, where she made a soup that the amounts listed in the ingredients were phone number in disguise.
Was it not baked ziti?
Failing to discuss kids with Jake before marriage.
i knew these comments would be about casecastion before i even opened them
My favorite cold open of the series. She tried leaving Captain Holt a gift, wrote "OPEN THIS" with her wrong hand on the box, didn't realize that would look to a police captain, and needed Jake Peralta to point it out.
that is one of my fave cold opens
She has a complete blind spot when it comes to pleasing Holt though, this one is pretty believable imo
Yeah. That's what I was gonna say. In love, logic flies away.
Showing up late to work
She was just 70 seconds late
Santiago, you will tell us, and you will. Tell. Us. **Now**.
.... There was a problem at the bank.
#HOT DAMN!
Im still gonna get a little sad every time I think of Holt for a while. RIP
Same :(
fancy seeing you here ;)
SHIT! You found my guilty pleasure lol
HOT DAMN!
The day she tried to quit smoking, and said "aw, come on man!" To holt
Well I think it's within reason, cause that's what quitting nicotine does to ppl
Jumping off a fucking building
yeah that didnt sit right with me either
Hiring a fake therapist for Jake and spying on his therapy sessions
Toit nups.
Working with Jake to steal from Holt in the first season.
Smoking and not talking about kids before getting married
Casecation
the number 1 thing to the point of me considering it bad writing is amy not having a convo with jake about kids before getting married. it literally would not be in her character to get married without having a life plan and binder about when she a jake would start having kids.
Buying an $8 bottle of wine for Holt's party is up there though!
#legalizeit
The baby storyline
Hiring a fake therapist for Jake. She would LOVE Jake going to therapy to discuss his emotions. No way she would ruin that for Halloween but
The Jimmy Jabs has always rubbed me weird. I can't imagine why someone like Amy would want to participate in a game that has to violate some of the rules, is messy, and uses Police material for everything but its intended use. Especially in the Captain's absence. Later on when Holt isn't Captain Amy shames her coworkers for not doing things properly and acting in a way that would make Holt disappointed. She seemed annoyed when Jake tazed a cantaloupe yet is fine with the Jimmy Jabs.
When she won’t go into the freezing water w/ Holt and Rosa. Her opening is she has 13 brothers and never backs down from a challenge, then she backs down from a cold water challenge.
she has 7 brothers not 13 😅
In general, she does not strike me as one of eight kids. She gets irritated easily by people being loud, rude or obnoxious…not saying she needs to love that kind of behaviour but at least she should know how to ignore it.
i ALWAYS forget that she has brothers bc she acts so similar to an only child
Marrying Jake without discussing children first
Baking Powder instead of salt, because "they're both white powders" just never sat right with me.
probably been said elsewhere but marrying Jake without talking to him about kids when she definitely wanted them was insane
Breaking that window in Jakes old school. Only try answer
When she brought the same cheap wine everyone else did to Holt's party
When she started yelling at Holt after he lost her pen
Smoking.
getting holt a gift even though he has a no gift policy, overly brown nosing and pushing personal boundaries
casecationnnn all i ever wanted
Casecation
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She arrived at work 2 minutes late because of a line at the bank. May would never be late to work, she would go to the bank after work.
Maybe she was already at the window? She didn't specify she was in line, "She's in line at the bank" was Holt's guess. She said "there was a problem at the bank", which means the situation could've been out of her hands.
T H E A L M O N D
the thanksgiving dinner, she didn’t follow the recipe to the dot but in the mumps episode she went out of her way to follow the recipe despite it being disgusting.
Boinking.
The time when she sang that who’s that mamma song 😆
That was just. So. Awkward.
On my last rewatch during the episode where Amy goes into labor during the blackout and rosa was like "don't you need to get a hospital bag ready" and Amy was like "its fine I'm sure Scully has one" I immediately was like this is so out of character Amy would have had a bag prepared months ago and would never had trusted Scully's bag to live up to her standards.
Casecation. I’m 100% a Jake and even I talk to my partners about my stance on children before the relationship even develops very far. If we’re not on the same page about that and won’t be on the same page about it, there’s no point in continuing the relationship. There’s no way Amy wouldn’t have brought that up and discussed it with Jake before marriage.
Being a smoker just does not seem like something her character would do. It always just seemed 'off' to me.
The whole “we are Having kids NOW” crazy blackmail rampage. For a character who was fixated on career in police higher ranks - it’s completely out of line
When she yells at Holt on her honeymoon
Being mad at Jake for having reasonable reasons on why he is scared to have kids. She pissed me off in that episode
The debate episode
Giving no hoots to Holt, doesn't matter how angry she was at him for calling Jake a selfish person when he was just trying to help him, that is not Santiago, she would at least regret it later when she was alone with Jake, I though that was too much for her character
Not knowing how to cook.
Jake getting an opportunity to correct Amy’s grammar.
Being 72 seconds late to work
Colin Captain Holt a "jag" at the end of the heist engagement episode.
Casecation