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NBC's Brooklyn Nine-Nine Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) is running into a serious case of fallibility in S08E06 "The Set Up": Review

The following movie is rated r. >> in 1990-'91, there was not a whole lot of original programming for cable. but they were airing movies. so we needed to compete, and i felt that if we didn't, we were going to, you know, kind of get swept out. >> you son of a -- >> and so, i came up with the notion of doing a cop show that was r rated. when abc's broadcast standards read our script, they went berserk. >> i was sitting with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what -- what we would show and what we wouldn't show. grownups sitting in a room. you know, doodling. >> t...

>> i don't know how this is going to work, tubbs. i mean you're not exactly up my alley style and persona-wise. heaven knows i'm no box of candy. >> television very much was the small screen. it was interesting about tony's pilot screen play for "miami vice.” it was not that. very much the approach was, okay, they call this a television series. but we're going to make one-hour movies every single week. >> here we go. stand by. >> action. >> police! >> you were just describing the show as sort of a new wave cop show. >> yeah, it's a cop show for the '80s. we use a lot of mtv images and rock m...

The following movie is rated "r." >> in 1990, '91, there was not a whole lot of original programing for cable, but they were airing movies. so we needed to compete and i felt that if we didn't, we were going to kind of get swept out. so i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r-rated. when abc's broadcast standards read our script, they went berserk. >> i was sitting with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show and what we wouldn't show. grown-ups sitting in a room doodling. >> then we started on the language.

♪ let's be careful ♪ >> at the time stephen bochco was a producer of hour dramas and wanted to try something brand-new. >> we're the police. we have a warrant for your arrest. >> and so his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. >> i saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers in jail and they began to sing. life in the hood, ain't no pizza pie irks everybody die when the bullets fly ♪ anybody can die when the bullets fly ♪ >> and i'm like wait a minute. ♪ >> i thought, well, this is it. this is going to be great. this is going to be as innovative as anything i'v...