Moo Moo
- Episode aired May 2, 2017
- TV-14
- 21m
Terry and Holt have different ideas for dealing with a fellow police officer who creates trouble for Terry in his own neighborhood.Terry and Holt have different ideas for dealing with a fellow police officer who creates trouble for Terry in his own neighborhood.Terry and Holt have different ideas for dealing with a fellow police officer who creates trouble for Terry in his own neighborhood.
- Young Terry
- (as Theodore John Barnes)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaEarly in the episode, when Terry screams about having a big problem, Amy asks if it's a real life or math problem. Terry snaps "Why would I have a big math problem?" Amy replies "I've seen it happen." This is a reference to the earlier episode "The Skyfire Cycle," wherein Captain Holt and his husband Kevin are having an argument stemming from the Monty Hall Problem.
- GoofsWhen Jake and Amy are "driving" the van, interior shots clearly show the gear selector in the park position.
- Quotes
Terry Jeffords: When I got stopped the other day, I wasn't a cop. I wasn't a guy in the neighborhood looking for his daughter's toy. I was a black man - a dangerous black man. That's all he could see: a threat. And I couldn't stop thinking about my daughters - and their future - and how years from now, they could be walking down the street, looking for their kid's Moo Moo, and get stopped by a bad cop. And they probably won't get to play the police card to get out of trouble. I don't like that thought.
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It has the normal obligatory humor with Amy and Nick having to babysit Terry's kids and explain racism to 7 year old. Which is good, but the real meat of the episode is Terry arguing with Holt on what to do and the repercussions of filing a complaint against the officer who stopped him. It gets very real and practical about picking which battles to fight, when to fight them, and the negative effects of doing the right thing.
It's nice to see this serious real life issue given justice in a comedic show, it didn't devolve into inappropriate/lame humor like most shows do as a cop out. The writer's weren't afraid to let the drama sit with you, it's not undercut by a random joke.
- irishboy141
- Aug 5, 2019