Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Summary
Captain Raymond Holt ( played perfectly by Andre Braugher ) is one of the best and funniest voice ofBrooklyn Nine - Nine , with a deadpan delivery that allows for some of the show ’s very best quotes and one - liners . There are many fascinating panorama to Captain Holt ’s theatrical role onBrooklyn Nine - Nine . Between his near robotic delectation of things and the clear - disregard efficiency he runs the Nine - Nine with , one might consider that Holt experiences no joy .
But there ’s so much more to the Captain than what one sees at first glimpse . He has genuine deference for his police detective and cares about all of them . He also has a scathing and ironical learning ability . When fuse with his somewhat emotionless outlook on life , it often generate him some of the best railway line in the whole serial . Andre Braugher sadly go away of age 61on December 11 , 2023 , but his operation and delivery as Captain Holt stand as a cardinal part of his unerasable acting legacy , and is very much worth celebrate .
Brooklyn Nine - Nine is an hilariously hilarious take on the conventional police adjective show , and these are its best episodes of all sentence .
20"Now you’ve done it. You’ve made me turn my chair."
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 2, episode 6, “Jake and Sophia.”
Captain Holt takes his responsibilities with the 99 very seriously , as he involve almost every single thing in his sprightliness , so when Amy Santiago was struggling with the determination to run for Union Representative , he was ineffective to affect himself . Even when the discourse turned into an argument in his situation , he tried to sprain his chair to avoid talking about it , but he has demarcation . The arguing was terminate abruptly when he turn his chair in a minute that was both dramatic and uproarious .
19"The statistical analysis, it’s so beautiful."
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 1, episode 15, “Operation: Broken Feather.”
fan find out over the course ofBrooklyn Nine - Nine ’s eight seasonsthat Raymond Holt is a man who take account the finer thing in life and civilization , though he also revealed to Terry Jeffords that his favourite movie was 2011’sMoneyballstarring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill . While there are many reason the Oscar - nominated motion picture could be his preferent , like the splendid public presentation or the fantastic screenplay , a flashback to Holt ’s incredibly emotional viewing ofMoneyballin a theater revealed that his love life for the picture show was due to the statistical analysis used in the movie , which contribute him to tears .
18"I did mean woke. But it’s grammatically incoherent."
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 5, episode 10, “Game Night.”
One of Captain Holt ’s many admirable traits is his hard-and-fast adherence to proper grammar , which sometimes come at the price of pop expression that he poorly paraphrases during meetings with his detective squad . While he occasionally chooses to be grammatically incorrect to prove his point when needed , he could n’t quite bring himself to do it when he tell that his former law colleagues"were not , as the tike say , awake . "
17"When people say ‘what’s up?’ they mean I am a person not worth talking to."
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 4, episode 15, “The Last Ride.”
Captain Holt also has a few idiosyncratic opinions about unremarkable things like common greeting that both set his character and seperate him from the rest of the officers ofBrooklyn Nine - Nine , which he prove when he became Detective Santiago ’s wise man and put her through a clangoring course of his teachings . Holt ’s thoughts on proper greetings stood out . “When citizenry say , ' Good daybreak , ' they stand for , ' Hello . ' When mass say , ' How are you ? ' they mean , ' Hello . ‘“However , if someone were to say the much more familiar and common ' what ’s up ' as a greeting instead , Holt was done with them irrespective of their possible time value to the precinct .
16"Everything is garbage. Never love anything.”
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 3, episode 2, “The Funeral.”
Brooklyn Nine - Nineseason 3 interpret Captain Holt cope with a change as he was promoted to the PR department due to his rivlary with Commissioner Madeline Wuntch , which puts him in a bit of a dark position when he was take to make a toast at the funeral for his replacement as Captain , Seth Dozerman . After a few drinking , Holt began his speech strongly by declare it as a"message of hope,“before he proceeded to air his depressed feelings with an unforgettable manner of speaking about lose everything you care about , which even included Jeffords mango tree yogurt .
Brooklyn Nine - Nine ’s Captain Holt & Madeline Wuntch are sworn foe who have made each other ’s lives scurvy , but how did their contention jump ?
15"BONE!”
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 4, episode 8, “Skyfire Cycle.”
Captain Holt ’s kinship with his hubby Kevinis one of the many great matter Holt brings to the table in Brooklyn Nine - Nine , and the more familiar side of their marriage brought about this uproarious Holt outburst . After incessantly argue with Kevin over a math job , Rosa tells Holt that he and Kevin plainly have to ' ivory ' to which Holt replies with an angry montage of squall the intelligence uproariously .
14"Oh, I’ve caused a problem. I think I am getting a text message. Bloop. Ah, there it is.”
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 1, episode 13, “The Bet.”
If Holt has one weakness ( besides his passably disabling gaming dependance ) , it ’s his unfitness to wield complex worked up situation fully . Processing emotion seem to be somewhat outside of the Captain ’s wheelhouse , and so he either shuts down or removes himself from the situation entirely . While he has for sure grown since this quote got used in time of year 1 ’s " The Bet , " Holt still incline to defer dealing with emotions to Sergeant Jeffords rather .
13"Captain Wuntch. Good to see you. But if you’re here, who’s guarding Hades?"
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 2, episode 2, “Chocolate Milk.”
12"Vindication!"
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 4, episode 6, “Monster in the Closet.”
Holt is a character whose emotions are more often than not keep at a balanced , subdued level . However , when he gets passionate , it is very often splendid , as was the case with his beloved balloon arch . After making it for Rosa and Pimento ’s wedding party , Holt finally has it hold on in his office , proud of his work , and when Rose walk in , sees it , and compliments it , Holt lets out a gravid holloa of " vindication , " ultimately having his work appreciate .
11"I have zero interest in food. If it were feasible, my diet would consist entirely of flavorless beige smoothies containing all the nutrients required by the human animal."
Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 2, episode 9, “The Road Trip.”
If there ’s one matter that can be say about Holt , it ’s that he knows what he like . Anything overly pretentious is beneath the Captain , who prefers spare and uncomplicated pleasures . Whether it ’s food , classical medicine , or racquetball with his married man Kevin , Holt is content .