During Jake's bachelor party in Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 5, Terry Crews made a hilarious mistake and here's how it happened. The Fox-turned-NBC sitcom's arguable best draw is the chemistry among its ensemble cast. But the actors may have grown too close with each other, causing Crews to make a funny but understandable slip in one of the episodes.
After a tumultuous dating history that involved a stint in the prison for Jake (Andy Samberg), he and Amy (Melissa Fumero) finally decided to tie the knot after he surprisingly proposed during Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 5's Halloween Heist, known as HalloVeen. The show didn't waste much time getting to the actual wedding ceremony, with the pair eventually getting married at the end of the same year, but that doesn't mean that they skimped on showing the preparation process. Aside from planning their perfect day (which ultimately didn't matter because of unforeseen events during the day itself), both Jake and Amy also had their respective bachelor and bachelorette party thrown by their closest friends at the 99th precinct.
While Amy's hen night was rowdy and crazy, Jake's stag party was a little tame. In the aptly titled "Bachelor/ette Party," the prolific detective went out with Captain Holt (Andre Braugher), Terry, and of course, Charles Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio), who was in charge of the whole thing. Wanting to jazz things up, Charles incorporated a mystery game that found him being fake kidnapped, leaving the rest to find him. Frustrated that it wasn't the bachelor party night they expected it to be, Terry went on a rant as Jake's best friend was being taken away, and Crews may have been too engrossed in the scene that he called Joe by his real name instead of his character's name of Charles as pointed out by u/Any-Bar587.
With the cut making it on the air, it's fair to wonder if Brooklyn Nine-Nine editors or script supervisor spotted this mistake and kept it as a joke or if it truly slipped through the cracks. The subtitle on this particular moment reads "Charles" and not "Joe" so it's likely it was an honest (but hilarious) error; perhaps they didn't have the time to reshoot it as it was too late by the time they noticed, if at all. Still, there could be a clever in-narrative explanation for it: Terry was starving; it's part of the reason why he was so getting so cranky. So they can simply chalk the goof to him being hangry and not thinking straight.
As Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 8 continues to be delayed, it gives fans time to revisit the show and spot these slips. While they're still mistakes, don't necessarily decrease the quality of the show, nor do they create glaring plot holes. If anything, they're just fun details that are great conversation topics for the Brooklyn Nine-Nine fan community.