10 Brooklyn Nine-Nine episodes where Gina Linetti was absolutely brilliant

Brooklyn Nine-Nine premiered in 2013 and has been one of the most beloved procedural comedy shows. The series revolves around several detectives of the NYPD’s 99th precinct as they adjust to the arrival of a new commanding officer.

With its eight-season run, the characters of Brooklyn Nine-Nine have gained fame among fans due to their quirky dialogue and humorous storylines. One of those characters is Gina Linetti (Chelsea Peretti), who is known for her sometimes mean and sometimes helpful, yet absurd, behavior. She is the queen of one-liners on the comedy show and is a fan-favorite character.

In this article, we have listed 10 episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine where Gina Linetti showed us how brilliant she is by displaying her many qualities.

Disclaimer: This article is based on the writer's opinion. Reader discretion is advised.

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10) Season 3 episode 16

In this episode titled "House Mouses," Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) receives a French-themed gift basket from his husband, Kevin Cozner (Marc Evan Jackson), who is in Paris. Without checking who it is for, the detectives begin gorging on the French chocolates and cheeses.

In the cold open of the episode, Jake calls Gina to join them in eating. Gina quickly deduces that the gift might be for Holt, as it is French-themed and Holt’s husband is in Paris, showing that sometimes she can be sharper than all the detectives in the department.

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9) Season 2 episode 17

In the episode titled "Boyle-Linetti Wedding," Gina assigns everyone in the precinct a job to help conduct the wedding of her mother and Charles’s father.

Even after stumbling through several problems, such as Holt becoming the minister and helping Lynn with his nervous breakdown by telling him how wonderful his life will be after marrying her mother, Gina helps ensure the wedding goes off without any further issues.

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8) Season 1 episode 9

In the Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode titled "Sal’s Pizza," the computers of the 99th precinct get hacked, and their web searches become public, which causes some friction between Santiago and Diaz. Later, Gina and Terry conduct interviews to hire a new IT consultant.

Although some of the interviewees are irked by Gina’s absurd questions and shenanigans, Gina later reveals that she did it to check if those people could handle working in a stressful environment, where they are asked the same question, like how to log in to their email, several times a day. Gina smartly vets every candidate, even though they may get annoyed, and eventually suggests they hire the hacker.

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7) Season 1 episode 21

In this episode titled "Unsolvable," Gina Linetti shows how brilliant she is as she helps the detectives successfully fake a funeral.

She suggests to Holt that Michael Hitchcock can be the fake corpse—as if you squint your eyes and look at him, he looks exactly like a pale body recovered from a manhole after days. She also copies the coroner’s signature on the death certificate, prompting Terry to praise her strange abilities. To this, Gina quotes one of her iconic lines:

"If people knew how smart I was, they would’ve been harder to control."

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6) Season 3 episode 22

Another episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine where we get to see Gina Linetti’s brilliance is in Season 3, Episode 22, titled "Bureau." In this episode, the arrest count of the 99th precinct is leaked to the public after a reporter publishes a story about it.

Gina and Terry are tasked with investigating the source of the leak. Through her sharp observation and intuition, Gina figures out that the leak was Terry himself—he had unknowingly posted a selfie on social media with a whiteboard in the background displaying the arrest numbers. Gina then dramatically walks away, expressing her frustration with doing someone else’s job, once again proving her unusual competence in the most unexpected ways.

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5) Season 4 episode 9

In this episode titled "The Overmining," Gina shows us just how ludicrously strong her willpower can be—refusing to back down even when she's literally on fire.

As part of the precinct’s green initiative, Terry repeatedly asks Gina to get rid of her personal space heater. However, Gina stubbornly refuses to comply. In a comedic yet memorable moment, she hides the heater under her massive Victorian-style skirt. Even when the skirt catches fire, Gina nonchalantly refuses to acknowledge the danger until Terry is forced to extinguish the flames himself. Her unshakable commitment to her own comfort, despite all logic and fire safety, is classic Gina Linetti at her most hilariously defiant.

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4) Season 5 episode 10

Gina comes to help her friends in the 99th precinct in the episode titled "Game Night."

The precinct is having trouble with its internet after the Cyber Crimes division moves in next door and begins using all the bandwidth. The head of the division, Devin, tries to intimidate the detectives when they approach him with the issue. Gina steps in to save her team by revealing embarrassing personal details about Devin in front of everyone, successfully shaming him into giving the internet back to the 99th precinct.

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3) Season 3 episode 19

In Season 3, Episode 19 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Gina helps Charles get rid of Adrian Pimento from his house.

In the episode titled "Terry Kitties," Charles confides in Gina that he is fed up with living with Adrian due to his erratic behavior, but is afraid to ask him to leave. Later, when Adrian hands Charles his dirty laundry to take to the dry cleaner, Gina shows up and intimidates Adrian into moving out—and even makes him pay Charles for the nights he stayed there.

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2) Season 1 episode 16

The Season 1 episode titled "The Party" is one of the best episodes for Gina Linetti, as she dazzles a group of psychologists at Holt’s birthday party with her iconic lines such as:

"All men are at least 30% attracted to me. My mother cried the day I was born, because she knew she would never be better than me."

In the episode, Gina becomes the centre of attention for the psychologists, who are fascinated by her way of thinking.

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1) Season 4 episode 15

In the Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode titled "The Last Ride," Captain Holt informs his team that their precinct might be shutting down.

However, surprisingly, Gina saves the precinct in her own way. After becoming a social media influencer, Gina live-streams her prank of making her colleagues drink cement and also broadcasts Holt’s emotional speech where he talks about how much the precinct loves the city. This prompts Gina’s followers to reach out to the police commissioner and request that precinct 99 not be shut down.

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