There are a million reasons to be thrilled that Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back on our screens, starting with the fact that we got to hear Jake Peralta refer to Amy Santiago as “my brilliant wife” mere minutes into the season six premiere.
Jake: ….my brilliant wife…
Me: *cries because I'm so happy I got to hear him say that because we saved this god damn show** #Brooklyn99 @nbcbrooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/pf08KyrKXG
— Nora Dominick (@noradominick) January 11, 2019
I love this couple more than Boyle does, and that’s saying something.
But the undisputed highlight of the show’s glorious return was Captain Holt’s version of depression PJs: the increasingly loud and ridiculous souvenir shirts he wore while crashing Jake and Amy’s Mexican beach honeymoon.
From the slightly too realistic muscle shirt to “DTF: Down To Fiesta”, he was serving holidays lewks in every scene.
holt's outfits this episode were absolute perfection #brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/BOxnjKvZOm
— domi (@melissafumeros) January 11, 2019
And everyone can agree that the most instantly iconic one is the inexplicable bright yellow number featuring a pineapple wearing a G-banger over the word SLUT in big pink festive letters.
CAPTAIN HOLT NOVELTY T-SHIRT POWER RANKINGS:
5. 1 Tequila, 2 Tequila, 3 Tequila, Floor
4. Down to Fiesta
3. What’s Up, Beaches?
2. Hairy Chest (sleeveless)
1. Slut (pineapple) #Brooklyn99 pic.twitter.com/I5H0L3VoWT— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) January 11, 2019
Who is the slut, Peralta wondered? The pineapple? The wearer of the shirt? The reader of the shirt?
Nobody truly knows. The mystery is just part of the magic of the Pineapple Slut.
I really felt like the T-shirt was saying that the wearer was a slut FOR pineapple.
— Rainbow Rowell (@rainbowrowell) January 14, 2019
And of course, because fandom works fast, you can already buy the Pineapple Slut Shirt on Amazon, Etsy, and all the random shirt shops of the internet.
Naturally, the 99 fans are already leaving glowing reviews.
The shirt is so good that even the cast are obsessed.
Andy Samberg and Melissa Fumero apparently they couldn’t stop laughing at the shirt while they were filming the scene.
And Andre Braugher, who plays Holt, and Stephanie Beatriz, who plays Diaz, are joining the fans begging NBC to make the shirt part of the official B99 merch offering.
Via TheWrap:
“We should ask NBC if we can do like a merch store and then donate some of the proceeds to a charity that the cast picks or something,” [Beatriz] said, to which Braugher replied, “Oh, that would be great!”
Beatriz says she would “definitely wear a ‘Pineapple Slut’ shirt. 100 percent.”
If you can’t wait for the official version, just google “pineapple slut” – the internet will provide.
https://www.twitter.com/angelnorelation/status/1083605542310895616
Pine-pine!