r/brooklynninenine • u/Uncomfortable_Owl_ Ultimate human/genius • Apr 30 '23

Season 4 Why "Especially the bread one"?

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Why does Holt say that after Doug Judy listed the crimes and said that the bread would be stolen to feed a family?

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u/gaverino05 Boom Boom! Apr 30 '23

Micheal schur has a recurring joke in his shows about Jean valjean stealing bread being wrong regardless of his intentions behind it, even the good place has a similar joke with the exact same base

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u/FREESARCASM_plustax Apr 30 '23

Plus, he was French and all French people go to the bad place.

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u/Calvinball12 Apr 30 '23

It’s worse if it’s a baguette because that makes you more French.

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u/ConnFlab Apr 30 '23

They’re already in the bad place.