0593NOTIcarusDaedalus

Michael Schur, Executive Producer. Brooklyn Nine-Nine, episode 1.15 "Operation: Broken Feather." Fremulon: 2014.

The writers of this show have an interest in classical myth, which manifests itself in a number of suble ways, and, in this episode, some less-subtle ways.

This episode uses the Icarus myth in its most common modern application: as a warning against excessive pride.

Additionally, the hotel robber Detectives Peralta and Santiago are tracking is caught at an auction of Greco-Roman antiquities. One of the antiquities is described by Detective Peralta as a vase ("a 'vahs' if you're nasty...") "depicting the classic Greek fable 'Boy meets girl, boy has goat legs, and on the back, just a whole bunch of wheat.'"

In a later episode, it is also revealed that Captain Holt's husband, Kevin, is a Classics professor at Columbia University, and that Boyle's landlord (who is also his ex-wife's new boyfriend) is named Hercules.

Images: Top - Sergeant Jeffords (L) and Captain Holt. Middle -Detective Boyle in his burning jacket. Bottom - Kevin Kosner, Captain Holt's Classics Professor Husband.