[s5e7] Two Turkeys 99%

While it plays on the "meeting the in-laws" trope, the genuine affection the parents have for Jake and Amy keeps it from feeling overly mean-spirited or exhausting. 📺 How to Watch

The dinner immediately goes off the rails when Amy's mother brings her own backup turkey. This sparks a toxic, heavily competitive turkey-carving and drinking contest between the two fathers.

It perfectly satirizes the extreme stress couples go through when trying to merge two vastly different family dynamics for the holidays. [S5E7] Two Turkeys

Despite the disaster, the episode highlights that both sets of parents genuinely love Jake and Amy and fully support their upcoming marriage. 🥧 The B-Plot: The Mystery of the Stolen Pie

Jake and Amy attempt to orchestrate the ultimate bonding experience between their polar-opposite parents over Thanksgiving dinner. While it plays on the "meeting the in-laws"

Back at the precinct, Captain Holt and his husband Kevin are devastated when their highly prized English Walnut pie goes missing. They drove all the way to upstate New York just to acquire it.

The competitive chaos leads to the fathers getting heavily intoxicated and Roger accidentally cutting off his thumb in a disastrous carving incident. It perfectly satirizes the extreme stress couples go

A furious Holt activates detective mode and interrogates the squad.