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Jake and Amy Make Boyle Faint is the cold open from the Season Seven episode, Admiral Peralta.

Synopsis

Jake Peralta and Amy Santiago announce their pregnancy to the squad. But when they don't get the reaction they want, Jake exaggerates to get Charles Boyle to faint.

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Trivia

  • The actress who played Amy Santiago, Melissa Fumero, was pregnant during the filming for this episode.

The joke about Amy doing a bad job at hiding her pregnancy is a nod to all the times they hid Melissa Fumero and Chelsea Peretii's pregnancies in Seasons Three and Four. In addition to the obvious over-sized jackets the actresses wore they used a lot of old-fashioned Hollywood tricks like having them sitting down behind a table or desk. They also used some very obvious large things and put everyone in bomb suits.

Melissa Fumero was pregnant during the filming of Season Three

They hid her pregnancy in some of the following ways:

  • In The Cruise Amy carried around a large bag.
  • In Karen Peralta Amy is on the couch holding a pillow,sitting at the dining room table,sitting on Jake's bed holding a pillow. Amy is sitting in a vehicle with the door closed.
  • In Adrian Pimento she is sitting behind Mean Marge's desk clutter.
  • In Terry Kitties everyone's in bomb suits during the bomb class.
  • In Cheddar she is:
    • sitting down at the break room table
    • sitting on Holt's couch clutching a pile of sweaters
    • Wearing Holt's over sized trench coat
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    • Amy and Jake deliver their lines from behind Jake's car.
  • In Paranoia she is:
    • sitting behind a large paint ball obstacle
    • everyone is standing behind large poster boards
    • standing behind the bar
  • In Maximum Security she's undercover as a pregnant prisoner.

Chelsea Peretti was pregnant during Season Four.

They didn't use quite as many elaborate techniques.

  • Shots that only include the top half of her body
  • Sitting down at desk or break room table
  • In Your Honor Gina is running around the parking garage carrying a large shopping bag in front of her stomach.
  • In Chasing Amy A box is positioned right at her stomach when she's talking to Boyle.
  • In The Bank Job Charles Boyle, Amy Santiago and Terry Jeffords ask her about it and she admits she's pregnant.
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