Buddy Cop Buddies

If we pull one more crazy stunt like that, Sarge will make us turn in our badges.

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Two buddy-cop viewing options on a recent Air Canada flight. - mj

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–mj

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#110 Tall Cops

PREMISE: The long arm of the law just got a whole lot longer. When a group of taller-than-average cops gets sick of being called “beanpole” and “stretch” by their fellow officers, they band together and form a special squad made up exclusively of generously-proportioned detectives. Working together, the Tall Cops no longer get left out of stakeouts because they can’t hide as well as their shorter colleagues, can commiserate about having cold feet from sleeping in too-short beds, and they get a bulk discount when they buy their uniforms from the Big and Tall store. The Tall Cops are on the case, and they’re gonna reach up and grab a big box of justice off the top shelf for you.

CHARACTERS: Nathan Pickering, 6’ 8”, always felt like an outsider because he was the tallest cop in his precinct. All that changed when he was partnered with Percy Hamilton, a 6’ 11” former Marine. In their first case working together, the two went undercover as members of a basketball team in order to bust a notorious steroid dealer. When they were about to put the cuffs on him, the crook ran and tried to hide in a tree, but that proved to be his undoing (S01.E01 – “Foul Shots”). Pickering and Hamilton were so delighted that they could high five each other without having to stoop down that they decided to find and recruit more tall cops to help them bust crime.

NOTABLE EPISODE: The Tall Cops face their toughest challenge yet when a murder brings them to the U.S.-Mexico border, where an assassin is hiding in one of the cramped, low-ceilinged tunnels used by the cartels to smuggle drugs. The killer is brought to justice, but the team’s hand-to-hand combat expert, Parker Weiland, bangs his head so bad on a beam he winds up in a coma (S04.E20 – “Policiàs Grandes”).

CATCHPHRASE: “The weather up here is cloudy with a chance of justice.”

TRIVIA/MISCELLANY: The actor who played Marky Romero, the team demolitions expert, was actually 5’ 6” and had to stand closer to the camera in all his scenes so that he looked taller.

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#102 v4.1 and v4.72

PREMISE: Can two versions of the world’s best crime program work together to solve New York City’s worst crimes? V4.1 and v4.72 is a show about mismatched partners: two generations of crime-fighting software who can’t seem to get along. A bug keeps them from being compatible with each other, which means the tension and drama are sky-high! Follow these two hot-coded softwares as they crunch numbers and banter in binary in a show that critics called, “Surprisingly exciting even though it’s mostly about algorithms.” The FUTURE of crime fighting is v4.1 and v4.72! CHARACTERS: v4.72 is advanced fingerprint organization software with the ability to cross-reference national and local criminal databases. v4.1 is an older version of the same software, slower but methodical and stable, and incompatible with Flash. The old software doesn’t understand v4.72′s new-fangled updates, especially its sleeker, more streamlined user interface. But v4.1 has  knowledge and experience that v4.72 can learn a thing or two from–like how to read data off of floppy discs.           Officer Randy Franzo is the cop in charge of running v4.72 and v4.1 on the precinct’s only computer. He is mostly unaware of the tug of war taking place inside the processors. NOTABLE EPISODE: Franzo needs to run some fingerprints from a decades-old cold case, and, as always, a struggle ensues between v4.1 and v4.72. They fight over the computer’s RAM and processing power, while Franzo remains oblivious. v4.1 is able to get access to the national fingerprint database faster, because v4.1 was friends with the fingerprint database software when they were at the police software academy together. Not to be outfoxed, v4.72 uses his connections on the deep web to track down incriminating evidence via a website selling Canadian pharmaceuticals. Together, they are able to identify the perp’s fingerprints, moments before an impatient Franzo would have tried a hard reset of the computer (S01.E09 – “0001101001101110011100011 Most Foul”). CATCHPHRASE: “Defrag this!” / “Bazinga!” / “You still on punch cards, old man?” TRIVIA/MISCELLANY: The programs that played v4.72 and v4.1 were actually married in real life.

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#racism

– mj

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http://forlackofabettercomic.com/?id=231

- em

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Looking forward to this pairing.

- em

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How about a “buddy movie week”? Let’s start with Stakeout by John Badham, 1987

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- em and mj

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48 HRS. (1982). Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte are mismatched buddies in this action-comedy from director Walter Hill.

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Look how stupid this poster is

- em

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We were in a tramway, soaring majestically above the earth, so naturally we had to snap a quick homage to Nighthawks (1981). - em

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I think you're supposed to PhotoShop yourself into this pic, back-to-back, in a classic buddy cop pose. - em

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Two Cops, when will you learn the two candles which burn four times as bright last a quarter as long? There's a Buddy Cop Buddies conference happening now, plus one of the Buddies's partners (in love). -mj

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"Buddy-Cop films became the leading edge of a social revolution, recasting conventional stereotypes with greater subtlety and nuance and daring us as individual citizens and as a nation to question long held assumptions about workplace integration and traditional ways of combining comedy and action. By the end of the ‘80’s, new and more daring buddy-cop entries arrived monthly, addressing complex social issues each time. Women buddy-cops reappeared, Soviet/American buddy cops, Japanese/American buddy cops, dog/human buddy cops (it’s own sub-sub-genre!) human/alien buddy cops, and even federal/municipal buddy cops. The 80’s was a cultural and political minefield, but Buddy Cops were ready for the challenge."

- em

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Paul Scheer on the forgotten buddy-cop movie everyone should see

By the way, I was doing some research, and apparently the movie was… They went with Peter Hyams [as director], who was a real bummer of a dude, but apparently they wanted to make it about two older cops in New York who wanted to retire, and he was like, “Let’s make it about two younger cops and put it in Chicago!” I think it was originally written for, like, Paul Newman and Gene Hackman, older cops who would’ve been like, “Okay, we’re done, we’ve got to get out of this business.”

That... actually explains a lot.

This is making me reassess how I feel about Running Scared!

- em

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Collision Course (1989). Pat Morita and Jay Leno are "two lawmen as different as hot dogs and sushi."

From the Wikipedia article:

"The story plays upon the culture clash between Detroit - whose economy is largely built on automobile manufacturing - and Japan - whose trade policies and export of cars were blamed for Detroit job losses in the 1980s."

Sounds hilarious and timeless! The casual racism is fun. Putting this one on the To Watch list.

- em

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Last post about Cobra tonight, I swear. Just a cool robot with boobs.

- em