#099 Punks!
PREMISE: When detective Filthy Larry is given his own police task force, he’s got just one goal: to keep punks off the streets. Filthy Larry wants to stop nogoodniks, lowlifes, and scum--punks--before they drown his city. He handpicks a team and molds them into the best investigative unit in the force, but Filthy Larry’s quest is hampered by the huge number of synonyms he uses to describe the criminals he’s after. Even so, that won’t stop Larry and the squad from squashing busters in his city. Punks beware! CHARACTERS: Filthy Larry is an old school detective. His career began in the ‘70s, on the streets busting bozos. He has a smoldering hatred for losers, dirtbags, and baddies. Now that he’s got his own crew, Larry finally has the resources he needs to mop ‘em up, wipe ‘em up, and drive ‘em to the hills. Frank Reedy is Larry’s second in command on the task force. His job is to explain to the squad what Filthy Larry is talking about. The task force comes to Frank when Larry asks them to do things like “Pound that dirt and dig up the dirty worms.” Frank desperately tries to keep up by issuing reams and reams of definitions for Filthy Larry’s multiplying terms, but as soon as Frank clarifies what it means to “Shake the circus and clean up those clown cars,” Larry hits the team with “Wax the lame-os!” NOTABLE EPISODE: The team brings in a crew of serial bank robbers and con men, but can’t figure out which one of them is the “rude lobster in the pot” and which is the “rotten rat with a twisted tail.” Larry threatens to confiscate all their “pretty boy badges” and “fancy college receipts” if they can’t bring this one home. Then he leaves on a three week cigar break. All the suspects are turned loose when the squad is utterly unable to figure out who’s lucky and who’s unlucky in the lineup (S02.E20 “Six Perps or Five?”). CATCHPHRASE: “I think what Filthy Larry is trying to say...” / “Hogwash the party pigs and bring me their curly tails!” / “Scrubs!” TRIVIA/MISCELLANY: Later seasons focused on Filthy Larry directing films about how great America’s many wars are.