We’re hitting the saggy part of the holiday season, that hammock between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, when as a TV watcher, even your favorite cable channel is starting to get tedious (all those marathons of Top Chef and Trading Spouses and Girlfriends). Me, I am happy it’s Saturday because that means Fox is forced to show back-to-back episodes of Cops. In recent years, Fox has tried to get a bit game-show-educational (Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?) and a bit foodie (Kitchen Nightmares), and ignoring its original core shows like Cops.
Cops is tops. Whether we’re in the squad car with law-enforcement officials in Palm Beach County, Florida, or in Portland, Oregon, as we are in tonight’s two reruns, you know there’s going to be a few dandy car chases, a couple of perps running like hell with their pants falling down, and more than one blasted-out-of-his-skull poor soul screaming something like, “Why’re you cuffing me? My skanky sister-in-law put that meth in my pocket!”
Cops is justice in action; it has been since 1989. Yes, I often have sympathy for the poor underclass that is pursued with greater vigor than white-collar criminals who are ripping off society for much more money. But I also have great admiration for the men and women in blue who have to drive into a crime scene with no idea what they’re going to confront, and do their best, most often using only their brains and some stern commands. And the occasional billyclub. I do like it when some bad guy makes a violent move and a billyclub must be applied with quick force. Does this make me a bad person?
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No, it doesn’t. I love COPS. As much as I used to love the billy club, I love me some taser action more! It’s like the billy club, only better. I also love the fact that it only seems to get used on the most surly and uncooperative types.
My boyfriend is a police officer for 14 years. It’s nice that people see how difficult their job is, and appreciate the risk they take for us, every day! And most of them (including him) loot HOT in uniform!
Thanks Ken! COPS is my husband & my guilty pleasure. A nice dry martini and the two back-to-back episodes makes for a warm and special start to our Saturday evenings. Yes, people ARE that dumb.
LONG LIVE COPS!!! People seem to forget that it was one of the first TV reality shows – years before “Survivor” and the rest. It is also the most believable of them all, hands down. It is definitely my guilty pressure and I have no shame in saying that!
My favorite COPS episode was when some guy fighting with his wife and he answered the door completely covered in flour. When I lived in Vegas we always watched to see if they got anyone we knew.