Watching "COPS" on Court TV

[Archae]

They taped this particular episode, in NYC before 1991.

How do you think I know this?

[aquaman]

1. Because you saw the twin towers???

[Archae]

5. Yup.

NYC night skyline, with the two towers.

In the episode they busted some cocaine dealers with a SWAT team, and are getting the biggest damned rat I've ever seen out of someone's bathroom, and a bat from a living room. :-)

[Sean Reynolds]

13. But why 1991?

The Twin Towers were built in the 1970s. It very well could have been an episode in 1996. Or 1999. Or hell, 2000.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

2. 1991?

Because you remember this episode from when you watched it in 1990? ;)

[Archae]

9. Meant to say 2001

Had a Freeper moment...:crazy:

[TheWizardOfMudd]

10. I was hoping you meant that

Because I was seriously stressed out about what I missed that should have tipped me off to the early nineties. Whew! ;)

[Archae]

11. See what happens when you get old?

Your internal clock is off by a decade. :silly:

Still watching it, they busted a guy who's off his nut, and had some pot growing in his place.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

3. They're trying to catch Dracula now

!

[HEyHEY]

4. You got busted for a lude act on that program?

;-)

[Archae]

6. A lude act?

Like, no one does 'ludes any more, man... :-)

[TheMightyFavog]

7. Denis Leary on Ludes...

Drugs man. Capital D, drugs. I did my share. I did my share, and your share, and his share. I did a lot. I grew up in the seventies. That's when drugs were drugs, man. We did them all, God dammit! We did every fucking drug there was to be had. We did them all! We did stuff that people don't even do anymore. Like Ludes. Remember Ludes? "Ludes, man. Fucking Ludes, man! Come on and pull up the Ludes, man! Fucking Ludes!"

I think Ludes explained why we were wearing the giant flair bell bottom pants and the platform pants. What do you think!? I think it's the only possible explanation! There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothing that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid! Yeah, ok, yeah. People don't understand, man. Back in the early seventies, you couldn't buy anything except bell bottoms. There were no straight pants in the fucking stores, ok? The only way you could be a cooler guy, was to get bigger bell bottoms. We used to sit around and get high and go, "Man, when I some money, I'm getting the biggest bell bottoms in history, man! They're gonna start at my neck and go twenty feet straight out, man! I'm gonna be surrounded by ninety feet of bell bottoms! Homeless people are going to be living under my pants, man! I'll have platform shoes. I'll be twenty feet tall."

[HEyHEY]

8. Well, it WAS over ten years ago

;-)

[JayS]

12. COPS can be interesting. I love the differences in how each...

...police department operates in the areas they show.

[sleipnir]

14. Great episode!!! I love the cops killing the frickin' rat!!! Classic NYC

I was watching a bit, and I thought, hey, this isn't the usual Midwest shit holes they drive through in the program, that sure looks like the City. Sure enough, NYPD badges in the next scene! Rockin'!!! Great moment when the bat on the UES, that was classic. I really did love three cops breaking down the bathroom door with a frickin' axe to kill a rat. The one cop finally shoots the damn thing!! Comedy in motion...!

I wish they'd film more "Cops" in NYC, specifically Manhattan!!! I'd watch that everyday. No way though that Herr Bloomburg would allow it or his Right hand henchman, Chief "Wiggam" Kelly.

[TexasMexican]

15. I like watching cops...

its not for all the random druggies and drunks that are obviously fucked.

I like to watch cops so I can see them bust people who probably couldnt have gotten out of getting arrest but they are too ignorant to keep thier mouths shut or say the right things.

[JayS]

16. Did you watch the back-to-back episodes last month where...

...they did Los Angelos and then someplace in Texas? That was a hoot and a bit of an eye opener.

[TexasMexican]

18. Not sure if its the same one...

but one episode in particular which was shot in Texas is exactly what I'm talking about in my above post.

I didnt catch the begining of it so I'm not exactly sure how the cops approched the kids or whatever, but anyways from what I got was that there were two white middle-upper class kids (boyfriend and girlfriend) in some car, in the more run down side of town.

I think the cops were checking out some known crackhouse or something, and the kids went to it trying to get some drugs but no one was home.

The cops then questioned the kids about what they were doing and whatever, and the boyfriend (who was driving and I guess owned the car) pretty much admitted that they were trying to get some weed.

The police had pretty much no evidence of what they were trying to do but the guy went ahead and admitted it anyways. Then the cops starts talking to the guy all friendly like and gets him to admit that he had been going there for like months for drugs.

It made me wish I could slap that kid for being so stupid.

[JayS]

19. I know the one you are talking about and it was funny. There...

...was also one where the officer let the kid go since the small amount of pot the kid had was for personal use. I am sure that cop is no longer employed. :)

The one I saw was about some robbers in L.A. wearing bullet proof vests and the police went through some incredible risks to take the robbers alive. The police kept shooting but the vests stopped all the bullets. I sat there waiting for them to take a head shot but it never happened. And yes, I am in Texas. :)

The scene they shot in Texas was fun. The best scene was where the police were chasing someone that was refusing to stop his car. Much of the scene is shot from the in-car camera that displays time and speed and what not. You see the patrol car closing in and the speed climbing up, then the cop swings toward the center line and the camera goes squiggly from the impact. The next scene the fleeing car has rolled in a bar ditch and the officer calmly calls in that the chase has ended.

[Archae]

17. The trailer park busts are always the funniest

Some nitwit, drunk off their ass.

[TheMightyFavog]

20. Shirtless nitwit sportin' a mullet.

The old ones from the early 90s are chock full of mulletude.