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i desperately need to track down all the episodes of this show now
im genuinely at a loss as to how to describe finding this clip. like obviously it feels absurd but its so AMBITIOUS and well-done, i love it so much. it's precisely at that point where the dichotomy of irony/sincere fandom breaks down for me. its just delightful
that is two references to a show i had never heard of in the last 24hrs, what is happening
also fun fact: apparently this was bob iger's baby back at abc. he fought for this
I honestly don't think I could place it now, it was on an old Conan clip I was watching and someone dropped a reference and I didn't even realize it was a show.
I had heard of cop rock, but never really saw it and I wasn't prepared for how naturalistic the shooting style was going to be like it's the most jarring decision to make your cop musical look like a late 70s police documentary.
anyway shout outs to the most Steve Carell character ever played by somebody else a the end there. I want to know everything about this steely swiftboat captain who works at the LAPD for some reason.
its an absolutely incredible creative choice that elevates it in my eyes, the contrast is what makes it work
On the complete other end of the artifice/verisimilitude spectrum I have just discovered to my continued shock that the opening credits to the show was just the cast, out of character, hanging out on a dark sound stage watching Randy Newman lay down the most Randy Newman title track I have ever heard. https://youtu.be/adAOYcsgM4k?si=0poKtO_KNsB6ylLB
You ain't seen NOTHIN' yet, kids. This? This is sensible in the realm of CopRock. This sequence is the most natural the show ever gets.
I feel like you could play this straight in 2023 but half of the audience would think it's drawing attention to how clownishly evil the LAPD is
oh my god the organ just diegetically present in the otherwise drably realistic police station
its rly incredible, just hearing the premise would've left me incredibly skeptical but after seeing this clip out of context im completely enamored with it
it is one hundred percent a goofy musical. it is one hundred percent a gritty cop show. no work whatsoever is done to sew the two together. it is simply magic.
