Police Squad! reboot

[Admiral2]

As really the only one still truly in the "DO NOT FUCKING TOUCH IT" camp, I don't care who gets cast as the new Drebin, I don't care what format it's in, I don't care what the new writers put in the script. I'm old enough to have seen the original Police Squad! as it aired and died laughing at those six episodes, as well as the three movies based on them, and that will always be good enough for me.

So for the record, let Seth McFarlane do whatever he pleases with the new PS! I intend to save my money and my free time by not going anywhere near it.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I don’t have a problem with mentioning BLM, just it shouldn’t detract from the fact it’s a comedy, or feel as self conscious about any portrayal of policemen as protagonists as B99 got in the last season.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Reno 911 found a great way to reference BLM.

You know, between the Black Lives Matter and Antifa people trying to defund us and the All Lives Matter people actively trying to kill us I should've just become a fucking garbage man like my dad wanted.

 

[Vanyel]

As really the only one still truly in the "DO NOT FUCKING TOUCH IT" camp, I don't care who gets cast as the new Drebin, I don't care what format it's in, I don't care what the new writers put in the script. I'm old enough to have seen the original Police Squad! as it aired and died laughing at those six episodes, as well as the three movies based on them, and that will always be good enough for me.

So for the record, let Seth McFarlane do whatever he pleases with the new PS! I intend to save my money and my free time by not going anywhere near it.

I'm still with you. McFarlane should do like he did with the Orville, create his own show based on the spirit of PS, not try to recreate it., and let his own imagination and sense of humor guide him along his path. When he hits the right tones he can be belly laughing funny. Thinking about it, his sense of humor is far from ZAZ, he couldn't recreate PS, it has to be his own show with his own sense of humor.

I don’t have a problem with mentioning BLM, just it shouldn’t detract from the fact it’s a comedy, or feel as self conscious about any portrayal of policemen as protagonists as B99 got in the last season.

It'll be hard to stay completely away from BLM. BLM is everywhere and because of what far too many jurisdictions have let their police officers do, it should be everywhere. If done right, a parody of both police and BLM can be done. Will it be called out for it? Yes, it will. But comedy should push the edges, it should step over the line. Comedy needs to show us, us, warts and all. If comedy can't show us the idiocy of those against BLM, and those who think that everything done by the police is racist, who will? Before anyone tries too get too political about my view and misrepresent what BLM means, remember, if Black lives don't matter then no ones lives matter.

 

[Owain Taggart]

^Well said! I think if anything, it needs to acknowledge it, because not doing so would feel oddly insensitive with the reality that things have changed. Not acknowledging it would be trying to tiptoe around the elephant in the room. It can be respectfully done, and they don't even have to spend much time on it, if some are worried of things slowing down too much. It can be done with a short exchange, sort of like having the Captain sternly admonishing Drebin just before he's about to do something that would get him fired, something along the lines of: "No Frank. We don't do things that way anymore. Get your ass back on track, or you're grass!"

 

[Mr. Adventure]

A series that came closest to PS! from Steve Carell.

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Like PS!, it only lasted 2 seasons, and I suspect that will be the best this reboot will do as well.

ETA: The fact PS! only had one season consisting of 8 episodes has been already been made down thread.

Weird, I saw Angie Tribeca in the listings and always assumed it was a regular detective show, I had no idea it was a comedy.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

It'll be hard to stay completely away from BLM. BLM is everywhere and because of what far too many jurisdictions have let their police officers do, it should be everywhere. If done right, a parody of both police and BLM can be done. Will it be called out for it? Yes, it will. But comedy should push the edges, it should step over the line. Comedy needs to show us, us, warts and all. If comedy can't show us the idiocy of those against BLM, and those who think that everything done by the police is racist, who will? Before anyone tries too get too political about my view and misrepresent what BLM means, remember, if Black lives don't matter then no ones lives matter.

Frank (Looking out the window of Police Squad HQ at a BLM protest, totally clueless as to what's going on):

"Hey Ed, is it just me, or does the Bureau of Land Management have a lot of black employees? And why are they protesting us, anyway? I haven't had a rolling gunfight through a national monument in years."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

40 years ago today... Police Squad!'s first episode premiered.

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"You shot Twice AND Jim Fell?"

 

[Admiral2]

40 years ago today... Police Squad!'s first episode premiered.

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"You shot Twice AND Jim Fell?"

You can't do this again. Not as well and sure as hell not in the bizarro world we live in now.

 

[Qonundrum]

My favorite parody is Top Secret!

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Can't believe they got Michael Gough to do this flick. It's a bit of a plus, IMHO...

 

[the G-man]

Can't believe they got Michael Gough to do this flick. ...

Why? Gough was a working actor/character actor for his whole career, who worked in a variety of genres and media.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Why? Gough was a working actor/character actor for his whole career, who worked in a variety of genres and media.

Heck, Michael Gough shows up for exactly one scene in 'The Legend of Hell House' and he's playing a corpse sitting in a chair.

Pay me to show up for a day's work and all I have to do is sit in a chair and pretend to be dead.

 

[vandevere]

Heck, Michael Gough shows up for exactly one scene in 'The Legend of Hell House' and he's playing a corpse sitting in a chair.

Pay me to show up for a day's work and all I have to do is sit in a chair and pretend to be dead.

That was something, wasn't it? Movie still scares the hell out of me to this day. But Roddy McDowell's Unmasking Scene at the end is one of the most thrilling scenes I've ever seen!

 

[DarrenTR1970]

That was something, wasn't it? Movie still scares the hell out of me to this day. But Roddy McDowell's Unmasking Scene at the end is one of the most thrilling scenes I've ever seen!

It is a fun little cameo, but the more I read the description of Belasco, the more I realized that the part was tailored for Christopher Lee.

 

[the G-man]

Pay me to show up for a day's work and all I have to do is sit in a chair and pretend to be dead.

This reminds me of a story I read about the filming of Brian DiPalma's "the Untouchables." There's the scene in the cabin where Ness and crew are waiting to spring their trap on the bootleggers. The other, younger, actors all staged their characters so they were standing during the filming. Connery made a conscious decision that his character would be sitting at the table, reading a newspaper, precisely because he wanted to be able to sit down all day.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

This reminds me of a story I read about the filming of Brian DiPalma's "the Untouchables." There's the scene in the cabin where Ness and crew are waiting to spring their trap on the bootleggers. The other, younger, actors all staged their characters so they were standing during the filming. Connery made a conscious decision that his character would be sitting at the table, reading a newspaper, precisely because he wanted to be able to sit down all day.

 

[Aragorn]

This reminds me of a story I read about the filming of Brian DiPalma's "the Untouchables." There's the scene in the cabin where Ness and crew are waiting to spring their trap on the bootleggers. The other, younger, actors all staged their characters so they were standing during the filming. Connery made a conscious decision that his character would be sitting at the table, reading a newspaper, precisely because he wanted to be able to sit down all day.

Tom Cruise has a story from The Color of Money where he wanted to look cool in his wardrobe but Paul Newman knew the shoot would be cold so he dressed for warmth while Cruise froze all night.

 

[Qonundrum]

Why? Gough was a working actor/character actor for his whole career, who worked in a variety of genres and media.

Oooh, I know. It was just an unexpected surprise. And a bonus cuz I love something like 99% of the work he does.

Hell, he even lifts up the unfocused, disjointed mess known as "Batman & Robin", and ditto the otherwise and surprisingly dreary episode of Blake's 7 entitled "Volcano" by going above and beyond with some banal dialogue that's littered throughout the episode...

 

[Captaindemotion]

Tom Cruise has a story from The Color of Money where he wanted to look cool in his wardrobe but Paul Newman knew the shoot would be cold so he dressed for warmth while Cruise froze all night.

To be fair, Paul Newman always looked cool.