Welcome to Episode 06 of “Let’s Watch Cop Rock,” an 11-episode podcast discussing that classic police procedural rock musical soap opera crime drama Cop Rock, 11 episodes of which aired on ABC during the fall of 1990.
Over the course of this podcast as a whole, we discuss the events of the show, our reactions to the music, and the ways this program worked, or didn’t work, and why some of it still seems very relevant today. Sometimes we get political. Sometimes we crack up uncontrollably. Sometimes we tell unbelievable but entirely true stories of our own lives’ intersections with crime or law enforcement or both. Every episode we play Good Cop, Bad Cop, or Innocent Bystander?
Normally here is where I would try to recap, but… yowza. OK, I’ll give it a shot: daughter-wife is not having an affair with her partner but Father-Husband is a creepy creeper who refuses to believe her. Detective LaRusso – aka T-Rex – is being prepped for his murder trial after having murdered a dude. The Chief and the Mayor continue to dance around their schoolyard romance. And this series proves more and more relevant to the now with every episode.
If you’ve done this the right way, you’ve already watched Episode 6 of Cop Rock, so you can already see the parallels between the questions of race and American society and the events of a few days ago, when white supremacists, KKK members, and neo-Nazis violently converged in Charlottesville, VA, and murdered a counterprotestor in addition to assaulting and wounding many others. I don’t know what to say to you, listener(s) other than to say we’re freaked out and frightened and angered, too, and we all have to do our part, big or small, to help things change.
Watch the sixth episode of Cop Rock before listening. Trust me, it’ll make a lot more sense that way. You can get Cop Rock on Amazon or direct from Shout Factory. There are links for each in the show notes.
You can find Officer Orifice on Twitter as @OfficerOrifice. I’m there too as @CopRocker.
Our theme music is “The Crime” by reiswerk, with full attribution in the show notes. And now… Let’s Watch Cop Rock!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cop-Rock-Complete-Ronny-Cox/dp/B01BHCPQXA
Shout Factory: https://www.shoutfactory.com/product/cop-rock-the-complete-series
The Crime by reiswerk (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Reiswerk/55464 Ft: Anchor
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