# Apparently, Frank Drebin had a daughter \[TV show "Angie Tribeca"\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789 "2016-01-21T16:48:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/1 "2016-01-21T16:48:08Z")
I just saw a few episodes of a new show on TBS, [_Angie Tribeca_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie_Tribeca), and I swear the show is 90% _Police Squad!_ and 10% _Sledge Hammer_. The first season was a 25 hour/10 episode marathon on January 17th and 18th, and the 2nd season begins already on the 25th of this month! The show has great running gags, an A-list guest list, a wonderful cast(I love Alfred Molina as their eccentric resident scientist) and Rashida Jones really stands out as the title character. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/2 "2016-01-21T17:00:01Z")
I honestly had no idea this was a comedy. The ads I saw for it were all very vague. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/3 "2016-01-21T17:06:49Z")
I know. I got caught up in the second hour of the 25 hour marathon, which consisted of episodes of the first season, broken up by live scenes of a party thrown by the cast and crew. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/4 "2016-01-21T17:09:24Z")
I’m not up for 25 hours of anything but my wife started partway in and wound up hooked. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/5 "2016-01-21T17:14:55Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I’m not up for 25 hours of anything but my wife started partway in and wound up hooked. You may say that, but this stuff is cocaine comedy, made for binge-watching. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/6 "2016-01-21T18:06:04Z")
It wasn’t really 25 hours of new episodes, there were only 10 total episodes, so less than 5 hours of programming, repeated several times. And I mostly didn’t bother with any of the in-between stuff. As long as you know going in it’s going to be corny, “Police Squad”-style humor (but with slightly higher production values), it’s pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/7 "2016-01-21T18:12:35Z")
I had a hell of a time placing the face of her fiancé, Sgt. Pepper, in the pilot episode, until I realized it was James Franco. BTW, the people that named the characters in this show might be related to the people that named the Newcomers from _Alien Nation_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/8 "2016-01-21T18:18:12Z")
We were maybe 10 minutes into the first episode when I said “This is Police Squad!” We loved it! The sight gags, the character names…I really need to go back and watch all the episodes again to see what I missed the first time through. I can’t wait for “Season 2” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/9 "2016-01-21T18:22:09Z")
Did you know the star of the show is the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/10 "2016-01-21T18:24:58Z")
From the ads I thought this was a drama as well and I thought that it was interesting that Rashida Jones was going that way. I was interested in seeing it before and I am now more interested but I don’t have cable, so waiting for Netflix I will be. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/11 "2016-01-21T18:36:09Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I honestly had no idea this was a comedy. The ads I saw for it were all very vague. I guess you didn’t see the promo with the dog driving the car 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/12 "2016-01-21T18:41:30Z")
Oh man. That is right up my alley. Unfortunately my service provider doesn’t include TBS at all. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/13 "2016-01-21T18:41:41Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > From the ads I thought this was a drama as well and I thought that it was interesting that Rashida Jones was going that way. I was interested in seeing it before and I am now more interested but I don’t have cable, so waiting for Netflix I will be. Not necessarily-[episodes are available for viewing here.](http://www.tbs.com/shows/angie-tribeca.html) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/14 "2016-01-21T18:50:08Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I guess you didn’t see the promo with the dog driving the car 🙂 What’s so funny about that? Sgt. Hoffman has seniority over Sgt. D.J. Tanner, so he gets to drive. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/15 "2016-01-21T18:56:49Z")
I watched. It’s nowhere near as dense-with-jokes as _Police Squad_ was, but it’s a worthy effort. And as Czarcasm noted in the OP, it has some A-list guest stars (a tribute either to Steve Carell’s power or to his ability to inspire friendship, or both). ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/16 "2016-01-21T19:05:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Did you know the star of the show is the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton? I did. but that’s not important right now. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/17 "2016-01-21T19:46:57Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What’s so funny about that? Sgt. Hoffman has seniority over Sgt. D.J. Tanner, so he gets to drive. I liked that they beeped Sgt Hoffman when he was swearing. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/18 "2016-01-21T20:01:49Z")
I taped all ten episodes on my DVR and then watched the first three episodes or so on Monday. But I didn’t think it was very funny, so I deleted the whole thing from my DVR. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/19 "2016-01-21T21:28:25Z")
I’m going to have to give this another shot. I tried watching it, but it just didn’t connect with me. Police Squad was the first thing I thought of, but it just seemed to be lacking something that PS had. FTR, without hyperbole, I think Police Squad was one of the greatest creative works since the beginning of time. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789/20 "2016-01-21T22:00:44Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I just saw a few episodes of a new show on TBS, [_Angie Tribeca_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie_Tribeca), and I swear the show is 90% _Police Squad!_ and 10% _Sledge Hammer_. The first season was a 25 hour/10 episode marathon on January 17th and 18th, and the 2nd season begins already on the 25th of this month! The show has great running gags, an A-list guest list, a wonderful cast(I love Alfred Molina as their eccentric resident scientist) and Rashida Jones really stands out as the title character. Surely you can’t be serious. I know. I know. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-frank-drebin-had-a-daughter-tv-show-angie-tribeca/743789.md?page=2)