# Rejected Law & Order Series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comedian-jokes\ **Created:** [October 15, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568 "2021-10-15T22:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/41 "2021-10-19T16:29:43Z")
[![](https://lowres.cartooncollections.com/tv_show-t_v_-procedural-courtroom_drama-cleaner-tv-CC51417_low.jpg) ](https://lowres.cartooncollections.com/tv_show-t_v_-procedural-courtroom_drama-cleaner-tv-CC51417_low.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/42 "2021-10-19T16:43:20Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > …These are their stories.” woof woof ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/43 "2021-10-19T16:46:41Z")
Law and Order Border Patrol ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/44 "2021-10-20T02:04:37Z")
_Law and Order: PTA_ _Law and Order: Ministery of Magic_\* _Law and Order: Jury Duty Summons_ _Law and Order: Prank Call Unit_ _Law and Order: Sanitation Committee_ \*Especially appropriate since [Sam Waterston’s daughter](https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Katherine_Waterston) is the lead actress in the _Fantastic Beasts_ series. (Anyone else think it would be cool if he made a cameo as a wizarding lawyer?) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/45 "2021-10-20T02:24:04Z")
L&O: School Truancy L&O: Restaurant Inspection (what people won’t do for that letter!) L&O: Liquor Board > [@Shoeless](#): > > This thread is cracking me up, because my wife and I do the same thing except with the Chicago Med/Fire/PD franchise Chicago Parking Enforcement? ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/46 "2021-10-20T02:38:40Z")
_CSI: Litter Patrol_ ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/47 "2021-10-20T18:49:42Z")
I picture Law and Order: UK as a weird crossover between Inspector Lewis and Rumpole. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/48 "2021-10-20T18:53:09Z")
I liked Marvel’s _Damage Control_ series. Unfortunately it didn’t last too long. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/49 "2021-10-20T19:02:49Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I picture Law and Order: UK as a weird crossover between Inspector Lewis and Rumpole. In fact, the early episodes are just like L&O mothership, except for the accents and the wigs. They adapted several classic episodes and changed only what was necessary to fit London. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/50 "2021-10-20T23:19:35Z")
Law & Order: - School Safety Division - Chaplains Unit - Pipes and Drums These are actual NYPD units. Their stories need to be told. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/51 "2021-10-21T13:36:35Z")
\*Law and Order: Records Department \* The first half hour is filing. The second half is making copies. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/52 "2021-10-21T14:02:54Z")
Dead Animal Removal Unit Expired Tags Towing Squad Post-Game Traffic Control Unit (I actually did this) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/53 "2021-10-21T15:00:37Z")
- L&O: Police Athletic League - Alas, Rudy merged MTA Police into NYPD in the 1990s thus reducing chances for what would have been the extraordinarily _gritty_ L&O: Transit - L&O: Administrative Leave (the way TV portrays police work, the cast would be spending half the season there…) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/54 "2021-10-21T15:03:20Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > L&O: Administrative Leave That was the last episode of the series almost, except it was teachers on administrative leave. They didn’t sit quietly and think about what they had done, though. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/55 "2021-10-21T16:52:54Z")
L&O: Light Duty - half an hour of cops doing busy work while their workman’s comp claims go through, half an hour of them going to see quacks (workman’s comp doctors. L&O: ROAD - cops at the end of their career trying to do as little as humanly possible. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/56 "2021-10-21T16:53:39Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > L&O: Postal Fraud [L&O: USPIS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USPIS_(Brooklyn_Nine-Nine))? **L&O: Music Unit** _“A performance of ‘Galway Bay’ by the boys of the NYPD choir is interrupted by an Irish couple having a homophobic argument.”_ ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/57 "2021-10-21T21:43:13Z")
Law and Order: Black Flag, " I’ve only got one week until I retire."" ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568/58 "2021-10-21T22:21:40Z")
L&O: Bus Patrol (I did this when I was in 8th grade. Mainly because I was last off the bus) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-law-order-series/952568.md?page=2)