# What was this COPS parody show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-cops-parody-show/708404 "2014-12-29T02:21:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-cops-parody-show/708404/1 "2014-12-29T02:21:27Z")
This has been bugging me for years. First off, it wasn’t Reno 911\* (or Sledgehammer), this was probably on at least 20 years ago and for all I know it was just a SNL skit, but it was definitely a parody of Cops. Also, I read on Wiki that Cops originally included a segment about the officer’s home life and this would have been back then since the part I remember was that part. I remember exactly two parts of the show/skit. The Cop gets home from work, tells his wife about busting a hooker and she asks, specifically, (amongst other questions) “How much for half and half?” and the part that makes me know I’m not confusing it with an actual episode of Cops was when one of the cops (might have been the same scene/skit, gets home and has a trunk load of VCRs from a recent bust. Any ideas? Also, does anyone else watch Cops? For some reason I’ve been on a Cops kick lately and thought about starting a thread dedicated to it. I usually have a lot of questions (why did the cop do this, why didn’t he do that, is this legal, etc), but it’s not worth me starting it unless enough other people watching it, often enough, that they’ll be familiar with the same episodes that I was watching. \*ETA, unless The State had a Reno911 type skit, I hadn’t thought of that until just now. ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-cops-parody-show/708404/2 "2014-12-29T19:25:14Z")
I seem to remember “Arresting Behavior” was a pretty straight up parody of “Cops”; never saw an episode, but I remember the commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-cops-parody-show/708404/3 "2014-12-29T19:48:23Z")
[Mr. Show with Bob and David](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Show_with_Bob_and_David) (with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross) did a COPS parody. But it doesn’t sound like what you saw. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-cops-parody-show/708404/4 "2014-12-30T00:06:27Z")
I know Almost Live did a parody of COPS. One episode was set in Kent (ever their go-to locale for non-city-type jokes). Thought it [wasn’t the scene you were looking for](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JOQbwVJjxY). [Yes, that is Bill Nye.] ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-cops-parody-show/708404/5 "2014-12-30T01:01:33Z")
If it’s not [_Arresting Behavior_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arresting_Behavior), it was **[Bakersfield PD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield_P.D.)**. Both shared the same premise, producer, and several actors. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-cops-parody-show/708404/6 "2014-12-30T01:30:10Z")
I’ll have to take someone’s word for it, neither of those shows have a very big presence on Youtube other than a few clips and Googling the lines I remember (along with the show names) isn’t coming up with anything. Like I said, for all I know it might have just been a random SNL skit. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-cops-parody-show/708404/7 "2014-12-30T01:32:21Z")
How about [Police Squad](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083466/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_76)! ? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-cops-parody-show/708404/8 "2014-12-30T02:11:17Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > How about [Police Squad](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083466/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_76)! ? I didn’t consider that show, but I’m familiar with it enough that I’m pretty sure it’s not it. Also, I recall this being shot in that same ‘hand held’ POV style as cops, which Police Squad wasn’t. Ya know what would be really funny, if it actually was an old episode of Cops. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-cops-parody-show/708404/9 "2014-12-30T14:43:11Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’ll have to take someone’s word for it, neither of those shows have a very big presence on Youtube other than a few clips and Googling the lines I remember (along with the show names) isn’t coming up with anything. > > Like I said, for all I know it might have just been a random SNL skit. No, there’s next to nothing on them on the Internet. Neither show was a hit – _Arresting Behavior_ was a summer tryout and _Bakersfield PD_ ran only one season. They would certainly fit what you described better than an SNL skit; both shows featured that sort of humor.