History Main / BuddyCopShow

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', in the episode "Sherman of Arabia," heavily mocked this genre with ''[[ShowWithinAShow Beverly Hills Robo K9 Cop and a Half 2]]'', wherein CowboyCop ''DirtyHarry'' is partnered with, to quote the IMDb...

* ''{{Bonkers}}'' has the titular character (a washed-up cartoon star in the form of a FunnyAnimals bobcat who operates on Toon physics/logic) and Lucky, who is an ordinary human.[[note]]Previous episodes before that however, had Bonkers partnered with Miranda, a female police officer who is also an ordinary human. The "Miranda" era episodes were later [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] as taking place after the "Lucky" era episodes.[[/note]]

--> -- '''''Hollywood Rule Book''' Vanity Fair''

* ''HotFuzz'', SimonPegg's attempt at creating a British version, as he believes that Britain is lacking in the genre.

* ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}'' has a it's Space Cops subplot, starring two aliens coming to Earth looking for an escaped fugitive from their homeworld and running afowl of one of the main characters. Complete with title sequence, episode card and ''commercial break''.

* ''DempseyAndMakepeace''

** For bonus points, the studio tries to coach the "buddy cops" using Creator/WilliamShatner, who keeps referring to himself as [[Series/TJHooker TJ]]. Robert De Niro's character likes to point out how stupid some on-screen actions are, such as FingertipDrugAnalysis ("What if it's cyanide?") and car hood slide ("The holster scratches the paint").

* ''CivilProtection'', which stars two Civil Protection agents, Mike and Dave, from ''[[HalfLife Half-Life 2]]''.

An increasingly common variant is partnerships between [[CopAndScientist cops and scientists]].

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Robot'' series, with Elijah Baley and Robot Daneel Olivaw. Lije and Daneel are partners in the first book and remain good friends throughout the rest of the series, but each book of the trilogy examines a different facet of the relationship between robots and humans at a societal level.

* A subplot of TadWilliams' ''{{Otherland}}'' features Australian detectives Calliope Skouros and her partner Stan as they investigate a long-unsolved murder believed to be the work of a SerialKiller named John Wulgaru, who ends up being the series' BigBad. The subplot uses all the standard Buddy Cop tropes and spends a fair bit of time [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] them.

* ''CommonLaw''

A CopShow which focuses on a partnership of two males, as opposed to a CopShow which focuses on a single officer/detective or an entire squad, or LovelyAngels, the DistaffCounterpart. If the primary officers are a man and a woman it's JustPartners.

* ''Series/Elementary''

* MadBull34, which can almost be considered a parody of this genre, has [[NewMeat Daizaburo]] [[TheLancer "Eddie"]] [[ByTheBookCop Ban]] and [[AntiHero John]] [[CowboyCop "Sleepy"]] [[DirtyCop Estes]] (A.K.A. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mad Bull]]).

* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' is essentially a buddy cop show with superheros instead of police officers.

** Subverted '''''big time''''' in ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'', where the two leads absolutely cannot stand each other. At all. They argue with each other in [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Episode]] (that they appear in; the episodes where they either don't appear or appear for little while, are the '''only''' exceptions). The worst part? In later episodes, they possibly start having feelings for each other ([[WillTheyOrWontThey or possibly not]])...

* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles

* [[TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble]] in the ''Bedrock Cops'' segments on ''The Flintstone Comedy Show''[[note]]Not to be confused with the syndicated version of "The Flintstone Comedy Hour", which is essentially the second season of ThePebblesAndBammBammShow.[[/note]]

** Subverted '''''big time''''' in ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'', where the two leads absolutely cannot stand each other. At all. They argue with each other in [[PuncutatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Episode]] (that they appear in; the episodes where they either don't appear or appear for little while, are the '''only''' exceptions). The worst part? In later episodes, they possibly start having feelings for each other ([[WillTheyOrWontThey or possibly not]])...

* ''Series/MiamiVice

* ''{{Bonkers}}'' has the titular character (a washed-up cartoon star in the form of a FunnyAnimals bobcat who operates on Toon physics/logic) and Lucky, who is an ordinary human.

* ''Radio/{{Dragnet}}'' (1987)

* ''Radio/{{Dragnet}}''

* ''SledgeHammer''