History Main / BuddyCopShow

* ''Series/AdamTwelve''

* ''LightNovel/CopCraft'', about a detective and an alternate world knight solving cases.

* ''Machinima/CivilProtection'', which stars two Civil Protection agents, Mike and Dave, from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''.[[/index]]

* Parodied on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' with the "Seven Buddy Cops" sketch, which is a massive crossover starring Creator/NickNolte, Creator/EddieMurphy, Creator/ChrisTucker, Creator/JackieChan, Creator/OwenWilson, Creator/TommyLeeJones, and Creator/WillSmith giving shout outs to all the buddy cop movies they starred in while trying to solve the case of the dead prostitutes on the orders of DaChief. Even Creator/MelGibson and Creator/DannyGlover (aka ''Film/LethalWeapon'''s Murtaugh and Riggs) make a cameo.

* ''Machinima/CivilProtection'', which stars two Civil Protection agents, Mike and Dave, from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''.
* Parodied in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' during the trailer for ''Sarge 2: Sarge Harder'' where the serious and gruff Sarge is partnered with the upbeat and lax Tucker.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}'': Parodied with [[http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2010/07/12/two-chops/ Two Cops]], who accidentally enrolled in the police academy twice, and is therefore buddies with ''himself''.

* ''AudioPlay/BelowBoard'' is about two detectives with somewhat mismatched personalities in 1930s New Orleans.
* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s #1 [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-weirdest-lessons-80s-movies-really-wanted-to-teach-us_p2/ Weirdest Lesson '80s Movies Really Wanted to Teach Us]] calls the buddy cop film an easy way to involve a TokenMinority.[[index]]
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* ''ComicBook/GorskyAndButch''

* ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey''
* ''ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody''
* ''Magazine/{{MAD}} Magazine'' devoted a whole page to this trope, with duos Surf&Turf, Dead&Buried, Black&Decker...

* Parodied in ''Film/LastActionHero'' where the police station in Jack Slater's movie world assigns humorously mismatched partners to every cop except Jack Slater himself, who doesn't work with a partner because he's the bad-ass loner cowboy cop archetype instead.
* The ''Film/RushHour'' movies. Creator/JackieChan plays a serious cop, skilled martial artist and very competent detective, who wants to follow procedure. Chris Tucker is the complete opposite.
* ''Film/TangoAndCash''
* ''Film/TheOtherGuys''
* ''Film/HotFuzz'' is a self-referential one, with the easygoing cop being a huge fan of buddy cop movies and the ByTheBookCop having never seen one.
* ''Film/LethalWeapon''. Arguably the TropeCodifier of the subgenre.
* ''Film/{{Dragnet}}'' (1987)

* ''Film/ThePresidio'' - Although neither Inspector Austin nor Lt. Colonel Caldwell particularly like each other, they are forced to work together because neither has the [[JurisdictionFriction jurisdiction]] to pursue the full case alone.

* ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance''... to an extent.

* A subplot in the first ''Film/DirtyHarry''. Subverted, as [[spoiler: Harry's partner quits in the second half of the film, just as it seems like they're becoming a team.]] The third film did this as well with [[spoiler: Moore getting herself killed at the end.]]

* ''Film/MenInBlack'' staring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
* ''Film/{{Showtime}}'' has Creator/RobertDeNiro, a serious by-the-book detective, and Creator/EddieMurphy, a patrol cop wishing to play a detective on TV, put together as part of a reality show. Understandably, the former hates the idea, while the latter loves it. For bonus points, the studio tries to coach the "buddy cops" using Creator/WilliamShatner, who keeps referring to himself as [[Series/TJHooker TJ]].
* ''Film/TheodoreRex'' has Creator/WhoopiGoldberg play a cyborg cop who teams up with a man-sized T-rex to stop a WellIntentionedExtremist.

* ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' exists simply to parody this.
* ''Film/NationalSecurity'' has a slight twist. Neither Creator/SteveZahn's (Hank) nor Creator/MartinLawrence's (Earl) character is a cop. Hank used to be a cop until his partner was killed, and he was filmed supposedly assaulting Earl (he was swatting a bumblebee), causing him to be fired and jailed for 6 months. After getting out, the only job he can get is in security, working for the same company as Earl, who keeps trying to get into the police academy. Hank is trying to find out who killed his partner and track down the warehouse robbers, while Earl is tagging along for the action, which infuriates Hank to no end. Naturally, as the film continues, they resolve their differences and, by the end, both are cops. While neither is really a ByTheBookCop, Hank uses typical police investigative techniques, while Earl goes for the more "street" approach (e.g. Hank is content to sit on the roof for a night-long stakeout, while Earl gets bored and breaks into the bad guys' apartment).

* ''Film/{{Bloodmoon}}'' has a wisecracking black detective and a haunted white detective trying to find a martial artist serial killer.
* ''Film/BonCopBadCop'' is the most Canadian version of this imaginable. The ByTheBookCop is a native English speaker and the CowboyCop is a native French speaker (though they're both fluently bilingual), and they're hunting down a hockey-obsessed serial killer.

* ''{{Film/Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets}}'' takes this and combines it with a {{Space Opera}}.
* ''Film/WildWildWest'' paired Jim West (an actual CowboyCop, played by Will Smith) and Artemus Gordon (a BunglingInventor and MasterOfDisguise, played by Kevin Kline) to act as a duo to stop a villain from overthrowing the U.S. Government.

* ''Film/BloodsuckingPharaohsInPittsburgh'' is a spoof movie that puts two buddy cops in the context of a ReligiousHorror SlasherMovie.
* ''Film/{{Bright}}'' is a buddy cop movie in an alternate Los Angeles where there are elves, orcs, and other fantasy races. Will Smith plays a NobleBigotWithABadge who's partnered with a TokenHeroicOrc.
* ''Film/AndroidCop''
* ''Film/DepartmentQTheKeeperOfLostCauses'' presents a darker variant, due to the NordicNoir elements. Carl is washed-up, uptight and cynical, while Assad is eager, laid-back and actually likes his job. Carl's actually the CowboyCop, but this is treated as a deep character flaw, since it got his first partner severely injured.
* ''Film/TheHighwaymen'' follows Frank Hamer and Maney Gault, the two Texas Rangers who apprehended and killed Bonnie and Clyde. However, while their partnership forms a large part of the plot, it's more of a quiet western drama and neither man (both of them veteran lawmen who came out of retirement for the job) is in a laughing mood given the murderous crime spree they're charged with stopping.
* ''Film/UndeclaredWar'' follows the ''Lethal Weapon'' formula with the relationship between its leads, a FishOutOfWater CIA agent assigned on a mission in Hong KOng, where he butts heads with the local police senior he's forcibly teamed up with. They end up becoming FireForgedFriends by the end of the film.
* ''Film/YesMadam'': A Hong Kong action film where both cops in question are ActionGirl and asskickers (played by Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock) who took on the mob, BackToBackBadasses style.

* ''Film/MissCongeniality 2'' is a female case of this, with the former cop-undercover-as-beauty-pageant being forced to team up with a grumpy humorless officer.
* ''Film/CityHeat'' - of the TeethClenchedTeamwork variety.
* ''Film/FreebieAndTheBean''

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* ''Series/{{Community}}'' parodies this in "The Science of Illusion" when Annie and Shirley become temporary campus security guards. They end up getting into an argument about which one of them should be the ByTheBookCop and which one should be the CowboyCop despite the fact that both of them are equally suited to both roles, and Abed, who is following them around, ends up invoking a whole load of tropes based on this.

* Also parodied on ''Series/TheLateLateShow with Craig Ferguson''--Geoff often refers to his idea for a cop show called ''Bone Patrol with G.P. and the Fergs''.
* Parodied on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' with the "Seven Buddy Cops" sketch, which is a massive crossover starring Creator/NickNolte, Creator/EddieMurphy, Creator/ChrisTucker, Creator/JackieChan, Creator/OwenWilson, Creator/TommyLeeJones, and Creator/WillSmith giving shout outs to all the buddy cop movies they starred in while trying to solve the case of the dead prostitutes on the orders of DaChief. Even Creator/MelGibson and Creator/DannyGlover (aka ''Film/LethalWeapon'''s Murtaugh and Riggs) make a cameo.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'', essentially a Sci-Fi version of ''Film/LethalWeapon''.

* The arcade game ''VideoGame/ChaseHQ'', while not a straight example, has a ShoutOut to the Buddy Cop genre.
** It's [[{{VideoGame/RollingThunder}} Rolling Thunder]]-like spinoff game ''Crime City'' is a straighter example.

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', the PlayerCharacter's partner, Kim Kitsuragi, is very fleshed out, frequently chimes in during conversations, and while he generally follows the player's lead, preferring to disappear into the background, he will take over from the main character if he feels strongly that the player is hindering the investigation. Whether him and the player character become True Companions or only stick it out for the sake of the case is once again down to the player and their choices.

* ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}'': Parodied with [[http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2010/07/12/two-chops/ Two Cops]], who accidentally enrolled in the police academy twice, and is therefore buddies with ''himself''.

* Parodied in ''Website/TheOnion'', in which a [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/veteran-cop-gets-along-great-with-rookie-partner,1818/ tough veteran cop gets along great with his mismatched rookie partner]].

* ''AudioPlay/BelowBoard'' is about two detectives with somewhat mismatched personalities in 1930s New Orleans.[[/index]]

* ''Film/BadBoys''

Movie versions abound, or at least they used to: ''Film/BadBoys'', ''Film/LethalWeapon'', ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', etc. It was so common at one point that even making jokes at the expense of the genre [[DeadHorseTrope became cliche]].

-->-- [[http://www.avforums.com/threads/the-hollywood-rule-book.32262 "Hollywood Rule Book"]], Vanity Fair

* 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.]] (Well, every episode where they appear; the episodes where they either don't appear at all or just appear for a 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/{{Life}}''

Subgenre of BuddyPicture. See also: BromanticComedy, CriminalProcedural, ForensicDrama, CopShow, PoliceProcedural, WunzaPlot.

* [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Namco]]'s arcade game ''VideoGame/LuckyAndWild'', a combination of a driving game and light gun game where player one drives and shoots while player 2 just shoots.

* The arcade game ''Chase H.Q.'', while not a straight example, has a ShoutOut to the Buddy Cop genre.

* [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Namco]]'s arcade game ''Lucky and Wild'', a combination of a driving game and light gun game where player one drives and shoots while player 2 just shoots.

* Spoofed in the Les Nuls sketch "Magnum Choucroute." Talk about [[OddCouple mismatched]]: one of the cops is actually a jar of sauerkraut.[[/index]]
!!!Parodies:

* Spoofed in the Les Nuls sketch "Magnum Choucroute." Talk about [[OddCouple mismatched]]: one of the cops is actually a jar of sauerkraut.

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* ''Series/TheProfessionals''

* ''Series/{{Hunter}}''

* ''Machinima/CivilProtection'', which stars two Civil Protection agents, Mike and Dave, from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''.

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* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s #1 [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-weirdest-lessons-80s-movies-really-wanted-to-teach-us_p2/ Weirdest Lesson '80s Movies Really Wanted to Teach Us]] calls the buddy cop film an easy way to involve a TokenMinority.
* ''AudioPlay/BelowBoard'' is about two detectives with somewhat mismatched personalities in 1930s New Orleans.

* ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'', which takes place inside a boy's body, and is [[RecycledTheSeries based on the much-maligned movie]] ''Film/OsmosisJones''.
* ''WesternAnimation/FunkyCops''

(The mime also exploded.)

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' did this in-universe with Gandhi and George Washington Carver. Their submission (Gandhi's idea, really) for a film festival was a buddy cop film called "Black and Tan".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' has the titular character (a washed-up cartoon star in the form of a FunnyAnimal 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]]
* ''WesternAnimation/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 WesternAnimation/ThePebblesAndBammBammShow.[[/note]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has done this a few times with Steve and Roger. The two of them enjoy watching buddy cop shows, and decide to form their own duo, and they eventually settle on Wheels and the Legman, the gimmick being that one of them is in a wheelchair and the other isn't. The two of them argue over which of them gets to be Wheels, which leads to them splitting up, both in wheelchairs, and getting their own partners. Steve gets Bill Elliot (Who's catchphrase is "You're on a roll, Wheels) and Roger gets a fat black girl dressed as an angel (Who's catchphrase is "You gonna finish that?"). After Steve deduces that Roger's partner isn't a real angel because she eats devil's food cake, Roger concedes and the two get back together with Steve as Wheels and Roger as the Legman.

* ''Anime/{{Samurai Flamenco}}'', which is often compared to ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'', is a Sentai show combined with a Buddy Cop show. The main characters consist of a down to earth cop and an unreasonably optimistic "super hero", with a supporting cast of a [[MagicalGirl Magical Girl squad]] and a color coded Sentai squad.
* ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'' focuses mostly on Natsumi Tsujimoto and Miyuki Kobayakawa, starting when the former is transferred to a new precinct and becomes the latter's partner.

* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' is essentially a buddy cop show with superheroes instead of police officers.
* The relationship between Batou and Togusa in ''Anime/GhostInTheShell 2: Innocence'' takes on elements of this.