History Main / MeddlesomePatrolman

* A rural-village version often appears in the writings of PGWodehouse.

* Officer Dibble from ''TopCat''.

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Kinnosuke Kuzuhara in ''{{Literature/Durarara}}''
* Matsuda in ''Manga/SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru''.
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* Agent 15 in ''Quick et Flupke'', making this OlderThanTelevision.
* Agent 22 in ''BouleEtBill''.
* Agent Dussiflet in ''AchilleTalon''.

[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Officer Pupp in ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat''.
* PC Murdoch in the ''Oor Wullie'' comic strip appearing in [[BritishNewspapers The Sunday Post]].
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* ''Pinot Simple Flic'': The title character.

* The two constables in the ''PippiLongstocking'' books by AstridLindgren.

** Funny story, actually; Paul [=McCartney=] wrote this one as a sarcastic love song to a woman who had given him a ticket not too long prior. When asked about the woman's name, his reply was something along the lines of "She looked like a Rita to me."
** It is no doubt merely coincidence that choosing that name made it easier to find rhymes for "parking meter"...

* Policeguy, and eventually Hipbone, in the webcomic ''{{Girly}}''.

* Officer Dibble from ''TopCat''.

* ''GastonLagaffe'': Joseph Longtarin (pictured above) is Gaston's nemesis, forever looking for a reason to give him a fine for this or that alleged traffic violation. Gaston retaliates with various practical jokes that often involve parking meters.

[[quoteright:137:[[GastonLagaffe http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/longtarin.jpg]]]]

!!Examples

* ''CaseyAndAndy'': Quantum Cop, except during story arcs, when he becomes a protagonist.

* Another (older) Louis de Funès movie is ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051989/ Ni vu, ni connu''. This time, the protagonist is a poacher, and he's outwitting a Meddlesome Forest Guard.

* Kinnosuke Kuzuhara in ''{{Durarara}}''
* Matsuda in ''SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru''.

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[[folder:Comics -- Newspaper]]
* Officer Pupp in ''KrazyKat''.
* PC Murdoch in the ''Oor Wullie'' comic strip appearing in [[BritishNewspapers The Sunday Post]]

* In ''GhostDog: The Way of the Samurai'', one policewoman pulled over a car with seriously wounded passenger and insisted on the full formal procedure before allowing to move him any closer to the medical attention. Unfortunately for her, the wounded guy was a gangster, and, well... definitely ''[[WouldHitAGirl wasn't]]'' a "fuckin' male chauvinist pig".

* Mandatory ''{{Discworld}}'' reference: that would be Sergeant Colon and possibly Corporal Nobbs. Colon especially hits the Meddlesome Patrolman wall ''hard'' when he is temporarily promoted to Captain during the events of ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant''.

* Bruce "The Goose" Hopkins, the council bylaws officer from the Australian kids show ''{{Streetsmartz}}''.

* "Lovely Rita" by TheBeatles.

* A ''{{PvP}}'' arc had Brent get on the wrong side of a bike cop that turned into a mixture of one of this with a full-blown stalker.

* This has been invoked in multiple cartoon shorts in which a patrolman sees some children out and about instead of at school and goes through considerable effort to corral the truant children and get them to go to school. At the end of the short, the cop gets to the schoolhouse with the children and notices a sign pointing out that the reason the children are out and about is because it is a school holiday -- something the kids have been trying to point out for at least half the short.

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** Funny story, actually; Paul [=McCartney=] wrote this one as a sarcastic love song to a woman who had given him a ticket not too long ago. When asked about the woman's name, his reply was something along the lines of "She looked like a Rita to me."

* ''CaseyAndAndy'': Quantum Cop might count, if he didn't eventually become one of the main heroes himself.

* Karen and Davis from ''CornerGas'' occasionally do this.

When I caught a glimpse of Rita\\
Filling in a ticket in her little white book''

[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
* Coluche, a famous French stand-up comedian, had a routine called "''Le Flic''" ("The Cop") in which he played a Meddlesome Patrolman.
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* This has been invoked in multiple cartoon shorts in which a patrolman sees some children out and about instead of at school and goes through considerable effort to corral the truant children and get them to go to school. At the end of the short, the cop gets to the schoolhouse with the children and notices a sign pointing out that the reason the children are out and about is because it is a school holiday - something the kids have been trying to point out for at least half the short.

[[folder:Comics]]

* Agent 15 in ''{{Quick et Flupke}}'', making this OlderThanTelevision.
* Agent 22 in ''{{Boule et Bill}}''.

* ''{{Agent 212}}'' is an interesting case of a Meddlesome Patrolman who is also the protagonist of a series rather than a supporting character.
* Agent Bodard in ''{{Corinne et Jeannot}}''. His main purpose seems to add insult to injury caused by Corinne on Jeannot.
* Officer Pupp in ''KrazyKat''.
* PC Murdoch in the ''Oor Wullie'' comic strip appearing in [[BritishNewspapers The Sunday Post]]

* The French movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058135/ Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez]]'' and its 5 sequels are a film series were not only the main character (played by Louis de Funès) but most of the supporting cast is this kind of cop, of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gendarmerie National Gendarmerie]] subtype.

* ''MariePervenche'', a French live-action TV series from the 1980s. Although the eponymous character doesn't spend much time doing that job before adventure calls. OTOH, Danièle Evenou, the actress who played her, is wacky enough in real life to be compared to GastonLagaffe.

* ''{{Casey and Andy}}'': Quantum Cop might count, if he didn't eventually become one of the main heroes himself.

* The motorcycle cop played by Tim Robbins in Robert Altman's ''Short Cuts'' takes advantage of his uniform to pull over good-looking women and ask them for dates.

* Kinnosuke Kuzuhara in ''{{Durarara}}''.
* Matsuda in ''SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru''

* ''GastonLagaffe'': Joseph Longtarin is Gaston's nemesis, forever looking for a reason to give him a fine for this or that alleged traffic violation. Gaston retaliates with various practical jokes that often involve parking meters.

* Officer Pupp in {{Krazy Kat}}.

* In ''{{Ghost Dog}}: The Way of the Samurai'', one policewoman pulled over a car with seriously wounded passenger and insisted on the full formal procedure before allowing to move him any closer to the medical attention. Unfortunately for her, the wounded guy was a gangster, and, well... definitely ''[[WouldHitAGirl wasn't]]'' a "fuckin' male chauvinist pig".

[[GastonLagaffe http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/longtarin.jpg]]

* In ''{{Ghost Dog}}: The Way of the Samurai'', one policewoman pulled over a car with seriously wounded passenger and insisted on the full formal procedure before allowing to move him any closer to the medical attention. Unfortunately for her, the wounded guy was a gangster, and, well... definitely ''wasn't'' a "fuckin' male chauvinist pig".

A frequent recurring minor character in classic {{Franco-Belgian Comics}} and an obvious foil to protagonists who are either street urchins or just regular children who use the streets as a playground so expect some examples to be found in older American shows and comic strips (basically dating from before the rise of suburbia). The meter maid is a possible variation.

!!Examples:

[[folder:AnimeAndManga]]
* Kinnosuke Kuzuhara in {{Durarara}}.

* ''{{Agent 212}}'' is an interesting case of a MeddlesomePatrolman who is also the protagonist of a series rather than a supporting character.

[[folder:{{Film}}]]

* In ''{{Ghost Dog}}: The Way Of The Samurai'' one policewoman pulled over a car with seriously wounded passenger and insisted on the full formal procedure before allowing to move him any closer to the medical attention. Unfortunately for her, the wounded guy was a gangster, and, well... definitely ''wasn't'' a "fuckin' male chauvinist pig".
* The French movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058135/ Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez]]'' and its 5 sequels are a film series were not only the main character (played by Louis de Funès) but most of the supporting cast are this kind of cop, of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gendarmerie National Gendarmerie]] subtype.

[[folder:{{Literature}}]]

* Mandatory ''{{Discworld}}'' reference: that would be Sergeant Colon and possibly Corporal Nobbs...
** Colon especially hits the MeddlesomePatrolman wall ''hard'' when he is temporarily promoted to Captain during the events of ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant''.

[[folder:LiveActionTV]]

* ''MariePervenche'', a French live-action TV series from the 1980s.
** Actually, she doesn't spend much time doing that job before adventure calls. OTOH, Danièle Evenou, the actress who played the eponymous character, is wacky enough in real life to be compared to GastonLagaffe.

[[folder:{{Music}}]]

[[folder:Stand-up Comedy]]
* Coluche, a famous French stand-up comedian, had a routine called "''Le Flic''" ("The Cop") in which he played a MeddlesomePatrolman.

[[folder:WebComics]]

[[folder:WesternAnimation]]

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