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->''"The police don't let a thing like the law get in the way of enforcing the, uh... law."''
-->-- '''WebAnimation/{{Qxir}}''', "[[https://youtu.be/pLXBL00Ox9o Tales from the Bottle: Hilarious Police Sting Captures 100 Criminals]]"
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->'''Holly:''' Are you implying that I occasionally stray from the rulebook?\\
'''Foaly:''' I'm implying that you don't ''own'' a copy of the rulebook, and if you do, you've certainly never opened it.\\
'''Holly:''' ...Fair point.
-->--''Literature/ArtemisFowl
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->'''Gina''': All Yard detectives are s'posed to follow orders an' investigate wot they're told.\\
'''Ryunosuke''': So... you follow orders, do you, Gina?\\
'''Gina''': Nah, not me.
-->--'''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'''
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->''Hilariously ''Torchwood'' turns up in the first scene in their [[HummerDinger gigantic SUV]] with [[BigDamnHeroes big, bold music]] wearing [[FairCop ray bans and long flowing jackets]] and parading up to the police in [[PowerWalk slow motion]]. I have honestly never seen a more ridiculous, overblown, cartoon bunch of regulars in my entire life. How the actors took this at all seriously is beyond me. I am almost willing to bet that they thought they would wind up coming across as the ultimate expression of cool...until the rushes started coming in.''

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->''Hilariously ''Torchwood'' turns up in the first scene in their [[HummerDinger gigantic SUV]] with [[BigDamnHeroes big, bold music]] wearing [[FairCop ray bans and long flowing jackets]] and parading up to the police in [[PowerWalk [[TeamPowerWalk slow motion]]. I have honestly never seen a more ridiculous, overblown, cartoon bunch of regulars in my entire life. How the actors took this at all seriously is beyond me. I am almost willing to bet that they thought they would wind up coming across as the ultimate expression of cool...until the rushes started coming in.''
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'''Deputy Marshal Gerard''': [[GrumpyBear That's funny. Wyatt Earp.]]

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'''Deputy Marshal Gerard''': [[GrumpyBear That's funny. Wyatt Earp.]]
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->''Howdy-ho, folks. I'm Sheriff Meyers. Be good, or I'll shoot you dead.''

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->''Howdy-ho, ->''Howdy-do, folks. I'm Sheriff Meyers. Be good, or I'll shoot you dead.''
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-->--'''Paul Mavis''' [[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/54055/adam-12-season-seven/ on]] ''Series/AdamTwelve''

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-->--'''Paul Mavis''' [[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/54055/adam-12-season-seven/ on]] ''Series/AdamTwelve''
''Series/Adam12''
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->Adam-12'' may have been the first series to realistically document the working lives of regular beat cops (in that clipped, highly stylized, ''über''-authoritarian [[Franchise/{{Dragnet}} Jack Webb style]] I adore), but after seven years viewers were ready to move on. It was simply a matter of changing times and tastes. Webb's and Cinader's positive, low-key, low-violence, and essentially ''[[TastesLikeDiabetes reassuring]]'' view of policing in America certainly found favor with those viewers who sat in a daze in front of their tubes in [[TheSixties 1968]], wondering if American society was going to go down in flames. However, by [[TheSeventies 1974-1975]], network television was already beginning to embrace that resulting cynicism and more aggressive outlook of our changed society, with gritty, morally complex shows like ''Series/{{Kojak}}'' and particularly ''Series/PoliceStory1973'', making ''Adam-12'' look more simplistic by comparison (a relative comparison, to be sure, since ''Police Story''[='=]s '[[DarkerAndEdgier realism]]' isn't really any more 'real' than Webb's―TV romanticizes and fictionalizes everything it touches by its very own nature).''

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->Adam-12'' may have been the first series to realistically document the working lives of regular beat cops (in that clipped, highly stylized, ''über''-authoritarian [[Franchise/{{Dragnet}} Jack Webb style]] I adore), but after seven years viewers were ready to move on. It was simply a matter of changing times and tastes. Webb's and Cinader's positive, low-key, low-violence, and essentially ''[[TastesLikeDiabetes reassuring]]'' ''reassuring'' view of policing in America certainly found favor with those viewers who sat in a daze in front of their tubes in [[TheSixties 1968]], wondering if American society was going to go down in flames. However, by [[TheSeventies 1974-1975]], network television was already beginning to embrace that resulting cynicism and more aggressive outlook of our changed society, with gritty, morally complex shows like ''Series/{{Kojak}}'' and particularly ''Series/PoliceStory1973'', making ''Adam-12'' look more simplistic by comparison (a relative comparison, to be sure, since ''Police Story''[='=]s '[[DarkerAndEdgier realism]]' isn't really any more 'real' than Webb's―TV romanticizes and fictionalizes everything it touches by its very own nature).''
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->'''Fletcher "The Icepick" Nix''': NiceHat. There much call for cowboys these days?\\

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->'''Fletcher "The Icepick" Nix''': NiceHat.Nice hat. There much call for cowboys these days?\\

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->'''The Mayor:''' Callahan... I don't want any more trouble like you had last year in the Fillmore district. You understand? That's my policy. \\
'''Harry Callahan:''' Yeah, well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard - that's ''my'' policy.

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->'''The Mayor:''' Callahan... I don't want any more trouble like you had last year in the Fillmore district. You understand? That's my policy. \\
'''Harry Callahan:''' Yeah, well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard - that's bastard--that's ''my'' policy.\\
'''The Mayor:''' Intent? How'd you establish that?\\
'''Harry Callahan:''' When a naked man is chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
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'''Vetinari:''' Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.\\

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'''Vetinari:''' ->'''Vetinari:''' Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.\\

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