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Episode: Season 2, Episode 3\\
Title: The Layoff\\
Directed by: Noam Pitlik\\
Written by: Chris Hayward, Danny Arnold, and Arne Sultan\\
Air Date: September 25, 1975\\
Previous: The Social Worker\\
Next: Ambush\\
Guest Starring: Bob Dishy, Candace Azzara, Oliver Clark]
"The Layoff" is the third episode of the second season of ''Series/BarneyMiller''.
Fish brings in a thief who had two stolen fur coats that together are worth $12,000 (in 1975 money!). Also arrested is one Miss Lamota, a manicurist who stabbed her client when said client got the idea that she was a prostitute. The third bad guy brought into the 12th is a Mr. Shine (Bob Dishy), a former stockbroker who is now a penniless bum living in the Bowery after he was ruined in the market. Mr. Shine has turned to crime, and stole a woman's purse.
All this is taking place against a huge round of layoffs at the police department. New York City is broke, so the NYPD is laying off cops. No one's happy about it, least of all Barney, who has to tell Harris, Wojo, and Chano that they are laid off.
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!!Tropes:
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Chano says they're going to choose who's laid off by going eenie meenie miney mo. Harris then snarks, "Oh, then it's going to be." This is a reference to the older version of the "eenie meenie miney mo" rhyme in which it's not a tiger, it's an [[NWordPrivileges n-word]] that one catches by the toe.
* AndStarring: Bob Dishy gets "Special Guest Star" credit.
* TheBigRottenApple: New York City is ridden by crime even more than usual due to cops being laid off. Chano complains that one used to hear birds singing in Washington Square, but now the only sound is the sound of muggings.
* ContinuityNod: Detective Wilson is one of the victims of the layoffs. Det. Wilson (Rod Perry) was in the original ''Barney Miller'' pilot and appeared in [[Recap/BarneyMillerS1E02 the second episode]], but was never seen afterwards.
* DoomedAppointment: Well, maybe it wasn't doomed! But Miss Lamota and the guy who stole the coats hit it off, and agree to meet in the squad room on Christmas Eve.
* MistakenForProstitute: Miss Lamota. While she's doing the fur thief's nails she muses how she wouldn't be in this fix if her last customer had been in a cage.
* PulledFromYourDayOff: Just as Harris, Wojo, and Chano are leaving the squad room with their stuff in boxes, the squad room gets a call of an armed robbery in progress at a grocery store. The three detectives decide they all feel like buying grocer
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: In July of 1975 the NYPD laid off 5,000 cops, out of a force of 30,000.
* TurnInYourBadge: The "turn in your badge and gun" ritual happens not because DaChief is suspending a CowboyCop, but because Harris, Wojo, and Chano are being laid off due to budget cuts.
Episode: Season 2, Episode 3\\
Title: The Layoff\\
Directed by: Noam Pitlik\\
Written by: Chris Hayward, Danny Arnold, and Arne Sultan\\
Air Date: September 25, 1975\\
Previous: The Social Worker\\
Next: Ambush\\
Guest Starring: Bob Dishy, Candace Azzara, Oliver Clark]
"The Layoff" is the third episode of the second season of ''Series/BarneyMiller''.
Fish brings in a thief who had two stolen fur coats that together are worth $12,000 (in 1975 money!). Also arrested is one Miss Lamota, a manicurist who stabbed her client when said client got the idea that she was a prostitute. The third bad guy brought into the 12th is a Mr. Shine (Bob Dishy), a former stockbroker who is now a penniless bum living in the Bowery after he was ruined in the market. Mr. Shine has turned to crime, and stole a woman's purse.
All this is taking place against a huge round of layoffs at the police department. New York City is broke, so the NYPD is laying off cops. No one's happy about it, least of all Barney, who has to tell Harris, Wojo, and Chano that they are laid off.
----
!!Tropes:
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Chano says they're going to choose who's laid off by going eenie meenie miney mo. Harris then snarks, "Oh, then it's going to be." This is a reference to the older version of the "eenie meenie miney mo" rhyme in which it's not a tiger, it's an [[NWordPrivileges n-word]] that one catches by the toe.
* AndStarring: Bob Dishy gets "Special Guest Star" credit.
* TheBigRottenApple: New York City is ridden by crime even more than usual due to cops being laid off. Chano complains that one used to hear birds singing in Washington Square, but now the only sound is the sound of muggings.
* ContinuityNod: Detective Wilson is one of the victims of the layoffs. Det. Wilson (Rod Perry) was in the original ''Barney Miller'' pilot and appeared in [[Recap/BarneyMillerS1E02 the second episode]], but was never seen afterwards.
* DoomedAppointment: Well, maybe it wasn't doomed! But Miss Lamota and the guy who stole the coats hit it off, and agree to meet in the squad room on Christmas Eve.
* MistakenForProstitute: Miss Lamota. While she's doing the fur thief's nails she muses how she wouldn't be in this fix if her last customer had been in a cage.
* PulledFromYourDayOff: Just as Harris, Wojo, and Chano are leaving the squad room with their stuff in boxes, the squad room gets a call of an armed robbery in progress at a grocery store. The three detectives decide they all feel like buying grocer
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: In July of 1975 the NYPD laid off 5,000 cops, out of a force of 30,000.
* TurnInYourBadge: The "turn in your badge and gun" ritual happens not because DaChief is suspending a CowboyCop, but because Harris, Wojo, and Chano are being laid off due to budget cuts.
