History Series / RobocopTheSeries

** Henry Winkler himself gets a FreezeFrameBonus cameo, as an actor from a movie called ''[[FriedGreenTomatoes Fried Green Lasagna]]''.

* StrawFeminist: Two episodes ("Inside Crime" and "Sisters in Crime") feature a CorruptCorporateExecutive named Rochelle Carney, who outright said in her debut that she considered everything a gender issue, even blaming her getting fired when she returns on her being a woman and her boss, Aubrey Fox, being a louse who hit on her. While Fox did indeed try to hook up with her, [[NeverMyFault she refused to acknowledge the real reason she got fired]], which was because she was in league with the series' {{archenemy}} "Pudface" Morgan (who, among other things, tried to kill Robo repeatedly, took a retirement home's citizen hostage, led a siege on OCP heaquarters, helped push a deinhibitor as a diet pill, kidnapped Jimmy Murphy, impersonated Sgt. Parks to kidnap the Chairman, impersonated the Chairman in an attempt to ruin OCP and yet again attempt to kill Murphy) as part of a ratings stunt.

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* OrganTheft: "What Money Can't Buy" deals with this as Murphy goes against a black market organ ring when two people steal a pair of lungs meant to save a boy Murphy helped rescue in the prior episode ("Officer Down") after his body started to reject the lungs he was given in an earlier operation. [[spoiler: The duo and their boss stole the lungs for a crime boss and the boy's earlier lungs came from the same criminal ring and were taken from someone who died from tuberculosis.]]

* StrawFeminist: Two episodes ("Inside Crime" and "Sisters in Crime") feature a CorruptCorporateExecutive named Rochelle Carney, who outright said in her debut that she considered everything a gender issue, even blaming her getting fired when she returns on her being a woman and her boss, Aubrey Fox, being a louse who hit on her. While Fox did indeed try to hook up with her, [[NeverMyFault she refused to acknowledge the real reason she got fired]], which was because she was in league with the series' {{archenemy}} "Pudface" Morgan (who, among other things, tried to kill Robo repeatedly, took a retirement home's citizen hostage, led a siege on OCP heaquarters, and helped push a deinhibitor as a diet pill) as part of a ratings stunt.

* {{Hologram}}/VirtualGhost: OCP secretary Diana, whose memory was uploaded to the OCP supercomputer after her death in the pilot episode.

** Henry Winkler's first and last names are used for a murder victim.

** When Chip Chayken sabotages Robocop in the premiere movie to get rid of his incriminating memories, he refers to helping with Robocop's "[[TotalRecall total recall]]".

* SpoiledByTheFormat: Frequently, the Mysterious Culprit (the real killer in "Prime Suspect," or the organ thief in "What Money Can't Buy") turns out to be the only remaining guest character who hasn't either been killed already or shown to be guilty of something else.

* {{Zeerust}}: The "future" setting of this series has 1.33:1 academy-ratio video screens, and [=CD-ROMs=] are used for video recordings and computer software.

Several other characters were seen in the series, including Murphy's wife Nancy and son Jimmy, as well as Diana Powers, an OCP executive who is murdered and has her brain uploaded into OCP's new [[WetwareCPU Metronet computer system]], thus allowing Murphy to access systems he wouldn't otherwise be able to get into.

* CrapsackWorld: While leagues above the world seen in the original film trilogy, the world in ''The Series'' isn't a picnic, either. It issaid in dialogue that a war in the Amazon is going on (though such a war was mentioned in the original trilogy, too), sections of Beverly Hills and Brooklyn have been walled off, and it's perfectly legal to market plushies that double as hand grenades and steroids (with the FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that weaker kids deserve to get bullied, no less) to children. Also, speaking English in France can land you in jail, the Italian government has fallen, and the mayor and DA are corrupt and in league with other criminals (with the latter having a fake law degree and helped to frame someone for said phony degree).

* ParodyCommercial: One of the main [[BlackComedy comedic draws]] of the show, usually advertising [[MyLittlePanzer deadly Commander Cash toys]], but oftentimes other things as well.

* StrawFeminist: Two epsidoes ("Inside Crime" and "Sisters in Crime") feature a CorruptCorporateExecutive named Rochelle Carney, who outright said in her debut that she considered everything a gender issue, even blaming her getting fired when she returns on her being a woman and her boss, Aubrey Fox, being a louse who hit on her. While Fox did indeed try to hook up with her, [[NeverMyFault she refused to acknowledge the real reason she got fired]], which was because she was in league with the series' {{archenemy}} "Pudface" Morgan (who, among other things, tried to kill Robo repeatedly, took a retirement home's citizen hostage, led a siege on OCP heaquarters, and helped push a deinhibitor as a diet pill) as part of a ratings stunt.

* AbnormalAmmo: [=RoboCop=]'s gun can now fire electronic tracking devices.

* LighterAndSofter: Following up on ''Film/RoboCop3'', the series was dulled down to appeal to family audiences (and, indeed, it was shown in syndication in Canada on weekends at pre-watershed timeslots). [=RoboCop=] didn't kill (he used gadgets to incapacitate them), the humour was dulled down from biting satire to [[Series/Batman Batmanesqe]] camp, and the plots became cartoonish. It's pretty much the start of the DorkAge of [=RoboCop=] where the target audience are now grade school kids of fourth grade or older. Merchandise from the show even includes a [=RoboCop=] action figure that say MoralGuardian-approved lines ("[[DrugsAreBad Say No To Drugs!]]" among other things).

* LighterAndSofter: Following up on ''Film/RoboCop3'', the series was dulled down to appeal to family audiences (and, indeed, it was shown in syndication in Canada on weekends at pre-watershed timeslots). [=RoboCop=] didn't kill (he used gadgets to incapacitate them), the humour was dulled down and the plots became cartoonish. It's pretty much the start of the DorkAge of [=RoboCop=] where the target audience are now grade school kids of fourth grade or older. Merchandise from the show even includes a [=RoboCop=] action figure that say MoralGuardian-approved lines ("[[DrugsAreBad Say No To Drugs!]]" among other things).

** The first film plays the Cobra Assault Cannon up as an anti-[=RoboCop=] weapon. In the pilot, Pudface finally shows what the gun can actually [[OneHitKo do]] to Robo.

** Apart from Commander Cash, the shows sometimes featured other commercials, often scheduled to appear right after the TV episode's real-life commercial break so as to seem to continue it until the viewers recognized the satire.

** Most episodes have a cartoon segment of Commander Cash; teaching us the virtues of credit cards and the positive side of pollution; basically the opposite of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet''

21 episodes were made in total, with the pilot being a feature-length episode. The series is notable for featuring a more family-friendly storyline and toned-down violence -- Robo would go out of his way to use non-lethal alternatives to capture criminals. More jarringly, OCP is now merely incompetent and naive; the Old Man of the film series being replaced by the greedy, but otherwise decent, Chairman. (Though some character do still call him "old man," such as Dr. Mallardo in the premiere movie.)