History Trivia / PoliceSquad

* {{Blooper}}: The joke where Frank and Norberg barely react to a drive-by shooting is briefly ruined by Norberg's actor flinching at one of the squibs going off.

** In fairness, the show aired before video recorders or rentals were commonplace, so audience members wouldn't have the chance to rewind the tape and get the gags they missed.

** Inverted with David Misch's teleplay for the unproduced seventh episode, "'Testimony of Terror', or: 'A Kitten for Amy'"; the [[{{Series/Ironside}} "Chief Ironblock"]] premise -- where a hard-nosed cop is crushed inside a car compactor and fused into a metal cube, yet somehow survives with only his face, hands and feet protruding -- and many of its associated visual gags would later turn up in ''Film/TopSecret''.

* TheArtifact: Parodied with "IN COLOR". As TV broadcasting transitioned from black-and-white to color in the 1960s, TV shows made in color would promote that fact as a selling point. By 1982, when ''Police Squad!'' was made, all network TV shows had been made in color for a good 15 years, making the boast superfluous.

* ShortRunner: Lasted for just six episodes before the network cancelled it. As noted in the DVD commentary, the producers and writers actually saw it as a relief because already with just half a dozen episodes, they felt they were stretching the jokes too thin (particularly the OnceAnEpisode gags), and had no idea how or if they would be able to handle full seasons of twenty-plus episodes.

* RecycledScript: The pilot is a spoof remake of an episode of ''M Squad'' ("More Deadly"), with jokes and non sequiturs added to the original plot and dialogue.