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* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/PattonOswalt has played three different characters. Paul Rudd and the comedy troupe Stella have played two characters.
** The deputies frequently play perps on the show with their faces blurred.

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* YouLookFamiliar: YouLookFamiliar:
** Besides playing the deputies, the main cast members frequently play perps, with their faces blurred or obscured in some other way.
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Creator/PattonOswalt has played three different characters. Paul Rudd and the comedy troupe Stella have played two characters.
** The deputies frequently play perps on the show with their faces blurred.
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* ThrowItIn: Terry escaping the station on a helicopter in the second-season finale happened because the show films in an actual police station and a helicopter just happened to be taking off when they went out to film the escape.
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* ChannelHop: From Comedy Central (2003-2009) to the short-lived Quibi (2020) to Roku (2022). Additionally, the "The Hunt for Q Anon" was released through Paramount+.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Quibi season is currently unavailable anywhere after the service died a quick death. It and a second season are expected to arrive on The Roku Channel at some point in 2021.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Quibi season is currently was completely unavailable anywhere for several months after the service died a quick death. It and a second season are expected to arrive eventually arrived on The Roku Channel at some point in 2021.2021, which will also carry future seasons.
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* VoiceOnlyCameo: In "Fastest Criminal In Reno," the deputies try to nab Fast Eddie, a legendary local crook who always manages to outrace them and is never shown onscreen (only in his car). At the end, Fast Eddie calls the Sheriff's Department to tell them he admires their tenacity and gives them a jukebox as a present; his voice is provided by Creator/JeffFoxworthy.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Quibi season is currently unavailable anywhere after the service died a quick death.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Quibi season is currently unavailable anywhere after the service died a quick death. It and a second season are expected to arrive on The Roku Channel at some point in 2021.
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* ActingForTwo: The deputies also played perps and witnesses, pixelating their faces to obscure their identities.
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* ActingForTwo: The main cast often pulled double duty as the criminals and civilians the deputies come across on calls and hid their identities behind blurred faces and exaggerated accents.
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* ActingForTwo: The main cast often pulled double duty as the criminals and civilians the deputies come across on calls and hid their identities behind blurred faces and exaggerated accents.
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* CastingGag: Ryan Stiles (known for shows like ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'') visits in one episode to teach everyone how to do act during undercover work, but it ends up being a lesson on improv.
** In one episode, Dangle gives two prostitutes an improv lesson when their "two-girl show" isn't convincing.
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** Every member of TheState appeared in the show, either as a regular cast member or in a cameo.

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** Every member of TheState ''Series/TheState'' appeared in the show, either as a regular cast member or in a cameo.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/PattonOswalt has played three different characters. Paul Rudd and the comedy troupe Stella have played two characters.
** The deputies frequently play perps on the show with their faces blurred.
** Mary Birdsong played a masseuse in one Season 2 episode, then became a regular castmember as Deputy Kimball one season later.
** Cathy Shim played six different characters in seven guest appearances, and played still another character in TheMovie.
** Every member of TheState appeared in the show, either as a regular cast member or in a cameo.
** Toby Huss, who usually plays Big Mike, also appears as a Civil War reenactor in "President Bush's Motorcade" and as a creepy motel clerk in Reno 911: Miami.
** Ken Marino has played three different characters - one perp and two different cops.
** Nat Faxon who plays the milk shake man is also a head shop clerk/undercover DEA agent in season 1's "Burning Man Festival".
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* CastingGag: Ryan Stiles (known for shows like ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'') visits in one episode to teach everyone how to do act during undercover work, but it ends up being a lesson on improv.
** In one episode, Dangle gives two prostitutes an improv lesson when their "two-girl show" isn't convincing.
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Hey, it's Creator/StephenRoot as a bouncer at a Music/SteelyDan concert!
*** Well, no. It IS [[Film/AnchormanTheLegendofRonBurgundy Champ Kind]] though.
** When did [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Rocko]] (or [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Denzel Crocker]]) get a job as a police officer?
** [[Film/DownPeriscope Nitro]] has developed a crack habit.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's Creator/StephenRoot as a bouncer at a Music/SteelyDan concert!
** Well, no. It IS [[AnchormanTheLegendofRonBurgundy Champ Kind]] though.
** When did [[RockosModernLife Rocko]] (or [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Denzel Crocker]]) get a job as a police officer?

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* HeyItsThatGuy: HeyItsThatGuy:
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Hey, it's Creator/StephenRoot as a bouncer at a Music/SteelyDan concert!
** *** Well, no. It IS [[AnchormanTheLegendofRonBurgundy [[Film/AnchormanTheLegendofRonBurgundy Champ Kind]] though.
** When did [[RockosModernLife [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Rocko]] (or [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Denzel Crocker]]) get a job as a police officer?



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, this was supposed to be on FOX, but FOX rejected it, as they didn't think it was funny and people would confuse it with ''COPS'' (which isn't a comedy -- at least, not an intentional one).

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
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Originally, this was supposed to be on FOX, but FOX rejected it, as they didn't think it was funny and people would confuse it with ''COPS'' (which isn't a comedy -- at least, not an intentional one).
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** A second movie, where everybody gets stuck on a deserted island with a serial killer on the loose, was written as a treatment but the middling performance of the movie led to it not getting produced. The treatment can be read in Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon's book ''Writing Movies for Fun and Profit''.

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** A second movie, where everybody gets stuck on a deserted island with a serial killer on the loose, loose (also showing flashbacks of the Reno squad's beginnings), was written as a treatment but the middling performance of the movie in theaters led to it not getting produced. The treatment can be read in Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon's book ''Writing Movies for Fun and Profit''.
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** A second movie, where everybody gets stuck on a deserted island with a serial killer on the loose, was written as a treatment but the middling performance of the movie led to it not getting produced. The treatment can be read in Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon's book ''Writing Movies for Fun and Profit''.
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** When did [[RockosModernLife Rocko]] (or [[FairlyOddparents Denzel Crocker]]) get a job as a police officer?

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** When did [[RockosModernLife Rocko]] (or [[FairlyOddparents [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Denzel Crocker]]) get a job as a police officer?
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** [[Film/DownPeriscope Nitro]] has developed a crack habit.
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** When did [[RockosModernLife Rocko]] (or [[FairyOddparents Denzel Crocker]]) get a job as a police officer?

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** When did [[RockosModernLife Rocko]] (or [[FairyOddparents [[FairlyOddparents Denzel Crocker]]) get a job as a police officer?
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** And [[RockosModernLife Rocko]] got a job as a police officer.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, this was supposed to be a series for the Creator/{{Fox}} Network as a parody of ''Series/{{Cops}}'', but Fox rejected it.

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** And When did [[RockosModernLife Rocko]] got (or [[FairyOddparents Denzel Crocker]]) get a job as a police officer.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, this was supposed to be a series for the Creator/{{Fox}} Network as a parody of ''Series/{{Cops}}'', on FOX, but Fox FOX rejected it.it, as they didn't think it was funny and people would confuse it with ''COPS'' (which isn't a comedy -- at least, not an intentional one).
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** And [[RockosModernLife Rocko]] got a job as a police officer.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's StephenRoot as a bouncer at a Music/SteelyDan concert!

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's StephenRoot Creator/StephenRoot as a bouncer at a Music/SteelyDan concert!



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, this was supposed to be a series for the FOX Network as a parody of ''COPS'', but FOX rejected it.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, this was supposed to be a series for the FOX Creator/{{Fox}} Network as a parody of ''COPS'', ''Series/{{Cops}}'', but FOX Fox rejected it.
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** Well, no. It IS [[AnchormanTheLegendofRonBurgundy Champ Kind]] though.

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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Holy crap! It's [[ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Charlie and The Waitress]] living in a trailer! (They're married in real life: here they are [[spoiler:siblings]]. [[spoiler:They bang anyway.]])
** Hey, it's [[{{Reaper}} Steve and Tony, the demonic gay couple!]] They're a [[YouLookFamiliar sex offender / Very Big]] LittlestCancerPatient and [[YouLookFamiliar citizen with lost dog / prospective cop / different cop / deaf tattoo artist in]] TheMovie, respectively.
** Hey, it's [[{{Community}} Dean Pelton]]!
** Hey, it's StephenRoot as a bouncer at a Music/SteelyDan concert!
** [[{{Film/Batman}} Bob the Goon]] is the Sherrif!

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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Holy crap! It's [[ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Charlie and The Waitress]] living in a trailer! (They're married in real life: here they are [[spoiler:siblings]]. [[spoiler:They bang anyway.]])
** Hey, it's [[{{Reaper}} Steve and Tony, the demonic gay couple!]] They're a [[YouLookFamiliar sex offender / Very Big]] LittlestCancerPatient and [[YouLookFamiliar citizen with lost dog / prospective cop / different cop / deaf tattoo artist in]] TheMovie, respectively.
** Hey, it's [[{{Community}} Dean Pelton]]!
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HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's StephenRoot as a bouncer at a Music/SteelyDan concert!
** [[{{Film/Batman}} Bob the Goon]] is the Sherrif!
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