* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The ''Series/PoliceSquad'' theme by Ira Newborn. It's so awesome, it doubles as ''Film/TheNakedGun'' theme.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: From "Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)"; ballet teacher beaten by two mobsters? Horrible and disgusting. The students mimicking her movements as she's being beaten since they were instructed to do "''[[ExactWords exactly]]'' as she does?" Hilarious.
* HarsherInHindsight: Episode 6's epilogue had Norberg accidentally TrashTheSet. Considering that it's the final episode of the series before it got cancelled, there's absolutely something prophetic about the finale's epilogue heavily involving the destruction of the set.
* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/RobertGoulet made a cameo here as one of the [[BodyOfTheWeek guest stars killed in the opening]]. A few years later, Goulet would be cast as TheBigBad of the second film in the ''Film/TheNakedGun'' trilogy.
* HoYay:
** When Ms. Twice asks "Do you know what it's like to be married to a wonderful man for fourteen years?" Frank says "I can't say that I do" and then goes into a WeirdAside for nearly the rest of the interview about an AmbiguouslyGay relationship he had with a guy he lived with for a few years.
** When Dutch calls Stella right after she fails to assassinate Frank, he dictates how she should respond, including making endearing remarks. When Dutch asks what brought those remarks on, Frank begins to dictate a long, increasingly erotic response that even Stella is visibly weirded out by before Dutch interrupts.
* MemeticMutation: [[https://twitter.com/reactjpg/status/1393097123160150016 The Writer's Barely-Disguised Fetish]][[labelnote:Explanation]]An edit of one EpisodeTitleCard made to read this. The edit quickly caught on as a way of mocking thinly veiled {{fanservice}} in media, especially if it involves an infamous fetish.[[/labelnote]]
* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: Parodied, where the [[SpecialGuest guest star]] shows up for about half a minute and ''dies'' in a single, separate scene that's part the beginning credits; OnceAnEpisode.
* RetroactiveRecognition: One of the protection racket gangsters in Episode 3 is Creator/RobertCostanzo, who'd have a very prolific voice acting career starting in the late 20th century. Cartoon fans will recognize him as the voice of Harvey Bullock in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and video game fans will know him as Joe Barbaro from ''VideoGame/MafiaII''.
* TooGoodToLast: One of the funniest TV comedies ever made, cancelled after only 6 episodes by an executive who thought [[ViewersAreMorons audiences were too stupid to get it]]. Ironically, the creators were relieved because they themselves thought it was Too Good To Keep Up, as they were running out of ideas.
* VindicatedByHistory: A big agreed factor in the show's failure is that audiences at the time weren't prepared at all for a show you had to pay close attention to at all times, which has become much more common since. This is due to a number of factors: the show doesn't have a LaughTrack, it aims for RapidFireComedy rather than the traditional long-setup-to-punchline, a lot of jokes are based on the FunnyBackgroundEvent or VisualPun, and every character is TheComicallySerious, so overall, if you aren't watching it with no distractions, then it just looks and sounds like a mediocre cop show. As it turns out, though, that was the entire appeal--it ends up feeling far ahead of almost every other comedy of its time, due mostly to the fact that its humor style ''doesn't'' lean on jokes that bludgeon you until you get them.
* TheWoobie: Jill, the dance teacher who gets beaten up by the two goons when she can't afford to pay for their protection racket. Fortunately, Frank kicks the crap out of them both with her help near the end of the episode.
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