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* SaltAndPepper: Dick is the salt, and Ace is the pepper.

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* FrothyMugsOfWater: Averted, despite being aimed at kids. The club the duo frequents explicitly serves cocktails


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* ForeignRescore: As per usual with 4Kids dubs, they compleltely redid the background music and added in their own. Though considering how a lot of the original music is licensed, this is a lot more justifiable
* FrothyMugsOfWater: Averted, despite being aimed at kids. The club the duo frequents explicitly serves cocktails
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* FrothyMugsOfWater: Averted, despite being aimed at kids. The club the duo frequents explicitly serves cocktails
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* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Oddly enough averted, as one of the few 4Kids properties to retain their realistic firearms.

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* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Oddly enough averted, averted (as the show is set in the past as opposed to the present), as one of the few 4Kids properties to retain their realistic firearms.firearms (considering a lot of them are DistancedFromCurrentEvents (namely the 9/11 Attacks) at the time).
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* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: The show is animated in 2D, but the vehicles and dance sequences are computer animated.

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* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The show is animated in 2D, but the vehicles and dance sequences are computer animated.
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* TheSeventies: When the series was set, and it shows.

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* TheSeventies: When ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: The show is animated in 2D, but the series was set, vehicles and it shows.dance sequences are computer animated.



* ConspicuousCG: The show is animated in 2D, but the vehicles and dance sequences are computer animated.

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* TheOldConvict: In the episode where Ace and Dick are sent to prison, they befriend an elderly lifer called Bookboy (as he works in the library); Bookboy claims he's been called by that name for so long he doesn't remember his real name. He helps them escape using a glider he'd built out of matches over some decades.
* SaltAndPepper: Dick is the salt, and Ace is the pepper.



* SaltAndPepper: Dick is the salt, and Ace is the pepper.

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* SaltAndPepper: Dick is the salt, and Ace is the pepper.
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* TheAlcatraz: ''The'' Alcatraz is the setting of the PrisonEpisode; it [[LampshadeHanging is repeatedly remarked on]] that Alcatraz was closed forever in 1963 and should only be a tourist attraction.


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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: At the end or "Jail Break"; Ginger still swears revenge on Dick, Bookboy hasn't been heard from since he escaped, the head guard now owns a nightclub in New York, and Ace and Dick had long successful careers and were rarely sent back to prison.
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The cartoon follows Ace and Dick (Jack in the 4Kids dub), a pair of private detectives in San Francisco and their antics on the police force. Both are noted to be lovers of disco and funk, why else are they called '' '''Funky''' Cops''.

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The cartoon follows Ace Anderson and Dick (Jack in the 4Kids dub), dub) Kowalski, a pair of private detectives in San Francisco and their antics on the police force. Both are noted to be lovers of disco and funk, why else are they called '' '''Funky''' Cops''.
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* ConspicuousCG: The show is animated in 2D, but the vehicles are computer animated.

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* ConspicuousCG: The show is animated in 2D, but the vehicles and dance sequences are computer animated.
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* ForeignLanguageTheme : In the original French version with its English-performed Disco track[[labelnote:*]]as well as Dick and Ace's dialogue at the beginning[[/labelnote]], due to the series' setting.

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* ConspicuousCG: The show is animated in 2D, but the vehicles are computer animated.

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* ChronicallyCrashedCar: An unfortunate ice cream van gets totaled in every appearance its in.
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* ConspicuousCG: The show is animated in 2D, but the vehicles are computer animated.


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* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Oddly enough averted, as one of the few 4Kids properties to retain their realistic firearms.

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The series only had two seasons with a total of 37 episodes. Due to low ratings, the series was quietly cancelled. The show can be found on Youtube, both in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-gF-Wg_sZZe2M8g8DaGkqw English and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6S3UsFd3CTcB5bQP-NA-Q French]].

!!Tropes that apply to this series

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The series only had two seasons with a total of 37 episodes. Due to low ratings, the series was quietly cancelled. The show can be found on Youtube, both in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-gF-Wg_sZZe2M8g8DaGkqw English English]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6S3UsFd3CTcB5bQP-NA-Q French]].

!!Tropes that apply to this series----
!!''Funky Cops'' provides examples of:



* AffectionateParody: Of {{buddy cop show}}s during the 1970's, more of a straight up {{Homage}}.

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* AffectionateParody: Of {{buddy cop show}}s during the 1970's, 1970s, more of a straight up straight-up {{Homage}}.



* DiscoDan: Both Ace and Dick, then again, it is during the 1970's.

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* DiscoDan: Both Ace and Dick, then again, it is during the 1970's.1970s.



* {{Expy}}: The two leads, imagine Series/StarskyAndHutch, but replace one of them with Film/{{Shaft}}.
* SaltAndPepper: Dick is the salt, and Ace is the pepper.

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* {{Expy}}: The two leads, leads; imagine Series/StarskyAndHutch, but replace one of them with Film/{{Shaft}}.
* SaltAndPepper: Dick is the salt, and Ace is the pepper.pepper.
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''Funky Cops'' was a French animated series that aired during 2002. It was licensed to Creator/FourKidsEntertainment to be distributed in the United States.

The cartoon follows Ace and Dick, a pair of private detectives in San Francisco and their antics on the police force. Both of whom wouldn't be out of place in the 70's despite the setting being in the 21st century, judging by their love of disco.

The series only had two seasons with a total of 37 episodes. Due to low ratings, the series was quietly cancelled.

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''Funky Cops'' was a French animated series that aired during 2002. 2003. It was licensed to Creator/FourKidsEntertainment to be distributed in the United States.

States. Although another English dub was given much later.

The cartoon follows Ace and Dick, Dick (Jack in the 4Kids dub), a pair of private detectives in San Francisco and their antics on the police force. Both are noted to be lovers of whom wouldn't be out of place in the 70's despite the setting being in the 21st century, judging by their love of disco.

disco and funk, why else are they called '' '''Funky''' Cops''.

The series only had two seasons with a total of 37 episodes. Due to low ratings, the series was quietly cancelled.
cancelled. The show can be found on Youtube, both in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-gF-Wg_sZZe2M8g8DaGkqw English and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6S3UsFd3CTcB5bQP-NA-Q French]].



* TheSeventies: When the series was set, and it shows.



* DiscoDan: Both Ace and Dick.

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* DubNameChange: Dick was renamed Jack in the 4Kids dub.
* DiscoDan: Both Ace and Dick.Dick, then again, it is during the 1970's.
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* AffectionateParody: Of BuddyCop shows during the 1970's, more of a straight up {{Homage}}.

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* AffectionateParody: Of BuddyCop shows {{buddy cop show}}s during the 1970's, more of a straight up {{Homage}}.
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* AffectionateParody: Of cop shows during the 1970's, more of a straight up {{Homage}}.

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* AffectionateParody: Of cop BuddyCop shows during the 1970's, more of a straight up {{Homage}}.
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''Funky Cops'' was a French animated series that aired during 2002. It was licensed to Creator/4KidsEntertainment to be distributed in the United States.

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''Funky Cops'' was a French animated series that aired during 2002. It was licensed to Creator/4KidsEntertainment Creator/FourKidsEntertainment to be distributed in the United States.
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''Funky Cops'' was a French animated series that aired during 2002. It was licensed to Creator/4KidsEntertainment to be distributed in the United States.

The cartoon follows Ace and Dick, a pair of private detectives in San Francisco and their antics on the police force. Both of whom wouldn't be out of place in the 70's despite the setting being in the 21st century, judging by their love of disco.

The series only had two seasons with a total of 37 episodes. Due to low ratings, the series was quietly cancelled.

!!Tropes that apply to this series
* AffectionateParody: Of cop shows during the 1970's, more of a straight up {{Homage}}.
* CoolShades: Dick sports a pair of green shades.
* DiscoDan: Both Ace and Dick.
* EmbarrassingSlide: "A Fools Errand" has DaChief accidentally showing one of his vacation slides during the briefing.
* {{Expy}}: The two leads, imagine Series/StarskyAndHutch, but replace one of them with Film/{{Shaft}}.
* SaltAndPepper: Dick is the salt, and Ace is the pepper.

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