Police Squad! / YMMV

Awesome Music: The Police Squad! theme by Ira Newborn. It's so awesome, it doubles as The Naked Gun theme.
Crosses the Line Twice: 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 "exactly as she does?" Hilarious.
Harsher in Hindsight: Episode 6's epilogue had Norberg accidentally Trash the Set. 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.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Robert Goulet made a cameo here as one of the guest stars killed in the opening. A few years later, Goulet would be cast as The Big Bad of the second film in the The Naked Gun trilogy.
Ho Yay:
- 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 Weird Aside for nearly the rest of the interview about an Ambiguously Gay 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.
Memetic Mutation: The Writer's Barely-Disguised Fetish^Explanation
Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize: Parodied, where the guest star shows up for about half a minute and dies in a single, separate scene that's part the beginning credits; Once an Episode.
Retroactive Recognition: One of the protection racket gangsters in Episode 3 is Robert Costanzo, 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 Batman: The Animated Series and video game fans will know him as Joe Barbaro from Mafia II.
Too Good to Last: One of the funniest TV comedies ever made, cancelled after only 6 episodes by an executive who thought 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.
Vindicated by History: 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 Laugh Track, it aims for Rapid-Fire Comedy rather than the traditional long-setup-to-punchline, a lot of jokes are based on the Funny Background Event or Visual Pun, and every character is The Comically Serious, 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.
The Woobie: 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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