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Author: marcoasalazarm

Apr 12th 2014 at 1:55:44 AM

....Ok.... trying to think of a way to rephrase the daefaroth examples (well, some of them).

Here goes...

-MiamiVice featured cops that fought crime by going undercover (OnlyInMiami during TheEighties, in all its pastel-colored, borderline PlaceWorseThanDeath glory) during the height of The War On Drugs. The series was loaded with GrayAndBlackMorality and was one of the first to heavily feature the characters going through PyrrhicVictory after PyrrhicVictory (on their best days) to show that police work is ''hard'' and DrugsAreBad.

-TwentyOneJumpStreet featured a "radical" undercover cop program that placed cops OlderThanTheyLook back on the classrooms, providing a combination of TeenDrama and cop drama.

-KnightRider featured a member of a HeroesRUs using a computerised, talking, virtually indestructible car RobotBuddy to fight crime.

-TheModSquad featured a trio of teenage [[BoxedCrook Boxed Crooks]] that did undercover work (without guns, badges or official authority, informing about or knocking out the bad guys for their cop handler to arrest) in order to earn their freedom.

-ScoobyDoo (and [[FollowTheLeader other shows that followed it]], like {{Jabberjaw}}, TheFunkyPhantom, TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan, SpeedBuggy, JosieAndThePussycats, etc.) followed (almost) the same formula of AmateurSleuth [[ThoseMeddlingKids Meddling Kids]] (and non-human sidekick of some sort) dealing with [[ScoobyDooHoax Scooby Doo Hoaxes]] and StupidCrooks. [[TheMeddlingKidsAreUseless Although sometimes they did nothing]] but being the KidAppealCharacter.