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It follows the classic BuddyCopShow format. Naturally, the detectives are a SaltAndPepper OddCouple:

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It follows the classic BuddyCopShow format. Naturally, the detectives are a SaltAndPepper an OddCouple:



* OddCouple and SaltandPepper:
** The older, more experienced August, is more of a ByTheBookCop and the pepper to the younger Chase's salt, he is more a loose cannon CowboyCop.

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* OddCouple and SaltandPepper:
OddCouple:
** The older, more experienced August, is more of a ByTheBookCop and the pepper to ByTheBookCop, while the younger Chase's salt, he Chase is more of a loose cannon CowboyCop.
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* PrecisionFStrike: August drops one of these during the parking garage chase in the episode "Cop Killer", but it can be hard to hear.
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* RecycledPremise: The episode "National Security" shares things in common with the sci-fi film ''The Silencers'', right down to the chase scene and stunts it borrows from, but it has a dream sequence in which a younger Chase sees a cow abducted by aliens.
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* DaChief: Captain Robert Jensen, played by Kenneth Tigar.

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* DaChief: Captain Robert Jensen, played by Kenneth Tigar.Creator/KennethTigar.
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This has been disambiguated. Also, tropes should never be shared on the same line together.


* ArcVillain and OverarchingVillain: Bobby Cole in Season 2.

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* ArcVillain and OverarchingVillain: ArcVillain: Bobby Cole in Season 2.

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** Also in France, the show has been reran several times due to its popularity.


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* MarketBasedTitle: In French-speaking countries/territories, it's known as ''Los Angeles Heat''.

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''LA Heat'' is an action series created by Joseph Merhi and Richard Pepin of PM Entertainment, Inc. The show revolves around two LAPD detectives.

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''LA Heat'' is an action series created by Joseph Merhi and Richard Pepin of PM Entertainment, Inc. [[note]]Current copyright is held by Echo Bridge Entertainment[[/note]] The show revolves around two LAPD detectives.


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This is not the same as the 1989 film of the same name.
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It is currently available via Amazon for streaming.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Redefined the literal trope: During its second season, the show replaced Baywatch on the #1 spot in Germany.
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* FatalMethodActing: During the filming of an early episode, stuntman Paul Dallas [[http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-04/local/me-31208_1_3-story-fall was killed on August 2, 1996 when he struck his head after landing on the edge of the airbag that was supposed to have broken his three-story fall. Unfortunately, he had been ejected backward and the back of his head had hit a metal railing.]]
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Added a little more info for Never Accepted in His Hometown.


* NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: The series began filming in 1996, and in 1997, it already premiered in Germany on Creator/RTL2 on January 20; in France on March 16, and in Portugal on May 18, and became popular. Meanwhile in the US, since it didn't have a backing of a major network, it was not picked up for domestic distribution. It's US premiere came on March 15, 1999 on TNT cable network. And after TNT's contract to run the show expired, it disappeared from the American airwaves.

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* NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: The series began filming in 1996, and in 1997, it already premiered in Germany on Creator/RTL2 on January 20; in France on March 16, and in Portugal on May 18, and became popular. Sometime in 1998, it even began airing in the Czech Republic. Meanwhile in the US, since it didn't have a backing of a major network, it was not picked up for domestic distribution. It's US premiere came on March 15, 1999 on TNT cable network. And after TNT's contract to run the show expired, it disappeared from the American airwaves.
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* BloodlessCarnage: So much so that its violence is so similar to their other movie efforts such as Rage (which, ironically, was its eighth episode in the series).
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* Fanservice: Episode 4, Night Becomes Electra, is loaded with this.
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* ...August Brooks (Steven Williams), a Vietnam War veteran who has been on the force for 16 years. In his youth he was a promising boxer, but after discovering that his manager and promoter were embezzling funds from fellow boxers, and forced him to [[ThrowingTheFight throw his first pro fight]], he quit and joined the police force. Outside that, he runs the Hoover Street Youth Boxing Center for underprivileged children in an effort to try to keep them out of gangs.

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* ...August Brooks (Steven Williams), (Creator/StevenWilliams), a Vietnam War veteran who has been on the force for 16 years. In his youth he was a promising boxer, but after discovering that his manager and promoter were embezzling funds from fellow boxers, and forced him to [[ThrowingTheFight throw his first pro fight]], he quit and joined the police force. Outside that, he runs the Hoover Street Youth Boxing Center for underprivileged children in an effort to try to keep them out of gangs.
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Hasn't got a Pre Asskicking One Liner

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* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Whit in "Strange Currencies", before the shootout. Also doubles as a PunctuatedForEmphasis:
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