History Series / TheGoodGuys

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Jack
** TheLancer: Dan
** TheBigGuy: Ruiz
** TheChick: Liz
** TheSmartGuy: Samantha
** TagalongKid: Julius
** TeamPet - Izzy
* FiringOneHanded

* BadassMustache: Dan Stark. The mustache even got its own billing in some of the promos. Frank Savage too.

* SickEpisode: Episode 3.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The Georgians. Alfredo & Tico aka, Matt & Phil.

* ArsonMurderAndLifeSaving: [[spoiler:Jack and Dan clearly expect this after they complete their first case. Then, DaChief tells them they [[RealityEnsues caused over a million dollars in property damage and violated over 30 procedural rules]], and [[SubvertedTrope they're lucky they still have their jobs.]]]]

* GunsAkimbo: Pedro is highly trained and very good at trick shots so he can pull this off, [[GunsDontWorkThatWay at least according to Hollywood]]. When Jack tries this [[RealityEnsues it results in the]] [[EpicFail Epic Fail]] of missing with every round from only a few meters.

* RealityEnsues: While alot of Dan's outdated Cowboy cop methods are surprisingly effective, they're hardly approved in the modern day. Such as when evidence he found must be thrown out due to him having coerced it out of a suspect under(false) threat of harm.
** Jack dramatically unloads two pistols at a guy at point blank, only to miss every shot. As the criminal calmy points out "its harder than it looks".

* HelloAttorney: Liz, the Assistant District Attorney and Jack's ex-girlfriend.

Not related to the TheNineties British show or 1968 [[Series/GilligansIsland Bob Devenr]] sitcom of the same name.

Not related to the TheNineties British show of the same name.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In ''Cop Killers'', Jack and Dan "cop-block" Julius in the middle of a date.

* ABNegative: [[spoiler: Dan's]] blood type.
* {{Adorkable}}: Samantha, especially in the first episode in which she's introduced.
** Lampshaded in the 20th (and last) episode. "The oddly hot chick with the [[Series/FamilyMatters Urkel]] glasses."

* LetThemDieHappy: A variant in ''Little Things'', where no deception is involved. The AffablyEvil villains of the episode give a man who smuggle them across the border a very large wad of cash, then shoot him seconds later, with one of them stating that he gave him the money before killing him so that he would die happy.

* TakingAThirdOption: A somewhat sleazy one happens when Kyle is introduced. Two coworkers approach him for advice after discovering corporate wrongdoing. One of them wants to blow the whole thing wide open, and the other is terrified of them being fired and black-balled and wants to cover the whole thing up. Kyle proposes that instead of giving the information to the police, they sell the information to a corporate competitor, who will naturally reveal the information anyway in order to discredit his competitor, which will keep their names out of it, and get the three of them (naturally he wants a cut) a nice bundle of cash from the competitor to boot.
* ThisIsReality: In "The Dim Knight."

* VillainousBreakdown: Buddy Haverton.

* WhosLaughingNow: Escalante.

** Perry, played by Wayne Knight, spends his appearance getting verbally abused by cops, criminals and even children.

* TrueCompanions: The Georgians and Sasha.

''The Good Guys'' is a 2010 summer BuddyCopShow starring Creator/BradleyWhitford and Colin Hanks, from the creator of ''Series/BurnNotice''. The {{Pilot}} aired as a sneak-peek on May 19th of that year, and the series began its first season on June 7. Unfortunately, the show struggled with low ratings via something of a cult audience, and was cancelled after [[http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/12/its_official_the_good_guys_are.php one season]].

** The Murderin' Jane's drawn in a [[HelloNurse nurse uniform]].

''The Good Guys'' is a 2010 summer BuddyCopShow starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks, from the creator of ''Series/BurnNotice''. The {{Pilot}} aired as a sneak-peek on May 19th of that year, and the series began its first season on June 7. Unfortunately, the show struggled with low ratings via something of a cult audience, and was cancelled after [[http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/12/its_official_the_good_guys_are.php one season]].

* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted completely. The series was filmed entirely within the UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex. Real-life locations in Dallas are used; Dan lives in a trailer next to Fair Park, and the Cotton Bowl is used as a plot point in one episode.

* [[spoiler: CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds]]: Double subverted in "Whistle-blower", to excellent effect.

-> "The bad guys are a bunch of guys running around with guns. The good guys are a ''team'' of guys running around with guns."
->--Dan Stark "$3.52"

* {{Pastiche}}:

Much like ''Series/{{Glee}}'', ''The Good Guys'' tends to use its {{Troperiffic}} premise to build up subversions of the genre's conventions. And, also much like ''Series/{{Glee}}'', this gives the frequent impression that the show doesn't know if it's a parody, a deconstruction, or a reconstruction at any given time.

* EpicFail: Jack empties two pistol magazines at his opponent at point blank range and manages to miss every shot. The assassin shrugs and comments, "It's harder than it looks."

--> '''soon-to-be-AssholeVictim, on the phone''': All right, yeah, sorry, uh, one of the VillagePeople wants to buy a ring for his boyfriend.

** Well, he ''is'' [[TheWestWing Josh Lyman]]. The ladies, they can sense it.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The Duke, antagonist of episode 1x09.

* BittersweetEnding - Episode 7. Stark & Bailey foil a heist but no one believes them.d Willie, the bumbling getaway driver who helped them, is sent back to prison for his involvement and breaks his promise to his daughter to go straight.

* RealityEnsues: While alot of Dan's outdated Cowboy cop methods are surprisingly effective, they're hardly approved in the modern day. Such as when Dan get valuable information from a criminal, only for it to be thrown out in court when its revealed that he forcibly coerced it out of him under false threat.