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* ParodyDisplacement: Viewers who weren't around during the series original run are likely to first learn about it due to the parodic ShowWithinAShow "T.J. Lazer" from ''Film/Robocop1987''
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** "Sweet Sixteen and Dead": [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Eddie Pearl]] is the owner of Pearl Enterprises who controls all crime on the Sunset Blvd, from drugs, to under-aged prostitution. Frequently bribing a councilman aide with money and girls to allow his criminal activities to continue, Eddie makes a habit of luring young women and pimping them out, even boasting the amount of women he's gotten hooked into prostitution and drugs. When the prostitute Kelly Hobbs learns about his bribes, Eddie fatally wounds her, then tries to have her vengeful brother Gordie killed via overdose.
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** "Sweet Sixteen and Dead": [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Eddie Pearl]] is the owner of Pearl Enterprises who controls all crime on the Sunset Blvd, from drugs, to under-aged prostitution. Frequently bribing a councilman aide with money and girls to allow his criminal activities to continue, Eddie makes a habit of luring young women and pimping them out, even boasting the amount number of women he's gotten hooked into prostitution and drugs. When the prostitute Kelly Hobbs learns about his bribes, Eddie fatally wounds her, then tries to have her vengeful brother Gordie killed via overdose.
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** "Sweet Sixteen and Dead": [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Eddie Pearl]] is the owner of Pearl Enterprises who controls all crime on the Sunset Blvd, from drugs, to under-aged prostitution. Frequently bribing a councilman aide with money and girls to allow his criminal activities to continue, Eddie makes a habit of luring young women and pimping them out, even boasting the amount of women he's gotten hooked into prostitution and drugs. When the prostitute Kelly Hobbs learns about his bribes, Eddie fatally wounds her, then tries to have her vengeful brother Gordie killed via overdose.
** "Requiem for a Cop": [[{{Pyromaniac}} Denson]] is an arsonist hired by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Frank D'Costa]] to burn down condemned buildings to collect the insurance money. Taking his job further than necessary, Denson makes sure to burn down the buildings with people still inside them to fuel his sadism. Having previously killed a couple inside a factory, Denson [[EstablishingCharacterMoment starts the episode]] burning down a building with homeless people still inside, killing four people, with two kids almost perishing in the flames. Murdering Sgt. T.J. Hooker's old partner Max Silver to cover up the conspiracy, Denson later tries to kill his own girlfriend and a cop trailing him to continue his arsons.
** "Carnal Express": Virgil Dobbs is an ambulance driver who moonlights as a {{human trafficker|s}}. Having his cohort Malek kidnap women with criminal records and sell them as {{sex slave}}s to paying customers, with four women missing thanks to him, Dobbs has Hooker's reformed female friend kidnapped and sold to a buyer in Mexico. Interested in the disguised Officer Stacy Sheridan, Dobbs has her knocked out with hopes of selling her to his favorite client, smugly professing that he'll "almost" miss her.
** "The Cheerleader Murder": [[MadArtist George Laszlo]] is a porn producer who specializes in "Teeny Bops". Having his director Miles Dickson scout for under-aged girls, Laszlo has them hooked on drugs with the promise of giving them more should they act in his pornos, which results in one of his stars dying of an overdose. [[HeKnowsTooMuch Killing anybody close to him who could potentially get him arrested]], Laszlo even tries to have Dickson arrested in his place as he tries to leave everyone behind.
** "Trackdown": [[SerialKiller Robert Marshall]] is a SerialRapist and murderer who's been arrested several times for his many assaults. Embarking on a cross-country rape and murder spree, Marshall kidnaps a woman named Yvonne Winslow to use her to lure women to him so that he can rape and kill them, threatening to kill Yvonne, her husband, and her sick baby if she doesn't comply. After failing to nab a girl, Marshall forces Yvonne to be his new bride and continue his spree, killing her when she tries to escape from him and making Stacy his new bride.
** "Sweet Sixteen and Dead": [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Eddie Pearl]] is the owner of Pearl Enterprises who controls all crime on the Sunset Blvd, from drugs, to under-aged prostitution. Frequently bribing a councilman aide with money and girls to allow his criminal activities to continue, Eddie makes a habit of luring young women and pimping them out, even boasting the amount of women he's gotten hooked into prostitution and drugs. When the prostitute Kelly Hobbs learns about his bribes, Eddie fatally wounds her, then tries to have her vengeful brother Gordie killed via overdose.
** "Requiem for a Cop": [[{{Pyromaniac}} Denson]] is an arsonist hired by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Frank D'Costa]] to burn down condemned buildings to collect the insurance money. Taking his job further than necessary, Denson makes sure to burn down the buildings with people still inside them to fuel his sadism. Having previously killed a couple inside a factory, Denson [[EstablishingCharacterMoment starts the episode]] burning down a building with homeless people still inside, killing four people, with two kids almost perishing in the flames. Murdering Sgt. T.J. Hooker's old partner Max Silver to cover up the conspiracy, Denson later tries to kill his own girlfriend and a cop trailing him to continue his arsons.
** "Carnal Express": Virgil Dobbs is an ambulance driver who moonlights as a {{human trafficker|s}}. Having his cohort Malek kidnap women with criminal records and sell them as {{sex slave}}s to paying customers, with four women missing thanks to him, Dobbs has Hooker's reformed female friend kidnapped and sold to a buyer in Mexico. Interested in the disguised Officer Stacy Sheridan, Dobbs has her knocked out with hopes of selling her to his favorite client, smugly professing that he'll "almost" miss her.
** "The Cheerleader Murder": [[MadArtist George Laszlo]] is a porn producer who specializes in "Teeny Bops". Having his director Miles Dickson scout for under-aged girls, Laszlo has them hooked on drugs with the promise of giving them more should they act in his pornos, which results in one of his stars dying of an overdose. [[HeKnowsTooMuch Killing anybody close to him who could potentially get him arrested]], Laszlo even tries to have Dickson arrested in his place as he tries to leave everyone behind.
** "Trackdown": [[SerialKiller Robert Marshall]] is a SerialRapist and murderer who's been arrested several times for his many assaults. Embarking on a cross-country rape and murder spree, Marshall kidnaps a woman named Yvonne Winslow to use her to lure women to him so that he can rape and kill them, threatening to kill Yvonne, her husband, and her sick baby if she doesn't comply. After failing to nab a girl, Marshall forces Yvonne to be his new bride and continue his spree, killing her when she tries to escape from him and making Stacy his new bride.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: One of Creator/EddieIzzard's routines sees her theorize that T.J. Hooker is Captain Kirk taking a month off from commanding a starship to play a police officer on a 20th century Earth-like planet.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: One of Creator/EddieIzzard's routines sees her theorize that T.J. Hooker is [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk Kirk]] taking a month off from commanding a starship to play a police officer on a 20th century Earth-like planet.planet. Or using the Holodeck to live out his love of twentieth-century cop shows.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Even people who loathe the series can't deny how blood-pumpingly awesome Mark Snow's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRD9hCkpQ-c theme music (season 2 basically same arrangement as season 1)]] is or even in its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A John Davis arrangement]] is later seasons.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Even people who loathe the series can't deny how blood-pumpingly awesome Mark Snow's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRD9hCkpQ-c theme music (season 2 basically same arrangement as season 1)]] is or is, even in its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A John Davis arrangement]] is in later seasons.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Even people who loathe the series can't deny how blood-pumpingly awesome Mark Snow's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRD9hCkpQ-c theme music (season 2 basically same arrangement as season 1)]]is 1)]] is or even in its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A John Davis arrangement]] is later seasons.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Even people who loathe the series can't deny how blood-pumpingly awesome Mark Snow's theme is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRD9hCkpQ-c theme music (season 2 basically same arrangement as season 1)]] 1)]]is even in its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A John Davis arrangement]] is later seasons.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Even people who loathe the series can't deny how blood-pumpingly awesome Mark Snow's theme is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRD9hCkpQ-c theme music (season 2 basically same arrangement as season 1]] 1)]] even in its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A John Davis arrangement]] is later seasons.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Even people who loathe the series can't deny how blood-pumpingly awesome Mark Snow's theme is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRD9hCkpQ-c theme music (season 2 basically same arrangement as season 1]] even in its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A John Davis arrangement]] is later seasons.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: One of Creator/EddieIzzard's routines sees him theorize that T.J. Hooker is Captain Kirk taking a month off from commanding a starship to play a police officer on a 20th century Earth-like planet.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: One of Creator/EddieIzzard's routines sees him her theorize that T.J. Hooker is Captain Kirk taking a month off from commanding a starship to play a police officer on a 20th century Earth-like planet.
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* ClicheStorm: The series is very guilty of being this for cop shows. Every storyline, you've seen before. All of the character types and stereotypes are here. The villains tend to have no characterization, largely being inhumane monsters. The show is so cliched, that you might think you're watching a parody of cop shows rather than the real deal.
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* ClicheStorm: The series is very guilty of being this for cop shows. Every storyline, you've seen before. All of the character types and stereotypes are here. The villains tend to have no characterization, largely being inhumane monsters. The show is so cliched, that you might think you're watching a parody of cop shows rather than the real deal.
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* {{Anvilicious}} - The series, with a threat of some kind (drugs, alcohol, guns, etc.) repeatedly declaimed by Hooker as the greatest evil that humanity has ever faced.
* CrazyAwesome: Some of the action sequences are insane, especially the car chase between the cops and villains where ''both'' cars are on fire, which made it into the opening sequence later on for good reason.
* EarWorm: Once you hear that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hci3fWEx-JA theme song]], you will be bombarded with an unforgettable eighties mash of brass band, rock guitars, and synth drums. It sounds even more riveting in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A high-definition remaster.]]
** [[https://youtu.be/Znfy2xMmoaE The original version]] is more traditionally orchestrated, with less synthesizers. Bonus fact, it was composed by Mark Snow, who would go on to write another EarWorm theme: ''Series/TheXFiles''.
* CrazyAwesome: Some of the action sequences are insane, especially the car chase between the cops and villains where ''both'' cars are on fire, which made it into the opening sequence later on for good reason.
* EarWorm: Once you hear that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hci3fWEx-JA theme song]], you will be bombarded with an unforgettable eighties mash of brass band, rock guitars, and synth drums. It sounds even more riveting in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A high-definition remaster.]]
** [[https://youtu.be/Znfy2xMmoaE The original version]] is more traditionally orchestrated, with less synthesizers. Bonus fact, it was composed by Mark Snow, who would go on to write another EarWorm theme: ''Series/TheXFiles''.
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* {{Anvilicious}} - The series, with a threat of some kind (drugs, alcohol, guns, etc.) repeatedly declaimed by Hooker as the greatest evil that humanity has ever faced.
* CrazyAwesome: Some of the action sequences are insane, especially the car chase between the cops and villains where ''both'' cars are on fire, which made it into the opening sequence later on for good reason.
* EarWorm: Once you hear that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hci3fWEx-JA theme song]], you will be bombarded with an unforgettable eighties mash of brass band, rock guitars, and synth drums. It sounds even more riveting in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A high-definition remaster.]]
** [[https://youtu.be/Znfy2xMmoaE The original version]] is more traditionally orchestrated, with less synthesizers. Bonus fact, it was composed by Mark Snow, who would go on to write another EarWorm theme: ''Series/TheXFiles''.faced.
* CrazyAwesome: Some of the action sequences are insane, especially the car chase between the cops and villains where ''both'' cars are on fire, which made it into the opening sequence later on for good reason.
* EarWorm: Once you hear that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hci3fWEx-JA theme song]], you will be bombarded with an unforgettable eighties mash of brass band, rock guitars, and synth drums. It sounds even more riveting in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A high-definition remaster.]]
** [[https://youtu.be/Znfy2xMmoaE The original version]] is more traditionally orchestrated, with less synthesizers. Bonus fact, it was composed by Mark Snow, who would go on to write another EarWorm theme: ''Series/TheXFiles''.
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** [[https://youtu.be/Znfy2xMmoaE The original version]] is more traditionally orchestrated, with less synthesizers. Bonus fact, it was composed by Mark Snow, who would go on to write another EarWorm theme: ''TheXFiles''.''Series/TheXFiles''.
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* EarWorm: Once you hear that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hci3fWEx-JA theme song]], you will be bombarded with an unforgettable eighties mash of brass band, rock guitars, and synth drums. It sounds even more riveting in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A high-definition remaster.]]]]
** [[https://youtu.be/Znfy2xMmoaE The original version]] is more traditionally orchestrated, with less synthesizers. Bonus fact, it was composed by Mark Snow, who would go on to write another EarWorm theme: ''TheXFiles''.
** [[https://youtu.be/Znfy2xMmoaE The original version]] is more traditionally orchestrated, with less synthesizers. Bonus fact, it was composed by Mark Snow, who would go on to write another EarWorm theme: ''TheXFiles''.
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* {{Anvilicious}} - The series, with a threat of some kind (drugs, alcohol, guns, etc.) repeatedly declaimed by Hooker as the greatest evil that humanity has ever faced.faced.
* EarWorm: Once you hear that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hci3fWEx-JA theme song]], you will be bombarded with an unforgettable eighties mash of brass band, rock guitars, and synth drums. It sounds even more riveting in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A high-definition remaster.]]
* EarWorm: Once you hear that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hci3fWEx-JA theme song]], you will be bombarded with an unforgettable eighties mash of brass band, rock guitars, and synth drums. It sounds even more riveting in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03d16Xvf9A high-definition remaster.]]
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* {{Anvilicious}} - The series, with a threat of some kind (drugs, alcohol, guns, etc.) repeatedly declaimed by Hooker as the greatest evil that humanity has ever faced.
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* CompleteMonster - In the pilot, the main villains of the story stick up an elderly couple, and when they revealed that they had only had some pocket change, they are killed one by one in cold blood with only a casual comment afterward on how they were so cheap.
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* {{Anvilicious}} - The series was the very epitome of this trope, series, with a threat of some kind (drugs, alcohol, guns, etc.) repeatedly declaimed by Hooker as the greatest evil that humanity has ever faced.
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* CompleteMonster - In the pilot, the main villains of the story stick up an elderly couple, and when they revealed that they had only had some pocket change, they are killed one by one in cold blood with only a casual comment afterward on how they were so cheap.
