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Inspector Norris: Oi! Smart lip doesn't work with me, Nogsy. I don't react well to it. Now, you better start giving me something solid or I'll feed you to the sharks.
Manny: You have... beautiful eyes.
Inspector Norris: You're going away, Nogsy, you understand me? This is the end of the line.
Manny: Do you think it'd be really naughty if I phoned up the Hong Kong Kitchen and got us all some crispy duck?
Inspector Norris: Listen, you'd better speak up, or else we'll be talking to your missus. How'd you like that, family man?
Manny: Hey, when all this has blown over, let's go and see Les Misérables. Have you been to the zoo? It's brilliant.
Black Books, "Blackout"

Leslie: We just want to have a concert for the kids, but you won't let us!
Chris: Well, that's terrible! Is there anything we can do about that, Ben?
Ben: Uh, no.
Chris: Damn! [Hastens off the scene]
[on Confession Cam]
Ben: Chris and I used to balance budgets separately. When he did it nothing got done, and when I did it I got death threats.
Parks and Recreation season 2 episode 19 "Master Plan"

Chris: When we were state auditors, we had an amazing system.
Ben: Chris pumped everyone up and made them feel positive and happy, and I swooped in and slashed their budgets to ribbons.
Chris: Like a majestic alley-oop. "You're all amazing"!
Ben: You're all fired!
Chris: Teamwork!
Parks and Recreation season 6 episode 3 "Doppelgängers"

"There are no good cops here."
John Reese, Person of Interest, "Control-Alt-Delete"

Gilgamesh Wulfenbach: That's called "diplomacy."
Bangladesh Dupree: Shyeah, I hate that stuff—but your father never shut about it! "Oh Dupree, killing them would make people sad." And he was always making me look bad in front of prisoners— "Blah blah blah, you can't kill them if they've surrendered, I won't allow it..." And then, of course, everyone would just go and surrender!

Alfred: And just what do you call this morality play unfolding beneath us?
Batman: It's a classic. Good cop. Bad cop.
Alfred: And I trust that Master Richard is the 'good cop'?
Batman: Why else do you think he wears the bright colors?

"They were like policemen - Cubby would light you a cigarette and Harry would smack it out of your mouth".
Michael Caine on James Bond producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman

Well, last night these two bouncers
And one of 'em's alright, the other one's the scary one
—"From the Ritz to the Rubble", Arctic Monkeys

Delivery Debbie: We know you've been stealing pieces of my pizza, Doug.
Otto: Actually, we don't know that yet.
Delivery Debbie: Right, yeah, right, do the whole "good cop, bad cop" thing.

Otto: It's time to play a little, uh... [pulls out a shaver from hammerspace] Good cop, bald cop.
[Otto begins to shave his own hair before Olive stops him by grabbing the shaver]
Olive: OTTO, NO! It's good cop, bad cop!

Olive: Otto, you don't buy people puppies!
Otto: See? This is why you're the bad cop.
Odd Squad (following Otto gifting Ori a new puppy during his interrogation), "Moustache Confidential"

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