That thing is still on the air? Criminal stupidity = timeless entertainment.
(That is, when you are not the victim.)
Yes, still on the air after all these years. I could watch that show for hours and never get bored. I just wish they'd cut the part when do that scripted banter in the squad car about why so-and-so decided to become a police officer.
There are three things that must happen in every COPS episode:
- Domestic disturbance in a trailer park or tenement. Man always shirtless and intoxicated. Woman always hysterical and disheveled. Always dirty dishes in sink with clothes, dirty ash trays and garbage strewn about the house. Camera will sometimes pan in on a rat scuttling through the trash.
- Somebody is always sure to say "I didn't do nuttin", "Them drugs ain't mine" or "Those ain't my pants!"
- Obligatory chase scene which usually ends with driver bailing out, leading to a foot chase in which overweight cops scale fences and trample through underbrush. Driver then invariably claims to not have been driving. "Car? What car? That ain't mah car!"
Hey, that formula has worked for 25 years! Why stop now?