Let’s Watch Cop Rock – Episode 0005

Welcome to Episode 05 of “Let’s Watch Cop Rock,” an 11-episode podcast discussing that classic police procedural rock musical soap opera crime drama Cop Rock, 11 episodes of which aired on ABC during the fall of 1990.

Over the course of this podcast as a whole, we discuss the events of the show, our reactions to the music, and the ways this program worked, or didn’t work, and why some of it still seems very relevant today. Sometimes we get political. Sometimes we crack up uncontrollably. Sometimes we tell unbelievable but entirely true stories of our own lives’ intersections with crime or law enforcement or both. Every episode we play Good Cop, Bad Cop, or Innocent Bystander?

To briefly recap: the Mayor got a heck of a lot of fake face removed and has turned into a mental and emotional child; Ronnie Cox, who is so amazing in RoboCop, plays a character with an entirely baffling mix of motivations and mannerisms; LaRusso got tied up by his lawyer and turned into a leather bottom; Krystal Ashtray’s mother still doesn’t know she got ripped off when she sold her baby but she really wants her back; Leonard Betts, known for eating cancer in a very memorable episode of The X-Files and as another alumnus of RoboCop, is now on the force; and CSI Father-Husband, a character whom we really loved at first, is getting weird.

I want to say, before we get started, that this is the first ever episode of any of the podcasts I’ve produced that required zero editing or clean-up. I am so grateful to my co-hosts, Detective Doodah and Officer Orifice, for being so incredibly clever and such a privilege to work with. Seriously, thanks, y’all. I think you can tell from the conversation we’re already having at the beginning of this episode that we really do enjoy hanging out and discussing stuff like this.

We’re switching up the release schedule because, frankly, we’re having a lot of fun listening to ourselves and we want to prolong the experience. From this point forward, each episode comes out every two weeks instead of every week. Just an FYI.

Watch the fifth episode of Cop Rock before listening. Trust me, it’ll make a lot more sense that way. You can get Cop Rock on Amazon or direct from Shout Factory. There are links for each in the show notes. I want to mention again, we are in no way associated with the production of the television program Cop Rock, nor do any of us have any association with Shout Factory’s production and distribution of the DVD version. We gain nothing financially from your purchase of Cop Rock. What we gather instead is the joy of spreading to others something we love.

You can find Officer Orifice on Twitter as @OfficerOrifice. I’m there too as @CopRocker.

Our theme music is “The Crime” by reiswerk, with full attribution in the show notes. And now… Let’s Watch Cop Rock!

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cop-Rock-Complete-Ronny-Cox/dp/B01BHCPQXA

Shout Factory: https://www.shoutfactory.com/product/cop-rock-the-complete-series

The Crime by reiswerk (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial  (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Reiswerk/55464 Ft: Anchor