Cop Rock......Did anyone ever see this show?

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Cop Rock......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 2:25pm

I was watching a count down on Nick-at-Nite and they mentioned this show and how it was like an episodic musical version of COPS. Anyways, just wondering what you guys thought about it.

Updated On: 12/8/05 at 02:25 PM

#2

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 2:26pm

It was called Cop Rock - you're confusing it with the candy.

And it was one of the most horrifically embarrassing things ever to hit a TV screen.

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#3

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 2:29pm

Fixed, Thanks Rath!

#4

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 2:32pm

It's one of those notorious shows - even though it ran for a very short time, everyone knows of it - it was SO bad.

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#5

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 2:34pm

Singing, dancing policemen. I liked it!

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#6

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 2:36pm

True that Rath! You know when Roseanne makes references to it on her old show, it had to be bad! I saw it once and had to turn it off after the jury box in one scene burst into a Gospel number...it was just...very surreal, and wrong.

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#7

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 2:44pm

umm...it's so bad it is kinda good...
Trio runs it every once in a while, and I TiVod it. Alot of bad singing/acting/dancing, and embarrassing plot lines. Also, Randy Newman was the music supervisor and wrote some of the songs and I cant stand him...BUT...there was a beautiful scene with Kathleen Wilhoite as a drug addict who, before selling her baby, sings to her "Sandman's Comin' Soon." In another episode, after getting the baby back, she sings another pretty song apologizing to the kid. She was really good...

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#8

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 2:47pm

They need to get the DVD out immediately!! It was so bad you have to see it to believe it. Besides it being a surreal musical, the writers leaned more toward soap opera writing. In one episode, one of the women gets her face redone so that she can look younger. I think she had scar tissue on her face that was removed or something.

I remember the episode with the singing jury. I will never forget it. The jury starts singing a gospel number that went "He's guilty, he's guilty".

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Updated On: 12/8/05 at 02:47 PM

#9

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:06pm

Hahaha I saw the first episode too, when the jury burst into gospel song. It was SO awkward, but it had me in stitches.

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#10

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:13pm

Yes - Roseanne re-created that scene in an episode where she is on trial for murdering her family. It is so much better as a spoof than the actual show - or, maybe that's what they were going for. Hard to tell.

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#11

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:24pm

I remember seeing the first episode. While the show was pretty bad, that song with the drug addict mom was actually quite good.

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#12

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:43pm

I'm proud to say that I have every episode on tape in a storage unit in Jersey.

#13

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:47pm

Loved it! So creative and innovative that people were simply not ready for it.

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#14

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:53pm

MEF....that is SO something to be proud of!


I know. I plan to hand them down from generation to generation.

#15

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:54pm

It was on at a time when I had not tv so I never go to watch it. I wish I had, though.

MEF...

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#16

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:58pm

I'm sorry, are you in my lineage?

Check eBay...

#17

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:58pm

I do recall it, very strange. Who was the "lead"?

#18

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:58pm

If you have the Trio channel on your cable or satellite, they may replay it.

A while ago they had a series of stuff called "brilliant but cancelled" with legendarily cancelled shows. Cop Rock was the only one that really sparked my interest (watched a few Parenthood's as well) and got most of them on dvd...but they have not shown it in about a year.

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#19

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:03pm

Went to eBay, typed in "Cop Rock", and look what came up:
http://cgi.ebay.com/COP-ROCK-all-11-episodes-DVD-Set_W0QQitemZ6461981706QQcategoryZ617QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

#20

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:04pm

MEF - is that your listing??

#21

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:06pm

Nope.

#22

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:08pm

Oh my... I checked, MEF, and you are my 5th cousin 6 times removed!

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#23

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:10pm

Musical theatre and Sondheim afficiandos will remember Anne Bobby as Beth in the York Theatre revival of Merrily We Roll Along.

DD---nice try.

#24

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:11pm

'twas worth a shot.

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#25

re: Cop Rocks......Did anyone ever see this show?

Posted: 12/8/05 at 5:51pm

She sang the angriest Not a Day Goes By...

You obviously haven't heard Marin Mazzie's version...