The pinnacle of home entertainment: Cop Rock DVD set released
May 19, 2016 7:27 PM   Subscribe

Your long wait is over. Public service announcement: as of Tuesday, you can finally own Cop Rock on a triple DVD box. NYT: Sometimes “worst” is a misnomer for “ahead of its time.” On Tuesday Shout! Factory releases “Cop Rock: The Complete Series,” a three-disc package that provides a chance to revisit this TV curiosity. Watching the 11 episodes — the original 16-episode order was truncated when the show didn’t generate ratings — is fascinating, and not always in a train wreck way. When “Cop Rock” worked, though that was only intermittently, it worked quite well. Previously.
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Oh snap! "Life in the hood / Ain't no piece of pie / Anybody can die / When the bullets fly!"
posted by Bob Regular at 7:51 PM on May 19, 2016


"Has the jury reached a verdict?"

"We have, your Honor."

<to court clerk> "Hit it"

It's an experience. Just... such an experience.
posted by fatbird at 7:55 PM on May 19, 2016 [9 favorites]


If cops weren't meant to burst into song then they wouldn't install electric organs in police briefing rooms.
posted by ckape at 8:03 PM on May 19, 2016 [15 favorites]




ORGANS, ORGANS EVERYWHERE
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:55 PM on May 19, 2016 [2 favorites]




SO. MUCH. OVERHEAD. LIGHTING.
posted by blueberry at 9:37 PM on May 19, 2016 [1 favorite]


beep
posted by atomicmedia at 9:52 PM on May 19, 2016


Oh my goodness, there is something magical that happens when the knowingly theatrical campiness of musical theater is combined with the self-serious Gritty Realism of cop shows, and I don't know if I can safely handle the idea of watching more than just a little bit
posted by DoctorFedora at 11:14 PM on May 19, 2016 [5 favorites]


Oh goodness gracious! I watched all of this, first run, religiously. I think I still have the entire run on VHS someplace. I will buy this.
posted by hippybear at 12:38 AM on May 20, 2016 [2 favorites]


Holy Shit -- Richard "Dick" Jones is getting sentenced to death by hanging?! It's RoboCop Rock! "Dead or Alive, You're Singing With Meeeee!"
posted by benzenedream at 1:18 AM on May 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


Oh sure but forty years later you get Siemens Healthineers. Was it worth it?
posted by petebest at 5:02 AM on May 20, 2016


I'm sorry but no amount of irony or nostalgia can make this thing anything other than the worst idea ever.
posted by jonmc at 6:14 AM on May 20, 2016 [2 favorites]


Even Sheryl Crow showed up on this one as an undercover cop.

I'm all for experiments in genre, but I remember trying to watch this when it came out, and....no.
posted by xingcat at 6:21 AM on May 20, 2016


Never saw it. There was a conflict with Parker Lewis Can't Lose.

I am very much interested in this. Perhaps not to the point of wanting to pay money for it, but I will certainly be filling out a library request form.
posted by Capt. Renault at 6:22 AM on May 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


I loved this show.
posted by No Robots at 7:40 AM on May 20, 2016


My whole family unironically loved this show when it first came out. I am seriously considering getting this for my dad as a father's day gift.

Carl Anderson as a judge - genius!
posted by Ben Trismegistus at 7:44 AM on May 20, 2016




I'm the baby merchant.
Tots R Us...


How can any self-respecting journalist write about Cop Rock without mentioning the Baby Merchant? I just feel sorry for anyone who did not get to experience Baby Merchant when it came out. What a glorious time to be alive.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 1:07 PM on May 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


Network television in 1990 did not just have Cop Rock, there were also the singing teachers of Hull High.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 1:14 PM on May 20, 2016


AV Club: Oh sure, there are cops aplenty, but at no point does the show, or its music, ever “rock.” Cop Rock pointlessly explores the full spectrum of terrible music, from awful boy-band knockoffs to lumbering political rap, but its primary musical genre is the ballad—the wimpier and more watered-down the better. A better title would have been Police Treacly Ballad, but that would have scared audiences away even more effectively than Cop Rock did.
posted by porn in the woods at 3:47 AM on May 21, 2016


David Lynch's 'On the Air' still unreleased...
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 5:35 AM on May 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Oh shit. Guess what Amazon just delivered to my house.
posted by schmod at 4:22 AM on May 25, 2016 [2 favorites]


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