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Colin Quinn’s Meta Police Procedural Series “Cop Show” Is Back for Season 3

August 21, 2016
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colin quinn, cop show, dave attell, irina shayk, jerry seinfeld, keith robinson, l studio, meta, parody, police procedural, satire

Colin Quinn has been expertly dissecting every single trope of every police procedural/detective TV series with Cop Show.

In fact, Quinn has done it so well with showing how overdone so many cop shows are, but pointing out their fallacies with “behind-the-scenes” footage and interviews with a mysterious European journalist, that he’s made it to a 3rd season over at L Studio. 

Get into season 3 of Cop Show here.

Man Seeking Woman Shows How Asking Someone Out Can Be Like Trying to Be a Hardboiled Detective

January 27, 2016
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eric andre, jay baruchel, man seeking woman, parody, police procedural

Man Seeking Woman takes the idea that you would need grit like some hardened detective on a police procedural in order to confidently ask someone out, in person no less, and makes into a reality, complete with all the police procedural trappings. 

Watch it here.

Above Average’s “Criminal Crimes” Can’t Get Over a Hot Corpse

September 25, 2015
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above average, chess club, danny jolles, matt rogers, michelle buteau, police procedural

When professional homicide detectives examine a fresh corpse, they are really good at spotting details that help them infer the cause of the murder.

The detectives of Criminal Crimes from Chess Club at Above Average aren’t those kind of detectives.

Just see exactly why they aren’t here.

UCB LA Envisions a Police Procedural Made by Your Dad Who Is Worried About You

November 26, 2014
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father's day, parody, police procedural, ucb, upright citizens brigade

This Thanksgiving is a time of, if anything, compulsory familial interaction and conversation. All in attendance probably mean well and just aren’t sure how to communicate especially in such a forced situation. 

Perhaps, you’d get a better idea of what you’re dad is trying to telling you through “his version” of a police procedural thanks to UCB’s digital team here in LA.

TBS Orders Police Procedural Spoof Pilot From Steve Carell

November 6, 2013
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parody, pilot, police procedural, steve carell, tbs, tribeca

TBS Orders Police Procedural Spoof Pilot From Steve Carell

Called ‘Tribeca’, there’s undoubtedly going to be a crosstown rival dynamic that will happen with Brooklyn Nine Nine if Steve Carell’s pilot goes to series at TBS.

The Midnight Show Revisits The Very Short Lived Police Procedural “Cop Dinosaur”

April 2, 2013
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dinosaur, midnight show, police procedural

As part of their live YouTube channel, the hilarious Midnight Show revisits their ill fated series ‘Cop Dinosaur’ that featured, as the title suggests, a dinosaur as cop in real times.

See the “true” story here.

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