So I was watching my new favorite television station last night (coming in just ahead of Toon Disney, which has been replaying the shitty X-men cartoon from the early Nineties, fucking sweet), and a little show called Cop Rock came on from their series Brilliant but Canceled. Cop Rock. Yep, you guessed right. Cops and "rock & roll". There's even a little musical note in-between Cop and Rock, so you know what the Rock refers to. I wasn't sure at first, I didn't think anyone could ever produce a show where the basic premise was cops singing about their woes.

But then Larusso, one of those characters on the edge (you know, like Jo in Facts of Life), well Larusso got accused of killing another cop. But I wasn't sure if he was really guilty (mostly because I had never seen an episode before, and also because they played dramatic music to make the viewer think something shady was going down). So Larusso gets sent to the slammer as he can't afford the $500,000 bail, seeing as he has to live on a cop's salary, and the bailiff comes to take him away. So he starts singing. Seriously. He tells us that he's one bad mofo, and the first one to mess with him in the klink is gonna wind up dead (again, because he's one of those "n the edge" characters, but we're still supposed to like him, or at least like to hate him, or hate to like him, or something).

Then they play the opening credits. And they are performed by Randy Newman. You can't make this shit up. Randy Newman. He's playing in what appears to be a bar as all of the officers of Cop Rock either bob their heads, do little jigs or sing along.

Then we get into the meat of the episode. Apparently Quinn, the sexy yet tough young cop on the squad, has let down a crack whore that sold her baby for drugs. The crack whore wishes to right her wrongs (that'd be the wrongs of selling her baby for 200$ for crack) and is willing to turn in the dirty lawyer that sets up this underground baby network for crack whores who need $200. Then, after turning over the lawyer, she is arrested for, you guessed it, being a crack whore. So she sings a song. A song about how Quinn is a dirty liar, because she couldn't do anything about someone being arrested for admitting to using drugs and selling their baby for $200. The crack whore even finishes the song with "at least I didn't lie...".

So Quinn feels bad about the crack whore's arrest, and decides to get her baby back for her. She goes undercover with another young cop and they go to the lawyer saying they want a baby. The lawyer is all "what!?! I don't buy and sell baby's illegally! That's preposterous!" and Quinn says "well, we'll just leave our number in case you want to call and talk or something". Then, almost immediately an intermediary calls them saying he heard something about them wanting a baby and stuff. Can they meet in the park?

So Quinn goes to the park, and the baby smuggling intermediary arrives. And guess what? He sings about selling babies.

I can't go on. Cop Rock. One of the best shows I have ever seen. Check it out.