Cop School 1: What if we made Animal House but it's, like, at a cop school?
2: We made money but our cops already graduated school? I guess it's just a frat house comedy about actual cops? Still called Cop School for some reason.
3: That was weird. Just back to cop school now.
2: We made money but our cops already graduated school? I guess it's just a frat house comedy about actual cops? Still called Cop School for some reason.
3: That was weird. Just back to cop school now.
4: You know how the first three were either about cops or cop school? This one's just about like regular people. Except, everybody's a cop now. It's cop world. Look, our leading man is starting to get a bit Hollywood Weird in the face so we can do whatever and he's going NOWHERE.
5: ...well. Dang. He kinda went everywhere. I guess we do, like, Baywatch? Or Miami Vice? Like Baywatch in Miami. And... international jewel thieves?
6: The international jewel thieves part were cheaper than the Florida part so we're just doing that part again.
6: The international jewel thieves part were cheaper than the Florida part so we're just doing that part again.
7: You know what's really hot now, in 1994? Glasnost. Perestroika. Detente. All the kids want a peek behind that old iron curtain, so let's put the cop school cops in Russia.
8?: I hear reboots are cool now? Surely someone must have some money to reboot the cop frathouse comedy.
8?: I hear reboots are cool now? Surely someone must have some money to reboot the cop frathouse comedy.
It has come to my attention that Assignment Miami Beach actually came out before Baywatch was a thing. I drastically underestimated the gap between it and when Mission To Moscow, the only one whose release year I knew offhand, came out.
I regret the error.
I regret the error.
"See, it's funny because police brutality."
This was a weird series.
This was a weird series.
https://twitter.com/DelilahGarret/status/1416253267621781505
A. I'm pretty sure that Carey Mahoney would idolize John McClane more than he'd idolize Carey Mahoney, though?
B. Yeah, if they did reboot it, the instructor would pat Tackleberry on the back and say, "You're in the big leagues now, Eugene."
B. Yeah, if they did reboot it, the instructor would pat Tackleberry on the back and say, "You're in the big leagues now, Eugene."
https://twitter.com/seandehey/status/1416259673716531201
My thread crammed a lot of the weirdness of the franchise into a few tweets but I also should emphasize that apart from "Animal House where the animals are, specifically, pigs", the actual high concept of the movie was "Imagine if police could be, like, Black people or women?"
And they STILL cast a Hollywood Good Looking white guy as the lead.
We saw the first four of these movies out of order on basic cable so the weird twist where the crazed gang leader big bad from the second movie showed up to enroll in the cop school in the third one and had one of his crime victims as his roommate happened in reverse.
No, yeah, Bobcat Goldthwait played the same character in the previous movie, where he was the leader of a motorcycle gang that brought the city to its knees, and also pretty specifically and personally terrorized that guy.
They were weird movies.
They were weird movies.
https://twitter.com/kaiofthevoid/status/1416263178120482816
There were some genuine giants in terms of talent among the cast. Which only added to the weirdness.
https://twitter.com/there_once_was/status/1416257343629692928
And I didn't mention how the movies switched between a couple different main antagonists on the police side, while inexplicably keeping the same toadying lieutenants.
I would have sworn I had no idea how the theme song went and then I read this tweet and it's stuck in my head.
https://twitter.com/snidegrrl/status/1416268455809064960
It's kind of a brassy, bombastic orchestral march version of "One Elephant Went Out To Play".
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