Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread

[Rev. Rye]

I'm a fan of Dragnet and have watched the entire 1967 series through on Hulu a couple times. Strangely, a combination of Jack Webb's staid style, and the effort he puts into showing off what it's like to be in the LAPD, in all its facets (at least, the facets the Chief of Police would like their cops to be), it oddly clicks with me, and given that it seems to strike a similar chord with other people on the autism spectrum, I think that might have something to do with it.

Of course, it's by no means perfect. The 1967 series in particular suffers from the biases inherent in being told from the point of view of an old-guard LAPD cop (a bit less reactionary than you might expect, but not by too much) in the late 1960s. One of the biggest offenders in this area is this episode featuring Friday and Gannon debating about the police with an Ivory Tower intellectual and a snarky hippie who runs an underground paper. Sadly, except for a whole episode upload from Shout Factory you have to pay to watch, there aren't clips of this episode on Youtube, from what I can see, but I did find this text and screenshot recap of the episode. It doesn't include the guy's best zingers, like the one where a Mexican is bemoaning the fact that he can't get on the force (because he's four inches shorter than the official height requirements), and when he asks what he should do, he says "just be happy you never grew those extra four inches."

And now, looking back on it, I'm confronted with an interesting question and I'd like an answer: Minimalist, you didn't happen to spend time in LA editing an underground paper in 1968, did you?