Remembering COP ROCK (1990)

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/30/15 at 1:16pm

Failure, Fiasco, or Secret Success?

[SNAFU]

Posted: 7/30/15 at 1:50pm

I used to get high and laugh my butt off watching this show! It was soon much fun!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 7/30/15 at 2:13pm

It was pretty ridiculous and I remember I never made it through the full season in 1990, but there were a few good moments, the best being the last scene of the first episode. Kathleen Wihoite (Susan's sister on "ER") singing to her daughter that she is selling:

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/30/15 at 2:34pm

If you ever wonder where Rob Marshall got his vision for the movie "Chicago" look no further than Cop Rock.  

But what worked in "Chicago" seemed too campy for 90s television.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWwNTSj2Cy0

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/30/15 at 2:44pm

No.  I'm inclined to think COP ROCK was more immediately influenced by the Dennis Potter miniseries' PENNIES FROM HEAVEN and THE SINGING DETECTIVE, which undeniably had an influence on CHICAGO. 

In the treasure trove of tacky that was the late-80's/early 90's, COP ROCK may have been the ultimate.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/30/15 at 3:18pm

I was saying the other day I can't believe no one's mounted this as a musical off-Bway.

I think it would be a blast.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 8/5/15 at 4:15am

I remember seeing that Sandman scene when I was 9 and finding it so traumatic (not cuz it was bad, just that I found it so sad.)  A few years later, as a young teen, they reran the whole thing on Canadian cable (as part of a *coff* "Too Good for TV" series) and, yeah, it was pretty bad.

Right around the same time was the teen musical Hull High which seems to be completely forgotten.  It was kind a mix of Rags to Riches (which as much younger kids everyone I knew seemed to think was amazing,) by using some old songs and also some great originals such as this one, which still gets stuck in my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJjPe0o1cf4

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/5/15 at 10:11am

I was saying the other day I can't believe no one's mounted this as a musical off-Bway.

That's the problem with off-Broadway today.  They don't want to do anything fun.  I remember back in the '90s an off-Broadway company did recreations of Brady Bunch episodes.  (Jane Lynch played Carol Brady).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0oGaVyT_5Y

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 8/5/15 at 10:42am

Thank you for reminding me of The Real Live Brady Bunch Gothampc! I went to see several of them in the Village back in the 90's. I actually saw Christine Taylor play "Marcia" in this before she was cast in The Brady Bunch Movie.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/5/15 at 11:35am

I went to see several of them in the Village back in the 90's.

The 90s were the last time that off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway were thriving.  They had so many good shows going and they had some crap, but you didn't mind the crap because it didn't cost so much.

 

[tazber]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 5:36am

It's coming to DVD

 

Updated On: 2/5/16 at 05:36 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 3:03pm

Um, I can't believe a shirtless Peter Onorati is nowhere to be seen.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 10:19pm

This show was hilarious, just re watched it all recently, glad it's coming out on DVD. 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 10:40pm

You can't keep a good man down, no, you can't keep a good man down.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/5/16 at 11:46pm

This show was retarded when it came out and it still is retarded now. This ish should have stayed in the vault. 

 

Someone  must have smoked some heavy duty crack to approve its release from oblivion, where it should have remained. 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 2/6/16 at 7:11am

It did make for a great game of "spot the out-of-work theater legend," though... for example, hi Carl Anderson!

 

 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 2/6/16 at 7:13am

On the other side of the tracks, spotting emerging talent to come, there was that time Sheryl Crow played an undercover cop...