It’s Tuesday night, and in our house, that means two things: NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles. I love me some crime dramas, even when they give me nightmares. In fact, when I am working, I usually have Netflix streaming in the background and my genre of choice is old crime shows. They are interesting enough to keep me entertained, but easy enough to follow that they don’t require all my attention.
Tonight’s quiz is in two parts. In part one, I’ll be asking be asking for actors who played title roles, and in part two, I will give you characters and you need to identify the show.
Who plays:
- Cagney and Lacey?
- Magnum P.I.?
- Matlock?
- Quincy?
- Banacek?
- McMillan and Wife?
- Father Dowling?
- Castle?
And now, which show features:
- Joe Friday and Bill Gannon?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Tim McGee?
- Spencer Reid and Penelope Garcia?
- Mike Logan and Lennie Briscoe?
- Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler?
- Joyce Davenport and Phil Esterhaus?
- Vic Mackey and Danni Sofer?
- Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster?
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56 replies on “Fun Time Open Thread: Know Your Cop Shows”
I’m mega-stoked. In about 14 hours, I will be on my way to the airport to catch a long series of flights to Peru, where my boyfriend, our friend and I will be road-trippin’ over two weeks from Lima to Cusco and Machu Picchu, around to Titicaca and back to the coast. Una muy buena oportunidad para practicar mi español, dirÃa. I also happened to have gotten a promotion and slight raise at work yesterday before I left to begun my vacation, so April is seeming to be a kickass month so far.
I LOVE COP SHOWS! Who cares if they’re all the same?
Since I’ve had the babby, I’ve been DVRing Law & Order  and watching it during those long nursing sessions. TNT’s been playing some from the early early early days (1990)– It’s crazy to see the original cast! Also, I had no idea that Captain Cragen was originally on Law & Order before going to SVU.
(and psych is the best show ever, fyi)
psych IS good.  I’ve only seen a few episodes, but so far it’s awesome.
So yesterday I forgot my allergy medicine, and I also didn’t get a nasty headache in the afternoon like I have for the past three days. Today we find out if these results are repeatable.
I heart The Guild so hard
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-EEEEEEEEE! I’ve caught Juniper Junior’s bug and as a result, am spending far too much time watching children’s TV. I have, however, discovered The Wizards of Waverly Place. It makes a change from Jake and The Neverland Pirates/Curious George/Handy Manny/Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Princess Diaries is the best film ever. Except, why is it that in all of these Disney films, the “hot popular suitor” that the protagonist rejects is always seriously meh looking? Is this just cross-atlantic sexual values (er, lol) being mixed up?
I swear, the “not popular guy” is way closer to what everyone swooned over at my school =x
Totally agree! But you have to put yourself in the mind-set of a 12 to 15 year old giiiirl of course. I also had my period of love-for-plain-white-bread.
Gilmore Girls’ Jess and Buffy were the first to show me that love interests can be rough around the edges (to use an understatement).
Dude, I can’t even tell you the number of “discussions” my friends and I have had about which of Rory’s boyfriends is hottest. I believe the final vote is: Jess is hottest, Logan is best for Rory, and Dean is creepy and whiny and needs to go away. (Funny part is that’s also how we feel about his character in Supernatural).
Also <3 Spike.
I always watched GG by my lonesome *sob*. Jess cleaned up his act though, but besides that I completely agree with you.
*hugs* I’ll watch it with you if I ever get the chance. And I’m glad Jess cleaned up his act, but I think Logan made Rory push out of her boundaries and grow up. (And this I’m saying even though Jess is my all-time favorite of the boys). She was just a bit too naive and relied to heavily on other people’s opinions before he entered the picture, and while yes she completely derailed before it got better, I think she needed it. That being said, I’m not sure where I stand on her not marrying him, but I think she was a fool to turn down the Providence job.
That club, I loved it! It was absurd but as you say, it broke her from her sheltered life and pushed things at her to think about in a new way.
It’s probably linked to the Disney tradition of being terrified of presenting any sort of sexual attractiveness, especially when it comes to men. It goes back all the way to the yawn-inducing blob of blandness that was the prince in Snow White.
I only know one of the first and four of the second. I feel like I’m slacking on my crime shows. I used to watch them all the time.
I’m not a big cop show fan, which is a damn shame, because there are tons of them.
But wait, does X-Files count as a cop show? Because I’ve seen every one of those.
AHHHHHHH DAVID TENNANT ALL WORKED UP
You must have pulled this gif straight from Selena’s Tennant shrine.
That episode of NTB .. a thing of beauty. This gif would be even better with Catherine clapping and jumping.
Aaaaaaah I love X-Files SO MUCH.
I have SO MANY Psych gifs.
This is a show that everyone tells me I must watch, and yet, I have not seen even an episode.
These gifs make me ashamed of that fact.
OMG watch it immediately!
I have no idea what Psych is, but based on these gifs alone, I feel compelled to investigate.
Seriously. Everyone just watch it right now.
This is the best collection of gifs ever. I could watch Shawn and Gus happy dance all damn night.
In my cross-stitch sampler brainstorming session with Mr. B, we decided that almost every single line from “Last Night Gus” would make an awesome sampler. The two that I know for sure I am charting are “Dude, this guy has taffy!” and “I don’t want to be Paul Walker. Not even for one day,” (from ‘Shawn Takes a Shot in the Dark’) because they both make me laugh every time I hear them.
Psych! I love Psych! It always looks like the actors are having so much fun.
Wait a second! I’ve never watched Pysch…but DULE HILL is in Psych?? Well then I simply have to watch it. I learn something new every day!
WHAT!?! How is it I have talked to you almost every day and I didn’t know you have never watched psych? Just start at the beginning and enjoy.
I forgot the best Psych gif ever!
All I have is Doctor Who .gifs and a handful of stuff I actually backed up, but I can not pass up a .gifest.
Oh my god I love this.
I love you POM and your Psych gifs so much.
I don’t even like that show and that gif made me smile.
I kind of know my cop shows, but not enough to compete with the likes of these two!
NCIS is my guilty pleasure show. I am going to name my first born son Jethro.
I never got into NCIS. Considering how addicted I am to every other crime procedural, I’m not sure why not.
I can’t stop watching it. I love the characters too much. It can’t be healthy.
I have watched so much NCIS that it really is kind of ridiculous. I hate to say it, but I got bored partway through last season, and haven’t kept up with it, but I can still watch so much of that show in one sitting. I love the characters and their interactions, and the cases are always interesting.
Seriously, so good. I think I might like NCIS L.A. even more though. I think the presence of L.L. Cool Jay and the overall character arcs make it a bit more exciting.
I didn’t like NCIS at first, but Mr. Silverwane ADORES it, so I ended up watching a bunch of it. And now, while I probably wouldn’t go “I really want to watch some NCIS,” I can really get into a few episodes.
I think part of my issue is, I didn’t like the Kate-era very much. Ziva all the way!
1. Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless
2. Tom Selleck
3. Andy Griffith
4. Jack Klugman
5. George Peppard
6. Rock Hudson and the lady from Kate and Allie who wasn’t Jane Curtain.
7. Tom Bosley
8. Captain Tightpants.
A. Dragnet
B. NCIS, Original Flavor
C. Criminal Minds
D. Law and Order
E. Law and Order: SUV
F. Hill Street Blues (BAM!)
G. Hawaii 5-0?
H. Psych
I kind of love posting gifs here, because everyone can see what I named my files.
MORE OF THIS GIF, PLEASE. WHY CAN’T I PUT THIS ON MY WALL.
Ah, got to love a bit of Fillion and Serenity (Firefly).
it doesn’t surprise me that you rattled these off in record time, not at all. I don’t remember 1/2 these shows!
I fucking love crime shows.
Cagney and Lacey? Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless
Magnum P.I.? Tom Selleck
Matlock? Andy Griffith
Father Dowling? Tom Bosley
Castle? Nathan Fillion AKA my boyfriend. You all back the hell off!
Joe Friday and Bill Gannon? Dragnet
Spencer Reid and Penelope Garcia? One of the initials ones. NCIS? CSI?
Mike Logan and Lennie Briscoe? Law & Order: Original Flavor
Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler? Law & Order: SVU
Vic Mackey and Danni Sofer? The Shield
Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster? Psych, AKA THE BEST SHOW EVER IN THE WORLD THAT’S ON USA.
And all the crime series fans are out tonight! I like me some Law & Order (any flavor really), but I don’t pay super-close attention when they are on, or I get a little freaked out!
I have a theory that at the exact moment that no version of L&O is being broadcast on any station, the world will implode. It’s always on somewhere.
I’m not going to even bother trying to compete with you and Selena.
OLD BROADS LOVE POLICE PROCEDURAL DRAMAS.