Yup. Staying up late playing vidya and listening to the same music i listened to Sophomore year of high school is what i do when i need to feel young again.
Yes it is a forgotten two-parter aired in 1989, the intro stated that the camera crews (split even between American and Russian crews) were allowed unfettered access to police operations in Leningrad/St. Pete and Moscow over a 16 day period.
And for a country that was once so secretive, it felt like such a intimate expose of sorts, so much so that its surprising for some to think that a show like COPS had ever offered such content. If you are interested in certain era's policing or the politics of the time I think it is a must-see. The Soviet Union has collapsed and the social problems are laid bare. My personal fave is the hilarious dubbed in voices, especially the fight between some azerbaijanis and russians. I am playing STALKER 2 and the english voice actors sound equally terrible.
PS I think the drunk-tank restraint chair is pretty cool
IIRC at the time this aired the intro music for Cops was the signal that it was my bedtime. My parents were pretty cool but wouldn't have let me see this because it was "too scary".
This is fricking gold. This is so many things I've tried to explain to zoomers here. I guess the two off the top of my head are:
Russia was an impoverished shithole full of violent drunk r-slurs. Tankies like to imagine everyone was rich over there. Nobody believed that at the time, especially not actual Russians.
These people were the enemy and we were probably going to have to nuke them, but that didn't mean we hated them. We wanted to get to know them, and the more you got to know them the more we realized that we have so much in common. We have junkies letting down their kids, burglars stealing people's dreams, drunk r-slurs killing their brother, etc too. They're human too. When shit got really bad there (a few years after this) we didn't gloat and make a bunch of memes about it, we sent the stuff like toothbrushes and soap that they needed in Vladivostok because the distribution network for everything had completely broken down.
It's different now. I hate them. I don't know if it's because they lost their humanity or I did but it's different now.
Anyway I'm gonna watch part 2 after I get through all my notifications and go through my daily roundup of news from around the world.
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My idea of never growing up is like just watching the same episodes of Star Trek TNG that I did back then, and And I do that literally all the time
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If I had to take 6 episodes to a stranded island would be in the Q episodes or the Borg episodes? I'm always wondering
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If I had to take 6 it would be
The Wounded
Remember Me
The Drumhead
Best of Both Worlds (counting it as a single even though it's a 2-parter)
A Fistful of Datas
and Ship In a Bottle
Classic episodes with a nice range of problems and villains haha
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Well obviously Q Who so that you get... the best of both worlds
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I never grow up by staying up late shitposting and playing video games just like I did as a teen
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Yup. Staying up late playing vidya and listening to the same music i listened to Sophomore year of high school is what i do when i need to feel young again.
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Same, also watching really old episodes of Cops. The soviet union season finale of s 1 cops was funny
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I never saw that. They actually went over there?
Important Cops trivia: In the closing credits when she says "132 & Bush" she's referring to this intersection in SE Portland.
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Yes it is a forgotten two-parter aired in 1989, the intro stated that the camera crews (split even between American and Russian crews) were allowed unfettered access to police operations in Leningrad/St. Pete and Moscow over a 16 day period.
And for a country that was once so secretive, it felt like such a intimate expose of sorts, so much so that its surprising for some to think that a show like COPS had ever offered such content. If you are interested in certain era's policing or the politics of the time I think it is a must-see. The Soviet Union has collapsed and the social problems are laid bare. My personal fave is the hilarious dubbed in voices, especially the fight between some azerbaijanis and russians. I am playing STALKER 2 and the english voice actors sound equally terrible.
PS I think the drunk-tank restraint chair is pretty cool
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Just got through Part 1. OMG:
IIRC at the time this aired the intro music for Cops was the signal that it was my bedtime. My parents were pretty cool but wouldn't have let me see this because it was "too scary".
This is fricking gold. This is so many things I've tried to explain to zoomers here. I guess the two off the top of my head are:
Russia was an impoverished shithole full of violent drunk r-slurs. Tankies like to imagine everyone was rich over there. Nobody believed that at the time, especially not actual Russians.
These people were the enemy and we were probably going to have to nuke them, but that didn't mean we hated them. We wanted to get to know them, and the more you got to know them the more we realized that we have so much in common. We have junkies letting down their kids, burglars stealing people's dreams, drunk r-slurs killing their brother, etc too. They're human too. When shit got really bad there (a few years after this) we didn't gloat and make a bunch of memes about it, we sent the stuff like toothbrushes and soap that they needed in Vladivostok because the distribution network for everything had completely broken down.
It's different now. I hate them. I don't know if it's because they lost their humanity or I did but it's different now.
Anyway I'm gonna watch part 2 after I get through all my notifications and go through my daily roundup of news from around the world.
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No wonder you have a DNR
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This but unironically.
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