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Car 54, Where Are You?

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Car 54, Where Are You?	comment	Car 54, Where Are You? is a police Sitcom created by Nat Hiken (whose previous credits included The Phil Silvers Show), which aired on NBC for two seasons (1961–63).NYPD Officer Gunther Toody (Joe E. Ross) is a short, stocky, dim-witted, married cop who is assigned to Patrol Car 54 in the (fictional) 53rd precinct in the Bronx with the taller, thinner, smarter, unmarried Officer Francis Muldoon (Fred Gwynne). Episodes revolve around the comedic tension generated by Toody and Muldoon's opposite personalities, their unsuccessful attempts to "get tough" and carry out their police duties despite both being too warm-hearted to have the steel nerves they think they require, and Toody's lack of intelligence but abundance of enthusiasm and/or stubbornness proving either an asset or a liability depending on the situation.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: As part of their odd couple dynamic, Toody is short and stocky while Muldoon is tall and skinny.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_27ca4801	type	The Film of the Series
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_27ca4801	comment	The Film of the Series: Filmed in 1990 but not released until 1994, the film basically tried to turn Car 54 into a Police Academy type movie. Original cast members Al Lewis and Nipsey Russell appeared as their original characters.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: Many of the scenes of Car 54 on the road are obviously shot via rear projection, with whichever of Toody or Muldoon is at the wheel turning it back and forth even when they are driving in a straight line.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_57bde9be	type	Smart Cop, Dumb Cop
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_57bde9be	comment	Smart Cop, Dumb Cop: Muldoon is a relatively intelligent officer, while his partner Toody is a Cloudcuckoolander.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: In "Boom Boom Boom", comedian and TV presenter Jan Murray, appearing as himself, is a celebrity judge for a barbershop quartet competition. However, the rules of the competition require that all 162 quartets perform the same arrangement of "By the Light of the Silvery Moon". Murray is gradually driven insane by the endless "Boom, boom, boom" accompanying figure in the song, so that by the time the 53rd Precinct Whippoorwills (Muldoon, Toody, Schnauser, and Nelson) take the stage and begin singing, he screams and flees the room. He seems fine after a few days, but when the Whippoorwills rehearse in the room next to his rehearsal room, and then again on the street below his psychiatrist's office window, Murray begins uncontrollably repeating "boom boom boom" and eventually has to be taken away in a strait jacket.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_92f80196	type	The Inspector Is Coming
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_92f80196	comment	The Inspector Is Coming: In "Toody and Muldoon Crack Down", a chief inspector tours the 53rd precinct and finds that Toody and Muldoon are letting over a hundred minor violations (obstructed fire escapes and sidewalks, unauthorised loudspeakers, etc.) go unpunished in their sector. However, his outrage dissipates when he discovers that overlooking minor violations is part of how Toody and Muldoon have ensured that no major crimes have taken place in their sector in the nine years they've been patrolling it, and that the duo are universally beloved by the local residents and business owners as friendly, helpful, and reliable.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_94b11537	type	The Convenient Store Next Door
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_94b11537	comment	The Convenient Store Next Door: One episode is based around an eatery next to a bank. The crooks who plan to drill through into the vault keep getting pestered by the "Helping Hand Committee" the 53rd precinct has set up who patronize the diner, remodel the kitchen, and find them a cook. Eventually the gang gives up when this results in the business becoming a genuine success. A single scene at the end of the episode implies the entire plot is about to replay itself with the new owners of the building next to the eatery, who are posing as stamp dealers.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: The unmarried Muldoon lives with his widowed mother and two younger sisters. His mother still calls him her "big baby boy", although she also repeatedly tells him he should meet a nice girl and get married.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License – Religion: On the Bar Mitzvah episode, the kid "translated" any Hebrew prayers he said as "Today, I become a man." There is no prayer that translates to that.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Gunther Toody regularly says "Ooh! Ooh!" when he is excited or has just had an idea.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_b6af057e	type	Double Vision
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_b6af057e	comment	Double Vision: "A Man is Not an Ox" sees Toody and Muldoon acting more and more like each other, and a last-ditch effort to get them to start diverging involves setting up the unmarried Muldoon with fellow Nicholson's wife's cousin from North Dakota, whom none of the other officers have ever met, as his date for the annual precinct banquet. When she arrives, everyone is stunned to see that she looks almost exactly like Toody's wife Lucille (albeit with a dark wig)... as she is played by the same actress, Beatrice Pons. In shots featuring both characters, one is only ever seen from over the shoulder.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: A comedy about urban patrol car policemen? New York is a natural setting for such a series.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: Each opening credit sequence had Toody and Muldoon doing different things as they drive in the squad car such as: dropping an ice cream cone, playing checkers, Gunther opening his lunch box and finding everything BUT his lunch, Gunther dangling a rubber spider in front of Muldoon as he drives, revealing themselves to be handcuffed to each other, and so on.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In "Christmas at the 53rd", Officer Muldoon sings a variant on A Policeman’s Lot.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Toody, who could go on and on about nonsense while Muldoon casually tuned him out. This became most apparent when a new recruit was added who Muldoon could actually talk to about intellectual/cultural subjects. Unfortunately, it backfires as Muldoon gets so wrapped up in these conversations he ends up unable to do his job and practically begs to be put back with Toody. When the Captain and the department higher up who placed them together as an experiment point out Toody talked a lot too, Muldoon points out that with Toody he didn't have to listen. Recurring character Mrs. Bronson doesn't think there is anything odd about the fact that the apartment she has just moved into is on the fourteenth floor of a building that is still under construction and doesn't even have external walls or utilities yet. She later sets up a matchmaking agency and claims to be setting up her clients with Hollywood film stars, interpreting the letters that come back from said stars telling her to stop contacting them as an indication that they are playing hard to get. Her cloudcuckoolander nature is also infectious; she is so charming and sincere in believing her skewed worldview that within minutes of meeting her, even the most reasonable characters suddenly find themselves seeing the world her way (Muldoon starts believing that she can set him up with Kim Novak, while Captain Block starts believing that she can set him up with Ava Gardner).
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The episode "What Happened to Thursday?" revolved around Toody and Muldoon trying to stop the Schnausers' weekly fight, which always happened on a Thursday. So, they do everything they can to convince her that it is Friday, leading her to accuse them of trying to "Gaslight" her.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: An episode of the animated sitcom Wait Till Your Father Gets Home featured characters from Car 54, although only Joe E. Ross provided his own voice.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: The plot of the episode "Here We Go Again" is started off with this. An old criminal discovers from one of the main characters that the only thing they had done wrong on a heist they pulled many years ago and served jail time for was that they had disguised as police wearing winter uniforms instead of summer uniforms. This set off a funny episode as the criminals pull together their now-aged gang to pull off the heist correctly this time. They pull it off, but are all too weak to pick up the gold bars. They then escape the bank wearing the correct summer police uniforms... from the 1920's, not the Present Day (at the time the episode aired) 1960's uniforms.
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Car 54, Where Are You? / int_ef3b4c2f	type	Glorious Mother Russia
Car 54, Where Are You? / int_ef3b4c2f	comment	Glorious Mother Russia: In "Toody and Muldoon Meet the Russians", the duo are assigned guard detail for a group of visiting Soviet dignitaries, who decide that the overworked, underpaid NYPD officers are the perfect place to start fomenting Communist revolution in the United States. However, Commissar Malonov is converted into a capitalist New York Yankees fan by the oblivious Toody, while Muldoon persuades the female General Raskolnikovnote As she is female, she should be General Raskolnikova. to get a makeover so as not to stand out in the eastern European districts she wants to visit in New York, and she likes the results so much that she ends up getting drunk and performing a burlesque act at a formal reception.
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