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Miami Vice
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Miami Vice is a Crime Drama Buddy Cop Show which ran on NBC from 1984-1989. Created by former Hill Street Blues writer and producer Anthony Yerkovich, with Michael Mann as the Executive Producer, the series drew much of its premise from real-life laws allowing property seized from drug dealers to be used in drug enforcement. In other words, if a drug dealer has a Cool Car or Cool Boat, and that drug dealer is jailed, the police can use his stuff. These laws gave the producers a perfectly valid excuse for putting their public-servant characters in Ferraris and Armani suits.The series stars Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two pastel-colored officers of Miami-Dade PD's vice squad, as they chase down drug lords, pimps, renegade FBI agents, weapon smugglers, militia members, and other badly-dressed criminals whose downfall is to be ignorant of Miami's worst-kept secret: psst, these two are actually cops.Crockett's the muscle, a former wide receiver with a personality not unlike his namesake (he even owns an alligator). Tubbs is a New York transplant who arrives in Miami to avenge his brother's murder; he specializes in... well, posing as an out-of-towner and getting it on with a parade of beautiful ladies. Together, they fight crime.The series was notable for its use of contemporary popular music, and for being one of the first shows regularly broadcast in stereo. By design, the show often resembled a music video rather than a standard Police Procedural. Extended musical sequences were common, often featuring little or no dialogue and numerous images of cars, boats, guns, nightlife, and scenery. The show was filmed on location in Miami, and made use of a distinctive color palette, mostly white and pastels.Miami Vice was one of the most influential (perhaps the most influential) TV series of all time when it comes to style and fashion. Crockett's white-suit-over-t-shirt style, Perma-Stubble, and Ray-Ban sunglasses all became fashion trends. His lack of socks did notnote Come the 2020s, however.... Even several decades later, many people's ideas of the 1980s come straight from the show (which explains why many people tend to have a rather exaggerated idea of the period — not everybody dressed like the prostitutes and drug dealers of the series).A film of the series was released in 2006 starring Colin Farrell as Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Tubbs. | |
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Fair Cop | |
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Fair Cop: Crockett and Tubbs, Trudy and Gina. Especially Gina. | |
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The Gambling Addict | |
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The Gambling Addict: Switek develops a gambling problem after Zito is killed by Oswaldo Guzman in the third season. The problem compounds as the show goes on and never goes away. It actually manages to get worse when he sells Crockett and Tubbs out in the Series Finale. | |
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Anyone Can Die: Rodriguez and Zito. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Jan Hammer (the show's composer) appears as a wedding musician in the episodes "One Way Ticket" and the fourth-season episode "Like a Hurricane". | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Several episodes dealt with associates of the Vice team being raped by the villain(s), prompting Crockett, Tubbs, Gina and/or Trudy to go after them in revenge. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: For all the shootouts that take place on the show, they rarely use squibs or showed blood. When they do, it would be driblets, not gaping wounds. | |
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Pizza Boy Special Delivery: "Heart of Darkness" begins on the set of a porn film about a girl who can't afford to get her air conditioner fixed. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: What happens to some of the good cops who don't go crooked: they go mad instead. Partly explains what happens to Crockett when he gets hit with amnesia: his second wife had just been killed by a Serial Killer seeking revenge on Crockett, and the aftershock of what happened made it easy for him to forget when the time came. | |
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Darker and Edgier: Compared to other cop shows of its time, such as Magnum, P.I.. In fact, it can still be surprising today just how thematically dark the show is underneath the pop hits and pastel suits, and how many episodes end in bittersweet or downer ways. Season three saw the storylines, along with the general tones of the show, become grittier and nihilistic; more episodes end abruptly after a violent climax that leaves numerous people dead, both good as bad alike. In line with the general tonal changes, the music shifts away from the popular, upbeat synthpop and soft rock heard in the first two seasons towards darker material, including new wave, electronic and metal sounds. Season five saw the stories become even more dark and violent, perhaps peaking with the Banned Episode "Too Much, Too Late", which was not originally broadcast because its child-molestation plot was considered too extreme for TV. The language also becomes more grittier, Switek becomes a far more serious character with his severe gambling addiction an underlying plot line and there's more focus on gunplay, with characters seen firing weapons whilst diving through the air, sliding across tables, and even Dual Wielding firearms. | |
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Freeze-Frame Ending | |
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Freeze-Frame Ending: About four-fifths of episodes end on one. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: Started being integrated into the plot more once Dick Wolf became executive producer. Considering the number of crazy things that happen in Florida, it was easy. Season one's "The Home Invaders" was loosely based on an actual string of home invasions perpetrated by a gang of burglars in the Miami area in the early 1980s. Season two's "Free Verse" refers to the trend of "Banana Politics" in the 1980s, referring to the coups and civil wars that occurred in Central American and Caribbean countries during that time. In season three's "Forgive Us Our Debts", the possibility of new evidence exonerating an executed (or near-executed) criminal is explored, which was a major news story then and now, as the debate over the death penalty continues. Season four's "Badge of Dishonor" was inspired by the real issue that Miami Police had to hire cops from minorities after the 1981 riots and due to bad selection and scarcity of suitable applicants sometimes persons with serious juvenile rap sheets ended up at the police force, as well as the river cops scandal in 1986 that started in the Molino Rojo bar on SW 8 Street, where the cops hammered out their plan how to steal 350 kilos and that later inspired "Badge of dishonor". The story for the finale is loosely based on the goings-on of Manuel Noriega, military leader of Panama, who was ousted by the US military in 1990 amidst charges of drug dealing and corruption. | |
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Workout Fanservice | |
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Workout Fanservice: "Heart of Darkness" opens on the set of a porno, with a sweaty girl working out to music while she waits for the air conditioner repairman to arrive. | |
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The Disease That Shall Not Be Named | |
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The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: In season four's "God's Work", it was never stated that Louie was dying of AIDS, but the story and circumstances of Louie and Felipe's relationship (and the fact that Louie was visiting Ernesto's AIDS hospice) implied this was the case. | |
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Terrible Trio | |
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Terrible Trio: Season one's "Nobody Lives Forever" sees three crazed punks go on a joy-riding and armed robbery spree. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: Not only are the last two seasons' episodes known for becoming gradually more ridiculous and unbelievable than the first three, one episode is actually more or less Science Fiction. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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Frank Hackman, a recurring antagonist, manages to be one of the most dangerous criminals that Crockett has faced. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: Castillo is this kind of Da Chief. In one episode he clearly states that he'd rather blow the investigation than lose somebody. | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In the episode "Milk Run," some kids play the Miami Vice theme on a boombox. | |
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Death by Origin Story | |
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Death by Origin Story: Tubbs' older brother Rafael is killed in the pilot episode, causing Tubbs to go to Miami to seek revenge. | |
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Soft Glass | |
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Soft Glass: Generally played straight, but averted in "Missing Hours," in which a man smashes through a plate glass window, cuts his jugular on one of the shards, and dies. | |
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Shoot the Television | |
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Shoot the Television: Switek does this at the end of "Phil the Shill" when he sees the titular con man (played by Phil Collins) posing as a faith healer on TV. He even shouts "This one's for you, Elvis!" | |
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The Merch | |
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The Merch: In-universe example. Izzy capitalizes on the Miracle Man's success by selling items such as hats, guitars, and baseball bats with his logo on them. | |
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The Place | |
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The Place: Three guesses where the setting of the show is. | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Stoic: Lieutenant Castillo. | |
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The Main Characters Do Everything | |
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The Main Characters Do Everything: Natch. Tubbs and Crockett investigate murders, sex-crimes, bust drug-rings and provide airport-security. | |
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Chase-Scene Obstacle Course | |
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Chase-Scene Obstacle Course: In "Duty and Honor," the killer knocks over some boxes during a car chase, forcing Crockett to get out of his car and clear them away. By the time he catches up, the killer has torched his car and fled. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: In the very early portion of the first season, Crockett wears brown Carrera 5512 Large sunglasses and Alpina TR 4 glasses; for most of the first season and all of the second season, Crockett wears tortoise shell Ray-Ban Wayfarers. In the third season, Crockett wears black Persol Ratti 69218 glasses. For the fourth and fifth seasons, Crockett wears black Ray Ban Wayfarers, however he wore blue mirrored Revo sunglasses while masquerading as Sonny Burnett. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Crockett and Tubbs. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: "Golden Triangle Part II" ends with Castillo putting his former lover and her family on a plane. Crockett suggests they go for a drink. Castillo reminds him that in all the months they have known each other, he has never once implied he needs a drink, before asking them to take him to a bar. | |
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Take My Hand! | |
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Take My Hand!: In the Burnett arc, Sonny redeems himself to Tubbs by showing up in time to do this. | |
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Cryptid Episode | |
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Cryptid Episode: "Missing Hours" has one of the characters being kidnapped while investigating a cult and the rest of the cast rushing to find her, only to find out that they have run into an honest-to-God Alien Abduction plot with honest-to-God aliens (the leader of which is played by James Brown). A good example of the "Bizarro Episode" variant. | |
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Deep South | |
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Deep South: A few episodes whose plots require the protagonists to travel outside of Miami involve them dealing with such crises as a turf war between redneck families in the Everglades. Crockett himself is a very stereotypical southerner at times. | |
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Dirty Harriet | |
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Gina sometimes sports the same look, especially when doing a Dirty Harriet, though she usually wears a bra and generally dresses a bit more modestly than her colleague. | |
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Only in Florida | |
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Only in Florida: While the series was more straight-up cop drama, some of the more bizarre stories and quirky characters had true-life antecedents that were Ripped from the Headlines. | |
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away | |
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Subverted in "The Glades". A little girl is taken hostage by a Mook as Sonny Crockett rounds a corner, pistol aimed. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Many actors, actresses, musicians, comedians, athletes, and celebrities appeared throughout the show's five-season run. They played many different roles from drug dealers to undercover cops to madams. Musicians include John Taylor, Andy Taylor, Willie Nelson, Gene Simmons, and Ted Nugent. Additionally Glenn Frey, Frank Zappa, Phil Collins, Miles Davis, Little Richard, James Brown, Leonard Cohen and Eartha Kitt. Other personalities included auto executive Lee Iacocca and Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy. Athletes included Boston Celtics center Bill Russell, Bernard King, racecar driver Danny Sullivan and boxers Roberto Durán, and Randall "Tex" Cobb. Pam Grier deserves a special mention as Valerie... Tubbs' on again, off again true love. One of the few guests to reappear in several episodes, including a feature length. | |
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Only in Miami | |
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Only in Miami: Some episodes were loosely based on some of the crazier things that happened in South Florida. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor:Grand Theft Auto: Vice City might as well be this show's video game adaptation. | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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Bald of Evil: J. J. Johnston from "The Prodigal Son." | |
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Career-Ending Injury | |
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Career-Ending Injury: Crockett played football in college, but had to stop after fracturing his knee. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
| Miami Vice / int_28cd01ca | comment |
Disappeared Dad: Crockett himself becomes one after his ex-wife and son are almost killed by a hitman in "Calderone's Revenge" and he decides that they will be safer without him. His son is pretty resentful about it when he finally gets back in touch three years later. | |
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Miami Vice / int_28cd01ca | |
| Miami Vice / int_297170d3 | type |
Halloween Episode | |
| Miami Vice / int_297170d3 | comment |
Halloween Episode: "Shadow in the Dark," which aired on Halloween in 1986, has Crockett turning into The Profiler in order to catch a cat burglar and almost going insane in the process. | |
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Miami Vice / int_297170d3 | |
| Miami Vice / int_2a195285 | type |
Revolvers Are Just Better | |
| Miami Vice / int_2a195285 | comment |
Revolvers Are Just Better: Almost all of the pistols Castillo carried were large-calibre revolvers, including a Smith & Wesson Model 29 in .44 Magnum (as well as the stainless steel version, the 629), a Smith & Wesson Model 686 in .357 Magnum, a Colt Trooper MK V in .357 Magnum, a Smith & Wesson model 29 in .44 Magnum, and a Colt Python in .357 Magnum. He tended to prefer such weaponry over more modern semi-automatic pistols, although he did use the latter type of weapon in certain situations | |
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Miami Vice / int_2a195285 | |
| Miami Vice / int_2a7e7af1 | type |
Limited Wardrobe | |
| Miami Vice / int_2a7e7af1 | comment |
Limited Wardrobe: Castillo almost always wore a slim black tie, white shirt, and an inexpensive black wash-and-wear suit, in stark contrast to Crockett's and Tubbs' fancy attire. He very rarely ware anything else; examples include "Indian Wars", where he goes undercover himself and dons a white blazer, or "Duty and Honor", where he is in shorts and a T-shirt at the end of the episode while recovering from a stab wound. | |
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Miami Vice / int_2a7e7af1 | |
| Miami Vice / int_2aefb60 | type |
Hospital Visit Hesitation | |
| Miami Vice / int_2aefb60 | comment |
Hospital Visit Hesitation: Both Gina and Switek have this in "A Bullet For Crockett". Whereas the former is a wreck since the last time she and Crockett spoke was a silly argument over paperwork, the I.V. in Crockett's arm reminds latter of when he found poor Zito dead a year earlier under similar circumstances. Gina ultimately stays, but Switek is rattled enough to quickly depart only moments later. | |
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Miami Vice / int_2aefb60 | |
| Miami Vice / int_2b5c636d | type |
How Unscientific! | |
| Miami Vice / int_2b5c636d | comment |
How Unscientific!: In the infamous episode "Missing Hours," the otherwise normal TV series sees a lot of weirdness, including Trudy getting abducted by an alien (played by James Brown) and Crockett and Tubbs later seeing a UFO. | |
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Miami Vice / int_2b5c636d | |
| Miami Vice / int_2d4fa515 | type |
Ax-Crazy | |
| Miami Vice / int_2d4fa515 | comment |
How Tubbs ends up in Miami as Crockett's partner. It pops up as motivation for some of the more Ax-Crazy villains that would guest-star every other week. | |
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Miami Vice / int_2d4fa515 | |
| Miami Vice / int_2db90f77 | type |
Contemplative Boss | |
| Miami Vice / int_2db90f77 | comment |
Contemplative Boss: Julian Beck does this in his one scene as the Big Bad when Crockett and Tubbs walk in on him. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_2db90f77 | |
| Miami Vice / int_2dc0d2bf | type |
Hidden Depths | |
| Miami Vice / int_2dc0d2bf | comment |
"Golden Triangle, Part 1": What starts out as a typical episode involving a jewellery theft takes a sharp turn and becomes a showcase for Castillo's Hidden Depths, culminating in the most cinematic fight of the series (between Castillo and a suspect) up to that point. | |
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Miami Vice / int_2dc0d2bf | |
| Miami Vice / int_2e8441c9 | type |
The Bad Guy Wins | |
| Miami Vice / int_2e8441c9 | comment |
The Bad Guy Wins: A frequent case in the show is the bad guy will be able to get off scott free due to either having judges on their payroll, not enough evidence, or just plain horrible luck. Crockett and Tubbs will sometimes be able to make this a Karma Houdini Warranty but not always. | |
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Miami Vice / int_2e8441c9 | |
| Miami Vice / int_2ebc9c4e | type |
Sunshine Noir | |
| Miami Vice / int_2ebc9c4e | comment |
Sunshine Noir: Pastel colors combined with neon, 80's music, cool cars, and the perpetual sunny Miami weather is juxtaposed over episodes focused on drug dealers, murderers, and gangs. | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_2ebc9c4e | |
| Miami Vice / int_2f6cbe90 | type |
Missing Backblast | |
| Miami Vice / int_2f6cbe90 | comment |
Missing Backblast: Averted in one episode in which a criminal is seen visibly recoiling from a stinger missile. The backblast can be seen from it, and others present have already moved a safe distance away. | |
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Miami Vice / int_2f6cbe90 | |
| Miami Vice / int_301476a3 | type |
Car Meets House | |
| Miami Vice / int_301476a3 | comment |
Car Meets House: When Tubbs busts a televangelist's wife for buying drugs, she tries to drive away and smashes her Mercedes into a TV shop, where Tubbs sees her singing on TV. | |
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Miami Vice / int_301476a3 | |
| Miami Vice / int_313d7228 | type |
Previously on… | |
| Miami Vice / int_313d7228 | comment |
Previously on…: "Down for the Count (Part II)" opens this way. "Rock and a Hard Place" opens with a recap of "Like a Hurricane," three episodes ago. "Deliver Us From Evil" opens with a recap of "Forgive Us Our Debts," from the previous season. | |
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| Miami Vice / int_31f7c194 | type |
Super Window Jump | |
| Miami Vice / int_31f7c194 | comment |
Super Window Jump: In "Baby Blues," Crockett and Tubbs dive out of the windows of a building as it explodes behind them. | |
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Miami Vice / int_31f7c194 | |
| Miami Vice / int_322d19f4 | type |
Abandoned Warehouse | |
| Miami Vice / int_322d19f4 | comment |
Abandoned Warehouse: The site of many meetings, murders, and shootouts. Of particular note is an abandoned hangar that appears as the site of a weapons demonstration in "Evan," a double execution in "Phil the Shill," a secret lab in "Missing Hours," and a drug deal in "To Have and to Hold" before finally getting blown up in Bad Boys (1995). | |
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Miami Vice / int_322d19f4 | |
| Miami Vice / int_32da91b8 | type |
Out of Focus | |
| Miami Vice / int_32da91b8 | comment |
Out of Focus: Tubbs' involvement in storylines is noticeably downscaled in season four, leading to complaints from fans and causing some people to christen it "The Don Johnson Show". | |
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Miami Vice / int_32da91b8 | |
| Miami Vice / int_34960f22 | type |
Vapor Wear | |
| Miami Vice / int_34960f22 | comment |
Vapor Wear: Many of the women in the show are obviously braless and we see a lot of bouncy breasts and nipples showing through T-shirts. Trudy in particular usually wears thin and clingy tops without a bra, even in the office. Gina sometimes sports the same look, especially when doing a Dirty Harriet, though she usually wears a bra and generally dresses a bit more modestly than her colleague. | |
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Miami Vice / int_34960f22 | |
| Miami Vice / int_355e858b | type |
Clothing Reflects Personality | |
| Miami Vice / int_355e858b | comment |
Clothing Reflects Personality: Castillo's style of dress, with its severe blacks and whites, can be seen as a metaphor for the way in which he views the world, with no shades of gray. | |
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Miami Vice / int_355e858b | |
| Miami Vice / int_35884ee7 | type |
Villainous Incest | |
| Miami Vice / int_35884ee7 | comment |
Villainous Incest: In "Junk Love," the villain Silva is in a long-term, frequently nonconsensual relationship with his daughter Rosella. | |
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Miami Vice / int_35884ee7 | |
| Miami Vice / int_35e077 | type |
Fourth-Date Marriage | |
| Miami Vice / int_35e077 | comment |
Fourth-Date Marriage: Crockett meets Caitlin about ten minutes into "Like a Hurricane." The last scene is their wedding. The episode takes place over the course of about a week. | |
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Miami Vice / int_35e077 | |
| Miami Vice / int_37085956 | type |
Gayngst-Induced Suicide | |
| Miami Vice / int_37085956 | comment |
Gayngst-Induced Suicide: It's implied that Mike Orgel, Crockett's friend from the academy, died this way. After Evan outed him and ruined his life, he carelessly got himself killed while off duty. | |
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Miami Vice / int_37085956 | |
| Miami Vice / int_3763bcf8 | type |
False Rape Accusation | |
| Miami Vice / int_3763bcf8 | comment |
False Rape Accusation: In "Amen... Send Money," Tubbs is accused of rape by a parishioner after he arrests a televangelist's wife. | |
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Miami Vice / int_3763bcf8 | |
| Miami Vice / int_37a6a66a | type |
Instrumental Theme Tune | |
| Miami Vice / int_37a6a66a | comment |
Instrumental Theme Tune: "Crockett's Theme". | |
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Miami Vice / int_37a6a66a | |
| Miami Vice / int_37d2818 | type |
Title In | |
| Miami Vice / int_37d2818 | comment |
Title In: "Forgive Us Our Debts" opens with a flashback, with a caption that says "Miami, 1980." Crockett spends the scene wearing a hat to hide his mid-'80s haircut. After the flashback ends, another caption says "Miami, 1986." | |
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Miami Vice / int_37d2818 | |
| Miami Vice / int_38b05ae7 | type |
Poorly Disguised Pilot | |
| Miami Vice / int_38b05ae7 | comment |
Poorly Disguised Pilot: "Leap of Faith" was a backdoor pilot for a planned spin-off focusing on a younger group of officers, but the series was not picked up. As a result, the on-screen credits after the opening sequence list three "Starring" roles ahead of the usual "Guest Stars". The series would have resembled another young police drama at the time, 21 Jump Street, which ironically is one of the shows credited with Vice's demise. | |
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Miami Vice / int_38b05ae7 | |
| Miami Vice / int_38c493f1 | type |
End-of-Series Awareness | |
| Miami Vice / int_38c493f1 | comment |
End-of-Series Awareness: During Crockett and Tubbs' final goodbye at the end of "Freefall," Crockett says, "Well, we had one hell of a run, didn't we, partner?" referring to both their careers and the show. | |
| Miami Vice / int_38c493f1 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_38c493f1 | |
| Miami Vice / int_392372f9 | type |
Actor Allusion | |
| Miami Vice / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion: Sonny Crockett's pet alligator on the show is named Elvis. Don Johnson played Elvis Presley a few years earlier in the made-for-TV movie Elvis and the Beauty Queen. Pam Grier as a woman who loses her sister to drug dealers. Recurring villain William Maynard, a retired military officer who had worked in intelligence was portrayed by J Gordon Liddy, an ex-military officer who had worked in intelligence and later served time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal. This was Liddy's first acting job and was largely just stunt casting but it would lead to dozens of roles for him in various TV series and movies. American born KGB agent Surf in the episode "Bushido", played by David Rasche, also played another American born KGB agent in the film Best Defense 1984. | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_392372f9 | |
| Miami Vice / int_3b789458 | type |
Recurring Extra | |
| Miami Vice / int_3b789458 | comment |
Recurring Extra: A silent, bumbling background character named Manny helps Izzy sell weird stuff or acts as his driver in several episodes but is never credited. | |
| Miami Vice / int_3b789458 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_3b789458 | |
| Miami Vice / int_3dd3951e | type |
Cowboy Cop | |
| Miami Vice / int_3dd3951e | comment |
Cowboy Cop: Both Crockett and Tubbs had no problem tossing the rule book. This pissed off a fair number of other law enforcement officials. Oddly enough, however, their own chief, Lt. Castillo didn't seem to really mind, as he focused more on results. But then again, he was a Four-Star Badass himself, so. This literally happens when a retired Texas Ranger (played by Willie Nelson!) shows up in Miami to avenge a dead son. | |
| Miami Vice / int_3dd3951e | featureApplicability |
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Miami Vice / int_3dd3951e | |
| Miami Vice / int_3dd3a9eb | type |
Tone Shift | |
| Miami Vice / int_3dd3a9eb | comment |
Tone Shift: The first two seasons had a predominantly light-hearted tone (even in episodes with otherwise bleak storylines). Later seasons would depart from this in favour of a darker feel in keeping with the often sinister plots. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_3dd3a9eb | |
| Miami Vice / int_3f99197c | type |
Beleaguered Childhood Friend | |
| Miami Vice / int_3f99197c | comment |
The repeated moments when one of the heroes finds out an old friend, love interest, or a colleague they used to trust has gone bad. | |
| Miami Vice / int_3f99197c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Miami Vice / int_3f99197c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_3f99197c | |
| Miami Vice / int_4061b99 | type |
Water Torture | |
| Miami Vice / int_4061b99 | comment |
Water Torture: In "Forgive Us Our Debts," Crockett urgently needs information from a gangster, who tells him, "I'm just a pre-Miranda kind of guy. Back then there was a definite possibility that cops could get a guy to talk. Not now." Crockett responds by dragging the guy into his swimming pool and forcing his head underwater, which does the trick. | |
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Miami Vice / int_4061b99 | |
| Miami Vice / int_40cc0c7e | type |
Bittersweet Ending | |
| Miami Vice / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Many, many of them. This was one of the first cop shows where the good guys didn't always win, or if they did there was a high price to pay. | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_40cc0c7e | |
| Miami Vice / int_41c08e5 | type |
Establishing Series Moment | |
| Miami Vice / int_41c08e5 | comment |
Establishing Series Moment: The opening scenes of the pilot feature the lead characters "in their native environment," so to speak. In New York, Tubbs heads into a nightclub with the intent to assassinate a Colombian guy, but is nearly killed in the process. After the credits roll, we see Crockett and his partner making small talk about home life before they head off to meet a drug dealer. All this happens before the two meet and before the audience even knows that they are both police detectives. The good guys playing bad guys in order to catch the bad guys, along with Music Video techniques, is firmly established. Then Crockett's partner is unceremoniously blown up by a car bomb, establishing that 1) Anyone Can Die and pyrrhic victories will be common, and 2) drug dealers will be unrelentingly evil people, making the war on drugs more than a buzzword for the heroes. | |
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Miami Vice / int_41c08e5 | |
| Miami Vice / int_42215dce | type |
Ambiguous Ending | |
| Miami Vice / int_42215dce | comment |
Ambiguous Ending: in 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run it is pretty clear that Hank Weldon is destined to go to prison or more likely back to the mental asylum. But what happens to his partner, Marty Lang? He states that he helped Weldon "build the wall", does he mean that literally, helping him conceal the murdered drug dealer's corpse or just that he suspected Weldon had killed him and he'd helped him construct the fantasy that his quarry was still alive as he knew Weldon couldn't live with what he'd done? | |
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Miami Vice / int_42215dce | |
| Miami Vice / int_430e15e1 | type |
Stripperific | |
| Miami Vice / int_430e15e1 | comment |
Many episodes take part in night clubs and among prostitutes where the women's outfits are outright Stripperific, including the things Trudy and Gina tend to wear undercover (or even in episodes where they're waiting to ambush drug runners at a jungle airstrip). | |
| Miami Vice / int_430e15e1 | featureApplicability |
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Miami Vice / int_430e15e1 | |
| Miami Vice / int_43175028 | type |
Compressed Hair | |
| Miami Vice / int_43175028 | comment |
Compressed Hair: In "Definitely Miami," the villain Charlie (Ted Nugent) hides his back-length hair under his hat while he pretends to be Callie's abusive husband. After he beats up Crockett and kicks him out of the room, he removes his hat, letting his hair fall down. | |
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Miami Vice / int_43175028 | |
| Miami Vice / int_443b78cd | type |
Tranquil Fury | |
| Miami Vice / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: Castillo never raised his voice, instead displaying anger in a cold, taciturn manner. Failing that, a simple Death Glare from him spoke a thousand words. | |
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Miami Vice / int_443b78cd | |
| Miami Vice / int_44606d14 | type |
Becoming the Mask | |
| Miami Vice / int_44606d14 | comment |
Becoming the Mask: During the four-part Burnett Arc, Crockett develops amnesia while undercover as a drug dealer, leading him to think he is the drug dealer. This is discussed at times as a real danger for undercover cops. | |
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Miami Vice / int_44606d14 | |
| Miami Vice / int_44bd7a7 | type |
Her Boyfriend's Jacket | |
| Miami Vice / int_44bd7a7 | comment |
Her Boyfriend's Jacket: Caitlin is wearing Crockett's jacket the morning after they first have sex. | |
| Miami Vice / int_44bd7a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Miami Vice / int_44bd7a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_44bd7a7 | |
| Miami Vice / int_44bed14c | type |
Hostage Situation | |
| Miami Vice / int_44bed14c | comment |
Hostage Situation: Season one's "The Maze" sees criminals hold a group of homeless people — including an undercover Tubbs — hostage in a rundown hotel. | |
| Miami Vice / int_44bed14c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_44bed14c | |
| Miami Vice / int_455794d | type |
Bang, Bang, BANG | |
| Miami Vice / int_455794d | comment |
Bang, Bang, BANG: Shotgun noise is used for the firing of pistols. | |
| Miami Vice / int_455794d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_455794d | |
| Miami Vice / int_4604fd4d | type |
Worthy Opponent | |
| Miami Vice / int_4604fd4d | comment |
Worthy Opponent: General Lao Li in "Golden Triangle" views Castillo as this: | |
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Miami Vice / int_4604fd4d | |
| Miami Vice / int_4664e34c | type |
Music Video Syndrome | |
| Miami Vice / int_4664e34c | comment |
Music Video Syndrome: The series was pitched as "MTV Cops", and turned this into an art form, with two similar sequences in the Pilot - one in the first half and one in the second half. | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
| Miami Vice / int_474e3977 | comment |
You Have Failed Me: The second part of "Golden Triangle" has a particularly nasty example. The gangster Lao Li's goons snatch his newly released grandsons and take them to a warehouse, where he is waiting to hear an explanation for their actions. When they instead show defiance and demand to know why they cannot start their own drug dealing dynasty, Li orders them killed. Thankfully, the cops intervene. | |
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Consistent Clothing Style | |
| Miami Vice / int_47fe2e12 | comment |
Consistent Clothing Style: Especially in the first two seasons for Crockett and Tubbs. Crockett was almost always in a white suit or a white jacket with light colored slacks and always wore a sleeveless pastel colored T-shirt, and off-white loafers. While Tubbs wore a variety of non-earth tone colors, he wore a double-breasted suit or blazer the majority of the time. Crockett's wardrobe expanded in later seasons to gray suit jackets and collarless dress shirts, but while Tubbs sometimes sported single-breasted jackets, in later seasons he still seemed to favor double-breasted suits throughout the majory of the series run. Marty Castilo, except for a handful of episodes, always wore an inexpensive black suit with a short-sleeve white dress shirt for the entirety of the series run, with the only variation being his necktie. He wore the outfit so much it could also be considered a Limited Wardrobe. | |
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CIA Evil, FBI Good | |
| Miami Vice / int_48126ac0 | comment |
CIA Evil, FBI Good: Whenever the FBI got involved, they would usually be portrayed as fundamentally well-meaning and upstanding law officials, but they would also frequently engage the Vice squad in petty Jurisdiction Friction, as well as often being paper-pushers who were hopelessly out of their element in Miami, and often messing up Crockett and Tubbs' investigations through bumbling or bullheaded insistence on upholding bureaucracy and proper procedure. CIA agents, however, where almost always varying degrees of psychotic, sinister, trigger-happy thugs in suits, and were usually tangled up in Government Conspiracies which Crockett and Tubbs had a tendency to end up of the wrong side of. | |
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Written-In Absence | |
| Miami Vice / int_499499e6 | comment |
Written-In Absence: At the beginning of the first-season episode "The Home Invaders," Crockett mentions that Tubbs is visiting his girlfriend in New York. Philip Michael Thomas was actually injured during a stunt in the previous episode, "Made For Each Other". Castillo's absence in season five's "Miracle Man" is explained by his being in Orlando testifying in a case with Crockett. Crockett is only missing in one episode in the series, season five's "Borrasca", where he is said to be testifying against a mob dealer (alongside Castillo, who is similarly absent) in a neighboring county. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
| Miami Vice / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: Filming on location in South Florida helps. | |
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Banned Episode | |
| Miami Vice / int_4a046338 | comment |
Season five saw the stories become even more dark and violent, perhaps peaking with the Banned Episode "Too Much, Too Late", which was not originally broadcast because its child-molestation plot was considered too extreme for TV. The language also becomes more grittier, Switek becomes a far more serious character with his severe gambling addiction an underlying plot line and there's more focus on gunplay, with characters seen firing weapons whilst diving through the air, sliding across tables, and even Dual Wielding firearms. | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison | |
| Miami Vice / int_4aaffbd5 | comment |
I Never Said It Was Poison: In "Everybody's in Showbiz," Crockett is questioning a suspect about a stolen briefcase, without mentioning that it was stolen from a limousine. The suspect says that he "ain't been in no limo," to which Crockett replies, "What limo?" | |
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Spiteful Spit | |
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Spiteful Spit: In "Sons and Lovers," as Angelina is tied up in an explosion-wired car and left to die by her brother, he tells her good riddance and spits in her face. | |
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Impractically Fancy Outfit | |
| Miami Vice / int_4b2c373 | comment |
Impractically Fancy Outfit: Two of the most iconic long-sleeved blazers on television are worn by characters who run around in high-stress situations in South Florida's legendarily sweltering climate. | |
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Trapped by Gambling Debts | |
| Miami Vice / int_4cca4ac7 | comment |
Trapped by Gambling Debts: In "Hard Knocks", Switek has to convince an aspiring football player to throw the Big Game to cover his massive debts. Season two's "The Fix" focuses on a judge who racks up gambling debts from a racketeer. While the judge has been paying his debt (by collecting money from a crooked lawyer in exchange for setting low bonds, ROR, or dismiss cases against known drug dealers and homicide suspects), the racketeer loses patience with the judge and demands he make his son throw his upcoming playoff game to pay off his debt. | |
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Downer Ending | |
| Miami Vice / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: Most episodes tend to end on this or a Bittersweet Ending. This was one of the first cop shows where the good guys didn't always win, or if they did there was a high price to pay. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Miami Vice / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: The first few episodes form a conventional Five-Episode Pilot, and had a large number of elements (like the character of Lieutenant Lou Rodriguez, who was killed off after his actor expressed displeasure living in Miami and wanted out) that seem odd in comparison to later episodes. Especially the musical montages, which used to take up extended airtime and would occur for the duration of the song instead of a short clip in later episodes and seasons. These same episodes also feature a really dodgy, prototype remix of Miami Vice Theme in their opening credits, which is missing the main guitar line and just sounds like a lot of aimless drumming. Zito and Switek's schemes used to take up entire segments during certain episodes in the first season, but this was eventually trimmed and removed altogether in later seasons. Several of the early episodes had scenes where the team planned their operations together - later episodes skipped this setup and went directly to the execution of the plan. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
| Miami Vice / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Crockett has a few of these: From "Glades": "Maybe...you won't even...twitch..." From "Bushido": "Surf's up, pal!" note before shooting a henchman named Surf | |
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The Cartel | |
| Miami Vice / int_51589353 | comment |
The Cartel: One of the most dangerous enemies in the series is the Caledrone cartel, a Columbian one of these. It eventually passes to his son and inflicts some of the most personal losses on both our heroes, including killing Tubbs's brother as well as mother of his son plus causing the dissolution of Crockett's marriage. | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
| Miami Vice / int_52488c54 | comment |
Drowning My Sorrows: Crockett does this for three weeks after Caitlin is shot. | |
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Undercover Cop Reveal | |
| Miami Vice / int_52ae74d | comment |
Undercover Cop Reveal: Crockett and Tubbs are both undercover when they first meet. They don't realize they're both cops until Crockett tries to arrest Tubbs. | |
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Bookends | |
| Miami Vice / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The pilot and series finale both end with Crockett asking Tubbs if he's ever considered a career in Southern law enforcement as they walk off. The pilot and series finale also have Crockett and Tubbs chasing a drug dealer who's escaping via flying boat (hell, it's even the same dock!). | |
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Multi-Part Episode | |
| Miami Vice / int_53211774 | comment |
Multi-Part Episode: "Calderone's Return Part 1/2", "Golden Triangle Part 1/2" and "Down For The Count Part 1/2". 2 of the 3 two-parters ("Calderone's Return" and "Down For The Count") feature the death of the series' Big Bad (up to that point in the story) and a major supporting character, respectively. | |
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Affably Evil | |
| Miami Vice / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Some of the bad guys are polite enough... until it comes time to pull the weapons out. | |
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White Bread and Black Brotha | |
| Miami Vice / int_53e9e38a | comment |
White Bread and Black Brotha: Crockett is a white Good Ol' Boy and By-the-Book Cop, while Tubbs is a black New York Cowboy Cop who comes to Miami on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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Corrupt Church | |
| Miami Vice / int_5539b84f | comment |
Corrupt Church: "Amen... Send Money" focuses on a televangelist who preaches that materialism is holy and openly asks his followers to send him money for fancy suits and manicures. | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
| Miami Vice / int_590eb583 | comment |
Domestic Abuse: A pre-stardom Bruce Willis (in his first major acting role) guest starred in "No Exit" as Tony Amato, an Arms Dealer who verbally and emotionally abuses his wife. She kills him at the end of the episode. | |
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Smoking Is Cool | |
| Miami Vice / int_596f675a | comment |
Smoking Is Cool: Crockett smokes like a chimney throughout the first season, although he quietly drops the habit early in the second. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
| Miami Vice / int_59907e4f | comment |
Police Are Useless: Surprisingly played straight as often as not. Crockett and Tubbs are painfully aware that they are unable to do much about the Miami drug trade. Whenever they manage to score a victory, they usually have significant collateral damage and the individuals involved are almost immediately replaced. Several times in the show, they also completely fail due to outside interference, corruption, or their opponents simply being too wealthy to prosecute. | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty | |
| Miami Vice / int_599f943f | comment |
Karma Houdini Warranty: This happens to a few of the recurring villains. Esteban Calderone escapes in the pilot movie but meets his end in the appropriately titled, "Calderone's Demise." Lombard eventually is taken down by his own people in The Mafia. | |
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Faux Death | |
| Miami Vice / int_5a7fc31 | comment |
Faux Death: In "Tale of the Goat," a voodoo chief uses tetrodotoxin to fake his death so he can be smuggled into Miami. Later, his followers inject Tubbs with the poison, almost killing him. | |
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Racial Face Blindness | |
| Miami Vice / int_5b0a8d6a | comment |
Racial Face Blindness: Invoked in the pilot. An angry Tubbs throws this out at an enraged and suspicious Crockett who's got him at gunpoint for lying, saying that while he knows black men "look alike to all you crackers", looking at the photo of Rafael should be enough to establish Tubbs as his brother. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
| Miami Vice / int_5b19cc1b | comment |
Air-Vent Passageway: In "Baby Blues", crooked adoption lawyer Famiglia crawls through a very spacious ventilation system, complete with ladders between floors, so he can shoot the mother of one of his victims through the grate. | |
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Man on Fire | |
| Miami Vice / int_5d86966a | comment |
Man on Fire: In one episode, a man is set on fire when his truck explodes. He runs around screaming until Crockett tackles him and smothers the fire with a blanket. | |
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Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate | |
| Miami Vice / int_5e9d35b | comment |
Bulletproof Fashion Plate: Most of the time, no matter what happens to them, Crockett and Tubbs' clothes never get dirty or damaged and their hair never gets mussed. Averted in the pilot, where Crockett's famous white linen suit and pastel teal T-shirt get blackened by a car bomb; his appearance at Maria's diner and his son's birthday party both attract attention for his filthiness until he explains what happened. And in "Glades". Both of them end up covered in dirt with ripped clothes, and are constantly bitten by mosquitoes for good measure; although they aren't wearing their usual stylish threads here. Crockett gets blood on his clothes and hands in "Milk Run", and a little less obviously in "The Good Collar". And he gets beaten up repeatedly and brutally in "Bad Timing", complete with a lot of blood, although again, it happens when he's not dressed to work undercover. Tubbs gets blood on his clothes when things go wrong in the first part of "Red Tape". | |
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Citizenship Marriage | |
| Miami Vice / int_60426489 | comment |
Citizenship Marriage: Izzy claims it's a "tragic coincidence" that he and his ex-wife got divorced shortly after he got his green card. | |
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| Miami Vice / int_606244c2 | type |
Parental Incest | |
| Miami Vice / int_606244c2 | comment |
Parental Incest: "Junk Love" had a drug dealer killing men who were close to his daughter, because he was having an incestuous relationship with her. This made Rosella turn to doing anything to get away, even turning tricks. The episode implies that she kills him on his yacht. | |
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| Miami Vice / int_618dc1ea | type |
Parent with New Paramour | |
| Miami Vice / int_618dc1ea | comment |
Parent with New Paramour: Caroline's second husband Bob Ballard is a type 2 or 3. Billy thinks he's boring and overly strict and treats him like a baby. | |
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| Miami Vice / int_61996785 | type |
Sacrificial Lamb | |
| Miami Vice / int_61996785 | comment |
Sacrificial Lamb: The department's original boss, Lieutenant Rodriguez. | |
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| Miami Vice / int_6220c00d | type |
Pædo Hunt | |
| Miami Vice / int_6220c00d | comment |
Pædo Hunt: Season five's "Too Much, Too Late" dealt with child molestation. As a result, NBC refused to air it. | |
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| Miami Vice / int_62624dc2 | type |
Interpol Special Agent | |
| Miami Vice / int_62624dc2 | comment |
Interpol Special Agent: More or less averted by the Interpol agent in "French Twist." She flies to Miami, hot on the trail of an international criminal... and gives the detectives advice. At least until she turns out to be a French government assassin sent because He Knows Too Much. | |
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| Miami Vice / int_627264e0 | type |
Death Glare | |
| Miami Vice / int_627264e0 | comment |
Death Glare: The Castillo Staredown. The famously taciturn Lieutenant used the gesture to convey his emotions without resorting to the harsh words or raised voice that are often seen as epitomising the "police chief" figure in crime fiction, particularly during the 70s and 80s. | |
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Cyanide Pill | |
| Miami Vice / int_6363937b | comment |
Cyanide Pill: In "Heroes of the Revolution," a drug dealer hides a cyanide capsule in his car keys and swallows it when he is arrested. | |
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| Miami Vice / int_646407bd | type |
We Named the Monkey "Jack" | |
| Miami Vice / int_646407bd | comment |
We Named the Monkey "Jack": Crockett has a pet alligator, Elvis. | |
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Manly Tears | |
| Miami Vice / int_64e975cf | comment |
Manly Tears: On several occasions, but prominently shown in 'Smuggler's Blues' when Crockett ponders over the Vietnam War with a hired veteran pilot. | |
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Last-Minute Reprieve | |
| Miami Vice / int_653bb6cf | comment |
Last-Minute Reprieve: In "Forgive Us Our Debts," Crockett finds evidence that the man on death row for murdering his partner is actually innocent. He manages to get him pardoned less than an hour before his execution is scheduled. Turns out he's actually guilty, but he goes free anyway. | |
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Intimate Open Shirt | |
| Miami Vice / int_6593b4e8 | comment |
Crockett and Tubbs wear things skirting Intimate Open Shirt as their work wear in nearly every episode. (As seen in the page image.) | |
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Go-to Alias | |
| Miami Vice / int_670ca248 | comment |
Go-to Alias: "Burnett" and "Cooper". | |
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| Miami Vice / int_6779fb0b | type |
Shoot the Hostage Taker | |
| Miami Vice / int_6779fb0b | comment |
Shoot the Hostage Taker: In "Glades", The Dragon is holding a shotgun to a little girl's head as Crockett approaches with this pistol drawn and aimed. The Dragon begins threatening to shoot the girl if he's not let go, saying "If I so much as twitch, she's go—" BLAM Sonny shoots him right between the eyes, with the Post-Mortem One-Liner, "Maybe you won't even twitch." | |
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1.0 | |
| Miami Vice | hasFeature |
Miami Vice / int_6779fb0b | |
| Miami Vice / int_68186dcd | type |
Double Tap | |
| Miami Vice / int_68186dcd | comment |
Double Tap: In "Calderone's Return," Jim Zubiena demonstrates the Mozambique Drill: a double tap to the chest followed by an aimed shot at the head. | |
| Miami Vice / int_68186dcd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_68186dcd | |
| Miami Vice / int_69391768 | type |
Expecting Someone Taller | |
| Miami Vice / int_69391768 | comment |
Expecting Someone Taller: This is both Crockett and Caitlin's first impression of each other. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_69391768 | |
| Miami Vice / int_69681e01 | type |
Big Brother Instinct | |
| Miami Vice / int_69681e01 | comment |
Big Brother Instinct: Raised in a family with a largely absentee and possibly alcoholic father, Crockett had an older brother, Jake, who protected him from bullies in their youth. | |
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Miami Vice / int_69681e01 | |
| Miami Vice / int_6a2c358d | type |
A Death in the Limelight | |
| Miami Vice / int_6a2c358d | comment |
A Death in the Limelight: Switek and Zito had always been the back-ups/comic relief to Crockett and Tubbs. So when "Down for the Count" featured them as the main characters in a case, it unsurprisingly ended with Zito being murdered. | |
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Miami Vice / int_6a2c358d | |
| Miami Vice / int_6a42ef | type |
Cynicism Catalyst | |
| Miami Vice / int_6a42ef | comment |
Cynicism Catalyst: Caitlin's death is a major contributor to Crockett's burnout and depression in Season 5. As Tubbs puts it, "Ever since Caitlin died everything tastes sour." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_6a42ef | |
| Miami Vice / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
| Miami Vice / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: A FBI agent takes his own life after he can't come back from his undercover lifestyle. | |
| Miami Vice / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Miami Vice | hasFeature |
Miami Vice / int_6d332aea | |
| Miami Vice / int_6e8b95dc | type |
The Teaser | |
| Miami Vice / int_6e8b95dc | comment |
The Teaser: Every episode opens with one, ranging in length from about two to eight minutes. | |
| Miami Vice / int_6e8b95dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Miami Vice | hasFeature |
Miami Vice / int_6e8b95dc | |
| Miami Vice / int_6fb4d332 | type |
Invulnerable Knuckles | |
| Miami Vice / int_6fb4d332 | comment |
Invulnerable Knuckles: Averted in "Theresa." After Crockett punches a dealer, his knuckles are bloody. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_6fb4d332 | |
| Miami Vice / int_71038217 | type |
Wrench Wench | |
| Miami Vice / int_71038217 | comment |
Wrench Wench: Crockett's mechanic, Tommy. | |
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1.0 | |
| Miami Vice / int_71038217 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_71038217 | |
| Miami Vice / int_71152dd | type |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
| Miami Vice / int_71152dd | comment |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations: In "The Prodigal Son, Part 2", when he's in New York with Margaret, Sonny tries to be honest about himself and what he does without revealing that he's a cop (also dropping some Foreshadowing for the final season). Margaret still thinks he's a criminal. | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_71152dd | |
| Miami Vice / int_71329e49 | type |
Turn in Your Badge | |
| Miami Vice / int_71329e49 | comment |
Turn in Your Badge: In "Freefall," federal agent Andrew Baker threatens to get Crockett and Tubbs kicked off the force for killing the deposed dictator of a Banana Republic who was in league with corrupt government officials. The two respond by throwing their badges on the ground, completely burned out from the job and disgusted by the corruption that they've seen, despite Castillo's pleas for them to reconsider. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_71329e49 | |
| Miami Vice / int_714019ac | type |
Coffin Contraband | |
| Miami Vice / int_714019ac | comment |
Coffin Contraband: During the Vietnam War, a colonel smuggled heroin out of Vietnam by hiding it inside corpses. Unfortunately, the wood alcohol used to preserve the corpses turned the heroin toxic, killing many people. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Miami Vice | hasFeature |
Miami Vice / int_714019ac | |
| Miami Vice / int_72b0dfd2 | type |
Being Good Sucks | |
| Miami Vice / int_72b0dfd2 | comment |
Being Good Sucks: Several instances in the later seasons (which contributes to Crockett and Tubbs eventually quitting the force) show that, for all their attempts to do the right thing, it often results in the villains getting off on technicalities and innocent people being caught in the crossfire. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_72b0dfd2 | |
| Miami Vice / int_73328e84 | type |
Suicide by Cop | |
| Miami Vice / int_73328e84 | comment |
Suicide by Cop: Pulled by some of the bad guys when they lose someone/something precious and decide to go out in a blaze of glory. In "Bushido" Castillo's old CIA friend Jack from his DEA days in Southeast Asia turns up on the run from the Soviets and his own government. When they meet up, Jack opens fire with an Uzi to force Castillo to shoot back. He does so both because Jack was dying from cancer and because he knew his best friend would protect his Russian wife and their son. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_73328e84 | |
| Miami Vice / int_7335ffa9 | type |
Grey-and-Gray Morality | |
| Miami Vice / int_7335ffa9 | comment |
Grey-and-Gray Morality: Crockett and Tubbs on occasion mingle with people who are doing what they can just to get by. Not everyone's a criminal, and not everyone's a saint. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_7335ffa9 | |
| Miami Vice / int_74b85afd | type |
If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! | |
| Miami Vice / int_74b85afd | comment |
If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: In "Give a Little, Take a Little", Detective Gina Calabrese is attempting to infiltrate a crime lord's organization by going undercover as a prostitute. The crime lord insists she has sex with him. To protect her cover, Gina agrees. | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_74b85afd | |
| Miami Vice / int_74c9cf33 | type |
Two Girls to a Team | |
| Miami Vice / int_74c9cf33 | comment |
Two Girls to a Team: Gina and Trudy are this for the vice department. | |
| Miami Vice / int_74c9cf33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_74c9cf33 | |
| Miami Vice / int_77063cd7 | type |
Hooker with a Heart of Gold | |
| Miami Vice / int_77063cd7 | comment |
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: If the crew isn't bringing down drug dealers, they're investigating sex crimes usually involving prostitutes. Some of their informants on the drug cases are call girls and streetwalkers. | |
| Miami Vice / int_77063cd7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_77063cd7 | |
| Miami Vice / int_775a1af6 | type |
Married to the Job | |
| Miami Vice / int_775a1af6 | comment |
Married to the Job: Crockett's first marriage fails for this reason. | |
| Miami Vice / int_775a1af6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_775a1af6 | |
| Miami Vice / int_780e2082 | type |
Slimeball | |
| Miami Vice / int_780e2082 | comment |
Slimeball: Tubbs in the pilot basically drools and makes really perverted sounds when a pretty lady walks past him. Thankfully, this was dialed way back as the series progressed. | |
| Miami Vice / int_780e2082 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_780e2082 | |
| Miami Vice / int_7ac5914f | type |
Prisoner's Last Meal | |
| Miami Vice / int_7ac5914f | comment |
Prisoner's Last Meal: In the episode "Forgive Us Our Debts", a prison guard brings Hackman his last meal in a holding cell before he's prepped for the electric chair. Hackman offers the guard his gold watch. By the end of the episode, Crockett, who had helped put Hackman on death row in the first place for the murder of his former partner, gets him exonerated and released from prison... Only Crocket realizes shortly thereafter that Hackman really was guilty all along. | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_7ac5914f | |
| Miami Vice / int_7aeb0635 | type |
Arms Dealer | |
| Miami Vice / int_7aeb0635 | comment |
Arms Dealer: Tony Amato from "No Exit" plans to sell stinger missiles to a Jamaican gangster. He was the subject of investigations by both the Organized Crime Bureau and the FBI, but was rendered untouchable thanks to protection from another federal agency (very likely the CIA) in return for his international connections. Guzman from "Evan" is an international arms dealer, specializing in Ingram MAC-10s with armor-piercing bullets. His customers include terrorist groups in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and other Caribbean countries, and ATF has been building a case against Guzman for several months, especially after getting one of their agents, Evan Freed, into his organization. | |
| Miami Vice / int_7aeb0635 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Miami Vice | hasFeature |
Miami Vice / int_7aeb0635 | |
| Miami Vice / int_7b21ef92 | type |
Later-Installment Weirdness | |
| Miami Vice / int_7b21ef92 | comment |
Later-Installment Weirdness: The final seasons also included an escalation in odd episodes, such as one of the characters being abducted by aliens (the leader of which was played by James Brown), a group of drug dealers doing a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax regarding ghosts to try to keep people away from their operation (and the ghost being probably Real After All), Sonny going through Easy Amnesia (and temporarily becoming a bad guy) in one episode, a couple of "comedy" episodes where the Vice detectives had to deal with borderline-murderous Gambit Pileups regarding the purchase of unusual items (a prize bull's semen in one, the Human Popsicle remains of a famous singer in another) from the same Butt-Monkey Con Man snitch... | |
| Miami Vice / int_7b21ef92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_7b21ef92 | |
| Miami Vice / int_7d7a5f3 | type |
Carpet of Virility | |
| Miami Vice / int_7d7a5f3 | comment |
Carpet of Virility: Except for Crockett, all the main male cast members have one, but Switek's is probably the most prominent. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_7d7a5f3 | |
| Miami Vice / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
| Miami Vice / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: Margaret in "The Prodigal Son" has a very distinctive on-off way of getting and keeping Crockett's attention, to the point where he calls her out as "a nutcase with an attitude problem"note ...which makes much more sense when you realize she's an information broker in corporate espionage and seducing people isn't usually how she operates, so she's either going outside the job, mixing business with pleasure, actually has some genuine attraction to and feelings for Crockett and feels guilty, or all of the above. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_7ef728b1 | |
| Miami Vice / int_7efd2e30 | type |
Expository Hairstyle Change | |
| Miami Vice / int_7efd2e30 | comment |
Expository Hairstyle Change: In the first season, Crockett's hairstyle is short and parted over on the side; in the second season it becomes slightly longer in the front and becomes a combed back bouffant-like style; in the third season, it becomes short and spikey, and gradually grows out in the back, making it mullet-like; in the fourth season it reverts to being bouffant-like in the front and remains mullet-like, and grows out as the season progresses; for the fifth season he's first portrayed with a stylish ponytail until he regains his memory, after which his hairstyle becomes long and parted over on one side and continues to grow to its longest length. In the first two seasons, Tubbs sported a jheri curl. It was short for the remaining seasons. In the fourth season, he had a beard, which was shaved off in the fifth. Switek's hair becomes longer and shaggier in the fifth season. He often wears it slicked back while working undercover. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_7efd2e30 | |
| Miami Vice / int_7f1be21 | type |
Functional Addict | |
| Miami Vice / int_7f1be21 | comment |
Functional Addict: In "Theresa," Crockett's titular girlfriend thinks of her opioid addiction as a relatively minor flaw that doesn't interfere with her work as a doctor. She still winds up selling police information to criminals in order to pay for her addiction. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_7f1be21 | |
| Miami Vice / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Miami Vice / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Crockett's investigation of the circumstances behind the death of his former partner in "Forgive Us Our Debts" results in a convicted and scheduled-for-execution killer to be mistakenly freed from Death Row. This comes back to bite him a season later when the killer comes back and shoots Crockett's wife, Caitlin, leading to Crockett's breakdown and slide into his alter ego, Burnett. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_7fbb2a3 | |
| Miami Vice / int_81414673 | type |
AM/FM Characterization | |
| Miami Vice / int_81414673 | comment |
AM/FM Characterization: In the pilot, Tubbs looks through Crockett's music collection and finds George Jones, Jimmy Buffett, Dickey Betts, and Waylon Jennings, characterizing him as a Good Ol' Boy. Switek is a huge fan of Elvis Presley. | |
| Miami Vice / int_81414673 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_81414673 | |
| Miami Vice / int_8344209e | type |
BFG | |
| Miami Vice / int_8344209e | comment |
BFG: Tubbs carries various shortened shotguns as his standard sidearm. Commonly an Ithaca 37 Stakeout or a sawed-off double barrel. | |
| Miami Vice / int_8344209e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_8344209e | |
| Miami Vice / int_838b546c | type |
SlidingScaleOfSillinessVsSeriousness | |
| Miami Vice / int_838b546c | comment |
Sliding Scale Of Silliness Vs Seriousness: The series started out in the first two seasons by being a fairly serious cop show but with 80's glamor and pastel colors. Then it got darker around the third season and had some pretty ridiculous plots during the fourth and fifth season but eventually tried to get back to how it was at the beginning in the fifth season. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_838b546c | |
| Miami Vice / int_8404a0f3 | type |
Amnesiac Dissonance | |
| Miami Vice / int_8404a0f3 | comment |
Amnesiac Dissonance: Crockett goes through this when he gets his memories back. When he walks into the police station, all his friends pull their guns on him. | |
| Miami Vice / int_8404a0f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_8404a0f3 | |
| Miami Vice / int_8411ab92 | type |
Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
| Miami Vice / int_8411ab92 | comment |
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Crockett is hot-headed and often aggravated by the day to day activities, while Tubbs is laid-back and easy-going. | |
| Miami Vice / int_8411ab92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_8411ab92 | |
| Miami Vice / int_85b1e741 | type |
Creepy Crossdresser | |
| Miami Vice / int_85b1e741 | comment |
Creepy Crossdresser: The first episode, "Brother's Keeper," features a hitman whose signature method of killing is to dress as a woman so as to conceal himself from his intended victims until it's too late for them to react. | |
| Miami Vice / int_85b1e741 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_85b1e741 | |
| Miami Vice / int_85c1004b | type |
Incredibly Obvious Bug | |
| Miami Vice / int_85c1004b | comment |
Incredibly Obvious Bug: In "Heart of Darkness," the wire Tubbs is wearing is accidentally miswired so that it picks up FM radio. This nearly gets Tubbs killed when it starts playing loud rock music in the middle of a meeting with armed criminals. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_85c1004b | |
| Miami Vice / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Miami Vice / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Tubbs's baby son is shown to the audience to have been taken away and not killed together with his mother Angelina, but Tubbs doesn't know this and neither does anyone else on the relevant side, and there's no sight or word of little Ricardo ever again. Elvis the alligator stops appearing by the fourth season, and is never referenced or seen again, with his fate left unanswered after Crockett quits the force at the end of the series. Zito's goldfish disappears from the series after his death in "Down for the Count" and never reappears again, despite Crockett and others searching his apartment for clues in the episode after his death occurs. | |
| Miami Vice / int_863fa679 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_863fa679 | |
| Miami Vice / int_868409c | type |
Broken Pedestal | |
| Miami Vice / int_868409c | comment |
Broken Pedestal: The repeated moments when one of the heroes finds out an old friend, love interest, or a colleague they used to trust has gone bad. In the acclaimed episode "Out Where The Buses Don't Run," the detectives are approached by a retired Vice cop, Hank Weldon, who says he is on the tracks of a drug lord who disappeared five years ago. Weldon seems mentally unstable and fixated on said drug lord. At the end, it turns out that Weldon has murdered the drug lord and kept his body hidden for five years. | |
| Miami Vice / int_868409c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_868409c | |
| Miami Vice / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
| Miami Vice / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: From the episode "Glades". A drug dealer has a shotgun to the head of an innocent young girl, taunting Crockett that all he needs to do is twitch and the girl is dead. Crockett's response? "Maybe...you won't even...twitch..." Then he shoots the drug dealer in the head. He doesn't twitch. This scene was recreated note for note in The Movie. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_86b21114 | |
| Miami Vice / int_86bbf6b5 | type |
Newscaster Cameo | |
| Miami Vice / int_86bbf6b5 | comment |
Newscaster Cameo: Bob Mayer, a Miami news anchor at the time appears as himself in the news report about Tico at the end of "Killshot". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_86bbf6b5 | |
| Miami Vice / int_875615dd | type |
Truth in Television | |
| Miami Vice / int_875615dd | comment |
Truth in Television; 'Amen...Send Money' about a pair of feuding "televangelists" preceded a host of scandals involving numerous Christian television preachers. Astonishingly 'Missing Hours' was based in reality, on the Gulf Breeze UFO sightings which swept Florida in the late 1980s Whilst some critics thought the level of violence on the show was unrealistic Miami in the period saw the bloodiest shootout in FBI history, later portrayed in the TV movie 'The FBI Murders'. | |
| Miami Vice / int_875615dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_875615dd | |
| Miami Vice / int_87a38662 | type |
Murder-Suicide | |
| Miami Vice / int_87a38662 | comment |
Murder-Suicide: Season two's "The Fix" ends with a judge murdering the rackteer he's in debt to onboard his yacht and then killing himself in front of Crockett, who tries to talk him down. | |
| Miami Vice / int_87a38662 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_87a38662 | |
| Miami Vice / int_8879db82 | type |
Badass Crew | |
| Miami Vice / int_8879db82 | comment |
Badass Crew: The whole Metro-Dade Vice Squad. Believe it or not, Crockett and Tubbs were not the only great cops working in Miami. | |
| Miami Vice / int_8879db82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_8879db82 | |
| Miami Vice / int_89a10399 | type |
Alien Episode | |
| Miami Vice / int_89a10399 | comment |
Alien Episode: In "Missing Hours," the otherwise normal TV series sees a lot of weirdness, including a woman claiming her deceased husband has been abducted by aliens and Crockett and Tubbs later seeing a UFO. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_89a10399 | |
| Miami Vice / int_8a295a46 | type |
Cool Car | |
| Miami Vice / int_8a295a46 | comment |
The Ferraris driven by Crockett. The black Daytona was a replica on a Corvette chassis due to being affordable; when the Ferrari company found this out, Enzo Ferrari offered to give the production real ones (the white Testarossa) if the knockoff was disposed of. It was, in a spectacular case of External Combustion. | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_8a295a46 | |
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Something Blues | |
| Miami Vice / int_8ad0bc24 | comment |
Something Blues: "Rico's Blues," Tubbs' unofficial theme song. | |
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Magical Computer | |
| Miami Vice / int_8b49514e | comment |
Magical Computer: The crazed ex-cop Hank in "Out Where The Buses Don't Run" works with a computer to track the "missing" drug lord that Hank is obsessed with catching. The computer "Lorraine" (named for Hank's ex-wife) operates with a mind and personality of its own, and does things that computers in 1985 really didn't do. | |
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'80s Hair | |
| Miami Vice / int_8b4f2a4f | comment |
'80s Hair: Most of the women who appeared on the show, notably guest star Pam Grier as seen in this photo◊. The men would also have distinctive 80's hair styles, up to and including the Mullet. | |
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Identical Grandson | |
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Identical Grandson: Saundra Santiago plays both Gina and her mother Elena in "Heroes of the Revolution." | |
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Wham Episode | |
| Miami Vice / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: "Golden Triangle, Part 1": What starts out as a typical episode involving a jewellery theft takes a sharp turn and becomes a showcase for Castillo's Hidden Depths, culminating in the most cinematic fight of the series (between Castillo and a suspect) up to that point. "Sons And Lovers": Tubbs' former love interest, Angelina Calderone, returns - with a baby in tow, and one she says belongs to him. Angelica's brother, also of the Calderone family, comes to Miami looking for revenge...and ends up rigging Angelina to a car bomb that kills her and makes Tubbs think his child has died as well. "Down For The Count, Part 1": An undercover operation involving a corrupt boxing manager turns horribly tragic when Zito is killed and made to look like he overdosed on drugs. "Mirror Image", Sonny is caught in a massive explosion that leads to him developing amnesia and slipping into the role of his alter-ego, Sonny Burnett. He turns traitor on the Vice team and begins working for a drug cartel, finally culminating in him shooting Tubbs after the latter tries to reason with him. | |
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Undercover as Lovers | |
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Undercover as Lovers: While Tubbs is undercover as a convict in "Walk-Alone," he and Trudy share a "conjugal visit". Tubbs leans in for a very awkward kiss but can't bring himself to do it, so he yells at her for cheating on him instead. | |
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Pimping the Offspring | |
| Miami Vice / int_8e8484ec | comment |
Pimping the Offspring: In the episode "Too Much, Too Late," Addled Addict Yvonne is desperate for a fix but can't afford to pay her crack dealer, so she lets him rape her thirteen-year-old daughter Lynette as payment. | |
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The Voiceless | |
| Miami Vice / int_8ec0abf | comment |
The Voiceless: Izzy's dimwitted assistant Manny never had any lines, although he could occasionally be seen talking in the background. | |
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The Informant | |
| Miami Vice / int_901046d2 | comment |
The Informant: Crockett and Tubbs regularly called upon Izzy "The Snitch" Moreno and Neville "Noogie" Lamont to get information on whatever big plot was going down. The two cops treated the latter like some unpleasant form of fungus, while the former was treated like a favored pet. Izzy once even helped the two cops out while Izzy was in the middle of committing another crime (the crime was straight burglary... they're Vice cops... they cut him a break). | |
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Heads or Tails? | |
| Miami Vice / int_91495e52 | comment |
Heads or Tails?: Crockett and Tubbs would flip a coin to decide who would carry out certain tasks, either when multiple things needed to be done simultaneously, or simply when neither officer wanted to carry out the task at hand. It is worth noting that Tubbs always seemed to end up losing — both in terms of betting on the result of the flip, and also in terms of the outcome of losing that bet. "Milk Run" — to decide who would question Angela and who would distract her boyfriend Zeke in the meantime; Crockett won and pumped Angela for information while Tubbs talked to (and was all but assaulted by) an angry Zeke. "Red Tape" — to decide who went to serve a warrant with Detectives Eddie Trumbull and Bobby Cruz; Crockett won and sent Tubbs into the building. The apartment was booby-trapped, and the resultant explosion killed Trumbull and wounded Diaz and Tubbs. "Freefall" — to decide who would see Johnny Miranda and who would see the accountant Max Flynn; Tubbs caught the coin in mid-air and decided to go see Miranda, but ended up losing anyway as the decision led to his capture by Caesar Montoya. | |
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Miami Vice / int_91495e52 | |
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Busman's Holiday | |
| Miami Vice / int_94332264 | comment |
Busman's Holiday: In "The Afternoon Plane," Tubbs and his girlfriend Alicia win an all-expenses-paid trip to an island retreat. It turns out to be a trick by his enemy Orlando Calderone to lure him away from Miami. | |
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Leeroy Jenkins | |
| Miami Vice / int_95265081 | comment |
Leeroy Jenkins: Detective Tim Duryea from "The Maze". He and his partner Dickey Hawkins notice the Escobar brothers causing trouble and charge down the street after them, "John Wayne" style, when Raul Escobar shoots, killing Hawkins and letting the brothers get away. Crockett blames Duyrea's tactics for Hawkins' death, and Castillo reluctantly allows Duryea to be part of the operation against the Escobars at the Maze hotel. But again, Duryea's impatience and thirst for revenge got the best of him, and he began another "John Wayne" charge at the Maze, which causes the operation to become a hostage situation. Castillo wants to send Duryea home after that, but due to manpower needs he allows Duryea to stay (but not to leave the command center until the final assault). When the final assault occurs, Duryea nearly guns down Jaime Escobar and Tubbs, but is stopped by Tubbs, who dresses Duryea down: | |
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Desk Sweep of Rage | |
| Miami Vice / int_96b68af2 | comment |
Desk Sweep of Rage: Crockett does this twice: once in "Shadow in the Dark" because of the Shadow's influence on his mind, and once in "Child's Play" when he's distraught after accidentally shooting a child. | |
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Miami Vice / int_96b68af2 | |
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Bodyguard Crush | |
| Miami Vice / int_96f6335d | comment |
Bodyguard Crush: Crockett meets his second wife, Caitlin Davies, because she's testifying against her former manager for payola and needs protection. At first she dislikes him, calling him the "fashion police" and asking him, "What are you going to protect me with? A blowdryer?" They don't resolve their differences until Crockett saves her from hitmen. | |
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| Miami Vice / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Miami Vice / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Esteban Calderone is the Arc Villain of four episodes of the first five. He is the head of The Cartel and killed Tubb's brother as well as broke up Crockett's marriage. Al Lombard is a member of The Mafia and the villain in two episodes before becoming The Stool Pidgeon. Frank Hackman, a recurring antagonist, manages to be one of the most dangerous criminals that Crockett has faced. | |
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Miami Vice / int_970c790a | |
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Cerebus Rollercoaster | |
| Miami Vice / int_98ce3773 | comment |
Cerebus Rollercoaster: Season four saw the extensive use of dark, gritty storylines scaled back somewhat, although some nihilistic episodes still remain. At the other end of the scale, some of the lighter episodes veer wildly into science-fiction and comedy, most infamously "Missing Hours". The disparity between dark episodes and light episodes leads to a decidedly uneven season. | |
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Necessary Fail | |
| Miami Vice / int_99db4d48 | comment |
Necessary Fail: Crockett and Tubbs come together over the loss of their partner/brother. | |
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Zipping Up the Bodybag | |
| Miami Vice / int_9a14941e | comment |
Zipping Up the Bodybag: Happens in many episodes. | |
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Villains Out Shopping | |
| Miami Vice / int_9ae0ead1 | comment |
Villains Out Shopping: In the early seasons, it's common to see the week's given drug dealer/pimp/gun-runner doing the most diabolical things, like...hanging out at the beach, dancing at the club, and trying on new clothes in some trendy Miami shop. | |
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Contemplate Our Navels | |
| Miami Vice / int_9b0f37de | comment |
Contemplate Our Navels: Tubbs in Season 1 was especially prone to this kind of behavior; almost anything involving the Big Bad or his daughter would immediately launch the audience into a five minute long Big "NO!"-filled flashback montage. | |
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Miami Vice / int_9b0f37de | |
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Addled Addict | |
| Miami Vice / int_9b60b728 | comment |
Addled Addict: Quite a few, but the worst is probably Yvonne from "Too Much, Too Late," who lets her dealer rape her adolescent daughter in exchange for crack. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
| Miami Vice / int_9c8701b5 | comment |
A Day in the Limelight: "Golden Triangle" and "Bushido" delved into Castillo's past and expand slightly upon his typically taciturn character. The first season episode "Made for Each Other" focused on Zito and Switek. | |
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Taking the Bullet | |
| Miami Vice / int_9ce6492a | comment |
Taking the Bullet: Rodriguez dies taking a bullet for Crockett. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| Miami Vice / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: There's quite a bit of Crockett griping in the first two seasons about identity issues or the strain of being undercover — including a conversation with Gina in the pilot that holds up for five seasons — but the clearest sign of his eventual Amnesia Episode comes with the visual appearance of "Burnett" himself briefly◊ at the funeral at the end of "Sons and Lovers", the second-season finale, two years before. Given that the episode deals with Tubbs losing his child and his child's mother and Crockett having to stop him from vengeance killing someone responsible, it's not that surprising. While he is framed by both Tubbs and Castillo in the shot, neither of them really look at or "notice" him. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
| Miami Vice / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: The Testarossa that is given to Crockett in "Stone's War" is hinted to be the same one owned by Irish mobster Bunny Berrigan in the preceding episode, "When Irish Eyes Are Crying" (as Crockett comments that it has "new paint" when he first sees it). In "Stone's War", Crockett says that he can't play Stone's recording of the massacre in Nicaragua because he doesn't own a television. Ten episodes later, in "Forgive Us Our Debts", Crockett finally buys a small television for the bedroom on his boat. "A Bullet for Crockett" begins with a scene reminiscent of the pilot, where (in both instances) Crockett and Tubbs drive to an undercover drug deal as Phil Collins' "In The Air Tonight" plays in the background. In "Deliver Us From Evil", Crockett's locker has a photograph with him and his college friend Robbie, who appeared in the second-season episode "Buddies". | |
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Leitmotif | |
| Miami Vice / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: "Crockett's Theme" and "Rico's Blues." | |
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Not Now, Kiddo | |
| Miami Vice / int_9fb5d589 | comment |
Not Now, Kiddo: In "By Hooker By Crook", Crockett won't let Trudy interrupt the program he's watching so she can tell him his new girlfriend is a madam... and has to find out from the program, instead. | |
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Intimate Lotion Application | |
| Miami Vice / int_a0a364d5 | comment |
Intimate Lotion Application: In "Golden Triangle Part 1", Crockett is trying to find one of the hookers that are suckering male guests in a hotel, so he dresses up as a naive Stereotypical Nerd and hangs around at the pool. The moment a pretty woman comes up to him and asks him to rub lotion on her back, he knows he's found his target. | |
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Samus Is a Girl | |
| Miami Vice / int_a18d407b | comment |
Samus Is a Girl: At the beginning of "The Fix," Switek is surprised to discover that the drug dealer Ortega is a woman. | |
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Lovely Angels | |
| Miami Vice / int_a3babc56 | comment |
Lovely Angels: Gina and Trudy. | |
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1.0 | |
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Miami Vice / int_a3babc56 | |
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Snow Globe of Innocence | |
| Miami Vice / int_a42d348c | comment |
Snow Globe of Innocence: After Zito's death and the OCB enter his apartment to gather evidence against those who killed him and prove him innocent of a self-induced overdose to the skeptical Internal Affairs, they learn that he has a collection of snowglobes. In the last aired episode of the series, "Too Much, Too Late", the still-grieving Switek, who in addition to failing to cope with the loss of his best friend and is also battling a crippling gambling addiction that has ruined his life, is seen playing with one of his snowglobes and thinking of him. | |
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Dead Partner | |
| Miami Vice / int_a4ecfcbf | comment |
Dead Partner: Crockett's original partner falls afoul of a car bomb early in the pilot. | |
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Sibling Murder | |
| Miami Vice / int_a659f3a4 | comment |
Sibling Murder: In season two's "Definitely Miami", a woman stabs her drug lord brother to death before being killed by a sniper. She'd previously testified against him when he killed her husband. | |
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Amicable Exes | |
| Miami Vice / int_a681bfc6 | comment |
Amicable Exes: Crockett is still on good terms with his ex-wife Caroline, visiting her and their son regularly until she moves away in the first season. | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight | |
| Miami Vice / int_a6bd0685 | comment |
Died in Your Arms Tonight: Caitlin is shot as she's walking towards Crockett after a concert. She collapses in his arms. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
| Miami Vice / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Some villains (and some heroes) never answer for the crimes they commit. William Maynard (played by G. Gordon Liddy) kills Ira Stone and flees Miami - despite Crockett pledging to stop him, he never appears again. | |
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Instant Convertible | |
| Miami Vice / int_a7b10289 | comment |
Instant Convertible: Happens in "Stone's War" to a car driven by the CIA which is chasing Crockett and Stone. | |
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Wife-Basher Basher | |
| Miami Vice / int_a89efdf8 | comment |
Wife-Basher Basher: Crockett has a strong need to protect women. This was particularly seen in "Death and the Lady," when Glantz's sadism towards women enraged him, first into saying, "You know what really turns me on? The idea of you in a room with all the fathers of all the girls you've turned out." By the end of the episode, he was so eaten up by knowing that Glantz had gotten away with murder that he crossed the line and beat Glantz, saying, "Is that sexy? Do you like that?" Similarly, in "Junk Love", he didn't even try to stop Rosella from shooting her abusive father and showed more sympathy for her than Tubbs even before he knew what her true situation was. | |
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Fashion Dissonance | |
| Miami Vice / int_a8a80e26 | comment |
Fashion Dissonance: The show is often cited as a textbook example of outrageous 80s fashions. It's even more notable because many of the fashions in the show were over the top even then (normal people didn't dress like the pimps or gangsters of the show even in the 80's). | |
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Dead Star Walking | |
| Miami Vice / int_a8c1433e | comment |
Dead Star Walking: Despite the plethora of famous guest stars on this series, being played by Sheena Easton should have been a clue Crockett's Fourth-Date Marriage to Caitlin Davies wasn't going to last long or end happily. | |
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| Miami Vice / int_abad35b4 | type |
Soundtrack Dissonance | |
| Miami Vice / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: While the show's soundtrack and Music Video Syndrome style are among its main draws, the series is rife with out-of-place examples that can actually be pretty jarring: such as cheery pop music playing as the theme to a violent murder, or an angsty ballad playing during a mellow driving scene. | |
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Miami Vice / int_abad35b4 | |
| Miami Vice / int_ad9559e6 | type |
Arc Villain | |
| Miami Vice / int_ad9559e6 | comment |
Esteban Calderone is the Arc Villain of four episodes of the first five. He is the head of The Cartel and killed Tubb's brother as well as broke up Crockett's marriage. | |
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Avenging the Villain | |
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Avenging the Villain: Esteban Calderone's son Orlando (played by a young John Leguizamo) attempted to kill Tubbs to avenge his father's killing. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: It's suggested in some episodes that Crockett's father was an alcoholic, frequently absentee and may also have been abusive, giving Crockett a drive to protect other women as young Crockett could not protect his mother. | |
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Tracking Device | |
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Tracking Device: In "Tale of the Goat," Tubbs attaches one to the underside of a truck he's riding in. It falls off, and when Crockett tries to follow him, he finds the device lying in the road. | |
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Hand on Womb | |
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Hand on Womb: Caitlin does this while calling Crockett before her final concert. She doesn't have time to tell him she's pregnant, so Crockett doesn't find out until her autopsy. | |
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Real Is Brown | |
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Real Is Brown: Averted. The producers explicitly called for "no earth tones", in order to maintain the MTV style of the show. In the words of one of the episode directors: | |
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Fake Defector | |
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Fake Defector: In "Red Tape," Tubbs pretends to quit the force, then sell information about future busts to a drug dealer in order to discover the source of a leak in the department. | |
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ColdOpen | |
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Several episodes feature Crockett and/or Tubbs having to leave Miami and go to some exotic, dangerous location to pursue criminals. The above-mentioned New York episode begins with a Cold Open in Bogota. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: While there are a number of candidates, Nico Arroyo from season two "Bought and Paid For" has to be up there, although his death is richly deserved. After repeatedly assaulting Gina's friend Odette, pushing her to the point she commits suicide because she can't inform Gina and the cops. When Gina goes to his house afterwards and tells Nico Odette is dead, he not only doesn't care, he turns his lustful preferences on GINA HERSELF, despite the fact that she doesn't even hide her contempt for him whenever she sees him. Since he can't be convicted with Odette deceased, Gina basically goads him to come after her, when he does, he knows she's holding a gun on him and he approaches her bed even after she repeatedly tells him to stop. The entire encounter turns out about as well for him as you would expect, and predicibly, she dusts his ass at the earliest opportunity. By breaking into her apartment, he's given her probable cause to shoot him, to boot. | |
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Amoral Attorney | |
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Amoral Attorney: Season two's "The Fix" had Kevin Fierstein as Benedict, a lawyer practicing in Miami, specializing in drug-related and homicide cases. He managed to broker a deal with a judge, Roger Ferguson, to get his clients off on charges in exchange for money that Ferguson needed to pay off gambling debts owed to a racketeer, Pagone. Metro-Dade's Homicide Division reported several "slam-dunk" cases that Ferguson let fade into ROR or dismiss outright, leading them to refer to the judge as "Let-'em-Run" Ferguson. In the Vice Division, a dealer named Ortega was given a $7000 bond instead of the $2 million the state requested thanks to Benedict. Later when Ortega's gofer Berlioz asks Benedict for a similar favor, the Vice detectives recorded the entire exchange (as well as Benedict's visit with Ferguson) to corroborate the evidence of Benedict's involvement, and he is arrested. Season five's "Fruit of the Poison Tree" had Stephen McHattie as Sam Boyle, a lawyer who had secret dealings with the mob, especially with Frank Romano, for whom Boyle was laundering money. He ran afoul of Romano by skimming some of the clean money to finance his Vegas vacations, and Romano arrived in Miami demanding repayment of his "unsecured loan" of $500K—$1 million or else. Boyle was defending a drug dealer, Roberto Enriquez, and got him off of a charge of dealing on a technicality when he got wind of his 199 kilo cocaine shipment, so Boyle saw this as a way to pay his debt—steal the shipment, which he did by killing Skip Jordan, sold it to Romano as re-payment, then got $1 million from Enriquez by saying Jordan had stolen his cocaine. | |
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Trauma-Induced Amnesia | |
| Miami Vice / int_b66a24a7 | comment |
Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Crockett loses his memory after an explosion. Probably compounded by Heroic BSoD. | |
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Snuff Film | |
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Snuff Film: In "Death and the Lady", Crockett comes to believe that an acclaimed and award winning director has produced one of these, where the victim agreed because she was already terminally ill. As it turns out the director can't be charged and Crockett has to be satisfied with roughing him up a little. | |
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Color Motif | |
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Color Motif: The first two seasons featured a pastel colour scheme, which was ramped up in the second season with regards to wardrobe, backdrops, props and picture composition. In the third season, the pastel clothing is largely eschewed in favour of greens, yellows, blues and dark greys, a move severely criticised by fans at the time. Some of the new fashion even violates Michael Mann's famous "No Earth Tones!" rule that he implemented when developing the wardrobe for the show. Season four largely reintroduced pastel clothing, although some of the darker styles of the third season still appear regularly. In season five, the clothing style changes yet again to darker shades of color combinations first seen in the first two seasons, becoming more modern. Crockett also begins occasionally wearing stonewashed blue jeans, denim jackets and leather. | |
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Chopper on Standby | |
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Chopper on Standby: In "The Prodigal Son, Part 2", Crockett is pursuing a bad guy who manages to get into a waiting helicopter. Crockett manages to shoot the helicopter down, unexpectedly. This is facilitated by the fact that the pilot flies very slow and very low right over Crockett's head, allowing him to empty his gun into the helicopter at practically point-blank range. | |
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Cool Boat | |
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Cool Boat: For the first two seasons, Sonny Crockett lives on an Endeavour 40 sailboat, which is replaced by a Endeavour 42 sailboat for the rest of the series run. He also pilots a Chris Craft Stinger 390 in the first season and a Wellcraft 38 Scarab KV afterwards. | |
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Eunuchs Are Evil | |
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Eunuchs Are Evil: Frank, aka "the Savage," is a former CIA agent who used to work in Vietnam. He was emasculated by a prostitute he mistreated and subsequently became a serial killer of prostitutes, stabbing almost 90 women to death and writing "VC Whore" on the wall in the victim's blood. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Tubbs hates machine guns, especially when they are being fired directly at him. Kind of ironic since he himself keeps an arsenal that would make the NRA squeal with delight. Also Crockett and men who abuse women. This takes an ugly turn if he's drunk. Don't ever touch Tubbs' Cadillac... just don't. | |
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Plucky Comic Relief | |
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Plucky Comic Relief: Switek and Zito. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
| Miami Vice / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: What Crockett and Tubbs can do with pistols is simply amazing. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: Stan Switek. | |
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Brief Accent Imitation | |
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Brief Accent Imitation: Apparently, Crockett and Tubbs do this by using a couple of posh British ones while joking with each other in "Lombard"; however, since the scene is dark and filmed from behind, it's difficult to say whether the dialogue is really Johnson and Thomas. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: The fourth-season episode "Missing Hours", which has Trudy trying to figure out if she's hallucinating UFO's and aliens in the guise of humans. | |
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Sawed-Off Shotgun | |
| Miami Vice / int_bffb777a | comment |
Sawed-Off Shotgun: Ricardo Tubbs made significant use of short-barreled shotguns. In the first season, he used a standard sawed-down double-barrel model; in the second, he switched out for a custom Ithaca 37 Stakeout, an already short-barreled shotgun that was cut down even shorter, and for the third and fourth seasons he used a similarly-cut down S&W Model 3000. | |
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Imperiled in Pregnancy | |
| Miami Vice / int_c02a3bf2 | comment |
Imperiled in Pregnancy: Crockett's second wife Caitlin is six weeks pregnant at the time of her murder. Crockett doesn't find out about the pregnancy until her autopsy. | |
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Samurai | |
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Samurai: Castillo. His martial arts training made him into a stealthy katana-wielding Badass, but his code of honor was pure Bushido. Highlighted in the second season episode aptly titled "Bushido". | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: A major Trope Codifier. The show defined many tropes - music, fashion, attitudes - that people link to that decade to this day. | |
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Healthcare Motivation | |
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Healthcare Motivation: In "Knock, Knock... Who's There?" a DEA agent steals drugs and money during fake raids in order to pay for her son's kidney transplant. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
| Miami Vice / int_c25c7890 | comment |
Fun with Acronyms: In "Amen... Send Money," IGG stands for In God's Glory. It also stands for Ill-Gotten Gains. | |
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Jurisdiction Friction | |
| Miami Vice / int_c2676b00 | comment |
Jurisdiction Friction: The series did this often with the standard local vs. Feds variety. Sometimes averted when the Feds specifically asked for Vice assistance. Notably, sometimes the Vice squad bumped heads with detectives in other Miami police divisions like homicide or theft. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
| Miami Vice / int_c2cedc1c | comment |
Big "NO!": "Calderone's Demise" features a string of no less than eight successive iterations of the slow-motion Big No. Crockett does this at the end of "No Exit" when Rita shows up and shoots Amato at the end when he's about to get off scot-free. Also Tubbs in "Little Miss Dangerous" when Jackie shoots herself. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: One of the reasons why none of the Miami Vice crew turn corrupt except for when Crockett loses his identity. And even then, the bond of friendship is what brings him back into the fold. | |
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Sports Hero Backstory | |
| Miami Vice / int_c368b650 | comment |
Sports Hero Backstory: In his youth, Crockett was a "golden boy," a University of Florida Gators football star, once catching a 92 yard touchdown pass with six seconds remaining in a game against Alabama, and catching the winning pass in the Gator Bowl, an act that found him being awarded the game ball. He later sustained a knee injury on the field which put an end to his sports career. | |
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And Starring | |
| Miami Vice / int_c40c8b74 | comment |
And Starring: The opening credits end with "and Edward James Olmos as Castillo". | |
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Relationship Labeling Problems | |
| Miami Vice / int_c5f2eeff | comment |
Relationship Labeling Problems: Crockett's inability to be more committed to Gina torpedoes their official relationship after the first season... which leaves their feelings towards each other somewhat ambiguous for the rest of the show. | |
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Professional Killer | |
| Miami Vice / int_c601fc37 | comment |
Professional Killer: Ludovici Armstrong, the Argentinian assassin from "Calderone's Return", sent to clean out a list of targets for mob boss Calderone. He looks like a holdover from the 70's, has a small afro, and has one of the quickest draws humanly possible (he was played by a real-life trained marksman). In fact, he fatally wounds Lou Rodriguez and kills most of the targets before being taken down, and that's only because more than five police officers (including Tubbs, Valerie and vice officers) shoot at him at the same time. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Miami Vice / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: In Season 2's "Out Where the Buses Don't Run", Weldon's computer is named after his ex-wife, Lorraine. It also happened to be the name of the Amiga prototype that appeared at the 1984 Consumer Electronics Show. The Amiga prototype took its name from the motherboard, which was named Lorraine, after the company president's wife. | |
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Perma-Stubble | |
| Miami Vice / int_c91dcba1 | comment |
Perma-Stubble: Crockett was probably the Trope Codifier. Electric shavers didn't even have a "stubble" setting before the show aired. That was introduced as a direct response to Sonny Crockett's popularity. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
| Miami Vice / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: Due to the network switching up the order of certain episodes throughout the series, characters and/or props change their appearance radically from one episode to another. Infamously, Crockett is driving around in his Ferrari Daytona (and using it for cover in a shootout) in the third-season episode "El Viejo", seven episodes after it was destroyed by an arms dealer and replaced with the Testarossa. This was due to the fact that "El Viejo" was originally planned to be the third-season premiere, but was pushed farther into the season and replaced with a more action-packed opener. Zito's beard disappears and reappears at random throughout the second season, due to the running order of the episodes being changed. | |
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Bikini Bar | |
| Miami Vice / int_cb59db4e | comment |
Bikini Bar: This regularly appears in the show as a location for criminals and low lifes to gather, allowing the viewer plenty of Male Gaze while remaining safe for broadcast. The pilot, for instance, has a lengthy scene of a dancer in one of these. | |
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Dating Service Disaster | |
| Miami Vice / int_cc7a0386 | comment |
Dating Service Disaster: In "Love At First Sight," a female serial killer is hooking up with men via a video dating service, then killing them and cutting off their genitals. Crockett signs up and, after dating a few red herrings, finally manages to find the right woman. She stabs him in the shoulder before he shoots her. | |
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Amnesia Episode | |
| Miami Vice / int_cd7a8af8 | comment |
Amnesia Episode: The four-part Burnett Arc, in which Crockett gets amnesia while undercover as the drug dealer Burnett and thinks he really is the drug dealer. Before he gets his memory back, he takes over a cartel, kills a Dirty Cop and a number of drug dealers, and tries to kill Tubbs twice. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
| Miami Vice / int_ceec4df5 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: How Tubbs ends up in Miami as Crockett's partner. It pops up as motivation for some of the more Ax-Crazy villains that would guest-star every other week. "Rites of Passage" ends with Valerie Gordon killing the pimp and dealer resposible for her sister's murder. Knowing full well she has broken the law, Valerie hands over her gun and asks Crockett to Mirandize her. | |
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Strange Cop in a Strange Land | |
| Miami Vice / int_cf23bb98 | comment |
Strange Cop in a Strange Land: Tubbs was originally a New York City armed robbery detective. When his quest to avenge the death of his brother brought him into conflict and grudging partnership with Crockett (as well as essentially torpedoing his career back in New York), he decided to relocate to Miami and work vice. A later episode reverses this when they have to travel to New York to stop some Colombian drug dealers. Now Tubbs is back on his home turf and Crockett is the fish out of water. Several episodes feature Crockett and/or Tubbs having to leave Miami and go to some exotic, dangerous location to pursue criminals. The above-mentioned New York episode begins with a Cold Open in Bogota. | |
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Shoot Your Mate | |
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Shoot Your Mate: Tubbs was deep undercover and ordered to kill Sonny to prove his loyalty, so he walks up to Sonny and, without a word or hesitation, shoots him point-blank. Awesome scene. (Naturally, Sonny was wearing a Bulletproof Vest.) | |
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Criminal Amnesiac | |
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Partly explains what happens to Crockett when he gets hit with amnesia: his second wife had just been killed by a Serial Killer seeking revenge on Crockett, and the aftershock of what happened made it easy for him to forget when the time came. | |
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Unwilling Suspension | |
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Unwilling Suspension: In "Bad Timing," robbers string Crockett up by his wrists and take potshots at him. | |
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Elvis Impersonator | |
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Elvis Impersonator: Switek briefly goes undercover as a very bad one in "Everybody's in Showbiz." He sings a few off-key bars of "Heartbreak Hotel" before another character cuts him off. | |
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Five-Episode Pilot | |
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The first few episodes form a conventional Five-Episode Pilot, and had a large number of elements (like the character of Lieutenant Lou Rodriguez, who was killed off after his actor expressed displeasure living in Miami and wanted out) that seem odd in comparison to later episodes. Especially the musical montages, which used to take up extended airtime and would occur for the duration of the song instead of a short clip in later episodes and seasons. These same episodes also feature a really dodgy, prototype remix of Miami Vice Theme in their opening credits, which is missing the main guitar line and just sounds like a lot of aimless drumming. | |
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Shoot Everything That Moves | |
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Shoot Everything That Moves: In several episodes, perhaps most notably "Freefall," the series finale. When faced with the fact that General Borbon may walk without testifying about the cartel due to political corruption, Crockett and Tubbs confront the dictator in a running firefight, killing his guards to a man and blowing up Borbon's departing seaplane. | |
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Dress Hits Floor | |
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Dress Hits Floor: A comparatively rare genderflipped version in "French Twist". In Crockett's case, it's "jacket" and "holster" hitting the floor, before anything of the woman's he's with. | |
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Status Quo Game Show | |
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Status Quo Game Show: In "Phil the Shill," Switek calls in sick so he can appear on a game show, but the crooked host (Phil Collins, of all people) prevents him from winning. | |
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Recovered Addict | |
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Recovered Addict: Zito used to be an alcoholic. As of "Down for the Count," he hadn't had a drink in five years and was implied to be attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. | |
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Battle Couple | |
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Battle Couple: Tubbs and his on-and-off girlfriend Valerie, an NYPD homicide detective, are this during the few times they're paired together. | |
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research | |
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research: Exploited in "Phil the Shill." In the '80s, before the Internet had opened up the world, most Americans had no idea what a wanker was. Phil Collins, being English, most certainly did know, and knew the Americans didn't; thus, he was able to get away with turning to Izzy and saying "Do I look like some sort of wanker?" which would be a perfectly reasonable phrase for his (English) character to use. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: A persistent theme of the series is that not only does the drug trade have a lot of death and destruction in its wake, but the individual drug users are led to a criminal lifestyle by their addiction. | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
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Kubrick Stare: Lieutenant Castillo does this so frequently and well that it's been nicknamed "the Castillo staredown"◊. | |
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Male Gaze | |
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The opening credits feature a clip where the camera focuses on the breasts of a woman walking in a parade while wearing a skimpy bikini top, as well as two women strolling down the street in bikinis. | |
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Sex for Solace | |
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Sex for Solace: After Zito's death in "Down for the Count," Trudy has sex with a man she hasn't seen in five years because she doesn't want to be alone. It doesn't make her feel any better. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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Whole-Plot Reference: Season one's "Heart of Darkness" is arguably a loose interpretation of the novella from which it takes its name. In both cases, the principle supporting character (Kurtz in the novel and Artie in the episode) has used questionable methods to accomplish the aims of a large organization that employed them, and has rooted himself successfully in a new culture, before ultimately being killed. The novella was famously adapted as Apocalypse Now. Artie's angry rebuke to Crockett in the episode, "Don't question my methods!" parallels Kurtz' questioning, "Are my methods unsound?" in the book and film. Season three's "Shadow in the Dark" shares many similarities with Michael Mann's Manhunter, which has an almost identical plot (an investigator struggling to retain his own sanity whilst delving into the mind of a disturbed criminal, who is breaking into people's houses, in order to catch him). Season three's "The Afternoon Plane" is reminiscent of High Noon, with Tubbs awaiting a showdown with some thugs. Season three's "Lend Me an Ear", which dealt with surveilance, was loosely based on The Conversation, in which the character Harry Caul meets the same fate as Duddy. Season four's "Honor Among Thieves?" borrows heavily from M. Both involve murders by pedophiles. Delgado is clearly a nod to Hans Beckert. Likewise, the underground jury of criminals at the episode's conclusion resembles the kangaroo court at the end of the movie. Season four's "Love at First Sight" bears similarities with Sea of Love, with Crockett going undercover on multiple dates to discover the killer. Season five's "Over the Line" is similar to Magnum Force, in which a group of motorcycle cops take the law into their own hands and begin executing criminals, and also attempt to recruit Harry Callahan to their cause. Season five's "Victims of Circumstance" bears a resemblance to the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Conscience of the King", which also features a daughter who is the unlikely killer of those who witnessed her father's war crimes. | |
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Empathic Environment | |
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Empathic Environment: As Crockett mourns the loss of Caitlin on the St. Vitus Dance, the Miami sky takes on an overcast, somber, and forboding look. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Practically anyone who hopes to have a romance with any member of the squad, but particularly Tubbs and Valerie. The final episode, "Too Much, Too Late", largely focuses on their tenuous relationship and how they will never be together. | |
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Quick Draw | |
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Quick Draw: From "Calderone's Return". A hitman, posing as a limo driver, decides that There Is No Kill Like Overkill and empties a shotgun into the limo. One of the dead man's bodyguards appears out of nowhere and makes him drop the shotgun. Holding the hitman at gunpoint, the bodyguard makes the mistake of shifting his gaze to the destroyed limo... Even more noteworthy because they got an actual pistol champion to play the hitman. | |
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Strapped to a Bomb | |
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Strapped to a Bomb: The villain of "Smuggler's Blues" ties people to anti-motion tremblers, causing a bomb to go off if anyone tries to cut them loose. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The "Golden Triangle" episodes provide insight into Castillo's character, which up to that point had been very mysterious. Notably, Edward James Olmos does not speak in Castillo's normal mumbling voice, expresses anger when he tries to choke Menton, and even goes so far as to Suddenly Shouting (albeit just a single word, "Wrong!") at Menton after the final confrontation. | |
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Finale Credits | |
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Finale Credits: The credits of "Freefall" feature the song "Tell Me" by Terry Kath and use clips from previous episodes instead of the usual stock footage of Miami. | |
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Ramp Jump | |
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Ramp Jump: A biker jumps his motorcycle over a police car in "Viking Bikers from Hell." | |
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Houseboat Hero | |
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Houseboat Hero: Crockett lives on the St. Vitus Dance with his pet alligator. | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock: As Crockett is recovering from his bout of amnesia, he makes his way to the police station, walks into the squad room, and stops. His fellow officers, believing him to have turned rogue, draw and cock their weapons in succession. CLICK. CLICK. CLICK. CLICK. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: In "The Home Invaders", Crockett gets rough on a bodyguard. His "primitive but effective" groin grab was edited so as to not show the actual action (the implication is that Crockett grabbed the bouncer, Angel, in a sensitive area and threw him in a closet). | |
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Men of Sherwood | |
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Men of Sherwood: Late in the episode "Glades", the cops join forces with several local small-time drug smugglers for an Enemy Mine rescue mission against The Cartel. Only one or two of them get any notable dialogue or quirks, but all of them survive. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: One of the show's themes was how the "lure of easy money" surrounding the drug traffic could turn even your closest friends on the police force into backstabbing criminals. | |
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Sequel Episode | |
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Sequel Episode: Several, which open with a Previously on… segment summarizing the first part. "Calderone's Return" sees Crockett and Tubbs take down drug lord Esteban Calderone, who appeared in the first episode. Season five's "Heart of Night" sees the return of Castillo's ex-wife and her husband from season two's "Golden Triangle". "Trust Fund Pirates" from the second season was to be a direct sequel to season one's "Smuggler's Blues", but Glenn Frey was unavailable to reprise his role as Jimmy. Consequently, the script was changed to feature a smuggler friend of his (Jackson Crane, played by Gary Cole) who had taken over his hangar (Jimmy retired after the events of that episode) and knew all about "Burnett and Cooper". In "Rock and a Hard Place," two scummy record executives who first appeared earlier in the season in "Like a Hurricane" come back to try to ruin Caitlin's career. Later in the season, in "Deliver Us From Evil," a murderer whom Crockett accidentally got off death row in the third-season episode "Forgive Us Our Debts" returns and kills Caitlin. The season two finale "Sons and Lovers" and season three's "The Afternoon Plane" see Orlando Calderone attempt to get revenge on Tubbs for his father's death. Season three's "Stone's War" is a sequel to season two's "Back in the World"; instead of The Vietnam War, the main issue covered is the then-ongoing Nicaraguan Civil War between the US-backed Contras and the Sandinistas. Season four's "Deliver Us from Evil" is a sequel to season three's "Forgive Us Our Debts", seeing the return of career criminal Frank Hackman. | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster! | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: Played straight and deconstructed. The show explores the glamorous side of the Miami underworld, and part of the reason Crockett and Tubbs are so cool is that they play along in this world. On the other hand, we often see the less glamorous consequences of a criminal lifestyle and how cruel and ruthless the underworld is. | |
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Moment Killer | |
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Moment Killer: In a deleted scene from the pilot, Gina tells Crockett that he whispered "Caroline" (his soon-to-be-ex-wife's name) into her ear during their night together on the boat. | |
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Cartwright Curse | |
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Cartwright Curse: Crockett's second wife Caitlin is killed off quickly. | |
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High Heel Hurt | |
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High Heel Hurt: In one episode, Gina wears high heels that cause her so much pain, she can barely stand. Trudy has to support her as she walks. | |
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Ceiling Cling | |
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Ceiling Cling: Castillo does this in "Bushido" to hide from KGB agents. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: The cool clothes and sunglasses throughout the series. The Ferraris driven by Crockett. The black Daytona was a replica on a Corvette chassis due to being affordable; when the Ferrari company found this out, Enzo Ferrari offered to give the production real ones (the white Testarossa) if the knockoff was disposed of. It was, in a spectacular case of External Combustion. Also applies to Crockett's handguns in the the television series, namely the Bren Ten for the first two seasons, and the Smith & Wesson 645 (later updated to a 4506) for the rest of the series. Crockett's shoulder holster, the Miami Classic rig from Galco Gunleather, became an instant sales success among gun enthusiasts. | |
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Vigilante Execution | |
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Crockett does this at the end of "No Exit" when Rita shows up and shoots Amato at the end when he's about to get off scot-free. | |
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External Combustion | |
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External Combustion: Crockett's old partner is killed via car bomb. | |
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Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting | |
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Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: Tubbs sometimes sits like this while interrogating people. | |
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Spies In a Van | |
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Spies In a Van: The Bug Van, complete with enormous model roach on top, for extra inconspicuousness. | |
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Series Fauxnale | |
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Series Fauxnale: When the show first aired, it faced dismal ratings and was in danger of being cancelled. To that end, the producers Retooled the series with a two-parter that also served as a finale if the show was canned. "Calderone's Return" killed off Crockett and Tubbs' commanding officer, resolved Crockett's relationship with his ex-wife, and completed Tubbs' quest for vengeance against the man who killed his brother. | |
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Bodybag Trick | |
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Bodybag Trick: In "Tale of the Goat," a voodoo chief fakes his death with tetrodotoxin so he can be smuggled into Miami inside a coffin. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: "No Exit" ends with the villain escape justice, only to be murdered by his abused wife. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
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You Killed My Father: Subverted. Gina is not willing to help the German spy Herzog kill the drug dealer Pedrosa simply because Pedrosa murdered her mother twenty-six years ago, saying she can't; although she is willing to hope he gets killed somehow, lure him into a trap, and shoot him down to protect Herzog, there is never a single reveal moment to Pedrosa of who she actually is. | |
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"You Used to Be Better" Speech: In "Buddies," Crockett finds out that his old friend Robbie Cann is the son of a mobster, that he borrowed money from his father to start his business, and that he's willing to let a woman get murdered to protect himself. Crockett gives him a speech about their time serving in Vietnam: "The man I knew always did what it took and it hurt sometimes, but he did it... We refused to throw those POWs out of the choppers. No matter what the rest of the world was saying, we did the right thing." It works, and Robbie ends up sacrificing himself to protect the woman. | |
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Forever War | |
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Forever War: Part of the running theme of the series is the fact that Crockett and Tubbs never actually make a dent in the flow of drugs to Miami. No matter who they take down or kill, the money is simply too good to make a serious impact in the flow of cocaine through the port city. Eventually becomes a Hopeless War for Crockett and Tubbs as events continue to beat them down. | |
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Sorrowful Stutter | |
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Sorrowful Stutter: When Switek is giving Zito's eulogy in "Down for the Count," he begins with "Lar was my partner..." He pauses for almost twenty seconds before continuing, "...but to me, he was more like a brother." He then stops, overcome by emotion. | |
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Weapon Specialization | |
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Weapon Specialization: Crockett's signature weapon was the high-tech, stainless steel pistol he carried as his primary sidearm, and he carried three such weapons during the course of the series, mainly the then-state-of-the-art Dornaus & Dixon Bren Ten chambered in 10mm Auto. Unlike Crockett, who utilized high-tech handguns as his primary weapons, Tubbs' choice of firearms more strongly reflected his "from the streets" origins and consisted of cheaper, more readily available weapons. His primary sidearm throughout all five seasons of the show was a Smith & Wesson Model 38 "Bodyguard" revolver with a 2 inch barrel and custom Pachmyr grips, chambered in .38 Special. | |
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Titled After the Song | |
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Titled After the Song: In the middle of the show's first season, former Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey released "Smuggler's Blues", a song about cocaine trafficking. The producers of the show immediately jumped on it, and not only titled the resultant episode "Smuggler's Blues", but they based the storyline on the lyrics of the song and cast Glenn Frey as Jimmy the Bush Pilot. | |
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Cross-Referenced Titles | |
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Cross-Referenced Titles: "Forgive Us Our Debts" and its Sequel Episode "Deliver Us From Evil." | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Crockett's offhandedly-mentioned July 29 birthday (from "By Hooker By Crook") could have definitely earned him his first tour of Vietnam — assuming he was born in 1951, his draft lottery number from July 1, 1970 would have been 4 note out of 365, and the highest number called from that year was 125; aka, he was right at the top. This is much simpler to check now than it would have been when the show was being made. | |
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Death Seeker | |
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Death Seeker: The title character of "Evan" is implied to be this. | |
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