...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

NYPD Blue

620 statements
122 feature instances
119 referencing feature instances

NYPD Blue	type	TVTItem
NYPD Blue	label	NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue	page	NYPDBlue
NYPD Blue	comment	NYPD Blue is a Cop Show with Soap Opera elements that ran on ABC from 1993 to 2005. Originally a star vehicle for David Caruso (who left after the first season to pursue a movie career), the show evolved into an ensemble, with Det. Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) as the focus character.The show courted controversy from the start with its liberal use of nudity (mostly sideboob and butts, with the occasional steamy love scene) and salty language (one of Sipowicz's first lines is calling A.D.A. Sylvia Costas a "pissy little bitch", and it was one of the first shows to use the word "shit" on network television). The Parents Television Council was formed primarily because of this show. It was also noted for resurrecting the careers of those (besides Caruso) who played Andy's partners (Jimmy Smits, and former child stars Rick Schroder and Mark-Paul Gosselaar)The show was created by producer Steven Bochco, and is considered the Spiritual Successor to his earlier, similarly ground-breaking ensemble cop show, Hill Street Blues.In October 2018, it was announced that a revival is under development. This revival is stated to feature a new generation of detectives, and the revival will center on Andy Sipowitzâ€™s son Theo, as he will earn his detective shield so he can investigate his father's death. As of 2019, the revival idea is being stalled, but there are efforts to redo the pilot.
NYPD Blue	fetched	2024-04-18T08:15:32Z
NYPD Blue	parsed	2024-04-18T08:15:32Z
NYPD Blue	processingComment	Dropped link to NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Not a Feature - ITEM
NYPD Blue	processingComment	Dropped link to TheBoxingEpisode: Not a Feature - ITEM
NYPD Blue	isPartOf	DBTropes
NYPD Blue / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
NYPD Blue / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: All the female detectives on the squad are very good-looking and often wear tight clothes. Most of them have at least one scene in the nude or in their underwear. Most other female cops are as well, such as Mary Franco (who was dating Sorenson in season 7). Baldwin Jones is the main male example (though Sipowicz's partners were generally good-looking, too). He is also very tall, athletic and well-toned. He has many shirtless scenes to show off his abs. Sometimes used to their advantage by the detectives: many male suspects will lower their guards when talking to a good-looking woman, and Baldwin Jones has the same effect on most female suspects and witnesses (sometimes he is too successful when a female witness gets so Distracted by the Sexy that they can't concentrate on their statement).
NYPD Blue / int_10a6623b	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_10a6623b	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_10a6623b
NYPD Blue / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
NYPD Blue / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Especially if they're connected to Sipowicz. 2 partners, his elder son, and a wife. And his boss, almost.
NYPD Blue / int_1237828f	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_1237828f	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_1237828f
NYPD Blue / int_146e133b	type	Tamer and Chaster
NYPD Blue / int_146e133b	comment	Tamer and Chaster: The series started as a very Grim and Gritty Police Procedural with nudity and swearing on broadcast TV. After the first year the nudity was toned down and eventually disappeared, and the swearing likewise dwindled during the course of the show, so that by the end of the run a viewer would be hard pressed to find anything out of the ordinary about it.
NYPD Blue / int_146e133b	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_146e133b	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_146e133b
NYPD Blue / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
NYPD Blue / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The main plot of "Roll Out The Barrel" is based on the murder of Reyna Angelica Marroquin, a crime discovered a few months before the episode aired.
NYPD Blue / int_1616e13	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_1616e13	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_1616e13
NYPD Blue / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
NYPD Blue / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: After Connie takes maternity leave to have her baby she, her son with Andy, and her adopted daughter are never seen again but are referred to several times since Andy is still married to her. She calls in to the squad once in a while, or Andy will call home, but we only hear Andy's half of the conversations.
NYPD Blue / int_1ba17583	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_1ba17583	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_1ba17583
NYPD Blue / int_1c21e3fb	type	The Place
NYPD Blue / int_1c21e3fb	comment	The Place: The NY in the title stands for New York. The 15th squad's jurisdiction is Manhattan (mainly the lower east side around Chinatown and the East Village, though fictionalized to include a wider range of possible New York settings than one precinct would really contain). Simone lives in Brooklyn and Clark lives in the Bronx, and characters often visit the rest of the city in the course of their work, but going further afield is rare. Infrequent trips to New Jersey or upstate on police business are the only departures shown; no [1]s here.
NYPD Blue / int_1c21e3fb	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_1c21e3fb	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_1c21e3fb
NYPD Blue / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
NYPD Blue / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Rita Ortiz's husband is jealous to the point of paranoia, even asking Lt. Rodriguez to keep an eye on her (which Rodriguez refuses to do).
NYPD Blue / int_1d2400e9	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_1d2400e9	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_1d2400e9
NYPD Blue / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
NYPD Blue / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Captain Haverhill in the first two seasons, who constantly tries to undermine Lt. Fancy and his squad seemingly out of spite or personal enjoyment. It gets to the point where, after he tries to humiliate Fancy by feeding him a false tip about an arms deal, Fancy decides to blackmail him into retiring.
NYPD Blue / int_1f799027	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_1f799027	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_1f799027
NYPD Blue / int_1fbee9cb	type	Tricked into Escaping
NYPD Blue / int_1fbee9cb	comment	Tricked into Escaping: The cops have made an illegal arrest but they don't want to tell the arrestee that. So Sipowicz goes into the holding area where the perp is locked in a cage, opens it up to talk to him, then starts acting like a crazy bad cop and complaining about the heat. He opens the window along with the locked fence covering the window (ostensibly to get some air circulation), continues to yell at the perp, and then stalks out "forgetting" to close the window or locking him up again. The perp takes the opportunity to escape out the window, which is what they wanted him to do in order to get him out of the station!
NYPD Blue / int_1fbee9cb	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_1fbee9cb	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_1fbee9cb
NYPD Blue / int_216c045b	type	The Scottish Trope
NYPD Blue / int_216c045b	comment	The Scottish Trope: In "Cold Heaters," an actor in the station house runs into John, who remembers seeing him as Banquo in "the Scottish play."
NYPD Blue / int_216c045b	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_216c045b	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_216c045b
NYPD Blue / int_21f19cfa	type	Fake American
NYPD Blue / int_21f19cfa	comment	Fake American: In-Universe. Naomi, one of the PAAs that pass through during the run, is an Australian who fakes a South Carolina accent in order to pass as American. It's been her dream to be a police officer in New York since she was a little girl living in Australia.
NYPD Blue / int_21f19cfa	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_21f19cfa	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_21f19cfa
NYPD Blue / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
NYPD Blue / int_243cbd0d	comment	There's rarely an episode that passes without a suspect getting "tuned up". Sometimes it's as minor as a slap upside the head. Sometimes it gets pretty bad (and the suspect gets off because of it), especially early in the series.
NYPD Blue / int_243cbd0d	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_243cbd0d	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_243cbd0d
NYPD Blue / int_24e48d72	type	Dirty Harriet
NYPD Blue / int_24e48d72	comment	Dirty Harriet: In the sixth-season epsiode Mister Roberts, Jill Kirkendall goes undercover as a call girl to get evidence against a suspected murderer. The operation is pictured as unusual and highly dangerous. McDowell impersonates a prostitute in order to get past a drug dealer's henchmen and into his apartment. This is not a real undercover operation, since as soon as she is inside, the other detectives burst in and make the arrest. Doubly played for Fanservice: not only is she wearing quite revealing clothes, but her shirt gets ripped off during the fight that follows. Discussed by Det. Rita Ortiz in the ninth season: one of the reasons she transferred from Vice into the squad is that she was tired of the clothes she had to wear while undercover. We later learn that her jealous husband was very frustrated about this. In the season 10 premiere, McDowell and Ortiz pretend to be prostitutes to get into a heavily guarded drug stash house. They drop the pretense as soon as the guard has opened the door.
NYPD Blue / int_24e48d72	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_24e48d72	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_24e48d72
NYPD Blue / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
NYPD Blue / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The series is famous for having No Ending, but it doesn't really have a beginning either. The first episode opens during the trial of a mobster that Sipowicz has been dealing with for some time, and he and Kelly are established partners, unlike his future co-stars.
NYPD Blue / int_2534ee67	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_2534ee67	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_2534ee67
NYPD Blue / int_2828fd9a	type	Promotion to Opening Titles
NYPD Blue / int_2828fd9a	comment	Promotion to Opening Titles: Several of the eventual members of the main cast started out as recurring characters who would get bumped up during a succeeding episode or season. These included Sharon Lawrence, Gordon Clapp, Gail O'Grady, Bill Brochtrup, Kim Delaney, Justine Miceli, Andrea Thompson, John F. O'Donohue, Garcelle Beauvais, Charlotte Ross, and Esai Morales. Of the lot, Morales took the shortest amount of time, as he was introduced the episode before he was added. Brochtrup and O'Donohue took the longest, with the former debuting late in Season 2 and not being put in the main titles until the middle of Season 6 while the latter first popped up in early Season 7 and wasn't added until the middle of Season 11.
NYPD Blue / int_2828fd9a	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_2828fd9a	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_2828fd9a
NYPD Blue / int_28c1812e	type	Cheated Death, Died Anyway
NYPD Blue / int_28c1812e	comment	Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Inverted in a post-9/11 episode. A woman's body is found buried in concrete. It turns out she worked at the World Trade Center and was missing/presumed dead from that, but she was actually killed by her lover earlier that day.
NYPD Blue / int_28c1812e	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_28c1812e	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_28c1812e
NYPD Blue / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
NYPD Blue / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Sipowicz carries his Smith & Wesson Model 36 throughout the series, befitting an old-school detective. Zig-zagged for Medavoy, who switches to the semi-auto Glock after he fumbles reloading and blames himself for letting the perps who shot James Martinez get away.
NYPD Blue / int_2a195285	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_2a195285	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_2a195285
NYPD Blue / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
NYPD Blue / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: The character Anthony in "Lucky Luciano," played by Mario Bosco, looked like a teenager but was actually twenty-seven. (Bosco has pan-hypopituitarism, limiting his growth.)
NYPD Blue / int_2f36d97	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_2f36d97	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_2f36d97
NYPD Blue / int_3073efe5	type	Scunthorpe Problem
NYPD Blue / int_3073efe5	comment	Scunthorpe Problem: Watching the show with closed captioning on will of course result in xxxx (shit) and xxxxxxx (asshole), but also things like xxxxxy (spooky), xxxxy (spicy), dexxxxxable (despicable), etc.
NYPD Blue / int_3073efe5	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_3073efe5	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_3073efe5
NYPD Blue / int_313d7228	type	Previously onâ€¦
NYPD Blue / int_313d7228	comment	Previously onâ€¦: Often used not so much to recapitulate the previous episode, but to refresh the viewer's memory of what happened several months ago. Played more straight in the later seasons.
NYPD Blue / int_313d7228	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_313d7228	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_313d7228
NYPD Blue / int_336dd15f	type	Seven Dirty Words
NYPD Blue / int_336dd15f	comment	Seven Dirty Words: Used four or five of them regularly.
NYPD Blue / int_336dd15f	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_336dd15f	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_336dd15f
NYPD Blue / int_355bc288	type	Lingerie Scene
NYPD Blue / int_355bc288	comment	Lingerie Scene: More or less the entire female cast has one or more of these, sometimes leading up to a sex scene, sometimes as a result of Clothing Damage. In "Peeping Tommy", Det. Connie McDowell's is investigating a crime at a bar when a patron spills a drink over her. She goes to the rest room, takes off her jacket and shirt, and washes the shirt in the sink. While she's washing it, she discovers an hidden camera on the ceiling and, without putting her shirt on again, proceeds to investigate it and tear it down. Throughout the scene she's wearing just a lacy black bra on her upper body. In a later episode, McDowell gets a brief one during a struggle to arrest some criminals, when her top gets almost completely torn off, exposing her bra.
NYPD Blue / int_355bc288	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_355bc288	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_355bc288
NYPD Blue / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
NYPD Blue / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In-Universe with civilian aide Naomi Reynolds, who claims to be from South Carolina but is actually Australian (as is her actress, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick). When she's upset her natural accent slips through, which is how she gets found out.
NYPD Blue / int_35b241c0	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_35b241c0	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_35b241c0
NYPD Blue / int_379b8809	type	Out of Character
NYPD Blue / int_379b8809	comment	Out of Character: John Irvin, previously established as a devout Christian, seems to have no problem certifying as a "minister" with a fake online religion in order to perform Andy and Connie's wedding ceremony. Even as a favor to his friend, this seems like something he would have a problem with - why wouldn't he just get a real pastor he knows to do the service?
NYPD Blue / int_379b8809	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_379b8809	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_379b8809
NYPD Blue / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
NYPD Blue / int_38d02d44	comment	When Simone replaces Kelly, Sipowicz gives him an extremely cold reception. This was intentionally engineered by the writers — they figured that if Sipowicz took an immediate, irrational dislike to Simone, it would leave the audience saying "Come on, Andy, give the guy a chance." It worked.
NYPD Blue / int_38d02d44	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_38d02d44	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_38d02d44
NYPD Blue / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
NYPD Blue / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: Most of the individual episodes, like "Curt Russell" and "Hollie and the Blowfish."
NYPD Blue / int_3eb0f889	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_3eb0f889	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_3eb0f889
NYPD Blue / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
NYPD Blue / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Medavoy, who sometimes gets snide comments from Sipowicz for stating what Sipowicz thinks is the obvious.
NYPD Blue / int_3eee0728	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_3eee0728	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_3eee0728
NYPD Blue / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
NYPD Blue / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Det. Sorenson is murdered off-screen by his stripper girlfriend's ex.
NYPD Blue / int_43a045de	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_43a045de	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_43a045de
NYPD Blue / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
NYPD Blue / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Dennis Franz's Chicago accent coming from Brooklyn boy Sipowicz.
NYPD Blue / int_43b154c9	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_43b154c9	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_43b154c9
NYPD Blue / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
NYPD Blue / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sipowicz. He can be very abrasive even to people he respects and likes, but he is a loyal friend and willing to help people in need. ADA Leo Cohen is presented as perhaps an even bigger Jerkass than Sipowicz, and seems to constantly look for opportunities to show how much smarter than the detectives he is. But there are occasional glimpses of his honesty and integrity, he does care about justice as much as anyone else, and his behaviour seems to be caused more by poor social skills than real meanness. He also displays his softer side when he starts dating Det. Kirkendall; unfortunately for him, his social skills aren't enough to make the relationship last.
NYPD Blue / int_4781adbb	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_4781adbb	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_4781adbb
NYPD Blue / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
NYPD Blue / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: It can be a little strange, after watching the later seasons, to look back at season one and behold a Sipowicz who frequents prostitutes and strip joints. He even smiles, which later on seems to nearly break his face.
NYPD Blue / int_479f9ad0	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_479f9ad0	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_479f9ad0
NYPD Blue / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
NYPD Blue / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Medavoy Medavoy usually gets the "odd" case of the week. He doesn't usually suffer any major setbacks, but has a lot of bad luck, sometimes falls for scams, and tends to end up in situations where he's slightly out of his element. He sometimes makes a rather naive impression and has a talent for stating the obvious, which often elicits snide comments from Sipowicz. Subverted in the episode where he's fueled by disgust for the sexually motivated murder case he catches, does a great job investigating it and interrogating the perpetrator, and gets a commendation. Also subverted by the circumstances of his retirement at the end of the series: when he takes romantic interest in a beautiful woman who is a successful real-estate agent, and she offers him work helping her with sales, Medavoy seems set up for another disappointment. However, everything turns out absolutely perfect this time around, and Medavoy can retire a happy man.
NYPD Blue / int_47fea76b	featureApplicability	-0.3
NYPD Blue / int_47fea76b	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_47fea76b
NYPD Blue / int_491b0105	type	Sexy Sweater Girl
NYPD Blue / int_491b0105	comment	Sexy Sweater Girl: Donna's and Adrienne's usual look, with tight sweaters and push-up bras. Connie, Dianne and Rita also often wear tight sweaters which emphasize their breasts, though Dianne's tops are usually sleeveless, and Connie and Rita alternate with different outfits.
NYPD Blue / int_491b0105	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_491b0105	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_491b0105
NYPD Blue / int_4a35344c	type	Media Watchdog
NYPD Blue / int_4a35344c	comment	Media Watchdog: one of their go-to targets.
NYPD Blue / int_4a35344c	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_4a35344c	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_4a35344c
NYPD Blue / int_4b07a894	type	Crime and Punishment Series
NYPD Blue / int_4b07a894	comment	Crime and Punishment Series: As a Police Procedural with a good mixture of relationship drama it fits into the genre.
NYPD Blue / int_4b07a894	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_4b07a894	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_4b07a894
NYPD Blue / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
NYPD Blue / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Season 1 is more serialized with heavier focus on the characters' personal lives compared to the police work before the second season comes and the show transitions to more of a Police Procedural where half of the show was more about the weekly case while the other half focused on their character's lives. The first season also features more car chases and action sequences before settling down into its own style.
NYPD Blue / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_4f4372e9	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_4f4372e9
NYPD Blue / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
NYPD Blue / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: In "The Truth Is Out There," Andy and Bobby repeatedly discuss the meaning of the nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel" after Andy mentions singing it to his son and suddenly worrying about what his son might learn from it. Neither of them can figure out what's meant by "pop." They mention it to several other people throughout the episode and no one can give them an answer. (And, indeed, nobody really knows.)
NYPD Blue / int_500696c6	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_500696c6	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_500696c6
NYPD Blue / int_51460d4e	type	Cops Need the Vigilante
NYPD Blue / int_51460d4e	comment	Cops Need the Vigilante: In one episode a civilian comes to the cops with evidence that another man is an active pedophile. They met while in an "ageplay" online group and the civilian pretended to be a little girl interested in sex. To get the other guy hot, our civilian sent him some child porn. The cops tell the civilian that not only was that planting evidence, he just confessed to the cops that he had child porn to send to someone else.
NYPD Blue / int_51460d4e	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_51460d4e	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_51460d4e
NYPD Blue / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
NYPD Blue / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Sylvia, though it's not really an ongoing trauma. Diane's undercover operation with Jimmy Liery (see above) sends her into a serious mental tailspin, causing her to finally confront the fact that her father molested her when she was twelve.
NYPD Blue / int_524f94d3	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_524f94d3	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_524f94d3
NYPD Blue / int_54428f7b	type	Ashes to Crashes
NYPD Blue / int_54428f7b	comment	Ashes to Crashes: a detective who used to work in the squad died and his widow wants the squad to store half of his ashes there, because that was the man's last wish. "Just put the urn in the back of a file cabinet or something, it wouldn't be any trouble." But the Lieutenant refuses on the grounds that it isn't regulation. Sipowitz manages to get the ashes stirred into the plaster being used to repair the bathroom, so he'll be there forever.
NYPD Blue / int_54428f7b	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_54428f7b	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_54428f7b
NYPD Blue / int_55ca8aa	type	The Mob Boss Is Scarier
NYPD Blue / int_55ca8aa	comment	The Mob Boss Is Scarier: Police Procedural shows like this one utilize this trope a lot when dealing with organized crime. Russian mobsters are portrayed as being especially intimidating, with a willingness to wipe out employees, witnesses, and families of same.
NYPD Blue / int_55ca8aa	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_55ca8aa	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_55ca8aa
NYPD Blue / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
NYPD Blue / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Medavoy has a lesbian friend on the force, Abby Sullivan, and donates sperm so she and her girlfriend Kathy can conceive. In "Three Girls and a Baby," Abby's ex-girlfriend kills Kathy so she and Abby can get back together. Abby has no intention of doing so, and the ex-girlfriend is obviously insane. Abby does, however, tell Medavoy that she can understand the loneliness her ex felt, having gone through it herself (the implication being that trying to make a life as a homosexual can be challenging due to societal rejection, and it's hard to predict the effect that can have on a person).
NYPD Blue / int_59ddd555	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_59ddd555	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_59ddd555
NYPD Blue / int_5c5eb7c9	type	Dislikes the New Guy
NYPD Blue / int_5c5eb7c9	comment	Dislikes the New Guy: When Bobby Simone joins the squad his new partner Andy Sipowicz dislikes him as of his first line. This is specifically done to make the audience sympathetic to Simone, who replaces the very popular John Kelly. Andy warms up to Simone eventually, even having him be the best man at his wedding.
NYPD Blue / int_5c5eb7c9	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_5c5eb7c9	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_5c5eb7c9
NYPD Blue / int_5e68bb61	type	Gayngster
NYPD Blue / int_5e68bb61	comment	Gayngster: Jimmy Del Marco in "A Tushful of Dollars."
NYPD Blue / int_5e68bb61	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_5e68bb61	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_5e68bb61
NYPD Blue / int_61313315	type	Off the Wagon
NYPD Blue / int_61313315	comment	Off the Wagon: This happens twice to Sipowicz. Russel also has an episode. Both times they get back on the wagon, with some help from friends and colleagues.
NYPD Blue / int_61313315	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_61313315	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_61313315
NYPD Blue / int_63719fc4	type	Plot Archaeology
NYPD Blue / int_63719fc4	comment	Plot Archaeology: In season 4, Sylvia discusses being assigned the high-profile "Eddie Suarez case" with Andy, though we hear nothing more of it outside of one scene. Three years later, there is a multi-episode arc about exonerating Luis Suarez, whose case's particulars exactly match the earlier conversation - season 4 mentions that Suarez was a patsy in need of money for his family who was paid to take the rap for high-profile gang members, that Sylvia prosecuted the case, and that everyone knew Suarez was the fall guy but couldn't get out of prosecuting him since he confessed, all of which comes to light again in season 7. It can be justifiably assumed that this is the same character (perhaps his full name is "Eduardo Luis Suarez").
NYPD Blue / int_63719fc4	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_63719fc4	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_63719fc4
NYPD Blue / int_6bc499da	type	Diplomatic Impunity
NYPD Blue / int_6bc499da	comment	Diplomatic Impunity: In the series final (s 12 ep 20), a Japanese diplomat is bribed to sign a statement where he admits to the murder of a call girl, and then leaves the country. This admission is taken at face value by the FBI and the top brass of the NYPD (but not by Sipowicz). Even though the police officials have reasons to be happy to close the case, nobody even has a thought of requesting the help from the Japanese authorities to remove his diplomatic immunity, or even have him interrogated by Japanese police, and it is quietly assumed that the self-confessed murderer will face no investigation when returning home.
NYPD Blue / int_6bc499da	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_6bc499da	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_6bc499da
NYPD Blue / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
NYPD Blue / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: The show often pushed the boundaries of how much skin (or sexuality) you could show on network TV. We see most of the main characters in underwear or completely nude.
NYPD Blue / int_6bf93fc7	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_6bf93fc7	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_6bf93fc7
NYPD Blue / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
NYPD Blue / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: Sipowicz's famous short-sleeved shirt and tie combo.
NYPD Blue / int_6f33059b	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_6f33059b	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_6f33059b
NYPD Blue / int_6f6ab063	type	The "I Love You" Stigma
NYPD Blue / int_6f6ab063	comment	The "I Love You" Stigma: A heartbreaking example when Mary Franco says "I love you" to Danny, only for him to pause before responding "Thanks." She holds herself together until he leaves the room, then breaks down crying at the knowledge that he doesn't love her back.
NYPD Blue / int_6f6ab063	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_6f6ab063	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_6f6ab063
NYPD Blue / int_71598ac8	type	Internal Affairs
NYPD Blue / int_71598ac8	comment	Lt. Thomas Bale, who takes over command of the squad in the first episode of season 12, has been transferred from Internal Affairs with orders to bring what some superiors apparently perceive as a Cowboy Cop precinct into line. He insists that all official procedures be followed to the letter, even when the detectives (especially Sipowicz) don't think this is the optimal course of action.
NYPD Blue / int_71598ac8	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_71598ac8	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_71598ac8
NYPD Blue / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
NYPD Blue / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: Although the final season features notable changes, like Medavoy retiring and Sipowicz being bumped up to the squad leader, the finale plays out pretty much like a regular episode, with new detectives being brought in as members of the staff, cases being explored, and everyone wishing Andy well as he remains at the office to finish up the paperwork for the night. Just another work day, with the implication that this will be the way things go tomorrow, and for a long while afterwards.
NYPD Blue / int_716c0b1b	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_716c0b1b	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_716c0b1b
NYPD Blue / int_733ca2f8	type	Noble Bigot with a Badge
NYPD Blue / int_733ca2f8	comment	Noble Bigot with a Badge: Sipowicz, though this is toned down in the later seasons. This is shown as character development: he comes to realize that his dislike of African-Americans is based on a traumatic incident in his past and manages to re-direct his anger at the actual bad guy rather than into general racism.
NYPD Blue / int_733ca2f8	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_733ca2f8	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_733ca2f8
NYPD Blue / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
NYPD Blue / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: There's rarely an episode that passes without a suspect getting "tuned up". Sometimes it's as minor as a slap upside the head. Sometimes it gets pretty bad (and the suspect gets off because of it), especially early in the series. Even when he doesn't actually use physical force, Sipowicz often threaten suspects with violence to intimidate them. Sorenson is suspended after beating up a murder suspect during interrogation, making his confession inadmissible in court.
NYPD Blue / int_744e3311	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_744e3311	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_744e3311
NYPD Blue / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
NYPD Blue / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Charlotte Ross opted not to return for season 12 due to her pregnancy, leaving the possibility of coming back for future seasons in the air. Season 12 turned out to be the show's last. The character of Connie was given an in-universe maternity leave and occasionally alluded to as an unheard counterpart of phone calls with Andy, with an episode about 2/3 of the way through season 11 ultimately being her last on-screen appearance, to no fanfare. This also meant that Andy and Connie's two infant children couldn't be shown on screen without unfeasible gimmicks. All the domestic drama exclusively involved older child Theo and took place outside of the home, and the younger children also never appeared after season 11.
NYPD Blue / int_754df088	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_754df088	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_754df088
NYPD Blue / int_79c2062e	type	Inappropriately Close Comrades
NYPD Blue / int_79c2062e	comment	Inappropriately Close Comrades: One Victim of the Week is a Marine Corps recruiter who is having an affair with his married partner. Though she's married to a recently retired General.
NYPD Blue / int_79c2062e	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_79c2062e	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_79c2062e
NYPD Blue / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
NYPD Blue / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Sipowicz and Sorenson run into this several times. In one episode Danny references Dr. Evil; Andy's response makes it clear that he thinks that Danny is talking about Evel Knievel. Another time Danny didn't know who Norman Bates was. Another time, Andy, making a comparison to good-looking men, fruitlessly runs through Tyrone Power, William Holden, and Randolph Scott before giving up.
NYPD Blue / int_7a2d9301	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_7a2d9301	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_7a2d9301
NYPD Blue / int_7aba8180	type	Job Title
NYPD Blue / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title: The PD in the title of this show about cops stands for Police Department.
NYPD Blue / int_7aba8180	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_7aba8180	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_7aba8180
NYPD Blue / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
NYPD Blue / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: From the first episode, Sipowicz is established as an alcoholic, who goes to AA meetings and mostly manages to stay sober (though he does fall Off the Wagon two times). He also helps various colleagues with their drinking problems. Detective Russell is later revealed also to have problems with alcohol; she was driven to drink by traumatic events in her past. She is always shown ordering soft drinks when others drink, but does not want to discuss the reason, which causes resentment with some people.
NYPD Blue / int_7eebe99c	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_7eebe99c	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_7eebe99c
NYPD Blue / int_815215f5	type	Chilly Reception
NYPD Blue / int_815215f5	comment	Chilly Reception When Simone replaces Kelly, Sipowicz gives him an extremely cold reception. This was intentionally engineered by the writers — they figured that if Sipowicz took an immediate, irrational dislike to Simone, it would leave the audience saying "Come on, Andy, give the guy a chance." It worked. And when Simone in turn is replaced by Sorenson, Russel's initial reaction to him is outright hostile. Justified since Russel is in grief over Simone's death, and Sorenson is a bit less than diplomatic his first day on the job. Their relationship improves considerably with time. After serving under Lt. Fancy for over seven years, Sipowicz is extremely suspicious of Lt. Rodriguez, interpreting everything he says or does in the worst possible light and even taking an irrational dislike of his non-regulation beard. After Sipowicz confronts Rodriguez about interfering with his interrogation, and Rodriguez backs off and agrees to let him do things his way, Sipowicz starts warming up to him.
NYPD Blue / int_815215f5	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_815215f5	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_815215f5
NYPD Blue / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
NYPD Blue / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser: In the season 11 episode "Andy Appleseed", the detectives go to the apartment of a murdered woman because they think the suspected murderer may be there. They find him in her closet, trying on her bras and panties.
NYPD Blue / int_85b1e741	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_85b1e741	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_85b1e741
NYPD Blue / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
NYPD Blue / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: John Kelly absolutely did do exactly what his bosses and the media accuse him of (destroy evidence in order to obstruct the investigation of his girlfriend for a murder charge). We see it on screen. His subsequent forcing out from his police job is depicted as some sort of grave injustice.
NYPD Blue / int_89434320	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_89434320	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_89434320
NYPD Blue / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
NYPD Blue / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: When Detective Martinez's girlfriend is raped, the squad find a street thug who she can identify as the assailant. She doesn't want to go through a trial, though. Fancy, who normally views reigning in Andy's brutality as part of his job, expertly makes it known that Andy should do do whatever is necessary to get a confession so that a guilty plea will be entered without publicity.
NYPD Blue / int_8a817c2a	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_8a817c2a	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_8a817c2a
NYPD Blue / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
NYPD Blue / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: Lt. Thomas Bale, who takes over command of the squad in the first episode of season 12, has been transferred from Internal Affairs with orders to bring what some superiors apparently perceive as a Cowboy Cop precinct into line. He insists that all official procedures be followed to the letter, even when the detectives (especially Sipowicz) don't think this is the optimal course of action. John Clarke, Sr., is one as well. He adamantly believes in never beating suspects and always reading them Miranda. He's not wild about his son working with Sipowicz because he knows Sipowicz is not a by-the-book cop and doesn't want his son learning the wrong lessons.
NYPD Blue / int_8cb4ea46	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_8cb4ea46	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_8cb4ea46
NYPD Blue / int_8d0c61b6	type	Team Title
NYPD Blue / int_8d0c61b6	comment	Team Title: The PD in the title stands for Police Department. One of the show's premise is about the titular cops' dynamics.
NYPD Blue / int_8d0c61b6	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_8d0c61b6	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_8d0c61b6
NYPD Blue / int_8d217819	type	BigRottenApple
NYPD Blue / int_8d217819	comment	Big Rotten Apple: Along with the early seasons of Law & Order this was one of the last pieces of popular media to present New York City as a squalid and dangerous hotbed of crime before plummeting street crime and spiraling rents promoted the image of "nice place to live if you can afford it."
NYPD Blue / int_8d217819	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_8d217819	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_8d217819
NYPD Blue / int_916ecb1	type	But I Can't Be Pregnant!
NYPD Blue / int_916ecb1	comment	But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Connie's Season 11 pregnancy, when she'd previously been stated to be infertile due to complications with a pregnancy when she was a teenager. But then Charlotte Ross got pregnant in real life. In the end, the writers were able to use the rather mild retcon of Connie's doctors telling her it would be almost impossible for her to get pregnantnote Truth in Television, "infertile" basically means "extremely small chance of being able to conceive" (as in a one or two percent chance; essentially indistinguishable from the chances of someone properly using birth control), not "cannot become pregnant at all"; that would be "sterile".
NYPD Blue / int_916ecb1	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_916ecb1	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_916ecb1
NYPD Blue / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
NYPD Blue / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: After departing near the end of Season 8, Diane Russell returned for a one-off guest appearance in Season 10, and then a four-episode arc in Season 11.
NYPD Blue / int_927b2f11	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_927b2f11	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_927b2f11
NYPD Blue / int_9915cc3f	type	Geodesic Cast
NYPD Blue / int_9915cc3f	comment	Geodesic Cast: Andy and his current partner, Medavoy and his, often a third female duo.
NYPD Blue / int_9915cc3f	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_9915cc3f	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_9915cc3f
NYPD Blue / int_9fe18440	type	Whip Pan
NYPD Blue / int_9fe18440	comment	Whip Pan: Used very frequently, to the extent that this, together with the use of shaky shots that looked like the camera was hand-held, became the trademark of the show.
NYPD Blue / int_9fe18440	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_9fe18440	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_9fe18440
NYPD Blue / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
NYPD Blue / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: The conflict between Sipowicz and Fancy is rooted in their mutual dislike for each other (Fancy is offended by Sipowicz's barely-concealed racism, and Sipowicz despises Fancy interfering in his cases). While working a case where two Black undercover cops were involved in a shooting, this mutual resentment finally boils over and they start to beat the shit out of each other in the bathroom until Sorenson breaks it up and gives them both a What the Hell, Hero? speech. By the end of the episode, they're joking with each other about the punches they threw, and when Fancy retires a few years later, Sipowicz shakes his hand and says it was an honor to work under him.
NYPD Blue / int_a0db7803	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_a0db7803	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_a0db7803
NYPD Blue / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
NYPD Blue / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Porn star Vanessa del Rio appeared once, filing a complaint against a fan who was harassing her. Police Commissioner Howard Safir appeared in "My Wild Irish Nose" to present Simone with his promotion to Detective First Grade.
NYPD Blue / int_a5e0c01	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_a5e0c01	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_a5e0c01
NYPD Blue / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
NYPD Blue / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Medavoy was originally just a random detective who had a few lines in one episode. Gordon Clapp was originally offered a one-shot guest character, but he recalls reading a line in the script about Medavoy "getting up from his desk" and deciding to read for him instead because "maybe someday we'll get to see his desk." His intuition paid off, as Medavoy's role was quickly expanded and Clapp remained for the entire run of the series.
NYPD Blue / int_a65288e2	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_a65288e2	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_a65288e2
NYPD Blue / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
NYPD Blue / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: John Kelly and Laura Michael continue to have a good relationship even after their divorce.
NYPD Blue / int_a681bfc6	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_a681bfc6	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_a681bfc6
NYPD Blue / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
NYPD Blue / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The murderer in "Lost Israel" confides to Bobby, soon before he confesses, that he was molested by a camp counselor as a child. This revelation does not make Bobby sympathize with him in the slightest, considering that he raped and murdered his own son. Bobby makes clear to Andy that he's not interested in his excuses for his racial prejudice - including a Black man attacking and blinding his father, or Andy's time serving undercover with a Black Panther-type radical group in the '70s - explaining that he still needs to work on his bigotry in the present.
NYPD Blue / int_ad17a1ac	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_ad17a1ac	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_ad17a1ac
NYPD Blue / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
NYPD Blue / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Internal Affairs Captain Pat Fraker, in regards to his feud with Lieutenant Tony Rodriguez. Said feud started years back when Rodriguez submitted a report which contained no officer's names that exposed multiple corrupt cops, including Fraker's partner in the Narcotics Unit. Fraker, a rookie at the time, was blamed for being The Rat since he knew of the corruption but didn't participate, and he wound up stuck in Internal Affairs as a result, as it was the only unit he could work in without being harassed. Bitterly blaming Rodriguez for how his career turned out, Fraker attempts to sabotage Rodriguez's career and the 15th Precinct's detective squad, which eventually ends after Andy obtains details about Fraker's multiple corrupt actions, including an affair with a subordinate, and threatens to tell Fraker's wife and supervisor. However, Fraker's secrets are later exposed by someone else, which leads him to being passed over for promotion to deputy inspector and his wife leaving him. Once again blaming Rodriguez, Fraker gets drunk, confronts him in his office and shoots him, only to be then shot himself by Detective Rita Ortiz. Rodriguez and Fraker both survive, but Fraker is left permanently disabled. He is shockingly then acquitted at trial after an unsavory defense by shady attorney James Sinclair; the acquittal leads to Rodriguez being passed over for promotion to captain and losing any other chance at promotion, then retiring. Despite this though, the shooting, Fraker's injuries, and the prior revelations of his indiscretions leave him ineligible for further promotion too, thus forcing him to either resign or retire as well. So in the end, Fraker succeeds in wrecking Rodriguez's career, but at the cost of his own at the same time. And for more Laser-Guided Karma, where they both land afterward differs greatly: Rodriguez goes on to take a very lucrative private security job, while Fraker is left to take a bartender job at a sleazy dive bar.
NYPD Blue / int_ad9fbc1e	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_ad9fbc1e	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_ad9fbc1e
NYPD Blue / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
NYPD Blue / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Det. Sipowicz — when he's in a good mood.
NYPD Blue / int_ae3d6438	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_ae3d6438	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_ae3d6438
NYPD Blue / int_ae4845db	type	Near-Rape Experience
NYPD Blue / int_ae4845db	comment	Near-Rape Experience: When Diane goes undercover to investigate violent psychopath Jimmy Liery, he slips a pill into her drink. She gets dizzy and he carries her out of the bar, after which she wakes up naked in bed with him with no memory of how she got there. When she confronts him (armed), he admits he drugged her with the intention of raping her, but he couldn't go through with the latter part.
NYPD Blue / int_ae4845db	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_ae4845db	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_ae4845db
NYPD Blue / int_b3516a83	type	Following in Relative's Footsteps
NYPD Blue / int_b3516a83	comment	Following in Relative's Footsteps: At the start of the series Andy is estranged from his son Andy Jr., but after Andy cleans himself up they become close, and Andy Jr. eventually decides to join the police force following his father's footsteps. This doesn't work out so well for Jr. since he gets killed trying to stop a couple of robbers as they were attacking a waitress. Andy's final partner John Clark is actually John Clark Jr., his father being a NYPD detective who has had bad blood with Andy in the past.
NYPD Blue / int_b3516a83	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_b3516a83	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_b3516a83
NYPD Blue / int_b3545acd	type	Ghost Extras
NYPD Blue / int_b3545acd	comment	Most of the other detectives in the squad, mostly Ghost Extras with an occasional line or two, disappear once the main cast of detectives gets fleshed out to more than just Sipowicz and Kelly. Medavoy gets Promoted to Opening Titles but the rest are dropped.
NYPD Blue / int_b3545acd	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_b3545acd	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_b3545acd
NYPD Blue / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
NYPD Blue / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney James Sinclair acts as a living Berserk Button to Sipowicz.
NYPD Blue / int_b5b3599d	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_b5b3599d	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_b5b3599d
NYPD Blue / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
NYPD Blue / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button Andy Sipowicz was a veteran of The Vietnam War. So please, do not lie to him about having fought in that war if you weren't actually there. Amoral Attorney James Sinclair acts as a living Berserk Button to Sipowicz. Sipowicz and John Clark, Sr. tend to press each other's berserk buttons a lot. When Clark finds out that his son is partnering up with Sipowicz, he packs his son's bags and throws him out of their apartment.
NYPD Blue / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_bc74ef27	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_bc74ef27
NYPD Blue / int_bd8aa92a	type	Negative Continuity
NYPD Blue / int_bd8aa92a	comment	Negative Continuity: With regard to scheduling at the 15th precinct. Do all the main characters come to work Monday through Friday at 8 AM, or do some of them work a 4 to 12 shift or on weekends? Is the squad room a 24-hour operation with a separate group of night shift detectives whose cases might overlap with the main cast, or does everyone go home and turn the lights off at 5pm every day? The answers to these questions change from season to season and episode to episode depending on the needs of the plot, with no attempt made to explain the in-universe reasons.
NYPD Blue / int_bd8aa92a	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_bd8aa92a	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_bd8aa92a
NYPD Blue / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
NYPD Blue / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Sipowicz. Twice, with Sylvia and Connie. His first wife (ex-wife already when the series starts), while not bad-looking, looks more like you'd expect the wife of a middle-aged detective to look like. Not only are both Sylvia and Connie quite good-looking, but they are also considerably younger than Sipowicz. (Sharon Lawrence and Charlotte Ross are, respectively, 17 and 24 years younger than Dennis Franz). Greg's relationship with Donna is the beginning of this, though they break up before marriage is discussed.
NYPD Blue / int_bf74d357	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_bf74d357	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_bf74d357
NYPD Blue / int_c0d32460	type	Sexy Secretary
NYPD Blue / int_c0d32460	comment	Sexy Secretary (though they're actually civilian aides, performing clerical and secretarial duties in the squad): Donna is very good-looking, quite busty, and dresses to emphasize her body. As a result, she gets quite a lot of attention from male visitors. Dolores, who has a second job as a stripper. Subverted by Geri, who is personally very sex-positive but who doesn't follow the conventiosn of the trope: she is heavier than conventionally attractive women and openly a rubber fetishist.
NYPD Blue / int_c0d32460	featureApplicability	-0.3
NYPD Blue / int_c0d32460	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_c0d32460
NYPD Blue / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
NYPD Blue / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: In one episode the Victim of the Week, private investigator Mike Roberts, has written a bad novel called The Cases of Mike Robertini, and we see a few scenes acted out.
NYPD Blue / int_c2393191	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_c2393191	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_c2393191
NYPD Blue / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
NYPD Blue / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Any time the FBI shows up, expect Sipowicz to hate them. He seems to have good reason, as they are generally portrayed as useless at handling street crime, but good at taking the credit for solved cases. The one exception is with Mike Francis (Mark Blum) in "We Was Robbed." He's initially friendly and cooperative on Sipowizc's and Simone's murder investigation, then becomes a nervous wreck as the investigation takes some odd turns, then finally, after everything turns out okay, tells them he'd be happy to work with them again.
NYPD Blue / int_c2676b00	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_c2676b00	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_c2676b00
NYPD Blue / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
NYPD Blue / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Most of the other detectives in the squad, mostly Ghost Extras with an occasional line or two, disappear once the main cast of detectives gets fleshed out to more than just Sipowicz and Kelly. Medavoy gets Promoted to Opening Titles but the rest are dropped. Andy adopts a murder victim's dog, which appears one or two more times before disappearing without explanation by the time he moves in with Sylvia. Detective Lesniak just stopped appearing after season 3, with no explanation given (although her tumultuous relationship with Martinez can be assumed to have played a part). The same thing happens with Detective Kelly Ronson, who replaces McDowell when she goes on maternity leave towards the end of season 11. In the first episode of season 12 she is not there anymore and no mention is ever made of her leaving the precinct.
NYPD Blue / int_c33ba0a8	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_c33ba0a8	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_c33ba0a8
NYPD Blue / int_c409eea	type	Literally Laughable Question
NYPD Blue / int_c409eea	comment	Literally Laughable Question: In "NYPD Lou", Alphonse Giardella hits on the female D.A. who is assigned to his case. She tries to be polite about it, but excuses herself to go to the bathroom, where she breaks up laughing over the whole thing. Giardella's enemies take this moment to kill him.
NYPD Blue / int_c409eea	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_c409eea	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_c409eea
NYPD Blue / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
NYPD Blue / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The nudity and sex is frequently a double-edged sword, especially in the early seasons where it seems to be used for shock value. The later seasons tone down the nudity and tend to use it more for straight Fanservice than for disservice.
NYPD Blue / int_c660bc15	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_c660bc15	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_c660bc15
NYPD Blue / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
NYPD Blue / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The third season premiere is titled "ER", which (a) was beginning its second season at the time, (b) the show had just surprisingly beaten for the Best Drama Emmy, and (c) Sherry Stringfield (Laura Kelly) had left the show for a starring role on (Dr. Susan Lewis).
NYPD Blue / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_c75df49a
NYPD Blue / int_c7d86fbe	type	Plausible Deniability
NYPD Blue / int_c7d86fbe	comment	Plausible Deniability: In a couple of episodes (such as "Lucky Luciano"), killers were maneuvered into their crimes by others, but the others managed to avoid responsibility by not actually, technically, conspiring with them. The detectives even tried to get them to lie, knowing that the other parties had moral responsibility, but it didn't work.
NYPD Blue / int_c7d86fbe	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_c7d86fbe	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_c7d86fbe
NYPD Blue / int_ca3457d5	type	Real Stitches for Fake Snitches
NYPD Blue / int_ca3457d5	comment	Real Stitches for Fake Snitches: When gunrunner Jimmy Liery gets into Russell's head while she's working an undercover detail on him, Sipowicz and Simone get rid of him by planting a rumor that he's cooperating with the police.
NYPD Blue / int_ca3457d5	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_ca3457d5	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_ca3457d5
NYPD Blue / int_cecce86	type	Feedback Rule
NYPD Blue / int_cecce86	comment	Feedback Rule: At Sipowicz's bachelor party, held at a bar with a Karaoke machine, when Maritnez steps up to the mic there's feedback as he says "Is This Thing On?" (even though someone else just got done singing) before launching an off-key rendition of "My Way."
NYPD Blue / int_cecce86	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_cecce86	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_cecce86
NYPD Blue / int_d2afe41d	type	PetHomosexual
NYPD Blue / int_d2afe41d	comment	Pet Homosexual: John, the Camp Gay civilian aide, may seem like this in the beginning, but this turns into a subversion in that he is portrayed quite respectfully and seriously. Initially he has some difficulty being accepted by some of the detectives, most notably Sipowicz, but ends up being a good friend of everybody in the squad.
NYPD Blue / int_d2afe41d	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_d2afe41d	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_d2afe41d
NYPD Blue / int_d30799ee	type	Temporary Scrappy
NYPD Blue / int_d30799ee	comment	Temporary Scrappy: When Lt. Fancy leaves, his replacement —a former Internal Affairs officer— manages to irritate every single squad member as soon as she shows up. Fancy, wanting to help out his loyal former subordinates, uses some pull with the higher-ups to get her replaced with Lt. Rodriguez.
NYPD Blue / int_d30799ee	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_d30799ee	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_d30799ee
NYPD Blue / int_d39771a4	type	Long Bus Trip
NYPD Blue / int_d39771a4	comment	Long Bus Trip: Though it is never followed up, David Caruso's departure from the series is certainly open-ended enough that for a couple of seasons afterwards it wouldn't have been unexpected to have seen Detective Kelly walk right back through those doors. Particularly strange in-story is his complete non-appearance at Sipowicz's wedding. Apparently the writing staff were tempted to put John Kelly on a bus to hell following the way Caruso had treated them, as a Take That! to the actor. But ultimately they felt that whatever problems they had to deal with as far as the actor was concerned, the character of Detective John Kelly deserved more respect than that, so they allowed him to have a dignified departure with no repercussions.
NYPD Blue / int_d39771a4	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_d39771a4	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_d39771a4
NYPD Blue / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
NYPD Blue / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: Sipowicz. He learns to control his aggressiveness over the course of the series, but woe those suspects who talk back at him.
NYPD Blue / int_d6519b1b	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_d6519b1b	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_d6519b1b
NYPD Blue / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
NYPD Blue / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Sipowicz, who started out second banana to John Kelly and ended up as one of the most famous TV detectives of all time. (Dennis Franz's four Emmys for the role certainly didn't hurt.)
NYPD Blue / int_da0eeab5	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_da0eeab5	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_da0eeab5
NYPD Blue / int_da1e24b7	type	Recovered Addict
NYPD Blue / int_da1e24b7	comment	Recovered Addict: Andy Sipowicz, who as of the first episode is a rude, racist alcoholic and borderline drug addict. Early in the first season he stops drinking, but later falls off the wagon. After he joins AA he remains sober - even going so far as to initially refuse pain medication during a surgery - and generally becomes a much nicer person. He even helps a few others stop drinking.
NYPD Blue / int_da1e24b7	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_da1e24b7	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_da1e24b7
NYPD Blue / int_db52f2ff	type	Surprise Pregnancy
NYPD Blue / int_db52f2ff	comment	Surprise Pregnancy: Connie gets pregnant shortly after she and Andy get married, when they're already taking care of an infant (her murdered sister's daughter that they adopted). Even more of a shock because, as noted under But I Can't Be Pregnant!, Connie believed that complications from her teen pregnancy (she gave the baby up for adoption) meant she literally couldn't have any more kids of her own, with the implication that because of this, she and Andy weren't bothering to use contraception.
NYPD Blue / int_db52f2ff	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_db52f2ff	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_db52f2ff
NYPD Blue / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
NYPD Blue / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Blatantly unqualified Sgt. Gibson, though it is made clear that his appointment is a stop-gap measure, due to a shortage of qualified lieutenants. And perhaps his being golf buddies with the Chief of Detectives played a small part in it as well.
NYPD Blue / int_dc3b74bc	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_dc3b74bc	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_dc3b74bc
NYPD Blue / int_dc67d9ba	type	Kiss of Death
NYPD Blue / int_dc67d9ba	comment	Kiss of Death: In "Cold Heaters," Simone's childhood friend, Ray DiSalvo, contacts him from prison with information on a murder, hoping to get an early release. (He was in jail because he refused to heed a warning from Simone in an earlier episode.) The information pans out, but Simone later learns that DiSalvo had, in a previous attempt to commute his sentence, tried to sell a misdeed of Simone's to Internal Affairs. Simone finally realizes what kind of man DiSalvo really is. At their last meeting, he pulls DiSalvo into a fiercely emotional hug, tells him that when he gets out, he doesn't want to see him ever again, and then walks out, leaving DiSalvo in tears.
NYPD Blue / int_dc67d9ba	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_dc67d9ba	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_dc67d9ba
NYPD Blue / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
NYPD Blue / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: In one season 12 episode, Sipowicz is experiencing a crisis after being forcefully reminded of his mortality (in the previous episode, he's shot in the shoulder, and then he narrowly escapes being shot by a perp whose gun misfires). In his agitated state he first thinks he sees his late ex-partner Simone lying in a hospital bed that then turns out to be empty; a bit later Simone again appears to Sipowitz, and now carries out a whole conversation, talking about life and death and encouraging him to be a father figure to his new partner.
NYPD Blue / int_e1fa8421	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_e1fa8421	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_e1fa8421
NYPD Blue / int_e288e579	type	Lying to the Perp
NYPD Blue / int_e288e579	comment	Lying to the Perp: A technique often used by the detectives when interviewing suspects.
NYPD Blue / int_e288e579	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_e288e579	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_e288e579
NYPD Blue / int_e2cbeee9	type	Gangsta Style
NYPD Blue / int_e2cbeee9	comment	Gangsta Style: Simone holds his gun this way in "We Was Robbed" when he and Sipowicz, discovered in the act of planting a bug in a mobsters' hangout, decide to pretend to be burglars.
NYPD Blue / int_e2cbeee9	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_e2cbeee9	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_e2cbeee9
NYPD Blue / int_e3da6e6c	type	Deus Angst Machina
NYPD Blue / int_e3da6e6c	comment	Deus Angst Machina: Sipowicz has had a dead wife, a dead son, two dead partners (and a third resigning in disgrace), and TWO cancer scares (his own and his youngest son's).
NYPD Blue / int_e3da6e6c	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_e3da6e6c	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_e3da6e6c
NYPD Blue / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
NYPD Blue / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	Primal Scene: Non-sex example; when Connie and Andy move in together, this happens to her and Theo, who walks in to the bathroom just as she's dropped her robe to get in the shower. They both freeze for several moments before Connie tries to cover her nudity with her hands and Theo quickly exits the room with an embarrassed "Sorry!" Poked fun at when Connie later asks Andy if he got Theo to school.
NYPD Blue / int_e4c0b2b6	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_e4c0b2b6	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_e4c0b2b6
NYPD Blue / int_e5421161	type	Expy
NYPD Blue / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: David Simon wrote one episode of NYPD Blue, "Hollie and the Blowfish," which introduced Ferdinand Hollie, an independent criminal based on the real Donnie Andrews who sticks up drug dealers, has no problems working with the police to achieve his ends, and may be gay (he has AIDS, how he got it is not specified). Simon didn't have to change much about the character when he was renamed and re-used later.
NYPD Blue / int_e5421161	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_e5421161	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_e5421161
NYPD Blue / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
NYPD Blue / int_e61d9a3c	comment	More or less the entire female cast has one or more of these, sometimes leading up to a sex scene, sometimes as a result of Clothing Damage.
NYPD Blue / int_e61d9a3c	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_e61d9a3c	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_e61d9a3c
NYPD Blue / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
NYPD Blue / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Done deliberately. Though Medavoy ends his police career on a happy note by moving on to a new job and a new relationship, and Sipowicz gets promoted to command the squad, the last episode ends just as any other episode. It is obvious that life in the precinct will continue just as usual the next morning.
NYPD Blue / int_ea2e9f2d	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_ea2e9f2d	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_ea2e9f2d
NYPD Blue / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
NYPD Blue / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Harry Denby, who is first seen as the detective investigating Jill Kirkendall's ex-husband for drug-running. He comes across as a Jerkass with a drinking problem who comes on to Russell and tries to use her loyalty to Kirkendall as leverage. Later he is discovered actually to be working with the criminals he is investigating. After he is suspended and waiting for indictment he tries to take over the drug operation himself. Like all his endeavours, it fails tragically. He more or less forces Jill to shoot him.
NYPD Blue / int_eb251937	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_eb251937	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_eb251937
NYPD Blue / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
NYPD Blue / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	ADA Leo Cohen is presented as perhaps an even bigger Jerkass than Sipowicz, and seems to constantly look for opportunities to show how much smarter than the detectives he is. But there are occasional glimpses of his honesty and integrity, he does care about justice as much as anyone else, and his behaviour seems to be caused more by poor social skills than real meanness. He also displays his softer side when he starts dating Det. Kirkendall; unfortunately for him, his social skills aren't enough to make the relationship last.
NYPD Blue / int_eb8e4fa8	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_eb8e4fa8	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_eb8e4fa8
NYPD Blue / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
NYPD Blue / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. Two of Andy's four partners in the show share the first name "John" (Detectives Kelly and Clark, Jr.), as does the eventual police administrative aide John Irvin. Downplayed somewhat in that Kelly left the precinct before the other two arrived and both detective characters are often referred to by their surnames. This is probably the only reason that John Irvin tolerates being referred to as "Gay John." They have to specify which John they're talking about somehow. Two main characters have the first name "Laura" - A.D.A. Laura Michaels Kelly (present only in the first season) and Detective Laura Murphy (the last main character introduced in the show who appears solely in the final season).
NYPD Blue / int_ee7a60e9	featureApplicability	-1.0
NYPD Blue / int_ee7a60e9	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_ee7a60e9
NYPD Blue / int_efef300	type	Put on a Bus to Hell
NYPD Blue / int_efef300	comment	Particularly strange in-story is his complete non-appearance at Sipowicz's wedding. Apparently the writing staff were tempted to put John Kelly on a bus to hell following the way Caruso had treated them, as a Take That! to the actor. But ultimately they felt that whatever problems they had to deal with as far as the actor was concerned, the character of Detective John Kelly deserved more respect than that, so they allowed him to have a dignified departure with no repercussions.
NYPD Blue / int_efef300	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_efef300	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_efef300
NYPD Blue / int_f09b6509	type	Last Episode, New Character
NYPD Blue / int_f09b6509	comment	Last Episode, New Character: The series finale introduces a new pair of detectives, Ray Quinn and Joe Slova, who get assigned to the squad in order to fill the void left by Medavoy retiring and Sipowicz being made squad commander.
NYPD Blue / int_f09b6509	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_f09b6509	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_f09b6509
NYPD Blue / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
NYPD Blue / int_f10d3363	comment	Sometimes used to their advantage by the detectives: many male suspects will lower their guards when talking to a good-looking woman, and Baldwin Jones has the same effect on most female suspects and witnesses (sometimes he is too successful when a female witness gets so Distracted by the Sexy that they can't concentrate on their statement).
NYPD Blue / int_f10d3363	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_f10d3363	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_f10d3363
NYPD Blue / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
NYPD Blue / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Disgraced former detective Mike Roberts not only turns down a contract from a millionaire with a grudge who wants P.A.A. John Irvin beaten and killed, but goes out of his way to warn John. Roberts is later thrown out of his office window to his death.
NYPD Blue / int_f1492605	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_f1492605	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_f1492605
NYPD Blue / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
NYPD Blue / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Whilst the final episode makes it very clear that life and work will go on as usual for Andy Sipowicz, he is not only far better off at the end than he was at the beginning (both professionally and in his personal life), but also a better person.
NYPD Blue / int_f64a9cf7	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_f64a9cf7	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_f64a9cf7
NYPD Blue / int_f6c3d469	type	Fanservice Extra
NYPD Blue / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: A number of them, considering the detectives frequently go into strip clubs, brothels, etc. during their investigations. Notable is Andy Jr's Gold Digger fiancee, who is having sex with another man when Andy Sr. barges into the room.
NYPD Blue / int_f6c3d469	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_f6c3d469	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_f6c3d469
NYPD Blue / int_fa712e27	type	Gay Conservative
NYPD Blue / int_fa712e27	comment	Gay Conservative: John Irvin acts stereotypically sometimes (swishy mannerisms, interest in art and personal grooming) but is also a very devoted Christian and strongly supports the police.
NYPD Blue / int_fa712e27	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_fa712e27	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_fa712e27
NYPD Blue / int_name	type	ItemName
NYPD Blue / int_name	comment
NYPD Blue / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
NYPD Blue / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	NYPD Blue / int_name
NYPD Blue / int_name	itemName	NYPD Blue

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Acquitted Too Late / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	All Lesbians Want Kids / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Amoral Attorney / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Ashes to Crashes / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Aspect Montage / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Auction / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Back-Alley Doctor / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Badges and Dog Tags / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Between My Legs / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Big Applesauce / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Billy Needs an Organ / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Bleak Border Base / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Cheated Death, Died Anyway / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Chilly Reception / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Clothing Damage / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Comically Small Demand / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Convenient Miscarriage / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Cop/Criminal Family / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Cops Need the Vigilante / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Costumer / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Creepy Crossdresser / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Crime After Crime / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Crime Time Soap / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Dead Person Conversation / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Demoted to Satellite Love Interest / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Desk Sweep of Rage / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Deus Angst Machina / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Diplomatic Impunity / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Dirty Harriet / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Dislikes the New Guy / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Epiphany Therapy / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Erotic Asphyxiation / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Exploding Fish Tanks / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Fair Cop / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Fauxreigner / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Feedback Rule / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Following in Relative's Footsteps / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Formally-Named Pet / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Fowl-Mouthed Parrot / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Gender Bender Angst / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Hand Cannon / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Hates Rich People / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Headbutt of Love / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Hello, Attorney! / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Helpful Hallucination / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	How's Your British Accent? / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	I Call Him "Mister Happy" / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	I Won't Say I'm Guilty / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Impossibly Mundane Explanation / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Inappropriately Close Comrades / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Institutional Allegiance Concealment / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Instrumental Theme Tune / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Internal Affairs / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Jitter Cam / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Job Title / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Lesbian Cop / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Lifesaving Misfortune / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Lingerie Scene / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Literally Laughable Question / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Long Bus Trip / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Lying to the Perp / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Morality Chain Beyond the Grave / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	More Popular Replacement / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Murder by Mistake / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	N-Word Privileges / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Noble Bigot / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Noble Bigot with a Badge / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Not Enough to Bury / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Not Even Bothering with the Accent / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Nudity Equals Honesty / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Off the Wagon / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Office Romance / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Perfectly Cromulent Word / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Possession Presumes Guilt / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Pragmatic Pansexuality / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Price on Their Head / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Promotion to Opening Titles / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Proof Dare / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Psycho Lesbian / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Punk in the Trunk / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	R-Rated Opening / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Rabid Cop / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Rape as Backstory / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Real Stitches for Fake Snitches / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Recovered Addict / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Revolving Door Casting / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Seeking the Missing, Finding the Dead / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet! / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Shot in the Ass / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Skip the Anesthetic / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Sorry, I'm Gay / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Stray Shots Strike Nothing / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Tamer and Chaster / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Team Title / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Technical Advisor / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Temporary Scrappy / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	The Place / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	The Vietnam Vet / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Tinfoil Hat / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Translation: "Yes" / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Transplant / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Tricked into Escaping / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Unexplained Accent / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	[Verb] This! / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Violently Protective Girlfriend / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Whip Pan / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Will Talk for a Price / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Working the Same Case / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	Written-In Infirmity / int_c94b0000
NYPD Blue	hasFeature	You Can See Me? / int_c94b0000

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.