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

Sledge Hammer!

557 statements
108 feature instances
110 referencing feature instances

Sledge Hammer!	type	TVTItem
Sledge Hammer!	label	Sledge Hammer!
Sledge Hammer!	page	SledgeHammer
Sledge Hammer!	comment	Sledge Hammer! is a television sitcom created and executive produced by Alan Spencer which ran on ABC from 1986 to 1988. It is an unrestrained Parody of the Cowboy Cop genre (Dirty Harry specifically), with David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a cop who shoots first and asks questions never. He is partnered with Detective Dori Doreau (Anne-Marie Martin), and the two work for the ever-exasperated Captain Trunk (Harrison Page).While Hammer respects his colleagues, his only true friend is his .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver, complete with customized grip and etched sledgehammer insignia. Hammer's affection for his gun is so deep that he showers with it, sleeps with it, and even talks to it.The show was produced throughout the run by Alan Spencer Productions, Spencer's production company, and New World Pictures, an entertainment company founded by Roger Corman. During the first season, there was another production company involved, D'Angelo Productions, the production company of executive producer William P. D'Angelo. Spencer was only 26 years old when the show started airing, and he's still one of the youngest series creators and showrunners in the history of television.The series received critical acclaim, but struggled in the ratings, largely due to its numerous time slot shifts. (It didn't help that at one point, the show competed against Dallas and Miami Vice on Friday nights.) Even so, Sledge Hammer! attracted up to nineteen million viewers who followed the show religiously, along with a very abbreviated Comic Book series from Marvel Comics, which was then owned by New World Pictures. Despite a season finale that ended with a nuclear explosion, ABC changed its mind and renewed the show for a second season. The second season suffered from another horrible time slot (against The Cosby Show) and a reduced budget.
Sledge Hammer!	fetched	2024-02-22T09:01:53Z
Sledge Hammer!	parsed	2024-02-22T09:01:54Z
Sledge Hammer!	processingComment	Dropped link to ArabOilSheikh: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sledge Hammer!	processingComment	Dropped link to MiamiVice: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sledge Hammer!	processingComment	Dropped link to Slapstick: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sledge Hammer!	processingComment	Dropped link to ThePolice: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Sledge Hammer!	processingComment	Dropped link to TheSimpsons: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sledge Hammer!	processingComment	Dropped link to ThisIsSpinalTap: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sledge Hammer!	processingComment	Dropped link to Wikipedia: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sledge Hammer!	processingComment	Dropped link to getsmart: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sledge Hammer!	processingComment	Dropped link to maxheadroom: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sledge Hammer!	isPartOf	DBTropes
Sledge Hammer! / int_11277401	type	Bench Breaker
Sledge Hammer! / int_11277401	comment	Bench Breaker: Doreau does this accidentally in "Wild About Hammer." The villain for that episode ties her to a chair. Sledge manages to untie her ankles from the chair before he's attacked. While those two are fighting, Doreau manages to stand herself up on her now-freed legs, only to trip, fall over backwards, break the chair, and free herself from the rest of the rope.
Sledge Hammer! / int_11277401	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_11277401	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_11277401
Sledge Hammer! / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Sledge Hammer! / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Creator Alan Spencer can be seen in the backgrounds of several episodes, usually at the precinct.
Sledge Hammer! / int_127fc252	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_127fc252	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_127fc252
Sledge Hammer! / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Sledge Hammer! / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Sledge Hammer does this to a bank robber, but after expelling his reasons he punches him one more time. When the robber asks "What was that for?!", Hammer replies, "That was gratuitous!"
Sledge Hammer! / int_19e41d8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_19e41d8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_19e41d8f
Sledge Hammer! / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Sledge Hammer! / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: HAAAAMMEEEER!!
Sledge Hammer! / int_1a3a91dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_1a3a91dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_1a3a91dd
Sledge Hammer! / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Sledge Hammer! / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Frequent references and jokes are made about Hammer's ex-wife, but she is not seen until one late episode (where she is played by David Rasche's actual wife). Made funnier when she is actually a nice, reasonable person, not the sadistic bloodsucker that Sledge describes.
Sledge Hammer! / int_1ba17583	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_1ba17583	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_1ba17583
Sledge Hammer! / int_1d0b6a7b	type	Insert Cameo
Sledge Hammer! / int_1d0b6a7b	comment	Insert Cameo: Creator Alan Spencer's hands can be seen stealing newspapers out of a vending machine in the pilot.
Sledge Hammer! / int_1d0b6a7b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_1d0b6a7b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_1d0b6a7b
Sledge Hammer! / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Sledge Hammer! / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Sledge makes it clear from episode one that this is how he handles crime.
Sledge Hammer! / int_1d18887f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_1d18887f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_1d18887f
Sledge Hammer! / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Sledge Hammer! / int_224c9aef	comment	Laugh Track: Averted on the DVD release, which had the laugh track removed. Unlike many sitcoms, there aren't really any awkward pauses where the laugh would have been.
Sledge Hammer! / int_224c9aef	featureApplicability	-1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_224c9aef	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_224c9aef
Sledge Hammer! / int_2311e2de	type	Accidental Aiming Skills
Sledge Hammer! / int_2311e2de	comment	Accidental Aiming Skills: Hammer's interrogation of a suspect in the pilot via a carnival-style shooting game, wherein he blindfolds himself before aiming for the balloon near the suspect's head...
Sledge Hammer! / int_2311e2de	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_2311e2de	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_2311e2de
Sledge Hammer! / int_246330ec	type	Noir Episode
Sledge Hammer! / int_246330ec	comment	Noir Episode: "Play It Again, Sledge", which specifically spoofs the Humphrey Bogart Sam Spade noir films. After getting suspended Sledge decides to become a private detective, and the Femme Fatale who comes to him for help frames him for the murder of her husband, all the while he's assisted by a Spirit Advisor of Bogart himself.
Sledge Hammer! / int_246330ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_246330ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_246330ec
Sledge Hammer! / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Sledge Hammer! / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Sledge's Magnum, aka "Amigo", is always by his side, even in bed and in the shower. He regularly pulls it out of its holster and speaks to it like a dog owner having a one-sided conversation. He even descends deep into grief when he's separated from it.
Sledge Hammer! / int_2482df9c	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_2482df9c	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_2482df9c
Sledge Hammer! / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Sledge Hammer! / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In one episode where a serial killer is murdering one Elvis Impersonator after another, the chalk outlines for each slain Elvis are in the classic Jailhouse Rock pose (i.e. this one.) Dori and Trunk discuss a case involving an android thief while Hammer keeps being attacked by its detached cyborg arm in the background.
Sledge Hammer! / int_26eb6287	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_26eb6287	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_26eb6287
Sledge Hammer! / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Sledge Hammer! / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: When fighting the KGB, Hammer speaks his catchphrase "Trust me. I know what I'm doing" in Russian. note Ð”Ð¾Ð²ÐµÑ€ÑŒÑ‚ÐµÑ�ÑŒ Ð¼Ð½Ðµ. Ð¯ Ð·Ð½Ð°ÑŽ, Ñ‡Ñ‚Ð¾ Ñ� Ð´ÐµÐ»Ð°ÑŽ . (Dover'tes' mne. Ya'znayu, chto ya delayu).
Sledge Hammer! / int_294ed981	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_294ed981	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_294ed981
Sledge Hammer! / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Sledge Hammer! / int_2a090d00	comment	A regular feature of the show, often with Lampshade Hanging. During one shootout, Captain Trunk even yells, "Where the hell is he getting all this ammo?!"
Sledge Hammer! / int_2a090d00	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_2a090d00	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_2a090d00
Sledge Hammer! / int_2a154192	type	Impossibly Tacky Clothes
Sledge Hammer! / int_2a154192	comment	Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Sledge wears very ugly and outdated suits and ties to symbolize that he's a throwback to cowboy cops like Dirty Harry. When Doreau takes on Sledge's mannerisms after a Tap To The Head, she wears even tackier outfits to show that she's a distilled version of her partner.
Sledge Hammer! / int_2a154192	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_2a154192	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_2a154192
Sledge Hammer! / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Sledge Hammer! / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Hammer himself, although it was often Bowdlerised for comedic effect. He never actually killed anyone onscreen; the censors presumably wouldn't allow it. In the pilot he is referred to as killing a pair of armed robbers while grocery shopping.
Sledge Hammer! / int_2d4fa515	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_2d4fa515	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_2d4fa515
Sledge Hammer! / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Sledge Hammer! / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Sledge starts showing up to work looking disheveled and with unkempt stubble after the love of his life was stolen from him... that love being his gun of course.
Sledge Hammer! / int_311bcac6	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_311bcac6	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_311bcac6
Sledge Hammer! / int_347c2	type	Inkblot Test
Sledge Hammer! / int_347c2	comment	Inkblot Test: Sledge received one as part of a psychological evaluation. He identified the pictures as two images of gun violence, "a field of pussy willows," "a [machine gun] blowing away the pussy willows," and "a duck handcuffing a naked woman." The psychologist remarks, "Funny, I've never seen the duck."
Sledge Hammer! / int_347c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_347c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_347c2
Sledge Hammer! / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Sledge Hammer! / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Sledge and his gun, one of the rare instances of a canonical Cargo Ship. For a time, the French Wikipedia took it up to eleven, listing Sledge's gun as an actual character, though that's no longer the case. (The French title of the series is Mr. Gun.)
Sledge Hammer! / int_36135fb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_36135fb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_36135fb0
Sledge Hammer! / int_37a6a66a	type	Instrumental Theme Tune
Sledge Hammer! / int_37a6a66a	comment	Instrumental Theme Tune: By Danny Elfman.
Sledge Hammer! / int_37a6a66a	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_37a6a66a	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_37a6a66a
Sledge Hammer! / int_37c6c0f3	type	William Telling
Sledge Hammer! / int_37c6c0f3	comment	William Telling: After Hammer is reinstated at the end of "Hammer Gets Nailed", Captain Trunk asks if there's any favor Trunk can do for him. Hammer mentions that there's something he's always wanted to do, but it takes two people...
Sledge Hammer! / int_37c6c0f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_37c6c0f3	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_37c6c0f3
Sledge Hammer! / int_3bf7904f	type	Vengeful Vending Machine
Sledge Hammer! / int_3bf7904f	comment	Vengeful Vending Machine: When the soda dispenser in the police HQ goes on the fritz, takes money and fails to dispense soda. The member of the public involved, who must be from out of town, complains to the nearest policeman: Hammer. Who obliges by un-holstering his amigo, at which everyone runs for cover and Captain Trunk begins to bellow "No, Ham...". The dispenser gives in after several direct hits. In a different episode, Hammer does the same thing to a bank ATM that has swallowed his card and refused to give cash.
Sledge Hammer! / int_3bf7904f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_3bf7904f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_3bf7904f
Sledge Hammer! / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
Sledge Hammer! / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: Extremely subverted in one episode when Hammer sneaks behind a bad guy. Sledge pistol whips him on the head with his revolver, but the crook just grabs his head and starts shouting in pain. Sledge follows it up with a bottle to the head, but the bad guy still doesn't go down. Then Sledge jumps on the bad guy's back, piggy-backs him, gets him in a headlock, rams his head into a wall and he's still conscious.
Sledge Hammer! / int_3c111ce6	featureApplicability	-0.3
Sledge Hammer! / int_3c111ce6	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_3c111ce6
Sledge Hammer! / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Sledge Hammer! / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Parodied. Sledge is a send up of Dirty Harry with a shoot-first-don't-bother-to-ask-questions attitude. While other characters react to him as normal people would, they live in a heightened reality where he can mostly get away with his antics.
Sledge Hammer! / int_3dd3951e	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_3dd3951e	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_3dd3951e
Sledge Hammer! / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Sledge Hammer! / int_40bb59d0	comment	The show took a number of digs at the Republican Party. On the DVD commentary, the director notes that the network was okay with that as long as he gave equal time to digs at the Democratic Party. He never got around to it.
Sledge Hammer! / int_40bb59d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_40bb59d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_40bb59d0
Sledge Hammer! / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
Sledge Hammer! / int_44bed14c	comment	Hostage Situation: Occurs in a Shout-Out episode to Dog Day Afternoon:
Sledge Hammer! / int_44bed14c	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_44bed14c	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_44bed14c
Sledge Hammer! / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
Sledge Hammer! / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: Spoofed when a female KGB spy turned out to be a male KGB spy behind a latex mask. However, the rest of the body alterations were permanent so he/she could win the Miss Iron Curtain pageant.
Sledge Hammer! / int_47325888	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_47325888	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_47325888
Sledge Hammer! / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Sledge Hammer! / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Employed several times. The most notable instance occurs in the first-season finale, when Captain Trunk barges in on a terrorist making a live television broadcast. Another example in "State of Sledge" had Sledge asked what time it was and answer 7:06. Then 6:30 displayed on the screen and he added that his watch must be fast.
Sledge Hammer! / int_4a3e547f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_4a3e547f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_4a3e547f
Sledge Hammer! / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Sledge Hammer! / int_4cbc7f95	comment	In the pilot episode, a female terrorist aims a gun at Sledge and tells him to drop his, "knowing" he'd never shoot a woman. Sledge shoots her gun out of her hand and replies, "Call me a feminist."
Sledge Hammer! / int_4cbc7f95	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_4cbc7f95	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_4cbc7f95
Sledge Hammer! / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Sledge Hammer! / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The series finale concludes with Sledge pretending that he was kidding when he asked Dori if she'd marry him.
Sledge Hammer! / int_4e3d253b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_4e3d253b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_4e3d253b
Sledge Hammer! / int_4f0ac7b6	type	First-Name Ultimatum
Sledge Hammer! / int_4f0ac7b6	comment	First-Name Ultimatum
Sledge Hammer! / int_4f0ac7b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_4f0ac7b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_4f0ac7b6
Sledge Hammer! / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Sledge Hammer! / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In the first episode, "Under the Gun", Sledge is somewhat more competent, but he's also far more violent. For example, early in the episode, he captures a suspect by pulling out a bazooka and blowing up the entire building the suspect is holed up in.
Sledge Hammer! / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_4f4372e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_4f4372e9
Sledge Hammer! / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Sledge Hammer! / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: When he catches a speeder, Hammer ties the man to the hood of his car and drives around the parking lot at high speed. In the pilot, he ends a shootout by destroying the building the shooter is on with a rocket launcher.
Sledge Hammer! / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_50b05d30	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_50b05d30
Sledge Hammer! / int_50f50a5e	type	Donut Mess with a Cop
Sledge Hammer! / int_50f50a5e	comment	Donut Mess with a Cop: Mocked by Sledge.
Sledge Hammer! / int_50f50a5e	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_50f50a5e	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_50f50a5e
Sledge Hammer! / int_525478f9	type	Consulting Mister Puppet
Sledge Hammer! / int_525478f9	comment	Consulting Mister Puppet: Sledge frequently talks to his gun for advice. However, if anyone's within earshot and asks him who he's talking to, Sledge will quickly cover it up.
Sledge Hammer! / int_525478f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_525478f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_525478f9
Sledge Hammer! / int_5d162996	type	Extended Disarming
Sledge Hammer! / int_5d162996	comment	Extended Disarming: In "To Sledge With Love", Hammer has to pacify an Inner City School. In one scene he asks the ruling Gang of Bullies to hand over all their weapons, which results in a prolonged scene of them emptying their pockets full of knives, nunchaku and brass knuckles.
Sledge Hammer! / int_5d162996	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_5d162996	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_5d162996
Sledge Hammer! / int_60bc50b1	type	Pretend to Be Brainwashed
Sledge Hammer! / int_60bc50b1	comment	Pretend to Be Brainwashed: Sledge is kidnapped by an evil TV company to turn him into a Manchurian Agent so he will assassinate the DA. Attempts to give him The Ludovico Technique fail because he howls with laughter at all the violence they show him, but when they tap into his subconscious it seems to work. Sledge later reveals that he was just playing along, saying he doesn't have a subconscious.
Sledge Hammer! / int_60bc50b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_60bc50b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_60bc50b1
Sledge Hammer! / int_62624dc2	type	Interpol Special Agent
Sledge Hammer! / int_62624dc2	comment	Interpol Special Agent: Interpol anti-terrorist expert Lionel Dashman is killed by international terrorist "The Pelican", who then takes his identity in "Icebreaker".
Sledge Hammer! / int_62624dc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_62624dc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_62624dc2
Sledge Hammer! / int_66bee5ea	type	Shooting Gallery
Sledge Hammer! / int_66bee5ea	comment	Shooting Gallery: Done in one episode, where Hammer simply shoots all of the targets regardless of whether they're civilians or crooks. Naturally, this annoys Captain Trunk to no end.
Sledge Hammer! / int_66bee5ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_66bee5ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_66bee5ea
Sledge Hammer! / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
Sledge Hammer! / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: Dori patiently waits while a thug tries to break a bottle to use on her before finally grabbing the bottle, breaking it pretty effortlessly, handing it back to him and them dropping him with a single kick.
Sledge Hammer! / int_67792344	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_67792344	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_67792344
Sledge Hammer! / int_67e53056	type	Gun Porn
Sledge Hammer! / int_67e53056	comment	Gun Porn: The opening title sequence is one big love letter to Sledge's Magnum.
Sledge Hammer! / int_67e53056	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_67e53056	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_67e53056
Sledge Hammer! / int_6e8a4791	type	Heroic Comedic Sociopath
Sledge Hammer! / int_6e8a4791	comment	Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Sledge Hammer's over-the-top Cowboy Cop behavior and violence towards criminals is played strictly for laughs, as an Affectionate Parody of Dirty Harry.
Sledge Hammer! / int_6e8a4791	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_6e8a4791	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_6e8a4791
Sledge Hammer! / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Sledge Hammer! / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: "Model Dearest" had women being who were supposedly hired to be models but were actually being put on display to be sold to a man. He decided the first would be a wife, the second a mistress and the third (Doreau) would be a wife AND a mistress.
Sledge Hammer! / int_720e28a4	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_720e28a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_720e28a4
Sledge Hammer! / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Sledge Hammer! / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: One episode has Hammer and Doreau investigate a series of used car salesmen dying shortly after they get married. It turns out they all married the same woman who becomes their main suspect, but there's no evidence linking her to the killings despite her presence. Autopsies reveal no apparent cause of death, but a theory is given that an undetectable poison was used. However, said poison needs to be in contact with the victim's skin for an extended amount of time for it to work. They find out that she was only targeting bald used car salesmen and poisoning them through the glue in their toupees.
Sledge Hammer! / int_7301ae04	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_7301ae04	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_7301ae04
Sledge Hammer! / int_733ca2f8	type	Noble Bigot with a Badge
Sledge Hammer! / int_733ca2f8	comment	Noble Bigot with a Badge: Sledge is a sympathatic yet politically incorrect and ignorant police officer with a badge and a gun.
Sledge Hammer! / int_733ca2f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_733ca2f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_733ca2f8
Sledge Hammer! / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Sledge Hammer! / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Sledge sees this as a good thing, and pitches the benefits of being a cop to others on the basis that he gets paid to legally beat up and kill people.
Sledge Hammer! / int_744e3311	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_744e3311	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_744e3311
Sledge Hammer! / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Sledge Hammer! / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs in one episode in which Dori has got herself a new haircut, which turns out to be impractical, because it blocks her vision, forcing her to blow her hair off her face.
Sledge Hammer! / int_762b9223	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_762b9223	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_762b9223
Sledge Hammer! / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Sledge Hammer! / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: The owner of a jewelry store's last name is Smith, pronounced 'Smythe', and he will insist on the correct pronunciation. When the store is robbed, the fact that the robbers know the correct pronunciation without prompting is a clue that they're working with the owner to commit insurance fraud.
Sledge Hammer! / int_76c42cce	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_76c42cce	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_76c42cce
Sledge Hammer! / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Sledge Hammer! / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Sledge's glorification of violence sometimes leads him to approve of the villain's ways. Such as in "To Sledge, With Love":
Sledge Hammer! / int_77538ed4	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_77538ed4	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_77538ed4
Sledge Hammer! / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Sledge Hammer! / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: Two issues, put out by Marvel Comics.
Sledge Hammer! / int_7c4f6612	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_7c4f6612	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_7c4f6612
Sledge Hammer! / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Sledge Hammer! / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Sledge all the time, though on this show people react like they should in real life, desperately trying to get out of the way. Played for laughs.
Sledge Hammer! / int_7d34f23a	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_7d34f23a	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_7d34f23a
Sledge Hammer! / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
Sledge Hammer! / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Inverted; Sledge has a loudener for his Magnum.
Sledge Hammer! / int_7d53bc0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_7d53bc0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_7d53bc0b
Sledge Hammer! / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Sledge Hammer! / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: In "Comrade Hammer", Sledge escorts a defecting Russian professor to a conference in Springfield, which happens to be reachable on an Amtrak train that makes stops at San Francisco, Phoenix and Denver beforehand (and is implied to be on the same level as those cities).
Sledge Hammer! / int_8504b817	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_8504b817	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_8504b817
Sledge Hammer! / int_88e5066d	type	Trigger-Happy
Sledge Hammer! / int_88e5066d	comment	Trigger-Happy: Hammer isn't just Trigger Happy, he's Trigger Ecstatic.
Sledge Hammer! / int_88e5066d	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_88e5066d	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_88e5066d
Sledge Hammer! / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
Sledge Hammer! / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Played for Laughs in one episode in which Dori has got herself a new haircut, which turns out to be impractical, because it blocks her vision, forcing her to blow her hair off her face. In the episode "Sledge, Rattle, and Roll," where Sledge and Dori investigate a series of murders revolving around Spinal Tap-esque Heavy Metal band The Plague.
Sledge Hammer! / int_8b4f2a4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_8b4f2a4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_8b4f2a4f
Sledge Hammer! / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Sledge Hammer! / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Sledge's solution for everything. In the series premiere, Sledge deals with a sniper on top of a nearby apartment building by pulling out a rocket launcher from his car's trunk and destroying the building.
Sledge Hammer! / int_8b606a51	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_8b606a51	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_8b606a51
Sledge Hammer! / int_8cd3d091	type	Repetitive Name
Sledge Hammer! / int_8cd3d091	comment	Repetitive Name: Dori Doreau.
Sledge Hammer! / int_8cd3d091	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_8cd3d091	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_8cd3d091
Sledge Hammer! / int_8e3f39b3	type	Parody Episode
Sledge Hammer! / int_8e3f39b3	comment	Parody Episode: The second season consisted almost entirely of these. ("Hammeroid" was a parody of RoboCop, "Vertical" was a parody of Vertigo, etc.) There are some in the first season, particularly "Witless" (a parody of Witness).
Sledge Hammer! / int_8e3f39b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_8e3f39b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_8e3f39b3
Sledge Hammer! / int_926c5119	type	Detective Patsy
Sledge Hammer! / int_926c5119	comment	Detective Patsy: The episode "Play It Again, Sledge" has a woman hire Sledge as private investigator, to make him an eyewitness of her "self-defense" murder.
Sledge Hammer! / int_926c5119	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_926c5119	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_926c5119
Sledge Hammer! / int_9932d051	type	The Ludovico Technique
Sledge Hammer! / int_9932d051	comment	The Ludovico Technique: Parodied when an evil TV company tries to brainwash Sledge Hammer by breaking his spirit with horrible scenes of violence. It backfires because Sledge is a Cowboy Cop Affectionate Parody, so he just cheers on everything they show him and is even dismayed when they stop.
Sledge Hammer! / int_9932d051	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_9932d051	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_9932d051
Sledge Hammer! / int_9a6fbae7	type	Hurt Foot Hop
Sledge Hammer! / int_9a6fbae7	comment	Hurt Foot Hop: Hammer drops a bowling ball on Dori's foot, causing her to clutch it and hop around in pain.
Sledge Hammer! / int_9a6fbae7	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_9a6fbae7	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_9a6fbae7
Sledge Hammer! / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Sledge Hammer! / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: At first, Sledge doesn't approve of his partner being a woman, which leads to the following exchange:
Sledge Hammer! / int_9cbf01d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_9cbf01d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_9cbf01d6
Sledge Hammer! / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
Sledge Hammer! / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: Sledge's "Amigo", a .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver, is not standard cop issue and unfeasibly over-powered for routine police work. It's his pride and joy. So much so that he's never really happy using another weapon, with David Rasche noting that when it comes to guns, Sledge is monogamous.
Sledge Hammer! / int_9cde2df1	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_9cde2df1	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_9cde2df1
Sledge Hammer! / int_9f240209	type	Gag Dub
Sledge Hammer! / int_9f240209	comment	Gag Dub: In the German version of the opening, someone shouts "ouch!" as if being hit by Hammer's bullet.
Sledge Hammer! / int_9f240209	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_9f240209	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_9f240209
Sledge Hammer! / int_a305d1c5	type	A Fool for a Client
Sledge Hammer! / int_a305d1c5	comment	A Fool for a Client: In one episode, Sledge is accused of murder and decides to defend himself. Right before the end of the trial, the judge asks the Prosecution if they have anything to say. The prosecutor responds that Sledge has already made all their points for them.
Sledge Hammer! / int_a305d1c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_a305d1c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_a305d1c5
Sledge Hammer! / int_a48a05c4	type	Rotten Rock & Roll
Sledge Hammer! / int_a48a05c4	comment	Rotten Rock & Roll: In "Sledge Rattle & Roll", Sledge is disgusted by the sleazy Rock & Roll business.
Sledge Hammer! / int_a48a05c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_a48a05c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_a48a05c4
Sledge Hammer! / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Sledge Hammer! / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Several episodes suggest that Sledge uses this. Though he's written off by everybody as a violent idiot, sometimes he manages to crack the case with a sudden admission that he had been taking notes all along. This is Lampshaded in an episode when a game show host killed off a contestant who was getting close to the top prize. When Dori wonders how someone that smart got on the show, Sledge explains, "You see, he looks dumb, but turned out to be a genius; a trick I've used myself."
Sledge Hammer! / int_a7aef9ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_a7aef9ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_a7aef9ff
Sledge Hammer! / int_ac0827be	type	Private Eye Monologue
Sledge Hammer! / int_ac0827be	comment	Private Eye Monologue: in the episode 'Play It Again Sledge' Dori and Sledge are suspended from the police force so form their own private detective agency, guided by an apparition of Humphrey Bogart who speaks in nothing but hard boiled film noir cliches.
Sledge Hammer! / int_ac0827be	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_ac0827be	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_ac0827be
Sledge Hammer! / int_affa0e5d	type	Bling-Bling-BANG!
Sledge Hammer! / int_affa0e5d	comment	Bling-Bling-BANG!: The handle of his Magnum is made out of ivory and has a drawing of a sledgehammer.
Sledge Hammer! / int_affa0e5d	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_affa0e5d	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_affa0e5d
Sledge Hammer! / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Sledge Hammer! / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Sledge's "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." (inevitably followed by disaster) Whenever Sledge says something insensitive (and he realizes it): Captain Trunk has a very simple, oft used one....."HAMMER!!!!!!!!!!"
Sledge Hammer! / int_b01abe4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_b01abe4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_b01abe4f
Sledge Hammer! / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Sledge Hammer! / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Some of the things the script demanded of Anne-Marie Martin. Her skirt shrinks to micro-mini after interviewing a suspect in a sauna; the frequent karate high-kicks that ruck her hem up somewhere towards her waist; the cat-fights with female perps; and especially the one that takes place in a mudbath. Not to mention having to dress in very flimsy clothing as a "hooker" in a Vice Squad sting operation. And in a flimsy female aerobics outfit, in the Season 1 finale, "The Spa Who Loved Me". And in the episode "Model Dearest" Dorreau goes undercover at a modelling agency which is a front for a white slavery ring with her and numerous other beautiful actresses parading around in skimpy bikinis and sexy lingerie before being sold into prostitution.
Sledge Hammer! / int_b032e4ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_b032e4ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_b032e4ed
Sledge Hammer! / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Sledge Hammer! / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: Lampshaded when an assassin has Sledge tied to a Death Trap, and tells him how he intends to kill the captain.
Sledge Hammer! / int_b26cc887	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_b26cc887	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_b26cc887
Sledge Hammer! / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Sledge Hammer! / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: A regular feature of the show, often with Lampshade Hanging. During one shootout, Captain Trunk even yells, "Where the hell is he getting all this ammo?!" Every time we look at the chamber of Sledge's Magnum it's not loaded, but ten seconds later the revolver can fire ten rounds without reloading.
Sledge Hammer! / int_b2cdd776	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_b2cdd776	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_b2cdd776
Sledge Hammer! / int_b3563c07	type	Reversible Roboticizing
Sledge Hammer! / int_b3563c07	comment	Reversible Roboticizing: Played for Laughs. One episode has Hammer go after a robot being used to commit crimes and get seriously injured in the process. The robot's co-creator then turns Hammer into a cyborg called Hammeroid (who bears a strong resemblance to Robocop). He helps to shut down the robot and gets the cybernetic implants removed with little trouble...except for the enhanced trigger finger.
Sledge Hammer! / int_b3563c07	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_b3563c07	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_b3563c07
Sledge Hammer! / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Sledge Hammer! / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Many examples, including a rather vicious takedown of fellow ABC program Max Headroom. ("My god! One hour with you would be hell!") Not to forget their feud with Mr. Belvedere, which also ran on ABC: And in a later episode: The show took a number of digs at the Republican Party. On the DVD commentary, the director notes that the network was okay with that as long as he gave equal time to digs at the Democratic Party. He never got around to it. One episode in the second season poked fun at Ted Turner's penchant for "colorising" black and white films by having the tag scene be in the worst coloring possible. In the second episode, at the end of a TV editorial, the announcer says that Miami Vicenote One of several shows that Sledge Hammer was pitted against in its time slot is up next. Sledge turns and shoots out the TV.
Sledge Hammer! / int_b53077b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_b53077b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_b53077b3
Sledge Hammer! / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Sledge Hammer! / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In the pilot, Sledge does target practice in his own apartment to the displeasure of his neighbors. When he pauses to answer the phone, he berates them for being too loud and so inconsiderate of others.
Sledge Hammer! / int_b707726f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_b707726f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_b707726f
Sledge Hammer! / int_b7e1dcc8	type	Empathic Weapon
Sledge Hammer! / int_b7e1dcc8	comment	Empathic Weapon: Though the audience never sees anything unusual, Hammer treats his gun as a living, breathing entity. Subverted in one episode in which Hammer is hallucinating and the viewers do see his gun talking, complete with animated barrel/mouth.
Sledge Hammer! / int_b7e1dcc8	featureApplicability	-0.3
Sledge Hammer! / int_b7e1dcc8	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_b7e1dcc8
Sledge Hammer! / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Sledge Hammer! / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Sledge reacts... badly to being called a wuss.
Sledge Hammer! / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_bc74ef27	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_bc74ef27
Sledge Hammer! / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Sledge Hammer! / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: He may be clueless in many respects but he's really good with his .44
Sledge Hammer! / int_bcd27e37	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_bcd27e37	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_bcd27e37
Sledge Hammer! / int_c126faef	type	Selective Squeamishness Suppression
Sledge Hammer! / int_c126faef	comment	Selective Squeamishness Suppression: In one episode, Hammer eats his lunch in the same room the coroner was performing an autopsy in.
Sledge Hammer! / int_c126faef	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_c126faef	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_c126faef
Sledge Hammer! / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sledge Hammer! / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Creator Alan Spencer has often credited Get Smart as the inspiration for this show. In the pilot a suspect is in room number 86, Max Smart's agent number. As if to drive the Get Smart analogy home, that series's Executive Producer, Leonard B. Stern, was eventually hired as a consultant. In the series' final episode, David Rasche's real-life wife, Heather Lupton, played a character named Susan Hilton. In Get Smart, Agent 99 once said that her real name was Susan Hilton, but that was just a cover. While on a date with Sledge's supposed brother Miles, Dori grows suspicious and mentions Sledge's middle name is Alfred (to which Miles agrees), but in reality this is Majoy's middle name, thus confirming Dori's suspicions that Miles is an impostor. Alfred is the complete first name of Sledge Hammer! writer (and future The Simpsons writer/show runner) Al Jean. In "Sledge, Rattle, and Roll", Sledge quotes the chorus of The Police's big hit "Every Breath You Take". The episode "Last of the Red-Hot Vampires," which features an Expy of famed actor Vincent Price (named Vincent Lagarski) as one of the main protagonists, ends with the credit "In Memory of Mr. Blasko". This is a reference to famed film vampire Bela Lugosi's real-life surname.
Sledge Hammer! / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_c75df49a
Sledge Hammer! / int_c84e56a2	type	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
Sledge Hammer! / int_c84e56a2	comment	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Done with Sledge Hammer in the title sequence. ABC wouldn't allow Sledge to shoot directly at the screen lest the older viewers have a heart attack, but the effect is more or less the same.
Sledge Hammer! / int_c84e56a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_c84e56a2	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_c84e56a2
Sledge Hammer! / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Sledge Hammer! / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Downplayed example. The ditzy Sledge does have his uses. He's inhumanly good in a firefight for example, and sometimes proves he's not as dumb as he looks. But it's Doreau that keeps Sledge on track and does the real investigative work.
Sledge Hammer! / int_cdd676a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_cdd676a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_cdd676a3
Sledge Hammer! / int_ce4f133d	type	Gun Twirling
Sledge Hammer! / int_ce4f133d	comment	Gun Twirling: Sledge does this a lot, including in the above-linked title sequence. Made especially impressive considering the size of the gun he's twirling.
Sledge Hammer! / int_ce4f133d	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_ce4f133d	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_ce4f133d
Sledge Hammer! / int_cfe25df6	type	Lord Error-Prone
Sledge Hammer! / int_cfe25df6	comment	Lord Error-Prone
Sledge Hammer! / int_cfe25df6	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_cfe25df6	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_cfe25df6
Sledge Hammer! / int_d001deb0	type	Naked in Mink
Sledge Hammer! / int_d001deb0	comment	Naked in Mink: In "Play It Again, Sledge" his first case as a private investigator starts with a woman entering his office, who is wearing nothing but her mink coat. She had just come from posing for an art class.
Sledge Hammer! / int_d001deb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_d001deb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_d001deb0
Sledge Hammer! / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Sledge Hammer! / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Lampshaded when Sledge chases a criminal through a television studio with many shows being recorded. When Hammer catches him, the crook yells "Go to heck!" and then states that you're not allowed to say "hell" on television.
Sledge Hammer! / int_d0b60f23	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_d0b60f23	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_d0b60f23
Sledge Hammer! / int_d264e7d4	type	Bullet Catch
Sledge Hammer! / int_d264e7d4	comment	Bullet Catch: A trick performed by Hammer's father, Jack, as a carnival performer. Sledge eventually needs to learn the trick.
Sledge Hammer! / int_d264e7d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_d264e7d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_d264e7d4
Sledge Hammer! / int_d2c4c6f5	type	Hey, That's My Line!
Sledge Hammer! / int_d2c4c6f5	comment	Hey, That's My Line!: In one episode where Hammer has Humphrey Bogart as a Spirit Advisor, Sledge says "Here's looking at you, kid!", and Bogey answers.... guess what.
Sledge Hammer! / int_d2c4c6f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_d2c4c6f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_d2c4c6f5
Sledge Hammer! / int_d43a63c3	type	Elvis Impersonator
Sledge Hammer! / int_d43a63c3	comment	In one episode where a serial killer is murdering one Elvis Impersonator after another, the chalk outlines for each slain Elvis are in the classic Jailhouse Rock pose (i.e. this one.)
Sledge Hammer! / int_d43a63c3	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_d43a63c3	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_d43a63c3
Sledge Hammer! / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Sledge Hammer! / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: In "It Happened What Night?", Dori, upon posing with Sledge as newlyweds for a drug bust, states that she is a fan of love and marriage, as it goes together like a horse and carriage (that song had became the theme for Married... with Children a season earlier).
Sledge Hammer! / int_d6707631	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_d6707631	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_d6707631
Sledge Hammer! / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Sledge Hammer! / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: Expecting to be canceled, the producers ended season one with a nuke destroying the entire city. The show was then renewed for another season, so they just slapped a subtitle on the first new episode ( Sledge Hammer! (The Early Years)) and then carried on as if nothing had happened. Which creates continuity errors since the announcement states that this season takes place five years before, where Hammer met his partner only one year previously. Further, the second season includes references to current events in 1987 (the year most of the second season was aired), not 1981 or 1982.
Sledge Hammer! / int_dbb414ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_dbb414ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_dbb414ed
Sledge Hammer! / int_dc52e294	type	Already Met Everyone
Sledge Hammer! / int_dc52e294	comment	Already Met Everyone: Tripped over in the second season premiere; it was set five years before the first, despite the fact that Hammer and Dori only met in the first season premiere.
Sledge Hammer! / int_dc52e294	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_dc52e294	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_dc52e294
Sledge Hammer! / int_e029366d	type	Toyota Tripwire
Sledge Hammer! / int_e029366d	comment	Toyota Tripwire: Done by Sledge in the premiere to catch a purse-snatcher.
Sledge Hammer! / int_e029366d	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_e029366d	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_e029366d
Sledge Hammer! / int_e070ebe6	type	Manchurian Agent
Sledge Hammer! / int_e070ebe6	comment	Manchurian Agent: The villains in one episode try to turn Hammer into one by messing with his subconscious. It doesn't work; Hammer doesn't have a subconscious.
Sledge Hammer! / int_e070ebe6	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_e070ebe6	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_e070ebe6
Sledge Hammer! / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Sledge Hammer! / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: Many episodes in the second season fell under this trope, as whole-episode parodies (e.g. "Hammeroid," "Vertical").
Sledge Hammer! / int_e303d198	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_e303d198	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_e303d198
Sledge Hammer! / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Sledge Hammer! / int_e5421161	comment	The episode "Last of the Red-Hot Vampires," which features an Expy of famed actor Vincent Price (named Vincent Lagarski) as one of the main protagonists, ends with the credit "In Memory of Mr. Blasko". This is a reference to famed film vampire Bela Lugosi's real-life surname.
Sledge Hammer! / int_e5421161	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_e5421161	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_e5421161
Sledge Hammer! / int_e7e3674	type	Strapped to a Bomb
Sledge Hammer! / int_e7e3674	comment	Strapped to a Bomb: It happens to Hammer, allowing him the chance to speak his catch phrase one last time before the series was expected to definitively end...
Sledge Hammer! / int_e7e3674	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_e7e3674	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_e7e3674
Sledge Hammer! / int_edd714c9	type	Subverted Catch-Phrase
Sledge Hammer! / int_edd714c9	comment	Subverted Catchphrase: When Sledge is turned into a Cyborg in "Hammeroid", he starts talking in Spock Speak.
Sledge Hammer! / int_edd714c9	featureApplicability	-0.3
Sledge Hammer! / int_edd714c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_edd714c9
Sledge Hammer! / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Sledge Hammer! / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Trunk. He yells. A Lot! Sledge lampshaded it once by snarking that he was louder than most airports.
Sledge Hammer! / int_f15c2859	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_f15c2859	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_f15c2859
Sledge Hammer! / int_f2d51908	type	Evil Hand
Sledge Hammer! / int_f2d51908	comment	Dori and Trunk discuss a case involving an android thief while Hammer keeps being attacked by its detached cyborg arm in the background.
Sledge Hammer! / int_f2d51908	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_f2d51908	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_f2d51908
Sledge Hammer! / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Sledge Hammer! / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: In the pilot episode, a female terrorist aims a gun at Sledge and tells him to drop his, "knowing" he'd never shoot a woman. Sledge shoots her gun out of her hand and replies, "Call me a feminist." Subverted twice when he fights a man who turns out to be a woman in disguise. And in another episode where, to his partner's horror, he punches out a female KGB agent, who is actually a man in disguise. (Which he quickly shows her.)
Sledge Hammer! / int_f42f96fa	featureApplicability	-0.3
Sledge Hammer! / int_f42f96fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_f42f96fa
Sledge Hammer! / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Sledge Hammer! / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: When Da Chief chews out the Cowboy Cop.
Sledge Hammer! / int_f6f2ff1	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_f6f2ff1	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_f6f2ff1
Sledge Hammer! / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Sledge Hammer! / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: In one episode, Hammer hallucinates that his gun is actually talking to him, and the barrel even moves like a mouth. That episode, where everyone in the precinct gets a virus that makes them hallucinate, also includes Doreau thinking she's Jane, Majoy feeling up an imaginary buxom woman in a swimsuit, and Daley thinking that she's a ballerina.
Sledge Hammer! / int_f7d4f121	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_f7d4f121	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_f7d4f121
Sledge Hammer! / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Sledge Hammer! / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag Not to mention the inevitable disaster that follows whenever Hammer says, "Trust me, I know what I'm doing."
Sledge Hammer! / int_f9f2c33	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_f9f2c33	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_f9f2c33
Sledge Hammer! / int_faf5732b	type	I Call It "Vera"
Sledge Hammer! / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": He calls his gun "amigo". Originally, he insisted his gun's name was "Gun." Though his relationship with his gun (the mere fact that he has a relationship with his gun) fits this trope.
Sledge Hammer! / int_faf5732b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_faf5732b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_faf5732b
Sledge Hammer! / int_ffac0279	type	Heart Symbol
Sledge Hammer! / int_ffac0279	comment	Heart Symbol: Hammer's car has a bumper sticker reading "I â™¥ VIOLENCE."
Sledge Hammer! / int_ffac0279	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_ffac0279	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_ffac0279
Sledge Hammer! / int_name	type	ItemName
Sledge Hammer! / int_name	comment
Sledge Hammer! / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Sledge Hammer! / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sledge Hammer! / int_name
Sledge Hammer! / int_name	itemName	Sledge Hammer!

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

Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Accidental Aiming Skills / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Admiring the Abomination / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Already Met Everyone / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	And This Is for... / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Animal Assassin / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Bad News, Irrelevant News / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Bald Black Leader Guy / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Bathhouse Blitz / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Beard of Sorrow / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Bench Breaker / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Big Little Man / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Bilingual Bonus / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Black Widow / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Blasting It Out of Their Hands / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Bling-Bling-BANG! / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Bond Gun Barrel / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Bottomless Magazines / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Bullet Catch / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Captain Crash / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Cat Fight / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Character Title / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	City People Eat Sushi / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Coincidental Dodge / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Consulting Mister Puppet / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Creator Cameo / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	DVD Commentary / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Da Chief / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Detective Patsy / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Disability Immunity / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Dunking the Bomb / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Elvis Impersonator / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Empathic Weapon / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Excited Show Title! / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Exploding Calendar / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Extended Disarming / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Fatal Method Acting / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Fourth Wall Psych / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Gratuitous Russian / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Grievous Bottley Harm / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Gun Accessories / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Gun Nut / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Gun Twirling / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Hand Cannon / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Heroic Comedic Sociopath / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Hey, That's My Line! / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Hollywood Cop Uniform / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Hollywood Silencer / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Honest John's Dealership / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Hurt Foot Hop / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	I Call It "Vera" / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	I Wished You Were Dead / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Identity Amnesia / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Improbable Antidote / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Inkblot Test / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Insert Cameo / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Insulted Awake / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Internal Affairs / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Latex Perfection / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Little Useless Gun / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Lord Error-Prone / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Loud Last Name / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Market-Based Title / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Morally Bankrupt Banker / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Mud Wrestling / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Mundane Solution / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	My Eyes Are Up Here / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Naked in Mink / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Noir Episode / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Parody / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Parody Episode / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Pillow Pistol / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Pistol-Whipping / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Post-Script Season / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Power of Trust / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Pretend to Be Brainwashed / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Repetitive Name / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sauna of Death / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Second Season Downfall / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Shooting Gallery / int_364144a3
SledgeHammer	seeAlso	Sledge Hammer!
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Split Screen / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Split-Screen Phone Call / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Strapped to a Bomb / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Sunglasses at Night / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Tag-Along Actor / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Talking Down the Suicidal / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Testosterone Poisoning / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	The Last Title / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	The Ludovico Technique / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	The Precarious Ledge / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Time Bomb / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	"Too Young to Die" Lamentation / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Torch the Franchise and Run / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Total Party Kill / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Toyota Tripwire / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Trigger-Happy / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Trust Me, I'm an X / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Un-Canceled / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Vengeful Vending Machine / int_364144a3
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	William Telling / int_364144a3
Richard Stone (Music)	seeAlso	Sledge Hammer!
Sledgehammer	sameAs	Sledge Hammer!
Sledge Hammer!	hasFeature	Paintball Episode / int_364144a3

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.