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Police Academy: The Animated Series (1988-1989) is an American animated television series produced by Ruby-Spears based on the Police Academy series of films. It aired on weekdays for a total of 65 episodes. It features animated versions of several characters from the films, including Carey Mahoney, Moses Hightower, Eugene Tackleberry, and Larvell Jones, alongside Canon Immigrants the K-9 Corps and The Professor, the latter supplying the police force with the wacky gadgetry they need to combat an extensive Rogues Gallery of villains.The series had some merchandising tie-ins. Kenner made a toy line; in the Title Sequence of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jake Peralta is shown looking at a Carey Mahoney action figure. Meanwhile, Marvel Comics released a short-lived comic book series under its "Star Comics" imprint.Chronologically, it takes place between the fourth and fifth films. |
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Your Mom |
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Your Mom: In one episode when Harris answers the phone and asks who it is, it's not heard but the villain answers "Your mom". Harris takes it literally. |
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Villain Team-Up |
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Villain Team-Up: In one episode, some of the major villains team-up under the Kingpin's leadership for one his heist. |
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Those Two Guys |
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Those Two Guys: Zed and Sweetchuck. |
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Talking Animal: All the dogs in K9 unit can talk to each other and viewers can understands just fine. Humans don't understand the dogs, but the dogs understand them just fine. |
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Only Sane Man |
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Only Sane Man: Mahoney compared to the others. |
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Beautiful All Along |
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Beautiful All Along: When Zed returns to his hometown, he freaks out when he runs into the dorky girl with glasses he knew from his younger years. At the end of the episode, she removes her glasses and let her hair down, causing Zed to faint in awe. |
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Butt-Monkey |
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Butt-Monkey: Harris is the constant victim of misfortune. |
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"Scooby-Doo" Hoax |
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"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: "The Phantom of the Precinct" has the Villain of the Week impersonating a ghost and using different tricks to create the illusion of supernatural powers. |
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Sycophantic Servant |
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Sycophantic Servant: Proctor is this to Harris. |
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Title: The Adaptation |
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Title: The Adaptation: Confusingly, this series is sometimes called Police Academy: The Series. The above title is used to differentiate it from the actual live-action series in the franchise. |
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Episode Title Card |
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Episode Title Card: As usual with Ruby-Spears series. |
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Environment-Specific Action Figure |
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Environment-Specific Action Figure: In addition to the basic figures of the characters, the toy line includes Undercover Carey Mahoney (he's disguised as a street punk), Sky-Glidin' Zed and Karate Larvell Jones. |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Harris is a frequent cause of these moments. |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Most episodes ended with a short segment that had safety tips. |
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Stalker with a Crush |
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Stalker with a Crush: Villain Lockjaw develops a crush on Callahan in episode "Mr. Sleaze Versus Lockjaw" which is kind of creepy considering that he has photos of her in his cell and the writing "I'm going to make you mine". |
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Parent Service |
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Parent Service: In one episode at the beach, Sweetchuck was falling from the sky and a beautiful blonde girl in a red bikini caught him. There are few seconds before she makes the catch and you get a nice view of her body. |
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Right-Hand Attack Dog |
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Right-Hand Attack Dog: Recurring villain and crime lord Mr. Sleaze has a quite ugly dog as pet. |
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Rogues Gallery |
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Rogues Gallery: A rather extensive one, led by Kingpin, the (literally and figuratively) biggest criminal in the city. |
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Merchandise-Driven |
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Merchandise-Driven: To the point that some of the kid-sized role-playing toys appeared in the cartoon. |
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Animated Adaptation |
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Animated Adaptation: Unsurprisingly, this series cuts out a lot of the adult humor from the movies, adding more kid-friendly elements like the K-9 Corps and the Professor's gadgets. |
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Sticky Situation |
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Sticky Situation: In the intro, Tackleberry and House fire a glue gun looking like a bazooka at a jewel thief on the run, sticking him to a wall. |
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Idiosyncrazy: Most of the criminals have some sort of peculiarity or theme that identify them. |
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Cool Helmet |
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Cool Helmet / Cool Shades: Tackleberry is hardly ever seen with his helmet off — and never without his shades. |
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Ten Little Murder Victims |
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Ten Little Murder Victims: One episode featured "Agatha Crusty" and "Ten Little Coppers". |
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Finger Gun |
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Finger Gun: In one episode Larvell destroys a Brainwashed and Crazy police robot by miming firing a gun at it with the appropriate sound effects. It doesn't address how this works at all, but the crooks controlling the robot immediately surrender so he doesn't do it to them next. |
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Lighter and Softer |
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Lighter and Softer: It's noticeably quite a bit more kid friendly than the films, especially the first one. |
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Every Episode Ending |
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Every Episode Ending: An Aesop at the end. |
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Villain Exclusivity Clause |
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Villain Exclusivity Clause: Played Straight in the case of Harris who appears in every single episode with clear Aesop Amnesia trying to demean or expel the cadets, just to end up hurt or humiliated at the end. Averted Trope with the Rogues Gallery, as the show is mostly a Villain of the Week with only a few recurring criminals. |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Harris, although technically a cop, always tries to harm the rest of the cast, take credit for their actions and/or get some glory just to see all his efforts foiled in humiliating ways. |
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65-Episode Cartoon |
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65-Episode Cartoon |
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Family-Friendly Firearms |
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Family-Friendly Firearms: Applied via Rule of Funny: Trigger-Happy gun-nut Tackleberry's weapon on this series was a bazooka. |
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Expy |
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Expy: An Acrofatic crime boss named Kingpin? Sounds familiar... |
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Hate Sink |
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Hate Sink: Captain Harris doesn't do anything positive in the series. He acts like a jerkass to everyone and is only interested in his own glory. The worst moment was when the Kingpin was finally held at gunpoint only for Harris' blunder caused him to escape once again. |
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One Bad Mother |
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One Bad Mother: Zed's aunt in one episode heads a criminal operation with her two sons. |
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Once per Episode |
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Once per Episode: Harris always suffers some sort of punishment. |
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Enemy Civil War |
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Enemy Civil War: Lockjaw and Mr. Sleaze become enemies in one episode after the former steals the latter's robbery booty. |
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