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* [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)]]: Wojo, who is wearing drag in order to catch muggers, is almost raped. Everyone finds this hilarious.
* [[Drop-In Character]]: Ray Brewer.
* [["El Niño" Is Spanish for "The Nino"]]: A recurring Latina character calls Officer Levitt (who is quite short) "poquito". He finally asks her what it means and she says, "It means macho," and leaves.▼
{{quote|'''Levitt''': "I thought "macho" meant macho!"}}▼
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Arnold Ripner threatens to sue a lobotomist ''free of charge'' should he try to operate again on a patient who was rendered mentally incompetent by his amygdalectomy. (He then threatens Barney that trying to describe his actions as "noble" could be slander.)
* [[The Fashionista]]: Harris is a male version.
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* [[The Ghost]]: Barney's family - wife Liz, son David, and daughter Rachel - turned into offscreen characters after the first season. Both Liz and Rachel did eventually return for guest appearances in later episodes, however.
* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: Harris' novel ''Blood on the Badge''.
* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]: Apparently one Hal Linden didn't care for, at least compaired to some of his fellow actor's shows. Once on a talk show he appeared with some stars from other shows, all of who were introduced with a few note of their theme songs. When he was introduced Linden said "Man he has such a nice theme, and he has a great theme...me, I've got 'Bum...bumbumbum...bumbumbum...bababaddabadda bum'".▼
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Wojo on the pronunciation of his name. It's almost a [[Catch Phrase]].
▲* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]: Apparently one Hal Linden didn't care for, at least compaired to some of his fellow actor's shows. Once on a talk show he appeared with some stars from other shows, all of who were introduced with a few note of their theme songs. When he was introduced Linden said "Man he has such a nice theme, and he has a great theme...me, I've got 'Bum...bumbumbum...bumbumbum...bababaddabadda bum'".
* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: The "hash brownies" episode, also the [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] for the show.
* [[In Vino Veritas]]: No alcohol or drugs are involved, but this is basically the effect of putting Wojo under hypnotism in one episode.
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* [[Non Sequitur Distraction]]: A riot breaks out in front of the precinct station. Barney gives an impassioned speech to a representative, saying among other things "Maybe we are all going to hell in a handbasket." When things quiet down, Dietrich says to Barney "Hell in a handbasket?"
* [[Noodle Incident]]: One one episode, a man is brought into the station for writing on the walls of a women's restroom, where he left his phone number and an offer to engage in an unspeakably disgusting sex act. The act itself is never named out loud, but characters read a transcription of the message and crack jokes about it throughout.
▲* [["El Niño" Is Spanish for "The Nino"]]: A recurring Latina character calls Officer Levitt (who is quite short) "poquito". He finally asks her what it means and she says, "It means macho," and leaves.
▲{{quote|'''Levitt''': "I thought "macho" meant macho!"}}
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Scanlon of Internal Affairs. In fact, he takes malicious glee in targeting Barney's squad.
* [[Pilot]]: "The Life and Times of Captain Barney Miller", originally produced as a one-off installment of an ABC summer anthology series called ''Just for Laughs''.
* [[Police Procedural]]
* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]: Ron Glass and Jack Soo in the second season; Ron Carey and Steve Landesberg in the fourth. James Gregory also got a promotion in season four, complete with an [[And Starring]] credit, but it didn't take, and he was back to guest star billing the following season (though he remained a regular throughout the show's run).▼
* [[The Problem with Pen Island]]: The broad white, all capital, rounded-corners [[Useful Notes/Fonts|font]] of the show's credits wasn't exactly complimentary to writer Theodore J. Flicker.
▲* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]: Ron Glass and Jack Soo in the second season; Ron Carey and Steve Landesberg in the fourth. James Gregory also got a promotion in season four, complete with an [[And Starring]] credit, but it didn't take, and he was back to guest star billing the following season (though he remained a regular throughout the show's run).
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Fish, although he would [[The Bus Came Back|return as a guest]] in a couple later episodes.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Barney.
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* [[Those Two Guys]]: Harris and Dietrich.
* [[Tontine]]: A season 8 episode revolves around one of these.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: In particular, a rerun of the two part episode "Quarantine" inspired the revival of that trope's YKTTW.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Harris and Dietrich again. They're even roomies at several points.
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