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Then there's these guys.
 
''Reno 911!'' is a [[Mockumentary]]-style parody of ''[[CopsCOPS (series)|COPS]]'' and similar reality shows, that ran on [[Comedy Central]] for six seasons from 2003 to 2009 and continues in reruns. Much of the material is improvised, based on a broad outline, with minimal scripted material. It features members of the fictitious Reno Sheriff's Department, videotaped in the course of their duties, sometimes addressing the camera directly as though being interviewed.
 
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{{quote|'''Scott:''' "Three heads I understand, nine heads I don't get, {{spoiler|Mike}}. That's crazy."}}
* [[Dream Within a Dream]]: Season 2 begins with a [["Previously On..."]] showing the last shot of Season 1 ({{spoiler|everybody lying dead on the floor in the Reno County Morgue as Jones says "Guys?..."}}), then cutting to {{spoiler|Dangle}} waking up in bed {{spoiler|next to Kenny Rogers}}. Dangle asks whose dream this is, followed by {{spoiler|Garcia}} waking up in a morning briefing.
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Inverted. Dangle is told that he accidentally fathered a child with a woman he met at what he thought was a drag show.
* [[Drunk on Milk]]: At Kimball's Christian singles group, Clementine claims "I'm soooooo wasted!" before being told that they're serving non-alcoholic beer.
{{quote|'''Clementine:''' I'm sorry. I saw what looked like beer, and my mind just... took me to Drunk Town.}}
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* [[Everybody Dies]]: The season 1 finale has {{spoiler|Trudi react to Jones [[Faking the Dead]] by having her shoot everybody else in the room}} (see [[Dream Within a Dream]] for the resolution).
** Then in the season 5 finale {{spoiler|they crash a car and half the cast is killed.}}
* [[Excited Show Title!]]
* [[Expy]]: In a skit from ''[[The State]]'' nearly ten years earlier, Thomas Lennon plays a rollerblading man in a thong who looks and sounds like Sgt. Dangle.
* [[External Combustion]]: The [[Pimped-Out Car]] that Junior pulls over explodes when he tries to start it.
* [[Fake Nationality]]: Carlos Alazraqui as the "Mexican" Deputy Garcia (Alazraqui is American born, but his mom is from Argentina and his father is from Spain, according to his ''Comedy Central Presents'' episode).
** Though Garcia's Spanish ''does'' suck when he tries to go undercover as an undocumented worker.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Jones}}, in the [[Halloween Episode]], to scare the other deputies.
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* [[Libation for the Dead]]: While toying with the new bomb squad robot, they have it pick up a bottle of liqour then tip some out, Lt. Dangle saying it's for the "dead robot homies" while speaking in monotone.
* [[Lie Detector]]
* [[LifesLife's Work Ruined]]
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: Played with in an episode where, when things are going badly for Garcia and he's particularly depressed, he runs into his long-lost daughter. Turns out that she's not really his daughter but a stripper that the gang paid to pretend to be his daughter to cheer him up.
* [[Look Both Ways]]: The death of the Milkshake Man.
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** Any segment with Jones and Garcia. Either it turned into: a chase sequence or an argument. The segments could almost be mistaken for a [[Show Within a Show]]. The two were probably the most effective partners, in spite of the fact that Garcia is racist.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Williams.
* [[Similar Squad]]: The squad that is hired after the regular squad is sent to jail (made up entirely of [[Special Guest|Special Guests]]s).
* [[SoCalization]]
* [[Special Guest]]:
** [[Jeff Foxworthy]] as the voice of Fast Eddie McLintock.
** [[Carrot Top]], in one episode.
* [[Stripper Cop Confusion]]: Has happened to Dangle, Garcia, and Junior (the [[Porn Stache|Porn Staches]]s may have had something to do with it). Jones actually does moonlight as a stripper.
** Subverted in an episode in which Garcia admonishes a group of women on a bachelorette party. Then played hardcore straight when, as he's leaving, Dangle and Junior come out from another room, dancing and dressed only in their utility belts and underwear.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Usually involves Junior.
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* [[Surprise Incest]]: In one episode, Dangle starts coming on to [[Luke, You Are My Father|a 21-year-old who tells him that he's his long-lost son]].
** In another, after Junior is shot and Kimball is the only one around to keep him conscious while they wait for an ambulance, they share a kiss to prove she's not a lesbian, then start talking about how the other looks like a relative, until coming to the conclusion that they're cousins.
* [[Sunglasses Atat Night]]: Junior.
* [[Sweet on Polly Oliver]]: Inverted with {{spoiler|Officer Suzy Kim}}, who Dangle finds himself [[Incompatible Orientation|inexplicably attracted to]]. Turns out she was a man all along.
* [[Take Our Word for It]]: At one point, the deputies play a game with a corpse draped by a sheet with a misshapen protrusion, taking turns trying to guess what it is. The sheet is never lifted to the camera, but the deputies state that the one who guessed "roller blade" was close.
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{{quote|'''Raineesha:''' You're hurting my wrist.
'''Spanish Mike:''' There are many levels of pain. You have just crossed into the... 'welcome mat'. You have not even entered the door, walked down the hallway, and gone up the stairs to visit the V.I.P. rooms." }}
* [[Truth in Television]]: Well, truth in another television show: The arrest segments in ''[[CopsCOPS (series)|COPS]]'' are sometimes just as baffling as their parodies here. In both shows, the more mentally unstable or drug-fueled criminals provide the police with a five to ten minute [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene]] after the officers respond to the disturbance calls.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: A few segments involved the deputies giving lectures to schoolchildren. No matter what kind of mayhem ensued on stage, the kids would always just sit and look bored.
* [[Ventriloquism]]: Jones does a bit with a dressed-up Clementine as the dummy, complete with corny mouth movements and less-than-impressive water-drinking speech.
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