Sledge Hammer!: Difference between revisions

'''Dori''': "Wow, you hit the balloon."<br />

'''Hammer''': "Yeah, I missed." }}

* [[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.

* [[And This Is For]]: Sledge Hammer does this to a hijacker, but after expelling his reasons he punches the hijacker one more time. When the hijacker asks "What was that for?!", Hammer replies "That was gratuitous!"

* [[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.

{{quote| "I would like to address that particular stereotype if I may. Now, your stereotypical donut is nothing but dough and sugar fried in fat, am I right? Now that fat gums up your arteries and goes to your brain, and you turn liberal. And the next thing you know, Barry Manilow is on the turn-table and you're not going to work and you're voting for gun control. You see what I'm saying? You see the connection? That's why I eat granola."}}

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]

* [[Heart Symbol]]: Hammer's car has a bumper sticker reading "I '''♥''' VIOLENCE."

* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Sledge.

* [[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.

* [[Lawful Stupid]]: '''Hammer'''

** Possibly a subversion, however, when you realize that Hammer has no qualms about ignoring laws against [[Police Brutality]] and excessive force...

{{quote| '''Trunk''' (to terrorist): "Your show's been canceled!"<br />

'''Sledge''' (to Trunk): "You talkin' to me?" }}

* [[Selective Squeamishness Suppression]]: In one episode, Hammer eats his lunch in the same room the coroner was performing an autopsy in.

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Doreau:''' "What, you think all women should be barefoot and pregnant?"<br />

'''Hammer:''' "No, I encourage women to wear shoes." }}

{{quote| '''Yamamoto''': "I'm not answering any more questions! Leave! Right now! I want to get home in time to watch ''Mr. Belvedere''."<br />

'''Sledge Hammer''': "I guess somebody has to." }}

* [[Toyota Tripwire]]: Done by Sledge in the premiere to catch a purse-snatcher.

* [[Trigger Happy]]: Hammer isn't just Trigger Happy, he's Trigger Ecstatic.

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: In the first episode, Sledge shoots a female terrorist, then tells her, "Call me a feminist."

** Subverted twice when he fights a man who turns out to be a woman in disguise.