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{{quote|''"Fighting crime in a future time, protecting Empire City from Big Boss and his gang of crooks."''|from the [[Opening Narration]]}}
''C.O.P.S.'', which stands for '''C'''entral '''O'''rganization of '''P'''olice '''S'''pecialists, was an animated series that ran from 1988 to 1989 as one of the many [[Merchandise
Set in the year 2020, the show took place in the metropolis Empire City. The main story revolved around Agent Baldwin P. Vess, codename Bulletproof, who has been sent out to stop Big Boss ([[Metal Gear|no relation]]), a criminal mastermind who has taken over the city. However, after being attacked by the henchmen of Big Boss and suffering a near-fatal wound, Vess is taken to the hospital and given a new bullet-resistant torso. While he is recovering, he contacts Officer P.J. O'Malley (aka LongArm) and rookie Donny Brooks (HardTop) to find the best law enforcement officers around. They are able to recruit several people. Among them are David E. "Highway" Harlson, Colt "Mace" Howards, Stan "Barricade" Hyde, Tina "Mainframe" Cassidy, Walker "Sundown" Calhoun, Suzie "Mirage" Young, Hugh S. "Bullseye" Forward, and Rex "Bowser" Pointer and his robot dog, Blitz. Together these people make up C.O.P.S., using their combined power to stop Big Boss.
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* [[Big Bad]]: Big Boss.
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Seemed to happen on a fairly regular basis to the COPS members. Both female cops got this on at least one occasion.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Inspector Yukon of the Mounties shows up in an episode to help deliver an iceberg to Empire City to cool a hot day.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Highway, although mostly in the comic.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: ''"It's Crime Fighting Time!"'' and ''"Crime's a Wastin'!"''
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* [[Drugs Are Bad]]
* [[Dueling Shows]]: More of a Dueling Merchandise with the cartoon series of ''[[Police Academy]]''; just look at the gimmicks of both toylines.
** The same with Kenner's ''[[
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Rock Krusher and Berserko.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Big Boss refusing to help sell a designer drug because "drugs kill".
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* [[Every Episode Ending]]: Bulletproof gives the lowdown on how everything ultimately turned out and says "Case Closed".
* [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]: Sundown specifically points this out when he can't fit into Turbo Tu-Tone's superspeed suit. "Shoot, this thing's plum too small! Sorry, but we're grown big down in Texas."
* [[
* [[Evil Clown]]: The unreleased third series of the action figure line would have featured a whole gang of them called the Pranksters.
* [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]]: In "The Case of The Brilliant Berserko", Berserko steals a "chess crown" meant to augment intelligence and becomes a well-mannered (if still criminal) supergenius. In the middle of the episode, the battery momentarily fails, setting up the common "it's just temporary" plot - but subverting it when he gets it working again almost immediately.
* [[Fun T
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The flowers that were mentioned stolen for Berserko's wedding, when you see them at the wedding, are wreaths that say "R.I.P." on them.
** In the episode with the cave man, Buttons walks by a figurine of a woman with exposed nipples, picks it up, and looks at it, before walking off with it.
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* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Badvibes of Big Boss' gang.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: BP "Bulletproof" Vess.
* [[Merchandise
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Again, Airwave.
* [[Oh Crap]]: All of the Crooks have a shocked/horrified expression as they're caught in the opening.
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* [[The Quiet One]]: Buttons McBoomBoom has speaking roles in very few episodes. In the first 22 episodes he speaks in only ''one'' of them.
* [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud]]: Big Boss does this while working on his keynote speech for the crime convention. "The hotel management would like me to inform you that someone has been stealing towels. Pause for laugh..."
* [[Right
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Buzzbomb, Dr. Badvibes' assistant.
* [[Shout Out]]: In the episode where Longarm's father tries to rejoin the force, the board of directors that signs the rejection form include [[Paul McCartney (Music)|Paul McCartney]] and [[Michael Jordan]]. When the COPS computers list any sort of information, they are actually listing the supply inventory for the cartoon.
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* [[Trench Coat Warfare]]: Buttons McBoomBoom
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]
* [[Very Special Episode]]: The [[Drugs Are Bad]] episode, where the cops and crooks team up to fight the distributors of [[G
** There actually is valid logic for it, because you can't make money off of dead people, so from a business perspective drugs kill off people he could continue making money off of (one can consider his exclaiming 'drugs kill' just leaves off the 'the suckers I make money off of' due to moral watchdog requirements, something many old-school real life crime bosses held to).
** On the other hand, he may just have a moral code. Killing police officers may have been an acceptable act if they got in the way (though more than often, he was content to capture and detain them), killing random people seemed beyond him... for that matter, why'd he let Addictem go rather than just having McBoomBoom shoot him?
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