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Private strippers show up in sitcomland all the time. Male or female, they come dressed as police officers and are mistaken for them (the protagonist is often accidentally handcuffed to them), while real cops (or some other authority figures) are thought to be strippers, leading the protagonists to rip their shirts off.
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* An episode of ''[[Monk (TV)|Monk]]'' has the title detective mistake a stripper for an actual cop and force the poor man down to the crime scene.
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'': Michael and Gob use policemen-themed strippers to fake-arrest George Michael and scare him straight. Also, Gob nearly gets his head blown off when the would-be customer takes him for a real policeman.
* Invoked on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' duging a game of ''Newsflash''. The footage behind Colin is obviously a stripper dressed (at first) as a cop, but after all the hints are dropped Colin's best guess is "naked... ops?"
* Even ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' got in a (mild) version of this. The adult Amy Pond debuts in a police uniform, which she winds up revealing is a costume for her job as a "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissogram kissogram]".
* On ''[[Castle (TV)|Castle]]'' one victim was, apparently, a police officer. Yeah, you know where it's going.
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