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== Comic Strips ==

* Reversed in a strip by Sergio Aragones in ''[[Mad|Mad Magazine]]'' A female police officer storms into a room full of bad ~~guys--and~~ is woefully outnumbered. She then backpedals, pretends to be a stripper, gets a tip, waves goodbye, then runs to the police car and radios for more backup.

* Reversed in a strip by Sergio Aragones in ''[[Mad|Mad Magazine]]'' A female police officer storms into a room full of bad guys—and is woefully outnumbered. She then backpedals, pretends to be a stripper, gets a tip, waves goodbye, then runs to the police car and radios for more backup.

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* In ''[[Spin City]]'', Stuart sends a priest to the girls' bachelorette party whom they mistake for a stripper and rip his shirt open. The women get revenge by sending a real male stripper to the guys, whom they mistake for a cop.

* ''[[Frasier]]'': The title character ends up handcuffed to the lovely Officer Nasty (hired for Donnie's bachelor party) while he is demonstrating to her how she can make her dancing sexier.

* An episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' featured the stripper and real cop getting their wires ~~crossed -- the~~ bachelorette party gets an actual officer showing up expecting a robbery, while the actual robbery has the "cop" show up and start taking his clothes off.

* An episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' featured the stripper and real cop getting their wires crossed—the bachelorette party gets an actual officer showing up expecting a robbery, while the actual robbery has the "cop" show up and start taking his clothes off.

* ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'': Helen is handcuffed to the stripping cop hired for her bachelorette party.

* ''[[Friends]]'': Phoebe's stripper is Officer Goodbody, played by Danny DeVito.

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* In the 1988 ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' Christmas special "Dates", a stripper dressed as a naval officer is hired for Uncle Albert's birthday party. Much to Del's horror, she turns out to be the woman he's dating, Raquel Turner, who told him she was an actress. Later in the episode, a policewoman tries to question Del about his dodgy van, and he assumes this is Albert getting back at him.

* In the ''[[Blackadder]] II'' episode "Beer", Blackadder's puritanical relatives are mistaken for strippers, as is Queen Elizabeth herself.

* In ''[[The Commish]]'', one episode's [[The Teaser|teaser]] featured a gentleman who had ordered a prostitute dressed for a cop, waiting to meet her in a hotel lobby. He encounters a real (female) cop instead. We never get to see the ~~payoff -- roll~~ opening credits and commercial; when the episode "proper" starts, we get a glimpse of him handcuffed to a chair in the booking area as the camera pans by.

* In ''[[The Commish]]'', one episode's [[The Teaser|teaser]] featured a gentleman who had ordered a prostitute dressed for a cop, waiting to meet her in a hotel lobby. He encounters a real (female) cop instead. We never get to see the payoff—roll opening credits and commercial; when the episode "proper" starts, we get a glimpse of him handcuffed to a chair in the booking area as the camera pans by.

* ''[[The Bill]]''. A going-away party for an officer being transferred includes the requisite stripper dressed (undressed?) as a WPC. As she leaves the party the stripper sees two real policewomen turning up (in uniform) to see their colleague off, and threatens to complain to her union about the apparent double-booking.

* An episode of ''[[Monk]]'' has the title detective mistake a stripper for an actual cop and force the poor man down to the crime scene.