It’s called drama. Go look it up.
Oof you’re a bundle of laughs
Good to know that there is at least one laugh because the original post was pathetic.
I suddenly want to watch a cop show where the main character is a genuinely bad cop. ie: the bad guys keep getting away and not a single case is solved.
The shield is arguably the greatest drama series of all time
Watch Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter instead. He is detecting werewolves in the show.
Just watched Detective Hole, would highly recommend. Very bad cop but good detective.
Inspector Gadget would fit if not for his overly capable niece and her anthropomorphic dog.
I believe that’s called the News.
Maxwell Smart.
His cars weren’t “classic” when the show was airing.
Being a dumbass isn’t neurospicy.
Depends if “classic car” is era-dependent or not
Eg Peter Wimsey probably fits all of these, and drives a 1920s car, but in stories set in the 1920s so not classic at the time
Having recently read more Dot Sayers than should legally be allowed (one day I shall recover), let me assure Lord Monocle is "not* neuro typical
Brooklyn 99. Terry Crews is happily married, drives a minivan, is neurotypical.
Terry in the show probably has some body dysmorphia/eating disorders. He’s been shown to have difficulty controlling his food intake with the nibs, the weird dieting with Gina and Amy and he’s also used the gym to avoid his problems. Plus he had some PTSD in the early seasons (I think from shooting an innocent person? I don’t remember exactly why) which is why he wasn’t in the field for the first few seasons. Also I think technically his rank is lieutenant so I’m not sure he’s technically a detective
He’s a sergeant.
He’s a lieutenant in later seasons.
He shot a mannequin because he kept getting nervous about getting killed in the line of duty after the twins were born.
And then he shot another mannequin.
Right, that’s what it was. So possibly an anxiety disorder instead of PTSD. Which is probably more in line with the body dysmorphia or eating disorder than PTSD would be
ACAB
No real-life detective has more than four.
They all fail at number 4
Columbo
I think it depends on the definitions of “classic car” and “addiction”, since he smokes cigars and drives a 1959 Peugeot.
He quits smoking and it becomes a minor character arc for him as he needs to find something to do with his hands. He ends up asking for pencils a lot.
That would be like driving a 2015 Camry today though.
Cars didn’t last long back then. A 20 year old car was a big deal I the 70s.
uh-huh
In retrospect I’m not sure he’s neurotypical.
And it was the 70’s they didn’t talk about his problematic meth addiction.
Tom Barnaby from Midsomer murders. Literally designed to be as plain as milk to contrast with the people he is investigating.
Lacey from ‘Cagney and Lacey.’
Cagney was the unmarried alcoholic who drove a vintage 'Vette.
Are we counting early Columbo’s cigarettes as his addiction? Cuz otherwise I think he fits the bill
I was gonna say Columbo but it clearly says neurotypical and does not drive a classic car.
The only one I can think of that has all 6 is Dr. Mark Sloan and that’s only if you count him as a detective in the first place (he solves murders, but is a doctor).
I think he’s more or less neurotypical. His quirks seem largely to be an intentional act to throw off his suspects and make them underestimate him.
Both Barnabys in “Midsomer Murders”.
Yes.
Most or All of the detectives on Law and Order.
Only seen a little bit of the original, but SUV def fails this list for most of them. I havent seen it in years but even when new people replaced others they all had to have some sort of vice. Def more than a few of them had addictions, most were never married or divorced because the job ruined it. Not sure about the rest.
Oh they definitely had a few questionable following the rules situations. In the beginning they had a few ppl to old for it and actually retired.
Jessica Fletcher could count if the you can be happily married when your spouse is already dead.
She never dates again so it seems like she is still very much in love with her late husband.
Funny thing I figured out over the years: widows do not date after their spouse dies for 2 reasons: 1) they were, and still are, madly in love with their spouse, or 2) their spouse/marriage absolutely sucked and they will never ever do that again. The latter is more common.
Does Cædfel count if one can include “married to the church”?
Oh I’d forgotten about him. What a truely bizzare show.
