Cop Rock

I think DB started a thread about this once.

Besides, wasn't Mike Post to blame for most of those songs?

I can see Elvis T. and Stockholm C. getting the money to redo it over and have all the songs by Steely Dan.

A Three-Corpse Meal
The Cocaine Mutiny
Oil of Ol' Lay
Marital Blitz
No Noose Is Good Noose

no it isn't

Only in this version, Becker and Fagen actually STAR in it. B&F would play the abrupt and never-satisfied police captains. During morning roll call, B&F would hand out the day's assignment - a new song! Over the course of the hour, the cops would try to work the new song into the day's routine but somehow B&F are never satisfied with the results and maddeningly rarely reveal why. The new recruits in the stationhouse fear the inevitable meetings with Captain Becker and Captain Fagen and constantly harass undercover detective Skunk Baxter for tips on how to deal with B&F but Baxter has to fend them off with brochures of various conservative causes.

Every episode of Steely Dan Cop Rock ends with ceremonial berating from a Captain Becker and Captain Fagen, followed by a uncomfortable scene where a cop turns surrenders their badge and gun while "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" plays in the background. Only the promise of a new song the next day keep them going.

I like the Steely Dan scenario, I do.

Revive because I read this which led me to this -- a September 1990 article in EW previewing it all. And not very successfully.

Best bit:

As visitors walk onto the 20th Century Fox lot in Los Angeles, guards point the way to an imposing, multi-officed bungalow they refer to simply as ''the Bochco building.'' Yards past the hangar-sized warehouses that hold Cop Rock's enormous sets is Bochco's sanctum. His office is outfitted with studiously casual L.A.-screenwriter adornments — a football, a basketball, a gag poster for ''Dorky Housecall, M.D.'' — and a stack of Cop Rock music cassettes that attest to his current obsession.

''These songs will knock your socks off,'' Bochco says, his leg tapping out an anticipatory beat. ''They run a gamut from balls-out rock & roll to Latin stuff to gorgeous love songs. The music gets you.'' He jumps up to play a Cop Rock song. ''It gets under you.'' In the Robert Palmer-ish rocker, we hear a doctor and his backup nurses tout the merits of plastic surgery to the frumpy L.A. mayor played (under a slathering of latex jowls and wattles) by Bochco's wife, Barbara Bosson, who also starred in his Hill Street and Hooperman. ''Nip and tuck, liposuck!'' the doctor sings. ''Nose job, boob job!''

Bochco pops in four more songs. ''I'm really excited,'' he says. ''I think if you yanked the music out, you'd still have a well-crafted, smart cop show. But it's not a show that I would have wanted to do without the music.''

They should've ordered up 50 more episodes of this motherfucker! Brilliant shit! Esp. "Baby Merchant" and "You Lied!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFPHvGeEWds&feature=related

[i]Only in this version, Becker and Fagen actually STAR in it. B&F would play the abrupt and never-satisfied police captains. During morning roll call, B&F would hand out the day's assignment - a new song! Over the course of the hour, the cops would try to work the new song into the day's routine but somehow B&F are never satisfied with the results and maddeningly rarely reveal why. The new recruits in the stationhouse fear the inevitable meetings with Captain Becker and Captain Fagen and constantly harass undercover detective Skunk Baxter for tips on how to deal with B&F but Baxter has to fend them off with brochures of various conservative causes.

Every episode of Steely Dan Cop Rock ends with ceremonial berating from a Captain Becker and Captain Fagen, followed by a uncomfortable scene where a cop turns surrenders their badge and gun while "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" plays in the background. Only the promise of a new song the next day keep them going.[/i}

this is one of the best ideas ever