MTOP: do you thank veterans “for their service”?

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Change the thread title you mook.

whoooooops

[CBear3]

The scene in the original MIB where he shoots the cardboard cutout of the girl with the astrophysics textbooks is one of my all time favorite bits, so give me J & K.

[robbiestoupe]

Ponch and Jon

[eddy]

Ponch and Jon

Nice. Ponch was one of my finest Halloween costumes I've had. Love those guys.

I'd like to submit Johnny Utah and Pappas into the discussion

[RonnieFranchise]

Friday and Gannon from Dragnet, 60s version

[Viva la Ben]

Tango and Cash?

[faftorial]

Starsky and Hutch (the show not that dumb movie remake).

[dodint]

Tango and Cash?

Couldn't split up Tango and Cash.
This is our song of exultant joy because
We only came to kick some ass.

[Pavel Bure]

Def a product of my generation but J & K

[Kane]

Honorable mention for Lassie and Jules.

[Beveridge]

Honorable mention for Lassie and Jules.

[tifosi77]

Ponch and Jon

I read the poll options and was like "F**king bulls**t millennial nonsense.."

[tifosi77]

I'm partial to Crockett and Tubbs for nostalgia related reasons, but of these nonsense choices I think I'd have to go with Riggs and Murtaugh.

No Mulder and Scully? Starsky and Hutch? Cagney and Lacey? Taylor and Fife? Any of the L&O pairings? You forego all of these to include McClane and shove-a-lightning-bolt-up-your-ass-Zeus who isn't even a cop?

[Shyster]

I'm going old school: Detective-Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Officer Frank Smith.

[dodint]

Of course you are.

[tifosi77]

I was gonna suggest Friday and Streekeck, so.............

(For some reason, I have the end credits rap committed to memory)

[meow]

Tango and Cash. End the thread

[Shyster]

I bought a box set of pretty much every episode of the original Dragnet radio show (1949–1957). I've listened to them all. Most of the episodes of the first run of the Dragnet TV show (1951–1959) were taken directly from the radio scripts.

Frank Smith wasn't Friday's original partner. His original partner was Sergeant Ben Romero (played by Barton Yarborough), but Yarborough had a sudden fatal heart attack in 1951. He featured in only two early episodes of the original TV show. Both Ben Alexander (who played Frank Smith) and Jack Webb himself would also die relatively young of heart attacks, likely because all of them smoked like chimneys. (The Dragnet radio show was always sponsored exclusively by the Liggett & Myers tobacco company, first by the now-defunct Fatima brand, and then by the Chesterfields brand starting in 1952. "Sound off for Chesterfields!")

[MWB]

The answer is Bunk and McNulty even though they didn’t work together much. But the one f*** scene is enough to make it so.

[faftorial]

I bought a box set of pretty much every episode of the original Dragnet radio show (1949–1957). I've listened to them all. Most of the episodes of the first run of the Dragnet TV show (1951–1959) were taken directly from the radio scripts.

Frank Smith wasn't Friday's original partner. His original partner was Sergeant Ben Romero (played by Barton Yarborough), but Yarborough had a sudden fatal heart attack in 1951. He featured in only two early episodes of the original TV show. Both Ben Alexander (who played Frank Smith) and Jack Webb himself would also die relatively young of heart attacks, likely because all of them smoked like chimneys. (The Dragnet radio show was always sponsored exclusively by the Liggett & Myers tobacco company, first by the now-defunct Fatima brand, and then by the Chesterfields brand starting in 1952. "Sound off for Chesterfields!")

Joe had one hell of a smoker voice. Wasn't he a big time drunk too?

Chesterfields were full length filterless cigarettes like Pall Malls.

[blackjack68]

Foley and Taggart would’ve been better.

[MWB]

How is foley paired with either? The pair was rosewood and taggert and foley was on his own.

[Shyster]

Joe had one hell of a smoker voice. Wasn't he a big time drunk too?

Yeah, but wasn't everyone back then?

I'm not usually a biography guy, but I bought the Jack Webb biography My Name's Friday. Webb was always annoyed that he ended up typecast as Joe Friday. His great love was jazz music, and he kept trying to create radio or TV shows featuring jazz, but none were even close to successful. He actually recorded some music albums, but I would call his delivery "Shatneresque":

Another bit of trivia: Webb never learned lines and didn't want his actors learning lines. He always read his lines. Just about everyone on both runs of the Dragnet TV show was reading from a teleprompter. If you watch Webb's eyes in this speech, you can seem then moving side to side as he reads the lines.

[mac5155]

The Other Guys.

[faftorial]

Ponch and Jon

I'm revising my vote to this.

12 year-old me loved this show. The first few years had really good music.