There's no 'good cop, bad cop' in this department, only hilarious ineptitude
The Big Picture There’s always something chaotic transpiring in The Biggest Little City in the World. Or, at least, that’s how it appears on Reno 911! 20 years ago, viewers were introduced to a police force that was anything but the best and brightest. They were incompetent, unprofessional, and just as ridiculous as the troublemakers they encountered. And watching their buffoonery was hysterical.
While the insanity the offices encounter isn’t relatable to most , there’s a duality to this series because not one of the characters is an overachiever, if they were, they’d be out of place on the force. Each is lacking in some way–common sense, logic, brain cells... In many ways, Reno 911! serves a similar function as The Jerry Springer Show: I may not be perfect, but at least I’m not them.
'Reno 911!' Was Surprisingly Aware But despite the more crass elements of the show, it is still accurate social commentary in that Reno 911! doesn’t pretend that its officers are model citizens. They have their biases and faults, which are reflective of real police. Most wouldn’t call the show progressive by today’s standards, but, in its own way, it gave a more honest look at law enforcement than many other cop shows of its time.
The storylines always lend themselves to the wackier, the better. One of the many zany examples comes from Season 1 when agents from the Department of Homeland Security come to teach the officers about how to be prepared for terrorism – though 9/11 happened two years earlier, people were still rattled by it. After subjecting the officers to a series of ridiculous exercises, they all pass a test that’s required of them to keep serving.
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