Bakersfield PD

[doobrah]

The UK site that has the "Bakersfield PD" series DVD is back up!!

www.raretv.co.uk

Don't know when it went back up, but get it before it goes back down again!

[spoony]

Thankyou for this!

I want it.

I have the theme song

[Forensic Paws]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Now I just need to get someone with a credit card to buy it for me hehe.

I keep reading about the show and it actually sounds quite funny. I dunno, I've never seen it!

[greenbeing]

I highly recommend you get a chance to watch this! Even if you have to beg your neighbors to order it for you and bribe them with a year of free dog-walking services. Bakersfield is one of those priceless gems out there that only get better with each subsequent viewing.

Wade: How will I know it's him?
Snitch: He's a seven foot tall American Indian.
Wade: (pause) What kind?

In fact, this is the quote I always think of when I think of Carl...

--GB

[shmeep]

A very kind person I know gave me a DVD of the entire series and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The only problem was that the DVD only worked in my husband's computer for some reason (I blame my old DVD player) so I only got to watch it all the way through once. I did show the pilot to my brother when I went home for Christmas and we had a good laugh over it. The premise was set up brilliantly and the characters were well developed the instant they appeared on screen and everything was just so much fun. The only thing I could have used less of was the indecisive captain. Story lines about him were often as repetitive and unfunny as a Saturday Night Live sketch. You know, the bad ones during which the writers seem to feel beating us over the head with a punchline will make up for a lack of actual comedy. Fortunately even those story lines were blended in with far more entertaining material and I loved Brian Doyle Murray. He's always fun to watch.

[spoony]

Okay. I have this now on DVD thanks to a very lovely person on this board here. I have watched the first four episodes and have laughed soooooo much haha. I love Wade. He's so sweet and genuine. I love that his desk has random things, such as a rubber ducky!

[spoony]

I'm at work, so I just ordered the lovely ForensicPaws to go and quote my favourite moment so far (keeping in mind I've only seen the first four episodes). So, courtesy of FP, here it is:

Wade (on the telephone): "You rolled over?" pause "They're in your hair"
"No, no no! Do not try to cut it out yourself. Go into my top drawer, take out 9 dollars and you take yourself to Terrific Jan's. She specialises in this"

HAHAHA

[Forensic Paws]

Yesssssssssss I had so much fun watching the first few eps yesterday. It's an adorable show! So funny and bizarre. Very big thank you 9you know who you are ).

[greenbeing]

Classic moments in the life of Dt. Wade Preston, Bakersfield, P.D.

The Pilot

Meet Wade Preston.


Obsessed TV fanatic, particularly old cop shows, loves 70s funk, possibly long walks on the beach, and of course, rollerblading.


Preston thinks he's part black, he might romanticize it, but oooh--is that a compass ball?


Everything he knows about being an officer he learned on TV, but at least he was attentive. "Roger that, 88 Bravo." He even has his own theme songs.


Wade's desk is a mine of treasures. Anyone need a giant thumbtack? Perhaps a rubber ducky, or a safe without a combination?


And his car? Is the coolest undercover car in America!

Complete with 8-Track player. Spiffy, huh?


Wade's hard-talking vocabulary extends to such gems as, "What do you think we are? Idiots? Chumps?" You tell them, Wade!



"I hit a cow."

Is it any wonder? It's gotta be hard to drive while wearing rollerblades! Especially since you stole a car from someone a mite shorter than yourself.

Wade's interviewing skills are beyond compare.

In fact, his partner, Paul, thinks the same about Wade's skills. "What are you, crazy?"

Wade's feelings are easily hurt.


But he has a lovely sense of humor.





Wade has no concept of personal space. He's learning, though. "Too close, right?"

"You get too close to me when you talk!"

But he and Paul do finally learn to work together rather nicely.


And he's got good moves in the field--wonder which show he learned this from, and how long he practiced!




10 point landing, off running! Even in workboots.


“No, no, no, hear me out!"

"I-I-I don’t re-relate to people very well. It’s like, sometimes I can be a little hard to take. Can I tell you a secret?"

"I don’t have any friends. The only real friend I ever had was my big brother; my dad kicked him out when he was thirteen—said he ate too much.”
“He split you guys up?”
“Aw, yeah, he was the meanest man who ever lived. You know what he used to give me for an allowance every week? A six pack of beer. Then he would drink them and throw the cans at me.”
“Well, uh, didn’t your mom try to get you out?”
“Oh, sure, she tried one day, but he saw her and he shot her.”
“He shot your mom?”
“Oh yeah, but he shot us all at one point."


“Damn it, I’m Gigante, I’m a cop!”
“Well, damn it, I’m Frank and I’m a criminal.”

“Kill me, but I’m taking him with me.”

“Yeah, well, where I’m gonna shoot you ain’t gonna kill you, though, it’s just gonna paralyze you. What’s it gonna be: paraplegic or quad?"


Now I know Wade knows the difference between a paraplegic and quad, I'm just hoping it was an artistic choice to get them backwards!
"But either way you get great parking.”



“You know if you ever need to talk about it…"

"... there’s a guy on the radio who takes calls every night from 12 to 4…"


"...you could call me sometime…”


Wade's a good guy when you get right down to it. Just like one of the family.

And he loves his new black partner.

"Partner?"


“Ironsides? I don’t buy that. I mean, what’s he gonna do?”

Too bad he didn't say anything about Longstreet!

--GB

"I found this one out back, getting tanked up."

[Dreamfire]

I have tears running down my face from laughing so much. thanyou for this lovery trip.

[rducasey]

Thanks GB for those great moments from a really funny show, starring our favorite guy.

[greenbeing]

Eppie 3, Unsolved Mysteries of Love

A little ditty for our Aussie friends:

“Did you get the little present I left for you this morning?"

"…No, no, no, that would probably be from the neighbor’s dog. I left you some chocolate hearts on the pillow. Do you see ‘em? Hmm… You rolled over? …They’re in your hair?"

"No… Stop thanking me. …Hmm? No. No, no! Do not try to cut it out yourself."

"Look, go into my top drawer, take out nine dollars and you take yourself to Terrific Jan’s. …She specializes in this.” (Wade, dear, does this happen often?)

Now a little retrospective on, dun-dun-dunnnnn! (ominous music) WADE'S DESK

Wade's safe, which he has obviously forgotten the combination to. Wonder what's in it? It makes guest appearances in several eppies. (Thanks to Anna for pointing this out!)


An hour glass:

A slinky:

Mustn't forget the giant thumbtack.

An arrow? and his rubber ducky (shall I sing?)

And of course, Wade himself!


--GB

The Sergeant enjoying the view...

[greenbeing]

Here's a little episode that could be called: Jimmy Dunbar, 12 years ago, rookie detective

Shall we start with a lip bite?


And can't forget the keen sense of fashion, shades included.


Then there's Jimmy's warped sense of humor: Serious? You're a black man? (fortuitous coincidence?)
“I really haven’t done much investigative work yet. I became a detective only a week before you came on.”
“What’d you do before?”
“I was a traffic cop.”
“Traffic cop?”
“Yeah…"







"I’m kidding you! Just joking!"

"You’re so serious!”

“Frightening part is I believed you.”
“You gotta lighten up. This way.”


"Do you believe in vibes?" Jimmy may not have admitted it, but when he started going with his instincts, that's exactly what he was doing.


“The love stick whacks you at the strangest times, don’t it?” (Now we know!)

“So I’m in the other room interviewing this drunken racist, you were in the kitchen making out with his girlfriend.”
“When you ask somebody to live with you, what are you supposed to do, shake their hand?”

“You scare me.”

Just like Jimmy!
“This is our first major breakthrough in our case.”

(A cologne line-up?)
“What a sparkplug?”

The Car Graveyard, aka: Hoboken, or random crime scene only Jimmy would think of visiting.


“Good-bye! Wade, I’m leaving. Wade? I’m going back to the police station, do some real police work: you know, suspects, phone calls, rational deductions. You know, Stone Age stuff like that.”
Jimmy's idea of "real police work" often revolved around digging through the trash.


“Look at this, a remote control.”

(You’re smelling cremated dog.)

"Come on, Dwight!" ("I know two things: one, he's our guy, and two, I'm going to marry that girl."--Did I say our next move was to tell anyone about it? It tells us he was in their apartment, Karen./ He's guilty. He got away with it before, and he's going to get away with it again.)


"I'm a sucker for pretty and sad." (Now we know why Christie stole his heart.)


Perhaps if Christie had plied him with Muskrat Love, their relationship would have been less volatile.


“How’d you know I like pesto?”
“I saw it on your wall…”
So that's what that was!


“Did you get the little present I left for you this morning? …No, no, no, that would probably be from the neighbor’s dog. I left you some chocolate hearts on the pillow. Do you see ‘em? Hmm… You rolled over? …They’re in your hair? No… Stop thanking me. …Hmm? No. No, no! Do not try to cut it out yourself. Look, go into my top drawer, take out nine dollars and you take yourself to Terrific Jan’s. …She specializes in this.” (They're not for Hank? You got these especially for me?)

"Isn't that your future wife?"

“Probably just saying good-bye.”
“Oh, absolutely…

...she’s saying good-bye to Dwight.”


If only someone had told Jimmy: One cannot love and be wise.

[rducasey]

GB, That was a riot. I do so love Wade. I bet Christie's coif cost more than nine dollars. That's the difference between Bakersfield and NYC.

[inuvik]

Thanks GB. Great parallels! You've gone to a lot of effort and I'm sure we all appreciate it!