So the show starts out with Bobby leaving his apartment building to go to work, and his brother is coming home. Bobby asks him where he has been, and Matt tells him he has been out. No shit! Matt then gives Bobby some money and tells Bobby to use the money to go buy himself a pair of nads and get himself a girlfriend. Matt sure is appreciative of everything Bobby has done for him since he got out of jail. Oh, wait a minute, he isn't. Bobby doesn't know why Matt is giving him money. Hmm, Bobby, I have no idea. Maybe it's to help pay for rent and utilities since he is has been sponging off of you? Then Bobby asks Matt where he got the money, and Matt tells him he has been selling drugs to school kids. Bobby totally falls for Matt's dry humor and Matt has to remind him that he got a job.
During the morning lineup, the captain tells the cops about a serial rapist. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of the show, just so you know. The captain then tells Sully, Ty, and some other cops that they will be part of a raid that night to get Sunder Walker, who is a bookie. Ty almost blows his load right there, he is so excited. Sully's been there, done that, a hundred times before. I mean being a part of a raid, not blowing his load. Get your minds out of the gutter!
Yokas and Bosco are in their car and Yokas is starting to tell Bosco about how annoying Fred has been, but Bosco notices a woman's ass jogging by and must therefore ignore Yokas and watch the ass. Yokas yells at him, and then she goes on about how, for the last four days, Fred hasn't had a drink so he has been all, "Hey honey, I haven't had a beer in four days! Four days and I haven't had a beer!" and is rubbing it in Yokas's face. Bosco thinks that maybe Fred doesn't have a drinking problem. Yokas tells him that Fred can't take the kids to school two out of five times, because he isn't sober enough. Bosco thinks Yokas is overreacting. Yokas retorts with, "This, from a guy who goes slack-jawed over every female rear he sees!" and Bosco has to immediately correct her that he only drops his jaw for the good ones. Have I mentioned lately that I think there is a special place in hell reserved just for Bosco? And that I am temporarily living in that place right now as I have to observe his antics over and over again? Well, there is, and I am. So they get to their call, and they find that the guy who had taken a shit in their car is now terrorizing people outside a fancy apartment building. The doorman had hit him with a hammer because the guy was siphoning gas from someone's car. I don't know what the hell the director was snorting at this point, but this shot has the camera panning around and around and around and around and around Bosco, Yokas, the doorman, and the car-shitting guy, and they are all bickering about who is going to be arrested for what, and finally the car-shitting guy throws gas on the doorman and then throws a lighter on him. Dude! Stop, Drop, and Roll! If Dick VanDyke taught me nothing else, it was to stop, drop, and roll. Everyone should know how to do it. So Bosco remembers what Mr. VanDyke taught him and knocks the doorman to the ground and starts rolling him around, and Yokas cuffs car-shitting guy, and then the credits start.
“ I think we've fallen into a time warp again. ”
I love the Staples commercial where the wife tells the husband she is going out Christmas shopping, and the husband follows her to Staples and then gets on the PA system and tries to "announce" what she should buy him and starts yelling at other people who look at what he is "announcing." But it is nowhere near as good as the Rain Check Boy.
Bobby and Kim in the ambulance; Bobby tells her that Matt gave him money. Kim thinks he didn't give him enough money since he has been working for over a month. Um, didn't Matt just get out of jail a week before Thanksgiving? So is this episode supposed to take place around Christmas time? Shouldn't Kim be bitching about having to automatically have that day off because she has a child? I think we've fallen into a time warp again. So they get to the burned doorman, and they help the man while Bosco and Yokas take the other guy back to their car so he can take another shit.
Doc and Carlos are in the ambulance and Doc is driving over a number of potholes. What a shock -- New York City streets have potholes! I never would have thought! So Carlos asks Doc to drive more smoothly, and Doc suggests that maybe they should have driven the Lexus that day. Score one more for Doc. What is this, now -- Doc 17, Carlos 0? ["Only if we don't subtract points from Carlos's score for all the stupid things he says." -- Sars] Doc asks Carlos why he is writing in a notebook, and Carlos tells him he is doing homework. Doc thinks that it sounds funny for an adult to be doing homework and asks Carlos if his teacher will give him a gold star or a smiley face if he gets an A. Make that Doc 18, Carlos 0. Doc's cell phone rings and he answers it; paramedics from another precinct just brought his father to Mercy Hospital. Is Mercy Hospital the only hospital in the city? It reminds me of Melrose Place -- the only bar they only went to for the first few years was Shooters, and then the only place they went to for dinner or drinks was Kyle's. The only place to go to in New York City when you are sick or hurt is to Mercy Hospital.
Ty and Sully are at a coffeehouse and a guy is telling them about a robbery that happened the night before; he's only getting around to telling them now because the robbers locked him in the back room. He tells them there were three guys and they were Hispanic (so I wonder if that really means they were Mexican or Filipino) and one guy had a cast on his wrist and a tattoo on his neck. As they leave the coffeehouse, Sully is eating a pastry of some sort while Ty sees some kid by the car; Ty goes over to him and acts like they're old friends or something. The kid's name is Malcolm, and he is all pissed off that Ty has been talking to social services and asking how Malcolm is, and he tells Ty to leave him alone. Apparently, Malcolm is a potential problem that Ty wants to solve, because he wants to be like Sully and go around solving problems. Sully tells him that Malcolm runs numbers for Sunder Walker, and if he is with Walker during the bust he will be arrested and probably get six months of juvie.