Cop and a Half

Episode 183: Cop and a Half (1993)

Theme: Mini Month of Cop Movies
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis wrap up their truncated Cop Month with Cop and a Half — a movie marriage of Cannonball Run meets 48 Hrs. meets Beyond the Sea… with just a splash of Ghostbusters (because apparently Devon “wanted to cross the streams”). Burt Reynolds growls, an 8-year-old outsmarts everyone in Tampa, and Henry Winkler quietly regrets directing this. It’s a buddy-cop comedy where one buddy is grumpy, the other is eight, and both are trapped in a movie that IMDb once ranked the worst ever made. Competent? Sort of. Uncomfortable? Often. Entertaining? Somehow… yes.

Join your two favorite “I think I blocked most of this from my memory” podcasters as they investigate:

• Devon Butler: the world’s most committed hall monitor, skateboarding vigilante, and human Miranda-rights pamphlet.

• Burt Reynolds doing everything a cop shouldn’t: blowing smoke in a child’s face, threatening to drag him behind a car, and peeing mid-conversation.

• Vinnie Fountain — a musical mobster so unthreatening the bullies are scarier.

• The Bobo Side Quest™: painters on swings, negligee diplomacy, and the most 90s sequence imaginable.

• The grand finale: boat jumps, bulletproof wheelies, gallons of fish goop, and a Joey Lawrence end-credits track. Whoa.

From saxophone chases to Twinkie warfare to the most cursed bathroom scene in family-film history, Oz and Curtis break down a movie that is absolutely not good… but undeniably exists.

Final Verdict

Oz — 1 Cop and a Half
Curtis — A Cop and 2.25 (math checks out… probably)
Both — Still wondering which Tampa official decided witness protection = “just bring him home.”