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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Police Squad, The TV Comedy That Got Canceled For Being Too Funny
Description: Today in 1982, the premiere of the short-lived but critically acclaimed cop spoof Police Squad, a show TV executives said was essentially too funny to stay on the air. Plus: a video from 1939 features four brothers from Chicago showing off some very unusual bicycles they'd created.
‘The Naked Gun’ Spun Off From an Even Wackier TV Show (Collider)
4 Chicago Brothers Showed Off Their Strangest Bike Creations In 1939 (Chicagoist)
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