1 min readJun 12, 2020
oh, 100%! The flip side of the “running away/trip” is the 70s cop show where foot chases always end up with a diving tackle into trashcans. Crooks always seem to run toward trashcans so they can be tackled into them.
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Also, when diving into trashcans they were probably really made of rubbermaid materials and the metal crashing sounds dubbed in.Which brings me to my next totally unrelated rant-o-the-day.Considering the pandemic and all and all the big money trying…
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Our only escape from these repetitive movie tropes was that we haved, (or at least I have), lived in an era where woke boomers made movies like Naked Gun where these phony baloney cop shows were sent up by Detective Drebin having a shootout 6 feet apart hiding behind trashcans.
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