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* PutOnABus: Fish is retired from the NYPD, but in a way that would allow him to come back. Abe Vigoda did in fact make two a guest appearances appearance as Fish in later seasons.the third episode after this one and he would return in a Season 7 episode.
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Episode: Season 4, Episode 1\\
Title: Good-Bye, Mr. Fish: Part 1\\
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Episode: Season 4, Episode 1\\
Title: Good-Bye, Mr. Fish: Part 1\\
Directed by: Danny Arnold\\
Written by: Reinhold Weege\\
Air Date: September 22, 1977\\
Previous: Good-Bye, Mr. Fish: Part 1\\
Next: Bugs\\
Guest Starring: Creator/AbeVigoda, Florence Staley, Larry Gelman]
"Good-Bye, Mr. Fish: Part 2" is the second episode of the fourth season of ''Series/BarneyMiller''.
Despite taking place InUniverse on the same day as the previous episode, Bruno Binder and his bounty posters are forgotten. Instead everyone is worried about Fish, because it's his last day of work--he has hit the mandatory NYPD retirement age of 63--and he hasn't shown up. A worried Bernice Fish comes to the office looking for her husband, but the detectives have nothing to tell her. (Inspector Luger's obviously phony reassurances despite thinking that Fish has killed himself do not help.)
Finally Fish does stroll in to the office, telling Barney and the gang that he walked to work. From Brooklyn. Fish, normally a GrumpyOldMan, is oddly cheerful, and even eager to go out and respond to an armed robbery call. When he casually mentions some paperwork that he has to get back to on Monday, the detectives realize that Fish is in a state of denial about his retirement.
The B plot involves one Edward Sellers, a middle-aged man who was arrested for smashing up the security cameras at a grocery store. Why? Because Mr. Sellers is convinced that the cameras are for tracking people, so that "they" can subject you to "the operation" and make you a pod person.
With this episode Creator/AbeVigoda was written off of ''Barney Miller'', to star full-time on the spinoff ''Fish''...which was cancelled after two seasons in 1978 when Vigoda demanded more money than ABC wanted to pay.
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!!Tropes:
* AndStarring: Abe Vigoda having already been removed from the opening credits, he instead gets "Special Guest Star" at the end. Florence Staley, in her last appearance on ''Barney Miller'', gets "And Starring".
* TheBigRottenApple: Alluded to when Fish, on the verge of tears as he faces retirement, talks to Barney about "the trouble this city is in" and how New York needs "good men" like him. Played for a gag later when Wojo reveals Fish's retirement present, a New York City municipal bond, and a horrified Yemana says "Oh my God."
* BlatantLies: Inspector Luger is talking about how Fish has "disappeared off the face of the earth" at the exact moment that Bernice walks in. When a horrified Bernice asks who's disappeared off the face of the earth, Dietrich says, without missing a beat, "The pterodactyl! Eleven million years ago!"
* BrokenTears: Fish gets teary-eyed when he finally has to face up to the fact that it's his last day of work.
-->'''Barney''': The rules say you have to retire at 63.\\
'''Fish''': Rules are made by men and rules can be changed by men! I know the Commissioner, I've known him for 20 years and I'm going to have a talk with him... I'll talk to him and everything's gonna be alright.\\
'''Barney''': This is not the last day of your life, Fish.\\
'''Fish''': I'm a man with a record, Barney. You think they're going to force ''me'' out? '''Not me!''' A man with my experiences, my accommodations? '''Not me'''! [''tears in his eyes as his voice breaks''] Not me...
* ComfortingComforter: A variation, when Harris straightens Fish's tie as Fish is bidding goodbye to the gang.
* ImpostorExposingTest: Mr. Sellers says that there's one way you can identify the pod people after "the operation": they can't speak in a high register. He spends the whole episode irritating Yemana by saying "Hello?" in a high-pitched voice. Dietrich gets a reluctant Sellers to leave (for Bellevue) by saying "You're gonna be all right" in a high soprano.
* MultiPartEpisode: The second part of a two-part season premiere in which Fish unwillingly retires from the NYPD.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The gang finally starts to call people, looking for Fish. Wojo tells the people he's talking to on the phone that Fish is "63, but he looks a lot older." (In fact Abe Vigoda was only 56.)
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Everyone is startled and suspicious by the strangely chipper, upbeat mood that perpetually grumpy Fish is in. Turns out he's just refusing to admit that he's retiring.
* PutOnABus: Fish is retired from the NYPD, but in a way that would allow him to come back. Abe Vigoda did in fact make two guest appearances as Fish in later seasons.
* ReluctantRetiree: Fish refuses to admit that he has to retire and starts to cry when Barney finally confronts him.
* ReplicantSnatching: Mr. Sellers believes that some sort of shadowy conspiracy is turning humans into pod people with an "operation".
* UnusualEuphemism: Harris many creative euphemisms for Bellevue (the mental hospital) and the bus to Bellevue were a RunningGag. When Harris says they'll have to call "the Twinkie mobile" for Mr. Sellers Barney corrects him, which doesn't stop Harris from making the call to Bellevue and telling them that "we've got a customer for the Magic Kingdom!".
Episode: Season 4, Episode 1\\
Title: Good-Bye, Mr. Fish: Part 1\\
Directed by: Danny Arnold\\
Written by: Reinhold Weege\\
Air Date: September 22, 1977\\
Previous: Good-Bye, Mr. Fish: Part 1\\
Next: Bugs\\
Guest Starring: Creator/AbeVigoda, Florence Staley, Larry Gelman]
"Good-Bye, Mr. Fish: Part 2" is the second episode of the fourth season of ''Series/BarneyMiller''.
Despite taking place InUniverse on the same day as the previous episode, Bruno Binder and his bounty posters are forgotten. Instead everyone is worried about Fish, because it's his last day of work--he has hit the mandatory NYPD retirement age of 63--and he hasn't shown up. A worried Bernice Fish comes to the office looking for her husband, but the detectives have nothing to tell her. (Inspector Luger's obviously phony reassurances despite thinking that Fish has killed himself do not help.)
Finally Fish does stroll in to the office, telling Barney and the gang that he walked to work. From Brooklyn. Fish, normally a GrumpyOldMan, is oddly cheerful, and even eager to go out and respond to an armed robbery call. When he casually mentions some paperwork that he has to get back to on Monday, the detectives realize that Fish is in a state of denial about his retirement.
The B plot involves one Edward Sellers, a middle-aged man who was arrested for smashing up the security cameras at a grocery store. Why? Because Mr. Sellers is convinced that the cameras are for tracking people, so that "they" can subject you to "the operation" and make you a pod person.
With this episode Creator/AbeVigoda was written off of ''Barney Miller'', to star full-time on the spinoff ''Fish''...which was cancelled after two seasons in 1978 when Vigoda demanded more money than ABC wanted to pay.
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!!Tropes:
* AndStarring: Abe Vigoda having already been removed from the opening credits, he instead gets "Special Guest Star" at the end. Florence Staley, in her last appearance on ''Barney Miller'', gets "And Starring".
* TheBigRottenApple: Alluded to when Fish, on the verge of tears as he faces retirement, talks to Barney about "the trouble this city is in" and how New York needs "good men" like him. Played for a gag later when Wojo reveals Fish's retirement present, a New York City municipal bond, and a horrified Yemana says "Oh my God."
* BlatantLies: Inspector Luger is talking about how Fish has "disappeared off the face of the earth" at the exact moment that Bernice walks in. When a horrified Bernice asks who's disappeared off the face of the earth, Dietrich says, without missing a beat, "The pterodactyl! Eleven million years ago!"
* BrokenTears: Fish gets teary-eyed when he finally has to face up to the fact that it's his last day of work.
-->'''Barney''': The rules say you have to retire at 63.\\
'''Fish''': Rules are made by men and rules can be changed by men! I know the Commissioner, I've known him for 20 years and I'm going to have a talk with him... I'll talk to him and everything's gonna be alright.\\
'''Barney''': This is not the last day of your life, Fish.\\
'''Fish''': I'm a man with a record, Barney. You think they're going to force ''me'' out? '''Not me!''' A man with my experiences, my accommodations? '''Not me'''! [''tears in his eyes as his voice breaks''] Not me...
* ComfortingComforter: A variation, when Harris straightens Fish's tie as Fish is bidding goodbye to the gang.
* ImpostorExposingTest: Mr. Sellers says that there's one way you can identify the pod people after "the operation": they can't speak in a high register. He spends the whole episode irritating Yemana by saying "Hello?" in a high-pitched voice. Dietrich gets a reluctant Sellers to leave (for Bellevue) by saying "You're gonna be all right" in a high soprano.
* MultiPartEpisode: The second part of a two-part season premiere in which Fish unwillingly retires from the NYPD.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The gang finally starts to call people, looking for Fish. Wojo tells the people he's talking to on the phone that Fish is "63, but he looks a lot older." (In fact Abe Vigoda was only 56.)
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Everyone is startled and suspicious by the strangely chipper, upbeat mood that perpetually grumpy Fish is in. Turns out he's just refusing to admit that he's retiring.
* PutOnABus: Fish is retired from the NYPD, but in a way that would allow him to come back. Abe Vigoda did in fact make two guest appearances as Fish in later seasons.
* ReluctantRetiree: Fish refuses to admit that he has to retire and starts to cry when Barney finally confronts him.
* ReplicantSnatching: Mr. Sellers believes that some sort of shadowy conspiracy is turning humans into pod people with an "operation".
* UnusualEuphemism: Harris many creative euphemisms for Bellevue (the mental hospital) and the bus to Bellevue were a RunningGag. When Harris says they'll have to call "the Twinkie mobile" for Mr. Sellers Barney corrects him, which doesn't stop Harris from making the call to Bellevue and telling them that "we've got a customer for the Magic Kingdom!".
