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  • Bizarro Episode: While most of the advanced technology in the series can be accepted as being futuristic, "The Case of the Midas Touch" delves more into straight-up fantasy. It features a glove that can turn anything it touches into gold, and is heavily implied to be magical to some degree.
  • Complete Monster: "The Case of the Lowest Crime": Addictem is a drug lord flooding Empire City with a new drug called Crystal Twysts. Addictem creates 200 Crystal Twyst addicts within a week, with many of them ending up hospitalized or in mental institutions; Crystal Twysts are also deadly in large doses. Addictem offers to become partners with Empire City's main crime lord, Big Boss. Big Boss is disgusted by Addictem's business practices and has him thrown out of his office. Addictem has no limits regarding who he sells his drugs to, willing to sell them to 2 pre-teen girls.
  • Fair for Its Day: A 1980s Western Animation series with an African-American lead character who is indisputably in charge and more than one female member (among both the C.O.P.S. and the criminals) in the main cast was unusual back in the day.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • A Texas Ranger named Walker? Kids, can we say, "Low-hanging fruit"? Even more hilarious when one realizes C.O.P.S. and its Texas Ranger named Walker debuted five years before that other guy.
    • This series would not be the only time that a DiC cartoon series would do a rather blatant episode about drugs, although the second time would be MUCH darker than this one went.
    • Years later, another Big Boss would come around, complete with cybernetic arm!
    • The speed suits Dr Badvibes created would become a major plot point of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
    • It's quite hilarious to see the ridiculously advanced technology in the setting nowadays when 2020 has come and gone without such things being created. It's quite ridiculous to think that this series is now technically set in the past.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Addictem trying to sell dangerous drugs to little girls.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Tabitha St. Germain note  was the voice of Ms. Demeanor and several one shot characters.
  • Tear Jerker: "The Case of The Blitz Attack". Even if you're not a dog person, you'll have a lump in your throat watching this episode. (Issue #5 of the comic, while almost identical, was even worse.)
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Despite being grandson and grandmother, Berserko and Big Momma never interacted.


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