YMMV / Reno 911!

• Badass Decay: 'VHS Transfer Memory Lane' reveals amongst other things that Weigel was not only once confident and competent as a police officer, but also smart and even had Dangle of all people attracted to her. So, what happened? A house fire that occurred while the team was on the scene caused a chain reaction and started/created the Reno officers we know today. In Trudy's case, she was clinically dead for 14 minutes but came back and the damage to her brain from the smoke inhalation created the Weigel we all know in the series. She briefly recovers this in one episode but it doesn't stick.
• Crack Pairing: Jones and Garcia. The black Jones and hispanic Garcia are partners when out on patrol, although Garcia is openly racist (he's on a friendly First-Name Basis with the local Klansmen). In spite of this, the two are halfway competent as partners and have their own Running Gag of extended chase scenes throughout the show.
  • Weigel and Williams. Despite both Weigel (who is white) and Williams (who is black) both being openly racist (though Weigel blames the racial tension on the squad on Garcia), Williams is probably Weigel's closest friend at work. The season 6 finale even has them posing as a lesbian couple.
• Cult Classic: Managed to pull off six seasons and a movie but was always one of the more underrated shows on Comedy Central's lineup. More than a decade after the show has ended, it still has a decent following of fans who fondly remember the characters and improv humor.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: By definition, Terry (Nick Swardson), the flamboyantly-homosexual (to the point that even Dangle is a little uncomfortable around him) street prostitute. The character appeared in 27 episodes (out of a total 88), and was easily the most popular recurring character not in the main cast. He even got screen time in the movie.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The episode "Fastest Criminal in Reno" has the cops set out spike strips to take out frequent offender "Fast Eddie" (played by Jeff Foxworthy). Eddie manages to avoid the spikes (by going airborne from a hill), and the cops get into their cars to pursue him.... only to run over their own spike strips. It's funny because, like most other segments on the show, you think no officers would be so stupid to run over their own spike strips while pursuing a suspect, but years later, an episode of World's Dumbest... presented a video showing a group of cops doing just that.
• Hollywood Homely: Deputy Trudy Weigel. She's supposed to be extremely repulsive. The stings involving her playing a prostitute or a stripper never work.
  Garcia: She's a 'triple-bagger'. One bag over her head, one over mine, and one extra for any unlucky bastard that might accidentally walk by.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Genuine ostrich. Three payments" or "New boot goofin'" jokes still crop up today.
  • Clemmie conducting a field sobriety test on a surprisingly agile drunk cowboy has long made the Youtube rounds (often incorrectly passed off as genuine dashboard cam footage), with her "step-bump, step-bump-bump" dance becoming a Tiktok meme.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Wendi McLendon-Covey had a major supporting role in Bridesmaids, and later played the mother in The Goldbergs.
  • Nick Swardson went on to have mainstream success as a comedian and a film actor, an interesting note since he was not in the main cast.
  • Cedric Yarbrough had a bit part in Black Dynamite as the aptly named pimp Chocolate Giddy-Up.
  • Andrew later became the dean at Greendale Community College.
  • The officers once arrest a Japanese suspect and bring in Hiro Nakamura to translate.
  • Charlie Day and Mary Elizabeth Ellis had bit parts as redneck twins in an incestuous relationship. They would later play major roles in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and get married in real life.
  • Before he went on to join the cast of another Mockumentary, The Office, Oscar Nuñez played suave Department of Homeland Security Captain Dwayne Hernandez in the season 1 two-parter "Terrorist Training" who's revealed to actually be a con man named "Spanish Mike" Alvarez, and he later returned in that role.
• The Scrappy: Declan and Rizzo. Both these characters were introduced right after the deaths of Johnson, Garcia, and Kimball and served as poor imitations of them. Fans were warming up to the latter, but the show was canned before Rizzo had a chance.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: The Police-Tek 2000 "Lazarus" Bicycle Lock.

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