YMMV / T.J. Hooker

• Alternative Character Interpretation: One of Eddie Izzard's routines sees her theorize that T.J. Hooker is Captain Kirk taking a month off from commanding a starship to play a police officer on a 20th century Earth-like planet. Or using the Holodeck to live out his love of twentieth-century cop shows.
• Anvilicious: The series, with a threat of some kind (drugs, alcohol, guns, etc.) repeatedly declaimed by Hooker as the greatest evil that humanity has ever faced.
• Awesome Music: Even people who loathe the series can't deny how blood-pumpingly awesome Mark Snow's theme music (season 2 basically same arrangement as season 1) is, even in its John Davis arrangement in later seasons.
• Cliché Storm: The series is very guilty of being this for cop shows. Every storyline, you've seen before. All of the character types and stereotypes are here. The villains tend to have no characterization, largely being inhumane monsters. The show is so cliched, that you might think you're watching a parody of cop shows rather than the real deal.
• Complete Monster:
  • "Sweet Sixteen and Dead": Eddie Pearl is the owner of Pearl Enterprises who controls all crime on the Sunset Blvd, from drugs, to under-aged prostitution. Frequently bribing a councilman aide with money and girls to allow his criminal activities to continue, Eddie makes a habit of luring young women and pimping them out, even boasting the number of women he's gotten hooked into prostitution and drugs. When the prostitute Kelly Hobbs learns about his bribes, Eddie fatally wounds her, then tries to have her vengeful brother Gordie killed via overdose.
  • "Requiem for a Cop": Denson is an arsonist hired by Frank D'Costa to burn down condemned buildings to collect the insurance money. Taking his job further than necessary, Denson makes sure to burn down the buildings with people still inside them to fuel his sadism. Having previously killed a couple inside a factory, Denson starts the episode burning down a building with homeless people still inside, killing four people, with two kids almost perishing in the flames. Murdering Sgt. T.J. Hooker's old partner Max Silver to cover up the conspiracy, Denson later tries to kill his own girlfriend and a cop trailing him to continue his arsons.
  • "Carnal Express": Virgil Dobbs is an ambulance driver who moonlights as a human trafficker. Having his cohort Malek kidnap women with criminal records and sell them as sex slaves to paying customers, with four women missing thanks to him, Dobbs has Hooker's reformed female friend kidnapped and sold to a buyer in Mexico. Interested in the disguised Officer Stacy Sheridan, Dobbs has her knocked out with hopes of selling her to his favorite client, smugly professing that he'll "almost" miss her.
  • "The Cheerleader Murder": George Laszlo is a porn producer who specializes in "Teeny Bops". Having his director Miles Dickson scout for under-aged girls, Laszlo has them hooked on drugs with the promise of giving them more should they act in his pornos, which results in one of his stars dying of an overdose. Killing anybody close to him who could potentially get him arrested, Laszlo even tries to have Dickson arrested in his place as he tries to leave everyone behind.
  • "Trackdown": Robert Marshall is a Serial Rapist and murderer who's been arrested several times for his many assaults. Embarking on a cross-country rape and murder spree, Marshall kidnaps a woman named Yvonne Winslow to use her to lure women to him so that he can rape and kill them, threatening to kill Yvonne, her husband, and her sick baby if she doesn't comply. After failing to nab a girl, Marshall forces Yvonne to be his new bride and continue his spree, killing her when she tries to escape from him and making Stacy his new bride.
• Parody Displacement: Viewers who weren't around during the series original run are likely to first learn about it due to the parodic Show Within a Show "T.J. Lazer" from Robocop 1987

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