Quincy takes a look into the world of punk rock, a music that he believes may have contributed to the death of a teenage boy.Quincy takes a look into the world of punk rock, a music that he believes may have contributed to the death of a teenage boy.Quincy takes a look into the world of punk rock, a music that he believes may have contributed to the death of a teenage boy.
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A punk rock band is playing at a club full of punk rock fans. Some slam dancing ends up with one celebrant getting an ice pick in the neck. He ends up on Quincy's autopsy table, and the cause of death should be easy to determine. But no, Quincy has to put punk rock as contributing to death on the death certificate. Try collecting on life insurance with THAT death certificate! But I digress.
The funniest part has to be when Quincy squares off in a debate with some punk rockers. Just like in some of the 1960s episodes of Dragnet, this debate answers the question - what would teenagers sound like if 50 year olds tried to sound like teenagers?
Ray Danton directed this episode, which outdoes his starring turn in "The George Raft Story" as the worst thing he ever did.
A so-bad-it's-good camp Quincy episode about how punk rock music compels listeners to kill. By the eighth season, Quincy had become a soapbox for preaching about social causes, and this episode is the best of them. Not that I'm a fan of punk music, but there's no subtlety here.
The killer was portrayed by Karlene Crockette who was concurrently playing the part of Lucy Ewings' squeaky clean friend who never got invited to the kool kids' party's in Dallas. She proved herself to be a versatile actress running the gamut from prissy nerdette to punk rock killer.
The scene of the mosh pit is alone worth the price of admission with the over acting by the 'musicians' & all the fake punching sound effects. And Flys' admonishment," This is the ugliest, scummiest crowd we ever played for.... AND THAT'S SAYIN' SUMPUN!"
Quincys' self righteous speech about hippies changing the world is hilarious. Everybody knows hippies were too strung out on acid to even change their clothes (hence the term "smell like a hippy") and they all became republicans and voted for Ronald Reagan. Twice.
And the poor schmuck who played the victim didn't even get a billing. Dude, whoever you are, you died for punk rock! That's an accomplishment that few can claim.
This episode aired during season 8 (this crummy show was on for 8 years??) & is available on DVD. My fellow punk rockers, hurry up & pirate a copy of this episode before it's out of print. Anarchy rules!
I can only compare this episode of the "squares" dealing with a sub-culture that they don't understand and therefore fear to the infamous Dragnet episode known as "Blue Boy" that deals with hippies and LSD. Both have parallels of middle-aged, square white men addressing youth sub-cultures that they can't and won't be able to understand.
The episode starts with a murder at a fictional concert performed by the fictional punk band Mayhem. The writers, performers and director of the show have absolutely no clue of what the punk scene was about. The episode starts off on a bad foot and never, ever goes beyond a hyped-up, sensationalistic and obviously biased view of what the L.A. punk scene was about. Of course Qunicy learns of the horrific goings-on in the punk rock scene that it obviously written by someone who doesn't know any better.
Ironically, the same time that this episode came out, the L.A. police were very busy busting heads, breaking up any and all punk shows in the greater L.A. metro area. Who were the violent ones?
Did you know
- TriviaPat Smear from bands The Germs, Nirvana and Foo Fighters plays a punk rocker in the episode. It also marked his acting debut.
- GoofsWhen Abby is speaking in the television studio, she is visible on the monitors. Yet all the cameras are pointing at the people on stage. It's impossible to be on a broadcast monitor without using a camera.
- Quotes
Adrian Mercer: Abby just quoted from the very music you cited as contributing to a brutal murder. Now, you're not really saying that music can kill, are you?
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Yes, I am. I believe that the music I heard is a killer. It's a killer of hope, it's a killer of spirit. The music I heard said that life was cheap, and that murder and suicide was OK.
Dr. Emily Hanover: Music can be a very powerful thing. Nothing galvanises the emotions as quickly.
Adrian Mercer: You wrote the lyrics in question, Fly. You take issue with any of this?
Fly Fester: Hell yes! You know why you people can't stomach our songs? 'Cos they're a mirror, dig? Our music's ugly and violent because that's what's outside my window when I wake up. The world's ugly, the world's violent. All we do is rub your noses in it, you don't like what you see. Well don't lay it on us.
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: You're right about one thing: there is too much ugliness and violence out there. But if we took your advice we'd never overcome it - all you want us to do is throw up our hands and give up.
Skip: Who got us where we are today? It was your generation. Now you people have your finger on the button, ready to blow the whole joint to bits, and you're telling us to cool it?
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: You know, not so many years ago there was a generation of young people who were as mad as you are about the world. Only they worked their tails off to change it. Trying to end a war they didn't believe in, trying to correct injustices that they saw. But all you do is gripe. Has it ever occurred to you to do something else with your anger besides venting it?
Skip: You're the ones who loused everything up - and you expect us to pick up the pieces.
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: If not you - then who?
- ConnectionsEdited into Cathode Fuck (1986)