Mike Post wrote the Hill Street Blues music. His work is sacred.

WiseGuy definitely had more foot fetishism. I think they're about even on incest. And sometimes Terranova's hair was almost as weird as Profit's, actually.

I still think Roger LoCocco should have had a spin-off. Oh, Roger.

Mike Post wrote the Hill Street Blues music. His work is sacred.

I think they're about even on incest.

And heroin use.

People who liked the insanity of Profit should try the Mel Profit arc of WiseGuy. It's just as bizarre, in completely different ways.

Loved that too! So wonderfully wrong.

I was thinking about Profit last night after we watched the commentary. One of the writers (I lost track of who was talking early on, except for Pasdar's lovely voice) mentioned, tongue in cheek, the hero's journey. It made me realize that Profit actually owed more to the old antagonist figure.

Everyone should watch Wiseguy regardless of their Profit-viewing status. (Frank! Frank McPike!)

Everyone should watch Wiseguy regardless of their Profit-viewing status.

Unfortunately, the music rights fiasco on the DVDs has made me hesitant to get them (how can you have the climax of the Sonny Steelgrave saga WITHOUT "Knights in White Satin"!?!??!?).

Everyone should rent Wiseguy and look on the internet to find out when to put "Nights in White Satin" on their stereos.

Seriously, yeah. That's one of the biggest blunders ever in terms of music licensing problems. I've only seen through a certain point on the DVDs because there's a whole arc missing, due to music licensing difficulties.

I've only seen through a certain point on the DVDs because there's a whole arc missing, due to music licensing difficulties

Wait, they took out the episodes? That's WORSE than just dubbing in some generic music.

Of course, Wiseguy got trashed by CBS back in the day anyway - I remember a big continuity gap either during or right after the Mel Profit saga where they basically skipped a bunch of episodes or reordered them so they made no sense or something. Not QUITE as bad as Firefly where they showed the pilot last, but it was pretty frelling stupid all the same.

The way they've released the DVDs is really bizarre. They don't group them into seasons, they group them into arcs. So there's the "Sonny Steelgrave and the Mob" arc and the "Mel Profitt" arc. Fairly intuitive.

The one with Stanley Tucci and Jerry Lewis (!) is called "Prey for the City." And sometimes, if they have room left over on the last disc, they'll toss in a completely unrelated non-arc episode, sometimes from a completely different season.

I've stalled out at the "Dead Dog Records" storyline, because they haven't released those on DVD, even though the next arc has been released.

Confused yet?

Wow, that is very confusing.