Just the facts. No, wait. Also the girls.
This article was inspired by a pretty unexpected person; Dan Aykroyd.
Now, Dan Aykroyd isn’t the first name to pop up when I think ‘sexy cop’, but one particular movie roll he was in is one of the first mainstream treatments of pornography I ever got to see. If you don’t know, I’m referring to 1987’s Dragnet. Not a true reboot, the series takes place some 20 odd years after the original Joe Friday’s legendary run as a police officer on NBC’s hit television series. Aykroyd’s Joe Friday is his nephew, played straight and stiff; a relic from another era. He’s joined by a new partner, Tom Hanks in one of those comedy roles he used to do so well and often. The two are investigating a group called P.A.G.A.N., or People Against Goodness And Normalcy, who first appear stealing a shipment of a skin magazine called ‘Bait’ (thought the intelligent subscriber regards it as a politically-oriented, socially-impacting monthly).
I wanted to see this because I loved Ghostbusters. Still, it’s an all-time fav of mine. Ray was my favourite.
And that was before I understood that he was getting rocking ghost bj's
I had no clue the movie was going to be filled with hot, steamy, PG-13 sexual situations! As an adult, this is all very tame stuff. Primetime, broadcast tv stuff even. But when I was a kid, very, very risque. It’s the first time I think I’ve heard someone talk about vibrators, and there was implied nudity!
She clearly has boobs that people could be seeing
To investigate the stolen magazine, Friday and Hank’s Pep Streebek pay a visit to the mansion of this movie’s Hugh Hefner stand-in, Jerry Caesar. Even without there being a single breast on the screen, the duo’s time at the estate was riveting to me; I knew that at one point, these girls had been naked and had naked pictures taken of their naked bodies! And right now, they were just in bikinis, which is really just like underwear, and they could potentially be naked again very quickly. What a movie!
Awesome natural 80's boobs
You just know this girl will be naked again one day!
To add further to this very sexually adult movie, a major plot-point centers on P.A.G.A.N. kidnapping a virgin to be sacrificed. For the rest of the movie, Friday continues to bring it up, calling her ‘The virgin Connie Swail’. That is until the end of the movie, when he just calls her ‘Connie Swail’, and Steebek says “Don’t you mean the virgin Connie Swail?” Friday’s reply is the opening theme and a raised eyebrow; the Rock would be proud.
Oh THAT kind of pie, I get it!
The rest of the movie sets up a morality vs indecency conflict and gets really silly, but it’s a comedy what else would you want. Easily one of the better updates from a television series. I still very much enjoy this movie, and it’s streaming on Netflix now if you want to give it a go. It’s by no means a classic, but in retrospect it was pretty important to my youth. It’s also probably the only movie where you get Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks rapping over closing credits.
Of course that was the past, and in our modern culture we have more sexy cops then ever. so lets take a moment to show our appreciation!
And Sophie gets two, because NWA had the right idea.
