Squad 85
{{Infobox television
| image = Squad85.png
| image_size = 250
| genre = Comedy
| creator = Gregory Bonsignore
| opentheme =
| theme_music_composer = Jeff Bowen
| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 6
| executive_producer = Justin Lin
Gregory Bonsignore
| producer = Andrew Beck
Reena Dutt
Parvesh Cheena
| location = Hollywood, California
Sunset Gower Studios
New York City
| camera = Single-camera
| company = YOMYOMF
| channel = YOMYOMF
| first_aired = {{Start date|2009|11|13}}
| last_aired = present
}}
Squad 85 is an American comedy series created by Gregory Bonsignore that premiered on November 13, 2012, on Justin Lin's YOMYOMF Network.{{Cite web |title=The YOMYOMF Network - YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/yomyomf |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=www.youtube.com |archive-date=2024-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240421013356/https://www.youtube.com/yomyomf |url-status=live }} The series premise establishes that, "In 1985 the Los Angeles Police Department experimented with a secret Time-Travel division, catapulting four of L.A.'s finest 25 years into the future. That future... is NOW!" Wherein four cops from 1985 time travel to present day, meeting their Chief and Bobby a new recruit to form their own police squad. The series satirizes many 1980s Cop tropes as well as other movies and shows.{{cite web |url=http://www.collider.com/squad-85-set-visit/210837/ |title=SQUAD 85 Set Visit Report. Justin Lin Produced SQUAD 85 {{!}} Collider |website=www.collider.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120015107/http://collider.com/squad-85-set-visit/210837 |archive-date=2012-11-20}}
Squad 85 has received acclaim from critics and has gained a cult following. They have finished photography on Series 1.
The Trailer debuted November 5, 2012.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4NfuqulsYI |title=Squad 85 Trailer (Official) |language=en |access-date=2024-05-13 |via=www.youtube.com |archive-date=2023-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604150007/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4NfuqulsYI |url-status=live }}
Cast and characters
The show focuses on an ensemble of police working out of an old graffiti-tatted L.A. squad house.{{cite web |title=Squad85 |url=http://www.squad85.com/ |access-date=8 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110230601/http://www.squad85.com/ |archive-date=November 10, 2012 |language=en |url-status=unfit}}
=The Squad=
- Bobby "The Rookie" (Christopher Larkin)
- Rusty "The Heartthrob" (Travis Van Winkle)
- Tori "...disguises?" (Ceci Fernandez)
- Bronx "The Muscle" (Gregory Bonsignore)
- Wheels "The Brains" (Milauna Jemai)
- The Chief "Undercover Asian Woman" (Jeff Biehl)
=Additional cast=
- Arch-Villain "Alan" Rickman (Parvesh Cheena)
- The Commissioner (Diedrich Bader)
- Special Needs Nathan (RJ Mitte)
- Luis (Armand Vasquez)
- The Assistant Principal (Rizwan Manji)
- Rogers (Bryan Coffee)
- Macey (Jeff Hiller)
- Rachel (Jen Winters)
- The Reporter (Sonal Shah)
- The Scientist (Danny Pudi)
- The Dancer (Ethan Zachery Scott)
Episodes
A Police Academy grad is assigned to a top-secret Squad, and is immediately on the case of a new drug ring at Dukakis High.
- Episode 2: It's Not the Work, It's the Stares:{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QrS70CvpH0 |title=Squad 85 (Ep 2 of 6) |language=en |access-date=2024-05-13 |via=www.youtube.com |archive-date=2023-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605064622/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QrS70CvpH0 |url-status=live }}
To see the crime scene, the Squad goes undercover, unnecessarily, as 80's-themed call girls.
The Squad heads back to Dukakis High to interrogate the most surprising of drug dealers (Guest star: RJ Mitte – Breaking Bad).
References and sources
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=Sources=
- {{cite web |last=Daniels |first=Hunter |title=Collider Goes to the Set of SQUAD 85, Justin Lin's Web Series About Time-Traveling Cops from the 1980s |date=17 November 2012 | website=Collider | url=http://collider.com/squad-85-set-visit/210837/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120015107/https://collider.com/squad-85-set-visit/210837/ |archive-date=20 November 2012 }}
- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111192754/http://instinctmagazine.com/blogs/blog/new-cop-comedy-webseries-squad-85-premieres-tonight |date=November 11, 2013}}
- {{cite web |title=Squad85 |url=http://www.squad85.com/ |access-date=8 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110230601/http://www.squad85.com/ |archive-date=November 10, 2012 |language=en |url-status=unfit}}
- {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/yomyomf | title=The YOMYOMF Network - YouTube | website=YouTube }}
- {{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2502428/ | title=Squad 85 | website=IMDb }}
- {{cite web | url=http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/squad-85.html | title=Watch Squad 85, a Twisted Time Traveling Cop Show Spoof | date=15 November 2012 }}
- {{cite web |last=Mitsuzuka |first=Hiko |title='Squad 85': A Time-Traveling High School Cop Comedy for the YouTube Generation (Part 1) |date=12 November 2012 |website=Hotter in Hollywood | url=http://www.hotterinhollywood.com/original/2012/11/on-the-set-of-the-time-traveling-high-school-cop-comedy-squad-85.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126144408/http://www.hotterinhollywood.com:80/original/2012/11/on-the-set-of-the-time-traveling-high-school-cop-comedy-squad-85.html |archive-date=26 November 2012}}