• mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    Not the addition of a character but a complete rewrite of a character on Police Cops. Max Power was such a dashing cool cop for the pilot but soon after they rewrote him to be a fat bumbling oaf…

    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      Wasn’t the cool cop named Homer Simpson in the pilot, who then became an idiot laughing stock, causing people also named Homer Simpson to change their name to Max Power, after a hairdryer?

      And that’s the end of that case.

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      8 days ago

      Also wasn’t he originally written as being independently wealthy? I think that aspect was also lost in the character transition.