In the pornographic-film industry, the people are presented with two separate yet equally important groups: the stepmothers, who are stuck in the dryer, and the stepsons, who accidentally took stepdad’s Viagra. These are their stories.
Clif
I have never seen or read anything with this premise, and yet I feel supremely confident that his been done, and almost as confident that it has been done much more than once.
Steamweed
Like any good adult film star, definitely been done more than once.
Nonsense. It’s the step sisters that are stuck in the dryer.
Steamweed
Well, the whole family, really.
Dang, those dryers are just traps, aren’t they.
Good on the pr0n industry, for bringing so much direly needed attention to this problem!
Sirksome
Also never expected them to be such strong advocates for adoption with all the step families.
jeaux
ROTFLMAO!!
Sharizard
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Police in TV shows are like royalty in Disney movies. It’s a pleasant fantasy of the way we wish these institutions worked, but no guide to the real world.
Throwatron
My favorite part is when the copaganda is willing to admit that there are bad cops, but every group of bad cops is a small cell that the Grizzled Soft Boy Leading Man can completely undermine and excise in a 50 minute episode – two of them, if it’s a season finale.
In every real police organization, the main characters of all these shows would be shot 15 times in the back during a routine bust for not backing the blue, and the investigation would come up finding no foul play.
I remember reading somewhere that folks in law enforcement said Night Court and Barney Miller were the TV shows closest to reality.
Wizard
Comedies tend to be more realistic than dramas. In real life, people mostly try to avoid drama. But people in bad situations often deal with humor, however dark. That’s why Scrubs was closer to reality than ER and people who have actually worked in radio love WKRP.
Bleuryder
I once heard that Scrubs was one of the most medically accurate shows on TV. Don’t know if that’s true, but IT DOES make sense (and honestly, more believable than other shows).
There’s a couple quick tests that indicate if a cop show is ‘copaganda’.
1: How do they portray Internal Affairs? This is the really big one, honestly–copaganda shows invariably show IA (or the local department’s equivalent) as either venally corrupt, woefully inept, or just flat-out envious of ‘real cops’. (Note: Barney Miller was an early adopter of this trope.)
2: If police corruption is part of the storyline, how is it portrayed? The copaganda approach invariably shows a lone bad cop, or at most a very small ring within the department. As soon as the ‘good cops’ find out about it, they devote their entire time to bringing down the corrupt elements, and they have the full backing of any senior officer who isn’t part of the active ring. There’s never any attempt to silence them from higher-ups (at most, there will be a reluctant warning that pursuing this could end the Good Cop’s career, but invariably, this never happens).
3: What kind of corruption is portrayed? Most copaganda shows will talk about ‘dirty cops’ who are ‘on the take’–ie, financial corruption that the Good Cops easily resist. They won’t feature cops who cut corners, strong-arm witnesses, abuse easily coerced suspects (like kids and the mentally disabled) into signing confessions, etc. (If anything, the copaganda show is likely to show sympathy to a Good Cop who is pushed into ‘bending the rules’ in order to put the scumbag behind bars.)
4: How often do the cops get it wrong? Does it portray any cases at all where the cops get a conviction, only to have it later revealed that no, the suspect as innocent all along? Or do they only ever get tricked by masterminds doing frame jobs (which they invariably uncover before someone spends ten years behind bars for a crime they didn’t commit)?
Don’t get me wrong–copaganda shows tend to be fun to watch. They portray, in many cases, the world we’d WANT to live in, where the majority of cops are focused on upholding the law and solving real crimes and making sure the innocent go free. And one of the big reasons we don’t live in that world is the truth behind ACAB–the Thin Blue Line mentality, which says the one thing you never, ever do is snitch on a fellow cop.
we know all cops are bastards, because ex-cops tell us so
good cops simply don’t last, in no small part because bad cops are enabled to harass them CONSTANTLY, sometimes to the point to which they’re driven to suicide
Unfortunately, while this is the best litmus test for copaganda, even copaganda shows once in a while portray it sort-of straight. For example, NCIS has had several story arcs about corruption in law enforcement (always other agencies, but it’s always a Big Deal,a dn systemic, when it happens). They’ve even had an episode where Gibbs put away someone who was innocent, and it was only discovered years later (at which time Our Heroes set things right).
Like I said, “sort-of straight.”
Mostly, though, it’s “zoom and enhance,” undeniable identification from partial prints, near-instantaneous results on DNA scans, and “we won’t rest until we solve this case” mentality resulting in no unsolved cases.
Needfuldoer
Grease Police brand degreaser is copaganda.
Allen Alberti
any show that DOESN’T subscribe to ACAB IS COPAGANDA.
The sheer physicality of D’Onofrio’s acting, especially in interrogation scenes, was astounding. Swooping and stalking and invading people’s personal space to disconcert them during his questioning: amazing.
Doopyboop
Most people know him as the ‘Men In Black cockroach guy’ or from Jurassic World but he’ll always be Goren to me.
It took a dive last year with a showrunner who kicked off the season with a “blonde girl kidnapped and trafficked with fentanyl” storyline, but they have new leadership again and it’s back on track!
Situation A – Getting arrested at a protest because you know that sometimes being arrested is part of the protest and you’ve got the wrong end of the stick here, but you think you’re doing something valiant and impactful.
Situation B – Getting arrested for being at a protest after it has been pointed out to you that you had the wrong end of the stick. Specifically after the school newspaper forcibly outed you and made that information public without regard for your safety or consent.
GOSH I WONDER WHY SHE FEELS DIFFERENTLY IN SUCH SIMILAR SITUATIONS??
C.T Phipps
It’d be funny if she said this only for Joyce to be, “Yes, being arrested for our love is so much more important!”
“Dorothy, I don’t think you understand. We have to take this all the way. We have to hold hands in the electric chair and die together.”
NickG
‘And when the man pulls that switch sir, and pulls my poor head back, just make sure my pretty baby’s, sitting right there in my lap.’ Nebraska : Bruce Springsteen.
Brazil had daylight saving even though it’s on the equator? Why even bother in the first place?
We’ve been trying to get it repealed in the U.S. for decades, it’s an absolutely terrible policy which has been proven to do a lot of harm, but people are so bad at understanding how time works that getting everyone to agree to stop it in the same way at the same time has been all but impossible. The very reason Daylight Saving is so confusing is the same reason people get tricked into thinking it’s ever helpful, and it’s an easy do-nothing policy for politicians who want to look like they’ve done something useful without directly spending any of the government’s own money.
It gets worse for friendships where one person is American and the other is in a non-Americountry that practices Daylight Saving Time.
Because DST lasts for more of the year in America than in other countries, so there are two periods of the year where our clocks are desynchronized in weirder ways than the usual timezone gap.
…because candy companies tried bribing the government for decades to extend it past Halloween, and finally succeeded during Bush Jr.’s term. So now more of the American year falls during DST than during Standard Time.
I despise how buyable our reality is, where bribes can dictate the very time on the clock. At least the extension makes it easy to remember which weekend it ends (the one after Halloween).
It’s a crappy reason, but given the option between making DST permanent or reverting to Standard permanently, I’d vote for Standard out of petty spite.
Clif
The advantage to Daylight savings time is that we get longer daylight when it’s actually useful. We need it even more in the winter with shorter days, but that’s when it goes away.
Needfuldoer
Exactly! I’d rather have that hour of daylight fall in the afternoon than in the early morning. Dark at 4 PM is worse than dark at 5 AM.
289 thoughts on “Sleep good”
Sirksome
Law in Order is a pretty good show. Still going strong too.
Sirksome
Law AND Order. Law in Order is the porn spin off.
Jon
In the pornographic-film industry, the people are presented with two separate yet equally important groups: the stepmothers, who are stuck in the dryer, and the stepsons, who accidentally took stepdad’s Viagra. These are their stories.
Clif
I have never seen or read anything with this premise, and yet I feel supremely confident that his been done, and almost as confident that it has been done much more than once.
Steamweed
Like any good adult film star, definitely been done more than once.
CianM1301
*DUN DUN*
Mravac Kid
Nonsense. It’s the step sisters that are stuck in the dryer.
Steamweed
Well, the whole family, really.
Dang, those dryers are just traps, aren’t they.
Good on the pr0n industry, for bringing so much direly needed attention to this problem!
Sirksome
Also never expected them to be such strong advocates for adoption with all the step families.
jeaux
ROTFLMAO!!
Sharizard
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jonathan young
DINK DINK!
UrsulaDavina
“Dun dun.”
Enkrod
Meh, it’s really obvious copaganda.
Olofa
Police in TV shows are like royalty in Disney movies. It’s a pleasant fantasy of the way we wish these institutions worked, but no guide to the real world.
Throwatron
My favorite part is when the copaganda is willing to admit that there are bad cops, but every group of bad cops is a small cell that the Grizzled Soft Boy Leading Man can completely undermine and excise in a 50 minute episode – two of them, if it’s a season finale.
In every real police organization, the main characters of all these shows would be shot 15 times in the back during a routine bust for not backing the blue, and the investigation would come up finding no foul play.
Kyulen
Don’t trust copaganda TV shows.
Needfuldoer
What about Night Court?
Charlie Spencer
I remember reading somewhere that folks in law enforcement said Night Court and Barney Miller were the TV shows closest to reality.
Wizard
Comedies tend to be more realistic than dramas. In real life, people mostly try to avoid drama. But people in bad situations often deal with humor, however dark. That’s why Scrubs was closer to reality than ER and people who have actually worked in radio love WKRP.
Bleuryder
I once heard that Scrubs was one of the most medically accurate shows on TV. Don’t know if that’s true, but IT DOES make sense (and honestly, more believable than other shows).
Freezer
I feel like that term gets thrown around a bit too freely. Like any show that doesn’t subscribe to ACAB is “copaganda.”
Freemage
There’s a couple quick tests that indicate if a cop show is ‘copaganda’.
1: How do they portray Internal Affairs? This is the really big one, honestly–copaganda shows invariably show IA (or the local department’s equivalent) as either venally corrupt, woefully inept, or just flat-out envious of ‘real cops’. (Note: Barney Miller was an early adopter of this trope.)
2: If police corruption is part of the storyline, how is it portrayed? The copaganda approach invariably shows a lone bad cop, or at most a very small ring within the department. As soon as the ‘good cops’ find out about it, they devote their entire time to bringing down the corrupt elements, and they have the full backing of any senior officer who isn’t part of the active ring. There’s never any attempt to silence them from higher-ups (at most, there will be a reluctant warning that pursuing this could end the Good Cop’s career, but invariably, this never happens).
3: What kind of corruption is portrayed? Most copaganda shows will talk about ‘dirty cops’ who are ‘on the take’–ie, financial corruption that the Good Cops easily resist. They won’t feature cops who cut corners, strong-arm witnesses, abuse easily coerced suspects (like kids and the mentally disabled) into signing confessions, etc. (If anything, the copaganda show is likely to show sympathy to a Good Cop who is pushed into ‘bending the rules’ in order to put the scumbag behind bars.)
4: How often do the cops get it wrong? Does it portray any cases at all where the cops get a conviction, only to have it later revealed that no, the suspect as innocent all along? Or do they only ever get tricked by masterminds doing frame jobs (which they invariably uncover before someone spends ten years behind bars for a crime they didn’t commit)?
Don’t get me wrong–copaganda shows tend to be fun to watch. They portray, in many cases, the world we’d WANT to live in, where the majority of cops are focused on upholding the law and solving real crimes and making sure the innocent go free. And one of the big reasons we don’t live in that world is the truth behind ACAB–the Thin Blue Line mentality, which says the one thing you never, ever do is snitch on a fellow cop.
Freezer
You just described every cop show this side of NYPD Blue.
NGPZ
we know all cops are bastards, because ex-cops tell us so
good cops simply don’t last, in no small part because bad cops are enabled to harass them CONSTANTLY, sometimes to the point to which they’re driven to suicide
https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
NGPZ
* even ex cops tell us so
Michelle J Caboose
Unfortunately, while this is the best litmus test for copaganda, even copaganda shows once in a while portray it sort-of straight. For example, NCIS has had several story arcs about corruption in law enforcement (always other agencies, but it’s always a Big Deal,a dn systemic, when it happens). They’ve even had an episode where Gibbs put away someone who was innocent, and it was only discovered years later (at which time Our Heroes set things right).
Like I said, “sort-of straight.”
Mostly, though, it’s “zoom and enhance,” undeniable identification from partial prints, near-instantaneous results on DNA scans, and “we won’t rest until we solve this case” mentality resulting in no unsolved cases.
Needfuldoer
Grease Police brand degreaser is copaganda.
Allen Alberti
any show that DOESN’T subscribe to ACAB IS COPAGANDA.
also, ACAB.
Olofa
But does he like Law And Order, or does he like law, and order?
Wizard
Let’s hope it’s the former. The lawn order crowd is usually ready to chuck law out the window if it interferes with their preferred order.
Olofa
True.
Nono
Tony likes big dicks, you say? O.O
darkoneko
nice avatar
Pocky
Tony for more bi rep? I’ll take it lol
Risky
Like a beer can, as in exactly the same dimensions.
Olofa
And she cannot lie.
Steamweed
Surrounded by a truckload of muscle!
O.O O.O O.O
deliverything
You know, that sounds like a description of Steven (AKA Beef). His only in-comic interaction with Tony was in https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-15/03-me-and-who-you-say-i-was-yesterday/steven/ but we don’t know what they get up to the rest of the time. Certainly, that strip implies Tony’s familiar with his room.
Wizard
Getting sudden Heathers vibes.
yak
no no, he likes having one.
It helps him feel confident.
Doopyboop
I preferred SVU out of all the law and orders, although I fell off the past few years. No idea what’s happening in the newest seasons.
cbwroses
I’m more of a Criminal Intent guy, but really just for Goren and Eames.
Doopyboop
Oh Goren and Eames were the SHIT, loved Criminal Intent too.
Ray Radlein
The sheer physicality of D’Onofrio’s acting, especially in interrogation scenes, was astounding. Swooping and stalking and invading people’s personal space to disconcert them during his questioning: amazing.
Doopyboop
Most people know him as the ‘Men In Black cockroach guy’ or from Jurassic World but he’ll always be Goren to me.
TGS
He’ll always be Private Pyle to me.
Doopyboop
Oh his role as Private Pyle was mindblowing.
Ray Radlein
He’ll always be the doomed guy trapped between the subway train and the platform in Baltimore to me
turbojet
He made a pretty good Robert E Howard, too.
cbwroses
Nor private Pyle!
Learned something new!
cbwroses
I never realized he was cockroach guy!
Needfuldoer
Especially heinous things.
Helen
It took a dive last year with a showrunner who kicked off the season with a “blonde girl kidnapped and trafficked with fentanyl” storyline, but they have new leadership again and it’s back on track!
darkoneko
…okay ?
Clif
Trust Sarah to concentrate on what’s important.
shadowcell
sounding pretty firsty there, sarah
Pocky
I’m glad Sarah is still Sarah lol
Spacie
Well “Going on a year now she hadn’t had anything twixt her nerthers that don’t run on batteries.”
jeffepp
Yes, this will doom your relationship.
C.T Phipps
Dorothy is acting very weird about law and order when she was all about getting arrested and disrupting the protest.
Li
She is awkwardly expressing concern about whether or not Tony is the type to get people in trouble for being at a protest.
Jon
Yeah, sometimes you can regret those big transgressive acts after the fact, or get paranoid that there will be consequences.
Regret/concern about the thing you did doesn’t erase how you felt when you were doing it (for good, or ill).
Nymph
Situation A – Getting arrested at a protest because you know that sometimes being arrested is part of the protest and you’ve got the wrong end of the stick here, but you think you’re doing something valiant and impactful.
Situation B – Getting arrested for being at a protest after it has been pointed out to you that you had the wrong end of the stick. Specifically after the school newspaper forcibly outed you and made that information public without regard for your safety or consent.
GOSH I WONDER WHY SHE FEELS DIFFERENTLY IN SUCH SIMILAR SITUATIONS??
C.T Phipps
It’d be funny if she said this only for Joyce to be, “Yes, being arrested for our love is so much more important!”
Taffy
“Dorothy, I don’t think you understand. We have to take this all the way. We have to hold hands in the electric chair and die together.”
NickG
‘And when the man pulls that switch sir, and pulls my poor head back, just make sure my pretty baby’s, sitting right there in my lap.’ Nebraska : Bruce Springsteen.
MK15
*Duh duhn*
Amós Batista
off: Thanks, Jair Bolsonaro, for banning the daylight savings, at end of year.
Now, I have to wait for 2AM until next update.
Thank you, I hope next guy doesn’t miss it, like Adelio did
Strain Of Thought
Brazil had daylight saving even though it’s on the equator? Why even bother in the first place?
We’ve been trying to get it repealed in the U.S. for decades, it’s an absolutely terrible policy which has been proven to do a lot of harm, but people are so bad at understanding how time works that getting everyone to agree to stop it in the same way at the same time has been all but impossible. The very reason Daylight Saving is so confusing is the same reason people get tricked into thinking it’s ever helpful, and it’s an easy do-nothing policy for politicians who want to look like they’ve done something useful without directly spending any of the government’s own money.
Gigafreak
It gets worse for friendships where one person is American and the other is in a non-Americountry that practices Daylight Saving Time.
Because DST lasts for more of the year in America than in other countries, so there are two periods of the year where our clocks are desynchronized in weirder ways than the usual timezone gap.
…because candy companies tried bribing the government for decades to extend it past Halloween, and finally succeeded during Bush Jr.’s term. So now more of the American year falls during DST than during Standard Time.
I despise how buyable our reality is, where bribes can dictate the very time on the clock. At least the extension makes it easy to remember which weekend it ends (the one after Halloween).
It’s a crappy reason, but given the option between making DST permanent or reverting to Standard permanently, I’d vote for Standard out of petty spite.
Clif
The advantage to Daylight savings time is that we get longer daylight when it’s actually useful. We need it even more in the winter with shorter days, but that’s when it goes away.
Needfuldoer
Exactly! I’d rather have that hour of daylight fall in the afternoon than in the early morning. Dark at 4 PM is worse than dark at 5 AM.