Quincy does not like punk rock
Quincy was always good, I will not even argue about it, but I saw the best ever episode of the great early 80s show last night: the crime-investigating coroner was looking into a murder that happened during a bout of slamdancing at a punk rock show.
It's particularly great because not only does it have a made-up band (Mayhem), young actors who look like they've never even heard punk rock music let alone dressed the part before (check out the hair and the bad make-up) but it's an all-out attack on the punk culture with a disbelieving Quincy shaking his head saying "Why would people listen to music that makes you hate when you could listen to music that makes you love." LOL
The best part sees old Quince go on a Springer-style talk show to warn about punk rock's evils and attempt to save a young girl who has been lured into its terrible world. The host asks him if he really believes punk music was responsible for the death of the young man and wagging his finger like some telly evangelist, Quincy replies passionately "I believe that the music I heard is a killer. It’s a killer of hope. It’s a killer of spirit!"
It's particularly great because not only does it have a made-up band (Mayhem), young actors who look like they've never even heard punk rock music let alone dressed the part before (check out the hair and the bad make-up) but it's an all-out attack on the punk culture with a disbelieving Quincy shaking his head saying "Why would people listen to music that makes you hate when you could listen to music that makes you love." LOL
The best part sees old Quince go on a Springer-style talk show to warn about punk rock's evils and attempt to save a young girl who has been lured into its terrible world. The host asks him if he really believes punk music was responsible for the death of the young man and wagging his finger like some telly evangelist, Quincy replies passionately "I believe that the music I heard is a killer. It’s a killer of hope. It’s a killer of spirit!"
He also goes to a punk rock show and convinces the club owner to let him go up on the stage dressed in his cords and sweater to appeal to the crowd about the whereabouts of the teenage girl he's trying to find only to be met with snotty kids laughing and yelling at the poor, disappointed Quince: "I sure as hell wouldn't tell a cop, cos all you are, man, is a dog with a uniform!" shouts one decidedly unpunk-rock looking young man; "You're the killers, your whole sick society, that's who's guilty man, we're just your lousy scapegoats!" says another; "Besides man, who the hell cares?!" finishes a curly-haired guy (were white-guy afros even allowed in punk rock?) who looks like his mates drew over his face with make-up while he was asleep.
Of course it turns out it was a punk-loving girl who stabbed her best friend Abby's boyfriend while high and slamdancing, you know, because who hasn't had the urge to pick up an icepick and thrust it at people in a crowd while under the influence? (She then tries to give Abby, who is the main suspect, a fatal allergic reaction so the case will be closed and she won't be blamed.) The tearful Abby returns to her upper middle class life and twin-set suited mother sobbing "It could have been me! I could have easily picked up that icepick!"
So true, punk rock and icepicks never go together, it only leads to tragedy, as Quincy only knows all too well.
Genius.
Of course it turns out it was a punk-loving girl who stabbed her best friend Abby's boyfriend while high and slamdancing, you know, because who hasn't had the urge to pick up an icepick and thrust it at people in a crowd while under the influence? (She then tries to give Abby, who is the main suspect, a fatal allergic reaction so the case will be closed and she won't be blamed.) The tearful Abby returns to her upper middle class life and twin-set suited mother sobbing "It could have been me! I could have easily picked up that icepick!"
So true, punk rock and icepicks never go together, it only leads to tragedy, as Quincy only knows all too well.
Genius.
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