It is interesting to look at the show again and see political humor that was a rarity back during its original airing that is so commonplace now. The right embraced this show, but was taking a drubbing through one POV unless the satire was embraced as dogma. Sledge even made an allusion to invading Afghanistan as well as waterboarding and I don’t think that was even commonplace back then, certainly not to be referenced on a sitcom.
shareIt's the Absolutely Fabulous of police sitcoms.
shareThe Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the US unofficially helped train a resistance force rather than invade, this just being 4 years after the fall of Saigon.
shareThere was plenty of political humor on some shows back in the '80s, and in movie and music videos---there was even a puppet show on NBC that was a straight-up political satire that made fun of politicians---can't recall the name of it for anything, but it was an American remake of a popular Brit satire series. And I don't recall Sledgehammer ever getting enough of an audience to be embraced by anyone, let alone the right.
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