3:21 Andy hits the car with his cane and lets it fly out of his hand. He stands without it. This is symbolic of him giving up his crutch and standing on his own two feet. The crutch may have represented his obsession with Giardello or his alcoholism.
@@SMGJohn true. It's one of those things you hear all the time about everything that when a true gem presents itself the meaning is lost. Kinda like #1 New York Times Bestseller.
@@jameswilliams-zr8co The thing I will never understand about you people, is how you have so little value in life that you find it a mission to defend something like a TV series or other completely meaningless stuff from critique.
@@SMGJohn stop assuming things clueless kid lol and who says i have "little value in life", no one, your a coward and clueless kid..and look at your lame pathetic comments, seems YOU have no common sense or little value in life.. moron
@@stevezisk3415 this is my little pond and I'm the big fish who runs it so you capped two low lives fine I'll send your captain in LA an accommodation meanwhile you get the hell out of my airport
So many emotions felt while watching Andy fight and claw and struggle to maintain his self worth and dignity. When a Pal tells you "I Think There's A Lot More Left In You" while it's chaotic around you...it's funny how that is the only thing you hear! Andy heard John loud and clear even while the Bust of The Wig Master and his Dingus Squad of Muppets was going down. One of those Slow Motion Moments when everything is so clear and quiet at the same time. It's a wonderful thing when a 3 plus minute video reminds me that Life Is Good and I'll be okay after all. Cheers From Ohio Everyone!
"Back in my day..." yada yada yada. The world has changed--for the better? Worse? I guess that depends on whether you can deal with Life or not. Things always change, buddy. You can adapt and survive and be bitter and miserable as you "think" the world is falling apart because nobody is worth anything anymore....but then again, all the old phucks say that right? It was always better "back in the day". Yeah, you know why? You were much younger. That's the only real difference. Don't piss on all of it for the next generations, that's just dumbass bullshittery. There have been a good number of solid shows since NYPD Blue, if you take the time to check them out and remove your grumpy old boomer hat. And hey, I was born in the 60s, so save your usual reply for the millenials and just sack up, ffs. I'm not quite a boomer but I guess I'm close enough to just say to hell with your "glory days" mentality. "Get busy living or get busy dying." I think that's the quote that sums it up here.
Watching this 100 times it never gets old especially andy throwing his cane at the car while calling giardella a big ape is just absolutely classically hilarious 😂😂
That emotion from Franz in the car is what you call " real acting". In the same vain as Columbo, Perry Mason, Tony soprano, Walter white, we was blessed to have Andy for 12 years. Change isn't always fast. It took 12 years to see a man completely change. This show wasn't the most original cop show but it made you feel. Best season and best start of most shows. But thats because milch had more time to write the show since they had a disagreement in 92 with ABC and had to rewrite and change somethings. These characters are already thought out unlike others in the first handful of episodes or season.
That first year of that show was a classic year thanks to David Caruso and Dennis Franz. Boy, they really had chemistry together on screen while playing those police characters on NYPD Blue. Just great acting and great scripts. The writing was excellent! That was the best season in my opinion. I was so sorry to see David Caruso leave.
I love this clip from beginning to end. Picking one moment, in a strong field (season 1), this is the best of John Kelly. Whatever else, to (help) bring Andy from where he was when the show begins to this, is being a friend and a hero. Side note -- contrary to what I posted on one of these clips, the finale with Lois is not in the restaurant with Andy trying to relive the old days. It's in the season 2, Kelly finale, when she is (indirectly) responsible for the death of Howie Hornbeck. It precedes a very funny effort from Greg & Andy to get Howie's body dressed and in his car...
Ian Bellis -- If you know the season and episode number or the title of the episode where they were trying to get the dead guy in the car, please share that info with us. Thanks!
Recently reminded the actor playing Alphonse Giardella plays the cop who gets Bruce Willis's car towed at the start of Die Hard 2. A movie featuring Dennis Franz playing, stunningly, a cop. Seem to remember Franz saying Sipowicz was his something like 28th cop role. They won't, but if they ever rebooted NYPD Blue, it would have to focus elsewhere. No one else could even have a go at Sipowicz.
@@ianbellis7064 They were going to, they even had Kim Delaney and Bill Brochtup, (Diane and John), and it would focus on an adult Theo, after Andy was murdered. Thank merciful God, intelligence prevailed, and the whole thing was shit canned. Leave well enough alone, unless you can do it right, which they can't.
Especially the dont trip over your cane tiny tim and what are you going to do tie my shoelaces together and make me look like a jerk some other way? So many hilarious lines in this scene
At the time, ... we were all stupid when we were younger, and I was pretty young when I watched Hill Street Blues, and to me Sipowicz and Norm Buntz seemed like very similar characters. Rewatching those shows decades later I can see that they we far more dimensional and far more different than I had thought. My favorite Norm Buntz scene was when he was ... when the Captain arrives at the scene and finds IAB saying it appears to be a completely justified shooting, except that the Coroner hasn't been able to get to the body because Norm is so pissed off that he keeps attacking the guy, shouting about "You just HAD to make me do it! You think everybody doesn't know that I wanted to kill you?" Norm figured he had just ended his career because, on top of a pile of other reasons people would like to see him fired, he had good reason to want to kill the suspect but had been restraining himself, but saw the guy draw a gun to shoot a rookie cop in the back. Both were cops who had gone to a very bad place and were trying to stay cops and become a better person, but beyond that they weren't very similar at all.
I remember a reviewer commenting on the boldness of this show, that they spent a whole season on getting to know and care about John Kelly, and then he leaves. Mind, it was known at the time that it wasn't the producers' choice: David Caruso had only signed for the first season, and felt he had better opportunities elsewhere when it came time to renew. But for the first season it really seemed like he was the central character and everyone else was well-developed supporting cast, and having that rug yanked out from under you ... is why I started watching the first time around.
It is next to impossible to state how firmly I disagree. Franz's 12 seasons of portraying Andy Sipowicz is not just the magnum opus of a great career, its a masterpiece that other can only emulate decades later, never surpass. Perhaps with your taste in actors you should follow something such as the Muppet Show or Rugrats?
*1:50** All it takes is an ounce of Humility, a little Willingness and 12 Seasons* 😉
3:21 Andy hits the car with his cane and lets it fly out of his hand. He stands without it. This is symbolic of him giving up his crutch and standing on his own two feet. The crutch may have represented his obsession with Giardello or his alcoholism.
thanks for the quality comment
Awesome Comment 63 Kraft! Best Test Score.....Period! Cheers
Holy Crap how'd I miss it 😮 I just thought it was Sipowicz being Sipowicz.
This show was so far ahead of its time in so many ways
No offense, I heard that, about every TV series out there LOL
This one is certainly good though no doubt about that.
@@SMGJohn true. It's one of those things you hear all the time about everything that when a true gem presents itself the meaning is lost.
Kinda like #1 New York Times Bestseller.
@@SMGJohn no you haven't lol and name some than kid. NYPD was ahead of its time, and real.. the language, nudity, and the story lines
@@jameswilliams-zr8co
The thing I will never understand about you people, is how you have so little value in life that you find it a mission to defend something like a TV series or other completely meaningless stuff from critique.
@@SMGJohn stop assuming things clueless kid lol and who says i have "little value in life", no one, your a coward and clueless kid..and look at your lame pathetic comments, seems YOU have no common sense or little value in life.. moron
These two must've had a serious falling out after meeting John McClane at the airport.
Yeah that's right he played Vito who had towed McClanes car away "well have santa Claus buy you another car"
Did you get a ticket at my Airport
@@stevezisk3415 this is my little pond and I'm the big fish who runs it so you capped two low lives fine I'll send your captain in LA an accommodation meanwhile you get the hell out of my airport
Vito and Carmine were brothers. Turns out Vito turned to a life of crime while Carmine transfered to New York.
Like x1000!!!
Watching Kelly smirk as Sipowicz loses it on Giardella is classic.
That was gold.
That smirk on John's face as Andy is ripping that guy a new one.
So many emotions felt while watching Andy fight and claw and struggle to maintain his self worth and dignity. When a Pal tells you "I Think There's A Lot More Left In You" while it's chaotic around you...it's funny how that is the only thing you hear! Andy heard John loud and clear even while the Bust of The Wig Master and his Dingus Squad of Muppets was going down. One of those Slow Motion Moments when everything is so clear and quiet at the same time. It's a wonderful thing when a 3 plus minute video reminds me that Life Is Good and I'll be okay after all. Cheers From Ohio Everyone!
"HEY WATCH THAT WIG CLIMBING INTO THE VEHICLE 🚑!!! "
I was chuckling so damn hard. 😁 😆
I never watched the series regularly. This is a great refresher.
Please tell me the season and episode or title of this show. I've been wanting to see it again. Thank you!
Fantastic show, I miss the good old days when you had to wait once a week to see our favourite shows. The world has changed, and not for the better.
Yeah, but streaming/binge-watching shows is not even worth complaining about. Worry about real issues like saving our planet, or our democracy.
He was not complaining. He just made an observation. Lighten up!@@brientaylorcohen
Yes. It made the week more "doable." I can do *whatever* today because come Thursday, my favorite show is on. And each season had so many episodes!
"Back in my day..." yada yada yada. The world has changed--for the better? Worse? I guess that depends on whether you can deal with Life or not. Things always change, buddy. You can adapt and survive and be bitter and miserable as you "think" the world is falling apart because nobody is worth anything anymore....but then again, all the old phucks say that right? It was always better "back in the day". Yeah, you know why? You were much younger. That's the only real difference. Don't piss on all of it for the next generations, that's just dumbass bullshittery. There have been a good number of solid shows since NYPD Blue, if you take the time to check them out and remove your grumpy old boomer hat. And hey, I was born in the 60s, so save your usual reply for the millenials and just sack up, ffs. I'm not quite a boomer but I guess I'm close enough to just say to hell with your "glory days" mentality. "Get busy living or get busy dying." I think that's the quote that sums it up here.
I am so glad Andy's arc finally landed him in a happy place by the show's finale.
This entire season I could not take my eyes off John Kelly. What an all time performance!
I fell in love at 1st sight. Still love David Caruso. And he found fame on CSI Miami, so we could see him again. ❤
John smiling as Andy does his thing in the street is so damn wholesome.
It was really John at first to see there was the potential for Andy to become a better person despite his demons.
Watching this 100 times it never gets old especially andy throwing his cane at the car while calling giardella a big ape is just absolutely classically hilarious 😂😂
That emotion from Franz in the car is what you call " real acting". In the same vain as Columbo, Perry Mason, Tony soprano, Walter white, we was blessed to have Andy for 12 years. Change isn't always fast. It took 12 years to see a man completely change. This show wasn't the most original cop show but it made you feel.
Best season and best start of most shows. But thats because milch had more time to write the show since they had a disagreement in 92 with ABC and had to rewrite and change somethings. These characters are already thought out unlike others in the first handful of episodes or season.
I always laugh my ass off when andy calls giardella a big ape
"Hey McClane say hi to my brother Vito."
"Merry Christmas."
"Hi."
That first year of that show was a classic year thanks to David Caruso and Dennis Franz. Boy, they really had chemistry together on screen while playing those police characters on NYPD Blue. Just great acting and great scripts. The writing was excellent! That was the best season in my opinion. I was so sorry to see David Caruso leave.
3:14 John looks like he's having the time of his life! I don't blame him!
Aaaand, Andy's back.
Franz is a national treasure but Caruso was a master psychologist. genius scene
"What are you gonna do? Throw your wig at me?"
Amazing what a little bit of anger will do for you in a positive way!
One of their best scenes ever. Crack me up too.
The "Ha ha!" at the ends gets me. 😆
Sipowicz - the legend
Great scene!!!
Loved this scene
I love the attitude from the bartender. Total nyc type.
I watched this show religiously from start to finish God how I miss those days
Andy was a real live wire 🤣
Loved that clip
The 5 characters who saw something in Andy and helped him on his journey - John Kelly Jr, Silvia Costas,Lt Arthur Fancy,Bobby Simone, Connie McDowell.
Best cop show ever...
I am 2 episodes in and this show is fucking great!
It just came over the teletype,John Rambo is a war hero..a Green Beret.I knew it
That was Brilliant...
A twelve year journey with many ups and downs that lesser men could not survive.
i remember watching this middle of 90´s (there was something being kid and non-american) 5/5 series.
the cinematography was way ahead of its time.
Watch that wig climbing into the vehicle!
Dennis Franz, one of the best.
I miss John Kelly so much. Was so in love with him.
👏👏 para os dois, especialmente o ator David Caruso.
It's a shame the way things ended with David Caruso. There was such good chemistry between David and Dennis.
I laugh when John's dragging Andy out repeatedly saying "In the car....in the car" because I do the exact same thing to my 3yr old.
I love this clip from beginning to end. Picking one moment, in a strong field (season 1), this is the best of John Kelly. Whatever else, to (help) bring Andy from where he was when the show begins to this, is being a friend and a hero.
Side note -- contrary to what I posted on one of these clips, the finale with Lois is not in the restaurant with Andy trying to relive the old days. It's in the season 2, Kelly finale, when she is (indirectly) responsible for the death of Howie Hornbeck. It precedes a very funny effort from Greg & Andy to get Howie's body dressed and in his car...
Ian Bellis -- If you know the season and episode number or the title of the episode where they were trying to get the dead guy in the car, please share that info with us. Thanks!
@@colleenv.9540 season 2, ep 4? Last Ep for Caruso
Recently reminded the actor playing Alphonse Giardella plays the cop who gets Bruce Willis's car towed at the start of Die Hard 2. A movie featuring Dennis Franz playing, stunningly, a cop. Seem to remember Franz saying Sipowicz was his something like 28th cop role. They won't, but if they ever rebooted NYPD Blue, it would have to focus elsewhere. No one else could even have a go at Sipowicz.
@@ianbellis7064 They were going to, they even had Kim Delaney and Bill Brochtup, (Diane and John), and it would focus on an adult Theo, after Andy was murdered. Thank merciful God, intelligence prevailed, and the whole thing was shit canned. Leave well enough alone, unless you can do it right, which they can't.
Cause the lividity's all wrong.
It's really hard to outshine Dennis Franz when he gets going. David Caruso did it with ease.
I like Andy Sipowitz. He had a short fuse like my old Phys Ed teacher, Mr. Halladay.
Alright Andy!!! Alright John!
1. I don't need no steroid case for an interpreter.
2. What are you gonna do? Throw your wig at me?
I'm dead lol.
Especially the dont trip over your cane tiny tim and what are you going to do tie my shoelaces together and make me look like a jerk some other way? So many hilarious lines in this scene
Your in my little pond now and I'm the big fish who runs it
The Borko of NYPD Blue thank you! january161992
At the time, ... we were all stupid when we were younger, and I was pretty young when I watched Hill Street Blues, and to me Sipowicz and Norm Buntz seemed like very similar characters. Rewatching those shows decades later I can see that they we far more dimensional and far more different than I had thought.
My favorite Norm Buntz scene was when he was ... when the Captain arrives at the scene and finds IAB saying it appears to be a completely justified shooting, except that the Coroner hasn't been able to get to the body because Norm is so pissed off that he keeps attacking the guy, shouting about "You just HAD to make me do it! You think everybody doesn't know that I wanted to kill you?"
Norm figured he had just ended his career because, on top of a pile of other reasons people would like to see him fired, he had good reason to want to kill the suspect but had been restraining himself, but saw the guy draw a gun to shoot a rookie cop in the back.
Both were cops who had gone to a very bad place and were trying to stay cops and become a better person, but beyond that they weren't very similar at all.
1:11 1:28 1:39 1:32 1:37 1:42 3:21 1:50
Caruso was so good
„Let it go“
i wish Caruso would of stayed with the show. he was great.
Andy’s Cane.
I guess Andy doing the interrogation is out of the question??.........LOL.
Uncle Andy!
Kelly could reach Andy in ways his other partners never did.
"you wanna tie my shoelaces together and make make me look like a jerk some other way?!?"
Is it the same pub from the film Black Rain?
We got to watch this for free,
Sometimes I miss that raw edginess when you first get sober. Just kidding. not really.
Stopping drinking was just the beginning.
It’s weird, I forgot David was even on this show
I remember a reviewer commenting on the boldness of this show, that they spent a whole season on getting to know and care about John Kelly, and then he leaves.
Mind, it was known at the time that it wasn't the producers' choice: David Caruso had only signed for the first season, and felt he had better opportunities elsewhere when it came time to renew. But for the first season it really seemed like he was the central character and everyone else was well-developed supporting cast, and having that rug yanked out from under you ... is why I started watching the first time around.
arduous = tumultuous.......
I would have watched this show if the damn camera hadnt moved so much
It's a shame Caruso left the show so early......!!!!!!
Just realized the taller guy is the same actor that called Bobby an asshole in season 4 I believe? 5?
THIS SHOW NEEDS TO RETURN!!
The revival pilot was not picked up in 2018/19. If it were it would've started with Theo investigating Andy's death
Cafe Wah in the Background, owner For years bye Manny Roth, David Lee Roths uncle
He go into bar pull out some money say line up start drinking
I Don’t Care! I Don’t Drink Boozes!!
2:05 2:06 2:07
He was the worst actor ever
It is next to impossible to state how firmly I disagree. Franz's 12 seasons of portraying Andy Sipowicz is not just the magnum opus of a great career, its a masterpiece that other can only emulate decades later, never surpass. Perhaps with your taste in actors you should follow something such as the Muppet Show or Rugrats?
@@markmullins8622 I was talking about Caruso dumbfuck
@@mistersmith6593 aww did caruso forget to take you to the park 😢 . Why hate on the guy kid.
@@MoneyMakingMitchNY horrible actor. Just horrible. Wait? Is this you????
@@mistersmith6593 its okay son. He has more money than you and any of his former cast members and a number one tv show for years unlike nypd blue
"You gonna throw your wig at me?
😉😄😁