Josh Clark

I think everyone watched it a lot.

Well, it was never and I'm not excusing it, but it was never like appointment TV.

In fact, I don't even know when it came on.

This was just in my younger channel surfing days where it was like you're surfing around.

Cops was on.

I would watch cops and I was never like, yeah, yeah, go, go.

But, you know, I found it probably entertaining and amusing.

And now that I'm a little older and no more of, you know.

slightly embarrassed that they were sort of exploiting many times people who had mental illness and who were suffering through poverty and addiction.

And so I'm not so proud of that, but I'll admit that I watch my fair share of cops.

I watched it too.

So Cops changed the world in two ways.

And this moment was March 11th, 1989, which is when it debuted on Fox.

This is just three years after Fox premiered, nine months before The Simpsons even premiered.

Cops started on Fox and it helped make Fox the fourth network.

It was just such a huge show right out of the gate.

And the two ways that it changed the world is one, it set the groundwork for reality TV.

Yeah, you can make a pretty good case that it was one of the it may be the originator of reality TV.

There weren't scripts.

There wasn't any star.