Tropical Cop Tales

Tropical Cop Tales is an American comedy television series created by Jim Hosking and Toby Harvard for Adult Swim. The show revolves around two burned-out city cops, Keymarion "Primetime" Weeyums and Demetrius "Meechie" Franks, who have both relocated to an unnamed small tropical town for a relaxing end to their careers, but soon find out the town is not at all relaxing. The series is produced by Alive and Kicking, Inc.

Tropical Cop Tales
Genre	Adult humor Black comedy Surreal humor
Created by	Toby Harvard Jim Hosking
Written by	Toby Harvard Jim Hosking
Directed by	Jim Hosking
Starring	Dominique Witten Ted Ferguson Carl Solomon Grant Goodman Stephen Hart
Theme music composer	Chris Bilheimer
Composer	Andrew Hung
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Jim Hosking Toby Harvard Mark Costa[lower-alpha 1] Keith Crofford[lower-alpha 2] Walter Newman[lower-alpha 2]
Producer	Cameron Boling
Cinematography	Mårten Tedin
Editors	Gennady Fridman (Pilot) Marissa Mueller (Series)
Production companies	Boxel Studio Alive and Kicking, Inc. Another HH Production Williams Street
Original release
Network	Adult Swim
Release	February 1 (2019-02-01) – March 1, 2019 (2019-03-01)

A pilot for the series was commissioned, and scenes were previewed on the Adult Swim streaming series Development Meeting, hosted by company vice presidents Walter Newman and Cameron Tang. On June 27, 2018, Adult Swim announced that the series would have its official premiere on July 29, 2018.

On May 24, 2020, Adult Swim canceled Tropical Cop Tales following the first season. The series was not picked up for a second season.^[1]

Cast

• Dominique Witten as Primetime Weeyums
• Ted Ferguson as Meechie Franks
• Carl Solomon as Captain Solomon
• Gil Gex as Dame Edith Ezold
• Sky Elobar as Little Lord Piss The Pot
• Grant Goodman as Angus Franks
• Wayne Dehart as Old Mungo Weeyums
• Stephen Hart as Young Mungo Weeyums
• Troy Beecham as Andre The Chef
• Brian Russell as Cocky Rico
• Jennifer Van Horn as Governor Mary Gold
• Holland MacFallister as Animale
• Bob McHone as Big Danny
• Charles Noland as Don Quidong
• Mike Benitez as Ronald the Ringman
• Michael St Michaels as Seedy Dave
• Sam Dissanayake as King Skull
• Jerry Ascione as Nattanyell
• William Tokarsky as Man with Gold boots

Episodes

Pilot (2018)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Prod. code
0	"Tropical Cop Tales"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	July 29, 2018 (2018-07-29)	TBA

Season 1 (2019)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
1	1	"The How to Be a Tropical Cop Episode"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	February 1, 2019 (2019-02-01)	TBA	0.57[2]
2	2	"The Scalp Collector"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	February 1, 2019 (2019-02-01)	TBA	0.44[2]
3	3	"The Shrimp Gang Are Back"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	February 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)	TBA	0.58[3]
4	4	"The Big Night In"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	February 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)	TBA	0.49[3]
5	5	"The Terror That Is Cabbage Fizzog"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	February 15, 2019 (2019-02-15)	TBA	0.74[4]
6	6	"The Dawning of King Skull"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	February 15, 2019 (2019-02-15)	TBA	0.61[4]
7	7	"The Hand Gobbler"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	February 22, 2019 (2019-02-22)	TBA	0.52[5]
8	8	"The Night of the Fang"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	February 22, 2019 (2019-02-22)	TBA	0.44[5]
9	9	"The Many Frostings of Ronald the Ringman"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	March 1, 2019 (2019-03-01)	TBA	0.72[6]
10	10	"The Sports Day"	Jim Hosking	Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking	March 1, 2019 (2019-03-01)	TBA	0.57[6]

References

Notes

1. for Alive and Kicking, Inc.
2. for Williams Street

Citations

1. [swimpedia] [@swimpedia] (May 24, 2020). "Tropical Cop Tales not picked up for second season" (Tweet). Retrieved June 4, 2020 – via Twitter.
2. Mitch Metcalf (February 4, 2019). "Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.1.2019". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on February 7, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
3. Mitch Metcalf (February 11, 2019). "Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.8.2019". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on February 12, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
4. Mitch Metcalf (February 19, 2019). "Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.15.2019". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on February 20, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
5. Mitch Metcalf (February 25, 2019). "Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.22.2019". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on February 26, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
6. Mitch Metcalf (March 4, 2019). "Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.1.2019". Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2019.

External links

• Tropical Cop Tales at IMDb