Wasted! How Barney Miller’s "Hash" Changed TV Forever
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"Hash" (Barney Miller)
Season 3, Episode 11
Airdate: December 30, 1976
Written by: Tom Reeder
Directed by: Noam Pitnik
"Wojo's new girlfriend gives him a box of brownies to bring to work, and most of the guys at the precinct sample them, not knowing they are liberally laced with hashish. When Miller's crew starts acting strange, it doesn't take the captain long to figure out what has transpired."
Starring Hal Linden, Abe Vigoda, Max Gail, Ron Glass, and Jack Soo. Guest starring: Ed Peck, Walter Janowitz, George Perina, Michael Tucci, and Ron Carey.
**One of the first TV shows to depict the main characters getting comically stoned.
Further Viewing:
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Further Reading:
Barney Miller and the Files of the Ol' One-Two by Otto W. Bruno
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See No Evil: The Backstage Battle Over Sex and Violence in Television by Geoffrey Cowan
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The Gatekeeper: My 30 Years as a TV Censor by Alfred R. Schneider
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WOW... this is really an amazing upload. Honestly, I learned a ton about the time when this episode aired. I love that you credit sources... the best part is that I now have some interesting books to track down. Thank you.
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!
I watched all this live in the 70s as Murikka started to wake up. Thanks for helping make this show and those working on it as famous as they should be. The talent, tech, writers, Arnold as auteur/producer; OMG study the work of all those workers.
Keep 'em laughing!
"Two of 'em. About THIS long."
@@tvsbesteps I just made two other comments (sorry for spamming) .. but I do want to chime in with my thanks for the citations and links in the description as well! ☮
(edit: the first link: "Barney Miller - S03E11 - Hash" .. is sadly gone now)
That was from a time when the TV Guide was competing with the Bible for the most popular thing in print.
I didn't get to see it till later I was only 4 at the air date .but it was absolutely hilarious l always loved the solo bass to kick off the show
I can remember my Dad laughing so hard he couldn't catch his breath! 😂. He had 3 shows, Archie Bunker, BM and MASH. Remembering Dad this weekend, he passed on Memorial Day 1996.
Same here. Cheers and Taxi got my dad crackling and laughing so hard, he ended up being the entertainment. My pops passed St. Patrick's Day, 2004.
Among the greatest of victories on our way to adulthood were the times we got to refer Dad to something like a TV show which would become a favorite.
Person, I lost my Dad at 22. He was 43. Heart attack. One of the reasons I'm still here is that on that morning I stopped on my way out to (his) car, I hung out for a few minutes to chat with him as he read the paper in the sun on the chaise longue.
He was gone when I came home. He remains the smartest and most well-read person I, at nearly 70, have ever met.
He freed me from so much human travail, he even provided me with the power of the mind to survive Mom's suicide at 15, his own death and the murder of my fiancée ten months later. I loved him so much I became him, to the best of my ability.
He KNEW how "weird" I was in my asynchronous development and at age 13 he came into my room and told me, "I don't care if you grow up to be a poet whose poetry is only read by other poets, Just be the best." I never heard "So what are you going to DO WITH YOUR LIFE?" Not a bit of it, not once.
But I have not been able to escape the feeling that he and I are somehow closer than father and son. I still miss him like a layer of skin.
I still watch many of the TV shows dad used to watch when I was a kid. Hogans Hero's, B. Miller, Rockford Files...I just couldn't get in to Star Trek, (sorry dad), I miss you but these shows help me smile.
My uncle was a police detective in Jersey City, NJ for almost 40 years. He said, "Barney Miller
What a contrast! Dad was a Seattle PD for 25+ years. We weren't allowed to watch "fake tv shows". Dragnet, Highway Patrol, Adam-12 off limits. Acceptable were Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Wagon Train. They were real to him!
My grandfather (longtime cop)always said the same thing!
My grand father was a beat cop in Elizabeth N.J. before being made detective in the mid eighties..
He said the exact same thing, that B.M. was the closest thing he's seen to an actual P.D.
❤
I'm a doctor and my doctor friends and I have often said that "Scrubs" was the most accurate portrayal of training to be a doctor. It's ironic that the most accurate depictions are in sitcoms and not dramas.
My father often said the same thing - he retired due to heart attack in '76 after around 20 years on the job but after recovering worked another 20 years as a civilian dispatcher for our local PD. He often laughed at the other 'cop shows' on television with how unrealistic the majority of them were.
Jack Soo was the BEST deadpan delivery of anyone in his time and truly loved by everyone on the set, then they did a memorial episode that clinched it.
Correct assessment, one of the funniest episodes ever. Fish's saying he hadn't felt that good in 20 years and it's illegal was the best line.
What was special about this one is the actors didn't just act f'ed up, but that looked it too.! Their eyes were all gleaming and half lidded! I thought for years that maybe they were stoned.
I was 12 when that ep aired in a house that never missed BM. It was hilarious then and still is. That show is an absolute classic. Watching all those years ago, all that backstage nonsense never showed. I found it consistently brilliant and consistently hilarious, even with some of the cringier moments obviously played for humour not for hurt. The cast was brilliant, everybody was great, and Linden made the perfect straight man in a room full of all kinds of comedy. Ever see James Gregory ("Inspector Luger") in absolutely anything else and not say, ":Hey, it's Inspector Luger." Immortal. Long Live Barney Miller.
Oh yeah!
Luger gave me the best laugh ever. Talking in front of the family of a kidnapped tycoon - "remember that one; sent the body back in mason jars, one a week for a year"
@@jodycarter7308 And that voice! Like a busted chainsaw.
The Inspector stoled the show when he was on
That’s what defines a classic. It’s still hilarious. Watched it with my 11yo nephew and he was even laughing.
The main memories of being 9 years old: Seeing Star Wars for the first time, Elvis dying, and Nick Yemana saying "mushie, mushie" in Barney's ear.
This was a ground-breaking sitcom, on several levels. Amazing writers and direction! And the episodes still hold up and are as funny now as when originally aired. Absolutely loved the guys, Inspector Luger, and Dietrich. :) And the side character actors were always brilliant. Damn good show!
One of the best prime time episodes in history.
A classic. Lots of Barney Miller episodes were great.
This was one of my dad’s favorite shows. I still catch it occasionally. Brilliantly written. Great cast.
I laughed hardest when I saw this episode as a kid when it was obvious that Harris (Ron Glass) knew they were hash brownies, yet he kept eating them and didn't tell his coworkers. He was in on the joke the whole time.
HARRIS!!!!! How many times did Cpt. Miller so cry out?
Glass had a perfect "Harris" character moment in the show, when the usually impeccably dressed detective shows up the morning after. Realizing he'd chosen a garish tie while still buzzed, he reaches into his desk to pull out a plain black tie to wear instead - perfect, because Harris was *exactly* the kind of guy who'd keep a back-up tie handy in case of a fashion emergency. Not a joke or anything, but one of my favorite moments of the episode I fondly remember close to a half-century later.
@@joestrike8537 >>yet he kept eating them
Yep. Harris was a bit more "downtown" than he let on...
@@joestrike8537 I'd pick the stakeout episode where he decides he's done with it and announces that he's leaving and starts walking out. Dietrich responds: "Dressed like that?" and he immediately does a 180 and walks back inside.
the 70s show special brownies with red "hopping down the bunny trail" was another classic
Norm McDonald had a hilarious episode where his bosses son wanted to be a chef, so Norm had him make a big meal for his dad so he’d see his kid had a passion for food. His secret ingredient was pot. It was a Fricking hilarious episode.
"Mooshi-mooshi-mooshi..."
One of TV Sitcoms greatest lines ever.
“Mushie mushie…” Jack Soo was friggin’ AWESOME!
The best.
Never has such a profound statement been uttered on television. I live my life by those words.
This will always be one of my favorite tv moments. I still laugh every time I see it.
Soo:
Would you like some more coffee?
Unsuspecting Civilian (holding up empty coffee mug):
No, but is there any more of THIS?
My immediate reaction on seeing the thumbnail: "Mooshie, mooshie, mooshie!"
I'll never forget the night this episode aired for the first time. I was practically rolling on the floor it was so funny. It was the stuff of coffee break conversation at work the next day.
I saw this with a room full of stoned college students and OMG we were DONE laughing. I mean, you had to HIDE BEHIND A BARN to smoke a joint FFS*, and here were the cops...
* Hey, Kids: illegal was/is NOT A JOKE.
Back in the days before streaming and home video and a zillion channels, when enough people watched the same show at the same time to share their appreciation the morning after!
Best written show ever. I’ve watched it every night since 2013. That’s when I got my unedited dvd box set of the series. I watch it from start to finish. Then repeat. I was in my teens when the show aired.
I loved Harris's description of how the ancient Detective Fish leaped off a building, flew across the towering drop, and collared the crook.
Ron glass standing there making Harris be just staggered in amazement.
@@michaelmcgovern8110 Yes. Like he'd just climbed down Mt. Ararat after seeing the face of Yahweh. Awe stricken. The wonder and terror of Fish on hash brownies... how do you just go on living the same old life after that?
@@LordMondegrene
Whadda you think YOU'RE PLAYING WITH KIDS?
@@michaelmcgovern8110 These are serious men, you can see in their bloodshot eyes.
In real life, Abe Vigoda (Detective Fish) was extremely fit and healthy, probably more than anyone else on the show. He had a regular fitness regime that included swimming.
3:49 that's Chet Kelly from Emergency! (actor Tim Donnelly, RIP.)
Pre mustache.
The people who had been on that show over the years and became big later is quite astounding.
A whole LOT of people got started from this and Night Court. Casing is an ART.
Finding LOOKS is EASY, finding TALENT is HARD; finding TALENT that is NOT A PAIN IN THE ASS is a blessing.
@@michaelmcgovern8110 Night Court, M*A*S*H, Barney Miller,..these types of shows were a great vehicle for actors starting out. I'm glad I could grow up watching the start of some phenomenal careers!
casTing CASTing. hard to do
Anybody seen my legs?
Yeah, they're over here again.
I loved this show, I remember as a kid my Father cracking up in the den when it was on TV. I could always tell what he was watching by the level of laughter, MTM, MASH, Barney Miller, All in the Family.
Was all so good
I love, love The Barney Miller show. These cops were just regular people who wanted to keep citizens safe and bad off the streets. As a black kid growing up they taught me that I didn’t have to be afraid of the man in blue. 🚔
I spent 1976-1979 in Germany so Barney Miller is an 80s show to me. 1976 would have been a great time to have seen this episode.
I remember my parents "making me leave the room" when "Trilogy of Terror" originally aired when I was 8 years old. I was a horror aficionado and had seen previews for it earlier in the week, and REALLY wanted to watch it! Instead I watched a movie about people on a lifeboat on a small black and white TV at the end of the hallway from the living room. Little did they know that I spent most of the time watching Trilogy from down the hall because of the way the living room television was positioned.
Well, Shazam, you and I were watching similar stuff and using the hallways in a similar way in those days!
"But at 9pm there parents should simply make them leave the room" This guy definitely doesn't know how the 70s and 80s worked.
@@dmacarthur5356 🤣
MY Dad didn't watch much TV, but he would watch Barney Miller. I loved it as a kid and even more now.
I love the credits for the incredible theme and the beautiful shot of the Twin Towers, even though I get a little choked up at the same time.
One of the best TV episodes EVER. I was just a kid, but I still laughed my ass off.
Barney Miller is one of the few old comedies that stands the test of time. I've tried watching many shows I liked as a kid and found them intolerable as an adult, but not Barney Miller. It's still just as funny now as it was then.
I was 10 years old and I remember watching this episode with my Grandmother who was laughing herself into tears. Even at 10 years old I got the jokes.
I don't say it about every show I like, but in this case, it's true to say. This show was pure genius!
Barney Miller was one of my favorite shows as a kid.
Loved Barney Miller! My dad and I watched it religiously.
Whoa … that Dragnet episode (3:48) way back when the kid says “marijuana will one day be packaged, taxed and sold … just like alcohol” was soooo far ahead of its time. Prescient.
Yeah, they thought it would be 50 years sooner than it happened.
Moshi Moshi! 😅
As iconic as Jack Soo's line "Mooshy mooshy" is, he has another line in that episode that I like just as much:
"Hey, whaddya say we guys go down to rhe beach, and shoot some clams?"
The first episode I ever saw, laughed my ass off, and got me to watch as many other episodes as I could.
How amusing it seems that there was all this 'controversy' on the subject with the time of initial broadcast and within a decade this episode as well as all the other ones were in syndication and on air in the afternoon. I think I not only watched most of the series on their initial broadcasts but I know I watched all of series multiple times in syndication.
My parents made me leave the room when something inappropriate was on TV and definitely by 9pm bedtime. Somehow I still managed to watch Saturday late night The Love Boat & Fantasy Island though.
Btw since Barney Miller was my dad’s favorite show I was allowed to stay up past my bedtime to watch. Then straight to bed!!
One of the best episodes!!! I have the series on DVD and watched this one about a week ago. Still LMFAO!!!
nice vid. made me look up the show, and glad i did. good too see someone highlighting mostly forgotten shows. keep up the good work!
Thanks!
I love Barney Miller one of the best sitcoms ever
Dang that 9 p.m. time slot looked brutal, going up against Magnum PI and Monday Night Football.
Best episode ever of this series.
Watched this show every week when it was on. What a great nostalgic bump.
One of the best written shows of all time.
Geez, I remember the little hash pipes we had in the mid-70's. We used to smoke it on our front porch in East Lansing. Those were some times, children.
When I saw Abe Vigoda portraying a retiring cop in the 70s, I never imagined he'd still be going 50 years later.
To this day my mom and I still say "mooshie mooshie" to each other when we offer to go down to the beach and shoot some clams.
The Barney Miller episode of Hash was one of the funniest. I got the chance to watch BM a couple of years ago and I'm glad I watched it. Its a nostalgic throwback to a time when men could be men on TV and a series worth watching if you ever get the chance.
REALLY well done! This has nothing to do with anything, but I totally remember that 1977 Fall Preview cover of TVGuide. God that look on Hal Linden's face when Jack Soo is singing is great. One thought: it's important, when talking about the 'Red Scare' to careful of phrases like "outed as a Communist". This implies that the subject was actually a Communist, but the reality is that MANY of the people whose lives were affected by HUAC were not actually Communists.
Thanks!
Why there hasn't been a show about censors a la 'madmen' is beyond me. The insanity was beyond insane.
I watched the episode when it aired. I was a fan of the show, and the "Hash" episode was totally in character for the cast.
I was a kid when "Barney Miller" premiered in '75, so I didn't get it, but now, just like with "MASH", I've rediscovered it as an adult and now I DO! This is one of the cleverest, satanical, well-acted, and well written sitcoms of the 70s.
I still remember this being the first episode of Barny Miller I had ever watched. I loved the show but overall none of the episodes I remember lived up to this one.
I liked when Jack Soo was wasted just saying musshhyyy musshhhyyy mussshhhyyy talking about the brownies.
10:34 - It would be easy to make jokes but I actually find it kind of reassuring that Hal Linden was literally the lead in a sitcom before he understood that he was the "straight man" or what purpose that role served in comedy.
similar to the epiphany leslie nielsen had when working on "airplane!" when he realized it was precisely his typecast career as a serious toughie that sold the absurdity of the hijinx going on around him, it changed his entire career arc and to a degree his offscreen personality too. hence, the "fart machine" he liked to keep in his pocket when talking to journalists or whoever about some sort of serious story, he'd let that thing rip and make everyone first wonder, "did that just happen?" and then "is this ...*still* happening? at some point somebody has to say something!"
@@ObjectorSnark Cancelling Police Squad! after only 6 episodes was the greatest crime ever perpetrated against comedy...
This and the Jack Soo memorial are my favorite.
Hah! Jokes on you, Sergeant Friday!
Barney Miller really is overlooked in terms of its influence.
I've got a good felling, that this Channel, is
'Movin' on Up!'
Thanks!
This was really well done. Thanks!
You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
Arguably one of the best sitcoms ever. In the same class as MASH and Seinfeld.
3:49 Hello, Tim Donnelly, Emergency!'s Chet... KMG365
Rampart, this is squad 51, engine 51…
One of the funniest episodes of them all.
Ah, this was one of the few tv shows that I watched. It was superb comedy! Terrific cast. Thanks for the vid!
Glad you enjoyed it
It's interesting that it took Hal Linden 3 season to realize that Barney was the calm anchor of the show. I remember always thinking that from episode 1.
This is one of my favorite episodes
Mushy mushy stayed with me all these years. Peace/JT
The Time Traveler episode "Child Stealer" and the one with Jeffrey Tambor exposing The Trilateral Commission are two epic episodes.
In the future lawyers are outlawed and replaced with Real Estate Agents and gold as a standard is replaced with zinc.
My FAVORITE show Of all time!!!!
During its broadcast run, amid the many cop shows on television at the time, many real-life police officers considered this the show that best depicted the realities of police life.
It was to police what M*A*S*H was to the military.
Probably my favourite single episode in any sitcom ever.
The two Polish actors were brilliant.
Former "Barney Miller" actor Hal Linden nearly played Aaron Hotchner's father on the TV series "Criminal Minds".
I saw this when it aired and was too young to know what it was all about. I asked my very conservative parents, who stammered and stuttered over an answer they really didn't know and certainly didn't have for me. I'd forgotten all about that.
I dissolved into laughter when I watched it in 1976.
Barney MIller was an incredible show.
B Miller is one of my fav old sitcoms.I was in my teens when it came out and chose that over more conventional and mainstream fodder.
I enjoyed the video, thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
my favourite sitcom
Very interesting. I watched this show as a kid in my pre-stoning days
Barney Miller was awesome!!
I like the Dragnet prophet who talked about how weed may be packaged and sold in stores just like alcohol & tobacco in a few years. He was only off by about 60 years but hey, predicting the future ain’t easy.
Weege’s name is even on new episodes of the NightCourt reboot. I love both the original and new NightCourt. We rewatched the original series when we heard there was a reboot coming. It originally came out what I was only three years old.
This show is one of the best from the 70s and I wish we could see all episodes streaming.
I believe Barney Miller is available on Hulu. I have also seen it airing on antenna tv.
SQUISH SQUISH 👁️👁️❤
Loved Barney Miller
Classic episode. Hilarious.
I also loved the Facts Of Life weed episode along w/ the Diffrent Strokes weed episode. All classics
Back before she went mental and deplorable, the Roseanne weed episode was super funny
A Stash From the Past. Classic.
@@grannyweatherwax8005 jackie: "in the tub...just me 'n' muh ganga."
It was a couple years after this episode that I tried hash for the first time. I had just turned 11 in November 1976 when this was released (Release date · December 30, 1976). I remember watching it and wondering to myself, "I wonder what it would feel like to be high". I grew up in Northern Ontario Canada and for a relatively small community, (50,000 or so), there was as much hash as there were people..lol... Seriously though, I read somewhere that at one time Northern Ontario, (Timmins, Sudbury, North Bay, all the way to Thunder Bay and everything in between) had been the highest concentration of illegal marijuana concentrate... lol. (This is how they phrased it... lol). There was more hash per capita in Norther Ontario than anywhere else recorded... It's of course not that way now, nor did it last long, ... 5 yrs. at best. I didn't know it at the time, but I saw more hash being moved around than you can believe. In high school we used to buy quarter pounds for anywhere from $375.00 to $560.00 or even $600.00 bucks depending on the quality and especially after school there was a one street light town called South Porcupine where me and a half to a dozen others that grew up in the town would gather by that one streetlight in front of a bank and have cars drive up like it was a drive through...lol I've seen all of us on the corner would start with a quarter pound each, cut up in 2 gram chunks which we sold for 20 bucks. ALL of us would sell out within 2 to 3 hours. This would go on night after night after night for about two years strait at its peak. Lol, I'm not sure why I decided to vent my "good-times" days but this message turned out WAY longer than expected... lol... Peace from Canada all...
Barney miller walked so Cheech and Chong could fly.
“Barney, Barney , your mother’s from Calarney”!
My very first BM episode.
That ‘70s Show did this when the adults in the show ate pot brownies.
I never knew "granny" from BH was so cool. I'd smoke with her any day. Barney fire? What a joykill
please don't keep hash brownies in a shoe box, it smells like feet.
#77 ?! You have got to be kidding me?!
Great Show!
Great job...I'll be back...
Thanks! I’ll be here.
Seinfeld was the only anchor on his show.
That was the main premise.
Compared to EVERYONE else EVER on it.
Poor grannny.
HASH,IT'S A GOOD THING.