Cool Runnin'

Episode aired Oct 5, 1984
TV-14
49m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

853

YOUR RATING

Don Johnson, Gregory Sierra, and Philip Michael Thomas in Miami Vice (1984)

Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Crockett and Tubbs must enlist the help of an unreliable petty thief to bust a drug operation run by a trio of homicidal Jamaicans.Crockett and Tubbs must enlist the help of an unreliable petty thief to bust a drug operation run by a trio of homicidal Jamaicans.Crockett and Tubbs must enlist the help of an unreliable petty thief to bust a drug operation run by a trio of homicidal Jamaicans.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

853

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The name of the episode is taken from the Jamaican saying that means "peace be the journey." The phrase became internationally well known when it was used for the title of a largely fictitious movie Cool Runnings, which was inspired by the unlikely but true story of a bobsled team from Jamaica that participated in the Winter Olympics of 1988.

Goofs
At the start of the two-van car chase, the chase van has one defective headlight. A few seconds later, both headlights work just fine.

Quotes
Nugart Neville 'Noogie' Lamont: Anytime, anytime y'all need the Noog-man? You know where I'll be at, you know? You know what I'm sayin'? Ha ha ha ha! What's my name? Noo-gie!
[begins rapping as he gets in car with his girlfriend]
Nugart Neville 'Noogie' Lamont: Say the beat don't stop 'til the break of dawn, I say skip, child, what can I say? I can't feel the mornin' inside my OJ! So I just take half, suss the mic... Trick or trail! I said, hey, baby, by the way, what's your name? She said I go by the name of Lois Lane. You can be my boyfriend, you surely can, Just let me call my boyfriend Superman. I said he's a fairy, I do suppose, fly through the air in panty-hose...
[continues rapping as car drives off]

Connections
Featured in The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1985)

Soundtracks
Reality Dub
(uncredited)
Performed by Linton Kwesi Johnson

User reviews6

Featured review

8/10

Oh when life was simple!

I love the way all the undercover cops sit around on Crockett's sailboat screaming their confidential plans all over the marina without a worry in the world. And how the ultra-white Polish-American Switek talks like he was raised in the Ghet-to, bae-beh. Must have been fun to write a cop show when all logic and reality could be suspended. Oh, what a time it was!