NYPD Blue - Two Clarks In A Bar

[@williamcarr1255]

A flashback showing what started the feud between Andy and Clark Sr would have been interesting.

[@coryames1170]

Andy explains to John what went down between him and Clark Sr.

[@SciTrekMan]

It muat’ve been on Hill Street Blues!😂

[@justanotherdrunk]

*That clip soon!*

[@gmh471]

It's not even really about a feud. Clark Sr. is clearly mentally ill.

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

​@@gmh471Depression. Paranoid schizophrenia. For starters.

[@incub8]

Clark was saved by the bell.

[@MikeDuryea32]

That's funny.

[@anarchy030]

It’s all right!!!

[@charlesfiscus4235]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@victorli2000]

All he had to do was call a time-out. Why didn't he do it?

[@kelvinclinkscale6580]

😂 That is funny which he did a great job on that TV show

[@Mlopez_602]

This was a sign of things to come with Clark.

[@bredrew1990]

A lot of emotions playing out in this scene as the loss of Andy losing Danny him getting Clark as a new partner and the issues with his Clark Sr. While Connie was trying to do her best to calm him down which I think worked because the Andy of old would've attacked back.

[@rosselliot8971]

Baldwin, stepping up.

[@davidlewis8814]

Jesus, Dad!? You’re killing me, over here!

[@jamesdrynan]

Poor Clark Sr. didn't believe in redemption or second chances. He couldn't see Andy in the here and now, only in the used-to-be.

[@DREY4400]

That's because we as outside observers have that ability to see that growth but he didn't have that option. Would you believe someone changed if they still call you by a pejorative from years past?

[@KellySedinger]

Worse than that, he can't see his own controlling toxicity. Regardless of his perception of Sipowicz, how does he begin to think it's acceptable to order his grown son (old enough to have made Detective in the NYPD) around like this, as if he's enforcing a 15-year-old's curfew?

[@DREY4400]

@KellySedinger That is definitely true, I thought the same thing. He is a h0moside detective and is a grown man, but he was thinking "as long as you live under my roof"... which is wrong but that all stemmed from what/who he knew Andy as, and they were all bad

[@danieldickson8591]

@@DREY4400 People projecting that much anger are usually trying to distract themselves from their own issues. And as we find later in the series, Clark Sr. had issues in abundance..

[@mfdixon1985]

@@DREY4400 This was kind of my thought too. We've seen a lot of growth in Andy, giving up alcohol, easing off of his racist attitudes, being more rational, etc. But Andy was a prick at first with both Bobby and Danny. They stuck around so they got to see him lose the shell some (especially Bobby). And those were two guys he'd never met. Clark Sr. is a guy he's not only met, but doesn't get along with. Andy acted like a prick with him and since he didn't stick around the squad like some of the others did, he never got a chance to see Andy being more reasonable.

[@thomastarwater2989]

To the late Danny Sorendon (played by Ricky Schroeder who had come a long way since SILVER SPOONS).

[@mikekling7144]

Calling Andy a drunk while he's drinking club soda 😂

[@meamishere1166]

_"Hey, hey, hey... What is going on over here?!"_

[@marcschneider4845]

When I see a scene like this, I always wonder how it affects the actors emotionally. Do they just write it off as acting? It seems to me that it would be difficult not to become at least somewhat emotionally engaged with the actor's own character and the other characters.

[@gheller2261]

Loved NYPD Blue, but a lot of scenes designed to create conflict came across as inorganic. This is one of them.

[@jwt210]

Daddy issues are strong with this one...

[@WOODY11780]

Clark Sr. doing what he does best !!! .

[@scottslimmon7956]

2:49 "Hey! Hey! Hey! What is going on?"

[@lynnecrisp]

Poor C.Jr how embarrassing he's so good compared to that rotten so called dad. He's a grown guy & for dad to treat him like a child is patehetic

[@tomd.7240]

Dutch Boy can't read the room.

[@Stable_Genius]

😂😂😂

[@joen0411]

From Clark Sr’s perspective, his son was working with a drunk who beats suspects until they confessed. Combine that with their personal issues. You wouldn’t want your son to learn how to be a cop from someone like that. Andy has changed but how would Clark Sr. know that. Think about the biggest a-hole in your life, you haven’t seen him in over 20 years and your son decides to work with him. This is a father with a legitimate concern for his son.

[@williamfreret3382]

that is a good point. I did not see it that way at first

[@isabelbeckerman9226]

Clark Sr. is a bitter antagonist, making a fool of himself by embarrassing and controlling his son in front of his colleagues because he has had past issues with Andy. He even goes so far as to throw his son out of the house for defying him to work alongside Andy as his partner. But his reputation as a law enforcer will come into question in the later episodes, as Clark Jr. will soon discover his father is involved in a corruption scandal that impairs his alliance with the NYPD, leading him to commit suicide.

[@Inflator82]

Clark junior is a grown up man FFS. He can decide for himself. Clark senior is unable to let his adult son be himself.

[@cajunsushi]

A good cop would have been brought up to speed by making inquiries as how Andy is now. Your son is a man now, let him live it, you instill values when they’re young.

[@jaycareaga9929]

Andy has or had his issues but he’s a good detective. By all accounts in the show Clark Sr is an awful detective.

[@ronniecozzi8385]

Another overated show.

[@joeconcepts5552]

Move along. Nothin’ ta see here.

[@WithoutRemorse12]

For it time it was great TV. A lot of it still hold up. With issues like unarmed police shooting and wrongful convictions. This has the stigma of being copaganda.

[@pauljohnson3792]

Yet, you still watch and comment. Show won a ton of Emmy awards. Widely considered a groundbreaking, great drama. So go back to watching the Kardashians.

[@hungram5170]

I'd drink Connie's bath water.

[@keithmorgan742]

Yes.... after she had run a marathon then sat in a sauna.