NYPD Blue - Kelly Transferred

2X4 - Dead and Gone 11/1/1994

[@davidkosa]

A serendipitous exit that allowed Dennis Franz to blossom into the best cop in a show ever.

[@scottr1366]

So very true

[@briandavidson1946]

Agree

[@h.g.1409]

What do you mean by serendipitous exit?

[@scottsears5545]

Giy on Chicago pd is as good Voight

[@jgrinwald1968]

One of the all time great lines on TV. "...And piss runs uphill, right captain?!? And you're a stand-up guy!"

[@joshnlevinson]

I freaking LOVE this line (including the delivery).

[@robertcrist5747]

You know it's bad when the boss tells you to "Close the door." Great show!

[@alansardella2638]

What is Christopher Moltosanti doing there--working undercover for Tony?

[@jolly7041]

Probably...lol.

[@christianfinkbeiner684]

He killed 16 Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

[@felipepineda1585]

​@@christianfinkbeiner684- his house looked like shit

[@rogermurph101]

His exit was the best thing to happen to this show. Made Dennis Franz the star, gave him room to develop his character and go on a multi season growth arc. And his subsequent partners were much better characters, except maybe Mr. Silver Spoons.

[@robertpreston2220]

show got bad after season one

[@matthewgallagher1761]

@@robertpreston2220 Not bad, but not nearly as good or complex. It was a true NYC show with Caruso in its first season and the first four episodes of the second season. And then it became a "Hollywood" show without the reality - and poetry - and unpredictability - Caruso brought to the show. And the last seasons of this show are unwatchable.

[@robertpreston2220]

@@matthewgallagher1761 Very well said

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

@@robertpreston2220it rated its socks off and won a slew of Emmy’s.

[@robertpreston2220]

Which means nothing. It was very bad and boring after season one@@lizziebkennedy7505

[@calvinnay814]

Caruso wound up getting a steady paycheck in CSI: Miami, while Dennis Franz gathered industry respect along with multiple Emmy nominations and wins.

[@scottr1366]

Caruso did extremely well for himself after nypd blue.

[@scottr1366]

Steady paycheck? Caruso acting was pretty good on show

[@juanmonge7418]

He left to become a movie star. That didn’t work out for him. He retired after CSI.

[@georgebrennan2576]

@@juanmonge7418 he was a star on CSI

[@MisterPolitical1]

@@juanmonge7418 csi Miami you mean

[@ianbellis7064]

Love Andy's loyalty here. Obviously this had to happen because of the craziness with Caruso but here ends what would've been an interesting pair over the years. If Caruso had been more humble, etc, do we ever see Jimmy Smits? The whole arc of the show changes. Keeping Sipowicz's last line for possible use one day. Both hope I get and don't get to use it. Lastly, there were few bosses on almost any show as morally bankrupt and just God awful as Haverhill on NYPD Blue The episode down the line where Fancy plays him the tape of his own bigotry is 💪

[@JnEricsonx]

Eh, I used something similar: "If this building burnt down right now I wouldn't shed a fucking tear." I was half right, 3 years later the company was gone.

[@TheStuport]

Lt. Fancy was as Classy and straight forward with Det. Kelly as possible. His hands were literally tied with Red Tape! And I was waiting for Andy to just go into Nuke Melt Down Mode but he maintained as best as he could. Difficult to witness how "Politics" on the job can be as great a danger as The Streets themselves. And like the song from The O'Jays...."Backstabbers Will Smile To Your Face".... This Is A Great Post. Cheers From Ohio To Everyone

[@frankieseward8667]

Fancy would eventually avenge kelly by forcing the captain into early retirement. His replacement was far superior.

[@Alvan81]

Lt. Fancy, excellent boss, excellent leader. Doesn't sugar coat it, but also lets Kelly know he would've helped if able.

[@realazduffman]

1:59 -- I remember when he used to stay in the car

[@mcgurkryans]

And this is how an actor pisses away his career in one of the greatest shows of all time.

[@RTSBUSMAN]

i cannot imagine getting the job of a lifetime and then squandering it all away cause people told me I was hot shit

[@MoneyMakingMitchNY]

Dude csi miami made him a legend lol. Also paid him well. How a actor can make that much surprises me, but his career wasn't pissed away. His show buried NYPD BLUE in the ratings too

[@mcgurkryans]

Kevin Taffe The Kardashians are very popular and make a lot of money… doesn’t make them classy or respected.

[@MoneyMakingMitchNY]

@@mcgurkryans that's true, but you stated " piss ones career away" in the end he did better than he did starting and he crushed this show in the ratings on top of it. He got the last laugh. Nypd blue wasn't even in the top 20 I believe in 2000s. And the Kardashians compared to caruso is odd. She became famous for a sex tape. What does that say about society?

[@mcgurkryans]

Kevin Taffe who cares about the sex tape… it’s about being famous for being trashy. CSI likely got more ratings as does that Kardashian show, and made them lots of money. But they got no respect. Ultimately, Blue will go down as a more respected show.

[@crupert23225]

Was that Christ-a-pha from the Sopranos at 1:57?

[@TheStuport]

Started laughing out loud at the visual of that classic Pronunciation! Cheers

[@onesixfive]

It is. You can tell by the natural canopy

[@keithharper1470]

No that's Spi-Dah from GoodFellas

[@grgman8637]

Either way, he di-dent!

[@xdmaster7888]

David Caruso had to get his shit together after his asshole behavior burned his bridges on NB. But he was superb as Det. John Kelly, and while it took some time for him to get other chances in both film and TV, the combination of PROOF OF LIFE (the 2000 Russell Crowe-Meg Ryan film wasn't a hit, but Caruso's work as a mercenary friend of Crowe's character won universal raves and rightly so, he was outstanding in that role) and CSI: MIAMI (huge hit on CBS for a very long time, and he stayed the course with it) showed that he'd earned another shot at success. I think he's retired from acting now; if that's accurate, he should be praised for learning from mistakes and turning a disastrous career arc into a successful one.

[@bigal25938]

What is NB?

[@andyh4518]

It's all right, he ended up moving to Miami....

[@texasguy5377]

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MoneyMakingMitchNY]

The writers felt the way the job did about kelly. They made sure he never wore a suit again on this show lol.

[@chrispeplinski7306]

Kelly's exit allowed Andy to shine and take over as lead character

[@josephamato2031]

Well said and I'm a kelly guy.

[@joemckim1183]

It also allowed us to have Bobby Simone for a few seasons and his partnership with Sipowicz was much more of a true partnership where both guys were totally equal.

[@robmlisanti]

yep 4 emmys

[@bredrew1990]

Looks like John Kelly aka David Caruso's exit is upon us.

[@justanotherdrunk]

that clip tomorrow

[@mattf49006]

thank god Caruso left that sinking ship of a TV show for a lucrative movie career

[@attiepollard7847]

His stupid ass ego and thinking that he is the leading man in Hollywood is the reason that he left NYPD Blue. And Caruso knows that

[@frankieseward8667]

Said no one.

[@mattf49006]

Apparently you two above need a refresher course in sarcasm ...everyone knows Caruso screwed the pooch leaving the show...but to be honest the shows producers and most of the crew/cast were about done with his ego

[@juliansmith1951]

@@mattf49006 David Curaso made the stupid decision by leaving NYPD Blue thinking he was bigger than the show his post NYPD Blue career suffered until CSI Miami

[@mattf49006]

@@juliansmith1951 ....yep...

[@joemckim1183]

The IAB people definitely knew how to get Kelly to quit. They transferred him to a department they knew he wouldn't want to work in. If they transferred him to Narcotics, Vice or even back to being a uniformed cop they probablly knew he wouldn't like it but he accept it since he still got to be a cop.

[@scottsears5545]

Franz was so good on this show

[@meryltrue8773]

What did he do to garner his exit?

[@texasguy5377]

It was contract stuff with the shows writers and stuff

[@MrMecuzin]

he was getting an ego that pissed off the director. I want more money and vacation time cause im the star.

[@gheller2261]

At the time, I was glad to see him go. The story line with Licalsi had become silly and was too soap operatic, and there did not seem to be much room for character development. Every other partner Andy had was much more compelling.

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

Well he did indeed have a better deal. He did CSI Miami for a ton of years.

[@gusm2752]

CSI MIAMI was garbage compared to NYPD BLUE. AND BLUE didn’t miss a beat when Caruso left. But he was great on BLUE and a great character.

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

@@gusm2752 how many times are you going to capitalize those same two words?

[@gusm2752]

@@Fatherofheroesandheroines Go back to your moms basement.

[@mcgurkryans]

Chris-tah-pho!!!

[@legalboxers]

I felt this..

[@joeconcepts5552]

Did anything more happen with that Captain? Or did all Kelly connected stories just disappear after he left?

[@josephamato2031]

He was mention a few more times on the show. Not alot

[@LordZontar]

Oh, Haverill's not done yet trying to wreck that squad.

[@racefan1701]

Fancy somehow get a recording of him calling him the N-word and admitting some other wrongdoing, he forced him to retire early or he was going to sue him. That was the last of him, I think.

[@unidenprogrammer3867]

​@@racefan1701 In a later season, IAB Sgt Martens & Simone get suspended, and its revealed Haverill is doing something with FBI that caused it

[@BLAB-it5un]

The best thing to happen to NYPD Blue was Caruso being such a jerk that they kicked him off the show. As others have said, it allowed Dennis Franz to take center stage even if they gave others top billing initially.

[@joemckim1183]

But the show really needed Caruso to be the focus for the first year. If they tried to make Franz the star from the get go the show wouldn't have been allowed to build the momentum to be successful. Once they established how great and complex a character that Sipowicz was he was able to take the lead of the show.

[@seanbrowning616]

A young Horacio Cane

[@joen0411]

If she just kept her mouth shut

[@MichaelChiklisCares]

I really liked his role, I wish he returned on later seasons, CSI Miami started in 2002... so he couldve come one again with Janice. Pretty bad writing.

[@paulgrimm]

Dennis at his best

[@ftlfist]

Yeah he got transferred to a lower tax bracket.

[@unclefester9113]

Kelly was OK. Just OK. The show was better without him. The casting was 100% spot on.

[@Delphi_Primetime]

At least he isn’t dating an over the hill dame.

[@martincoyle8804]

NYPD Blue never did match the ambition of that first season. Would have been great to see how it might have developed. It was still good afterwards, but became much more episodic, with Bobby Simone a ridiculous fantasy insert character - practically perfect in every way. The fact that he turned up later as an actual angel kind of says it all.

[@Duncanmorrison-su1uw]

The sopronas chris

[@JDiggiti]

I didn’t care about the show until Caruso left . Was just too smug for me

[@allanfifield8256]

Andy seems upset.

[@dominickdirienzo8266]

At least he tried fighting for John.

[@casey3c]

So Christopher got Adriana killed while he was a rat all along? 😂

[@iloveamerica11]

never liked the caruso character, this show was way better without him

[@b.vonschnauser207]

I loved Caruso's character and thought the show wouldn't be the same after he left. I was right. It got better.

[@stellac.e2086]

GOOD RIDDANCE, ✌dueces!!! he was toxic on the set, constant drama, after the SHOW MADE him famous. one & done for him, to go be a movie star..... NOT. 😂😂😂😂

[@pickledone9698]

Crap actor. Was good to see him go.

[@LRS905]

What the hell is Chris Moltisanti doing in there? LOL

[@crappyatlife]

Good

[@StevieDisopolis]

1:58 Christopher Moltisanti

[@Saintinthecity-wh9nl]

He told James that he would always be a phone call away and we never heard from him again!

[@dominickdirienzo8266]

Andy really cared about John Kelly and he was willing to fight for him.

[@CursoryMercenary]

I always tell people new to the show to start the show from 2x5, none of what happened beforehand is important really.