Reno 911! (2003)

A direct copy of Cops, with the ride-along camera and the deputies explaining themselves after another call has gone badly. Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and Kerri Kenney-Silver let the cast find much of the dialogue as they went, which gives the incompetence an unpredictable, rambling energy that tightly scripted spoofs rarely manage. The humor is crude and the hit rate uneven, but the format is spot on. Comedy Central's original seasons are the ones to start with; later revivals ran on Quibi and The Roku Channel.