"Uniform Day" has all the 12th Precinct detectives in full dress uniform one day per year, which finds Levitt most amused. What Captain Miller does not find amusing is Harris showing up in his usual dapper splendor, the two winding up sharing a heated exchange in Barney's office before Harris returns to the squad room suitably attired. Dietrich works on a 7 year old case before the statute of limitations runs out at midnight, and actually succeeds in bringing in the wanted fugitive (Michael Alaimo, first of three), despite his scrupulously avoiding human contact for all that time (Barney compares it to "Les Miserables"). Stuart Pankin (second of two) plays postman Alex Fleischer, who is arrested for non delivery of eight years worth of mail ("why should I have to lug it around?"). Wojo gives him the cliché about 'neither rain, nor sleet, or snow' (Fleischer: "that's UPS!"). Leonard Stone (third of five) plays his immediate superior, who apologizes to Barney, assuring him "this sort of thing probably won't happen again!"
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The only episode that paints Harris in a most unflattering light.
Carycomic19 September 2019
Warning: Spoilers
When Harris deliberately disobeys a mandatory order for _all_ plainclothes detectives to temporarily go back to wearing light-blue uniforms, it marks him as a narcissistic hypocrite. Someone who thinks he's literally too good to revert to wearing a uniform for any reason other than attending the funeral of a fallen comrade!
Which I find ironic...and not in a good way.
Because, in a previous episode, Wojo faced a similar situation and almost quit the police force, altogether, in protest. But, Harris was one of the others who talked him out of it. With advice that basically translated as "Hey, man! It's only one day out of the year."
Maybe Wojo remembered that previous episode, too. Maybe that's why he, more or less, took Harris' side when he told Barney that, perhaps, the good captain had come down a little _too_ hard on Harris. Perhaps being back in full uniform did make Barney deliver his reprimand a little more harshly than normal.
But, it doesn't change the fact that Harris still had it coming!
Because if he had been a real-life NYPD detective, narcissistically defying a real-life version of that order, he would have been kicked off the force in the proverbial New York minute...and deservedly so.
Which I find ironic...and not in a good way.
Because, in a previous episode, Wojo faced a similar situation and almost quit the police force, altogether, in protest. But, Harris was one of the others who talked him out of it. With advice that basically translated as "Hey, man! It's only one day out of the year."
Maybe Wojo remembered that previous episode, too. Maybe that's why he, more or less, took Harris' side when he told Barney that, perhaps, the good captain had come down a little _too_ hard on Harris. Perhaps being back in full uniform did make Barney deliver his reprimand a little more harshly than normal.
But, it doesn't change the fact that Harris still had it coming!
Because if he had been a real-life NYPD detective, narcissistically defying a real-life version of that order, he would have been kicked off the force in the proverbial New York minute...and deservedly so.
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