Tricks Are Not Treats
Tricks Are Not Treats. Episode # 127, Season Six.
Originally aired: October 23, 1973.
You see an episode of 5-0 like this and you can't believe your good fortune you decided you felt a touch of the "Dublin flu" and didn't go into work. A classic in its own way. Apparently, in the Chinatown area
of Homolulu, there's a vibrant prosititution trade run by black pimps. We've never seen them before in 5-0, but there they are in low-riding, decked out caddies and dressed in the stereotypical style of the blaxploitation pimps. It's like Ron O'Neal had a sale at the saturday flea market in the Aloha Bowl! All the pimps hang out at a groovy soul food restaurant and, like all TV pimps, know incredibly funky ways to high five one another. The action starts when one of the hat-wearing flesh traders, J.Paul (Ron Glass - Barney Miller's Harris), is wacked by
loan shark, Lolo (Gregory Sierra! - Barney Miller's Chano) who has long taxed the pimpsand is looking for compliance to his latest increase. Lolo is unpeturbed and calls them all "pimples" but another big-hat weraing pimp, Harley Dartson (Glynn Turman, who played the math teacher on A Different World), who also has a life at home with a white wife and two kids, has a plan to take out Lolo for good. 5-0 follows the trail of this plot, including interrogating a local bartender played by Pat Morita and trying to protect Lolo with a cop's six-shooter. McGarrett is at his swingin' best showing how he is down with the slang of the superpimps. Classic.
Highlight: Duke telling McGarrett: "The hos are back on the stroll."
Originally aired: October 23, 1973.
You see an episode of 5-0 like this and you can't believe your good fortune you decided you felt a touch of the "Dublin flu" and didn't go into work. A classic in its own way. Apparently, in the Chinatown area
of Homolulu, there's a vibrant prosititution trade run by black pimps. We've never seen them before in 5-0, but there they are in low-riding, decked out caddies and dressed in the stereotypical style of the blaxploitation pimps. It's like Ron O'Neal had a sale at the saturday flea market in the Aloha Bowl! All the pimps hang out at a groovy soul food restaurant and, like all TV pimps, know incredibly funky ways to high five one another. The action starts when one of the hat-wearing flesh traders, J.Paul (Ron Glass - Barney Miller's Harris), is wacked by
loan shark, Lolo (Gregory Sierra! - Barney Miller's Chano) who has long taxed the pimpsand is looking for compliance to his latest increase. Lolo is unpeturbed and calls them all "pimples" but another big-hat weraing pimp, Harley Dartson (Glynn Turman, who played the math teacher on A Different World), who also has a life at home with a white wife and two kids, has a plan to take out Lolo for good. 5-0 follows the trail of this plot, including interrogating a local bartender played by Pat Morita and trying to protect Lolo with a cop's six-shooter. McGarrett is at his swingin' best showing how he is down with the slang of the superpimps. Classic.
Highlight: Duke telling McGarrett: "The hos are back on the stroll."
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