On the one hand, it shouldn't.

It's like the 'male cows' with udders from Barnyard all over again.

How I Met Five or Six Guys, One of Whom Was Probably Your Father

Damn it.

Until Spader quits over creative differences and the band continues on as "The Hat Squad".

We're doing all we can, but I'm not Jesus Christ. I've come to accept that, now.

Great episode, with just the right mixture of straight-up comedy and warm moments between Frankie and Mike.

Good English dialogue rarely translates into strong foreign market sales. From the studio's perspective, why spend time and money on good writing when the return is so limited?

Yeah, there was a third lousy detective in the pilot: Daniels, a middle-aged woman. She seems to have evaporated.

It's the dark-and-gritty modern re-boot that all "The Flying Nun" fans have been crying out for!

I loved that as soon as Boyle realized that his backpedaling denials wouldn't work, he immediately just doubled-down on the disturbing details, rather than being ashamed or apologetic about it. The character's a dork and a bit of a doormat, but he's not neurotic about it.

I think he was talking about the fact that Captain Irving is letting Ichabod, who most people think is just a nutcase, work as a consultant and wander around the Sheriff/PD building pretty freely. Word might get around about it, particularly if stories about Ichabod were linked to the brutal decapitations of a law…

I don't necessarily disagree with you on the main point, but I'm pretty sure that if they called him Rip Van Winkle, the universe would break.

All of the uniforms in the pilot were, anyway, and all the cop cars I've noticed that aren't unmarked have the sheriff's dept logo on them. They've got a picture of the deceased sheriff Corbin hanging in the bullpen alongside other (presumable) past members in later episodes, and if Abby is a member of the sheriff's…

+10 Points for Buckaroo Banzai reference.

That's a satisfyingly bonkers theory, and I anticipate seeing a link any day now to a 35-page, sparsely edited and questionably sourced thesis supporting it.

It looked like the item Ichabod was attempting to free from its plastic prison was a modern razor, so the show may be gradually drifting towards a makeover for the Englishman.

Nope. The armor looked a more like scale mail, instead of samurai gear, but the design of it, particularly the helmet was giving me definite Kirosawa flashbacks.

Speaking from my Angry Place, I'd just like to mention to the nice FOX people:

Here's another one for you. All of the law-enforcement officials in Sleepy Hollow, a fully incorporated town of 140,000, appear to be members of the Sheriff's Department.