Your arguments are invalid since you left out the excellent Bakersfield P.D. Giancarlo Esposito and Ron Eldard in a collision between big city cop and the small town way of doing things, featuring one of the first uses of handheld documentary parody that is such a fixture for single camera comedies today.

The song that was referred to was called "Timothy" by the Buoys. Oddly, it was written by Rupert Holmes ( yeah, the Piña Colada song guy) as a response to Tennessee Ernie Ford's 16 tons ( according to Wikipedia).
Undoubtedly the most popular song about cannibalism ever.