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Article: 'NYPD Blue' goes out tonight after 12 years ... but not with a bang

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Sure, the nudity was startling. But the proof that "NYPD Blue" would be a bold and unsettling new force on TV was police Detective Andy Sipowicz's snarled insult.

"Ipso this, you pissy little (expletive deleted)," he told an attorney spouting legalisms at him in the 1993 debut episode, emphasizing the b-word with a crotch-grabbing gesture.

"NYPD Blue" -- which ends its 12-year run at 9 and 10 tonight -- had no intention of being polite. Building on creator Steven Bochco's "Hill Street Blues," it was an in-your-face saga of cops whose lives were as troubled as the streets they protected.

The new drama went a step -- a leap -- beyond with frank sexuality that included bare skin and an ...

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