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so much is so banal and numerous that you can't show all of it or it'd take all the air time and 100% kill the pacing for sure.

I would agree with that. Really with anything particularly gnarly (by the standards of the piece). Robert Carlock joints use that trick a lot for the characters’ more insane behaviors.

Putting the cops in pink jumpsuits helps as well.

Cross the line twice so it becomes darkly humorous, as they say

I just wish life would stop catching up with the farce.