Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but you can at least see how those bits could give Cop Rock more depth than your average procedural.
"It's not your typical procedural [drama] because it's a character driven show and everyone is going to go on a journey with the characters," she said.
Based on a 10-year-old unproduced script by Gilligan, it premieres Sunday on CBS, home of the world's most successful procedural franchises (your "CSI," your "NCIS").
So your argument was procedural.
People's names are mumbled, and unless you have been making your own police procedural board at home, you have no idea why any of them are important.
It's not nearly as ambitious as 'The Good Wife' and much more like your average medical procedural.
To the question of whether this bailout deal depends on Britain joining the euro, he coolly replies, "Prime minister, I urge you not to clutter your mind with procedural detail and monetary trivia".
The first he picked was This Story of Yours, a grim police procedural based on a play by John Hopkins, one of the writing team on Z-Cars, the realistic BBC TV series that had transformed the image of the British, taking him out of Dock Green and dropping him in a depraved new world.
Mr President, before we begin the debate on the Bertens report, I should like to draw your attention to a procedural matter: we are about to debate two reports by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy but we have yet to hear the opinions of either the Delegation for relations with Latin America or the Delegation for relations with Central America.
Your report nowhere goes into procedural issues of how ratings are generated by study sections.
