Mickey O'Malley

Mickey O'Malley (LongArm's Dad) is a cartoon character who is part of the supporting characters of C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) animated series which ran from 1988-1989.

Character Profile
Michey O'Malley is Longarm's father. A retired police officer who, at one time in The Case of The Stash Cash, in 1985, was responsible for capturing Suds Sparko, a notorious thief who is able to elude every capture until his run-in with Mickey who chase him all the way until they both crashed into a junkyard, where Mickey placed Suds under arrest and became famous for this act of police work. His full name is Michael Patrick O'Malley who married and had a son he gave the name "Patrick" from his middle name to as his first name. Patrick is nicknamed P.J. by his family and friends who eventually grew up to be the famous LongArm of the C.O.P.S. team.

Character Highlights
Mickey is seen in 2 episodes of C.O.P.S. The Case of The Big Frame-up and The Case of The Stashed Cash.

The Case of The Big Frame-up
In The Case of The Big Frame-up, Mickey is able to thwart a gold coin heist pulled by Berserko and Nightshade. Because of this brave deed, he decides to sign up to become a member of C.O.P.S. Unfortunetely, Bulletproof had to turn him down because of his age being beyond the age required to become a member of C.O.P.S.

Disappointed, Mickey left the precinct and encounterd a woman, who hired him to work for her being a security guard at a warehouse, where a wardrobe of fur coats is stored at. Turns out that the woman is actually Nightshade, who set Mickey up to be falsely accused of pulling a fur heist with the help of a criminal henchman named J.J. who signaled to Berserko and Buttons McBoomBoom to take down Mickey and framed him for the fur heist by stuffing the furs into Mickey's car. Despite protest from Mickey, LongArm had no choice but to arrest his own father and put him in prison. There, Mickey learned the truth about what has happened when his cellmate mentions him about a guy named J.J. Parker, who used to work for Nightshade pulling fur jobs for her at one time.

Then, Mickey tells Brian, his grandson, to tell Longarm to run a make on J.J., who was the one of the Crooks responsible for setting Mickey up for the fur heist. With proof of his grandfather's innocence, Brian runs to tell the C.O.P.S. about Nightshade setting up his grampa for the fur heist. While he's doing that, he notices the car Berserko and Nightshade used for the coin heist and begins spying on them and finds that they are planning to rob the Mountback Blimp of charity money earned from a benefit lunch. Mickey reported to Bulletproof of their plans and Bulletproof orders LongArm to head to the Blimp to put a stop to the heist in progress. Longarm headed to the blimp and was able to stop Berserko and made him confess to framing Mickey for the fur robbery. Nightshade escapes, but Berserko is caught and brought in by LongArm, who tells Bulletproof to get his dad out of jail.

Later, Bulletproof proudly made Mickey into an honorary member of C.O.P.S. and the official advisor to the team. Mickey sure has some advice for the team, including getting rid of all of computers in the precinct since Mickey somewhat disproves all of the new high-tech gadgets the COPS use to catch crooks and longs for the "good old days" when the ECPD didn't use any high-tech computers or "new fangled" gadgets, as he was able to catch criminals the "old fashioned way" without all of the modern conveniences being used today.

The Case of The Stashed Cash
In The Case of The Stash Cash, Whitney Morgan interviews Mickey, who tells her and the television viewers about a case that has been baffling the city for 35 years. Suds stole 5 million dollars in cold hard cash in 1985 and hid them somewhere in Empire City. Where is it is not known, but he did left behind one vital clue to where Suds stashed the loot on a bar of soap which he carved a map on. Without the exact location to where is it leading to, however, the map is useless. "Suds took that secret to his grave." Mickey said in the interview.

Rock Krusher, on the other hand, knows exactly where Suds hid the loot. He tells Big Boss that Suds hid the loot at the West Side Laundry. All they need now is the soap with the map on it and they will find the missing loot. With that, Big Boss orders Krusher to get the soap from Mickey and take Buttons McBoomBoom along to go get it. So, Krusher and McBoomBoom heads off to the TV station and tried to get the soap.

However, LongArm, Brian, Whitney, and Mickey tries to prevent the Crooks from taking the soap. But the map is dissolved away as they were playing catch with it since the soap landed on a fountain that burst water upwards getting the soap all wet. With the map gone, Mickey starts to blame the crooks for destroying the map only to get kidnapped by McBoomBoom and Krusher, who took him and Brian, whom the crooks also kidnapped, to the West Side Laundry where they forced Mickey to remember the map. However, Mickey played a trick on the crooks, paving a way for Brian to escape and get help.

Meanwhile, Whitney brings the soap to the precinct and Bulletproof noticed a key embedded inside the soap that has the words "West Side Laundry" engraved on it. LongArm and Barricade, when they located the place on the city map, raced out to rescue Brian and Mickey and stop the crooks. The 2 C.O.P.S. were able to rescue Brian and take down McBoomBoom, while Mickey was able to remember exactly where the loot is stashed at - underneath a lone washing machine Krusher unwittingly tipped over and get stuck in, while trying to pounce on Mickey, to reveal the box where the loot is stored at.

Both Krusher and McBoomBoom were arrested and the loot is recovered, but it's locked up tight. LongArm has the key and gave it to his dad, who opened it and found the missing money everyone is looking for.

Mickey: "Nice police work son!" LongArm: "I had a great teacher!"