Last Thursday night, if you were in Nashville watching election returns you had plenty to laugh about. Suffice to say that an offensive, elitist mayoral candidate was used as a mop by our new mayor. The loser’s concession speech was a shambolic display of the same kind of ineptitude and lack of will that had plagued his whole campaign. It was so hilarious. The other funny thing on TV that night was a rerun of an episode of Miami Vice that combined a paranormal story line with a cameo by James Brown. Go ahead and read that last sentence again. Here’s Io9 on the one…

In 1987, Miami Vice served up “Missing Hours,” an episode that’s considered to be the worst hour of pastel-soaked cop drama ever created. You wouldn’t think Crockett and Tubbs would have an extraterrestrial encounter…but they did. And it was funky.

This astoundingly odd episode guest-starred James Brown, whose fee was so sizable they fired all the scriptwriters (this is a lie). “Missing Hours” walks the line between inept and magical, so we’ve excised all the dreck and cherry-picked the most boneheaded bits. Enjoy.

Actually, the whole episode is totally worth watching. Seriously, watch this whole episode from beginning to end as the oddest bits emerge so unexpectedly here that seeing them alone doesn’t do justice to this high insanity. This is Miami Vice: Missing Hours…

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