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Pretty Police
Bingo adopts a police persona to critique ugly, careless, or otherwise objectionable visual design.
Appearances
- Episode 320 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 17 minutes, 17 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo criticizes a Marathon rewards eagle ad, Ohio Renaissance Festival shields, and a self-serious laser-cut warrior plaque, but awards a Halfway Okay Snoopy to Northside Yacht Club's Garfield-sticker-covered lamp.
- Episode 276 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 16 minutes, 38 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo put Wayne and Clover Coffee Shop on blast for launching with inconsistent AI-generated branding instead of paying a designer, then warned against outsourcing its logo to a community contest.
- Episode 244 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 1 minute, 57 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo self-reported to the Pretty Police over artwork he considered visually unsuccessful.
- Episode 238 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 19 minutes, 42 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo investigated Burt Ward’s overwhelmingly designed Gentle Giants dog-food website before deciding Robin had the situation covered.
- Episode 236 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 22 minutes, 58 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed audience-submitted signs, logos, packaging, storefronts, and bonus New York graffiti as graphic-design violations.
- Episode 228 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 5 minutes, 35 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo revived Pretty Police to judge and discuss questionable visual design choices.
- Episode 219 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 18 minutes, 11 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed and harshly critiqued questionable graphic-design and logo work as the Pretty Police.
- Episode 215 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 14 minutes, 45 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo conducted an extended graphic-design investigation and issued Pretty Police judgments.
- Episode 211 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 7 minutes, 40 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo investigated questionable graphic design and delivered Pretty Police judgments.
- Episode 210 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 17 minutes, 15 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo investigated the graphic design and signage of the cabin and delivered Pretty Police judgments.
- Episode 207 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 23 minutes, 26 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed questionable designs and issued Pretty Police judgments.
- Episode 192 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 10 minutes, 5 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo criticized graphic designs and signs, including the confusing Wendy’s S5 JBC Biggie Bag message.
- Episode 184 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 26 minutes, 20 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed unattractive designs including suggestive bathroom signs and badly designed wine bottles.
- Episode 182 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 19 minutes, 59 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo judged an extended collection of objectionable signs, logos, products, and visual designs.
- Episode 177 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 33 minutes, 26 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed perplexing designs while calls from Dom DeLuise and Green Day expanded into riddles, Henry Kissinger facts, Brandt, and mental-health workbooks.
- Episode 176 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 27 minutes, 44 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed bad design submissions while Katie and Casey joined by phone.
- Episode 174 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 14 minutes, 1 second.
- Synopsis: After winning an audience poll over Bumper Grumbles, Pretty Police reviewed Exterior Maintenance, Bad Byron’s Butt Rub, and a Vermont maple-syrup sign.
- Episode 172 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 2 minutes, 56 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo began Pretty Police, but landlord Mr. Posaminos interrupted in person and tried to evict him before the review could begin.
- Episode 169 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 19 minutes, 39 seconds.
- Synopsis: After winning the audience poll over Bumper Grumbles, Pretty Police reviewed signage and branding for The Green, Agave & Rye, Red Top Sales, and a police-benefit advertisement.
- Episode 165 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 18 minutes, 1 second.
- Synopsis: Bingo judged bad visual design, food-truck branding, an anti-abortion billboard, and other submitted examples.
- Episode 163 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 17 minutes, 11 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed fashion offenses during the first Pretty Police installment.
- Episode 163 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 11 minutes, 30 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo returned for a second Pretty Police installment focused on photographs from the Ohio State Fair.
- Episode 160 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 11 minutes, 6 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed fashion offenses in the recurring Pretty Police segment.
- Episode 158 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 2 minutes, 12 seconds.
- Synopsis: Inside Bumper Grumbles, a wine-mom-themed bumper sticker triggered a full Pretty Police segment (sunglasses, jingle, verdict) before returning to the next bumper grumble.
- Episode 157 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 13 minutes, 1 second.
- Synopsis: Bingo condemned the incoherent slogans and layout of a mural on Dayton’s Wright Brothers Institute building and compared other murals.
- Episode 156 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 20 minutes, 27 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed an extended collection of fashion offenses.
- Episode 155 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 10 minutes, 13 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed fashion offenses, including older men and a garment called the Splash Hog.
- Episode 154 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 18 minutes, 34 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed branding and typography offenders, including excessive use of the Bebas typeface.
- Episode 153 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 6 minutes, 48 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed fashion offenses and awarded a positive commendation to a vintage bomber jacket featuring Stinky.
- Episode 153 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 1 minute, 24 seconds.
- Synopsis: Nested inside Bingo’s Big Life Pupdates, Bingo self-announced a mini Pretty Police bit judging a Vegas “Blackout” dining-in-the-dark restaurant’s inconsistent signage/logo and a mural of gummy-looking figures, closed it out (“so that was pretty police”) with a cop-themed bit, then explicitly acknowledged the segment inception before returning to Pupdates.
- Episode 152 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 18 minutes, 11 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed visual-design offenders including a Trump-painted house, trivia advertising, and a Blizzard Pride shirt.
- Episode 151 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 41 minutes, 12 seconds.
- Synopsis: Following a chief briefing, Bingo conducted a very long Pretty Police investigation centered on the Solid Rock Church and related visual material.
- Episode 150 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 10 minutes, 2 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed fashion offenses and audience-submitted visual material.
- Episode 149 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 10 minutes, 36 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed a church banner, an office motivational graphic, and Beard Guyz packaging.
- Episode 148 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 13 minutes, 57 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed an extended collection of fashion offenses.
- Episode 147 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 4 minutes, 14 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed poor design and an AAA insurance advertisement set to an Evanescence-style song.
- Episode 146 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 9 minutes, 52 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed the design and presentation of Dayton street preachers and their Obey Jesus or Hell materials.
- Episode 145 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 13 minutes, 35 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed audience-submitted bad shirts and designs, including an aggressively profane medical-assistant shirt.
- Episode 144 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 6 minutes, 12 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo reviewed a focused set of fashion and design offenses.
- Episode 143 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 5 minutes, 39 seconds.
- Synopsis: Bingo debuted Pretty Police by prosecuting New York City’s poorly arranged We Love NYC logo.