By the Numbers Productions

By the Numbers Productions is the television studio responsible for the series Police Cops. Homer Simpson shares his name with an unintelligent, bumbling sidekick on the show, causing the real Homer to be ridiculed in Springfield. The company was originally going to instead produce a series inspired by both Titanic and Fraser but it was found that ABC was already producing such a show. It then planned a cop series called Badge Patrol about badges with high-tech powers, which the network rejected. This led to the creation of Police Cops.