By Kelly Rausch

What do you get when you partner up two police officers completely different from each other in every way?

“Lethal Weapon”? “Starsky and Hutch”? “Cagney & Lacey”? “Turner & Hooch”?

Hmm … So maybe you’ve heard this one before. Fox doesn’t care. “The Good Guys” is the network’s latest offering in this familiar genre, but it’s summer and viewers are a lot more forgiving of clichés when there’s nothing else on.

Fox (and viewers) should be happy to know that “The Good Guys” isn’t all that bad; at least that’s what the pilot leads me to believe. Having initially aired it in mid-May, the network gave it a second airing Monday, May 31 and yet the series premiere (a new episode, not the pilot for a third time) is officially Monday, June 7.

Colin Hanks plays Jack Bailey, a straight-laced young cop eager to advance up the ladder in the Dallas Police Department. He’s the partner and babysitter of veteran Dan Stark (Bradley Whitford, channeling his inner comedian), a washed-up anachronism of a man who made a splash decades ago by saving the governor’s son. Lately, though, he’s notable less for his police work than for his functioning alcoholism and rockin’ moustache.

The pair is languishing in the routine investigations division. They’re the guys who come out to your house after you, for example, report your humidifier has been stolen, as is the case in the pilot. But thanks to a little detective work and a lot of coincidence, Bailey and Stark (and the moustache) uncover an international drug smuggling operation and save the day. This, I suspect, will become a recurring theme in future episodes.

I’m not going to go so far as to say that this is the role Whitford was born to play (because that would be really sad if the show gets cancelled next week), but it must be said that he’s really funny here. Whether he’s romancing a theft victim or expressing his mistrust of computers, he’s both charming and outrageous.

And now this is the part of my column where I interject my own anecdote about “The Good Guys.” My friends Mike and Kelly were approached by the film crew to allow their home in Dallas to be used in the show. If you watched the pilot, then you’ve seen their house (theirs was the cute craftsman bungalow where Nia Vardalos’ character lived, the place where the humidifier was stolen).

While I was completely envious of this brush with fame, Kelly admitted having a film crew “completely take over your home” for six days was not without its downsides.

“I was blow-drying my hair at 5:30 a.m. to try to get out of the house and get to work before the TV people invaded. I wasn’t fast enough, however, and a set guy walked right into the bathroom,” Kelly told me.

Because I’m always looking for effortless ways to earn a few bucks and also because I’m crass, I asked how much they got paid for giving up their house for filming. Mike admitted it was enough to pay off some credit card bills. Well, that tells me nothing. Mike and Kelly are extremely responsible (she’s an attorney, he’s getting his Ph.D.) so I think their version of “credit card bills” and my version of “credit card bills” aren’t the same thing at all. Regardless, if anyone’s looking to film in Pflugerville, I’ve got a place I’d be willing to clear out of for a week.

“The Good Guys” next airs on Fox Monday at 8 p.m.