Last Night's "Southland": Cuddlybear and Rookieboy's No Good, Very Bad Crime Scene.

The title of this week’s episode, “Butch and Sundance,” references the granddaddy of homoerotic buddy teams, one that first did the “bromance” dance way back when Judd Apatow was still in diapers.

So you just know we’re going to get some interesting insights into our favorite cop buddy team — possibly closeted gay/tormented pill-popper John Cooper (Michael Cudlitz) and richie-rich/newbie Ben Sherman (Benjamin McKenzie).

Or, as I like to call them, “Officer Cuddlybear," and his trusty sidekick, "Rookieboy.”

We open on the dynamic duo in mid-car chase. And as cars tend to do on TV, the car topples over and explodes for no apparent reason.

There’s a Toyota joke in there somewhere, but there’s no way I’m going to make it.

Between you and me, I’m scared that if I get too snarky in these recaps, Michael Cudlitz will call a press conference about me. Love the show, Michael! You’re always awesome!

Anyway, then that foreboding voiceover guy comes on, and he says (I’m paraphrasing), “Officer Cuddlybear knows – and Rookieboy is about to learn – that sometimes as a cop, you see things you wish you hadn’t.” Which I interpret to mean that they’re about to go see Valentine’s Day.

36 hours earlier ... Cuddlybear and Rookieboy are called to a really grim crime scene at a pretty suburban home. They find the man of the house – a doctor – nearly beaten senseless on his doorstep. Inside the house, his wife and two daughters are dead, the girls tied to their beds. Ugh.

There’s this really creepy effect, too, where they pixelate parts of the victims’ bodies, as if it’s too gruesome to show us. It’s really disturbing. Plus, the whole time they’re searching the house, it gets so suspenseful that when a phone rings I jump up about 12 feet in the air.