Episode 08: The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)

Washington, d C. Where violence explodes every day, but America's toughest cop is pounding a new beat of the tenant dread. The police squad is back. Is this some kind of bust? Very impressive.

Ye, they're ready for action by a trooper ready for love. I'm lonely, I'm lost. I need someone to hold to lone Frank over here and ready for seconds in the movie that proves you can lead a cop to water, but you can't make him think the waters over there for starring Leslie Neilson. I don't recall seeing your name on the guest list. I think to be embarrassed about.

I sometimes go by my maiden man. If it's not jurist, he's not interested. Priscilla Presley as the irrepressible Jane Robert Goulay as Quentin Hapsburg. That truth hurts, doesn't it Hapsburg? Oh sure, Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a safe missing, But it hurts.

George Kennedy as Captain ed Howkin. Congratulations, I understand that. Then as pregnant again. Yes, and if I catch the guy who did it? And O.

J. Simpson as Lord Burg, step out. If you only see one movie this year. You ought to get out more often. The Naked Gun two and a half.

The Smell of Fear, I mean, the strongest thing of God. This is a sequel so big they had to add another half. Welcome too from the files of police Squad in Color. I'm ros Mike White. Joining me, of course is mister Chris Tashue.

I've been swimming in raw suitch all day. I love it. And mister Mark Begley, well, when you've had that much, man, but you wouldn't know anything about that. That was me looking askance, almost looking at yes, how many times are we going to look at the camera? Count?

I'd like a black Russian. I did not understand that that was he didn't want to bring him a black Russian person. Because we've just had so many literal jokes. Give me something strong. Literally, we are talking about Naked Gun twenty No, not two and a half.

We are talking about Naked Gun two and a half, The Smell of Fear. We are in Washington, DC for this one. I'm not exactly sure why, other than to have a very continuous joke of George Bush Senior and Barbara Bush in here and a little bit goes along the way. Yeah, well when when my dear friend Mark Begley and I were watching the first scene together. Unlike the first movie where there is a punchline, you know and Stay out of America, where is the punchline in this first scene, in this opening scene where Leslie Nielsen is beating the shit out of Barbara Bush?

What is the punchline? What is the final gag? Because the scene just kind of ends. It just ends. Yeah, yeah, just kind of kind of ends.

It just ends. It's like it's like, whoa, whoa, why are you starting the movie already? Was there something else here? He knocks her over for the last time, and then you're waiting for the thing and yeah, like you said, Chris, cut to car going through multiple places that a car can't go through. Cut to that lovely iron Newborn score.

That's what it is. They are really waiting for the audience to laugh with this one. And I can feel those beats and it's just like, oh, okay, this one. We are not in za Z territory. We are in z territory.

We've got David Zucker directing this one. David Zucker and Pat Proft are the credited writers. Pat Proft we talked about when it came to Police Squad the show, and here he is, and I think Pat has been behind the scenes with a lot of this stuff. And I actually wrote down all of the jokes that are recycled from Police Squad. Oh good, I'm glad that it wasn't just me.

So I counted at least one, two, three, four or five, six, seven, eight jokes that we've seen before, not too bad in a ninety minute movie, and nothing that is really just like, oh boy, you know, we saw this whole setup before, now just like little things. How many gags you think there are in the movie total? Like if you just were because you counted all the repeat gags, how many gags do you think there are in the movie if we were to just ballpark, like, what's an acceptable amount of repeat gags? I guess is my question, because again, this is kind of interesting territory we haven't really tread before, and I haven't really tread it watching these movies until this time. Is this an acceptable amount of retreading, I guess, is my question?

Or when does it become too much? Because we did have retreads in the first movie obviously, and now we've had retreads of retreads in this movie in some of the jokes cases, even I would say there's going to be at least two hundred jokes in here, if not more, And some of those are the visual gags. I mean, we get a lot when it comes to the explosion that happens near the beginning of the film and all of the crime scenes stuff. Even though a lot of that. I kept thinking of Loaded Weapon while I was watching it, exactly what I think of, and it's done better in that movie.

But I also think this movie cops a lot from Naked Gun and Police Squad in a positive way. I think it cops more from Police Squad in things that aren't directly ripping off, as in tonally, as in the direction of the movie in general from a narrative sense. But I'm just gonna go out on the record and say this, I think I like this one better than the first one. And I think that's kind of been the case for a while now, only because whenever I think of the one, I quote more and the things that make me laugh harder often revolve around the gags in this movie, like the I've been swimming in raw sewage. I love it or most of the things with Robert Goulay or the zoo gag that is I think the best or one of the best reoccurring naked gun gags or reoccurring zaz gags that they have ever done in any of the things that I've watched above theirs, I agree.

I like this movie better than the first one. I obviously it pales in comparison to Airplane. For me, this works, and it works pretty much all the way through. For me, there's nothing really where I'm just like, ah, yeah, George Bush looks kind of grotesque in here, but yeah, I understand, you know. I mean, those prosthetics are really odd.

The woman that plays Barber Bush, I think looks dead on so much of this. I thought the issue with the Bush actor was that made him look old. I think that was the issue. I think they put old man makeup. That actor looks like George Bush.

They just put old man makeup on him. So that's why it looks so terrible. The George Bush thing feels very ham fisted. It feels so forced into this movie because I mean, it comes back at the end, obviously, but I don't think we needed it. In the intro.

I think it's kind of the problem. Yeah, they're doing a lot of setup in this intro, by setting up the whole Bush thing, setting up this commissioner of the Washington DC Police and Frank coming out and I guess running a section of police squad and being able to bring Ed and Norberg in there, because like the headquarters looks exactly like it does in whatever city they were in, La Chicago, whatever, and then also setting up doctor Meinheimer and you know, you're getting that stuff, and also telling us all about I'm glad they admit on the commentary all about the ecological ax grinding that they're doing, and seeing all of these guys from the what is it the coal industry and the oil industry and the nuclear industry and those guys still.

Yes, I was so happy to see Tim O'Connor as one of those guys. I mostly know him as being one of the scientists doctor Elias Huer from Buck Rogers in the twenty fifth century, so I was glad to see him on there. And the other two guys are what Lloyd Bachner who's always fucking fantastic, and Peter Mark Richmond is the other one who I mostly know from his appearance in Star Trek. He kind of looks like Martin Landau and it could easily be mistaken for him. But yeah, it was kind of nice to see those guys at these like three evil guys, and just surprising at how liberal the politics are in this movie, and even to the point where he keeps talking about Frank keeps talking about how the Democratic Party is dead and they need to run somebody that is worth voting for.

But those are all like applies. Those are good things. Yeah, those are like legitimate things. You know. It's not like it's not like I was rushing out to vote for Biden here, folks, Well, you have to work with the cesspool out there.

Isn't that the voter's fault. I do appreciate those jobs, but those jobs were funny then, and like you said, they're funny now like they're timeless. Of course, poke fun at the politicians because they've always sucked. Like it's you know, it's not hard. When Mark and I were watching the movie, Mark kept throwing out as George Bush over and over again, which made me think about all of the you know, obviously Dana Carvey did it on SNL.

Just thinking about how big of a target. This was at the time, like this didn't feel like somebody going out of their way. This felt very much in line with where the nineties, especially SNL would go with that kind of the president stuff, because obviously we had Dana Carvey did George Bush, and then what Phil Hartman did Bill Clinton? Right, Yeah, but this was still at the time of like, this is the height of SNL in the nineties, So it kind of makes sense that this is getting in on it, or at least kind of getting some inspiration to be topical, but it does kind of weigh the movie down by being topical. The first movie is a better movie than this one because it feels less topical in a way, like now the queen is obviously dead, but the queen just died this year.

You're like, holy shit, Like you know, theoretically that plot could happen in a lot of things, but George W. Bush, Like HW Bush, I really like, man, you just we went too specific. You really did. Yeah, we are very time and place here even to have ja Ja Gabor in the opening credits smacking the bulb and dropping an F bomb and I'm just like, okay, yeah, I remember the Jaja incident. I think that took place in nineteen nineties, so they're probably writing it as it was happening kind of thing, so okay, and having like Dacacus as one of the big disasters in the Hubble Telescope before the Hubble telescope got fixed and was this wonder of technology.

But that was when they launched the Hubble telescope and it was a failure because what was it, mark the mirrors were misaligned or something. Yeah, but yeah, it was very, very time and place having George Bush as one of your main characters, and I think they could have gone bigger with Bush because he was I mean, he wasn't the best president we ever had, of course, and I think things like him throwing up in the Japanese guy's lap, right, those things like those are it might not have happened by that point, but there's some bigger things that you can go after with Bush. I didn't see him as the butt of any jokes really, no, the political I was surprised by all the ecological stuff because you think, oh, that was even back then, kind of a woke agenda.

But that's the side that we're pushing in this movie, is you know, clean up, spill, smoke, and kaboom, but the politicians themselves aren't really the target. I have to go on record as well and say I enjoyed this more than the first one, and a lot of that had to do with those gags taken directly from the show. I felt that warm comfort of the show that I've grown to appreciate even more after watching these movies seeing those. Even though I would say eighty percent of the repeat gags are like direct repeat gags, the quasimodo gag is exactly the same, The shooting gag is the same the shooting gag, and this is the second time that they've repeated it, because they already repeated at once in Police Squad in the show.

And I think, by the way, I'm pretty sure the way this works with Police Squad is they're like Ghostbusters. They franchised out. There's a police Squad branch in every major city. That has to be what it is. That's my head cannon and Frank Drebin is obviously one of the more well known police Squad people, or he's the only one.

It's you know, Police Squad is him and Ed and Nordberg and what's his name Ted Ted, and while in Ted and the other guy, I always hear now as this never shows up? Yeah yeah, no, Al, does he not show up in this one? Oh? Yeah, yeah, you're right. The Egyptian chalk outline is directly from the first episode.

Holt see, I didn't count that one, so you've got one more than I do. And there was one more towards the end. I believe that it wasn't a direct Oh that was the shootout. I've got towel gag, the towel gag which we just saw with the pillow in the first one, but it was in the wig and the That's maybe not exact, but I would say there are at least seven that are almost exact spiritual successors. I was getting my car washed.

Car washed gag just a little more elaborate in this. It's not somebody windexing the back window. He's actually on the car, and there's SuDS on the car and a hose coming off the car, etcetera, etcetera. There's I was heading back to headquarters where he's driving backwards, and then I'm immediately though that heading back to headquarters was followed up by the guy who has the gun and the police station that he hits with the door, which is weird. Which is weird.

Al Yeah, nice shot for him. I wouldn't have known that if he hadn't been in the credits that that was him. I missed it when we watched it, Chris, I think I said that was weird, al but like it's literally like two seconds, like, yeah, exact same gag you mentioned Little Italy. And then the most famous one for me and I think it was even in the trailer is is this some kind of a bust? And luckily in this one the woman actually has boobs, because the woman in the episode had no boobs to speak of.

It's our girl from Goodfellows. Yes, yes, Gina Master Giacomo taken far too soon. It was she the whore in Apartment six. That's a w in a barbed sex Yes, hello, superintendent, do you know you have horror in your building? I couldn't tell everyone who walks in this builds you want nothing, but as the superintendent, yes, I want you to know, sir that you have a holes.

Rossie do you hit me Jennie Rossi, Rossy, Yes, that is her? What was it? Begley? She was like thirty nine when she passed hardened bacterial hard infection. Such a fucking shame.

She's great and Goodfellas she is great, good film, given anything to do here, but recognizable because of well Goodfellas being, you know, being what Good Fellas is. So yeah, just what the year before this was nine, I think, yeah, yeah, when it lost the Oscar to that amazing film Avatar. Oh wait no Wolves, yes, go yeah, Dan's just never miss We should never miss an opportunity to read at ate how fucking stupid that was. They do a really good job when it comes to the characters, the side characters like you mentioned Robert Goulay as Quentin Habsburg. I'm a big fan of Richard Griffiths aka Uncle Monty from Withnail and I so seeing him in here or uncle was yeah.

Also of the boring aliens from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and that was like one of his later, very later roles. He's, um, the ones that are like the boring ones, right, isn't that the poetry the bad Yeah? Yeah, who just reads Yeah, he's Oh my god, they have the weird They don't look like Richard Griffiths, but they look like what Richard Griffiths would look like if he was an a mutated alien. That voice makes sense coming out of that creature. And he kind of said it's another actor taken way too soon, was sixty five and died from heart surgery complications.

Like cheese, right, I'm sensing a theme here. Yeah, and then Anthony James, the one to know him like such a lovely man. That guy, he had the most evil face, but he was the nicest person I've ever spoken to. He was just amazing and as Hector Savage Sage, he is one of the reasons I love this movie is that scene with him and Priscilla in the Power is amazing. And then he gets one of the worst deaths in film history.

Like I'm sorry, that is a gnarly scene start to finish, and I can't believe it's in a comedy and the way they play it is well, the way they play it is for laughs. But it dude gets a fire hose in his mouth and he explodes. Yes, yeah, of course he never thinks to take it out, but yeah, you know it's really jammed in there. Yeah, there's a noise. Yeah, you hear the thunk noise and it goes into his mouth.

It's very yafet Kodo from Live and Left Dive, But I think it looks a lot better. Yeah. Well, it's because it doesn't float to the ceiling like a balloon thing. We don't see. Everything is left to the imagination outside of the two shots we see of him, but they are very horrifying.

Just to look at him into the wall with his with his face just expanding it. It's very effective. Yeah, so good. I mean, yeah, the setup of this, like I said, they take care of it all before we even get to the credits. Then it's mostly what the introduction of Jane that we get post credits, all of the stuff to do with them breaking up, and I kin, I kind of like it that they're broken up and then it's this whole like get the girl back thing, you know, and that boy meets girl, boy loses girl thing.

I like that better than them just being continually in love and all that kind of stuff. I'd rather have this rough waters between the two of them, and especially having this southern man, I mean, Robert Goulay, who's not going to go for Robert Goulay. So with the Habsburg Valdis which was at a little. It's pretty good. I think for me, I could have done without the love interest in this movie again, like it just kind of her Stilla Presley is fine, but she's really still not given much to do other than us think that maybe she just doesn't realize she keeps working for the villain over and over again.

Her choice in men is impeccable. Frankly, you know what, though, she doesn't actually work for him because she works at the Mineheim that Mineheimer Institute. I cleared that up in my brain today as I watched it at a second time. I was like, oh, wait, no, because I was thinking the same thing. And we may have even said that to each other when we watched it last week.

That's fair because Frank asks him, oh, you are you around here a lot? And I'm like, why is he asking him that? And then I remember, Oh, they're at the institute where the doctor works dating him. It's work. Yeah, so he's always there because they're eating their sweethearts.

But I other than the repeat gags, there were some other things that felt very much like police squad in this one, which again was giving me that nice feeling, or the boxer's names when Nordberg and Ed and the Captain are doing that whole deal. That was really good. You hadn't seen any of that name stuff since Police Squad, and they did that all the time. And that Hector Savage from Detroit. Yeah, I remember this X boxer.

His real name was Joey Chicago. Oh yeah, he fought under the name of Kid Minneapolis. That's all Kid in Minneapolis, Flight Ones Cincinnati. Oh, you're thinking of Kid in New York. He fought out of Philly.

He was killed in the ring in Houston by Texas Colorado. You know the Arizona assassin. Yeah, from Dakota. I don't remember. It was north of South north South Dakota was his brother from West Virginia.

You should know your boxing. Well, what was the line he was asking for a description? Oh, he had a mustache, about six foot three tall mustache. That's very much a police squad gag. In the Blue Well, that whole Blue Note scene, maybe because they did so much in bars in Police Squad as a you know, one of those set bound type scenes.

Oh, and that's another repeat as the drink that he orders, because he's fucking around with that drink in one of the episodes, I wondered. I thought that they had done that before. I couldn't remember exactly where it was, though. Is the gag about Robert Goulay not being able to keep it up? Is that you guys think that's a police squad gager?

Is that? I feel like that's one of my favorite gags his entire movies, Like well, are you seeing anyone? Yes, she's an author of a sexual impotence book. You've probably read it. Yeah, But I don't know if that's police squad.

But it's that kind of Honestly, it feels like a joke that's out of place in a lot of ways, Like I don't know, like Frank Dreben can be kind of pithy, but he doesn't really insult anybody ever, He's right, What's like, Yeah, it's a little bit more of that clueless back in this. I think that is super clueless in this. Yeah. Yeah, Like I don't know if it police squad or what it was. It was just like it kind of stands out as a really strange joke, And there are some strange jokes in this movie that maybe I don't know, like they were trying to like incorporate more of like edgy nineties humor, and the next movie kind of really Simpson vibe a few times in this right, it's like cartoony, like it's it's veering into cartoon land.

I mean that that's scene that you were talking about, Mike, where they come into the Menheimer Institute after the bomb goes off. That is a Simpsons gag one like you mentioned National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon one. It's it's more of a cartoony gag in that because they do it twice in that movie. They do it once at the beginning, and they do it once when they go to Mike McCracken's house, Dennis Leary's house, they do it again the same thing. It's kind of weird because it's just this movie feels more in nineties than the last movie did, which is not Police Squad.

Police Squad is not inspired by anything in the nineties. Frankly, Police Squad. I know it's inspired by something from the fifties, but it feels more timeless to me. And this is very time and place right here, even more so than the first film, which I think one of you already said. I read an earlier draft of the script.

I think there are two of them floating around out there, and there's one that's many revisions in, and there's one that's fewer revisions. And I tried to read the fewer revisions one pretty similar. The one thing that was missing that I I don't know if they shot it or not. It doesn't look like they did. After Frank drops his hard hat into the gears and we get that one gag of the gear flying out and hitting right near his head that went on for a lot longer.

There are people kind of like the beginning of Police Squad the series, there was a person on fire running down the hallway kind of thing, and it was just he really did a lot of damage by dropping his hat into those gears, and it was very much like who the hell did this? What kind of asshole would do this? And every sirens going off, Clackson's all this kind of stuff, and they just cut that right out and just left the one gagged. Yeah, it seemed very truncated, and you could tell something else was supposed to happen here. You see red lights in their faces at one point, and you hear a couple sounds, but you know that that was connected to a much more elaborate scene when Nordberg is supposed to be putting the transmitter under the red van.

There's some stuff cut from that as well. He's starting to take a wrench to something, and then the next shot he's covered an oil. Right, there's a bunch of oil on the ground. You don't get to see any of that. Not that it was as elaborate as as the other scene, but yeah, you could tell.

And again we're at eighty minutes pre credits, so, which I'm grateful for. I don't think I want a two hour naked gun movie. No, No, I think ninety minutes is the perfect running length for a comedy. I mean, maybe even eighty five minutes, which this is. But right when the credits hit, it's at an hour and twenty minutes, so, which is fine with me.

I kind of forgot how much OJ is in this movie. Yeah, for whatever reason, remember OJ being under the car more that him being under the car essentially the entire movie. I don't think he adds anything by being here. It's kind of funny because you know, in the first movie he's incapacitated essentially the entire movie. He leads to one of the funnier gags him going ass over tea kettle into the you know whatever state him but the best in this movie he is given nothing to do.

He literally drives out of the movie for part right towards the end. He's there, but he doesn't really add anything. He's there for the mariachi scene. He does get the good line of he can walk, it's a miracle, which is a funny line only because oj is saying it. Really given nothing to do, which I kind of found surprising given in the first movie they wrote him out of the movie.

This time they didn't write him out, but they didn't have anything for him to do. And in the show he was kind of the bumbling, fucking idiot, and now to do that a couple of times here though. Yeah, but that bumbling idiocy feels like it gets passed on to Dreben. Drebben in this movie feels more like a mix of Drebbin from the show and Nordberg from the show being kind of a klutz. We've seen the klutzy stuff in the first movie with the pen with the fish and all that, but this movie he feels like more cartoonish or verging on being more cartoonish.

Yeah, there's more bits, there's more. That's the joke. Wink wink, the you know, taking that little italy thing directly from the show. But now we've got Nordberg noticing it. That's one of their rules.

No one's supposed to notice the joke. And that's out the window in these movies. Not only the mugging that Leslie Nielsen does, and I wouldn't call him mugging so much, but Robert Goulay does the side glance after every stupid thing that Frank says. But you're calling attention to the joke. We know he said something stupid.

The audience knows it's stupid. You don't need to make a face. He makes faces, The mine Heimer guy makes faces, etc. Etc. So many faces.

Yeah, that drives me nuts. Let the joke stand or fall on its own, But don't I don't need the clue from Robert Goulay's face that that was a joke. Yeah, that was a lot. Yeah, there were a couple of times where I was just like imagining them shooting the insert shot of Goulay and just like, Okay, just look to the left a little bit and then come back. You know, you just heard something really stupid, and it's like, I don't need it.

I realized it was a joke. The three hand gag is brilliant. I love that. Just I guess that would be a non sequitor Chris, I don't know. I guess she slaps, you know.

The third hand comes out of nowhere. But then when we spend like a half a minute of him looking at like where did that hand come from? It should have cut right after that the hand. It doesn't make any sense. That's the fucking joke.

Why do I need to understand where the hand came from? Or you as the character, like where did that hand come from her vagina? I guess I know we moved down a little bit from OJ, but I just wanted to say that I prefer Peter Lupas. And I understand, like it's kind of nice seeing OJ get shit on and beat up and a cactus to the nuts and all those kind of things. But I really like Peter Lupas, and I really like the way that he played Nordberg, and I liked his cluelessness, that he was so sincere about stuff, that he was like taking the locksmith job so seriously and all that.

It's like that's great, and yeah, he wouldn't have done a second look at something else. He would have just kept on going. And yet play it straight, and we have gone away from playing it straight so far that to your point, we get the galay shots, we get ed looking askance, we get all of this, and then yeah, we get frank like, where did that hand come from? And I'm just like, oh my god, no, it's got to be absurd. Just had let it be absurd and move on.

I feel like OJ Simpson in this movie is just a very obvious example of stunt casting. They cast Oj. That's the joke is that it's OJ Simpson, which could theoretically work if you were making him do something absurd, but they're not, and so it doesn't really work as Oh, it's just the OJ Simpson Like all right, I guess OJ Simpson in the late eighties early nineties was celebrity enough, like but not really like. His career was more or less over. At the time.

He was essentially a has been athlete trying to be an actor, and now he's a whatever the fuck he claims to be now attempting to be a human being. At this point. Fucking it pisses me off that OJ's in these in a lot of ways because to your point, by casting Oj, they forewent writing an actual character for Nordberg. In the first movie, it feels like makes perfect narrative sense. He's incapacitated in the bed.

That's part of the plot. And this what is the point of his character? There is no point, And like I said, they just merged the character from the show into Dreben of the movies, and so okay, so Dreben is now a bumbling sincere idiot as opposed to essentially just playing the character that Leslie Nielsen played an airplane. Which I think is what they've missed more or less in these movies is the base character of Frank Drebben is so different from the show that, regardless of whether or not the movies were tailoring themselves towards Police Squad, these movies were never going to be as successful as the show because the character Frank Drebban is so drastically different just from the get go. The first time we see him in that last movie, he is a drastically different character than the last time we see him in the show.

Apparently a lot of the stuff that was in the script is in the TV version of this, which I thought there were some pretty funny gags that they cut out, like the tank that goes through Savage's house that when he pulled up in the tank that there's actually a hand that pops out of the front and brings the doorbell. Like, I thought that was pretty funny, and I was waiting for that in the movie because I liked it so much from the script. There's more when they're at the bar of Frank talking about all the girls that he went out with, because that goes on for a long time. Ed is really freaking out about how he just has sex with Edna every single night, and it kind of like cut to him frothing at the mont so quickly, and it should have just been more and more and more of that stuff because it doesn't really make sense.

Yeah, those are the things where when you say that, then I think, yeah, it doesn't make sense that he's frothing at that point, Right, What has Frank really said up to that point that would have him doing that, So knowing that there's something missing makes sense. There's a whole thing in that opening scene where he steals a cigar out of a guy's mouth and it's just like this is a Cuban cigar and this is a contraband da da da, and then you find out that he's actually the Cuban ambassador. Or when he talks to Winnie Mandela, who just gets the origin her head piece. In this one, there's a whole thing where he thinks that she's Martha from Martha and the Vandela's right. So yeah, there was a lot of like little things in there.

It's just like, oh yeah, like maybe he should have left those maybe should have relied on that college audience as much. Yeah, Frank Drebin singing Bessme Bucho is much funnier. I like that. I like the little czy top reference as well. That's kind of I mean, God, these DVDs suck because I mean, thank god there's the audio commentaries, but otherwise bare bones, so bare bones.

I can imagine. It's like, come on, guys, give us all these deleted scenes, give us the alternate version, the TV version. You know, it's no nothing. I mean, we'll talk about the extra scenes when we have a top gun discussion, but you get three three extra scenes and they're nothing to write home about. There's a reason why they were cut this one.

It sounds like there's some good scenes that they left on the cutting room floor. Mike mel top secret. Is there an explanation in this script as to why Meltormay is at the dance? No? So I was so happy to see him because I know we've I thought the mild Tormay was in one of these, and I was so glad to show it up.

But then I was like, wait, is that Meltormay? Is that it? Yeah? It gets as much screen time as weird Al Yeah, yeah, it just goes oh darn it, like yeah, sucks easy day, got that sagmentimum baby Yeah the one line. Yeah, well, I mean, hey, you get to be in the credits.

That is something I appreciate about these movies is in the credits they just have who said the lie? I do like I appreciate that, like, you know, yeah, why not? I love the guy who he's on his crotch and who dies too soon. That actor's name is Rainer Shine, which is a great joke name to itself. But he I know a lot of people would probably know from like ace Ventura.

He shows up in that, But I really like him in Fried Green Tomatoes where he's yelling at Mary Elizabeth, what's her name? And just like I'm gonna find out girl the girl. And he always plays a great redneck, and he wasn't a redneck in this one. It took me minute to even recognize who he was. I also like the guy who's uh, what is He's like, He's like, well, if you're gonna be like that about it.

But I think it is the same scene as the next one. Who else is dying here? Rainer Shine was in was in what is it? Ace Ventura as woodstuck? Is that the red or the white?

That's what I always remember at the Cannibal Corpse Concert of all fucking places. God, and he was in the famous Ghost Dad, which I have yet to see. I think we should do an episode on that one of these days, Oh dear God, a double feature of that in Leonard part six please, oh yeah. And then we'll have soul Man to round out this trio terrible and then we'll just shoot ourselves in the heads while we play ripped version of Song of the South in the background. Just kill ourselves in tandem with it.

Odd Jesus Christ. I think one of the other great police Squad esque gags is her big ass shoes. Oh, like no reason. The kitchen gag in this movie and all the gags in the kitchen are much better than the first movie because they kind of retread the same ground in this movie. It feels like they don't have a scene between the two of them where she's like exposition exposition, expositions.

Act. At least, thank god, they know how to transition a little bit more seamlessly between acts in this movie. But that thing. I always forget that gag with her like seven inch high heels or whatever it is, because yeah, it's insane. I wonder if Leslie Nielsen is on is wearing platform shoes as well or something, because he looks taller too in that scene.

Right, But every gag, yeah, every gag in that scene is pretty is pretty great. The animals with their names Puppy, Scruffy and Muffy and all that chicken baby pigs, big pig, and then that weird quote that's attributed to Albert Camu for something but you can barely make out. It goes by so rapidly. I'm surprised at how much longer Leslie Nielsen lived because he was looking very old in this movie. I was looking really jacked in that one scene where they recreated go if I go back to him and he was just ripped.

I mean, such a stacked guy. I think that's one of the best gags when she reaches into the pants and you think she's gonna pull out a dick and it's just a lump of clay. It makes no fucking makes the ash trail that was so good. Yeah, that was so nice that it's like Jerry's off making Ghost and David's making this one. Apparently that was the teaser trailer.

They came up with that for the teaser before I remember seeing that. Yeah, I can't remember which movie it was that they said, oh, well, you can get this attached to some big release if you come up with a trailer. So they came up with that. I mean, I don't know how well it works in the movie. I frankly think it works better as the trailer than it does in the movie.

But I mean, again, like that's one of those gags that nobody's doing that in twenty twenty two. Nobody's doing that like two years later type. That's a specific topical gag that plenty of movies at the time or TV shows or whatever we're parroting or kind of sending up because it's such a famous scene. Obviously to the point where God Mike Pottery and see if they tell you too, don't do that goddamn scene from Ghosts, don't do it. You were talking about the Simpsons, and I was really reminded of them when it came to the two commercials that we get for the oil company.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of, what the two tailed dog. The two tailed dog is one and then the other. I mean, especially with all the nuclear reactors and you know, I say, get Blinky from the Simpsons, but the other one the all of the ship captains that they're giving sobriety tests to. I mean, such an exon Valdi's gag right there, and it's like, okay, yeah, this this works. I Mean some of that was pretty biting, and I appreciate it.

That's the thing that I think this movie lacks a little bit is a bite to it with some of they say things like having Kaboom in there is pretty good and all that, but there are times where I'm just like, yeah, just be a little meaner, you know, be a little bit more Mad TV than SNL. Please, Yeah, they don't take too many jobs at the powers that be. Being against corrupt businessman is a pretty easy yeah. Wow, go too. So we say that radical.

What a novel concept that might be in twenty twenty two. I'm really surprised. And you know, you mentioned all of the word play, which we didn't get in the last episode or sorry, last movie very much at all. So all of that stuff with Kid Colorado and all that kind of stuff, I was surprised that there wasn't more wordplay when it came to the I love you as the code, Like I was really thinking he was going to have there I love it. I thought that he was going to staff to say I'd love it to so many awful things.

Hey, have you ever had this? You know, I don't know, cream cheese and locks. It was something, I mean, I like cream cheese and locks, but just I'm trying to think of like gross food, and just him I love it right before they finally get in right the closest. I mean that they heard I love it on the second time that he said it was amazing. I thought for sure it'd be like, oh no, he has to keep saying it like when he's getting frisked.

I was like, Okay, that's kind of funny, But I was really hoping they would go way out there and like run that joke for like two minutes straight. It's kind of an anti joke, right, because they're using it for a different They use it for the joke of them being trapped in the in the van, which ain't that funny. Like there's like two seconds you see that they're trapped and Nordberg's hanging upside down, Like to your point, the I've been swimming in raw sewage all day. I love it. That gag should have been a bigger thing, like because it has the opportunity to be, and instead it's like, no, we're gonna have this, like slaps Dicky saying that.

If you watch the trailer for the third movie, which Beagley and I did after we were done, they do that gag again. In the third movie, they do the exact same gag where they're trapped in the car and they can't get out because they're parked in such a way that the doors don't open. They do it again, and it's like, oh my fucking god, Like it's not funny either way. Like that, what makes that funny like at all? Like just move your car.

Yeah, I was expecting Robert Goulay to detail what he was going to do to Frank, like all the torture and then after each you know, I'm going to rip your pubic hair out one by one. Oh great, I love it, you know, stuff like that, and then, like you said, it's just the two things. And then they're taking a hostage anyway, and the guys don't even come in. Then there's no additional joke in the script there, right, Like if I remember correctly, that's not a place that they cut, which is weird because that gag feels perfect for additional building. Right when he says the code word is I love it, you're already going there.

He's gonna have to say I love it to all these horrific things, Yeah, exactly, we're doing your jobs for you, right, And then Robert du Lake can do his eyes every time he says it. Well, that's weird. He married stilted delivery. I love the way he talks in this movie. I also love that at one point he's playing solitaire by himself in the middle of this giant banquet room and he's just sitting there playing solitaire by himself, as you do.

Apparently has someone who likes to be left alone. I kind of get it, so it didn't seem on to me. He did. Like the gag that also takes place at their warehouse when ed it gets so mad and he takes his gun and badge and puts him aside, just you and me. I'm just a that they have that big fight, and then I do appreciate when they cut back to him and he's just ass out on the floor.

Oh it hurts. Or when they're at the big reveal, the big event that they're having, and when all of the guys stand up and pull guns on their gates and lives, and then the uncomfortableness of the looks that the women are giving to the men afterwards. That worked, That really worked. That feels like a gag that should have been in Mafia. I agree.

You know, they take their Gumar's hostage type of thing, like, hey, I mean that's that's I mean again, like, but that's why it works here. Also, you'll notice one of the guys who stands up clearly looks like a John Gotti must adjacent like the one standing very I think closest to the camera. There are a lot of gags that work. I mean, again, I don't want to drag this movie, but it feels a little repetitive having a villain doing a similar kind of thing, and you know, the third movie is I think just as culpable, obviously, just so we're all aware, but it's just kind of weird that they do essentially the same thing again. Even though the villain his motivation is more I guess makes more sense because he owns the oil company.

It's less like Ricardo Mouldibon just being I guess a villain for hire Moriarty style. Here, it still feels like they're doing essentially the same thing, which I mean, I guess the first movie worked so makes sense. This movie made a ton of money as well, so I would have just liked to have seen maybe a little bit more creative plot, just something more than just a big bad guy played by someone famous, has his henchmen do everything and then he dies like that was the first movie, now it's the second movie. I guess. The only thing I'm glad is they don't do the is he or isn't he a bad guy?

To everybody? Else thing. You know, they did that with Ricardo Mouldibon going to Nancy Marshawn first movie. We don't get that in this movie. Thankfully they decide to leave that part of it out, but feels like they could have done that again.

The closest we come to that is the true Richard Griffiths and is this the bad one? Is this the good one? Oh? How dare you be beating up that poor crippled man? Those things?

And it's like, Okay, that actually is kind of funny. And I do like when Richard Griffiths pulls off his hair and it's that long, lustrous brownie hair. He makes that like noise cinema sins time. Oh. I don't think they explicitly say what is wrong with Meneheimer.

I'm assuming he's paralyzed, That's what I would think. Yeah, he wouldn't feel the still wool being rubbed on his ass. Yeah. Maybe, I imagine you have different sensations. You might not be able to beat, but you might be able to feel stuff.

Could be I mean, I'm not sure if it's like the little guy in Alien Resurrection where the knife falls into his leg and he just doesn't feel it kind of thing, or if you had that sensation great alien resurrection drop get talked about nearly enough. We need to talk about their dance routine, because it's that's right there baby, oh yeah, before the mootie douce stuff, when they're just talking and dancing. Yeah, oh yeah, that's pretty darn good it is. That's got to be hard. It's very top secret though, yes, yes, yeah, that's right.

I knew it seemed familiar having watched Top Secret in ages they nailed. I wonder how long it's ten to film that because it's right on. Yeah. Speaking of Texas switches, there's a really good one when he falls or jumps down at one point and lands and then he gets back up and it's one of my blanking lesi Nielsen there, and it was a stuntman that fell down. I thought that was pretty good.

I mean, they aren't doing the obvious ones other than the dancing couple from Afar, like obviously you can tell that that's not them, but what I know, but they do a couple of those where it actually looked like they were doing it on purpose, like they were doing it well and not pointing out that it was the joke and They also have that one where he's I think it's in this one where he's all messed up and then he just like cut and he's fixing his hair and it looks all fine. It was very It's when he drops in from the skylight, wipes his face off and then runs his hands through his hair, and the next shot he's perfectly clean, right, which was like the two enforcer guys that were beating him up at the locksmith's shop, and how he is all bloody at one point and then looks absolutely fine and the next shot.

Yep. But it's a gag that works because like, oh yeah, because it's like a two second gag. You don't have to like like in this movie towards the end of the movie, when we kind of find out that Habsburg's plan was to blow the building up, I guess because the other plan didn't work, so he gotta have a plan b right. Didn't appreciate that part where it's like, okay, so there's a little bit of kind of upping the anti here. I like the gag with oj on the roof.

Also, I don't like that they repeat the gag from the show because they don't do anything with it, but they don't even do anything different. They have this oj gag going on in the background, which works rather well with the kind of the absurdity of this gun. You know, they keep cutting away and it's getting bigger and bigger than it's essentially just a like an anti aircraft gun. But they have them doing that exact same trash can gag again again. They did it twice in the show, and though they're doing it here, is it funny?

Not if you don't do anything different it right? Yeah, do something different, like anything anything, have him pick up the trash can and hit him with it or something. It's not as funny as the show because, for one thing, it's a woman that he's shooting at and it ends differently with is that when she throws the wig at him? Isn't that where it's like every different version he's like pulling the wig off that happens before, has that how this scene ends. But and they throw away more guns at each other, So it's a little bit more detailed ways, different ways to go with this gag, and they literally don't even do anything.

They just do the barest, minimum basic version of the gag. Again, who's going to remember who was The benefit to these movies is again, most people who have watched them that are my age may not have ever seen the show and or know the show exists. And now people watching them now are definitely not gonna have heard of the show. And it was only six episodes, so they can't really be blamed. They really can't.

I'm sure though it played at this point between the first movie and this, I'm sure the show was playing somewhere on cable maybe maybe. I mean, again, what are you gonna do buy six episodes of a show and just I mean some of those weird, although that wasn't around them, but I could see, yeah, like USA or something, Yeah, showing them. I mean, you've an MTV USA afternoon, come and see what inspired the Naked Gun. And oh, Naked Gun two and a half is coming out, so we're going to play all day Saturday afternoon, We're going to run this and then they'll play so many commercials in there that it will take ten hours to play six episodes. Now, I think you're right.

I think you're right with that. It's kind of surprising that they didn't do that because I want to say, at some point and I'm trying to remember which of the movies it is. It may have even been the third one where Leslie Nielsen showed up in the WWF as fucking Frank Drebin looking for the Undertaker. Really, yeah, it's so fucking weird, and I'm trying to remember where it is because I wanted to send it to y'all, But I want to say it's in between the second and the third one. But yeah, he shows up as Frank Drebin in care in the WWF at the time on the hunt for the Undertaker.

Who had I want to say, just gotten into it was he was he was feuding with Kane or no, was this This may have been when there was the Undertaker and then the Underfaker, because the Undertaker went away for a while and then a guy came back who clearly didn't look like the Undertaker, so they brought Frank Drebbin into find the real Undertaker. But there were all these like weird vignettes of Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebben in the WWF doing the kind of police squad thing, bumbling around I want to say, in the WWF arenas and out in the world looking for the Undertaker. Wow, that's wild, huh. To your point, that was on USA. So that's why I bring it up because I think to your point, like I would have at some point like run these episodes or something, because you do have prior stuff.

I mean, again, the success of those things is kind of up to the person programming, but at least the first couple episodes would have done something to maybe ignite interest in this ip that. Again, I don't know if it's been shuttled at the time, but I don't think people were clamoring for a police squad movie. I really don't think they were. No, though, this one did better at the box office than the previous one, which is almost unheard of. I think at this point, like it makes perfect sense, right because the first movie was extremely successful.

Yeah, and it's a better film. Took all of our points. I think we all said that we liked this one better. I think it's a better made film, which is surprising since it's not the three creators, it's just Proft and Zucker, but you know, hey, it works. And then them cribbing from their own stuff with at least eight or nine jokes, and the one joke that I think really lands is Gooley getting away and then the lion need him.

But it's amazing, I made us payoff. That is the best payoff. Yeah, it's the greatest joke in any Za z or any of these movies. The payoff is just and the fact that it so you get the zoo and you have him with the baboons, and then you have in the next scene a giraffe running by. Yeah, and then I think there's like one or two voiceovers or eighty yards where it's like, you know, at the zoo today, you know, animals broke loose, and then you there's nothing until that thing at the end, right, an elephant goes by a building at some point, but it's still quite a ways off from the end.

Man, you've forgotten about it by the Yeah, when that lion gets him at the end, it's so fucking good. It's just it's great. It's better than the Ricardo Malti bond being smushed. It is the best joke in any of these movies. That payoff is just sublime.

You know what, Chris I when I just read and I apologize for this, it is when Frank falls through the glass and is captured by a pollution group Quentin goes through a detailed explanation of how he'll be torturing Frank before killing him. So there's our I love it joke right there. Didn't realize that there was more to that, okay, so yeah, so there was then, so yeah, and look, I mean it makes sense that they leave spots in these movies for them to cut jokes out, but that, for me, is not one of those jokes they should have cut out. That would just because you could get really really strange with what he's having, him saying, yeah, take it for a walk, man, it's okay. Might as well they take other some of these other gags for Johns around the park, like this was one worth doing.

And then you have those strange non sequitors, like the reference to the Twilight Zone with the How to Serve Man it's a good book and he's like someone else. It made me laugh. Yeah he was in that episode though, so right right, And I was just like, okay, well that's cool. So all right, I mean I like non sequitors, and I thought that was pretty funny. But I'm just like that versus more of the I love it thing.

I might have gone with more of the I love it thing. I mean, it's a cookbook takes ten seconds to do. I just always get a kick out of the fact that his son is Ellis and die Hurd. Every time I see Lloyd Bochner, I think of Hart Bochner and then oh yeah, I'm playing an asshole. So often I watched sixty minutes to say to myself, these guys are professional, they motivated, they're happening.

I eat, they want something, huh, Hans, Bobby your White Knight. Oh god, he's one of the best characters ever. Come on, he's such a good character that they made a character like him in every other die Hard on a movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep. Every time they were like, got to have that Ellis character, the baddie.

Yeah, the bad guy who thinks he's a good guy who turns out to get killed by the actual bad guys. Like put him in every movie. Hans, I'm all about method, but put the gun down. I think the third act of this movie obviously not as strong as the third act of the first movie, but I think the first and second act of this movie makeup for kind of a lacking third act. I think the first two acts in this movie are really solid.

The third act in the first movie I think is probably as good as any of this stuff ever is. Frankly, I think the third act in that first movie just hits so many notes and so many different notes so perfectly, and it kind of just has everything. I think this movie better overall than the first one. But that third act in the first movie I think will be for me the best thing out of maybe all of this, other than the first Police Squad movie. An obviously Airplane, which kind of stands alone in all of this.

Still I think Airplane stands alone, which is funny, like Airplane has the Frank Drebin character in it in a lot of ways at least proto Frank Drebin. So I think Airplane still really does stand alone for me. But this is better than most everything else we've seen up until this point. I would say for me, it's and I know we're kind of wrapping the show a little bit early since we have one more episode to do, but I would say Airplane is the top. And then I'd say at least two or three episodes of Police Squad are right up there for me, the ones that I really remember.

I'd say, like probably chronologically, the first three episodes, especially the first one, those are rock solid to me, and then you start to get diminishing returns after that. Yeah, I think I can confidently say the final movie is not going to be anybody's favorite's. You watch the preview for it, and I think you get a pretty good idea of where it's going and the jokes that it's mining. And it's unfortunate because again, this movie has some of those topical jokes. The third movie just starts really leading on them.

They're blowing up the Academy Awards. Just imagine the kinds of topical nineties Academy Awards jokes you're going to be getting. And that is the third act of that movie, similar to the way The Dodgers Angels Fake Stadium is the third act of the first movie. It becomes exactly what scary movie and in a lot of ways what Mafia is, where it's oddly specific stuff, but with something like Mafia, it works because that's the entire movie is just that. With Naked Gun, it's like Naked Gun doesn't need to try and be scary movie or epic movie or disaster movie.

And we see some of it here, but it's, you know, an airplane does it rather deftly, I think with the Jaws stuff, but it doesn't really do anything other than be inspired by that bass plot and then go from there, like when you start referencing other things in your movie, you've really lost sight of what made this fun to begin with. Hey, we get a cigarette gag in this one. I missed that red van. Yes, I know, yes, I know, all right, good one boy. There.

It is the thing at the end when he's talking about all of the horrible characters. I think this is Bush talking about it, just all the low lives and scum and all this. And then at Frank, sis, you want me to work in your cabinet? Right, No, he's heating up national branch of police squad, a federal branch, the FBPS, Yes, which is what Frank always wanted. Apparently.

Yeah, there was a nice touch there when he was giving his speech and the whole deal with the fake Meinheimer was happening, I noticed on this watch, and so I could actually hear that everything that Bush was saying was happening in that He's like, we're gonna cut the ties to whatever, and that was when he cut the rope that holds the sandbag and then we're gonna impact and that's when he hits his head and all that. I was like, Oh, I like that. I also liked when Frank was giving his speech at the end and he's doing one of those what they called the pat Proft runs of all the things that he wants to do, like I want to be able to eat a sea ot or without getting sick. All the Frank juniors of the world.

I went to a seven eleven without an interpreter. Oh that was little, Yeah, throwing a little xenophobia in there for measure. Yeah, casual at this point, just casual. Don't worry. Well, well, it seemed out of place in the rest of the movie, though, don't worry.

We'll amp the xenophobia when we do an American Carol. David's got it covered with that one. I want to say, an American Carol will totally redeem all of this, and Leslie Nielsen will be there, so oh yeah. And I'm trying to remember what movie it is that they either a movie or a TV show that they just openly lift from when it comes to a suicide bomber training video, because I remember when I covered that on the projection booth and that whole thing is lifted from something else completely. You're a braver man than me to be covering that movie.

Oh boy, Yeah, yeah, that was something. It makes the Third Naked Gun Movie look like Bergman Seventh Seal. It really does. Like boy, God, American Carol is just it's not even a movie, is that. It's an experimented filmmaking experimental film man.

Yeah, good stuff. Yeah, I guess when that's what happens when you don't rain your people in. That's I mean, that is the problem with kind of all of these movies is varying degrees of needing to be rained in. Obviously, we've had the political stuff which kind of overtakes this movie, which totally should have been rained in by somebody. The literalism in this movie kind of needed to be rained in.

Some of the jokes that got rained in I don't think should have been rained in. But I think in a lot of these movies, you see in an Airplane when they talk about it, the amount of time they spent really crafting that movie and running those jokes and they didn't. It just doesn't feel like they did it with these movies, and they could have and they should have. I don't know why. Maybe it's because they're so successful and they just need to make another one and they can't be bothered.

But it really feels like Airplane was gone over with a fine tooth comb and these movies were not, and that is a shame. Well, it makes me want to go and check out what Jim Abrams was doing, which was I think right at this same time was when the hot Shots franchise started. Yeah, hot Shots was ninety one this. Yeah, I love hot Shots. That first one is you know the wait what do you do?

Hey? You in there? The fucking Walleye thing. Yeah, I love hot Shots. I watched it, I think last year, the year before.

It still holds up. I don't even like Top Gun. I know the plot of Top Gun because of hot Shots. Yeah, ever seen it? I remember hot Shots being better than this, even though I like this a lot, like I think hot Shots, I think just it's kind of like Airplane Light.

I remember remembering it like Airplane Light, and I think you might be agreed with me, right like kind of if I remember it. It's even got Lloyd Bridge is in it. It does yeah, and he's playing the see the idiot in that one is the present or the general or whatever the role is that he's doing, and he's the one getting abused kind of like nord Burgess in this one. Right, he's playing Leslie Nielsen in that movie in a little bit of a way basically is yeah, and I mean Taper Harley, he isn't the smartest ball, but he's a pretty good protagonist, and I don't I don't think you're actively rooting for him to like get smacked around or anything. He should be the smarter character, right, the character that Dreben is on the show a lot of right times exactly.

Yeah. I mean you've got dead meat there to take a lot of the brunt of stuff as well. Yeah. Yeah, God just makes me want to watch that movie now. Yeah, which is weird too because it was also written by Pat Proft, so it was Abrams and Proft is like Proft is there with all of these movies, which is just kind of an odd thing that Abrahams and Zucker split off and Proft as they're connecting the two and as far as I know, there's no bad blood at this time between any of them.

They're all just doing their own individual things. He's the ringo of the group. Yeah, go and play on everybody else's albums exactly. And the thing that I don't remember is is wrongfully accused bad? Or is spy hard bad?

Or are they both bad? I've never seen because Pat Proft is the one who's all over wrongfully accused pronfully accused. He wrote directed that one solely, and that's the only thing he wrote and directing. The thing that this show has made me curious of is not who is the weak link, but whose style out of this group of four people I am not the biggest fan of. I don't want to say who I think it is right now, but I think it's becoming more apparent the more of these movies we watch.

Who I'm seeing as probably less in tune with my personal comedic taste. To be diplomatic, as they would say, Yeah, it almost makes me want to go and watch a lot of these lesser Leslie Nielsen films like what was it two thousand and one? A Space? Was it Hoddity or something? I can't remember, but he, I mean didn't know he did one of those dead loving and possessed a Space travesty Mike A Space travesty, thank you, because I didn't want to get it confused with the creature wasn't nice because I think he was in that as well, But that was like nineteen eighty, that was right after Airplane.

But yeah, like that space travesty. Fucking DVD cover cracks me up. Leslie Nielsen just going, oh yeah, literally, Bay, I'm gonna look this up. The cover. It's so good.

Oh man, oh, Leslie. He wanted to be a funny man so badly. I watched Repossessed when we did an episode on Exorcist too, so that I could be complete man again. That movie whoa, I've only seen clips from it. I really didn't dive into his oh boy later filmography.

I think after this movie. I believe I saw this in the theater, may have rented it once, but I believe these last two times were the third and fourth time I've ever seen Naked Have Gone Too Half. I think this was the second time I've ever seen it as well. I think I watched this one more than I watched the first one. To be perfectly honest with I think if I were to watch one, it would be this one again.

Yeah, for that feeling of police squad that it gave me. It's kind of ironic too, because, if memory serves, Leslie Nielsen would go on to play basically George W. Bush in the Scary Movie franchise Movie three, Yeah, where is telling him about the tragedy that's happened, and he's just like, you know, I got to find out what happens with the goat. They just like us. Yeah, the PE's out of his finger.

Yeah, Leslie Nielsen and Scary Movie three is just Scary Movie three is the only one of those post first ones that I think really works, and Leslie Nielsen actually is a big part of why it works because he is really funny and he's essentially just playing President Leslie Nielsen. So I think I liked part of four because I think four is the one with the that's like the ring parody with Charlie Sheen at the beginning. No, I think that's five, is it? Whichever one is trading on Charlie Sheen Tiger Blood at the beginning always cracks me up. Topicality.

I couldn't make it past that scene. I honestly couldn't. That was paranormal activity they were doing with that one. Topicality and this is coming from someone who saw Charlie Sheen live at the Boy. It was as good as you would expect.

Yeah, I mean people screaming at Charlie Sheen from the audience, which was just, well, you're screaming at the person you paid to see to be here, but okay, I'm doing what live. It was just like Charlie Sheen's like just like talking Jesus. It's like stand up. I mean I don't understand stand up either, Like I watch stand up, but I won't go pay money to see it, like I just it's weird to me. I'll pay a lot to see people do live music, but I would never go see Charlie Sheen again.

If I could go back in time, I wouldn't go to that show other than to see a group of people screaming at a local DJ and calling him a piece of shit, which was kind of funny because they had like a local DJ like interviewing him, and anytime he was talking, people in the audience were like, shut the fuck up, go home. Nobody cares let Charlie Sheen talk. And it's like, oh my god, wow, I can smell this group still just like AX and four loco. It's like winning. I don't know, man, I was banging seven Graham rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll.

I have one speed, I have one gear go. So we are wrapping it up next week when we come back and talk about Naked Gun thirty three in the third, because there's nothing kids like more than LP jokes. Did it to yourself with the two and a half, you had to come up with something else. You didn't come up with pot so they could have just had three point three three three three three three three or something. Only an idiot would do that.

That next movie is not even directed by a Zucker or an Abrahams. It's a completely different name, which I think, lets you know what's fucked up is the guy who's directing it. Did any of them write it? Why are we doing this one if they're not one of the and Proft is one of the writers as well. Okay, Peter Siegel is the one who directed.

I mean he directed Just Trying to out of It, which is a fantastic movie, but not gonna getting out of it. That easy back Buckle Up Boys thirty three and a third is is it's a rough ride. Oh boy, again, only saw it once, so I don't think i've seen it. I'm so excited. It's got fred Ward.

Oh fred Ward. Yeah. They show that TCM has there in memorium clip out right now and he's one of the ones we lost this year. It's a white Heat parody with that, isn't it like it's him and his mo? Yeah?

Okay, yeah, So they break him out of prison. There's a whole like prison break. There's like, ah, I want to say, there's like nuts, Shoshank wouldn't have been Would Shohank have been out at the time? M no, yeah, ninety four? I think it was.

Yeah, Shoshank was the same year. There's a lot of just like prison. I don't know. There's a lot of low hanging fruit. Tagline for the poster says mostly all new jokes and they're not lying.

Well. I am very curious seeing because I remember that pap Shmir is coming back. So yeah, Ray Burke is back. Yeah yeah, I can't wait to see it. So until then, Chris, where can people find us on all of our shows?

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