Episode 09: Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)

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Ready, Big either Nan starts Friday, March eighteen. That beats everywhere. Welcome too from the files of Police Squad in Color. I'm your host, Mike White. Joining me is mister Christasshew.

I prefer to go by my prison name Randy McGirk. And of course back with us again this mister Mark Begley. Well, it's not exactly the backyard, but it'll do. On this episode, we are wrapping things up with Naked Gun thirty three and a third, the Final Insult. And Yeah, one of my younger co workers was saying, what's called thirty three and a third?

That doesn't make any sense. That joke did not last, gentlemen. It is outdated. It was outdated when they made the joke. It would have made a little more sense if they had kept their original subtitle for it, which was just for the record, Naked Gun thirty three and a third just for the record, which is a funny ass title like that's it makes it hilarious.

Oh yeah, And then they decided, well, that's no one's going to get that, And I'm like, well, if no one's going to get that, who the fuck is going to get thirty three and a third? Right? Change that too then, But if they watch the movie, they'll understand the final insult part as the film does an insult to your intelligence. Changed the numeric aspect of it to three something or three and three quarters? What I mean, you know, keep that going or make it a decimal this time instead of two and a half?

Why thirty three and a third if you're not going to keep just for the record, and also nobody calls it that? Can we just point this out, like when we've been referring to this movie at any point during this show or in our private conversations about police Squad, you'd be surprised how many of those there are. And also in any of the conversations any of us have probably had with people letting them know we're doing this show, I would be surprised. If any of us referred to this as Naked Gun thirty three and a third, we probably called it Naked Gun three. It's not like Hotshots Part two, where they've done something funny with the number and you can't avoid it, like you just said, like this is completely avoidable, and it's just called Naked Gun three.

Like, I'm sorry, that's what this is. Yeah, I don't get why they were so beholden with the thirty three and a third because it was two and a half, right, which was funny, Like two and a half is funny. The movie's opening gag doesn't even make sense. The poster gag doesn't make sense. This is the first of these to not be directed by a Zucker and abrahams or a Zucker.

It is directed by Peter Siegel, not to be confused with Peter Sagel, the guy who hosts Wait Waite, Don't Tell Me on NPR. This is a totally different guy. This is a guy who fell into some really bad movies. That's an understatement. Oh boy, I mean he's got some good stuff in there too.

I really like the remake of The Longest Yard. I kind of like fifty First Dates, but not really. The rest of these aren't so good man. How much can you hate a movie that has Sean Aston in it? Well, not at all.

I don't know that Body Swat movie was Sean Aston isn't burned? Oh I've never actually seen Tommy Boy. Guys, what's yeah? Wow, I've seen that he hooked his wagon to the what is that production? Come in their train?

Yeah? The Madison, Appy Madison and Gary and then it would. I think Gary Sanchez Too is kind of a offshoot of that. Gary Sanchez Productions. Tommy Boys pretty great.

I mean, look, Tommy Boy could have been directed by a nutlass chimp. Frankly, it has a seminal pairing of David Spade and Chris Farley, who would have been Abbott and Costello for their day and age if Chris Farley had not succumbed to his personal demons. There's none of that here. There's none of that here, folks. It's oh, you're right.

This guy directs comedies, and almost exclusively comedies. Oh yeah, I also haven't seen My spy, that one with the Bautista, which unfortunately fell victim of the pandemic in a hard way. Poster and trailer for that years before it was finally available. Is that with him and a little kid? Yeah?

Yeah, one of those. It is the wrestler has to go and be a father to a child movie, just like The Rock did with that football. You guys remember that the game Plan? Oh, I thought you were talking about tooth Fairy or there was also as a Nanny with Hulk Horatio Hogan. Also there was what's the what's the one with Triple h the Chaperone where he's like a chaperone at a school with Michael Rappaport.

Wow, Barton Fink write it? Does he have that Barton Fink feeling? Could be a pit? WELLI Beery is a wrestler. I want to know his hopes, his dreams.

Naturally you have to get mixed up with a bad element and romantic interest, you know, romantic interest or as a young kid at what do you think, Lou will he a little too old for romantic interest? Look at me a writer in the room, and I'm asking Lou what the goddamn story should be? Which is buen Dame both Maybe so he's also working on a sequel to My Spy and a new version of Hervey. I think this might be the third filmed version of Harvey, so we'll see how that goes. I don't know if Mental Illness will play as funny in twenty twenty twenty four as it did back when old Jimmy Stewart was kind of a nut.

I wouldn't want to tackle that project in twenty twenty three me personally. Hey, you know what they have and Nick had done thirty three and a third the cigarette gag. Yeah, baby, the posters correct, mostly new jokes. Thank god it showed up for the third movie. Huh, Yeah, it is.

Actually, I don't think there's a lot of callbacks to the show, other than that it's the most different from the show of these three films. I think it's the most different from all of the other things, even really like even from the other movies. Right, Like, this is a weird. When we were watching it, because you and I Mark have watched these now together. When we were watching it, the thing that you pointed out was beyond astute.

And it's what these things have evolved into, which is specific parodies of specific things in specific movies. This movie and then wrongfully accused and everything after this just like leans on it so hard as much as I like Mafia, I know that Mafia is specifically parroting specific scenes from specific movies, which happens to work there because they're doing all Mafia movies and that's the genre of movie that they're doing, so you've got a lot of room to play in. This could be playing in the crime police world, and it just decides not to. It starts parroting random things completely, and to the point where, again I wonder, why are we making a third one or a thirty third one? Yeah, I don't know.

I think I like this one better than you guys, but I don't like it a ton. I like some of the scenes that they have in here. I like the whole thing with the Untouchables at the beginning, even though it's kind of a cheat that it's a dream sequence, total cheat. Yeah, there's kind of makes more sense though that it is right the only way it makes sense. Why are they doing this right?

Plus that movie at that point was seven years old. For Pete's sake. The scene of them in the seventies bar doesn't work at all for me because they're using that as kind of a send up of the disco era. We've already seen that in Airplane, the whole thing with Norberg and the huge frow. It's kind of funny, but not that funny.

They're really using it for introducing Anna Nicole Smith's character and that she knows Frank, and there's no reason why she should know Frank. It's just it's really kind of sloppy writing in that regard, and they're really taking a lot of time to telegraph all of these things and give us all the machinations of Rocco, the fred Ward character and him being hired by Pathshmir and the whole relationship with his mother, and then just it was just like, Okay, Wow, this is like the most plot heavy of the naked guns of any of these zaz Ish films that I think I've ever seen. Not to split hairs and be that guy again, but her looking exactly the same in the seventies as she does in nineteen ninety four is a bit of a stretch.

Not even the different haircut. Yeah, well, they should have given her like a comical hairstyle or something they did with everybody else. They gave Leslie Nielsen, you know, a crazy haircut, and O. J. Simpson's entire point of being in that scene is to have the afro, which if you watch the trailer for this movie, they completely spoil that gag, which is such a waste because spoiling it in the trailer is a waste because it's not really funny, But to show it for free is even less funny because when you see it in the movie, you're like, Okay, all right, I saw well, remember that from the trailer.

What I don't understand about this movie is it feels a lot like a mashup of the first movie and the second movie together. The third act is completely isolated to this one essentially Room which mirror. I guess Mirror is the second movie too, but the first movie a lot. And then it has a thing that the first movie doesn't have but the second movie does, which is like several villains that Frank has to contend with, which kind of adds to I think the plot contrivances that we run into because when it was just there Vincent Ludberg or whatever the fuck Ricardo multi Bond's character's name is the character he plays, Vincent Ludwig. It's just him and Frank.

That's it. There's not I mean, there's the goons, but not any but he else in the second movie has to contend with all those kind of other people, you know, the I guess the Manheimer and then and whatever the hell Robert Gulay's character is. I just think this movie has way too many people, way too much going on, and Anatochole Smith completely in the movie. For one singular gag at the end of the movie, that is not funny. It's not funny.

I don't even know what it is, but it's not funny. It's shocking. The crying game gag. Yeah, it might be offensive. The word might be offensive.

I would say it's offensive. I'm not trans, so I don't want to speak for the trans community. I would be offended if they made a gag like that about Frank being gay, but they already did and it actually kind of worked. With the throwing around to the pigskin, that entire scene is pretty funny. I find it to be probably the best part of the entire movie.

There's a lot of gay panic in this movie, yeah, and a lot of race and a lot of just like casual racism too. Yeah. Directed by the Zuckers though, what's up with that? I mean? And then also just very anti feminist too.

With the whole right. We no, no, And it didn't make sense either that it was a woman who was the defense attorney, because it's like all of these women all have their hyphenated names, and they all have babies and all this kind of stuff, and I know it's supposed to trigger like Jay not having a baby and her being, you know, really weird about that. Why have the prosecuting or defense attorney breastfeeding and she's got even more hyphenated names and stuff, and those hyphenated names that could have been a lot funnier too, Like you could have really mixed, like you know, an Irish name, an Italian name, an African like some sort of like really odd combination of names. But they weren't even that funny.

Also, the optics are weird of the main character in this movie wanting to have a baby when they're both old enough to be the baby's grandparents. Oh Jesus Christ, Yeah, it is kind of fucking weird because Leslie Nielsen at this point is how old. I know, Priscilla Presley is forty nine at the time. I mean again, not commenting on her looks or anything else, just the optics of what this movie is going for are so antithetical to what is even funny in this series, and not to mention, and they've done it now twice. In the first movie, it worked, the second movie, it kind of worked.

Third movie, I don't think it did. Why do they keep separating them and having them have to come back together and they're breaking up and coming back to the fucking drop it movie at the end of the second movie. There shouldn't have been any more of this bullshit. There shouldn't have been any more of them going around in a circle chasing each other, even if it is like, oh, I didn't understand that he was on the case and he went to the sperm clinic, Like all you gotta do is just tell that, Like it's just contrived writing because they don't have any idea of what they're trying to do here anymore. It's just like, let's make funny far peepee jokes and like weird gay bating jokes and translating jokes.

Like it's kind of a meme movie more so than the first two were. To one end, there's just some odd, odd things in here, and like, I don't think they take some jokes far enough. I think it would have been funny, Like the whole relationship between Rocco and his mother to me, is very white heat and just go for it when it comes to like incestuous stuff and make it like a total incest relationship between Rocco and his mom, Like why not go that far? If you're going to go for comedy and taboo, break that taboo, you know, make him more attracted to her than to Tanya. Speaking of Tanya, my daughter was in the room and I was watching it today but not really paying attention.

She did happen to catch the extended legs scene, and which I think is one of the better gags in the film, and she enjoyed it a bit. She's like, what what's going on? That doesn't look right? Why does she have Barbie legs? And then oh no, two knees does that even work?

It's the knees that really do it for me. It's that second set of knees that just really I mean, that's the thing. This movie, I think, more or less has completely rejected the smart, dialogue driven comedy of the previous two movies. And this is leaning hard on kind of what we were talking about at the beginning, which is this like sight gag driven pop culture, e specific thing that it's like really going for. I don't know why.

I mean, I do know. I feel like we could agree why that it's way harder to do one over the other. But what Police Squad was known for was that smart, well written dialogue and those funny word play jokes, and there's like none of it in this movie. Not zero, but pretty close. I was editing the starting to edit the sixth episode of Police Squad today and we were already bemoaning how different that was from you, especially those first three episodes of the show.

I had just watched this again and like, this is so much even from that sixth episode. This is so much further away that you don't get any of that name play. You don't get anything like a green screen scene of Rome behind, nothing like that. Even it's just there's too much plot, having the story take over everything. And I think that's why they've got again them being separated, which is annoying.

Like you said, Chris, that whole thing, it feels like it's just to get hurt to that hideout. It's like you couldn't have done it another way. They had to parody Thelma and yeah, yeah, fucking sustained Thelma and Luis parody that feels like ten minutes doesn't pay off though, well no, no, no, the payoff is funny. Guy gets hit by a car and then is perfectly fine. That's hilarious.

I was laughing, just in tears. But there's one more beat to that joke that they cut out, which was Ellen Green, who I didn't realize was playing the other character, the Thelma to her Louise or Luisa or Thelma, that she then starts making out with the guy with the offensive hat, the guy that got hit by the truck. And that's where that joke. That was the button for that joke. I don't think it was a good button.

And how disappointed was I that we finally get to go to Statesville Prison and we don't get any reference to any of the criminals that Frank sent away all those years ago. It's a massive missed opportunity, right, Mark, you mentioned it, the Statesville prison thing, Well, we were watching it. If you're gonna do that, which they did it in the show over and over and over and over again. And David Zucker's name is still on this even if he didn't direct it. They could have at least had him walking down those cells with there was a shot of people already in their cells.

You could have just had the names above Sally Decker, Dadada, Da Dad Dad. But you know what, this movie's not great, but I would have appreciated that note of continuity, because again we're led to believe this is all within the same continuity. Anyways, No, we're not well now we are squarely in Los Angeles, right, there's no more pretending that we're any place ells because there's no mention of the Academy Awards at all throughout this entire movie, than suddenly boom, we end up at the Academy Awards. Right, total freak out. Aside from the fact that they keep mentioning how bad LA is, because oh, don't you forget, we're right in prime La riot time.

So that's fun and really a look that they parody the Rodney King. Yeah, you know that hurts when you do that in a movie. The guy's trying to quell the rioting, gives a sincere plea about people getting along, and then they turn it into a joke, and I'm like, wow, that's really bad from the creators of an American Carol. Yeah. The problem here with some of this is it hadn't aged well.

It's problematic, but it wasn't great at the time. Again, at the time, I don't know if it's offensive. It's just more frankly, even though I wasn't able to watch us in ninety four, this is low hanging fruit. Then wow, and La is a terrible place joke. Wow, you're so creative, except not like this isn't me being some sort of woke hipster type guy, just like, oh my god, I'm so offended by this stuff.

It's just that it was such easy comedy, you know, all right, you got your Untouchables, you got your thumb and Louise, you got your White Heat, or any other of these prison movies. I was even thinking of Shawshank, which I think came out about the same year. But when they're digging the tunnel, I was just like, Oh, there's going to be a poster hanging over right, and the poster is going to be hilarious. No, that came a little bit later, but it was just like, Okay, you got all of these beats and then we end up and I would say a fairly solid, if over long end sequence all taking place at the Academy Awards, which feels like that was cut from a different cloth than the rest of this film. Well, all of a sudden, they're really forced to focus the comedy, and there's a ticking I mean as a ticking bomb, obviously, but that level of steaks actually lights a fire under the ass of the writers to give us some interesting jokes and some interesting gags, and there are some shitty ones thrown in there, like all of the really weird to fake movies, Like the fake movies they come up with aren't very funny.

I mean Mother Teresa dancing around hitting small children. I mean, I guess it's funny, but to what end? I mean they had weird al right there. They should have had him pitching some ideas about this stuff. I mean, Conan the Librarian, Gandhi two.

They are so much funnier than this one, like the four with the women and the whole like struggle against blas set against the whatever's of whatever, like that kind of works. And that actually, like when they cut away and they're supposed to be doing like physical comedy, I'm listening to those movie descriptions, I'm like, these are funnier than what's actually going on on screen, and just the caliber of actresses that they have for that stuff. But then you throw in Olympia Ducoccus and James Earl Jones, and I'm like, why are these two here? Like we have all of these like Z level celebrities, I mean, and Muriel Hemmingway and Ellie Gould. They don't fit in eas Ellie and Gould is there, and then and Mary lou Retton and all of these like strange celebs that you would see show up on like I don't know, Hollywood Squares or something, And then you throw in these folks.

I mean, I thought Raquel Welch was hilarious, but she doesn't really fit with the rest of the caliber. But she at least interacts with Frank in that scene. But like Pia Zadora is like the queen of cheese, and to have a music number by her, I was like, well, that's appropriate, that fits with the movie. But some of these other people just don't whatsoever. I thought you were going to get a big kick out to see an Elliott Gould in this movie randomly, for literally no reason.

Gould sighting is owis an appreciated thing. Honestly, that's the other thing. This movie again kind of leans on the same thing that some of these later epic movie disaster movies do, where it's random celebrity cameos just because they have nothing. It's not like Charlie Sheen being cast in Scary Movie three, where he's playing a main character in that movie. I mean, he was still an actor at the time.

He's not like this personality I guess he is now. But most of the people in this movie that are the cameos completely random, Like you just said, Elliot goold Florence Henderson makes sense only because she's already been on this franchise. And there's also some sort of theme of the Brady Bunch going through here because I've got amb Davis showing up as well. While why not have Mike Lookinland be the director instead of bringing back the guy from the wharf in the first movie. I mean, he's a great guy, he's a great character actor.

I love when he shows up. And I was really glad to see Earl Bowen Rip playing another psychiatrist in this movie. Yeah, Joe Graffossi's role in this movie is so much better than in the first one. He's so good. He plays that role perfectly, the harried manager of the control room.

He so good. It's it's great, he's fan. It's sad because the third act of this movie is actually pretty fun. The fact that it gets so low to where we need to get rather high. I mean, I think the third act of this movie is pretty close to the third act of the Verse movie in a lot of ways, very click in terms of quality, even setting and everything else.

Here. What's more iconic than the Academy Awards. I'd love Elliott Gould too, but they're not really jokes. But nothing really lands when the presenters are presenting. No, it's so dry, and it's not that dry humor, you know, none, to your point from earlier, Chris, none of that verbal humor is here, None of that.

But that's not important right now, Like none of that deadpan Joe Friday delivery that we're getting in the TV series. That's a thing of the past. We are so far away from that now and I just miss it so much. There was one line he says when he's talking to again. There were a couple of that.

He's oblivious to what's going on, and I can't remember what any of them marble that was it? If there were any at all, that was it? Maybe maybe one or two when he's back at the police station, which even though he goes to police squad a couple of times, George Kennedy and OJ are pretty much out of the picture in this one. It's Priscilla Pressley doing the leg work as opposed to them, right, they're just like, where's Frank And they just show up at the ostras because they see him on TV exactly and oh, that's where the bomb must be. And then they do that gag from the second movie again where the doors get blocked on the vehicles and they can't get out, and it was just as it's not that it's unfunny, it's just not a thing to laugh at, like two dudes trying to get out of a car, Like, why are you wasting time on this movie?

You've already done it. What's why are we why are we chasing? I just don't understand why they chase their tails on some of these jokes. I guess at some point was just we'd expecting that the audience's expectation are we're going to hit some of the same notes, so here's some of those same notes. I guess that's what it's got to be.

But at the same time, they completely ignore any dialogue comedy in this movie. So I don't know what they thought the audience wanted. Frankly, people still showed up for this movie. This movie was still immensely successful. It's just wasn't critically successful.

It wasn't, but financially this movie still made money. So maybe people just wanted more dumb less highbrow. It's not even highbrow. It's just smart comedy, interesting comedy, unique comedy, not just the same gags over and over again you hang a lantern on it, mostly new jokes. Wow, to give credit where credit is due.

And apparently this was a joke they thought of on set the day of was Fred Ward coming down off of his Apple box and actually showing him jumping down off of his apple box when he was standing next to I keep going to saying Nicole Brown Simpson and a Nicole Smith upset that the like the killer of Ron and Nicole was never found. Right now, I'm not going to discuss any of that. I yeah, I think that's a pretty obvious question, but I'm not getting in that I'm not going that was hilarious to me. Well, it's like the gag in the second movie with the heels, right where Priscilla Presley's wearing those crazy tall heels. Yeah, that gang's hilarious again.

Fred Ward is pretty good in this. He is a good actor to cast opposite Leslie Nielsen. Honestly, it feels like they didn't get enough screen time For me. I would have preferred to see them just go back and forth because fred Ward calling Leslie Nielsen McGirk never gets old. Oh yeah, because fred Ward can't talk out of the front of his mouth.

He only talks out of the side of his mouth at all times. You've got so many prison tropes you could be playing with when they're in prison, and it really doesn't make any sense to me. When Arley Ermie comes up and finds their plan and they have the whole prison riot, I'm like, do they just straight up murder Arley Army? Is that how he doesn't report that they have a plan? He's gone, that's his However longermat scene is with him, he disappears after that.

He must have been on the Paramount back lot and they were just like, hey, Arley or I mean, what the fuck is the point of having him in anything in the nineties if he's not just playing this role. Holy shit, talk about someone who made a killing for like what a decade and a half on just one role, one singular thing, yelling at people and calling them I guess probably in fullmetal jacket terrible things. And this he just kind of butter cheeks. Yeah, like it's not anything remotely offensive here, Oh yea from now on, your Private Snowball? Do you like that name?

Yes, there's one thing that you won't like, Private Snowball. They don't serve bride, chicken and watermelon on a daily basis in my mess all. Oh yes, where nell are you from anyway? Private Sar? Texas?

Sir, Holy dogs? You have Texas only stairs and queers come from Texas. Private Cowboy, and you don't much look like a stair to me, so that kind of narrows it down. Do you suck dicks, sir? No, sir, bullshit.

I'll bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden home. Sir. No, sir, I don't like the name Lawrence. Only faggots and sailors are called Lawrence. From now on, your golber Pile.

He occasionally would show up and do drama, like very rarely, and when he did, it was like, oh, wow, he's really good, Like I really would have liked to have seen more of him. And the one guy who I really like, he doesn't even get credit in the credits. Bruce A. Young is Tyrone, who I really love when he shows up and I love all the stuff that he's doing, and then he just goes to solitary confinement. We never see him again.

I was trying to find him on IMDb. I'm like, who's playing the other guy? Because I know I've seen him and stuff, And I looked kept looking through the list to see his face or the name, and I couldn't find it. What is that all about? While they were saying in the commentary that they really had to convince him to be in the movie, that he didn't want to do it, I don't know why, but apparently he probably said, yeah, don't give me credit.

He's not credited. Raquel Welch isn't credited. I mean, there's a lot of people, James Earl Jones, Mariel Hemingway, there's a lot of people that don't have credits in this I mean, ourly Army doesn't even have credit. I can kind of understand the cameos, but I'm like, wait, I know this guy from all kinds of stuff. It's in Durassic Park.

Yeah. I thought I was losing my mind for a minute there because I could not find his face or the character name on the credits list. But you know who is build in this film, Future All Star director Paul Fieg in the audience front end motherfucking center. Yeah, doing his his hilarious. He's such a good director.

His reactions are great. He has like one which is just putting his hand over his mouth and pointing, which is what he does like four times. Oh man, Yeah, I was pretty disappointed to see him. Why does he gore a credit friend of the director, Michigan's own Paul Fieg? Mind you, Oh, I don't want anything to do with that.

We don't hold that against the state of Michigan. One of the other things that we noticed when we were watching it, Chris, was when Ed and Nordberg always called Norberg, but it's Nordberg go to Frank's house, and that weird scene where they're eating the cupcakes and oj is looking off. Oh yeah, try to pay a little closer attention to it today while I was watching it, and I think he was getting direction and they just didn't cut the scene at the right time, because he goes up with the cupcake and then looks, takes it back down, goes back up, never takes a bite. He's not looking at Frank. Frank is up and a little to his left, but his eyeline is down and to their right.

I'm like, what it's going on? Wow, Yeah, it's real bad. His line reading through the rest of the film are atrocious anyway, but that whole thing. I was just like, what he is he even in the same scene right now in his head? Bizarre.

Well, you know, we've kind of mentioned it a couple of times now, but I think it's fair to say, oh J Simpson not a good actor. No no. And it's just even funnier that this is right before all hell breaks loose his life. This comes out like three months before this ship goes down. It's probably still cashing those checks.

Many he may have what the gloves and the knife with money he made from Naked Gun thirty three and a third. Just think about that. Oh my god. The commentary was pretty funny. When they're talking about directing Nicole and Nicole Smith and that He's like, you see that, see that?

That was her going, C stand, sandbag c stand. That's what he had to tell her, was like, you look here, you look here, and then you look here, and that's it because she is the worst actress and they managed to get a somewhat decent performance out of her. I mean, she just has to stand around. Yeah. I will give her credit for being better than OJ in this.

Yeah, oh yeah, point out the lowest of low bars to cross, but I don't know. You could have made it a lower bar heard across. But I'm not sure how. I don't recall having seen any of her other performances, so I can't gauge it against those. Not even that video I sent you where it's all the outtakes from that.

No oh no, die Hard rip off. Oh boy, that's amazing. Skyscraper Yeah, oh my god. She was in The Hudsucker Proxy. Oh yeah, I remember that.

She was in a couple movies. But this is it for her really, Like this is the big role is this movie? If anybody could churn a performance out of somebody, I think it's the Cohen Brothers. Well, speaking of Cohen Brothers, you get Randall TeX's Cobbin here totally wasted. Oh my god, wasted again.

Yeah, I've just put under used for all these people. Yeah yeah, Well, and he's one of the great character actors of all time. And then he disappears total piece of shit from the sound of it, like real life. But he's he looks so menacing, like you could have made the case it should have been him getting out of prison with red Ward. Just I always kind of remember the movie that he does, but I always can vince myself he's in this movie more than he is.

I really always think he's like, oh he's in the end of the movie. Nope, yeah, he should have escaped, maybe not with them, but after them, and shown up as another danger or another threat at the Oscars. I mean, as much as I like Catherine Freeman as an actress, she's not intimidating. No, she's not an intimidating force that I really am worried that Leslie Nielsen won't be able to handle like she's a five foot tall woman who's in her sixties. Yeah.

I like her a lot as well, but I feel like, she's pretty wasted in this. It's a shame because she's really funny. She's great in one of my favorite movies, Gremlins too, as the woman with the microwave. She's hilarious with the Gremlins in the what is it like? The set for the infomer So she's really good.

I just don't know why they didn't give her anything other than like weird creepy jokes with Leslie Nielsen that are I guess they kind of land, but yeah, it's like the Fairy Brothers would do that so much better with Lynn Shay and Dumb and Dummer or sorry Kingpinn. I also like to point out Leslie Nielsen and Kathleen Freeman are three years apart. I think she's probably older than that. Yeah, she was born in twenty three and Leslie Nielsen was born in twenty six, and Priscilla was forty five. The optics of like the ages in this movie are yeah, forty nine, forty nine, Holy shit, looking good for forty nine.

I mean, Priscilla Presley looks great, but she's just again given nothing to do. She's just there to be. I don't even know what she's there for at this point. Frankly, then the first movie it made sense, and the second movie made sense. In this movie, she really feels just forced into the plot of the movie.

I mean, the stuff in the sperm bank goes on for way too long, and apparently there was even more of that stuff. There was like another go at it that is on the TV version, and it's like, oh my gosh, I was done with that after the first time, and especially after the second time, and we just keep going back. I mean, it was next to see Julie Strange show up in that dominatrix outfit, but that was about it for me. Where do you take that gag? Isn't that the woman in a dominatrix outfit the logical final step for that gang, right right?

Why did they need anything else? I don't know. I mean, they've done that before with this franchise, where they take the jokes to their silliest conclusion. This one they didn't work. Whenever they did it well, I like to when they show restraint.

If you look at Airplane and Police Squad the series, they rarely did that thing of escalation in this one. It seems odd. Even with the previous movies and definitely with the show or with Airplane the things that we've talked about on the show that escalation doesn't that is more when this stuff starts to happen in the mid nineties with other comedies, where you go as far as you can until it's not funny anymore, and then you go another step further. And I think I talked about that, like that's the A and Powers set up. So apparently what was supposed to happen was that he is shown after the Julie strain bit.

He's shown being wheeled out by a male nurse who asked him to fill out some forms apparently, and then while he's writing down his name, he sees Tony receive a phone call and tries to get near her to listen in. Then, when the male nurse returns, Dreben hides on a gurney and a different nurse inadvertently wheels him into a gurney, sorry, wheels a gurney into the r which says penal implants on it. And then what might have been happening with the Norberg and this is me giving a lot of credit the Norberg and Frank thing that you're talking about was that apparently there's an extra scene in there where Dreben and Norberg talk about a TV soap opera, because now Frank is domesticated, so he's all about the soaps and stuff.

So I'm wondering if Norberg was looking at the soap opera, maybe yeah, maybe a hell of a stretch it would explain because it's odd. It's really weird. The one thing I just read about two was that there's more of them trying to get away, and the way that they pop up in different places. So they pop up on a football field right, one of them has the ball on their head for like the kick that would have been good. I mean the way that it just goes like escape Funeral, South Central LA.

Again, super dangerous place, them showing up there and then getting chased away. I mean, it's like what I was talking about the rule of threes and we just don't have that. That gag was done better a year earlier in a movie that's much funnier than this one, which is also a parody movie that has its shit together, which is National Lampoons Loaded Weapon One. They do that sewer gag one time in the movie at the final third act, and it is one of the funniest gags in the entire movie, Mike, you know what I'm talking about Where they come up out of the sewer similar to this, and it's Emilio Estevez and he just comes up onto I guess in the background is the teenage Ninja Turtles movie, right fucking hilarious, And that's it, and then he goes down into the sewer.

They don't need to do it eight times, you see, to do it if it's funny, you only need to do it once. If it's really funny, you don't need to do him jerking off four times. As much as I think that's funny, I actually think the funniest part of that scene is the lead up to it, where they're talking about throwing around the pigskin in the backyard and my uncle was helping me. See. That's where the movie actually sings for a moment, because it's back to the dialogue stuff exactly.

Movie just completely just forgot about that is pretty damn funny. The misunderstanding thing that we've had before in things, and I wish they would have more of it. You don't get anything like what's that or the back and forth with names. There's no kid Detroit from Cincinnati and all that good stuff. None of that, I mean, and Pat Proft was credited as a writer on this and he was good for those.

Well what mix a man is this and this and this, or like the thing at the end of the last movie where it's like, why would to be free to be do this and to do this and to what was it eat an otter or whatever, and it's just like, you know, I us have those like the rules of three and getting that last one, the last one is the most outrageous, and it's like, yeah, there's none of that here. They kind of just brush past some of these jokes that they could have had. In a lot of ways. Leslie Nielsen Frank Drebin feels like a non character in the movie. He doesn't feel like as well defined a character as he did in the first one and the second one because most of his definition came through his interactions with other people as at times straight man and at times bumbling idiot.

There's just none of it here. It really does just boil down to a whole lot of visual gags, like just replete with visual gags, which, again, if that's what you're into, you're going to be in for a good time. There are plenty of visual gags. Oh yeah, Leslie Nielsen is a funny actor when he has given the opportunity to just play it straight. They don't even want to do that in this movie, which means they've lost sight of what made this police squad slash naked gun to begin with.

That's my theory. I think part of that is him, though I don't think he wanted to be the straight man. Watching those trailers just reinforce that to me, like this is what he thought was funny and he wanted to be a comedic actor. He is funniest to me, at least in Airplane and those first few episodes of Police Squad where his delivery is one straight and deadpan. Those are the things that make me laugh.

This picking up a quarter in the middle of a gunfight on the steps of the bus depot and going, oh, I found a quar That isn't funny to me. It really isn't. What about him detaching shopping carts from one another with a blowtorch absolutely unfunny. But I did appreciate when he grabbed the breasts of the woman from the first movie. He callback, yeah, there we go, there's a good callback.

Yeah, melon lady, he did an assault her with a concrete dildo, so opportunity really missed. He had a giant cucumber in his cart too. Well. I was probably for Priscilla Presley, given the lingerie that she apparently has for their nights together. That's I mean a pretty good visual her with the Yeah yeah, there are some good visuals, but it turns back.

Yeah. Well, then they kind of repeat the gag with Leslie Nielsen in prison with his metal Chassidy belt low hanging for a joke, but kind of works. I think, Yeah, it feels like yeah, yeah, bro, they really could have done a lot more when it came to just building up that scene with Randall tech scab, all the men running out and all that, like, it could have just built up even more. Well, shouldn't we be led to believe that if it's not consensual, that's a problem obviously, But I don't think Frank drebbon is A is any kind of a mysterious stranger to gay sex the way he talked about it in that series. Oh yeah, living with that other guy, and pretty soon the neighbors start to talk and I'm just pointing out what Frank Drebon is saying.

I'm just just unpacking what he has to say. It's definitely in his history. Yeah, if the show is Cannon, which it very well should be, just so many of those things, just so many of the police procedural things. You know. I was checking out this case and I heard about this on the radio.

My boss, of course, was there already. Yeah, like, none of that thing, you know, I don't even know. Do he get a voice over in this movie. It's there in his car at one point. No trash Cans doesn't know it's a perkey meter and it shoots the quarters everywhere, right, which is a gag that was like stripped directly out of Fletch Lives, which came out four years earlier.

To the point that in that movie Fletch, he does the thing that Leslie Nielsen should have done, which is Fletch picks the thing up, takes one of the quarters and sticks it in and then drops it back on the ground. I mean, that's funny him just hitting it and then going and walking off and looking at the camera and g brue ain't funny. I think you're right, Mark Leslie Nielsen playing the straight man is not funny for him, so why would he want to do it right? Right? He's so good at it though, I know it's no one sat him down and said, do you realize how many people love and laughed at your don't call me Shirley line?

Oh yeah, let's watch that again, Leslie, and look, let's look at this. I would wat talking to actors about their movies. You know, this is what people love you for. Right. I've kind of wonder did he not know that, like that line is funny because it's fucking straight as an arrow?

Yeah, I just want you to know that we're all really counting on you, right, some of his best lines it's a really big building with a lot of patients inside, But that's not important right now. His best line as far as I'm concerned, That and those first couple of episodes of the show where he is still playing it completely straight, are the funniest things for me. Even that first movie. He plays it pretty straight. That first movie is a little bit of a return to form for the show.

Well, even think of just that joke of is this some kind of a bust? Yes, ma'am. Very impressive, right, totally straight, not like gool you know exactly. One of the best gags in the first movie is everywhere I look reminds me of her And there's no reaction shot of people going blue to the breasts, the giant cone, that the cone, but whatever the hell those are, there's nobody mugg into that. I don't know where they thought the mugging was funnier, it, guess, is my question, Like what did they see or what were they reading or what information were they getting back from people that would lead them to believe the mugging was funnier, because again, we know they can.

It's not like we don't know they can write good comedy. We know they can. It's that they've deviated away from it. So I don't know what would cause them to deviate away from it because they know it was successful and they know that people thought it was funny, because that's what they cut their teeth on for a decade, and they're still testing this stuff like crazy. They're still going out and showing it to audiences and just like taking a straight razor and cutting things out, it's a lot of stuff they cut out sounds like could be hilarious.

Like them when he goes into prison. There's supposed to be like an lion in one of the cages. Are supposed to be a mime holding on the fake bars, you know, like I could I'm with like a cup, you know, like going across. That would have been hilarious, and that's just not there. Like when they do the visit to Rocco in prison and it's all of the people, like the hockey goalie and the bank teller, bank teller, yeah exactly, and just the aquarium, all of these things, like all of those jokes, and she's like, boom boom boom boom boom, we're not pointing to these things are just happening on screen, and then we get to Rocco and that's it.

It feels like the Rocco scene like there should have been more to it, Like I I like when his mother is talking about and Nicole Smith and he's just like, oh, mom giving me boy cramps. But otherwise it's like there's not a whole lot to that scene. And like Pepshmir, why would you hire a guy who's in jail rather than a guy who's already walking around now free. Why is Pat Schmir in this movie? To beget right?

That's what I was asking myself today. Why him well, and he's talking about terrorism. It's like he's still in the pocket of all those terrorists from the first movie, and it's like, guys, nobody remembers Patschmir. I'm sorry, he just was not that memorable. Had I not watched these pretty much three in a row, I would not have remembered that that guy was in the first film.

It was not a character in the first movie, and he's really not a character in this movie. I guess he gets less screen time in this movie than it does in the first one because he has that hole back and well, now it's probably about the same. I guess we dies in this one. So at least there's that he was such a memorable villain who cares well. At least it's better than having Saddam Hussein.

Even though we get the Bill Clinton impersonator, the Pope John Paul the second impersonator, and then we get a really good terrorists joke as well, and you even have to throw in some adr to say disgruntled postal workers. Can I point out that Jean Graytech is one of my favorite actors. I'd never heard of until looking into him. Guy was in nothing but movies playing the pope and he was a real estate broker and he had the permission to perform as the pope and impersonate him from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. So wow, he looks like John Paul the Second in a way that Again, I've seen this movie plenty of times, but I always forget when you can find an impersonator who doesn't have to talk but just looks like him, like the Queen of England in the first movie.

It does work. He has the nose man just oh yeah, perfect. It's a lot better than hearing that George Bush an impersonator from the second one, or even this Bill Clinton. Yeah yeah, this movie had how much money in a budget? And that was the Bill Clinton impersonator they hired.

Jeez, was one of the worst that I've seen. I was really excited to learn that there was a fourth movie that was supposed to come out two thousands, Like the late two thousands, early tens. There was a script kicking around called Naked Gun What four, which is a pretty good title. That is apparently it was going to parody movies like Infernal Affairs and then departed like corrupt cop movies and have Leslie Nielsen be the ob one, as it was put. I have not read the script, but I have read people talking about the script, and he was going to hand off police squad to a new generation.

So kind of what they talked about with a lot of the franchises from the eighties and nineties in the two thousands, what they tried to do, they were going to try to do that here. They wanted to reduce Leslie Nielsen's part in the movie, and then they completely took it out. And then the guy who wrote the scripts head, I'm not doing this anymore. That's a shame, I guess. I mean, two thousand and nine would have been scary movie.

Three scary movie for Leslie Nielsen. He could have thrown the jacket back on his Frank Dreban one more time. I feel he wasn't all those other movies he made. I was just gonna say, he's run it on plenty of time. Yeah, speak about a transition into things people shouldn't be talking about.

Well, I don't know if anybody's doing an episode of a podcast on Wrongfully Accused in twenty twenty three or two thousand and one, a space travesty. Oh boy, Yeah, Well, I mean when you make your bread and butter doing one thing, people are gonna want you to do it for them to diminishing returns. What was the one with weird Al the Disney Oh Safety Patrol. That was the weird one that we stumbled across. It is a Disney Channel movie with Bug Hall, the kid who plays alf Al from the Little Rascals movie who is a like safety patrol kid at his school, and Leslie Nielsen is in the movie, and so is weird Al.

And weird Al makes a song in the movie about how terrible a literal ten year old is and sings it in front of a group of children, and it's like you're a piece of shit, essentially, like just calling him like him and in front of a group of kids, while the like the good kids are cheer bring him on. So it's very weird. We went down a very deep, dark rabbit hole with this movie into the Leslie Nielsen assorted media of years post Naked Gun thirty three and a third Wow ending with the Mister Magoo trailer, which I feel is what he liked to do, being the bumbling idiot with the constant mugging. I honestly don't remember disliking that mister McGoo movie. That was a movie I saw.

I saw it a lot as a kid. I mean, it was a Disney movie from the nineties, so I probably just equated it to this movie. I probably remember things from it, thinking that it's Leslie Nielsen playing Frank Drebbin in this movie, because again, it's a lot of physical comedy, a lot of the stuff that we didn't like with this movie. Like Mark said in the trailer for that movie, you can see it's a lot of physical slapstick. Which that's guess what Leslie Nielsen really wanted to do.

That was what he really yearned to do, and I'm glad that people let him do it, but hey, more power to him. Then. Yeah, it wasn't the funniest stuff that he could provide. That's the shame really, because he was a funny straight man. But I get why you wouldn't want to be the straight man if you think you're funny, because the straight man is a thankless job.

Like you're the dude who helps make everybody else laugh, but you're not the one making people laugh. And back to the mugging. This was mentioned earlier as to why it veered in that direction, And I think it's just not trusting an audience to get a joke without a visual queue of either him making a face at the camera or the other characters making a face at each other. That happens a lot in the films, doesn't happen on the show. Doesn't happen an airplane where he'll say an idiotic thing and then the two other people in the scene will look at each other.

Fred Warden and a Nicole Smith do that a couple of times, And I think it's a queue to the audience that that was a funny line. Well, it's like an applause button, right right, that's not funny, Like it actively makes things un money if the audience isn't getting it, I don't see how the visual cue from someone in the movie all of a sudden makes it funny. Also, if the audience isn't getting it, was it actually funny to begin with? Sorry, my mind just flashed to the Where's Waldo reference? They're like a naked gun thirty three and a third flashback?

Yeah, well I just had another one. Guys. He's still relevant, right, Yeah, He's still relevant. If people still look at those books, where's Waldo? I don't know.

Don't kids have phones now? They don't need to look at fucking I mean, I'm still looking for him. Mike is still fighting the good fight for the rest of us. He's in the audience of the Oscars nineteen ninety four Oscars. So there you go.

You don't need to look anymore. I don't think we should have Phil Donahue back next year. That whole thing. That was one of my favorite line. The fact that Leslie Nielsen does look like Phil Donna Hue with glasses on is funny.

It's that is not a wasted gag, but it's almost done into the ground. But it's not wasted, that's for sure. I guess it's smart that they don't show the real Phil Donahue at any point to remind you, yeah, exactly what he looks like. The smartest way to do it would have been having Phill Donna Hue watching him doing it been like, what the fuck, I'm getting super angry about yes, growing a chair. Yeah, that was Erldo's show man.

We've come a long way in these last ten weeks, sentleman. All the way from airplane to hear Yeah. Yes, the trajectory looks something like this. It's just a steep crash into the ground and he's pretty Unfortunately, I do think it is a downward trajectory, at least for me personally. I have enjoyed everything just a little bit less as we've gone on, but I think that'll pick back up when we take a right turn into top secret Land.

I am very much looking forward to that. I hope so. And I'm sure Mark you've seen it before. Chris, have you seen this one? Have you seen top Secret?

No? Well, I'm very curious to get your impression of it. I'm excited to watch it because it's something again I've never seen it. I did want to mention as we kind of start heading towards the end of the Police Squad experience something worth watching past this show that not only scratches the itch of this show, at least the show part of this not the movies so much, but the constant gags and funny dialogue heavy gags the show from sky one A touch of cloth, which is a euphemism for pooping. By today, do shit oneself is drowning, as I like to call it around today.

I learned touching clock means too shit oneself. It stars John Hannah, who plays the brother in the Mummy in the New Mummy films, not the Tom Cruise one, and he plays a Leslie Nielsen Frank Drebbin type cop in the first two seasons and in the third season it kind of goes more into like bosh more I don't know, like contemporary cop shows. It's still a contemporary show. But the first season is two episodes forty minutes. Each second season is two episodes forty minutes.

Third is the same. The first two seasons are what I wanted from this show and then some and it is totally worth checking out. It's a little hard to track down. It only got three seasons, but each season's only two episodes. You could watch it in an afternoon.

But it really captures the feeling of this show and takes it in some interesting, kind of fun directions that this show probably would have gone in if given the opportunity. Like one of the best guys in the show that just kind of reminds me of this show and this franchise. At one point, you have a character with its back to the screen, another character talking and the character with their back to the screen is talking but saying and we left this scene in so in case we had to come back and fix something that you guys that we forgot to mention in the script. That's why this is here. So that's why you can't see me.

Wow kind of Garth Marenghi more or less. I mean it has that British sensibility to it that this show love right. I would say it's almost like the British version of Police Squad. But some of the jokes if you do watch it, you're gonna go, oh right, that was in Police Squad, So it is British Police Squad. But at the same time, like it really is just kind of that next step in the right direction.

Third season it's okay, but the first two seasons are amazing. And John Hannah, I had not seen him in anything other than The Mummy, but he is really good. He's as good as Leslie Nielsen is, frankly, which is saying a lot the Galbot co stars with him, and it is in just a million things that my wife and I watch on brittin Box or PBS. She's in a gazillion British Police procedurals. She's always playing the tough DC or DCI, and when you pass that along, I looked at it and I'm like, is that the same gal?

Oh my god. It'll be interesting to see her in a comedic role because everything else has been deadly serious with major ramifications. Well, she's also in Gentleman Jack, which is on HBO Max, which is pretty good as well, but you guys should check it out. And if you're listening to this and you are a fan of Police Squad, which that's why you're here, you should totally check it out as well. It is worth tracking down.

However you go about tracking it down. It is so much in the vein of this that it would be a shame to not mention it, because I have never heard anybody else talk about it. I've never heard anybody else mention it. The only reason I found it is because we are doing this show, and it's at the bottom of the Wikipedia with some other entries. One of them is a show that I think we may have mentioned last time that I was an as good, Angie Tribeca, which you guys kind of said wasn't great.

And then the other one, sledge Hammer, the guy who wrote Sledgehammer is the guy who wrote the script for that Fourth Naked Gun movie that never came out. That makes sense, So they're all kind of connected. But for me, like I love Police Squad, but this show, it takes it and just does something interesting with it. So definitely check it out here. I'm gonna step up my soapbox.

Well, I'm going to watch it on your you can edit this too. Yeah, I'm gonna generate a tone for that on there for you. I'm gonna watch it. Well, I don't know where else you would watch it, so that would be where you can find it, or on YouTube probably. So the thing is with these kinds of shows, like we've already talked about, they're so hard to do well that when you find one that's done well, you just want to tell everybody else who likes them, because if you have not heard them talk about it, they may not know about it either.

I felt the same way when I first saw Mafia for the first time, like I had never seen it and I saw it, I was like, this is amazing. So I kind of felt the same way with this. I was laughing out loud watching the first two seasons of this show more excited to watch Top Secret, frankly, because that's the people who are making this being funny, making Police Squad even though they don't like it because it didn't make very much money. It's been a long time since I watched it, but I remember liking it a lot. Yeah, I'm excited too.

I've been meaning to watch it actually for the last couple of years and just have never. I'm now at this point really burned out on comedies. I don't watch this much comedy usually. I don't like to laugh. Yeah.

Mark Begley lost his smile ladies and gentlemen. He's been looking for it ever since he had to watch Naked Gun thirty three and a third. I will tell you guys, Airplane. I own that one on DVD and I have for years, and it's one that I will go back to. Top se Grit same definitely.

It's a rewatchability thing for me. You know. I watched the original Police Squad when it was on TV, and then I watched it again a few years ago, just did a rewatch it off of the DVDs. But Naked Gun, it's like, I think I've seen each of these movies other than maybe on Cable. I think I've seen them all just once theatrically, and that was it.

I feel a little validated, like, okay, yeah, like there's some good bits in here, but it's really just I'm okay, sticking with the three things that I just mentioned, and every once in a while too, I'll do a Kentucky Fried movie. But with Kentucky Fried movie, it's like there's a couple of the skits that I like, but for the most part, it's that fistful of chopsticks part that I just sorry fistful again, that I just absolutely love. And that is kind of like the last thirty minutes of this movie and the last thirty minutes of the first movie. It's kind of self contained, and you don't really need to watch a whole lot more than that. They should have taken the third act of the first movie, third act second movie, third act of the third movie, strung those together and you got an hour and a half movie.

I we don't need anything else. Great, Hey go, Why didn't they ever just put Leslie Nielsen in a skyscraper like fucking Bruce Willis? How was that something that? Nope? How did nobody do that?

How was that not the logical direction to go with one of these movies. The biggest action movies at the time is what they should have been paroding if that's where this is going, and they didn't parody die Hard, he's a cop for Fox Zag. So this movie was eighty two minutes with six minutes of end credits and at least a minute of the opening with the car going through everywhere. I did appreciate the pinball machine gag in this one. It's the best one in all of them.

So it's technically about seventy six minutes of movie and it doesn't feel that short. So there's that it's oversea, it's welcome. If for some wild reason my daughter's like, hey, let's watch one of the naked gun movies, I'll be like, okay, sure, let's try the first one again. Maybe. I mean, there's still a couple of lines, Hey, it's Enrico Palazzo, like some of those things.

That's great, not nearly the quotability. Yeah, there's always a handful of jokes that land really well, but this one they're few and far between, and there's too much plot going on. All right, how we're gonna wrap this whole show? Up guys. Oh well, I guess there's only one way to wrap this up.

The next time you hear us, we're gonna be talking about Naked Gun the reboot, folks. But who knows when I mean who knows? Right, we'll come back to that at some point in the near future. We'll post an episode of the three of us talking about a movie that feels like a joke right now. Yeah, Oh, are We're going to do a trailer reaction video?

Yeah, only if we can post on the thumbnail you going, okay, you got it, you gotta deal. Okay, cool Mike Wis reaction to the Naked Gun trailer. Mind blow. I can't believe they brought the cigarette again. Whip you jump out the window on fire like that guy?

Yeah? And Alan North's opening. Yeah. Look, all I want is one thing from the reboot or sequel, Leslie Nielsen or les Liam Neeson to be Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley's child. That's all I want.

Nothing else. Great, this is just the stupidest thing possible would be for him to be Leslie Nielsen's child. Well, he did try to adopt that seventeen year old Korean girl. Yes, subtle, h boy, the most subtle of digs, frankly, oh man, and that one lands one of the few. And there's a couple references in this, and I think they're baseball references that I'm just like, I don't get this one at all.

Like towards the end, there's one line where he says something and drops the name, and I'm just like, I don't know what you're talking about. And I don't know how many people honestly remember the Woody Allen bit. Oh well, yeah, I'm of that age. Yeah, I mean I am too. We caught it when we watched it, But I'm just wondering, since there's no actual mention of him, Yes, that'll just be like, well, what's that?

It'll just seem like a weird sex thing. It does seem like a weird sex thing without the context. It works on that level as well. Is it a weird No, I guess it is a Woody Allen reference, right, it's gotta be. Yeah, Hey, you know what.

At least you can still go and watch ads for Dutch telephones with Leslie Nails Dutch telephones and then also selling what is it? What was it? Mark Red Rock Cider play Frank Drebbin. Basically, yes, the Fraud Squad. They even had like there were visual gags, there were dialogue gags.

Those are the real sequels to the Naked Gun or Police Squad show? Are these Like it's like six minutes long on YouTube. It's like the Red Rock Cider Fraud Squad with Leslie Nielsen and a guy who kind of looks like the dude from Police Squad, Like he's always being followed around by like some lackey who talks to him too, kind of like Al did or I guess Nordberg did in the show, So Al Hockin in the show, So yeah, he's he was just doing this man forever, Like good on him, I guess. And there's a couple of gags and a few of those ads that are better than any of the gags in the movies, to be honest with you, Yeah, like straight up, some of them are pretty like actually laugh out loud funny. So again, just worth mentioning all these other weird Naked Gun pieces of ephemera that like exists because I guess Naked Gun has been a popular enough franchise for all these weird things to exist, Like a Naked Gun Point and click computer game that came out in twenty twelve, featuring Frank Drebin Junior Liam Neeson.

Well, hopefully I don't know where all the love comes from, because it's not like I hear people my age talking about Naked Gun all right, Hey, yeah, I mean it was around for what fourteen no, twelve years? Twelve years? Yeah, I'm pretty good, chunk and have three movies come out pretty close succession. Definitely took a lot less time to make these on it did to make a Star Wars film. Not much less, though.

All the daging that they had to do on Leslie Nielsen really took up time and effort. And hey, we didn't even mention the ending of the movie. The most bizarre way to end this series of films with a Nordberg fucked your wife gag. Yeah, what, I guess I missed it. Yeahs at the end of a movie, Rank and Nordberger in the delivery room clear, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah yeah, and it's a it's a black baby, right, it's not hers, They're in the wrong room.

So I guess I didn't. I didn't attatch that. I'm a little slow I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. That's why it's like Nordberg. Yeah, but that's the way I end this series, all right, No freeze frame, Nope, no, no, what a missed opportunity in any of the films, especially like if like OJ was running down the hall and had to stop and then it was like freezing like that and then would start to fall over.

Yeah. I don't write these movies better than these guys. Like a joke, like a funny thing, like something we might laugh at, like that, like one of those huh. Yeah. That's the sad thing about watching movies critically, especially comedies, is if it doesn't work for you, there's not a lot else to really watch in a movie, especially a comedy.

A lot of the times it's if what you are watching isn't funny, there's not gonna be much else for you to spend your time watching. I'm with you, Mark, I don't watch a lot of comedies, primarily because I don't like to watch ones I've never seen, for fear of them being terrible and me just having to suffer through them for an hour and a half two hours. Tend to stay away from them. Hey, do. Two are very few comedies that I can even recommend that have come out over the last ten years.

Same, which is why I'm so worried about a Naked Gun sequel being written by. One of the people is Seth McFarlane, who was so funny when he wrote for Liam Neeson last Time in a Thousand Ways to Die in the West. So, oh my god, whom are we torturing ourselves here? Folks? Like what we're doing this to ourselves?

This is self inflicted at this point, and I think part of it is we don't have a lot of It's not like comedies are constantly coming out either, Like I like Stepbrothers. Think one of the more recent comedies that we've all enjoyed as a family is what is it called The Good Boys? Is it a Good Boys? Yeah? Jacob Tremble movie.

Yeah, get a kick out of that. We've watched it a couple of times, but yeah, a lot of times. I think I have a very particular taste in what I find funny, and most films don't deliver that. And that's not the film's fault, that's me. That's like I have come to realize I have a very peculiar and particular idea of what's funny.

Murder by Death, I find funny, Young Frankenstein, I find funny. Airplane, I find funny Naked Gun. Not as much. I enjoyed Date Night quite a bit, but I think a lot of that was Jesse Plemons just being amazing. Oh yeah, game Night, Game Night, thank you.

Yeah, date Night was a totally different movie. Game Night is very good, Hey Night, the one with Steve Horrell. It was like, what movies date Night? What movie is game Night? I think know which movies you're talking about that brings in Jason Bateman, and then all those films like Office, Christmas Party or whatever, Horrible, Horrible Bosses, so those things, it's like I watch them and I'm like, h they tow that line.

Not as bad as the Paul fig riffathons, but I feel like still a lot of that is going on, Like let's just keep saying stuff until we find something funny and then that's what we'll use. The game Night is very good. Yes, yeah, I thought that was solid. I want to say I remember liking cock Blockers a little bit as well, or I think they might have just called it blockers with John Cena. Oh yeah, yeah, I remember that movie.

I wanted to watch that one, and then him like, you can take the rest of the movie and just shove it up your ass. But they won with Amy Schumer, is it yeah, John Cena, Bill Hayter, Oh, oh my god, Sina in that movie is fucking fantastic. I will find you on grinder absolute yeah, no, he John Cena is fucking hilarious like that. I think that's the problem now with modern comedy is spoofs and stuff are fine, but they're so sparse and so infrequent that all we get are stuff like what we're talking about this, like character based comedy, Judd Apatow. Stuff in and of itself all feels very sandy because of stuff, because of how successful forty year Old Virgin was.

I'm with you, Mark, like, I have a hard time with comedy because this was one lane of comedy that was dominant for so long, and then in the mid two thousands another lane of comedy took over, and now we're in the I would say, we're in like the Dan Harmon comedy world now where it's like subversive, weird shit all the time, like Rick and Morty and High Unline Life and whatever the hell the other shows that he and Justin Royland do that are all just Rick and Morty over and over and over again. No offense to you fans of Rick and Morty, but one show is fine. Eight shows. I don't need it over and over again. But like all of those lanes now exist at the same time, they're not making the kinds of movies that I like anymore.

So I'm more interested in watching the stuff that I've already seen or watching older stuff that I've never seen, because I don't the spoofs that they're making now they don't interest me the way that the old ones do. Like Holmes and Watson is a spoof, Okay, that movie's fucking nightmare, like a genuine cinematic nightmare. So they're just not doing what I want with comedy and so I think, similar to yourself, Mark, I'm just not searching them out anymore. Like as much as we have kind of ragged on Naked Gun one, two and three movies are more in my wheelhouse than most stuff coming out, at least from what I want from a comedy movie or what I'm expecting from a comedy or what my intention to laugh is at least I will tell you that of all the spoof movies that have come out over the last however many years, Like we've talked a little bit about some of the scary movies, but what was that one?

Was that? Not another teen movie? Yeah, the one with like Chris evans Is and that yeah, yeah, yeah, very early Chris Evans. I found a lot of that to be hilarious. I don't understand all the jokes about people shitting on each other, like literally shitting on each other, but some of that other stuff, like especially the parody of the detention scene from Breakfast Club that I watch very often, I think of something else from the nineties similar to that, Like Basketball is a fucking great parody movie.

It's a great movie. Like it's a spoof, and it's directed by Lucky LOOKI who fucking directed it, David Zucker for Fox's sake. Like, it's not like they can't make good movies. It's clear. I think to the three of us that the Zuckers, at least the Zuckers, maybe not Jim Abraham or Abrams, they are very emotionally driven people.

If they don't like Top Secret because it didn't make the money. That's putting a horse before a cart in a very obvious and apparent way. I think Naked Gun was clearly a means to an end, and at some point it just became a money factory. Right. We'll pump out a script and then they'll pump us full of money and they've made how much money they made like double to triple the budget on each of these movies.

You know, Basketball didn't make like any money, so and I would put it above all of the Naked Gun movies period. I think that's a funnier movie overall, directed by David Zucker, made no money, nothing came of it afterwards. They can make good things. I just think Naked Gun made them so much money that, like wide else, did jud Apatow keep making forty year old virgin style movies because they've made tons of money. It's complacency and it's being lazy.

At least we have Police Squad the first three episodes of the show. At least we still have that. Well, Chris, until we come back and talk again about the Liam Neeson version of Naked Gun. Where can people find my work? Your work, marks work, everybody who's doing good work out there?

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