Episode 62 - Naked Gun (The Rise of Enrico Palazzo) - Middle Age Movie Reviews Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello, welcome to the Middle Aged Movies Podcast. Three guys saying,
all right, Stephanie, gently extend your arm, extend your middle finger.
Very good, well done. My name is Tim and my
podcasting partners.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Are Matt, Joey.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
All right, joy us tonight. A man who often falls
overboard after stepping into a bear trap from the Cybernetic
Shark and the MCUs bleeding EDGs YouTube channels. It's Cyber
say hello, Cyber, Hello cyber alright, awesome, joy us tonight.
A man whose memory ain't so great unless I give
him a twenty dollars bill from the Andreas the Pop

(01:02):
Culture Guy the ymc use blean he edds YouTube channels.
It's Andreas say hello Andreas.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Hello, Tim, you have a nice beaver.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Ah, thank you. I keep it trimmed, all right, Joey,
why don't you tell us what movie we're watching on
Angel Vision tonight?

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Tonight we are watching The Naked Gun Number eight hundred
and fourteen from the book of one thousand and one
Movies You Should Watch Before You Die, written by David Zucker,
Jim Abrams, Jerry Zucker, and Pat Prophet, directed by David Zucker,
starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Ricardo Montabond, and

(01:45):
white Ford Bronco legend O J.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Simpson.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
All right, well, Joey, don't step away from the microphone
just yet, because inquiring minds want to know. When was
the first time you watched this film on TV.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I don't think I saw the first one at the theater.
It was so goddamn long. Agough. I know I saw
Like Naked Gun thirty three to third at the theater.
I may have seen two and a half the theater,
but I'm pretty sure I saw the original on like
a network affiliate on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
Gotcha? Well how about you, Andreas? I know you're the
younger guy in our group tonight. So what AMC station?
Did you watch this on a.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Funny Well, no, it wasn't AAC. I think this was
on Core. I seen bits of this movie on TV.
This is my first time seeing the full movie today.
So I'm very excited to talk about this movie.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
All right, fantastic. Well how about you, Cyber, When was
the first time you saw Naked Gun?

Speaker 7 (02:58):
I think it was the same as Joey.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
I did not see it in theaters back in eighty eight,
but I did see it on TV a few years
later for the first time. I wasn't really aware of
the Naked Guns until probably around the time Naked Gun
thirty three and a third came out. After I saw
Naked Gun thirty three and a third, I'm like, all right,
I haven't seen the other two, so I need to
see those. So they were having a marathon on TV

(03:22):
of the first two. I remember catching it and just laughing.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
My butt off.

Speaker 6 (03:28):
But what I loved the most about The Naked Gun
was the fact that it was spoofing so many other things,
and I think that's what made it so much funnier.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
To me.

Speaker 6 (03:37):
It was a great first time watching that film, and
it was really enjoyable.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Surely you're kidding, surely.

Speaker 7 (03:43):
I'm not surely?

Speaker 5 (03:48):
All right? Well, Tim, when was the first time you
got to see Forbidden Planet? It's very own Leslie Nielsen
in The Naked Gun.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
I actually seen it in the theaters. This was probably
the very first movie where I sat down the credit
started to roll and I laughed from the moment it
started till the moment that it ended. It was just fantastic.
I think the only movie ever made me laugh that
hard was The South Park Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Those
are two films that I just remember laughing constantly all
the way through. No time to drink, no time to eat,

(04:20):
because I probably would have choked to death, you know,
on whatever I had with me at the time. It
was just a lot of fun, really great time, great
to watch in the theater and the big screen. Totally
happy I got to experience it in that format.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Nice, awesome. Unfortunately I didn't get to see it in
the theater. It came out in eighty eight, so I
was only like ten years old and my parents weren't
gonna take me to go see it. First time was
actually at my cousin's house on HBO during a sleepover.
And I only remember about twenty five percent of this
movie prior to watching it for this podcast, because it
never really was in my wheelhouse. I like comedy and stuff,

(04:55):
and I liked Airplane, but I never got sucked into
naked gun. I think that a a lot of the
jokes initially like went over my head. So yeah, that's
that's pretty much it. Well, Tim, as our resident director,
what are you going to request for the synopsis tonight?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
All right, Matthew, I thought about it, and there's really
only one way I think you can do this tonight.
I would like you to read the synopsis as Frank
Drebin as he inadvertently walks up to the podium of
the news microphones after disembarking from his plane.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
All right, let's see what I can do. And you
you came down here to get the hot story, didn't
you pictures of me Frank Dreben to sell your lousy newspapers.
Because police squad has been put in charge of a
security for the visit for the Queen Elizabeth the Second
to Los Angeles, I would think a bigger story would

(05:47):
be Vincent Ludwig, the event organizer, who is reputed to
be the criminal mastermind and possibly responsible for putting one
of our own Detective Norburg in the hospital. Sure you
think I'm a big hero, the man of the hour, Well,
do any of you understand that stopping the plot to
assassinate the queen, solving the attack on Detective Norburg, and

(06:08):
romancing Lugwood's assistant Jane Spencer are all in a day's
work for Lieutenant Frank Dreben. Now, if you'll excuse me,
I have to go to the restroom.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh oh, oh my god.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
All right, well, let's dive into the Naked Gun. So
the movie opens up in Beirut, Lebanon, and there's a
gang of anti American leaders including Ayatola Komani, Mikhail Goldberchoff,
Yaser Arafat, muammar A Gadaffi, Fidel Castro, and Idioman, and
they've met to plan the ultimate terrorist attack against the

(07:22):
United States. The man who's later shown to be Pafshmir
is also present. Frank Dreben has been posing undercover as
a waiter. He beats up all the attendees, revealing that
Gorbachev is an imposter and various other shocking facts about
them in the process, and warns them that they will

(07:42):
never attack America as long as he is on the job.
So I gotta ask, guys, this opening sequence, did anyone
else feel like it was very much a shot at
James Bond and his cold opening sequences. What do you think, cyber.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Oh one hund It was definitely parroting a lot of
the beginnings of James Bond films with a zany twist,
though it felt like a James Bond opening until you
started seeing Frank start doing his bubbling idiot things and
you just start cracking up because no matter what he's doing,
how bubbling is, it still ends up where it needs

(08:22):
to be and it's just so stick it funny. And
of course at that time, the whole Middle East was
becoming a huge thing for here, so I think that's
another reason why it was in the film paroding that
what was going on in the world at the same time,
and just it's so well done. And I think one
of the funny things is George Kennedy actually hated the

(08:44):
process of filming this film because of how many different
takes they had to do, because they wanted to see
how many different ways they could get a joke off.

Speaker 7 (08:54):
And Kennedy who.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Said, I love the movie, I love all the people,
but the actual filming was just such a pain in
the ass. He's like, because of how he takes, we
had a take because they wanted the joke just right.
So I can only imagine that beginning sequence how he
takes it took to get exactly what they wanted there.
So I think that's a very interesting little tibot. But
at the same time, I think it's a really fantastic

(09:17):
opening that's super funny.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
You know, it is funny. You should bring up the
multiple takes because there are definitely parts in this opening
sequence where you can see some continuity shifts between the
quote waiter and the angle that the camera's at in
each of the frame shots. So yeah, it's kind of neat.
How about you, Tim, what'd you think of our good
detective Frank Dreben impersonating in James Bond.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I think it was a brilliant way to start the film,
And it throws you off because you're going in knowing
it's a police squad movie basically from the TV series,
and you see him finding terrorists and it makes absolutely
no sense. So it kind of throws you off. But
it's really funny, especially because it's basically the terrorists are
the who's who of evil dictators in the nineteen eighties.

(10:00):
I mean, everyone you named off in that list, those
are all very prominent people in the news at that time,
they were all the enemies of the United States, so
it was very timely, and to have Drevin going through
and beating up on all these people that we're seeing
in the news on a nightly basis, I think it
made it even funnier. So it was really entertaining, really
well done, very much captured the essence of a James

(10:23):
Bond cold start in a way that you didn't expect
for a detective oriented film.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Yeah, I agree with you. It was a little odd
to see, you know, something I was expecting to be
like a police procedural spoof to turn off with this
terrorist preemptive strike. How about you, Joey, what did you
think of this opening sequence?

Speaker 3 (10:42):
I really liked it. I'm wondering if the creators of
the reboot are going to have the balls to recreate
that scene with today's villains, but I don't think that
they will. I don't think that you're going to get
that kind of same spirit because there's too many people
disagreeing on who the bad guys are. But back then

(11:02):
everything was a lot more black and white. It made
for a very funny intro. I really really did enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
How about you, Andreas. More specifically, we talked about the
main bad guys. I know, you're a little younger than us,
you might not remember Mikail Gorbachev and all that, But
seeing them on the screen, does that seem like it
dates the film to you?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Man, that's really tough. I'm aware of the Middle East
troubles that was going on in the late eighties. I'm
not familiar with the names like certain terrorists. I was like,
where did they even thought about this?

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Open?

Speaker 6 (11:33):
And then if you guys brought out James Bond, and
I was like, oh yeah, I mean the James Bond
movies were that popular during the eighties. Remember Living Daylights
came out the year before this movie came out, So
it made sense this is what Specter would do. All
his agents are guided to plot he will land against
the US. This was definitely that guy. I loved the
review of Frank staying his name like almost like Bond

(11:56):
James Bond. You know, it's like, I'm Frank, I'm from
the Police spot. But yeah, great opening. It just got
me hooked.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, And you know, as I had said, it was
making fun of James Bond. James Bond was famous for
having these cold openings. It was very much an action
movie trope since like nineteen sixty three when they came
out with Doctor No. After that whole sequence, we get
the classic gag of the police siren driving around through
the streets of Los Angeles, and not only through the
streets of Los Angeles, but also through like the women's dorm,

(12:25):
a home, and a bunch of other places. That just
seems to be like a running gag which throws back
to the classic Police Squad TV series. Just thought it
was hilarious to see that callback. What about you, Tim,
What do you think of the police Siren coming back?

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (12:39):
I enjoyed the Police Siren. I originally seen it, you know,
watching the Police Squad TV series. I guess they actually
lifted it from a series called m Squad, which I'm
not even familiar with it. That's even too old for me.
But it does have Lee Marvin and a deforce Kelly
in it, which I didn't know. I looked it up,
so I thought you might want to look into that, Matt,
since I know you're a big Star Trek fan, and

(13:00):
the original bones there was in it awesome. I thought
it was cool the way they decided to up it
from the TV series instead of just having it come
through for a second or two. They were like, how
far can we take this? So let's have it to
a bunch of crazy stuff, and so you know, they
got it chasing people. They as they said, we were young,
we wanted naked people in the show, so it gave

(13:21):
us an excuse to have it go through a women's
shower and locker room and things like that, and then
ultimately into a roller coaster, which I guess actually made
a lot of people sick in the theater from the
motion of following the cop car along the tracks. So yeah,
it was just I think it was a gag that
paid off, and it was it was very entertaining.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
Yeah, yeah, I thought so too. It's it was probably
one of the one of my favorite parts of the
opening sequence, just because it's funny, something you don't expect
to see, especially with the whole roller coaster thing. What
about you, Joy, what do you think of the the
motion sickness? Like Blair Witch Project.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
I love it. I think that GAG's probably the ones
that gets better with each sequel. I'm not sure which
sequel had the squad car being born into the world,
But that's probably the best one in terms of taking
it as far as you can take it. In this one,
it sets the precedent that Frank's a terrible driver, and
we see it throughout the movie. What really struck me

(14:19):
is that they got away with a naked female Darier
in a PG thirteen film. The other thing that struck
me in this film was there's a statue penis, and
I could not believe that that was in a PG
thirteen movie either. So there's definitely some surprises in this
film when it comes to hey, how did they get
away with that? I think at certain times I forget
that these are PG thirteen movies because there's a lot

(14:41):
of filthy humor. And I noticed there's even a few
jokes I didn't get when I was a kid that
are funny now.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
You know.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
It was a different time. You know, they could get
away with a little more stuff back then, and I
think the censors were like, oh, well, kid, who's watch
isn't really going to pay attention to that, Because yeah,
there were some jokes that I didn't get as a kid.
Definitely went over my head that I I caught this
time around, and I was like, oh, that's just that's
just wrong. It's funny, but it's just so wrong. But anyway,
back to the film, So in Los Angeles, Officer Norberg

(15:09):
played by O. J. Simpson unsuccessfully attempts to bust a
heroin drug operation at the docks organized by Vincent Ludwig
aka Regardo Montabond. God, come on, you knew that was
coming sometime tonight, and.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
There it was coming.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
How dare you?

Speaker 7 (15:29):
Very good?

Speaker 5 (15:30):
Thank you, thank you. Welcome to a fun to see island.
All right, that's my last one, I promise. So Norberg
is shot numerous times by Ludwigs henchmen. After being briefed
on the case by his colleague and friend, Captain ed Hockney,
Frank visits Norburg in the hospital. Now, there are two
things that I thought were really great gags in here,

(15:52):
and of course one of them is the OJ Simpson
getting shot sequence on the boat. To me, that was
straight out of looney tunes. I mean, you see him
getting shy, he's kind of falling back. He doesn't know
where to fall, so he like goes over to the
hot stove and puts his hand on it and he
falls over and he gets the bear trap on the
leg and it just goes all over the place, and
it felt very much like a Looney Tunes cartoon for me.

(16:16):
Is there a scene in this part of the film,
guys that kind of stands out to you that you
really like or anything you want to comments on, I'll
throw it over to you first, Cyber, What did you
think of Norberg and everything like that?

Speaker 6 (16:26):
This is a great beginning sequence that is just so
much fun. It's a very zany slapstick that's very Looney
Tune like that is just so much fun. And the
fact that he keeps going and getting worse and worse
things happening to him after getting shot, like the burner,
like you said, the stove, the bear trap and something
that is just absolutely freaking hilarious because it's like one

(16:48):
thing after another. It's kind of like whatever usually what
happens to Frank whenever he's at a sequence too, like
you know, craziness ensues and the same thing happens to
you know, Oj Sipson here. And I remember seeing Oj
in this for the first time and thinking, who the
hell is this guy? Like I had never seen it before.
I didn't know he was a football player. And then
of course, you know, a few years later he would

(17:08):
become super famous, you know, for the death of Nicole
Brown and Ron Goldman.

Speaker 7 (17:14):
But I absolutely love it.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
When he starts screwing up and it pans to all
Ricardo Montebon's henchmen, they're just kind of going back and
forth like this, you know, watch it as things are
going wrong with him, and it's just absolutely hilarious, like
totally like watching like a Looty Tunes film. So I
think it's a really fantastic sequence. Absolutely love it. I
think it's super hilarious. I forgot how funny it was.

(17:37):
I just keep out of it, thinking, oh my gosh,
I need to watch this for why haven't I seen
this in so long?

Speaker 7 (17:43):
It is so damn good.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
And to kind of iterate everyone kind of mentioning about
the opening sequence with the car, there were so many
films throughout the eighties that got away with some of
the greatest nudity I have ever seen. I mean, look
at Pretty Good Pink and something like that. It's like,
it amazes me how things have changed over the years
coming from that. And so seeing that sequence at the

(18:07):
beginning of this with the car and all of a
sudden we see the shower sequence that I was just
kind of cracking up going I totally don't remember that
when I saw this the first time. I'm like, it's
probably because it was at it for TV. But still
at the same time, I'm like, what that's new, and
I was just like, oh, okay, okay, okay, but yeah,
I mean, I think it's hilarious how ratings have changed

(18:29):
so much from this time to now. I mean, this
movie is just a great testment to the great PG
thirteen rating which had just come around.

Speaker 7 (18:38):
PG thirteen. It was only new since like I think
it was.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
Like eighty five Temple of Doom.

Speaker 7 (18:44):
Yeah, Temple of Doom.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
That's right, little correction, Temple of Doom was PG. It
wouldn't be until three months later in August of nineteen
eighty four. Temple of Doom came out in May that
Red Dawn would be the first PG thirteen movie.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
All right, well, so you've covered a lot with that, Cyber.
Thank you very much. You had a wonderful insight. You know,
we're talking about OJ Simpson, and I really want to
address the elephant in the room. So OJ Simpson, Tim
did he do it? I no, no, I got no idea, No, no, no,
I mean, is his character a dirty cop? My mistake?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Oh? Okay, okay, well I think no. I don't think
any guy who tries to charge into a den of
you know, henchman to arrest them all single handily is
probably a dirty cop. I mean, although kicking in the
door and having your leg go through it and then

(19:38):
having to have them wait for you to get your
leg back out and then get the door open was
a nice touch to start the whole process off with.
I mean, that scene is just it's freaking fantastic. But
you know what I think makes it even better is
that as he's having his Loot Tunes moment, you know,
and he's all shot up, and then he's to the

(20:00):
hot stove and he's having you know, the window fall
on his hand. The thing that they do is for
every one thing he does that causes pain, then he
does one more like, oh, he fell against wet paint,
you know, and then you'll have you know, the window
fall in his hand. But then he falls into a
wedding cake, you know. So I thought it was a
nice touch of It's not all just how much pain

(20:20):
can we put him in? It's just how much stupidity
can we throw in there? Finally, you know, the bear
trap is just the cherry on top before he goes overboard.
It never ceases to make me laugh. And then later
on when the cops show up to the scene, they
put a cherry on top of the cherry by having
a chalk outline on the water.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yes, yeah, I mean I.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Thought that was fantastic too, So you know, it just
it's such a fantastic scene. Just every time I watch it,
I just laugh out loud and so well done.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
Well, how about you, Joey, since you're usually the guy
that's sitting on the pier getting kicked into the water
by a police car, what did you think of that sequence?

Speaker 3 (20:58):
All of OJ's scenes play differently now, but you have
to remember at the time he was a lovable figure
and so you were supposed to feel empathy toward him.
But now when you see, like all these terrible things
happened to OJ, you're like, yeah, that's what he fucking deserved.
So it's a lot different now. It's still funny, it

(21:19):
just it hits different. The Naked Gun thirty three and
a third came out three months before O. J. Simpson
murdered his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and waiter Ron Goldman.
So that's that's just insane. It's just it's just bizarre.
It was like living in a bizarro world then, but

(21:41):
it's something we just take for granted. It's like, oh, Jesus,
notorious person who got away with murdered. But at the
time he yeah, he was a beloved guy. They were
gonna cast him as Determinator, and James Cameron famously says,
you know, no one ever would believe O. J. Simpson
as this killer, Like, that's not him. Smile. You just
want to give the guy a big hug. And there's

(22:04):
something bittersweet about it because I still want to love Nordburg,
which by the way, is based on Norburg. It's from
the files of Police Squad. But yeah, Nordburg, great character.
I love him. Yes, OJ Simpson not in Heaven.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
Well, if you want to hear more about what we
thought of OJ Simpson's possibility as the Terminator, check out
episode twenty eight of The Man Review podcast, where we
talked about the Terminator. All right, Andreas, any thoughts on
this sequence before we move on to another character here.

Speaker 6 (22:37):
The opening credits was fantastic, just love it. Of course,
the file stop was a donu store. I was like,
of course, cops, they always want donuts to eat. I
love doughnuts as weird thing for police to love.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Well, it's nice because donut shops tend to be opened
out later, and if you're just doing a swing shift,
you can grab yourself a cup of coffee and a donut.
It's an easy to go food, so then you can
off to work and fight the bad guys.

Speaker 6 (23:02):
Oh okay, now that makes total sense. But anyway, uh yeah,
o j Simpson, man, I think it's pop culture after
the trial I'm aware of.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
You can't remember a pre trial world, can you.

Speaker 5 (23:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:16):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
That was before you were born, right, it was like
right after.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Yeah, So I was like aware of that, and I
totally forgot he was in these movies, you know, at
the time, And it's so weird watching this movie, like
he's barely in the movie. I mean, he's the plot
driven part, but he has the most famous gags.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
You know.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
I agree with Joey.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
I mean, look, you have to judge the content outside
of the culture sometimes because it predastes what happened before.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, it's true. Oj had not murdered anyone. Yeah, during
the filming of any of the Naked Gun movies. It
happened three months after the third one came out.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Or diddy, we just don't know about it, Yeah, Sadlee.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
Well, so when Frank comes into the United States where
he's met with the Captain played by George Kennedy, he's
the straight guy to everyone's favorite lovable Frank Rebens comedy.
He brings a certain quality to the character that I
really liked. And I just had to know what you
guys thought of George Kennedy as Captain ed hockin how
about You, Tim.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
I really liked him. It's kind of interesting how he
even got the role because the studio insisted that they
cast an Oscar winner for whatever reason, they had to
have one in this movie, and so they went grabbed
George Kennedy for the role, and he was super excited
to do it. Really, I mean, it was outside his zone.
It had done comedy before. He was a very straight

(24:43):
laced actor, much like all the rest of the actors
in this And that's the brilliance of this film is
that everybody who's in the Naked Gun are not comedians.
They're all very straight laced actors up to this point,
except for Leslie Gilson doing Airplane. So they play their
roles like they would in their previous movie roles, where
they're just playing it straight all the way through. No

(25:04):
matter how much insanity ensues around them, they will keep
their composure and just play the role as if it's
a very serious role and that's the beauty of the
comedy in this and George was no exception. I mean,
he just totally brought out the whole time. He just
plays off with Revene me. I can't imagine what it's
gotta be like to stand in the roof lays Nielsen
and do some of these jabs back and forth. He's

(25:26):
got to play up against that against Leslie a lot
of times, and he does a great job with it.
I can't imagine any times. They must have lost it
though doing this stuff. But he's a great counter. He's
absolutely a great counters It's really interesting. It's too straight
men trying to be funny, you know, just the most
straight laced way possible, and they pull it off brilliantly.

Speaker 5 (25:46):
Yeah, I think that's kind of the direction in the
writing of Zucker and Abrams and Zucker is what would
a real person do in a zany world. It's like
the world itself around them is zany, not necessarily them themselves.
And I think that's you said, Tim, I think this
will gives it that extra comedy relief. What about you, Cyber,
What did you think of our captain?

Speaker 6 (26:06):
Absolutely love George Kennedy, you know, I think he was
a great actor. He was always fun to watch and
him playing the captain was just I think perfect to
Leslie Nilsen's Frank because him being a bubble in it.

Speaker 7 (26:19):
You have to have your straight lace guy, which was.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
Kind of the the comedy trope if you think about it,
from you know, Stan Laurel Standon Laurel Lauren Hardy, we had,
you know, Stan Laurel being kind of the goofball and
Oliver Hardy being the kind of the straight lace guy.
Same thing with Abbot Costello. We had Costello as the
funny guy, and then of course you had Abbott as
the straight lace guy. Same thing with the three stooges.

(26:42):
Larry and Moe were a little kind of straight lace
a little bit Mo the most versus Larry, but Larry
still was kind of a little comical that you had
Curly who was even overconcaled.

Speaker 7 (26:52):
That's kind of a great comedy trope.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
That's always been a huge thing to have your straight
lace guy and your funny guy, and that worked perfect.

Speaker 7 (26:59):
I think worked so well together.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
And the fact that George Kennedy was a huge fan
of Leslie Nilsen and the Zuckers. He'd been wanting to
work with them since Airplane came out, so he really
wanted to work with him. So him getting this chance,
he was absolutely just amazed at getting to do this.
You could just see it in his performance in the film.
You tell that he loved the film, he loved the idea,
he loved everything about it. And I think, you know,

(27:24):
he was just perfect as the Captain. I don't see
anybody else playing the character. He just was so fun.
So yeah, George Enny, our captain is the best.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
All right? Well how about you, Andreas? Any rebuttals anything
contrary to what cyber has thrown down with.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
George, No, no, I agree with the half shark, half cybernetic,
hence individual himself.

Speaker 7 (27:45):
There should be half robotics or not cybernetic.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
I don't care. That's how I'm saying, sir, But anyway,
half robot, half shark is what it is, sir, All right,
half shari, I'll remember that here, going to write it
down here, half robot, have shark there?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Who knew AI was so sensitive?

Speaker 4 (28:07):
Oh my no, No, I'm not an AI.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
No, not you cyber?

Speaker 7 (28:12):
Oh well yeah, I am AI.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Unless there's something you need to tell us. Andres Are
you not a real boy? Are you part machine or
full machine?

Speaker 4 (28:21):
Two?

Speaker 2 (28:22):
I mean I always see you from the shoulders up
most of the time, so you could totally be one
of those AI things from the bottom down. I have
no idea. You're just you're like on a some kind
of like rolling rack or something, and they just put
it in front of the computer when you do these things.

Speaker 6 (28:35):
No, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm a shark person. So
unfortunately my heights it's just it's just showing right now.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Anyway.

Speaker 6 (28:42):
George Kennedy a great actor. I agree for much everyone
you say before. He's such a great straight lace person
against les Naston's character Frank, which is so cool. These
three comps. The three main actors rouped the trilogy, OJ,
Kennedy and Nilson. We're all in the Big seventy Disaster film.
Before they were spoofed, Nelson was in the J Catman

(29:03):
classic film, The Simen Venture, OJ was in The Tyne Inferno,
and then Kenny was in the Airport franchise. Just a
little you know, fun trivia. I just want to ask
you guys. I know they're not spoffing the Body Cop film,
but it's funny that the captain is not like Shining
Captain that we always used to you know, like you know,
forty eight Hours and Fleiful Weapon.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
Fully, where's fully fully in here?

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Fully?

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Yeah? Oh my god, I'm sur he's not that type
of character.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I think mainly Andres is because they aren't really trying
to spoof the eighties stuff. They're trying to spoof the
early fifties TV series is like you know, EB Squad
and Dragon that stuff like that. Oh yeah, it's all
those very straight laced fifties police dramas. That's what this
is really trying to duplicate in the most comedic fashion possible.

Speaker 6 (29:51):
Yeah, and there's another thing I haven't brought up. I
didn't know this was based on a television that they
did that got canceled.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
That's why it says at the end of it from
the Files of Police Squad, because it was actually called
Police Squad, but they couldn't name this one Police Squad
because that was the time that police scavvys out. They
didn't want people to confuse it. Oh really, So they
gave a list of like one hundred different names for
the movie, and they were like, well, let's go with
the Naked Gun because it's the silliest one on there,

(30:18):
and it's such a great name that our movie will
never meet up to the expectation of the titles. So
that's kind of why they went with it. But yeah, yeah,
that's why it has a little tagline from the Files
of the Police Squad.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
There's a Western called Just Playing Naked Gun without the
the totally two different movies, So I would think that
would have been a bigger conflict, but I don't know.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Yeah, well, the term the Naked Gun also is kind
of a winking and nod to those classic nineteen thirties
film noir where they talked about New York the Naked City. Yeah,
because there's a few times where Dreven's got that internal
monologue going, and that was a wink and a nod
to the classic pulps.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, and honestly, so many of the films and TV
series as that they are all things from. For this,
even I'm not familiar with you, I watch a lot
of old crap. Yeah, I'm just like, Nope, never see
that one. Nope, don't know what that one? You know,
M squad, never heard of that, you know. So these
guys really were deep into the very early years of
fifties television and movies, and that's where they really garnered

(31:17):
a lot of their ideas to base this movie off
of and just take a classical scene from them and
just turn it upside down in the most ridiculous fashion possible,
and it worked for them. Plus, I guess maybe I
don't know if all these shows and movies were super popular,
but if they weren't, they borrowed from things that everybody
did really have seen before, so it seemed very fresh.

(31:39):
At least to me, it was very fresh. I don't
know about any of you, but I was super not familiar.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
With a lot of them.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
There was a few things in there that I had
seen from the original Dragnet series. I know I've seen
a few of those episodes because my grandmother used to
watch that, So Joey, you know, we really haven't heard
from you on your thoughts on George Kennedy aka Dragline
from Cool Hand, Luke, what do you think of George
shann his character?

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Great actor, lived extremely long life. A ninety one year
is fun. He was born a year before Leslie Nielsen
and he died six years after him. Leslie was only
eighty four, but George Kennedy made it to ninety one.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
I love him and everything he's in. He's that guy
and that thing. There's a lot of actors like that,
but with one hundred and ninety acting credits, he's a
working actor. I most know him from this. It's a
delight to see him in anything.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, I guess he was really bummed out that he
wasn't in Airplane. He was pretty furious that they didn't
invite him to come spoof his own role. So when
he found out they were doing this, that's why he
totally jumped on it, because I'm not going to miss
my second chance. I want in I want parties.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
Nice. All right, Well, that brings us back to Norberg
in the hospital. So Frank and Ed show up to
the hospital and Norburg can provide only a few cryptic clues,
including a picture of Ludwig's ship on which the deal
had been organized. Frank later meets with the wacky police
scientist named Ted Olson, who has invented a cuff link

(33:13):
that shoots out a tiny dart which renders the victim unconscious,
promptly testing it on Hockney. While discussing Norberg's case, it
is revealed that the police force suspects Norburg to be
corrupt and involved in drug dealings. Hockney gives Reben twenty
four hours to clear Norberg's name. Now, I don't know
watut you, guys, but seeing the whole sequence with the

(33:35):
cuff links felt very much like Q from James Bond,
and I was waiting for some more jokes, some more
craziness to happen in there.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, it's the only scene that goes with the scene
in the beginning where it's really a police detective exactly
the spy.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
So the reason that they do that is because if
you watch the original TV series, they would every episode
go in to see that guy.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Okay, I did not know that.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, so he would not only be making them special gadgets,
but he'd be doing all their research and things like that,
but it was always weird because they'd walk in and
he'd always have some kid in there talking to him,
and it was always on the cusp of being slightly inappropriate,
you know. It was just, you know, it was like,
all right, well, Billy, why don't you go ahead and
go and next week we'll talk about what you could
do with discarded swimwear. Just weird stuff like that, you know,

(34:23):
and then they go into whatever. So that's kind of
where that comes from. They were using that as a
gag even in the TV series, and I think it
just kind of butted up nicely against the intro in
the movie.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
Speaking of gags, so did you guys feel as though
the gags to the film work well with the story
or are they just gags for the sake of it.
I'm gonna go over to you first, Joey. What'd you think?
Do you think the gags kind of work with the
story or is it just total zenias.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
I don't think this is a movie where there's a
safe place to take a pee break except for maybe
a couple spots. At the beginning was establishing shots and
you better run the the bathroom piss fast. This is
definitely a movie that's better viewed at home, just because
it's joke after joke after joke. I don't know if
they had a rhythm to it or a rule in

(35:10):
the script of how often they had to have a joke,
but it definitely seems like that. It also makes it
really kind of hard to talk about the movie because
while there is a plot per se, what you remember
about it isn't the story beat. What you remember are
what was your favorite gag? And it doesn't lend itself
very well to reviewing it, because what are you going

(35:32):
to review every fucking gag in the movie? You can't
do that. More or less, you can kind of talk
about your favorites and your favorite performances. So I love it. Clearly,
not everything hits hard, some things are funnier than others.
But you can't get bored with this movie because even
if you didn't hear a joke or went over your

(35:53):
head because you're a kid and you don't understand that.
When she says Ricardo Montaban, I can't believe how cruel
and awfully you are, and he goes, well, I used
to be a contractor. That's not funny to a little kid,
you're like, I don't understand it. But if you're an adult,
you know contractors are notoriously pieces of shit and that's funny,
but it doesn't matter because they have something for everybody.

(36:14):
Some of them are thinkers and some of them are
just potty mouth jokes. And they go one after another
after another, three in a row. You could just not
give a shit about the fourth one. You're gonna laugh,
and that's what you're gonna remember.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
I think you just hit the nail on the head
as to why this movie is so difficult to review tonight,
because I was trying to think of, you know, how
would we normally do this? You know, we normally go
through the story beats. But yeah, a lot of it
is the gags.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Definitely meant to be used with a pause button, and
they did have a formula. They actually were like, there
must be a joke about every ten seconds, and if
you watch it, not only is the jokes going on
the story plot, but if you just freeze frame this,
every couple of seconds, there's something whether it's a poster,
a license plate, somebody burning for no reason in the background,

(37:01):
I mean, just weird things like they just got random
stuff going on all the time everywhere, somebody getting bumped
off of a post. You're just really strange things. They
have nothing to do with the movie as a whole.
That is their thing. If you're not watching it for
the movie, then you're watching it for all the surrounding
jokes that you're completely missing. So I think if you
really took the time watching this movie over and over

(37:22):
and over, you could just keep peeling away at that
joke onion for sure. And I guess the most amazing
part is there's a lot of jokes that hit the
floor that they said were just as funny as anything
that we see in the movie, but they did it
for pacing. I would love to see like an extended
director's cut of this thing with all the jokes in there,
Like it'd be like three hours of this and maybe

(37:43):
a stadium buddy, so I don't have to get up
off the chair to go to the bathroom, because I
imagine it would just keep going, especially knowing as Cyber
point out early on, every joke required forty different takes
to make sure that they got it just perfect. I mean,
these guys really just knuckled down, and that's what they
learned from Airplane. They're like, we kind of had an airplane,
but we perfected it in the Naked Gun and they did.

(38:05):
Literally you just laugh from beginning to end, where you
didn't get that quite as much an airplane and see
the spark of what they were trying to achieve. But
this is the pinnacle movie where they really got the
formula down. The recipe is solid, and now they're just
gonna rinse and repeat and keep pumping these things out
and we're gonna just love every one of them afterwards.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
Gotcha, Well what about you, Cyber, what do you think
about the gags?

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Ah?

Speaker 7 (38:28):
They are the best, I mean as we can see.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
I mean it's every time watching this film, it's absolutely fantastic.
And the gags, I feel never get old. They are
always on point, they're always hilarious, and you just crack
up completely at them.

Speaker 7 (38:43):
And even though this.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
Movie came out thirty almost forty years ago, now it
still is just as funny as it was in.

Speaker 7 (38:50):
Nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
And I think, you know, a lot of people were
gonna watch it today and be like, wow, this actually
is super funny and great. And some of the gags
throughout the whole film are just really done well. And
I think that one of my favorites, of course is
that beginning sequence with oj Simpson that was absolutely freaking hilarious.
But then throughout the film you get some really great ones,

(39:14):
you know, that are even funnier and even more insane
and like more crazy and just completely out of the box.
And as like Tim was matching, you know, having to
do forty takes to get it just right. You could
see why that was such a great idea because we
saw in the movie how fantastic and funny they are
and how good it was. So I think that doing

(39:34):
several takes for a joke is really on point and
really helps deliver the best you can give on a joke.

Speaker 5 (39:41):
You know, you and Tim are right. They definitely have
the right formula in how these beats are hit with
all these jokes. And you know you did mention your
favorite gag was the Norberg scene there, and I just
want to mention my favorite gag actually occurs right here
in the movie where Frank is at the press conference
and his microphone's not working, and so another woman gives

(40:01):
him her microphone, and then when he's done, he goes
to use the bathroom. And if anyone had a much
older father who when he goes to the bathroom, you
can hear him in there anywhere in the house, you
know where those sounds are coming from. And I think
that was like my funniest part of the movie. What
about you, Andreas, what's your favorite gag in this film?

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (40:22):
Man, I really agreet you guys about the comedy, it
just works because of the character. Frank is consistent, because
sometimes with comedies they always do this horrible thing where
they try to be funny, but then they were trying
to be like drama and try to have to sit
see your story, and it's like, no, you have to
commit to one side. You know, if you want to
be this absurd comedy that's just loney tunes, then go

(40:46):
ahead and go one hundred percent on it. And that's
why a lot about the neck Gun films that they
are so committed to it. And you know, Frank's character
is so perfect with the world we have. He's serious
while the world is saying yes, you were saying, man.
But it's also because how he is as this incompetent
cop who's making all these awful decisions and choices that

(41:07):
just makes everything funny. That is the part that makes
the gagun's work and is consistent throughout the sequels of
this movie. You know my favorite gag this is the
music video that killed me and I just love it.
I cherished that to my heart. That's my favorite part
about this movie.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
Nice Nice, Well, before I move down the road anymore
with the story, Joey, do you have any favorite gags
you want to shout out right now?

Speaker 3 (41:28):
The body condom is the one I always remember seeing
it for the first time. I think NHD on Blu Ray. No,
I don't have the four K, but I'm sure would
be even more revealing. I don't know about the woman,
but the man I don't even know if that's Leslie
Nielsen under there, but there was a man's naked ass
that you could see through the transparent like rubber. That
was funny and disturbing. So that was more ass in

(41:49):
the movie. And I gotta say the montage is both
really sweet and my favorite part is when they closed
line the other couple on the beach were probably the
two biggest gags I remember out of this is the
clothesline and the body condoms, and of course Nice Beaver.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Well, how about you, Tim, Why don't you round us
off with what your favorite gag is.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
I've got two of them. The first one's just the
Doorberg stuff. I mean that beginning with him. I mean,
it doesn't get any funnier. Just watching him flail around
is fantastic. But the best one with Leslie Nielson, I
think has got to be the piss gag. I mean,
Leu's face it. It speaks to your rest of development
of your thirteen year old mind. I mean, that's what
it does. It doesn't matter how old you get. That

(42:35):
is funny. Later on, Adam Sandler will do that again
in one of his comedy CDs, and it kills me again.
I don't know what it is about that. It's just hilarious.
And I found it so entertaining that sometimes I would
call and just leave that on my friend's voicemail before
there was a caller ideas stuff. I like to call
from work and I play that on the phone and
I just leave it on their voicemail or their answer

(42:57):
machine or whatever, and never tell them it was me.
It's just to mess with them. There's just something thoroughly
entertaining that brings you back to your childhood that you
know your wife's gonna look at you like you're a
dumb ass, and you're gonna go, I don't care. That's
just some funny shit. Those are probably two of my
favorites right there.

Speaker 5 (43:14):
Yeah, well, hey, listener, leave a comment on this episode
to let us know what is your favorite gag in
the Naked Gun.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
In real life, multiple times people have been caught on
open mics. Most of the time, I think these are
public government meetings, like on the Government Access Channel, the
Public Access Channel something like that, where they do have
wireless mics, but it's still a low rent production and
they've been caught on microphones having bathroom breaks and stuff.
So this might have been based on something that's really happened,

(43:44):
whether it was broadcast or things that have happened on
movie sets. Kevin Smith would tell a story of Joel
Schumacher telling a story of Sylvester Stallone having his microphone
on and the sound guys listening to him visit with
female guest and his trailer. So I'm sure that that
was kind of taken from reality and they put it

(44:05):
in the movie and fell. The rest is history, all right.

Speaker 5 (44:09):
So we're now with Fafshmir and he meets with Ludwig,
who announces that he will assassinate Queen Elizabeth for twenty
million dollars with his beeper used as an acoustic trigger.
Ludwig demonstrates that he has a way of turning anyone
into an unknowing assassin via a post hypnotic suggestion. Later,

(44:32):
Dreben visits Ludwig in his office and inadvertently let's slip
the information that Norberg is still alive, which results in
an assassination attempt by a hypnotized physician. Frank chases the
assassin in a commandeered teen driving school car until the
luckless com fusive crashes the car into a gasoline truck
riding astride a US Army missile transporter into a fireworks factory. Now,

(44:57):
I got to ask you, guys, how insane that? To me?
That's atypical for anything you see in a jazz production. Andreas,
what did you think of the car chase?

Speaker 6 (45:07):
This is the best car chase, right, I mean, oh
my god, I mean I never thought about the car chase.
It's like what you could do with a car chase,
you know, I never thought put someone in a student
car and make that the car chase and that's perfect.
You know, he tells the student driver, drive chase that car.
Oh my god, so many gags, so funny, her being

(45:28):
so nervous. And then of course when he goes under
the tunnel, you know, they see the truck coming out
at the angry drivers where he's like, hey, what the
hell you're doing? And then I can't believe the teachers say, okay,
extend your arm out, raise your manifener and then boom, did.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
She look like a teen driver? Did she look like
she was at least twenty four if not thirty four.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (45:50):
I mean, it's funny the gag sign say it was
a teen What did they say, yeah, teenage car like it.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
Did not say drivers that it said teen driving and
instruction or something.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 (46:02):
So so basically she is a chain and I don't know,
so whatever, Yeah, it's a person driving, right, And then
of course we caught the guy guy. You know, he
runs to the gasoline. I was like, okay, that's typical,
you know, action one on one. But then it goes
to the rocket. I was like, oh my god. Really,
and then the charrio at the top of that is
the fireworks factory. I was like, what the hell? And

(46:25):
then it was so funny when Frank comes out and
it's like that, did you see here? And do you
see the background so chaotic? You know, everyone running from
the factory and see the fireworks coming out from there.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Yeah, there's a whole generation that only knows that shot
where there's nothing to see here as a meme. Yeah,
they don't even know what it's from.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
I feel like it was one of the first memes.

Speaker 6 (46:45):
Probably, I don't know, there was a lot of early means,
but yeah, so yeah, very fun car chasing. This was
so funny when they did it, nice.

Speaker 5 (46:54):
Nice, Well did you guys recognize the driving instructor John
Housman final film Who's finished? From what TV series?

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Isn't soap? Oh?

Speaker 5 (47:05):
Easy, silver spoons?

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Oh thank you?

Speaker 5 (47:08):
He played the grandfather.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
He was the grandfather. Yeah. It does a driving instructing
scene in that. Yeah, it does it poorly because it's
been so long since he driven. He couldn't remember how
to do it. Man, did he do a great job.
He was so so good for the role. Nothing phases him.
Go ahead, do it, just follow his instructions. I just
this is a guy like seeing it all got cop

(47:31):
jumping in the back and making us do this just
another day in my life, you know. And that girl too,
she was perfect because she was like the perfect mix
of innocence, scared, little field mouse, and nerdism all wrapped
up into one character. And I think that's what sells
it is the two of them together and their demeanors
just sells the whole scene. I mean, by far, it's

(47:54):
just so so funny.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
Yeah. Again, it goes back to what I said earlier
in the fact that these are actors playing it straight
with an insane world around them, and that's what kind
of helps make that writing instructors so funny. And speaking
of television actors, so we kind of get a little
more into Ricardo Montabon's character of Ludwig. He's definitely channeling
Bond villain, batman villain. Not quite like a riddler or

(48:19):
something like that, but definitely along those lines. Would you
think of that character, Cyber.

Speaker 6 (48:24):
I actually loved him. I thought he was hilarious all around.
It just was a great choice for the film and
it worked really well. I feel at this point in
the Zucker and Abram's career, they had some sort of
knowledge that these specific people in this film how they
would do and get the zact right character, and I

(48:46):
thought that it was really well done.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
Well how about you joy? Any thoughts on Ricardo Montabon
as Vincent Ludwig.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
He nailed it hair piece at all.

Speaker 7 (48:54):
It was not the head piece.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
I think he's kind of like riding the success of
Fantasy Island and stuff. So this is that era of
Ricardo Montabon where he's kind of parrotying characters that he
played seriously in dramas and action flicks, genre television, genre
movies and stuff like that. So he was a good
choice just because he's got so much experience. He played

(49:18):
it straight. They didn't really give him any jokes other
than the contractor thing. But he was a great actor
and he nails it. But they didn't bring him in
for laughs. They brought him into play an archetype, right.

Speaker 5 (49:32):
Well, how about you, tim? Any thoughts on Ricardo Montabon.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Well, Joey did a great job, for sure. I think
the biggest loss is after seeing him as Con and
then seeing him as Vincent Lugwick, I wish we got
to see him in more villain style roles. I don't
think we got to see it enough in his career,
and it was one of the things that kind of
sparked towards the end, and he just never had a
chance to really dig in further. Then again, maybe this

(49:56):
is perfect. Maybe it's kind of like the Tom Cruise
thing in Collateral, where he was a super bad guy
in there and pretty much never does it again. But
he nailed it, and that's it. You got your one
taste and he's out. We got two with Ricardo and
then he was like, ah, going to go back to
being a mister Wark.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
The Naked Gun and definitely Star Trek two established him
as a major film star at the end of his career.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
I can always think of Corinthian Leather whenever I think
of Ricardo Maltabon.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
You're right, he was doing the car commercials at that point.

Speaker 5 (50:27):
Yes, the car commercials from the eighties.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
This was the autumn of his career. I mean he
would go on to act until he did Spy Kids
three and he's doing it from a wheelchair for christ
sect right, So he acted right up until the end,
and George Kennedy did the same thing. He acted up
until just a year or two before he passed.

Speaker 5 (50:45):
Well, anyway, back to our good detective Frank Dreben. He's
working on the case and speaking of Ludwig, he meets
and falls in love with Lugwoo's assistant, Jane Spencer, played
by Elvis's former flame Priscilla Presley. It is eventually revealed
that she knows nothing about Ludwig's plot, and after Jane
learns that her employer's villainy, she helps Frank with his investigation. However,

(51:07):
things go awry as Frank breaks into Ludwig's office to
get crucial information. In the process of finding that information,
Frank inadvertently sets it on fire and completely destroys Ludwig's office. Later,
things get worse as he tries to leave the office
and runs into some statues. So, Joey, this of course

(51:29):
is probably your field of expertise, and you've mentioned it already.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Yeah. I think when I saw this on TV, I
think they showed some of the statue breast, and then
I think cut around it. I don't think they showed
him grab the real thing. And then I want to
say the original television broadcasts that will probably cut out
the penis altogether. So as a much shorter scene, and
I'd honestly forgotten about it.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
It was most.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
Likely Leslie Nielsen's most fun thing to shoot, and today
they would have had an to Missy coordinator.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
Yes, so maybe I'm a bad dad. So I started
watching Naked Gun and then it wasn't until yesterday that
I wrapped up watching it. And I caught basically from
when he goes into Ludwig's office to the end of
the movie last night, and he's upstairs playing Fortnite and
then he comes down and see what I'm doing. And
he comes down just as Drebin is stepping on the

(52:24):
ledge of the office and he comes around. He starts
grabbing the woman's boob. He's like, Dad, what are you watching.
I'm like, I'm watching The Naked Gun. I can hear
him in the background, just getting very quiet. All of
a sudden, as he sees everything going on, he goes,
that's not right, and I'm like, yeah, it is not right, buddy.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Yeah, think about the title too, Like, for all he knows,
that's the name of a porno movie.

Speaker 5 (52:43):
But he and all of a sudden, when he gets
to the point when Drebin like gets back into the
woman's room. I can hear him back there like laughing
his heads off, and I'm like, yeah, this is a
little inappropriate for you, buddy. He's like, yeah, I know,
but it's funny, Like, yeah, I'm a bad dad. How
about you, Andreas? Did you go blind? Since you're you know,
you're what thirteen?

Speaker 6 (53:05):
You're funny? No, but hell, the statue thing is so
out there. It's just so crazy. Seeing the face of
the statue enjoying this man touching him is like, oh
my god, it's something we're not going to get, you know.
It's just this whole world is PC is too soft.
This war was too soft. Now it's like they don't

(53:26):
care about out of control comedy. You guys were talking
about ricardro Bonbon, great actor. I always love him. I
totally forgot he was in SPI Kids, and obviously we
brought Star Trek. He's now he's famously in Star Trek.
But I love him In the Planet the Eight movies
he was gray, and that in The Escape and the
Conquest grace foreign character and that, you know, I agree

(53:47):
with Tim, you know, I think it's good that we
had his two rules here as villains, and man, I
really wish He could have been a Bond villain. He
could have been perfect either the Dulton or Watcher Moore era.
I think he could have been a great villa for
those two eras of Bond. He's a fantastic director. I
was so sad when I heard he pass around jdas
and nine.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
Well how about you, Cyber, what's your thoughts of Frank's
destroying the office as well as his getaway?

Speaker 6 (54:12):
Oh so freaking funny that piano playing and then I'll
catch it on fire and something like that is exactly
what I would think, what would happen to Frank if
he was inside in that situation? And Leslie Nielsen did
such a great job of improving that big, sporadic scene
that really helped elevate the film. I thought it just
made it even funnier and I just really enjoyed it.

(54:34):
But then, of course him getting out on the ledge
and everything, that great sexual gag and comedy is unreverend.
It's not gonna ever be considered PC or whatever. That's
why it's comedy, That's what makes it funny. I was
laughing my butt off watching it, especially when he starts
grabbing the male version and that breaks off the dick

(54:55):
and I start cracking up. I'm like, oh my god,
he's got a concrete dildo. I'm like, what the hell, Well,
this is just not right. This is the RIFU. But
this whole section of the film is just so priceless
and funny and just it's such a great moment of
the film and I just absolutely crack up every time
I watch it, and it's just so good.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
So, Timmy, what'd you think We're right back to again,
the thirteen year old mind of the Zazz team there.
I mean, it's just this is what appeals to young boys,
this is what would make us laugh. And then when
we're old men, that little boy comes back out laughs again,
and I think has some pretty funny shit right there.
You know. So it's very entertaining, but I like to

(55:36):
take a step back for a minute. Okay, first of all,
they're like, you know, we're totally gonna put this in
the movie because now we're gonna get to audition a
woman to do this. And I can't imagine what the
casting call was for that. You know, need woman large breasts,
doesn't mind being manhandled, you know what I mean, Just
how do you audition for something like that. Not sure,
but you know, I'm pretty sure they put it in
there just for the fact that they got to do that.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
I just looked her up. Two facts I didn't know
about her. She's also plays quote the melon Lady in
Naked Gun thirty three and a third of the Final Insult,
So she's a woman on ledge in this movie. This
says she was born in nineteen thirty five, so she
would have been fifty three or fifty two at least
when she shot this. She did not look fifty two.

(56:21):
Her other credits include Orgy of the Dead nineteen sixty five,
this movie tour Woman Won and it says video nineteen
ninety I don't know what that is, and then The
Naked Gun thirty three to a third and it says
her alternative name is Texas Star with two rs, which
I'm gonna have to look up on a different computer.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
Oh, she's one of those actresses.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
I'm guessing she may have had another film background, gotcha, okay,
all right? Or perhaps she was a dancer. Maybe that
sounds like a stage name.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Can you see later on when they got Leslie, either
get Red Dric Mike, Now Leslie, this is what we
want you to do. You're gonna come out in the ledge.
There's good be a bunch of cement statues, and then
one of them is not gonna be cement. And here's
what we wanted to do. You just like the direct
and we'll have to do forty takes unless he's probably
like best day ever.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
Did you guys catch when he first touches the real thing?
Do you hear the little hongknk I miss that? Next
time you go to watch it, listen to the audio.
There's like a little squeaker toy or a little Hong
Kong kind of noise. So they were definitely hamming it
up there.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
For that, I've never even paid attention to the folly
of these movies because you're so busy with the visuals.
The sounds are just not even something you think about.

Speaker 6 (57:37):
No.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
Yeah, well, since we're on the topic of women in
the film, you know, we get introduced to Priscilla Pressley,
Ludwig's assistant, and of course, you know, she almost instantly
falls in love with Frank. Do you feel Frank and
Jane courtship is a little forced? Is it believable? What
did you think, Tim? Do you think this is a
typical kind of courtship in the.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Movie, In this kind of movie, absolutely, I mean, why
should this be any less ridiculous than anything else. But
unlike watching films where they're trying to do a serious courtship,
you don't even think twice about this being the most
ridiculously quick courtship you've ever seen in your life, one
that's been instigated by Vincent Lugwig. But you just take
it at face value, because why wouldn't these two people

(58:20):
with all this insanity going around instantaneously fall in love
with each other. They have one date that seems to
span what would normally be the date of probably a
half a year for everybody else on the planet, and
by the end of it they're madly in love.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Yeah, she mentions that she just met him yesterday after
that montage.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Yeah, they have a montage date and then they're instantly
in love. I don't think it takes away from the movie.
It's so ridiculous. You just like, yeah, it figures, and
it makes sense, and it moves the story plot along.
And again, you're not watching this movie to think deep,
not even close. In fact, you don't have time to
even think. You just only have time to laugh, catch
your breath, laugh and catch your breath.

Speaker 5 (58:57):
That's it, Okay, Andreas, you brought this, this is your
favorite scene. You want to throw in any last comments
about this music video courtship.

Speaker 6 (59:06):
I agree with Tim here, and he brought us up
a good point. The man Chasa nails is so perfectly
how ridiculous this is. You know, that's not how relations
are in real life. You know, we're talking about the
female love interest. I didn't know this was you Presley's wife.
That shook me. I'm sorry, I need to recognize her.

(59:28):
I love Elvis Presley as an artist. I was like, damn,
that's so weird, and she's so good because she's taking
it seriously.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
It was just funny.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Well, it's because she was a serious actress though she
was from Dallas. Yes, that was her big claim to fame,
So she was a very serious late night soap backed.

Speaker 6 (59:47):
No, no, that's a good point, Tim, But yeah, yeah,
I just love their relationship. They're so funny together.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
I wonder if this is the blueprint for the relationship
and something about Mary.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
Oh my god, Donal Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Because they they had the montage dates set up in
between Ben Stoner and Cameron Diaz and there too. Yeah,
they did all these things, but it was in the
span of only like a couple of days, and they
did the little montage thing too, So I wonder if
this was the inspiration for that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
It could be.

Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
To hear more about that, check out episode forty four
of Middle Aged Movie Reviews podcast.

Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
Episode Faull Too Far Baby.

Speaker 6 (01:00:21):
Yeah, he's on it. But also you have to remember
the nineties was so much like the Wrong Coms. They
had those like manchage dates when they show the turnaround
of these characters. This could be an inspiration, but it
was like very common in the Wrong comp Birth during
the nineties.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
I think everything that came after the Naked Gun, we
can all just tie it back. It's like seven degrees
of Kevin Bak or whatever it is. Yeah, all movies
going forward all tie back to the Naked Guns the
inspiration for their excellence.

Speaker 8 (01:00:49):
Yeah yeah, well, Tim Funny, you should mention that, because
you know they lose their courtship after a specific scene,
and that scene, of course, was when Frank Drevin went
to the stockyards to meet with supposedly Rikaredo Montabon and
he has a shootout with one of the Henchmen, very
much like a nineteen eighty nine action comic book movie,

(01:01:10):
and the guy does a tumble into a toxic waste
vat and.

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
Has his hands sticking out and kind of curling just
a little bit, kind of like a famous Jack Napier.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
But this movie came out first.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
Yeah, I can't remember the name.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
If we can only remember what movie this was, what
was that movie?

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Did you recognize that henchman from another movie that came
out a couple years later?

Speaker 5 (01:01:38):
No, I did not. He's in Dark Band, Oh, which
is also another kind of sort of movie like that movie.
I can't remember the name of it. I came out
in eighty nine, and I think he had Michael Keaton
in it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
But movie was it?

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
And who played Dark Band? Liam Neeson? Okay, yeah, and
who's gonna play Frank Sam and Liam Neeson wasn't. What
begins as raise ol ghoul.

Speaker 4 (01:02:07):
Oh my god, don't do this to me.

Speaker 5 (01:02:10):
What is that movie?

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
Okay? First off, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
It's always something connect these for us.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
You guys are so mean. Oh my god. Anyway, they don't.

Speaker 5 (01:02:20):
See a murder wall and in the background with red
string everywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:02:24):
Come on, godlet's say his name Batman.

Speaker 6 (01:02:35):
First off, I wanted to kill there this, folks, all right,
Jerker drop me in the bat Acid and chemicals is
not a new thing, folks. It was there from nineteen
fifty the issue where it's called the Red Hood Orchard Story.
It was there from the beginning. And yes, it is
convenient that this movie was in the same year when
Batman the Killing Joke came out the graphing novel by

(01:02:57):
Alan Moore and drawn.

Speaker 5 (01:02:58):
By Ian David Gibbs.

Speaker 6 (01:03:01):
No, no, no, no, Dave Gibbs did Watchman the fellow that
draws this this Ryan uh bowl and anyway anyway, And
then of course eighty nine Batman and I, directed by
timper and starting Michael Keyan, Jack Neiderson, Kim Basier and
Billy Dave Williams. And of course eighty nine movie adapted
the killing Joke. But of course we saw the live

(01:03:21):
action version of the trumping acid. So no, it was
all convenient. They didn't create this. This was already there
in the Batman com books. That's all had to say.
I'm sorry, I had to say it now. I can
drink Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:03:33):
I think he needs a hug this time.

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
Matt, Yeah, yeah, I'm under I'm gonna be sure we're
a little hug.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
All right, I'm sorry I put a quarter in the jukebox,
but I wanted to hear the whole song play on
that one.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
My god, man, you all you want to do is
talk about Batman every podcast. Finally set you up for it,
and you stay silent for my five minutes.

Speaker 6 (01:03:56):
Well, I'm because you guys can when.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Now you tease me, It's like, no, that does that
happen you?

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
No, this is not teasing. This is this is love.
Love from the bottom of my hearts. Yes, they talked
about I said, Matt, Matt, when we get into this
podcast Andrea's his heads going to explode because we finally
can set him up for a proper Batman you know,
the tip of the hat. And he doesn't even go
for it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
Oh my god, I take the chat here, folks, I
say Batman eight and nine.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
The best part was watching Cyber because he knew what
we were doing. He's dying.

Speaker 6 (01:04:34):
Dying takes a lot. I thought we were best friends.
It should help me out here in the State Channel.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
I'll give you another hug. Here you go, here you go,
you go.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
Anyway.

Speaker 7 (01:04:44):
At least, what did I ever say I was your
best friend?

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Man, oh my god, folks, this is the drama.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Those old god just rip the four guys hear.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
This frozen face?

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
No, no, I.

Speaker 5 (01:05:04):
Think I think here on on on the Middle Aged
Movie podcast, I think we just saw like the Beatles
breaking up. We saw Sau break up last week.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
On the MCU. It's just gonna be just sit there
going what the fuck happened? There's nobody here.

Speaker 6 (01:05:18):
I'm not there there. Hey, at least I'm talking to
Star Trek. I'm happy about that. In this podcast. I'm like, yeah,
I'm gonna talk about con Star Trek two and planing
the eighth.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
So I'm happy. And now, Batman, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Perfect trifective awesomness for andres.

Speaker 5 (01:05:36):
There you go. All right, well, let's go ahead and
dive back into our storyline. Then, So, during the Queen's
visit to California, a California Angels baseball game, Jane tells
Frank that one of the team players will conduct the assassination.
While hiding from his fellow policemen, who are now under
orders to arrest him. Frank first attempts to disguise himself

(01:05:58):
as the opera singior in Reikio Palazzo, brutally mangling the
US national anthem along the way, and manages to secure
the position of the home Plate umpire and begins calling
the game while simultaneously frisking all the players for weapons.
Finally realizing that he is running out of time, Frank

(01:06:20):
goes to great lengths to delay the game, ultimately resorting
to interfering with a play to the ire of the
managers of the Mariners and the Angels. So that is
probably some of the funniest stuff I've seen, especially when
Frank is out there at home Plate and he's singing
the national anthem as Enricchio Palazzo, and we got to

(01:06:41):
later pay off of a guy jumping up in the
stands going hey, that's Enricchio Palazzo. It's probably one of
the best scenes in the movie. What about you, Ciber,
what did you think of Enrikyo Palazzo and what do
you think of the umpire as well?

Speaker 7 (01:06:54):
I love this sequence.

Speaker 6 (01:06:55):
I mean, the patty gaw of all the players through
as they're playing stuff is absolutely hilarious. I mean, the
fact that got Reggie Jackson to be in this and
he's like wearing an angel's outfit, and of course, you know,
he had actually just retired like shortly before this movie released,
and he actually played for the athletics, not for the Angels.
So him where the angel jersey was kind of funny,
you know. So people were kind of like, wait a second,

(01:07:17):
he was an athletic. But this whole sequence is just
so damn funny that you cannot not laugh. It's so
fun And for Scilla Presley as Jane, I actually was
surprised at how well she did for not having any
comedy background. She actually was pretty damn funny. And I
think that this sequence here is that perfect kind of

(01:07:39):
distressed love interest at the same time, like I don't
know anything type of deal, and it worked out really well,
and it played out really great in the scene.

Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
Nice. Nice. I think one of the funniest things is
him as the umpire calling the calls, so you can
kind of see that when he first makes the call,
it triggers something in him. Now he's kind of entertaining
the crowd. He kind of falls into that, and I
thought that was really cool. What about you, Joey, would
you think of the umpire sequence and Enrikio Palazzo.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
It's another thing that people often remember the umpire stuff
was better than him ruining the national anthem. That more
or less pays off later when people see who saved
the day. And then we go back to like the
beginning of the movie, he thinks that everybody's cheering him on,
and it's because they're all there to see weird Al
Yankovic get off the plane. So it's a callback to

(01:08:30):
Frank not getting credit.

Speaker 7 (01:08:31):
Right just seen ever.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
But I like that it went from the awkwardness of like, oh,
he forgot to even call the throw and he says
strike and then he feels that energy of the crowd.
The splits by the stuntman was fantastic. Yeah, I'll say
this for all the things that Leslie Nielsen does in
this movie where that's an obvious stunt man and they
play up on that. It's part of the joke when

(01:08:54):
he tears his tearaway suit off earlier in the movie.
He's in good shape for his age. Yeah, he's got
pectoral So great job, Leslie Nielsen. It's funny. The copping
feels all over the players that I don't know how
to feel about that. As a kid. But that wasn't
the only feels that people were doing in the movie.

(01:09:14):
He grabbed the statues, he grabbed the ladies that the
players grabbed themselves, and I'll spit that was a memorable scene.
And then later with the calls doing the light signals
and everything. I think anybody who if you're not a
fan of baseball, it's still funny. You could barely know
what the sport is and you're gonna enjoy all of this.

Speaker 5 (01:09:35):
Gotcha, how about you tim? Any thoughts on the whole
baseball sequence?

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
Oh yeah, I mean, there's a lot of good stuff
going on, even outside of just watching Leslie Nielsen. There's
so many side gags. These guys did some serious research
and this stuff. We get to watch the Angel vision
where San Diego Padres announcer Jerry Coleman basically he says,
we Fie goes back to the wall, he hits his
head on the wall and it rolls off. It's rolling
back to second base. It's a terrible thing for the Padres.

(01:10:01):
And that's where that stems from. So that was a
real statement that one of the announcers made, and they
just took it, added video and then made it look
like the actual head came off, So I thought that
was really clever. Like when they're all fighting, if you
look at the baseball players, you know, when they're on
the heap, if you're not just paying attention to what
Lessie Nielson is doing, there is some crazy stuff going
on it. We see the dummy coming out, but there's
one guy who's just constantly knocking another one in the US.

(01:10:23):
He's like just wailing on his nuts. One of the
things that threw me off, and I couldn't quite figure
it out. And I'll ask you guys, the finger in
the hot dog? Did that throw anybody? No?

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
Because if you notice the hot dog vendor, it's the
same hot dog from the stockyard because the big tank
ye had the name of that hot dog company. So
that finger was the henchman that was shooting Frank.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
It's the same ring. Yeah, when you see that hand
coming down and then it goes in, there's a ring
on it. And then when he pulls that finger out,
the finger still got the ring on it and the
hot dog. So it took me a while to figure
that out and put that connection together. Originally I thought
it was just some kind of like offhand hack on
hot dogs as a whole, but I'm like, oh, oh,
that makes so much more sense. It's the guy that

(01:11:04):
fell in the vat. There's just little things like that
that just make this whole scene so good, And probably
the last one that I didn't get and I had
to actually look it up as to why do you
notice that at the end, you know, Frank's wearing the
Umpire garb and it looks deflated. Did you notice, like
all of a sudden it looked weird, like it looked
like it was a little baggy. Yeah. I didn't understand that,

(01:11:26):
And I guess there is a deleted scene where Vincent
Lugwick shoots at Dreben and it hits the Umpire's gear
and it deflatsh Okay. They were scared that people would
think that Umpire's gear was the equivalent of bullet proof vests,
and there were that people died because of that, so
they took it out in fear that people would stupidly

(01:11:47):
try to fuller.

Speaker 6 (01:11:48):
I thought it was this off beeat gag where it
was displeating as a balloom.

Speaker 7 (01:11:53):
There are people that's stupid.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true.

Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
I mean, there are some people that wear hockey pads
to fight.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
Yes, yes, clearly yes.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Or people that can't handle drinking their mcdonald' coffee without
scolding themselves to death. So you know, yeah, there's all
kinds of stupid out there.

Speaker 7 (01:12:09):
Another just great sequence.

Speaker 5 (01:12:11):
Yes, yeah, the.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
Thing that really throws us over the edge won't happen
until Leslie Nielsen's death. In twenty ten, ESPN published an
obituary for Enrico Palazo, writing a true renaissance man, a
Rico Plazo umpired the game after performing the national anthem.
Palazzo was the first and only umpire to eject another
umpire from a major league game. He is awesome, believed

(01:12:34):
to be the first and only umpire to use an
upright vacuum cleaner to tidy up home plate. So I
thought that was really a nice send off to Leslie Nielson.

Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
Nice, nice, Okay, Andrea is what's your thoughts on Enrico
Palazo's umpiring of the game.

Speaker 4 (01:12:52):
Oh my god, fantastic.

Speaker 6 (01:12:54):
The gas is so funny, him just making all the
stupid mistakes of what empires should never do. Yeah, we
haven't speak about the Queen. The Queen of England comes
to our city, see if basement.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
She really did the years later she came and watched
the baseball game.

Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
That's the thing.

Speaker 6 (01:13:10):
It's just so weird as a police plot and poor
Ricardo Bond being roll over. That's the third time that
we had that. In nineteen eight we did that with
who Framed? Watch a Rappit with Christopher Lloyd and then
Fish Kowana where Kevin Klein gets crushed and oh my god,
poor Ed when you say to his dad died like that.
But yeah, yeah, I love this section best finale ever,

(01:13:32):
Just love it. And I love that they brought back
the song from the Manchas that was like kiss for
every way to enit this movie.

Speaker 5 (01:13:39):
Nice. Well, let's get everyone's last thoughts before we segue
to the death clock. Joey, what's your final thoughts on
the way this movie ended?

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Again, it's all about the gags. I like the villains
send off itself is a gag, and I do like
a fake dummy. So when we got to see the
stunt Ricardo Montabond with the wig manhandling the dummy for
Cilla Pressley going up into the stands, that's a fond
memory of mine and it's sweet, like you actually got
to see a touching scene and hear uh Frank give

(01:14:09):
a monologue that's moving, and then you see it move
the baseball players and they slowly stop punching each other. Actually,
it's a sweet ending to a fucking ridiculous movie. And
I really liked it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:22):
You know, same here. It is a nice poignant end
of the movie. What about you, Tim, would you think
of the end of the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
I love the end. We know the bad guy is
gonna get his but they just take it to a
whole nother level. Again, It's okay, what's the most ridiculous
way we can have him die? Well, let's have him
like fall over the edge and then they just keep
throwing on top of this. Let's have, for no apparent reason,
the steamroller just come along and roll over the top

(01:14:48):
of them. And then let's have a marching band march
on top of them. And then to have him go,
oh my god, it's such a horrible way to go,
just like my father. You know, it's just, oh my god.
I just took it that one step further than they
needed to, and it's still paid off. It was just
a great way to watch the villain get his So

(01:15:08):
I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:10):
How about you, Cyber, what was your final thoughts in
the movie?

Speaker 6 (01:15:14):
Absolutely fantastic ending it was really well done, Just like
everyone's kind of mentioned that the villain is absolutely priceless fantastic,
I mean over the board crazy, which that's what makes
a Zucker Brothers movie. He's so fantastic. And what makes
the Naked Gun so good is that they're so over
the top that you can't help but laugh because they're

(01:15:35):
just so much fun. And the fact that you know
they have them steamrolled, have the marching band walk over
and all this kind of stuff just super funny. Like
what better way to kill a villain than to have
multiple things kill the villain. It's super funny. And kind
of going back to what Andres was saying before about
Queen Elizabeth character. Now, I don't know if any of
you knew this, but miss Jeanette Charles was the actress

(01:15:59):
that play. She actually did that as a living She
impersonated Queen Elizabeth for seventy years. She actually was a
year younger than Queen Elizabeth herself, and she actually just
passed away last year at the age of ninety six.
So I think that's pretty cool that you're able to
do that for as many years as she did.

Speaker 7 (01:16:18):
But yeah, fantastic.

Speaker 6 (01:16:19):
I mean really enjoyed it just all around, just so
much fun.

Speaker 5 (01:16:23):
Nice, nice, all right, Well then, Andreas, any last thoughts
on the end of the movie before we head into
our death clock.

Speaker 6 (01:16:29):
No, no, so I'll have to say, I'm so so
happy to talk about this movie. Was so funny, one
of the best comedies in the eighties, very influential. As
we discussed a help inspire Batman, it didn't. As a
Batman expert, I'm telling you it did not. Did influence
other comedies. Hell, yes, it did.

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
All right, Well, then, gentlemen, it is time for the
death clock, and I'll turn it over to you first. Joey, Joey,
what do you think is this worth taking an hour
and twenty five minutes off of your death clock to
watch the Name Kid Gun?

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
One hundred percent? I cannot recall how much I enjoyed
the second one, but I'm looking to watch that and
to watch The Police Squad, which actually recycled jokes from
that series into this movie. And I think of a
couple of the others. I don't know if I could
recommend U thirty three to third. I remember being disappointed
at the theaters and thinking was the weakest of the three,

(01:17:22):
but I think it still has probably some good jokes.
But yeah, absolutely, unequivocally one of Leslie Nielsen's best movies.

Speaker 5 (01:17:30):
Alrighty, Tim, what do you say? Is it worth taking
time off your death clock?

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Absolutely? I mean, it's just a fantastic movie, and it
really brought this style of straight laced, chaotic comedy to
the forefront. I know, arguably people will say no airplane
did it, and that's where it sparked. But this movie
got the formula one hundred percent correct. Even though some
of the gags, like the beginning characters with all the

(01:17:59):
dick haters from the eighties that people like Andreas may
not know.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
Yeah, you have to be middle aged or older to
those guys or a history major.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
Absolutely, But nonetheless Andrea's even though he doesn't know who
any of them are, were still able to enjoy it
because he didn't associate it with who the people are,
but he associated with this is a James Bond beginning,
so it didn't matter. The joke still held up, even
though the names are no longer significant to a much
younger generation. So I think that's the way these movies roll,

(01:18:32):
is that they're just timeless and the jokes somehow transcend
even when they shouldn't. So it's a great film, and
you definitely should watch it over and over and over
because you're not going to see everything the first time
or the second or the third. So again, get your
remote control and have a great time with it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
All right, Cyber, would you say this movie is worth
taking time off your death clock?

Speaker 6 (01:18:54):
Most certainly, this movie is absolutely worth time off your
deafloth especially at an hour and twenty five minutes. That's
like watching an episode of a TV show today. This
movie puts so much more into it and that an
hour and twenty five minutes than you know those shows do. So,
I mean, it's really impressive how amazing this film is.

(01:19:14):
Even forty years later, it still stands the test of time.
So I would highly recommend, just like Tim said, watch it,
watch it several times, get that pause button out, definitely
rewatch it several times because it is just a wonderful
film and every single time you watch it, you're going
to see something new that you didn't see before.

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
Well, I am going to ask Andreas. In just a moment,
I just want to let everyone know that I agree
so far with everybody. Yes, this is worth taking time
off your death clock. There's not much more I could
say that hasn't been said by our three other panelists.
So then that'll leave me or two. Andreas. I'm saving
the best for last, buddy, what do you say? Do
you agree with all four of us that this movie's

(01:19:52):
worth taking time off your death clock?

Speaker 4 (01:19:54):
Hell?

Speaker 6 (01:19:55):
Yes, it was worth the death clock, folks. I mean, look,
Naked gunn is the thing that legitimized the host book
comedy completely.

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
I'm so happy I see this.

Speaker 6 (01:20:04):
This is a special movie, you know, one that I
remember for my dad. Loved the jokes, everything worked. It
was a well solid, structured comedy that I totally miss
now today, you know, we barely have comedy movies. They
are in theaters like this, so totally worked for.

Speaker 5 (01:20:20):
Diff clack all righty, well, thank you Andrea. So there
we go, folks. Five yes is straight across the board
for The Naked Gun. I had a feeling it was
going to go this way. All right, gentlemen, now that
we've watched The Naked Gun, we've reviewed it, just real quickly,
what are you watching? What do you want to share? Cyber?
What are you watching out there?

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
So?

Speaker 6 (01:20:41):
As usual over on the MC's Beenning Edge, we've been
doing The Last of Us and and Or So those
are two recent shows we've been watching quite consistently to
review them on the Mc'spenning Edge. I most recently went
and saw a few different films in theaters recently. I
once saw the out in two Thunderbolts and Sinners, two

(01:21:03):
of them fantastic films, one overrated which.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
One was overrated Sinners, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
Trying to get to a whole bunch of newer films
as as soon as I can so I can review
them for those wonderful folks out there and YouTube land.
I was recently watching Papa's House, which was a great
sitcom that got canceled after one season, with Damian Wayne's
which is two bad because it was such a great show.
So yeah, that's but I've been.

Speaker 5 (01:21:27):
Watching fantastic all right, Chillie, how about you? You haven't
been here in a while. We we've kind of missed you.
What have you been watching along? Other than The Naked
Gun a lot?

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
I finished up Righteous Gemstones. I would have loved another
season or two, agreed, but they they cut a short
suite at four and it was amazing. Walton Goggins really
came out to the forefront in the final season. Not
many people peak and start becoming a household name in
their fifties, but Walton Goggins is taking the world by

(01:21:59):
storm with this show.

Speaker 5 (01:22:02):
He's like the next time he Lee Jones.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
Yeah, I think they're very different, but you're not wrong,
Tommy Lee Jones.

Speaker 5 (01:22:08):
Definitely he peaked later in his life.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
He definitely did rise up later in his years, and
Walton Goggins is following that format. He's gonna be back
for more of the video game adaptation Fallout. He was
this star unequivocally like of the White Lotus the season
three and I can't wait to see the next thing
that he's gonna do.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
You gotta watch him and Justified in the Shield. He
was excellent in both of those.

Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
Now that I'm a Walton Goggins fan, I'm gonna have
to go back and finally watch those shows.

Speaker 5 (01:22:41):
All right. Well, speaking of Walter Goggins fans, Tim what
else are you watching?

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
I actually started to do TV SERIESES one with my son.
He's back from school. So we started an anime series
called Devil May Cry. It's about a half demon highbred
that's actually demon hunter and doesn't know it, and he
gets involved with a super secret government entity that knows
that demons exist and are trying to prevent a rift

(01:23:09):
that allows creatures that come over from like another dimension
which we call Hell, into our realm. And right now
only small ones can come, but if they are able,
they're going to open a large rift and all the
big batties will come over from Hell and basically plunge
our world into utter chaos. It's pretty good so far.

(01:23:29):
We're a few episodes in. I'm enjoying it thoroughly. And
then my wife and I started a new TV series
which is an old TV series, new to us, old
to the world, Jeremiah, which has Luke Perry in it
as Jeremiah Malcolm Jamal Warner as Curtie. I think it
originally might have been on HBO back in the day.

(01:23:51):
I just remembered seeing it and always wanting to watch it,
never did. It is also created by Jay Michael Strazinski,
which is you know as well know, the guy who
brought us Babble on five so I'm only about two
episodes in and I don't know. I haven't been a
call on it yet whether it's a good series or
a bad series. So I'll keep you posted.

Speaker 5 (01:24:11):
I'm curious to hear what you have to say. Like
I didn't get past episode I think three or four,
because I want to say it was on sci fi
back in the day, and he just lost interest. I
kind of lost interest. I was a big Babylon five
fan and I really liked Murder. She wrote, So you know,
those were just two J. Michael Straczinski projects, and I figured, hey,
you know what, you can't go wrong with it. And
then I read a little comic book series called spider

(01:24:33):
Man that he did, and I was like, yeah, I've
lost all love for J. Michael Straczynski. All right, Andreas,
can you tell us what have you been watching lately?

Speaker 4 (01:24:42):
Save here?

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
You know, as a saber brought up before, I've been
mostly watching the shows I've been doing for mcu lean.
It for me, it's three shows, which is crazy, watching
Dead City that's the spin off from Milwaukee Dead. This
City is the show where Nigan and Maggie are the
focused characters right now. Me Jeff for like, just shoot

(01:25:04):
us boring season right now. The last episode we review
is just like, oh crap. Then of course Last of
Us in the Indoor, so far good?

Speaker 7 (01:25:14):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:25:14):
He said, the Last of Us is going to end
next week, so I'm very curious how we're going to
end the season. No, listen to cyber folks. It's not
that bad, but you know, it's not as good as
first season.

Speaker 4 (01:25:25):
But whatever.

Speaker 6 (01:25:27):
Indoors doing good. You know, I love Endor. You guys
love Indoor. It takes a while to get into the season,
but it's really kicking in gear.

Speaker 4 (01:25:34):
So that's good.

Speaker 5 (01:25:36):
All right. Well for my recommendation for what you're watching.
I ended up going down the Netflix rabbit hole real
quick and I came across a film called Havoc, starring
Tom Hardy and Justified's Tim Oliphant. This is a movie
about a bad cop trying to make a better life
after a drug deal gone wrong. A bruised detective must

(01:25:57):
fight his way through the criminal underworld to rescue a
palt strange son, unraveling a deep web of corruption and
conspiracy that ensnares his entire city. It is probably one
of the bloodiest movies I've seen on Netflix. It's your
atypical Tom Hardy playing a kind of a crooked cop
and he's just wearing a bulletproof vest and he manages

(01:26:19):
to shoot up an entire Chinese mafia and survive. It's
shut your brain off, pop your popcorn, sit down, watch
the movie. It's violent, it's bloody, it's probably a pointless story,
but you're rooting for the bad guy, you're rooting for
the good guy, and it's just it's a fun watch.

(01:26:39):
So I recommend it to anyone who has Netflix. If
you want to check out something just kind of like
crazy and out there, check out Havoc starring Tom Hardy.
Well that ends our bat night, So Tim, you want
to take this bat bus home?

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
Sure. Thanks for listening to the Middle Aged Movies podcast.
We hope you've enjoined our review of The Naked Gun
from the Files of Police Squad. We hope that you
found it interesting or at least as interesting as the
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(01:27:16):
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Speaker 5 (01:27:20):
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Podcast at gmail dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
I'd like to wish a very happy eightieth birthday to
Priscilla Presley, the last woman standing of the cast of
The Naked Gun. We were recording this two days before
her eightieth birthday on May twenty fourth, twenty twenty five.
She was born in nineteen forty five. Happy birthday, Priscilla.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Great job

Speaker 4 (01:28:00):
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