January 25, 2023 • 36 mins
Chris, Mike, and Mark get a little confused by the timeline with this the third episode produced, but fifth episode aired (months after the first four episodes were shown) "Rendezvous at Big Gulch," aka, "Terror in the Neighborhood." Special Guest Star Florence Henderson shills cooking oil amid a hail of bullets and Nordberg is finally introduced. The sight gags are never-ending and we get one of Frank Drebin's greatest deadpan line deliveries in the whole of the Police Squad opus.
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Well lease que in Color, starringLeslie Nielson, also starring Allan North and
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Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln. Thenight's special guest star Lawrence Henderson the night's
episode Terror in the Neighborhood. Welcometo from the files of Police Squad in
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Color. I'm your host, MikeWhite. Joining me, of course is
mister Christashew because zoom tight and withus, of course is mister Mark Begley.
More than anything, Schnookie lumps onthis episode. We are talking about
the third episode of Police Squad Rendezvousat Big Gulch, which was aired July
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first, nineteen eighty two, severalmonths after the fourth and fifth episode aired,
even after the not before the sixthThis one, yeah, it feels
confusing. It's like Christopher Nolan released, Oh is that what this is?
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What this is? Like? Sure? Yeah, well, this storyline takes
place over a month, and thisone's over a week, and this one's
over a day. Good luck figuringout fuck you burned him all the way
to the ground. You know,I was watching this episode this afternoon.
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I was watching with my folks andthey were like, well, I can
see why this show didn't last.Yeah, ran about six episodes. They
really didn't have any faith in thisshow, did they. No, shockingly
little faith it was given to thisshow, which I don't understand because even
though this episode is kind of morethe same of the literalism, it's still
really funny. It's pretty darn funny, and there's a lot of good jokes
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in here, and this one isone of those that again I just I
remember it clear's day, the wholething with the locksmith, and of course
one of the greatest lines of alltimes, who are you and how'd you
get in here? I'm a locksmithand I'm a locksmith? Delivered perfectly in
this good That's one of the greatstraight man lines of his. It's delivered
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brilliantly. The beat between that I'ma and I'm a is just perfect.
I had a fun time watching thisone, No, it was great.
And yeah, introduction of Norberg asa character, which is fantastic. I
was so glad to see Robert Costanzoand John Ashton and here is Leo and
Rocky barely recognized John Ashton at first. This is like pre Beverly Hills cop.
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He's still got the long hair andstuff, but he plays a heavy
really well, I mean Robert Costanzo. He just he's made a living off
of playing mobsters. A huge fanof John Ashton from his time. And
Meet the Deedles, the Paul Walker, Steve Warmer Bill and Ted Knockoff from
the nineties and that a great that'sa deep pull. That's a movie.
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You haven't even seen him, right, that's right. I don't even know
if Father Malone's seen that movie.No, I don't know. Mark Begley,
have you seen that one? No? I thought you were gonna say,
Meet the Feebles actually one of JohnAshton's lesser role. It's hard to
picture him without his mustache, right, Yeah, And in that movie he
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plays the head park ranger at Yellowstone. Can't you just see him dressed up
like that? Like in every everythingelse I've seen him, And he plays
such a good hard ass, andit's interesting to see him here as a
goon. He's very much a goon. Yeah. So the plot of this
one, as it were, isthat there are mobsters who are shaking down
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various business owners in whatever city weare in. Yeah, there was a
picture of a map. I didn'ttake note of it. I can't remember
if it's this one or the nextone where you've got the Eiffel Tower outside.
I think it might be this one. It's one yeah, yeah,
when he's talking with the dance teacher, one of the first victims of being
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shaken down. Great great joke hereof the dance teacher telling the little girls
do what I do. Follow me, and then when she's getting beaten up,
you cut to the little girls andthey're doing the reactions of the motion
getting beat up. It's so good, So Frank and Norberg have to go
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undercover as Locksmith's not Oxsmith's A.That's a great one. Well. The
and the Keister one is another good. Yes, those were the things that
were keeping me going on this one. I'm like, okay, there's some
nameplay, but these dad jokes areworking for me, my little Keister.
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The one that got me the mostis when they're passing the paper back and
forth and it's like you have tohave the paper before so that you can
say the next line. It's almostlike the lines are on the paper.
I really like that when he says, uh, oh, she's looking pretty
rough. Frank after the dancing teacher'sbeen beaten up, and he goes over
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and there's Quasimodos sing there not thatbad, Frank, excuse me, ma'am.
Similarly to the last episode, theytake a lot of it literal again,
it's a lot of literalism. Again, I think it works for the
most part. I don't know.I'm feeling like, having you watched three
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episodes of the show now, Ithink I can tell when they're going to
have the joke. Right, it'slike da da, and that's the joke,
and then they cut away or thensomebody it's like, all right,
I appreciate that. I think thejokes that work for me in this episode
are less of the literalism jokes andmore of the word play and the sight
gags. Because the sight gag withthe keys does work every time they do
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it, yeah, which I wouldthink it would stop working after a while,
probably the third time, because Ithink they do it three times at
least that's the comedy rule. Yeah, it works for me, but it's
like the literalism is a little much. Put a tail on her. Yeah
you know where that's going as soonas he says it, but you don't
actually get to see her with thetail on. Correct, that's true?
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Yeah, Okay, you just theydon't follow through right right. This one
was written by a writing team ofNancy Steen and Neil Thompson, and they
worked a lot together on things likenight Court, and I can't remember if
she worked on they were together onnight Court, she worked on things like
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More Commendy. She worked also onHot Shots Pardieu. She actually has more
writing credits than her partner, Ithink. And then he was more about
night Court, but this is oneof their early stuff. And then Pat
Proft is also on here, andPat Proft has done a ton of stuff.
I tried to speak with him afew months ago about Real Genius.
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So he had his own writing partner, Neil Israel, but this one is
Proft on his own. I thinkit works for the most part. I
mean, we're kind of just goingthrough all of the generic setups for a
cop show. I mean, butthat's I mean the cop show that it's
parting. It was a lot ofthese kinds of you know, go undercover,
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go fix up your stop a fightfrom being fixed, like we was
on the last episode. It's drawingon the actual cases from the show.
For the most part, it works. I don't know. It is hard
to really comment on whether or notthe show would have worked, because in
a lot of ways, the showkind of doesn't work. I don't know
if that makes sense to you,guys. It like it works almost in
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spite of itself in a lot ofways, Like this kind of show should
not have worked as well as itdoes. I don't think. And again
I think our opinion on how wellit worked is going to vary from episode
to episode. But this is ahard show to maintain the energy for six
episodes. It really is, andit does show. I mean, there
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are parts of this where it doeskind of just plod along a little.
They're exhausting to watch in a waybecause yea, and maybe it's because I'm
watching them for this so trying tospot every gag you have to hit pause
or you're going to miss the nextone, so scribble down your note.
But even when I watched them acouple last year or something, it is
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exhausting to have joke upon joke uponjoke, and it makes me think at
some point it's gonna wear really thinon the audience and they're either going to
have to cut that down and gomore plot wise, which probably wouldn't have
served the show much better. Iknow that everybody bemoans the fact that it
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only lasted six episodes, but ifit had been say a thirteen episode season,
or god forbid, a twenty twoepisode, there's no way you would
have lasted beyond one season either way, six thirteen, twenty two, whichever,
There's no way to maintain this levelof jokes. It's tough to watch
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two back to back sometimes. Youknow, you're talking fifty minutes of just
at least fifty jokes, at leastfifty jokes in those fifty minutes, if
not more. If it's Brian,it's rough work. I would this is
tough people. Come on, youthink while we do is just talk about
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pop culture. I mean, wedid talk a little bit on the last
episode about why the show got canceledbecause they were like, well, you
know, the audience has to payattention the entire time, and I get
it. I mean, I getthat sentiment. Yeah, I don't know.
It is a very funny show,but it is, like you said,
it is kind of exhausting to watch. And like you said, the
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plots themselves, which are just thereto have a show, are so incredibly
basic. Going undercover in a locksmith'sshop, I enjoyed all the stuff in
the locksmith shop. I really likedthat Norberg was so into his job there.
So good. Yes, which isgot a big order on dead books,
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filing and using all the keys.Okay, this is a tangent,
but I've read this before when Iwatched it in the past. Supposedly that
old guy that he's helping is BillyWilder. He looks like Billy Wilder.
Yeah, but when he pulls hishat off, he has too much hair.
Is that really because he was prettymuch bald on top from my memory
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of seeing pictures of him. Yeah, so I don't know. Again,
it's IMDb, so he's similar looking, but I don't know. It cannot
be trusted. Yeah. I lovethe sign, the stack of them in
the back, the keys, andthen the Francis Scott keys, and the
turkeys and the honkeys one and thenlater on you see a little bit whiter
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shot and there's a pot roast afterthe turkeys, and the continually raining stream
of keys that the ceiling closes thedoor something those keys boom. It's a
funny gag. It ends up reallyworking. I like when they get shot
at and then they duck when theRock comes through the Window Rock. The
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subversiveness of the show, I thinkis what really works. And obviously Leslie
Nielsen's performance, he's just such agood straight man. Is straight man as
the lead obviously, which is apulling double duty. That's not easy.
Yeah, the straight man normally isnot the lead. He just happens to
be the straight man and the lead. It plays it so well that that
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is the reason I am such afan of this TV show and those movies.
He's because of Leslie Nielsen and almostI mean, the jokes are funny,
but it's Leslie Nielsen's performance. Imean, he is Frank Drebin.
Even if I know Leslie Nielsen wasdrastically different from that character, I can
only imagine him really is Frank Drebineven an airplane, Like he's playing a
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different character, but I might aswell be Frank Drebban proto Frank Dreban in
a lot of ways. There's oneshot it might be in the next episode
where he really kind of starts toa little bit and I was like,
oh, that's the thing from NakedGun that I didn't like, where he
does a double take type of thing, and I'm just like no, no
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double takes. You have to takethis all one seriously. One thing I
didn't talk about in the last episodeis the whole thing about because you kind
of get a little bit of thishere. The whole thing about when he
was living with another man and howeveryone in the neighborhood was talking about it,
and how he went off and gotmarried and sure you met her and
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didn't really see the value in her, and you kind of start to get
that a little bit with this wholeschnookie Lump's discussion when he starts to really
talk about how what Dutch is it, how it felt for her to be
crushed up against his manhood and allthis stuff, And I'm like, that
works so well for him to beso gay about things sometimes. Yeah,
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I was wondering if we're going tosee that come back after that his bit
in the apartment in that first episode, I believe where he's talking about his
roommate, it just keeps talking aboutit. I mean, that is the
thing about this show that would behard to understand if you didn't watch the
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episodes before. I don't know,it's weird because it's like effectively becomes like
an in joke, right well,it's one of those through lines like the
cigarette gag. Yeah, that hasappeared in all four episodes, I believe,
or mister Olsen right this time it'she's talking to the little girl about
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static electricity, like when your momtakes a dress out of the dryer and
the way that it clings to herclings to every curl. Yeah, and
bringing those magazines you found under yourfather's bed. Oh so good. We
have a repeat of the is itin this one or is it in the
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next one, where instead of Frankleaning over to talking to the intercom,
oh yes, Hawking does And Ithought, oh, they're going to do
something different, but no, it'sthe same same gag talking to the dwarf.
Yeah, but I mean, arepeople going to remember, you know,
we're talking early eighties here, Peopleare going to remember that that was
a joke from the first episode.Is it a callback or is it just
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you know, let's just kind ofrecycle stuff. I was expecting something different
this time because we've done that joke, and yes, we've done the cigarette
gag every time, but you know, is that the point of that to
have it in every single episode?I'm assuming it's going to be an All
six and maybe it would have beenan All thirteen or twenty two. I
don't know. Chris and I wetalked a lot about this when we were
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watching Cole Chack and when we werewatching stuff back to back to back and
like looking for themes and looking foryou know, the mythology and all this
kind of stuff, and it's justlike, this is ten years after coal
Check, but it still is thiswhole question of what would this have been
like? And we got to seethis, you know, Mark and I
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the first time around on television,and I mean even now watching it off
of DVD, it's like, well, what would this be like with the
commercials back? You know, howwould those pauses in between the acts?
How would that affect me? Andhow would it also affect me? You
know, a week or maybe evena month between episodes, because they fucked
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around with the time line on thisthing. How would that be if I
see one in March and then thenext time I don't see it as until
July? Am I able to know? Oh, they just use that gag,
you know, even like from acommercial break. It's like we're talking
about you can't keep that up,And it's like, well, would commercials
add to that, would they actuallylike give you a little bit of a
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breather, you know, let youhave that pause in between all of this
these jokes, or would this justplay better as a movie. I mean,
now we're gonna reevaluate naked gun andbe like, oh no, this
actually worked very well. I meanfor me, it was just like I've
seen all these gags before. ButI'm curious as far as like other people
when they saw that who weren't familiarwith Police Squad, did they just think
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that these were all brand new gagsand did they find it infinitely more funny
than I did. It's kind oflike another show that has this kind of
weird pre show existence. Ted Lassohad a whole YouTube like commercial NBC Sports
thing where he was the character,and they have a lot of the gags
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from those in that first episode ofthe show. And I didn't know that
the first time I watched it,and I saw it after the fact that
they were funny, But now inhindsight, it's like that's a kind of
lazy. It makes sense, that'swhat they initially got everybody's attention with,
so why not include it. Theydid it kind of reverse here, it's
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the show then the movies as awell. I guess you know, whatever
value were you want to look atit now, it's going to make me
question the jokes when they use themin the movies. Right, they're funny.
I can already see the gags thatshow up again when they show up
in the movies. I think they'redone better in the movies. I think
they do a good job in themovies of picking the stuff that does work
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from the show. But it's surprisingthe cigarette gags not in the movies.
It's not that I can remember.It's definitely not in the first one.
I will be looking for it forsure. Remember there's no Johnny in the
movies either. Ted the guy inthe lab, he's in like one scene
and it's completely different. He's nota creep at all. He's just I
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don't know, it's kind of adick. They do change the formula a
little bit. I think they changeit to maybe make a little bit more
palatable for the screen. Some ofthe jokes are kept in there completely,
like the you've got something on yourface is one for one, no other
side, it's one for one.What's funny is if you look at that
gag in the second third episode,second and third episodes. That gag hasn't
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really worked as well since they didit the first time, because they've done
kind of riffs on it and ithasn't worked as well. Is it in
this one where he has the longhair? It's the next one and this
one he runs into he had runinto a fire sprinkler, right, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what happened to your fire sprinkler?
Yeah? Get it? I getit well? And who do we
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have Johnny talking to this time?Speaking of recurring gags, this one is
a fireman. Yeah about polyvinyl.It is just surprising that that gag is
left in the show and it doesn'tmake its way into the movie. Is
that guy dead? Maybe? No? Still around? I think I don't
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think he's around now. He's nolonger with us. Or he was probably
thirty five when they shot this.Yeah he was twenty three. Oh he
was ninety nine. Yeah, hedied in twenty eleven. Yeah that off
the top of your hit. No, that's the internet. Oh what Yeah?
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I know you probably thought I knewit, but I did. One
of the last roles that he wasin was old concession worker and how to
lose a guy in ten days.Wow, go from Johnny in the Naked
Gun to concession stand worker. Sohe would have been sixty at the time
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of Police Squad Wow. Oh shit. Oh he actually looked pretty darn good
then, yeah, sh so.And he definitely was working when the Naked
Gun movies were made. Yeah,that was around the time that he was
in Alvira. Mistress of the Darkwas one of the first ones of those.
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It's kind of surprising, Like,I know, we talked about why
we thought it didn't work because it'skind of like a totally out of like
place time wise, but see,I don't know. Yeah, we'll have
to see what other sort of outof time references there are in the movies.
I mean, I know they doreally try to upgrade them to be
current day, you know, especiallyI can't remember. Well, yeah,
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they've got obviously Queen Elizabeth. Thesecond I don't think they start getting into
like the Saddam Hussein's stuff in untilthat's the hot shots they have they have
i Atola oh wow. Yeah,they have Iatola Kadafi Edi Amine and like
the first scene of Naked Gun.Wow. Yeah, yeah, that's weird.
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It's very weird where the show isright now. It is a cop
show. The movie is not.The movie is sick. It feels so
like imagining in my mind where we'regoing to get to totally with the movie.
I mean, the show is parrotingat leastys. This episode is parting
James Bond. Yeah, yeah,I did really appreciate that with the cat
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and then when he ducks down intoframe. That was really funny. That's
a good visual gag. Felt alittle bad for Florence Henderson. She doesn't
get to do a whole lot beforeshe's shot in the credit sequence. I
was really hoping for a little more. I want to say that there's some
Wesson cooking oil on the counter whereshe's at. Yeah, there's a big
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jug of oil. This is likethe coffee commercial, Chris. She was
spokesperson for Weston Oil. Yeah,I saw those ads constantly. Oil need
I don't understand why you would needa spokesperson for oil tangent here, What
the fuck do you need to beconvinced to buy oil for? Well,
if you cook food brand, youknow, it's like um syrup. You
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know everybody right syrup. Everybody's gonnause syrup, but you have to use
ant Semima. All oils created equally. And it's called old Mill now,
sir, oh, oh my head. I think it's Antimima's old Mill.
And Uncle Ben, what the fuckis Uncle Ben? Now? I saw
it at the store. It's likeBen's choice or Ben. Yeah, have
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you've seen it? Bagley, It'slike it's it's I know it got changed,
but I don't know, but it'schoice or something. Yeah, So
why does Wesson need Why do youneed an advertisement for oil? I just
I'm just asking. I'm just askingquestions. Nibisco needs to make that money.
Man. Until then, they justcook things with water. Yeah,
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yeah, I'm gonna boil my foodand oil. That's what we called deep
frying fried. Oh can you imaginethat? Just cooking fried chicken and water,
reading and battering fried chicken and puttingit in boiling water. What a
fucking quick kind of kind of crimeagainst humanity? Is that? Jesus Christ?
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When I saw the thing with LaurenceHenderson, she shows up in the
third movie towards the end, So, right, is she cooking with Weston
oil in the movie? No,she's I want to say she's like that
wouldn't be too dated by then.Yeah, she's at the end of the
third movie. Third movie has todo with like blowing up the Academy Awards,
So there's a bunch of cameos atright, the Academy at the end,
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and I think she's one of them. It's yeah, well, she's
of that celebrity type, like weirdAl Yankovic, even to the point where
he used her in the Amish Paradisevideo. Right, she just has that
cachet as like Missus Brady, andshe's supposed to be so squeaky clean.
So when she shows up in otherthings like that, it's like just kind
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of funny that she's such a almostlike a zealist celebrity, but she's not.
You know, she's pretty darn talentedand she really knows how to play
with that image, and you knowit shows up in funny things and is
able to take the joke. Imean, it's essentially the Barbara Billingsley joke
from Airplane, isn't it. Yeah? Oh yeah, well I speak job.
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It's like it's double funny because it'sa white woman saying it, but
also it's the Beaver's mom Yeah,it's the Beaves. Mom. I like
how they were trying to get allof the other Leave It to Beaver actors
to be in their projects. Ithink they said they got stood up by
Eddie Haskell as you do Yeah,Tony Doao is in Kentucky Fried movie.
I believe. Oh really, Ithink so. And I think he's playing
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his the Beaver. Well he wasthe brother. What was the brother's name,
Oh, Wally, Wally. Yeah, I think he's playing Wally in
that. Okay, it's been awhile since I watched it. I gotta
look it up. Yeah, it'sbeen a while. The last time I
watched it. I just watched itfor a Fistful of Chopsticks. Kol Schoolgirls
in Trouble. Oh, I watchit for Catholic school girls in trouble.
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I watch it also for Big JimSlade. Oh yeah, that's good.
It's a fucking funny movie. Yeah. What did you guys think of the
freeze frame at the end? Thisone was which again, watch a coffee
Coffee which sort of repeats it's alittle bit of in the next one,
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Yeah, a little bit. Thisis the pouring of the coffee though this
time correct. Yeah, which isthe funnier of the two, I think.
And yes, it is Tony Dowas Wally in the courtroom segment.
Also Forrest Jay Ackerman was a juristin that segment. I did not know
that. There's a lot of peoplein that. I'm always surprised when I
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look at the list. There's actualactors in that. Bill Bixby and a
whole bunch of people. And I'msorry it was a fistful of yen.
For some reason, I always thinkit's fistful of chopsticks. I don't know.
That might be a better title ofchopsticks. How many can you hold?
Well, I mean yen versus dollars, I suppose, but yeah,
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right, yeah, I guess Ididn't seek him so good in that.
And then yeah, it's Jack Bakeras the guy who's listening to the sex
record with Big Jim Slade. JackBaker who was Sticks in Happy Days and
also went into pornography and was amazingin new wave hookers. Well, there
you go, six degrees of separation. Yes, yes, I will mention
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a fistful of Gioza would be apretty good title for a movie. But
it's just about a guy who walksaround handing people. Gioza on the street
from his face wild. I don'tknow. I like Kioza. I mean
I like Yosa too. Gils ispretty good. One of my other favorite
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gags is during the fight at theend, when it's like, look out,
he's got a knife, look Out, he's got a club. Look
Out, he's got a sign Picasso, and when he looks totally normal,
and then there's that weird cut wherehe suddenly has all the makeup on to
make him look like he's been inhis fight, and then they cut again
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and it's all gone. I loveit when the stuff disappears from scene to
scene. That's one of their rules, you know, like don't don't drag
it on too long. It doesn'tit doesn't matter if it doesn't show up
in the next scene. Screw continuityexactly. Well, you mentioned Norberg's introduction
in this, and it goes tothat out of order thing because he is
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sort of properly introduced here as oneof the undercover detectives, and that's why
he's in on this now. Sowhen you watch the next episode and he's
already there, and then I'm curiousto watch the one that was actually produced
fifth, right, it's not sojarring, like they don't stop and say,
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hey, here's new Norberg, newto the crew or whatever. It's
just like, oh, he's here. He would have been there either way,
in whatever order you watched them inand so, but I had just
strucking a that, like, oh, yes, they actually do kind of
introduce him in this and either waythis was you know, he hadn't been
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in the first two episodes. Andthat's why I think last time I mentioned
that, you know, it seemslike he's sort of the cousin or the
orphaned child that comes in to addsome spice to the show. Even though
there were only three episodes in.We need somebody other than two straight men
to flesh this out. Speaking tothe Brady Bunch, who was a little
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cousin, Yeah, Oliver, he'sthe cousin Oliver Police Club. I didn't
realize what a career Peter Lupus hadhad before this, and he kind of
fits into this whole never playing comedybefore type of thing, like I mean,
yeah, he was in the RedSkelton Show, these kind of things.
He was in Challenge of the Gladiator, he played Spartacus, he was
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in Goliath at The Conquest of Damascus, also playing Goliath, he played Hercules.
You know, this guy was builtlike a brickshit house when he was
younger, and then he moves intolike Mission Impossible and it's just like okay.
So he's playing some very serious rolesfor a long time and then he
comes to this and it's I mean, he is a natural, like you
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said, like his joy about beinga locksmith and you know, selling these
locks and telling people about their specialsthat they have. He is so into
it and he hits every single note. The only bad thing that happens in
this is the way that he flincheswhen those gunshots go off. And I
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know that he's supposed to be standingtotally still, but you could definitely see
him flinch and they're like, fuckit, we can't reset all those whibs
no take two. Yeah, it'spretty noticeable. I was like, oh
my gosh, he totally flinched.Yeah, well, he definitely has the
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face in the chin for all thoseroles you mentioned. Oh yeah, that
who was the guy that did Herculeslike in the Fi Thieves. Yeah,
yeah, I only know that becauseof the song Take an old Steve Man.
I swallowed that drink real fast toget back from that one. I'm
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gonna put an image in the chathere, are we seeing the cracks in
the show yet? Oh? Notfor me. I'm very forgiving of the
show though, So you guys mightbe seeing cracks, but I'm I'm all
about this right now. I likedit more when I watched it this morning
than I remember liking it when Iwent through the whole series previously, so
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I was having a good time withespecially all the gags in the Locksmith's Shop
in particular. I think I enjoyedthis much more than the second episode.
So maybe not as much as thefirst, definitely more than the second.
There is still literalism, but notas much and not as much of the
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goofy name play. I was goingto agree. You know, it's funny.
You know, we talked about Norbergand the way he's introduced, and
like it feels a lot like whenJess and I did the Prisoner on the
one season show, where it wasfilmed out of order and so the characters
just kind of introduced and with nofanfare because the character had already been introduced,
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and it's like, wait, holdon, that does kind of stick
out but I agree with you Markand with you Mike, like this show
is still very good, but thisepisode is better than the second one.
Second episode has been the weakest oneso far of the three, and even
of the next one that we watch. I think the one joke that I
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really liked and it sort of getsrepeated, I think in the next episode
or something very similar. When theflousy comes in the setup that Dutch sins
and she's ordering the fifty copies ofher key, send forty nine to the
Chicago Bears, why don't you bringthe other one over if you're paying attention,
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She doesn't say where she lives.So his next line is, it
took me two weeks to find Stella'sapartment because she didn't tell me your address.
And I was like, that's great, because that is something in a
show that they do crap like thatwhere they leave out information and you're just
supposed to assume the person got itsomehow, and they make a point of
it, and I really loved that. And also when he gets there and
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she shoots and there's the target onthe door, which is a gag,
but then when they cut back toit, it's, you know, in
a position where it's been shot.There's the follow up gag to the first
gag, So I liked that wholescenario with her. It's still really tight.
All of these jokes are there fora reason, and for me,
they just play out well. Yeah, I agree, I'm still having fun.
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Yeah, And I think a lotof the stuff in the key shop
is a lot of the best gagsin this episode. A lot of what
I mean, most of the episodetakes place in the keyshop. So there
is that watching Leslie Nielsen when it'slike the door is locked and he just
slams himself backwards into the glass andopens up the keyshop. That's all the
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good jokes in this episode, forthe most part, revolve around something happening
in the key shop or the oxsmith. You know, I'll gonna have
to cough up the money. Thatfor me is where this episode really shines
is anytime there you know it's Frankor Frank and Norberg in the keyshop and
locksmith shop. I like it whenhe's he's taking care of them the goons
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the first time and he blows onhis knuckles. Yes, and the whole
neighborhood is applodding and cheering him on. Why don't just stay in the street
till Tuesday, That's when they pickup the garbage. All right, well,
I would ask what we're all upto? But Chris, why don't
you just tell us what we're allup to these days? Yeah, Chris
talk for all of us, TalkingMonkey. You can find all three of
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tune in next week for another excitingstory from the files of Police Squad.
Well lease que in Color, starringLeslie Nielson, also starring Allan North and
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Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln. Thenight's special guest star Lawrence Henderson the night's
episode Terror in the Neighborhood. Welcometo from the files of Police Squad in
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Color. I'm your host, MikeWhite. Joining me, of course is
mister Christashew because zoom tight and withus, of course is mister Mark Begley.
More than anything, Schnookie lumps onthis episode. We are talking about
the third episode of Police Squad Rendezvousat Big Gulch, which was aired July
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first, nineteen eighty two, severalmonths after the fourth and fifth episode aired,
even after the not before the sixthThis one, yeah, it feels
confusing. It's like Christopher Nolan released, Oh is that what this is?
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What this is? Like? Sure? Yeah, well, this storyline takes
place over a month, and thisone's over a week, and this one's
over a day. Good luck figuringout fuck you burned him all the way
to the ground. You know,I was watching this episode this afternoon.
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I was watching with my folks andthey were like, well, I can
see why this show didn't last.Yeah, ran about six episodes. They
really didn't have any faith in thisshow, did they. No, shockingly
little faith it was given to thisshow, which I don't understand because even
though this episode is kind of morethe same of the literalism, it's still
really funny. It's pretty darn funny, and there's a lot of good jokes
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in here, and this one isone of those that again I just I
remember it clear's day, the wholething with the locksmith, and of course
one of the greatest lines of alltimes, who are you and how'd you
get in here? I'm a locksmithand I'm a locksmith? Delivered perfectly in
this good That's one of the greatstraight man lines of his. It's delivered
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brilliantly. The beat between that I'ma and I'm a is just perfect.
I had a fun time watching thisone, No, it was great.
And yeah, introduction of Norberg asa character, which is fantastic. I
was so glad to see Robert Costanzoand John Ashton and here is Leo and
Rocky barely recognized John Ashton at first. This is like pre Beverly Hills cop.
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He's still got the long hair andstuff, but he plays a heavy
really well, I mean Robert Costanzo. He just he's made a living off
of playing mobsters. A huge fanof John Ashton from his time. And
Meet the Deedles, the Paul Walker, Steve Warmer Bill and Ted Knockoff from
the nineties and that a great that'sa deep pull. That's a movie.
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You haven't even seen him, right, that's right. I don't even know
if Father Malone's seen that movie.No, I don't know. Mark Begley,
have you seen that one? No? I thought you were gonna say,
Meet the Feebles actually one of JohnAshton's lesser role. It's hard to
picture him without his mustache, right, Yeah, And in that movie he
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plays the head park ranger at Yellowstone. Can't you just see him dressed up
like that? Like in every everythingelse I've seen him, And he plays
such a good hard ass, andit's interesting to see him here as a
goon. He's very much a goon. Yeah. So the plot of this
one, as it were, isthat there are mobsters who are shaking down
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various business owners in whatever city weare in. Yeah, there was a
picture of a map. I didn'ttake note of it. I can't remember
if it's this one or the nextone where you've got the Eiffel Tower outside.
I think it might be this one. It's one yeah, yeah,
when he's talking with the dance teacher, one of the first victims of being
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shaken down. Great great joke hereof the dance teacher telling the little girls
do what I do. Follow me, and then when she's getting beaten up,
you cut to the little girls andthey're doing the reactions of the motion
getting beat up. It's so good, So Frank and Norberg have to go
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undercover as Locksmith's not Oxsmith's A.That's a great one. Well. The
and the Keister one is another good. Yes, those were the things that
were keeping me going on this one. I'm like, okay, there's some
nameplay, but these dad jokes areworking for me, my little Keister.
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The one that got me the mostis when they're passing the paper back and
forth and it's like you have tohave the paper before so that you can
say the next line. It's almostlike the lines are on the paper.
I really like that when he says, uh, oh, she's looking pretty
rough. Frank after the dancing teacher'sbeen beaten up, and he goes over
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and there's Quasimodos sing there not thatbad, Frank, excuse me, ma'am.
Similarly to the last episode, theytake a lot of it literal again,
it's a lot of literalism. Again, I think it works for the
most part. I don't know.I'm feeling like, having you watched three
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episodes of the show now, Ithink I can tell when they're going to
have the joke. Right, it'slike da da, and that's the joke,
and then they cut away or thensomebody it's like, all right,
I appreciate that. I think thejokes that work for me in this episode
are less of the literalism jokes andmore of the word play and the sight
gags. Because the sight gag withthe keys does work every time they do
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it, yeah, which I wouldthink it would stop working after a while,
probably the third time, because Ithink they do it three times at
least that's the comedy rule. Yeah, it works for me, but it's
like the literalism is a little much. Put a tail on her. Yeah
you know where that's going as soonas he says it, but you don't
actually get to see her with thetail on. Correct, that's true?
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Yeah, Okay, you just theydon't follow through right right. This one
was written by a writing team ofNancy Steen and Neil Thompson, and they
worked a lot together on things likenight Court, and I can't remember if
she worked on they were together onnight Court, she worked on things like
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More Commendy. She worked also onHot Shots Pardieu. She actually has more
writing credits than her partner, Ithink. And then he was more about
night Court, but this is oneof their early stuff. And then Pat
Proft is also on here, andPat Proft has done a ton of stuff.
I tried to speak with him afew months ago about Real Genius.
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So he had his own writing partner, Neil Israel, but this one is
Proft on his own. I thinkit works for the most part. I
mean, we're kind of just goingthrough all of the generic setups for a
cop show. I mean, butthat's I mean the cop show that it's
parting. It was a lot ofthese kinds of you know, go undercover,
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go fix up your stop a fightfrom being fixed, like we was
on the last episode. It's drawingon the actual cases from the show.
For the most part, it works. I don't know. It is hard
to really comment on whether or notthe show would have worked, because in
a lot of ways, the showkind of doesn't work. I don't know
if that makes sense to you,guys. It like it works almost in
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spite of itself in a lot ofways, Like this kind of show should
not have worked as well as itdoes. I don't think. And again
I think our opinion on how wellit worked is going to vary from episode
to episode. But this is ahard show to maintain the energy for six
episodes. It really is, andit does show. I mean, there
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are parts of this where it doeskind of just plod along a little.
They're exhausting to watch in a waybecause yea, and maybe it's because I'm
watching them for this so trying tospot every gag you have to hit pause
or you're going to miss the nextone, so scribble down your note.
But even when I watched them acouple last year or something, it is
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exhausting to have joke upon joke uponjoke, and it makes me think at
some point it's gonna wear really thinon the audience and they're either going to
have to cut that down and gomore plot wise, which probably wouldn't have
served the show much better. Iknow that everybody bemoans the fact that it
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only lasted six episodes, but ifit had been say a thirteen episode season,
or god forbid, a twenty twoepisode, there's no way you would
have lasted beyond one season either way, six thirteen, twenty two, whichever,
There's no way to maintain this levelof jokes. It's tough to watch
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two back to back sometimes. Youknow, you're talking fifty minutes of just
at least fifty jokes, at leastfifty jokes in those fifty minutes, if
not more. If it's Brian,it's rough work. I would this is
tough people. Come on, youthink while we do is just talk about
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pop culture. I mean, wedid talk a little bit on the last
episode about why the show got canceledbecause they were like, well, you
know, the audience has to payattention the entire time, and I get
it. I mean, I getthat sentiment. Yeah, I don't know.
It is a very funny show,but it is, like you said,
it is kind of exhausting to watch. And like you said, the
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plots themselves, which are just thereto have a show, are so incredibly
basic. Going undercover in a locksmith'sshop, I enjoyed all the stuff in
the locksmith shop. I really likedthat Norberg was so into his job there.
So good. Yes, which isgot a big order on dead books,
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filing and using all the keys.Okay, this is a tangent,
but I've read this before when Iwatched it in the past. Supposedly that
old guy that he's helping is BillyWilder. He looks like Billy Wilder.
Yeah, but when he pulls hishat off, he has too much hair.
Is that really because he was prettymuch bald on top from my memory
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of seeing pictures of him. Yeah, so I don't know. Again,
it's IMDb, so he's similar looking, but I don't know. It cannot
be trusted. Yeah. I lovethe sign, the stack of them in
the back, the keys, andthen the Francis Scott keys, and the
turkeys and the honkeys one and thenlater on you see a little bit whiter
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shot and there's a pot roast afterthe turkeys, and the continually raining stream
of keys that the ceiling closes thedoor something those keys boom. It's a
funny gag. It ends up reallyworking. I like when they get shot
at and then they duck when theRock comes through the Window Rock. The
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subversiveness of the show, I thinkis what really works. And obviously Leslie
Nielsen's performance, he's just such agood straight man. Is straight man as
the lead obviously, which is apulling double duty. That's not easy.
Yeah, the straight man normally isnot the lead. He just happens to
be the straight man and the lead. It plays it so well that that
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is the reason I am such afan of this TV show and those movies.
He's because of Leslie Nielsen and almostI mean, the jokes are funny,
but it's Leslie Nielsen's performance. Imean, he is Frank Drebin.
Even if I know Leslie Nielsen wasdrastically different from that character, I can
only imagine him really is Frank Drebineven an airplane, Like he's playing a
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different character, but I might aswell be Frank Drebban proto Frank Dreban in
a lot of ways. There's oneshot it might be in the next episode
where he really kind of starts toa little bit and I was like,
oh, that's the thing from NakedGun that I didn't like, where he
does a double take type of thing, and I'm just like no, no
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double takes. You have to takethis all one seriously. One thing I
didn't talk about in the last episodeis the whole thing about because you kind
of get a little bit of thishere. The whole thing about when he
was living with another man and howeveryone in the neighborhood was talking about it,
and how he went off and gotmarried and sure you met her and
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didn't really see the value in her, and you kind of start to get
that a little bit with this wholeschnookie Lump's discussion when he starts to really
talk about how what Dutch is it, how it felt for her to be
crushed up against his manhood and allthis stuff, And I'm like, that
works so well for him to beso gay about things sometimes. Yeah,
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I was wondering if we're going tosee that come back after that his bit
in the apartment in that first episode, I believe where he's talking about his
roommate, it just keeps talking aboutit. I mean, that is the
thing about this show that would behard to understand if you didn't watch the
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episodes before. I don't know,it's weird because it's like effectively becomes like
an in joke, right well,it's one of those through lines like the
cigarette gag. Yeah, that hasappeared in all four episodes, I believe,
or mister Olsen right this time it'she's talking to the little girl about
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static electricity, like when your momtakes a dress out of the dryer and
the way that it clings to herclings to every curl. Yeah, and
bringing those magazines you found under yourfather's bed. Oh so good. We
have a repeat of the is itin this one or is it in the
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next one, where instead of Frankleaning over to talking to the intercom,
oh yes, Hawking does And Ithought, oh, they're going to do
something different, but no, it'sthe same same gag talking to the dwarf.
Yeah, but I mean, arepeople going to remember, you know,
we're talking early eighties here, Peopleare going to remember that that was
a joke from the first episode.Is it a callback or is it just
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you know, let's just kind ofrecycle stuff. I was expecting something different
this time because we've done that joke, and yes, we've done the cigarette
gag every time, but you know, is that the point of that to
have it in every single episode?I'm assuming it's going to be an All
six and maybe it would have beenan All thirteen or twenty two. I
don't know. Chris and I wetalked a lot about this when we were
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watching Cole Chack and when we werewatching stuff back to back to back and
like looking for themes and looking foryou know, the mythology and all this
kind of stuff, and it's justlike, this is ten years after coal
Check, but it still is thiswhole question of what would this have been
like? And we got to seethis, you know, Mark and I
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the first time around on television,and I mean even now watching it off
of DVD, it's like, well, what would this be like with the
commercials back? You know, howwould those pauses in between the acts?
How would that affect me? Andhow would it also affect me? You
know, a week or maybe evena month between episodes, because they fucked
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around with the time line on thisthing. How would that be if I
see one in March and then thenext time I don't see it as until
July? Am I able to know? Oh, they just use that gag,
you know, even like from acommercial break. It's like we're talking
about you can't keep that up,And it's like, well, would commercials
add to that, would they actuallylike give you a little bit of a
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breather, you know, let youhave that pause in between all of this
these jokes, or would this justplay better as a movie. I mean,
now we're gonna reevaluate naked gun andbe like, oh no, this
actually worked very well. I meanfor me, it was just like I've
seen all these gags before. ButI'm curious as far as like other people
when they saw that who weren't familiarwith Police Squad, did they just think
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that these were all brand new gagsand did they find it infinitely more funny
than I did. It's kind oflike another show that has this kind of
weird pre show existence. Ted Lassohad a whole YouTube like commercial NBC Sports
thing where he was the character,and they have a lot of the gags
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from those in that first episode ofthe show. And I didn't know that
the first time I watched it,and I saw it after the fact that
they were funny, But now inhindsight, it's like that's a kind of
lazy. It makes sense, that'swhat they initially got everybody's attention with,
so why not include it. Theydid it kind of reverse here, it's
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the show then the movies as awell. I guess you know, whatever
value were you want to look atit now, it's going to make me
question the jokes when they use themin the movies. Right, they're funny.
I can already see the gags thatshow up again when they show up
in the movies. I think they'redone better in the movies. I think
they do a good job in themovies of picking the stuff that does work
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from the show. But it's surprisingthe cigarette gags not in the movies.
It's not that I can remember.It's definitely not in the first one.
I will be looking for it forsure. Remember there's no Johnny in the
movies either. Ted the guy inthe lab, he's in like one scene
and it's completely different. He's nota creep at all. He's just I
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don't know, it's kind of adick. They do change the formula a
little bit. I think they changeit to maybe make a little bit more
palatable for the screen. Some ofthe jokes are kept in there completely,
like the you've got something on yourface is one for one, no other
side, it's one for one.What's funny is if you look at that
gag in the second third episode,second and third episodes. That gag hasn't
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really worked as well since they didit the first time, because they've done
kind of riffs on it and ithasn't worked as well. Is it in
this one where he has the longhair? It's the next one and this
one he runs into he had runinto a fire sprinkler, right, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what happened to your fire sprinkler?
Yeah? Get it? I getit well? And who do we
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have Johnny talking to this time?Speaking of recurring gags, this one is
a fireman. Yeah about polyvinyl.It is just surprising that that gag is
left in the show and it doesn'tmake its way into the movie. Is
that guy dead? Maybe? No? Still around? I think I don't
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think he's around now. He's nolonger with us. Or he was probably
thirty five when they shot this.Yeah he was twenty three. Oh he
was ninety nine. Yeah, hedied in twenty eleven. Yeah that off
the top of your hit. No, that's the internet. Oh what Yeah?
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I know you probably thought I knewit, but I did. One
of the last roles that he wasin was old concession worker and how to
lose a guy in ten days.Wow, go from Johnny in the Naked
Gun to concession stand worker. Sohe would have been sixty at the time
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of Police Squad Wow. Oh shit. Oh he actually looked pretty darn good
then, yeah, sh so.And he definitely was working when the Naked
Gun movies were made. Yeah,that was around the time that he was
in Alvira. Mistress of the Darkwas one of the first ones of those.
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It's kind of surprising, Like,I know, we talked about why
we thought it didn't work because it'skind of like a totally out of like
place time wise, but see,I don't know. Yeah, we'll have
to see what other sort of outof time references there are in the movies.
I mean, I know they doreally try to upgrade them to be
current day, you know, especiallyI can't remember. Well, yeah,
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they've got obviously Queen Elizabeth. Thesecond I don't think they start getting into
like the Saddam Hussein's stuff in untilthat's the hot shots they have they have
i Atola oh wow. Yeah,they have Iatola Kadafi Edi Amine and like
the first scene of Naked Gun.Wow. Yeah, yeah, that's weird.
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It's very weird where the show isright now. It is a cop
show. The movie is not.The movie is sick. It feels so
like imagining in my mind where we'regoing to get to totally with the movie.
I mean, the show is parrotingat leastys. This episode is parting
James Bond. Yeah, yeah,I did really appreciate that with the cat
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and then when he ducks down intoframe. That was really funny. That's
a good visual gag. Felt alittle bad for Florence Henderson. She doesn't
get to do a whole lot beforeshe's shot in the credit sequence. I
was really hoping for a little more. I want to say that there's some
Wesson cooking oil on the counter whereshe's at. Yeah, there's a big
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jug of oil. This is likethe coffee commercial, Chris. She was
spokesperson for Weston Oil. Yeah,I saw those ads constantly. Oil need
I don't understand why you would needa spokesperson for oil tangent here, What
the fuck do you need to beconvinced to buy oil for? Well,
if you cook food brand, youknow, it's like um syrup. You
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know everybody right syrup. Everybody's gonnause syrup, but you have to use
ant Semima. All oils created equally. And it's called old Mill now,
sir, oh, oh my head. I think it's Antimima's old Mill.
And Uncle Ben, what the fuckis Uncle Ben? Now? I saw
it at the store. It's likeBen's choice or Ben. Yeah, have
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you've seen it? Bagley, It'slike it's it's I know it got changed,
but I don't know, but it'schoice or something. Yeah, So
why does Wesson need Why do youneed an advertisement for oil? I just
I'm just asking. I'm just askingquestions. Nibisco needs to make that money.
Man. Until then, they justcook things with water. Yeah,
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yeah, I'm gonna boil my foodand oil. That's what we called deep
frying fried. Oh can you imaginethat? Just cooking fried chicken and water,
reading and battering fried chicken and puttingit in boiling water. What a
fucking quick kind of kind of crimeagainst humanity? Is that? Jesus Christ?
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When I saw the thing with LaurenceHenderson, she shows up in the
third movie towards the end, So, right, is she cooking with Weston
oil in the movie? No,she's I want to say she's like that
wouldn't be too dated by then.Yeah, she's at the end of the
third movie. Third movie has todo with like blowing up the Academy Awards,
So there's a bunch of cameos atright, the Academy at the end,
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and I think she's one of them. It's yeah, well, she's
of that celebrity type, like weirdAl Yankovic, even to the point where
he used her in the Amish Paradisevideo. Right, she just has that
cachet as like Missus Brady, andshe's supposed to be so squeaky clean.
So when she shows up in otherthings like that, it's like just kind
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of funny that she's such a almostlike a zealist celebrity, but she's not.
You know, she's pretty darn talentedand she really knows how to play
with that image, and you knowit shows up in funny things and is
able to take the joke. Imean, it's essentially the Barbara Billingsley joke
from Airplane, isn't it. Yeah? Oh yeah, well I speak job.
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It's like it's double funny because it'sa white woman saying it, but
also it's the Beaver's mom Yeah,it's the Beaves. Mom. I like
how they were trying to get allof the other Leave It to Beaver actors
to be in their projects. Ithink they said they got stood up by
Eddie Haskell as you do Yeah,Tony Doao is in Kentucky Fried movie.
I believe. Oh really, Ithink so. And I think he's playing
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his the Beaver. Well he wasthe brother. What was the brother's name,
Oh, Wally, Wally. Yeah, I think he's playing Wally in
that. Okay, it's been awhile since I watched it. I gotta
look it up. Yeah, it'sbeen a while. The last time I
watched it. I just watched itfor a Fistful of Chopsticks. Kol Schoolgirls
in Trouble. Oh, I watchit for Catholic school girls in trouble.
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I watch it also for Big JimSlade. Oh yeah, that's good.
It's a fucking funny movie. Yeah. What did you guys think of the
freeze frame at the end? Thisone was which again, watch a coffee
Coffee which sort of repeats it's alittle bit of in the next one,
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Yeah, a little bit. Thisis the pouring of the coffee though this
time correct. Yeah, which isthe funnier of the two, I think.
And yes, it is Tony Dowas Wally in the courtroom segment.
Also Forrest Jay Ackerman was a juristin that segment. I did not know
that. There's a lot of peoplein that. I'm always surprised when I
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look at the list. There's actualactors in that. Bill Bixby and a
whole bunch of people. And I'msorry it was a fistful of yen.
For some reason, I always thinkit's fistful of chopsticks. I don't know.
That might be a better title ofchopsticks. How many can you hold?
Well, I mean yen versus dollars, I suppose, but yeah,
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right, yeah, I guess Ididn't seek him so good in that.
And then yeah, it's Jack Bakeras the guy who's listening to the sex
record with Big Jim Slade. JackBaker who was Sticks in Happy Days and
also went into pornography and was amazingin new wave hookers. Well, there
you go, six degrees of separation. Yes, yes, I will mention
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a fistful of Gioza would be apretty good title for a movie. But
it's just about a guy who walksaround handing people. Gioza on the street
from his face wild. I don'tknow. I like Kioza. I mean
I like Yosa too. Gils ispretty good. One of my other favorite
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gags is during the fight at theend, when it's like, look out,
he's got a knife, look Out, he's got a club. Look
Out, he's got a sign Picasso, and when he looks totally normal,
and then there's that weird cut wherehe suddenly has all the makeup on to
make him look like he's been inhis fight, and then they cut again
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and it's all gone. I loveit when the stuff disappears from scene to
scene. That's one of their rules, you know, like don't don't drag
it on too long. It doesn'tit doesn't matter if it doesn't show up
in the next scene. Screw continuityexactly. Well, you mentioned Norberg's introduction
in this, and it goes tothat out of order thing because he is
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sort of properly introduced here as oneof the undercover detectives, and that's why
he's in on this now. Sowhen you watch the next episode and he's
already there, and then I'm curiousto watch the one that was actually produced
fifth, right, it's not sojarring, like they don't stop and say,
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hey, here's new Norberg, newto the crew or whatever. It's
just like, oh, he's here. He would have been there either way,
in whatever order you watched them inand so, but I had just
strucking a that, like, oh, yes, they actually do kind of
introduce him in this and either waythis was you know, he hadn't been
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in the first two episodes. Andthat's why I think last time I mentioned
that, you know, it seemslike he's sort of the cousin or the
orphaned child that comes in to addsome spice to the show. Even though
there were only three episodes in.We need somebody other than two straight men
to flesh this out. Speaking tothe Brady Bunch, who was a little
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cousin, Yeah, Oliver, he'sthe cousin Oliver Police Club. I didn't
realize what a career Peter Lupus hadhad before this, and he kind of
fits into this whole never playing comedybefore type of thing, like I mean,
yeah, he was in the RedSkelton Show, these kind of things.
He was in Challenge of the Gladiator, he played Spartacus, he was
(30:03):
in Goliath at The Conquest of Damascus, also playing Goliath, he played Hercules.
You know, this guy was builtlike a brickshit house when he was
younger, and then he moves intolike Mission Impossible and it's just like okay.
So he's playing some very serious rolesfor a long time and then he
comes to this and it's I mean, he is a natural, like you
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said, like his joy about beinga locksmith and you know, selling these
locks and telling people about their specialsthat they have. He is so into
it and he hits every single note. The only bad thing that happens in
this is the way that he flincheswhen those gunshots go off. And I
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know that he's supposed to be standingtotally still, but you could definitely see
him flinch and they're like, fuckit, we can't reset all those whibs
no take two. Yeah, it'spretty noticeable. I was like, oh
my gosh, he totally flinched.Yeah, well, he definitely has the
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face in the chin for all thoseroles you mentioned. Oh yeah, that
who was the guy that did Herculeslike in the Fi Thieves. Yeah,
yeah, I only know that becauseof the song Take an old Steve Man.
I swallowed that drink real fast toget back from that one. I'm
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gonna put an image in the chathere, are we seeing the cracks in
the show yet? Oh? Notfor me. I'm very forgiving of the
show though, So you guys mightbe seeing cracks, but I'm I'm all
about this right now. I likedit more when I watched it this morning
than I remember liking it when Iwent through the whole series previously, so
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I was having a good time withespecially all the gags in the Locksmith's Shop
in particular. I think I enjoyedthis much more than the second episode.
So maybe not as much as thefirst, definitely more than the second.
There is still literalism, but notas much and not as much of the
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goofy name play. I was goingto agree. You know, it's funny.
You know, we talked about Norbergand the way he's introduced, and
like it feels a lot like whenJess and I did the Prisoner on the
one season show, where it wasfilmed out of order and so the characters
just kind of introduced and with nofanfare because the character had already been introduced,
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and it's like, wait, holdon, that does kind of stick
out but I agree with you Markand with you Mike, like this show
is still very good, but thisepisode is better than the second one.
Second episode has been the weakest oneso far of the three, and even
of the next one that we watch. I think the one joke that I
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really liked and it sort of getsrepeated, I think in the next episode
or something very similar. When theflousy comes in the setup that Dutch sins
and she's ordering the fifty copies ofher key, send forty nine to the
Chicago Bears, why don't you bringthe other one over if you're paying attention,
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She doesn't say where she lives.So his next line is, it
took me two weeks to find Stella'sapartment because she didn't tell me your address.
And I was like, that's great, because that is something in a
show that they do crap like thatwhere they leave out information and you're just
supposed to assume the person got itsomehow, and they make a point of
it, and I really loved that. And also when he gets there and
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she shoots and there's the target onthe door, which is a gag,
but then when they cut back toit, it's, you know, in
a position where it's been shot.There's the follow up gag to the first
gag, So I liked that wholescenario with her. It's still really tight.
All of these jokes are there fora reason, and for me,
they just play out well. Yeah, I agree, I'm still having fun.
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Yeah, And I think a lotof the stuff in the key shop
is a lot of the best gagsin this episode. A lot of what
I mean, most of the episodetakes place in the keyshop. So there
is that watching Leslie Nielsen when it'slike the door is locked and he just
slams himself backwards into the glass andopens up the keyshop. That's all the
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good jokes in this episode, forthe most part, revolve around something happening
in the key shop or the oxsmith. You know, I'll gonna have
to cough up the money. Thatfor me is where this episode really shines
is anytime there you know it's Frankor Frank and Norberg in the keyshop and
locksmith shop. I like it whenhe's he's taking care of them the goons
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the first time and he blows onhis knuckles. Yes, and the whole
neighborhood is applodding and cheering him on. Why don't just stay in the street
till Tuesday, That's when they pickup the garbage. All right, well,
I would ask what we're all upto? But Chris, why don't
you just tell us what we're allup to these days? Yeah, Chris
talk for all of us, TalkingMonkey. You can find all three of
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us over at Weirdingwaymedia dot com,where all three of our main shows are
Mike Show being the Projection Booth,Mark Show being Wake Up Heavy, and
My Show being the Culture Cast.You can find those three shows, along
with this show and a whole lotothers over at weirdingwaymedia dot com. We
will be back next time with alook at Revenge and Remorse. The fourth
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episode shot and the fourth episode aired, so figure that one out. Until
then, go ahead and leave usa rating and review wherever you get your
podcasts, hopefully over on iTunes.Let people know that people are actually talking
about Police Squad and that we're doinga really good job. Be sure to
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tune in next week for another excitingstory from the files of Police Squad.
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