August 7, 2025 • 43 mins
Jimbo and Bond continue their summer of sequels series with The Naked Gun 2 and 1/2: The Smell of Fear. SIt back and enjoy as these two discuss one of the funniest sequels of all time!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Washington d c where violence explodes every day, but America's
toughest cop is pounding a new beat.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Lieutenants dread the police.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Squad is back?
Speaker 8 (01:42):
Is this some kind of bust?
Speaker 7 (01:43):
Very impressive?
Speaker 6 (01:45):
They're ready for action. Ready for Love. I'm lonely, I'm lost.
I need someone to hold to love.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Frank here.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
And ready for Seconds in the movie that proves you
can lead a cop to water, but you can't make
him think the waters over there for starring Leslie Neilson.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
I don't recall.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
Seeing your name on the guest list.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
I think it'll be embarrassed about it. I sometimes go
by my maiden and.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
If it's not dangerous, he's not interested. Priscilla Pressley as
the irrepressible Jane Robert Goulay as Quentin Habsburg.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
That truth hurts, doesn't it Habsburg? Oh? Sure, Maybe not
as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing,
But it hurts.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
George Kennedy as Captain ed hockin Congratulations.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
I understand that then is pregnant again?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Yes, and if I catch the guy who did it?
And O. J. Simpson as Lord Burgh again Stepart. If
you only seen one movie this year, you ought to
get out more often.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
The Naked Gun too, and a half the Smell of Fear,
I mean, the strongest thing you got.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
This is a sequel so big they had to add
another half.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
All right, guys, welcome back to The Tragedy of Cinema podcast,
the Summer Sequel series. I'm your host, Jimbo, and I'm
joined once again.
Speaker 10 (03:37):
By Hey, this is your co host Bond.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Bond.
Speaker 9 (03:42):
For some odd reason, I let you pick out two movies.
This is the first one that we're going to be covering.
So would you like to tell the fine folks if
they obviously I've heard the trailer by now, But what
did you choose for a summer sequel?
Speaker 10 (03:56):
Oh? Man, I had to choose one of the funniest
sequels of all time. Man, this one's The Naked Gun
two and a half, The Smell of Fear.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
I'm telling you why I'm a sucker for these types
of movies. The old slapstick, the quick one liners. I'm
all about it. I love them. And can I just
say Leslie Nelson was a great comedic actor.
Speaker 10 (04:22):
Yeah, and he didn't even start off as a comedic gadt.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
He was in Forbidden Planet.
Speaker 10 (04:27):
Forbidden Planet exactly, and so he didn't start that way.
But man, you get you get the Zucker Brothers out
there with with Jim Abrams and just the movies they produce,
movies they write, They're like nothing else out there. Man,
there's nothing else out there.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
And I will throw this out there.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
You may not have liked him in his real life
and the things that he did, but can I just
say O. J. Simpson is hilarious in these movies. Alleged
the club doesn't fit, you must have quit remember that bottle.
But in these movies he has some of the funniest
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scenes that you remember. And I just sat here and
I can watch this over and over and every time
he's on the screen, he steals the scene and you
just crack up and it's like a running gag. There's
a part in this movie where he gets stuck under
a car and it goes on and then you know,
he gets stuck under the police car. Then he goes
to like another car, and then he goes up on
a bus going to Detroit. And if you pay attention
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later in the movie, I think it's the captain that
tells Frank. He's like, hey, where's Norburg. He said, Oh,
he's up in Detroit. He's like, huh, I wonder what
he's doing up there?
Speaker 10 (05:38):
Exactly. Man, let's go over what movie we're doing tonight. Man,
We're doing Naked Gun two and a half. The Smell
of Fear. It's a nineteen ninety one crime comedy film
and they call it two and a half. Because it's
so big, they had to give it another half. And
I have to agree, this movie's got way too many
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jokes for just a normal sequel. It's gotta have another half.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
What would you say the smell of Fear is? Though that?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Oh no.
Speaker 10 (06:06):
I was trying to figure that part out the whole time.
I was like, what is the smell of fear?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
I think I figured it out.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
I think I think it's when he accidentally spills coffee
on the Professor's crotch in the wheelchair and his crotch
is in his face.
Speaker 10 (06:24):
Oh yeah, they're driving around the wheelchair.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Like his wheelchair short circuits.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
That's true. That could be the smell of fear. Oh man.
This is a course of sequel to The Naked Gun
from the Files of Police Squad. And there is another
sequel after this one, Naked Gun thirty three and a third,
the Final Insult. That one comes out in nineteen ninety four.
Here's some steps.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
This movie.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Was released, As I said, in nineteen ninety one, it's
got a running time of only eighty five minutes. Did
you notice how short this movie was?
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Because I was laughing so hard. I just laughed NonStop.
I didn't care. It was so fun.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
I was so disappointed. I was like, this movie's so short.
It needs to be much longer. It is directed by
David Zucker. We know him from Airplane. It's written by
David Zucker. Now, the first movie, The Naked Gun, was
written by both Sucker brothers, David Zucker and Jerry, and
also Jim Abrams. But this movie was just done by
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David Sucker. Now, they're credited with writing it because they
came up with the characters and they created this universe
that these movies take place, and so they're kind of
credited with the writing.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
So did they create the whole police squads?
Speaker 10 (07:38):
Yeah, they did the police squad. They did the whole thing,
and so it is based on police Squad by David Zucker,
Jim Abrams, and Jerry Zucker. They're also known as ZAZ,
which I thought was pretty cool. Zucker, Abrams and Zucker Zazz,
So I thought that was pretty neat. It's produced by
Robert Weiss. This movie had a budget of twenty three
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million dollars in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
I wonder how much of that went to Priscilla getting
Priscilla Pressley back.
Speaker 10 (08:09):
Could be just getting the cast back, right. What about
the animals? There's a lot of zoo animals in this movie.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Yeah, they're not men in ape cost well there is.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
But yeah there are. The twenty three million dollars today
is about fifty four million if adjusted for inflation. This
movie is a big box office hit, huge box office hit.
Like I said, twenty three million to make worldwide, it
made one hundred and ninety two million dollars adjusted for inflation.
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That's four hundred and fifty three million. Wow, So that's
nine times what they put into it.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
You know, I'm trying to think, like the last time
that a comedy of like this nature was really a
big box office hit. Can you think of back to
when something like this was a big box office hit?
Speaker 10 (09:04):
Man? I'm thinking after this movie was made, maybe American Pie.
When was American Pie made?
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Man? That's gonna be like around two thousands, don't it.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
Yeah? I mean that's the that's the only movie I
can think of it. It's like a big comedy blockbuster. Maybe, uh,
maybe the scary movies.
Speaker 9 (09:23):
Maybe I was thinking like that, like not another teen
movie and and you know, you know, but then they
come out with like the stupid like Brady Bunch stuff
and all that. I didn't like the I don't like
it when they take a TV show and make it
into a movie, but they make it stupid.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Yeah, like the Beverly Hill Billy Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Just if they would have done it and made it
a real like drama, I think it would have done
a lot better.
Speaker 10 (09:48):
Yeah. They tried it with Will Ferrell and Bewitched like
all those. Just you know, this didn't work.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Man.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
This movie stars Leslie Nielsen as Lieutenant Frank Dreben of
Police Squad. Like you mentioned, he is known for Forbidden Planet.
He plays a serious traumatic role. He also plays a
serious role in the Poseidon venture.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Which we will be covering a few weeks from now.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
Very soon. That's coming soon, right, I'm looking forward to
that one. Of course, he's an airplane and the Naked
Gun series. What do you think about Leslie Nielsen?
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Man? Love him, dude? I think he's underrated actor.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
Yeah. I didn't even mention, like what Dracula dead and
loving it?
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Well, let's no Brook let's not go crazy, Bob. That
one's a little out there.
Speaker 10 (10:38):
That was a good one. It also stars Priscilla Pressley
comes back as James Spencer. That's his girlfriend from the
first movie. She of course, is known as Elvis's wife.
That's how we know who Priscilla Pressley is.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
And I actually got to say her last Indiana Comic Con.
She was there.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Oh awesome, Yeah, pretty cool. Did you get to talk
to he or anything?
Speaker 9 (11:00):
No, I mean her line was long, and I mean
I was a VIP, so I could I could have
walked right up, you know, and everything, but I just
I had other agendas to cover.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
She was on the TV show Dallas. Also, she was
had a reincurring role on the TV show Dallas George
Kennedy as Captain Ed Hawkin. That's Frank, supervisor the police Squad.
I love that dude. This funny, the perfect straight man.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Right.
Speaker 10 (11:25):
He was in Cool Hand Luke right, in which he
actually won an Academy Award in Cool Hand Luke.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Really.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
Yeah, JE thought was pretty cool. He's also in the
Dirty Dozen, Delta Force, and he was on the TV
show Dallas. So he's got a big career. You also
pointed out oh J. Simpson, The juice is loose, Oh J.
The juice Simpson as Detective Norburgh. He played running back
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for the Buffalo Bills for eleven years. That's kind of
what he's known for. Right now, Here's so, do.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
You really think that's what he's known for, Chase? What
you really think? That's what comes to people's mind when
you see OJ Simpson.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
Of course, is eleven year career with the Bills.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Not him bringing into that, not him bringing into a
hotel and stealing his memorabilia back at gunpoint, or hawking
his Heisman trophy or any of that stuff.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
I'll tell you one thing, man, that white Bronco that
vehicle has never recovered from that car.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Chase, Man, I remember watching that live. Do you remember
watching that live?
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Yeah? I remember watching it live. He's like going thirty
five forty miles an hour down the freeway.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Yeah, and there's like nine cop cars behind him, plus
a helicopter and you're just glued to your TV.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
No.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Well, Ac Collins won't pull over because OJ's in the back.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
Remember, Oh Man, now here's something I thought was really cool.
Did you know that OJ Simpson was the original term?
Really before Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
They actually wanted OJ Simpson to play the part of
the Terminator.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
That would be cool.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
But get this, he was too nice. That's why they
they they did. I'm not kidding. They said, O. J.
Simpson is too nice. Nobody will believe he's the terminator.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Ah.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Man, I kind of want to see it now though, right.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
You want to see O. J. Simpson say I'll be back.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
You would, you know?
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Because they thought he'd be better as the predator exactly.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
It's amazing, man, amazing. He wasn't Towering Inferno. He was
on the TV show Roots, so he does have a
couple of acting kids.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
He's great, man. This movie. He's so funny.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
He's awesome.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Man. Uh.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
It also has Robert Goulay as Quentin Hapsburg, the owner
of Hexan Oil. Hexagon Oil, right, he is, of course
a legendary crooner, legendary singer. He's actually known as more
of a singer than he is an actor. But he
wasn't Beetlejuice, so he does have some acting under his belt.
I thought that was pretty cool. Let's see who else
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is in this one, Oh, Richard Griffiths. Richard Griffiths plays
doctor Albert Meinheimer, and he plays Earl Hacker, which is
just him with longer and sharper hair. Does he need
he doesn't need his glasses, right as Earl Hacker, he
takes off the glasses, he takes off his goatee, and
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he lits his hair out.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
It's all wild.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
That's funny.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Man.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
Actually he's known. Actually most people recognize him from Harry Potter.
Yeah right, because he's in Harry Potter. He's in Chariots
of Fire. He's actually in Pirates of Caribbean, Stranger Tides,
and Sleepy Hollow with the movies I could find, so
he's in a lot of stuff. Man. He he did
pretty well in this movie. I thought. We also have
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Jacqueline Brooks as commissioner Annabelle Bumford. She was in Ghost
Story in nineteen eighty one and The Entity in nineteen
eighty two. So not bad. Now there's a whole bunch
of other little people I'm not going to get into.
And like little people, I don't mean by like stature,
I mean like minor roles. Like there's a leader of Spill,
the leader of Smoke, the leader of kaboom.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
You know who else is in this movie? Weird Al Yankovic.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
Yes, I have that, we'd not. Yankovic has the police station.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Ug.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
Hey, man, you can't hold me, you can't keep.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Me here, all right, but I'm throwing this piece of
trivia in here about that scene, okay, So he says, okay, Pig,
say your prayers, right, and that's when Frank, oblivious to
what's going on, he opened the door and slams into him,
knocks him down right. Yankovic said it took more than
twenty takes to get that scene done, and that after
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about sixteen takes his leg had turned a nice shade
of purple. The stunt coordinator asked Yankovic at that point
if he wanted to wear some padding. Yankovic also recalled
that O. J. Simpson felt sorry for him. So twenty
takes just to get that scene done.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Oh man, it is it is.
Speaker 10 (16:27):
So it's it's a great cameo. Man, Oh, it's a
great cameo.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
We's He's been in all three movies in the trilogy,
but this one. Yeah, but this one is the one
where he doesn't appear as himself. I think it was
the first one where he steps off the plane. Remember
if I remember right, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (16:44):
Yeah, it's like Frank Dreven gets off the plane and
they think he's cheering for him.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Yeah, and where the police was.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Like, oh weird. Aw Yankovic was on the plane. He's like, hey, guys,
oh man, that is hilarious. But that's kind of your cast. Yeah,
there's a if you notice, George Bush comes out in
this movie. Yeah, Barbara Bush is in this movie.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Mandela, Uh, what's it.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
There's Johnson Knew, There's uh well, uh Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
There's Jajahgaboor.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Jean Jaca is in this movie. At the very beginning
of the crits, we have Meltor may Is in this movie,
another classic crooner, Meltro. I was excited when I saw
Meltor ma.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
I know man, I was like wow. And then you,
of course you had the director. He was in the movie.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Uh he was.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
You remember when the police are surrounded around the house
and Frank slaps the guy on the back and they
start shooting. Yeah, at the house, the ball, the the
the guys that are dressed, the guy that's stressing like
the colonial era with the muskets or whatever, the flock
that's that's the co writer and director David Zucker.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
I thought that was pretty funny.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
That's pretty cool. I didn't know that. That's pretty neat.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Man.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
So this this movie is about Frank Drevin. It starts
in the White House. President George Bush is there and
it's all about announcing the country's new energy policy. Are
they gonna go coal? Are they gonna go nuclear? What's
the plan here? And it's all up to the doctor,
doctor Maindheimer to decide. He's in charge of deciding who's
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which route they're gonna go. And of course the big
plan Robert Goulay decides that he's going to kidnap the
doctor and replace him with the perfect double.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Now do you think it was that guy playing both parts?
Speaker 10 (18:39):
Oh yeah, it was one guy playing the parts. Oh yeah, definitely. Now,
the thing I love about this movie is every scene
is hilarious, Every line is hilarious. It's just one after
another after another. One of the critics that I read
about said that they didn't like it too much because
they thought the jokes were too predictable. But to me,
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that's kind of the fun. It's fun is like predicting,
like what the next joke is going to be?
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Right?
Speaker 9 (19:07):
And man, what about what he does the grappling hook
over the top of the building. It looks onto the
pitbull or whatever it is, the whatever dog that is.
He starts scaling it as the dogs going up to
the top.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
Of every scene, Man, how how brutalized does Barbara Bush get?
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Oh? The whole movie? What's your favorite scene in this movie? Then, bond?
Speaker 10 (19:33):
Oh? Man, Okay, So one of my favorite scenes is
at the very beginning of that dinner where the president's
announcing the energy plan and he's got that lobster. But
he grabs like the huge lobster in the center of
the table and brings it to him and he's like
just ripping it apart. It's so it's all ripping apart.
He's got pieces of lobster flying over there and hitting
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people in the face, and then finally pops it in
half and his elbow, you know, jams Barbara Bush in
the face.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
Well, he's also got where he's he's got his hands
in there and he's controlling the claw and it pinches
the one girl's.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
Breasty, pitches the lea sider pitches her breast with and.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
Then he's also like trying to he flips something that
goes into Lady Mandela's.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Oh yeah, like up in Winnie Mandela's little hat head dress.
What about you? What's one of your favorites?
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Man?
Speaker 9 (20:29):
I like I think I like the other the other
bar slash dinner scene where he goes, give me the
strongest thing on the menu, bring out the big old
musclebound guy.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
He's like, no, no, I mean maybe.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
A scotch on the rocks or what strongest.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Yeah, and then you know Priscilla Presidents and it's like, hey,
this is from the lady over here, and he goes
down and he doesn't even look up and he just
starts on. You know, I've had a really bad thing.
I'm sorry, blah blah lunch. She's like Frank over here,
he said.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
There it's like burly guy, I just want love. I
just want to be loved.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
That's funny.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
And then the whole the whole shooting scene with that
guy where he brings the tank through the house.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
Oh it's yeah, because that's that's where Norberg ends up
underneath the police car. And then it's like crouch first
into a that's.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
A whole funny scene to Yeah, he's always getting beat
up in these movies. I think it was the first one.
Remember at the baseball game when he goes down the
in the wheelchair or whatever flips over onto the field.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
That's true. I mean, that's true. I love this movie.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Man.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
It's just like I, like you said, just one scene
after another, every every little part's hilarious, and so I
don't know how they do it. I don't know how
they write every scene like that where everything scene's hilarious.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Did you did you like hot Shots?
Speaker 10 (21:51):
Yeah? Hot Shot?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
I would put that in this type of scenario of
these movies.
Speaker 10 (21:57):
Definitely. Man, this that's definitely the whole slap stick just
airplane type humor.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Right.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
So it's really it's it's a it's an amazing movie
where I'm not gonna go too much into the plot.
I want people to go out and watch it. But
another one of my favorite scenes is when they're dressed
up like Mariachi's troll them and they're on stage and
they have to sing and they're actually pretty good.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
And then you got oj with the with the trumpet.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Zach. He has to go into a trumpet solo to
kind of like stall them so they can and they
do the zzy top spinning of the guitars and so yeah,
I like the mariachi you scene too. That was great
one man. But yeah, it was like I said, it
was a good movie. Every every scene is just hilarious, man,
just hilarious. I love the fact that there's a nuclear
device and she goes to stop the nuclear device. Instead
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she like.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Sez it up, cuts the time and half and I
like how they disarm it. He's like, we gotta get
out of here, let's go, and they just tripped plugs it.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
Yeah, he chose someone plugs it. And y'all who that
was close?
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Oh man, So you want to talk a little bit
about the trivia now.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Oh, one more quick scene. I love the fact that
you think the bad guy's gonna get away he falls
out of the window and you're like, oh no, he's
gonna die, and then he bounces off the awning yep.
Oh thank god he survived, right, And then all of
a sudden, like this huge lion what is from the
escape zoo Zoo escapee light like jumps him and malls
them to doad.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Man.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
He's got like girafts and everything we're run into because
he busted the zoo thing.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
It always works out for uh, It always works out
for Leslie Nielsen's character always he like, like you said,
he accidentally does everything falls into everything where it just
automatically works for him every time. You know, when weird
out the Akeovic's trying to get away, boom, he stops him.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Right.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Every time something bad's about to have he messes it up,
but then he fixes it. He messes it up and
then he fixes it.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
There's an other funny scene is when the guy that
they were trying to get out of the house in
the tank, he actually follows Frank to Priscilla's apartment, which
her apartment number.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Did you notice her number?
Speaker 10 (24:11):
What was it?
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Three D?
Speaker 9 (24:15):
But what do you So Frank's in there and she's like, well,
I'm gonna go take a shower. She gets the shower,
she takes off her heels. Yeah, she takes off everything.
Like there's all like a pile of clothes on the floor,
like underwear, bra, then there's like bodices and just keeps
on going. But the scene where Frank and the guy's
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fighting in the shower, you know, and then somehow the
shower curtain gets pulled back and they don't just stop
and look at her like and then they oh yeah, yeah,
and then they keep fighting and the guy takes her
like toothbrush down Frank's throat.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
He breaks coming back, comes back with the hair dryer.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
But the way that scene starts as hilarious because it's
like it's her in the shower and she's singing memories.
Ye memory he starts. The killer gets so into it.
He starts crying and singing along. Oh yeah, that's how
she discovers him.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Funny stuff.
Speaker 10 (25:11):
It's just so good. So the music is amazing, right.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
You know.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
We talked a little bit about how like certain composers
and certain movies have songs that connect with it. Star Wars, Jaws,
Close Encounters, pretty much anything done by Williams, you connect
right with it. I think this movie's like that too,
because the second you I mean, I was excited during
the opening credits where it's all right and they show
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like the police, it's just the siren, and it's going
through all these like ridiculous scenarios and then it goes
down a birth canal.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I like when it goes to like the bumper cars
at the fair.
Speaker 10 (25:52):
Yeah exactly, and.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
Then that's where comes out and slaps it at the end.
Speaker 10 (25:56):
Yeah, at the very end of the of the credits,
and so I just had to mention the music because
I think that that song's iconic, that little Police Squad
music is iconic for this movie. Oh yeah, he's with
some trivia man, which.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
That's not a lot, but we've got a few.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
So do you remember the the pictures that are displayed
in the Loser's bar?
Speaker 7 (26:17):
So it goes.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
It goes from the Hindenburg crashing to the r MS
Lusitaneous sinking, then the nineteen oh six San Francisco earthquake.
Then you have the ford Etzel did you have the
DeLorean DMC dash twelve? Then you have the Hubble telescope,
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which was considered a failure at the time, but since
it's really come around that he had Neville Chamberlain.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
I'm not really sure who that is. Do you know
who that is?
Speaker 10 (26:50):
I think he was the English Prime Minister.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
Okay, yeah, and then last but not least, you know
who the last picture is, Yes, Michael ducongas Michael dicaccas.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
That was hilarious. I know that was a lot of
I didn't realize there were that many because I was like,
I remember, well, I thought it was the Titanic.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
That's what I thought it was too, That's why I
wanted to look.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
Of course I remember the Hennenburg. I thought it was
the Chicago Fire. It is one of the pictures I
thought it was. But yeah, when Michael Ducacus hilarious.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Oh there's that also great scene of this movie at
the end when they know there's a bomb going off
in ten minutes, right, and they get up there to
to tell them everybody's asleep, and they get up there
and they read that raunchy romance novel to wake everyboy up.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
But then Nordberg gets up there. O. J. Simpson gets up.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
There and he's like, all right, everybody, we need everybody
just to go to the uh to the exits, you know,
in a calm, orderly fashion, before this bomb blows this
place to bits.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Everybody. Ah, then I'll just start running.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
He was like really, he was doing really well. Hey,
if we could just get up quietly and make our way.
I was like, huh yeah, but the bomb goes off.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
I think I think you missed a very important cameo
and I and it's probably a great one.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
In eighty Z would really like it.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
The Lloyd Backner, he spoofed his own performance from To
Serve Man in nineteen sixty two Twilight Zone and that
really him. Yeah, and the pantic crossy. Later in the film,
Backner can be seen carrying a large book with to
Serve Man on the cover and shouting to passerby.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
It's a cookbook. It's a cookbook.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
And the episode seemingly benevolet aliens come to Earth with
the goal of serving man. You can listen to our
Tragedy of Cinema episode of the Twilight Zone series on
that if you want to. But that's a I thought
that was a great cameo appearance.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
Wow, that's great. See I remember that scene. But I
didn't know that that was the real actor from the
Twilight Zone episode. That's play on the episode right.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
I didn't either till I was doing the research. I
saw it. Man, That is really really cool.
Speaker 9 (28:51):
Robert Goulay, who played Priscilla Presley's love interest, who.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Is the villain in this movie. In nineteen seventy four,
her ex husband Elvis Presley, shot his television because Robert
Gulay appeared on it, that television is now a collector's item.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
That's awesome.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
I don't know what beef he had with Robert Gulay.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
I didn't look at him, but can't imagine I was
just pulling out a gun and shooting the TV because
that guy was on there. Maybe maybe stims back to
the whole doubt No, Well that says in seventy four,
so Dallas was in the eighties, so I can't be that.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
I don't know. So how upset would he have been
if he knew that Robert Gulay played his wife's level.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
Rolling over in his grave? I'm sure?
Speaker 9 (29:38):
Yeah, I think another You got to pay attention in
the background in these movies too, because there's a lot
of stuff they throw in there that it's hard to
catch on a first watch. So but I didn't know
if you caught the headlines on the cover of the
weekly World News tabloid the thug is reading, Remember when
Frank's tied up or whatever. So when drebinen Manheimer are
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where they're all tied together, they are legless. Boy somersaults
two miles to save dad, strict parents. Father sells his
teen girls into slavery to make them behave Militant anti
smoking group blamed after trick cigar blows man's head off.
There's a subtitle that says he took two puffs and
then boom, says restaurant manager. There's a squabble over a
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lottery ticket that shatters the family. A pitbull eats a
mobile home. Ancient dinosaur attacks and levels native village. Don't exercise,
take it easy and live longer. The lonely heart mangoes
shopping for a new bride. It's a miracle. Rosary beads
turned to gold after church pilgrimage. And then there's one
that's ineligible. All right, So I thought that with those
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were pretty funny. Does the National Choir always has those
things that are way out there on there, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 10 (30:50):
That's true. That's another scene we never mentioned when they're
tied together the bowling ball and Frank Dreben is rubbing
up against the the shelving cut his ropes and he's
shaking the shelves. All the shelves are shaking like crazy,
and you see like just every ridiculous thing falling.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
There was I think softballs, and there's billiards, the racked billiards, yeah,
bowling pins, bowling balls, and then like a thing of
oil feathers or.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
And the best part about that is when the captain
captain ed howking walks, Oh my god, look what have
they done to you? Turns around and he's like like
just plays it off.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Like wow, I don't know what they did.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
I don't know what they did. That's hilarious.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
But there is a second issue of the Weekly World
News the thug is reading and it has these stories
on it. Corpse explodes in the casket, Horrified family fleece
funeral home after bizarre blasts, hubbies, suit charges, wife's chain
smoking makes our kids sick, Incredible new medical discovery sneezing
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and cresses your bus side. Some titleist eight hundred women
grow by several bra sizes, says doctor after dot dot dot,
and then reincarnation. My dead wife came back as a goose.
She eats like a queen on a fifteen dollars on
fifteen dollars a week.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
So you gotta watch what I was trying to read those.
I know, I see the one about the guys that bluff.
I was like, they've got to have that rode out somewhere.
What all this is?
Speaker 9 (32:27):
Did you notice that on the police cars instead of
to protect and serve, did you know what it said,
too warm and serve. Oh man, there's a daring you
remember when Man, there's another funny scene where their parenting
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goes with Patrick Swayzey and Timmy Moore.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
Oh yeah, and he's got he's got his hands and
are all buddy.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Yeah, and he's got what answer? Then a whole other
set hans comes.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
But I think next thing, you know, like moldy with
their feet.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
Right, well, I think before that, you know, with her
thought that she takes off his shirt or whatever.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
But he's got that big, muscular, riped body.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
Yes, man.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
But during the ghost parodies scene, the footage of a
train driving into a tunnel and fireworks exploding are the
same as those used to in the implied sex scene
in this movie from nineteen eighty eight, Big Top Pee Wee,
the pee Wee Herman connection is there?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Man?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
In the White House dinner scene, the painting behind President
Bush is a portrait of Davy Crockett, a smaller version
which was in Dreben's apartment in the neck a Gun
from the files of the police squad. So the front
of Priscilla Presley's house is the same house used by
Charlton Heston and the Omega Man in nineteen seventy one.
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We already talked about that, and we talked about that.
So that's all I have bon on the trivia.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
So that's some great stuff. I think. One of the
things that makes these movies so great is the jokes.
The jokes actually come at you, like I want to say,
three different ways. There's the verbal jokes that you're not expecting, right,
That's the whole thing with that kind of comedy is
just the one liners that come around. Then there's like
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the the front of the camera, those jokes that are
right there. And then like you're saying, there's the background jokes.
So when they're driving down the road in the police
car and in the background you see the Colisseum of Rome,
and what makes it work is they don't mention it.
They don't say anything that nobody comments about the stuff.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
Well, well he says something like, yeah, we went driving
through little Italy, I think is what he says. Oh okay,
he says something like that. You see the colic and
you see Norburg in the back going what where are.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
But And that's what's so funny is because a lot
of the jokes in these in these type of airplane
type movies, naked gun movies, like you're saying, hot shots,
those kind of thing. Most of the jokes aren't recognized.
They're just they just happen, yep, right, And that's I
think that's what makes it funnier is the fact that
they don't they don't recognize the joke, right.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
I mean, you can, you can go back and watch
this movie again and you'll find something new again the
next time you watch it. And they're just they're just
so small. They just throw them in there and you
you will never notice them until you start paying attention
to the background.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
Like there's a scene in the.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
Headquarters where there's they're inside talking. I think it's when
they're talking to the doctor and their thing, and then
you look at the background and there's a lady shower
and in the back of the window, and I'm like,
what where where does this come from?
Speaker 10 (35:51):
So, but that's what's great because that way, when you
watch the trailer, all the funny parts aren't spoiled for you.
It drives me crazy when every single funny part of
a comedy is shown in the trailer and then you
watch the movie and you're like, well, yeah, I already
saw this part. I already know this part's funny.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 9 (36:08):
I also like it when they show something in the
trailer that's not in the movie just to get you
go see it.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
You're like, wow, where was that part? I didn't see
that part of that movie? All right?
Speaker 9 (36:17):
Bon So watch your thoughts, feelings, and ratings for mek
Agun two and a half The Smell of Fear.
Speaker 10 (36:25):
I was pleasantly surprised. Man, how long had it been
since you watched it? What's that?
Speaker 9 (36:30):
How long had it been since you watched it?
Speaker 10 (36:33):
It's been decades. I haven't watched this movie in twenty plus.
I would say me too, it's been a long time
since I watched this movie. And so I knew I
liked it. I knew it was funny going into it.
I was like, Okay, this is gonna be kind of funny.
I was just crying the whole time. And like you said,
I want to watch it again because I know there's
stuff I missed because I was laughing, or you know,
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there's lines I miss there's background things, and so there's
so much in there that they just pack it. It's
like a there's two types of boxers. Right, there's the
boxers that go for the knockout punch, and there's just
the ones that hit you so many times. That's what
Zucker comedies like, right A Zucker comedies like that, where
just you get hit one hundred times in eighty two minutes,
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eighty five minutes, you just get one hundred times, you know, Yeah,
this is gonna make you laugh, and then two seconds later,
here's another one five seconds later as an one thirty
six later. They're just gonna hit you with one hundred
jokes in eighty five minutes. And I think that's what's great. Man.
I give this movie a man that's a hard one
eight out of ten.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
Or right there together again, man, right there again?
Speaker 10 (37:40):
This isn't this is a big hit. I like this one. Yeah,
I think my prop for this one. Yeah, there's a
lot of props in this one. I want to say
the lobster, so yeah, I think I'm gonna take the lobster,
the lobster. Yeah, what about you.
Speaker 9 (37:58):
Again, I'm a suck for the I love the Three Stooges,
and that's what all these movies kind of remind me of,
as the Three Stooges, because there's slapstick. Then you have
the one liners, Like you know, I'm a big mel
Brooks fan. There's there's you can see a little bit
of mel Brooks in these two, but it's not Melbrooks production.
And then what can you say about Leslie Nilson. I mean,
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we have a remake getting Ready to Come Out of
the Neck a Gun with Liam Neeson as Frank Dreben
or whatever, and it's he's supposed to be Leslie Nelson's son,
I think, and and it looks just as funny as this,
and I can't wait to watch it. But I hope
I'm not disappointed, you know what I mean, because that's
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high standards you're trying to.
Speaker 10 (38:40):
Get to, do you think Jane Spencer, Priscilla Presley is
his mom.
Speaker 9 (38:45):
I wonder if she'll have a cameo in it as
his grand or as his mom.
Speaker 10 (38:50):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 9 (38:51):
It comes out August first, so we'll find out. But yeah,
I'm right there with you.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
An eight. I mean, you can't put this up there
as one of the greatest comedies of all time. It
is what it is.
Speaker 9 (39:01):
It's a feel good movie to sit back and just
have a good time and laugh. Did your wife watch
it with you.
Speaker 10 (39:07):
No, she ain't get to watch this one.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (39:09):
So but when I did mention that we were going
to review this movie and then I did see it
earlier in the week, and she's like, oh man, so
she was kind of like she'd be willing to watch
it with me.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 9 (39:19):
So if you haven't seen this movie, watch the first
one because it's just as good, and then watch this one. Now,
the third one I have, Like I said, I haven't
seen this one twenty years. The third one I haven't
seen probably even longer. So we might have to cover
that eventually on the podcast in the future, because you
have to.
Speaker 10 (39:37):
See the first one in order to enjoy the second one.
Speaker 9 (39:40):
No, I don't think, so it's a totally different story.
But there is some background with Priscilla Presley and him
that you might want to know.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
I think.
Speaker 9 (39:48):
And nor Berg's in the first one too, and it's
also how he got to you know, famous, I guess,
because at the end, what's he say. He's getting ready
get a big old promotion and from George Bush as
he's becoming the new head of security.
Speaker 10 (40:06):
Has a federal police squad.
Speaker 9 (40:08):
Yeah, and he's like, it's something I always dreamed about,
you know, like he goes on and on and he's like,
I want to live in a world where blah blah blah.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
And he's like, I want to live in a world
where the Democrats put up, put up somebody I can
vote for.
Speaker 9 (40:22):
And he just goes and I've said, they're cracking up
just this whole speech, and uh, that's where he goes
back and he kisses Jane and whatever.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
The movie ends. But true, Yeah, if you haven't seen
this movie, definitely give it a checkout.
Speaker 10 (40:36):
So Bond, well, I'm taking home a lobster man. What
are you taking home?
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (40:42):
You know, I think if I'm gonna have to take something,
give me. Give me the tank that Frank drives through
the house.
Speaker 10 (40:54):
Dress all the way through. I thought you're gonna say
the newspaper.
Speaker 7 (40:58):
Hell yeah. And then the guy escapes.
Speaker 10 (41:02):
He does escape, I know, he knocks a hole in
the back of the house.
Speaker 7 (41:04):
He just looks around it he starts running.
Speaker 9 (41:09):
So Bond, now that I let you pick this movie,
let's go ahead and let the people know what our
next movie we are covering. That I let you pick
as well.
Speaker 10 (41:21):
Okay, so the next movie is not part of our
summer of sequels. No, the next movie I've picked out
is a classic Bill Murray comedy Meatballs.
Speaker 9 (41:32):
Meatballs, come on, Oh, I can't wait to talk about that.
Speaker 10 (41:36):
One, Meatballs. It's a required watch.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
Isn't a required watch? Really? Yes?
Speaker 9 (41:43):
Okay, well we'll we'll see if it holds up when
we do our review, because I think this movie probably,
I think this will got a higher rating than of
what I'm giving Meatballs.
Speaker 7 (41:52):
I'll tell you that for sure. So if you want to.
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And O. J. Simpson as Lord Burgh again Stepart. If
you only seen one movie this year, you ought to
get out more often.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
The Naked Gun too, and a half the Smell of Fear,
I mean, the strongest thing you got.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
This is a sequel so big they had to add
another half.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
All right, guys, welcome back to The Tragedy of Cinema podcast,
the Summer Sequel series. I'm your host, Jimbo, and I'm
joined once again.
Speaker 10 (03:37):
By Hey, this is your co host Bond.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Bond.
Speaker 9 (03:42):
For some odd reason, I let you pick out two movies.
This is the first one that we're going to be covering.
So would you like to tell the fine folks if
they obviously I've heard the trailer by now, But what
did you choose for a summer sequel?
Speaker 10 (03:56):
Oh? Man, I had to choose one of the funniest
sequels of all time. Man, this one's The Naked Gun
two and a half, The Smell of Fear.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
I'm telling you why I'm a sucker for these types
of movies. The old slapstick, the quick one liners. I'm
all about it. I love them. And can I just
say Leslie Nelson was a great comedic actor.
Speaker 10 (04:22):
Yeah, and he didn't even start off as a comedic gadt.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
He was in Forbidden Planet.
Speaker 10 (04:27):
Forbidden Planet exactly, and so he didn't start that way.
But man, you get you get the Zucker Brothers out
there with with Jim Abrams and just the movies they produce,
movies they write, They're like nothing else out there. Man,
there's nothing else out there.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
And I will throw this out there.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
You may not have liked him in his real life
and the things that he did, but can I just
say O. J. Simpson is hilarious in these movies. Alleged
the club doesn't fit, you must have quit remember that bottle.
But in these movies he has some of the funniest
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scenes that you remember. And I just sat here and
I can watch this over and over and every time
he's on the screen, he steals the scene and you
just crack up and it's like a running gag. There's
a part in this movie where he gets stuck under
a car and it goes on and then you know,
he gets stuck under the police car. Then he goes
to like another car, and then he goes up on
a bus going to Detroit. And if you pay attention
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later in the movie, I think it's the captain that
tells Frank. He's like, hey, where's Norburg. He said, Oh,
he's up in Detroit. He's like, huh, I wonder what
he's doing up there?
Speaker 10 (05:38):
Exactly. Man, let's go over what movie we're doing tonight. Man,
We're doing Naked Gun two and a half. The Smell
of Fear. It's a nineteen ninety one crime comedy film
and they call it two and a half. Because it's
so big, they had to give it another half. And
I have to agree, this movie's got way too many
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jokes for just a normal sequel. It's gotta have another half.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
What would you say the smell of Fear is? Though that?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Oh no.
Speaker 10 (06:06):
I was trying to figure that part out the whole time.
I was like, what is the smell of fear?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
I think I figured it out.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
I think I think it's when he accidentally spills coffee
on the Professor's crotch in the wheelchair and his crotch
is in his face.
Speaker 10 (06:24):
Oh yeah, they're driving around the wheelchair.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Like his wheelchair short circuits.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
That's true. That could be the smell of fear. Oh man.
This is a course of sequel to The Naked Gun
from the Files of Police Squad. And there is another
sequel after this one, Naked Gun thirty three and a third,
the Final Insult. That one comes out in nineteen ninety four.
Here's some steps.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
This movie.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Was released, As I said, in nineteen ninety one, it's
got a running time of only eighty five minutes. Did
you notice how short this movie was?
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Because I was laughing so hard. I just laughed NonStop.
I didn't care. It was so fun.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
I was so disappointed. I was like, this movie's so short.
It needs to be much longer. It is directed by
David Zucker. We know him from Airplane. It's written by
David Zucker. Now, the first movie, The Naked Gun, was
written by both Sucker brothers, David Zucker and Jerry, and
also Jim Abrams. But this movie was just done by
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David Sucker. Now, they're credited with writing it because they
came up with the characters and they created this universe
that these movies take place, and so they're kind of
credited with the writing.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
So did they create the whole police squads?
Speaker 10 (07:38):
Yeah, they did the police squad. They did the whole thing,
and so it is based on police Squad by David Zucker,
Jim Abrams, and Jerry Zucker. They're also known as ZAZ,
which I thought was pretty cool. Zucker, Abrams and Zucker Zazz,
So I thought that was pretty neat. It's produced by
Robert Weiss. This movie had a budget of twenty three
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million dollars in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
I wonder how much of that went to Priscilla getting
Priscilla Pressley back.
Speaker 10 (08:09):
Could be just getting the cast back, right. What about
the animals? There's a lot of zoo animals in this movie.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Yeah, they're not men in ape cost well there is.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
But yeah there are. The twenty three million dollars today
is about fifty four million if adjusted for inflation. This
movie is a big box office hit, huge box office hit.
Like I said, twenty three million to make worldwide, it
made one hundred and ninety two million dollars adjusted for inflation.
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That's four hundred and fifty three million. Wow, So that's
nine times what they put into it.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
You know, I'm trying to think, like the last time
that a comedy of like this nature was really a
big box office hit. Can you think of back to
when something like this was a big box office hit?
Speaker 10 (09:04):
Man? I'm thinking after this movie was made, maybe American Pie.
When was American Pie made?
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Man? That's gonna be like around two thousands, don't it.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
Yeah? I mean that's the that's the only movie I
can think of it. It's like a big comedy blockbuster. Maybe, uh,
maybe the scary movies.
Speaker 9 (09:23):
Maybe I was thinking like that, like not another teen
movie and and you know, you know, but then they
come out with like the stupid like Brady Bunch stuff
and all that. I didn't like the I don't like
it when they take a TV show and make it
into a movie, but they make it stupid.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Yeah, like the Beverly Hill Billy Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Just if they would have done it and made it
a real like drama, I think it would have done
a lot better.
Speaker 10 (09:48):
Yeah. They tried it with Will Ferrell and Bewitched like
all those. Just you know, this didn't work.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Man.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
This movie stars Leslie Nielsen as Lieutenant Frank Dreben of
Police Squad. Like you mentioned, he is known for Forbidden Planet.
He plays a serious traumatic role. He also plays a
serious role in the Poseidon venture.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Which we will be covering a few weeks from now.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
Very soon. That's coming soon, right, I'm looking forward to
that one. Of course, he's an airplane and the Naked
Gun series. What do you think about Leslie Nielsen?
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Man? Love him, dude? I think he's underrated actor.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
Yeah. I didn't even mention, like what Dracula dead and
loving it?
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Well, let's no Brook let's not go crazy, Bob. That
one's a little out there.
Speaker 10 (10:38):
That was a good one. It also stars Priscilla Pressley
comes back as James Spencer. That's his girlfriend from the
first movie. She of course, is known as Elvis's wife.
That's how we know who Priscilla Pressley is.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
And I actually got to say her last Indiana Comic Con.
She was there.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Oh awesome, Yeah, pretty cool. Did you get to talk
to he or anything?
Speaker 9 (11:00):
No, I mean her line was long, and I mean
I was a VIP, so I could I could have
walked right up, you know, and everything, but I just
I had other agendas to cover.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
She was on the TV show Dallas. Also, she was
had a reincurring role on the TV show Dallas George
Kennedy as Captain Ed Hawkin. That's Frank, supervisor the police Squad.
I love that dude. This funny, the perfect straight man.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Right.
Speaker 10 (11:25):
He was in Cool Hand Luke right, in which he
actually won an Academy Award in Cool Hand Luke.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Really.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
Yeah, JE thought was pretty cool. He's also in the
Dirty Dozen, Delta Force, and he was on the TV
show Dallas. So he's got a big career. You also
pointed out oh J. Simpson, The juice is loose, Oh J.
The juice Simpson as Detective Norburgh. He played running back
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for the Buffalo Bills for eleven years. That's kind of
what he's known for. Right now, Here's so, do.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
You really think that's what he's known for, Chase? What
you really think? That's what comes to people's mind when
you see OJ Simpson.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
Of course, is eleven year career with the Bills.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Not him bringing into that, not him bringing into a
hotel and stealing his memorabilia back at gunpoint, or hawking
his Heisman trophy or any of that stuff.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
I'll tell you one thing, man, that white Bronco that
vehicle has never recovered from that car.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Chase, Man, I remember watching that live. Do you remember
watching that live?
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Yeah? I remember watching it live. He's like going thirty
five forty miles an hour down the freeway.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Yeah, and there's like nine cop cars behind him, plus
a helicopter and you're just glued to your TV.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
No.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Well, Ac Collins won't pull over because OJ's in the back.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
Remember, Oh Man, now here's something I thought was really cool.
Did you know that OJ Simpson was the original term?
Really before Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
They actually wanted OJ Simpson to play the part of
the Terminator.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
That would be cool.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
But get this, he was too nice. That's why they
they they did. I'm not kidding. They said, O. J.
Simpson is too nice. Nobody will believe he's the terminator.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Ah.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Man, I kind of want to see it now though, right.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
You want to see O. J. Simpson say I'll be back.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
You would, you know?
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Because they thought he'd be better as the predator exactly.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
It's amazing, man, amazing. He wasn't Towering Inferno. He was
on the TV show Roots, so he does have a
couple of acting kids.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
He's great, man. This movie. He's so funny.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
He's awesome.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Man. Uh.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
It also has Robert Goulay as Quentin Hapsburg, the owner
of Hexan Oil. Hexagon Oil, right, he is, of course
a legendary crooner, legendary singer. He's actually known as more
of a singer than he is an actor. But he
wasn't Beetlejuice, so he does have some acting under his belt.
I thought that was pretty cool. Let's see who else
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is in this one, Oh, Richard Griffiths. Richard Griffiths plays
doctor Albert Meinheimer, and he plays Earl Hacker, which is
just him with longer and sharper hair. Does he need
he doesn't need his glasses, right as Earl Hacker, he
takes off the glasses, he takes off his goatee, and
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he lits his hair out.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
It's all wild.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
That's funny.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Man.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
Actually he's known. Actually most people recognize him from Harry Potter.
Yeah right, because he's in Harry Potter. He's in Chariots
of Fire. He's actually in Pirates of Caribbean, Stranger Tides,
and Sleepy Hollow with the movies I could find, so
he's in a lot of stuff. Man. He he did
pretty well in this movie. I thought. We also have
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Jacqueline Brooks as commissioner Annabelle Bumford. She was in Ghost
Story in nineteen eighty one and The Entity in nineteen
eighty two. So not bad. Now there's a whole bunch
of other little people I'm not going to get into.
And like little people, I don't mean by like stature,
I mean like minor roles. Like there's a leader of Spill,
the leader of Smoke, the leader of kaboom.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
You know who else is in this movie? Weird Al Yankovic.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
Yes, I have that, we'd not. Yankovic has the police station.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Ug.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
Hey, man, you can't hold me, you can't keep.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Me here, all right, but I'm throwing this piece of
trivia in here about that scene, okay, So he says, okay, Pig,
say your prayers, right, and that's when Frank, oblivious to
what's going on, he opened the door and slams into him,
knocks him down right. Yankovic said it took more than
twenty takes to get that scene done, and that after
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about sixteen takes his leg had turned a nice shade
of purple. The stunt coordinator asked Yankovic at that point
if he wanted to wear some padding. Yankovic also recalled
that O. J. Simpson felt sorry for him. So twenty
takes just to get that scene done.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Oh man, it is it is.
Speaker 10 (16:27):
So it's it's a great cameo. Man, Oh, it's a
great cameo.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
We's He's been in all three movies in the trilogy,
but this one. Yeah, but this one is the one
where he doesn't appear as himself. I think it was
the first one where he steps off the plane. Remember
if I remember right, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (16:44):
Yeah, it's like Frank Dreven gets off the plane and
they think he's cheering for him.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Yeah, and where the police was.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Like, oh weird. Aw Yankovic was on the plane. He's like, hey, guys,
oh man, that is hilarious. But that's kind of your cast. Yeah,
there's a if you notice, George Bush comes out in
this movie. Yeah, Barbara Bush is in this movie.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Mandela, Uh, what's it.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
There's Johnson Knew, There's uh well, uh Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
There's Jajahgaboor.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Jean Jaca is in this movie. At the very beginning
of the crits, we have Meltor may Is in this movie,
another classic crooner, Meltro. I was excited when I saw
Meltor ma.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
I know man, I was like wow. And then you,
of course you had the director. He was in the movie.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Uh he was.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
You remember when the police are surrounded around the house
and Frank slaps the guy on the back and they
start shooting. Yeah, at the house, the ball, the the
the guys that are dressed, the guy that's stressing like
the colonial era with the muskets or whatever, the flock
that's that's the co writer and director David Zucker.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
I thought that was pretty funny.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
That's pretty cool. I didn't know that. That's pretty neat.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Man.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
So this this movie is about Frank Drevin. It starts
in the White House. President George Bush is there and
it's all about announcing the country's new energy policy. Are
they gonna go coal? Are they gonna go nuclear? What's
the plan here? And it's all up to the doctor,
doctor Maindheimer to decide. He's in charge of deciding who's
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which route they're gonna go. And of course the big
plan Robert Goulay decides that he's going to kidnap the
doctor and replace him with the perfect double.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Now do you think it was that guy playing both parts?
Speaker 10 (18:39):
Oh yeah, it was one guy playing the parts. Oh yeah, definitely. Now,
the thing I love about this movie is every scene
is hilarious, Every line is hilarious. It's just one after
another after another. One of the critics that I read
about said that they didn't like it too much because
they thought the jokes were too predictable. But to me,
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that's kind of the fun. It's fun is like predicting,
like what the next joke is going to be?
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Right?
Speaker 9 (19:07):
And man, what about what he does the grappling hook
over the top of the building. It looks onto the
pitbull or whatever it is, the whatever dog that is.
He starts scaling it as the dogs going up to
the top.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
Of every scene, Man, how how brutalized does Barbara Bush get?
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Oh? The whole movie? What's your favorite scene in this movie? Then, bond?
Speaker 10 (19:33):
Oh? Man, Okay, So one of my favorite scenes is
at the very beginning of that dinner where the president's
announcing the energy plan and he's got that lobster. But
he grabs like the huge lobster in the center of
the table and brings it to him and he's like
just ripping it apart. It's so it's all ripping apart.
He's got pieces of lobster flying over there and hitting
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people in the face, and then finally pops it in
half and his elbow, you know, jams Barbara Bush in
the face.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
Well, he's also got where he's he's got his hands
in there and he's controlling the claw and it pinches
the one girl's.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
Breasty, pitches the lea sider pitches her breast with and.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
Then he's also like trying to he flips something that
goes into Lady Mandela's.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Oh yeah, like up in Winnie Mandela's little hat head dress.
What about you? What's one of your favorites?
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Man?
Speaker 9 (20:29):
I like I think I like the other the other
bar slash dinner scene where he goes, give me the
strongest thing on the menu, bring out the big old
musclebound guy.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
He's like, no, no, I mean maybe.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
A scotch on the rocks or what strongest.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Yeah, and then you know Priscilla Presidents and it's like, hey,
this is from the lady over here, and he goes
down and he doesn't even look up and he just
starts on. You know, I've had a really bad thing.
I'm sorry, blah blah lunch. She's like Frank over here,
he said.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
There it's like burly guy, I just want love. I
just want to be loved.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
That's funny.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
And then the whole the whole shooting scene with that
guy where he brings the tank through the house.
Speaker 10 (21:10):
Oh it's yeah, because that's that's where Norberg ends up
underneath the police car. And then it's like crouch first
into a that's.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
A whole funny scene to Yeah, he's always getting beat
up in these movies. I think it was the first one.
Remember at the baseball game when he goes down the
in the wheelchair or whatever flips over onto the field.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
That's true. I mean, that's true. I love this movie.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Man.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
It's just like I, like you said, just one scene
after another, every every little part's hilarious, and so I
don't know how they do it. I don't know how
they write every scene like that where everything scene's hilarious.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Did you did you like hot Shots?
Speaker 10 (21:51):
Yeah? Hot Shot?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
I would put that in this type of scenario of
these movies.
Speaker 10 (21:57):
Definitely. Man, this that's definitely the whole slap stick just
airplane type humor.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Right.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
So it's really it's it's a it's an amazing movie
where I'm not gonna go too much into the plot.
I want people to go out and watch it. But
another one of my favorite scenes is when they're dressed
up like Mariachi's troll them and they're on stage and
they have to sing and they're actually pretty good.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
And then you got oj with the with the trumpet.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Zach. He has to go into a trumpet solo to
kind of like stall them so they can and they
do the zzy top spinning of the guitars and so yeah,
I like the mariachi you scene too. That was great
one man. But yeah, it was like I said, it
was a good movie. Every every scene is just hilarious, man,
just hilarious. I love the fact that there's a nuclear
device and she goes to stop the nuclear device. Instead
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she like.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Sez it up, cuts the time and half and I
like how they disarm it. He's like, we gotta get
out of here, let's go, and they just tripped plugs it.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
Yeah, he chose someone plugs it. And y'all who that
was close?
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Oh man, So you want to talk a little bit
about the trivia now.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Oh, one more quick scene. I love the fact that
you think the bad guy's gonna get away he falls
out of the window and you're like, oh no, he's
gonna die, and then he bounces off the awning yep.
Oh thank god he survived, right, And then all of
a sudden, like this huge lion what is from the
escape zoo Zoo escapee light like jumps him and malls
them to doad.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Man.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
He's got like girafts and everything we're run into because
he busted the zoo thing.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
It always works out for uh, It always works out
for Leslie Nielsen's character always he like, like you said,
he accidentally does everything falls into everything where it just
automatically works for him every time. You know, when weird
out the Akeovic's trying to get away, boom, he stops him.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Right.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Every time something bad's about to have he messes it up,
but then he fixes it. He messes it up and
then he fixes it.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
There's an other funny scene is when the guy that
they were trying to get out of the house in
the tank, he actually follows Frank to Priscilla's apartment, which
her apartment number.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Did you notice her number?
Speaker 10 (24:11):
What was it?
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Three D?
Speaker 9 (24:15):
But what do you So Frank's in there and she's like, well,
I'm gonna go take a shower. She gets the shower,
she takes off her heels. Yeah, she takes off everything.
Like there's all like a pile of clothes on the floor,
like underwear, bra, then there's like bodices and just keeps
on going. But the scene where Frank and the guy's
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fighting in the shower, you know, and then somehow the
shower curtain gets pulled back and they don't just stop
and look at her like and then they oh yeah, yeah,
and then they keep fighting and the guy takes her
like toothbrush down Frank's throat.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
He breaks coming back, comes back with the hair dryer.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
But the way that scene starts as hilarious because it's
like it's her in the shower and she's singing memories.
Ye memory he starts. The killer gets so into it.
He starts crying and singing along. Oh yeah, that's how
she discovers him.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Funny stuff.
Speaker 10 (25:11):
It's just so good. So the music is amazing, right.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
You know.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
We talked a little bit about how like certain composers
and certain movies have songs that connect with it. Star Wars, Jaws,
Close Encounters, pretty much anything done by Williams, you connect
right with it. I think this movie's like that too,
because the second you I mean, I was excited during
the opening credits where it's all right and they show
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like the police, it's just the siren, and it's going
through all these like ridiculous scenarios and then it goes
down a birth canal.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I like when it goes to like the bumper cars
at the fair.
Speaker 10 (25:52):
Yeah exactly, and.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
Then that's where comes out and slaps it at the end.
Speaker 10 (25:56):
Yeah, at the very end of the of the credits,
and so I just had to mention the music because
I think that that song's iconic, that little Police Squad
music is iconic for this movie. Oh yeah, he's with
some trivia man, which.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
That's not a lot, but we've got a few.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
So do you remember the the pictures that are displayed
in the Loser's bar?
Speaker 7 (26:17):
So it goes.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
It goes from the Hindenburg crashing to the r MS
Lusitaneous sinking, then the nineteen oh six San Francisco earthquake.
Then you have the ford Etzel did you have the
DeLorean DMC dash twelve? Then you have the Hubble telescope,
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which was considered a failure at the time, but since
it's really come around that he had Neville Chamberlain.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
I'm not really sure who that is. Do you know
who that is?
Speaker 10 (26:50):
I think he was the English Prime Minister.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
Okay, yeah, and then last but not least, you know
who the last picture is, Yes, Michael ducongas Michael dicaccas.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
That was hilarious. I know that was a lot of
I didn't realize there were that many because I was like,
I remember, well, I thought it was the Titanic.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
That's what I thought it was too, That's why I
wanted to look.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
Of course I remember the Hennenburg. I thought it was
the Chicago Fire. It is one of the pictures I
thought it was. But yeah, when Michael Ducacus hilarious.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Oh there's that also great scene of this movie at
the end when they know there's a bomb going off
in ten minutes, right, and they get up there to
to tell them everybody's asleep, and they get up there
and they read that raunchy romance novel to wake everyboy up.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
But then Nordberg gets up there. O. J. Simpson gets up.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
There and he's like, all right, everybody, we need everybody
just to go to the uh to the exits, you know,
in a calm, orderly fashion, before this bomb blows this
place to bits.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Everybody. Ah, then I'll just start running.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
He was like really, he was doing really well. Hey,
if we could just get up quietly and make our way.
I was like, huh yeah, but the bomb goes off.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
I think I think you missed a very important cameo
and I and it's probably a great one.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
In eighty Z would really like it.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
The Lloyd Backner, he spoofed his own performance from To
Serve Man in nineteen sixty two Twilight Zone and that
really him. Yeah, and the pantic crossy. Later in the film,
Backner can be seen carrying a large book with to
Serve Man on the cover and shouting to passerby.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
It's a cookbook. It's a cookbook.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
And the episode seemingly benevolet aliens come to Earth with
the goal of serving man. You can listen to our
Tragedy of Cinema episode of the Twilight Zone series on
that if you want to. But that's a I thought
that was a great cameo appearance.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
Wow, that's great. See I remember that scene. But I
didn't know that that was the real actor from the
Twilight Zone episode. That's play on the episode right.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
I didn't either till I was doing the research. I
saw it. Man, That is really really cool.
Speaker 9 (28:51):
Robert Goulay, who played Priscilla Presley's love interest, who.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Is the villain in this movie. In nineteen seventy four,
her ex husband Elvis Presley, shot his television because Robert
Gulay appeared on it, that television is now a collector's item.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
That's awesome.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
I don't know what beef he had with Robert Gulay.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
I didn't look at him, but can't imagine I was
just pulling out a gun and shooting the TV because
that guy was on there. Maybe maybe stims back to
the whole doubt No, Well that says in seventy four,
so Dallas was in the eighties, so I can't be that.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
I don't know. So how upset would he have been
if he knew that Robert Gulay played his wife's level.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
Rolling over in his grave? I'm sure?
Speaker 9 (29:38):
Yeah, I think another You got to pay attention in
the background in these movies too, because there's a lot
of stuff they throw in there that it's hard to
catch on a first watch. So but I didn't know
if you caught the headlines on the cover of the
weekly World News tabloid the thug is reading, Remember when
Frank's tied up or whatever. So when drebinen Manheimer are
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where they're all tied together, they are legless. Boy somersaults
two miles to save dad, strict parents. Father sells his
teen girls into slavery to make them behave Militant anti
smoking group blamed after trick cigar blows man's head off.
There's a subtitle that says he took two puffs and
then boom, says restaurant manager. There's a squabble over a
(30:22):
lottery ticket that shatters the family. A pitbull eats a
mobile home. Ancient dinosaur attacks and levels native village. Don't exercise,
take it easy and live longer. The lonely heart mangoes
shopping for a new bride. It's a miracle. Rosary beads
turned to gold after church pilgrimage. And then there's one
that's ineligible. All right, So I thought that with those
(30:44):
were pretty funny. Does the National Choir always has those
things that are way out there on there, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 10 (30:50):
That's true. That's another scene we never mentioned when they're
tied together the bowling ball and Frank Dreben is rubbing
up against the the shelving cut his ropes and he's
shaking the shelves. All the shelves are shaking like crazy,
and you see like just every ridiculous thing falling.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
There was I think softballs, and there's billiards, the racked billiards, yeah,
bowling pins, bowling balls, and then like a thing of
oil feathers or.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
And the best part about that is when the captain
captain ed howking walks, Oh my god, look what have
they done to you? Turns around and he's like like
just plays it off.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Like wow, I don't know what they did.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
I don't know what they did. That's hilarious.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
But there is a second issue of the Weekly World
News the thug is reading and it has these stories
on it. Corpse explodes in the casket, Horrified family fleece
funeral home after bizarre blasts, hubbies, suit charges, wife's chain
smoking makes our kids sick, Incredible new medical discovery sneezing
(31:58):
and cresses your bus side. Some titleist eight hundred women
grow by several bra sizes, says doctor after dot dot dot,
and then reincarnation. My dead wife came back as a goose.
She eats like a queen on a fifteen dollars on
fifteen dollars a week.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
So you gotta watch what I was trying to read those.
I know, I see the one about the guys that bluff.
I was like, they've got to have that rode out somewhere.
What all this is?
Speaker 9 (32:27):
Did you notice that on the police cars instead of
to protect and serve, did you know what it said,
too warm and serve. Oh man, there's a daring you
remember when Man, there's another funny scene where their parenting
(32:48):
goes with Patrick Swayzey and Timmy Moore.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
Oh yeah, and he's got he's got his hands and
are all buddy.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Yeah, and he's got what answer? Then a whole other
set hans comes.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
But I think next thing, you know, like moldy with
their feet.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
Right, well, I think before that, you know, with her
thought that she takes off his shirt or whatever.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
But he's got that big, muscular, riped body.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
Yes, man.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
But during the ghost parodies scene, the footage of a
train driving into a tunnel and fireworks exploding are the
same as those used to in the implied sex scene
in this movie from nineteen eighty eight, Big Top Pee Wee,
the pee Wee Herman connection is there?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Man?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
In the White House dinner scene, the painting behind President
Bush is a portrait of Davy Crockett, a smaller version
which was in Dreben's apartment in the neck a Gun
from the files of the police squad. So the front
of Priscilla Presley's house is the same house used by
Charlton Heston and the Omega Man in nineteen seventy one.
(33:58):
We already talked about that, and we talked about that.
So that's all I have bon on the trivia.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
So that's some great stuff. I think. One of the
things that makes these movies so great is the jokes.
The jokes actually come at you, like I want to say,
three different ways. There's the verbal jokes that you're not expecting, right,
That's the whole thing with that kind of comedy is
just the one liners that come around. Then there's like
(34:25):
the the front of the camera, those jokes that are
right there. And then like you're saying, there's the background jokes.
So when they're driving down the road in the police
car and in the background you see the Colisseum of Rome,
and what makes it work is they don't mention it.
They don't say anything that nobody comments about the stuff.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
Well, well he says something like, yeah, we went driving
through little Italy, I think is what he says. Oh okay,
he says something like that. You see the colic and
you see Norburg in the back going what where are.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
But And that's what's so funny is because a lot
of the jokes in these in these type of airplane
type movies, naked gun movies, like you're saying, hot shots,
those kind of thing. Most of the jokes aren't recognized.
They're just they just happen, yep, right, And that's I
think that's what makes it funnier is the fact that
they don't they don't recognize the joke, right.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
I mean, you can, you can go back and watch
this movie again and you'll find something new again the
next time you watch it. And they're just they're just
so small. They just throw them in there and you
you will never notice them until you start paying attention
to the background.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
Like there's a scene in the.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
Headquarters where there's they're inside talking. I think it's when
they're talking to the doctor and their thing, and then
you look at the background and there's a lady shower
and in the back of the window, and I'm like,
what where where does this come from?
Speaker 10 (35:51):
So, but that's what's great because that way, when you
watch the trailer, all the funny parts aren't spoiled for you.
It drives me crazy when every single funny part of
a comedy is shown in the trailer and then you
watch the movie and you're like, well, yeah, I already
saw this part. I already know this part's funny.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 9 (36:08):
I also like it when they show something in the
trailer that's not in the movie just to get you
go see it.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
You're like, wow, where was that part? I didn't see
that part of that movie? All right?
Speaker 9 (36:17):
Bon So watch your thoughts, feelings, and ratings for mek
Agun two and a half The Smell of Fear.
Speaker 10 (36:25):
I was pleasantly surprised. Man, how long had it been
since you watched it? What's that?
Speaker 9 (36:30):
How long had it been since you watched it?
Speaker 10 (36:33):
It's been decades. I haven't watched this movie in twenty plus.
I would say me too, it's been a long time
since I watched this movie. And so I knew I
liked it. I knew it was funny going into it.
I was like, Okay, this is gonna be kind of funny.
I was just crying the whole time. And like you said,
I want to watch it again because I know there's
stuff I missed because I was laughing, or you know,
(36:56):
there's lines I miss there's background things, and so there's
so much in there that they just pack it. It's
like a there's two types of boxers. Right, there's the
boxers that go for the knockout punch, and there's just
the ones that hit you so many times. That's what
Zucker comedies like, right A Zucker comedies like that, where
just you get hit one hundred times in eighty two minutes,
(37:16):
eighty five minutes, you just get one hundred times, you know, Yeah,
this is gonna make you laugh, and then two seconds later,
here's another one five seconds later as an one thirty
six later. They're just gonna hit you with one hundred
jokes in eighty five minutes. And I think that's what's great. Man.
I give this movie a man that's a hard one
eight out of ten.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
Or right there together again, man, right there again?
Speaker 10 (37:40):
This isn't this is a big hit. I like this one. Yeah,
I think my prop for this one. Yeah, there's a
lot of props in this one. I want to say
the lobster, so yeah, I think I'm gonna take the lobster,
the lobster. Yeah, what about you.
Speaker 9 (37:58):
Again, I'm a suck for the I love the Three Stooges,
and that's what all these movies kind of remind me of,
as the Three Stooges, because there's slapstick. Then you have
the one liners, Like you know, I'm a big mel
Brooks fan. There's there's you can see a little bit
of mel Brooks in these two, but it's not Melbrooks production.
And then what can you say about Leslie Nilson. I mean,
(38:19):
we have a remake getting Ready to Come Out of
the Neck a Gun with Liam Neeson as Frank Dreben
or whatever, and it's he's supposed to be Leslie Nelson's son,
I think, and and it looks just as funny as this,
and I can't wait to watch it. But I hope
I'm not disappointed, you know what I mean, because that's
(38:39):
high standards you're trying to.
Speaker 10 (38:40):
Get to, do you think Jane Spencer, Priscilla Presley is
his mom.
Speaker 9 (38:45):
I wonder if she'll have a cameo in it as
his grand or as his mom.
Speaker 10 (38:50):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 9 (38:51):
It comes out August first, so we'll find out. But yeah,
I'm right there with you.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
An eight. I mean, you can't put this up there
as one of the greatest comedies of all time. It
is what it is.
Speaker 9 (39:01):
It's a feel good movie to sit back and just
have a good time and laugh. Did your wife watch
it with you.
Speaker 10 (39:07):
No, she ain't get to watch this one.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (39:09):
So but when I did mention that we were going
to review this movie and then I did see it
earlier in the week, and she's like, oh man, so
she was kind of like she'd be willing to watch
it with me.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 9 (39:19):
So if you haven't seen this movie, watch the first
one because it's just as good, and then watch this one. Now,
the third one I have, Like I said, I haven't
seen this one twenty years. The third one I haven't
seen probably even longer. So we might have to cover
that eventually on the podcast in the future, because you
have to.
Speaker 10 (39:37):
See the first one in order to enjoy the second one.
Speaker 9 (39:40):
No, I don't think, so it's a totally different story.
But there is some background with Priscilla Presley and him
that you might want to know.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
I think.
Speaker 9 (39:48):
And nor Berg's in the first one too, and it's
also how he got to you know, famous, I guess,
because at the end, what's he say. He's getting ready
get a big old promotion and from George Bush as
he's becoming the new head of security.
Speaker 10 (40:06):
Has a federal police squad.
Speaker 9 (40:08):
Yeah, and he's like, it's something I always dreamed about,
you know, like he goes on and on and he's like,
I want to live in a world where blah blah blah.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
And he's like, I want to live in a world
where the Democrats put up, put up somebody I can
vote for.
Speaker 9 (40:22):
And he just goes and I've said, they're cracking up
just this whole speech, and uh, that's where he goes
back and he kisses Jane and whatever.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
The movie ends. But true, Yeah, if you haven't seen
this movie, definitely give it a checkout.
Speaker 10 (40:36):
So Bond, well, I'm taking home a lobster man. What
are you taking home?
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (40:42):
You know, I think if I'm gonna have to take something,
give me. Give me the tank that Frank drives through
the house.
Speaker 10 (40:54):
Dress all the way through. I thought you're gonna say
the newspaper.
Speaker 7 (40:58):
Hell yeah. And then the guy escapes.
Speaker 10 (41:02):
He does escape, I know, he knocks a hole in
the back of the house.
Speaker 7 (41:04):
He just looks around it he starts running.
Speaker 9 (41:09):
So Bond, now that I let you pick this movie,
let's go ahead and let the people know what our
next movie we are covering. That I let you pick
as well.
Speaker 10 (41:21):
Okay, so the next movie is not part of our
summer of sequels. No, the next movie I've picked out
is a classic Bill Murray comedy Meatballs.
Speaker 9 (41:32):
Meatballs, come on, Oh, I can't wait to talk about that.
Speaker 10 (41:36):
One, Meatballs. It's a required watch.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
Isn't a required watch? Really? Yes?
Speaker 9 (41:43):
Okay, well we'll we'll see if it holds up when
we do our review, because I think this movie probably,
I think this will got a higher rating than of
what I'm giving Meatballs.
Speaker 7 (41:52):
I'll tell you that for sure. So if you want to.
Speaker 9 (41:58):
Reach this, we are the Tragediest and Podcast at gmail
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We can follow us on Facebook at the Tragedy Cinema Podcast.
But I think this episode's coming to a close, and
that's a wrap.
Speaker 10 (42:12):
And cut.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
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we choast to the tales we love the most, we're.
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Trying upset them.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Then join us as we chose to the tales we
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The tragedy of cinema. Memory Shimmer, So as.
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If we don't through the.
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Tales we love the most, to the tales we love
them most, the tragedy of saying.
Speaker 8 (43:33):
With them, Marie Schiller, Joy or send me toast.
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