Commentary Track: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The NAKED GUN legacy sequel is in theaters today, but it's not like we needed a reason to revisit the raucous original from 1988. Listen separately or laugh right along with as as we talk through the Leslie Nielsen comedy classic based on the short-lived TV series POLICE SQUAD!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome Friends, is the podcast again? Podcast is time show
Zaki and Bryan the talking that movie Moming Now Mark
has only made He's Lieutenant Frank Drevin.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Whatever's come to this?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
That one man in miss Port World rush for one minute,
Kelly behind bars, Let's grab it by tea.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
And his city is in the hands of a master
criminal with a sinister plan. I must kill the Queen
ye in a movie's so big.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
It had to be filmed in color.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
The Naked Gun from the files of police Squad.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Coming this Christmas to a theater and AU say it in.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Welcome to a Movie Film commentary track. My name is
Zaki is Son. I'm here at Ryan Hall.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Hey, how's it going? Secky? Sorry? I was about to
do a joke and that I hesitated, and then it
was my turn, and I was like, don't do it, Brian,
it's not funny.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
I think you should not hesitate because how many shitty
jokes do I do?

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well? It was funny because I was about to be like,
you know, Brian Hall, and I was gonna say, and
don't call me Shirley because it was for the wrong movie.
But I was like, is that too many layers? Maybe
this is too much.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
See, well, I would have appreciated. Do you want to
start over?

Speaker 1 (01:30):
No? No, I'm ready to rock. Let's do this. This
movie is lean and mean, and I want this commentary
to be the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
You know, I am ready to get naked.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And I have a gun.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I can think of two things wrong with that title.
The naked gun from the files of police Squad. This
is I think it's fair to say this is sort
of one of our longtime favorites, right.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh, totally. This is like a long time classic for
me in my world.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, I mean it's it's a movie I've revisited so
many times that that just the the rhythms of the
jokes are just part of my my my regular discourse,
you know.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, this is one of those movies I know
backwards and forwards, and I almost I don't do this
very often, but sometimes I don't revisit movies before our
commentaries because I know them so darn well and I
don't feel like I need to m So I almost
didn't with this one. But then I thought, you know, why,
why wouldn't I want to watch this again?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, that that was my thought. I was. I was
like We're using the release of the new film The
Legacy sequel starring starring Lesley Nielsen as sort of the
hook on which to hang this commentary. But I was
gonna say same thing. I was like, I don't really
need a reason to rewatch The Naked.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Gun, No no, And I wanted it all the inflections
and everything because they're so perfect the line deliveries. I
just wanted them fresh in my head for this. So
I and I watched it last night. It is literally
like under ninety minutes. I think it's an hour and
twenty two minutes without credits. So I mean, this thing
is just there's no excuse not to put this on

(03:10):
and bring a little joy into your day.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I definitely agree with that, and hopefully our commentary track
will do the same thing.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yees, it won't.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
It won't lessen the experience of watching The Naked Gun.
That's our job. Do no harm, that's our that's our
our marching ord right now.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
If we had like shirts or something, or like the
movie film podcast, do no harm, No harm. So we
are going to watch The Naked Gun from nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
If you want to watch along with us, you can
feel free to do that. If not, hopefully we'll we'll
we'll give you a few chuckles while we I suspect
we'll do a lot of chuckling.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I have a feeling. I have a feeling. I was
thinking that last night because I obviously I researched this
because I was interested and I want to share interesting things.
But I was like, I'm probably gonna be pointing and
laughing like you know, just another thing.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, we're gonna gonna karayoke this one exactly. Yeah, all right,
so we will hit play on three. That's the usual thing.
So we'll go one to three.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Play ready, Brian, I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Here we go one, two, three, play.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Right off the bat. I love this. I've brought this
up before. I just love that paramount. It's just a
cinematic this.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
It is a lot a lot of history in that
in that logo.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, and maybe I'm tying it with a lot of
movies too with.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well there is that, but that's the history. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Did you find when you were watching this that you
were like, oh, I was thinking this joke was coming up,
But that's in part two.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I that that happens less now because because I've seen
them all relatively recently, but definitely, uh, like a couple
of years back. I did, I did have that happen.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, yeah, there was the you know, obviously they're ones
that I know are in the second one with Priscilla Presley,
she has the three hands to slap him. But I joke,
I was thinking of how funny funny with this one.
For some reason, I started it and I was excited,
and I was saying to myself, I love it.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh yeah, that's the second one, and I was like, oh, that's.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's not this one, that's the next one.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Now. Now, this opening sequence right here, you talk about
a stickpin in time, right, because because I had, like
I remember seeing this as a kid, and I knew
all of the the figures arrayed around this table right.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Same same except maybe not I mean.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Idiom mean I didn't know, but but Arbitry, Borbachev and yes,
air Fat and Castro, a Kadafi, et cetera. Yeah, but
that's that's kind of the weird thing is because I
just watched this recently, you know, with with my kids,
and you know, it's just it's a it's sort of
an amorphous blob of bad guys.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now, yeah, yeah, right, yeah, it is, isn't it right?

Speaker 2 (05:56):
But I think I mean, because this movie is very
much it's very topical, but I think the humor does
transcend the time because we're coming up on forty years
since it came out and it's still funny, right wow.
And I think that's what sticks out to me is that, yes,
this is based on the Police Squad television series, but

(06:17):
it's different from Police Squad in that way where you
know the series was doing. The series was like Airplane,
uh huh, where it was it was parodying cop show tropes, right,
whereas the movies are are the stories of this idiot cop. Yeah,

(06:41):
you know what I mean. So there's like this subtle
tonal shift.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
You know. Well, it's funny because yes, you know these guys,
the Zucker Brothers and Jim Abrams. They made well Kentucky
Fried movie first, which actually I've never seen, yeah neither, Yeah,
worth checking out. But then they did Airplane, of course,
which is just an all time comedy classic. And then
they wanted to make a no movie spoofing the TV
series m Squad. That's right, So you know about a

(07:05):
detecticle or whatever, the mohawk.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Not just that, but like Leslie Nielsen's her reaction shot.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, yeah, I remember as a kid dying when he
rubs the spot off of Gorbia chop because I well
and then he like looks direct to camera. I knew it.
That was just so in nineteen eighty eight or nine
or whenever I saw this, like I knew who that
guy was. I knew he had that you know, birthmark
or whatever it was up there, Like I could get

(07:33):
that that's a topical thing. I could actually kind of
understand and laugh.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, and the thing about Gorbacho, I've got the Americans
thinking I'm a nice guy.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yes, yes, And then then oh, this is the other
thing too. This is just such a fun way to
kick off the film that all three of them do,
where it's like you have the little opener cold open
and then you just follow this police light on top
of his car as he's just driving through all these

(08:02):
ridiculous situations. And this is another one too where I
was remembering the one where he comes out of a
birth canal. Yes, like I can't remember which one that is.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
But that's the second. I want to say, this is
the second one.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
But this I love this where he goes to this
house I love that, Like they're not like all screaming
and jumping out windows. They're like what like they're sort
of like dazed by it or confused. Like that is
such a funnier reaction to me. Like this kid like
what the police card driving to his house? And that's

(08:39):
really one of the magic tricks or the secret sauce
I should say of this movie is that not everyone
is going huh, like what's going on? Everybody is so deadpan,
And I was really watching it last night with a
more critical eye. I was really admiring all the you know,
like sidecare like just nurses who are behind desks and

(09:03):
they have the perfect deadpan reactions to Leslie Nielsen, Like
everyone is perfectly selling the comedy in this no matter
if they're like the stars or the person who has
three lines, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Right, Yeah, Well, and Leslie Nielsen, who obviously he began
his career as a comedic excuse me as a dramatic actor,
and then Airplane allowed him to leverage his perception as
a dramatic actor to make his characters so funny. And
then and then you know that's sort of uncorked. What

(09:37):
turned out to be, you know, just a guy who
really loved mugging for the camera. Yeah, and carrying a
fart machine with him and whatever. You know.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, yeah, famously, like on talk shows and press junkets,
he would bring a fart machine and be completely deadpan
as he'd be setting it off and making everyone go uncomfortable.
You know, did he just start?

Speaker 2 (10:05):
You know, here's a noted football icon o J Simpson.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
I would love for someone to listen to this and
think they accidentally slipped into another timeline.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Here's he won a football, he won a trophy, and uh,
I don't know what he did after that, but I know, well,
I guess he did these movies. I guess.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
But this is one of the scenes when I talk
about this movie where I this is like an all
time set piece. To me, it is like comedy of
all comedies.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well, it's just joke, joke, joke, joke, and and you know,
it's just piling it on top of you to the
point where you're gasping for breath.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah. Yeah. And because that's another thing too. I mean
you look at shows like obviously there's the Simpsons, who
I know, I'm sure they were inspired by these guys.
And then you know, family guy, which is feels even
more a kid to this kind of random kind of humor.
But this when I was a kid, I'd never seen
anything like this. I'd seen a show where a cop
tried to kick in a door and said freeze. But

(11:09):
I mean, if you could do like a tally of
the jokes in this, you know what I mean. I mean,
down to like, you know, drop your weapons, and then
the one guy drops and then he has to slowly,
like me, you know, kneel down, pick it up. Think.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
I think what I also like about this movie vis
A VI, the oja of it all, is that he
gets this one scene in the beginning, and that's basically it.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, I think of him as a major character.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
But that's the sequels, that's the other two.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But that's another thing too. I mean
talking about it being sort of topical, and it is.
There are in the sequels. You know you see the presidents, yes,
that's you know, the current presidents when the films came out.
But in this one, you think the jokes, so many
jokes are just so timeless. I mean, a guy just
falling into a wedding cake, you know, like that's always

(12:01):
funny and unexpected, and that's why I think this movie
is so easy to continue to show people. I agree,
And look, it's so many background gags. You see the
luggage falling down the plane. I didn't even notice to
the luggage cards, which will come into play later. The
luggage cards, Yep, that's.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
So.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
George Kennedy replaces Alan North from the television show as Ed.
But George Kennedy is another guy. I mean, he was
well known as dramatic actor. He was in Cool Hand Luke,
he was on Dallas before this, and he is so
funny in all three of these.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Honestly, he is perfection Again. I mean I usually just
watched this and kick back and have fun, but I
was looking at it in a different way last night,
and his line deliveries are just so perfect. Weird it's
on the plane.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
What I love about that is obviously it's funny because
the press wasn't there for him, but the idea that
they would be acting that way for weird.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Al, I know, and he's obviously weird Al is hilarious
up there, just like hello, oh hello, I'm waving to everybody.
Oh that's a gag I'd never noticed till last night.
When he's walking to the car. It's already passed, but
he's his luggage is like this little little little thing
that he's pulling with this tether like it looks like

(13:26):
I'd never noticed it before.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh man, that's why I took my vacation in bait.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Route this too.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Everywhere I look something reminds me of her. I definitely
did not get that joke. Oh yeah until much later.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah. And those things, by the way, are if you're
in the southern California and you're heading down to San Diego,
that's where you passed those.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Those big, big boob looking things.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, it's a nuclear station which actually just got decommissioned.
Really yeah, And I was like, oh, oh no, they're
going to tear those down. I mean, it makes me
laugh every time I pass.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
The boobs are going away.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
The boobs are going away, as you and I want
to do. When I finished this, I looked up the
Cisco and Ebert review and they were laughing remembering the
movie as they were talking about it. And it was
funny because Jeane was cracking up remembering the airplane baggage

(14:26):
carts attached to the car, which we just saw right now.
But he's like trying to explain it, but he's just
laughing trying to explain it.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
So the character Nordberg, we should say, originated in the
television show, but in the show it was Norberg played
by Peter Lupis, who was part of the Mission Impossible cast.
Oh okay, so I would assume with the recasting, they're like, no,
actually it's a different character. This is Nordberg, which feels
like something in line with this universe, you know, yeah, yeah,

(14:57):
oh that's funny. Now have you seen the television show.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, you know, I've seen these movies dozens and dozens
of times. But recently I realized I'd never seen the show,
and I felt like, how there's like all these jokes
just waiting for me I've never seen. So I have
to admit I didn't realize it was available. I was.
I did a little search and it was a little
hard to find, so I kind of hunted them down
through like YouTube. Oh okay, it uploaded them, and oh

(15:24):
they're hilarious.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
They're so funny, and definitely you see it as the
testing ground for jokes that they later used in these
in the movies. Yeah, and you know, nothing new We
can say. I mean, the show was ahead of its time,
people didn't know what to make of it, and it
was gone after six episodes. I think it was six episodes, right.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, and you know, the creator said thank god because
they were like, we can't keep making more of this.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
That was my exact thought. That was exactly what I
was about to say. I was like, I was like,
can you imagine like six seasons of that? It wouldn't
have worked.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
I know, I know, it's I mean, it ends up
being a blessing in disguise, obviously because we get this movie,
but also six is just kind of a perfect little
artifact you can dig up and enjoy.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, And so for those of you listening I've never
seen the show. That's kind of the genius of the
show is that it's parodying like sixties seventies cops. M
Squad was a specific model, and you know, it goes
into the tropes of those shows, and it's genius in
what it does there. And I think they were very

(16:29):
first of all, the idea that they were able to
get Paramount to roll the dice on a feature version
of this show that was canceled six years ago kind
of nuts.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, and you're many of your stars are over sixty
years old, you know, but this is going to be
your big holiday comedy release. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Kind of nuts, And yet I mean it paid off
and they were really again many of the jokes that
we saw in the show, they were like, they got
a far far bigger audience in the movie and the
sequels than they otherwise would have, you know. Yeah, yeah,
because because it's it's weird to say now, because this
is nothing truly disappears. You can find it somewhere. But

(17:09):
you know, back in our day, a canceled six episode
TV show Good Luck that was in the memory hole.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Oh yeah, I mean they weren't going to be put out.
Even now, they'll be streaming somewhere, but it wouldn't even
be on DVD's or anything and just disappear from memory.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, I because I I definitely remember seeing the poster
for No, it wasn't the post. I saw a bootleg
video for this because I was living in Sadi Arabia
when it came out. I had and it had the
you know, the poster with Leslie Nielsen and riding the
bullet and he's puating the gun. And I didn't know,
I just took it seriously. I didn't know it was
a comedy.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
That's so funny you say that, I had the exact
same experience where at the video story it was hanging
in the window, and I mean, as an eight or
nine year old, the name like naked in the title
felt like provocative, right, And but it's like a guy
and he's riding a bull. It was a very confusing
image to me. Yeah, and then I remember my friend
renting it for a sleepover once and I was like, oh,

(18:03):
this is not at all what I expected, and then
I loved it ever since. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
That like my brother brought brought home a copy that
he borrowed from somebody. He's like, no, no, you gotta watch
this is hilarious, and so you know.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, but it is funny. In the watching Police Squad,
there are certain jokes that carried over into the film,
Like the informant. You know that he in Police Squad.
He visits that informant every year. It's played by a
different actor, but he visits that person every episode, and
then the gag is he gets the information he needs

(18:37):
and he leaves, and then each week there's a different
celebrity cameo, who then takes well, he's a shoeshine guy.
And so then like on one episode, I remember, Dick
Clark sits down. It's like, hey, what can you tell
me about this musical genre sca you know? And he
hands over, like, you know, a ten dollars bill and
he's like, Scott derives from reggae and you know, and then.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
It cuts away to so this this bit with the
with the microphone while he's peeing right now, you talk
about like family Guy, this is a very family guy
type humor, right, and and like family Guy, it does
the thing where it's funny and then it becomes unfunny, right,
and then it becomes funny again because of just how long.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
It goes right, right, right, right.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
I didn't realize this is Nancy Marshawn from The Sopranos.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh, that's I've said. It's a blind spot for me.
I haven't seen Sopranos. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
My my, my oldest son has been watching the show recently.
He's like, that is that Mama Soprano. I was like,
it is, Wow, that's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
She's great, I mean her reactions and later when she's
talking about the Shakespeare in the park things funny, so funny,
you know, it's funny. Also, I talk about this sometimes,
but a lot of the movies I had growing up
were taped off of television, you know, when they had
their TV debuts. So oh sure, sure, I had this
taped off of TV. And I remember the scene they
took the peeing sound out, so that's the whole joke,

(20:03):
I know, So all you hear is him doing the
So it is kind of funny sometimes, you know, watching
these things and oh wait, I remember this slightly differently.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
The peeing and the fart noises.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And some scenes are missing for me,
you know, like I'm used to the TV planes, trains,
and automobiles, and there's you know, all these extra scenes
to pad it out to a running time on TV
that I'm like, oh, I miss them when I watched
the theatrical versions. And so it was funny. There's a
handful of things where I'm like, wait, where did that

(20:36):
scene go?

Speaker 2 (20:36):
They put stuff in for the for the TV version.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Interesting, yeah, because this one, like I said, I mean,
it's an hour twenty five minutes with credits, so they had.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
To add stuff in that thing with the chalk outline
on the water that.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Me yeah, yeah, but this well, and they I watched
the deleted scenes last night just to refresh my memory
on them, and this scene here with the informant at
the pier, it's longer, and I was like, you know what,
it's better, the theatrical versions better. It's just so tight
and perfect and gives you the punch, the perfect pitch.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
This is another one that they took from the TV show.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, yea.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
The bribe gag, yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
The delivery is just perfection. You know, where the informants
bribing now the cop because the CoP's like, I don't
know if I want to tell you what you know,
and he's just like I really don't think I should.
How about now? Yeah? Yeah okay.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
And then the thing where they just passed the same
bill back, Yeah yeah, okay, how about now? Man.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
It's I mean, both of them are just perfection. And this.
You know. The other thing too that I appreciated more
when I got older is there's so many great visual
gags and you know, obvious broad kind of comedy, but
there's so much like verbal comedy in this yeah, you know,
just like wordplay and just ironic things. It's just so funny.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well this too, so so Ricardo Montalbon, who you know,
was well known at this time for Fantasy Island and
of course Star Trek. You know the fact that he
plays it completely straight, but he plays kind of like
a villain archetype, and that's what makes this this work,

(22:31):
you know. And I think I think the second one
with Robert kool A does something similar, you know, yes, yeah,
I have to be honest. The third one, I don't
remember a ton. I remember the third one being not
as good.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, it has its moments, but as a whole it's
not as strong.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, And I remember learning that good chunks of part
three they incorporated deleted scenes from the previous films.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh interesting, yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah. So you'll notice Priscilla Presley's hair changes color because
I think in the second one she has red hair,
and then the third one, I don't remember what it
is for the majority of it, but occasionally she just
has red hair. Really yeah. Or they'll be like, oh
remember that time, kind of like family guy, remember that time,
and then they'll be like a flashbackward.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
I was thinking of like the Pink Panther movies, like
after Peter Seller's died where.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
No, yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
They're just collages of Peter Seller's deleted scenes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
This is just like when you know what movie you're watching,
just like such a delightful setup. Here, check this thing out.
You know, it's priceless, it cannot be broken.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Here check it out.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
And also like it's only weakness is water. And then
you see like a fish tank in the background. You
know exactly what's gonna happen. But yeah, I was really
impressed with Maltaban, like really, like I said, sort of
studying it last night. I mean, he is like going
for it, playing full on, you know, straight villain.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
That's the thing, Like he is the villain in a
serious movie the way he's playing it. Yeah, yeah, and
that's that's what makes it work, you know.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah. Oh, this is one of my favorite jokes talking
about verbal jokes, where they're asking where Nurburg is, He's like, oh, yeah,
he's at the hospital, our Lady of the Worthless Miracle,
Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
But this too is such a villain trope, right where
he's looking out at the city and you know, like
do you think see everything out there? You know, that's
like such a that's that's what happens in movies. It
doesn't happen in real light, right right, right, Killed the

(24:58):
pen and the Fish Year one one fell swoop.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Man. Isn't that amazing that Like if Leslie Nielsen hadn't
been an airplane, like, yeah, he wouldn't have even had
the opportunity, you know, like we wouldn't We would have
missed out on so much amazing comedy. But like he
wouldn't have. There was like a whole gear he had
that he would have never been able to flex.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
He found a third act in his career that carried
him for the rest of his life. Yeah, yeah, you know,
like I remember one of one of his last things,
he was in a Superhero movie, which which is far
a far cry from this to yeah for sure, sure,
but but he is very good in it as kind

(25:42):
of the Uncle Ben character, right you know, and you're like, man,
this guy still had it.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah yeah, I mean this really kind of kicked off
a thing for us, as you know, young teenage kids, right,
I mean, yeah, there was this and then wrongfully accused
and spy hard and it's just kind of funny again,
you know, this guy who's you know, in his sixties
or whatever, became like a comedy hero, tall as young people,

(26:11):
you know, yeah, like if he was in a movie,
we were gonna check it out. Priscilla Presley.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
So I remember being, you know, nine years old and
just being bowled over by Priscilla Presley.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Oh she's beautiful. Yeah yeah, And I mean obviously I
didn't know who she was.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I had no idea.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah then, and so then now, you know, learning her
story and even seeing that movie Priscilla, you know, the
Sofia Cople Yeah right, I have a hard time being like, wait,
that's her, right, She's just acting in this movie. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, she is.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Forty three here, I know, isn't that great? She looks incredible?

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah? Absolutely. Okay, So the Nice Beaver definitely did not
understand that joke, not at all. But I definitely knew, well,
there's something there, right, right, there's something body there. I
just don't know what it. I didn't connect all the dots,
you know, yep, the whole nice Beaver. Thanks, I just

(27:08):
had it stuffed.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Right, And you know what it's like just on the
right side of cheeky.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I mean, it's literally it's in the trailer.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah yeah yeah, instead of like, that's what I like
about these movies. They have like cheeky humor, but I
don't feel like they're crass, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
This is, by the way, the down there again?

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah yeah, yeah, nice nice bracelet get down here? Or
did that get down there again? Which, by the way
is a line from Double Indemnity. I never say this
word double indemnity. That's a honey of an ankle bracelet? Yeah,
that's right, yeah yeah. And so that's what something that
the Suckers and Abrams did was, I mean, Airplane is

(27:54):
a spoof of the.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Movie Zero Hour zero That's right, right, Like they were.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Watching zero Hour one Night, which is like a dead
least serious movie about this crisis on an airplane, and
they were just riffing like you and I would, yeah,
you know, like when we were watching what was that
vandamn movie? Oh yeah, sudden sudden death.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Sudden death, like I mean, and basically they were like,
wouldn't that be funny?

Speaker 1 (28:11):
If wouldn't that be hilarious? If dude, we're in the
wrong racket? I know, well, and then that turned into airplane,
and so what I like, I like that they do that,
but they do it with these movies that aren't immediately recognizable,
and so they did take inspiration from things.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
And have you seen Dublin Demnity, by the way, I haven't.
I screamed that in my in my film history class.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Oh really with Fred McMurray, I see, I know him
mostly as a Disney guy.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I know. That's that's what's great. He plays like kind
of a sketchy character. Edward g Robinson. Isn't that movie also?
Oh wow, yeah, it's it's it's very good. Billy Wilder Okay,
oh wow, okay, yeah, yeah, I'll check it out. It's
it's worth the look.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah yeah, but uh but that's the thing too, is Airplane.
When I think of Airplane, which is hilarious, I mean
just joke, joke, joke, joke, joked, joke, But that movie
is zany and it leans into the zany like it
delights in the zany a bit. But this one is
just deadly straight. Yeah, you know, just all these funny

(29:12):
things are happening. But the movie never winks. I mean
maybe once where Drebyn looks at the camera, but.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Well so it winks to the extent that you have
characters who are like, this guy is an idiot. Sure,
and that's something that, for example, the show would never
have done. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I think you
need that for a movie. I think for this type
of a movie.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
I think it's great. I like that it doesn't feel
exactly like Airplane.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, I think it finds a different tempo. You know,
it's this kind of this you know, like like you're
talking about when Nancy Marshawn and she's like, that was
you know that was Julius Caesar, you moron, right? I
think I think that helps sort of situate how he's
perceived in this world.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
You know, yes, yes, but this gag airbag goes off,
and then his car starts driving away, and so he
fires at his own car. You know what I love
too is and then the car explodes. But it's the
perfect comedy explosion. It's not just like a boom. It's
like the most over the top ridiculous explosion that makes

(30:22):
it ten times funnier.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Right, this, this whole sequence cracks me up.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh this is so good. Yeah, he kind of has
a Q yeah, exact.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Character who has all these all these gadgets and things.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, I remember this I think about this sometimes when
I see graffiti, like the wall that sprays graffiti back.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Where's Where's Ted's wall when we need it?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Right? And this is such a good good gag. Then
walking through the door and.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Then how Frank walks around it, right, that is these things. Yeah,
it's it's like you you'll only notice that like the
second or third time you watch the movie.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
You know, yeah, the Swiss army shoe. But you can
imagine a movie where someone does that. They go through
the door and then that person walks around and goes,
huh what like kind of acknowledges it and looks at it,
but then shakes it off whatever and then goes back
to the scene. I love that, just no one acknowledges it. Yeah,

(31:19):
oh this is this is my favorite. George Kennedy, Dude, Ted, Why.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
You remember George Kennedy used to do those breath assure
ads like in the late nineties.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Oh man, I'm not sure. Actually there was.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Like it was like it was called breath a sure,
it was like tic TACs, but it was like scientifically
proven to better improve your breath or whatever, and it
was just it was like this group of teenagers and
then George Kennedy would walk in and then they'd be like, hey,
it's George Kennedy and he was like try breadth asure,
it's right on or something like that.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
No, that's so funny though. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
I don't know if they're on YouTube, but I have
to imagine they are, you.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Know, right, hey, why not.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
He make that money?

Speaker 1 (32:05):
It's such a good stupid joke looking through the microscope
your open eye, Yeah, use your open eye.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
Huh, yes, I guess that.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah. So you didn't see this in the theater. You
saw it on home video?

Speaker 1 (32:24):
No, this was yeah video thing okay, which, by the way,
out of curiosity, I looked up the budget was twelve million.
It made eight about eighty million in the US and
one hundred and fifty worldwide. Really, this movie made a
one hundred and fifty million around the world off.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
A twelve million dollar budget. Yeah, that's incredible.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
By the way, so I just saw in the caption
about the score. I were a new born. Yeah, great score,
kind of jazzy, but also very straightforward, right, you know,
it's not doing that comedy score thing.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
And that's really it, right, Like, yeah, we've talked about
that before that Sometimes when the music is trying to
punctuate a joke, it undermines the joke the worst. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Sometimes it ruins some otherwise great movies, Yeah, or sours
them at least. But yeah. He also did a lot
of John Hughes stuff. He did Ferris Speeler's Day Off, Planes,
Trains and Automobiles, ace Ventura, Oh wow, Okay, Yeah, and
then I saw one of his composers in the credits

(33:33):
is Alf Clausen, who did.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Oh Wow music for the Rip who just passed away?

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yeah, Papshmir. That is something I definitely didn't get as
a kid.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
I was just starting to bring that up. I was like,
that was like ten years later. I connected the dots.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, what's kind of funny. I've literally never studied the
plot of this movie before, but at the beginning, it's
all these you know, villains to the US and they're like,
you know, what can we do to bring down the US?
But then the guy leaves that meeting and he wants
to kill the Queen of England. You know what I
mean is that? I guess, I don't know, maybe it

(34:09):
makes the US look bad that it happens on there.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yeah, and then and then and then and then the
the US and UK relationship with fracture.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
There you go, and then Pap Schmier comes out ahead.
So this is the the Zucker's mother.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Oh is that right?

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, I'll secondary here.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
With the gun.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
I think she shows up in other movies.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
About ten years after this movie came out, Yeah, there
was a TV show I don't know if you're familiar
with it called Freakazoid.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah yeah, blue like a blue character with wild hair.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
That's right. Yeah. So, and and that was a Steven
Spielberg Presents cartoon.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah yeah, because he had done Tiny Tuons Animaniacs, he
had like a little run with exactly.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah. So that was kind of a superhero parody. And
I remember Ricardo Montleban was the recurring villain.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Oh really.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
And the beauty of it is he played it, you know,
the way he plays Vincent Ludwig. He just played it
straight and made it funny.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
You know, man, you know I never watched that.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
That is a show, Brian, you have a good show
waiting for really, go to my voodoo and just you
will laugh a lot.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Okay, Okay, you know I was kind of impressed when well,
that's a funny running gag too, when anytime he drives
somewhere he bumps into something, hitting stuff, and when he
hits those guys with the scaffolding and then he gets
out and it's Leslie Nielsen. I was like, wow, that's
I wouldn't want to do that. I wouldn't want them

(35:47):
to trust me with hitting these stuntmen on this. So
this is one of the extended scenes on the TV version.
I'm used to this woman here.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Oh how funny.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
The nurse, So basically, uh Dreben is realizing that something
strange as the foot. So he's like, okay, you know
alert the police tell them like a two twenty two
is in progress. She's like twenty two a ghast leak.
He's like wait, oh no, like a three forty seven.
She's like what And then like he keeps escalating and
she eventually freaks out and jumps out the window.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Wow. Okay.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah. So I was watching this thinking like, oh, I
bet when she was in the theater she was like,
oh it's much much shirt.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Oh my god, is on his face. I'm see. I'm like, man,
if if I have to do that, if I have
to play that scene where I'm sitting on somebody's face.
I'm going to make extra shirt a like make sure
my ass is super clean.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, well yeah, and then earlier I was
thinking there's a lot of like head crotch action between
them because in the first time that Drebbon's in the room,
remember he like falls out OJ's crotch when the best Like.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
This bit is very funny. This is so good the driving,
the driving instructor.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, So it's like I just see what I love
is that normally we don't think about this. The cop
would tell the driver to get out, Yeah yeah, comman
dear the car, right, so he gets in the back seat,
like otherwise the joke doesn't work, but like we don't
really think about how well, why wouldn't he just common
dear the car because the joke is so funny. Yeah yeah,

(37:28):
And this I just is such a silly like him
firing the gun and she just rolls up the She's
every like little minor side character here is cast so
perfectly like maximum comedy. Yeah, the instructor too, Yes, yes,
it's just so so matter of fact.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yeah yeah, put it in reverse. But I love I
was like I never thought about it, but this this
student driver. She gets like a little arc you know,
like first she's really nervous, and then she gives the
driver in the middle finger and then he's like, all right,
you can do this, Stephanie. And she's like yeah, now
that she's like very confident.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
See all of her friends showed up to the premiere
and they applauded her exactly.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
She got a great I'll do that little On the
trip drive, I started noticing so many more smaller things
this time.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
See this is what I mean about Leslie Nielsen mugging
right right, right right, Like like what you realize is
that the Naked Gun films provide the proper framework for
him to mug because sort of left to his own devices,
it did get to be a little much when he
did stuff like mister Magoo and you know, Spy Hard

(38:47):
and all that other stuff, you know, because.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
He probably wasn't working with directors that knew how to
calibrate him perfectly.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
That's really it.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yeah, this is I mean, come on, this is just
so good. This is just like Looney Tunes, it, you know.
I first he hits a gas truck and then he
hits like a roaming missile for some reason, and then
a fireworks factory, and I think it is all the time.
All right, please disperse, there's nothing to see.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Well. I love that this has become like a meme online. Yeah,
the gift of him saying there's nothing to see here.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah. So this where Drebin is kind of walking and
thinking and narrating to himself and trying to turn things
over in his brain. This was longer on TV.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Oh interesting.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
And there's like a moment where he's in like an
aerobics class. There's all these women doing aerobics and then
it like pulls back and he's in the back doing
the aerobics with them, and it's I remember like being
kind of funny, but watching them side by side, I'm like, no,
this is this is better, this is tighter.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Well that's really I mean, when it comes to comedy,
that's what you realize is you want to hit your
joke and get out. And so you know, for this
movie being eighty five minutes, it is exactly as many
minutes as it needs to be.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
It is. Yeah, And that's one of my favorite jokes.
When he's walking and talking and then suddenly he's in
the middle of nowhere and where the hell was.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
I Yeah, I think it helps that Leslie Nielsen it says,
it's great, like this voice that just allows for detective
style narration. You know.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, dude, this was killing me last night. I've seen
this one hundred times, him doing the like gymnastics through
his apartment as he's looking for like the bad guy
for no reason. But you know it's funny. I mean
he's doing all these Texas switches.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Right, So like a stuntman who looks like him will
dive behind a chair, but then Leslie Nielsen will stand up,
so it looks like it was him. Yeah, but they're
so good, they're so fast, and it's in such tight
areas that I and you know he's tucked behind there,
but he pops up so quickly. It's just really impressive
all around.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Yeah, this is very much like Billy Wilder style dialogue
right right, right, right right, and that's how you keep
your movie, you know, PG. Thirteen I suppose.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like any window. Yeah, this is
just so many things like I still think about, you know,
where he's like, well, you know, let me change into
something more comfortable, and he changes into an even more
somehow dressier looking suit Now, these guys, the Suckers, are

(41:47):
kind of interesting because they were brothers and they worked
on several things together. But David Zucker is no Jerry Zucker.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Jerry Sucker.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
He went on to make Ghost.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
He made Ghost like two years after this.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah, which was nominated for Best Picture, and yeah, just
couldn't be further from this, right, like this dramatic, romantic,
supernatural love story. I remember I was shocked learning that
that that was from one of the Zuckers.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Yeah, and that's I mean, he didn't come back for
either of the sequels.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Oh really, I didn't know that he's not back for two.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
No, that was only David Zucker.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Oh fascinating. Yeah, Okay, So I.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Do think a little bit of the mojo got lost
because I think it's it's it was their their pairing,
you know that that gave it whatever it gave it,
you know.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah, I'm looking at Jerry so Jerry. Yeah, Airplane, Top
Secret Ruthless People, which I've never seen, and I don't
think as a spoof. It's just an eighties comedy, right
I think. So yeah, then Ghost after this, and then
uh rat Race, Oh I like that. Yeah, that was
a fun like a mad, mad mad mad world style

(43:02):
thing from the two thousand and one. Yeah. Oh, he
also did First Night.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Is that the Riches year? That's right, Yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Interesting. I love that.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
You know, he didn't let himself get fenced in, made
the things he wanted to make. But then so David
Zucker then went on and he also did some of
the scary movies. Not the first two because that was.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yeah, Wayne heat, but he did the the well, the
third one I think three four and five.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because the third.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
One is where they brought in Leslie Nielsen.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Oh, because he's the president.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
He's the president.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Yeah, I remember he's out of his finger. That's one
of the few things I remember about it. There was
an alien or something. Yeah, and then he I guess
he produced Phone Booth at Colin Farrell movie. Oh wow, okay,
interesting on BASEketball. That's kind of interesting with the basketball.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
I remember that you directed that.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
And that's a weird one because I remember watching that
opening day in the theater and finding it moderately amusing.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
You know what's funny. I watched it for the first
time a couple of years ago because I thought, oh,
how have I not seen this. This just feels like
something that would be hilarious because it comes straight. I
mean they did they write it, I don't know, but
the you know, Trey Parker, Matstone, I'm not sure. But anyway, Yeah,
I was a little underwhelmed.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Yeah, but it's weird because it has taken on like
a cult afterlife. Yeah, yeah, and I yeah, I just
I found like it's not even like it's gross out humor,
that there's some of that. I just it it was
just going too hard for some jokes that I didn't
think were funny exactly well.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
To me my memory of it, it was missing the wit,
like you can do gross and crass and whatever and
that they do that well, but there's always like a
level of wit to it, you know. I felt like
that that was missing that.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
I think the problem didn't realize we're gonna critique basketball. Yeah,
I think fundamentally the problem is that the the the
underlying premise is kind of ridiculous because this game is
pretty stupid, right's right, right, right, right right, So so
that like it's when you then turn it into a
wacky comedy. It feels a little like putting a hat

(45:19):
on a hat you.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Know yeah, yeah, good point. Yeah yeah. This condom thing.
This is another one of those things that like as
an eight year old, it is like I sort of
got that I was seeing something sexual, but like just
not and it's just so ridiculous that it's like ten
times confusing to a kid, like wearing these full body
condoms and hugging each other. This montage cracked me up.

(45:43):
I mean the song is so perfect, this bouncy, yep,
innocent sounding tune. I'm into something new, yeah, or something good.
There's something good. Yeah, Hermin's hermits this dude. This guy
by the way, again kudos to the hot dog vendor.
Watch this little reac like squirt and ketchup on each other.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
What I love is is like the montage is funny,
and then you know where they clothes line this person
or whatever and.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
This couple running in the other direction, also in love,
but they close line them. But then it's this is
all like one day yes, yes, yeah, yeah, I've forgotten
about that. This is also when they walk out cracking
up from them platoon and then you see its platoon.
I was like, you know, it'd be so easy to do,
like Sophie's choice. Oh, sure something. I'm like, Platoon is

(46:33):
so much funnier.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
I was thinking of, Yeah, so this where it's like, oh,
this has been the most magical day ever.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Yeah, she rode in a rodeo and.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Just everything in it.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
But I was thinking about how you know when he
when he's walking away and then we see the little
the little notation of what the song is, you know. Yes,
And I was like that show cracked me up when
I was a kid, Yeah, because I got it because
of you know, MTV to music video and I was like,
that doesn't mean anything to anybody now.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
I was gonna say, I mean, do we need to
explain it? Yeah, like back on MTV when they showed
music videos at the beginning of the video and at
the end, they would have the title, the artist, the
label that released it as this little text in the
bottom corner. Right. So I'm glad you said that because
when I was a kid, that was one of my
favorite jokes.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Yeah, and it's just it's just gone like like tears
and rain.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Yeah yeah, but I don't know, it was just something
I recognized as a kid, and so see in this movie.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Yeah, Like I definitely remember cracking up at that when
I was a kid.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah, me too, Me too. That's funny. I for some reason,
I thought that was just some like little tossaway thing
that only I liked as a little kid. So hearing
you say that it obviously connected h because we recognized it.
I'm sure this also makes me laugh too. It's like,
all right, let's have them talking in the car, but
what can they be doing? What if they're eating these
pistachios and their lips are all red and smeared, And

(48:04):
then you get the great gag when he gets out
of the car and he's like pushing on all those shells?
Are there? Wait? Sorry, what were we saying?

Speaker 2 (48:13):
No? I was thinking about how this movie came out
right around when The Simpsons started. Yeah, and how like
all of these really seminal comedy influence has hit us
at exactly the right age.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Yeah. Yeah, well, and I feel I mean, I can't
be objective about it, but I feel like much of it,
like I was saying earlier, about this is kind of
timeless comedy. Yeah, you know, it's maybe there's figures from
real life, but just I don't know. I mean, right now,

(48:48):
the fireworks factory. Nothing to see here as something wildly
outrageous is happening in the background. You know, like that's
evergreen funny yea. And the Simpsons had a lot of
that too. That's still funny, yeah, thirty years later, because
it's just a funny observation or you know, it's just
ironic in a funny way. And I'm kind of glad
that we grew up with that style of humor. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
That's sort of like when I when I dip in
and watch more recent episodes of Simpsons, and you know,
they still get some funny ones in there. But that's
one thing that that sticks out to me as you'll
have ones where it's like, oh, here's where they go
to the Apple Store. Yes, yes, like the Simpsons version
of the Apple Store and get the version of the
iPod and I'm like, like, this is out of date now, you.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Know, I know, I know, and I feel like they're well,
I don't want to critique something. By the way, So
the again with deleted scenes, there was more when he
was snooping around and there's like a little fox pelt
that's on the ground, okay, and it gets attached to
his leg and he freaks out and he's like, oh,
like trying to shake it off. Oh interesting, and you

(49:54):
know watching it on TV, you don't think about it.
But looking at this, I'm like, no, this is perfect.
This is just tight moves. We get the player piano
thing in a second. Yeah that's so funny.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Yeah, but but to your point, like, like even like this,
the The Climaxes movie revolves around, you know, an attempt
on the Queen's life, and you know we're not gonna
watch it be like, oh, the queen is dead, so
who cares? Like it's it's funny because because she she
represents a personality. Yeah, you know, and we can roll

(50:25):
with it with that, with that mind, you know.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Yeah, By the way, this is so impressively he catches
the thing find his back makes me think of the
Toby maguire Spider Man thing with a tray. I mean,
not as complicated, but I thought, well, I wonder how
many times they to do that. This is so silly,
just the way.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
He just said the impales the painting.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
It's just so three stooges or something. So again, with TV,
I'm used to this cutting. As soon as he goes
out the window, for reasons, we will, oh right, that
will become obvious in a minute. So yeah, I remember
eventually seeing this, maybe had a sleepover or someone renting

(51:07):
the movie or something, And so he goes out on
the ledge and there's these new statues and he's like
groping the breasts and he's grabbing the like wieners.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Like these statues are surprisingly elaborate in their anatomy.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
This here, though, we get we get the honk.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
I know, this is like the only time it sort
of like goes a little bit like.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Honk is he is. Yeah, So this for sure when
I saw it in Saudi Arabia was cut out of
that release, so.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
We kind of had a similar experience, not as this
scene still feels like a little like, oh I I'm
not as familiar with this as the rest of the movie.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
I did not remember him attempting to fillate a concrete dildo.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
I know, yeah, I certainly didn't know what that word
was when I was watching it, or even you know,
probably yeah, and he's like, yeah, this is like the
only moment that yeah, I watch now as a growing up,

(52:18):
and I like, oh, I like kind of feel more
bad for this woman than I'm laughing. I know, right,
she's in kind of a horrifying situation sexual assault with
the concrete dildo, and I'm sorry about that, your honor.

(52:41):
But dude, this joke about the the Julius Caesar at
the park, Oh my gosh, it's so dark, but it's
really funny.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
So that is a direct parody of a similar exchange
in Dirty Hairy. I think it's the first Dirty Harry movie.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Really. Oh tell me where you have you have?

Speaker 2 (52:59):
The he for whoever is like in Callahan, I don't
want to have any you know, anything like what happened before.
And he's like, if I see a guy running after
a woman with a you know, trying to go after it,
I'm gonna shoot the bastard.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
You know.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
And so it's doing exactly the same thing.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Oh that's funny. Yeah, Yeah, I love that. I didn't know.

Speaker 5 (53:16):
Yeah, when I see five weirdos dressed in doun stabbing.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
At the park in front of one hundred people, I
shoot the bastards.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Probably one of my favorite jokes in this whole movie.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Same, She's like, you killed five actors. Yeah, and it's
kind of amazing that he's still on the force, right, Yeah,
I mean we're praising Leslie Nielsen. But George Kennedy, you know,

(53:51):
we got it here and we're good, okay, Like he's
so straight and he's a perfect straight man. Yeah, perfect
straight man. That's such a good, stupid gag. The gun
holdster is like a like a bra strap. See this
was I don't think my brother will mind me saying this,

(54:12):
but for a while when he was a bachelor, when
I'd go over to his place and we'd open up
the fridge, it would literally be like a Brita water thing,
a slab of cheese, and like a beer or something,
and so we would always joke, oh, you have like
a policeman's refrigerator. And I didn't realize until last night.

(54:32):
I don't know where I was getting that from, but
I was getting it from this. Oh how funny.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
See that too, the joke about how they lift up
pot their legs and.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Yeah, yeah, you normally associate that with a woman when
she's kissing a man in an older movie she lifts
her leg but they it's just like this funny just
they cut to the legs, lift them up, put them
back down. You know what's funny too is a lot
of times with parodies the story is just it doesn't matter.

(55:02):
It's just a delivery system for jokes. But like, I
actually strangely buy their chemistry in this movie. I agree, right,
Like I like them together, and I like their budding
romance here it makes sense. It doesn't make any sense
that they've fallen so fast. Really, Actually, maybe it does
because of that montage. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Yeah, they did a lot of loving in a very
short amount.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Of Yeah, even though the montage doesn't make sense, it
did make me feel what it needed to make me feel. Now,
I like that she's over there, you know, taking care
of them and being sweet.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
So Leslie Nielsen was sixty two at the time they
made this, so he was nineteen years older than Priscilla Presley.
Yeah no, no, I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, nineteen years older.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Yeah, I mean you can definitely clock that there's a
big gap. But like, for the purposes of this movie,
they just have this really fun chemistry. Yeah, and she
does the humor.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Well that's the interesting thing because at this point I
believe she had been on Dallas to Dallas people. Uh,
but I mean she wasn't, you know, Like it's kind
of a novel choice putting her in in a movie
like this, you know. Yeah, yeah, I see the thinking
of putting Pamela Anderson in the new one. You know,

(56:18):
I don't I don't know how how well that works.
I haven't seen it, but kind of kind of I
would assume doing something similar to what what Jane's character
in this film, you know?

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
This is so funny. It's like I got a message
with you. I can't hear you. Can you stop firings?

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Yeah? I can't you what you fire? Yeah? Don't don't
fire the gun while you're talking. Again, this was extended
on TV and it just goes on a little too long.
The shootout, yeah, or this the fight inside here? Oh?

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Interesting?

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Okay, yeah, it's just right now what I was wondering.
You got the toxic waste going into the vat. He
gets knocked the bad guy or assassin whatever gets knocked in,
and we see the hand sticking out, which a year
later we'd see the exact same shot in Batman. Yeah,
and is that a riff on something that I don't know,

(57:19):
like some old horror movie or something.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
No, obviously Batman was riffing on this. Clearly Tim Burton
was just a Zucker brother.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Yeah, but I mean it's exactly that is weird. Yeah. Yeah,
So I was like, maybe this is some old horror movie,
must be right or something that I do some kind
of a trope.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Yeah yeah, I mean it's funny to me that it's
a hot dog factory and you got like toxic waste.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Right, that's right, right, right. And by the way, I
never picked up that the guy's got a big ring
on his finger. Oh you never got that joke. No,
I didn't get that it came from that guy.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
How funny.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
Yeah, I just thought it was a gross you know,
hot dogs or you know gross or ballpark.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Food or something I definitely clocked when I was a kid.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
Yeah yeah, okay, so so so the bit with the
with oh my god, this this genius.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
This is genius.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
He's got a picture of your wife.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
He's like frisking the guy, but he's reaching too far
back and going into George Kennedy's pockets. Got a picture
of your wife? Why does he say something like anyone
else seeing seeing his wife? Right?

Speaker 2 (58:34):
His wife's name in this one is Ethel. Yeah, I
believe in the next one it's Edna. So oh funny
because because I think it's in the next one where
Frank when he sees he's like, oh and I, uh, congrats,
I heard I heard Edna's pregnant again this Yeah, and
when I find the son of a bitch who did it.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
That's good. Yeah, and uh, I'll just I'll keep doing it.
Why not. But in that scene that we just saw
where he was frisking the guy, you see a sombrero
sitting on the table, and that's from a deleted moment
where the tall guy where you never see his face.
He comes in and is like, okay, you know, I

(59:14):
haven't seen anything suspicious. And he's like okay, and hey,
come on, you know, tack that thing off. Be professional.
And then he takes the sombrero off, so you didn't
see that he had it on his head. And then
they said fun.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Also love It's not like this like a laugh out
loud joke, but there's just this funny idea about this
cake with the queen's face on it, and then they
like serve you know, she has a piece of it
and it's like an.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
Eyeball, you know, like it's just undignified. Yeah, we're such
a dignified figure.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
So did you watch the sequels to this? In the
theater this.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Oh yeah, like I saw this on VHS and then
I was all in. So I was. I mean, it
could have been like a new Batman movie. That's how
excited I was, like, Oh, there's a new naked Gun movie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Oh how funny.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
And I saw both Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Yeah you I didn't see either of them in the theater.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
I was.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
I was still living overseas when the second one came out,
but I remember I was visiting the States when when
like it was about to come out. So I saw
the ads for it, and I was excited about that.
I remember by the time the third one came out,
I think all the OJ stuff had started right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Or it was like or it was like it was
the same year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
So here's the movie came out and then the OJ
stuff happened.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Yeah. Here.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Here's what I remember is is at Blockbuster Video, you
know they would have the big movie posters, and at
the bottom of the movie poster you had like the
little squares with all the actors' faces in it. Yeah,
and I remember like the square with OJ like somebody
drew bars on it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
Oh really?

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Oh no, yeah, this is a Nikki GUNN thirty three
and a third came out March eighteenth, nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Okay, so literally like a month or so later, a
couple months later.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Yeah, yeah, Queen, it's just so ridiculous. By the way,
So I looked this woman up. It's a really interesting story,
Jeanette Charles. Yeah, she made a career I was going
to bring that up. Yeah, yeah, out of playing the Queen.
I mean in Austin Powers Movies and this and parent
Trap and and did you read about how it happened.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
How she got the job playing the Queen?

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
So basically she a painter. There was a portrait contest
and a painter was looking for subjects. Okay, so Jeannette,
who looks like Queen Elizabeth, was like, I'll do it.
Why not, like, you know, go a little money. And
so this woman painted her and submitted the portrait, but
it was disqualified because they said it can't be of

(01:02:03):
anyone like famous. It's supposed to funny. Yeah, and she's like, well, no,
it's not, it's just it's it's not. I didn't paint
the Queen. I painted this woman who volunteered to be
a subject. And so then we'll people are like, well,
who is this woman and so.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Real quickly, Yeah, that bit about Frank clean on his
desk and finding the evidence that would.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Clear a person who was so dark to the death penalty.
I know. Sorry, go on, He's like, my god, he
was innocent. He went to the chair. And then he
does like what it's almost a catchphrase for him, like well,
I also love to where he's like all pissed off
and he's cleaning off his desk and then it ends

(01:02:44):
up it's not his desk. He's just throwing things everywhere.
And again this goes longer in the TV version, and
he takes this like glass object and he starts scratching
it up and like ah, like like really defacing the desk,
like this bit here where she's like I like cops.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Then everybody's like oh really yeah, straightening their ties and stuff.
And you were saying about about Jeanette.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Yeah, well anyway, so because of the funny anomaly of
it all, you know, this pain would be like no, no, no,
that isn't the queen. It's a woman I met. Well
people were like, well, who's that woman? And then after
that she made a career out of playing the queen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
And then and then and then two years after Queen
Elizabeth died, she passed away as well. Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
And she said that she never met the queen kind
of said, it feels like they should have, like, you know,
they should have.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
People would be like, I'm seen double two queens. Yeah,
that that's the thing if if you're if you're if
your entire shingle is imitating a political figure, you know, like, uh,
you would hope that they're as long lived as as the.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Queen of That is a great point. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Like, there was a guy in the early sixty his
name is Vaughan Meeterer who his whole deal was that
he was a John F. Kennedy impersonating, right, and he
did quite well until nineteen sixty three, yep, yep, and
then and then that gravy train ended real fast. You know, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
This is just such a random joke. All these sports
announcers and then doctor Joe Schulers his brothers. But that's it,
Like she doesn't get a line, like you know, she's
just down there like uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Like it's just so so fun because.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
I guess she was frequently on late night talk.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Shows, right, that's right. She was kind of a pinch hitter.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Yeah, she was a psychologist TV personality.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
See what we need is Bob Costas being like, you're
excited feel these nipples.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Wait, what is that from?

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
That's from basketball?

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Okay, I had a hunch, I had a see, and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
That's an example of a joke that to me, I
don't find it funny, like other than the novelty of
Bob Costa's talking about his nipples.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
You get the initial shock laugh. Yeah, but it's not
a joke that stands the testa time. Yeah, right, deep viewings. Yeah,
but this the Queen going to her royal box prepared
for her in these two like dirtbacks sitting there these vagabonds. Yeah,
but that like happens when you go to a baseball game.
You go to your seats and they're the people there
who think, yeah, these are empty, I'll sit here, and

(01:05:24):
then you have to shoot them away. That's great, but
she's really good. Well, and one last thing about this
actress playing the Queen. She said that she there were
things she refused to do. Interesting, like she did try
to be respectful of the queen as a person.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Okay, so so like no no middle fingers and yeah, yeah,
or like like sitting out of toilet jokes or something
like that. Okay, yeah, this this Enrico Palasso runner. Oh
it's so good, just brilliant, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
And it didn't occur to me like night, but you
could imagine in a script of someone was making a note.
It's like he takes on two like disguises to get
onto the field. You might be like, I'll just pick one. Oh, sure,
you know what I mean, but both of them are
like classic.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
What I love is that this guy is such like
the parody of an overbearing opera singer. Yeah, yeah, and
he just he just fully embodies that, you know, mm hmmmmm.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Still makes me laugh. I mean, like, and it's funny
because he's going out there to sing, but then when
they announced he's gonna sing, he makes a face almost
like oh it doesn't it doesn't occur to him what
he's doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And like if I was
at a karaoke place, I could probably do the entire
version of what he does. Really, you know, the bombs

(01:06:58):
in the air.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
See what's great about this is he is speaking for,
let's be honest, the overwhelming majority of people who do
not know the national anthem.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a lot of that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
But it's funny because again, you don't have people doing
these huge reactions.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
You just have like huh right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
I kind of like that. Really, it's just Nancy Marshawn
is the one who's yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Yeah, who recognizes his face? I kind of forgot that
he had like a foil. I don't remember her in
the sequels.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
No, she's not in the sequels.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Yeah. Yeah, lots of bombs in the air.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
The cops are like, they still have to keep their
hand on their chest.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
Yes, the inching Towordomco Plazza Like ah, that makes it
so funny, like when he's like in the Home of
the Free because he's running away. I remember this announcer too.

(01:08:24):
I can't remember his name, but I remember his his catchphrase,
how about that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Who is that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
I can't remember his name, but you would hear him,
he would.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Like I didn't. I didn't watch pro baseball when I
was a kid.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
So yeah, he was just one of those announcers that
would kind of make appearances. You know, some became personalities
everybody recognized, like Bob Buker and just that catchphrase. I
don't know why, but I'm familiar with it. Yeah, oh
this is this killed me as a kid, the sports bloopers,
the highlights, Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, because they this was

(01:08:58):
like a really frequent thing would see when we were younger,
Like they would have on Saturday mornings, they would have
like thirty minutes of like baseball bloopers. It would be
like a special or if you order Sports Illustrated, they'd
be like, and we'll send you a VHS cause said
of greatest baseball bloopers you know, and all phone and

(01:09:18):
so then just seeing something that I'm used to, like,
you know, oh, guy tripping whatever. But then it's like
a baseball player also getting hit by a car right,
you know, or like this like a tiger runs out
after he slides into seconds.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
You know what occurs to me as I watched this,
I'm I'm I think this we you and I like
our generation, we got spoiled when it comes to parody
this where his head comes off, his head comes off,
and then here he goes to the guy, one guy
laughing and then the one the other guy is just
like traumatized, traumatized by I think we got spoiled by

(01:09:55):
these types of parody movies.

Speaker 1 (01:09:57):
Yes, so you got you got airplane.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
And this and even you know, spaceballs and sort of
the the mel brooks ubra, you know, because our expectations
were set a little higher, right, and this is the
thing that you and I have expressed are There's there's
the finger of the rings. So nowadays, you know the
stuff with like the Seltzer Brothers and stuff, which granted

(01:10:22):
that that too is like twenty plus years old. At
this point, it's like, hey, here's here's that thing, you know,
here's the thing making fun of that thing, you know, yes, yes,
and then it moves on like there's no there's no
punchline other than hey remember this thing.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Yeah that remember this.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
Thing that's like about right now. So you have like
you have like I think it's meet the Spartans, one
of these you have like bald Britney Spears.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
Yeah, yeah, just like I'm Britney and she has to
say I'm Britney Spears, y'all. Yeah, they have to like
announce what they are.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
And that's a joke that means absolutely nothing right now.

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
Yeah, and it's not even a joke. It's just referencing
something that happened.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
Yeah, you know, you know what It would be like
if if on the the little clip thing, if we
see something about that couple who's cheating at the Cold
Blay concert.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
Oh oh, if there were a parody movie coming out
next month, they would like hurry up and like shoot,
like yeah, one little gag and it would just reference it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
Yeah, and then and then people in at that moment
be like is that thing? And then like a year
from now, nobody would know it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
Yep, you know. I love that gag too. And the
everybody's spitting and then the players wives all just knitting
and sitting there and.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Spitting, spitting, knitting and spitting.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
Yeah, yeah, this is hilarious. Or he's like feeling up
every player Yeah, a little tight in the crutch here, Yeah,
and the only catch her and he.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
Gets And I like how Frank starts getting into it
as the Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
Well, when you know the joke's coming, you're leaning forward
a little bit, like anticipating it. But I admire the patience,
like it does settle a little bit, so you can
appreciate the escalation of him getting into it, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
I totally agree.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Yeah, yeah, this right here where he's just not thinking
about it and they all waiting for the call. He's like, right, well,
I just said the crowd cherry.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
You just love thee like one and that guy looked
like Anthony Edwards by the way he does. Yeah, right,
Like I had to I had to double check for
a second. I was like, wait, a sect.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
And then he starts like making the calls before the
ball cross the plate strike three. Hey, hey, hey, I
was wondering if that's him or a body double. I
mean the dancing obviously, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
I think what we just saw that's him. But yeah,
once we get to like the like moonwalking and stuff, I.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
Mean, this is always funny. This is yeah, yeah, the moonwalk.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Like that's not him.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
Yeah, I mean it made me laugh when I was ten,
and it's made me laugh now in my forties. Oh
and there was a deleted scene that I thought was

(01:13:45):
really funny. I think about a lot. I couldn't believe.
I didn't realize it wasn't in the theatrical cut where
there's you know, sometimes the catcher will call time out
and join the picture and a manager will come out
and they'll confer at the picture's mound, And there was
a scene where the conferring on the pitcher's mound and
you see what they're talking about, and they're talking about
like real estate investments.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Oh, how weird. Like I remember seeing that as well.
Maybe I must have seen it on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
I guess, yeah, you two are Comedy Central or something
at some point. But I always thought that was kind
of funny, like, oh, when they're out there, they're just
talking about real life stuff, just shooting the shit. Yeah,
this song is so perfect too. They still play this
when the Dodgers win. I love is that right? Yeah?

(01:14:32):
Which apparently, I mean, we have the Angels here, but
this was shot at Dodger Stadium. I was kind of
confused at the end because Angel Stadium is in Anaheim
and at the end you can see the La skyline.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
I was like, wait, yeah, but let's be only only you,
and you know, you're intimately familiar with the area would
know that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
Yeah. Well, And also I should say it's a horrifying
view of the downtown skyline because it is just choking
in smock. It looks so and it's not that far
away in the stadium. It's kind of horrifying. I kind
of remember this being a big gag too when we
were younger about like pitch or signals to the catcher

(01:15:15):
right from like the bass coach.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
That's like a Simpsons thing too.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like just how weird they they are.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
When I signal you not once, not twice, but thrice.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Right right exactly. It's hilarious. The queen doing the wave.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
See, this is what I'm realizing is having having spent
many of my formative years in Saudi Arabia. Like my
concept of baseball was was built entirely around pop culture
depictions from from sitcoms and things like this.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
You know, it feels like it was featured in a
lot more things. I mean, Builder, room Field of Dreams,
you know, the Ki of the Year, Rookie of the Year,
all these movies. Yeah, I was having a moment.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Is Rookie of the Year, the one with Daniel Stern?

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Yes, I think he directed it and he plays like
a wacky he directed it to coach or something. Yeah, yeah,
good for him. Yeah, and I'll never forget that's a
funky butt loving.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
Funky butt loving yeah, yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
Whoever came up with that, give that guy a raise,
because I haven't forgotten that in like thirty years. So
this is fine. Now you get the reverse joke. He
has to stall so he has to keep playing the
wrong calls.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
I read also that when Leslie Nielsen passed in twenty ten,
ESPN published an obituary for Enrico Palazzo.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
That's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
Yeah, that's like.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
Cut joke.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Yeah, that's like, that's like, that's a really knowing, loving tribute.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Leslie Nielsen would have would have chuckled and and and
played his fart.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
Machine takes it exactly exactly, but it's just so funny.
Throwing all the baseballs in the air, just trying to
I love, he's just pissing everybody off.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Who is it?

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
And one of the guys, I remember, one of the players,
he was like, what they hatch a funny sound? And
this is the thing too. I don't watch a ton
of baseball these days, but I remember as a kid
growing up, it was like such a big deal when
a coach would go out there and yell at an

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ump and then you know, certain coaches were really fiery
and they would like kick up dirt, you know, So
like seeing it here in a comedy context was hilarious.
And it's like the umpires doing it to each other.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Yeah, you're out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
And I love when they Yeah, they got the rundown
going on. And then eventually the player who's in the
middle of the rundown catches the ball and it's like
like throw the ball away. It's so good. Yeah this, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. So I'm trying not to just like read,

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it's easy to just get pulled in this. You're out
of here. So eventually, uh, Reggie Jackson is the guy
who gets activated here. That's right. And I guess he
was retired at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Oh interesting, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
Yeah, and then uh, and I think about this all
the time. I almost kill the queen, the queen. I
remember there was a movie we watched a couple within
the past couple of years where someone was hypnotized, and
I remember joking with you, like, I must kill the queen.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
What would that have been that we watched?

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Man, I don't even know. Oh, this is gonna bug
me now. Isn't he good though? Like these like robotic
movements for being an athlete.

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
I mean, not being a professional actor. He knows the assignment.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Yeah. Well, and I guess when the queen passed away?
The actual Reggie Jackson tweeted, Now we all know I'm innocent,
ri ip queen E.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
That's really fine. So I'm remembering now. This is just
a few months ago, Brian, you and I did a
commentary for Captain America Civil War. Oh okay and yeah,
and I started by right when we started the track,
I was reading off the trigger words. Yes, and then

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you were like, I must kill the queen.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
Oh man, I've that is a fantastic memory. Yeah, I
remember it now. I love the players like it's just
a big pylon just punching each other, and then the
queen just like just sitting there watching. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
I don't think we commented on before, but I love
the little just the throw a gag of the queen
having to pass the hot dog over.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
Yes, yes, which I don't feel like people do as
much these days. But I do remember doing that when
I was younger, Like you pass people's food too much
a thing?

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Yeah, we got him walking like a robot.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
He's he's so good. Well. Yeah, I was wondering if
this was like provocative at the time, like I feel
like nowadays this might be a little more provocative showing
someone point a gun at a real person.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
It's like, let's have a heavy set person fall on him.
Like that's basically the game I know, I know, no
Umpire Francis from Phewey's Big Adventure.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Yeah, that's a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:20:53):
So this too, where it's clearly a dummy that mantlebond
there like a sex dollar or something.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
That he's like, yeah, like whipping around.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
What's funny because yeah, with that big baseball pylon you
also see yeah, like a dummies. Just remember what's the
dummy budget on this movie? This is also uh trimmed
down okay from the version I grew up with, and
you can see little evidence of it. So basically, uh,

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Montabon does shoot Frank okay, but it hits his chest protector,
the umpire chest protector, and so he continues monologuing and
the chest protector is like like these like silly noises
and it's slowly see now you can see it's deflated.
Oh how funny cut that out? Yeah, but you don't

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even notice it, and it's bad. This thing here where
this is as a kid, this was so funny to me.
I'd never seen anything like this.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
This is a classic Simpson style gag right here totally.

Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
So not only is the bad guy dead and he's
plummeted to his death, but then a bus drives by
and runs over him. Then a steamroller, and then.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
A university marching band well, and then George Kennedy, you know, like, oh,
my father went away.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
My father went the same way. See you look at
how smogged out the skyline is there. So does it
not look like that anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
I mean, we have our bad days, but not like that,
not like that. Yeah, it was pretty It was pretty
bad in the eighties. I remember, yeah, yeah, yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:45):
Was like, yeah, it was like a joke that the
nation knew. Yeah. I saw this funny note on IMDb
in the trivia section. Someone called out that said, in
nineteen eighty eight, there were three comedies where people were
run over by steamrollers. So there was this one who
framed Roger Rabbit and a fish called Wanda Wow all

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the same year. Isn't that a funny weird to hit.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
The comedy'site geist at the right time.

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
I guess. Yeah. It's such a horrifying thing too.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
I mean, in the first Austin Powers, the steamroller gag
is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
Hilarious, yeah, right, yeah, because the guy has all the
time in the world to get out of the way.
They're like, get out. He's like, na, so funny, But
I you know what I love about this too. I
realize I love big crowd comedy kind of like Springfield. Yeah, sure,

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everybody there's everybody is going crazy or everybody's sad, or
everybody's happy. And this is kind of funny because yeah,
Jane's been brainwashed and Frank is trying to talk her
out of it. Dig deep, get in contact with their
love to break out of it. But like the whole
stadium is kind of watching, and then it leads to
all them like like love is in the air and

(01:24:09):
they all start crying each other and like a Maleman
and a dog or like get it, you know, maybe
know It's just I love it so well.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
And partly what makes this whole thing work is like
he's saying a lot of nonsense, but he's delivering with
absolute sincerity.

Speaker 1 (01:24:26):
Yes, actually I wanted to call that out earlier. I
remember thinking that during the pistachio scene. It's like a
real trick where they really don't care if you're listening
to what they're saying, like they want you to look
at the funny thing that they're doing or something happening
in the background, but they do still have to talk

(01:24:47):
for twenty five seconds, so you can observe the visual gag.
And so there's like, but I find myself, you know,
seven times out of ten, not listening to a word
they're saying, right exactly. So it's like, you want want
to write something that has to do with the plot,
but also it can't be that important because they know
you're probably not listening, not painting. That's a good point.

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This is just so funny, all these people.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
So this I remember for sure when I was a kid,
the version that I had in said Arabia where the
Arab guy and the Jewish guy hug that was cut out.
Oh really, I remember that for certain. Oh wow, I
don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:25:21):
It seems like it's a nice message, yeah, a nice sentiment.
Well then we get oj back, so yeah, i'd forgotten
he's he's not in this a lot. I mean, he's
way more featured in the sequels.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
Yeah, and like he's fine, he's funny, but but you know,
I don't think you can escape the sort of specter
of you know, all of that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:44):
Yeah, it's kind of strange, right, Like I I'm still
able to watch these because it's so cemented in my
brain what he's doing in this in these movies, right,
but there is yeah, like say a specter kind of
hanging over it. I mean, come on, that's lean and
mean and just wall to wall comedy.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
It does the trick you know, people who acted in
the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
Yeah, these credits are layers, and I love it's funny
how they do this. But it's also kind of clever
where there's certain actors they credit them by the one
line that they say, you know it's in Mico Palazzo
instead of like guy in stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
I love that. It's like Thug number one and Thug
number twenty seven right right through twenty six, weren't weren't
important enough, you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
Know, right right right? I can't want to say I
know the conu yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Yeah is yeah, please disperse, please disperst hey look out
like it's just it's clever and funny.

Speaker 1 (01:26:48):
And it's funny because as they went on with these parodies,
I mean you get hot shots. Oh, which we didn't
mention the hot shots, I don't think, but hot shots.
Hot shots are do hilarious. Yes, and one of one
of these guys is involved. I don't remember who. Maybe Abrams.
I think he might have directed them hot Shots, Yeah,
hot shots. But that's another one where you watch the

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credits and they go even like further. Yeah, you know
it'll have like recipes for brownies and things like that.
But ah, man, this is the perfect way to spend
a Sunday morning with the Zachi.

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
I know, it just breezes by. And the great thing
about this movie is it doesn't matter how many times
you watch it, it still makes you laugh, which I mean
that's truly the test of comedy is is you know,
we're we're thirty seven years out at the as of
this recording. Wow, still hilarious, and you know people are
going to keep watching it. I mean, I have no

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idea where where the new film will land as as
it relates to this one, but the bar is pretty high.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
Oh yeah, yeah. I mean, and you I think you
hit the nail on the head when we were sort
of talking about basketball and some these other comedies. It's
I mean, look, you don't want to make your thing,
you don't want to restrict it. I mean, if you
want to have your dirty joke, do your dirty joke.
If you want to have something that feels like in
the moment people will laugh at and maybe they won't
laugh at in twenty years toss it in why not? Yeah,

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But like the real guiding light should be, by and large,
make things that are just you know, timeless, and don't
rely on something else to be funny. Just you know,
work really hard to make things that are just funny,
flat out funny on their face, you know, and then

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you're gonna have something that's gonna last, you know, basically
forty years later, and you can have people like us
still watching it and cracking up at it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
That's I mean, clearly easier said than done. Oh absolutely, absolutely,
That's really the thing, because it's hard to think of
recent comedies that work like this, and I'm sure they are,
they do exist, and I'm just I'm blanking a little
bit and I'm trying not to come off like a
curmudgingly old man.

Speaker 1 (01:29:04):
But no, not at all. I really just mean it
as an observation because there are other movies that haven't
aged as well or just I laugh at because they
were funny in the moment and I have nostalgia for them.
They're still funny and they serve their purpose, but like,
you know, you got to commend this one and really
recognize and admire.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Went it went the distance and it has gone the distance. Yeah, exactly,
And well that's a good place to leave this discussion. Yeah, Hey,
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Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
There you go, and with that on behalf of my
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Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
This has been our.

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Commentary track for The Naked Gun from the files of
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