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Continue with The Naked Gun films. But I recommend the TV show. It's only 6 30 min episodes. I believe the "Best Used by July 8, 1982" in the expired food scene was the day the last episode aired. They reused a lot of the same jokes.
Fun fact: When this came out, weird al went on several dates, and took them to see this, not telling him he was in it, wearing the same shirt he's wearing in the movie.
Vaseline joke: baseball pitchers used to use it to help them cheat. The detective, disguised as the umpire, found the pitcher cheating but wasn't interested in that.
Drebin also found sandpaper on the same pitcher. The joke is that the pitcher was scuffing the balls to make his pitches easier to control, which is of course cheating.
Shan, You would love the Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies. I believe Casino Royale is unofficially the first Pink Panther movie. Then comes The Pink Panther. Both of these movies are good, but every movie that comes after are all truly great must watch and rewatch classics. Steve Martin made his Pink Panther movie because he loved the originals so much. It’s a shame that such a huge and talented fan could not come close to the comedy gold of the originals.
FUN FACT: The sleeper agent secretary is the Zucker's mom. She has small roles in most of her sons' movies. You might remember her as the make-up lady in Airplane. She was also a bank teller in Ghost.
Ludwig was played by Ricardo Montalban, who was known for the 70s TV series Fantasy Island, Chrysler commercials, and as one of Star Trek's greatest villains, Khan Noonien Singh, appearing in both an original series episode and Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan.
He was a huge star in Mexico, was on the verge stardom here, but could never find the recurring and starring roles to break out. B roles, Broadway, TV guest star, then Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, and the the beat goes on.
That $20 gag with the guy on the pier is one of my all-time favorites in any movie. I almost die laughing every time I see it. Frank walking around the set during the gadget sequence is another favorite of mine - very similar to the gag where Kramer steps through the mirror in Airplane! So is when he's on the sidewalk and asks, "And where the hell was I?"
OJ was actually becoming a well known comedic actor. In fact my favorite but of Trivia is that James Cameron while working on Terminator had it suggested by the studio to cast OJ as the Terminator and Cameron famously said at the time “nobody would ever believe OJ to be a killer”.
When Frank walked into the room and asked "Where's Nordberg?" that was because in the Police Squad TV Series which came first, Nordberg was a white guy.
The driving instructor was played by John Houseman. With Orson Welles he was a co-founder of the Mercury Theater and co-producer of _Citizen Kane._ He also was the founder and first director of the acting program at Julliard. He was one of the most significant figures in American theater. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for portraying a law professor in _The Paper Chase_ (1973). He was then tapped to reprise his role when _The Paper Chase_ was developed into a TV series (1978-86), so at the time of filming _The Naked Gun_ everyone would recognize him as Prof. Kingsfield. In _Police Squad_ one running joke was that there was a shoeshine guy who was everyone's go-to for information, and not just for crime; he seemed to know anything people would ask him about. They didn't do a back and forth with money, though.
Lotsa great stuff!👍 Also, John Houseman read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in Bill Murray's 'Scrooged' with the best: "Bah, humbug!" & grouchy glare at the camera!
The snacks they were eating during the stake out were pistachios. Growers used to dye the imperfect shells red to make them more appealing. They would stain your hands and lips.
I remember back then, there were many jokes about the birthmark on Gorbachev's forehead being fake or ketchup or something. So that was the joke when Frank wiped it off and said "I knew it".
9:07 - You never cease to amaze me Shanelle. You knew who Cheech & Chong are, grew up on Three's Company, know how Weird Al is...but aren't aware he was a huge star BACK THEN? You should look up Fat (parody of Michael Jackson's Bad), Eat It (parody of Michael Jackson's Beat It), and Like A Surgeon (parody of Madonna's Like A Virgin). Those were just some of his greatest hits from the '80s. He didn't do much in the '90s and then came back big in the '00s.
My favorite scene is when Frank is on the ledge. While on stake out Frank and Ed were eating red pistachio nuts. And, it must have been a long stake out with all the shells piled up outside of Frank's door.
@24:11 This is the snack Shanelle. The nuts would be dyed red to hide natural stains on the shells. Nowadays they have better harvesting methods to prevent the shells from falling on the ground so they don't need to dye them anymore.
The woman who shoots at Papshmear is the Zucker brothers mother. She appeared in "Airplane" as the woman who smears lipstick all over her face. Leslie Nielson has been in comedies before like Don Knott's "The Reluctant Astronaut" but as the straight man.
At the risk of ejection or suspension, MLB pitchers have been known to doctor the ball in order to get extra maneuverability, using giving more drop to curveballs. Vaseline is just one of many substances that been used.
20:34 You should watch the entire Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers, one of the best comedians of all time, Steve Martin's Pink Panther can't compare to him at all. Sellers' short advertisement for Russian cigarettes is also excellent😁
Fun fact. The "America the Beautiful" you recognized during the opening of the baseball game, was actually "My Country Tis of Thee", but BEFORE that, it was the British hymn "God Save the Queen". We stole it from the Brits (note for note) and changed the lyrics to celebrate American culture.😊
The USA did that a bit. Even the Star-Spangled Banner national anthem melody was originally for an English drinking song called "The Anacreontic Song".
Watch the original Pink Panther with Peter Sellers and its sequel: A Shot In The Dark... then see if you wanna go further with the sequels...Also, pitchers would keep vaseline on the underside of the hat bill so they could "doctor" the ball (considered illegal)... the ballplayer / assassin was Hall Of Famer Reggie Jackson... the guy from "Pee Wee" was also on the basketball team in Teen Wolf with Michael J. Fox...
The Man that you say looks like Tony Bennett was Ricardo Montalban. He starred in the TV series ‘Fantasy Island’ (1977 - 1984). He also played Khan in the 1982 ‘Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan’.
At the end of the movie, the outfielder #44 is Reggie Jackson. He was a right fielder and Hall of Fame baseball player. He played for the Kansas City Athletics, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and California Angels. Yes, they were the California Angels back then. If you haven’t seen the movie with Trey Parker and Matt Stone called Baseketball yet, I highly recommend it. There is a great scene where they talk about sports teams changing locations.
There's a gag for the ankle bracelet. She asks something like "how did that get down there," where we're to infer that the ankle bracelet somehow slid from her wrist down to her ankle.
9:06 In the 80’s “Weird” Al Yankovic was definitely popular; spoofing songs like Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”, and Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock n Roll”. And it continued into the 90’s covering Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”, and even Don McLean’s “American Pie”, which was used to spoof the story of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace(1999).
Leslie Nielsen's brother Erik was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. For a change of pace, I recommend "Men With Brooms", a comedy with Nielsen about curling.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this movie and still laugh hysterically at it!! I even used to see Police Squad as a kid which was amazing too. I think my favorite part was the interrogation at the dock with the money exchange.
You have to cover Top Secret! with Val Kilmer by these same people. I mean you personally to witness the kinds of scenes they put together in that one. There are some scenes that are just amazing work. Oh and I would heighten the base cleaning joke by having Frank come in from off screen driving a street cleaner. Because part of their comedy is to motion towards something that is difficult to anticipate in order to take the audience off guard but I would also want to keep the same gag running of course. No punchline on that joke btw and I think because the later plot point is the gun was hidden underneath the base. Like Ricardo Montalban falls from the building to the street. Run over by a utility vehicle. Run over by a steam roller. Run over by a marching band playing Louie Louie. Punchline: George Kennedy says "My father went the same way."
Actually he had made what I believe was his first movie appearance earlier that same year (1974) in a movie called The Klansman with Richard Burton and Lee Marvin. He appeared a little later in a movie I really like, The Cassandra Crossing, which has incredibly cheesy dialogue but a wonderfully suspenseful plot - the main stars are Richard Harris, Sophia Loren, and Burt Lancaster, and it also features Martin Sheen, Ava Gardner, and Lee Strassberg (Hyman Roth in the second Godfather movie). I think it really deserves to be far better remembered than it is.
23:51 They're eating pistachios. Some of them were packaged in red dye back in the day. For all I know they may still be around, though I haven't seen them in years. Those are the shells piled up, outside the car door.
They stopped coloring pistachio shells red soon after this movie came out. Improved harvesting and shipping methods eliminated the ugly stains that the red dye was meant to cover up.
Funny story. I used to stock the produce section at the local grocery store. I would sneak into the cooler to eat the bulk pistachios. I stopped when I realized that I might get caught 'red handed'.
Sometime in the late 90s early the city of Wauwatosa Wisconsin made Leslie Neilson the grand marshal of what they claimed was the worlds shortest (and cheapest) parade. He sat atop the roof of the deliver van for local restaurant Champion chicken (it has a fiberglass chicken atop of it that LN had mounted it like a horse) as it drove out of the parking lot and back into it behind the Tosa East marching band while local children carried in line a banner with the name Enrico Pilazzo printed from a dot matrix tractor fed printer from the TRS-80 /commodore 64 computer program Print Shop
The ankle bracelet joke was immediate so it didn't need a call-back. When Frank points it out, Jane complains that her wrist bracelet keeps slipping down there.
So as to what they were eating in the car, it was pistachios. Back in the day, they were convinced no one would want to eat a green nut, so they dyed them red. Problem was, the dye came off on everything. The joke was more about how many he ate and the pile of shells outside the car door.
the guy with the fish is Ricardo Montalban a Mexican actor. He did a TV show called, "Fantasy Island". He did commercials for the Chrysler Cordoba, which is wear Deadpool got the line, "Rich Corinthian leather.
You definitely should watch the first Pink Panther movie, the one with Peter Sellers and David Niven. I would be very curious to see what you thought about it. As much as I love Steve Marin, he absolutely failed to capture the Sellers character of Inspector Clouseau. Martin's Inspector was an idiot who eventually realized he was an idiot and made good. Sellers' inspector was a Force of Nature.
Here's my favorite joke from the TV show. 2 characters are talking and one suggests they continue in the Chinese garden. They walk out and a bunch of Asian people are standing in pots.
13:35 - That is Ricardo Montalban, he was a HUUUUUUUGE TV star in the 70's and 80's, most famous for a TV show called FANTASY ISLAND. He has a huge and illustrious career, but probably the thing he's most remembered for today is playing the villain Khan Noonien Singh from the original STAR TREK show and the movie STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (which is hailed as being the best and most cinematically artistic STAR TREK film by most fans including because of Ricardo's amazing performance in it).
I was 8 in 1990, and my dad would take us to the local video store to rent movies once a week. I saw the cover, and thought it looked like a funny movie, so my dad let me rent it. My friends and I watched it over and over for a whole week before it had to be back. We laughed hysterically the whole way through. As I've gotten older, I'm not sure why my dad thought this movie was appropriate for a bunch of 7 and 8 year olds to watch.
09:07 - Weird Al became a household name by the early 1980's. His parodies of "Beat It" and "Like A Virgin" were gigantic. Weird Al only parodied songs while the originals were usually still in the charts, so when you hear him covering early 80's tracks its because he was around back then.
The OJ stuff happened in 1994 just months after the release of the third film. 11:51 in 2013 I was working as a PA on on show and one of the producers and I had to stand in for talent which included being mic’d up for the run through. Taking a short break the producer turn to me and says “I have to pee” as soon she said she remembered she was mic’d. When we went to the A2 to get to get the mics removed she obviously heard the conversation because she had an amused smirk on her face. Another time while working as a Story assistant I overhear a conversation by the talent over whether their mics were still on as they headed to the restroom, they were still on.
There's a history of former sports players taking up acting such as swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and Esther Williams, skater Sonja Henie and others. Specifically the film "Zero Hour!" which "Airplane!" was primarily based on had Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch as a pilot and so "Airplane!" had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a co-pilot.
11:43 This happened to me on Discord. Was playing in a DnD campaign and had to step away for a sec but forgot to mute my mic. Went to the bathroom and came back to howls of laughter. At least I washed my hands before coming back.
Very similar style of humor to the 'Airplane' movies. Leslie Nielsen definitely made the successful transition later in his career from dramatic actor to comedy star.
"I don't know this actor" That's Ricardo Montalban - those familiar with Star Trek will know him for portraying genetically engineered villain Kahn Noonan Singh in the TOS episode "Space Seed" and the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn" - he also played the lead role on the 70's TV show "Fantasy Island" revolving around the owner of a mysterious island who could grant the wishes of his clients. He also played bit parts in various westerns etc. through his life and was a very gracious gentleman in real life, quite the opposite of the villainous characters he often portrayed.
13:27 Oh, that is the late, great, Ricardo Montalban. He made the ad line "rich Corinthian leather" sound good, he brought class to Fantasy Island, and he was a TERRIFYING villain when he played (inhaling) KHAAAANNNNN!!! in Star Trek II.
In this universe, Shanelle don't know who Richard Montalban be, but she knows who Tony Bennett is. Arguably, the harder and more obscure celebrity to know.
The scene where the car gets away and runs over a fire hydrant was filmed in a Los Angeles Water and Power yard that I worked at. One day, a fire hydrant appeared by the yard entrance and was gone that evening. I didn't realize why until I watched this movie. The "anti-graffiti wall" was across the street from our yard
Just here for the Weird Al thing-- He's from Lynwood! He's been on the parody song grind since 1976, when he got his music featured on Dr. Demento at the age of 16!
On the DVD commentary of this movie, when O.J is skulking around the docks in the dark wearing all black, Jim Abrams asks, "Now, is this actual footage of O.J....?"
RED PISTACHIOS! Man!! It's crazy that when I see reactors watch the scene in the car, they have no idea what they are eating. I'm still getting used to pistachios NOT being red anymore. Pistachios used to be dyed red. I forgot why exactly, something to do with hiding the look of something in them. I saw this movie in the theater.
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So this was the spon you were talking about. Congrats! How'd you manage to film it though? Did you get the camera fixed or had to get a new one?
There’s a MUCH better parody movie this actor. SPY HARD
Continue with The Naked Gun films. But I recommend the TV show. It's only 6 30 min episodes.
I believe the "Best Used by July 8, 1982" in the expired food scene was the day the last episode aired. They reused a lot of the same jokes.
RIP Jim Abrhams just died in November.
Shelled pistachios were once died red. Younger people are unaware of it.
And she probably had the ice cream.
america does love its poisonous red dye that took till now to ban.
I remember when, 3000 years ago, pistachios made your mouth red and black licorice turned your tongue black.
Reminds me of when I buy Lays Flaming Hot sunflower seeds. Your fingers stay red for days no matter how much soap you use or how hard you scrub.
@OP
Just fyi, the shells of UNSHELLED pistachios were dyed red.
Shelled pistachios are already out of the shell.
Fun fact: When this came out, weird al went on several dates, and took them to see this, not telling him he was in it, wearing the same shirt he's wearing in the movie.
Isn't he always in the same shirt?
Vaseline joke: baseball pitchers used to use it to help them cheat. The detective, disguised as the umpire, found the pitcher cheating but wasn't interested in that.
Drebin also found sandpaper on the same pitcher. The joke is that the pitcher was scuffing the balls to make his pitches easier to control, which is of course cheating.
Pitchers are still looking for ways to cheat.
A few years ago the big trend was Spider Tack.
If your only experience of the Pink Panther movies is the Steve Martin version then you haven’t really seen the Pink Panther movies.
Shan, You would love the Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies.
I believe Casino Royale is unofficially the first Pink Panther movie. Then comes The Pink Panther. Both of these movies are good, but every movie that comes after are all truly great must watch and rewatch classics.
Steve Martin made his Pink Panther movie because he loved the originals so much. It’s a shame that such a huge and talented fan could not come close to the comedy gold of the originals.
Only one Pink Panther Peter Sellers!
The Steve Martin version was HORRENDOUS.
FUN FACT: The sleeper agent secretary is the Zucker's mom. She has small roles in most of her sons' movies. You might remember her as the make-up lady in Airplane. She was also a bank teller in Ghost.
Ludwig was played by Ricardo Montalban, who was known for the 70s TV series Fantasy Island, Chrysler commercials, and as one of Star Trek's greatest villains, Khan Noonien Singh, appearing in both an original series episode and Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan.
You beat me to it.
@@philherman8633He beat me as well.
pure Corinthian leather
Ah yes, Chrysler's great Corinthian leather.
He was a huge star in Mexico, was on the verge stardom here, but could never find the recurring and starring roles to break out. B roles, Broadway, TV guest star, then Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, and the the beat goes on.
That $20 gag with the guy on the pier is one of my all-time favorites in any movie. I almost die laughing every time I see it. Frank walking around the set during the gadget sequence is another favorite of mine - very similar to the gag where Kramer steps through the mirror in Airplane! So is when he's on the sidewalk and asks, "And where the hell was I?"
The Three Stooges did an almost similar gag in the Thirties. ua-cam.com/video/pENxsLVR_Xs/v-deo.html
Frank: "That's a honey of an ankle bracelet." Jane: "Oh, did that slip down there again?"
24:01 They were eating pistachios. They used to dye the shells red. I remember they would sell special Christmas packs that were red and green.
OJ was actually becoming a well known comedic actor. In fact my favorite but of Trivia is that James Cameron while working on Terminator had it suggested by the studio to cast OJ as the Terminator and Cameron famously said at the time “nobody would ever believe OJ to be a killer”.
OJ was also in one of my favorite little sci-fi gems from 1978 called "Capricorn One". Besides O.J. its got an all-star cast and a great soundtrack.
When Frank walked into the room and asked "Where's Nordberg?" that was because in the Police Squad TV Series which came first, Nordberg was a white guy.
I think it was NORBERG in the TV show but I never got that joke
They probably changed the name for some legal reason
We never saw the original actor's face.
@@johncampbell756 yes we did. It was the big guy from the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE TV show
@kunserndsittizen2655 You're right. What was the name of the really tall guy whose head was always out of frame?
The driving instructor was played by John Houseman. With Orson Welles he was a co-founder of the Mercury Theater and co-producer of _Citizen Kane._ He also was the founder and first director of the acting program at Julliard. He was one of the most significant figures in American theater. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for portraying a law professor in _The Paper Chase_ (1973). He was then tapped to reprise his role when _The Paper Chase_ was developed into a TV series (1978-86), so at the time of filming _The Naked Gun_ everyone would recognize him as Prof. Kingsfield.
In _Police Squad_ one running joke was that there was a shoeshine guy who was everyone's go-to for information, and not just for crime; he seemed to know anything people would ask him about. They didn't do a back and forth with money, though.
Lotsa great stuff!👍 Also, John Houseman read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in Bill Murray's 'Scrooged' with the best: "Bah, humbug!" & grouchy glare at the camera!
He was even introduced as the legendary John Houseman by the Narrator in Scrooged!
The snacks they were eating during the stake out were pistachios. Growers used to dye the imperfect shells red to make them more appealing. They would stain your hands and lips.
I remember back then, there were many jokes about the birthmark on Gorbachev's forehead being fake or ketchup or something. So that was the joke when Frank wiped it off and said "I knew it".
That is the real Dr. Joyce Brothers, at the ball park. She was a psychologist, and had a advice column. I'll leave it there.
9:07 - You never cease to amaze me Shanelle. You knew who Cheech & Chong are, grew up on Three's Company, know how Weird Al is...but aren't aware he was a huge star BACK THEN? You should look up Fat (parody of Michael Jackson's Bad), Eat It (parody of Michael Jackson's Beat It), and Like A Surgeon (parody of Madonna's Like A Virgin). Those were just some of his greatest hits from the '80s. He didn't do much in the '90s and then came back big in the '00s.
32:06 she said about the bracelet "did that slip down there again?" I think it was a regular wrist bracelet hence the subtle joke.
My favorite scene is when Frank is on the ledge. While on stake out Frank and Ed were eating red pistachio nuts. And, it must have been a long stake out with all the shells piled up outside of Frank's door.
@24:11 This is the snack Shanelle. The nuts would be dyed red to hide natural stains on the shells. Nowadays they have better harvesting methods to prevent the shells from falling on the ground so they don't need to dye them anymore.
I have yet to see a reacter know what the snack is.
The woman who shoots at Papshmear is the Zucker brothers mother. She appeared in "Airplane" as the woman who smears lipstick all over her face.
Leslie Nielson has been in comedies before like Don Knott's "The Reluctant Astronaut" but as the straight man.
At the risk of ejection or suspension, MLB pitchers have been known to doctor the ball in order to get extra maneuverability, using giving more drop to curveballs. Vaseline is just one of many substances that been used.
Weird Al's first self-titled album was released in '83. His star-making hit "Eat It" was on his second album, "In 3-D," released the following year.
'88 was such a huge year. Even Worse burned out my Walkman.
Weird Al was discovered by Dr Demento radio show.
20:34
You should watch the entire Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers, one of the best comedians of all time, Steve Martin's Pink Panther can't compare to him at all. Sellers' short advertisement for Russian cigarettes is also excellent😁
Fun fact. The "America the Beautiful" you recognized during the opening of the baseball game, was actually "My Country Tis of Thee", but BEFORE that, it was the British hymn "God Save the Queen". We stole it from the Brits (note for note) and changed the lyrics to celebrate American culture.😊
The USA did that a bit. Even the Star-Spangled Banner national anthem melody was originally for an English drinking song called "The Anacreontic Song".
It's not a hymn it's the British national anthem
@@pauwoo A song can be a hymn and an anthem. They are not mutually exclusive.
If I'm not mistaken when Leslie Nielsen died, ESPN published an obituary "R.I.P Enrico Palazzo".
Someone didn't watch the trivia section...
Girl, Priscilla Presley ain’t Elvis’ daughter. She was his wife.
Not exactly who I thought you would associate with Pink Panther. Pink Panther dates back to the 60's and was made famous by PEter Sellers.
Weird Al Yankovic's been doing his thing since the early 1980s. He really should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
That beaver joke is my favorite
That was a really nice beaver 😂
So good that almost no one notices the double meaning of "I just had it stuffed." a second later.
OJ was well known as a football player, sports commentator, rental car pitchman and occasional actor.
Also, murder. There was murder.
Watch the original Pink Panther with Peter Sellers and its sequel: A Shot In The Dark... then see if you wanna go further with the sequels...Also, pitchers would keep vaseline on the underside of the hat bill so they could "doctor" the ball (considered illegal)... the ballplayer / assassin was Hall Of Famer Reggie Jackson... the guy from "Pee Wee" was also on the basketball team in Teen Wolf with Michael J. Fox...
The Man that you say looks like Tony Bennett was Ricardo Montalban. He starred in the TV series ‘Fantasy Island’ (1977 - 1984). He also played Khan in the 1982 ‘Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan’.
Weird Al goes back to the early 80s. His career has been incredibly long-lived.
At the end of the movie, the outfielder #44 is Reggie Jackson. He was a right fielder and Hall of Fame baseball player.
He played for the Kansas City Athletics, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and California Angels. Yes, they were the California Angels back then.
If you haven’t seen the movie with Trey Parker and Matt Stone called Baseketball yet, I highly recommend it. There is a great scene where they talk about sports teams changing locations.
The villain is Ricardo montalban, famous for his roles on fantasy island tv show, and for playing khan on star trek and star trek 2
And that stinkin' Chrysler automobile commercial. lol
There's a gag for the ankle bracelet. She asks something like "how did that get down there," where we're to infer that the ankle bracelet somehow slid from her wrist down to her ankle.
9:06 In the 80’s “Weird” Al Yankovic was definitely popular; spoofing songs like Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”, and Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock n Roll”. And it continued into the 90’s covering Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”, and even Don McLean’s “American Pie”, which was used to spoof the story of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace(1999).
Leslie Nielsen's brother Erik was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. For a change of pace, I recommend "Men With Brooms", a comedy with Nielsen about curling.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this movie and still laugh hysterically at it!! I even used to see Police Squad as a kid which was amazing too. I think my favorite part was the interrogation at the dock with the money exchange.
Two films of Leslie Nielson that I loved was "Forbidden Planet" and "The Poseidon Adventure".
The funniest bit in the movie is when Frank calls strike 3 when the ball was nowhere near the plate yet. 😂
You have to cover Top Secret! with Val Kilmer by these same people. I mean you personally to witness the kinds of scenes they put together in that one. There are some scenes that are just amazing work.
Oh and I would heighten the base cleaning joke by having Frank come in from off screen driving a street cleaner. Because part of their comedy is to motion towards something that is difficult to anticipate in order to take the audience off guard but I would also want to keep the same gag running of course.
No punchline on that joke btw and I think because the later plot point is the gun was hidden underneath the base. Like Ricardo Montalban falls from the building to the street. Run over by a utility vehicle. Run over by a steam roller. Run over by a marching band playing Louie Louie. Punchline: George Kennedy says "My father went the same way."
Sigh, Shanelle reaction on a Sat night, popcorn, and big smiles. Life is good!
The Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies are very much in line with the ZAZ style humor. You would enjoy them.
30:37 that’s actually “God Save the Queen”
Finally you are watching the naked gun!! 🎉 watched it many many times, especially when I was just a kid
Love that you're watching classic comedies!
"I gotta get....inside" *eyes dart as realization sets in that it's his car* LOL!
This is a wonderful trilogy. Thanks so much for watching and sharing your reaction. Please watch Hot Shots!.
Leslie Nielsen is a treasure
Was…..RIP
I've probably seen this movie no fewer than 40 times in my lifetime. How can you not keep coming back to it?
OJ had been an actor since at least The Towering Inferno in the early 70s.
Actually he had made what I believe was his first movie appearance earlier that same year (1974) in a movie called The Klansman with Richard Burton and Lee Marvin. He appeared a little later in a movie I really like, The Cassandra Crossing, which has incredibly cheesy dialogue but a wonderfully suspenseful plot - the main stars are Richard Harris, Sophia Loren, and Burt Lancaster, and it also features Martin Sheen, Ava Gardner, and Lee Strassberg (Hyman Roth in the second Godfather movie). I think it really deserves to be far better remembered than it is.
23:51 They're eating pistachios. Some of them were packaged in red dye back in the day. For all I know they may still be around, though I haven't seen them in years. Those are the shells piled up, outside the car door.
They stopped coloring pistachio shells red soon after this movie came out. Improved harvesting and shipping methods eliminated the ugly stains that the red dye was meant to cover up.
Pistachios used to be dyed red
Funny story. I used to stock the produce section at the local grocery store. I would sneak into the cooler to eat the bulk pistachios. I stopped when I realized that I might get caught 'red handed'.
Sometime in the late 90s early the city of Wauwatosa Wisconsin made Leslie Neilson the grand marshal of what they claimed was the worlds shortest (and cheapest) parade. He sat atop the roof of the deliver van for local restaurant Champion chicken (it has a fiberglass chicken atop of it that LN had mounted it like a horse) as it drove out of the parking lot and back into it behind the Tosa East marching band while local children carried in line a banner with the name Enrico Pilazzo printed from a dot matrix tractor fed printer from the TRS-80 /commodore 64 computer program Print Shop
Oh you have to watch the Peter Sellers Pink Panther
Personal anecdotes: Yes
you really should watch the original pink panther movies, they are so funny. same idea, but made first ;)
The ankle bracelet joke was immediate so it didn't need a call-back. When Frank points it out, Jane complains that her wrist bracelet keeps slipping down there.
12:26 😬 "I think we all are" 🤣🤣🤣 Holy crap I LOLed
“What are they eating?”
Ah the classic question from younger reactors.
Long time ago, pistachios used to be dyed red, it stained like hell.
You’ve done Star Wars and Marvel, and this Ricardo Montalban appearance is a perfect tangent to launch a Star Trek journey
There are few movies that can consistently make me laugh even after multiple views. Naked Gun is one of those few 😊
So as to what they were eating in the car, it was pistachios. Back in the day, they were convinced no one would want to eat a green nut, so they dyed them red. Problem was, the dye came off on everything. The joke was more about how many he ate and the pile of shells outside the car door.
the guy with the fish is Ricardo Montalban a Mexican actor. He did a TV show called, "Fantasy Island". He did commercials for the Chrysler Cordoba, which is wear Deadpool got the line, "Rich Corinthian leather.
Wrath of Khan too. It's funny if you get old enough and eventually the next generation doesn't remember the stars of the past.
"I'm pretty sure that's a dummy version of Jane."
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Thanks, Nostradamus.
You definitely should watch the first Pink Panther movie, the one with Peter Sellers and David Niven. I would be very curious to see what you thought about it. As much as I love Steve Marin, he absolutely failed to capture the Sellers character of Inspector Clouseau. Martin's Inspector was an idiot who eventually realized he was an idiot and made good. Sellers' inspector was a Force of Nature.
Here's my favorite joke from the TV show. 2 characters are talking and one suggests they continue in the Chinese garden. They walk out and a bunch of Asian people are standing in pots.
13:35 - That is Ricardo Montalban, he was a HUUUUUUUGE TV star in the 70's and 80's, most famous for a TV show called FANTASY ISLAND. He has a huge and illustrious career, but probably the thing he's most remembered for today is playing the villain Khan Noonien Singh from the original STAR TREK show and the movie STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (which is hailed as being the best and most cinematically artistic STAR TREK film by most fans including because of Ricardo's amazing performance in it).
Iconic Ricardo Montalban on screen.
Shanelle: I don't know this actor...
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I was 8 in 1990, and my dad would take us to the local video store to rent movies once a week. I saw the cover, and thought it looked like a funny movie, so my dad let me rent it. My friends and I watched it over and over for a whole week before it had to be back. We laughed hysterically the whole way through. As I've gotten older, I'm not sure why my dad thought this movie was appropriate for a bunch of 7 and 8 year olds to watch.
Pistachio nuts used to be red. Thats what they were eating in the car
This is one of the very few channels where i don't skip the ads, love the creativity.
7:15 - Oh, and the cop car going thru all sorts of crazy scenarios is taken directly from the show.
09:07 - Weird Al became a household name by the early 1980's. His parodies of "Beat It" and "Like A Virgin" were gigantic. Weird Al only parodied songs while the originals were usually still in the charts, so when you hear him covering early 80's tracks its because he was around back then.
The OJ stuff happened in 1994 just months after the release of the third film.
11:51 in 2013 I was working as a PA on on show and one of the producers and I had to stand in for talent which included being mic’d up for the run through. Taking a short break the producer turn to me and says “I have to pee” as soon she said she remembered she was mic’d.
When we went to the A2 to get to get the mics removed she obviously heard the conversation because she had an amused smirk on her face.
Another time while working as a Story assistant I overhear a conversation by the talent over whether their mics were still on as they headed to the restroom, they were still on.
There's a history of former sports players taking up acting such as swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and Esther Williams, skater Sonja Henie and others. Specifically the film "Zero Hour!" which "Airplane!" was primarily based on had Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch as a pilot and so "Airplane!" had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a co-pilot.
If you want to watch Leslie Nielsen before his Comedic debut in Airplane, he was the Captain of the Poseidon, in the movie Poseidon Adventure.
It was only a couple of years ago that I realized the police commissioner is the actress who played Tony Soprano's mother.
Girl, Weird Al’s first album came out in 83, so by this point he was part of the zeitgeist! 💙🤣
11:43 This happened to me on Discord. Was playing in a DnD campaign and had to step away for a sec but forgot to mute my mic. Went to the bathroom and came back to howls of laughter. At least I washed my hands before coming back.
Very similar style of humor to the 'Airplane' movies. Leslie Nielsen definitely made the successful transition later in his career from dramatic actor to comedy star.
"I don't know this actor" That's Ricardo Montalban - those familiar with Star Trek will know him for portraying genetically engineered villain Kahn Noonan Singh in the TOS episode "Space Seed" and the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn" - he also played the lead role on the 70's TV show "Fantasy Island" revolving around the owner of a mysterious island who could grant the wishes of his clients. He also played bit parts in various westerns etc. through his life and was a very gracious gentleman in real life, quite the opposite of the villainous characters he often portrayed.
Weird Al was very well established at this time, his first album was released in 1983.
O.J. Simpson was a household name for being an NFL all pro and doing commercials for Hertz rent a car at the time.
13:27 Oh, that is the late, great, Ricardo Montalban. He made the ad line "rich Corinthian leather" sound good, he brought class to Fantasy Island, and he was a TERRIFYING villain when he played (inhaling) KHAAAANNNNN!!! in Star Trek II.
Top Secret is definitely worth a watch. It every single bit as great as the other, more popular ZAZ movies.
Love the reaction and how you responded throughout
When we first saw this movie, OJ was a national treasure!
I think in the past sport players got more into acting than they do now. I can't think of a comparable for OJ today or am I just blanking?
"Don't hurt that fish! Ah, phew, he put it in the tank with the lion fish."
In this universe, Shanelle don't know who Richard Montalban be, but she knows who Tony Bennett is. Arguably, the harder and more obscure
celebrity to know.
the snack was pistachio's. they used to be colored red back in the day
25:23 I think my favorite part of that scene is how the utterly goofball music punching it up is actually diagetic.
The scene where the car gets away and runs over a fire hydrant was filmed in a Los Angeles Water and Power yard that I worked at. One day, a fire hydrant appeared by the yard entrance and was gone that evening. I didn't realize why until I watched this movie. The "anti-graffiti wall" was across the street from our yard
Just here for the Weird Al thing-- He's from Lynwood! He's been on the parody song grind since 1976, when he got his music featured on Dr. Demento at the age of 16!
On the DVD commentary of this movie, when O.J is skulking around the docks in the dark wearing all black, Jim Abrams asks, "Now, is this actual footage of O.J....?"
23:45 *Priscilla Presley only got Elvis' eyes if they were awarded to her in the divorce.*
Fun Fact: Pat Smear was in the band The Germs, then Nirvana, then Foo Fighters.
RED PISTACHIOS! Man!! It's crazy that when I see reactors watch the scene in the car, they have no idea what they are eating. I'm still getting used to pistachios NOT being red anymore. Pistachios used to be dyed red. I forgot why exactly, something to do with hiding the look of something in them. I saw this movie in the theater.
Leslie Nielsen makes us all bite our underlip. Nothing to be ashamed of
The Dodgers agreed to let the production shoot in Dodgers Stadium, but refused to let them mention the team, which is why the Angels are in the movie.