When Leslie *Nielsen died, various news outlets--especially sports news--wrote his obituary to Enrico Palazzo. That's how you know your jokes have legs.
And if you're a certain age, that's one of the constant background jokes that are so delicious - seeing guys like Nielsen acting against type. Same thing with Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges in _Airplane!_
That's exactly what they're doing again with the upcoming remake starring Liam Neeson. Great that he shares the same initials of the late Leslie Nielsen.
@@fromthe90s21 Hope it works. Problem is, Nielsen (and others like him; Stack, Bridges) were good in comedy, in part, because it was sort of puncturing his straight-laced, slightly pompous, stuffed shirt persona. Neeson has always been a skilled A-list actor. Imagine Nielsen, before he was in comedy, on _Mystery Science Theater_ - easy, right? Neeson, not so much. _A Million Ways to Die in the West_ was pretty dark, though Neeson wasn't playing for laughs in that.
Australian here, I first saw this in a cinema in America when I was on holidays there back in 1988, the entire audience was in tears with laughter from start to finish. It’s a beaut movie, silly but very very funny.
Team America World Police had me suffocating in the cinema lol It's the most by far I have ever laughed at a movie and it hasn't been beaten since. But I have to say, The Naked Gun definitely comes second! Even though I have not watched it in a cinema.
@@Sarah_Gravydog316 Obviously, in case a bear wants to steal their drugs. The recent film "Cocaine Bear" is clear evidence that such things can happen!
The opening had the late 1980s "villains": Idi Amin, Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gadafy, Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Ayatollah Khomeini. All very good lookalikes.
@@Anon54387well arguably they were "vilalns" only for the USA (europe is a de facto vassal of the US) Not gonna get political here but remember that you are not immune from propaganda because you live in a "supposedly" "free" nation. If a nation was actually free i doubt would have to spend all the time claiming it is..
It's such a wholesome throwaway gag - they show you that the real Palozzo is miserable at how badly the anthem goes, but he gets reputational redemption. They didn't have to do that but they did.
This movie is ABSOLUTE gold! I love that George Kennedy regretted turning down a role in 'Airplane' so when they offered him the role of "Ed" he jumped on it. Im so glad he did. He and Leslie Nielson were a perfect pair for this movie. There is no better line than "50/50 percent chance of living......but there's only a 10% chance of that"
What is so strange is that he was a serious actor for years, and never really good at it. His bit in Airplane turned his career around and his real genius was finally realized. (His deadpan delivery works better in comedy than drama.)
Nielsen wasn't a bad actor. He used to play against loads of the biggest female stars in Hollywood at the time, and could easily have been a houshold name, but he was a bit impatient and not really satisfied with the parts he got to play, and tried other things instead. But yeah, he had his great breakthrough with "Airplane!". No-one played deadpan as well as he did, and he got that from his roots as a dramatic actor.
In Frank's final speech to Jane, he quotes a famous line from the movie Casablanca, "the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world," but then he makes this hilarious addition, "but this is our hill, and these are our beans!"
I came here to mention Casablanca and Reggie Jackson a.k.a. Mr. October. People beat me to it. I think I'm going to sub and hit the bell. I enjoyed this reaction video and this is at a time when I'm tired of reaction videos.
I was 12 when this movie came out. My Dad took me to the theater, it was December of 1988. The theater was packed. I was still just a bit too young to catch on to some of the sexual puns at first but I was much wiser after we left the show lol........ Let me tell you - it was an experience you had to be there to appreciate. The live mic restroom scene and the office/balcony scene were so funny the entire theater was dying. I thought my Dad was going to stroke out he could hardly breathe! People were literally falling down off their chairs and smacking the floor, the armrests, their thighs, each other. At the end of the film it got a standing ovation and huge cheers. For a stupid, non-sensical, plotless spoof. In the 120 or so years of the motion picture industry, This movie may very well be the funniest film ever made to this very day.
20:10.....They're eating pistachios, Ames. They used to dye the shells red, and if you ate too many of them, the red dye would rub off on your fingers.
Originally, they used to harvest pistachios by leaving on the tree long enough until they fell off and could be gathered up on the ground. This left ugly stains on the shells, so the red was intense enough to cover over these stains. Since then, they have invented machines to pick them off the tree itself, and hence the need for the stain not needed.
@@tomstanziola1982 They are hard to find. They were imported from Iran up until '79 when sanctions were imposed, and in the 80's we began to grow them in the US. They red dye hid staining that happened during harvesting. We improved harvesting and no longer needed to cover the staining.
So many memories of this movie. We convinced our high school AP English teacher to play it in class because of examples of irony (I guess?). She hit the floor at the “nice beaver!” line. Cried and almost peed despite herself, a normally composed woman. My family all says, “Go for it, Stephanie” when it’s the right tjme time to hit the gas in traffic. On and on. It’s an amazing l nonstop collection of gags that just works as a whole.
If someone liked Naked Gun, they should watch "Hot Shots Part Deux", which was directed by Jim Abrahams (the "A" in "ZAZ") and has the same sort of humor. Additionally, starting with Scary Movie #3 one of the Zuckers directed those as well.
Yeah, like when I saw the Muslim leader saying that they need one big attack, I thought "it shows that that was before 911". You cannot get away with that today. (manipulating my wording a bit to increase the chance of it not being blocked)
The joke about all the gone off food in the fridge is because it had been something like 6 years since the Police Squad tv series. The joke was that Drebbin literally hasn't been in that apartment during the intervening time as if his off screen existence doesn't exist.
Beside the siliness, one must appreciate, how good the filmmaking was. How they set up the scenes, frames and everything. They really put a lot of work into it.
I love all of the little background sight gags that are easy to overlook. Like when Frank gets off the plane at the beginning, the baggage is just being tossed out of the plane right onto the tarmac 30 feet below 🤣
Leslie Nielsen was a treasure. RIP 🙏🏼 The driving instructor was Golden Globe and Oscar-winning actor John Houseman btw, he was in a movie called The Paper Chase and then in the tv show that came later.
@@holddowna Vincent Ludwig is played by Mexican-born actor Ricardo Montalbán who at the time was very well known and liked from playing Mr. Roarke, the lead character in the very popular show *Fantasy Island* (1977-1984). RIP Oh and Frank and Ed were eating *red pistachios* in the car.
@@holddowna What made this small role so funny at the time is that in _The Paper Chase,_ which is about law school students, Houseman played a particularly dry, acerbic, and matter-of-fact professor of contract law. John Houseman was one of the most significant figures of the American theater. He founded the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and was co-producer on _Citizen Kane,_ He had a long list of Broadway credits as producer and director. He was the first head of the Drama Department at Julliard and founded The Acting Company with the first graduating class, which included Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, and David Ogden Stiers, among others.
"What kind of name is Nordberg?" The Zuckers and (and myself) are from Milwaukee, WI and Nordberg was the name of a large manufacturing company here back in the '90's but was later bought out by Rexworks, and renamed Rexnord. On a side note, back in 1992, I worked for an exterminator and was spraying Charlotte Zucker's house, ( who is the Zucker's mother). Spent over an hour talking with her about her son's movies. A very sweet woman. She also appears in most of their movies. In Naked Gun, she was Ricardo Montalbon's Secretary, who tried to shoot Pahpshmir.
The Nordic name is a joke playing on the same string as the CIA agent in Russia who learns the perfect accent, can drink liters of Vodka... but gets blown in 1 second. Very very non PC.
George Kennedy who plays Ed was a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge (aka episodes 6 and 7 of Band of Brothers). This really was the tail end of classic Hollywood where people had pretty crazy lives before they became famous. Modern movie stars are seemingly all born and raised in that system now.
George Kennedy is so funny as Captain Ed. It was wild to me growing up on Naked Gun and then discovering all of George's non-comedies, especially his run of disaster movies. Really talented guy. I imagine seeing him show up in Naked Gun was akin to Leslie being the doctor in Airplane for audiences at the time.
@@Dystopia1111 ....and he had the risky business of defusing mines. Thankfully none blew up in his face, so Mel is still around. Aparrently he still works, lending his voice to cartoon characters. So he will have been working from 1944 to this present day. Crazy... 🙂
Me too. My late mom was good friends with Nicole's mom. Living in South O.C. near the O.J./Nicole's beach place I know a lot of shit about O.J. well before he was a murderer.
"You killed 5 actors....GOOD ones!" - great line And you can still hear "Hey - it's Enrico Palazzo!" at games sometimes. The first Mariners batter was Jay Johnstone, 20 year major league veteran and note prankster. I think someone else already mentioned the player/assassin was Reggie Jackson, MLB hall-of-famer
The Chalk outline floating in the water back and forth like as if someone was there to see exactly how he landed on the water and which arm was extended and which leg was pointing where almost killed me the first time I saw it. I lost my voice from laughing so hard.
I love The Naked Gun movie trilogy. My dad told me years ago the movies were a tv show before it became a movie. Over the years I forgot there was a tv show. They only made 6 episodes of it. The show was called Police Squad. I bought the series the other day. Soon I’ll watch the show and rewatch the movies
I highly recommend checking out "Top Secret!" from the Z-A-Z filmography, you'd love it. Even crazier gags, Val Kilmer's first big role and he nails it, spoof of Elvis war flicks, best boot humor in movie history.. and sort of a musical as well. In my personal ranking Airplane and Top Secret are neck and neck.
Being too young (or not recent history buff) to recognise the leaders present at the table in scene one, does rob one of fun a bit - if nothing else, the appreciation for how well they're portrayed.
Yes, those guys were real baseball announcers. The guy on the right is Curt Gowdy, who was an announcer for the Boston Red Sox and did nationally televised games on NBC. The guy on the left is Jim Palmer, who was a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles and who got into broadcasting after his playing days were over.
well........except for Dr. Joyce Brothers. She was a famous TV personality. Dr. Brothers was known as a psychologist, and a self help expert. Somehow, she was on every panel ever assembled'. Hence the kicker of her being the last announcer introduced.
"Lieutenant" "The feeling is mutual" "I can't see anything" "Use your open eye, Frank" "Drebin!" "Frank!" "You're both right" So much hilarity in this movie!
That Reggie Jackson was in this added SO much to it. He’s one of the greatest players of all time. You don’t get the nickname Mr. October without being a World Series phenomenon. And I say this as a Red Sox fan.
15:50....The driving instructor, Ames, is played by John Houseman, one of the greatest actors in film history. He started out in the 1930s, and he worked at his craft for about 60 years.
I remember him when I was a teenager in the 80's...he did a commercial for some financial company and the tagline was "They make money the old fashioned way...They eaaaaaarrrrrn it." I also remember him being the voice in a Mork & Mindy episode as Merth's (Jonathan Winters) computer.
----- @MasterBiffpudwell ----- - I've heard it said that the Welsh are the Irish who couldn't swim. Don't come at me, not my words... I just remember hearing it said in a standup one time long ago, but I can't, for the life of me, recall who the standup artist was. -----
My brain popped, I realized why I like these review things. It's like hanging out in a way. 👍 Good to see all the different young Tubers out there watching and promoting all this content from my younger days! 🍻
@@joeconcepts5552 fair enough, it’s been a good 15 years since I bought the dvd and maybe 5 since the last time I watched the show. But, I did pull it from the shelf to rewatch this week.I was in 7th grade when it originally aired, it was what we talked about all day the next day at school… good times.
@@craigreipold3931 Actually, the scientist guy was the same one in the show and movies, I forgot that one. But Ed and Nordberg were played by different actors.
There has been a long standing rumor that OJ was considered to play The Terminator, but producers couldn't see him as a killer. 🤣 But apparently Cameron denies this ever happened.
I meant Leslie Nielsen at a celebrity golf tournament in Connecticut back in the late 80s and he was a funny and charming person. You should definitely react to Airplane with Leslie Nielsen.
Yes and it's by the same crew that made the Naked Gun, Zucker Abrams and Zucker. I think the Naked Gun was funnier, but somehow Airplane! was a better movie, like it all hung together a bit more.
Leslie Nielsen also appeared in commercials for Dollar Rental Car. I watched them film one of those at John Wayne airport one time while waiting on my flight. He genuinely seemed to be having a great time even in between takes.
This is a great absurdist comedy. The Naked Gun and the show that preceded it, Police Squad, were inspired by the TV show Dragnet. Since you liked this one, I'd recommend Airplane. It's a comedy like this, and it's where Leslie Nielsen transitioned from a serious actor into a comedy star.
Love that Reggie Jackson was the "sleeper"... he was such a great player, and has such a great sense of humor. His role in "The Benchwarmers" was great, too.
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out, when I was 19. I even saw a few episodes of the short-lived TV series it was based on. And here I am watching someone who wasn't even born yet watch it for the first time! The Internet can be amazing! Thanks for sharing!
In the stakeout scene they are eating pistachio nuts. They used to dye the shells red or green to hide any blemishes in the shells because consumers thought the nut inside was bad of there was a blemish on the shell. Since the pistachio crop production in the states grew to a competitive level on a world scale they quit dying the shells.
I saw this movie back in the late '80s, it was a time when making not-so-subtle frequent references to male and female anatomical parts was slapstick comedy that people had a good laugh at. Good to see that some things never change.
Hey Ames. After watching you react to so many serious movies, often bringing you to tears, this was a nice change. I absolutely love to hear you laugh.
I love the slapstick/physical humor, the silly puns (nice beaver, etc.), childish humor (going to the bathroom with a mic), and "opposite humor" (nothing to see here, as a fireworks building is on fire, people scrambling, etc).
This is the one of the best reactions to this movie that I've seen. You really got the humor. You'll definitely want to watch the two sequels. They're both a lot of fun, too. Cheers.
So, The Naked Gun trilogy is a sequel to a tragically short-lived TV series called Police Squad! (In Color). There were only six episodes before it was cancelled, and you can probably find them all here on UA-cam. It's delightful, and you can even find a few jokes from that series in these movies.
And the coach for the Angels was Joe Cabot from Reservoir Dogs. Didn't notice that until I rewatched Naked Gun after seeing Reservoir Dogs and The Sopranos!
Other movies like Naked Gun that have the same type of humor: Airplane! (airplane disaster movie spoof), Top Secret (spy movie spoof), Loaded Weapon (Lethal Weapon spoof), Hot Shots (Top Gun spoof), Hot Shots Part Deux (Rambo spoof), Mafia! (mafia movie spoof), Scary Movie series (horror/slasher movie spoof).
"Hot Shots Part Deux" When Charlie cuts a hole in the chain link fence and the entire fence falls down, leaving him holding the little circle he was cutting out......
They're eating pistachios in the stakeout scene. They used to dye pistachios pink for some reason, and it was tough to get that dye off. It was like a tattoo.
Real pistachios are a sort of greenish-brown andI guess they felt the rose color made them look more appealing. Like real butter is an off-white but they add yellow color to sell it better. And tuna used to be called "horse mackerel" and didn't become popular until they canged the name. ("Horse" and "pony" used to be used to imply size on things not related to animals, i.e., horse chestnuts, pony truck (on a steam loco).)
Fun fact. The movie was based on a tv show called Police Squad with the same type of humor. It even had the exact same intro with the police car driving
the series was canceled really early because the network thought the humor was to fast/slap stick and the audience wouldn't get it. Lot of the jokes/characters etc was brought from the show and written into naked gun. They made the show into a movie.
"Nordberg" was a billboard on top of a factory, years back, visible when driving south out of Milwaukee, WI on I43. I always assumed it was the name of the company. The ZAZs (the writers of this movie - Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker) grew up just north of Milwaukee on I43. My sisters and I always thought that name was funny when we were kids. Apparently, so did the ZAZs.
Reggie Jackson was the baseball player that was hypnotized to kill the queen in the movie. Reggie Jackson is one of the best players to ever play the game of baseball.
20:06 they are eating pink pistachio nuts. They don't really sell them as commonly, but they used to die lower-grade pistachio nuts pink to hide blemishes / mottled shells. It didn't change the flavor, but no one wants to eat tons of food coloring any more.
This movie is one of my all time favourites. My friend and I knew all the dialogues inside out. We were able to recreate the entire movie all by ourselves. When other people listened to our conversations they did not understand what we were talking about, because we would recite entire scenes just for the fun of it.
The best baseball game ever! :-)The poor schmuck ..Reggie Jackson, I think it was 5 home runs in the world series back in the late 70' s or early 80's. :-) Thank you Ames for your great reactions. So good.
This started off as a TV show called Police Squad in 1982, Leslie in the show also plays Frank and it only had 6 episodes but it's worth a watch. The mayor in this movie played Tony's mom in The Sopranos.
When Leslie *Nielsen died, various news outlets--especially sports news--wrote his obituary to Enrico Palazzo. That's how you know your jokes have legs.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Also, when the Queen passed away, Reggie made a twitter post about it.
@@holddowna It's ridiculous because Canadians are bonkers unlike we Americans who are never silly.
Nielsen*
love it! didnt know that ... all these years.
Weird Al actually took a date to watch "The Naked Gun" wearing the same outfit as he did in the film. 😂
Hilarious !
From what I can remember, he didn’t even tell her he was in it and she was surprised after😂😂😂
Under every Naked Gun reaction ... at least one person has to mention it xD
@@BestAnimeFreak Yep.
That "poor schmuck" was Hall of Famer ReggiieJackson.
who would have thought that an actor who played "serious" roles all his life would be remembered as a comedy superstar!!? 😂❤
And if you're a certain age, that's one of the constant background jokes that are so delicious - seeing guys like Nielsen acting against type. Same thing with Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges in _Airplane!_
That's exactly what they're doing again with the upcoming remake starring Liam Neeson. Great that he shares the same initials of the late Leslie Nielsen.
@@fromthe90s21 Hope it works. Problem is, Nielsen (and others like him; Stack, Bridges) were good in comedy, in part, because it was sort of puncturing his straight-laced, slightly pompous, stuffed shirt persona. Neeson has always been a skilled A-list actor. Imagine Nielsen, before he was in comedy, on _Mystery Science Theater_ - easy, right? Neeson, not so much. _A Million Ways to Die in the West_ was pretty dark, though Neeson wasn't playing for laughs in that.
Yup. RIP OJ.
That's what makes it works so well. He plays it dead serious, like it's a drama
Australian here, I first saw this in a cinema in America when I was on holidays there back in 1988, the entire audience was in tears with laughter from start to finish.
It’s a beaut movie, silly but very very funny.
Team America World Police had me suffocating in the cinema lol It's the most by far I have ever laughed at a movie and it hasn't been beaten since. But I have to say, The Naked Gun definitely comes second! Even though I have not watched it in a cinema.
I saw it at the theater and the audience reaction reminded me of when I saw Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
There's a 50/50 chance I don't absolutely love this reaction, though there's only a 10% chance of that.
Lololol
60% of the time it works every time.
@@holddowna Speaking of riding rockets, you should react to Dr. Strangelove.
@@holddowna I think the cheese was moving on top of the fridge.
@@holddowna That thing with the guys sitting in the Queen's seat is a dig at Angeleans.
The vision of Leslie Nielsen holding up his badge yelling "Police! Halt!" at HIS OWN car still kills me 3 and a half decades later!
Yes, several scenes in this movie is *pure* comedic genius!
That's my favorite scene, I die laughing every time.
'Did anyone get a look at the driver? Well. I have to get...inside.'
Anyone get the license plate??
@@paulinegallagher7821 His suspicious eye movements when he says that, realization setting in, hahahaha. Brilliant acting.
I swear... the bribing scene gets me every time 😂
That is by far my favorite part 😂
Such a good scene the pacing is toooo good!!!
So goofy and they play it so straight.
That is my favorite bit, but my favorite visual gag is safe sex. :D
And my favorite "but why?!?" is "boiled a roast".
EVERY TIME! 😂
"Cuban?"
"No, Dutch-Irish. My father was from Wales."
Utterly ridiculous and brilliant.
Nielsen's mother was from Wales.
His father was from Denmark.
Nice beaver.. Thanks I just had it stuffed.😂😂
One can only wonder how many times they had to take that shot until they got one take with no laughs from the actors or staff.
"Why is there cake?!" - to celebrate the drug deal!
Drug trafficants are people too, Ames!
It was a urinal cake. Drebin recognizes Nordberg's face in it in Scene 12.
me: "Why is there a bear trap?!"
@@Sarah_Gravydog316
Obviously, in case a bear wants to steal their drugs.
The recent film "Cocaine Bear" is clear evidence that such things can happen!
@@Sarah_Gravydog316 Against sea bears, presumably.
The opening had the late 1980s "villains": Idi Amin, Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gadafy, Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Ayatollah Khomeini. All very good lookalikes.
Except that Gorba wasn't a villain. But yes.
Geez, to put villains in quotes with those people. Incredible.
Plus the opening fight scene is at least partly an homage to the Three Stooges.
@@Anon54387well arguably they were "vilalns" only for the USA (europe is a de facto vassal of the US)
Not gonna get political here but remember that you are not immune from propaganda because you live in a "supposedly" "free" nation.
If a nation was actually free i doubt would have to spend all the time claiming it is..
@@Anon54387Most of them have a lower body count than a US president in their first term
"Hey!! It's Enrico Palazzo!" is one of the greatest jokes ever.
Trivia- the actor saying that was also Francis in Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
@@mblackwland Teen Wolfs teammate
It's such a wholesome throwaway gag - they show you that the real Palozzo is miserable at how badly the anthem goes, but he gets reputational redemption. They didn't have to do that but they did.
I still randomly say it.
"My father went the same way." LOL. Hilarious and so ridiculous.
This movie is ABSOLUTE gold! I love that George Kennedy regretted turning down a role in 'Airplane' so when they offered him the role of "Ed" he jumped on it. Im so glad he did. He and Leslie Nielson were a perfect pair for this movie. There is no better line than "50/50 percent chance of living......but there's only a 10% chance of that"
George would have been great in Airplane after being in all the Airport movies. Talk about a casting gag.
yeah he didn't want to insult Universal Pictures, 'cause they put him in their Airport pictures
I love his hat toss as they're getting in the car at the airport. It's a bullseye!
That "poor schmuck" was Yankees Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson. Excellent reaction.
Reginald Martinez Jackson.
Reggie Jackson was also a significant component on those Oakland A's teams that won three world championships from 1972 to 1974.
He’s also a famous car collector.
Mr. October!
"poor schmuck"??? that's Mr. October!!!
Pure comedy gold. Leslie Neilsen was a one of a kind comedian that is missed but not forgotten
What is so strange is that he was a serious actor for years, and never really good at it. His bit in Airplane turned his career around and his real genius was finally realized. (His deadpan delivery works better in comedy than drama.)
He’s funny!!!
@@johnnehrich9601he had a great dramatic turn in “Nuts” with Barbara Streisand.
Nielsen wasn't a bad actor. He used to play against loads of the biggest female stars in Hollywood at the time, and could easily have been a houshold name, but he was a bit impatient and not really satisfied with the parts he got to play, and tried other things instead. But yeah, he had his great breakthrough with "Airplane!". No-one played deadpan as well as he did, and he got that from his roots as a dramatic actor.
I love the name of the hospital--Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle. That is one of the jokes that is so quick it tends to fly right past people.
With you. As is the joke in the equipment scene when some go through a door and the others walk through a hall. Why a door? Great stuff.
In Frank's final speech to Jane, he quotes a famous line from the movie Casablanca, "the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world," but then he makes this hilarious addition, "but this is our hill, and these are our beans!"
I only saw Casablanca after !!!!
I came here to mention Casablanca and Reggie Jackson a.k.a. Mr. October. People beat me to it. I think I'm going to sub and hit the bell. I enjoyed this reaction video and this is at a time when I'm tired of reaction videos.
😂 yeah! I've used it a couple of times. Maybe it only works with the romantic background music. Because all I got were confused expressions.
I was 12 when this movie came out. My Dad took me to the theater, it was December of 1988. The theater was packed. I was still just a bit too young to catch on to some of the sexual puns at first but I was much wiser after we left the show lol........
Let me tell you - it was an experience you had to be there to appreciate. The live mic restroom scene and the office/balcony scene were so funny the entire theater was dying. I thought my Dad was going to stroke out he could hardly breathe! People were literally falling down off their chairs and smacking the floor, the armrests, their thighs, each other. At the end of the film it got a standing ovation and huge cheers.
For a stupid, non-sensical, plotless spoof.
In the 120 or so years of the motion picture industry, This movie may very well be the funniest film ever made to this very day.
20:10.....They're eating pistachios, Ames. They used to dye the shells red, and if you ate too many of them, the red dye would rub off on your fingers.
Really!!!!!
@@holddowna Really. I don't think they dye the shells anymore, now. I haven't seen them in a long time.
Originally, they used to harvest pistachios by leaving on the tree long enough until they fell off and could be gathered up on the ground. This left ugly stains on the shells, so the red was intense enough to cover over these stains.
Since then, they have invented machines to pick them off the tree itself, and hence the need for the stain not needed.
@@johnnehrich9601 I didn't know that! Thanks for the info! 👍✌️
@@tomstanziola1982 They are hard to find. They were imported from Iran up until '79 when sanctions were imposed, and in the 80's we began to grow them in the US. They red dye hid staining that happened during harvesting. We improved harvesting and no longer needed to cover the staining.
So many memories of this movie. We convinced our high school AP English teacher to play it in class because of examples of irony (I guess?). She hit the floor at the “nice beaver!” line. Cried and almost peed despite herself, a normally composed woman.
My family all says, “Go for it, Stephanie” when it’s the right tjme time to hit the gas in traffic.
On and on. It’s an amazing l nonstop collection of gags that just works as a whole.
I love how 3 different newspapers had 3 different positions of Frank and the Queen.
Yep. The Zucker Brothers did take care of the subtle jokes as well. Pure comedy geniuses.
Now i have to watch it again. In my 8 or 9 watchings, i never picked up on that.
Now it is time for "Airplane!"
YES!!!
Surely you can't be serious...
@@Dystopia1111 I am and don't call me Shirley.
@@MJ-we9vuComic Book Guy: "But pause! The knowledge you offer would spoil the movie event of the year. Nay, century, nay, epoch, nay, summer...."
If someone liked Naked Gun, they should watch "Hot Shots Part Deux", which was directed by Jim Abrahams (the "A" in "ZAZ") and has the same sort of humor. Additionally, starting with Scary Movie #3 one of the Zuckers directed those as well.
I love how when Frank pulls out his his gun on the baseball field, the coaches & umpires tell, “Oh! You’re the boss! Whatever you say goes!” 😂😂😂
The American past time 🤣🤣🤣
One of which is played by Lawrence Tierney. You’d think _he_ would be the one pulling out a gun. 😅
Oh yeah, I remember Tierney from Reservoir Dogs. 😁
"This must have been before... crime." 😆
Lol 🤣 😂
Yeah, like when I saw the Muslim leader saying that they need one big attack, I thought "it shows that that was before 911". You cannot get away with that today. (manipulating my wording a bit to increase the chance of it not being blocked)
The joke about all the gone off food in the fridge is because it had been something like 6 years since the Police Squad tv series. The joke was that Drebbin literally hasn't been in that apartment during the intervening time as if his off screen existence doesn't exist.
I saw it always more as a single guys apartment
Ahh The Naked Gun. A staple of parody movies. Leslie Nielson is just great in this kind of stuff 😂
I highly recommend seeing him in "Forbidden Planet", from 1956, a straight dramatic role and a sci-fi classic! 👍👏👏👏👏 His hair was black in those days.
@@tomstanziola1982 It is a classic. Clearly inspired things that came after.
Hotshots is another
Beside the siliness, one must appreciate, how good the filmmaking was. How they set up the scenes, frames and everything. They really put a lot of work into it.
I love all of the little background sight gags that are easy to overlook. Like when Frank gets off the plane at the beginning, the baggage is just being tossed out of the plane right onto the tarmac 30 feet below 🤣
Leslie Nielsen was a treasure. RIP 🙏🏼
The driving instructor was Golden Globe and Oscar-winning actor John Houseman btw, he was in a movie called The Paper Chase and then in the tv show that came later.
Very funny man
@@holddowna Vincent Ludwig is played by Mexican-born actor Ricardo Montalbán who at the time was very well known and liked from playing Mr. Roarke, the lead character in the very popular show *Fantasy Island* (1977-1984). RIP
Oh and Frank and Ed were eating *red pistachios* in the car.
@@holddowna What made this small role so funny at the time is that in _The Paper Chase,_ which is about law school students, Houseman played a particularly dry, acerbic, and matter-of-fact professor of contract law.
John Houseman was one of the most significant figures of the American theater. He founded the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and was co-producer on _Citizen Kane,_ He had a long list of Broadway credits as producer and director.
He was the first head of the Drama Department at Julliard and founded The Acting Company with the first graduating class, which included Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, and David Ogden Stiers, among others.
Also in the opening of the Fog
And the original Rollerball. Houseman was so good in that. :)
"What kind of name is Nordberg?" The Zuckers and (and myself) are from Milwaukee, WI and Nordberg was the name of a large manufacturing company here back in the '90's but was later bought out by Rexworks, and renamed Rexnord. On a side note, back in 1992, I worked for an exterminator and was spraying Charlotte Zucker's house, ( who is the Zucker's mother). Spent over an hour talking with her about her son's movies. A very sweet woman. She also appears in most of their movies. In Naked Gun, she was Ricardo Montalbon's Secretary, who tried to shoot Pahpshmir.
The Nordic name is a joke playing on the same string as the CIA agent in Russia who learns the perfect accent, can drink liters of Vodka... but gets blown in 1 second. Very very non PC.
I first watched this when I was in college and was not prepared for the amount of laughter. Classic.
23:27 Almost everyone misses this sign: "All employees must wash hands _before_ using restroom."
George Kennedy who plays Ed was a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge (aka episodes 6 and 7 of Band of Brothers). This really was the tail end of classic Hollywood where people had pretty crazy lives before they became famous. Modern movie stars are seemingly all born and raised in that system now.
George Kennedy is so funny as Captain Ed. It was wild to me growing up on Naked Gun and then discovering all of George's non-comedies, especially his run of disaster movies. Really talented guy.
I imagine seeing him show up in Naked Gun was akin to Leslie being the doctor in Airplane for audiences at the time.
Another Battle of the Bulge veteran, Mel Brooks.
@@Dystopia1111 ....and he had the risky business of defusing mines. Thankfully none blew up in his face, so Mel is still around. Aparrently he still works, lending his voice to cartoon characters. So he will have been working from 1944 to this present day. Crazy... 🙂
Wow, really among the last of the great era of actors who saw some serious shit in their personal lives.
I like to think that OJ's punishment in Hell is just an endless repeat of Nordberg's abuse in this movie
And when OJ takes the bus to Detroit.
Me too. My late mom was good friends with Nicole's mom. Living in South O.C. near the O.J./Nicole's beach place I know a lot of shit about O.J. well before he was a murderer.
Let´s not forget George Kennedy ,absolutley brilliant actor
"You killed 5 actors....GOOD ones!" - great line
And you can still hear "Hey - it's Enrico Palazzo!" at games sometimes.
The first Mariners batter was Jay Johnstone, 20 year major league veteran and note prankster.
I think someone else already mentioned the player/assassin was Reggie Jackson, MLB hall-of-famer
That scene was spoofing a dirty Harry movie from the 1970s
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that was Johnstone.
@@VoxRox1 And not just that, Frank's only *now* learning after a year that he killed five actors.
"OJ Simpson! This must have been before... crime"
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Well, now that he's gone, we'll always have the abuse of Nordberg to remember him by 😅
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Wait, he's gone? Gone where?
@@synaesthesia2010 He died. About a month ago.
dont forget all the Norm Macdonald jokes that got him fired from snl
@@mctaguer Like my dad, the only thing we have to remember him by is the horrible things he did. RIT ... Rest In Turmoil, you two bastards.
The Chalk outline floating in the water back and forth like as if someone was there to see exactly how he landed on the water and which arm was extended and which leg was pointing where almost killed me the first time I saw it. I lost my voice from laughing so hard.
I love how much you loved this! No matter how hard it can make you roll your eyes, it still drags a hefty laugh out every time.
Loved it!
OJ was hugely popular. He was the Michael Jordan of his time. He had endorsements, he acted, and he did NFL broadcasts. Everyone loved the Juice...
Makes sense!
He also did Avis Rent-A-Car commercials, where he jumped over chairs.
@@jeremygeorgia4943 Hertz. Not Avis.
And famously lost out on the role of the Terminator because he was too likeable and the public just wouldn't believe him as a killer. 😑
@@curtismartin2866 that really bit the entire world on the booty right there, didn't it? 😂
Your laugh is so great and genuine, it always makes my day better. Thank you.
I love The Naked Gun movie trilogy. My dad told me years ago the movies were a tv show before it became a movie. Over the years I forgot there was a tv show. They only made 6 episodes of it. The show was called Police Squad. I bought the series the other day. Soon I’ll watch the show and rewatch the movies
The show is also free to watch on UA-cam.
@@weepingscorpion8739 I like to own a tv series than watch on streaming
@@agarven1 Fair enough. Just mentioning it in case someone else was wondering.
The show is great, it's hard to believe it was cancelled so quickly. It's way funnier than most sitcoms that go on for years.
Who are you? And how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith and, I'm a locksmith.
The money/bribing gag that happens @ around 8:40 is one of my favorite bits! I swear, it gets me cackling every. single. time! 😂
I am glad you could cherish a cineastic approach of such sophisticated humor!
I highly recommend checking out "Top Secret!" from the Z-A-Z filmography, you'd love it. Even crazier gags, Val Kilmer's first big role and he nails it, spoof of Elvis war flicks, best boot humor in movie history.. and sort of a musical as well. In my personal ranking Airplane and Top Secret are neck and neck.
"There are no good white basketball players, my friend." 😂 Love that movie.
Being too young (or not recent history buff) to recognise the leaders present at the table in scene one, does rob one of fun a bit - if nothing else, the appreciation for how well they're portrayed.
Yes, those guys were real baseball announcers. The guy on the right is Curt Gowdy, who was an announcer for the Boston Red Sox and did nationally televised games on NBC. The guy on the left is Jim Palmer, who was a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles and who got into broadcasting after his playing days were over.
And the middle guy, Tim McCarver, was one of the better catchers during the 60's and 70's, but a lousy announcer.
well........except for Dr. Joyce Brothers. She was a famous TV personality. Dr. Brothers was known as a psychologist, and a self help expert. Somehow, she was on every panel ever assembled'. Hence the kicker of her being the last announcer introduced.
I totally forgot about the "Bingo!" joke, I laughed so many times when I first saw it!
Now sweetie this is your hill and your beans but you’ve got to watch Airplane. You might wet yourself with laughter but it’s so worth it.
"Lieutenant"
"The feeling is mutual"
"I can't see anything"
"Use your open eye, Frank"
"Drebin!"
"Frank!"
"You're both right"
So much hilarity in this movie!
That Reggie Jackson was in this added SO much to it. He’s one of the greatest players of all time. You don’t get the nickname Mr. October without being a World Series phenomenon. And I say this as a Red Sox fan.
Shoulda been Bucky f'n Dent 😋
"Nice beaver"
"Thanks I just had it stuffed"
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That line got repeated THOUSANDS of times by people in all kinds of situations in the following years after the movie.
@@mctaguer haha I am not surprised.
15:50....The driving instructor, Ames, is played by John Houseman, one of the greatest actors in film history. He started out in the 1930s, and he worked at his craft for about 60 years.
Ohhh!!
I remember him when I was a teenager in the 80's...he did a commercial for some financial company and the tagline was "They make money the old fashioned way...They eaaaaaarrrrrn it."
I also remember him being the voice in a Mork & Mindy episode as Merth's (Jonathan Winters) computer.
@@megiloth3634 I love those old commercials! 👏👏👏👏
"Um no, I'm Dutch Irish. My father is from Wales."
No, just no. LOL
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Don't come at me, not my words...
I just remember hearing it said in a standup one time long ago, but I can't, for the life of me, recall who the standup artist was.
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@@BizzyX78 LOL That is hilarious, seriously. I had never heard that. 🤣🤣
Actually his mother was from Wales.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 You miss the joke.
OJ has a small part in The Towering Inferno, 1974.
Mr Ludwig is Ricardo Montalban; see him as Khan in the Star Trek film, The Wrath of Khan, 1982
OJ's also in the great "Capricorn One", about a faked moon landing.
"I'm boiling a roast" is still one my favourite lines. Just so dumb.
So dumb!!!! Lolol
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It was a parody of Fatal attraction, where the mistress (Kim Bassinger?) breaks in and boils the rabbit of her lover's child.
My brain popped, I realized why I like these review things. It's like hanging out in a way. 👍 Good to see all the different young Tubers out there watching and promoting all this content from my younger days! 🍻
I certainly hope you enjoy the humour in Platoon as much as they did.
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It does lead to a great joke in Hot Shots Part Deux...
@@LordVolkov One of the greatest meta-jokes of all time.
The Naked Gun is based on a 1982 TV series called Police Squad, only 6 episodes, same cast, same humor, a must watch if you like the movie.
Cool!!!
"Who are you, and how did you get in here?"
"I'm the locksmith, and I'm the locksmith."
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I hate to be that guy, but only Leslie was the same actor in the TV series.
@@joeconcepts5552 fair enough, it’s been a good 15 years since I bought the dvd and maybe 5 since the last time I watched the show. But, I did pull it from the shelf to rewatch this week.I was in 7th grade when it originally aired, it was what we talked about all day the next day at school… good times.
@@craigreipold3931 Actually, the scientist guy was the same one in the show and movies, I forgot that one. But Ed and Nordberg were played by different actors.
There has been a long standing rumor that OJ was considered to play The Terminator, but producers couldn't see him as a killer. 🤣
But apparently Cameron denies this ever happened.
But Arnold said it was true.
I meant Leslie Nielsen at a celebrity golf tournament in Connecticut back in the late 80s and he was a funny and charming person.
You should definitely react to Airplane with Leslie Nielsen.
I must!
Yes and it's by the same crew that made the Naked Gun, Zucker Abrams and Zucker. I think the Naked Gun was funnier, but somehow Airplane! was a better movie, like it all hung together a bit more.
Leslie Nielsen also appeared in commercials for Dollar Rental Car. I watched them film one of those at John Wayne airport one time while waiting on my flight. He genuinely seemed to be having a great time even in between takes.
This is a great absurdist comedy. The Naked Gun and the show that preceded it, Police Squad, were inspired by the TV show Dragnet. Since you liked this one, I'd recommend Airplane. It's a comedy like this, and it's where Leslie Nielsen transitioned from a serious actor into a comedy star.
Yes, that's right.
When I want to rewatch a classic now, I go to youtube to find someone like you first-time reaction... Perfect. Loved it! ❤
Oh boy you're in a for a wild ride with the start of this trilogy.
Love that Reggie Jackson was the "sleeper"... he was such a great player, and has such a great sense of humor. His role in "The Benchwarmers" was great, too.
LOL you just went from a Brooklyn accent to an Australian accent so effortlessly haha well done.
Lololol
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out, when I was 19. I even saw a few episodes of the short-lived TV series it was based on. And here I am watching someone who wasn't even born yet watch it for the first time! The Internet can be amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Note to self: never, EVER drink coffee while watching Ames watch a Naked Gun movie.
That watch-along was marvellous!
Oh no did u spill/spit out some coffee!!!!! 😝😝🤣🤣🤣 thanks for watching ❤️
5:45
"What kinda name is Nordberge?"
LMAO!!!! that fits perfectly into this movie cracked me up
In the stakeout scene they are eating pistachio nuts.
They used to dye the shells red or green to hide any blemishes in the shells because consumers thought the nut inside was bad of there was a blemish on the shell.
Since the pistachio crop production in the states grew to a competitive level on a world scale they quit dying the shells.
😂😂❤ Naked Gun 2 1/2 equally as serious as a hard hitting police drama! 😮
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Leslie Nielsen was comedy royalty ...... ❤
I saw this movie back in the late '80s, it was a time when making not-so-subtle frequent references to male and female anatomical parts was slapstick comedy that people had a good laugh at. Good to see that some things never change.
Hey Ames. After watching you react to so many serious movies, often bringing you to tears, this was a nice change. I absolutely love to hear you laugh.
"Everywhere i look it reminds me of her." 🤣🤣🤣 I wish comedy hit like these movies more often.
Lol. I literally watched for the first 20 minutes, waiting for the BINGO line. Something told me Ames would laugh...
"What are these guys doing in the queen's box?" LMAO, you should be a screenwriter for the Naked gun movies.
I love the slapstick/physical humor, the silly puns (nice beaver, etc.), childish humor (going to the bathroom with a mic), and "opposite humor" (nothing to see here, as a fireworks building is on fire, people scrambling, etc).
Leslie's slapstick is so funny! The apartment destruction scene is like a masterclass in physical comedy.
This is the one of the best reactions to this movie that I've seen. You really got the humor. You'll definitely want to watch the two sequels. They're both a lot of fun, too. Cheers.
So, The Naked Gun trilogy is a sequel to a tragically short-lived TV series called Police Squad! (In Color). There were only six episodes before it was cancelled, and you can probably find them all here on UA-cam. It's delightful, and you can even find a few jokes from that series in these movies.
The 3 movies of that series are THE best comedy and absolutely timeless.
I have seen them many times and never get tired!
i couldnt help but laugh when you said "oh, its OJ." cause it sounded more like "ugh....this f&%king guy."😂
The mayor is played by actress Nancy Marchand, who played Tony Soprano's mother Livia, in the HBO series.
And the coach for the Angels was Joe Cabot from Reservoir Dogs. Didn't notice that until I rewatched Naked Gun after seeing Reservoir Dogs and The Sopranos!
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I believe his name is Lawrence Tierney
OMG NAKED GUN LMFAO you're in for a treat lol
I was!
@@holddowna yay!!! i ended up watching it again this morning :D thank you again for another great movie reaction!! :D
We just don't get this type of comedy anymore. I'm glad you appreciate it.
Other movies like Naked Gun that have the same type of humor: Airplane! (airplane disaster movie spoof), Top Secret (spy movie spoof), Loaded Weapon (Lethal Weapon spoof), Hot Shots (Top Gun spoof), Hot Shots Part Deux (Rambo spoof), Mafia! (mafia movie spoof), Scary Movie series (horror/slasher movie spoof).
I need to watch the originals first!
"Hot Shots Part Deux"
When Charlie cuts a hole in the chain link fence and the entire fence falls down, leaving him holding the little circle he was cutting out......
Dance Flick (Step Up, You Got Served, Stomp The Yard, Dirty Dancing spoof)
"It's Enrico Palazzo!" is the funniest line in any movie ever.
I LOVE IT
They're eating pistachios in the stakeout scene. They used to dye pistachios pink for some reason, and it was tough to get that dye off. It was like a tattoo.
Real pistachios are a sort of greenish-brown andI guess they felt the rose color made them look more appealing. Like real butter is an off-white but they add yellow color to sell it better. And tuna used to be called "horse mackerel" and didn't become popular until they canged the name. ("Horse" and "pony" used to be used to imply size on things not related to animals, i.e., horse chestnuts, pony truck (on a steam loco).)
This movie is slapstick at it’s absolute best
Fun fact. The movie was based on a tv show called Police Squad with the same type of humor. It even had the exact same intro with the police car driving
the series was canceled really early because the network thought the humor was to fast/slap stick and the audience wouldn't get it. Lot of the jokes/characters etc was brought from the show and written into naked gun. They made the show into a movie.
And the TV show Police Squad was a spoof of the sixties b&w TV series M Squad, where also the narration style is coming from.
I watched this more times than I can remember as a kid. It's still funny. Leslie Nielson was a comic GOD.
"Nordberg" was a billboard on top of a factory, years back, visible when driving south out of Milwaukee, WI on I43. I always assumed it was the name of the company. The ZAZs (the writers of this movie - Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker) grew up just north of Milwaukee on I43.
My sisters and I always thought that name was funny when we were kids. Apparently, so did the ZAZs.
12:45 I love how the station sign just says "THE POLICE STATION".
Reggie Jackson was the baseball player that was hypnotized to kill the queen in the movie. Reggie Jackson is one of the best players to ever play the game of baseball.
Reggie's cameo in Baseketball is hilarious.
@@LordVolkovhe has a cameo in the benchwarmers as well. Scene is pretty funny.
20:06 they are eating pink pistachio nuts. They don't really sell them as commonly, but they used to die lower-grade pistachio nuts pink to hide blemishes / mottled shells. It didn't change the flavor, but no one wants to eat tons of food coloring any more.
What kills me is that most modern reactors dont know who half of the Bad Guys are in the first scene. It really is a period piece.
This movie is one of my all time favourites. My friend and I knew all the dialogues inside out. We were able to recreate the entire movie all by ourselves. When other people listened to our conversations they did not understand what we were talking about, because we would recite entire scenes just for the fun of it.
The best baseball game ever! :-)The poor schmuck ..Reggie Jackson, I think it was 5 home runs in the world series back in the late 70' s or early 80's. :-) Thank you Ames for your great reactions. So good.
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This started off as a TV show called Police Squad in 1982, Leslie in the show also plays Frank and it only had 6 episodes but it's worth a watch. The mayor in this movie played Tony's mom in The Sopranos.