Please watch the show this movie came from. Only 6 episodes got made before it got canceled and yet we ended up with 3 movies. Last I checked only two shows had ever gotten canceled in their first season and then had a movie made. Police Squad and Firefly.
Leslie Nielsen most definitely is Canadian and his brother was actually Deputy Prime Minister of Canada for a few years in the 80's. That's extra nifty.
The same guys that made "Airplane" made this movie AND the short lived (6 episodes) TV series. It's goofy sight gags, and funny silliness. The only problem with this kind of humour is that the jokes have a limited shelf life because they're referencing people and things in that moment in time. But still funny though. And you can re-watch it for stuff you missed because it's loaded with gags, some in the background, some wiz by fast etc. Leslie Nielson was a Canadian treasure. He started out as a more serious actor, but discovered he had a great comedic side. One of his more sinister roles was in "Creepshow", a Stephen King adaptation. If you haven't seen it put it on your list.
When Leslie Nielsen passed, ESPN published an obituary for the legendary umpire/opera singer, Enrico Pallazzo. It was surprisingly heartwarming, and I think Leslie would have loved it.
Great comedians live to make people laugh. Especially after they die, since they don't have to concern themselves with the "live" part any more. I'm absolutely certain the gag made Leslie Nielsen assume his world famous deadpan face. Or maybe it wasn't the gag. On that note, I recommend you watch Graham Chapman's memorial service. Literally one of the funniest memorial services I've ever seen. And I mean literally.
Someone edited his Wiki page immediately after his death to say that he'd "lost a brief, but final battle with his arch-nemesis Skeletor". It wasn't long before it was edited out, but I was able to get a screenshot and there are a few other screenshots of it floating around on-line. At the time I remember thinking how much that would have tickled him.
Fun fact: Weird Al Yankovic once told that he took his date to the cinema to watch this movie and didn't tell beforehand that he had a cameo in it. And he went there wearing the exact same clothes. The reaction must have been priceless.
“From the files of the Police Squad” is because “Police Squad” was a short lived tv series, with the same characters. After the end of the show, they made the movies.
@@John_Locke_108 There is ofcourse a whole big world outside of the USA, full of people to whom Baseball is of no importance and who'll have no idea who Reggie Jackson or Ty Cobb are but who do get to view movies.
@@playy1797 it doesn’t matter if baseball is important in certain areas. Some people who don’t watch sports or have no interests in them still wouldn’t know who is who in sports unless you just saw them in commercials. It’s actually more common for people who have never watched a certain sport or follow them to not know players by name at all
They're eating Pistachios in the stakeout scene. What's piled up outside the car are the shells. They are really a pale color shell naturally, but back during this time, they were dyed that red color (to be more appealing visually), and they really did stain your fingers. Today, you can still find the red dyed Pistachios in certain places, but only around Christmas time. Awesome reaction by the way!! I'll be looking forward to the next 2 Naked Gun movies if you decide to do them!
I used to know a kid in school that sat in the back and ate red Pistachios all day and everything this kid touched was stained red, i wouldn't let him near me.
It's funny, I didn't even realize they didn't sell those red ones any more, but now that you mention it all I see now are the pale/natural colored shells.
In the late '70's, I was in the Navy and my folks sent me a care package with a BIG bag of red Pistachios. I was living in the barracks, on the 2nd or 3rd floor and I would sit by the window, watch TV eating them and tossing the shells out the window. A few days later I happened to walk through that area and saw all the red shells covering the ground and heard that they were looking for the source. I started tossing them in the trash can after that.
@@davidtrebich4638 i dont know her delivery of "sexual assault with a concrete dildo" is pretty hilarious. She reads it like " did i see that correctly"
@@bradeyyates6280 true, the. Concrete dildo line and “that was Shakespeare in the park, you moron are very close. And also “stop shooting your gun I can’t hear you” when in the warehouse is right up there too.
About the grinder..and the sand paper and the Vaseline. They were all ways to "doctor" the baseball. If you make one side of the baseball smoother or rougher... it causes one side of the baseball to have more friction with the air. Therefore pitches that depend on the ball moving like a curve ball or slider break much harder. Baseball pitchers using physics to cheat
The bonus joke about Frank singing so badly at the national anthem was Leslie Nielsen was actually a really good singer. For much of his early career he starred in many musicals.
Do you have any names of these musicals? His singing in Naked Gun 2 was better because it wasn't trying to be bad on purpose but he still sounded very much like a regular guy, not someone I'd want in a musical.
Despite messing up some words, his singing wasn't actually toooo bad... if you pay attention to it, the organist is really messing things up making it sound 10x worse when his singing, though not great, isn't too terrible :D
Leslie Nielsen hadn’t done any comedy until they asked him to be in Airplane. He turned out to be such a natural that all the rest of his career he started in films like this one. And he’s definitely recognized more as a comedic actor.
He was a leading man in Television and this definitely gave him a career resurgence due to his dramatic acting chops. But he did have a great sense of humor. I think on one late night talk show, he had a fart machine in his pocket and would press it during pauses in his answers and pretend he didn't hear it.
"Why do baseball players spit so much" - Back then, it was because of chewing tobacco. Pretty sure it's been widely banned at this point, so they mostly do sunflower seeds and chewing gum. Oh btw, they were eating red pistachios, not sure if they're still around but they used to be all over the place. Entirely a cosmetic thing, used to cover up blemishes on the nuts. The sandpaper, vaseline etc... were a reference to pitchers who cheat by either illegally scuffing the ball (alters how the ball spins/etc...) or using a foreign substance to make it slippery (or some use substances to increase their grip). The baseball player is Reggie Jackson, he's a legend in the sport.
@@amunago080 You are correct. There are some that still do it. The tobacco gave a euphoric feeling. Chewing tobacco was the thing, then snuff became more popular.
I'm glad *someone* in the comments used a word like "legend" for Reggie Jackson. He is definitely one of the most famous sportsmen of our time and every single kid knew his name when I was growing up. I'm no baseball fan, but his record seems amazing to me looking at it now... his team, regardless of what team he'd moved to at the time, won the World Series _5_ of his 21 seasons. I don't know if averaging 27 home runs per season is "a lot" these days, but I know it's not a *low* number.
The movie they were laughing about when they left the theatre was Platoon. A Vietnam war movie that is definitely no laughing matter. A strong recommendation for you incidentally.
It's crazy how well that Weird Al reference holds up as he is still making music and touring to this day. He really blew up in 1984 with "Eat it" but had been making parody songs since the late 70s.
Brilliant man, and a top-notch performer! i don't know who I've ever seen work as hard on-stage. I just wish his more recent stuff didn't seem less humorous, and more angry/irritated (grumpy?).
It weirdly works better now, really, as back then he was cult enough that the idea there'd be a media reception for him at all was funny. Now, it's funny because Weird Al is such a household name.
@@vincegay986 He was not even close to his peak at that time, let alone past it. This movie was made between February and April of 1988, in April of 1988 Al released "Even Worse" which tied as his best selling album at that time with over 1 million copies sold. He had a minor slump in '86 with "Polka Party" but he could hardly be said to be past his peak. His popularity has only grown since then. As someone who started listening to him in 1984 when few people even knew his name I have been able to watch him grow more and more in the public's eye.
So, OJ Simpson's appearance is definitely before he became a murderer, and when he was still a well loved celebrity. Also, I may have missed any mentions of this, but Jane in this film is Priscilla Presley, Elvis Presley's widow, who Elvis met and basically started dating when she was only 14, and married 8 years later.
Even more irony. He was the first choice to be the terminator but he was so beloved at the time they though nobody could take him seriously in a role where he was a killer.
It's not Boris Yelcyn at the beginning, it is his predecessor - Gorbatschev who introduced pierestroyka and thanks to whom the USSR finally met its demise.
@@hkpew @STOCKHOLM The guy's likely Polish. Their corresponding Latin letters aren't the same sound in English in some cases, esp. c's, z's and e's. And their transliteration of Russian or other Slavic languages is more on-point phonetically when spelled and spoken in their language than English ever could be with the same terms.
The "It's Enrico Pallazzo!!" line got a MASSIVE laugh and applause in the theater. And yes, baseball pitchers use all kinds of foreign substances to manipulate the balls. Not so much anymore since it's been cracked down on. Side note, assassin is Reggie Jackson, definitely a famous baseball player and from near my home town.
11:49 I've seen commercials on TV for a service that transfers old photos, films and video tapes to digital media that starts with the announcer asking "Do you have a box full of photos, movies or video tapes that are degrading?" and I always want to say "I was young. I needed the work."
And the driving instructor was John Houseman--who was not only an incredibly accomplished movie and stage actor, producer, and writer, and Academy Award winner, but was the founding director of the drama division of the Julliard School of the Arts (the 'Fame' school whose alumnus include the likes of Kevin Kline, Paddy DuPone, Robin Williams, Christopher Reeve, Mandy Patenkin, Adam Driver, Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac, Ving Rhames, Viola Davis... too many to name). So not only is this a really funny scene, it's really meta when you know who he is.
For such a minor character anyone who's seen this movie will know who "Stephanie" is just from the name. She really made an impression, her scene is one of the funniest in the movie.
the Naked Gun trilogy was made before OJ Simpson's trial of the century in 1995... fun fact is the actress Susan Beaubian who plays OJ's character's wife also plays the jury foreperson in American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson!
John Houseman as the driving instructor (one of his last roles), collaborated with Orson Welles in the days of theater, and also won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in “Paper Chase”
@@beandean23 Haha! That's right--I remember the episode where he takes little Ricky hunting. I think he was also the sinister corporateer in the movie "Rollerball"--now *that*'s a movie that could use a reaction! :)
The movie Platoon is really, really brutal and gritty. It's one of the best "war is hell" movies out there. Frank and Jane laughing their asses off after it is such a great scene. 😁
4:15 Weird Al's 5th album came out the same year as this movie. He'd been kind of mainstream for about 4 years by then, since it was Eat It that really broke him out of the niche he was in.
@Kristopher Chavez OP stated that "Eat it" (1984) broke him out of his niche when he's been doing parody songs since he was 16 (1976). His first polka album came out the same year as Eat It. Granted he did do polka music prior to his first album, but they mostly were still parodies, that he played, in live shows. If "Eat it" broke him out of any "niche" it wasn't out of polka, but from his songs mostly known from Doctor Demento. I could be mistaken about all of this, though.
@@woo545 Previous to Eat It, Yankovic had, for a year or two, had only a small cult following of Dr. Demento radio-show listeners. The Demento show, itself a cult phenomenon, dates from the 70’s, and is still going as a podcast. It consists mostly of oddball and comedic recordings.
@@woo545 His first parodies were just him and his accordion, recorded in a men’s bathroom in the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo dorms. Good acoustics. All the guys who dormed there at that time remember Weird Al’s recording sessions.
19:30 George: "Now, I'm wondering if this is supposed to be a famous person." Simone "Like a famous baseball player?" Me: So sad I'm tearing up at the fact that they don't know one of best ever, AKA "Mr. October", Reggie Jackson! Either you are too young, I'm too old or it's a bit of both!
The players were actually Angel's farm team players. In the original release, the game was billed as the World Series, but it was changed for video to the American League Championship because both teams are in the American League and therefore could not bother be in the World Series. The joke then, as now, is the idea of the Seattle Mariners in the World Series. The Mariners are STILL the only MLB team to never appear in the World Series. 😢😔
I've watched this movie -- easily -- ten times since seeing it in the theater. Only a few months ago did I notice the luggage dropping from the plane to the tarmac in the background as Frank spoke to the reporters and only NOW did I realize those Chinese guys running away from the fireworks shop. So much happens in these movies.
This started with a short-lived series call "Police Squad!". It was killed after only 6 episodes, despite being nominated for a few Emmy awards. The movie is exactly like the series. "Starring Sgt. Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant with Police Squad".
My sister and I know the film from the early 90s. When it was shown on television again a few years ago she was slightly ill. She had to finally leave the living room when the name "Mr Pahpshmir" was said. Laughing caused too much pain.
Pat Proft was a performer in the Kentucky Fried Theater in Los Angeles that the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams created in the 70s. He co-wrote some of the best spoof movies in the 80s and 90s like the three Naked Gun, the two Hot Shots!, High School High, and wrote and directed Wrongfully Accused. He also co-wrote successful raunchy/teen comedies in the 80s like Police Academy, Bachelor Party and Real Genius.
Leslie Nielsen, before Airplane, always played dramatic roles, usually as a senior doctor or official. With Airplane he riffed on his previous serious roles, and showed he could be hilarious by playing it straight. This movie was the result of his success in Airplane.
13:45 Yeah, so this is a joke that doesn't work anymore. Those are roasted pistachio nuts, which used to always come dyed red. See, there used to be this black mold or something that would stain the shells and make them look bad, so some marketing genius was like "We'll just dye them red so you can't tell!" and so that became a thing. The red dye would gradually rub off on your fingertips as you ate the nuts, though. It would stain flesh. (Thus the red lips etc.) Eventually the dye was phased out as new fungicides took care of the black mold problem, so you don't see dyed pistachios anymore. :)
"Oh. It's _emotionally_ naked." 😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣 Suddenly, I have a mental image of a gun, lying on a couch, talking to a therapist, saying, "I just can't seem to stop going _off_ on people."
My father and I did not miss any of the six episodes of Police Squad! on television, so I was ecstatic when I saw this movie coming out! There was a fun joke in the episodes where they introduced a celebrity guest star at the start of every episode, and then immediately killed them off. :D
Not B&W. Police Squad was from 1982, and definitely in color. Each episode even opened with a voiceover saying "Police Squad... in color," spoofing 1960s TV shows that did that, when color TV was new and not all programs had adapted yet.
13:51 those are unshelled pistachios for some bizarre reason they were died red anmd the color always got on your fingers. Just checked on why red, no one knows but the shells are reddish while they are growing.
Before Leslie Nielsen was in Airplane!, he was known for more serious roles, villains, etc. I think it was his more serious, deadpan acting approach that made his role in Airplane! so brilliant. It's that role that led to his role on the tv show Police Squad, leading to the Naked Gun movies and other similar ones like Spy Hard and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Oh, and others might have already said, but "Weird Al" Yankovic broke into mainstream fame by the mid-80s with the MJ parody "Eat It" (he was known as "The Eat It Guy" by people who would pass him on the street. "Hey! Eat it guy!") 5:00 "He never wanted to hurt anyone" - The resulting laughter at that line made me laugh
When Nielson would be a guest on a talk show, he would hide a small ball in his hand and lay his arm along the side of his leg and with perfect timing during his conversation with the host, he would squeeze the ball that made loud fart sounds. The looks he got from show hosts was priceless!
Met Leslie Nielsen at a Michael Landon Award event about two weeks before he was going to start shooting Naked Gun 33 1/3rd, I was standing right next to him and he did exactly that at the reception when everyone around him was having drinks and chatting he had his little fart-device and used it before slipping it back into his coat pocket and looking up at the ceiling when people who heard it turned around to see who let one fly...
Leslie Nielsen started his own comedy novelty company. One if the things they sold was a small cylinder you could conceal in your hand there were several versions that made different noises when you turned them over. There was one that moo'd like a cow and another that made fat noises.
With the baseball scenes the spitting came because ball players used to chew tobacco instead of smoke (cigarettes weren't allowed on the field), the abrasive/slick items were used by the pitcher to cheat to change the aerodynamics of the ball, though they were exaggerated.
Dugout smoking wasn't banned at this point in time. Baseball player dipping bans in MLB started in (I think) 2017, with older players grandfathered in.
I`m 42 yrs. old and I remember this movie from way back. It just occurred to me that the ring and finger Ludwig found in his hot dog was from the guy that fell in that vat of chemicals. :)
13:05 Oliver Stone's _Platoon_ won the 1986 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. You guys are making me feel sooooooo old _(crumbles into dust)_
If you can get a hold of it, try finding the TV series "Police Squad" It's where the character of Frank Drebin comes from. There were only 6 episodes before the series was cancelled and it was funny how the voice-over would say "Tonight's Episode: A Bird in the Hand" and the on-screen title would say something else.
Yes, and in my opinion "Hot Shots, Part Deux" is even better. Also need to watch the second Rambo movie, Apocalypse Now, and Casablanca before watching it.
Weird Al used to bring dates to this movie without telling them that they were in it. I hope that you watched the credits. There are jokes in there as well. The player at the end is Reggie Jackson a famous baseball player. O J Simpson plays Nordberg. Hasn't done much movie work in a while.
Those were pistachio nuts. They used to be died red to hide blemishes on the shell. Pitches are often accused of cheating by using sandpaper or Vaseline to change the way the ball is thrown. You really should watch the credits; they are funny too.
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I never noticed the details on the full body condom wrappers. Look closely around the 12:40 mark. Pay attention to the manufacturer's location. Yes, Titan Drug Co. in *Abstinence,* Michigan. :D
The Naked Gun was from a short live summer series (6 total Episodes) on ABC in 1982. The episodes were an half an hour. Full of jokes after jokes. Series also starred Leslie Nielsen.
In the baseball scene, Frank finds comically exaggerated ways that pitchers cheat. A pitcher might scuff the ball or apply a substance to one side in order to gain an advantage. In real life, a very tiny bit of rough sandpaper or a piece of a nail file or a little smudge of gel might be used. Ironically, in 2021 rules were put in place requiring umpires to actually search the pitchers for these items. And yes the "assassin" was Hall of Fame baseball player Reggie Jackson, who was well known at the time the film was released.
Yes the baseball player is Reggie Jackson one of the greatest outfielders ever and known as mr. October! He played for the Oakland A's where he won a World Series there and he played for the New York Yankees where he became Mr October after hitting three home runs in one World Series game to win the World Series! Besides that the movie was supposed to be ridiculously funny and ridiculously dumb which is very entertaining to most people except for critics!
I haven't read every comment, so I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but given that you don't know a lot of older celebrities, you may not know that the villain, Vincent Ludwig was played by Ricardo Montalban, a quite famous actor. He had a long career starting in the 40s, right up until he passed away in 2009, at the age of 88. He played the character Khan in an episode of the original Star Trek in 1967, and then reprised the role for Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan in 1982. In 2002 and 2003 he played the grandfather in the second and third Spy Kids movies. However, he's probably most well known for playing Mr. Rourke in the show Fantasy Island for 7 seasons, from 1977 to 1984. For seven years, he was a fixture of Saturday night, network TV, making people's fantasies come true (and often teaching them a valuable lesson) on his private, tropical island. "Dear guests, I am your host, Mr. Rourke. Welcome to Fantasy Island!"
The guy who said "Hey! It's Enrico Pallazzo! is Mark Holton. Most famously Francis, who was the mastermind behind stealing Pee Wee Herman's bicycle in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. During the credit, instead of Mark being credited as Fan at the Baseball Game or something else generic, he was was credited as the line he said. I wish comedies would do that more, like I could see that being in a Deadpool movie.
So all those things frank found with the pitcher are for smoothing objects or making them more slick. The implication is that the pitcher uses them to pitch fastballs at higher speeds.
The last time I cared what "professional critics" said about a movie was... uh... Okay, I NEVER cared what they said. Humor, like taste, is subjective. Audience ratings/reviews are much closer to the experience one can expect.
If you liked Top Secret and the ZAZ movies, maybe check out Real Genius. It stars Val Kilmer (his second movie) and was written by Naked Gun co-writer, Pat Proft. It's not as "zany" as the ZAZ movies, but it's a smart (literally) comedy and Kilmer makes you think he was about to be the next Bill Murray.
Leslie Nielsen was a genius. He was able to maintain a dead pan expression no matter what the other actors were saying because he was almost totally deaf. He read lips so as long as he didn't look at their faces when they delivered their lines he could maintain his composure.
This movie owes so much to the Pink Panther movies starring Peter Sellers. Imagine this same concept, but British and played only slightly more straight. There are fewer literal jokes, but way more physical comedy. The first one isn't really part of the series, and they do get a little redundant with the later ones, but some of the gags are timeless.
The sandpaper/vasiline joke is about how oldhead pitchers used to mess up their pitches by "loading the ball" they would either put oil or pine tar on the ball or alternatively try and scuff the ball to give it an irregular surface. All these things make the ball fly in an erratic and unpredictable fashion and thus are illegal in baseball
One giant 85 minute long dad joke lolol. Such a good movie lolol.. also you should check out Forbiden Planet. Leslie doing sci fi back back in the 50s. Ground breaking movie
"Forbidden Planet" is one of those few intelligent 50's sci-fi movies, like "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "The Incredible Shrinking Man", "War of the Worlds", "The Blob". They're all a bit deeper than the average 50's sci-fi that are all Christmas lights, tin foil and stupid monsters.
@@Buskieboy I still feel its one of the best Sci Fi movies made. It was a head of its time ina lot of ways. The Original "Day the Earth Stood Still" is also awesome.. well.. all the movies you listed were awesome. They are the grand slam of 50s Sci Fi
@@Webwyrm The Keanu Reeves remake was horrible, if only because Will Smith's son Jaden is a horrible actor and pushed a so-so remake into a BAD movie. He was a bad actor playing an annoying character. All those movies I mentioned have deep messages in them, which elevates them above the usual monster movie 50s science fiction.
The original tv series of Police Squad is absolutely fantastic, just like this and Airplane. you need to watch it! The end credits have a LOT of hidden easter eggs in it.
The baseball scenes were faked for the movie. It was filmed at Dodger Stadium and the Angels have their own stadium in Anaheim. The player who tried to kill the Queen was Reggie Jackson, a hall of fame player. It’s like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s role in Airplane.
Pistachio Nuts. The editing was such that I can't explain the joke but, they were eating pistachio nuts. For reasons I no longer remember, pistachios were often colored red. Baseball players spit because they are chewing tobacco. Scuffing the baseball on one spot or putting Vaseline on it make it behave unpredictability and confuse the batter.
I hope you watched the credits as well! There is a lot of silly stuff going on there also…love the reaction…the scene where he does the strike three just kills me, I lose it every time.
You need to watch Cannonball Run... The first one, it has the most A list celebrities in a movie EVER. It is really really funny. it takes the piss out of everyone and each other
It’s a title taken from one of the very funny episodes of this short lived tv series called Police Squad. You can still buy the series and sequel movies on blu-ray.
hahah what did we just watch? Share your thoughts! ehhh! Leslie Nielsen is Canadian! that's nifty ;)
Please watch the show this movie came from. Only 6 episodes got made before it got canceled and yet we ended up with 3 movies. Last I checked only two shows had ever gotten canceled in their first season and then had a movie made. Police Squad and Firefly.
Leslie Nielsen most definitely is Canadian and his brother was actually Deputy Prime Minister of Canada for a few years in the 80's. That's extra nifty.
The same guys that made "Airplane" made this movie AND the short lived (6 episodes) TV series.
It's goofy sight gags, and funny silliness. The only problem with this kind of humour is that the jokes have a limited shelf life because they're referencing people and things in that moment in time. But still funny though. And you can re-watch it for stuff you missed because it's loaded with gags, some in the background, some wiz by fast etc.
Leslie Nielson was a Canadian treasure. He started out as a more serious actor, but discovered he had a great comedic side. One of his more sinister roles was in "Creepshow", a Stephen King adaptation. If you haven't seen it put it on your list.
You just watched a very cringy police movie, up there with The Police Academy and Pink Panther sagas.
Next time watch the credits, they have some great jokes in there.
When Leslie Nielsen passed, ESPN published an obituary for the legendary umpire/opera singer, Enrico Pallazzo. It was surprisingly heartwarming, and I think Leslie would have loved it.
"Pallazzo died from health complications at a hospital, a large building with patients, near his home."
@@aresef When a relative said that Pallazzo surely couldn't be serious, Pallazzo replied that he was and requested that he not be called Shirley.
Great comedians live to make people laugh. Especially after they die, since they don't have to concern themselves with the "live" part any more. I'm absolutely certain the gag made Leslie Nielsen assume his world famous deadpan face. Or maybe it wasn't the gag. On that note, I recommend you watch Graham Chapman's memorial service. Literally one of the funniest memorial services I've ever seen. And I mean literally.
That ESPN obituary was a stroke of genius and a fitting tribute to Leslie.
Someone edited his Wiki page immediately after his death to say that he'd "lost a brief, but final battle with his arch-nemesis Skeletor".
It wasn't long before it was edited out, but I was able to get a screenshot and there are a few other screenshots of it floating around on-line.
At the time I remember thinking how much that would have tickled him.
Fun fact: Weird Al Yankovic once told that he took his date to the cinema to watch this movie and didn't tell beforehand that he had a cameo in it. And he went there wearing the exact same clothes. The reaction must have been priceless.
when i was born in 1995, Weird Al was at the hospital visiting sick kids,
& when i was born, he held me before my parents did ☺
Fun fact, when Leslie Nielsen died, ESPN published an obituary for Enrico Pallazzo, the referee here
Umpire and ESPN did something awesome for once?
Thats a GREAT idea 😂
Interesting fact. I hate comments that begin with Fun Fact.
That is hilarious.
@@gaynor1721 interestingly interesting 🤔
“From the files of the Police Squad” is because “Police Squad” was a short lived tv series, with the same characters. After the end of the show, they made the movies.
This! ^
Who are you and how did you get in here?
I'm a locksmith and I'm a locksmith.
It was canceled because it was a show the audience had to watch. Not like others where people could do other things and still follow the show.
@@nathanberrigan9839 Locksmith of course is joke job title it self , they have not made locks in 100 years , they cut key copies :-D
This movie was well recieved by audiences and critics alike. Why highlight one negative review from a decade after release?
The baseball player who was hypnotized to kill the queen is Reggie Jackson, who was a famous baseball player in the 70s/80s.
He was Mr October.
HALL OF FAMER Reggie Jackson...
@@John_Locke_108 There is ofcourse a whole big world outside of the USA, full of people to whom Baseball is of no importance and who'll have no idea who Reggie Jackson or Ty Cobb are but who do get to view movies.
That is a gross understatement
@@playy1797 it doesn’t matter if baseball is important in certain areas. Some people who don’t watch sports or have no interests in them still wouldn’t know who is who in sports unless you just saw them in commercials. It’s actually more common for people who have never watched a certain sport or follow them to not know players by name at all
They're eating Pistachios in the stakeout scene. What's piled up outside the car are the shells. They are really a pale color shell naturally, but back during this time, they were dyed that red color (to be more appealing visually), and they really did stain your fingers. Today, you can still find the red dyed Pistachios in certain places, but only around Christmas time.
Awesome reaction by the way!! I'll be looking forward to the next 2 Naked Gun movies if you decide to do them!
I used to know a kid in school that sat in the back and ate red Pistachios all day and everything this kid touched was stained red, i wouldn't let him near me.
It's funny, I didn't even realize they didn't sell those red ones any more, but now that you mention it all I see now are the pale/natural colored shells.
In the late '70's, I was in the Navy and my folks sent me a care package with a BIG bag of red Pistachios. I was living in the barracks, on the 2nd or 3rd floor and I would sit by the window, watch TV eating them and tossing the shells out the window. A few days later I happened to walk through that area and saw all the red shells covering the ground and heard that they were looking for the source. I started tossing them in the trash can after that.
I'm Canadian and there's red Pistachios available year round at the Supermarket where I live.
@@Radwar99 Free roam?
"You killed 5 actors...good ones!" That qualifier always gets me.
"That was a Shakespeare in a park production of Julius Caesar, you moron." 😂😂
Maybe the funniest line of any movie ever.
"So, you're saying I can kill bad actors?"
@@davidtrebich4638 i dont know her delivery of "sexual assault with a concrete dildo" is pretty hilarious. She reads it like " did i see that correctly"
@@bradeyyates6280 true, the. Concrete dildo line and “that was Shakespeare in the park, you moron are very close. And also “stop shooting your gun I can’t hear you” when in the warehouse is right up there too.
About the grinder..and the sand paper and the Vaseline. They were all ways to "doctor" the baseball. If you make one side of the baseball smoother or rougher... it causes one side of the baseball to have more friction with the air. Therefore pitches that depend on the ball moving like a curve ball or slider break much harder. Baseball pitchers using physics to cheat
Of course the grinder was a funny joke.
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@@JohnSmith-qn3ob Major League would be good for a reaction!
@@Journeyman.71 great movie!
vasoline causes slip against the bat rather than change in air drag.
The bonus joke about Frank singing so badly at the national anthem was Leslie Nielsen was actually a really good singer. For much of his early career he starred in many musicals.
Do you have any names of these musicals? His singing in Naked Gun 2 was better because it wasn't trying to be bad on purpose but he still sounded very much like a regular guy, not someone I'd want in a musical.
Despite messing up some words, his singing wasn't actually toooo bad... if you pay attention to it, the organist is really messing things up making it sound 10x worse when his singing, though not great, isn't too terrible :D
Leslie Nielsen hadn’t done any comedy until they asked him to be in Airplane. He turned out to be such a natural that all the rest of his career he started in films like this one. And he’s definitely recognized more as a comedic actor.
He was a leading man in Television and this definitely gave him a career resurgence due to his dramatic acting chops.
But he did have a great sense of humor. I think on one late night talk show, he had a fart machine in his pocket and would press it during pauses in his answers and pretend he didn't hear it.
"Why do baseball players spit so much" - Back then, it was because of chewing tobacco. Pretty sure it's been widely banned at this point, so they mostly do sunflower seeds and chewing gum.
Oh btw, they were eating red pistachios, not sure if they're still around but they used to be all over the place. Entirely a cosmetic thing, used to cover up blemishes on the nuts.
The sandpaper, vaseline etc... were a reference to pitchers who cheat by either illegally scuffing the ball (alters how the ball spins/etc...) or using a foreign substance to make it slippery (or some use substances to increase their grip).
The baseball player is Reggie Jackson, he's a legend in the sport.
There is no ban on chewing tobacco in baseball at all, just less people doing it.
@@amunago080 You are correct. There are some that still do it. The tobacco gave a euphoric feeling. Chewing tobacco was the thing, then snuff became more popular.
I'm glad *someone* in the comments used a word like "legend" for Reggie Jackson. He is definitely one of the most famous sportsmen of our time and every single kid knew his name when I was growing up. I'm no baseball fan, but his record seems amazing to me looking at it now... his team, regardless of what team he'd moved to at the time, won the World Series _5_ of his 21 seasons. I don't know if averaging 27 home runs per season is "a lot" these days, but I know it's not a *low* number.
The movie they were laughing about when they left the theatre was Platoon. A Vietnam war movie that is definitely no laughing matter. A strong recommendation for you incidentally.
Uh... that's not Boris Yeltsin. It's Mikhail Gorbachev.
Hahaha and the birthmark was fake!😆
It's crazy how well that Weird Al reference holds up as he is still making music and touring to this day. He really blew up in 1984 with "Eat it" but had been making parody songs since the late 70s.
Brilliant man, and a top-notch performer! i don't know who I've ever seen work as hard on-stage. I just wish his more recent stuff didn't seem less humorous, and more angry/irritated (grumpy?).
It weirdly works better now, really, as back then he was cult enough that the idea there'd be a media reception for him at all was funny. Now, it's funny because Weird Al is such a household name.
Weird Al was a few years past peak when this was made, so the idea of such a huge press conference for him was part of the joke.
Weird Al once said in an interview that he couldn't believe he had managed to somehow stay successful longer than many of the bands he parodied.
@@vincegay986 He was not even close to his peak at that time, let alone past it. This movie was made between February and April of 1988, in April of 1988 Al released "Even Worse" which tied as his best selling album at that time with over 1 million copies sold. He had a minor slump in '86 with "Polka Party" but he could hardly be said to be past his peak. His popularity has only grown since then. As someone who started listening to him in 1984 when few people even knew his name I have been able to watch him grow more and more in the public's eye.
So, OJ Simpson's appearance is definitely before he became a murderer, and when he was still a well loved celebrity. Also, I may have missed any mentions of this, but Jane in this film is Priscilla Presley, Elvis Presley's widow, who Elvis met and basically started dating when she was only 14, and married 8 years later.
@@poluticon he murdered two people
Yep, OJ did that shit.
The fact that he's known today for what he did makes it even funnier to me when he's getting put through the wringer.
Even more irony. He was the first choice to be the terminator but he was so beloved at the time they though nobody could take him seriously in a role where he was a killer.
@@StCerberusEngel Exactly. It's also true with Kevin Spacey now making Se7en even creepier.
It's not Boris Yelcyn at the beginning, it is his predecessor - Gorbatschev who introduced pierestroyka and thanks to whom the USSR finally met its demise.
This is correct, despite the abominable spelling of Russian names and words.
@@hkpew Lol. Even I know it's Perestroika.
@@hkpew @STOCKHOLM The guy's likely Polish. Their corresponding Latin letters aren't the same sound in English in some cases, esp. c's, z's and e's. And their transliteration of Russian or other Slavic languages is more on-point phonetically when spelled and spoken in their language than English ever could be with the same terms.
@@kyleshockley1573 so either he's inconsistent or not Polish, because a Pole would have written Gorbaczow
A real traitor who let the Evil Empire win.
The "It's Enrico Pallazzo!!" line got a MASSIVE laugh and applause in the theater. And yes, baseball pitchers use all kinds of foreign substances to manipulate the balls. Not so much anymore since it's been cracked down on. Side note, assassin is Reggie Jackson, definitely a famous baseball player and from near my home town.
Harbormaster legit ended up owing the detective twenty bucks, I'm dying
11:49 I've seen commercials on TV for a service that transfers old photos, films and video tapes to digital media that starts with the announcer asking "Do you have a box full of photos, movies or video tapes that are degrading?" and I always want to say "I was young. I needed the work."
I don't know why but the whole scene with Stephanie giving that truck driver the finger is my favourite scene in the whole film.
My favorite is when he breaks threw the window and comes at the woman with the concrete dildo.
@@ckobo84 Perhaps a nod to A Clockwork Orange.
And the driving instructor was John Houseman--who was not only an incredibly accomplished movie and stage actor, producer, and writer, and Academy Award winner, but was the founding director of the drama division of the Julliard School of the Arts (the 'Fame' school whose alumnus include the likes of Kevin Kline, Paddy DuPone, Robin Williams, Christopher Reeve, Mandy Patenkin, Adam Driver, Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac, Ving Rhames, Viola Davis... too many to name). So not only is this a really funny scene, it's really meta when you know who he is.
The face the truck driver makes when he sees it is such absolute perfection :D
For such a minor character anyone who's seen this movie will know who "Stephanie" is just from the name. She really made an impression, her scene is one of the funniest in the movie.
the Naked Gun trilogy was made before OJ Simpson's trial of the century in 1995... fun fact is the actress Susan Beaubian who plays OJ's character's wife also plays the jury foreperson in American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson!
Wow.
She should have been disqualified.
The guy in the stands that screams & points " Hey it's Enrico Palatzo !!" Is in a movie with Rick Moranis called " Strange Brew " from Canada 😂
Look!! Its Enrico Pollazzo!!!
Kills me every time.
Leslie Nielsen is one of a kind, RIP
From staring in one of the worst sci-fi movies (which later became a cult classic) to being a member of "the bold one's, to doing comedy.
John Houseman as the driving instructor (one of his last roles), collaborated with Orson Welles in the days of theater, and also won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in “Paper Chase”
I didn't know this. 👍🏾
America’s Favourite Old Fart - Scrooged
And the grandfather on the show, 'Silver Spoons.'
@@beandean23 Haha! That's right--I remember the episode where he takes little Ricky hunting. I think he was also the sinister corporateer in the movie "Rollerball"--now *that*'s a movie that could use a reaction! :)
The Paper Chase is an amazing film.
The movie Platoon is really, really brutal and gritty.
It's one of the best "war is hell" movies out there.
Frank and Jane laughing their asses off after it is such a great scene. 😁
Ah yes, a silly AF but funny AF movie. Frank Drebin, and Leslie Nielsen, at the top of his game, and his parking skills are unmatched! 😁
4:15 Weird Al's 5th album came out the same year as this movie. He'd been kind of mainstream for about 4 years by then, since it was Eat It that really broke him out of the niche he was in.
Broke him out of his niche of being a parody song artist?
And now, they must do UHF, Al's big movie.
@Kristopher Chavez OP stated that "Eat it" (1984) broke him out of his niche when he's been doing parody songs since he was 16 (1976). His first polka album came out the same year as Eat It. Granted he did do polka music prior to his first album, but they mostly were still parodies, that he played, in live shows. If "Eat it" broke him out of any "niche" it wasn't out of polka, but from his songs mostly known from Doctor Demento.
I could be mistaken about all of this, though.
@@woo545 Previous to Eat It, Yankovic had, for a year or two, had only a small cult following of Dr. Demento radio-show listeners. The Demento show, itself a cult phenomenon, dates from the 70’s, and is still going as a podcast. It consists mostly of oddball and comedic recordings.
@@woo545 His first parodies were just him and his accordion, recorded in a men’s bathroom in the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo dorms. Good acoustics. All the guys who dormed there at that time remember Weird Al’s recording sessions.
Zucker, Zucker and Abrahams are the same trio that brought you "Airplane!" and "Top Secret!".
Jerry zucker also did ghost
I recommend "Top Secret!" (1984)!
"Step on it Stephanie!" Is something we say often when getting in the car.
19:30
George: "Now, I'm wondering if this is supposed to be a famous person."
Simone "Like a famous baseball player?"
Me: So sad I'm tearing up at the fact that they don't know
one of best ever, AKA "Mr. October", Reggie Jackson!
Either you are too young, I'm too old or it's a bit of both!
I don't know if it made the cut, but I did mention Reggie something.. but you're right we've got a lot to learn about sports history :)
And, we must assume, they have never had a chance to enjoy a "Reggie bar" candy...
And the very first batter is Jay Johnstone, who played for several different teams over his career.
The players were actually Angel's farm team players. In the original release, the game was billed as the World Series, but it was changed for video to the American League Championship because both teams are in the American League and therefore could not bother be in the World Series. The joke then, as now, is the idea of the Seattle Mariners in the World Series. The Mariners are STILL the only MLB team to never appear in the World Series. 😢😔
I've watched this movie -- easily -- ten times since seeing it in the theater. Only a few months ago did I notice the luggage dropping from the plane to the tarmac in the background as Frank spoke to the reporters and only NOW did I realize those Chinese guys running away from the fireworks shop. So much happens in these movies.
This started with a short-lived series call "Police Squad!". It was killed after only 6 episodes, despite being nominated for a few Emmy awards. The movie is exactly like the series. "Starring Sgt. Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant with Police Squad".
I love that the buildings are named "The Hospital", "The Police Station", etc.
Yes, the baseball player who said, "I must kill the Queen" was a famous player. Reggie Jackson is in the baseball Hall of Fame.
He was famous, "back in the day." (I'm not even a baseball fan, and I recognized him.)
Simone, I like your taste in music. Another great comedy is "A fish called Wanda" if you haven't seen it already.
My sister and I know the film from the early 90s. When it was shown on television again a few years ago she was slightly ill. She had to finally leave the living room when the name "Mr Pahpshmir" was said. Laughing caused too much pain.
There use to be a old tv crime/police show called The Naked City, that's probably where they got the idea for the title The Naked Gun
Pat Proft was a performer in the Kentucky Fried Theater in Los Angeles that the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams created in the 70s. He co-wrote some of the best spoof movies in the 80s and 90s like the three Naked Gun, the two Hot Shots!, High School High, and wrote and directed Wrongfully Accused. He also co-wrote successful raunchy/teen comedies in the 80s like Police Academy, Bachelor Party and Real Genius.
Leslie Nielsen, before Airplane, always played dramatic roles, usually as a senior doctor or official. With Airplane he riffed on his previous serious roles, and showed he could be hilarious by playing it straight. This movie was the result of his success in Airplane.
13:45 Yeah, so this is a joke that doesn't work anymore. Those are roasted pistachio nuts, which used to always come dyed red. See, there used to be this black mold or something that would stain the shells and make them look bad, so some marketing genius was like "We'll just dye them red so you can't tell!" and so that became a thing. The red dye would gradually rub off on your fingertips as you ate the nuts, though. It would stain flesh. (Thus the red lips etc.) Eventually the dye was phased out as new fungicides took care of the black mold problem, so you don't see dyed pistachios anymore. :)
Interesting! I was born in the 70s but never ate the things so I never knew this.
Yes, Platoon is a Vietnam war movie, one of the greatest anti-war movies ever actually. You guys should really give it a try. You won’t regret it.
"Oh. It's _emotionally_ naked."
😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣 Suddenly, I have a mental image of a gun, lying on a couch, talking to a therapist, saying, "I just can't seem to stop going _off_ on people."
LOL George reading the critic’s review from RT at the end was hilarious.
Blows me away how many people have no idea those are pistachios. They used to be dyed red and stained the crap out of your fingers and stuff.
My father and I did not miss any of the six episodes of Police Squad! on television, so I was ecstatic when I saw this movie coming out!
There was a fun joke in the episodes where they introduced a celebrity guest star at the start of every episode, and then immediately killed them off. :D
Police Squad was a B&W TV show with very similar humor. The intro from this with the police car is taken from the intro of the show.
Not B&W. Police Squad was from 1982, and definitely in color. Each episode even opened with a voiceover saying "Police Squad... in color," spoofing 1960s TV shows that did that, when color TV was new and not all programs had adapted yet.
13:51 those are unshelled pistachios for some bizarre reason they were died red anmd the color always got on your fingers.
Just checked on why red, no one knows but the shells are reddish while they are growing.
People sure do know why they were dyed red lol. They were dyed red to hide blemishes and discoloration on the shells.
Before Leslie Nielsen was in Airplane!, he was known for more serious roles, villains, etc.
I think it was his more serious, deadpan acting approach that made his role in Airplane! so brilliant. It's that role that led to his role on the tv show Police Squad, leading to the Naked Gun movies and other similar ones like Spy Hard and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
Oh, and others might have already said, but "Weird Al" Yankovic broke into mainstream fame by the mid-80s with the MJ parody "Eat It" (he was known as "The Eat It Guy" by people who would pass him on the street. "Hey! Eat it guy!")
5:00 "He never wanted to hurt anyone" - The resulting laughter at that line made me laugh
When Nielson would be a guest on a talk show, he would hide a small ball in his hand and lay his arm along the side of his leg and with perfect timing during his conversation with the host, he would squeeze the ball that made loud fart sounds. The looks he got from show hosts was priceless!
Met Leslie Nielsen at a Michael Landon Award event about two weeks before he was going to start shooting Naked Gun 33 1/3rd, I was standing right next to him and he did exactly that at the reception when everyone around him was having drinks and chatting he had his little fart-device and used it before slipping it back into his coat pocket and looking up at the ceiling when people who heard it turned around to see who let one fly...
Leslie Nielsen started his own comedy novelty company. One if the things they sold was a small cylinder you could conceal in your hand there were several versions that made different noises when you turned them over. There was one that moo'd like a cow and another that made fat noises.
Wow, she was 43 in this movie. I never realized that until looking it up right now. She was stunning!
With the baseball scenes the spitting came because ball players used to chew tobacco instead of smoke (cigarettes weren't allowed on the field), the abrasive/slick items were used by the pitcher to cheat to change the aerodynamics of the ball, though they were exaggerated.
Dugout smoking wasn't banned at this point in time. Baseball player dipping bans in MLB started in (I think) 2017, with older players grandfathered in.
I`m 42 yrs. old and I remember this movie from way back. It just occurred to me that the ring and finger Ludwig found in his hot dog was from the guy that fell in that vat of chemicals. :)
Quick rewatch before watching 2 1/2!
13:05 Oliver Stone's _Platoon_ won the 1986 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. You guys are making me feel sooooooo old _(crumbles into dust)_
If you can get a hold of it, try finding the TV series "Police Squad" It's where the character of Frank Drebin comes from. There were only 6 episodes before the series was cancelled and it was funny how the voice-over would say "Tonight's Episode: A Bird in the Hand" and the on-screen title would say something else.
Police Squad might be my absolute favorite comedy of all time. It was great!
I can't wait for your reactions to the other two "Naked Gun" movies!
Great reaction!
"HOT SHOTS" is another great one for you. (It references Top Gun (1986) a lot, may want to watch that 1st. 😁
Yes, and in my opinion "Hot Shots, Part Deux" is even better. Also need to watch the second Rambo movie, Apocalypse Now, and Casablanca before watching it.
Weird Al used to bring dates to this movie without telling them that they were in it. I hope that you watched the credits. There are jokes in there as well. The player at the end is Reggie Jackson a famous baseball player. O J Simpson plays Nordberg. Hasn't done much movie work in a while.
Been too busy looking for "the real killers"?
Those were pistachio nuts. They used to be died red to hide blemishes on the shell. Pitches are often accused of cheating by using sandpaper or Vaseline to change the way the ball is thrown. You really should watch the credits; they are funny too.
I never noticed the details on the full body condom wrappers. Look closely around the 12:40 mark. Pay attention to the manufacturer's location.
Yes, Titan Drug Co. in *Abstinence,* Michigan. :D
Police Squad! Was a TV show. Was only briefly on air.
2:40 No, it's Gorbachev. Also, OJ didn’t become infamous until after the second movie. So, the third installment felt a little weird to watch.
The Naked Gun was from a short live summer series (6 total Episodes) on ABC in 1982. The episodes were an half an hour. Full of jokes after jokes. Series also starred Leslie Nielsen.
its never painful watching you ! so much fun, i love watching you watching movies.
In the baseball scene, Frank finds comically exaggerated ways that pitchers cheat. A pitcher might scuff the ball or apply a substance to one side in order to gain an advantage. In real life, a very tiny bit of rough sandpaper or a piece of a nail file or a little smudge of gel might be used. Ironically, in 2021 rules were put in place requiring umpires to actually search the pitchers for these items. And yes the "assassin" was Hall of Fame baseball player Reggie Jackson, who was well known at the time the film was released.
Your reaction to the fireworks store blowing up slayed me. Hilarious!!!!
"Nothing to see here"
The Zucker "brothers" and Jim Abraham are the same directors of Airplane. :D
3:40 I love the following scene when one bad guy drops his weapon and everyone gives him the look.
That wasn't Boris Yeltsin in the beginning. That was Mikhail Gorbachev, last president of the Soviet Union before its collapse.
Yes the baseball player is Reggie Jackson one of the greatest outfielders ever and known as mr. October! He played for the Oakland A's where he won a World Series there and he played for the New York Yankees where he became Mr October after hitting three home runs in one World Series game to win the World Series! Besides that the movie was supposed to be ridiculously funny and ridiculously dumb which is very entertaining to most people except for critics!
13:59 those are red pistachios. I don't think they make them anymore.
I haven't read every comment, so I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but given that you don't know a lot of older celebrities, you may not know that the villain, Vincent Ludwig was played by Ricardo Montalban, a quite famous actor. He had a long career starting in the 40s, right up until he passed away in 2009, at the age of 88.
He played the character Khan in an episode of the original Star Trek in 1967, and then reprised the role for Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan in 1982. In 2002 and 2003 he played the grandfather in the second and third Spy Kids movies. However, he's probably most well known for playing Mr. Rourke in the show Fantasy Island for 7 seasons, from 1977 to 1984. For seven years, he was a fixture of Saturday night, network TV, making people's fantasies come true (and often teaching them a valuable lesson) on his private, tropical island.
"Dear guests, I am your host, Mr. Rourke. Welcome to Fantasy Island!"
The guy who said "Hey! It's Enrico Pallazzo! is Mark Holton. Most famously Francis, who was the mastermind behind stealing Pee Wee Herman's bicycle in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. During the credit, instead of Mark being credited as Fan at the Baseball Game or something else generic, he was was credited as the line he said. I wish comedies would do that more, like I could see that being in a Deadpool movie.
Weird Al has been famous since 1976 when he started doing his parody/comedy songs.
And "was" famous? *Is* famous, thank you very much. ;)
9:38 This was a very good re-creation of the same scene in the Charles Bronson/Lee Remick film "Telefon".
So all those things frank found with the pitcher are for smoothing objects or making them more slick. The implication is that the pitcher uses them to pitch fastballs at higher speeds.
The last time I cared what "professional critics" said about a movie was... uh... Okay, I NEVER cared what they said. Humor, like taste, is subjective. Audience ratings/reviews are much closer to the experience one can expect.
Another good Zucker brothers movie you have to watch is “Top Secret “ starring Val Kilmer.
A classic.
They were eating pistachios in the shell. For some reason they used to be dyed red.
Police Squad was actually a TV series. And it was really funny you should find it when you get a chance.
If you liked Top Secret and the ZAZ movies, maybe check out Real Genius. It stars Val Kilmer (his second movie) and was written by Naked Gun co-writer, Pat Proft. It's not as "zany" as the ZAZ movies, but it's a smart (literally) comedy and Kilmer makes you think he was about to be the next Bill Murray.
Leslie Nielsen was a genius. He was able to maintain a dead pan expression no matter what the other actors were saying because he was almost totally deaf. He read lips so as long as he didn't look at their faces when they delivered their lines he could maintain his composure.
"Was he on a plane in this one? - I mean, he was on a plane last time"
What can I say except: spoken like someone who trains neural networks... bravo!
This movie owes so much to the Pink Panther movies starring Peter Sellers. Imagine this same concept, but British and played only slightly more straight. There are fewer literal jokes, but way more physical comedy. The first one isn't really part of the series, and they do get a little redundant with the later ones, but some of the gags are timeless.
The sandpaper/vasiline joke is about how oldhead pitchers used to mess up their pitches by "loading the ball" they would either put oil or pine tar on the ball or alternatively try and scuff the ball to give it an irregular surface. All these things make the ball fly in an erratic and unpredictable fashion and thus are illegal in baseball
you can 'rough' with sandpaper or add weight/smooth out with Vaseline to 1 side of the ball to help with curve in flight..
Fun Fact: The Mayor is Olivia Soprano, mother of Tony Soprano.
One giant 85 minute long dad joke lolol. Such a good movie lolol.. also you should check out Forbiden Planet. Leslie doing sci fi back back in the 50s. Ground breaking movie
"Forbidden Planet" is one of those few intelligent 50's sci-fi movies, like "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "The Incredible Shrinking Man", "War of the Worlds", "The Blob". They're all a bit deeper than the average 50's sci-fi that are all Christmas lights, tin foil and stupid monsters.
@@Buskieboy I still feel its one of the best Sci Fi movies made. It was a head of its time ina lot of ways. The Original "Day the Earth Stood Still" is also awesome.. well.. all the movies you listed were awesome. They are the grand slam of 50s Sci Fi
@@Webwyrm The Keanu Reeves remake was horrible, if only because Will Smith's son Jaden is a horrible actor and pushed a so-so remake into a BAD movie. He was a bad actor playing an annoying character.
All those movies I mentioned have deep messages in them, which elevates them above the usual monster movie 50s science fiction.
The original tv series of Police Squad is absolutely fantastic, just like this and Airplane. you need to watch it! The end credits have a LOT of hidden easter eggs in it.
Yes!
The baseball scenes were faked for the movie. It was filmed at Dodger Stadium and the Angels have their own stadium in Anaheim. The player who tried to kill the Queen was Reggie Jackson, a hall of fame player. It’s like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s role in Airplane.
Pistachio Nuts. The editing was such that I can't explain the joke but, they were eating pistachio nuts. For reasons I no longer remember, pistachios were often colored red.
Baseball players spit because they are chewing tobacco.
Scuffing the baseball on one spot or putting Vaseline on it make it behave unpredictability and confuse the batter.
I hope you watched the credits as well! There is a lot of silly stuff going on there also…love the reaction…the scene where he does the strike three just kills me, I lose it every time.
you sand down the bat and ball to make them rougher, so they impact better / at easier angles. The vaseline is to make the bases slippery.
Leslie Nelson co star is George Kennedy who played in Airport (drama) the movie Airplane spoofed.
You need to watch Cannonball Run... The first one, it has the most A list celebrities in a movie EVER. It is really really funny. it takes the piss out of everyone and each other
It’s a title taken from one of the very funny episodes of this short lived tv series called Police Squad. You can still buy the series and sequel movies on blu-ray.
@13:06
Yeah that’s a war drama movie, and I would like to know which scene did Frank and Jane find it funny? lol