The absolute best moment is when he's trying to follow along after he slides between their legs. He gets up...looks around....and grabs his crotch in pain. It kills me every time.
It’s incredible to think that pia Zadora had possibly the funniest scene in the whole trilogy, yet she never had any verbal interaction with frank or even knew who he was.
The funniest musical number ever filmed, everybody was great, Nielsen, Zadora, Joe Grifasi, the dancers, timing, editing, that spectacular Steve Allen tune !!! Thank You ZAZ guys, your films are pure comedy gold, Blessings from San Juan 🇵🇷 !!!
My favourite scene from the movie. I laughed like a loony the first time I saw it, and it still makes me giggle :D. Drebin's terrible attempts to blend in as one of the dancers just make it better :D.
Best part is when he hits the guys in their balls, stands up, sees them clutching their groins, and thinks it's part of the choreography. So he just immediately copies them.
Summer of 1979. Riviera Hotel in Vegas. Zadora was the headline and Milton Berle was the opener. Was a huge fan of the comedian, dancer was an unknown. Skipped the show and the last night in town, while eating at the hotel steak house. Berle enters though a hidden side door. Sat a couple tables over and ordered his meal. Leaving, friend's and me exchanged a brief greeting with the gentleman. Sure wish now that I had seen Pia. The voice is a mile big.
While some of what you see here is of course a stunt man, it's kind of amazing to know Leslie Nielsen was 68 when they filmed this (almost 70!), and he still handled all the physical comedy like a pro.
The sound effects really help bring out the humor! My favorite part is at the end where Pia is staggering around with the tuba on her head with the little "toot toot" sounds. 2:49
Thank you for posting this. Its one of the funniest scene in history and I can't believe no one else has posted it in its entirety. This was my favorite sequence from the entire series.
@@JohnSmith-qn3ob yes they did. However, pia is a very talented and legit singer. This girl who studied voice very hard for so many years and became technically up there with all of the very best singers such as Liza Minnelli, Vicky Carr, Tony tennille, Shirley Bassie and many others. Strangely, for some reason she never became the star that she deserved to be. This was probably because of poor/ or wrong management. Such a talented waste. 🤔🥺😟
This is one of the funniest scenes in the film (closely followed by the now somewhat politically incorrect, but still hilarious, scene that comes immediately afterwards). What is fascinating is that whilst choreographing a dance to work properly is difficult enough at the best of times, choregraphing a dance so that it doesn't work deliberately for the purpose of humour is even cleverer.
Her career sure was interesting. First a child actress in ”Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”, called one of the worst movies ever, then in the 80s starred in a few movies financed by her husband, won a Golden Globe and people accused her/her husband of bribing the jury, ”The Lonely Lady” was also regarded as one of the worst movies ever, she won Razzie awards. Hollywood didn’t think very highly of her so it’s really to her credit that she made fun of herself like this in this movie. She also had a small role in John Water’s ”Hairspray” and had a big hit with ”When the Rain Begins to Fall” with Jermaine Jackson. And I hear she still performs regularly in Las Vegas.
1:53 Thanks Naked Gun😔😔😔 Because of this song, I can't stop randomly shout in public places, "YOU'RE ORDERING WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!" 🤣🤣🤣
The first time my family and me saw this, we laughed until our stomachs hurt! Credit to the extras, the stunned looks at 1:23 and 2:29 really add to the comedy factor.
Right? It was probably much more difficult for Leslie NOT to be in sync with the other dancers and troll the whole thing. Leslie's style of comedy is lightning in a bottle that can never be duplicated.
@@mirandagarrison2149 i know now. im so sorry. the choreographer who did beetlejuice played mother theresa in the movie. you did a hell of a job in the pia zadora sequence and it was soooo funny.
@@mirandagarrison2149 i know now. i'm so sorry. the choreographer who did beetlejuice played mother theresa in the movie. you did a hell of a job and it was so funny!
@@Legoflymaster89 I choreographed my friend Chrissie Bocchino as Mother Teresa! She has passed on many years ago (RIP) She did indeed choreograph Beetlejuice number and it was as funny as she was... she also worked with Bette Midler assisting Toni Basil... she is truly missed. Thank you for your interest in all things choreographic. Rock On! MG
@zg1000dru1 just about to write that i also love when he's trying to get her wig out of his hand, looks at the camera, does this quick little dance then gets right back to getting rid of that wig lol
Wasn't it that she sang at some award show and actually surprised everyone and shut up her critics for a brief time then went on to do this skit to lampoon her own performance? During those years Phylicia Rashad's (The Cosby Show) sister Debbie Allen (Fame tv series) choreographed many of the over-done award show dance numbers and people were getting tired of them. This was the most hilarious send up they could think of and it really hit the mark.
Honestly, this musical number wouldn't have been half as entertaining without Drebin hopelessly derailing it. Seriously, we needed a Super bowl halftime show where Leslie Nielsen went on as Frank Drebin and runs it into the ground.
Somehow, Drebin's mishaps just keep getting worse, and WORSE, until the line has been crossed over and over. No WONDER that producer ended up fainting at the very end! XD
Mr. Nielsen...from Police Academy to this....he doesn't have to say anything, yet he's hilarious! Rehearsals must have been an ordeal with everyone trying to keep a straight face
What idiot thought it was a good idea to place Pia on Drebin's shoulders, after all he'd done during the performance? Clearly, someone had a vendetta against Pia Zadora.
Presumably the guy who frank replaced was supposed to have her on his shoulders at the end. The dancers weren’t able to talk to form a plan, they were just trying to perform the dance routine and ignore the chaos all around them.
2:19 Pia: this could be the start of something..........BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII..........AGH! (crash!) Audience: (gasp) oooooooh.......... Director: ugh........(faints)
This one... people got hurt, the stage director needed maalox, the conductor of the orchestra couldn't even look up at the stage, and then topped off with Drebin throwing up in a tuba.
Her song "When The Rain Begins To Fall" was a top ten hit in many European countries, in some it even topped the charts. I can tell that the track still is frequently played on the radio in Austria is a classic 80s pop song every child knows. But she was really more or less a one hit wonder, but people know her name.
Yep, whether you like or not. A few big hits in several countries...around the world, actually. So, I'm guessing that would make her an international star. One of her singles sold 500,000 copies in France, alone...with an additional 250,000 copies in Germany. I gotta admit, though, this scene from Naked Gun is comedy gold.
The absolute best moment is when he's trying to follow along after he slides between their legs. He gets up...looks around....and grabs his crotch in pain. It kills me every time.
I'm amazed at how Pia Zadora kept a straight face through this scene.
She did seem to have a look of panic when frank had ripped her wig off and she had to do the dance without it! Absolutely hilarious scene 😅
Well in fairness she was lip syncing
The very end where Pia Zadora is stuck in a tuba gets me everytime 😂😂
Same! The whole sequence is hilarious but that makes me laugh the hardest each time!
I thought she died
I am dead 😂 this scene gets me everytime
If only the real Academy Awards were this fun to watch…
It’s incredible to think that pia Zadora had possibly the funniest scene in the whole trilogy, yet she never had any verbal interaction with frank or even knew who he was.
Not that she really had to anyway lol.
Me mate de risa cuando se la ve con la tuba en la cabeza 🎺📯
One of the absolute most funniest movies ever 🤣 😂 💯💯💯
The funniest musical number ever filmed, everybody was great, Nielsen, Zadora, Joe Grifasi, the dancers, timing, editing, that spectacular Steve Allen tune !!! Thank You ZAZ guys, your films are pure comedy gold, Blessings from San Juan 🇵🇷 !!!
My favourite scene from the movie. I laughed like a loony the first time I saw it, and it still makes me giggle :D.
Drebin's terrible attempts to blend in as one of the dancers just make it better :D.
It's my favorite scene too, and I love the song and Pia Zadora is fabulous!
Best part is when he hits the guys in their balls, stands up, sees them clutching their groins, and thinks it's part of the choreography. So he just immediately copies them.
RIP Lesilie Nielson...you were a great actor and a funny guy...
No matter how many times I watch this scene I always howl with laughter. I miss Leslie so much!!
If only we could have picked his mind and come up with another one
Better than the actual Oscars
Love a gal with a sense of humor.
Summer of 1979. Riviera Hotel in Vegas. Zadora was the headline and Milton Berle was the opener. Was a huge fan of the comedian, dancer was an unknown. Skipped the show and the last night in town, while eating at the hotel steak house. Berle enters though a hidden side door. Sat a couple tables over and ordered his meal. Leaving, friend's and me exchanged a brief greeting with the gentleman. Sure wish now that I had seen Pia. The voice is a mile big.
I just watched this movie yesterday with my 13 y.o. daughter, we laughed 'til we cried with this scene. Leslie Nielsen was a master comedian RIP
What did you mention about Simpson?
While some of what you see here is of course a stunt man, it's kind of amazing to know Leslie Nielsen was 68 when they filmed this (almost 70!), and he still handled all the physical comedy like a pro.
The sound effects really help bring out the humor! My favorite part is at the end where Pia is staggering around with the tuba on her head with the little "toot toot" sounds. 2:49
Pia was great.
This, the funniest musical number ever, was choreographed by the genius, Miranda Garrison!! Funniest number EVER!!! Kudos to Miranda!!!
Loved Naked Gun 33 1/3 The Final Insult. Loved Pia's cameo! RIP Leslie!
ED: ...we're here to prevent a disaster!
Director: (resigned): You're too late for that
Thank you for posting this. Its one of the funniest scene in history and I can't believe no one else has posted it in its entirety. This was my favorite sequence from the entire series.
Daniel Kahn Nelson This is even funnie than I love LA baseball
We could really use you back here on Earth Leslie, but I am sure you are in a better place making people laugh. RIP...you are missed :(
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If they had only let Pia go on and make a career in music .... her reputation would be sky high.
They let her Rock it Out
@@JohnSmith-qn3ob yes they did. However, pia is a very talented and legit singer. This girl who studied voice very hard for so many years and became technically up there with all of the very best singers such as Liza Minnelli, Vicky Carr, Tony tennille, Shirley Bassie and many others. Strangely, for some reason she never became the star that she deserved to be. This was probably because of poor/ or wrong management. Such a talented waste. 🤔🥺😟
@@charliechilders6630 I guess she'll just be a Lonely Lady
This is one of the funniest scenes in the film (closely followed by the now somewhat politically incorrect, but still hilarious, scene that comes immediately afterwards). What is fascinating is that whilst choreographing a dance to work properly is difficult enough at the best of times, choregraphing a dance so that it doesn't work deliberately for the purpose of humour is even cleverer.
The scene where he slides between the dancers crotches and then thinks holding balls is part of act, I laughed for 5 minutes straight... again!
I always thought Pia Zadora was some imaginary artist made for the movie... Turns out she was a real perfomer ;)
Yep, she was in the movie "Santa Claus conquers the Martians." One of the most absurd films ever on MST3K
Her career sure was interesting. First a child actress in ”Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”, called one of the worst movies ever, then in the 80s starred in a few movies financed by her husband, won a Golden Globe and people accused her/her husband of bribing the jury, ”The Lonely Lady” was also regarded as one of the worst movies ever, she won Razzie awards. Hollywood didn’t think very highly of her so it’s really to her credit that she made fun of herself like this in this movie. She also had a small role in John Water’s ”Hairspray” and had a big hit with ”When the Rain Begins to Fall” with Jermaine Jackson. And I hear she still performs regularly in Las Vegas.
The way he tries to stay unrecognizable doing those dance figures is hilarious :) I always LMAO of that :P
Wow Pia zadora has such a big voice for having such a small frame
1:53 Thanks Naked Gun😔😔😔
Because of this song, I can't stop randomly shout in public places, "YOU'RE ORDERING WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!" 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for posting this..it has been hard to find. It is truly one of the funniest scenes on film. RIP Leslie..you are missed :(
Considering that this the final movie of this trilogy ..end it big-time with a show stopper number!
Oh man, the director! He's just had enough!
"Someone make a note. I don't think we should have Phil Donahue back next year."
The first time my family and me saw this, we laughed until our stomachs hurt! Credit to the extras, the stunned looks at 1:23 and 2:29 really add to the comedy factor.
This must have been incredibly hard to choreograph.. a broadway number where so much goes wrong.
They nailed it!
Right? It was probably much more difficult for Leslie NOT to be in sync with the other dancers and troll the whole thing. Leslie's style of comedy is lightning in a bottle that can never be duplicated.
@@Legoflymaster89 Actually I choreographed this crazy thing, but not Beetlejuice...
@@mirandagarrison2149 i know now. im so sorry. the choreographer who did beetlejuice played mother theresa in the movie. you did a hell of a job in the pia zadora sequence and it was soooo funny.
@@mirandagarrison2149 i know now. i'm so sorry. the choreographer who did beetlejuice played mother theresa in the movie. you did a hell of a job and it was so funny!
@@Legoflymaster89 I choreographed my friend Chrissie Bocchino as Mother Teresa! She has passed on many years ago (RIP) She did indeed choreograph Beetlejuice number and it was as funny as she was... she also worked with Bette Midler assisting Toni Basil... she is truly missed. Thank you for your interest in all things choreographic. Rock On! MG
Comedy gold.
0:41 Frank getting all the hats and canes always cracks me up 🤣
@zg1000dru1 just about to write that
i also love when he's trying to get her wig out of his hand, looks at the camera, does this quick little dance then gets right back to getting rid of that wig lol
Saw this in 1994 in London and this brings back suck funny memories I miss Lesley shame oj went crazy or maybe had number 4 film
The show must go on!!
When she torpedoes down the stairs its one of the funniest things in history.
Hey! It's Enrico Palazzo!
No, is not, you are confusing him with Donahue...
Excellent!
The Naked Gun movies are one of the funniest movies ever made according to research.
"We're here to prevent a disaster."
"You're too late for that." ( I had to post the response!!) LOL LOLOLOLOL
"Oh no, not him again, please God"
Joe Grifasi playing the broadcast director killed me 🤣😂 "You're too late for that"
who needs Seth McFarlane and the Oscars, this is way better. It deserves watching more than once too as the funny bits just keep coming.
Robb's Homemade Life And that director too every Oscar needs that Director every year
His head plowing through groins will never stop being funny.
All whole oscar night is something epic.
Does anyone know if Phil Donahue ever commented about this?
Wasn't it that she sang at some award show and actually surprised everyone and shut up her critics for a brief time then went on to do this skit to lampoon her own performance? During those years Phylicia Rashad's (The Cosby Show) sister Debbie Allen (Fame tv series) choreographed many of the over-done award show dance numbers and people were getting tired of them. This was the most hilarious send up they could think of and it really hit the mark.
It might have been Night of 100 Stars.
Honestly, this musical number wouldn't have been half as entertaining without Drebin hopelessly derailing it.
Seriously, we needed a Super bowl halftime show where Leslie Nielsen went on as Frank Drebin and runs it into the ground.
greatest thing ever
Whenever everything becomes too serious and overwhelming I think of this farce and everythings tolerable again.
1:42: “Forget the Maalox, get me the bourbon!”
Somehow, Drebin's mishaps just keep getting worse, and WORSE, until the line has been crossed over and over. No WONDER that producer ended up fainting at the very end! XD
That's the director.
I couldn't stop laughing of the guy backstage passing out when someone falls off the stage
Mr. Nielsen...from Police Academy to this....he doesn't have to say anything, yet he's hilarious! Rehearsals must have been an ordeal with everyone trying to keep a straight face
What idiot thought it was a good idea to place Pia on Drebin's shoulders, after all he'd done during the performance? Clearly, someone had a vendetta against Pia Zadora.
It was probably supposed to be that way, with that dancer having Pia on his shoulders.
Presumably the guy who frank replaced was supposed to have her on his shoulders at the end. The dancers weren’t able to talk to form a plan, they were just trying to perform the dance routine and ignore the chaos all around them.
1:25 - 1:27 She really has a cute one and the best part is she knows what to do with it!
@rher08...lol...he was such a talented guy...he just plays it so straight and earnest.
It sounds like they said at 1:30, "Drebin, come on get off the stage." But how would they know his real name?
sha11235 They didn’t say his name, they said “grab him”
I wonder what Steve Allen thought of this ?
"Well, it's still better than that Snow White number."
2:19 Pia: this could be the start of something..........BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII..........AGH! (crash!)
Audience: (gasp) oooooooh..........
Director: ugh........(faints)
1:19 is the funniest part 🤣
1:58 =Show must go on AHAHAH
1:06
0:40 I wonder he was supposed to do with those canes and hats.
Hey, director, watch out for that guy behind you. He might have a knife.
I could never of gotten as low to the ground as Drebin and i'm only 39
He couldn’t get low enough, though, as several guys found out the painful way!
ja ja ja ja my favorite movie
1:55 is pretty funny
Darryl Hannah at 2:30 ?????
So, which was worse - this performance or Nielson's rendition of the National Anthem?
This one... people got hurt, the stage director needed maalox, the conductor of the orchestra couldn't even look up at the stage, and then topped off with Drebin throwing up in a tuba.
@@katrinablackwell5174 As well as Pia getting dropped into another tuba
2:36 Meme time!
Lol she falls straight down to the instruments, yet they’re still playing 😅😅
Watch out director, there's a killer behind you.
1:26 1 :29 he go to the heaven like that
1:03 when he watched Lady Gaga's Superbowl performance while New England was falling behind.
Wonder what Tanya was doing in the bathroom?
Don't we all wonder that??
а че за фильм?
lol oh yes, Pia's such a "international star"
Well, she is. Maybe for the wrong reasons but she is, especially in Europe.
She's very friendly, upbeat and will converse with fans. She sat with me over cocktails after her song set. Pia is the best!
Her song "When The Rain Begins To Fall" was a top ten hit in many European countries, in some it even topped the charts. I can tell that the track still is frequently played on the radio in Austria is a classic 80s pop song every child knows. But she was really more or less a one hit wonder, but people know her name.
Yep, whether you like or not. A few big hits in several countries...around the world, actually. So, I'm guessing that would make her an international star. One of her singles sold 500,000 copies in France, alone...with an additional 250,000 copies in Germany. I gotta admit, though, this scene from Naked Gun is comedy gold.
Oscars 2019 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tanya is a Man
1:36. Not a wise move release her. The way the dance was going, they should have known she'd get injured!
I guess they believed the show must go on.
It wasn't.
WTFD (WHAT THE FUCKING DISASTER) 🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😂😂😂
que c'est con XD
Thumbs up if Pia Zadora's arrest brought you here!
1:22
а че за фильм?
2:34