#154 - "The Naked Gun" (1988) with Ben Carpenter, Chris McMichen & Nicholas Pepin

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After his career changing
performance in Airplane, Leslie

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Nelson teamed up with Jerry
Zucker, Jim Abrams and David

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Zucker again for the ABC parody
TV show Police Squad in 1982.

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After only 6 episodes, the show
was cancelled despite being

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nominated for two Emmy Awards.
Six years later, the show found

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new life and pronounced success
as a comedy movie franchise,

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beginning with this 80s flick.
So turn on the police siren,

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meet us at the Angels baseball
stadium, and be sure to pass the

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hot dog to the Queen as Ben
Carpenter, Chris Mcnitchin,

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Nicholas Pepin and I discuss The
Naked Gun from 1988 on this

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episode of the 80s Slick
Flashback Podcast.

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It was a Tuesday.
I was working the podcast beat.

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They are smelled like cheap
microphones and stale coffee.

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I needed to crack the case of
the 1988 classic The Naked Gun,

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but I couldn't do it alone.
I needed a squad.

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I rounded up the usual suspects
first, A man who sings the

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national anthem better than
Enrico Palazzo.

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It's Ben Carpenter.
How you doing Ben?

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Oh, I don't know about that.
Maybe.

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Well, it's a low bar, so yeah,
maybe a little bit better than

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Enrico Palazzo.
I'm doing great.

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I'm glad to be back.
Yes, glad to have you back next.

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A man who is ready to tackle
Reggie Jackson to save the Queen

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of England.
It's Chris Mcmichin.

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How you doing Chris?
Doing great Tim, always glad to

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be here with you guys chatting
about some 80s flicks.

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Yeah, let's do it.
And finally, returning to the

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precinct, a man who drives like
he's in a student driver car

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with no brakes.
It's Nicholas Pepin.

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How you doing Nicholas?
Hey, nice Beaver.

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Thanks.
I just added stuffed.

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I knew that was going to come
out at at some point.

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I, I try not to work it into the
intro in any way shape or form

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because I knew it was going to
be there.

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But yes, welcome to the 80s
flick Flashback podcast.

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I am your host Tim Williams and
excited to talk about another

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funny movie.
As I was mentioned in our last

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episode where Nicholas and I
discussed Airplane after the

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year of 2025, I wanted to start
off the new year with some

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comedies.
So it's our Just for Laughs

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January.
We did Airplane our last

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episode.
We're continuing the insanity

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with the Naked Gun files from
police squad and in a couple

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weeks we'll tackle police
Academy.

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So glad to have these great Co
host.

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Glad to have Ben back after a
little hiatus.

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Glad to have him back.
Good to have Chris and Nicholas

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back as well.
So let's jump right in fellas.

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I'll start with you, Ben.
When did you see the Naked Gun

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for the very first time?
Theater video.

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Definitely in theaters, yeah.
I was a huge fan of this style

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of comedy in the 80s and yeah, I
was probably there opening

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night.
What about you, Chris?

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Actually did not see this one in
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I remember renting it at a
Blockbuster Video as many of us

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probably remember good old
Blockbuster and I'll I'll say

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for sure that after I rented it
once it was on my high list

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rentals immediately after I I
rented it several times after

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that time.
Awesome.

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What about you, Nicholas?
I definitely didn't see it in

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the theaters, but I do remember
watching it pretty soon after it

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came out on rental, probably
over at a friend's house, maybe

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on HBO.
But it was definitely,

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definitely, you know, a rental.
Yeah, I did see this one in

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theaters.
I went with a friend of mine,

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Derek Deal.
Shout out to Derek if he's

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listening.
We were living in Maryland and

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it was one thing.
It was one that he definitely

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wanted to see.
I mean, I want to see it too, as

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Nicholas and I talked about saw
Airplane and Airplane to the

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sequel repeatedly on HBO as a
kid.

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So I was very much familiar with
this style of comedy and was

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looking forward to it.
And man, we laughed so much

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watching this movie.
And then when it came out on

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video, I know we rented it do
the following summer and

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probably watched it at least
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summer.
So, so yeah, excited to cover

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this one.
How long has it been since you

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rewatched it before you watching
it for the podcast?

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We'll go the other way this
time.

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So start with Nicholas.
How long has it been, Nicholas?

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Well, in the last year or two, I
did a parody movie bracket over

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on pop culture roulette and this
one, this one naked gun finished

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really high.
If it didn't win it, I can't

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remember exactly who won it, but
I I decided to rewatch it for

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that.
I was like, wow, man, this you

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don't, I mean, I I've seen it
many times, but you know, it was

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one of those like watching again
for the first time in, you know,

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a while.
Man, this is so good, so good.

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Yeah, what about you, Chris?
Yes, it wasn't long ago for me,

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you know, within the last year,
because when the all the hype

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started coming out and I saw the
trailer for the new Leslie

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Nielsen version and I was really
excited about, you know, a new

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Naked Gun on the on the
forefront coming back to

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theaters.
And I thought, well, you know

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what, I'll get a chance to while
I'm waiting on that when it come

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out, I'll go back and check out
the original.

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And so I did.
I found it on Paramount Plus and

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gave it a look within the last
year.

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Gotcha.
I think you meant the Liam

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Neeson.
You said the.

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Liam Neeson.
Yeah, I'm sorry.

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Liam Neeson story.
Didn't want to thank you.

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Anybody out there?
For me SO.

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Right.
What about you, Ben?

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It had been a while, probably,
you know, most when you ask me

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that question when I'm on, it's
usually the last time.

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I watched it with some of my
kids.

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And I think I showed this to my
kids, you know, maybe 8 to 10

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years ago, watched it, watched
it then.

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But I did watch Please Squad all
six episodes.

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Recently, OK.
But no, we didn't watch them the

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the movie.
We did go see the new Liam

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Neeson movie though.
Yeah, Yeah.

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Well, maybe we'll talk about it
towards the end, So, but yeah,

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I, I watched it probably about
six or seven.

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No, yeah, probably like 5 or 6
years ago, I was actually in

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Jacksonville visiting Ron who
was on the podcast a couple

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years ago.
And I was working, I I work from

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home.
And it was during the day we had

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we had, we were doing something
that night and I was working in

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his living room and was like
going through the different

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streaming channels.
And I think it was on like

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either Pluto TV or one of the
streamers, one of those channels

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I have like with the
commercials, like man, I haven't

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watched Naked Gun a long time.
And so I watched it and just,

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you just remembered how funny it
was.

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It had been a long time since
I'd seen it before then.

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I own the three pack blue right
now, so that was how I watched

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it for this one.
But but yeah, so it's it's been

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a minute.
So but good, a good re watch.

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And of course, we'll talk about
how much we will re watch it

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again towards the end.
So all right, so as we did in

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the last episode, we got a new
little feature before we jump

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into a story.
Origin and pre production do a

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little different this week.
Last week was just Nicholas

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playing the game, but we're
going to do a little.

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How did it get made?
Trivia games.

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They, the guys did not know.
Maybe Nicholas knew, but Ben and

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Chris were not aware of this.
So but I'm going to let them

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work as a team.
They can discuss their answer,

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but it's true or false.
So it's not, you know, shouldn't

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be too tough.
But these are a few facts about

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how the movie got made.
Let's see how how much you know

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already before we jump into it.
So number one, true or false.

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The studio forced the creators
to change the movie's title to

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avoid confusion with the police
Academy franchise.

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Sounds plausible to me.
Does sound plausible, but it

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also sounds like he's trying to
trick us so.

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Maybe.
I don't know.

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We'll see.
What do you think, Chris?

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I don't know.
It has that police squad stuff

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from the original series in
there, so I don't know.

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I'm I'm going to I if I had to
guess, if I was doing this one

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by myself, I would say false.
I would say true.

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I would say true.
All right, Chris, you got to be

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the tiebreaker here.
All right, I I guess I would say

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false.
Ben was right.

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It is true the creators
originally wanted to title it

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Police Squad like the TV show
was based on, but Paramount

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Pictures felt the name was too
similar to the Police Academy

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movies, which had just released
5, which had already released 5

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installments by 1988.
They were forced to brainstorm a

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new title.
The Naked Gun was chosen from a

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list of 20 options because, as
David Zucker said, it promised

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so much more than it could ever
possibly deliver.

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So which is like, why do they
name it The Naked Gun?

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So, yeah.
All right, not start off great,

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but we'll see.
You can, you can rally.

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Here we go #2 The climactic
baseball game involving the

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California Angels was filmed at
their real home, Anaheim

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Stadium.
True or false?

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As a die hard Angels fan, that
one is.

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True.
We'll defer to Nicholas because

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I have no idea.
Yeah, we'll go with him.

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He sounds pretty confident.
Sorry Nicholas, this one was

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false.
Even though the scene is set at

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Angels home game, it was
actually filmed at Dodger

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Stadium, the home of their
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Sharp eyed baseball fans can
spot the difference in the

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stadium architecture during the
sequence.

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Oh man, I'm not doing so well
this week.

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Nick is like, I'm canceling all
my future guest spots for future

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episodes now, All right #3 we do
still got, still got time to

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rally, still going to do, you
know, three out of five.

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True or false?
Priscilla Presley was cast as

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Jane Spencer specifically
because she had extensive

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background in sketch comedy.
I'm not aware of her having any

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background in catch comedy.
But so so you're you're leaning

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into false I'm.
Leaning to false but.

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I'm that would going with.
Let's say that would shock me if

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it were true, so I'll go with
false as well.

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I'm going to go with Ben and
Chris on this one as well.

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You got one right.
It is false.

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Yes.
They cast her the exact opposite

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reason she had never done
comedy.

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Pressy was known for the serious
soap opera Dallas, making her

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the perfect straight woman for
the role.

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So, yeah, All right, going back
in the right direction #4

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Ricardo Montalban, who played
the villain Vincent Ludwig,

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refused to say a specific line
in the script because he felt it

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was too inappropriate.
True or.

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False.
That's true because I know what

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it is.
Chris, Chris is confident.

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I'm going to go with it, yeah.
He sounds pretty confident.

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Yep, and Chris is right.
But Mata Bond opened himself up

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to silliest scenarios.
One joke crossed the line for

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him, however, in the finished
film, Frank says that Nordberg

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was at a hospital called Our
Lady of the worthless miracle.

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According to directors David
David Zucker, the name was

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originally Our Lady of the never
had the pickle.

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Mata Bond requested that the
line be changed supposedly due

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to his Catholic up breaking.
So yeah, that's true.

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That is true.
All right, last one.

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Here we go.
This is how you guys can can

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come out of the out of the hole
here.

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Number 5, the actress who played
Queen Elizabeth the second was a

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professional impersonator who
had played the queen in many

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other projects.
True or false?

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I mean she did so little in the
movie other than just be the

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queen.
Like I feel like that's true.

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Like it wasn't like she had a
lot of lines.

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I think it's a consensus, but
Chris, do you agree?

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I will go, yeah.
All right.

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You guys pulled out of the hole,
you got that one right.

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So you got three out of five.
So yes, her name was Jeanette

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Charles, and for decades she was
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Elizabeth, the second
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uncanny resemblance to the
Marnock.

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She played the queen in National
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Austin Powers and Goldmember,
and many other films and

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commercials.
So all right, good job, guys.

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Wait a wait, a rally.
I use a baseball term for a a

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semi famous baseball movie.
Thanks for playing how I want to

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know how the listeners or
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I actually had somebody comment
on the last episode, Nicholas

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and said that the only one he
got wrong was the same 1 you got

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wrong.
And so it was a tough, it was a

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tough question all.
Right, Well, I guess I feel a

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little better then.
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So thanks for commenting.
So all right, so after the

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success of Airplanes, Zazz
Zucker, Abrams and Zucker had

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looked at doing another spoof
comedy as a movie using the

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series M Squad as its basis.
Initially they cannot come up

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with a plot, so Paramount's
Michael Eisner had set them up

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with a six episode television
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Despite their desire to make a
movie, the series Police Squad

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was cancelled at the end of the
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Zaz continue to make films
including Top Secret and

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Ruthless People, but still
wanted to come back to spoof

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comedy.
Working from their Police Squad

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concept, they found adding a
romance to the story helped to

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establish an overall plot, and
the film was quickly greenlit by

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Paramount.
They worked backwards and right

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in the film, establishing the
plot to assassinate the queen

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among the love affair, which
established the queen visiting

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the United States for the
baseball game and setting the

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rest of the film elements in
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So yeah, kind of cool.
So they started with the

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assassination plot at the
baseball game, which I

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understand.
And Ben, I haven't watched.

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I I remember watching the
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after the movie came out, but
from what I understand in the

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show, baseball seemed to be like
a recurring theme in the show,

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is that right?
Do you remember that?

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Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, a little bit.

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OK.
Yeah, and I I read that

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somewhere they said they they
made it at the baseball game

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because baseball seemed to be a
running theme in the TV show.

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How running can it be for six
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But you know.
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there's a there's several jokes
that they just lifted straight

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out of the show and and put
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because they figured nobody
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cancelled immediately.
Yep, I did.

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I did have that in my notes that
they did like pull several jokes

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from the from the show or bits
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So yeah.
But Speaking of that, we'll get

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into cast.
A few characters from the TV

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show were recast for the film.
OJ Simpson replaced Peter Lupus

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as Norberg, which had the
spelling change to Nordberg.

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George Kennedy replaced Allan
North as Ed Hawkin.

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Leslie Nielsen, Ed Williams and
Tiny Ron as Al were the only

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main characters to stay the
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So yeah, I always want to know
what Al look like from the chest

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up.
But, you know, but his name is

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Tiny Ron.
That was his real name.

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So I'm still maybe not his, you
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was what he was known as.
So, of course, we talked about

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Leslie Nielsen in our airplane
episode as Frank Durbin.

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After Leslie Nielsen's death in
2010, ESPN published an obituary

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for Enrico Palazzo.
Riding a true renaissance man,

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Enrico Palazzo umpire the game
After performing the national

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anthem, Palazzo was the first
and only umpire to eject another

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umpire from a Major League game.
He is also believed to be the

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first and only umpire to use a
upright vacuum cleaner to tidy

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up home plate.
Very fitting, very fitting.

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So, I mean, this movie is not
the movie.

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It is without Leslie Nelson.
We can all agree on that, right?

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I mean, he is Frank Durbin all,
you know, all the way.

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So, but I mean, Nicholas, I
talked about this before, like

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the, you know, keeping it
straight and and treating it

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like a serious, you know, actor
delivery is what makes it so

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funny like that.
Like him not being goofy or zany

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is what makes it work.
Yeah, to to me, that's just the

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key of all spoof movies is the
ones that I love are the ones

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that have the actors are playing
it straight.

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And the ones that I don't care
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they're like, winking and, you
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it just doesn't work.
Yeah, Wink, wink, nod, nod.

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And every you know, the, and I
think we talked about this too.

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Like this one's not as much.
I think they do it more in the

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sequels.
But we talked about a Nicholas a

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lot about an airplane where
there were a couple of like what

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we consider pop culture things
that were current then that kind

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of go over our heads now.
But this one, I think still kind

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of keeps it where there's not
too much that's like, you know,

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of course the baseball players,
probably most people wouldn't

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know them now, but a lot of the
jokes still work.

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They're not, they're not trying
to be current with the jokes,

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like not trying to be, you know,
like I said, the, the more

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current ones are trying to work
in those stuff that is current

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or, you know, more current pop
culture references, which I

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think is why I can go back and
watch Naked Gun and Airplane

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again and again and again.
Because the jokes aren't you

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don't rely on what was happening
at the time to get the joke.

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There are a few of course, but
it's not that heavy.

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It's hard to be the straight
man, too, when you're the butt

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of the joke all the time.
Yeah.

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I mean, it reminds me a lot of
this series of movies.

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And his portrayal reminds me a
lot of Peter Sellers when he did

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the Pink Panther movies because
he was always the butt of the

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joke all the time.
And to not realize that he is

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and do it so well, it's just
it's art, man.

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It's good.
Yeah, yeah, I do like those

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moments where it's like he
realizes that he's done

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something completely stupid and
he like, you know, has to hide

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it or try to, you know, move on.
So it's, you know, it's always,

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that's always a fun character to
to see a kind of like, do they

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get smart?
I think we talked to talk about

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that a little bit.
They used some get smart stuff

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in there too.
All right, moving on to

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Priscilla Presley as Jane
Spencer.

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As I mentioned before, Presley
had originally been offered her

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role as one of the leads of
Charlie's Angels.

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She turned down the role because
she disliked the show.

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She made her TV debut as Co host
of Those Amazing Animals in 1980

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and 83.
She had her first professional

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acting role on season 2 episode
of The Fall Guy.

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She then wanted to play on a
television film titled Love is

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Forever, starring alongside
Michael Landon.

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After the TV film aired, Presley
took on the role of Jenna Wade

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in the primetime soap opera
Dallas as the third actor to

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portray Jenna after Morgan
Fairchild and Francine Tacker.

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She played the role for the
longest of the three after the

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character was expanded and
Presley became a series regular

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1988.
After five years, Presley left

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the show.
During her tenure on the series,

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she was also offered the role of
Bond girl Stacey Sutton in A

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View to a Kill in 1985, but she
had to decline the role due to

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scheduling conflicts.
The role ultimately went to

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former Charlie's Angels star
Tanya Roberts.

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Do you know another another?
Like did you do any research?

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But do you know who the original
pic was for Jane Spencer role?

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The actress?
She was a 10.

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It was Bo Derrick.
Yeah, she turned it down.

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So.
But I like Priscilla Presley

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better.
I'm I'm not a big Bo Derrick fan

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anyway.
So yeah.

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All right.
Any thoughts on Priscilla

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Presley in the role?
She yeah, I thought she well, I

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mean, I she got it.
She got how how to you know, she

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played it straight too.
Yeah, yeah.

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I think she does have a few like
moments where she's a little

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laying it on a little thick, a
little thicker than I think

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Leslie Nielsen is.
But it works for the character.

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I think so.
Knowing that she doesn't really

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have much of an acting
background, like having only

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done it for a little bit before
that and I not really having any

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comedy like it kind of kind of,
you know, it was impressive that

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she was able to do as well.
You know, especially given by

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this point, Leslie Nielsen's,
you know, chops when it comes

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to, you know, being able to,
like, keep up with them, you

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know?
Yeah, yeah.

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I thought the pairing of them
together was actually pretty

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good, Like it was, you know, I
don't think they needed a whole

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lot of chemistry necessarily,
because it's not that type of

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movie.
But I think they played well off

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of each other.
I think their scenes together

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worked for me and really I
didn't.

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I mean, I I think I watched
Dallas with my parents, but I

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wasn't like a huge like I knew
that much about her.

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I just knew she was the former
wife of Elvis.

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Like that's all I knew about her
before this movie.

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But but yeah, I thought she was
funny so.

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And she does make a brief cameo
in the reboot, as we mentioned

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earlier of the one that came out
last year.

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So, all right.
And then moving right along.

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The villain, Vincent Ludwig, was
played by Ricardo Montalban, one

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of my mom's favorite actors.
He portrayed Armando in the

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Planet of the Apes film series
in the early 70s.

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Both escaped from the Planet of
the Apes in 71 and Conquest of

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the Planet of the Apes in 72.
He also played the villain Con,

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a genetically enhanced human,
and guest starred in the

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original Star Trek television
series and starred in the film

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Star Trek 2.
The Wrath of Con during the 70s

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and 80s.
I remember this.

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He was a spokesman for Chrysler
for 13 years, featured in their

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automotive commercials and
advertisements, notably those in

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which he extolled the rich
Corinthian leather used in their

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interior.
Which I believe is just a

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totally made-up term.
There's no such thing as

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Corinthian leather.
Yeah, truth in advertising

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really is there, but of and of
course, I knew him most from

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playing Mr. Rourke on the TV
series Fantasy Island from 1977

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to 1984.
But I had seen Star Trek 2 The

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Wrath of Khan as well.
So but he was actually chosen by

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the producers to play the
villain because the Zucker

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brothers saw saw him in Star
Trek 2, The Wrath of Khan.

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So but he was among a long list.
It didn't give us a list of who

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the other people played for the
villains, but I thought he was

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perfect.
I mean, he's such a good

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villain.
Ratha Khan.

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And this one, I think he's once
again, he's kind of chewing the

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scenery with with this kind of
mustache twirling villain that

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you know is a villain as soon as
you see him.

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Like I love his introduction
where he's in the shadows and he

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walks into the light like very,
you know how it was in those old

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TV shows and old movies for
sure.

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Anyone else a big Ricardo
Montalban fan?

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No, I mean, but you know, as
soon as you see him, you're

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like, Oh yeah, Con.
Did anybody else watch Fantasy

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Island as a kid?
Yeah, I loved it.

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Yeah, yeah, A Love Boat in
Fantasy Island.

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The best two hours of TVI
remembered as a kid so.

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And Duke's a hazard.
And Dukes of Hazzard, yeah, I

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don't know if those all came on
the same night, I just remember.

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Yeah, no, no.
Oh, OK.

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You're talking about in a row.
Yeah, I just remember like, I

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think Love Boat was like at 9:00
and then Fantasy Island was on

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at 10.
And usually I like I would see

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the beginning of Fantasy Island
and then probably fall asleep

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before the episode was over.
But I remember the intro because

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we.
And then of course, when they

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started showing the reruns in
the afternoon, I'd go back and

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watch them.
But yeah.

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Maybe that's that's the reason I
only remember the intro too.

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And the plane and yeah.
Yeah, Mr. Rock.

449
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:11,520
Mr. Rock.
All right.

450
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,400
And then we got George Kennedy
as Captain Ed Hawkin.

451
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,480
He played Dragline and Cool Hand
Luke in 1967.

452
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,200
He also received a gun gloaten.
I can't talk today.

453
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,160
He also received a Golden Globe
nomination for portraying Joe

454
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,200
Petroni in Airport 1970.
According to David Zucker in the

455
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,400
DVD commentary, the studio
insisted on casting an Oscar

456
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,320
winner and one of the major
roles.

457
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,840
This led to the casting of
George Kennedy, who had been

458
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,680
actively campaigning for the
role of Ed Hocken for several

459
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,840
months, saying he was furious at
having missed the chance to

460
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,080
spoof himself an airplane.
So he was actually up for one of

461
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,800
the roles in Airplane, but
couldn't do it because he was

462
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,680
actually filming one of the
films in the Airport series

463
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,040
because he had done, I think
like four or five of those

464
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,480
films.
Kennedy claimed that the Zucker

465
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,120
brothers didn't believe in doing
any scene without 40 or more

466
00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:04,960
takes and that telling a joke 40
plus times in front of a camera

467
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,160
was painful.
So he did not have the best

468
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,640
experience.
He wanted to work with them and

469
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,760
then when he got the chance he
wasn't as happy so.

470
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,480
Maybe it was Take One when he
delivered the Why?

471
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,800
Yeah.
It's so it's so perfect.

472
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,600
It is.
That is a perfect one of the

473
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,640
perfect lines.
Yeah.

474
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,560
Why I'm going to test it on Ed.
Oh, and he's like what?

475
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:29,840
Like he wasn't even paying
attention.

476
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,520
Like so many great.
There's so many great bits in

477
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,240
this movie.
And that's I wasn't what I was

478
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:40,240
when I was re watching it today.
I was thinking there's so many

479
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,760
sight gags in it and like like,
you know, the the some of the

480
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,320
funny things are like sight
gags, like how we're going to

481
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,680
talk about that on the podcast
is going to be a pain.

482
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,280
But anyway, we'll, we'll get
there all right, and then we'll

483
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:54,640
talk about this one as quick as
possible.

484
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,440
OJ Simpson as the detective
Nordberg.

485
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,600
He began acting while at USC and
appeared in Dragnet and credited

486
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,880
role as a potential recruit for
the Los Angeles Police

487
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,520
Department.
Irony at its finest.

488
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,640
He became a professional actor
before playing professional

489
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,080
football, appearing in the first
episode of Medical Center as

490
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,840
Cicely Tyson's husband, despite
being 23 years for Junior while

491
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,200
negotiating his contract with
the Buffalo Bills.

492
00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:24,760
So he was in several movies, the
Towering Inferno, the Cassandra

493
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,400
Crossing, Capricorn one.
Yeah, that's all we're going to

494
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:28,680
talk about.
So he was in this movie.

495
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,280
I don't want to talk too much
about him.

496
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,000
And I think one thing that I
forgot about is how little he's

497
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,960
in the movie.
Like, he's in the beginning.

498
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,000
He has a few little small bits
where he's kind of unconscious,

499
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,040
and then he shows up at the end
for like 30 seconds.

500
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,800
So, yeah.
Moving right along, Nancy.

501
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,120
Nancy Marchand as Mayor Louisian
Barkley, I, I really didn't

502
00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:54,160
recognize her, but I saw this,
that she's most famous for

503
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,120
portraying Margaret Pinchon on
Lou Grant, for which she won

504
00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:02,120
four Emmy Awards, and also Livia
Soprano on The Sopranos, for

505
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:03,720
which she won a Golden Globe
Award.

506
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,960
So, but I only know her as the
mayor and.

507
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,520
I feel like she did a lot of TV
in the 80s, yeah.

508
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,680
She did, yeah, I think, I think
her, her filmography did have a

509
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:19,440
good bit of TV stuff.
But yeah, the Zuckers didn't

510
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:23,120
look far for the casting of
Dominique Ludwig, secretary.

511
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,080
She was played by Charlotte
Zucker, Jerry and David's

512
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,440
mother.
So she's has her.

513
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,320
I think she's got a role or a
cameo in all of their movies.

514
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,280
And then we've probably seen the
guy who shouted it's Enrico

515
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:39,440
Palazzo at the end.
That's Mark Holden, who also was

516
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,520
the bike thief, Franks and
Francis Buxton and Pee Wee's Big

517
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,840
Adventure.
And of course, Chubby and Teen

518
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,360
Wolf.
Both of those we've covered in

519
00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:49,560
the last year.
Nicholas, you want to talk about

520
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:50,480
Weird Al Yankovic?
I.

521
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,640
Mean no more than I normally
have and already have, but I.

522
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,760
Was like, now I know I,
Nicholas, want to do this

523
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,600
episode because Weird AL's in
it.

524
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,480
Yeah, so he actually pops.
Yeah, he he actually pops up on

525
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,600
all three Naked Gun movies by
the final insult.

526
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,880
The last one Yankovic cameo was
expected in the original, though

527
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,400
the audience didn't see it
coming.

528
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,520
Neither.
Neither did the dates that

529
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,760
Yankovic brought to the movie.
Yankovic made multiple trips to

530
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,360
the theater to watch The Naked
Gun, bringing a different date

531
00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:26,120
each time.
The comedic musician neglected

532
00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:28,920
to tell his dates that he was
actually in the movie, so the

533
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,400
ladies were even more caught off
guard than Leslie Nielsen when

534
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,120
they got to the scene at the
airport where Weird Al steals

535
00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:37,040
Frank's Thunder, making the
moment even more surreal.

536
00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,480
Yankovic wore the same Hawaiian
shirt on his dates, matching the

537
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,560
one he had on in the film, which
is the most Weird Al thing that

538
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:44,920
a Weird Al could do.
So.

539
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,240
Exactly what I was about to say.
It sounds like exactly like

540
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,920
something he would plan and do.
Yeah, yeah.

541
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,320
So, so, yeah, glad to see Weird
Al in the movie.

542
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,520
Of course, if you haven't
listened to Nicholas and I's

543
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:02,680
episode about UHF, definitely go
back because another great spoof

544
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,240
comedy of the 80s for sure.
All right, I'll hit all these

545
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,680
cameos here.
Major League Baseball players

546
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,000
Reggie Jackson and Jay Jones
Johnstone, as well as umpires

547
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,800
Joe W, Doug Harvey, Hank
Robinson, Ken Kaiser and Ron

548
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,520
Luciano have cameos.
Professional announcers Kurt

549
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,880
Gowdy, Jim Palmer, Tim Mcgarver,
Mel Allen Dickenberg and Dick

550
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,800
Dick Vitale appears play by play
commentators.

551
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,400
Dr. Joyce Brothers also appears
in a cameo.

552
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,480
Roller herself.
And of course John Houseman

553
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,800
makes an uncredited appearance
as the driving instructor.

554
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,120
Which one other great, great
parts.

555
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,240
So yeah, anybody else in the
cast that I didn't mention that

556
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,720
you want to talk about so.
No, no, I think you got

557
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,320
everybody I would have.
Oh, oh, wait, the manager of the

558
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:57,600
Angels, I recognize he, he's in.
He's the leader of the gang in

559
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,640
that robs the bank and Reservoir
Dogs.

560
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:02,120
Really.
OK.

561
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:03,720
Yeah, I did not know that.
OK.

562
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000
Lawrence Tierney I think is his
name.

563
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,360
OK.
But yeah, I, I saw him and I was

564
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,680
like, hey, that's the yeah,
that's all.

565
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,720
Yeah, I thought the henchman guy
or the guy that comes in to meet

566
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,840
with Ludwig.
Yeah.

567
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,440
When he does the when he does
the thing with the secretary

568
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,440
where she's like, I must kill.
Yeah.

569
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,800
So I thought he was one of those
that guys.

570
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,720
But then when they actually
showed his face, like, Nah, not

571
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,320
the same guy.
So I didn't pull up his

572
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:36,960
information.
But yeah.

573
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,720
All right, let's talk about
iconic scenes.

574
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:42,680
We'll start.
I'll start in the middle.

575
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,040
Go with Chris.
So when someone says the Naked

576
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:50,120
Gun from 19881988, what is the
first thing that pops in your

577
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:51,480
head?
Well, you know, as a singer,

578
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,880
it's the Enrique Palazzo version
of the.

579
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,920
National Anthem.
Murdering of the national

580
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,960
anthem.
Yeah, that thing is just, and

581
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,920
it's weird because it's it's bad
and it's funny, but it's really

582
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,680
just horrible.
Yeah.

583
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,240
I think the second part for me
that just there's lots of things

584
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,560
of course, that make me laugh in
the film.

585
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,280
But one of the things that's
very prototypical police squad

586
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:21,840
is when he's at the waterfront
and he's doing the bribing of

587
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,120
the guy and the guy's bribing
him right back For more

588
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,400
information about give away
police information for money.

589
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,720
And he actually winds up making
20 bucks on the deal if you

590
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:32,640
follow the money.
Can you?

591
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,240
Spot Me 20.
Yeah, that's that's see, this is

592
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,640
is hilarious to me.
Yeah, that was a great bit for

593
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:42,160
sure.
Yeah.

594
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,280
All right, Ben, what about you?
When somebody says Naked Gun,

595
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,680
what's the first thing that you
think about?

596
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:51,040
Well, if I'm being honest, it's
a nice Beaver.

597
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,280
That's that's first thing that
pops into my head.

598
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:59,240
Pretty iconic, Pretty iconic.
But you know, watching it again

599
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,520
this afternoon, it's it's it's
funny.

600
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,240
I mean, it's it's just totally
different things that that stand

601
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,080
out when when you're watching it
again for the first time in a

602
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,560
long time.
Like I know an out of the way

603
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,440
place with great Viking food
that just made me laugh.

604
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,720
The baseball scene at the end
too is.

605
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,160
Iconic.
Yeah.

606
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,480
What about you, Nicholas?
That that opening credits where

607
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,600
you like you're like kind of as
the camera, like the with the

608
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,320
police car, like you're
following and you're, you're

609
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:38,200
driving through everything.
The siren that or the OJ death

610
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,040
scene when he gets shot and then
like falls into the hot stove

611
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,480
and then the wet paint and then
hits and then and then it just

612
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,360
it just like keeps and then or
the floating chalk line on the

613
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,920
water like.
The floating chalk line on water

614
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:52,840
is hilarious.
Yeah.

615
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,640
I mean, there's just so many.
Says Oh no when he gets paint on

616
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:02,200
us.
And what's a bear trap doing in

617
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,000
that small place?
Why is there a wedding cake?

618
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,640
You mean like yes, just.
What do you do?

619
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,440
Bear beer trap on a boat?
Yeah.

620
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,840
Yeah, why are they paying the
door white?

621
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,880
Yeah.
So no, I love it when it comes

622
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,360
to.
It's like police drop your guns

623
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,920
and the one henchman drops his
gun and all the other ones look

624
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,240
at him and he's like, it was
picking up.

625
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,720
Yeah.
It's like just that's means

626
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,600
comedy, Goldman.
That's just, that's what I grew

627
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,640
up on, so.
Yeah, one other, one other.

628
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,080
I'll throw in there.
When he parks his car in front

629
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,040
of the station and it starts to
take off on his own and all the

630
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,760
airbags, airbags, and he's
shooting at his own car and

631
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,840
asking anybody see the license
plate?

632
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:43,520
Did y'all see the driver?
Then he then he realized.

633
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,440
Figures it out and he's like.
I got to go in.

634
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,800
Yeah, yeah, I love, you know,
the car, all the car gags are

635
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,440
pretty funny.
But I love, I love when he backs

636
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,680
there at the airport and he
backs into the luggage carriers.

637
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,080
And then they're like, they
don't show it until they get to

638
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,400
like there's a whole like 5
minute sequence and talking on

639
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,920
the car.
And then when they get to the

640
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,360
police station, like their
whole, the whole line of the

641
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,920
luggage carriers behind them,
which I thought was hilarious.

642
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,440
Yeah.
Iconic scenes for me.

643
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:20,719
I love the montage.
The something tells me I'm into

644
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,800
something good.
And then I love that they put

645
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,760
like the title of the song at
the end, like it's a music

646
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,639
video, which of course is very,
you know, that that's something

647
00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:30,679
that's kind of dated now.
But in the MTV generation, we

648
00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:32,600
were used to like seeing that at
the end of the song being

649
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,920
played.
But that's one of my favorite

650
00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,600
Mont.
Like it's a spoof of a montage.

651
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,480
My favorite part of that is when
they clothesline the other

652
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,199
couple when they're running in
the beach in the water.

653
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,239
I just, I love that's one of my
favorites.

654
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,480
And they come out laughing if
they saw a platoon, which I

655
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,800
thought was another funny bit.
But yeah.

656
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,639
But it's for like, we'll move in
like favorite scenes.

657
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,920
My favorite scenes are all at
the baseball game, like the

658
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,760
baseball game sequence, you
know, the climax, the movie,

659
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,640
everything, every every part of
that works like from him pretend

660
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,680
to be the the Enrico Palazzo,
whatever, him being the umpire

661
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,480
calling the game and for the
crowd and then like frisking

662
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,320
every player as they as they're
coming in the scene where

663
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,120
they're passing the hot dogs
been past the queen.

664
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,440
Oh, before the queen sits down,
the two guys are sitting in

665
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,560
their seat.
Like all that stuff just works.

666
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,240
I mean, it's just like every
part of that whole sequence is

667
00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:33,680
is hilarious.
I also love the scene when after

668
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:38,920
they've they've neutralized
Reggie Jackson by having somehow

669
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,680
the the dart misses him and hits
the lady above him and she falls

670
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,240
on him, which you can see all
the padding on her as she's

671
00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:51,560
falling from the second level.
But but then it shows Ludwig

672
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,360
taking the his girlfriend and at
first it's like actually them

673
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,080
and then it cuts back to Frank
and then it goes back.

674
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,160
It's like, obviously a stuntman
flipping a doll back and forth

675
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,040
and you like he's going up the
steps, which I always thought

676
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,720
was various to you, but yeah.
But all that's good.

677
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:09,160
So what about other favorite
scenes or scenes you want to

678
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,720
talk about that we can reminisce
about?

679
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,960
And the baseball game to it
again, just like different

680
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,720
things making me laugh.
Like today the the two guys

681
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:23,400
sitting in the Royal suite, yes,
they have a shoe out sitting

682
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,200
there smoking.
Can you move down?

683
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:27,880
Move down, please?
Yeah.

684
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:34,000
The scene with the the pin and
the Japanese fighting fish is

685
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,280
also good.
Yes, fantastically done.

686
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,640
Nielsen does this a great job
with his reactions in that

687
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,200
scene.
It's it's really good, Really,

688
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,880
really funny.
Yeah, and I love how he's

689
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,800
keeping his hand behind his back
until he's about to leave and

690
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,840
then he shakes his hand just
full of water on the desk.

691
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,160
Yeah, so.
I mean, you, you briefly brought

692
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,880
it up, but that driving
instructor when he commandeers

693
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:01,640
the vehicle and and the driving
instructor's like, OK, well, now

694
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,640
normally we wouldn't drive this
speed down the wrong but.

695
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,240
Yeah.
Now lean your hand out the

696
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:11,440
window and extend your middle
finger of.

697
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:17,320
Yeah, yeah.
And reports again, perfect

698
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,960
casting to get John Houseman to
to do that, that scene.

699
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,680
So that's perfect.
So I did.

700
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:29,080
I did put down a couple of
favorite lines that I thought,

701
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,960
you know, there's so many great
lines, like a once again, I

702
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,480
think Nicholas, I had this
problem with airplane.

703
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,960
I had like off almost a page and
a half of like favorite lines,

704
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,040
but I kept it short this time.
But I like Frank's like it's the

705
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,760
same old story.
Boy finds girl, boy loses girl,

706
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,480
girl finds boy, boy forgets
girl, boy remembers girl, girls

707
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,920
dies in a tragic blimp accident
over the Orange Bowl on New

708
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,920
Year's Day.
Goodyear no, the worst.

709
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,120
And then my other wife Wilma.
I promise you, whatever scum did

710
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,440
this, not one man in this force
will rest one minute until he's

711
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,880
behind bars.
Now let's go grab a bite to eat.

712
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,320
And then the last one is Ed
tells him I asked about Norberg,

713
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,040
he's on life support.
Doctor say he's got a 5050

714
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,560
chance of living.
So there's only a 10% chance of

715
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,960
that.
One of my favorites is when Ed

716
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,920
asked him, he said he's talking
about where Norberg died.

717
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,840
And he said he, he was out there
on the water.

718
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,840
Do you want to take a dinghy?
And then he no, I just took care

719
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,400
of that at the press conference.
Yeah.

720
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,360
Oh, yeah.
The open, the the open

721
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,480
microphone or the live
microphone at the press

722
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,800
conference is that's, that's
another iconic scene.

723
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:40,080
Like just, you know, and I think
if we've ever had to wear a

724
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,880
lapel mic for any kind of
function, like that's the first

725
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,080
or even like on theater, like
then we know we do on the

726
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,120
theater.
When you have your mic turned

727
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,720
on, like going to the bathroom
becomes that frantic moment.

728
00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:52,120
Like, please tell me this is off
and make sure it's, you know,

729
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,000
turned off on mute or whatever.
You do not want to have a frank

730
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,480
driven moment.
So but yeah.

731
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:02,600
And then just gosh, the the
water and then it like stops and

732
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,240
then it starts back up.
And then it like the the the

733
00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:08,240
stream gets stronger as, as the
second time.

734
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:10,920
Like it just gets.
And oh gosh, it's so funny.

735
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,280
Yeah.
I love that scene.

736
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,440
Another scene I love is when
Frank said when the when the

737
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,920
queen is there for her banquet,
he does the wand over the

738
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,840
husband and wife.
He does the wand over the wife,

739
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,600
and then he's checking the
husband, but he's getting

740
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,600
everything out of Ed's pockets.
He's got a picture of your wife,

741
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:30,160
Ed?
Yeah.

742
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,160
Anybody else here got a picture
of Ed's wife?

743
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,840
That's right, who else here is
seeing it's wife?

744
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,120
It's just, man, it's so good.
It's so good.

745
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,440
Well, you know, and one of the
things it it the the cold open

746
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:49,000
when Dreven just is randomly
attacking Gorbachev, Idi Amin

747
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,720
and Yasser Arafat, like just
like one of the probably the

748
00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:57,480
most dated jokes in the movie,
because who other than people

749
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,680
our age, who remembers any of
those people?

750
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:05,160
But I, I love the like, like he,
he has Gorbachev in the, in the

751
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:09,000
headlock and he rubs the, the
rubs the birthmark off and he's

752
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,280
like, I knew it.
Yeah, I remember that one and I

753
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,560
love they all have name tags or
like you have some kind of

754
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,400
button on them when he knocks
them out.

755
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,320
Yeah.
And then?

756
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,000
He has one that says ask me how
I lost 25 lbs or something like.

757
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:27,680
That Yeah, yeah.
It's like I went to Beirut to

758
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,840
have some peace and quiet, you
know, to get some peace, yes.

759
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,280
One of the other things that's
fantastic about this movie is

760
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,360
the jokes.
They come so fast and furious

761
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,520
that, you know, you wind up
realizing that something you've

762
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,360
seen.
You know, I don't know, I've

763
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,720
probably seen this movie
straight through at least 2020

764
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:47,920
times in my life, I think.
But I saw something just this

765
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,400
week when I, you know, look back
at it for this podcast.

766
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,440
The scene in the meatpacking
facility where it has all the

767
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,720
animal blood all over the place.
There's a sign on the wall that

768
00:40:57,720 --> 00:41:02,120
says employees must wash their
hands before using the restroom.

769
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,600
And it's it's usually after
using the restroom, but it's on

770
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,680
the wall there and I've never
noticed that before this time.

771
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:10,880
I think I've seen that.
Yeah.

772
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,240
I have to look for that one.
Yeah.

773
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,000
This movie helped me to become
that back like watching the

774
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,160
background, like seeing like
seeing those signs, those kind

775
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,200
of like little subtle things
like even at the beginning when

776
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:29,560
Nordberg's at the docks and like
they're the different there's

777
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,160
like the different barrels have
different names on.

778
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:34,120
Like I don't know if they really
if they were intentional or not,

779
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,240
but I was, I was looking to see
what's the name on there?

780
00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:38,480
What's the name on that one?
And there's when they're pulling

781
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,040
the airline luggage, like the
name of the airline is like Dyan

782
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:44,840
DYN Airlines.
And so I was like, it's supposed

783
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,120
to be like Dyan Airlines, but
you like DYN.

784
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,120
So I was like, you know, just
those kind of little things in

785
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:51,720
the background that most people
don't see.

786
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,360
And there's one that I remember
seeing, but it was in the, it

787
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:59,000
was in one of the notes or one
of the websites about when Frank

788
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,600
and Jane are in his apartment
and she's cleaning out his

789
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:06,000
refrigerator when she leaves.
And you're it's a, it's a close

790
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,280
up shot of Frank's head, but the
cheese on top of his

791
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,160
refrigerator starts to move,
like starts to wiggle away.

792
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,360
Yeah, yeah.
I was like, yeah, there's like

793
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,240
those just like behind the
scenes stuff.

794
00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:19,760
Yeah, it's great.
I I have a thing about like

795
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,560
spoiled milk because I had a bad
experience with spoiled milk

796
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,640
when I was a kid.
So that scene where he's pouring

797
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:30,360
the milk in the glass, just
yeah, like I can go, like I can

798
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:31,960
watch blood splatter over
anything.

799
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,960
A kind of horror movie, but you
shall be curdled milk.

800
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:39,320
And I'm like, I can't take it.
All right, well, let's talk

801
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,400
about some some trivia, maybe
think of some other scenes as

802
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,760
we're getting into this.
So we kind of referenced before

803
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:48,240
about how, of course, it's a
spoof of, of different, you

804
00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:51,040
know, movies and, and detective
TV shows.

805
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:55,400
So the Charlotte Rampling and
Robert Mitchum movie, Farewell,

806
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,840
My Lovely from 1975 was where
the scene of Priscilla Presley

807
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,440
gliding down the stairs from the
from the 2nd floor.

808
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,880
She's even wearing the same type
of dress as in the movie.

809
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,080
The assassination attempt on
Charles de Gaulle in The Day of

810
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,760
the Jackal from 73 gave them the
idea for the assassination plot

811
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,200
against Queen Elizabeth the
Second.

812
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,600
They also reference Mad
Magazine, The Dirty Harry

813
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:21,320
movies, and the Cop series M
Squad as other cited sources of

814
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,880
satirization.
The conversation between Ricardo

815
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,120
Montabant and Ray Burke about
sensory induced hypnosis is a

816
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,680
direct spoof of a scene and
telephone from 1977 where

817
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,960
Charles Bronson has offered a
demonstration on drug induced

818
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:36,640
hypnosis.
And then I think I mentioned

819
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,760
earlier about the TV series Get
Smart.

820
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,680
You'll notice a few parallels to
The Naked Gun.

821
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,800
Not only do both center on a
bumbling authority figure, but

822
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,600
some jokes are suspiciously
similar, like the shoe gadgets.

823
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,160
It's hard to say how much of The
Naked Gun might have been

824
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,760
inspired by Get Smart, but at
least one joke supposedly came

825
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,000
straight from that show's Co
creator, Mel Brooks.

826
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,240
At the baseball game, Frank goes
undercover as an umpire,

827
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,120
accidentally getting struck in
the head with a bat.

828
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,040
Reportedly, Brooks himself
suggested the sight gag, which

829
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,120
made it in the movie.
Funny to think that Brooks will

830
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,840
later direct Nelson and Dracula.
Dead and loving it.

831
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,800
So, yeah, I, I'd read that in a
couple places that no, Mel

832
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,600
Brooks gave him that idea of the
getting hit with the bat.

833
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:21,080
Anything to say about the about
Mel Brooks being a part of the

834
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,920
process?
I think Mel Brooks was kind of

835
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:29,520
inspired by what the Zucker
brothers had done with Airplane,

836
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:34,080
because even his movies became
even more like spoof parodies

837
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:38,400
than what he had done before
then from at least from what I

838
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:43,360
know, I'm not a, I'm not a Mel
Brooks, you know, aficionado.

839
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,640
Would would Spaceballs be what
is if there wasn't?

840
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,880
If you didn't have Airplane?
Right.

841
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:54,800
Yeah.
And I mean, I think in my

842
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,640
opinion, Mel Brooks was better
before he maybe.

843
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,600
Went that direction.
Yeah, maybe when he was doing

844
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,800
his own thing, the way he did it
was better than when he was

845
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:09,920
trying to do the airplane style
comedy.

846
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,720
Yeah, so this next, this next
bit of trivia is for for

847
00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:16,480
Nicholas.
Here you go.

848
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,680
The film makers, being Wisconsin
natives, wanted to use the

849
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,800
Milwaukee Brewers in the
climactic baseball game, but

850
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,880
Major League Baseball granted
them the Seattle Mariners

851
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:29,480
instead.
Director David Zucker said we

852
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,600
wanted the Brewers.
We applied to the MLB, and they

853
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,040
said you have to take the
Mariners.

854
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,720
I think we were trying to help
the franchise.

855
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,880
That was a weak franchise of the
time and must have been weaker

856
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:42,480
than the Brewers.
Yeah, in 88, yeah, the Mariners

857
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,480
would have been.
A big Milwaukee Brewers fan, but

858
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,440
you.
No, I mean, in 88.

859
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,680
I mean, well, the Angels were
kind of a weak franchise in 88

860
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,560
as well, though they had a
pretty good year in 86.

861
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,160
Yeah, I know.
I mean, the the Mariners would

862
00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:59,680
have been a weak franchise in
88.

863
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,280
The Brewers wouldn't have been
much better.

864
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,240
But you know, they they didn't
really use, other than Reggie

865
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:06,600
Jackson, they didn't really use
any real baseball players

866
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:07,880
anyway.
So yeah.

867
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,880
And Reggie Jackson had actually
retired the year before that, so

868
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,960
he wasn't even a current
baseball player at the time they

869
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,920
used him so.
Yeah, I was wondering about that

870
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:21,640
because I was, I was trying to
think like how how deep into the

871
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,200
80s his career went.
And it did seem like I was like,

872
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:30,160
was he really still playing?
All right, so so there's going

873
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,960
to be other trivia we'll cover,
I'll put in the show notes.

874
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,360
But I did thought this was
interesting and and some of the

875
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:40,240
stuff I kind of remember.
I know you said, Chris, you said

876
00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:43,800
you saw it on blockbuster.
Does anybody remember the TV

877
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:47,120
version that was on TV?
I'm going to watch that this

878
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:50,000
maybe this will remind you.
Go ahead, Ben, you're.

879
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,000
Talking about police squad No.
No, like when the when they

880
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,040
showed the the Naked Gun on TV,
there's actually, they actually,

881
00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:00,960
there's actually extended
sections in the TV version that

882
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,560
I kind of remember.
So here's a little overview.

883
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,120
The scene with Nordberg's wife
of the hospital is expanded to

884
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,960
include more dialogue and a
different ending.

885
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,840
As the group leaves the room,
Frank flips a couple of switches

886
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,520
on the wall which he thinks are
for the lights, not knowing that

887
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,560
he is shut down Norberg's life
support system.

888
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,600
As they walk down the hall after
leaving the room, hospital staff

889
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,120
rushed by headed for Nordberg's
room.

890
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:23,480
Without looking where they're
headed.

891
00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:26,440
Frank Comfort's wound by saying
just be glad you're not that

892
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,920
guy's wife.
That does sound familiar.

893
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,600
Yeah, during Dreben's quote UN
quote interview with the dock

894
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,400
worker, it's also extended.
But would this help?

895
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,800
And giving $20 joke interplay
goes on much longer and it

896
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,040
becomes evident that Dreben is
familiar with the workers

897
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,280
family.
So and I feel like that scene

898
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:46,640
was longer when I watched it
today.

899
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:50,200
So I obvious I probably recorded
the TV version and watched it a

900
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,280
lot as well as in the theatrical
version.

901
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,480
When Dreven returns to the
hospital, check on Nordberg

902
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,760
Nordberg and sees that the guard
is gone, he tells a nurse to

903
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,040
call the police.
Here we get to see the nurse

904
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:04,080
calling the police and trying to
use the police emergency codes.

905
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:09,560
Drevens walking monologue has
many new scenes such as Dreven

906
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,920
going into a public shower and
extra dialogue to fill the time.

907
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:17,280
Drevens break in at Ludwig's
apartment contains new scenes,

908
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,680
including trouble with a
bearskin rug and difficulty

909
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,160
opening the window.
Let's see.

910
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,760
The fight at the hot dog factory
has a longer fist fight scene.

911
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,240
The baseball game has a few
modifications.

912
00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:36,000
Originally we saw the Queen
passing food from a vendor.

913
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,720
Now we see her also passing the
money to pay for it, which I

914
00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:42,840
remember during the montage of
baseball's funniest moments,

915
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,080
there's a new shot of a family
having a picnic in the outfield.

916
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,960
And during a conference on the
pitcher's mound, they discuss

917
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,240
financial matters and not
baseball, which I kind of

918
00:48:51,240 --> 00:48:52,280
remembered that too.
So.

919
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:56,720
So this was one thing that I did
see that I caught this time.

920
00:48:56,720 --> 00:49:01,760
And I don't, I don't know if I
caught it before, but in the

921
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:06,080
original theatrical cut, Vincent
Ludwig shoots Frank during the

922
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,560
standoff at the baseball
stadium, causing the umpire

923
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,440
chest protector to deflate as a
sight gag.

924
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,000
The scene was cut and later
prints, presumably out of

925
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,200
concern that people might think
the umpire chest protector could

926
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,720
stop a bullet.
This is why the chest protector

927
00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:23,360
is fully formed at the
beginning, but later has a

928
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:27,480
deflated and sagging look to it.
And I was like, I was like, I

929
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,520
kind of remember that scene.
So I don't know if that was in

930
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,840
the theat, like when it was on,
when the theatrical run

931
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,000
happened.
But then when it went to video,

932
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,880
like the version I saw today,
you don't see that section.

933
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,200
So I guess they completely
pulled it from that.

934
00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:42,280
Yeah, I didn't see the version I
saw this week either.

935
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,480
Yeah, but you do notice like it,
Yeah, it gets deflated.

936
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,000
Yeah.
So yeah, but yeah, but seeing

937
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,040
all that stuff from the TV
version, like man, I kind of, I

938
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,520
kind of want to find ATV version
now to watch because even the

939
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,880
Blu-ray I had, I looked for the
extra scenes or like extra

940
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,640
features and all it had was a
commentary, didn't have any

941
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:03,120
deleted scenes or extended
scenes.

942
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,680
So I'd probably find them on
YouTube.

943
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,360
I didn't, I didn't have time to
really pull them up that much.

944
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:13,160
But yeah.
So let's talk about box office.

945
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,600
So The Naked Gun was released on
December 2nd, 1988 and its

946
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,960
opening weekend finished in
first place at the box office in

947
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:24,720
United States and Canada,
grossing $9.3 million in its

948
00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:28,240
second weekend to gross 6.1
million, falling to 2nd place

949
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:32,480
behind the newly released Twins
with Schwarzenegger and DeVito

950
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:37,200
which made $11.2 million.
The film went on to gross 78.8

951
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,640
million in United States and
Canada box office and $73

952
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:45,720
million overseas for a worldwide
total of $152 million.

953
00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:51,360
So I would say it was a
successful movie for sure.

954
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,360
So I got 2 sequels, so I had to
be successful, right?

955
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,480
Absolutely.
Now it's time to take a look at

956
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:00,440
how well this 80s flick holds up
to date.

957
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,160
It's the Rewatch Ability
nostalgia meter, Patent pending.

958
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,360
It's our way of measuring how
enjoyable movie is for repeat

959
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,000
viewings, along with the waves
and nostalgia it brings.

960
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,720
Here's how it works.
It's a one to 10 scale.

961
00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:14,080
Any number between 1:00 and
10:00 will do, but here a few

962
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,040
parameters to help you decide.
At the bottom of the meter is a

963
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:21,480
#1, which means I saw it once
and that was enough.

964
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,280
Right in the middle is a #5,
which means it's a good rewatch

965
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,840
every couple of years.
And at the very top, the highly

966
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,400
coveted #10 It means it's highly
rewatchable and full of

967
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,920
nostalgia.
So we'll go around the room.

968
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,600
So we'll start with Chris, who's
not having any computer issues

969
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:43,920
at the moment.
Where does the Naked Gun land

970
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,200
for you on the rewatch ability
nostalgia meter?

971
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:50,560
Well, for me, I think it's
certainly more about rewatch

972
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,320
ability in my mind than it is
nostalgia.

973
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,960
I know you know, it's a
nostalgic movie in the sense of

974
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,360
it's got a lot of history.
It's got, you know, several

975
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,200
sequels.
It had a, you know, brief TV

976
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:05,840
run.
So there's all kinds of ways you

977
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:10,000
can think about it.
And now it's had a, a posthumous

978
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,040
to itself.
A new movie came out this year,

979
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,680
right, The last year.
And so it's got a lot of lot of

980
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:18,880
nostalgia.
But for me, it's all about the

981
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,960
fact that when I watched it,
even this week, I found myself

982
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:28,240
just belly laughing out loud,
hard laughs, even though some of

983
00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:30,400
the things I know they're
coming, right.

984
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,960
That's when I think that you
understand that things are truly

985
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:38,080
just beyond funny that you know
it's coming and it still makes

986
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:42,560
you audibly just laugh out loud.
And there's a lot of that in

987
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,520
this movie.
So for me, it's probably about a

988
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,680
8.5.
I really would, you know, I

989
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,000
wouldn't mind watching it at any
gathering, you know, bring it

990
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,640
on.
Let's let's have some fun and

991
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,520
and just enjoy the humor of it.
Yeah, alright.

992
00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,160
What about you, Ben?
Where does it rank for you?

993
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,560
Yeah, no, I agree.
I think that's about, that's

994
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:06,760
about, that's a fair assessment.
I put it at about a 8.5, maybe

995
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:08,480
even a nine.
OK.

996
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:13,600
Just because, yeah, I mean, I'd
go watch it again right now.

997
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:18,320
It's just it's just it.
I don't know that it makes me

998
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,960
laugh like it used to.
Yeah, yeah.

999
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,480
But I still like, I smile all
the way through it.

1000
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:29,560
And like I said, new things make
me laugh that and I notice other

1001
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:34,760
things and it's yeah.
So it's, it's, yeah, it's, it's

1002
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,760
a great, great one.
Yeah, I found myself like

1003
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:42,000
knowing the like saying the
lines with with it a lot at the

1004
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,280
beginning because I remembered a
lot of the lines as they were

1005
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,160
coming.
But the parts that I really

1006
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:50,560
laughed out loud, like actually
laughed about were at the end of

1007
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:52,920
the baseball is one of the
baseball sequence is my favorite

1008
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,920
because that's the one I just I
I really laughed in those

1009
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:57,960
sections.
Other like but like you the rest

1010
00:53:57,960 --> 00:53:59,680
of me, I'm just smiling because
I remember.

1011
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,720
I know it's funny, but it's not
necessarily laugh out loud funny

1012
00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:04,000
like it was the first time
watching it.

1013
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:10,360
So Nicholas, are you able to?
I can, I can, I can see and hear

1014
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,280
you.
So I don't know what I mean.

1015
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:13,960
Can you hear me?
I guess not.

1016
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:16,040
We can't see you or hear you,
Nicholas.

1017
00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:18,360
OK, that's.
Even though he says he can see

1018
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:21,760
and hear us, just just I say
he's, he's.

1019
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:23,120
He's typing.
Maybe he's.

1020
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:28,080
Going to type this is This is
why I don't do live podcast.

1021
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,240
All right, Nicholas gives it an
8.

1022
00:54:30,240 --> 00:54:34,640
So sorry for those listening to
the podcast.

1023
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,920
We've having some technical
difficulties, but Nicholas is

1024
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:38,520
here.
We just can't see or hear him.

1025
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:40,520
But he gave it an 8 and I'm
going to round it out.

1026
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:41,720
I'm going to give it an 8 as
well.

1027
00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:44,440
So I think 88.5 is pretty much
where we are.

1028
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:46,920
I think it rings high for me
nostalgia, like I said, I

1029
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:50,320
remember seeing it as a kid.
I'm watching it over and over

1030
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:54,600
again as a preteen 88, I was,
you know, that was that was

1031
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,240
going into like my middle school
years.

1032
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,640
I will say that watching it
again, I forgot how much

1033
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,560
innuendo and like sexual
references are in it that I

1034
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:08,920
don't think I really like got
that much as a kid or understood

1035
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,200
that much as a kid.
But I was like, yeah, this was a

1036
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:15,760
real, for real PG13 movie of the
80s.

1037
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:17,520
So, but yeah, but yeah,
definitely.

1038
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,320
But it is one that I, I haven't
got to rewatch a whole lot over

1039
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:23,360
the last couple of years, but it
is one that I'm willing to

1040
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,040
watch.
I'm kind of like Ben.

1041
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:29,880
I would I would watch it again
tomorrow and it's an hour and 25

1042
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:31,160
minutes.
It's not like it's taking up a

1043
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,800
lot of my time either.
So it's it's a good quick.

1044
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:38,360
That's nice to watch.
I appreciate that so much these

1045
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:41,480
days where every movie seems to
think it needs to be 3 hours

1046
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:43,320
long.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1047
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:47,440
So all right, before we wrap it
up, just real briefly, I know if

1048
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,760
and Nicholas you can type in
your response, but I think we've

1049
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:52,840
all seen the reboot.
We don't normally talk about

1050
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:57,200
reboots, but any like 30 second
thoughts on the reboot?

1051
00:55:57,560 --> 00:55:59,400
How did did you like it?
Not like it.

1052
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,560
It was OK.
It was OK.

1053
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:06,800
Yeah, it was.
It made me laugh at a few parts,

1054
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:11,520
and I thought it came pretty
close in a few parts to

1055
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:14,880
recapturing sort of the the
like.

1056
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:19,720
I, like I've said, the right way
to do this, this kind of parody.

1057
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:24,280
Yeah.
Liam Neeson was a good choice.

1058
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:30,320
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, it was it it it kind

1059
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,000
of lost steam It it started out
a lot better than I I thought it

1060
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:35,960
ended up.
Yeah, yeah.

1061
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,640
What about you, Chris?
I know Chris reached out to me

1062
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:41,880
because I'd already seen it and
he was going to watch it, so

1063
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:45,280
yeah.
I like the way it tried to, you

1064
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,040
know, at least keep the vibe of
the first one.

1065
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,600
The humor was very much in the
same vein.

1066
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,920
You know, like in the when he
first came upon that car

1067
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,360
accident and he takes all this
time putting that glove on and

1068
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,040
then he just start handling the
all the evidence with this non

1069
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,520
gloved and those kind of things.
I mean, that's really with

1070
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,840
keeping with the framework of
the first movie.

1071
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:10,280
I didn't like necessarily the
plot of this one as much.

1072
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:15,360
You know, the believability of
it wasn't really there for me as

1073
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,160
much, which which made it
stumble a little bit.

1074
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:19,960
I agree toward the end of the
film.

1075
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,440
But I really enjoyed the humor
in it.

1076
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,680
And you know, I certainly hope
that they do another one.

1077
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:29,200
He did a great job as a lead.
So I'm all about let's see it

1078
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:32,440
again.
Yeah, I actually went to the

1079
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,720
theater to see it.
We missed the first like couple

1080
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,120
of minutes.
We didn't miss a whole lot to

1081
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,120
like, you know, wouldn't a lot
to miss the plot.

1082
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:42,160
But basically what we miss, we
saw in the trailer of the bank

1083
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:45,320
robbery scene, which he he, you
know, reveals himself.

1084
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,440
But I I I laughed, I enjoyed it.
The theater.

1085
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,080
I rewatched it again once it
came on Paramount and I was

1086
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:57,360
like, it didn't it's it's not as
much fun the second time around

1087
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:01,320
watching it as the first time.
There were things I like said,

1088
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:04,160
like you said, I appreciated
some of the nods to the original

1089
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,600
they gave trying to keep in the
same vein.

1090
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,480
There was some stuff that was
like a little too weird for me.

1091
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:13,120
It's like that's that, you know,
some of them were the whole.

1092
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:16,800
Snowman scene was just like.
Yeah, the snowman scene was

1093
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,760
like, what?
What Nicholas said, he loved it.

1094
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,120
It was a worthy sequel.
Not as good, obviously, but

1095
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:23,280
still very good.
So, yeah.

1096
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,440
But yeah, I mean, I think, I
think if, if you haven't seen

1097
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,440
the new movie, the reboot, I
would say see it if you've liked

1098
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:31,320
the original.
Like I said, I think they do a

1099
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,080
decent job.
Of course, it's not.

1100
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:34,760
Nothing's going to replace the
original.

1101
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:38,120
There's only so much you can do
with those, with those kind of

1102
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:40,720
recycle jokes you only do so
many times.

1103
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:42,480
I know we didn't really talk
much about it, but do you

1104
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:46,320
remember any of the specific
bits that were pulled from the

1105
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:50,240
TV show that were in the movie?
I don't I don't remember

1106
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,760
anything specifically I but
there there was a bit that they

1107
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,920
did on the TV show that I think
they should have redone in the

1108
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,640
movie and that's every episode
of the show ended with a fake

1109
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:04,000
freeze.
Frame, freeze frame.

1110
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:05,600
Yeah, I did read that.
Yeah, that they.

1111
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:09,760
Did where where like most of the
characters would freeze, but

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then something would be going on
in the background or one of the

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characters when it freeze and it
was always it, it was really

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funny and I don't know why they
didn't revive that.

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Yeah, for this, because it would
be great.

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Or maybe they did and it maybe
it got cut.

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00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:27,520
Maybe it just didn't work as
well.

1118
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:31,720
Yeah, maybe so.
All right, Well, let us know,

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listeners, where you think The
Naked Gun should rank on the

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rewatchability installed Dimeter
for you.

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Send us an e-mail, let us know
on social media or leave us a

1122
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,520
comment right here on YouTube if
you're watching the show.

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And so we're going to go ahead
and wrap this one up.

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I want to thank Ben, Chris and
Nicholas for joining.

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Nicholas is going to go ahead
and hop since it's he's still

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00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,200
having technical difficulties.
But thanks Nicholas for being a

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00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,680
part.
If you enjoy the episode, please

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leave us a five star review on
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01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:05,760
Jump online and visit the
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1132
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,520
and RT Public Store for some
awesome 80s flick flashback

1133
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:12,520
merch and original designs.
And thank everybody for tuning

1134
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:14,400
in.
Thank you, Ben.

1135
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:17,040
Good to have you back.
We'll see you again soon.

1136
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:18,880
I think we got some more
episodes coming up with you.

1137
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:20,920
Same with Chris, same with
Nicholas.

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01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,040
So thanks again guys for being a
part.

1139
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:27,280
Thank you.
I'm Tim Williams for the 80s

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01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,560
flick Flashback podcast.
Cops and women don't mix.

1141
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:32,440
It's like eating a spoonful of
Drano.

1142
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,280
Sure, it'll clean you out, but
it'll leave you hollow inside.