#155 - "Police Academy" (1984) with Chad Sheppard, Laramy Wells & Robby Retro

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In 1984, a new wacky ensemble
comedy marched in the theaters

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and proved that anyone, and we
mean anyone, could wear a police

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badge.
With a cast of relative unknowns

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and a script born from a chance
encounter on a movie set, this

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film captured the hearts of
audiences by celebrating the

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hilarious, incompetent but
lovable misfits.

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When a mayor makes a decree to
open the gates to every oddball

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in town to join the Metropolitan
Police Force, a smooth talking

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troublemaker is forced into the
police Academy as an alternative

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to jail.
But he soon finds himself

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surrounded by human beatbox, a
gun fanatic and a soft spoken

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powerhouse who's a lot stronger
than she looks.

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So grab your megaphone, tuck in
that uniform, and meet us at the

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Blue Oyster Bar as Chad Shepard,
Laramie Wells, and Retro.

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Robbie and I discussed Police
Academy on this episode of the

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80s Flick Flashback Podcast.
Welcome to the show, everybody.

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I am your host, Tim Williams.
I was just looking at my

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goldfish and thinking we need
more law and order around here.

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So I've called in three cadets
who have absolutely no business

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wearing a badge.
First is the cadet who wishes he

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could make sound effects to get
him out of trouble.

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It's Chad Shepherd.
How you doing, Chad?

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Next up is the guy who swears
he's never faked an accent to

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meet women.
It's Laramie Wells.

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Really.
No.

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I I I probably have.
Not recently though.

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Thank you.
No, not recently.

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And and joining us for the first
time, the man who loves to play

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saxophone at beachside fire
Pits, it's Robbie Retro.

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Welcome about me, Tim.
Hey, everybody.

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What's?
In.

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The show beer, it's Chad
Laramie.

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Great to be on the show.
Love the show and I love talking

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about the 80s.
Awesome.

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So glad to have you with us this
time.

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So talking about police Academy,
of course, the month of January,

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as I talked about the last two
episodes, 2025 is a year.

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It was a year.
That's all I'm going to say

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about it.
So I said I want to start 2026

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with laughing and a January just
for laughs.

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So we did airplane, we covered
Naked Gun.

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So why not tackle one of the
greatest franchises of the 80s?

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Police Academy, starting with
the first one.

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So this is how we start the
show.

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So we're going to start with
Robbie this time.

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When did you see Police Academy
for the first time?

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Yeah, it's like it's always been
a part of my life.

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I mean, wow.
I I think more as a kid it would

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be the sequels.
Yeah, yeah.

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And then, you know, always love
police Academy.

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Probably wasn't until, you know,
I'm thinking the 90s and 2000s.

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Of course, things in the 90s
were so good and I was just

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talking to a friend like things
were so good.

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You look ahead, you know when
things are good, you look ahead.

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But then as you're getting into,
I think probably 2000 tens ish,

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I think you started looking
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And I remember I was with my dad
and we were flying together.

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We were flying on a flight and
we were both were able to watch

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Police Academy on the plane.
And we're just both dying

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laughing.
Like, I forgot how great this

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was.
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First Police Academy so good.
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So then it was like, now, you
know, going back, it's like, you

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know, really the original Police
Academy really is an awesome

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movie.
And you think, you think of the,

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the Empire, it launched
franchise, it launched the IP it

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launched, you know, and I've got
a lot of it here.

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I can.
But, you know, you think the

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sequels and you think the
cartoon and you think the toys

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and had the toys and the cartoon
had a comic book, a Marvel comic

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book, which I also have the
movies all had, you know,

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soundtracks, several like Part 4
and I think 6 or 7.

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They all had vinyl soundtracks,
you know, big songs.

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And yeah, Drew Suzanne doing
some of the posters.

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And you had, you know, they,
they just took over the video

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stores back in the day.
It was everywhere.

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And I mean, 1984, that's
something we we could get into

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later.
But what a year that was.

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Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.

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For movies and for franchises
and for IPS.

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But Police Academy is a movie.
I, I think now it's getting,

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maybe starting to get the love
it deserves because there was a

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time where nobody wanted to talk
about Police Academy.

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Think about Police Academy.
Probably by the time you got to

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the TV series, you know, like
90. 7 I think.

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Right.
Yeah, but man, that the original

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and and even sequels to two and
three.

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But the original is so good, So
good.

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And Steve Guttenberg is a
legend.

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Yeah, the goot.
Absolutely.

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Total legend.
He is so great in this.

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I mean, everybody's on their egg
game in this movie, but when did

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I I'm sorry.
The question was when did I see?

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Yeah, I mean, I grew up in
Police Academy, grew up with the

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sequels, but.
But really appreciated the

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original.
It would have been about 15

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years ago when I was really
like, OK, that first Police

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Academy is so so.
All right.

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What about you, Laramie?
When did you when did you see it

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on TV?
When did I see it on TVI

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actually don't remember when I
saw the first.

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I do know I kind of like Robbie
saying like I I think the 4th 1

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was the 1st police Academy I
saw.

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I know I did not see them in
order and it wasn't until later.

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Part of me though thinks instead
of actually seeing it on

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television part of me thinks I
rented it.

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OK, because I'm pretty sure I
saw it when I, whenever I did

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see it for the first time and
it, it was probably late 90s,

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early 2000s when I finally did
see the first, the first one.

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I'm pretty sure I saw it
unedited because there were,

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there were a lot of the moments
that I remember a lot of things

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that I'm just like, wow.
That's because I mean the 4th 1

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as much fun as it is, you know,
they that's when they started

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going a little bit more
cartoonish.

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And this one, although has some
cartoonish elements is is online

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with, you know, things like, you
know, Animal House and Porky's

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and you know, it kind of it
rides that, you know, that line

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of a rated R movie with a lot of
the material that that you see.

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But no, I'm a huge fan, just
like Robbie saying loved the

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cartoon.
In fact, if I went digging in a

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box over here, I'm pretty sure
I'll, I'll have my Tackleberry

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and Zedd figures that I had when
I was a kid.

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And yeah, loved, loved them all.
I I have watched Mission to

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Moscow, but but yeah, that that
that's one of my favorite

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franchises.
Love everything about it.

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Always wished I could do what a
motor mouth could do what?

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Michael Winslow.
Yeah.

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Oh yeah.
Could do always, always did so,

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but yeah, no, don't.
Can't pinpoint exactly, but I'm

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pretty sure it wasn't actually
on television.

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I'm pretty sure I saw the the
first one as a as a rental.

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Gotcha.
All right, Chad, you're up first

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time.
Well first time watching the

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film is different.
The first time I was aware of

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police Academy.
I know I have a vivid memory and

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I may have said this in another
one a podcast I did police

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Academy 1984 in the theater.
My kindercare took us to the go

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see.
I think it was Ben the Benji.

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They they re released the Benji,
the 1 from 77 where the little

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girl he falls in love with a
little girl dog dies and it was

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horrible.
I remember being in the lobby

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waiting for everybody to go to
the restroom, looking over to

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the wall and seeing the giant.
It's it's on the it's on the

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cover of all them together.
Yeah, and seeing it and I like I

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have a vivid memory blank.
Well, what's that?

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The I didn't I'm like, I'm like
everybody else.

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I saw probably I think I saw two
and four before.

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I don't think I saw one for a
long time because my parents

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wouldn't let me watch Rated R.
Movies.

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Yeah, exactly.
Especially that one.

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Yeah.
But I think the first time I

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really watched it, TBS had a
thing called Dinner and a movie

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and I watched.
So they, they were doing, you

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know, cooking.
I don't know what they were

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cooking, but I remember watching
it was like, Oh yeah, I, I love

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this movie.
So I, I recorded it.

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I've rented them.
I put them all on Avhs and in

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order that I basically bought
them then the DVD probably 9098.

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I think that was when I saw it
like falling.

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Well, it was still edited for
TV, but right and then to my to

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to my gladness, I saw the the
the full full cut.

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So I was like OK but.
Yeah, I, yeah, I'm like you

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guys, I saw the sequels before I
saw the original.

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I probably, I remember seeing 2
on cable.

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I probably saw three on cable.
I don't know.

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I don't know.
I might have seen like four and

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five in the theater by that
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But I know I recorded the TV
version when it came on, you

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know, after I'd seen the
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So I really remembered the TV
edit.

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So it probably was, I was
probably like 17 or 18 before I

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saw the unedited version, like
when it came on, when the R

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rated one came on cable.
And I was, you know, left to my

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own devices of what I could
watch on TV.

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So yeah, there was there was a.
Free weekend of HBO or Showtime

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or Cinemax, whatever.
It was.

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I'm pretty sure that's how we
had it.

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Like I'm pretty sure, like for
the one I first saw, I'm pretty

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sure it was a recording off of
HBO.

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It was just, it was one of those
VHS tapes that, you know, those

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Polaroid or whatever VHS tapes
that I just wore out watching 4

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over and over again.
Part of me thinks I saw six in

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theaters.
But then when I think back to

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it, I was like, I was 8 when
that movie came out.

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I don't know if I saw it in
theaters unless I saw it like,

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you know, it was one of those
like dollar theater, you know,

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they're, you know, during the
summer where they just show

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older movies.
And I saw it.

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Yeah.
So I don't know if I have seen

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any of them in the theaters.
Of course, Mission to Moscow did

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not come out in theaters.
I was going to say I was going

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to watch that one, but it never
came out in theaters.

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That one did not come out in
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Yeah, I don't think I even, I
don't think police Academy was

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even a thought in my mind when
Mission to Moscow came out.

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It had been so long, so like.
Police Academy is always a

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thought in my mind.
What are you talking about?

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I mean, I was moving on to other
franchises.

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I was.
AI was a a true film auteur at

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that point.
I'm just kidding.

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Yeah, I was.
Excited when?

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Because when they were filming
Mission of Moscow, like

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Entertainment Tonight did like a
whole piece of them filming it.

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I was like, oh cool, another
police Academy movie I'll go see

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that never came out in the like
I said it had come out of

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theatre, came on video.
So yeah.

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It was HBO.
It was like one of the first,

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like HBO, HBO.
Made for.

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HBO movies.
So that's why I was and I don't

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think.
I saw it until I bought the DVD

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set, Yeah.
And I think that was when I I

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finally saw Mission to Moscow.
I think, I think I started it on

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HBO at some point when I was
much older, but I don't know if

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I don't.
I can't remember if I have

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watched it all through.
Well, eventually we'll get

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there.
Maybe no I.

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Don't think because I because I
think that was 66.

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Came.
Out in 89.

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Gotcha.
Yeah.

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So, yeah.
So there's no way.

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Mission to Moscow.
Yeah, I was finally able to get

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the, I got a complete Blu-ray
set of all the police academies

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a couple of months ago.
So because I remember we'll kind

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of go into like, when's the last
time you watched before you're

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watching it for the podcast?
So I watched it again probably a

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year or two ago.
It's been in the last three

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years, but I could find like all
of the sequels on like HBO Max,

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like one of the streamers, but
it was really hard to find like

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the original Police Academy.
So I was able to, I think I

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ended up having to rent it to
watch it.

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But I was like, man, I wonder
why this one's not available?

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And so that's when I started
looking for the Blu rays.

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So is it 1?
Of those that like change

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studios.
Yeah, yeah, 'cause you know

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that's.
Like, like that was always my

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thing with the Child's Play
movies.

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It's like I could always find
the box sets but it would only

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have two and on it wouldn't have
the first one.

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And I can't come to find out us
because the first one was

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released by a different studio.
And of course, now they're all

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together because every studio
ends up buying each other and so

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it eventually all works out.
Yeah, Because I.

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Think even when I watched my
Blu-ray today, it's still like

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the the Blu-ray opens with the
Warner Brothers logo, but the

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movie is not the The movie
wasn't originally distributed by

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Warner Brothers.
The sequels, I know, were so

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well my.
My copy of the DVD, to give you

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an idea how old my copy of the
DVD, it's in the butterfly case.

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Yeah, there you go.
And it's one of those that when

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you put it in, it just starts
playing.

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There's no.
No menu.

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No menu.
Nope, you don't see the menu

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until unless you let it play all
the way towards the end and then

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it'll go to a.
Little.

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Menu, not really any special
fees.

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Like there's the trailers,
obviously there's I think like

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little synopsis of the cast and
crew.

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And I want to say there was a
making of document.

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I didn't watch it, but yeah, but
yeah, no, that's how old my DVD

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copy is.
Butterfly case.

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And no, like just straight into
the movie.

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And apparently mine's also.
I don't know if it's, I mean,

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again, you know, TV's now are
all wide screen televisions, but

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it had had the you know, the
following movie has been

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formatted to fit your screen,
right?

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Right.
And to warn you before you take

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it back, why are there black
bars on my screen?

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I.
Was not, but I do think it was

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getting pulled because when I
was I'm sitting here watching

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it, I'm just going some of their
faces feel a little fat like so

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I'm thinking maybe my copy is a
full screen copy and and it just

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happened to get pulled for
instead of having the black bars

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on now the left and the right,
which is what you get when you

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you watch full screen stuff now
it it filled the screen, which I

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think stretched it a little bit
so all.

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Right.
Well, when did you watch it?

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How long has it been since you
rewatched it, Laramie?

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Real quick, it's.
Been a hot minute.

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Yeah, it's been a while.
And I know I always bring this

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up as an excuse, you know,
whenever I talk about this, but,

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you know, having small children,
Yeah.

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Even even when I watched it for
this, like, I I went into a

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completely separate part of the
house because I'm like, I know

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it's got the language.
I know it's the.

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Nudity.
I know it's got the, you know,

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the sexual innuendos and like, I
cannot watch this around my

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children.
So.

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So it's, it's been a good decade
probably, if not more since I

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I've last seen it.
Yeah, re.

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Watching it again, I'm actually
surprised the language isn't

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quite as bad as I thought it was
going to be.

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It's really more the innuendo
and the nudity.

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But it yeah, language isn't like
if it was made today, the

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language would be a lot worse.
But.

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Yeah, there was definitely a
scene where he was when he was

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saying he said nobody and I
thought he was going to drop the

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F bomb, but he didn't.
He said something else and I was

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like, wow, OK, yeah.
So how long have you been for

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you, Chad?
Like I mentioned, I, I was on a

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actually he's been on this
podcast before press.

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He and I talked about police
Academy on his podcast and I did

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that one and that was the last,
that was one of the last times

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I've watched it since just a few
minutes ago.

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Gotcha.
So yeah.

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But so that was, it's been a
year, maybe a little more so

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maybe.
Yeah, yeah.

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I don't remember.
It's hard when.

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It's a, it's the start of a new
year.

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Then you're like, it was last
year, right.

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But they're really thinking
about two years ago because,

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yeah, exactly.
Yeah, so.

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Well, I think we might have lost
Robbie.

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He, he dropped off our video.
So if you're listening to the

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audio, I, I sent him a message
offline, but I haven't heard

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back.
So I don't know if he if he had

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some Internet issues, but we'll,
we'll move on.

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I'll let you guys team up on the
How did it Get Made trivia game.

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I give you 5 true or false
questions and you guys can make

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a consensus about some trivia
about how this movie got made.

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So Are you ready?
Ready.

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Yeah, money.
The answer is money is.

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True or false?
Steve Gutenberg was the studio's

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first choice to play the lead
role of Carrie Mahoney.

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I have to.
Think that's false?

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Yeah. 84 He was, I think this
was has started being big.

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So he yeah 'cause everything
else was was bigger after this.

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So probably not.
I would, I would say false as

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well.
All right.

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You're correct, it was false.
It was actually pretty far down

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the list.
The role was turned down by

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who's who of 80 stars, including
Michael Keaton who was their top

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choice.
Tom Hanks, who auditioned and

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Judge Reinhold Gutenberg won the
role over by acting.

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Sorry won the role by overacting
during his audition to prove he

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had the charisma for the
character.

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He also wore a the his father
was an actual police officer and

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wore his dad's police uniform
shirt, which probably helped as

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well.
All right, next one, True or

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false?
Although the film is set in an

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unnamed American city, the
production actually filmed

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primarily in Toronto, Canada,
using an old psychiatric

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facility and a college campus
for the Academy sets.

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True or false I think.
I think that might that says.

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Sounds like that could be true.
I know they filmed in Toronto.

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Well the other part is true.
I'm not sure I'm I'll.

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Stick with true though.
Let yeah.

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I agree.
All right, you're 2 for two.

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It was film in Toronto.
The Academy itself was a mix of

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the cowardly abandoned Lakeshore
Psychiatric Hospital in Humber

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College.
The film was one of the early

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trendsetters in using Toronto as
a stand in for a generic

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American city.
Yeah.

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No, I believe the college thing
like it definitely gave off like

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a a college college enormous
feel with some of the the shots,

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the cafeteria.
Too.

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It looked like a school.
Sorry.

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Yeah, all.
Right.

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The Blue Oyster Bar was a real
functioning club in Toronto.

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The production rented for the
night.

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True or false?
I'm going to say true again,

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Chad.
You concur, Yes.

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Unfortunately you're both
incorrect.

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It is false.
The Blue Oyster was actually a

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set.
It was built inside an old

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warehouse in Toronto, but the
production design was so

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convincing that people actually
tried to walk in off the street

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thinking it was a real bar.
All right, so you're still still

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doing good. 2 for two out of
three.

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So here we go #3 or #4 I'm
sorry.

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Director Hugh Wilson fought with
the studio to make the film more

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vulgar and raunchy, while the
producers were the ones trying

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to keep the humor clean and
realistic.

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True or false?
Oh, that's.

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A tough one.
It's in the 80s.

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What would have been the case?
Well, he did he he Wilson was

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definitely was director of or
did a lot of stuff for WK KRP in

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Cincinnati.
He created the show.

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So would he.
That's a tough.

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One I, I am going to say, and
again, Chad, if you you want to

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fight this, you can fight this.
I'm going to say true.

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I'm going to think that they
didn't want it to be, but I'm

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going to think again, we're
talking 80s here.

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So you had, you know, movies
like, you know, Animal House and

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Porky's and movies like that
that had been successful by

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being a little bit raunchier.
So I'm, I'm going to think they

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tried to make it raunchier.
But the, the producers and

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writer directors, all whoever,
all Tim's talking about, I think

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they, I think they wanted to
keep it hoping they could hit a

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broader audience, which also
would probably explain why

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there's not a lot of language
and it's, it's more in some of

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the scenes.
So I'm, I'm going to stay true

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on that.
All right, you agree?

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I'm going to.
I'm going to say false because I

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think it might be the other way
around.

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It might.
The studio might have been like,

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hey, you need to make him more
vulgar.

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And he was like, oh, we don't
need to do all that.

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So that's why I say I would say
false.

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So that's what it was.
That's what he was saying.

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Was that what he was saying?
So I thought you said.

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The director, The statement is
the director wanted to make it

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more vulgar and raunchy, but the
producers were trying to keep

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the humor clean and realistic.
So I miss I misunderstood it.

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Well, then I'll I'll then just
so that we both on the same

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page, I'll say false to it as
well.

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All right.
Good job.

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It is false.
It would lie as as Chad said it

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was actually the other way
around.

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The director, because he had it
was more for TVWKRP didn't think

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it needed all the bathroom
humor.

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No, the producers.
But the producer really wanted

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it to be raunchy, to capitalize
on the Animal House Porky's

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market.
So yeah.

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So yeah, it was.
My argument, but I would.

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I misinterpreted the question.
Yeah, yeah, 'cause didn't,

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Didn't the director, wasn't he
also the same guy that wrote

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Blast From the Past, the Brendan
Fraser movie?

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Yeah.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, he didn't.

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He didn't want it to be raunchy.
Absolutely.

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This one, I, I'm I shouldn't
even ask this question.

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It's so easy, but you'll be able
to sweep the sweep the the

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trivia, true or false?
For the scene where Jones,

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played by Michael Winslow,
simulates a machine gun firing

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at the shooting range, the
production team had to dub in

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real gun sounds and post
production because Winslow's

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vocal mimicry wasn't loud enough
for the microphones.

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Bull.
Crap.

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False.
Yeah.

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No, that dude, that dude, right?
That that is definitely false.

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Michael Winslow did it all.
He is known as the man of 1000

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of 10,000 sound effects for
reason.

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The director noted that
Winslow's vocal control was so

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precise that he didn't need to
rely on post production trickery

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for the character signature
noises.

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And I did go ahead and I was
just going.

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To say I saw him on something
just like in the last couple of

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years and he could still do that
stuff.

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Yeah.
Oh yeah.

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Yeah.
Oh, he did like.

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Led Zeppelin song, he had a a
guy had a guitar and he was

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doing it.
The sound doing.

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Actual.
Yeah, I've seen him do that,

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playing with the guy, yeah.
Yeah.

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So the, so the Blu-ray that I
have has the documentary, the

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behind the scenes documentary
thing from like 2006, I think

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was the copyright on it.
And they told the story that the

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Jones was not even a character
in the movie originally, but the

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director and the producers saw
him open for another comic.

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And they're like, we've got to
get this guy in the movie.

450
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:35,000
And they said in the show there
was a fireman there, like doing

451
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,520
crowd control, whatever.
And he asked him if he could use

452
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,960
his like megaphone, the thing
that kind of uses.

453
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,240
And that's how he did, he did
the sound effects there and

454
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,840
they're like, we've got to use
it like that's our sign to use

455
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:48,640
them in the movie.
So.

456
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,680
Now, that's what I loved.
I I had the toy.

457
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,600
I had his toy from the cartoon
and he came with a megaphone.

458
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,160
It was my favorite character.
I'm just going to Jones is my

459
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:03,520
favorite character.
Yeah.

460
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,040
So whether you're going to ask
that question later or not, I'm

461
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,440
saying it right now, Right.
And.

462
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:09,720
We'll get there.
I don't know if this will be

463
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,320
trivia or not, but it wouldn't
because it's just the first

464
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,800
movie.
But wasn't Jones and Taco Berry

465
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,520
the only two that were in all
three?

466
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:22,120
Or maybe the Commandant too?
But but he was in all all no

467
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,600
yeah, all 7 movies.
Yeah.

468
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,360
But he's the only one that
actually like he was in all the

469
00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:28,800
movies.
I think there's two other people

470
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,120
that were in all three movie, I
mean all 7 movies, but Winslow

471
00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:35,320
was the only one that was
actually in the TV series as

472
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:36,760
well.
So he's the yeah, that's right.

473
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,760
That's right to be in.
Every, you know, all of them.

474
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,720
So all right, so the the
abbreviated story origin of pre

475
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,520
production is the concept of
police Academy was inspired by

476
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,000
real events that transpired in
San Francisco while producer

477
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,920
Paul Manzlansky was filming The
Right Stuff.

478
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,880
The mayor had an ambitious plan
to open the enrollment of the

479
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,960
local police Academy to anyone,
regardless of their height,

480
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,560
weight or any other physical
attribute.

481
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,920
Apparently they were in dire
need of recruits.

482
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,200
A Sergeant of the Academy
reportedly confided in producer

483
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,520
Paul Maslansky that they had to
accept anyone who enrolled, but

484
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,560
they would weed out the less
suitable candidates.

485
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,640
This intriguing idea sparked his
imagination with all with what

486
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,560
if all the recruits actually
graduated?

487
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,160
He pitched the concept to Alvin
Ladd Junior, and writers were

488
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,520
hired to develop a script.
Initially, the original script

489
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,200
wore resemblance to movies like
Animal House, Meatballs and

490
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,960
Porky's.
But Hugh Wilson, the creator of

491
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:36,240
TV series WKRP in Cincinnati, as
Chad Really mentioned, was hired

492
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,800
to direct.
He asked them to remove all of

493
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,400
that, but they had a compromise
that kept certain bits in the

494
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,360
final version.
So that was it was kind of funny

495
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:51,720
that it's kind of somewhat based
based on a real city's, you

496
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:57,560
know, attempt to open the police
Academy to the general public.

497
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,720
But yeah, fun, fun, fun.
All right, well, let's jump into

498
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,400
casting.
And as I I mentioned before we

499
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,520
started, this is a pretty it's
an ensemble cast.

500
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,400
So it does take does have a lot
of people in it.

501
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,480
We're going to just kind of hit
the highlights and we'll skip

502
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,360
over some, but let's start with
the goot.

503
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,680
Steve Gutenberg as Cadet
Mahoney, of course, He also

504
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,040
acted in Three Men and a Baby in
87 in its 1990 sequel.

505
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,280
He was also in the movie Diner
in 1982, Cocoon in 85, Short

506
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,720
circa 86, The Bedroom Window in
87, The Big Green in 95.

507
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,480
On television, he started his
career in the CBS sitcom Billy

508
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:44,280
in 1979, and he was also most
recently on the ABC sitcom The

509
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,760
Goldbergs, and he was a
contestant during season 6 on

510
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,640
the dance competition series
Dancing with the Stars.

511
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,800
Yep, and.
I also have I also have to throw

512
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,840
out for for Bethany.
He was also the Olsen twins dad

513
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,640
and it takes 2, it takes 2.
There you go.

514
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,480
And forget that movie.
Christie Alley, Yeah.

515
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,040
Yeah, so.
But yeah, fun fact, he got to

516
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,800
keep his one in the oven shirt
that he wore in the movie.

517
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,320
Very nice.
But yeah, the Steve.

518
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,000
Gutenberg, I mean like this,
this really launched him.

519
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,520
I mean that he from this of
course he got cocoon short

520
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,040
circuit.
He was in several of the

521
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,240
sequels, at least the first
couple.

522
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:30,920
What?
What?

523
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,920
234 and five, I think, no.
No, he's not in five.

524
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,720
That's when he gets replaced by
Lassard's nephew.

525
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:39,760
Right?
Right.

526
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,000
Yeah.
So.

527
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,840
But he held on for as long as he
could.

528
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,200
But yeah, he was.
He was very happy to to be in

529
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,120
the movies.
All right, Next up, we got Kim

530
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,240
Cattrall as Cadet Karen
Thompson.

531
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,680
Of course, we just talked about
her recently with our Mannequin

532
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,000
episode.
We also talked about her from

533
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,840
Big Trouble in Little China.
So you can go back and listen to

534
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,120
those episodes to get her back
story.

535
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,800
I thought she was a decent.
Yeah.

536
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,360
She's in this movie.
She's in this movie.

537
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,600
I mean, she's really doesn't
have anything she doesn't need

538
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:10,880
to.
Be in this movie, yeah.

539
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:15,160
She's just a love interest to
keep Mahoney there.

540
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,400
I mean, that's true.
Yeah.

541
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,320
Yeah, yeah.
So that's because.

542
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,800
Even even after like, he's still
trying to get kicked out.

543
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:30,080
So it's yeah, yeah.
I don't know.

544
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,120
She's she's my least favorite
part of this movie.

545
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,960
You know, when I rewatched it a
couple of years ago, I forgot

546
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,040
she was even in the movie.
Like I forgot she was in it

547
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,400
completely so.
But also because she's not any

548
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:42,680
of the sequels.
It's probably why.

549
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,080
Another reason why?
All right then we got Bubba

550
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,360
Smith as Cadet Moses Hightower.
Of course.

551
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,000
He played in the NFL for the
Baltimore Ravens, Oakland

552
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,520
Raiders, and the Houston Oilers.
After retiring from professional

553
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,840
football, he began acting in
small movie and TV roles in late

554
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,080
70s, early 80s.
He played the chauffeur for Ned

555
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,320
Beatty's character Clyde Torkel
in the movie Stroker Ace with

556
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,800
Burt Reynolds.
He also starred in the short

557
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,200
lived TV series Blue Thunder,
partnering with Pro Football

558
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,600
Hall of Fame defensive star Dick
Butkus, with whom he frequently

559
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,040
Co starred in advertisements for
their light beer.

560
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,800
I remember, I remember the TV
show Blue Thunder more than the

561
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:20,680
movie.
Yeah.

562
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:22,840
Is that the?
One that didn't Dana Carvey in

563
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,040
that too Blue Thunder.
He's in, yes.

564
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,560
I think he was on the TV show of
that.

565
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:28,800
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.

566
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:34,400
Yeah, because on the more recent
like DVD copies he's prominently

567
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,040
showed on the cover even though
his role is very small.

568
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,760
Fun fact, early test audiences
responded most positively to

569
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,120
Hightower out of all the
characters, so Bubba Smith was

570
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,040
moved to 2nd billing, just
behind Steve Gutenberg.

571
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,720
Which is crazy because he
doesn't talk for the majority of

572
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,000
the movie.
Right, right.

573
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,120
I don't.
That you talk about forgetting

574
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,920
that Kim Cattrall's in it.
I want to say I don't.

575
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:05,360
It's not until I rewatch this
that I realized that he does not

576
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:06,480
speak.
Yeah.

577
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,680
Yeah.
For probably 70% of the movie.

578
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,040
It's not until the end, right
before he gets kicked out that

579
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,800
he's.
He finally starts to speak.

580
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,160
Yeah.
He.

581
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,120
Didn't say a lot then either.
Yeah.

582
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,200
Yeah, he's a man of three words.
Yeah, and that's OK.

583
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,360
Yeah.
He was there for his menacing

584
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,120
presence for sure.
So so then we've got this was

585
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,200
really short, but Donovan Scott
as cadet Leslie Barbara and yes,

586
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,360
that is the name of a male
person in this movie.

587
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,160
But he was also in Popeye in
1980.

588
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,640
Savannah Smiles in 81, Sheena in
84.

589
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,480
He was in Best of Times in 86
and Back to the Future Part 3 in

590
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,360
1990.
Get him out of that.

591
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:56,080
Crap.
And he, he is an actor that if I

592
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,920
ever see him nowadays, he's
Santa Claus.

593
00:31:58,960 --> 00:31:59,800
Yes, that's.
Right.

594
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,200
Yeah, he probably, he primarily
has.

595
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,720
Like a professional Santa Claus.
Yep, I.

596
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,120
Didn't read that for sure.
Yep, I'm moving right down the

597
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:08,440
line.
We've already talked about him

598
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,280
already.
Michael Winslow as Cadet Lavelle

599
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,000
Jones, best known for his role
in the seven Police Academy

600
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,760
films, he also appeared in
Spaceballs, Cheech and Chong's

601
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,240
next movie, Nice dreams, The
Love Boat of course, if you're

602
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,600
in the 80s and you run a little
boat, what are you doing and

603
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,640
commercials for Cadbury and
GEICO.

604
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,760
In addition to playing Jones, he
also supplied the voice for all

605
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,440
public address announcements
heard at the Academy.

606
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,520
That's.
Awesome, yeah.

607
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,680
Which there is an inside joke
when they when the the

608
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,040
announcers made for them to all
get in their tactical gear

609
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,640
before the big showdown
downstairs and the one cadets

610
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,880
like, hey, was that you?
He's like, no, was an inside

611
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,120
joke because it really was him,
because he was the voice.

612
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,000
Yeah, 'cause it wasn't.
Him as the character, but it was

613
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,400
him as the actor that was the
voice.

614
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,240
So but.
Yeah, Well, that's funny.

615
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,880
It makes sense because he, you
know, the character uses that to

616
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,320
to get Harris at one point.
Yeah.

617
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:03,480
Yeah.
Calling him to.

618
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,400
Yeah.
Yeah.

619
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,840
And then we've got David Graff
as Cadet Eugene Tackleberry.

620
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,240
He made his first television
appearance as a contestant on

621
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,400
the game show The $20,000
Pyramid in December of 1979,

622
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,320
where he teamed up with actress
Patty Duke.

623
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,080
He would later appear on
subsequent versions of the show

624
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,120
as a celebrity contestant twice
with Duke.

625
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,240
As a struggling actor in the
early 80s, he also took small

626
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,480
roles in popular TV shows
including MASH, The Dukes of

627
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,880
Hazard, Airwolf, Hardcastle and
McCormick and The A-Team.

628
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,000
And in the fun fact, in the
party scene he's seen playing

629
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,360
the saxophone.
In real life, he's actually an

630
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:43,320
accomplished saxophone player.
Which he he does later in the

631
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,000
series.
Yeah, he either.

632
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,320
Plays it again, don't he?
Yeah, yeah.

633
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,160
He does.
He plays it several times

634
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,400
throughout the series.
I look, this is something I did

635
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,720
not pick up on this myself.
I I found it out later that a a

636
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,440
really cool just how well the
character of Tackleberry was

637
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,320
either written or the way he
performed it.

638
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:10,199
But that part where Leslie has
the the shotgun and he turns and

639
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,840
everybody ducks except
Tackleberry.

640
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:18,040
It's because Tackleberry knows
the gun isn't active at that

641
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,880
point because he he hasn't re
cocked it, but the shell hasn't

642
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:27,679
been ejected and and I love that
like this such like yeah, I

643
00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:29,840
didn't catch it at first, but as
soon as you see it, you watch

644
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:31,679
it.
You go, oh, that is genius.

645
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:36,199
Yeah, genius, I did have.
That in my notes, but I but I

646
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,600
you're right, I I had when I saw
that I was like that I like once

647
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,520
again, was that in the script?
Was it improv at the moment?

648
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,800
Was it, you know, I don't know
how was, you know, decided to do

649
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,600
that?
But brilliant for him to be the

650
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,120
only person that stays standing
up and doesn't even flinch, like

651
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,320
when you watch him, like he
doesn't even move.

652
00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:56,320
So.
Yeah.

653
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,000
All right.
One of my favorite characters,

654
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,400
Marian Ramsay as Cadet Laverne
Hooks in the DVD making of

655
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,560
documentary, Marian said she
came up with Hooks's voice by

656
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,600
reading the description of her
character in the script.

657
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,240
And they said she was very the
in the script, it said that she

658
00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:16,600
was afraid of her own shadow.
Like she's just a very timid

659
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,680
person.
So to put to to do the voice,

660
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,760
she recalled the time she had
met Michael Jackson who would

661
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,600
attended a stage production of
her and little shop of oars.

662
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,240
The voice is a parody of Michael
Jackson.

663
00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:32,560
She also recalls in the moment
where she explains where she

664
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,240
exclaims don't move dirtbag.
The sound texts were used to her

665
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,600
meek voice and were surprised
when she said the line so loudly

666
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:44,480
they had to reset the mic
because it registered too high.

667
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,920
They had to re record it.
So awesome.

668
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:51,320
Yeah, I did not know this about
her either.

669
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,880
Or not about her, but about her
character, which I'm glad.

670
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,680
It's kind of a weird part.
So she was actually asked to

671
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,000
wear a fat suit for her role as
hooks, with the idea that hooks

672
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,040
boot camp training would have
rented her slim by the end of

673
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,280
the film.
Due to time constraints, the

674
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,880
scene showing Hooks after a
weight loss was removed from the

675
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,000
final cut.
By the time the work on the

676
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,840
sequel began, producers changed
their minds, opting instead to

677
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,040
have her remain wearing the fat
suit in order to garner audience

678
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,640
sympathy for a character.
A brief shot of slim hooks

679
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,400
remains in the film, however, as
a close up of her without the

680
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,520
fat suit is seen during the
graduates March at the end of

681
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,440
the film.
So I don't get why she has to

682
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,160
have a fat suit.
Like, it doesn't make any.

683
00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:33,640
I don't really like that That
was part of a plan.

684
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,680
But yeah.
But you know.

685
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:43,520
That her and Gutenberg reunited
for like a sci-fi movie about

686
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,840
like AI.
Don't remember, it's like a

687
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,560
killer spider or something.
They.

688
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,160
Made two of.
Them and they're both in both of

689
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:58,760
them like yeah, wow, completely
random, but but yeah, it's like

690
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,160
the little little cause Michael
Winslow is in them too.

691
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,400
So it's like a small little.
Small.

692
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,640
Little Police Academy reunion
for these.

693
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,240
Horrible like.
Sci-fi Movie.

694
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,640
Yeah, on the on the on the
little behind the scenes video

695
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,240
on the Blu-ray it there's an
interview with her and Bubba

696
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:20,320
Smith.
And he was like, don't let her,

697
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,760
don't let the movie fool you.
She's the loudest person of all

698
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,160
of us.
Like she, you know, she doesn't

699
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:25,960
know how to, she really doesn't
know how to be quiet.

700
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,400
She was really acting as it was
funny to kind of see her in an

701
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,880
interview in her normal regular
speaking voice.

702
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,480
So.
And I love that just became the

703
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:37,520
like, that was the like that was
a gag in every single movie.

704
00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:42,920
But she had that one moment
where she just snapped and and

705
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,040
yelled at somebody.
I got to talk.

706
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:53,200
I got to say, though, the going
off a little bit, I, I think I

707
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:58,040
this may have been the first
time it really hit me, but the

708
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,480
what word, the derogatory word
that Copeland uses against her,

709
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,320
I just went.
I was in a.

710
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:10,320
Movie in in the 80s Like yeah.
Yeah, once again, the TV version

711
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,160
did not have that.
No, yeah.

712
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,920
And what's funny is when I was
going to like, I always go

713
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,960
through the quotes in IMDb on
the quote in IMDb, they don't

714
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,360
use they they have the TV edit,
they have the TV edit version of

715
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:27,520
that.
So I was like, yeah, you don't

716
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,080
want to.
Yeah, but I.

717
00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:33,440
Understand that there's there's
movies that sometimes use

718
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,440
derogatory words in a way.
That word, though, yeah.

719
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,960
Yeah.
And, and I'll, for people who

720
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,040
don't know what I'm talking
about, it's not the N word.

721
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,520
No, it's not.
No, it's not right.

722
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,360
I don't honestly.
To be honest, I don't think the

723
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,240
N word would have shocked me as
much as the word he says.

724
00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:53,000
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Like you're thinking a word

725
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,560
worse than the N word.
Yes.

726
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:55,920
And yeah.
Cool story.

727
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,400
I'll go and push this around and
talk about that scene.

728
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,280
Bubba.
Bubba Smith said that he

729
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:04,240
actually.
Lifted the car.

730
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,880
Well, he did.
But but he said like this is the

731
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:15,880
only movie that he's ever seen
or been a part of where a black

732
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:20,680
male or African American man has
defended an African American

733
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,000
woman being spoken to in that
way in a movie.

734
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,600
I was like, OK, that's an
awesome.

735
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,520
Moment yeah, it's great and I'm.
Like, I'm glad that was, you

736
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:34,200
know, it's a, it's such a, it's
a such a good moment for a movie

737
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,640
that's supposed to be like,
really silly.

738
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,040
But yeah, a good moment for
sure.

739
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,800
But yeah, I can definitely,
'cause you talked about how test

740
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,760
audiences fell in love with
Hightower.

741
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,480
I mean, that had to have been
one of the moments.

742
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,120
Definitely, definitely.
He has some of the best moments

743
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,480
'cause even at the end where he
come back and, you know, after

744
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,640
being kicked out and I even love
the the.

745
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:02,440
You know he pulls the seats out
of Copeland's car in order, but

746
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:07,880
just how childlike he looks
considering he's this giant of a

747
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:08,880
man.
Oh yeah.

748
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,400
Yeah.
Yeah, God, Bubba Smith was

749
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:14,720
great.
There's some.

750
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,920
And that's the thing about this
cast is there's some great,

751
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,800
talented people.
But to be perfectly honest, this

752
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,800
is like the only thing I know
them from.

753
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,600
Yeah, and.
That's the sad part about it.

754
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:29,920
Yeah, Yeah, I agree.
All right, moving on the lists.

755
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,960
Keep it going.
GW Bailey as Lieutenant Thaddeus

756
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,120
Harris.
His role includes Staff Sergeant

757
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,120
Luther Rizzo and MASH.
We just talked about him in our

758
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,360
mannequin episode as well, so
you can go back and listen to

759
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:46,200
that episode.
His trademark walking stick or

760
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,760
stick was not originally in the
script.

761
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,200
The prop was you brought on set
by an extra who gave it to GW

762
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,560
Bailey to keep.
So ended up using it and

763
00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:01,400
polishing it whenever he was on
on camera and then George Gaines

764
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,680
as commander.
Hold on, hold on.

765
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,560
I want to go back to.
GW Bailey real quick.

766
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,440
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you remember?

767
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,280
You remember the Jeff Foxworthy
show?

768
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,400
Yes.
Yeah, he was in that.

769
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,240
He played his.
Dad, Yeah, yeah, that's.

770
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:12,960
Right.
Yeah, yeah.

771
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,400
I loved him in the the closer,
yeah.

772
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,880
The closer yeah, it was off.
Of Major Crimes, Yeah.

773
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,480
The closer was good.
Yeah, so good.

774
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,960
Yeah.
All right, now we got George

775
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,920
Gaines as Commander Eric
Lassard.

776
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,640
He's most recognized for his
role in this movie.

777
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,400
He was also in the 81982 movie
Tootsie.

778
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:39,720
Well, I remembered him from
Punky Brewster on NBC, so it was

779
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:42,480
quite a shock when I saw the
unedited version of.

780
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:47,400
This movie favorite scene if we
talk about it.

781
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,920
We'll get there, but the role of
Commander Lassard was written

782
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,680
for Leslie Nielsen.
Oh, that makes.

783
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,320
Sense I can see that but didn't
get the role.

784
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,640
Or I think he was scheduling
conflict why he didn't do it so.

785
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,960
And I'll I'll throw out some of
my my you know, host of moving

786
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,480
panels.
I got my comic book knowledge.

787
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:17,240
He is in the The Forgotten Never
was actually released Fantastic

788
00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:19,840
Four movie.
Really.

789
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:21,480
What?
What was his?

790
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,720
Character he was.
Just like some scientist,

791
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,880
professor, right?
Type guy.

792
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,280
Yeah, Gotcha.
What could have been.

793
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,800
And then we've got Leslie
Easterbrook as Sergeant Debbie

794
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,800
Callahan.
She also appeared in Private

795
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,800
Resort Murder, She Wrote,
Diagnosis Murder, Hanging with

796
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,360
Mr. Cooper, Baywatch, Matlock
Hunter, The Dukes of Hazzard.

797
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,440
Of course, in 22.
I'm sorry.

798
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,000
In 2005, she replaced Karen
Black as Mother Firefly on Rob

799
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,440
Zombies, The Devil's Rejects,
the sequel to the 2003 horror

800
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:57,400
film House of 1000 Corpses.
In 2007, she played security

801
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,680
guard Patty Frost and Rob
Zombies remake of Halloween.

802
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,560
So I've seen her in those,
wouldn't have known it.

803
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,120
And if memory serves me
correctly, no, I'm getting mixed

804
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:12,160
up with somebody else.
Never mind.

805
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,160
Scratch that.
So, yeah.

806
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:18,560
But yeah, Leslie Easter book.
So of course, that's when I know

807
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:19,880
her from, I know her from police
county.

808
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,320
Yeah, she, she's Callahan.
That's, that's who she is.

809
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,680
That's what she.
Is all right.

810
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,800
And the last on the cast that
I'll mention is just a director

811
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,000
cameo.
Director Hugh Wilson stated that

812
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,960
when it came time to film the
driving scene with Hightower

813
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,040
2:30 in the morning, the actor
originally cast as the angry

814
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:39,080
driver was found passed out
drunk in his trailer, though

815
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,120
Hugh himself ended up playing
the role of the angry driver who

816
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,080
Hightower crashes into.
There you go.

817
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,200
Anybody else from the cast that
you wanted to mention that I

818
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,560
didn't bring up and that, you
know, there were other people

819
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,160
that were, of course, in the
movie.

820
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,720
They just didn't really do
anything else outside of these

821
00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:56,920
movies or had much to talk
about.

822
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:03,800
A shout out to Guy what his name
is now the the African American

823
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,200
who put Bahoney in the police
Academy.

824
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,720
Captain Reed.
Captain Reed.

825
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,080
Captain Reed was played by I
believe his name is Ted, Ted

826
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:13,800
Ross.
Who?

827
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,920
Was the Cowardly Lion in The
Wiz?

828
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:18,280
Yeah.
That's right.

829
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,360
Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
So yeah.

830
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:24,240
Yeah, I don't, I don't even
think his name came up with the

831
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:28,160
I mean, I don't think his name
popped up on the cast when I was

832
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:29,520
pulling up the cast on
Wikipedia.

833
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,120
So he's but he, you know, he's
there at the beginning and there

834
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,680
at the end.
So it's kind of more of a cameo

835
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,760
than anything else.
So all right, well, let's talk

836
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:41,400
about iconic scenes.
So if someone said to you Police

837
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,080
Academy, what's the first thing
that pops in your head?

838
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,560
I'll let Chad go first because
he seems to be really excited

839
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:51,240
about it.
This first slide, sorry.

840
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,560
Yeah, the it's, I know it's we
can't talk about it too much.

841
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,120
No, we can't.
Yeah, but.

842
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,160
But oh gosh.
I watch.

843
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:05,040
I watch it just just before we
got on here and I still laugh

844
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,400
every time.
Like it.

845
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:13,760
Oh, that's it's so in like they,
it's, they put it in the, the,

846
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:20,040
the, the TV, but it's different.
It's not as it doesn't catch you

847
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,440
like the other one.
There's nothing like you don't

848
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,160
see anything.
It's just George Gaines's

849
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:29,080
reaction to what's going on.
Oh, it's, it's one of it's, it's

850
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,760
so funny.
What about you?

851
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:37,040
Laramie yeah, I, I, I have to
admit the, the podium is, is

852
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:43,000
probably 1, but other than that,
probably the if I'm honing in on

853
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:50,240
the very first police Academy,
it probably is Hightower

854
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,840
learning how to drive.
Yeah, yeah.

855
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,320
There's just something about
that one that this is a big

856
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:02,200
scene for me.
But there there's so many other

857
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,120
Police Academy moments for me,
but they're from the other

858
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:11,320
movies like this one.
Yeah, this one doesn't Scenes by

859
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:15,560
scene does not hold in my head
the way some of the scenes from

860
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:17,840
other Police Academy movies do.
That was.

861
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:18,800
That was what I was going to
have.

862
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:19,640
I was going to say the same
thing.

863
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,320
Like it's it even after I
finished watching the movie, I

864
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,440
was like, I'll like I nothing
stands out like of like the

865
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,680
scene that I think of.
I think it's there's so much

866
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,040
stuff from the from the sequels
that I think of first, maybe

867
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:33,560
because I didn't see this one
first.

868
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:37,040
So it can be for me.
Or or as frequently because I'm

869
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:40,480
pretty sure I've seen four and
six like the most.

870
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,720
Yeah, numerous times, whereas
this one I've I've probably only

871
00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:50,640
seen a handful of time.
Yeah, I think for me, it's like

872
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,320
the the scene that I think I
remembered the most from is the

873
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,720
high tower flipping over the car
might be the only thing that

874
00:46:56,720 --> 00:47:03,320
like really stands out to me.
There's really not, there's

875
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:07,480
really not any other scenes that
I can think of that really stand

876
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,440
out so.
The guys Copeland and and the

877
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,600
other guy going to the washer
bar, which they yeah, they.

878
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:19,000
Yeah, it gets redone so much in
the in the sequels, Yeah.

879
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:27,720
And then the the the brown shoe
Polish on the megaphone, which

880
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,560
you know, is like the only real
gag that they pull on him.

881
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:35,840
But it seems like there's always
a gag in the sequels that that

882
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:37,400
happens too.
So.

883
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,400
But once again, I think the the
ones that came after are

884
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,640
actually better than that one to
me.

885
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,840
So yeah, I didn't.
Get it, Like I get it that he

886
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:52,160
had brown around his his mouth,
but I'm like, is that supposed

887
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:55,240
to be in some kind of innuendo
that I'm not getting?

888
00:47:55,240 --> 00:47:58,320
I I didn't understand.
No, you just see them putting

889
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,800
the shoe Polish around the Yeah,
yeah.

890
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:02,720
So, OK, yeah.
It's just that it.

891
00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:04,600
Hits on his face, but he doesn't
know it.

892
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,320
I mean, it's just that it's he's
oblivious that he's using a

893
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,920
megaphone that's staining around
his mouth.

894
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,680
But yeah, OK, So what about
favorite scenes or any scenes

895
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:18,040
that that you, I mean, Chad has
already mentioned his.

896
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:28,280
Nah, I just kind of that I do,
if you just want to talk,

897
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,000
favorite.
I do like the introduction of

898
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,120
Jones, you know, with him
sitting, especially after

899
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,320
Mahoney walks away and he just
pulls his hand out where he's

900
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:44,000
just undone the the handcuffs.
No call to it.

901
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:48,160
No, it's never brought back to
where he gets himself out of

902
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,360
handcuffs.
He just, And then starts playing

903
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:53,080
the harmonica without a
harmonica.

904
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,800
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, but.

905
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,840
Again, this is This is just.
The.

906
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,480
I like the movie, but the
sequels just stick with me so

907
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,200
much more.
So, yeah, yeah.

908
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:08,800
Yeah, that's like favorite
scenes.

909
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,800
Like I like the the
introductions of the characters.

910
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,960
Like I love the opening with
Tackleberry, like the whole

911
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,560
thing with him in the office and
the guy comes out, he's like,

912
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,400
can I leave now?
He's like, that's affirmative.

913
00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:22,400
Yeah, he's like I'm.
Having one of them and then he

914
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,080
starts shooting those, finally
shooting.

915
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,720
Into the the pitch black room
then.

916
00:49:26,720 --> 00:49:29,880
Turning on the line, Yeah.
Oh, you guys.

917
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,600
Well, what's funny is like
because we just well, sorry,

918
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:34,480
because we just covered Naked
Gun.

919
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:38,680
It feels very Naked Gun like in
that sequence, even though Naked

920
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:43,000
Gun threw out after this because
it's got the music where it

921
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,720
seems like it's going to be
serious, but you know, it's

922
00:49:44,720 --> 00:49:48,040
going to be something really,
really goofy and zany so well.

923
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:52,000
When was the there was a the TV
show the police squad TV show?

924
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,560
Was it around this time too?
Like I know it was before the

925
00:49:55,560 --> 00:50:00,120
movie.
I think it was still after,

926
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,480
still after.
This no, I think police squad

927
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,720
was before, was it?
Yeah, it was just two weeks ago

928
00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:07,240
and I can't remember.
Yeah, I'm pretty.

929
00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:09,560
Sure.
Police squad was like early 80s.

930
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,240
Yeah it.
Might have been, yeah, maybe

931
00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:12,920
like 83.
I think you're right.

932
00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:14,640
At the same time they were
filming it so.

933
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,800
I enjoyed and he's not, again,
he's not in any of the sequels.

934
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,600
And we kind of just kind of blew
him off though.

935
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:28,400
But but Leslie is the thing with
the the guys who are bullying

936
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,640
him, you know, and, you know,
has a good arc.

937
00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:35,520
And the scene at the end when
he's, you know, finally, you

938
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,200
know, fighting him and beating
him up.

939
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,040
Oh yeah.
You get that stuff and you take

940
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,320
it back in there and they're
like, well, let's it's our stuff

941
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,880
that's funny.
He's like, OK.

942
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,360
I did like that he got his
comeuppance, you know, he got to

943
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:54,720
defend himself.
But, you know, you know, let's

944
00:50:54,720 --> 00:50:59,240
just once again, reality, there
are thugs and there are like,

945
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,480
you know, bad guys.
But why would they pick up the

946
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:07,760
whole, like, photo, photo booth,
which, you know, we miss those

947
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,080
nowadays.
Yeah, who remembers?

948
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,360
Going, yeah, the drive up little
photo photo booth, yeah.

949
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,440
You dropped off your film and
then came back like a two weeks

950
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:19,480
later, Yeah.
Yeah, back we paid 10 extra book

951
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,440
bucks for one hour photo at
Walgreens.

952
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:24,280
Why are they snickering at my
pictures?

953
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:28,280
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, they they they put it

954
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,840
on the truck and then drive to a
bridge, then throw it in the

955
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,280
water like it just it's still
absurd.

956
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:35,240
And then even how the riot gets
it was.

957
00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:37,040
Buoyant.
That's, that was a yeah, it

958
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:42,120
floated, yeah.
Yeah, and then like the way the

959
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:47,160
the the ending with the big riot
like was like how that just

960
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,600
escalated so quickly.
It's like they just needed like

961
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,760
the riders like we need
something to have this big

962
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,360
ending.
But it really didn't wasn't very

963
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,480
well thought out how that kind
of came to pass.

964
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,200
Also the.
Guy who just hands the TV over

965
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:00,640
to the other.
Here, hold this.

966
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,400
It's like, yeah, free TV's,
yeah, yeah, yeah.

967
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,480
But once again, like, very much
like the end of Animal House,

968
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:12,280
it's just kind of, you know, for
the sake of having a big, big.

969
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:13,440
Moment.
Big moment.

970
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:17,000
Yeah, so I was talking about a
couple of scenes and trivia.

971
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:21,560
We would think about some other
other scenes as well, which I

972
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:22,920
just jumped out at me
immediately.

973
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,560
Due to being filmed out of
sequence, the haircut scene of

974
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:29,040
Scott Thompson and Brian Van
Hoffman caused problems and was

975
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,360
later determined they would need
to be shown arriving at the

976
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,800
Academy beforehand with their
full heads of hair intact.

977
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,880
Producers worked their way
around this by issuing wigs for

978
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,520
all of Scott and Brandt scenes
that play prior to the haircut.

979
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,640
On the DVD commentary, they
refer to the wigs as hair

980
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,600
helmets, which they are.
The worst wigs.

981
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,440
Yeah, they're.
Obviously wigs.

982
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,000
Yeah.
As soon as they showed up, I was

983
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,000
like, Oh yeah, that's right,
they're going to shave his head

984
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,320
because those are the worst,
worst wigs I've ever seen.

985
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,920
The term Tackle Berry has become
a standard and private security

986
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:02,320
industry.
To know the officer who is

987
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,400
inordinately fond of firearms
and other high tech equipment,

988
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,040
which is awesome.
You know, pop culture makes it.

989
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:12,720
Makes it I love the music and I
love I saw this composer Robert

990
00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:16,120
Folk based The Maine Police
Academy theme on the theme from

991
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,280
Stripes, which once again is
very a lot of similarities

992
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,200
between those two.
But the riot scene compositions

993
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,280
were inspired by the TV show
Hill Street Blues, which was

994
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:29,960
like this feels like a very like
80s cop drama music.

995
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,600
So I thought that was that was
fun.

996
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,720
And then the last one I have
here, which as soon as it came,

997
00:53:36,720 --> 00:53:39,280
as soon as it started, I was
like, I got to let Jerry D know.

998
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:43,040
This movie is played on
television in the UK during

999
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:45,320
Christmas.
The film's only Christmas

1000
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,960
reference is the tune heard
during Hook's driving test.

1001
00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:51,360
Santa Claus is coming to town.
And I was like, well, Jerry can

1002
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,400
do it now for, for Christmas
because it's got a Christmas

1003
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:55,120
song in it.
I love her.

1004
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:58,280
Giggle when she goes through the
the spray.

1005
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:03,160
Yeah, I, I turned on halfway
through it.

1006
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:06,600
I was like, there were some
questions I had on my DVD and I

1007
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:11,240
was like, I wonder.
And it had commentary and yeah,

1008
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,560
yeah.
And I got to that scene and like

1009
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,840
I, I think it was Gutenberg who
was like, he's like, I love it

1010
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:19,040
when she she like just like you
just said, I love it when she

1011
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:22,800
laughs and giggle was so funny.
Like it's like she's on a roller

1012
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,600
coaster or something.
All right, let's talk about box

1013
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:28,360
office.
Police Academy open in the

1014
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:32,520
number one spot in the US
theaters on March 23rd, 1984.

1015
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,920
With a budget of just under
$5,000,000 and no A listers in

1016
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:41,000
the cast, the film was made with
no massive expectations and

1017
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,480
Warner Brothers were projecting
it to be a modern success and

1018
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,800
earn them around a profit of
around two or three times its

1019
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:48,160
budget.
However, despite some stuffy

1020
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:51,720
press reviews, the film was an
unexpectedly huge box office hit

1021
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:55,200
with a worldwide gross of almost
$150 million.

1022
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,040
It was a huge relief for the lad
company, which was the, I think

1023
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,520
the the actual production
company that made it, who

1024
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,480
previously had made several
critically lauded but

1025
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,960
financially unsuccessful films
for Warner Brothers, The Right

1026
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:13,920
Stuff being one of them.
So and I also saw that

1027
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,560
originally it was going to come
out in June, but they bumped it

1028
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,360
up to March because they didn't
want it to compete with the

1029
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:23,240
other summer of 84 movies that
were coming out like a Goonies

1030
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,680
was 84 back no back back feature
was 85.

1031
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,520
I can't remember the other
Movies Now, but.

1032
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:34,600
Karate Kid or yeah, Karate?
Kid Beverly Hills Cop.

1033
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:36,280
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

1034
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,240
So anyway, I'm pretty.
Sure.

1035
00:55:38,240 --> 00:55:41,280
None of the rest of them made
six sequels, though.

1036
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,480
No, they're not.
Probably.

1037
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:44,560
Well, I don't know why they
didn't.

1038
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:46,400
Karate kids, Karate kids
getting.

1039
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,280
Close that.
Close.

1040
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,880
Although it's.
Taken up until this point to to

1041
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,640
reach what, the 5th movie?
Our 4th movie if you count the

1042
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:59,480
one with Jackie Chan right?
Which would now be canonical

1043
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,800
because of the newer movie one,
Yeah.

1044
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,800
Yeah.
So they've got 55 in ATV show.

1045
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,520
Yeah, 5.
Five and what, three or Four

1046
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:12,160
Seasons of ATV show so.
And then if you count the Jackie

1047
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,640
Chan, when does that mean the
Jackie Chan Adventures is the

1048
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:16,960
cartoon?
I don't know sorry, I'm

1049
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,560
stretching taking it too.
Far taking it too far there was.

1050
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,520
A Karate Kid cartoon though,
there was.

1051
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,160
Yeah, there was a Karate Kid of
Yeah, but but way before Jackie

1052
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:29,320
Chan.
Yeah, yeah, yes, I had the.

1053
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,840
Well, not before Jackie Chan was
alive, but no but.

1054
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:35,640
Before he was part of the that.
Cartoon show all right now.

1055
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:37,920
It's time to take a look at how
well this 80s flick holds up

1056
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:39,320
today.
It's the Rewatch Ability

1057
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,600
Nostalgia Meter, our way of
measuring how enjoyable a movie

1058
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:45,720
is for repeat viewings along
with the waves nostalgic brings.

1059
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:47,880
Here's how it works.
It's a one to 10 scale.

1060
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:49,520
Any number between 1:00 and
10:00 will do.

1061
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:51,520
Here a few parameters to help
you decide.

1062
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,160
At the bottom of the meter is a
number one kind of means.

1063
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:55,720
I saw it once and that was
enough.

1064
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:59,440
Right in the middle is A5.
It's a good rewatch every couple

1065
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:03,920
of years, and at the top, the
highly coveted #10 means it's

1066
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,680
highly rewatchable and full of
nostalgia.

1067
00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:10,240
So Laramie's thinking intently.
So I'm going to go to Chad.

1068
00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:14,240
Chad, where does Police Academy
rank for you on the rewatch

1069
00:57:14,240 --> 00:57:22,280
ability and nostalgia leader?
As as the as a series, it would

1070
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,800
be, I would probably put it
higher because like we've talked

1071
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:28,400
about, we've, we've we've seen a
lot of the other ones and I've

1072
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:33,200
enjoyed the other ones as well,
But as just the lone first one,

1073
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:39,520
I I feel bad.
Maybe 5.5 OK.

1074
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:41,080
OK.
I mean, yeah, that's.

1075
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:43,400
Yeah, I mean, that's what it is.
I mean, you know, I like.

1076
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,000
I like the other ones.
The other ones I enjoy those

1077
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:48,880
better.
Yeah, this is this is good

1078
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:51,160
watch.
Like you said, not all of them.

1079
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:53,720
There is no, no, no.
No, there is.

1080
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,080
Mission to Moscow, you know.
That's not I'm not.

1081
00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:00,480
I'm not even talking 2 is even.
2 is even questionable.

1082
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:01,920
Well.
I have.

1083
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:06,480
Well, there's reasons I like to,
but we can get there because

1084
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:08,160
it's in the 80s, yeah.
Right they're.

1085
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:09,840
All of them except mission to
Moscow.

1086
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:17,800
That's true, yeah. 4 is.
The best 4 is.

1087
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:21,160
Yes, yes, I do agree.
So when we get to 4, then it'll

1088
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:25,680
be higher, but yeah, 55.5 for
for the first one for me.

1089
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,720
All right, What about you?
Laramie, I'm in that.

1090
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:29,920
Same ballpark.
I, I was sitting here,

1091
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:34,440
especially when you went through
your criteria and and when you

1092
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:40,040
said, said what 5 represented.
I really, I, I think, I think I

1093
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:42,560
settled on exactly A5 at that
moment.

1094
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:46,600
I was thinking about it a little
bit more, but as Chad said, I

1095
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:51,880
got to separate the, the full
series to this individual movie

1096
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:57,400
and, and probably it, it's
probably close to the middle of

1097
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,080
the pack of the entire series
for me anyway.

1098
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:04,360
So, so yeah, I'm probably going
to have to to put it at A, at a

1099
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,640
five, yeah.
I'm right there with you.

1100
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:10,600
I'm like, it's a solid 5, which
you know, doesn't mean it's bad.

1101
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,520
Doesn't either, just it's just,
it's just not once again,

1102
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:16,560
because it wasn't the first of
the series that I saw.

1103
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,880
I don't have the strong
nostalgia for like I have for

1104
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:23,440
the other ones, and it's not one
that I am probably going to

1105
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,600
watch every couple.
I mean I'll watch every couple

1106
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:27,880
years, but it's not the one that
I'm going to I'm not going to

1107
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:31,440
want to rewatch this one as much
as I want to rewatch like 4 four

1108
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:33,840
citizens on patrol, right,
That's four yes, that's.

1109
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:34,840
Four.
Yeah, that is.

1110
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:35,840
By far the best.
And then?

1111
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:39,000
Six city under siege, Yeah.
Yeah, is one of my.

1112
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,440
Favorites as well, even though,
you know, Gutenberg had left by

1113
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,080
that point, but it's still, it's
one of my favorites.

1114
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:45,800
Yeah, 5's OK.
I was OK.

1115
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:48,400
Yeah, I was OK.
Yeah, 'cause it's. 2 The next

1116
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:52,960
assignment. 3 Back in training
for citizens on patrol.

1117
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,520
Yeah, yeah.
And three, three is the one

1118
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:59,000
where we get introduced to Zed
and and sweet Chuck and yeah, I

1119
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,120
love.
Three, yeah, yeah, 3 is one of

1120
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:02,800
my favorites for sure.
So we'll get there.

1121
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:04,800
We'll get there.
So all right, well, let us know

1122
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:07,520
where you think Police Academy.
The first one should rank on the

1123
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:10,560
rewatch ability nostalgia meter.
You can send us an e-mail, let

1124
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:12,600
us know on social media, or you
can leave us a comment right

1125
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:14,920
here and YouTube if you're
watching it.

1126
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:18,560
With us and then also let us
know how you did on the the

1127
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:22,880
trivia game at the beginning so
hopefully you played along well

1128
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,840
thanks guys for joining I
appreciate it sorry I want to so

1129
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:29,840
thank Robbie as well his the
laptop he was working completely

1130
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:32,760
shut down on him he was trying
to jump back on and couldn't get

1131
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:36,400
there but but we'll have him
back again but thanks Robbie for

1132
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,120
joining us glad to see you this
time at least get to have you on

1133
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:43,600
the show briefly but we'll have
you back again and good to see

1134
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,760
Chad back with us it's been a
minute I'm glad to have you back

1135
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:51,320
and Larry Laramie always good to
see you so what's going on over

1136
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:56,200
at moving panels so.
You know, February, we always do

1137
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,920
our Valentine's date night
episode.

1138
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:03,480
This year it's a it's a
surprise.

1139
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:08,160
So you're going to have to tune
in to our one shot for me to

1140
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:12,480
reveal that to Bethany.
But we got that.

1141
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:16,400
And and then, you know, I always
get excited as we go into May

1142
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:20,960
and do the animated movies and
and then I'm excited for this

1143
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,440
summer.
This summer I've decided to do

1144
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:26,920
the movies that are inspired by
that actually aren't comic book

1145
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:30,760
movies, but are more heavily
inspired by comic books.

1146
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,760
So, yeah.
And then we've got we've got

1147
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,160
plenty of other stuff.
We got Daredevil episode.

1148
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:38,680
I did a lot of shows.
I realized lately we we did

1149
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:43,560
season 1 of Daredevil.
We're doing Moon Night, so we're

1150
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:47,560
Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
So, so yeah, a lot, a lot of

1151
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:49,760
exciting stuff there.
So yeah, check that out.

1152
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:51,360
Yeah.
Definitely do that.

1153
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:54,080
Go check it out.
And of course, if you're in the

1154
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:58,240
Jackson, GA area, are you still
doing the afternoons?

1155
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,240
Yes.
Afternoons with Chad.

1156
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:04,400
That's right.
Yeah, give us your.

1157
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:09,440
Station and call sign a 92. .1
down in Jackson, GA If you're

1158
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:12,000
familiar with Stranger Things,
you can come down them.

1159
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:14,240
Yeah, that's Hawkins, Indiana.
That's right.

1160
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:15,360
Yeah, it is.
Exactly.

1161
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:16,600
They they're.
It's funny.

1162
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:20,280
I was, we were, we were watching
it earlier or I was, my wife was

1163
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,520
asleep.
And they, they're in the library

1164
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:25,280
and they walk out of the
library.

1165
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:27,520
I'm like, that's not a library,
That's City Hall.

1166
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:28,560
Yeah.
Well, yeah, yeah.

1167
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,400
So yeah.
Well, look, I turn down that.

1168
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:35,560
Street every day, yeah.
Yeah, again, you, you with, with

1169
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:36,640
Stranger Things.
Me.

1170
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:38,320
It's Mystic Falls.
You know, I live.

1171
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:40,200
I live where they film Vampire
Diaries.

1172
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:41,240
So.
Oh, that's right.

1173
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:44,040
So it's the same.
Thing I, I look and go, hey,

1174
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:45,600
look at there.
That's that's not what that

1175
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:50,040
building is exactly.
Yeah, and that building.

1176
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:53,680
The the pawn shop is actually
now where you go to do tours of

1177
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:56,680
Strange thing, yeah.
Which I have done the tour and

1178
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:59,080
it's it's great.
If you're ever in Jackson, do

1179
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:02,440
the Stranger Stranger tours.
It's very, very good.

1180
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:07,120
But yeah, I live, I live close
to the square where a couple of

1181
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:08,720
scenes of Smokey and the Bandit
were filmed.

1182
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:10,240
So there you go.
There's been other stuff on

1183
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:13,560
there, but that's the one I
recognize, the Madea.

1184
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:16,800
Christmas movie, Yeah.
As well as filmed at the square.

1185
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,400
Yeah, sorry.
All right, well, thanks

1186
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:21,440
everybody for listening.
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1187
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:23,800
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1188
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:26,360
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1189
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:30,600
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1190
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:34,280
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1191
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:37,720
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1192
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:41,400
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1193
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:44,760
Thank you Chad, Laramie and
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1194
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,000
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1195
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:50,680
Of all the guys who I thought
were gonna make it, Hightower

1196
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:52,720
was the one.
I mean, if all the cops would

1197
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:54,440
like him, there'd be no crime at
all.

1198
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,040
Somebody.
Call a veterinarian.