When Leslie *Nielsen died, various news outlets--especially sports news--wrote his obituary to Enrico Palazzo. That's how you know your jokes have legs.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Octoberville

Ай бұрын

Also, when the Queen passed away, Reggie made a twitter post about it.

@Anon54387

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna It's ridiculous because Canadians are bonkers unlike we Americans who are never silly.

@Masterfighterx

Ай бұрын

Nielsen*

@VishusMadFunk

Ай бұрын

love it! didnt know that ... all these years.

Weird Al actually took a date to watch "The Naked Gun" wearing the same outfit as he did in the film. 😂

@holddowna

18 күн бұрын

Hilarious !

@fitterboy1

16 күн бұрын

From what I can remember, he didn’t even tell her he was in it and she was surprised after😂😂😂

The vision of Leslie Nielsen holding up his badge yelling "Police! Halt!" at HIS OWN car still kills me 3 and a half decades later!

There's a 50/50 chance I don't absolutely love this reaction, though there's only a 10% chance of that.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Lololol

@themoviedealers

Ай бұрын

60% of the time it works every time.

@Anon54387

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna Speaking of riding rockets, you should react to Dr. Strangelove.

@Anon54387

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna I think the cheese was moving on top of the fridge.

@Anon54387

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna That thing with the guys sitting in the Queen's seat is a dig at Angeleans.

who would have thought that an actor who played "serious" roles all his life would be remembered as a comedy superstar!!? 😂❤

@commentatron

Ай бұрын

And if you're a certain age, that's one of the constant background jokes that are so delicious - seeing guys like Nielsen acting against type. Same thing with Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges in _Airplane!_

@fromthe90s21

Ай бұрын

That's exactly what they're doing again with the upcoming remake starring Liam Neeson. Great that he shares the same initials of the late Leslie Nielsen.

@commentatron

29 күн бұрын

@@fromthe90s21 Hope it works. Problem is, Nielsen (and others like him; Stack, Bridges) were good in comedy, in part, because it was sort of puncturing his straight-laced, slightly pompous, stuffed shirt persona. Neeson has always been a skilled A-list actor. Imagine Nielsen, before he was in comedy, on _Mystery Science Theater_ - easy, right? Neeson, not so much. _A Million Ways to Die in the West_ was pretty dark, though Neeson wasn't playing for laughs in that.

@user-eh8oo4uh8h

24 күн бұрын

Yup. RIP OJ.

@jjflash005

12 күн бұрын

That's what makes it works so well. He plays it dead serious, like it's a drama

I swear... the bribing scene gets me every time 😂

@nathanlindahl8336

Ай бұрын

That is by far my favorite part 😂

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Such a good scene the pacing is toooo good!!!

@joeblankenship377

Ай бұрын

So goofy and they play it so straight.

@apparition13

Ай бұрын

That is my favorite bit, but my favorite visual gag is safe sex. :D And my favorite "but why?!?" is "boiled a roast".

@Trepanation21

Ай бұрын

EVERY TIME! 😂

I love the name of the hospital--Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle. That is one of the jokes that is so quick it tends to fly right past people.

Now it is time for "Airplane!"

@bessarion1771

Ай бұрын

YES!!!

@Dystopia1111

Ай бұрын

Surely you can't be serious...

@MJ-we9vu

Ай бұрын

​@@Dystopia1111 I am and don't call me Shirley.

@GRIZZLYSGEAR

24 күн бұрын

​@@MJ-we9vuComic Book Guy: "But pause! The knowledge you offer would spoil the movie event of the year. Nay, century, nay, epoch, nay, summer...."

"Cuban?" "No, Dutch-Irish. My father was from Wales." Utterly ridiculous and brilliant.

The opening had the late 1980s "villains": Idi Amin, Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gadafy, Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Ayatollah Khomeini. All very good lookalikes.

@formatique_arschloch

Ай бұрын

Except that Gorba wasn't a villain. But yes.

@Anon54387

Ай бұрын

Geez, to put villains in quotes with those people. Incredible.

@lmiddleman

Ай бұрын

Plus the opening fight scene is at least partly an homage to the Three Stooges.

@andrews.5212

Ай бұрын

​​@@Anon54387well arguably they were "vilalns" only for the USA (europe is a de facto vassal of the US) Not gonna get political here but remember that you are not immune from propaganda because you live in a "supposedly" "free" nation. If a nation was actually free i doubt would have to spend all the time claiming it is..

@aerthreepwood8021

Ай бұрын

​@@Anon54387Most of them have a lower body count than a US president in their first term

In Frank's final speech to Jane, he quotes a famous line from the movie Casablanca, "the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world," but then he makes this hilarious addition, "but this is our hill, and these are our beans!"

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

I only saw Casablanca after !!!!

@Wildwanderer99

15 күн бұрын

I came here to mention Casablanca and Reggie Jackson a.k.a. Mr. October. People beat me to it. I think I'm going to sub and hit the bell. I enjoyed this reaction video and this is at a time when I'm tired of reaction videos.

"Hey!! It's Enrico Palazzo!" is one of the greatest jokes ever.

@mblackwl

Ай бұрын

Trivia- the actor saying that was also Francis in Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

@gabone324

Ай бұрын

@@mblackwland Teen Wolfs teammate

@lordjimbo2

Ай бұрын

It's such a wholesome throwaway gag - they show you that the real Palozzo is miserable at how badly the anthem goes, but he gets reputational redemption. They didn't have to do that but they did.

@paulinegallagher7821

Ай бұрын

I still randomly say it.

Pure comedy gold. Leslie Neilsen was a one of a kind comedian that is missed but not forgotten

@johnnehrich9601

Ай бұрын

What is so strange is that he was a serious actor for years, and never really good at it. His bit in Airplane turned his career around and his real genius was finally realized. (His deadpan delivery works better in comedy than drama.)

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

He’s funny!!!

@charlesnyckd

Ай бұрын

@@johnnehrich9601he had a great dramatic turn in “Nuts” with Barbara Streisand.

@jjflash005

12 күн бұрын

Nielsen wasn't a bad actor. He used to play against loads of the biggest female stars in Hollywood at the time, and could easily have been a houshold name, but he was a bit impatient and not really satisfied with the parts he got to play, and tried other things instead. But yeah, he had his great breakthrough with "Airplane!". No-one played deadpan as well as he did, and he got that from his roots as a dramatic actor.

This movie is ABSOLUTE gold! I love that George Kennedy regretted turning down a role in 'Airplane' so when they offered him the role of "Ed" he jumped on it. Im so glad he did. He and Leslie Nielson were a perfect pair for this movie. There is no better line than "50/50 percent chance of living......but there's only a 10% chance of that"

@LordVolkov

Ай бұрын

George would have been great in Airplane after being in all the Airport movies. Talk about a casting gag.

@Gravydog316

Ай бұрын

yeah he didn't want to insult Universal Pictures, 'cause they put him in their Airport pictures

Nice beaver.. Thanks I just had it stuffed.😂😂

"Why is there cake?!" - to celebrate the drug deal! Drug trafficants are people too, Ames!

@lauterunvollkommenheit4344

Ай бұрын

It was a urinal cake. Drebin recognizes Nordberg's face in it in Scene 12.

@Gravydog316

Ай бұрын

me: "Why is there a bear trap?!"

@JustGrowingUp84

Ай бұрын

@@Gravydog316 Obviously, in case a bear wants to steal their drugs. The recent film "Cocaine Bear" is clear evidence that such things can happen!

@lauterunvollkommenheit4344

Ай бұрын

@@Gravydog316 Against sea bears, presumably.

"This must have been before... crime." 😆

@amehak1922

Ай бұрын

Lol 🤣 😂

That "poor schmuck" was Yankees Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson. Excellent reaction.

@thomasgriffiths6758

Ай бұрын

Reginald Martinez Jackson.

@Elephant2024-wi2li

Ай бұрын

Reggie Jackson was also a significant component on those Oakland A's teams that won three world championships from 1972 to 1974.

@HappyHarryHardon

Ай бұрын

He’s also a famous car collector.

@G3rnsback

Ай бұрын

Mr. October!

@thomaschristopher8593

Ай бұрын

"poor schmuck"??? that's Mr. October!!!

I love how when Frank pulls out his his gun on the baseball field, the coaches & umpires tell, “Oh! You’re the boss! Whatever you say goes!” 😂😂😂

@LordVolkov

Ай бұрын

The American past time 🤣🤣🤣

@0okamino

Ай бұрын

One of which is played by Lawrence Tierney. You’d think _he_ would be the one pulling out a gun. 😅

@andypae

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah, I remember Tierney from Reservoir Dogs. 😁

Leslie Nielsen was a treasure. RIP 🙏🏼 The driving instructor was Golden Globe and Oscar-winning actor John Houseman btw, he was in a movie called The Paper Chase and then in the tv show that came later.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Very funny man

@andreshernandez1180

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna Vincent Ludwig is played by Mexican-born actor Ricardo Montalbán who at the time was very well known and liked from playing Mr. Roarke, the lead character in the very popular show *Fantasy Island* (1977-1984). RIP Oh and Frank and Ed were eating *red pistachios* in the car.

@ElliotNesterman

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna What made this small role so funny at the time is that in _The Paper Chase,_ which is about law school students, Houseman played a particularly dry, acerbic, and matter-of-fact professor of contract law. John Houseman was one of the most significant figures of the American theater. He founded the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and was co-producer on _Citizen Kane,_ He had a long list of Broadway credits as producer and director. He was the first head of the Drama Department at Julliard and founded The Acting Company with the first graduating class, which included Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, and David Ogden Stiers, among others.

@paulinegallagher7821

Ай бұрын

Also in the opening of the Fog

@t0dd000

Ай бұрын

And the original Rollerball. Houseman was so good in that. :)

"OJ Simpson! This must have been before... crime" 🤣🤣🤣 Well, now that he's gone, we'll always have the abuse of Nordberg to remember him by 😅

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@synaesthesia2010

24 күн бұрын

Wait, he's gone? Gone where?

@mctaguer

15 күн бұрын

@@synaesthesia2010 He died. About a month ago.

@at0micl0bster

19 сағат бұрын

dont forget all the Norm Macdonald jokes that got him fired from snl

"Nice beaver" "Thanks I just had it stuffed" 😶

@mctaguer

15 күн бұрын

That line got repeated THOUSANDS of times by people in all kinds of situations in the following years after the movie.

@dive2drive314

15 күн бұрын

@@mctaguer haha I am not surprised.

Beside the siliness, one must appreciate, how good the filmmaking was. How they set up the scenes, frames and everything. They really put a lot of work into it.

Ahh The Naked Gun. A staple of parody movies. Leslie Nielson is just great in this kind of stuff 😂

@tomstanziola1982

Ай бұрын

I highly recommend seeing him in "Forbidden Planet", from 1956, a straight dramatic role and a sci-fi classic! 👍👏👏👏👏 His hair was black in those days.

@mctaguer

15 күн бұрын

@@tomstanziola1982 It is a classic. Clearly inspired things that came after.

@kingcosworth2643

11 күн бұрын

Hotshots is another

I love how 3 different newspapers had 3 different positions of Frank and the Queen.

@MinekEzQM

14 күн бұрын

Yep. The Zucker Brothers did take care of the subtle jokes as well. Pure comedy geniuses.

20:10.....They're eating pistachios, Ames. They used to dye the shells red, and if you ate too many of them, the red dye would rub off on your fingers.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Really!!!!!

@tomstanziola1982

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna Really. I don't think they dye the shells anymore, now. I haven't seen them in a long time.

@johnnehrich9601

Ай бұрын

Originally, they used to harvest pistachios by leaving on the tree long enough until they fell off and could be gathered up on the ground. This left ugly stains on the shells, so the red was intense enough to cover over these stains. Since then, they have invented machines to pick them off the tree itself, and hence the need for the stain not needed.

@tomstanziola1982

Ай бұрын

@@johnnehrich9601 I didn't know that! Thanks for the info! 👍✌️

@brutbrutus2669

Ай бұрын

@@tomstanziola1982 They are hard to find. They were imported from Iran up until '79 when sanctions were imposed, and in the 80's we began to grow them in the US. They red dye hid staining that happened during harvesting. We improved harvesting and no longer needed to cover the staining.

I love The Naked Gun movie trilogy. My dad told me years ago the movies were a tv show before it became a movie. Over the years I forgot there was a tv show. They only made 6 episodes of it. The show was called Police Squad. I bought the series the other day. Soon I’ll watch the show and rewatch the movies

@weepingscorpion8739

Ай бұрын

The show is also free to watch on KZread.

@agarven1

Ай бұрын

@@weepingscorpion8739 I like to own a tv series than watch on streaming

@weepingscorpion8739

Ай бұрын

@@agarven1 Fair enough. Just mentioning it in case someone else was wondering.

@shawnpatrick1877

Ай бұрын

The show is great, it's hard to believe it was cancelled so quickly. It's way funnier than most sitcoms that go on for years.

@curtismartin2866

Ай бұрын

Who are you? And how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith and, I'm a locksmith.

OJ was hugely popular. He was the Michael Jordan of his time. He had endorsements, he acted, and he did NFL broadcasts. Everyone loved the Juice...

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Makes sense!

@jeremygeorgia4943

Ай бұрын

He also did Avis Rent-A-Car commercials, where he jumped over chairs.

@havok6280

Ай бұрын

@@jeremygeorgia4943 Hertz. Not Avis.

@curtismartin2866

Ай бұрын

And famously lost out on the role of the Terminator because he was too likeable and the public just wouldn't believe him as a killer. 😑

@JaxFPrime81

Ай бұрын

@@curtismartin2866 that really bit the entire world on the booty right there, didn't it? 😂

Australian here, I first saw this in a cinema in America when I was on holidays there back in 1988, the entire audience was in tears with laughter from start to finish. It’s a beaut movie, silly but very very funny.

"Lieutenant" "The feeling is mutual" "I can't see anything" "Use your open eye, Frank" "Drebin!" "Frank!" "You're both right" So much hilarity in this movie!

George Kennedy who plays Ed was a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge (aka episodes 6 and 7 of Band of Brothers). This really was the tail end of classic Hollywood where people had pretty crazy lives before they became famous. Modern movie stars are seemingly all born and raised in that system now.

@LordVolkov

Ай бұрын

George Kennedy is so funny as Captain Ed. It was wild to me growing up on Naked Gun and then discovering all of George's non-comedies, especially his run of disaster movies. Really talented guy. I imagine seeing him show up in Naked Gun was akin to Leslie being the doctor in Airplane for audiences at the time.

@Dystopia1111

Ай бұрын

Another Battle of the Bulge veteran, Mel Brooks.

The mayor is played by actress Nancy Marchand, who played Tony Soprano's mother Livia, in the HBO series.

@megiloth3634

Күн бұрын

And the coach for the Angels was Joe Cabot from Reservoir Dogs. Didn't notice that until I rewatched Naked Gun after seeing Reservoir Dogs and The Sopranos!

This is a great absurdist comedy. The Naked Gun and the show that preceded it, Police Squad, were inspired by the TV show Dragnet. Since you liked this one, I'd recommend Airplane. It's a comedy like this, and it's where Leslie Nielsen transitioned from a serious actor into a comedy star.

@curtismartin2866

Ай бұрын

Yes, that's right.

Oh god, when he shoots his own car I completely lose it hahaha

"Um no, I'm Dutch Irish. My father is from Wales." No, just no. LOL

@BizzyX78

Ай бұрын

----- @MasterBiffpudwell ----- - I've heard it said that the Welsh are the Irish who couldn't swim. Don't come at me, not my words... I just remember hearing it said in a standup one time long ago, but I can't, for the life of me, recall who the standup artist was. -----

@MasterBiffpudwell

Ай бұрын

@@BizzyX78 LOL That is hilarious, seriously. I had never heard that. 🤣🤣

@kasperkjrsgaard1447

9 күн бұрын

Actually his mother was from Wales.

@MasterBiffpudwell

9 күн бұрын

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 You miss the joke.

"What kind of name is Nordberg?" The Zuckers and (and myself) are from Milwaukee, WI and Nordberg was the name of a large manufacturing company here back in the '90's but was later bought out by Rexworks, and renamed Rexnord. On a side note, back in 1992, I worked for an exterminator and was spraying Charlotte Zucker's house, ( who is the Zucker's mother). Spent over an hour talking with her about her son's movies. A very sweet woman. She also appears in most of their movies. In Naked Gun, she was Ricardo Montalbon's Secretary, who tried to shoot Pahpshmir.

@yt45204

24 күн бұрын

Nordberg is a fairly typical Swedish last name.

@MinekEzQM

14 күн бұрын

The Nordic name is a joke playing on the same string as the CIA agent in Russia who learns the perfect accent, can drink liters of Vodka... but gets blown in 1 second. Very very non PC.

"I'm boiling a roast" is still one my favourite lines. Just so dumb.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

So dumb!!!! Lolol

Yes, those guys were real baseball announcers. The guy on the right is Curt Gowdy, who was an announcer for the Boston Red Sox and did nationally televised games on NBC. The guy on the left is Jim Palmer, who was a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles and who got into broadcasting after his playing days were over.

@bjchit

Ай бұрын

And the middle guy, Tim McCarver, was one of the better catchers during the 60's and 70's, but a lousy announcer.

@curtismartin2866

Ай бұрын

well........except for Dr. Joyce Brothers. She was a famous TV personality. Dr. Brothers was known as a psychologist, and a self help expert. Somehow, she was on every panel ever assembled'. Hence the kicker of her being the last announcer introduced.

The joke about all the gone off food in the fridge is because it had been something like 6 years since the Police Squad tv series. The joke was that Drebbin literally hasn't been in that apartment during the intervening time as if his off screen existence doesn't exist.

@kingcosworth2643

11 күн бұрын

I saw it always more as a single guys apartment

So, The Naked Gun trilogy is a sequel to a tragically short-lived TV series called Police Squad! (In Color). There were only six episodes before it was cancelled, and you can probably find them all here on KZread. It's delightful, and you can even find a few jokes from that series in these movies.

Being too young (or not recent history buff) to recognise the leaders present at the table in scene one, does rob one of fun a bit - if nothing else, the appreciation for how well they're portrayed.

The Naked Gun is based on a 1982 TV series called Police Squad, only 6 episodes, same cast, same humor, a must watch if you like the movie.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Cool!!!

@dougrussell5002

Ай бұрын

"Who are you, and how did you get in here?" "I'm the locksmith, and I'm the locksmith." 😂

@joeconcepts5552

Ай бұрын

I hate to be that guy, but only Leslie was the same actor in the TV series.

@craigreipold3931

Ай бұрын

@@joeconcepts5552 fair enough, it’s been a good 15 years since I bought the dvd and maybe 5 since the last time I watched the show. But, I did pull it from the shelf to rewatch this week.I was in 7th grade when it originally aired, it was what we talked about all day the next day at school… good times.

@joeconcepts5552

Ай бұрын

@@craigreipold3931 Actually, the scientist guy was the same one in the show and movies, I forgot that one. But Ed and Nordberg were played by different actors.

I first watched this when I was in college and was not prepared for the amount of laughter. Classic.

I highly recommend checking out "Top Secret!" from the Z-A-Z filmography, you'd love it. Even crazier gags, Val Kilmer's first big role and he nails it, spoof of Elvis war flicks, best boot humor in movie history.. and sort of a musical as well. In my personal ranking Airplane and Top Secret are neck and neck.

@Dystopia1111

Ай бұрын

"There are no good white basketball players, my friend." 😂 Love that movie.

😂😂❤ Naked Gun 2 1/2 equally as serious as a hard hitting police drama! 😮

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

😎

There has been a long standing rumor that OJ was considered to play The Terminator, but producers couldn't see him as a killer. 🤣 But apparently Cameron denies this ever happened.

@deanromanado5850

Ай бұрын

But Arnold said it was true.

LOL you just went from a Brooklyn accent to an Australian accent so effortlessly haha well done.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Lololol

I like to think that OJ's punishment in Hell is just an endless repeat of Nordberg's abuse in this movie

@THOMMGB

Ай бұрын

And when OJ takes the bus to Detroit.

@o.b.7217

Ай бұрын

What makes you think he's in hell?

@sca88

Ай бұрын

Me too. My late mom was good friends with Nicole's mom. Living in South O.C. near the O.J./Nicole's beach place I know a lot of shit about O.J. well before he was a murderer.

Other movies like Naked Gun that have the same type of humor: Airplane! (airplane disaster movie spoof), Top Secret (spy movie spoof), Loaded Weapon (Lethal Weapon spoof), Hot Shots (Top Gun spoof), Hot Shots Part Deux (Rambo spoof), Mafia! (mafia movie spoof), Scary Movie series (horror/slasher movie spoof).

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

I need to watch the originals first!

@michaelzilkowsky2936

29 күн бұрын

"Hot Shots Part Deux" When Charlie cuts a hole in the chain link fence and the entire fence falls down, leaving him holding the little circle he was cutting out......

@mikedoskitomen1991

18 күн бұрын

Dance Flick (Step Up, You Got Served, Stomp The Yard, Dirty Dancing spoof)

I love how much you loved this! No matter how hard it can make you roll your eyes, it still drags a hefty laugh out every time.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Loved it!

I love all of the little background sight gags that are easy to overlook. Like when Frank gets off the plane at the beginning, the baggage is just being tossed out of the plane right onto the tarmac 30 feet below 🤣

"My father went the same way." LOL. Hilarious and so ridiculous.

The Chalk outline floating in the water back and forth like as if someone was there to see exactly how he landed on the water and which arm was extended and which leg was pointing where almost killed me the first time I saw it. I lost my voice from laughing so hard.

I know this line is from airplane that Leslie Nielsen was on but Surely you can't be serious I am serious and don't call me Shirley 😂

I meant Leslie Nielsen at a celebrity golf tournament in Connecticut back in the late 80s and he was a funny and charming person. You should definitely react to Airplane with Leslie Nielsen.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

I must!

@skipjack23

Ай бұрын

Yes and it's by the same crew that made the Naked Gun, Zucker Abrams and Zucker. I think the Naked Gun was funnier, but somehow Airplane! was a better movie, like it all hung together a bit more.

"You killed 5 actors....GOOD ones!" - great line And you can still hear "Hey - it's Enrico Palazzo!" at games sometimes. The first Mariners batter was Jay Johnstone, 20 year major league veteran and note prankster. I think someone else already mentioned the player/assassin was Reggie Jackson, MLB hall-of-famer

@VoxRox1

Ай бұрын

That scene was spoofing a dirty Harry movie from the 1970s

@mctaguer

15 күн бұрын

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that was Johnstone.

Fun fact. The movie was based on a tv show called Police Squad with the same type of humor. It even had the exact same intro with the police car driving

@jaimefish173

Ай бұрын

the series was canceled really early because the network thought the humor was to fast/slap stick and the audience wouldn't get it. Lot of the jokes/characters etc was brought from the show and written into naked gun. They made the show into a movie.

@telocho

12 күн бұрын

And the TV show Police Squad was a spoof of the sixties b&w TV series M Squad, where also the narration style is coming from.

15:50....The driving instructor, Ames, is played by John Houseman, one of the greatest actors in film history. He started out in the 1930s, and he worked at his craft for about 60 years.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Ohhh!!

@megiloth3634

Күн бұрын

I remember him when I was a teenager in the 80's...he did a commercial for some financial company and the tagline was "They make money the old fashioned way...They eaaaaaarrrrrn it." I also remember him being the voice in a Mork & Mindy episode as Merth's (Jonathan Winters) computer.

@tomstanziola1982

Күн бұрын

@@megiloth3634 I love those old commercials! 👏👏👏👏

I am glad you could cherish a cineastic approach of such sophisticated humor!

Leslie Nielsen was comedy royalty ...... ❤

That Reggie Jackson was in this added SO much to it. He’s one of the greatest players of all time. You don’t get the nickname Mr. October without being a World Series phenomenon. And I say this as a Red Sox fan.

@curtismartin2866

Ай бұрын

Shoulda been Bucky f'n Dent 😋

Now sweetie this is your hill and your beans but you’ve got to watch Airplane. You might wet yourself with laughter but it’s so worth it.

I was 12 when this movie came out. My Dad took me to the theater, it was December of 1988. The theater was packed. I was still just a bit too young to catch on to some of the sexual puns at first but I was much wiser after we left the show lol........ Let me tell you - it was an experience you had to be there to appreciate. The live mic restroom scene and the office/balcony scene were so funny the entire theater was dying. I thought my Dad was going to stroke out he could hardly breathe! People were literally falling down off their chairs and smacking the floor, the armrests, their thighs, each other. At the end of the film it got a standing ovation and huge cheers. For a stupid, non-sensical, plotless spoof. In the 120 or so years of the motion picture industry, This movie may very well be the funniest film ever made to this very day.

So many memories of this movie. We convinced our high school AP English teacher to play it in class because of examples of irony (I guess?). She hit the floor at the “nice beaver!” line. Cried and almost peed despite herself, a normally composed woman. My family all says, “Go for it, Stephanie” when it’s the right tjme time to hit the gas in traffic. On and on. It’s an amazing l nonstop collection of gags that just works as a whole.

In the opening scene, these were all of the big baddies from the 1980s: Idi Amin (Uganda), Yassar Arafat (PLO), Mikhail Gorbachev (USSR), and the Ayatollah Khomeini (Iran).

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Thanks!!

@gabrielrosenberg6734

Ай бұрын

And Mummar Khadafi, from Libya

@Wirenfeldt1990

Ай бұрын

@@gabrielrosenberg6734aka Evil Carlos Santana

@zaphodbbrox

Ай бұрын

Also Fidel Castro (Cuba)

@gareth2736

10 күн бұрын

They did well to get them all to appear

OMG NAKED GUN LMFAO you're in for a treat lol

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

I was!

@Reziichu

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna yay!!! i ended up watching it again this morning :D thank you again for another great movie reaction!! :D

Note to self: never, EVER drink coffee while watching Ames watch a Naked Gun movie. That watch-along was marvellous!

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Oh no did u spill/spit out some coffee!!!!! 😝😝🤣🤣🤣 thanks for watching ❤️

The money/bribing gag that happens @ around 8:40 is one of my favorite bits! I swear, it gets me cackling every. single. time! 😂

Reggie Jackson was the baseball player that was hypnotized to kill the queen in the movie. Reggie Jackson is one of the best players to ever play the game of baseball.

@LordVolkov

Ай бұрын

Reggie's cameo in Baseketball is hilarious.

@TXRager

Ай бұрын

@@LordVolkovhe has a cameo in the benchwarmers as well. Scene is pretty funny.

I love the slapstick/physical humor, the silly puns (nice beaver, etc.), childish humor (going to the bathroom with a mic), and "opposite humor" (nothing to see here, as a fireworks building is on fire, people scrambling, etc).

@LordVolkov

Ай бұрын

Leslie's slapstick is so funny! The apartment destruction scene is like a masterclass in physical comedy.

The fridge wasn't moving; the cheese was.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

RIGHT🙈🙈🙈

@BizzyX78

Ай бұрын

----- @bjchit ----- - Oh, my! It's 'Star Trek'-cheese... -----

I like the way Frank quoted Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood) when he talked about shooting the five people. 👍

@brianquinn8384

29 күн бұрын

Also, Ames, you do a great impression of the queen (as far as I know).

"Nordberg" was a billboard on top of a factory, years back, visible when driving south out of Milwaukee, WI on I43. I always assumed it was the name of the company. The ZAZs (the writers of this movie - Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker) grew up just north of Milwaukee on I43. My sisters and I always thought that name was funny when we were kids. Apparently, so did the ZAZs.

OJ has a small part in The Towering Inferno, 1974. Mr Ludwig is Ricardo Montalban; see him as Khan in the Star Trek film, The Wrath of Khan, 1982

They're eating pistachios in the stakeout scene. They used to dye pistachios pink for some reason, and it was tough to get that dye off. It was like a tattoo.

@johnnehrich9601

Ай бұрын

Real pistachios are a sort of greenish-brown andI guess they felt the rose color made them look more appealing. Like real butter is an off-white but they add yellow color to sell it better. And tuna used to be called "horse mackerel" and didn't become popular until they canged the name. ("Horse" and "pony" used to be used to imply size on things not related to animals, i.e., horse chestnuts, pony truck (on a steam loco).)

Lol. I literally watched for the first 20 minutes, waiting for the BINGO line. Something told me Ames would laugh...

Oh boy you're in a for a wild ride with the start of this trilogy.

31:45 …this might be the first and only time Reggie Jackson, THE ‘Mr. October’, has ever been referred to as a “poor schmuck”…

@timp8843

23 күн бұрын

I’m from Kansas City. That is how I’ve always referred to him

@SongJLikes

23 күн бұрын

@@timp8843 - ‘Poor schmuck’ or ‘Mr. October’?

23:27 Almost everyone misses this sign: "All employees must wash hands _before_ using restroom."

I saw this movie back in the late '80s, it was a time when making not-so-subtle frequent references to male and female anatomical parts was slapstick comedy that people had a good laugh at. Good to see that some things never change.

I certainly hope you enjoy the humour in Platoon as much as they did.

@mikehansen5356

Ай бұрын

😂😂

@LordVolkov

Ай бұрын

It does lead to a great joke in Hot Shots Part Deux...

@sephjnr

Ай бұрын

@@LordVolkov One of the greatest meta-jokes of all time.

i couldnt help but laugh when you said "oh, its OJ." cause it sounded more like "ugh....this f&%king guy."😂

I totally forgot about the "Bingo!" joke, I laughed so many times when I first saw it!

Ed, played by George Kennedy was a Best Actor Oscar winner.

Hey Ames. After watching you react to so many serious movies, often bringing you to tears, this was a nice change. I absolutely love to hear you laugh.

Those men at the beginning were real world leaders at the time.

@NosyFella

Ай бұрын

No they were actors

@havok6280

Ай бұрын

Wait... how did they convince Gorbachev and Arafat to appear in a comedy???

@onepcwhiz6847

Ай бұрын

@@havok6280 he was known to have a great sense of humor!

@johnnehrich9601

Ай бұрын

Well, actors portraying them!

@onepcwhiz6847

Ай бұрын

@@johnnehrich9601 yeah that’s what I meant. :-)

This started off as a TV show called Police Squad in 1982, Leslie in the show also plays Frank and it only had 6 episodes but it's worth a watch. The mayor in this movie played Tony's mom in The Sopranos.

When Leslie died and went to heaven, he was greeted with love and open arms and cheers. The man gave so much happiness to people while on this earth.

The best baseball game ever! :-)The poor schmuck ..Reggie Jackson, I think it was 5 home runs in the world series back in the late 70' s or early 80's. :-) Thank you Ames for your great reactions. So good.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

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It's great watching you try to make sense of the "plot."

It's hard to convey how popular OJ was 30 years ago. He was a football superstar in college and the NFL. He was a sportscaster, rising to one of the hosts of Monday Night Football, the most prominent national broadcast. He was on movies, guest on all the late night talk shows. He was so incredulity popular, such explains why his fall was such a seismic cultural phenomenon.

Ludwig's plot is based on the 1977 spy film _Telefon._ Instead of sensory trigger, a specific phrase is used to trigger the sleeper agents. Give it a watch if you're interested.

''Oh no they got this poor shmuck'' @ Reggie Jackson I lmao at that one, love it! Yes, all announcers were real baseball announcers except the Doctor, she would appear in talk shows like Carson and Donahue.

@THOMMGB

Ай бұрын

Dr Joyce Brothers was almost as popular as Dr Phil back in the day. She was everywhere, it seemed.

@LPVPisFr33

Ай бұрын

@@THOMMGB Her and Dr Ruth.

Good one, Butterwings! Yeah, this one is a hoot and a half. The 2 1/2 sequel is pretty funny too if you ever need more laughs. Thanks for sharing this one! 🙂 Oh, and the "hill of beans" speech at the end, that was Casablanca. The dog and the mail carrier cracked me up!

What kills me is that most modern reactors dont know who half of the Bad Guys are in the first scene. It really is a period piece.

The beaver joke slays me every time.

Leslie Neilson was a Canadian actor! Canada once again giving our best to the US.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

I ONLY learnt this after posting and now I LOVE him EVEN MORE and all his brilliance!

@kasperkjrsgaard1447

9 күн бұрын

It’s Nielsen, he was of danish origen. His father was a danish born Mountie. 🇩🇰

Top notch comedy writers. 14:15 is supposed to be MK Ultra

One of the best comedy movies of all time... when you watch with your open eye.

Those watches were used in an episode of the sixties spy show 'The Avengers'. Peter (Moff Tarkin) Cushing had one strapped to heroine Emma Peel's ( Diana Rigg, 'Game of Thrones') wrist.