Best gags in the Naked Gun films - Page 2

I just rewatched this after reading this thread. It's been years, but the movie still holds up really well(much better than Airplane!, in my opinion.)

Ed's delivery of "Why?!", after he gets hit by the tranquilizer dart kills me.

I honestly have no idea why them playing "Louie Louie" in particular makes it funnier....

...but it does. Score another for the genius of the ZAZ team.

How the FUCK did we get from this to Scary Movie 3 snd 4 and now An American fuckin' Carol?!?!?

I seriously don't get it, except that of course it reminds me of Sick Boys theory from Trainspotting:

"So we all get old and then we canna hack it any more and that's it?"
"Yeah"
"That's your theory?"
"Yeah. Beautifully fucking illustrated"

It's corny but I love the "deadly" pillow the doctor throws...

"But she had her music. At least I think she had her music. I got her an oboe for Christmas...she asked me what it was."

Nielsen's drawn-out delivery of "was" seals that one.

He did star in that superhero spoof, but I didn't see it.

I've heard Superhero Movie was pretty decent really.

The woman who says "Is this some kind of bust?" died of a rare disease. She's also plays a mistress in Goodfellas.

That's what I think of when I think of 2.5, which, except for the Blue Note, was a letdown at the time. I should watch it again. Airplane, Naked Gun and most of Hot Shots are the Holy Trinity.

If you're even near a bargain bin, and see Project: Kill, starring Leslie Nielsen, pick it up. It's in an exceptionally thin DVD case, and I've only ever watched the first ten and the last ten minutes repeatedly, but... it's very funny, and not intended to be so, and made just before Airplane. Some of it seems to be Youtube, but they've cut it down.

Top Secret! with Val Kilmer is also great. I watched the original Hot Shots recently and it wasn't as funny as I remembered it. It had funny parts here and there, but it bored me for the most part. I much prefer the sequel Part Deux.

Check out Naked Gun 2 again. It's got some other great parts like the lobster dinner with Barbara Bush, the "Ghost" pottery sex scene, the finale in the presidential conference and Robert Goulet's terrific as Hapsburg. His facial reactions to Nielsen's antics are priceless.

I'd like to throw down some love for the Untouchables parody that opens 33 1/3. "Oh no disgruntled postal workers!".

You're right. Top Secret! is equal to or greater than Hot Shots.

Although I always felt they overstepped with the Omar-Shariff-still-alive-as-a-crushed-up-car gag (and also, the Hot Shots "Is it safe?" reference).

Deux's best is Sheen-Sheen.

As with most of the humor in the film, it works because Neilson makes it work. In fact it's SO silly and he sells it SO well, it always makes me giggle.

That and the far off look in his eye he gets, as if he's finally cottoning onto something thats been in front of his face for years.

Top Secret is my favourite of all the Z.A.Z films. Pure gold. Nothing beats:
"If they find you here your life will be worth less than a truckload of dead rats at a tampon factory".
Nothing.

Sharif is gold in that movie...

"you dropped your fake doggie doo."

"I don't have fake doggie doo."

My favorite gag in Top Secret! though is when Kilmer gets introduced to the Frenchman Deja Vu

DV - "Have we not met before?"
Nick - "No, I don't think so."
DV - "oh..." *steps back, then takes a close 'dammit I KNOW this guy' look*

I love how when Rivers gets thrown in jail he starts marking time and soon there's dozens of hash marks on the wall.

"I can't believe I've been here for 25 minutes."

Top Secret has some brilliant gags.

'GRENAAAADE' everyone but the guy who dived on the grenade get's blown out of the room, I love that gag so much.

There's also the underwater fight scene.

"You know, sometimes I envy you and Edna. You have the same person every day for over 30 years. You wake up, eat with her, sleep with her. Make love to the same woman. You spend every possible waking moment together, while I'm out running around with 20-year-olds who want cheap sex. Girls who can't say no. Girls who can't get enough. "More, more, more. Your turn to wear the handcuffs... "

EASILY the Titan life-size condoms in the first movie.

"I want you to know I...practice safe sex."

Tied with the guy in the condom costume in Amazon Women on the Moon for funniest scene involving a guy dressed in a condom.

The Platoon gag is also ingenious.

I actually thought that The Fugitive spoof Wrongfully Accused was pretty good as well. Haven't found it on DVD yet though to see if it works.

Its been a while since I saw Top Secret but it is some pretty damm funny stuff. off the top of my head, the joke I remember that had me laughing out loud was the guy that visits Val Kilmer in jail, "Its no use. I've talked to everyone: State Dept., Embassy, everywhere, I just can't bring my wife to orgasm."

Yeah and Kilmer hands him that "Anal Intruder" box with the picture of the innocent smiling couple. The singing horse part is also great.

"He's just a little hoarse".

Has anybody seen Ruthless People? That's the only ZAZ film I haven't seen.

I learned a little German ("He's right over there.") for my vacation this summer, and I laughed and laughed when I realized that Nick really does say "Is your daughter 18?" to show his manager how he's prepared for his tour. As for Naked Gun . . .

"Bingo."

I disagree.

The Kentucky Fried Movie
Loo: And who are they?
Dr. Klahn: Refuse, found in waterfront bars.

Loo: Shanghaied?
Dr. Klahn: Just lost drunken men who don't know where they are and no longer care.
Prisoner #1: Where are we?
Prisoner #2: I don't care!

Loo: And these?
Dr. Klahn: These are lost drunken men who don't know where they are, but do care! And these are men who know where they are and care, but don't drink.
Prisoner #3: I don't know who I am!
Prisoner #4: Yeah. and I don't drink.
Dr. Klahn: Guards!

[moves prisoners]
Dr. Klahn: Do you care?
Prisoner #5: No.
Dr. Klahn: Put this man in cell #1, and give him a drink.
Guard: What do you drink?
Prisoner #5: I don't care.

Airplane!
"Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked... in the head... with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. It's a dumb question... skip it."

"Can you fly this plane, and land it?"
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious... and don't call me Shirley."

Top Secret
"I know a little German. He's sitting over there."

And the best worst joke EVER:
[miniature Shetland pony is coughing]
"What's wrong with him?"
"Oh, he caught a cold last week and he's just a little hoarse."

Not to derail but one of my favorite gags in Kentucky Fried Movie

"Take him to Detroit."
"Nooooooooooooooooooo!"

In AIRPLANE and POLICE SQUAD! his performances are completely deadpan which is why they're so hilarious. Drebin gets increasingly goofier in the NAKED GUN movies but he's still played straight enough to be funny.

The reason the non-ZAZ movies fail is because Nielsen is just mugging throughout them. (Well, that and cheap, unfunny jokes and parodies.)

Nielsen deserved an Oscar for best deadpanning back in the day. I laughed pretty hard when I re-watched Dirty Harry and realized that's what the Shakespeare in the park joke was based on.

personal favourites in no order at all 9not including the CLASSICS already in this thread:

Throw down your guns, and come on out with your hands up. Or come on out, then throw down your guns, whichever way you wanna do it. Just remember the two key elements here: one, guns to be thrown down; two, come on out!

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way around.

It's a topsy-turvy world, and maybe the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans. But this is our hill.
And these are our beans! (killer delivery - pure casablanca)

Oh, it's all right. I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?

A parachute not opening... that's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine... having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that's the way I wanna go.

I haven't had this much sex since I was a Boy Scout leader! I mean... at the time I was dating a lot.

Hey! You call this slop? Real slop has got chunks in it! This is more like gruel! And this Château Blanc '68 is supposed to be served slightly chilled! This is room temperature! What do you think we are, animals?

Raquel This show is being seen all over the world. I was thinking, if we could all just send good thoughts, transmit them through these cameras here, to the leader of China, Wing Wa Woo-Tong, so that they might finally... be nice.

How could you do something so vicious?
It was easy my dear. You forget; I spent two years as a building contractor. (Ricardo you are a god)

Would you like a movie to help?
Do you have "Spartacus"?

Jane, Jane. That name will always remind me of her. (my wife is called Jane too so I use this line all the time)

You sure know your boxing.
All I know is; never bet on the white guy.

their undulating bodies writhing in sensual rhythm, as he thrust his purple-headed warrior into her quivering mound of love pudding

James Earl Jones - It looks like Phil Donahue throwing up into a tuba.

Love the line prior when a jealous Nielsen tells Robert Goulet that "I've been dating as well, a female book author, she wrote the book on male sexual dysfunction and you've probably read it".

I finally got the "It's a cookbook" gag from 2 1/2 thanks to this clip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJYnI

In watching this last night I'd completely forgotten that Nancy Marchand was in this and she's great. Her expression at seeing Frank sing the national anthem is just priceless.

Nielsen's expression when he realizes he's got into a learner driver's car is fucking hysterical.

"The next time I shoot someone, I could go to prison for it."

I never get tired of the scene from the 1st NAked Gun where Drebin is returning to his apt. and he suspects someone's inside and proceeds to do a complete routine of flips, backflips, and other 'ninja-style' like moves only to learn its only Pricisela Presley.

No love for Nordberg upgrading his gun until it becomes a freaking artillery cannon?
Also, the "I knew it!" when drebin wipes off Gorbachev's head mark.

The scream Drebin does when he gets knocked out of the window after the terrorist fight always, always makes me laugh, "Naaaaiiiiggguhhhhhh". Which segues brilliantly into the theme music.