@@markfox1545 Hate to break it to ya, Mark, but Webster's Dictionary now has "figuratively" as one of "literally's" definitions. The word has been misused so frequently that the official definition of the word has been changed.
You should have included the narration for the next scene where Frank says, "I got a call from Mimi saying she wanted to meet me at the Club right away! Since I had no idea where the "Club Right Away" was, I suggested the "Club Flamingo". She agreed."
Funny and so relatable. Most of us have taken a turn or two at buying food for a group, and then wound up unreimbursed. Gotta sympathize with the poor confused guy.
@@Chentzilla Eddie here is accused of planting a bomb. Frank realizes he doesn't have enough evidence to arrest Eddie, so he angrily tells the other policeman to tell Eddie, the alleged bomber, to 'take off' and leave the police station. The twist then comes when the other policeman instead goes to the window, which suddenly looks out over an airstrip, and gestures to a waiting plane -- a military bomber -- indicating that it should take off.
@@Chentzilla It's slang, but not very unusual slang, and it's not specific to buildings. It might be considered a synonym for 'leave' or 'get out of here.' It can even be used to describe one's own actions -- 'I've got stuff to do, so I'm going to take off in a few minutes.'
It amazes me how they could do these takes (and some of them are fairly long takes) with completely straight faces. When he started explaining how the matches worked, I lost it.
😂😂 the matches scene is the cherry on the cake. When Drebin tells Edi not to play dumb with him, Edi looks so dissapointed and scared, like he didn’t explain good how the matches work. Just hilarious 😂😂
After the “how matches work” explanation, the dissapointment and scare on Edi’s face when Drebin tells him not to play dumb with him is priceless. Almost like he didn’t explain good how matches work 😂😂
The Zuckers later admitted that they were a little relieved _Police Squad!_ was cancelled after only six episodes, because they were worried they couldn’t keep up this level of humor for a full 22-episode season.
Really miss Leslie Nielsen so much. Not just a great actor, but wonderful, funny, humble human being. Certainly enriched my life, and that of so many others! Love Police Squad!
@@TheKitchenerLeslie It's the writing that makes these surrealistic parodies funny. All the comedy comes from the creators. Nobody from the actors they used was funny or even a comedian. Nielsen himself was a mediocre action movie actor and not at all funny before he worked with ZAZ.
Such a funny show. Absolutely firing on all cylinders all the time. The Talent Leslie brought to the table was gold. The whole group was a masterpiece.
People have seen spoofs and parodies by now and even the serious shows aren't that serious. When this came out it was new and fresh and the 70s straight-laced Quinn Martin produced shows were absolutely perfect fodder to be lampooned.
@@robfinlay8058 They also basically were afraid they were running out of all their good material after only six episodes. Comedy of this kind is way harder than it looks.
Yeah we got it here in Oz late at night on commercial TV but on the ABC we also got The Young Ones from around the same time. God that show was hilarious…
@@jimmehjiimmeehh9748 wrong. i watched it very late at night. it was about the same time that James whale had a late night tv show. early 90s? late 80s?
@@jimmehjiimmeehh9748 I video'd all of the series from british tv broadcasts, while I watched in the late 80's. It is probably a pile of plastic dust in an attic by now. Luckily I bought a dvd of it on ebay in the early 2000's (a dvd of the series, not the pile of plastic dust).
It’s like someone wrote the first line of dialogue, handed it to another person who didn’t know what was going on and had them write a line, then they handed it off to someone else...
"Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith." I wonder if one of the writers came up with this joke and they wrote an entire episode around it.
im never sure whether to applaud the writers for their genius in writing this or worry for their sanity for having keep writing these amount of gags for not only the series but the films too
@@ProjectFlashlight612 If you've ever seen Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, that may be why you remember him as being a Ranger. There's a character in that movie named Marshall Willanhollie (an obvious homage), and he's a Forest Ranger.
This series was so ahead of it's time that you literally had to watch it from start to finish or you'd miss the hidden gags.....It was so advanced that they only made six episodes.
@@Deegee_1969 Leslie Nielsen even said how people rely on laugh tracks to know what a joke happened. And honestly with the boom of sitcoms with laugh tracks around the 90s to 2000s, he wasn't wrong.
Yes! I've been rewatching some of the 70s detective shows lately. E.g. Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones ect. It really shows they did a great job of capturing the style of these kind of shows at the time. The joke might be lost on someone who has never seen shows from that era, but they did a great job.
@@HyperIonMake Problem is wages don't keep up with inflation. Someone making 5 bucks an hour then would be lucky to be making $16 today! You're not wrong though.
Why would you pay more? 5 bucks is enough to buy a coffee and a sandwich even in most parts of Western Europe. Why do you pay so much money for bad food and beverages in the US? I don't get it...
Explain this, well you take this little cardboard stick with sulphur on it and rub it on the edges and it makes fire... xD so many jokes in that scene, but this one got me hard
The network didn't know what they had. They were looking at the immediate Nielsen numbers. This is the type of comedy that requires a season or two to grow the audience numbers. CBS was too damn impatient and didn't realize what kind of gem they had.
With each watch, I get to understand more jokes because so many are thrown at the audience without respite. It took me a second viewing to see the Club Flamingo gag.
Came here just for the line "you rub it on the edges and it makes fire." Couldn't remember where the heck I'd gotten that one from. This show had the best writing. It hits so many different levels of comedy in one scene.
Yeah, you really had to pay attention to not only what the characters were saying and doing, but what might be going on in the background, which was too tiring for some audiences or some audiences didn't get the joke because they didn't see the sight gag going on in the background or understand the joke within a joke using a pun or similar wordplay.
The funniest TV show ever aired. It had me in stitches. I eagerly tuned in five weeks in a row and was absolutely floored when it was cancelled. Why cancel a brilliant show? Apparently, it was 'too' good. (For idiots maybe.)
This show was way advanced for its time, you really had to pay attention to catch everything , people were used to basic sitcoms like Mork and Mindy or The Jeffersons where you could just zone out and watch
@@cuffzter There are many theories - mid season replacements rarely do well, hard to keep writing comedy this dense unless the coke is extremely pure, and that a show with so many sight gags like this had to be watched with 100% attention, it doesn't work if you're also cooking or doing homework or whatever. In a theater, you have a captive audience with no distractions.
It was cancelled because there were too many jokes, viewers had to actually pay attention to the show to be able to catch most of them, which the decision makers at the network didn't like (as the scheduling slot it was in was meant for people coming home from work to just sit in front of and "turn their brains off" so to speak.)
