The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) MOVIE REACTION!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!! 

When Leslie Nielsen died, ESPN ran an obituary for legendary opera singer Enrico Pallazzo.

c'mon! who leaves out the "nice beaver" joke?!

The assassin baseball player is Reggie Jackson, an actual professional baseball player.

You were discussing why spoof comedies have devolved into plotless unconnected setups for the next joke. One of the reasons given by the network for canceling the original Police Squad was that it required the audience to pay too close attention to get all of the jokes. Also, Nordberg is played by O.J. Simpson, pre-glove days.

The extremely tall lab worker at the police station was played by "Tiny" Ron Taylor. He's been in a variety of TV shows and movies. He was 7 feet tall.

"Steve Martin in Pink Panther and Steve Carell in Get Smart." I'm so old that it actually bothers me that these are the actors you think of in these roles...

7:44 - I find your homage to the recent passing of the Queen very sweet and touching, "no matter how silly the idea of having a Queen is to me".

The only time I ever was almost thrown out of a movie theater was when I saw this movie. If you ever had one of those times where as much as you tried to stop laughing, you couldn't and it keeps getting worse... That was me from the second Nordberg (OJ Simpson btw if you didn't notice) leaned into the wet paint after getting shot... right to the end of the movie. I drove everyone nuts screaming in laughter. It probably was like sitting in a theater with the Joker. This one is my favorite of the three Naked Guns but you'll still like the other two. Very funny movies!

I ❤️ Leslie Nielsen. This movie is hilarious, and a classic 👍

Great movie and great cast, the secretary is played by The ex wife of Elvis Presley, Priscilla, her boss is by legendary actor Ricardo Montalban, who played the original Mr. Rourke, on Fantasy Island

And stop calling me Shirley !!!!!!!!

That Platoon gag gets me every time.

@13:20 I swear Ricardo Montalbán said “That’s better” the same way he did in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan after putting the creatures into Chekov’s and Terrell’s ears.

I just cannot believe you did not show the "beaver" joke - best joke in film history!

"I only practice safe sex" - hysterics!

It's like a golden age The Simpsons episode. It never stops, jokes just keep coming.

Great reaction guys, I think you may be right about why these died out, if something is successful in Hollywood , they just keep making more with less emphasis on quality. BTW, OJ SIMPSON was Nordberg and Priscilla Presley was Jane Looking forward to "Young Frankenstein" Congrats on almost hitting 4k already!!

The seires this was based on, Police Squad (1982), only ran for a couple episodes before it was pulled off the air. But it became such a hit on VHS rentals that it inspired the Zucker Bros. them to make the film. The opening gag is literally "what's Frank Drebben been up to since the show was cancelled".. which is "fighting every "scary" 80s dictator and saving the world I guess".

You guys are one of the target demos this movie was aiming for when it first came out 35 yrs ago, so it's nice to see that it still holds up. I'm sure others have already recommended them, or maybe you've already reacted to them, but if you liked this, there's also AIRPLANE, AIRPLANE 2, TOP SECRET, SPACEBALLS, as well as at least the 2nd sequel to THIS movie, just to name a few.

There aren't post credit scenes BUT, if you read the credits there are jokes in there.

Two thumbs up on your reaction. Naked Gun is my favorite spoof comedy and Leslie Nielsen is probably one of the best ever at it.

The late, Ricardo Montoblan was an amazing actor. He stared in movies for almost 60 years. Star Trek 2, Wrath of Kahn was a great work of his as well. I highly recommend it. He is sourly missed.

You guys need to experience the REAL Pink Panther, with Peter Sellers, and the REAL Get Smart, with Don Adams. They would make for great reactions, and they would help you to appreciate the modern remakes. Airplane is also a spoof of an earlier movie, Airport, and you would have seen the plot more clearly if you had seen it. You would also enjoy watching a few episodes of Mission: Impossible. I am sure your audience would appreciate that kind of perspective

You guys are just awesome! I have had such a bad day and both of you just took me out of all the crap I’m dealing with, and just made my night! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I’m way older than you guys, but it still fun to see your reactions… PLUS you both so insightful about story, plot… please keep doing what you’re doing! Cam and Zay, you guys are fun, funny and just great! Don’t ever stop this channel, God knows I’ll need to escape again!

The first Mariners batter is a former major leaguer, Jay Johnstone

Loved your reactions to seeing "The Naked Gun"! I first saw this movie in the theater when it came out and the whole theater was roaring with laughter! Good Times and Keep Up the Great Work! :) The villain by the way was Ricardo Montalban, who was very popular in the 80s on the TV show, "Fantasy Island" and he played the space villain in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan".

When Zay in the beginning asked if this was a spoof, it made me think that you should watch Four Lions. It's about a group of terrorists who plan a bomb attack on London, and it's hilarious.

He was also in a couple of the "Scary Movie" films as the President. You should also see "Top Secret" and both the "Hot Shot" films with Loyd Bridges as a general in the first film and then the President. He was in "Airplane" as the control tower guy who kept having addiction issues.

No post credit scene, that was not common till recently, but when you watch these older spoof movies always read the end credits, they are full of jokes.

My lame claim to fame: The marching band at the end is the USC band, but the recording of Louie Louie is the Rice Univ MOB. Then Rice director Ken Dye was an undergrad at USC, and somehow got the performance rights to Louie. I’ve heard that the USC director was none too pleased. As a Rice band member and later staffer, we used the movie fees to subsidize our game travel for a while.

This is one of the funniest movies ever made. The jokes never stop coming. You have to watch it many times to get all the jokes.

If you enjoyed this then I would definitely recommend the sequels. Not quite as great as the original, but decently solid follow-ups with some really funny moments.

The two sequels are very good too. And if you haven’t seen them, the Austin Powers movies and Anchorman are also hilarious.

Just some trivia for you guys… Mayor Lillian Barkley in this film is played by no other than Nancy Lou Marchand… who, other than having a long spanning career, is otherwise known as Livia Soprano(Tony’s Mom) on HBO’s The Sopranos… AAAAAAAAND… the main villain, Vincent Ludwig is played by the immortal actor, Ricardo Montalbán, also famous for many, many great roles and having a massive career, one of his greatest roles included the epic villain Khan Noonien Singh, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan which is also the film with arguably one of the most famous and greatest death scenes in sci-fi, if not, American film history: the death of Spock.

Boiling beef used to be very common. There have been times/places where it was, by far, the most common way to cook beef.

The spitting at the ballgame was chewing tobacco. Up till sometime in the 80's they all chewed it. Then they were pressured to all quit, then the league banned it, so they started with the sunflower seeds.

3:10 Putin was still an unknown rookie KGB officer when this movie came out.

So, The Naked Gun was a sequel to a short-lived TV show called Police Squad! (In Color!) You can find all six episodes of it here on RU-vid. You should definitely watch them.

Absolutely have to hit the sequels. No question at all.

The player who was going to assassinate the queen was Hall Of Famer Reggie Jackson and Frank’s love interest is Pricilla Presley, Elvis’ widow.

You should check out “Top-Secret”. A little lesser known, but a very funny movie. Val Kilmer’s first starring role.

I'm a bit puzzled at the thought that Airplane! doesn't have a plot. It even has a back story that comes back to give Ted the impetus to go and land the plane (the George Zip story that Dr Rumack delivers). I think it has a very well-constructed plot. But anyway, I heard you talk about 'The Pink Panther' and thought 'have they really seen 'The Pink Panther'?', which led me to discover that there was a reboot of the Pink Panther series in 2006, with Steve Martin as Clouseau! How did I miss that? So thanks for that, something I will have to look for! 'Young Frankenstein' is a true masterpiece. Looking forward to that one.

Glad you both enjoyed this. Airplane, Blazing Saddles, and Naked Gun are all brilliant. I tend to avoid conclusions about which is better and instead put movies in tiers. I put all 3 on the same tier, but note that Blazing Saddles also includes a heavy focus on satire, which is not part of the experience of the other two. I also think which one is better can come down to what mood you are in at showtime!

Denmark and Scandinavia here, I'm not quite a Nielsen myself, but my name is Frank (though not Drebin), and my mother's sister and that part of my Family are all Nielsens. Leslie Nielsens father was actually a police officer, or more correctly he was an immigrant from Denmark who joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His brother became the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada for a few years in the 80's and his half-uncle was the Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt who twice was awarded an honorary Oscar and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in his honor the "Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award" is still a special Oscar named by the Oscar Academy. The kind of secretly funny part is that when he is offered a Cuban cigar he said he is "Dutch-Irish, my father was from Wales", because in real life Leslie Nielsen's mother was from Wales, so he was neither Dutch or Irish, but he deliberately switched the "Wales" part from his mother to his father in this joke, he then go on to invite Priscilla Presley out for dinner, saying that he knows this out of the way place, that serve great [Danish] Viking food. I hope you are also going to watch the naked gun 2½ and 33½, but I also recommend Dracula: Dead and Loving It, though he has done loads of movies and TV series. Btw, when Leslie Nielsen died, ESPN published a hilarious obituary for the opera singer "Enrico Pallazzo" in his honor, that you can go google and look up.

The funny thing about Leslie Nielson is that he used to be a straight actor. Saw him in a movie where he was the romantic lead. His last straight role was in the "Poseidon Adventure". And his first funny role was "Airplane". The last movie I saw him in was "An American Carol". It was a political spoof. I love him so much. I don't like stupid humor. I love ridiculous humor though (as in, it's funny because it's a ridiculous situation). That can be a very fine line. He threads that line very well. A new very funny movie for some of the same reasons as "Blazing Saddles" and "Naked Gun" is Taika Waititi's "JoJo Rabbit". If you hadn't seen it, I'd highly recommend it. Thank you for another great reaction. So happy I found your channel.

Almost all reactors see Leslie Nielsen as a comedian who does Naked Gun comedy movies but your comment about his 'serious delivery' was spot on because Leslie Nielsen has decades as a dramatic actor before this movie came about & for the older generation part of the😳Shock. Was seeing serious actor Leslie Nielsen doing... OMG... A comedy movie.

You guys are fun! I'm enjoying the comedy and horror reviews. Added a bunch of your videos to my watch list. Looking forward to them. Thanks for the joy.

Now you guys need to watch Forbidden Planet, Leslie Nielsen doing his dramatic acting before he did comedy.

hi guys, I enjoy both of you and especially your posts. Thanks for your response to this parody. Leslie nielson is my favorite in this genre 👍😉 And sorry for my english, I'm learning😁

Thanks for reacting to this! You'll also enjoy the 2nd and 3rd film, especially the 3rd one.

Back in the seventies, there was a police drama on TV called _The Streets of San Francisco._ Leslie Nielsen did a guest appearance on three episodes of that series. I haven't been able to find them to watch them, but I'm told that he modeled Frank Drebin on the character he played in that series and that watching those episodes now is painful because you keep expecting some funny shit to happen but it never does.

Great reaction except you missed the end credits. They are funny too.

Such a fun movie, and watching you guys enjoy it makes it funnier! Amusing side note, when Leslie Neilson died, there was a sports blog that did an obituary for him as Enrico Palazo, it's awesome!

Al, The really tall Lab guy was played by Tint Ron. He appeared in 7 episodes of "Star Trek : Seep Space Nine" as "Maihar'du ". He also played the "Alpha Hirogen Idrin" in an episode of "Star Trek Voyager".

FYI, the really pretty blonde lady was Elvis Presley’s real life wife Priscilla Presley. Their daughter was once married to Michael Jackson.

Great reactions...look forward to some more Naked Gun!

The original TV show Police Squad lasted barely one season at the time, the network thought people wouldn't be able to keep up with all the gags (it was exactly like this movie) and a TON of the gags in the movie came directly from the show in fact. The sequels are pretty good as well.

Me and my friends saw this in the theater years ago we all laughed like crazy i remember laughing out loud when Frank sang the star spangled banner

23:22 RIP Queen Elizabeth, great funny movie!!

Hey there, fellas. I just stumbled across your reaction when I hit up "The Naked Gun"' and I'm super-thrilled to see that you both laughed so hard to a classic comedy from the 80's. Great reaction Cam & Zay! ( :E

Impressed you knew who Gorgechev was.

The spoof movies experienced a rebirth in the late 90s with the Scary Movie franchise. The Wayan Brothers became the new Zucker Brothers. Spoof movies were celebrated for another several years before they overstayed their welcome. They started to be pumped out with low effort and lowbrow humor, with movies like Disaster Movie and Superhero Movie and shit like that. This led to dwindling box office sales as everyone was just over it. Hollywood saw this as the demand for spoof being over and stopped redlighting them. We're due for another resurgence. Though Tropic Thunder got close to spoof territory

In the 80s, baseball players are spitting sunflower seeds. Hahaha 🙃🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I like classic Pink Panther Movies 1960's.

It's possible this could have inspired some of the theatrical version of Get Smart, but Get Smart was a tv show from the 1960s which could have had an influence on Police Squad more.

You two fellas crack me up. I first saw this flick in 1989’ I’ve watched probably 50 reactions & yours is the best so far.😂😆👊

Hey guys I came across your channel today and you guys are awesome. I was around your age when airplane and the Naked gun came out. I laughed so hard watching the movies again and your reactions. great job.👍

At 4:19 , when you asked why his back was hunched like that, the answer is simple, he threw it out of whack during that scene (that was all him, no stunt double). Weird Al did a cameo in all 3 Naked Gun films, apparently he was a fan of the short-lived series.

Leslie was in a great sci-fi film from the fifties called "Forbidden Planet".

It is unbelievable that this character found Leslie Nielsen after the age of 50! I love the films of these crazy directors (airplane, top secret, police squad series) and I watch them again every Christmas! My days were golden when I saw them and I think the 80s it was one of the freest and most progressive decades of filmmaking! ❤️❤️❤️✊

Great reaction. Reggie Jackson, OJ Simpson, Mrs. Elvis Presley, and a great beaver. Leslie Nielson's iconic role SHOULD be know as Commander of the United Planets Cruiser C-57D in Forbidden Planet for its place in the history of science fiction film.

Subscribed, glad a younger generation appreciates movies like this 😎

There was no post-credits scene, but there were a bunch of gags IN the credits, as a bonus to people who stay to read them. Same with all the Z-A-Z films, like Airplane, Hot Shots, and Top Secret.

And the guy in the wheelchair at the end is OJ Simpson.

We all couldn't wait to see the reaction to the full body....well ya know

oh, man! ... I feel so OLD... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

this movie and hot shots - two of the best comedies ever made.

Nice reaction guys. Great editing too.

10:32 If you've seen Kim Possible, that's Señor Senior Sr.😗

"I boiled you a roast." OMG

Similar comedies *Naked Gun 2&1/2* *Naked Gun 33&1/3* *Don't be a menace* *Hot Shots* (Top Gun parody) *Hot Shots* part Deux *Top secret* *Airplane 2*

"Hey, it's Enrico Pallazzo!"

Stir Crazy is another classic 80's comedy alongside "Life of Brian" and "Arthur" . Great reaction. It's like seeing these films for the first time.

This was based on a short run tv series called Police Squad (In Color) that starred Leslie as well. It had all the comedy of the movies but it came out in the early 80's and was just way too ahead of its time and only lasted like 7 episodes. There was a series back in the 60's with this sort of comedy as well called "Get Smart!" that is a real gem in its own right. It starred Don Adams who later was the voice for the cartoon character "Inspector Gadget". If you liked Johnny English, you'd love Get Smart!

Leslie was a comedic genius and treasure. I die every time i watch him in Mel Brooks' Dracula:Dead and Loving It😂😂. You gotta react to it if you haven't already lol.

Oh this silliness is the first of a trilogy. Also you have two camps that competed in this genre during the 80's & 90's. The first camp was Abrams & Zucker (who made Airplane & the Naked Gun trilogy) and then you have Mel Brooks (who made Blazing Saddles). So definitely check out both their movies like Naked Gun 2 & 3, Spaceballs (1987), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead & Loving It (1994).

I hope you will eventually react to the _Police Squad!_ series. They had a lot of running gags in that series, including the one where he always hits something as he parks his car.

Loved your reactions! Just subscribed too! Leslie Nelson will always be remembered. RIP. After watching the Naked Gun movies, I highly recommend you guys to watch Hot Shots 1 & 2! Best of luck for your guys channel to grow too. Cheers!

If you boys want to see Steve Martin's inspiration for Pink Panther, you should watch the 1964 movie "The Pink Panther" staring one of the all time great actors Peter Sellers

...also KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE 🍿🍿🍿🍿

Hi guys. Really loving your reactions. Looking forward to Young Frankenstein and would put a word in for another Mel Brooks film, High Anxiety, which is a Hitchcock spoof. Also you mentioned Steve Martin's Pink Panther. That was a reboot of an original Peter Sellers film from 1963 which is MUCH better. The Steve Martin version has 21% on rotten tomatoes whereas the original has 89% so if you haven't seen it maybe take a look.

He grabbed the other detective's wallet that why the picture is there hahahahahahhaha

New subscriber after watching Blazing Saddles and this one with you Cameron and Isaiah

Nice way you have mixed up your reaction videos by also including great spoof comedies such as this one and Airplane! Strongly recommend reacting to the sequel for further infectious laughs, but personally I think the third film is to be missed. Other classics to consider would be gems such as Spaceballs, and perhaps some classic Bill Murray such as Groundhog Day and What About Bob? Thanks for the entertainment guys! Best Wishes, Ian

Both sequels are well worth watching. Watch in order, though the last one is probably better than the second one, and can be standalone films. The actors were mostly serious actors, lending to the dry delivery of the jokes, and better acting in general than usually seen in films like this. Young Frankenstein is probably Brooks best film. Not as many jokes as Blazing Saddles, but a better “film.” It helps if you’ve seen the original 1930’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein films, but not required. It does add another layer of appreciation, as certain scenes/elements are direct spoofs (although the plot isn’t exactly the same). They also found a lot of the lab equipment/machines from the original movies and used it in this film. It’s both a spoof and an homage to those films. Get Smart is based on a ‘60’s TV Show called… Get Smart. One of the creators/writers of the original TV series was… Mel Brooks. Pink Panther was a reboot of a series of ‘60’s and 70’s movies.

Gran reacción. Abrazote desde Argentina!

"Nice beaver", thank's I just had it stuffed:)

Great video guys, but after the 21:30 mark I was expecting the guy on the right to break out the Humpty Dance.

Lion fish are not that poisonous. When I worked at an aquarium shop when I was much younger, one of my co-workers was trying to bad a Wrasse for a customer, and forgot there was a Lion fish in the 55 gal tank. She took a quill in the base of her thumb. It swelled up some, but she never went to the hospital.

10:41 The painting centered is, I think "The Blue Boy," Gainsborough. 1770. Rococo. It's weirdly iconic for a portrait painting.