The Old Telephone Voice Disguiser Trick (Police Squad!, 1982)

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Detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) employs his own unique take on the classic telephone voice disguising trick in order to dupe known murderer Sally Decker (Kathryn Leigh Scott) into a meetup in episode 1 of the US television series Police Squad! (4 March 1982).
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@patwiggins6969 3 года назад

He actually dialed all seven numbers. You never see that in tv or movies. Such realism!

@orlock20 3 года назад

I would find it funny if he had actually called somebody, had a conversation and the director edited pieces out to make the scene.

@crebegea 3 года назад

@@sillysausage4549 What do you mean? They're Americans. 555-4201, seven. Seems legit to me.

@spelcheak 3 года назад

@@crebegea You'll have to forgive him he's British and was dropped on his head as a child, unfortunately he couldn't get help with that because Childline is a 7 digit number.

@minemaster1337 3 года назад

“Such realism”

@tommygarson8592 3 года назад

I don't think police squad of all shows is a good place to go looking for realism but ok

@ZeroChannelZero 3 года назад

I'm typing this through a handkerchief. In French.

@LysergicAcidDerivate 3 года назад

Man, Im reading this through one too, but no chance!

@charliesmithers7663 3 года назад

Cracking comment

@silvercat18 3 года назад

I cant understand you, i dont speak french.

@rkalla 3 года назад

LOL!!

@darrenmizzi6072 3 года назад

I'm typing in French... IN RUSSIAN!

@1967foghorn 3 года назад

some days you just need some Leslie Neilsen

@TheMarcHicks 3 года назад

Yep, mostly on days that end in a "y".

@i-never-look-at-replies-lol 3 года назад

Just some?

@chanceDdog2009 3 года назад

And puppy kisses every day

@Milesco 3 года назад

Just don't call him Shirley.

@latinobandido7471 3 года назад

Most* days you just need some Leslie Neilsen. And don’t call me Shirley...

@johnnyw525 3 года назад

The handkerchief over the phone was a common trope at the time. This mocks it by making it absurdly good with no effort.

@somniavitasunt 3 года назад

Oh good. I thought it was about the woman wearing a red dress. Or maybe it's just a blouse?

@longplaidshorts3269 3 года назад

Is there a market for overly explaining the obvious point of videos or something? I see these kinds of comments everywhere now

@malcomdryer5001 3 года назад

Funny as it is, it would have been better if his voice came out as Boston Irish, or had a hard southern twang... but this works too.

@ApKNJ 3 года назад

@@malcomdryer5001 Would have been even better if Kathleen Turner's voice came out.

@Mi_Fa_Volare 3 года назад

You forgot the opposite effect, as cloth, if significantly at all, makes the voice deeper.

@TheJeffro451 3 года назад

It was a lot harder to butt dial someone in those days. You really had to work at it.

@dougpeters1625 3 года назад

Hilarious comment!

@RandomAmerican3000 3 года назад

Yes, it's much easier now to make an ass out of one's self.

@Enishidono 3 года назад

@@jimmoses6617 Leslie Neilsen would have loved twerking ;)

@bentonrp 3 года назад

Harder to butt dial in those days; you really had to work ur butt off at it

@DIEGhostfish 3 года назад

Jesus, that could almost fit in a modern Police Squad/Lethal Weapon. I read it in Leslie's pseudo-Noir Narration voice and everything,

@UKSCIENCEORG 3 года назад

“Corner of Cherry and Galena”….but in reality these two streets in Milwaukee are parallel to each other so you could only meet at infinity 🙂

@hertzair1186 2 года назад

Also part of the gag…weren’t the Zucker boys from Milwaukee?

@replicas11 2 года назад

As an English man who loves Police Squad this little bit of info regarding this scene is priceless. Whom ever wrote it all those years ago knew they were dropping a gem in that would be found years later. Thank you for posting 🙏🙏

@GuukanKitsune 2 года назад

@@replicas11 Police Squad must have been designed by a freaking dragon because it's just a whole freaking PILE of gems in a giant comfy heap of comedy gold.

@pronkb000 3 месяца назад

@@hertzair1186 Yes. They sneak at least one Milwaukee reference into every episode of the series.

@gavinvalentino6002 3 года назад

Rotary phones were so satisfying.

@abrahamlincoln9758 3 года назад

I had a lot of 0s in my number. I hated calling home.

@marypapak5759 3 года назад

Yessss!

@sonsdoingles 3 года назад

Nah

@RomanesEuntDomus. 3 года назад

Except when you're a kid and get your little fingers caught! LOL.

@alanw505 3 года назад

Slamming the phone down hang up will never be the same with cell phones.

@Bodanki 3 года назад

With just one napkin, Leslie neilsen becomes Alan Alda

@kevinmcdonald6477 3 года назад

He did once guest star on MASH.

@conwaytwt 3 года назад

With two handkerchiefs he'd probably become Dolly Parton.

@macmac8249 3 года назад

@@conwaytwt He’ll need a helluva lot more stuffing than two handkerchiefs to look like Dolly Parton. (Insert grinning emoji here).

@thatdarnneighbor 3 года назад

@@macmac8249 😏

@ELCADAROSA 3 года назад

@@macmac8249 LOL!!! 😅😂🤣

@kjamison5951 3 года назад

Plot twist, the handkerchief was covered in helium.

@legioner9 3 года назад

😂😂

@sophiamarchildon3998 3 года назад

Nice one!

@RKroese 3 года назад

Fact

@DanceySteveYNWA 3 года назад

Yeah because that's how gas works

@Smithy250 3 года назад

@@DanceySteveYNWA are you questioning SCiEnCe?!?!?

@kevinmcdonald6477 3 года назад

This is funny on so many levels. The rotary phone is always funny and I grew up with them. The simple napkin over mouthpiece to completely disguise voice is hilarious because of the absurdness and most of all is Nielsen's uncanny ability to deadpan with all seriousness this preposterous scene and every other in Police Squad, Naked Gun and Airplane. Love it!

@smaller_cathedrals 3 года назад

"Nielsen's uncanny ability to deadpan with all seriousness" - Nielsen once said that the key to successful comedy is taking it seriously.

@kevinmcdonald6477 3 года назад

@@smaller_cathedrals He nailed it!

@Cr1ptlord 3 года назад

Back in the day in the movies they would disguise their voice like this so its a parody on them :D

@ericmpereira 3 года назад

I LOVE IT!

@dodojesus4529 3 года назад

@@smaller_cathedrals especially with this very silly comedy

@KingGrio 3 года назад

The magical handkerchief that cuts low frequencies and lets high frequencies through

@MysticDonBlair 3 года назад

HPF

@youkofoxy 3 года назад

@@MysticDonBlair HPFHC? Sorry I mean HPFHK

@TheKitchenerLeslie Год назад

It doesn't disguise his voice, it transforms his voice into a perfect impression of whoever he wills it to.

@rager1969 3 года назад

I remember this gag. This was such a great show and I was bummed when it got cancelled after only a handful of episodes.

@billycumcamp6104 3 года назад

At least the movies still exist

@Zapan777 3 года назад

They actually cancelled it to make the movies

@rager1969 3 года назад

@@Zapan777 That doesn't make any sense, especially given there was a six year gap between the series and the movie.

@plonkersbro 8 месяцев назад

@@Zapan777It got cancelled because some corpse decided the audience wouldn't get the humour

@RomanesEuntDomus. 3 года назад

That piece of cloth works surprisingly well! LMFAO

@periwinkle2486 3 года назад

@Ryandal Gilmore are you deaf? it quite obviously changed his voice, and very well at that!

@ladychamberlainisit 3 года назад

@@periwinkle2486 🤣🤣

@Oli-Johnson 3 года назад

You know an American comedy is good when it doesn't need a Laugh Track

@gregbors8364 6 месяцев назад

It was the first TV comedy not to use one. It was also cancelled after like eight episodes

@James_Bee 4 месяца назад

@gregbors8364 Ahead of it's time. People just didn't get it. I think it may have had a bad time slot as well.

@gregbors8364 4 месяца назад

@@James_Bee IKR. I talked an older sister into watching it with me. She said it was “stupid.”

@vjrei 3 года назад

Back in the day I remember seeing that "trick" on every show.

@dx1450 3 года назад

Yep, as a kid in the 1970's I must have seen that a thousand times on TV.

@royrogers3404 3 года назад

That's one hell of a napkin.

@randallmarsh1187 3 года назад

On her end it sounds like Regis Philbin.

@briane173 3 года назад

That's because it's Regis Philbin, disguised as Leslie Nielsen -- disguised as Regis Philbin.

@chrisarseneault5617 3 года назад

I knew it sounded like Regis. R i p

@blue04mx53 3 года назад

plot twist it was Regis' handkerchief .

@i-never-look-at-replies-lol 3 года назад

Regis used the phone-a-friend option

@kdrapertrucker 3 года назад

My favorite lines from this episode was at the very end. "How'd you know Sally decker did it, frank?" "Just a little hunch back at the office" "That's what I thought.....so I brought that little Hunchback with me, come here Charlie!" (Little hunchback guy walks into scene)

@vipermad358 3 года назад

14 year old me was so bummed when this got cancelled.

@ArcturusOTE 3 года назад

Low ratings I think canned it? But apparently ZAZ were running out of ideas by then so it was a blessing in disguise

@deanmoncaster 3 года назад

Who bummed you?

@NidgeOSullivan 3 года назад

In a way tho, similar to Fawlty towers, the fact there are so few episodes is what makes it so perfect. It would have been terrible had they milked this too long, added canned laughter and a team of lefty writers or suchlike.

@ladychamberlainisit 3 года назад

@@NidgeOSullivan Angie Tribeca was like that, 1st season was great, 2nd was good, 3rd became stale, 4th....ehh , lol

@yesackram 3 года назад

It wasn't low rating that got it canned. It was the fact that it was deemed to be too funny for prime time audiences and that most of the jokes would go over people's heads. A lot of the material written for the never-realised 2nd series formed a large part of the Naked Gun franchise in later years.

@iBlewupthemoon98 3 года назад

Wow it even changed his inflection!

@zaikoji 3 года назад

This cracked me up so hard the first time I saw it. The gags came so thick and fast, and were delivered so perfectly by the cast. Thanks for the upload!

@data790 3 года назад

So far ahead of the times. Absolutely brilliant series.

@RickJW-OSM 3 года назад

Boy! Nobody really uses handkerchiefs anymore. They have such versatility.

@kevinmcdonald6477 3 года назад

Yes. Blow snot, disguise your voice. Not recommended you use the same hankie for both tasks.

@VestinVestin 3 года назад

@@kevinmcdonald6477 It's all about sequencing: disguise first, blow second; make sure they don't overlap.

@kevinmcdonald6477 3 года назад

@@VestinVestin LOL!

@suenichols7047 3 года назад

Handkerchiefs...AKA Booger Locker. 😆

@DivineLightPaladin 3 года назад

People aren't much into reusing things these days sadly. It's become a disposable culture from spoons to tissues, diapers to dating, batteries to phones, hardly anyone bothers to fix or renew anymore 😕

@stephmaccormick3195 3 года назад

Dr. Zubatsky... Zub means tooth in many Slavic languages, and Zubatac is a toothy fish (Common dentex ). Just one of many Easter eggs in PS.

@outragequitter5027 3 года назад

Suddenly Zubat’s name makes all kinds of sense

@soitsanightmare 3 года назад

Uh, good find? Idk about an Easter egg but maybe just a turd.

@stephmaccormick3195 3 года назад

@@soitsanightmare I know it's fucked up if only language you speak is the one mommy taught you.

@BinaryBard64 3 года назад

@@stephmaccormick3195 Are you calling your mom fucked up? Also, way to try and rip on someone about speaking another language while you can't even type a simple sentence.

@BinaryBard64 3 года назад

@J Hemphill If I'm "white knighting", then you're what...black knighting? Coming to the rescue of some other online sucker who had to insult people for no reason... Pathetic 😆

@ValensBellator 3 года назад

I wonder if when they dialed numbers they still had to use “555”? A perceptive person accustomed to rotary dials could probably make out what numbers were dialed just by the delay.

@P2thaR 3 года назад

The first 2 numbers seem to be the same, might be 5, the 3rd number is higher than 5.

@xXxJSCOTTxXx 3 года назад

I used to wonder the same thing about when someone on TV dials a touch tone phone. Is it possible someone could be familiar enough with the tones to know what number is being dialed, just by listening...

@1AXMRDR 3 года назад

While it is possible, I doubt that you will get to talk to Sally. :-)

@edwardbarton1680 3 года назад

@Samson Holdsworth A lot of phones would just play the same tones that were used for dialing (actually a pair of tones for each button)

@josephl6896 3 года назад

... or the phone wasn't connected to the wall...

@zed351 3 года назад

Putting spectacles on makes you look a completely different person too.

@AkaiAzul 3 года назад

Superman agrees.

@pigpilot7275 3 года назад

Clark Kent agrees.

@MC-yy2bx 3 года назад

Underdog agrees.

@jonnuanez2843 3 года назад

Spectacles with a mustache...the "you" we knew disappears and another person is created. Just like that.

@DJAbrahamLincoln1 3 года назад

Don't forget to comb your hair differently too

@anthonygibbs3243 3 года назад

Leslie Nielsen has to be one of my all time favourite comedians. Such good memories

@MrShepardDog 3 года назад

Leslie Nielsen was also a star in the science fiction classic, "Forbidden Planet".

@Wistbacka 3 года назад

Fantastic how the napkin not only changed his voice, but also his accent and speech pattern. Fantastic tech!

@gavinvalentino6002 3 года назад

I've tried it. It works.

@robertmasina4610 3 года назад

Leslie Nielsen did a fine job transitioning to a comic actor from his prior years when his roles were more serious.

@JESL_TheOnlyOne 3 года назад

A) The trick can work, but you still have to alter your voice to be effective. B) I recall Nielsen as a fairly ubiquitous dramatic actor who did a LOT of TV. Then, he faked out everyone like Jim Brown and went 90° into comedy gold for an even better career. Not too many thespians can pull that off. Good actors can do drama and comedy, but Nielsen was like the template for TV drama, and, then he dusted everyone Big Time. Quite an accomplishment, really.

@fuferito 3 года назад

Absolutely. Joe Pesci was also successful at it, but I don't think he stuck with it for as long as Leslie Nielsen.

@autonomouscollective2599 3 года назад

Leslie Nielsen always wanted to do comedy. Actors who worked with him said he was quite a cut-up off camera. However he had a serious looking face and serious sounding voice, so he constantly ended up with serious roles. He finally got his chance doing comedy when cast for _Airplane_ . The producers wanted “serious” actors playing goofy parts - Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, etc. Nielsen seized the opportunity and took off from there.

@santanuroy1434 3 года назад

This series was canceled way too soon. Had the potential for being one of the greatest laugh riots of all times.

@johnedsel 3 года назад

I know. It was hilarious. But it got cancelled because it required the audience to pay attention to the show to get all the jokes. Everything was set up for the pay off by the end.

@billgordon6489 3 года назад

@@johnedsel Spot on, apparently Americans have very short attention ….. hang on, what was I saying? 😬

@drewm3807 3 года назад

@@johnedsel Leonard Nimoy said that television shows had to be made for an audience that was half-paying attention to it. People did things like ironing and making dinner while watching the show, which is why the audio part was so important. Very different style from cinema.

@donaldthomas7070 2 года назад

@@billgordon6489, look! A puppy!

@antoniovasquez9946 3 года назад

This guy was something else.

@pearlwhite3009 3 года назад

Through all of his funny tactics, he always got the job done. Brilliant!

@andyhowlett2231 3 года назад

Best series on TV. Ever.

@RedSiegfried 3 года назад

Looks like Sally Decker is going to be doing hard time up in Statesville Prison.

@richardpowell1772 3 года назад

She would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for that hunchback at the office.

@brucegilbert7243 3 года назад

What was her name?

@killerdoritoWA 3 года назад

The handkerchief trick is true! Even my face mask makes me sound like a Texan!

@edinfific2576 3 года назад

Ah, you can't find such good technology around anymore...

@davidwuhrer6704 2 года назад

It was built to last back then.

@edinfific2576 2 года назад

@@davidwuhrer6704 😅

@nietzsche3169 3 года назад

Genius, both the joke and the performer. R.I.P. Master

@sween187 3 года назад

Such a great show, way a head of its time.

@rippi37 2 года назад

Here getting my daily dose of Nielson.....can't get through lockdown without my daily hit of his comedy......thank you Museum of Portable Sound xxx

@bazcuda 3 года назад

Her: Is this some kind of bust? Drebbin: Yes, it's very impressive.

@catmandenny 3 года назад

I gotta try that sometime.

@mistersomaru 3 года назад

Rotary phones are so neat. We had one in the garage of our home, and when the power went out, that rotary phone would still work.

@keithmills778 3 года назад

Rotary phones actually need power to operate, but the power came up the phone line from the phone exchange that it was connected to. If my aging brain isn’t lying to me, I think it was about forty volts.

@stevy2 3 года назад

I learned the hard way that you don't feel the standard 48v DC but when a call comes through it switches to nearly 100V AC which will shock the shit out of you.

@zoomzabba452 3 года назад

Touch tone phones were capable of using the same line provided power

@MrBonger88 3 года назад

This show should have had way more episodes. It was so good. Definitely didn’t get a fair chance

@nathanbohn1078 3 года назад

Lesley Nielson is a pillar in the comedy world. always fun when his face shows up.

@lauterunvollkommenheit4344 3 года назад

Lieutenant Drebin is a genius!

@sgzartan 3 года назад

I remember they taught us how to use the telephone on rotary phones in elementary school. Such simpler times.

@Heliocentric 3 года назад

When naked gun 2 came out. I called the local tv station and asked them to play the episodes of police squad ....and they did. They ran the show for a couple months.

@Juventinos 2 года назад

What a pro, what a PRO!

@dpdees 3 года назад

Works every time.

@nicholasmaude6906 3 года назад

I'd forgot about that scene.

@hotlavatube 2 года назад

Now I'm wondering if you use a different handkerchief for each voice. I could see a bit where you keep swapping handkerchief for different voices. First you're the operator with a gingham hanky, then you're the doctor with a gauze hanky, but wait, then a blue-collar worker knocks on the door and comes in so you switch to a denim hanky. It brings new meaning to the "hanky code".

@CaseyWilsonDP 3 года назад

The best part of a joke is when the comments section explains it.

@IIISentorIII 3 года назад

Unfortianaly I did miss that scene back in the day since i was born 28 March 1982 ^^

@bustergutz231 3 года назад

Sounds like Johnny the shoe shine guy

@akrakorab8897 3 года назад

I wouldnt know anything about that

@bustergutz231 3 года назад

Maybe this 20.00 dollars will help ,

@Rowebot15 3 года назад

Think I'm funny, huh? Like a clown? What particular thing of what I'm saying amuses you?

@saulchapnick1566 Год назад

Haven’t watched a number of police shows and movies as a kid decades ago, I used to try that trick. I was always upset that it never worked. People always recognized my voice.

@thudthud5423 3 года назад

While somewhat unrelated, here is a true story: There was a man not too long ago that wanted to rob a bank. He discovered that lemon juice was used for disappearing ink. Wanting to hide his identity, the man covered his face in lemon juice and proceeded to rob a bank in broad daylight with the confident assumption his face was hidden due to the lemon juice. He was promptly caught afterwards.

@superfurryfox1 3 года назад

Amazing, seen the film but never seen the series they were based on... Just need some fre time now

@LowellMorgan 3 года назад

I remember seeing this on TV when I was a kid and only this scene. No context.

@gf328 3 года назад

Ah Leslie Nielsen. 100 percent guaranteed to make you laugh. Even if there was only a ten percent chance of it happening. Was that Steve Buscemi i heard?

@arnesaknussemm2427 3 года назад

What makes police squad even more hilarious is that they used many of the same actors who played police officers in the movie ‘The Boston Strangler’ which was as far from a comedy as could be.

@StoicLion 3 года назад

Damn this show was hilarious!

@caduceus33 3 года назад

Wearing my face mask at the deli can really do a job on my order. Changes baked chicken into deep fried.

@jameshoran8 2 года назад

Nielsen's best site gag was......BINGO.

@Ash_G 3 года назад

Rest in peace Leslie Nielsen 🙏🏻 Naked Gun and Airplane were my favourites.

@davidhensley76 Год назад

I wish whole episodes were available.

@elcidcapricorn8820 3 года назад

The good old handkerchief over the phone method I see,🤔 I gotta try it out!😁👍

@wildman2012 3 года назад

Cherry and Galena -- Streets in Milwaukee!

@hannibalburgers477 3 года назад

Hey, It's the same place that those two drunk hackfrauds live!

@lord_insany 3 года назад

and they are parallel, no corner!

@inedibleobject 3 года назад

His disguised voice sounds like Steve Buscemi ...

@rickmaldoo4205 3 года назад

I had no idea it was a series🤯

@Tindometari 3 года назад

Now I want a rotary landline phone just so the kids can come by and ask me WTF that thing is and how it works. Occasionally, I'll randomly pick it up and ask Siri some question, listen intently, and hang up. 😁

@jayschafer1760 3 года назад

You can actually buy a working rotary cell phone if that's your thing... skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html

@davidwuhrer6704 2 года назад

It might be a fun project to port Android to a rotary phone.

@drakbar5957 2 года назад

That must be one heck of a loogie on that handkerchief to cause his voice to change like that.

@MeatVision 3 года назад

Yeah kids, we had to dial every number on those things and if we made a mistake we had to start all over again

@davidwuhrer6704 2 года назад

Same with our video games.

@VL125 3 года назад

How nice it was, that you didn't see who called. Imagine of those scammers have to you rotary phones to call you.

@hans_____ 3 года назад

A phone you didn't have to charge everyday.

@davidwuhrer6704 2 года назад

Yes, it had it's own power supply from the phone company, and you didn't own it.

@artistjoh 2 года назад

They don’t make napkins like that anymore.

@runwillrobinson 3 года назад

Dude, that really works!

@Cenyon 3 года назад

I actually didn’t know the Naked Gun films were based on a TV show! I was pretty happy to find out the series was released ln blueray in 2020.

@marclanman1902 3 года назад

Good thing she forgot to check the caller ID.

@chriswoolum8955 3 года назад

one of the funniest men ever

@rippi37 2 года назад

The comments are just as hilarious as the clip !! Thank you people !!

@FanboyFilms 3 года назад

It's always good to offer "traceable" currency.

@davidwuhrer6704 2 года назад

If it has a serial number, as all paper money has so it is more difficult to counterfeit, then it is traceable, because the serial number is unique.

@Valen-xu2wy 3 года назад

When a phone meant something important and a cop had street smarts.

@cellytron Год назад

That’s right, Sally! You did pay me! I’ve got the money right here!

@fatdad64able 3 года назад

Amazing!

@jaykace5160 3 года назад

Works *EVERY* time

@jswaggart01 3 года назад

I tried this method with my iPhone for a giggle. The person I called thought they were talking to Leslie Nielsen 😳

@nanookdan 3 года назад

2019: 2020: 2021: "Here's a video from a 40-year old show" -RU-vid

@rickschwab3963 3 года назад

Im presently learning Klingon language to talk through a handkerchief as a 60 year old maid on PMS

@bryanharrison3889 3 года назад

Uch an underrated show

@Damsel_In_Distress_528 3 года назад

I find it funny how dramatic the voice change was.

@smileysatanson3404 3 года назад

i allways wondered if that worked, like you actually cover the speaking part with a piece of cloth and it changes your voice... clearly not like here cause Nielsen got that high tech hankechief

@kevinmcdonald6477 3 года назад

It must have been developed by the crime lab. Like the anti graffiti wall from another episode.