Joy!
For those of you who have no idea what it is - it's the series that the Naked Gun films were based on. They shot six episodes, and the series was cancelled after four of them - the sight gags, non-sequiturs and puns were deemed as too complex for the audience. Plus it was sat opposite 'Magnum PI' and 'Fame', so it had pretty much no chance ratings-wise!
Been waiting for it to come out on DVD for years, did have the episodes on VHS but the tape died a death a long time ago. I'd forgotten just how good some of the jokes are
Stuff like the title coming up as one thing, and the announcer reading it as something else entirely (as in, "A Substantial Gift" would appear on screen, the announcer would read the title as "The Broken Promise"), or Leslie Nielsen's wonderful dead-pan delivery of the line "We're sorry to bother you at such a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then", or the following exchange:
Sally: Well, I first heard the shot, and as I turned, Jim fell.
Det. Frank Drebin: Jim Fell's the teller?
Sally: No, Jim Johnson.
Det. Frank Drebin: Who's Jim Fell?
Ed: He's the auditor, Frank.
Sally: He had the flu, so Jim... filled in.
Det. Frank Drebin: Phil who?
Ed: Phil Din. He's the night watchman.
Sally: Oh, if only Phil had been here...
Currently sat here giggling through a couple of episodes
For those of you who have no idea what it is - it's the series that the Naked Gun films were based on. They shot six episodes, and the series was cancelled after four of them - the sight gags, non-sequiturs and puns were deemed as too complex for the audience. Plus it was sat opposite 'Magnum PI' and 'Fame', so it had pretty much no chance ratings-wise!
Been waiting for it to come out on DVD for years, did have the episodes on VHS but the tape died a death a long time ago. I'd forgotten just how good some of the jokes are
Stuff like the title coming up as one thing, and the announcer reading it as something else entirely (as in, "A Substantial Gift" would appear on screen, the announcer would read the title as "The Broken Promise"), or Leslie Nielsen's wonderful dead-pan delivery of the line "We're sorry to bother you at such a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then", or the following exchange:Sally: Well, I first heard the shot, and as I turned, Jim fell.
Det. Frank Drebin: Jim Fell's the teller?
Sally: No, Jim Johnson.
Det. Frank Drebin: Who's Jim Fell?
Ed: He's the auditor, Frank.
Sally: He had the flu, so Jim... filled in.
Det. Frank Drebin: Phil who?
Ed: Phil Din. He's the night watchman.
Sally: Oh, if only Phil had been here...
Currently sat here giggling through a couple of episodes
