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''[[Police Academy]]'' is a 1984 comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson, and starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall and G.W. Bailey. It grossed approximately $146 million worldwide and spawned six sequels of varying quality.▼
A new mayor has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes. The main character, Carey Mahoney, is a repeat offender (namely he's a [[Karmic Trickster]] with a bad habit of retaliating to offenses in criminal ways) who is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail, a proposal by the officer who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his father. Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this and decides that he will get himself thrown out, which would leave him free of the deal. The new standards have resulted in a rather large
▲''Police Academy'' is a 1984 comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson, and starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall and G.W. Bailey. It grossed approximately $146 million worldwide and spawned six sequels of varying quality.
▲A new mayor has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes. The main character, Carey Mahoney, is a repeat offender (namely he's a [[Karmic Trickster]] with a bad habit of retaliating to offenses in criminal ways) who is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail, a proposal by the officer who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his father. Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this and decides that he will get himself thrown out, which would leave him free of the deal. The new standards have resulted in a rather large group of [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]], with Mahoney being [[Only Sane Man|the most normal and sane among them]].
However, the chief of police, outraged by the mayor's lowered requirements, decides that the new cadets should be forced to quit rather than being thrown out. Lieutenant Harris, who trains the cadets, agrees with the plan and employs tactics to make their lives as miserable as possible so that they do in fact quit. Mahoney tries many schemes to get thrown out anyway, but begins to bond with his fellow cadets.
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Gradually, and surprisingly, many of the misfits grow into competent officers.
This spawned a total of six sequel films, a live-action TV series, as well as a children's cartoon series and a fantastic amount of merchandising. There has also been talk of an eighth ''Police Academy'' film being directed by Steve Guttenberg.
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* '''Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment''' (1985). The misfits have graduated from the Academy. The film follows several of them in their first assignment to a police precinct. They have to face a local gang. The main character to not return is Officer Thompson, while it introduces Bobcat Goldthwait as the gang leader and a member of the force in later installments.
* '''Police Academy 3: Back in Training''' (1986). There are two Police Academies in New York. The first being the familiar establishment of the first film, the other being a military-style organization. With the city deciding to axe one of them, the former misfits want to ensure the survival of their academy.
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* '''Police Academy 6: City Under Siege'''(1989). New York City is facing a string of high-profile robberies by a gang. Lassard and his crew are assigned with capturing them. However the criminals seem to learn of any police plan ahead of time, indicating the presence of a Mole in the ranks. The gang members also appear to have [[Psycho Rangers|skills equal]] to the most eccentric members of the force.
* '''Police Academy: Mission to Moscow '''(1994). An attempt to revive the series. Russian Commandant Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov ([[Christopher Lee]]) needs help against the local mafia. He decides to ask for assistance from the United States police. Lassard and his crew get the assignment. Meanwhile, mob boss Konstantine Konali ([[Ron Perlman]]) plans to bring down any computer security system in the world.
* '''[[Animated Adaptation|Police Academy: The Animated Series]]''' (1988-1989). A [[Sixty-Five-Episode Cartoon]]
* '''Police Academy: The Series''' (1997-1998). A live-action show, featuring some of the newest recruits of the academy. Sgt. Larvell "Motor Mouth" Jones was the only character kept from the film series. Lasted 1 season, 26 episodes.
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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Tackleberry's tear gas round in the second film and the tracking device from the seventh.
* [[Actor Existence Failure]]: Unfortunately, [[Crazy Awesome|Tackleberry]] won't be returning for the eighth movie.
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* [[Beware the Quiet Ones]]: Hooks.
* [[BFG]]: Tackleberry's other weapons of choice other than [[Hand Cannon]]s are generally these.
* [[Birds of a Feather]]: when
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Callahan is demonstrably the best unarmed fighter among the female cast, as well as one of the most brutal cops in the show. Camera angles always accentuate her large chest.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Commandant Lassard, particularly as he is allowed to remain on well past retirement age. Most of the characters to a lesser extent.
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** Averted in the later films (the ones in Miami and Moscow were indeed filmed there, with the fifth film the only one of the series to be shot entirely in California).
* [[Car Skiing]]: In the beginning of the first movie, Mahoney uses car skiing to park a belligerent businessman's car in an otherwise full parking lot.
* [[Chain Link Fence]]: Spoofed in one of the movies when Lt. Harris and his minion climbs a
* [[Chase Scene]]: Several, but that's to be expected with seven films and two series. Strangely, they rarely involve police cars...
** The third film culminates with the instructors and cadets using jet skis to chase speedboats.
** The fourth film involves hot-air balloons and
** The fifth film has a chase involving airboats.
** The sixth film has the [[Big Bad]] in a cherry picker, followed by both a [[Cool Car|monster truck]] and a bus.
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* [[Verbal Tic]]: Commandant Lassard. Many, many, many times.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Tony in ''Police Academy 5'' (briefly).
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* [[Voice Changeling]]: Jones and to lesser extent, the main villain in the 6th film.
* [[Wet Sari Scene]]: Callahan's lifesaving demonstration, with no shortage of volunteers.
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** Tackleberry's solution to any situation is to shoot at it. This includes, but is not limited to, extinguishing a man's cigar, getting a refund from a payphone and ''getting a cat out of a tree''.
* [[Where Everybody Knows Your Flame]]: The Blue Oyster.
* [[Workout Fanservice]]: Whenever [[Statuesque Stunner|Officer Callahan]] exercises, lets just say that gyms [[Distracted by the Sexy|are dangerous for men]] when she's there.
* [[Yes-Man]]: Lt. Proctor.
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