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A film [[Spin-Off]] of ''[[Police Squad!]]'', following Police Lt. [[The Fool|Frank Drebin]] ([[Leslie Nielsen]]) as he continues to get into trouble. The films serve as parodies of the cop genre, and [[Rule of Funny|let nothing]], including the blatant warping of reality and [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaks in the fourth wall]], get in the way of a good gag. The genius of the Drebin character is that Nielsen plays him almost totally straight: he's a buffoon, but he acts like a completely serious film detective even as lunacy explodes all around him, almost as if he's wandered in from a different movie.
 
Features slapstick, [[Visual Pun|Visual Puns]] and [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]]s by the bucketful. At three movies, this actually lasted longer than the TV series it was based on. In all three Frank's love interest is Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley).
 
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* ''Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult'' (1994) - Drebin comes out of retirement and infiltrates a gang to find out what is the target they are going to destroy. He must also save his faltering marriage.
 
A fourth movie, to be titled ''Naked Gun 4: The Rhythm of Evil'' was in pre-production, [[Actor Existence Failure|but willappears likelyto have bebeen scrapped]] due to the death of [[Leslie Nielsen]] on November 28, 2010 (however before his untimely death, Nielsen had claimed that he was not involved in any way with the 4th film).
 
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