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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
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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.
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* [[Take That]]: Constantly.
* [[Tranquillizer Dart]]: Frank Drebin's cufflink tranquilizer darts in the first movie. However, they're not ''quite'' instant enough, since the bad guy staggers around long enough to fall over a railing to a [[Cruel and Unusual Death]].
* [[Unbuilt Trope]]: ''Naked Gun 2½'' had environmentalists as the good guys and fossil-fuel company executives as the villains years before [[Hollywood Global Warming]] was a thing.
* [[Unconventional Smoothie]]: Jane's "protein shake" in the second movie.
* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: Goes further than usual with flips and cartwheels while Drebin is searching his house.
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