The Naked Gun: Difference between revisions

* [[Amusing Injuries]]: With or without [[Gory Discretion Shot|Injury Discretion Shots]].

* [[And Another Thing]]: Frank to Jane, in the first film:

* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]]: It's to be expected, really.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Nordberg - originally used for one-shot gags in ''[[Police Squad!]]'', he became the recurring [[Butt Monkey]] for the ''Naked Gun'' movies, played by [[The Other Darrin|O.J. Simpson]].

* [[Bigger Bad]]: Papshmir, [[The Man Behind the Man]] in ''Police Squad'' and ''The Final Insult'' is the over-arching antagonist of the series but has less screen time then the main villains of each movie.

* [[Big Stupid Doodoo Head]]: Frank, from ''2½'':

* [[Black Best Friend]]: Nordberg.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Drebin.

'''Mayor''': That was a Shakespeare in the Park production of ''[[Julius Caesar (theatre)|Julius Caesar]]'', you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones. }}

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Or in Frank's case, burglary, arson, and sexual assault with a concrete dildo. Though the last one was [[Not What It Looks Like]], so it falls somewhere between this trope and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]].

* [[Credits Gag]]: Happens in all three films. They include people getting credited by their single spoken line, people getting credited for made-up roles like "Second Second Assistant Director," "[[No Animals Were Harmed]] DURING THE FILMING... HOWEVER, SOME SPECIES DID BECOME EXTINCT DURING PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY", and the safety warning, "In Case of Tornado: SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BASEMENT."

* [[Crush Parade]]: At the end of the first film, [[Big Bad|Vincent Ludwig]] falls off a high ledge onto a street below where he gets hit by a bus, flattened by a steam-roller, and then trampled by a marching band playing "Louie Louie."

'''Ed:''' My father went the same way... }}

* [[Death by Looking Up]]: Rocko's mother gets hit with a falling APPLAUSE sign.

* [[Funny Afro]]: '70s Nordberg had one so big, he couldn't get past the disco's door with it.

* [[Funny Answering Machine]]: Frank and Jane's answering machine ends with:

'''Jane:''' No, not that one! }}

* [[Funny Background Event]]: The king of this form of humor. For example, in ''Naked Gun 2½'', there's a series of framed pictures in the background of the bar Frank's in, all of which are various disasters (the ''Hindenburg'', the sinking of the ''Titanic'', and....[[Take That|Michael Dukakis]]).

* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: {{spoiler|Frank tries this on the now brainwashed Jane}}.

* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: A few times in the first meeting with his future love interest Jane, including one right after she climbs up a ladder. Later innuendo gets a lot less innocent.

''(hands down a literal stuffed and mounted beaver)'' }}

** A good example is [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110622/quotes?qt0217125 when Frank goes to a sperm bank thinking it's a regular hospital.]

* [[Jail Bake]]

* [[Juggling Loaded Guns]]:

''(a grip falls from the rafters into the orchestra)''<br />

'''Rocko Dillon:''' Well... from now on! }}

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Papshmear from parts 1 and 3 who was a liaison for a mysterious organization who's only purpose is to spread mayhem around the world. {{spoiler|You can hear him utter "Gaddafi" over the phone in the 3rd movie.}}

* [[Meaningless Meaningful Words]]

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: When trying to gain access to the baseball field in part 1, Drebin knocks out one of the umpires so he can steal his outfit. He throws the unconscious umpire on a table and undoes both their pants, when a cleaning guy happens to walk in. He just shrugs it off with "sorry, fellas," and continues his rounds.

* [[Move Along, Nothing to See Here]]: In front of an exploding fireworks factory.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: At the beginning of the third movie, Frank has a nightmare (which at first is presented as if it's really happening) in which he's at a train station and finds himself trying to stop a Mafia shootout. Things quickly become even more complicated when President [[Bill Clinton]] and Pope John Paul II wander into the crossfire....and then a gang of [[Unintentional Period Piece|deranged postal workers]] show up....

* [[Noodle Incident]]: In ''2½'', after surviving an assassination attempt:

'''Frank:''' Before tonight? Only the cable company... }}

* [[Offhand Backhand]]: While beating up Ayatollah Khomeini.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: In the first movie the Queen seems to be entirely forgotten about after the assassin is foiled. Technically she doesn't ''need'' to appear since she's out of danger but it's strange that we don't see her reaction to Frank talking down a hypnotized Jane despite multiple reaction shots from the other people in the stadium.

* [[Who Are You?]]: At the beginning of the first ''Naked Gun'' movie after beating up the various Arab leaders, Idi Amin and [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]:

* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: Romantic subplot aside, ''33⅓'' is basically a comedic retelling of ''[[White Heat]]''. A police officer infiltrates a prison, befriends a violent criminal that loves his mother, and helps him escape in order to determine the site of his next crime.

* [[You Are Too Late]]: Two of the henchmen in the second movie tell this to Frank as he interrogates them.