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{{quote|''If you only see one movie this year... you've got to get out more often.''|''Naked Gun 2½ trailer''}}
{{quote|''If you only see one movie this year... you've got to get out more often.''|''Naked Gun 2½ trailer''}}


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.
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]] 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).
Features slapstick, [[Visual Pun|Visual Puns]] and [[Shout Out|Shout Outs]] 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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* [[Accidental Pervert]]:
* [[Accidental Pervert]]:
** Drebin escapes a [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero|burning room]] through the window, climbing along a row of anatomically-correct male and female statues. Between two statues is an open window, and a woman in her underwear just ''[[Rule of Funny|happens]]'' to be standing there. Drebin accidentally... well, guess. He then falls off the building, just saving himself by grabbing a statue's stone [[Gag Penis]]. In trying to save himself he manages to [[Crosses the Line Twice|break the penis off the statue and fall into the woman's room through the window, brandishing it at her while loudly groaning from exhaustion.]]
** Drebin escapes a [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|burning room]] through the window, climbing along a row of anatomically-correct male and female statues. Between two statues is an open window, and a woman in her underwear just ''[[Rule of Funny|happens]]'' to be standing there. Drebin accidentally... well, guess. He then falls off the building, just saving himself by grabbing a statue's stone [[Gag Penis]]. In trying to save himself he manages to [[Crosses the Line Twice|break the penis off the statue and fall into the woman's room through the window, brandishing it at her while loudly groaning from exhaustion.]]
** In the third movie, Drebin is at the store squeezing grapefruits to test for ripeness while looking the other way. A woman in a low cut dress walks by, and Drebin [[Thanks for The Mammaries|mistakes her breast for a grapefruit and squeezes it]]. He gets slapped. (For added hilarity, it's the same actress in both scenes.)
** In the third movie, Drebin is at the store squeezing grapefruits to test for ripeness while looking the other way. A woman in a low cut dress walks by, and Drebin [[Thanks for The Mammaries|mistakes her breast for a grapefruit and squeezes it]]. He gets slapped. (For added hilarity, it's the same actress in both scenes.)
* [[Acting for Two]]: Joe Grifasi plays the dock worker in the first movie and the Oscar director in the third. Also, Richard Griffiths in the second movie; somewhat [[Justified Trope]] in that one of the characters he played was actually a professional impersonator, hired specifically to pose as the other one.
* [[Acting for Two]]: Joe Grifasi plays the dock worker in the first movie and the Oscar director in the third. Also, Richard Griffiths in the second movie; somewhat [[Justified Trope]] in that one of the characters he played was actually a professional impersonator, hired specifically to pose as the other one.
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{{quote| '''Frank''': Oh by the way, I faked every orgasm.}}
{{quote| '''Frank''': Oh by the way, I faked every orgasm.}}
* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]]: It's to be expected, really.
* [[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]].
* [[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]].
* [[Automobile Opening]]
* [[Automobile Opening]]
* [[Babies Ever After]]
* [[Babies Ever After]]
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{{quote| '''Frank''': Yes. [[Dirty Harry (Film)|Well, when I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards. That's *my* policy.]] <br />
{{quote| '''Frank''': Yes. [[Dirty Harry (Film)|Well, when I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards. That's *my* policy.]] <br />
'''Mayor''': That was a Shakespeare in the Park production of ''[[Julius Caesar (Theatre)|Julius Caesar]]'', you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones. }}
'''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]].
* [[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]].
* [[Brick Joke]]: The zoo animals in the second movie.
* [[Brick Joke]]: The zoo animals in the second movie.
** In the first film, "Hey, it's Enrico Pallazzo!"
** In the first film, "Hey, it's Enrico Pallazzo!"
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* [[Drives Like Crazy]]:
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]:
** Whenever Drebin gets behind the wheel, something bad happens. The scene when Drebin tags along in a driving school car is especially notable, when the driving instructor instructs the student how to flip the bird.
** Whenever Drebin gets behind the wheel, something bad happens. The scene when Drebin tags along in a driving school car is especially notable, when the driving instructor instructs the student how to flip the bird.
** The opening credits are also built on this. A cop car (presumably containing Drebin) viewed from the emergency lights shows absolutely insane or just plain nonsensical driving behavior, including driving on sidewalks, into people's homes, on rollercoasters, into bullfighting arenas, restaurants, hockey rinks, [[Flying Car|the air]], the surface of the [[Star Wars|Death Star]], and [[Everythings Better With Dinosaurs|prehistoric times]].
** The opening credits are also built on this. A cop car (presumably containing Drebin) viewed from the emergency lights shows absolutely insane or just plain nonsensical driving behavior, including driving on sidewalks, into people's homes, on rollercoasters, into bullfighting arenas, restaurants, hockey rinks, [[Flying Car|the air]], the surface of the [[Star Wars|Death Star]], and [[Everything's Better With Dinosaurs|prehistoric times]].
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: In the second film, {{spoiler|the villain (played by Robert Goulet) survives falling out of a window. When he gets up, [[Karma Houdini|it seems like Goulet is going to escape]]. Just then, a lion appears out of nowhere and kills him on the spot. It is however [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|incredibly funny]] and a great [[Brick Joke]] since earlier in the film Drebin released a bunch of animals from the zoo.}}
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: In the second film, {{spoiler|the villain (played by Robert Goulet) survives falling out of a window. When he gets up, [[Karma Houdini|it seems like Goulet is going to escape]]. Just then, a lion appears out of nowhere and kills him on the spot. It is however [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|incredibly funny]] and a great [[Brick Joke]] since earlier in the film Drebin released a bunch of animals from the zoo.}}
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Rocko Dillon in the third film.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Rocko Dillon in the third film.
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* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]
* [[Face Palm]]: Happens in Naked Gun 33 ⅓ when Frank attempts to get the gun from Rocko while holding on the bomb in the envelope only for them to switch places causing everyone including the audience to facepalm.
* [[Face Palm]]: Happens in Naked Gun 33 ⅓ when Frank attempts to get the gun from Rocko while holding on the bomb in the envelope only for them to switch places causing everyone including the audience to facepalm.
* [[Five Bad Band]] (in the third movie):
* [[Five-Bad Band]] (in the third movie):
** [[The Big Bad]]: Papshmir
** [[The Big Bad]]: Papshmir
** [[The Dragon]]: Rocko Dillon
** [[The Dragon]]: Rocko Dillon
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** Also poor Dr. Meinheimer in "Naked Gun 2½." When he and Drebin are tied up in a warehouse, Drebin tries to saw through the ropes binding his hands behind his back by repeatedly scraping them up and down the sharp corner of a shelf. However, the vibrations send all sort of loose objects falling off the shelf and onto Dr. Meinheimer's head. By the end, he's barely conscious when the police come to his rescue.
** Also poor Dr. Meinheimer in "Naked Gun 2½." When he and Drebin are tied up in a warehouse, Drebin tries to saw through the ropes binding his hands behind his back by repeatedly scraping them up and down the sharp corner of a shelf. However, the vibrations send all sort of loose objects falling off the shelf and onto Dr. Meinheimer's head. By the end, he's barely conscious when the police come to his rescue.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]
* [[I Ate What]]
* [[I Ate What?]]
* [[Ignore the Fanservice]]: Tanya's failed attempts to distract a guard in ''33 and 1/3''. She ultimately pulls it off with [[Weaksauce Weakness|bubble wrap]].
* [[Ignore the Fanservice]]: Tanya's failed attempts to distract a guard in ''33 and 1/3''. She ultimately pulls it off with [[Weaksauce Weakness|bubble wrap]].
* [[I Know You're in There Somewhere Fight]]: {{spoiler|Frank tries this on the now brainwashed Jane}}.
* [["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.
* [[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.
{{quote| '''Drebin:''' Say, ''nice'' beaver.<br />
{{quote| '''Drebin:''' Say, ''nice'' beaver.<br />
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** 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.]
** 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.]
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Drebin and Rocko's argument over who should have the gun and who should have the bomb in part 3. The audience actually does a collective [[Face Fault]].
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Drebin and Rocko's argument over who should have the gun and who should have the bomb in part 3. The audience actually does a collective [[Face Fault]].
* [[Is This Thing Still On]]: In the first movie, Frank's microphone stays on as he goes to the bathroom after a press conference. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Is This Thing Still On?]]: In the first movie, Frank's microphone stays on as he goes to the bathroom after a press conference. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Jail Bake]]
* [[Jail Bake]]
* [[Juggling Loaded Guns]]:
* [[Juggling Loaded Guns]]:
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* [[Lame Comeback]]: In the third movie, Jane is so mad with Frank she calls him a "[[Shaped Like Itself|white Anglo male]]!"
* [[Lame Comeback]]: In the third movie, Jane is so mad with Frank she calls him a "[[Shaped Like Itself|white Anglo male]]!"
** Jane's subplot is a massive spoof of feminist tropes (and one big [[Shout Out]] to [[Thelma and Louise]], so such insult is only to be expected.
** Jane's subplot is a massive spoof of feminist tropes (and one big [[Shout Out]] to [[Thelma and Louise]], so such insult is only to be expected.
* [[Last Name Basis]]: Even Nordberg's wife doesn't seem to know his first name.
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Even Nordberg's wife doesn't seem to know his first name.
* [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]]: Burglary, arson, and sexual assault with a concrete dildo.
* [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]]: Burglary, arson, and sexual assault with a concrete dildo.
* [[Lethal Klutz]]: The third movie shows that Drebin has accidentally killed his fiancee, a fact he remains unaware of.
* [[Lethal Klutz]]: The third movie shows that Drebin has accidentally killed his fiancee, a fact he remains unaware of.
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* [[Private Eye Monologue]]
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]
* [[Punny Name]]: [[The Man Behind the Man|Papshmear]] (Pap-Smear).
* [[Punny Name]]: [[The Man Behind the Man|Papshmear]] (Pap-Smear).
* [[Race Lift]]: Nordberg, who is played by O.J. Simpson in the movies, was white in [[Police Squad]].
* [[Race Lift]]: Nordberg, who is played by O.J. Simpson in the movies, was white in [[Police Squad!]].
* [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud]]: Done in the third film when Frank is on stage with Raquel Welch. Amusingly, he not only reads the stage directions, but also ''Raquel's lines as well as his own''.
* [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud]]: Done in the third film when Frank is on stage with Raquel Welch. Amusingly, he not only reads the stage directions, but also ''Raquel's lines as well as his own''.
* [[Red Herring]]: The Swiss Army Shoe from the 1st film never gets used.
* [[Red Herring]]: The Swiss Army Shoe from the 1st film never gets used.
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** After saving the day, Drebin being mistaken for a celebrity. In the first, Enrico Pallazo. In the third, Phil Donahue.
** After saving the day, Drebin being mistaken for a celebrity. In the first, Enrico Pallazo. In the third, Phil Donahue.
* [[Say Your Prayers]]: In the second movie, a punk points a gun at multiple police officers and says this. Luckily, he's knocking out by Frank opening the door and knocking the punk unconscious in the process. Amusingly, Frank doesn't even realize he thwarted a crime when thanked for it.
* [[Say Your Prayers]]: In the second movie, a punk points a gun at multiple police officers and says this. Luckily, he's knocking out by Frank opening the door and knocking the punk unconscious in the process. Amusingly, Frank doesn't even realize he thwarted a crime when thanked for it.
* [[Screw the Rules I'm Doing What's Right]]: Frank Drebin tries to live this trope from time to time, sadly with more realistic consequences than most [[Big Damn Heroes]].
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Frank Drebin tries to live this trope from time to time, sadly with more realistic consequences than most [[Big Damn Heroes]].
* [[Seven Minute Lull]]: in the second movie. {{spoiler|"[[It Makes Sense in Context|I haven't had this much sex since I was a Boy Scout leader!]]"}}
* [[Seven Minute Lull]]: in the second movie. {{spoiler|"[[It Makes Sense in Context|I haven't had this much sex since I was a Boy Scout leader!]]"}}
* [[Sexophone]]: When we first meet Jane in the first film.
* [[Sexophone]]: When we first meet Jane in the first film.
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** In the second film, there is a parody of the sexual pottery scene from ''[[Ghost (Film)|Ghost]]''. ''Ghost'' was directed by Jerry Zucker, who co-created ''Police Squad'' and co-wrote the first film.
** In the second film, there is a parody of the sexual pottery scene from ''[[Ghost (Film)|Ghost]]''. ''Ghost'' was directed by Jerry Zucker, who co-created ''Police Squad'' and co-wrote the first film.
** The [[Automobile Opening]] shows the car driving through [[Star Wars|Death Star]] and [[Jurassic Park]].
** The [[Automobile Opening]] shows the car driving through [[Star Wars|Death Star]] and [[Jurassic Park]].
** After experiencing marital problems, Jane goes with a girlfriend on a ''[[Thelma and Louise]]''-style road trip in the third movie. The friend is even named "Louise" and dresses just like Susan Sarandon did in that movie, [[Viewers Are Morons|in case you couldn't catch the reference]].
** After experiencing marital problems, Jane goes with a girlfriend on a ''[[Thelma and Louise]]''-style road trip in the third movie. The friend is even named "Louise" and dresses just like Susan Sarandon did in that movie, [[Viewers are Morons|in case you couldn't catch the reference]].
*** Which began with a [[The Teaser|Cold Open]] that sends up ''[[The Untouchables]]'' (and, by extension, ''[[The Battleship Potemkin]]'') (see [[Baby Carriage]] above)
*** Which began with a [[The Teaser|Cold Open]] that sends up ''[[The Untouchables]]'' (and, by extension, ''[[The Battleship Potemkin]]'') (see [[Baby Carriage]] above)
** Also in the third movie, the Dillon gang go to a bunker to test their atomic weapon. After the detonation, the explosion [[Anime Hair|blows their hair straight up]], making them look like the main characters from ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', which Rocko himself further alludes to by muttering: "Huh-huh-huh, huh-huh-huh, cool..."
** Also in the third movie, the Dillon gang go to a bunker to test their atomic weapon. After the detonation, the explosion [[Anime Hair|blows their hair straight up]], making them look like the main characters from ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', which Rocko himself further alludes to by muttering: "Huh-huh-huh, huh-huh-huh, cool..."
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* [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Tanya's}} silhouette reveal in her final scene.
* [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Tanya's}} silhouette reveal in her final scene.
* [[Western Terrorists]]: The Dillon gang in the third movie. Granted, they ''are'' secretly taking their orders from Arabs, but they're obviously plotting bombings more for the money than for hatred of the United States.
* [[Western Terrorists]]: The Dillon gang in the third movie. Granted, they ''are'' secretly taking their orders from Arabs, but they're obviously plotting bombings more for the money than for hatred of the United States.
* [[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.
* [[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]]:
* [[Who Are You]]: At the beginning of the first ''Naked Gun'' movie after beating up the various Arab leaders, Idi Amin and [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]:
{{quote| "I'm Lieutenant Frank Drebin, Police Squad! And don't ever let me catch you guys in America. ''(Drebin then falls out the window)''}}
{{quote| "I'm Lieutenant Frank Drebin, Police Squad! And don't ever let me catch you guys in America. ''(Drebin then falls out the window)''}}
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[You Are Too Late]]: Two of the henchmen in the second movie tell this to Frank as he interrogates them.


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