# Airplane, Airplane 2 and Police Squad- your favorite quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853 "2004-06-17T13:37:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/121 "2004-06-24T17:19:08Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > “What’s wrong with him?” > > “He thinks he’s Ethel Mermen” > > Cut to scene of the real Ethel Mermen belting out a song in her hospital bed and getting tranquilized by the staff. YOU’LL BE GREAT, YOU’LL BE SWELL! YOU’LL HAVE THE WHOLE WORLD ON A PLATE! STARTING HERE, STARTING NOW EVERTTHING IS ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/122 "2004-06-24T17:49:52Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > “What’s wrong with him?” > > “He thinks he’s Ethel Mermen” > > Cut to scene of the real Ethel Mermen belting out a song in her hospital bed and getting tranquilized by the staff. I like how in credits it was: Ethel Merman: Lt Hurwitz. I guess we _all_ thought he was Ethel Merman! ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/123 "2004-06-24T20:37:11Z")
Lt. Drebin pretending to be Enrico Palatso(sp?) singing the national anthem just slays me every time. “…buncha bombs in the air…” Ohh ya and when he knocks out the umpire and is stealing his clothes a janitor walks in on the unconscious umpire bent over and Drebin taking his pants off. “Oops, s’cuse me fellas.” (or something like that.) The look on Lesley’s face is classic. Hmmm…is Naked Gun allowed? Airplane! Did anyone mention the guitar bouncing off passengers heads as the stewardess goes back to sing the sick girl a song? Not to mention how she keeps yanking out the IV. Funny shit. McCrosky sniffing glue hanging upside down in the control room. So many funny scenes… \ ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/124 "2004-06-24T23:02:36Z")
> [@«Ðëëp¤F®ïêd»™](#): > > Did anyone mention the guitar bouncing off passengers heads as the stewardess goes back to sing the sick girl a song? > Not to mention how she keeps yanking out the IV. Funny shit. And it makes the sound of a cork coming out of a bottle! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/125 "2004-06-25T19:17:00Z")
Funny Site gag (Hot Shots 2): [As they jump out of an airplane one by one] Harbinger: Geronimo! Rabinowitz: Geronimo! Geronimo: Me! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/126 "2004-06-25T20:19:58Z")
How about some funny lines from _Spy Hard, National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon, Repossessed,_ and _2001: A Space Travesty_! … um… well, there’s… Ok, back to the thread…nothing to see here… (What is it with producers thinking that if they have a spoof movie, they need Leslie Nielsen? They mostly suck regardless.) ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/127 "2004-06-26T21:10:59Z")
Hey we can’t have a fun topic like this end on such a pessimistic note. From the “ **Police Squad** ” TV show. Ted in the lab is running some ballistics tests by firing pistols into rows of video cassettes of Barbara Walters’ interviews with various celebrities. He then tells Frank Drebin “Notice the bullet _completely destroys_ the Burt Reynolds interview, but only penetrates to the point where Katherine Hepburn is asked what kind of tree she’d like to be.” I might be taking a chance on saying this, but I believe that is the only time that the above quote was ever used in a television show. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/128 "2004-06-27T00:35:20Z")
What’s _2001: A Space Travesty?_ ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/129 "2004-06-27T01:39:30Z")
**rjung** Here’s the IMDB link for 2002: A Space Travesty: > **[2001: A Space Travesty (2000) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157262/)** > > 2001: A Space Travesty: Directed by Allan A. Goldstein. With Leslie Nielsen, Ophélie Winter, Ezio Greggio, Peter Egan. Marshal Dix is to free US president from aliens on the int'l lunar base. A clone has replaced him in The White House. Can Dix... * * * and **Max Carnage** as you may or may not know, all the movies you mentioned were NOT ZAZ productions. Some funny lines from “ **Spy Hard** ”: The screen gets foggy, Leslie Neilsen starts a voiceover … " I remember her as if it were yesterday…" Suddenly it goes back to the previous scene with Charles Durning yelling “We don’t have time for flashbacks !!!” OR “We’ve just received this message from the Rock of Gibraltar” “Well what is it?” “It’s this big rock sticking out of the water off the coast of Spain…” Granted these lines aren’t as great as: “Notice the bullet completely destroys the Burt Reynolds interview…” But cut them some slack Jack. LOL ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/130 "2004-06-27T01:41:06Z")
Sorry for the typo. Yes that should have been **2001** and **NOT 2002**. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/131 "2004-06-27T05:13:24Z")
> [@Max Carnage](#): > > How about some funny lines from _National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon_! There aren’t any. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/132 "2004-06-27T06:02:56Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Max Carnage > > How about some funny lines from National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon! > > There aren’t any. There was, however, a gratuitous beaver shot. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/133 "2004-06-27T06:14:13Z")
Okay, **Loaded Weapon** was pretty bad but I’ll admit to having seen very little of it. One thing I thought was hilarious: Two (German ?) soldiers are talking and the translation appears at the bottom of the screen and stays there after they walk away. Emilio Estevez runs by the exact spot where the Germans were and he ‘trips’ over the subtitles !!! He gets up and angrily ‘kicks’ the subtitles off the screen!! Hey you gotta admit that’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/134 "2004-06-27T06:56:26Z")
Yeah, I also liked the takeoff on the Lethal Weapon bit (well, one of many, but this one worked): “I’m driving!” “_I’m_ driving!” “ **I’m** driving!” [Jackson decks Estevez] “Okay…” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/135 "2004-06-27T15:47:14Z")
Okay, I guess _Loaded Weapon_ has its moments. I wasn’t able to watch more than the first few minutes before the stupidity got to me. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/136 "2004-06-28T19:47:06Z")
To defend my own honor here, yes, I know that they weren’t ZAZ, but they were all trying to BE ZAZ movies and failing horribly. Leslie Neilsen (who was not in Loaded Weapon, I know) does NOT a funny movie make. Good writing does. I will however give Spy Hard props for the excellent Weird Al theme song and opening credits. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/137 "2004-06-28T20:06:23Z")
I like Repossessed. Loaded Weapon’s okay. And Spy Hard? Brilliant. Why? Andy Griffith as a villain. Weird Al intro. Eddie Deezen cameo. The bits on the Airplane and in the Hotel room. Kabul! ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/138 "2004-06-28T22:22:44Z")
[A spoof of the “I speak jive” scene](http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=9) McCroskey (I think): Stryker, Stryker, Stryker! [Stryker punches out the woman next to him] Elaine: We’re just a tad off course. Passenger: How much is a “tad”? Elaine: A few million miles. In one of the Naked Gun movies, Drebin says, “Everywhere I go something reminds me of my ex-wife,” and behind him are buildings that look like a pair of breasts. What’s funnier is that these are actual buildings, which can be seen off I-5 near San Diego. I don’t know what they are for, though. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/139 "2004-06-28T23:38:32Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Okay, **Loaded Weapon** was pretty bad but I’ll admit to having seen very little of it. One thing I thought was hilarious: > Two (German ?) soldiers are talking and the translation appears at the bottom of the screen and stays there after they walk away. Emilio Estevez runs by the exact spot where the Germans were and he ‘trips’ over the subtitles !!! He gets up and angrily ‘kicks’ the subtitles off the screen!! They stole that bit from the opening of _Johnny Dangerously_. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853/140 "2004-06-28T23:42:38Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhaukeIn one of the Naked Gun movies, Drebin says, “Everywhere I go something reminds me of my ex-wife,” and behind him are buildings that look like a pair of breasts. What’s funnier is that these are actual buildings, which can be seen off I-5 near San Diego. I don’t know what they are for, though.[/QUOTE] I believe that’s a nuclear power plant. It’s near the coastline to use seawater for cooling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-airplane-2-and-police-squad-your-favorite-quotes/250853.md?page=8)