Anyone remember a movie where a bologna was fired as a torpedo by mistake?

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I think it was from the sixties, I thought either Don Knotts or Tim Conway was in it but I can’t find the movie on their IMDB pages. It might have been some other lunch meat like a salami or olive loaf but I think it was a bologna.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? Was it possibly a McHale’s Navy movie? I don’t think it was but I can barely remember this at all. I’m pretty sure it was in color and that is why I don’t think it was McHale’s Navy TV show.

There is a fairly good chance it was a Disney movie.

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The Boatniks.

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That was it, thank you.

Funny my wife says she actually saw it in the Drive-In but didn’t remember the bolagna scene.

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It’s a classic. Aaaand now I’m going to have the theme song to McHale’s Navy running through my head all day.

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Although this has been answered, it also reminded of the movie “Zapped” (1982), in which Lawanda Page fires salamis at Scatman Crothers thru a bazooka.

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I love imagining that they did several takes of that scene, using bologna, salami, olive loaf, head cheese, mortadella, Canadian bacon, provolone, etc, etc, … :smiley:

But it was bologna.

And I don’t think Conway or Knotts were in it, but I want to believe that Joe Flynn, Dean Jones, and maybe Stephanie Powers were.

Better go check imdb.

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Welp, three strikes for me, I guess. Phil Silvers, not Flynn; Robert Morse, not Jones; and I misspelled Ms Powers’s first name. Stefanie.

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When I saw Silvers’ name my first thought was “Oh, was this movie a spin-off of the T.V. show that had Silvers in the Navy?”

:smack: Of course not. Bilko was in the Army, not the Navy.

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The Hunt for Red Cocktober.

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Didn’t Mythbusters shoot off a rocket fueled with a salami?

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In Operation Petticoat, they fired women’s undergarments out of the bow tubes. Surely a salami was involved somewhere that led up to that predicament.

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Now that movie, I love. Fun movie with Cary Grant as the Captain of a crappy sub and Tony Curtis as the scrounger. Gavin MacLeod was even in it, he did a lot of military and boat parts in his career. As he was in McHale’s Navy and of course Kelly’s Heroes. He then got promoted to Captain as a civilian on the Love Boat.

The TV show of Operation Petticoat had Tony’s daughter Jamie Lee Curtis as one of the nurses, that is about all I can remember from the show though.

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I remember very little more: John Astin played the CO.