# Anyone remember a movie where a bologna was fired as a torpedo by mistake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794 "2015-05-25T14:14:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/1 "2015-05-25T14:14:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/2 "2015-05-25T14:28:09Z")
[The Boatniks.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065482/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/3 "2015-05-25T14:30:15Z")
That was it, thank you. Funny my wife says she actually saw it in the Drive-In but didn’t remember the bolagna scene. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/4 "2015-05-25T14:43:29Z")
It’s a classic. Aaaand now I’m going to have the theme song to _McHale’s Navy_ running through my head all day. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/5 "2015-05-25T15:59:04Z")
Although this has been answered, it also reminded of the movie [“Zapped” (1982)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084945/combined), in which Lawanda Page fires salamis at Scatman Crothers thru a bazooka. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/6 "2015-05-25T16:14:29Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > 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. I love imagining that they did several takes of that scene, using bologna, salami, olive loaf, head cheese, mortadella, Canadian bacon, provolone, etc, etc, … 😃 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. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/7 "2015-05-25T16:22:40Z")
Welp, three strikes for me, I guess. Phil Silvers, not Flynn; Robert Morse, not Jones; and I misspelled Ms Powers’s first name. _Stefanie._ ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/8 "2015-05-25T22:47:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/9 "2015-05-26T00:08:48Z")
The Hunt for Red Cocktober. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/10 "2015-05-26T06:57:48Z")
Didn’t Mythbusters shoot off a rocket fueled with a salami? ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/11 "2015-05-26T13:59:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/12 "2015-05-26T21:46:55Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/13 "2015-05-27T13:39:32Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > 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. I remember very little more: John Astin played the CO. > **[John Astin | Actor, Director, Writer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040014/?ref_=tt_cl_t4)** > > Known for: The Frighteners, The Addams Family, That Touch of Mink ---
**Author:** ![Rickinator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rickinator/32/21681_2.png) [@Rickinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rickinator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/14 "2026-08-18T06:09:05Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oLTcj-_WgMU/hqdefault.jpg "The Boatniks") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLTcj-_WgMU) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/15 "2026-08-19T15:44:03Z")
I immediately thought of the scene in 1941 where John Candy pulls a giant salami out of the tank breech where the shells are loaded. He did it in such an offhand way, “Here hold this for a minute, will ya?” Still makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/16 "2026-08-19T15:52:28Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > [The Boatniks.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065482/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) 1970? Looks like 1960. How did I miss this? I watched all the live action Disney films, or so I thought, back then. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/17 "2026-08-19T19:50:16Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > How did I miss this? I never saw it either but my parents had the soundtrack LP. Fun stuff. I wonder where it is now. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-movie-where-a-bologna-was-fired-as-a-torpedo-by-mistake/720794/18 "2026-08-19T20:12:02Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I wonder where it is now. _Someone_’s is for sale on ebay. $18. Comes with 11 page booklet. The stuff that is for sale on there amazes me.