# identify spoof movie trailer segment **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105 "2014-06-18T22:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/1 "2014-06-18T22:19:44Z")
I’m remembering a segment from either a sketch show, or a comedy movie - all I can remember about it is that it comprised a series of trailer-type clips for movies with very formulaic (and repetitive) names along the lines of: Basic Proposal Analysis of a Disclosure Indecent Passion Analysis of a Proposal Improper Disclosure etc… Can anyone remember what I’m describing? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/2 "2014-06-19T05:58:35Z")
I just remembered another detail. The context was a movie award ceremony. The list of similar sounding titles was the nominees for some award. Pretty sure it was in something of the Hot Shots / Naked Gun genre of comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/3 "2014-06-19T21:57:08Z")
OK, I racked my brains some more and I think it was at or near the end of Naked Gun 33⅓ - the climax of the movie takes place at the Academy Awards ceremony. Can’t find a clip of it online though. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/4 "2014-06-19T22:09:54Z")
Related, there’s the real film _Fatal Instinct_, a sight-gag spoof of the adult-thriller genre. Underrated, I always thought. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/5 "2014-06-19T22:12:36Z")
[Fatal Instinct](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106873/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_81), with Armand Assante, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/6 "2014-06-19T22:12:55Z")
Son of a bitch! Shouldn’t have taken the time to link IMDB. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/7 "2014-06-19T22:15:02Z")
I just found out the title had been reused for a 2014 cop thriller that looks deadly earnest and far less entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/8 "2014-06-19T22:17:50Z")
That’s really saying something, considering that the most entertaining part of the original was the Van Morrison song they played over the credits. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/9 "2014-06-19T22:25:17Z")
Hey, c’mon. They loved it in beautiful Haiti. Or Tahiti, whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/10 "2014-06-19T22:42:23Z")
It belatedly occurs to me that the Haiti/Tahiti bit was in a different movie; _Ruthless People._ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-spoof-movie-trailer-segment/691105/11 "2014-06-20T01:07:59Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Son of a bitch! Shouldn’t have taken the time to link IMDB. That’s why I type the answer and post it first, then edit in the link afterwards. 😃