Astonishingly, information technology's ii decades since Naked Gun 33 1/3: the Final Insult series blasted onto cinema screens. The second and final sequel in the Naked Gun film trilogy it signed off Frank Drebin'due south bout of duty after vii years of dedication to big screen deduction (that is, until Ed Helms takes over the role in the forthcoming remake announced final December).

The beginning flick, 1987'due south The Naked Gun: From the Files of Constabulary Squad was a spin-off from Law Squad, the 1982 spoof police procedural that was canned after only half-dozen episodes.

On the big screen it fared a lot improve – gaining a cult following, grossing over $215 million across iii films and enshrining the late Leslie Nielsen as a one-act legend.

After a career of serious roles, Nielsen's comic timing was revealed by 1978's Airplane – the early on classic comedy from the creators of The Naked Gun – ensuring that the word 'surely' could never be used seriously again.  Subsequently that break-out, his trademark deadpan delivery graced comedies throughout the '80s and '90s, but his most famous function is undoubtedly Sergeant Frank Drebin.

For all his pratfalling buffoonery, this American 'Clouseau' has appeared in lists of screen heroes, characters and, astonishingly, detectives.  As Frank would say, "I promise you - any scum did this, not i man on this force volition rest one minute until he's backside confined. Now, let'south grab a bite to eat."

Drebin and his colleagues, romantic conquests and enemies laid the gags on thick and fast - hither'south the pick of the trilogy's greatest jokes.

"Drebin!" "Frank!" "You're both right!"

The Championship Sequence (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Constabulary Team!)

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That tune, that iconic and always-so-slightly ropey police light.

The Opening Scene (Naked Gun 33 ane/3)

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Naked Gun openings always had to exist good, a blueprint ready-down by the showtime instalment's have downward of 'American enemies'.  But it's the Final Insult that steals information technology with a riff on The Untouchables.

Maxing that pic's Odessa Steps wink and a nod, it finds room for President Clinton and Pope John Paul 2 and fifty-fifty a reference to OJ Simpson'southward previous career...  Of form, it all turns out to exist a dream...

'How about that!?' – Baseball game bloopers (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!)

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Naked Gun'southward set up-piece finale at the almost American of all occasions (until part 3's Oscar-crashing perhaps) is gear up by this blooper reel.

For Naked Gun, it'southward a subtle build-up of a multipart joke, ending in ridiculous fatality.

Dodgy effects add to the joke as much as the look on the co-commentator's face.

"Sam? Play our vocal... Just one more than time.." (Naked Gun two ½)

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Another motion-picture show riff, this time Casablanca provides the inspiration for Frank and Jane's reunion.  A mood-breaker even Drebin tin can spot.

The Ghost Montage (Naked Gun 33 1/3)

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The Naked Gun series increasingly lampooned films, and The Last Insult had its butt squarely aimed at contempo and not and then contempo box-office smashes.

With the haplessly lucky Drebin'south history of comedy love scenes this i was inevitable – a parody of Ghost's Unchained Tune scene complete with sculpted ashtray and mayhap the ultimate movie montage.

It'south a spoof that couldn't have had better men behind the scenes – writer Jim Zucker helmed 1990's Ghost.

The Press Conference (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Constabulary Squad!)

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"You want to take a dinghy?"

"No, I took care of that at the press conference."

A painfully congenital up joke - this time at the expense of the Urban center authorities.

And still people forget they're wearing microphones at press conferences...

The White Firm Dinner (Naked Gun 2 ½)

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The second film had to build on the dinner reception set-piece of the first film, and did it with mode.

It lives up to the fix-upwards, Drebin at the White Firm – from outset lady Barbara Bush falling foul of the age quondam 'door' gag though to Drebin versus lobster.

Fire slapstick (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Team!)

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How to make a slapstick recce and a statue's twenty-four hour period...

The Academy Awards Stand up-off (Naked Gun 33 1/3)

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Naked Gun's twist on the Mexican stand-off, with an audience of Hollywood'south great and good.

Years before the Oscar selfie, hither's the mass Oscar facepalm.

Painful escape (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!)

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Our very own belatedly Richard Griffiths added gravitas to the showtime moving-picture show, hither taking the Wile E. Coyote approach to escape and proving that it's not just Nordberg who gets the brunt of his actions.

As usual, Drebin's blissfully aware of the damage fifty-fifty when Ed takes information technology real bad...

The Flowers (Naked Gun 2 ½)

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It'due south the idea that counts.

Seldom take flowers gone through and so much for the sake of comedy.

"He'll be alright in a couple of minutes..." (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Law Squad!)

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Just five years before, Ricardo Montalban's Khan had been foiled by Helm Kirk.

Trust Drebin to rub it in – equally his Bondesque solution leads to mass wincing, a year earlier Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

The National Anthem (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police force Team!)

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Drebin always takes the incorrect man, right place thing too far.

At the climax of the first film, he'southward cringe-worthy as umpire only information technology's all the better afterward murdering a tenor's career. "Hey! It'south Enrico Pallazzo!"

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'Well, I see a sure kitten nonetheless knows how to scratch' (Naked Gun 2 ½)

Does annihilation else sum upwardly The Naked Gun and then well? Frank and Jane's tortuous relationship ran through the iii films.

As Frank put it, "Jane, since I've met you, I've noticed things that I never knew were there before... birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stop lights..."

That extra hand always comes equally a surprise.

'The Automobile! Follow that auto!' (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Law Squad!)

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Surely the best Drebin camera -take of the series thanks to the virtually pathetic 'follow that car' chase in Hollywood history.

Complete with a trademark over-the-summit villain demise to top it off.

As Frank says 'Nothing to see here!'

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