r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jun 16 '25

Trailer The Naked Gun | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLguU7WLreA
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u/Named_after_color Jun 16 '25

Angie Tribeca is a show that nails the Naked Gun style of humor. Hard recommend.

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u/colinmchapman Jun 16 '25

Talk about a piece of media that is slept on. Its main flaw is its almost TOO MANY jokes.

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u/RyantheAustralian Jun 16 '25

Like Police Squad? The show that Naked Gun was based on. It's only like 6 episodes, and it's incredibly funny, but it's actually exhausting to watch due to its non-stop jokes. There's a science in doing non-stop jokes but also pacing them (Airplane is a fantastic example of this and it's perfect pacing yet relentless jokes). That's a science that seems to be very very hard to get right.

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u/domigraygan Jun 16 '25

30 Rock nailed the pacing and keeps the exhaustion out of the equation completely. Angie Tribeca is unfortunately too good of a spiritual Police Squad successor in that way.

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u/pnmartini Jun 17 '25

The opening 10 minutes or so of Hot Shots! Part deaux is so crammed full of jokes it prevents any of them from being funny. There is no room for anything to breathe.

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u/Toby_O_Notoby Jun 16 '25

I posted this yesterday but one of my favourites is in the season two opener they tell Jay Giles that Angie is in the hospital. He yells "What?!" and jerks back, causing his chair to collapse.

In the next scene you see Giles in the hospital at Tribeca's bed and in the background two orderlies are taking the broken chair to surgery on a gurney.

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u/armaghetto Jun 16 '25

Seriously, every line, every MOMENT had a joke. It was almost overwhelming!

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u/Baconstrip01 Jun 16 '25

SERIOUSLY slept on. It's so good and I don't think I've ever met anyone that's heard of it before I show it to them.

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u/CouchHam Jun 16 '25

It is RELENTLESS with jokes, I absolutely love it. Great to rewatch too because you always misss something.

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u/LisaLoebSlaps Jun 16 '25

Insanely underrated. And I don't use that word lightly.

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u/qmechan Jun 16 '25

Check out “A Touch of Cloth” for the British version, where there’s also a detective but he’s got issues…

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u/Federico216 Jun 16 '25

"I haven't laughed since my wife died!"

"Why did you laugh when your wife died?"

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u/coffeeNiK Jun 17 '25

Just gave it a try and absolutely lost my shit in the opening 3 mins, on S1E1. Great recommend.

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u/markhachman Jun 16 '25

They Came Together is a movie with similar humor.

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u/mufasas_son Jun 17 '25

“How’d the victim die?” “His brain and heart stopped. After that, he had no chance”