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[[caption-width-right:136:"Does anyone else want to complain about my technique?"]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:What an institution!]]
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* RedundantRescue: The fourth movie.
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* WhatKeptYou: The fourth movie.
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Since the definition of the Ultimate Job Security article only mentions people who MAY be good at their job, it doesn\'t seem to exclude the PA characters. They\'re not described as incompetent in universe either. I think the trope applies.
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** Why Captain Harris hasn't been dishonorably discharged (or whatever the police equivalent is) is a mystery.
** Commandant Lassard is given this trope by the end of the fifth film.
** Proctor also. He's not exactly playing with a full deck, yet he makes it all the way up to Lieutenant.
** In real life Tackleberry probably wouldn't make it past the tear gas incident in the second film.
** Why Captain Harris hasn't been dishonorably discharged (or whatever the police equivalent is) is a mystery.
** Commandant Lassard is given this trope by the end of the fifth film.
** Proctor also. He's not exactly playing with a full deck, yet he makes it all the way up to Lieutenant.
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* TheJinx: Fackler, especially due to {{flanderization}} as the series went on...
* ThePigPen: Sgt. Vinnie Schtulman.
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* ThePigPen: Sgt. Vinnie Schtulman.
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Would people please stop nattering about this thing?
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** Then again, this could be an example of [Fridgebrilliance] as Barbara hadn't recocked - so the shotgun was safe at that point. Of course, it ALSO shows Tack was nuts.
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** Then again, this could be an example of [Fridgebrilliance] as Barbara hadn't recocked - so the shotgun was safe at that point. Of course, it ALSO shows Tack was nuts.
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Looking at it further, none of these applies. They are all staggeringly incompetent; Ultimate Job Security is for when someone is so competent that they can\'t be fired, despite doing things that should have gotten them fired.
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** Why Captain Harris hasn't been dishonorably discharged (or whatever the police equivalent is) is a mystery.
** Commandant Lassard is given this trope by the end of the fifth film.
** Proctor also. He's not exactly playing with a full deck, yet he makes it all the way up to Lieutenant.
** In real life Tackleberry probably wouldn't make it past the tear gas incident in the second film.
** Why Captain Harris hasn't been dishonorably discharged (or whatever the police equivalent is) is a mystery.
** Commandant Lassard is given this trope by the end of the fifth film.
** Proctor also. He's not exactly playing with a full deck, yet he makes it all the way up to Lieutenant.
** In real life Tackleberry probably wouldn't make it past the tear gas incident in the second film.
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making it a third level bullet doesn\'t stop the fact that it\'s natter.
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*** KickedUpstairs maybe?
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* YouAreTooLate: Tackleberry arrives too late to the action during the first film's riot. He doesn't take it gracefully.
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* UltimateJobSecurity: Why UltimateJobSecurity
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*** KickedUpstairs maybe?
**Why Captain Harris hasn't been dishonorably discharged (or whatever the police equivalent is) is a
*** KickedUpstairs maybe?
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** KickedUpstairs maybe?
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There\'s no mention of him or any indication at all that we are expected to think of him in that way, unless I\'m badly misremembering the film.
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* KarmaHoudini: Commissioner Hurst, who after all came up in the first film with the idea of having misfits expelled at any cost....
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Lampshaded Double Entendre is not for our own witticisms; it\'s for stuff in the work. We could spend all day writing puns.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre (And in more ways than one!)]] Mahoney's face in the final scene of the first movie.
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grammar, natter, Fridge in the main article.
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* FantasticRankSystem: Sort of: For most of the series Callahan fraternizes with Mahoney and friends, helping along with their schemes and pranks and following their lead as just one of the gang, even though she helped trained and outranks them all.
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* FantasticRankSystem: Sort of: For most of the series Callahan fraternizes with Mahoney and friends, helping along with their schemes and pranks and following their lead as just one of the gang, even though she helped trained train them and outranks them all.
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** Immediately followed by Tackleberry's turn, where he charges into the buildings and shoots one of the targets ''several times from behind''.
** Tackleberry is unconcerned about Barbara's inneptitude because he alone noticed that he [[FridgeBrilliance had not pumped the shotgun after taking his shot]]. Still wouldn't want to risk it myself, though...
** Tackleberry is unconcerned about Barbara's inneptitude because he alone noticed that he [[FridgeBrilliance had not pumped the shotgun after taking his shot]]. Still wouldn't want to risk it myself, though...
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* FantasticRankSystem: Sort of: For most of the series Callahan fraternizes with Mahoney and friends, helping along with their schemes and pranks and following their lead as just one of the gang, even though she helped trained them and outranks them all.
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* OhCrap: Lt. Harris, when Hightower gets pissed when someone made a racist remark on Hooks. He told him to stand down, then threaten him by expulsion.
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* OhCrap: Lt. Harris, when Hightower gets pissed when someone after Copeland made a racist remark on Hooks. He told him to stand down, then threaten him by expulsion.Hooks.
* ParrotPetPosition: Lassard's goldfish.
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* Teacher/StudentRomance: Callahan gets naughty with at least two cadets during the film series.
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* FantasticRankSystem: Sort of: For most of the series Callahan fraternizes with Mahoney and friends, helping along with their schemes and pranks and following their lead as just one of the gang, even though she trained them and outranks them all.
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* {{Flanderization}}: In the first and second films, Commandant Lassard is generally quite competent, if slightly ineffectual. Starting with the third film however, he becomes more and more absent-minded. May be justified because he is getting older.
** Practically all of the cast was horribly flanderized as the movies piled up, except maybe Sgt. Mahoney.
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* {{Flanderization}}: In the first and second films, Commandant Lassard is generally quite competent, if slightly ineffectual. Starting with the third film however, he becomes more and more absent-minded. May be justified because he is getting older.
older. Harris and Callahan start out as stern but rather competent instructors, by the fourth film, Harris is a fumbling grump and Callahan is a sexy valkyrie.
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** Also don't mess with his uniform. The sixth movie is one of the few times he's provoked to genuine anger when his nameplate is damaged.
-->'''Hightower''': ''Now'' I'm mad...
-->'''Hightower''': ''Now'' I'm mad...
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* AFatherToHisMen: Commandant Lassard. Mahoney displays some signs of this also.
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* RealMenWearPink: Moses Hightower owned a flower shop before becoming a cop.
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* AmazonChaser: Most of Callahan's appeal to the male characters are her Amazon-like traits.
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* SequelGoesForeign: PoliceAcademy: Mission to Moscow.
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* SequelGoesForeign: PoliceAcademy: ''Police Academy: Mission to Moscow.Moscow''.
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A new mayor has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes. The main character, Carey Mahoney, is a repeat offender (namely he's a KarmicTrickster with a bad habit of retaliating to offenses in criminal ways) who is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail, a proposal by the officer who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his father. Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this and decides that he will get himself thrown out, which would leave him free of the deal. The new standards have resulted in a rather large group of RagTagBunchOfMisfits, with Mahoney being [[OnlySaneMan the most normal and sane among them]].
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A new mayor has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes. The main character, Carey Mahoney, is a repeat offender (namely he's a KarmicTrickster with a bad habit of retaliating to offenses in criminal ways) who is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail, a proposal by the officer who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his father. Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this and decides that he will get himself thrown out, which would leave him free of the deal. The new standards have resulted in a rather large group of RagTagBunchOfMisfits, with Mahoney being [[OnlySaneMan the most normal and sane among them]].
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* '''Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment''' (1985). The misfits have graduated from the Academy. The film follows several of them in their first assignment to a police precinct. They have to face a local gang. The main character to not return is Officer Thompson, while it introduces Bobcat Goldthwait as the gang leader and a member of the force in later installments.
* '''Police Academy 3: Back in Training''' (1986). There are two Police Academies in New York. The first being the familiar establishment of the first film, the other being a military-style organization. With the city deciding to axe one of them, the former misfits want to ensure the survival of their academy.
* '''Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol'''(1987). Commandant Eric Lassard (George Gaynes) decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with his officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). The former misfits have to do the training and deal with sabotage efforts from within the police.
* '''Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach'''(1988). Lassard is reaching retirement age. But first he is invited to Miami to the National Police Chiefs Convention. He is to receive an award for his efforts. He brings along some of his favorite students. He unwittingly interferes with the plans of a local group of jewel thieves. The New York cops get to fight Miami criminals across Miami Beach and the Everglades.
* '''Police Academy 6: City Under Siege'''(1989). New York City is facing a string of high-profile robberies by a gang. Lassard and his crew are assigned with capturing them. However the criminals seem to learn of any police plan ahead of time, indicating the presence of a Mole in the ranks. The gang members also appear to have [[PsychoRangers skills equal]] to the most eccentric members of the force.
* '''Police Academy: Mission to Moscow '''(1994). An attempt to revive the series. Russian Commandant Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov (ChristopherLee) needs help against the local mafia. He decides to ask for assistance from the United States police. Lassard and his crew get the assignment. Meanwhile, mob boss Konstantine Konali (RonPerlman) plans to bring down any computer security system in the world.
* '''Police Academy 3: Back in Training''' (1986). There are two Police Academies in New York. The first being the familiar establishment of the first film, the other being a military-style organization. With the city deciding to axe one of them, the former misfits want to ensure the survival of their academy.
* '''Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol'''(1987). Commandant Eric Lassard (George Gaynes) decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with his officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). The former misfits have to do the training and deal with sabotage efforts from within the police.
* '''Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach'''(1988). Lassard is reaching retirement age. But first he is invited to Miami to the National Police Chiefs Convention. He is to receive an award for his efforts. He brings along some of his favorite students. He unwittingly interferes with the plans of a local group of jewel thieves. The New York cops get to fight Miami criminals across Miami Beach and the Everglades.
* '''Police Academy 6: City Under Siege'''(1989). New York City is facing a string of high-profile robberies by a gang. Lassard and his crew are assigned with capturing them. However the criminals seem to learn of any police plan ahead of time, indicating the presence of a Mole in the ranks. The gang members also appear to have [[PsychoRangers skills equal]] to the most eccentric members of the force.
* '''Police Academy: Mission to Moscow '''(1994). An attempt to revive the series. Russian Commandant Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov (ChristopherLee) needs help against the local mafia. He decides to ask for assistance from the United States police. Lassard and his crew get the assignment. Meanwhile, mob boss Konstantine Konali (RonPerlman) plans to bring down any computer security system in the world.
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* '''Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment''' (1985). The misfits have graduated from the Academy. The film follows several of them in their first assignment to a police precinct. They have to face a local gang. The main character to not return is Officer Thompson, while it introduces Bobcat Goldthwait as the gang leader and a member of the force in later installments.
installments.
* '''Police Academy 3: Back in Training''' (1986). There are two Police Academies in New York. The first being the familiar establishment of the first film, the other being a military-style organization. With the city deciding to axe one of them, the former misfits want to ensure the survival of theiracademy.
academy.
* '''Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol'''(1987). Commandant Eric Lassard (George Gaynes) decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with his officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). The former misfits have to do the training and deal with sabotage efforts from within thepolice.
police.
* '''Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach'''(1988). Lassard is reaching retirement age. But first he is invited to Miami to the National Police Chiefs Convention. He is to receive an award for his efforts. He brings along some of his favorite students. He unwittingly interferes with the plans of a local group of jewel thieves. The New York cops get to fight Miami criminals across Miami Beach and theEverglades.
Everglades.
* '''Police Academy 6: City Under Siege'''(1989). New York City is facing a string of high-profile robberies by a gang. Lassard and his crew are assigned with capturing them. However the criminals seem to learn of any police plan ahead of time, indicating the presence of a Mole in the ranks. The gang members also appear to have [[PsychoRangers skills equal]] to the most eccentric members of theforce.
force.
* '''Police Academy: Mission to Moscow '''(1994). An attempt to revive the series. Russian Commandant Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov (ChristopherLee) needs help against the local mafia. He decides to ask for assistance from the United States police. Lassard and his crew get the assignment. Meanwhile, mob boss Konstantine Konali (RonPerlman) plans to bring down any computer security system in the world.
* '''Police Academy 3: Back in Training''' (1986). There are two Police Academies in New York. The first being the familiar establishment of the first film, the other being a military-style organization. With the city deciding to axe one of them, the former misfits want to ensure the survival of their
* '''Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol'''(1987). Commandant Eric Lassard (George Gaynes) decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with his officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). The former misfits have to do the training and deal with sabotage efforts from within the
* '''Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach'''(1988). Lassard is reaching retirement age. But first he is invited to Miami to the National Police Chiefs Convention. He is to receive an award for his efforts. He brings along some of his favorite students. He unwittingly interferes with the plans of a local group of jewel thieves. The New York cops get to fight Miami criminals across Miami Beach and the
* '''Police Academy 6: City Under Siege'''(1989). New York City is facing a string of high-profile robberies by a gang. Lassard and his crew are assigned with capturing them. However the criminals seem to learn of any police plan ahead of time, indicating the presence of a Mole in the ranks. The gang members also appear to have [[PsychoRangers skills equal]] to the most eccentric members of the
* '''Police Academy: Mission to Moscow '''(1994). An attempt to revive the series. Russian Commandant Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov (ChristopherLee) needs help against the local mafia. He decides to ask for assistance from the United States police. Lassard and his crew get the assignment. Meanwhile, mob boss Konstantine Konali (RonPerlman) plans to bring down any computer security system in the world.
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* '''[[AnimatedAdaptation Police Academy: The Animated Series]]''' (1988-1989). A SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon poduced by RubySpears Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Featuring animated versions of the characters from the film series, along with a new supporting cast.
* '''Police Academy: The Series''' (1997-1998). A live-action show, featuring some of the newest recruits of the academy. Sgt. Larvell "Motor Mouth" Jones was the only character kept from the film series. Lasted 1 season, 26 episodes.
* '''Police Academy: The Series''' (1997-1998). A live-action show, featuring some of the newest recruits of the academy. Sgt. Larvell "Motor Mouth" Jones was the only character kept from the film series. Lasted 1 season, 26 episodes.
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* '''Police Academy: The Series''' (1997-1998). A live-action show, featuring some of the newest recruits of the academy. Sgt. Larvell "Motor Mouth" Jones was the only character kept from the film series. Lasted 1 season, 26 episodes.
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[[caption-width-right:136:"Does anyone else want to complain about my technique?"]]
''Police Academy'' is a 1984 comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson, and starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall and G.W. Bailey. It grossed approximately $146 million worldwide and spawned six sequels of varying quality.
A new mayor has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes. The main character, Carey Mahoney, is a repeat offender (namely he's a KarmicTrickster with a bad habit of retaliating to offenses in criminal ways) who is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail, a proposal by the officer who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his father. Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this and decides that he will get himself thrown out, which would leave him free of the deal. The new standards have resulted in a rather large group of RagTagBunchOfMisfits, with Mahoney being [[OnlySaneMan the most normal and sane among them]].
However, the chief of police, outraged by the mayor's lowered requirements, decides that the new cadets should be forced to quit rather than being thrown out. Lieutenant Harris, who trains the cadets, agrees with the plan and employs tactics to make their lives as miserable as possible so that they do in fact quit. Mahoney tries many schemes to get thrown out anyway, but begins to bond with his fellow cadets.
Among these characters include [[TheBigGuy Moses Hightower]], a GentleGiant and former florist, [[TheLancer Larvell Jones]], master of both martial arts and vocal effects (played by veteran performer Michael Winslow), [[TheChick Karen Thompson]], Mahoney's LoveInterest and the main reason he doesn't bail out of the academy completely, [[MoreDakka Eugene Tackleberry]], gun enthusiast and [[CrazyAwesome off his rocker in that regard]], and Laverne Hooks, a shy, mousy woman who is also accident prone.
Gradually, and surprisingly, many of the misfits grow into competent officers.
This spawned a total of six sequel films, a live-action TV series, as well as a children's cartoon series and a fantastic amount of merchandising. There has also been talk of an eighth Police Academy film being directed by Steve Guttenberg.
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!!The various sequels include:
* '''Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment''' (1985). The misfits have graduated from the Academy. The film follows several of them in their first assignment to a police precinct. They have to face a local gang. The main character to not return is Officer Thompson, while it introduces Bobcat Goldthwait as the gang leader and a member of the force in later installments.
* '''Police Academy 3: Back in Training''' (1986). There are two Police Academies in New York. The first being the familiar establishment of the first film, the other being a military-style organization. With the city deciding to axe one of them, the former misfits want to ensure the survival of their academy.
* '''Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol'''(1987). Commandant Eric Lassard (George Gaynes) decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with his officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). The former misfits have to do the training and deal with sabotage efforts from within the police.
* '''Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach'''(1988). Lassard is reaching retirement age. But first he is invited to Miami to the National Police Chiefs Convention. He is to receive an award for his efforts. He brings along some of his favorite students. He unwittingly interferes with the plans of a local group of jewel thieves. The New York cops get to fight Miami criminals across Miami Beach and the Everglades.
* '''Police Academy 6: City Under Siege'''(1989). New York City is facing a string of high-profile robberies by a gang. Lassard and his crew are assigned with capturing them. However the criminals seem to learn of any police plan ahead of time, indicating the presence of a Mole in the ranks. The gang members also appear to have [[PsychoRangers skills equal]] to the most eccentric members of the force.
* '''Police Academy: Mission to Moscow '''(1994). An attempt to revive the series. Russian Commandant Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov (ChristopherLee) needs help against the local mafia. He decides to ask for assistance from the United States police. Lassard and his crew get the assignment. Meanwhile, mob boss Konstantine Konali (RonPerlman) plans to bring down any computer security system in the world.
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!!The television incarnations of the franchise include:
* '''[[AnimatedAdaptation Police Academy: The Animated Series]]''' (1988-1989). A SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon poduced by RubySpears Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Featuring animated versions of the characters from the film series, along with a new supporting cast.
* '''Police Academy: The Series''' (1997-1998). A live-action show, featuring some of the newest recruits of the academy. Sgt. Larvell "Motor Mouth" Jones was the only character kept from the film series. Lasted 1 season, 26 episodes.
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!! This Movie Series Contains Examples Of:
* AbnormalAmmo: Tackleberry's tear gas round in the second film and the tracking device from the seventh.
* ActorExistenceFailure: Unfortunately, [[CrazyAwesome Tackleberry]] won't be returning for the eighth movie.
** Nor will Hightower.
** Or House.
* AFatherToHisMen: Commandant Lassard. Mahoney displays some signs of this also.
* AnimatedAdaptation
* AssShove: Lt. Harris and the horse, among other incidents.
* BadassBiker: Tackleberry from the second movie on.
* BadassUnintentional: The entire cast (Except Hightower, Callahan, and Tackleberry, who are just {{Badass}}. Oh, and Jones. Even Mahoney, sometimes. [[DisSimile Actually...]]).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Throw racist comments around Sweet-old Moses Hightower and he'll let you have it!!
** And the race card had to be played twice to provoke a violent reaction. The first time simply invokes a stern look, while the second was in defense of a fellow officer.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Hooks.
* {{BFG}}: Tackleberry's other weapons of choice other than HandCannons are generally these.
* BirdsOfAFeather: when Tackelberry meets new partner Sgt. Kathleen Kirkland. Her family could probably count too.
* BoobsOfSteel: Callahan is demonstrably the best unarmed fighter among the female cast, as well as one of the most brutal cops in the show. Camera angles always accentuate her large chest.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Commandant Lassard, particularly as he is allowed to remain on well past retirement age. Most of the characters to a lesser extent.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The first four films were filmed entirely or primarily in Toronto.
** Averted in the later films (the ones in Miami and Moscow were indeed filmed there, with the fifth film the only one of the series to be shot entirely in California).
* CarSkiing: In the beginning of the first movie, Mahoney uses car skiing to park a belligerent businessman's car in an otherwise full parking lot.
* ChainLinkFence: Spoofed in one of the movies when Lt. Harris and his minion climbs a chainlink fence only to have a caretaker come along and unlock the gate while they're climbing over it.
* ChaseScene: Several, but that's to be expected with seven films and two series. Strangely, they rarely involve police cars...
** The third film culminates with the instructors and cadets using jet skis to chase speedboats.
** The fourth film involves hot-air balloons and propellor planes.
** The fifth film has a chase involving airboats.
** The sixth film has the BigBad in a cherry picker, followed by both a [[CoolCar monster truck]] and a bus.
* ChewToy: Leslie Barbara in the 1st movie, who only joined the police academy after getting picked on by a gang of bullies. [[TheDogBitesBack He eventually gets his revenge on them during a citywide riot]].
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: A lot of characters disappear between each of the films:
** ''Their First Assignment'': Cadets Leslie Barbara, Karen Thompson, and George Martín.
** ''Back in Training'': Capt. Pete Lassard and Sgt. Vinnie Schtulman.
** ''Citizens on Patrol'': Cmdnt. Mauser, Sgt. Kyle Blanks, Mrs. Fackler, and Cadets Hedges, and Karen Adams.
** ''Assignment Miami Beach'': Sgt. Carey Mahoney, Officer Tomoko Nogata, Sgt. Chad Copeland, and Officers Sweetchuck and Zed.
** ''City Under Siege'': Officer Tommy "House" Conklin.
** ''Mission to Moscow'': Sgt. Nick Lassard, Sgt. Laverne Hooks, Sgt. Douglas Fackler, Lt. Proctor, Lt. Moses Hightower, and Commissioner Henry Hurst.
** The only characters to not suffer from this were Cmdnt. Eric Lassard, Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry, & Sgt. Larvell Jones, who appeared in all seven films and both series. Capt. Thaddeus Harris appeared in only five of the films (he was absent in the second and third chapters), while Capt. Debbie Callahan appeared in only six (she was absent in the second chapter).
* CloudCuckoolander: Commandant Lassard, so very much. Larvell Jones might also qualify, playing video game sound effects in the middle of the night.
* CoolShades: Tackleberry's.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: A lot of the characters, but Eric Lassard is a repeat offender.
* CuteButCacophonic: Cadet Hooks is a soft-spoken, timid cadet for much of the 1st movie, but when she hits her sweet spot, she can be heard in Spain.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: The sixth movie's plot.
* DaChief: Commissioner Hurst.
* ADateWithRosiePalms
* DarkReprise: In several moments, the main theme is played in a different key.
* DemotedToExtra: Eric Lassard in the second and, to a lesser extent, seventh films.
* DiabolusExNihilo: The climax of the third and fourth movies involve problems that appear out of nowhere, and presumably don't even exist before said climax. In the fourth movie, Harris inadvertently causes the crisis. Fackler unknowingly caused one in the first film.
* DisasterDominoes: Fackler is often the cause of these. In the first movie, he causes a citywide riot ''completely by accident''.
* DisguisedInDrag: Cadet Martin in the first movie did this to a minor degree to sneak in and out of female cadets' rooms.
* DistractedByTheSexy: In the sixth movie, a man drops a barbell on his chest in the gym and almost dies because everyone is too busy watching Callahan to notice.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Hightower, he is rather careful around people but property damage can and has happened.
* DonutMessWithACop: Surprisingly for a comedy movie series about the police, this trope doesn't get played until the fourth film. Then Zed tries to teach the students the most important thing to know while on patrol: how to eat a doughnut.
* {{Expy}}: Multiple times characters left, but were replaced by other characters with identical personalities and characteristics. For example, Nick Lassard, who joins the cast in the fifth movie, is identical in character to Carey Mahoney, who left after the fourth movie. Kyle Connors, who shows up in the seventh movie, is also near-identical to Mahoney and Nick Lassard. The characters Thaddeus Harris and Mauser are also almost identical.
* ExtendedDisarming: In the 2nd movie, it involves Tackleberry and Kathleen Kirkland (new partner-turned-paramour whom he would later marry) getting ready for romantic relations. After the lights go out a forgotten sidearm discharges. Followed by a satisfied moan from Kirkland.
* FairCop: Every single movie.
* FatAndSkinny: Mauser and Proctor
* {{Fauxreigner}}: In the first movie, George Martin pretends to be Latin American because the ladies love it.
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Just look at the number of TurnOnTropes that apply to Callahan.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the first and second films, Commandant Lassard is generally quite competent, if slightly ineffectual. Starting with the third film however, he becomes more and more absent-minded. May be justified because he is getting older.
* FruitCart: Happens in the sixth movie.
* GayBarReveal: The Blue Oyster.
** If you're in this movie, you're straight, and you hear "El Bimbo", RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
* GentleGiant: Moses Hightower.
* HandCannon: Tackleberry's sidearm. During its first appearance on the range in the first movie, when asked where he got it, he replies that it was from his mother.
* HassleFreeHotwire: Zed, a criminal-turned-cop, accomplishes this by ripping out the appropriate wires and ''biting them''.
* HeelFaceTurn: Zed is the lead villain in the 2nd movie. In the 3rd, he joins the police academy.
* HeliumSpeech: In the fourth movie, the cadets swap an oxygen bottle for a helium bottle to prank Harris.
* HotAmazon: Callahan, and ''how''.
* IKEAWeaponry
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Tackleberry. He is able to write the phrase "HAVE A NICE DAY" by simple application of MoreDakka.
* InevitableWaterfall: Seen in the fourth movie.
* KnockKnockJoke
* LatinLover: See "Fauxreigner", above.
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Subverted in the fourth movie.
* {{Leatherman}}: The denizens of the Blue Oyster Bar.
* LimaSyndrome: In the fifth film, Eric Lassard gets taken as a hostage but the hostage taker eventually felt sorry for him.
* LoweredRecruitingStandards: What kicks off the first movie's plot.
* MakeMeWannaShout: In the third movie, Zed unhinged a door at the training grounds by screaming at the lock.
* MarshmallowHell: In the third movie:
-->"I love America!"
* MurderousThighs: Callahan's unarmed combat training includes this. After her first demonstration, ''everyone'' volunteers to be next.
* NamesTheSame: The fourth movie introduces a new character named House. [[HouseMD Not that one.]]
* NatureAbhorsAVirgin: Tackleberry.
* OhCrap: Lt. Harris, when Hightower gets pissed when someone made a racist remark on Hooks. He told him to stand down, then threaten him by expulsion.
* PoliceLineup
* PsychoRangers / QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Wilson Heights Gang in the 6th movie.
* TheQuietOne: Moses Hightower who usually says only a few words at a time.
* RealMenWearPink: Moses Hightower owned a flower shop before becoming a cop.
* RecycledTheSeries
* RoguesGallery: The cartoon had one.
* ScaryBlackMan: Hightower
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the third movie.
--->'''Cabbie''' "Look, wise guy, don't think a blue uniform scares me."
---> '''Mahoney''' "No, sir, this is not a scary uniform."
---> '''Cabbie''' "No, it's not a scary uniform."
---> '''Mahoney''' "Hightower!"
---> '''Bystander''' "That's a scary uniform."
* SequelGoesForeign: PoliceAcademy: Mission to Moscow.
* ShootingGallery: One of the training exercises in the first movie, and used to demonstrate how nuts Tackleberry is. Barbara accidentally fires his shotgun as soon as he picks it up and "kills" an innocent target, and then turns around to ask the instructor what to do next; he sweeps the shotgun muzzle across the entire crowd and ''everybody hits the dirt''... except Tackleberry, who calmly remains standing and smiling.
** Immediately followed by Tackleberry's turn, where he charges into the buildings and shoots one of the targets ''several times from behind''.
** Tackleberry is unconcerned about Barbara's inneptitude because he alone noticed that he [[FridgeBrilliance had not pumped the shotgun after taking his shot]]. Still wouldn't want to risk it myself, though...
* ShrinkingViolet: ...although Cadet Hooks can be [[CuteButCacophonic damn loud]] when she wants to be.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/LethalWeapon'' in number 6, where Tackleberry's villain counterpart shoots a smiley face into a wall, then Tackleberry trumps him by writing [[MoreDakka HAVE A NICE DAY]] with his machine gun.
* SpitTake: Tony in ''Police Academy 5''.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Became the case starting with the third film.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Lt. Mauser of the second and third films and Capt. Harris of the first and other sequels are extremely similar in personality. Both have an instant dislike of the protagonists and of Mahoney in particular, resulting in them being the butts of many pranks. In fact, they are so similar that when Harris returns for the other sequels, he's inherited Mauser's assistant, Proctor, and the character dynamic has not changed at all. The reason for this change was that Art Metrano (who played Mauser) was badly injured in a fall during production of the third film, and was unable to continue his role as Mauser, so therefore Harris was brought back.
** Sgt. Mahoney of the first four movies, Sgt. Nick Lassard of the fifth and sixth movies, and Cadet Kyle Connors of the seventh movie, since they're all good-natured troublemakers who fight for justice.
** One new character in the fourth movie seems intended to inherit Mahoney's role. For added points, he's played by David Spade.
* TanLines: In the fifth movie, Harris is tanning on the beach. Nick writes "DORK" in sunblock on his chest. When he wakes up and walks on the crowded beach, HilarityEnsues.
** He did it because Harris called him a buttwipe for standing in his sun.
-->'''Nick Lassard''': "Buttwipe, huh? NeverHeardThatOneBefore.
* TerribleTrio:
** The jewel thieves Tony, Mouse, and Sugar in ''Police Academy 5''.
** The Wilson Heights gang in ''Police Academy 6''.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Cadets Blankes and Copeland (though they're more {{jerkass}}es, and racists).
* ThoseTwoGuys: Sweetchuck and Zed.
* ToiletHumour: Several times, including a fart in court, swapping a shampoo bottle with a bottle of quick-setting glue and a spray-deodorant can with a pepperspray can, and a surrepitously-relocated porta-potty.
* TheTrickster: Mahoney.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Lt. Mauser.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Why Captain Harris hasn't been dishonorably discharged (or whatever the police equivalent is) is a mystery.
** KickedUpstairs maybe?
** Proctor also. He's not exactly playing with a full deck, yet he makes it all the way up to Lieutenant.
* UnfortunateName: Cadet Leslie Barbara. Who is male.
* VerbalTic: Commandant Lassard. Many, many, many times.
* VillainousBreakdown: Tony in ''Police Academy 5'' (briefly).
-->''[[ThisIsSparta GIVE ME! BACK! MY! CAMERA!]]''
* VoiceChangeling: Jones and to lesser extent, the main villain in the 6th film.
* WetSariScene: Callahan's lifesaving demonstration, with no shortage of volunteers.
* WhatKeptYou: The fourth movie.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Tackleberry's brother-in-law Bud Kirkland may have been brought up on boxing by his dad, but all he has is one solid punch that gets the job done each time.
** Tackleberry's solution to any situation is to shoot at it. This includes, but is not limited to, extinguishing a man's cigar, getting a refund from a payphone and ''getting a cat out of a tree''.
* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: The Blue Oyster.
* YesMan: Lt. Proctor.
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[[caption-width-right:136:"Does anyone else want to complain about my technique?"]]
''Police Academy'' is a 1984 comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson, and starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall and G.W. Bailey. It grossed approximately $146 million worldwide and spawned six sequels of varying quality.
A new mayor has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes. The main character, Carey Mahoney, is a repeat offender (namely he's a KarmicTrickster with a bad habit of retaliating to offenses in criminal ways) who is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail, a proposal by the officer who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his father. Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this and decides that he will get himself thrown out, which would leave him free of the deal. The new standards have resulted in a rather large group of RagTagBunchOfMisfits, with Mahoney being [[OnlySaneMan the most normal and sane among them]].
However, the chief of police, outraged by the mayor's lowered requirements, decides that the new cadets should be forced to quit rather than being thrown out. Lieutenant Harris, who trains the cadets, agrees with the plan and employs tactics to make their lives as miserable as possible so that they do in fact quit. Mahoney tries many schemes to get thrown out anyway, but begins to bond with his fellow cadets.
Among these characters include [[TheBigGuy Moses Hightower]], a GentleGiant and former florist, [[TheLancer Larvell Jones]], master of both martial arts and vocal effects (played by veteran performer Michael Winslow), [[TheChick Karen Thompson]], Mahoney's LoveInterest and the main reason he doesn't bail out of the academy completely, [[MoreDakka Eugene Tackleberry]], gun enthusiast and [[CrazyAwesome off his rocker in that regard]], and Laverne Hooks, a shy, mousy woman who is also accident prone.
Gradually, and surprisingly, many of the misfits grow into competent officers.
This spawned a total of six sequel films, a live-action TV series, as well as a children's cartoon series and a fantastic amount of merchandising. There has also been talk of an eighth Police Academy film being directed by Steve Guttenberg.
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!!The various sequels include:
* '''Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment''' (1985). The misfits have graduated from the Academy. The film follows several of them in their first assignment to a police precinct. They have to face a local gang. The main character to not return is Officer Thompson, while it introduces Bobcat Goldthwait as the gang leader and a member of the force in later installments.
* '''Police Academy 3: Back in Training''' (1986). There are two Police Academies in New York. The first being the familiar establishment of the first film, the other being a military-style organization. With the city deciding to axe one of them, the former misfits want to ensure the survival of their academy.
* '''Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol'''(1987). Commandant Eric Lassard (George Gaynes) decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with his officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). The former misfits have to do the training and deal with sabotage efforts from within the police.
* '''Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach'''(1988). Lassard is reaching retirement age. But first he is invited to Miami to the National Police Chiefs Convention. He is to receive an award for his efforts. He brings along some of his favorite students. He unwittingly interferes with the plans of a local group of jewel thieves. The New York cops get to fight Miami criminals across Miami Beach and the Everglades.
* '''Police Academy 6: City Under Siege'''(1989). New York City is facing a string of high-profile robberies by a gang. Lassard and his crew are assigned with capturing them. However the criminals seem to learn of any police plan ahead of time, indicating the presence of a Mole in the ranks. The gang members also appear to have [[PsychoRangers skills equal]] to the most eccentric members of the force.
* '''Police Academy: Mission to Moscow '''(1994). An attempt to revive the series. Russian Commandant Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov (ChristopherLee) needs help against the local mafia. He decides to ask for assistance from the United States police. Lassard and his crew get the assignment. Meanwhile, mob boss Konstantine Konali (RonPerlman) plans to bring down any computer security system in the world.
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!!The television incarnations of the franchise include:
* '''[[AnimatedAdaptation Police Academy: The Animated Series]]''' (1988-1989). A SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon poduced by RubySpears Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Featuring animated versions of the characters from the film series, along with a new supporting cast.
* '''Police Academy: The Series''' (1997-1998). A live-action show, featuring some of the newest recruits of the academy. Sgt. Larvell "Motor Mouth" Jones was the only character kept from the film series. Lasted 1 season, 26 episodes.
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!! This Movie Series Contains Examples Of:
* AbnormalAmmo: Tackleberry's tear gas round in the second film and the tracking device from the seventh.
* ActorExistenceFailure: Unfortunately, [[CrazyAwesome Tackleberry]] won't be returning for the eighth movie.
** Nor will Hightower.
** Or House.
* AFatherToHisMen: Commandant Lassard. Mahoney displays some signs of this also.
* AnimatedAdaptation
* AssShove: Lt. Harris and the horse, among other incidents.
* BadassBiker: Tackleberry from the second movie on.
* BadassUnintentional: The entire cast (Except Hightower, Callahan, and Tackleberry, who are just {{Badass}}. Oh, and Jones. Even Mahoney, sometimes. [[DisSimile Actually...]]).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Throw racist comments around Sweet-old Moses Hightower and he'll let you have it!!
** And the race card had to be played twice to provoke a violent reaction. The first time simply invokes a stern look, while the second was in defense of a fellow officer.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Hooks.
* {{BFG}}: Tackleberry's other weapons of choice other than HandCannons are generally these.
* BirdsOfAFeather: when Tackelberry meets new partner Sgt. Kathleen Kirkland. Her family could probably count too.
* BoobsOfSteel: Callahan is demonstrably the best unarmed fighter among the female cast, as well as one of the most brutal cops in the show. Camera angles always accentuate her large chest.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Commandant Lassard, particularly as he is allowed to remain on well past retirement age. Most of the characters to a lesser extent.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The first four films were filmed entirely or primarily in Toronto.
** Averted in the later films (the ones in Miami and Moscow were indeed filmed there, with the fifth film the only one of the series to be shot entirely in California).
* CarSkiing: In the beginning of the first movie, Mahoney uses car skiing to park a belligerent businessman's car in an otherwise full parking lot.
* ChainLinkFence: Spoofed in one of the movies when Lt. Harris and his minion climbs a chainlink fence only to have a caretaker come along and unlock the gate while they're climbing over it.
* ChaseScene: Several, but that's to be expected with seven films and two series. Strangely, they rarely involve police cars...
** The third film culminates with the instructors and cadets using jet skis to chase speedboats.
** The fourth film involves hot-air balloons and propellor planes.
** The fifth film has a chase involving airboats.
** The sixth film has the BigBad in a cherry picker, followed by both a [[CoolCar monster truck]] and a bus.
* ChewToy: Leslie Barbara in the 1st movie, who only joined the police academy after getting picked on by a gang of bullies. [[TheDogBitesBack He eventually gets his revenge on them during a citywide riot]].
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: A lot of characters disappear between each of the films:
** ''Their First Assignment'': Cadets Leslie Barbara, Karen Thompson, and George Martín.
** ''Back in Training'': Capt. Pete Lassard and Sgt. Vinnie Schtulman.
** ''Citizens on Patrol'': Cmdnt. Mauser, Sgt. Kyle Blanks, Mrs. Fackler, and Cadets Hedges, and Karen Adams.
** ''Assignment Miami Beach'': Sgt. Carey Mahoney, Officer Tomoko Nogata, Sgt. Chad Copeland, and Officers Sweetchuck and Zed.
** ''City Under Siege'': Officer Tommy "House" Conklin.
** ''Mission to Moscow'': Sgt. Nick Lassard, Sgt. Laverne Hooks, Sgt. Douglas Fackler, Lt. Proctor, Lt. Moses Hightower, and Commissioner Henry Hurst.
** The only characters to not suffer from this were Cmdnt. Eric Lassard, Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry, & Sgt. Larvell Jones, who appeared in all seven films and both series. Capt. Thaddeus Harris appeared in only five of the films (he was absent in the second and third chapters), while Capt. Debbie Callahan appeared in only six (she was absent in the second chapter).
* CloudCuckoolander: Commandant Lassard, so very much. Larvell Jones might also qualify, playing video game sound effects in the middle of the night.
* CoolShades: Tackleberry's.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: A lot of the characters, but Eric Lassard is a repeat offender.
* CuteButCacophonic: Cadet Hooks is a soft-spoken, timid cadet for much of the 1st movie, but when she hits her sweet spot, she can be heard in Spain.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: The sixth movie's plot.
* DaChief: Commissioner Hurst.
* ADateWithRosiePalms
* DarkReprise: In several moments, the main theme is played in a different key.
* DemotedToExtra: Eric Lassard in the second and, to a lesser extent, seventh films.
* DiabolusExNihilo: The climax of the third and fourth movies involve problems that appear out of nowhere, and presumably don't even exist before said climax. In the fourth movie, Harris inadvertently causes the crisis. Fackler unknowingly caused one in the first film.
* DisasterDominoes: Fackler is often the cause of these. In the first movie, he causes a citywide riot ''completely by accident''.
* DisguisedInDrag: Cadet Martin in the first movie did this to a minor degree to sneak in and out of female cadets' rooms.
* DistractedByTheSexy: In the sixth movie, a man drops a barbell on his chest in the gym and almost dies because everyone is too busy watching Callahan to notice.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Hightower, he is rather careful around people but property damage can and has happened.
* DonutMessWithACop: Surprisingly for a comedy movie series about the police, this trope doesn't get played until the fourth film. Then Zed tries to teach the students the most important thing to know while on patrol: how to eat a doughnut.
* {{Expy}}: Multiple times characters left, but were replaced by other characters with identical personalities and characteristics. For example, Nick Lassard, who joins the cast in the fifth movie, is identical in character to Carey Mahoney, who left after the fourth movie. Kyle Connors, who shows up in the seventh movie, is also near-identical to Mahoney and Nick Lassard. The characters Thaddeus Harris and Mauser are also almost identical.
* ExtendedDisarming: In the 2nd movie, it involves Tackleberry and Kathleen Kirkland (new partner-turned-paramour whom he would later marry) getting ready for romantic relations. After the lights go out a forgotten sidearm discharges. Followed by a satisfied moan from Kirkland.
* FairCop: Every single movie.
* FatAndSkinny: Mauser and Proctor
* {{Fauxreigner}}: In the first movie, George Martin pretends to be Latin American because the ladies love it.
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Just look at the number of TurnOnTropes that apply to Callahan.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the first and second films, Commandant Lassard is generally quite competent, if slightly ineffectual. Starting with the third film however, he becomes more and more absent-minded. May be justified because he is getting older.
* FruitCart: Happens in the sixth movie.
* GayBarReveal: The Blue Oyster.
** If you're in this movie, you're straight, and you hear "El Bimbo", RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
* GentleGiant: Moses Hightower.
* HandCannon: Tackleberry's sidearm. During its first appearance on the range in the first movie, when asked where he got it, he replies that it was from his mother.
* HassleFreeHotwire: Zed, a criminal-turned-cop, accomplishes this by ripping out the appropriate wires and ''biting them''.
* HeelFaceTurn: Zed is the lead villain in the 2nd movie. In the 3rd, he joins the police academy.
* HeliumSpeech: In the fourth movie, the cadets swap an oxygen bottle for a helium bottle to prank Harris.
* HotAmazon: Callahan, and ''how''.
* IKEAWeaponry
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Tackleberry. He is able to write the phrase "HAVE A NICE DAY" by simple application of MoreDakka.
* InevitableWaterfall: Seen in the fourth movie.
* KnockKnockJoke
* LatinLover: See "Fauxreigner", above.
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Subverted in the fourth movie.
* {{Leatherman}}: The denizens of the Blue Oyster Bar.
* LimaSyndrome: In the fifth film, Eric Lassard gets taken as a hostage but the hostage taker eventually felt sorry for him.
* LoweredRecruitingStandards: What kicks off the first movie's plot.
* MakeMeWannaShout: In the third movie, Zed unhinged a door at the training grounds by screaming at the lock.
* MarshmallowHell: In the third movie:
-->"I love America!"
* MurderousThighs: Callahan's unarmed combat training includes this. After her first demonstration, ''everyone'' volunteers to be next.
* NamesTheSame: The fourth movie introduces a new character named House. [[HouseMD Not that one.]]
* NatureAbhorsAVirgin: Tackleberry.
* OhCrap: Lt. Harris, when Hightower gets pissed when someone made a racist remark on Hooks. He told him to stand down, then threaten him by expulsion.
* PoliceLineup
* PsychoRangers / QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Wilson Heights Gang in the 6th movie.
* TheQuietOne: Moses Hightower who usually says only a few words at a time.
* RealMenWearPink: Moses Hightower owned a flower shop before becoming a cop.
* RecycledTheSeries
* RoguesGallery: The cartoon had one.
* ScaryBlackMan: Hightower
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the third movie.
--->'''Cabbie''' "Look, wise guy, don't think a blue uniform scares me."
---> '''Mahoney''' "No, sir, this is not a scary uniform."
---> '''Cabbie''' "No, it's not a scary uniform."
---> '''Mahoney''' "Hightower!"
---> '''Bystander''' "That's a scary uniform."
* SequelGoesForeign: PoliceAcademy: Mission to Moscow.
* ShootingGallery: One of the training exercises in the first movie, and used to demonstrate how nuts Tackleberry is. Barbara accidentally fires his shotgun as soon as he picks it up and "kills" an innocent target, and then turns around to ask the instructor what to do next; he sweeps the shotgun muzzle across the entire crowd and ''everybody hits the dirt''... except Tackleberry, who calmly remains standing and smiling.
** Immediately followed by Tackleberry's turn, where he charges into the buildings and shoots one of the targets ''several times from behind''.
** Tackleberry is unconcerned about Barbara's inneptitude because he alone noticed that he [[FridgeBrilliance had not pumped the shotgun after taking his shot]]. Still wouldn't want to risk it myself, though...
* ShrinkingViolet: ...although Cadet Hooks can be [[CuteButCacophonic damn loud]] when she wants to be.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/LethalWeapon'' in number 6, where Tackleberry's villain counterpart shoots a smiley face into a wall, then Tackleberry trumps him by writing [[MoreDakka HAVE A NICE DAY]] with his machine gun.
* SpitTake: Tony in ''Police Academy 5''.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Became the case starting with the third film.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Lt. Mauser of the second and third films and Capt. Harris of the first and other sequels are extremely similar in personality. Both have an instant dislike of the protagonists and of Mahoney in particular, resulting in them being the butts of many pranks. In fact, they are so similar that when Harris returns for the other sequels, he's inherited Mauser's assistant, Proctor, and the character dynamic has not changed at all. The reason for this change was that Art Metrano (who played Mauser) was badly injured in a fall during production of the third film, and was unable to continue his role as Mauser, so therefore Harris was brought back.
** Sgt. Mahoney of the first four movies, Sgt. Nick Lassard of the fifth and sixth movies, and Cadet Kyle Connors of the seventh movie, since they're all good-natured troublemakers who fight for justice.
** One new character in the fourth movie seems intended to inherit Mahoney's role. For added points, he's played by David Spade.
* TanLines: In the fifth movie, Harris is tanning on the beach. Nick writes "DORK" in sunblock on his chest. When he wakes up and walks on the crowded beach, HilarityEnsues.
** He did it because Harris called him a buttwipe for standing in his sun.
-->'''Nick Lassard''': "Buttwipe, huh? NeverHeardThatOneBefore.
* TerribleTrio:
** The jewel thieves Tony, Mouse, and Sugar in ''Police Academy 5''.
** The Wilson Heights gang in ''Police Academy 6''.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Cadets Blankes and Copeland (though they're more {{jerkass}}es, and racists).
* ThoseTwoGuys: Sweetchuck and Zed.
* ToiletHumour: Several times, including a fart in court, swapping a shampoo bottle with a bottle of quick-setting glue and a spray-deodorant can with a pepperspray can, and a surrepitously-relocated porta-potty.
* TheTrickster: Mahoney.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Lt. Mauser.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Why Captain Harris hasn't been dishonorably discharged (or whatever the police equivalent is) is a mystery.
** KickedUpstairs maybe?
** Proctor also. He's not exactly playing with a full deck, yet he makes it all the way up to Lieutenant.
* UnfortunateName: Cadet Leslie Barbara. Who is male.
* VerbalTic: Commandant Lassard. Many, many, many times.
* VillainousBreakdown: Tony in ''Police Academy 5'' (briefly).
-->''[[ThisIsSparta GIVE ME! BACK! MY! CAMERA!]]''
* VoiceChangeling: Jones and to lesser extent, the main villain in the 6th film.
* WetSariScene: Callahan's lifesaving demonstration, with no shortage of volunteers.
* WhatKeptYou: The fourth movie.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Tackleberry's brother-in-law Bud Kirkland may have been brought up on boxing by his dad, but all he has is one solid punch that gets the job done each time.
** Tackleberry's solution to any situation is to shoot at it. This includes, but is not limited to, extinguishing a man's cigar, getting a refund from a payphone and ''getting a cat out of a tree''.
* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: The Blue Oyster.
* YesMan: Lt. Proctor.
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