History Film / TheNakedGun

* ''The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!'' (1988) (While trying to clear the name of Officer Nordberg, Drebin uncovers a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II)
* ''Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear'' (1991). (Drebin meets the new man in Jane's life, who is involved in a kidnapping scheme)
* ''Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult'' (1994). (Drebin infiltrates a gang to find out what is the target they are going to destroy. Drebin must also save his faltering marriage)

** The bad guys from all 3 films die like this.

*** Which began with a [[TheTeaser Cold Open]] that sends up ''TheUntouchables'' (see BabyCarriage above)

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the second film, the villain (played by Robert Goulet) survives falling out of a window. When he gets up, [[KarmaHoudini it seems like Goulet is going to escape]]. Just then, a lion appears out of nowhere and kills him on the spot. It is however [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments incredibly funny]] and a great BrickJoke since earlier in the film Drebin released a bunch of animals from the zoo.

* NotDistractedBySexy: Tanya's failed attempt to distract a guard in 33 and 1/3.

** In the second film, there is a parody of the sexual pottery scene from ''{{Ghost}}''. ''Ghost'' was directed by Jerry Zucker, who co-created ''Police Squad'' and co-wrote the first film.

* RalphWiggum: Frank

** In the third movie, Drebin is at the store squeezing grapefruits to test for ripeness while looking the other way. A woman in a low cut dress walks by, and Drebin [[ThanksForTheMammaries mistakes her breast for a grapefruit and squeezes it]]. He gets slapped.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the third movie, the inmates at the state prison (where Frank has gone undercover) riot in the cafeteria simply because they don't like the food they're being served. As depicted in the film the gag is quite funny, but in fact something like that ''did'' once happen at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco (it was known as "The Spaghetti Riot"). In the movie, this culminates in a SugarWiki/FunnyMoment / SuagrWiki/MomentOfAwesome when the prisoners ''make the guards eat the awful food''!

* CosmopolitanCouncil: In the beginning of the first movie. It includes [[BloodKnight Ayatollah]] {{K|nightTemplar}}homeini of Iran, Ugandan President [[CompleteMonster Idi Amin]], PLO Chairman [[WellIntentionedExtremist Yasir Arafat]], Col. [[FauxAffablyEvil Muamar Quadafi]] of Libya, and Soviet Premier [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Mikhail Gorbachev]], among others.

* MistakenForGay: When trying to gain access to the baseball field in part 1, Drebin knocks out one of the umpires so he can steal his outfit. He throws the unconscious umpire on a table and undoes both their pants, when a cleaning guy happens to walk in. He just shrugs it off with "sorry fellas," and continues his rounds.

* [[OnceAnEpisode Once A Movie]]: A visit to the lab to view the new [[JamesBond Q]]-worthy gadgets
* TheOtherDarrin: Neither Hocken nor Nor(d)berg was played by the same actor as in the series.

*** Which began with a ColdOpen that sends up ''TheUntouchables'' (see BabyCarriage above)

* WhoAreYou: At the beginning of the first ''[[TheNakedGun Naked Gun]]'' movie after beating up the various Arab leaders, Idi Amin and MikhailGorbachev:

* ActingForTwo: Joe Grifasi plays the dock worker in the first movie and the Oscar director in the third. Also, Richard Griffiths in the second movie; somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that one of the characters he played was actually a professional impersonator, hired specifically to pose as the other one.

** [[{{ParodiedTrope}} "All right, who else is almost dead?"]]
* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the third movie, the inmates at the state prison (where Frank has gone undercover) riot in the cafeteria simply because they don't like the food they're being served. As depicted in the film the gag is quite funny, but in fact something like that ''did'' once happen at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco (it was known as "The Spaghetti Riot"). In the movie, this culminates in a CrowningMomentOfFunny / [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Awesome]] when the prisoners ''make the guards eat the awful food''!

* AmusingInjuries: With or without [[GoryDiscretionShot Injury Discretion Shots]]

* AscendedExtra: Nordberg - originally used for one-shot gags in ''PoliceSquad!'', he became the recurring ButtMonkey for the ''Naked Gun'' movies, played by [[TheOtherDarrin O.J. Simpson]].

--> '''Mayor''': That was a Shakespeare in the Park production of ''JuliusCaesar'', you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones.

* TheCameo: [[WeirdAlYankovic "Weird Al" Yankovic]] in all three films.

* CasualDangerDialogue: Usually Drebin, but the driving instructor in the first movie puts Hindu cows to shame.
* CelebrityParadox: AnnaNicoleSmith also appears on a ''{{Playboy}}'' cover in the third movie... which lampshades this at the same time by [[spoiler:giving Anna's character a GagPenis. [[FridgeBrilliance Think about it for a second]].]]

* CosmopolitanCouncil: In the beginning of the first movie. It includes [[BloodKnight Ayatollah]] [[KnightTemplar Khomeini]] of Iran, Ugandan President [[CompleteMonster Idi Amin]], PLO Chairman [[WellIntentionedExtremist Yasir Arafat]], Col. [[EvillyAffable Muamar Quadafi]] of Libya, and Soviet Premier [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Mikhail Gorbachev]], among others.

* CrowningMusicofAwesome: In ''33⅓'' the music in the background during the starting of the ''[[Film/TheUntouchables Untouchables]]'' shootout parody.
* CrushParade: At the end of the first film, [[BigBad Vincent Ludwig]] falls off a high ledge onto a street below where he gets hit by a bus, flattened by a steam-roller, and then trampled by a marching band playing "LouieLouie."

* DisneyVillainDeath: Hapsburg from ''2½'' would've died from the fall out of a tall building window, had it not been for an awning cushioning his fall. However, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny he was killed by a lion immediately after anyway.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the second film, the villain (played by Robert Goulet) survives falling out of a window. When he gets up, [[KarmaHoudini it seems like Goulet is going to escape]]. Just then, a lion appears out of nowhere and kills him on the spot. It is however [[CrowningMomentOfFunny incredibly funny]] and a great BrickJoke since earlier in the film Drebin released a bunch of animals from the zoo.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: [[spoiler: Tanya's]] silhouette reveal in her final scene.

* FakeNationality: In the first movie, Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban plays an obviously Germanic villain (Vincent Ludwig).

** TheEvilGenius: Ma Dillon
** TheDarkChick: Tanya Peters

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The king of this form of humor. For example, in ''Naked Gun 2½'', there's a series of framed pictures in the background of the bar Frank's in, all of which are various disasters (the ''Hindenburg'', the sinking of the ''{{Titanic}}'', and....[[TakeThat Michael Dukakis]]).

--> '''Frank''': Yes. Well, when I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards. That's *my* policy.

* BiggerBad: Papshmir, TheManBehindTheMan in ''Police Squad'' and ''The Final Insult" is the over-arching antagonist of the series but has less screen time then the main villains of each movie.

* FacePalm: Happens in Naked Gun 33⅓ when Frank attempts to get the gun from Rosco while holding on the bomb in the envelope only for them to switch places causing everyone including the audience to facepalm.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The king of this form of humor. For example, in ''Naked Gun 2½", there's a series of framed pictures in the background of the bar Frank's in, all of which are various disasters (the ''Hindenburg'', the sinking of the ''{{Titanic}}'', and....[[TakeThat Michael Dukakis]]).

-->--''Naked Gun 2 trailer''

A film SpinOff of ''PoliceSquad'', following Police Lt. [[TheFool Frank Drebin]] (LeslieNielsen) as he continues to get into trouble. The films serve as parodies of the cop genre, and [[RuleOfFunny let nothing, including the blatant warping of reality and breaks in the fourth wall, get in the way of a good gag]]. The genius of the Drebin character is that Neilsen plays him almost totally straight: he's a buffoon, but he acts like a completely serious film detective even as lunacy explodes all around him, almost as if he's wandered in from a different movie.

* ''The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear'' (1991). (Drebin meets the new man in Jane's life, who is involved in a kidnapping scheme)

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: It's to be expected really.
* AscendedExtra: Nordberg - originally used for one-shot gags in ''PoliceSquad!'', he became the recurring ButtMonkey for the ''Naked Gun'' movies, played by [[TheOtherDarrin OJ Simpson]].

* BabyCarriage: The first scene of the third movie, which includes Nordberg (OJ Simpson) almost spiking the baby after catching it.
* BaitAndSwitch: Lampshaded in "Naked Gun 2½"; Frank asks the bartender to give him the strongest thing he's got, to which a muscle-heavy man walks up. Frank says, "On second thought, how about a Black Russian." The bartender looks at the camera and shakes his head, alluding that he's not going to perform the obvious punchline.

* BearTrapBed
* {{BFG}}: Nordberg's cannon in part 2.

* BigStupidDoodooHead: Frank, from 2 1/2:

--> '''Frank''': Yes. Well, when I see 5 weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards. That's *my* policy.
--> '''Mayor''': That was a Shakespeare-In-The-Park production of "Julius Caesar", you moron! You killed 5 actors! Good ones.

* TheCameo: WeirdAlYankovic in all three films.
** ''From the Files of Police Squad!'': Frank's dramatic speech is cut short when Ed informs him that the massive crowd gathered outside his plane is actually for Weird Al. They go ecstatic when he departs the plane.
** ''The Smell of Fear'': As a criminal who has taken Ed, Nordberg, and the rest of the station hostage. Frank accidentally incapacitates him when opening a door too fast.
** ''The Final Insult'': AsHimself as Vanna White's escort at the Oscars.

* CasualDangerDialogue: usually Drebin, but the driving instructor in the first movie puts Hindu cows to shame.
* CelebrityParadox: Anna Nicole Smith also appears on a Playboy cover in the third movie... which lampshades this at the same time by [[spoiler:giving Anna's character a GagPenis. [[FridgeBrilliance Think about it for a second]].]]

** As of October 2011, all of these people are either dead or no longer in power. That's right, it took 23 years for the opening sequence of "The Naked Gun" to be completely outdated.
* CreatorCameo: David Zucker (director of the first two films) appears as Davy Crockett and later as the teleprompter operator in 2½ and 33 1/3, respectively.

* CrowningMusicofAwesome: In ''33⅓'' the music in the background during the starting of the Untouchables - shootout parody.
* CrushParade: At the end of the first film, [[BigBad Vincent Ludwig]] falls off a high ledge onto a street below where he gets hit by a bus, flattened by a steam-roller, and then trampled by a marching band playing "Louie Louie."

* DisneyVillainDeath: Hapsburg from 2½ would've died from the fall out of a tall building window, had it not been for an awning cushioning his fall. However, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny he was killed by a lion immediately after anyway.]]

** WordOfGod is that the hospital was supposed to be called "Our Lady Who Never Got The Pickle" but Ricardo Montalban, a devout Catholic, requested the change.
** The hospital is name dropped as "Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle".

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The king of this form of humor. For example, in "Naked Gun 2½", there's a series of framed pictures in the background of the bar Frank's in, all of which are various disasters (the Hindenburg, the sinking of the {{Titanic}}, and....[[TakeThat Michael Dukakis]]).

--> "Oh Frank, that's so horrible! My father went the same way!"

* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: "The president of the United States!". No it's not.

* MistakenForGay: When trying to gain access to the baseball field in part 1, Drebin knocks out one of the umpires so he can steal his outfit. He throws the unconscious umpire on a table and undoes both their pants, when a cleaning guy happens to walk in. He just shrugs it off with "sorry fellas", and continues his rounds.

* NoodleIncident: In ''2 ½'', after surviving an assassination attempt:

* SevenMinuteLull: in the second movie. [[spoiler: "[[ItMakesSenseInContext I haven't had this much sex since I was a boy scout leader!]]"]]

* ShoutOut: The scene revealing the induced hypnosis is almost identical to a similar scene from the Charles Bronson classic ''Telefon'': Same setup, dialog, camera angles, you name it.

** After experiencing marital problems, Jane goes with a girlfriend on a ThelmaAndLouise road trip in the third movie. The friend is even named "Louise" and dresses just like Susan Sarandon did in that movie, [[ViewersAreMorons in case you couldn't catch the reference]].

* StatusQuoIsGod: played straight in 2½ (Frank's promotion to Captain ''and'' proposal to Jane didn't stick) but averted in 33 1/3 (not only are they married, but he's left the force).

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the first movie the Queen seems to be entirely forgotten about after the assassain is foiled. Technically she doesn't ''need'' to appear since she's out of danger but it's strange that we don't see her reaction to Frank talking down a hypnotized Jane despite multiple reaction shots from the other people in the stadium.

-->"I'm Lieutenant Frank Drebin, Police Squad. and don't ever let me catch you guys in America. ''(Drebin then falls out the window)''
* WholePlotReference: Romantic subplot aside, 33⅓ is basically a comedic retelling of ''WhiteHeat''. A police officer infiltrates a prison, befriends a violent criminal that loves his mother, and helps him escape in order to determine the site of his next crime.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the second film, the villain (played by Robert Goulet) survives falling out of a window. When he gets up, it seems like Goulet is going to escape. Just then, a lion appears out of nowhere and kills him on the spot. It is however [[CrowningMomentOfFunny incredibly funny]] and a great BrickJoke since earlier in the film Drebin released a bunch of animals from the zoo.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Tanya Peters]] never gets punished (at least not onscreen) for being affiliated with Rocko Dillon's terrorist gang, which is particularly odd since [[spoiler:in the end she is the last surviving member of the gang]]. Sure, we know that [[spoiler:[[HighHeelFaceTurn she switched sides to the good guys]] by telling Frank where the bomb had been hidden, but that shouldn't absolve her from punishment for having knowingly collaborated with killers]]. Then again, this ''is'' [[RuleOfFunny a spoof]], after all.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Whenever Drebin gets behind the wheel, something bad happens. The scene when Drebin tags along in a driving school car is especially notable, when the driving instructor instructs the student how to flip the bird.

* ComedicSociopathy: During the romance montage of the first movie, Frank and Jane come laughing out of a movie only for it to turn out to be Platoon.

* CreditsGag: In the first film, the closing credits include people getting credited by their single spoken line, people getting credited for made-up roles like "Second Second Assistant Director," and the safety warning, "In Case of Tornado: SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BASEMENT."

* HumiliationConga: Only in the ''Naked Gun'' series can you have the villain fall off a stadium ledge, be hit by a bus, flattened by a steam-roller and ''then'' a marching band playing ''Louie Louie'' walk over him.

** Precisely. Chateau [=LeBlanc=] '85 is supposed to be served slightly chilled, ''not'' room temperature!