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* ActorSharedBackground: Drebin mentions that his mother is from Wales. So is Leslie Nielsen's.
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* RealLifeRelative: Charlotte Zucker, mother of Jerry and David Zucker, plays Vincent Ludwig's secretary Dominique.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The TV cuts, which feature many extra scenes not found in the theatrical releases. They were never released to VHS, DVD, or Blu-ray, so the only way to legally see it is if you taped it off TV.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The TV cuts, which feature many extra scenes not found in the theatrical releases. They were never released to VHS, DVD, or Blu-ray, so the only way to legally see it them is if you taped it them off TV.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The TV cuts, which feature many extra scenes not found in the theatrical releases. They were never released to VHS, DVD, or Blu-ray, so the only way to legally see it is if you taped it off TV.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** FeeFiFauxPas: Played with in one of the DeletedScenes:
---> '''Frank''': Why you sniveling scum! You're no better than your old man!
---> '''Johnny''': My old man's dead!
---> '''Frank''': Oh, sorry, Johnny, I forgot.
---> '''Johnny''': Yeah, well, maybe this will help refresh your memory a little. (slips Frank a bill)
---> '''Frank''': Oh yeah, he ''is'' dead.
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** Music/WeirdAlYankovic appears in all three movies. In the first and third movies, he plays himself. However, in the second movie, he plays a criminal holding the police station at gunpoint.

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** Music/WeirdAlYankovic appears in all three movies. In the first and third movies, he plays himself. However, in the second movie, he plays a criminal holding the police station at gunpoint. (Well, we never hear the guy's name, but ''presumably'' that's not Al..)
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The baseball scenes in the first movie, which take place at an Angels home game, were actually filmed in Dodger Stadium. (Los Angeles is doubling for Anaheim here.)
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* ActorAllusion: ''33 1/3'' isn't the first time Earl Boen has been [[{{Franchise/Terminator}} a psychologist]].

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* ActorAllusion: ''33 1/3'' â…“'' isn't the first time Earl Boen has been [[{{Franchise/Terminator}} a psychologist]].
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* YouLookFamiliar: Robert Goulet previously played himself in an episode of ''Series/PoliceSquad'' as the "[[DeathByCameo celebrity guest who dies in the opening scene]]" before playing the villain of the second film.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The sleazy trucker who tried to pick up Jane in the third movie was played by Marc Alaimo, who played the sleazy MagnificentBastard, Gul Dukat, in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
** And Nordberg is played by that guy who may or may not have killed his wife.
** Doctor Meinheimer is [[Film/HarryPotter Vernon Dursley]].
** The third film involves Frank and Jane meeting a marriage therapist, who used to counsel [[Film/{{Terminator}} Sarah Connor.]]
** The attempted prison rapist was once tricked out of his wife's dog by ''AceVentura'', tried to get Nathan Junior in ''Film/RaisingArizona'', and even tried to rape ''Film/{{Fletch}}'' in prison, too.
** Hector Savage was once whipped to death by a [[HighPlainsDrifter mysterious stranger]]
** Ludwig is [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]].
** The driving instructor is [[Film/ThePaperChase Professor Kingsfield]].
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** The driving instructor is [[Film/ThePaperChase Professor Kingsfield]].
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* HistoryMarchesOn: Among the disasters at the bar in ''The Naked Gun 2 1/2'' is the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched with a flawed main mirror. That was fixed in 1993, and the telescope is now considered an enormous success.
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* IKnewIt: What Frank says after he puts Mikhail Gorbachev in a headlock and rubs off his famous "wine stain" birthmark.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Johnny the shoeshine guy (the AlmightyJanitor character from the original series) doesn't appear in the movies.
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** The attempted prison rapist was once tricked out of his wife's dog by ''AceVentura''. (And tried to get Nathan Junior in ''Film/RaisingArizona'')

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** The attempted prison rapist was once tricked out of his wife's dog by ''AceVentura''. (And ''AceVentura'', tried to get Nathan Junior in ''Film/RaisingArizona'')''Film/RaisingArizona'', and even tried to rape ''Film/{{Fletch}}'' in prison, too.
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* 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; justified in that one of the characters he played was actually a professional impersonator, hired specifically to pose as the other one.
** Jeff Wright plays three characters: the head usher in the first movie, the sex shop assistant in the second and the grocery store manager in the third. Of course, it could be the same guy holding down different jobs in each movie.
** Music/WeirdAlYankovic appears in all three movies. In the first and third movies, he plays himself. However, in the second movie, he plays a criminal holding the police station at gunpoint.

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* IKnewIt: What Frank says after he puts Mikhail Gorbachev in a headlock and rubs off his famous "wine stain" birthmark.
* RoleAssociation: The sleazy trucker who tried to pick up Jane in the third movie was played by Marc Alaimo, who played the sleazy MagnificentBastard, Gul Dukat, in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.

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* IKnewIt: What Frank says after he puts Mikhail Gorbachev in a headlock and rubs off his famous "wine stain" birthmark.
* RoleAssociation:
HeyItsThatGuy: The sleazy trucker who tried to pick up Jane in the third movie was played by Marc Alaimo, who played the sleazy MagnificentBastard, Gul Dukat, in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.


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* IKnewIt: What Frank says after he puts Mikhail Gorbachev in a headlock and rubs off his famous "wine stain" birthmark.
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* ActorAllusion: ''33 1/3'' isn't the first time Earl Boen has been [[{{Franchise/Terminator}} a psychologist]].
** "[[ToServeMan It's a]] [[Series/TwilightZone cookbook]]!!"


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* IKnewIt: What Frank says after he puts Mikhail Gorbachev in a headlock and rubs off his famous "wine stain" birthmark.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The sleazy trucker who tried to pick up Jane in the third movie was played by Marc Alaimo, who played the sleazy MagnificentBastard, Gul Dukat, in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: RoleAssociation: The sleazy trucker who tried to pick up Jane in the third movie was played by Marc Alaimo, who played the sleazy MagnificentBastard, Gul Dukat, in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
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** The attempted prison rapist was once tricked out of his wife's dog by ''AceVentura''.

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** The attempted prison rapist was once tricked out of his wife's dog by ''AceVentura''. (And tried to get Nathan Junior in ''Film/RaisingArizona'')
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* HistoryMarchesOn: Among the disasters at the bar in ''The Naked Gun 2 1/2'' is the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched with a flawed main mirror. That was fixed in 1993, and the telescope is now considered an enormous success.
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** Ludwig is [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhanq Khan]].

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** Ludwig is [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhanq [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]].
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** Ludwig is [[StarTrek Khan]].

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** Ludwig is [[StarTrek [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhanq Khan]].
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** Ludwig is [[StarTrek Khan]].
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** Hector Savage was once whipped to death by a [[HighPlainsDrifter mysterious stranger]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The sleazy trucker who tried to pick up Jane in the third movie was played by Marc Alaimo, who played the sleazy MagnificentBastard, Gul Dukat, in StarTrekDeepSpaceNine.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: The sleazy trucker who tried to pick up Jane in the third movie was played by Marc Alaimo, who played the sleazy MagnificentBastard, Gul Dukat, in StarTrekDeepSpaceNine.''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
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** The attempted prison rapist was once tricked out of his wife's dog by ''Film/AceVentura''.

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** The attempted prison rapist was once tricked out of his wife's dog by ''Film/AceVentura''.''AceVentura''.
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** The attempted prison rapist was once tricked out of his wife's dog by ''Film/AceVentura''.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Neither Hocken nor Nor(d)berg was played by the same actor as in the series.

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



** Doctor Meinheimer is [[HarryPotter Vernon Dursely]].
** The third film involves Frank and Jane meeting a marriage therapist, who used to counsel [[TheTerminator Sarah Connor.]]

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** Doctor Meinheimer is [[HarryPotter [[Film/HarryPotter Vernon Dursely]].
Dursley]].
** The third film involves Frank and Jane meeting a marriage therapist, who used to counsel [[TheTerminator [[Film/{{Terminator}} Sarah Connor.]]

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