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randomsurfer
Since: Jan, 2001
2016-06-10 20:25:34
Pure guess, but perhaps Every Which Way but Loose or its sequel Any Which Way You Can'?
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EricaB
Since: Apr, 2011
2016-06-11 07:20:18
It might be Cannonball Run II. Characters played by Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were dressed as cops. An Arab sheik played by Jamie Farr had an orangutan as a chauffeur.
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gaimanite.pkat
Since: Nov, 2013

I think it was a film although might have been a TV show. Looked like it was from the 70s or 80s. At one point some monkey / chimp is behind the wheel of the car (I think ... somewhere they don't want him, anyway) so these two cops try a bunch of stuff to coax him out, and won't guy. Finally one says like "Let's try singing to him, it'll make him docile" and they sing "by the light of the silvery moon" and then the monkey just beyotchslaps the crap out of them. Tried googling but since there actually is a movie by that title, that's all that ever popped up on the searches.