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Police Squad!
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Yup.
Harry's response was (from memory), "Yeah, well, when I see a naked man chasing a woman down an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I shoot the bastard."
I love how he gave his rank as "Sergeant Frank Dreben, Detective Lieutenant."
His rank changed in every episode.
Tonight's special guest star, WILLIAM SHATNER!!
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I could swear I've heard that line in some other, much more recent show. I guess it was a Police Squad! homage and I didn't realize it.
Watch carefully as I test fire this gun into these videotapes of Barbara Walters' interviews.
(blam!!)
You can see it completely destroys the Burt Reynolds interview, and everything from Bo Derek to Paul Newman. But only up to the point where Barbara asks him "Is it difficult to love?"
Now let me show you what happens when the gun is fired from three feet, which is the distance Sally claimed the shots were fired from.
(blam!!)
Notice? Complete destruction! Right up to the point where she asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she'd like to be.
(blam!!)
You can see it completely destroys the Burt Reynolds interview, and everything from Bo Derek to Paul Newman. But only up to the point where Barbara asks him "Is it difficult to love?"
Now let me show you what happens when the gun is fired from three feet, which is the distance Sally claimed the shots were fired from.
(blam!!)
Notice? Complete destruction! Right up to the point where she asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she'd like to be.
I heard or read somewhere that that wasn't the exact line he said. The line was "Who are you and how did you get in here?" He replies "I'm Al Ocksmith, and I'm a locksmith."
That sounds more along the type of humor they go for. (Sort of like that Captain Clarence Oveur/Clearance, over joke in Airplane!)
No, he definitely says "I'm a locksmith" twice.
The only time they ever say "Ocksmith" is when part of the window in his 'shop' gets broken out and the L is missing. Then a farmer shows up the next day...well you can guess the rest.
That's actually one of the things he taught Paul Gross when Leslie guest-starred on Due South. It helped him to come to grips with the character and probably even saved the show. It's a shame that later episodes of that show then turned Nielsen's serious character into just another copy of the movie version of Frank Drebin from.
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^ How does one get 'run out of town like a common pygmy' anyway?
Shilliam Watner
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I like in one episode at the end when they catch the crook. The detective says "alright.....run her in". Then you see two officers and the crook kneel to run like in a relay and then a ref shoots a pistol and they take off running down the street. LOL
Another episode (I think the same one above) the detective says the 'black and white has arrived'. Then the camera pans over and you see a real zebra standing there with a siren strapped to the top of its head.
Another episode (I think the same one above) the detective says the 'black and white has arrived'. Then the camera pans over and you see a real zebra standing there with a siren strapped to the top of its head.
And of course the scene where you hear Nordberg on the police megaphone going "Please disperse. Nothing to see here. Keep moving." then the camera pans across and it's just him talking to two people standing right in front of him staring directly into the megaphone. 
Nordberg was a LOT funnier in the TV series, BTW.
Nordberg was a LOT funnier in the TV series, BTW.
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