A line in The Naked Gun I never noticed

[USS Firefly]

I have never seen an episode of police squad. But that is really my kind of humor

 

[Silvercrest]

Did he spike it?

They make a joke about that, too!

 

[Admiral2]

BTW, has anybody ever seen the TV show the original Police Squad was actually spoofing?

Say hello to M Squad!

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[StarCruiser]

I can't recall if M Squad ever got syndicated...

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Good heavens, I thought Police Squad was just a general spoof of the old school police procedurals, but that's almost 1:1 with jokes added.

 

[Admiral2]

Good heavens, I thought Police Squad was just a general spoof of the old school police procedurals, but that's almost 1:1 with jokes added.

Right? I thought the same thing, but the wiki for the series mentions M Squad, so apparently somebody knew about it.

 

[David cgc]

Good heavens, I thought Police Squad was just a general spoof of the old school police procedurals, but that's almost 1:1 with jokes added.

Same thing with Airplane! and Zero Hour. Honestly, I think Airplane! is structured better as a film by eliminating the psychologist scene at the beginning and giving the dialog to the main characters, and splitting out the kid to being a random passenger rather than their's.