Police Squad! reboot

[JirinPanthosa]

I’d be more annoyed by them doing it with modern culture commentary style humor instead of pure gag humor than I would by them doing it with a different actor.

Any cop show today is unfortunately going to be expected to address BLM issues even if it’s pure comedy or else be called Copaganda. What we don’t need is a Police Squad reboot that plays like Brooklyn 99’s last season.

 

[thribs]

A Touch of Cloth is a good show to check out if you're a fan of Police Squad. Some of the jokes might be a bit too UK focused but it's still really funny. You find something new each re-watch.

 

[CaptainWacky]

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[Locutus of Bored]

Look, I've got a radical suggestion, hear me out...

Bring back OJ and make him Captain Nordberg.

I hear he's available, and the ratings would be killer.

 

[Vanyel]

A Touch of Cloth is a good show to check out if you're a fan of Police Squad. Some of the jokes might be a bit too UK focused but it's still really funny. You find something new each re-watch.

That clip was hilarious.

 

[thribs]

That clip was hilarious.

My favourite joke from the show:

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[Vanyel]

That was great. Is it streaming anywhere here in the US?

 

[thribs]

Prime might have it. I know they did a few years ago

 

[Captaindemotion]

I know that part of the genius of the casting of Airplane & then Police Squad/Naked Gun was that Nielsen etc had been in serious disaster and other movies, where they had to deliver those sort of lines in all seriousness.

But Leslie Nielsen was clearly a very funny man with exquisite comic timing. And I have never seen Liam Neeson be funny in anything, be it interviews or when acting. He was in a Neil Jordan comedy film called High Spirits in the 80s and he wasn’t funny in it. I also thought he was the weakest thing in the Lego Movie. So, I don’t know, maybe McFarlane will produce a great comedic performance from him (I haven’t seen the western comedy they made), but I just don’t see this as playing to his, ahem, particular set of skills.

 

[N-121973]

I know that part of the genius of the casting of Airplane & then Police Squad/Naked Gun was that Nielsen etc had been in serious disaster and other movies, where they had to deliver those sort of lines in all seriousness.

But Leslie Nielsen was clearly a very funny man with exquisite comic timing. And I have never seen Liam Neeson be funny in anything, be it interviews or when acting. He was in a Neil Jordan comedy film called High Spirits in the 80s and he wasn’t funny in it. I also thought he was the weakest thing in the Lego Movie. So, I don’t know, maybe McFarlane will produce a great comedic performance from him (I haven’t seen the western comedy they made), but I just don’t see this as playing to his, ahem, particular set of skills.

He was also a radio DJ in some Irish Christmas film I saw over the holidays that Pierce Brosnan produced and appeared in.

 

[Captaindemotion]

He was also a radio DJ in some Irish Christmas film I saw over the holidays that Pierce Brosnan produced and appeared in.

Was it any good? And was he funny?

 

[SithHappens]

While not laugh out loud funny Liam Neeson was good in rom com love actually with some good lighthearted moments between him and his onscreen step son.

 

[shapeshifter]

A series that came closest to PS! from Steve Carell.

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Like PS!, it only lasted 2 seasons, and I suspect that will be the best this reboot will do as well.

ETA: The fact PS! only had one season consisting of 8 episodes has been already been made down thread.

 

[Admiral2]

A series that came closest to PS! from Steve Carell.

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Like PS!, it only lasted 2 seasons, and I suspect that will be the best this reboot will do as well.

Actually, Police Squad! only lasted six episodes on TV, so Angie Tribeca is arguably much more successful.

 

[N-121973]

Was it any good? And was he funny?

As those Christmas TV movies they put out on Hallmark go, it was, but I think that was because of the production values and location filming in Ireland. You hear his voice throughout but only see him at the end. A very dry performance.

 

[publiusr]

Look, I've got a radical suggestion, hear me out...

Bring back OJ and make him Captain Nordberg

Falsely accused of killing Anna Nicole Smith and Oscar Goldman.

With Patrick Warburton as Frank Drebin Jr.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

I’d be more annoyed by them doing it with modern culture commentary style humor instead of pure gag humor than I would by them doing it with a different actor.

Any cop show today is unfortunately going to be expected to address BLM issues even if it’s pure comedy or else be called Copaganda. What we don’t need is a Police Squad reboot that plays like Brooklyn 99’s last season.

Unfortunately (for you and others like you that have this opinion), the writers are most likely to do what you said above, due to pressure from those writing and running media outlets (online ones in particular) who were students in college/university (classes of 2014/2015) and who were encouraged to vent their feelings/treat everything like a safe space, as was mentioned in this article.

Hopefully, any mentions of BLM issues are going to be minor occurrences in the script. But in future, those in the movie industry will need to start having skin of adamantium and to not let any of the people who will complain about and pressure them about current issues bug them about addressing BLM in other than a small bit(s) (and also tell them to back off and write their own scripts with what they want to see in a movie [assuming said scripts will actually be entertaining.])

Like PS!, it only lasted 2 seasons, and I suspect that will be the best this reboot will do as well.

Police Squad! only lasted one season (March 4-July 8, 1982) for about six episodes, which is why it wasn't rerun and is now on Blu-Ray. Since this is a series of movies, unlike you, I predict that it will be successful and go on for the same amount of movies that the previous Naked Gun movies did.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Hopefully a happy medium can be reached in which a combination of both aspects are used.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Hopefully a happy medium can be reached in which a combination of both aspects are used.

Indeed.

One can joke about anything - even BLM and its ilk.

 

[shapeshifter]

Actually, Police Squad! only lasted six episodes on TV, so Angie Tribeca is arguably much more successful.

Drebin moment.

I wish it had gone 2 seasons.

Thanks for the clarification.