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A spoof of police procedurals and many other television shows and movies, the series features Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker 's usual sight gags, wordplay, and non sequiturs. It resembles the Lee Marvin police show M Squad (in particular the opening credits) and the late 1960s series Felony Squad. [2]
Mar 4, 2022 · But Police Squad! is far more than a spoof; instead, like all their work, it uses absurdist humor, sight gags and sly, precise wit in an attempt to make every single moment funny.
- Tyler Sage
Jul 31, 2022 · "Police Squad" was a brilliant formal parody. Aesthetically, it is every inch a mediocre cop show, with the jokes written to be performed straight.
Jun 28, 2020 · A few years after the way-ahead-of-its-time procedural spoof Police Squad! was cancelled for the dumbest reason in TV history (shockingly, audiences had to pay attention to the jokes to understand them), the comedy dream team of Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker dusted off the Frank Drebin character and brought him to the big screen in The Naked Gun.
In the third film of the series, Frank is married to Jane, and he has retired from Police Squad. The film introduces the criminal Rocco Dillon ( Fred Ward ), who is stuck in prison. He is contacted by someone called Papshmir to be given a target for a bombing.
Police Squad! is an American television comedy series broadcast on the ABC network in 1982. It was created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, and starred Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual sight...
Mar 26, 2023 · Were the audiences in 1982 not capable of getting the silly and fast-moving humor of this police spoof? In 1980, the writing and producing team of Jim Abrams and Jerry and David Zucker broke through with the funny and popular spoof of airport dramas- Airplane!
