The COVID-19 pandemic has me scrambling for entertainment to ease distress and anxiety. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! made home isolation bearable this week for nearly 90 minutes.
Released in 1988, The Naked Gun is dense with sight gag and slapstick humor. But it's how Leslie Nielsen's delivers the goods that makes me laugh the hardest. Lines like:
Frank [as he cleans out his file cabinet drawer]: "Hey! Look at that. The missing evidence in the Kelner case. My god! He was innocent!"
Ed: "He went to the electric chair two years ago, Frank."
Frank: "Well, what's the use ?"
And:
Jane [as the couple end their day together in front of her home]: "Nightcap?"
Frank: "No, I don't wear one."
But most important, the iconic:
Frank: "Nice beaver!"
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