[BONUS] Episode N - The Naked Gun (1988)
This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're taking what will be the first of many looks at Lt. Frank Drebin to prove that cops and women DO mix, starting with The Naked Gun (1988)!
Join us as Lucy succumbs to rapid onset face blindness, Mia finally finds the missing piece of her life’s most elusive jigsaw puzzle, and Nova gets us all on a Skyrim tangent so obscure that it might as well be considered its very own elder scrolls minisode.
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Join us next time as we pay our respects to Tim Curry in Clue (1985).
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Comments (34)
Baseball used to suck, but they fixed it within the last few years! They added a shot clock for the pitchers and now it's genuinely fun
Skyrim is a detective story for that one quest in Winterhold.
1:02:50. I had to pause the podcast, grab my Cleveland Guardians cap, and play "Cleveland Rocks" by The Presidents of The United States of America, twice, to process the slander of referring to a baseball field as a 'pitch'. That being said, yes, baseball is boring as fuck. You need to be engaged naturally, and the commentators need to really love the game. Otherwise, it sucks donkey dick. Same goes for your football. Love ya, girlies.
Lucy not knowing of the cheap drugstore brand of adult diapers has me like, abdls are overestimating the number of adult diaper brands the average person knows, most people only know of depends, northshore, ABU, rearz, tykables, LNGU, Lil Comforts, they probably don't even know that LittleForBig is transphobic
The locksmith joke is one of the best jokes that there is. It's up there with Sneed's Feed and Seed (Formerly Chuck's) and "Tomato Ted, aubergine your, potato wife's, turnip dead". There's a lot of stuff with the Airplane/Police Squad folks that hasn't aged well, or that just wasn't great in the first place, but when they were on it, especially with Airplane, it's spectacular. I don't even think it's a nostalgia or generational thing, lot of great comedies in the same era did not get near that. Hell even Mel Brooks wasn't making movies as good as Airplane after Blazing Saddles.
loved being able to play November's 'it's real freak behavior' regarding the wearing of anklets to my anklet wearing partner in retaliation to her great mirth at my face when, in a previous episode, my pocket watch habit was called out. Thanks and keep up the great work correctly profiling your audience
Okay so what Nielson actually says at the end is (spoilers, I guess?), "Don't panic, it's non-lethal" and IMMEDIATELY the guy falls over the edge and gets the most flattened I think anything has ever been
Nova's setup to her most intrusive thoughts ever made me think it was a joke about an enby named 'Socks'
it is
I know that Batman is inevitable and there are so many versions. However, I would like to recommend the Fox TV Series ‘Gotham’ that follows a new detective James Gordon solving the Waynes’ murder and lemme tell you, he is the most repressed trans woman I have ever seen on screen.
I love how the opening fight in this calls back once again to a BGSC classic: Pulling someone's coat down the arms to incapacitate them (why does this keep coming up?!) Admittedly it's followed immediately by the mohawk, so attention's drawn away from it.
I probably mentioned this in the Kill James Bond comment sections at some point, that move comes up in the novel Casino Royale if I remember correctly. A guy grabs Bond's coat, yanks it, Bond deploys the parry of dropping to the floor so the coat stays at the same level, and then the guy parries that parry by dropping down to the floor behind him and successfully finishing the coat maneuver and then Bond hears the guy laughing at him
Are the ladies unaware that —because of quests like Blood on the Ice, A Night to Remember, & others— the Dragonborn is a detective
It took a Chinese YouTube reactor to point out that there are Chinese people running out of the fireworks factory when it explodes
ooooofff that's... not good, I didn't even notice that bit and I've watched this movie like 3 times
The thing is you really can't depend on depends, they might as well be made of paper. Northshore is where it's at. Or so I'm told.
And even then, with tariffs the quality has dropped quite a bit
Superior joke from the TV series: "Hello Ma'am, we're with the Homicide Department. I'm very sorry, we would have arrived sooner but your husband wasn't dead yet"
I love the running “cigarette” gag. No individual instance of it is that funny on its own but the fact that they commit to doing it every single time is great.
I had tea with Rowan Williams once, I can confirm he's funny
That's nice, he really seems like he'd be a good hang
Listening to the last ten minutes of this while laying on the step outside my house in the middle of the night while I wait for the smell/gas to dissipate before I go back inside and deal with whatever the f**k that was. There's always something isn't there?
The Police Squad TV show has this incredible monologue by Leslie Nielsen reminiscing about his past gay relationships and it's so heartful and soulful and I love it. Can't remember which episode.
🎵 Put that piss back where it came from or so help me! (So help me!) 🎶
Listening to the Skyrim conversation has me asking if Witcher 3 is a detective story and if Geralt is transgender
No, witchers are poor kids who train and then go through a chemical process and then become ostracized and distrusted by strangers so they all live together as found family and they identify as different animals
That "Gotham by Gaslight" bit got me good.
I had just enough time to realize what was coming and that made it so much funnier. I had to pause the podcast and walk away for a minute. Perfect delivery, too.
The chalk outline on the water is one of my favorite jokes ever and I think the prop maker for that deserves some accollades. Casting Pod 3 times a day is actually a trans warlock ability, which leads us to question with what kind of entity November has concluded a pact. The driving instructor was played by John Housman in his final role. I refuse to take criticism of baseball from people from cricket playing countries. What if baseball took three days? The opposing team for the baseball scene is the Seattle Mariners because they were a new expansion team and were very cheap. As per the documentary Summer of Sam, Reggie Jackson was a serial killer.
Asking what the ankle bracelet joke means at my MENSA meeting Turns out it's just a surreal joke about a wrist bracelet being able to accidentally slip down to her ankle
"Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle" has lived in my brain for decades. Looking forward to The Naked Gun (2025) with the best and only OJ joke they could have made.
I might be wrong but I heard that the script was originally "our lady who never had the pickle" and montalban objected as a Catholic so they changed it
I love these movies so much and I hope that you never get to the third one, which has the obligatory horrible 90s trans joke.
It and Ace Ventura both came out one year after the Crying Game