I always loved how the funniest roles Leslie Nielsen played were always the ones where he delivers his lines dryer than dehydrated sand, and yet still is funnier than someone laying it on thick.
@@RyanCarrington watch airplane top secret Kentucky Fried movie they are the funniest movies ever made Amazon women on the moon funniest sequel ever made 🎉
I read an interview where Nielsen was asked how he could say such silly things in a straight way. His response was that he had been saying silly things for 20 years already, but it was nice to finally have writers in on the joke. 🌶🌶
Trivia note: Ludwig's secretary, who was serving coffee when he demonstrated the mind-control device on her, was played by Charlotte Zucker, mother of the Zucker brothers. She was also in Airplane! as the woman who was trying to put on makeup while the plane was shaking.
The 80's and 90's were the best era for this parody comedies. The Naked Gun trilogy and the two Hot Shots films are some of my favorite as well as others from Leslie Nielsen. Funny thing is he started out his career as a serious actor but became well know for his comedies.
Definitely helps with that deadpan delivery! I've watched the first Hot Shots on the channel, but I still need to get to the second. Hoping to get to it this month!
Weird Al first came on the scene in 1979, with his parody of "My Sharona" ("My Bologna"). It was recorded in the bathroom at the college radio station he was working at. That song got airplay on a weekly radio show "The Dr. Demento Show" and set him up for discovery with his next release, a parody of "Another One Bites the Dust" ("Another One Rides the Bus"). This launched him to the next level, and when MTV came on the scene, he took it to yet another level parodying videos as well as the music. His next "hit" was "I Lost on Jeopardy!", a parody of the Greg Kihn Band's "Jeopardy." After that, it was parody hit after parody hit for him. If you ever have the opportunity to see him perform live, DO IT. I've seen many, many concerts thru the years, and he was one of the best, simply for the fun and the show. He comes out in the costumes from all the videos and all that stuff. So obviously there is time between his songs for costume changes. These spaces are filled with video clips of Al's influence thru pop culture thru the years. Definitely worth the price of admission.
I met him in early 2000’s when I worked at a video store and he was happy to write a personal autograph when I told him my best friend was a big fan of his. I didn’t even ask for it.
I still think you should see him live, but I think he may have retired the costume stuff because he's getting up there. Since you like the ZAZ humor, if you haven't seen it, you should react to Weird Al's movie UHF (1989). Alternatively, you could do his 2022 biopic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
@@charliemac64 his recent concerts have been the "Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour," where he plays more of his many original songs than the parodies, and the encore includes a cover song.
This was the "sequel" to the one season (six episode) TV show POLICE SQUAD! from 1982. It was "too weird for tv".. the exec's hated it, it had no laugh track, and it was expensive because the gags required a lot of extra planning. But the show was (and still is) hilarious and became a hit on VHS rental and on cable tv so the Zucker Bros gave it another shot as a movie. The intro to the film is a joke about what Frank Drebbin has been up to since the show got cancelled (saving the world)
Ohhh, right! Baseball isn't really a thing over here, so that went right over my head. I do recognise the name, though. Definitely heard him being referred to in something before.
When I was teen in Australia living in the state, Queensland, the Queen did an Australian tour and in her speech in our city said, “Your state has the best name”. Lizzie got jokes.
Okay, you unlocked this achievement, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. You should now check out the sequels. Nothing could match the original - especially, if you like the atmosphere created in this film. However, they do get progressively funnier, at a slight expense of the story. If this film's storyline is at a 2 hour TV movie level, I'd say the sequels are somewhere between that, and a good sitcom.
@@RyanCarrington Might I recommend some martial arts movie with subtitles (I hate dubbing). A funny one is Kung Fu Hustle where a gang tried to take over a slum. What they didn't realize is that the slum is inhabited by martial artists with different skills and weapons.
@@RyanCarrington A serious one is Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. It's about a sword that a Shaolin monk wants to give it up. It's stolen and a search starts to find the sword. There's also a romance and a lot of flying with wire work.
You are correct, Nancy Marchand would go on to play Livia Soprano. There are, of course, two more Naked Gun movies, but I also recommend the Hot Shots! movies if you haven't seen them, which are just Abrahams by himself without the Zuckers. If you want to get really obscure and weird, you can also see the one by Bill S. Preston himself, Alex Winter, who co-directed Freaked (1993) with Tom Stern. I would also say that Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Hot Rod (2007), and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) are in this same tradition. When Nielsen passed away, there was a script for a fourth Naked Gun floating around. It was written by Alan Spencer, who made a Naked Gun-esque TV show called "Sledge Hammer!" back in the 1980s. I only read some reviews of the script, but it had some great jokes that I wish had been realized, like Frank Drebin having to stop narrating because the whole city can hear him, and a line about aging I think about all the time: "I can do everything I used to do, just slower and with more mistakes."
I've done the first Hot Shots on the channel! I've been meaning to get to the second one. Ah I used to watch Hot Rod religiously back in the day. Forgot how much I loved that movie! I've not seen the others you mentioned though. Such a shame to hear there was a script ready that couldn't be realised. I definitely need to check out the sequels because I just find him hilarious.
@15:08, you asked if they were parodying Batman -- you're spot on. That set and exterior facade is the very same one used for Ajax Chemical in the scene where Jack Napier falls into the tank of toxic chemicals, leading to his transformation to the Joker.
Denmark here, I'm not quite a Nielsen myself, but my name is Frank (though not Drebin), and my mother's sister and that part of my Family are all Nielsen's. Leslie Nielsen's father was actually a police officer, or more correctly he was an immigrant from Denmark who joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His brother became the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada for a few years in the 80's and his half-uncle was the Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt who twice was awarded an honorary Oscar and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in his honor the "Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award" is still a special Oscar named by the Oscar Academy.
@@RyanCarrington .. Well, he liked having family members as extras in his movies, like his wife Barbaree Earl Nielsen and his two daughters Thea Nielsen Disney and Maura Nielsen Kaplan, who were all in Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Family Plan and Wrongfully Accused. As for this movie you noticed his little Danish Viking food joke, when he invite Priscilla Presley out for dinner, saying that he knows this out of the way place, that serve great Viking food, and when offered a Cuban cigar he said that he is "Dutch-Irish, my father was from Wales", deliberately switching the "Wales" part from his mother to his father in this joke. Because in real life his mother was from Wales. Btw, when Leslie died, ESPN published a hilarious obituary for the opera singer "Enrico Pallazzo" in his honor, that you can go google and look up.
Drebin: When I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards.” Mayor: “That was a Shakespeare-In-The-Park production of Julius Caesar, you moron!”
I remember Pricilla so fondly, from this and Dallas. I mainly remember Lisa Marie from her marrying Michael Jackson. I would never have expected that Pricilla would end up outlasting her daughter.
Walking 'round the set is something bad stage actors used to do when they weren't paying attention to the doorways. Big Al features in all 3 of the trilogy and he's always cut off at the neck.
The zuckers 1st movie was called the Kentucky fried movie where they used a lot of the sketches and double on toned race that they later used in their next film airplane But they followed it up with the naked gun series And showing that Leslie Nielsen Was also Not a great dramatic actor but a comedian actor as well
1:05 The identifiable people in the meeting are Muammar Gadaffi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
@@RyanCarrington I highly don’t recommend the newer Extended cut. It’s twenty extra minutes of not very good movie. Yeah, it has some jokes but really drags the movie down.
I enjoy all 3. The best moments hinge on Leslie's ability to remain straight-faced in front of ridiculous gags or no one acknowledging an absurdity. Also check out Top Secret for another great ZAZ with a young Val Kilmer.
RIP to Priscilla Presley's daughter Lisa Marie who passed away Jan 12 at age 54 4 days after what would have been her fathers {Elvis} 88th bday {he died in 1977 at age 42} ✌💖☮
Last week at the football game, the guy singing screwed up the national anthem. Totally Pollazo'd it. 😂😂😂 OK, OK, he only screwed up one verse. But still...
@@RyanCarrington That is awesome! I got to see Clerks 3 on his Inconvenience Tour last year. Although, it was only Kevin and I did not get a picture (except the one that I took with my phone) it was still an incredible experience. I’m so happy that you are that much of a fan. Even if you don’t do a reaction, you should definitely treat yourself with Clerks 3. I appreciate you taking the time to chat. Have a great day!
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When Leslie Nielson died one magazine published a joke obituary for Enrico Palazzo.
I always loved how the funniest roles Leslie Nielsen played were always the ones where he delivers his lines dryer than dehydrated sand, and yet still is funnier than someone laying it on thick.
I love his deadpan delivery!
@@RyanCarrington watch airplane top secret Kentucky Fried movie they are the funniest movies ever made Amazon women on the moon funniest sequel ever made 🎉
I read an interview where Nielsen was asked how he could say such silly things in a straight way. His response was that he had been saying silly things for 20 years already, but it was nice to finally have writers in on the joke. 🌶🌶
Trivia note: Ludwig's secretary, who was serving coffee when he demonstrated the mind-control device on her, was played by Charlotte Zucker, mother of the Zucker brothers. She was also in Airplane! as the woman who was trying to put on makeup while the plane was shaking.
When Frank shoots his own car, you can also see the Zuckers' sister behind him in the red blazer.
And she played the elderly Lucy in Ratrace
The irony of Leslie Neilson fighting for America is that he's originally from Canada. But he's a damn legend. It's a shame that he has passed away.
The 80's and 90's were the best era for this parody comedies. The Naked Gun trilogy and the two Hot Shots films are some of my favorite as well as others from Leslie Nielsen. Funny thing is he started out his career as a serious actor but became well know for his comedies.
Definitely helps with that deadpan delivery!
I've watched the first Hot Shots on the channel, but I still need to get to the second. Hoping to get to it this month!
My favorite line is the one they drew around the guy in the water.
That was brilliant tbf!
Weird Al first came on the scene in 1979, with his parody of "My Sharona" ("My Bologna"). It was recorded in the bathroom at the college radio station he was working at. That song got airplay on a weekly radio show "The Dr. Demento Show" and set him up for discovery with his next release, a parody of "Another One Bites the Dust" ("Another One Rides the Bus"). This launched him to the next level, and when MTV came on the scene, he took it to yet another level parodying videos as well as the music. His next "hit" was "I Lost on Jeopardy!", a parody of the Greg Kihn Band's "Jeopardy." After that, it was parody hit after parody hit for him.
If you ever have the opportunity to see him perform live, DO IT. I've seen many, many concerts thru the years, and he was one of the best, simply for the fun and the show. He comes out in the costumes from all the videos and all that stuff. So obviously there is time between his songs for costume changes. These spaces are filled with video clips of Al's influence thru pop culture thru the years. Definitely worth the price of admission.
He's been going WAY WAY longer than I first thought! I'd definitely be up for watching him if I ever got the chance 🤙
I met him in early 2000’s when I worked at a video store and he was happy to write a personal autograph when I told him my best friend was a big fan of his. I didn’t even ask for it.
I still think you should see him live, but I think he may have retired the costume stuff because he's getting up there.
Since you like the ZAZ humor, if you haven't seen it, you should react to Weird Al's movie UHF (1989). Alternatively, you could do his 2022 biopic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
@@tylerfoster6267 Aw, that's sad to hear. I can see that, though. That would be a lot of work every show!
@@charliemac64 his recent concerts have been the "Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour," where he plays more of his many original songs than the parodies, and the encore includes a cover song.
I can always tell how old or young someone is by their reaction to OJ Simpson being in this movie
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You can tell the young people who didn't know that pistachio's used to be dyed red.
@@misterkite was about to say exactly that
I can tell by the people who don’t recognize that the baseball player activated to shoot the queen is Reggie Jackson 😂
@@HolyRomanEmperorReggie Jackson probably isn't well known in the UK
"nice beaver" is the greatest sight gag of all time. Prove me wrong :)
Top Secret! empty boots gag covers it imo but it's still top notch
a comedy that always makes people laugh; no matter how many times they've seen it. how many other comedies can we say the same about?
I am so glad you watched this movie! I'm glad this type of humor is still appreciated. Thank you for all your reactions. 🙏
Thanks for watching!
This was the "sequel" to the one season (six episode) TV show POLICE SQUAD! from 1982. It was "too weird for tv".. the exec's hated it, it had no laugh track, and it was expensive because the gags required a lot of extra planning. But the show was (and still is) hilarious and became a hit on VHS rental and on cable tv so the Zucker Bros gave it another shot as a movie. The intro to the film is a joke about what Frank Drebbin has been up to since the show got cancelled (saving the world)
The baseball player who approached the queen with a gun was none other than the legendary Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, in a cameo appearance.
Ohhh, right! Baseball isn't really a thing over here, so that went right over my head. I do recognise the name, though. Definitely heard him being referred to in something before.
When I was teen in Australia living in the state, Queensland, the Queen did an Australian tour and in her speech in our city said, “Your state has the best name”. Lizzie got jokes.
Haha!
Leslie Nielsen is so good because he can do this all with a straight face.
His delivery is perfect!
Okay, you unlocked this achievement, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. You should now check out the sequels. Nothing could match the original - especially, if you like the atmosphere created in this film. However, they do get progressively funnier, at a slight expense of the story. If this film's storyline is at a 2 hour TV movie level, I'd say the sequels are somewhere between that, and a good sitcom.
The star actress is played by Priscilla Presley, wife of Elvis Presley. I like your reaction and look forward to the next one.
Thanks for watching 👊
@@RyanCarrington Might I recommend some martial arts movie with subtitles (I hate dubbing). A funny one is Kung Fu Hustle where a gang tried to take over a slum. What they didn't realize is that the slum is inhabited by martial artists with different skills and weapons.
@@RyanCarrington A serious one is Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. It's about a sword that a Shaolin monk wants to give it up. It's stolen and a search starts to find the sword. There's also a romance and a lot of flying with wire work.
You are correct, Nancy Marchand would go on to play Livia Soprano.
There are, of course, two more Naked Gun movies, but I also recommend the Hot Shots! movies if you haven't seen them, which are just Abrahams by himself without the Zuckers. If you want to get really obscure and weird, you can also see the one by Bill S. Preston himself, Alex Winter, who co-directed Freaked (1993) with Tom Stern. I would also say that Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Hot Rod (2007), and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) are in this same tradition.
When Nielsen passed away, there was a script for a fourth Naked Gun floating around. It was written by Alan Spencer, who made a Naked Gun-esque TV show called "Sledge Hammer!" back in the 1980s. I only read some reviews of the script, but it had some great jokes that I wish had been realized, like Frank Drebin having to stop narrating because the whole city can hear him, and a line about aging I think about all the time: "I can do everything I used to do, just slower and with more mistakes."
I've done the first Hot Shots on the channel! I've been meaning to get to the second one.
Ah I used to watch Hot Rod religiously back in the day. Forgot how much I loved that movie! I've not seen the others you mentioned though.
Such a shame to hear there was a script ready that couldn't be realised. I definitely need to check out the sequels because I just find him hilarious.
Apparently I forgot about that one because I definitely watched it. Whoops!
"Use your open eye, Mr. Barrington." -Chief of Police Squad Ed
Thanks
Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it 😊🙌
@@RyanCarrington 👍
@15:08, you asked if they were parodying Batman -- you're spot on. That set and exterior facade is the very same one used for Ajax Chemical in the scene where Jack Napier falls into the tank of toxic chemicals, leading to his transformation to the Joker.
11:49 I have been wanting a suit like that for decades now. Legendary disrobe.
😂
Denmark here, I'm not quite a Nielsen myself, but my name is Frank (though not Drebin), and my mother's sister and that part of my Family are all Nielsen's. Leslie Nielsen's father was actually a police officer, or more correctly he was an immigrant from Denmark who joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His brother became the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada for a few years in the 80's and his half-uncle was the Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt who twice was awarded an honorary Oscar and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in his honor the "Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award" is still a special Oscar named by the Oscar Academy.
He sounds like he comes from a family of main characters 😅
Thanks Frank, that was an interesting read! 🤙
@@RyanCarrington .. Well, he liked having family members as extras in his movies, like his wife Barbaree Earl Nielsen and his two daughters Thea Nielsen Disney and Maura Nielsen Kaplan, who were all in Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Family Plan and Wrongfully Accused.
As for this movie you noticed his little Danish Viking food joke, when he invite Priscilla Presley out for dinner, saying that he knows this out of the way place, that serve great Viking food, and when offered a Cuban cigar he said that he is "Dutch-Irish, my father was from Wales", deliberately switching the "Wales" part from his mother to his father in this joke. Because in real life his mother was from Wales.
Btw, when Leslie died, ESPN published a hilarious obituary for the opera singer "Enrico Pallazzo" in his honor, that you can go google and look up.
Everywhere I look something reminds me of her... Love it
@8:22 Zucker’s Mom. Same lady trying to put makeup on in Airplane.
Ooooh! Nice!
Come on, let's hear your favourite Naked Gun quotes!
"Nice Beaver!"
"Thanks, I just had it stuffed!"
Drebin: When I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards.”
Mayor: “That was a Shakespeare-In-The-Park production of Julius Caesar, you moron!”
Cigarette?
Can you spot me a 20?
"Look! It's Enrico Palazzo!"
Weird AL started on the Dr Demento show in the late 70s.... 1st song.... My Balogna
Wayyyyy earlier than I first thought!
One of my all time favs! Lets get it
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This is the first of a trilogy so buckle in because it gets sillier!
Mr Papschmear.... priceless
All three Naked Gun movies were good and if you want something even sillier they did Top Secret! Val Kilmer's first big movie role!
Got you covered 😉 th-cam.com/video/uzfXvgKg-60/w-d-xo.html
There's another good Leslie Nielson movie which gets overlooked.
Superhero Movie
Jane played by Elvis Presley's wife, Priscilla Presley
RIP Lisa Marie Presley
I remember Pricilla so fondly, from this and Dallas. I mainly remember Lisa Marie from her marrying Michael Jackson. I would never have expected that Pricilla would end up outlasting her daughter.
Walking 'round the set is something bad stage actors used to do when they weren't paying attention to the doorways.
Big Al features in all 3 of the trilogy and he's always cut off at the neck.
Oh hell yeah let’s get into this! 0:12
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Loved your reaction to this! I just wish this vid was longer on here. You'd enjoy reacting to the other two Naked Gun films :)
RIP, Lisa Marie Presley. This is her mother, Priscilla.
Re-upload? Well, I have to watch it again then.
That is the law, right?
Yes please 🙏😂
“Where’s Nordberg?” “He’s right here Frank.”
Love that bit. So stupid but so well done 😂
The zuckers 1st movie was called the Kentucky fried movie where they used a lot of the sketches and double on toned race that they later used in their next film airplane But they followed it up with the naked gun series And showing that Leslie Nielsen Was also Not a great dramatic actor but a comedian actor as well
The only thing that makes seeing OJ in this bearable is that his character is getting the shit beat out of him the whole movie.
I think, Tim Burton was referring to TNG, because "Batman" was released one year AFTER in 1989 😉
1:05 The identifiable people in the meeting are Muammar Gadaffi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Aww man. I so look forward to “Naked Gun” reactions to see the, ahem, beaver scene.
Ah did I chop it out?
I had so much trouble getting this up so I had to make additional cuts and add the watermark 😩
@@RyanCarrington
No worries. I got a laugh from your response. “Trouble getting it up”. To this American, that’s wit.
@dsimon966 haha hopefully you check out some other videos. I think I can improve on that 😬
@@RyanCarrington
Truthfully, more of a Black Adder fan than that of Mr. Bean, but I’ll keep watching. Peace.
@20:20 The Aunt Jemima Treatment. Bill Murray-Stripes
I'm getting to Stripes. Love Bill Murray!
@@RyanCarrington I highly don’t recommend the newer Extended cut. It’s twenty extra minutes of not very good movie. Yeah, it has some jokes but really drags the movie down.
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You should check out one of his serious movies. Forbidden Planet is a classic.
Noted!
"Forbidden Planet" was a major inspiration for "Star Trek." It was a science fiction version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Just made my day ❤
😀😀😀
Re-thumbs-up. 👍
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This guy looks like every guy who has tried to sell me weed at a concert.
If you just buy some, I'll stop.
I enjoy all 3. The best moments hinge on Leslie's ability to remain straight-faced in front of ridiculous gags or no one acknowledging an absurdity.
Also check out Top Secret for another great ZAZ with a young Val Kilmer.
Got you covered th-cam.com/video/uzfXvgKg-60/w-d-xo.html
RIP to Priscilla Presley's daughter Lisa Marie who passed away Jan 12 at age 54 4 days after what would have been her fathers {Elvis} 88th bday {he died in 1977 at age 42} ✌💖☮
Re-upload?
Then let comment again…
15:35 love that slap reaction; as if you were watching the Oscars or something lol.
You gotta watch Spy Hard, another great Leslie Nielson cop movie.
I can't believe you skipped over the baseball bloopers
Sorry!
@@RyanCarrington LOL
You should watch the pink panther movies. My favorite is "Return of the pink panther". 1975
If only everything that happened to OJ in this movie had happened to the real OJ. I would pay good money to see that.
Did you read the credits? Some more laughs.
I didn't catch them until the edit unfortunately!
Great to see the beautiful Priscilla Presley. She has sure had so many ups and downs in her life.
Ahhhh you look so cute in the thumbnail 😍😍😍😍
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Funniest movie ever made 😂
Very funny movie
The sequels are worthy
Last week at the football game, the guy singing screwed up the national anthem. Totally Pollazo'd it. 😂😂😂
OK, OK, he only screwed up one verse. But still...
What an enjoyable accent you have
Oh and you say "Zed" lovely!
My missus 💜💜💜
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Finish them all. Then go through Mel Brooks
I've done Blazing Saddles in the channel.
I did Spaceballs recently, but that's not out yet.
You should watch Not Another Teen Movie
Please watch the Clerks trilogy, spanning from 1994 to 2022. Written and directed by Kevin Smith. Please and thank you.
I've seen them apart from the newest one 😬
@@RyanCarrington Oh, right on. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot and Clerks 3 are the last two films of the series.
@J Rob Woo I went to see reboot with Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes. I've got a picture with them somewhere haah
@@RyanCarrington That is awesome! I got to see Clerks 3 on his Inconvenience Tour last year. Although, it was only Kevin and I did not get a picture (except the one that I took with my phone) it was still an incredible experience. I’m so happy that you are that much of a fan. Even if you don’t do a reaction, you should definitely treat yourself with Clerks 3. I appreciate you taking the time to chat. Have a great day!
I might as well subscribe while I’m here 😃
New sub. If you get Naked gun, you’re cool with me. Looking forward to more 🤘🏻
Great to have you!🤙👊
It's a sad coincidence that this reaction is released two days after Priscilla Presley's daughter makes sad headlines.
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You hardly laughed at the best parts
Great movie - "-Nice beaver" best joke..