Sledge Hammer S01E03 Witless
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- There really should be more parodies of Harrison Ford's performance in Witness.
A satirical cop show with writers of fantastic pedigree and a Danny Elfman theme song was a perfect fit for mid-80s television. What could go wrong?
Oh... right. It was on ABC, reedited & nerfed down to a G rating by cowardly executives, and put up against Dallas and Miami Vice.
The most amazing thing about this series is that no matter how may times you watch it it still makes you laugh.
Hear, hear. Over thirty years old and it still has a 'kick'.
Yes!
Still laughing and it's been thirty plus years!
i used to watch sledge hammer on abc in my granparents home
they don,t make tv like they used to too much bullcrap
i can,t stand tv now too many trashy shows
Man you can watch one single episode 10 times and it never gets boring.
As long as Dory is wearing her her short skirts and high heels
@@tek6423. 🤦♂️.
The godfather throwing a different cat out the window in every scene... had me rolling!
"This is the '80's"
My dad got me into this in the 80s. I missed a tons of episodes but this one was funny AF and still is. I love how you don't see the target practice on the door till he closes it lol
I have seen three episodes of this show now. And I'm laughing my ass off.
Guy on a window ledge wants to jump...Sledge fires his gun up at him; man dives into the window to avoid being shot.
Classic Hamma!!!
Loved this show when it came out, I was in my late teens or early twenties, they canceled it too soon.
Your a legend, thanks for putting Sledgehammer on here ❤
My respect for Hammer just went up a notch this episode...
That puts him at notch #1.
HO.LY. SHEEEEIT. After 20 years of searching and trying to remember what hilarious cop show my brothers and I watched as VERY lil kids like 3 or 4 thru 6-7 years old I have finally found mthrfkng SLEDGE HAMMER!!! It's still actually funny/watchable!!! I loved these 3 characters, sledge, captain and whatever her name was...all I could remember to search for was, "funny cop who blows up his city trying to disarm a nuclear bomb" and a TH-camr came thru like WHOA!
I just googled jackhammer ep1 and found it
GOD Is Watching You.
I didn't think it would be this good so many years after seeing it.
Very impressive.
"I want Sledge for the rest of his life to be dead!"
Does not even make sense.
Not supposed to make sense it’s a silly comedy try Shakespeare instead!!!
Remember watching this late night Fridays after pubs shut, so funny. Trust me I know what I'm....talking about. Love the episode where he pretends to be English and goes to the hairdressers, so funny
Loved watching this back in the day...
The good old Days with my Uncles and dad watching this... Sledge hammer LOL. Will see if my daughter will watch LOL.
My brother got me to watch the show the old-fashioned way: tossing me down on the living room carpet to sit on my back.
"Welcome to my resurrection." And, "Obey the penal codes." -S.H.
Was watching "The Wedding Band" movie and David was in it. My son saw him and said "Oh, he did Sledgehammer"...so I came here to watch the show. It is so funny! Hahahahahaha They picked the perfect actor for this character.
Still makes me laugh, so glad I found this here! Thank you so much for uploading Futonrevoloution.
Dude, thank you so much for uploading these. They bring back great memories as my family and I used to watch these in England growing up in the 80's.
You rock 🤙!!!!!
I get almost unreasonably sad when a video gets struck; lost a half-dozen channels over the years. It's not like I'm curing cancer, but it's important to share things that either can't be bought at all or found with the video quality of what I've got squirreled away.
@@futonrevolution7671 We're all so lucky you've taken such good care of your VHS tapes over the years.
Clearly you take a lot of pride in representing vintage Sledge and uploading each episode with precision & care as it definitely shows!! I love the fact that the audio is perfect with zero sync issues. You've also made sure the intro and outro is included on each episode.
Do you have the complete series (41 episodes I think) or just the 23 episodes?
Sorry about the (extremely) late reply! I have the complete series, but there are some quite decent copies of the 2nd season on youtube, and I've gotten into copyright trouble with those episodes. The ones from this 1st season that were taken down recently were from personal flags. I believe that the pilot was removed for "violence" which shows just how silly the people who take exception to the uploads are. I could probably risk uploading the documentaries again, since the commercials still haven't been taken down this time around. Thank you so much for the kind words!
@@futonrevolution7671 amen brotha. Still remember the.night my dad & I 1st watched this.
@@futonrevolution7671 It really takes me back to my childhood. Seeing that intro on television: you knew it was going to be good! Had special permission to stay up to watch this :D
This is perhaps the funniest episode.
"We work to be happy" "You must be yuppies". Lol.
A great show im glad I bought the dvd as Well.it takes me back when I saw it on tv long ago.
Danny Elfmans music is pure magic as usual. Love the scene when Hammer is piling the straw and she smiles❤️
Holy crap it is Danny Elfman. No wonder this slaps.
I just realized Danny Elfman created the Sledgehammer! theme song. That Danny Elfman is one amazing composer.
love the opening theme...
This one is a classic! I love how the cat even has a reaction to Hammer being alive and then immediately the boss gets his comeuppance by falling out the window. Thanks for the explanation about going up against Dallas and Miami Vice. Now I get the joke from the Elvis episode.
i love this show love Sledge Hammer
"I've never been with a man before in that way."
"Neither have I."
Frank O'Brien LOL
Lol best line this episode
Back when homosexuality was mocked like it should be
This has got to be the funniest episode.
"Don Phillip Sousa!"
"Trust me, I know what I'm doing." Famous last words...
Watch your sealegs mutant
As you noted in the description - Dallas and Miami Vice were big, so they got a bigger hammer - a sledge hammer (also known in the construction industry as the BFH)
The Harrison Ford reference was one I missed (I did not see that movie) but episode one had the clasped hands fist of doom from Captain James T Kirk in Star Trek :) and in episode two it was star wars. (I think)
Great show
What a classic..thank you!!
@19:03 The jokes are so simple, so funny @23:53
this one is so good. it made me tear up at the end
A play on the 1985 movie, "Witness."
NO??!! You don't say?
Underrated series
David Rasche (Sledge Hammer) also starred as Det. Mike Parnell in the movie "An Innocent Man". Emmy Award winning performance imho.
I just could not take him seriously as the villainous bad guy in An Innocent Man. I kept thinking, "Oh, why did Sledge Hammer turn bad?"
@@perfectsplit5515 I've watched all the Sledge episodes and I just couldn't take him serious as Sledge, or the storylines. Parnell, however, was a regular cocaine user trying to cover up one of his cocaine-induced blunders. A more realistic, believable approach imho.
Waz it even close to the show
YEAH, found it!
I know what to do the next 10+ hours 😍😍😍😎
The fact that this episode says that they have essentially Amish people in Californai is hilarious.
You've not heard of Mennonites? They are all across central America, over half a million in the US.
'Been spending most my living in an Amish paradise....'
HEY THIS IS THE 80S
"The Shriners are probably behind this." 😂
dannydinosaur73 my father in law is a Shriner I’m going to start to use this line anytime something bad happens in the news.
In actual fact many if not most fuses continue to burn when submerged in water.
It's one of those many things that every show does that bugs me, since they probably got it from Bugs Bunny cartoons.
It's Called A Comedy TV Show For A Reason. 🙄😒.
"...And a vasectomy"
Lol!!!
The captain is the funniest lol
The funniest show ever on TV next to Police Squad!!
Isn't that Alan Spencer at 5:18 pulling an Alfred Hitchcock in the police station?...
I loved this show!
Thanks Futonrevolution one of the best of Hammer :)
Thanks to Futonrevolution for the upload , this is one of the best on of Hammer :)
Had to be the same writers as Police Squad. 5:14 The name of the store in the background is "Loan Shark the Carpetbagger" lol
Al Ruscio, who frequently appeared in gangster roles and played the mob boss here, also played practically the same character on Police Squad as the mob boss shaking down the stores where Leslie Nielsen sets up as a locksmith. One of the assassins here was also on an episode of Police Squad.
Its true! They copied it from my tv show!
Those bastards!
Ty for posting!
Funny show
The dynamite scene 🧨 I surprise he didn’t use his gun to blow out the window, he is normally trigger happy anyway.
BECAUSE I"VE SETTLED OUT OF COURT! lol
Remember the girl who lost her candy bar in Caddy Shack? Yeah........me either
anne ryerson
4:06
I had that issue of Power Man & Iron Fist
"Are you commies?" lol!
If this show starts now it will be a successfull among all serials
2:06 just threw a cat out the window!!! Be nice to kitties lol 😂😂😅😅
Can anyone help me with the music in 12:08? What was it called? Or just a short piece just for the show?😊
At 6:00 "A Short Fuse". Get Ready For HOT Potato. 🤭.
Trust me he knows what hes doing
I'm missing something: that's obviously not the way you pronounce Mennonites. Someone please explain why they hilariously say Menninote, was it to avoid backlash from that community? Also funniest line ever: "Hey, haven't I seen You on oatmeal boxes?!" God that's hilarious!!! Only 80s forever!
CLASSIC!
8:05 Makes sense now.
lmao.. offf.. savage! 😂
Wonder who ended up with that S&W 629 with the white grips.
Hmmm ? Same Godfather on Police Squad
Sledge was the inspiration for Duke Nukem?
It's the 80s
Thank you Captain Otaku.
Wait, I'm probably thinking of someone else...
I love it!!!
For a million dollars I'd become a male nurse ...
for a million dollars, i'd become a female nurse.
I’m a locksmith and I’m a locksmith!
Trust me, i know what i'm doing!.
The Witness parody
Trust me, I know you're logged into the QR codes on my GE refridgerator.
Ha, NO.
This must have been the inspiration for the movie, "Witness". It aired 4 years prior to Witness.
I wish that were true. Witness came out in '85, Sledge Hammer in '86.
2:08 - I promise, no animals were hurt while filming this episode
Cat's 🐈 Always Land On Their Feet.
Obey the penal codes.. Lol
هل يجود بدبلجة عربي ،كان يعرض هذا المسلسل مدبلج عربي على القناة الأولى السورية
Was this show anything like that HBO show called The Sopranos?
Not really, no. One is a 1980s comedic satire of 1970s movies and the other is a 2000s dramatic homage to 1990s movies.
@11:16 Is the word "meninotes" or whatever he says, a joke?
Yup. They gave him a wacky what-people-think-German-sounds-like accent. It's actually why the Amish are called the Pennsylvania Dutch... when they told people that they were Deutsch, people misheard it as Dutch and it stuck.
Futonrevolution
I dont think you understood the question. Is "meninote" real, close to something real, or is it a joke on some other word. Sledgehammer is a comedy, not a documentary. So it has to be a joke, but I dont see it.
Oh, okay. Mennonites are a real thing and are basically extreme pacifist Anabaptists who really like the color blue. The joke in the episode is along the lines of no one being exactly sure how to pronounce Mennonite. The Sledgehammer episode is making fun of "The Witness" which is a movie where Harrison Ford does undercover witness protection in an Amish community and turns down his hot lady friend.
I live amongst these people, in Lancaster County, PA. Both Amish and Mennonites use "horse & buggy" for transportation (Amish-grey, Mennonite-black), although there are many sects of Mennonites, some of which even drive cars. I actually live about half an hour from where "Witness' was filmed, and this episode is particularly funny, right down to the dramatic chore music! The ending at 23:56 is perfect...
@@futonrevolution7671 I'm from Pa. Philly
Is it true that when this show first aired it had a laugh track slapped on it? I can only imagine how lame that must've been. Spoof material like this works best when it's played deadpan.
It's true. It was terrible. Whenever a show was shot outdoors and had a laugh track, it never made sense.
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Under the Gun episode is funny
2:47-52*'I had a dream las nite;it wz abt u'
[his gun]&23:20-25*
'Will I evr c u again?'
The AmishLady asks.
'Only f u make d 10
MostWanted list'.
ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!
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They're not Amish. They're probably Quakers from Pennsylvania.
The Google Translator Isn't working. 🤷♂️.
I loved this show! Too bad they ruined it with season 2!
Season 2 Is Just As Good. 😃👍.
@@MrTamiya89- I couldn't stand it.
🔫 Thank You!
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Anne-Marie Martin er so sexy
A Woman Is A Woman. 🤷♂️.
Okay. I gotta say it. Why do I laugh at this stupid shit!? Why is something so insultingly crass and base my favorite show of all time?
hot women in this series !!
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Lame - Far as I can recall growing up there -- There R No Amish communities in the L.A. Southern California area
The setting was actually San Francisco--probably because of Dirty Harry--but it's pretty obvious that they filmed in and around L.A. Plus, I don't think NorCal is exactly a hotbed of Amish communities either!
@@mikerussell1859 I live about an hr from amish country in Pa.
I had thought about that too. They call it a Manynote ccommunity - an allusion to Mennonite perheps?
Love yhe show
@@woodsplitter3274 it was a "wotness" (the movie 85) parody also right?
@@mynameisyumyumgivemesum1412 Yup. In fact most episodes are parodies of movies "Dog Day Afternoon", "Magnum Force", "Robocop", "A Clockwork Orange", etc.
I wonder why I love this show. It is just funny.
Not quite as funny as it was 34 years ago but I was"nt born yet then
Worst tv show ever worst acting ever worst skits ever love it used to watch with my dad