PEL Presents PMP#204: Naked Gun Rapid Firing
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
What is the state of the stream-of-gags formula that used to stand tall in the films of the Zucker Brothers (mainly Airplane) and Mel Brooks? A new generation attempts to revive that with a new Naked Gun film. How does this new effort relate to the classic films?
Are these kinds of films particularly timeless? Rewatchable? Do young people appreciate this kind of thing? Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and (for the third or so) Al speculate wildly as usual.
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| 0:00.0 | Who's the Black Private Chick that's a sex machine with all the chicks? |
| 0:11.3 | It's pretty much pop a culture podcast today talking not about Shaft, about the naked gun franchise that kicked off in 1988 by the Zucker brothers of airplane fame has been revived recently starring Liam Neeson. |
| 0:23.6 | My name is Mark Linton Meyer. Don't call me Shirley. |
| 0:25.7 | My name is Al Baikier. Don't call me Shirley either. |
| 0:27.7 | I am Enrico Palazzo, internationally renowned opera star. |
| 0:31.7 | This is Lawrence Ware. And just like everyone else, don't call me Shirley. That's what I was going to say. |
| 0:37.1 | Even though it's not from these films, but it was this style of film, this Zucker |
| 0:41.8 | brother's thing that was most successfully done with airplane. It's definitely, even Naked |
| 0:46.2 | Gun 1 is a step down from that. And I did rewatch all three Naked Gun films, and each one |
| 0:52.1 | is quite a bit worse than the last one. |
| 0:55.4 | They all have some good points in them. |
| 0:57.6 | But by number three, there's like this extended sperm bank thing. |
| 1:02.3 | No, no. |
| 1:04.1 | But number one, I think was still good. |
| 1:05.8 | It was still pretty close to airplane quality. |
| 1:08.0 | Interesting. |
| 1:08.8 | Just trying to think of, because the obvious thing to do for the |
| 1:11.4 | intro to this podcast is let's steal a joke from the naked gun. And so I went looking through all |
| 1:16.6 | the quotes. And it's remarkable how, like, you think of the naked gun just as a one liner |
| 1:20.7 | and the Zucker Brothers kind of movies just as like throwing one liners out of the way. But everything |
| 1:25.2 | is actually a three or four sentence |
| 1:27.7 | joke that requires two or three people to set you up for some elaborate punchline and or |
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