Recasting Police Academy

Buzzn The Tower

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Perhaps the greatest contribution of the 1980s is the Police Academy hexalogy. Never before has such a bold effort been successfully attempted. Create not just one, but six of the greatest comedic films ever, and all within a ten year span. Today on Buzzn The Tower, we take Mauser, Thompson, Proctor, Hightower, Lassard, Callahan, Tackleberry, Harris, Sweetchuck, Zed, Motor Mouth Jones, and Mahoney, and recast them with other actors from the 80s. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always, the Bar to my Blue Oyster, Max Sanders. And with that...

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0:14.4	Comment on the stars so friendly and regal general hospital tootsie. He was great and toots really good
0:20.8	Punky Brewster. He was on Hogan's heroes 6 million dollar man. There is only one answer for this
0:26.2	There's no backup. There's no second answer. We have no third answer. There's only one person that could ever play this role
0:31.5	And I would argue would play it better and I very rarely say that this person would have been a better casting a hundred out of a hundred times
0:37.5	Leslie Nielsen the naked gun. There's not even a question that this is who it would be for he takes it to seriously
0:42.8	That's the sword you're thinking was hard when he's like dementia and he's going to Miami and dropping golf balls all over the airport
0:49.3	Think about how funny Leslie Nielsen would be at the podium scene
0:52.6	Think about how funny he would be giving his speeches walking back and forth. He doesn't have to like you're not you're not on this one
1:04.3	Welcome to Buzz in the Tower a podcast dedicated to the movies of the 1980s
1:08.7	Prepare to be stuffed in our delorean and taken on a trip through the best decade of film ever. Hey mo
1:13.7	We better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88 roads
1:17.4	We're going. We don't need roads. So if you love Caddy Shack the goonies aliens weird science spies like us the great outdoors
1:25.7	Empire strikes back the great muppet caper pretty in pink predator rocky for roadhouse say anything real genius short circuit
1:33.8	Some kind of wonderful Beverly Hills cop Akira Tango and cash the breakfast club and they live just to name a few
1:40.2	Then sit back relax and get ready to be entertained because we came here to chew bubble gum and podcast about 80s movies
1:47.1	And we're all out of bubble gum
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