The TV Show That Was Cancelled For Being Too Funny

It's not uncommon for television shows to be cancelled. It is, however, rare for a comedy show to be cancelled because it is too funny. That was the unfortunate fate of Police Squad!
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[@TheDJChurch]

I hate to be that guy, even though I really don't, but if you're gonna drink on camera can you at least refrain from smacking your lips and making that awful "Ahhh" sound? It's obnoxious and gross.

[@TheDJChurch]

I can't tell how serious you're being, so assuming the highest level of severity: Fantastic response there. What's the point of an audio product if you're going to spoil it those sounds? Is this how you usually respond to critiques and criticism? Truly professional. I stand by what I said, it's obnoxious, and ruins virtually any audio product. Assuming it's not all that serious: Still, it's awful, grating on the ears.

[@FactFiend]

Sorry if my reply wasn't clear in its meaning. Fuck all the way off.

[@TheDJChurch]

And here I thought you would be like, a reason person who cared about the product they made and the views of the people who consume the product, guess not. If you're unable to take criticism maybe you should turn the comments off. If you're gonna reply you could use some of those writing abilities you have and try to respond with something other than vague disregards.

[@TheDJChurch]

Nearly 4 weeks later and you pinned the comment? Jeez dude I'm sorry if it got to you that much, maybe if you learned to take criticism you could've just read it and moved on.

[@Muzikman127]

This comment chain was way more entertaining than it should've been

[@bryede]

2 things: 1. The writers said they were relieved when the show was cancelled because it was too hard to write for on a weekly basis. 2. The number of trash cans Frank Drebin hits with his car increments with each episode.

[@vincegay986]

Had the show lasted, the network would have wanted 26 episodes a year. One of the great things about most streaming series is that they drop six to ten episodes every 18 to 24 months. It allows for much better script and production quality (though Police Squad! hilariously went out of its way to look poorly produced), and attracts performers who might be reluctant to limit their opportunities by tying themselves to a punishing production schedule for half of each year.

[@buddhamack1491]

The show also had no laugh track, which was great, so you weren't treated like an idiot that needed to be told when something was funny. It wasn't till the mid 2000's till comedy shows began to remove the laugh tracks again. It was just too far ahead of it's time for the idiots at the network to understand.

[@ArthurTRead]

I can't stand laugh tracks either because they make me less immersed in the show and they also get really annoying after a while. lucky for me I don't want a lot of sitcoms or comedy shows so I don't have to witness them much

[@RupeeRhod]

Sorry can we just talk about how the is empirical evidence that laugh tracks work, it's not about insulting intelligence, but about the natural human response to hearing other people laughing? If you focus on the laugh track you're missing out, it's not something done to make an unfunny show seem funny, it's not something done to tell you when to laugh. It's done so when you laugh you get validated in laughing whether you want to admit it or not, it works, and it works well. I'm not saying I like it or not, but if you wanna kill laugh tracks you better start a global human conditioning and evolved genetics program to change humanity. People whining about laugh tracks are way worse than the laugh tracks. It's called selective attention, much like before ad-blockers we learned how to ignore banner ads we learned how to filter out laugh tracks if you dislike them. Or be bitter focus on laugh tracks and never pay attention to things legitimately funny because there happened to be a laugh track surrounding it.

[@unspokendg]

Blair Snurtburgler We will

[@ironmalachi]

Arrested Development was like that too. It was cancelled because people apparently didn't know when to laugh

[@sevret313]

​@@Keihryon You need to create something with the intention of adding laugh tracks. Removing it or adding would always be a bad idea. Unless you go for some kind of meta-humour.

[@BROfficialTheIndigoChampion1]

It's crazy how the 8th season of The Simpsons is classified as an early season. Most shows never get that many seasons.

[@MrPr1nglz]

Most shows never go 30 years either

[@carpemkarzi]

And never forget in Police Squad, they would announce then kill the guest star in the opening credits.

[@romangnome222]

and IIRC every episode ended with a freeze frame gag, someone's coffee cup overflowing or a criminal realizing he can still move and escaping while the cops are all holding their pose through the credits.

[@SimoExMachina2]

They also had a different title for the episode on screen as opposed to what the announcer says.

[@itrynano2048]

who are you, how'd you get in here? i'm a locksmith... and i'm a locksmith

[@farrahwaylande7159]

Who are you, what do you do, how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith.

[@TheAnt936]

"Hello this is the lockpicking lawyer"

[@xanderjames8682]

One of my favorite jokes. Simple and clever

[@Ep1cure]

Next up, the action film that was cancelled for being too gripping, and the nature documentary that was cancelled for being too fascinating and informative...

[@Spearra]

Or a piece of news being too truthful. Oh wait

[@stitchfinger7678]

@@Spearra Denying literally all of reality does make it easy to think what you want...

[@dudecus]

“I could fight him blind folded!” “What if he’s not blind folded?” “I could still take him!”

[@SimoExMachina2]

That episode with the boxer, love it!

[@TheMasterKrook]

Let's start a petition to start calling Karl 'Shirley' from now on, so that we create the ultimate antijoke Also, nice shirt karl

[@TheAmazingDGM]

*nice shirt Shirley

[@TheMasterKrook]

TheAmazingDGM fuck, I messed it up already

[@elichalfant941]

TheMasterKrook Shirley you cant call Karl Also

[@konnordano1615]

It was a good reference to airplane

[@madebymelz7702]

Shirley Bigdickenergy

[@johnnyknight6447]

The "Sergeant Takheraway & Booker" joke hits the hardest when you realize that the two officers actually accept Nielson's character's handshake.

[@kdrapertrucker]

"How'd you know she did it?" "A little hunch back in the office" "I thought so, so I brought that little hunchback with me....come here charlie!" (Little hunchback man walks into frame to shake hands)

[@shermankelly9062]

@Leslie Neilsen Untouchables episode '3000 Suspects'. Does have it's moments.

[@Subhumanslug]

@@kdrapertrucker That joke is similar in concept to another Zucker joke in the movie "Top Secret!" "I know a little German. He's right over there." camera pans to midget in lederhosen.

[@TheOriginalMaxGForce]

It was a series of rapid fire dad jokes.

[@benjamingumundsson4397]

the best form of comedy

[@KingPrintmaker]

At the time they were kid jokes but they've gotten older and you've gotten fatter so now they're called dad jokes.

[@Kresh42]

ABC: Always Be Cancelling

[@Horus-Lupercal]

A lot of Boring Cunts.

[@nyxbozovic7503]

Isn't ABC Always Be Coconutting?

[@Spthomas47]

And CBS has always Can't Broadcast Shit.

[@adamkerdi5076]

Brad Burns lol 😂

[@samelsby-hartman4593]

abk: always be knolling.

[@ITZ_eSPy]

I saw an episode of this in my film class and almost died. Literally too funny.

[@jblue1622]

espyTV did you go to the hospital? Get a biopsy to find out what nearly killed you? I'm interested to know

[@MrPr1nglz]

@Adrián B.V. or his funny bone

[@g2p2k]

jblue1622 It’s... a figure of speech...

[@soupisfornoobs4081]

Almost died! I can see why they cancelled it

[@dominicmorales6800]

My friends and I saw an episode and I had trouble breathing so I was in a daze. One friend almost pissed himself. One fool nearly choked on his beverage. And the last cried so much his eyes were really red.

[@Zaetren]

the best part about having too many jokes means there is a lot of value in rewatching it because there will always something new to pick up on, if those executives were smart they could have milked the series for years after a full series ends and they would have been set for life.

[@Rbills02]

Zaetren The idea of rewatching a show wasn’t a big thing in the early 80’s

[@hakancarlsson2881]

That's why it would have been a cash cow if it was released a decade later!

[@michaelmartin9022]

Robert Bills When VCR's were first starting to come out? They could have made shitloads with a promotional tie-up

[@Rbills02]

Michael Martin Exactly they were just coming out therefore they were expensive luxury items and a lot of people didn’t have one yet.

[@wingnutofcoolness]

I've noticed that with movies like Naked Gun. The 2nd time through I'll catch jokes I missed before.

[@MezThorbonizer]

There was another show of a similar kind in the '80's called Sledge Hammer. It was a parody of Dirty Harry that ran for two seasons. Not quite as goofy as Police Squad, but still pretty good. Also, Danny Elfman did the theme music.

[@chaseboyar]

Sledge hammer is great

[@Charlie-tt5gx]

“The reason why it got cancelled was because it had too many jokes” Yeah, that’s probably why tv shows like the Big Bang theory are still- damnit he beat me too it!

[@blinkachu05]

Yeah hating Big Bang is a pretty easy joke Still harder than any jokes Big Bang Theory makes.

[@BadlyOrganisedGenius]

I legitimately thought your channel name was "Fact Friend" this whole time and I've only just noticed it isn't

[@tactilcalhorize]

For some reason, I kept reading it as "Fact Find."

[@KerryBuchanan]

Badly Organised Geniuses I literally have thought that all the way up until I just read your comment. I had to scroll up to confirm you're right, lol!

[@clitcrusader4897]

I just think of it as karl smallwood, because that sounds less stupid and has more comedic value.

[@thejohnykilroy]

"Nice beaver" "Thanks, I just had it stuffed"

[@hansgruber788]

sargon let me help you with that

[@paulfitzgibbon4110]

I can remember sitting in a cinema here in Australia watching the Naked Gun & being the only person laughing at this joke. Had to explain it to my friend, was overheard by the guys behind us, they all started laughing. Everyone else missed the joke. If it'd been a stuffed cat, maybe they would have got it. Also, the Naked Gun was subtitled 'From the files of Police Squad'. Loved the freeze frame shots at the end of each episode, particularly the chimpanzee one.

[@danieljuncos244]

“Who are you? And how did you get in here?” “I’m the locksmith. And, I’m the locksmith.”

[@charlietuba]

Leslie Nielsen starred in "Forbidden Planet" in 1956. Classic Science Fiction!

[@theuniversedoesntcare]

charlietuba By good old Gene Roddenberry, right?

[@charlietuba]

Z T No Roddenberry didn't get his fingers in this. This would have been very early in career. Forbidden Planet is based on the Shakespeare play The Tempest. The story was written by Irving Block and Allen Adler. Other star in the film were Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Richard Anderson (who was Oscar in The Six-Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman). If you haven't seen this flick, watch it. You can rent the disc (DVD or Blu Ray) from Netflix.

[@Metaphizzle]

Roddenberry didn't work on _Forbidden Planet_ at all, but wasn't that one of his big inspirations for _Star Trek_ ? Definitely agree that it's a classic. But it's certainly strange seeing Leslie Nielsen young enough that he still had dark hair.

[@KougajiCalling]

That's one of my favorite movies! Robbie is best robot.

[@strawbarry418]

I just saw that today

[@Morbius2271]

There actually WAS a Futurama/Adventure time crossover in one of the Futurama movies (I think the D&D one?), where they find Jake and Finn in a dungeon and jake says “what time is it?” To which Bender replies “Time to shut the hell up”. Edit: spelling

[@bythekinks2499]

It was in the episode "Leela and the Genestalk"

[@Ryeven]

I thought it was just "Time to shut up" ? Heh, I probably got a false memory. Oh well.

[@planetarycommunity4573]

@@Ryeven nope probably a dimensional shift, damn that Mandela! (Tis just a joke)

[@CorgyOntoppya]

I feel like mentioning here an episode of Adventure Time where Jake goes into his own Jake World and the Jake-made characters are Futurama voice actors.

[@shr_g9490]

Karl Smallwood: You sir have promised us, not just as an audience but as people, an entire episode where you are completely serious with no jokes or quips.We will be watching sir, we will always be watching. (also great vid and love the shirt :])

[@ScottishRebel]

Shr/_/g you ruined it with that comment at the end

[@shr_g9490]

Could you stay mad at there shirt? That's what I thought...

[@JasonPerseusVT]

*their

[@Koisheep]

Look for "the tennis player who is dull on purpose" or something like that

[@spaceboi231]

*Shirley

[@paradoxinraindrops141]

ABC: people might not watch it because they might miss something Meanwhile I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve watched Edgar Wright’s films.

[@hitmanwolf]

i was unaware that we lost Nielsen at 2010. he had a legendary delivery.

[@spcsongparodycentral4612]

Noooooooooooooooo 😢

[@patpalermo7629]

His tombstone says 'let 'er rip" an homage to his many fart jokes.

[@rfichokeofdestiny]

@@patpalermo7629 He supposedly carried a fart noise maker around with him all the time and would use it at key points in interviews or even with random people in elevators.

[@sidfletcher4955]

Yes...he received a six foot moustache left at his door by Amazon.......

[@igorkopacynski8906]

Damn, didn't knew he was 2010 years old...

[@Dr.Strangmeme]

Engraved On Leslie Neilsons Grave "LET 'ER RIP" He Couldn't Resist One Last Joke

[@ZillMob]

Dibs

[@shermankelly9062]

@@ZillMob Untouchables episode '3000 Suspects'. Does have it's moments.

[@ZillMob]

@@shermankelly9062 huh?

[@shermankelly9062]

@@ZillMob Are you familiar with the Untouchables?

[@ZillMob]

@@shermankelly9062 I'm am not familiar with the untouchables, is it a tv show?

[@Tesserakt8]

HAHAHA "Sergeant Takeheraway" "Sergeant Bookher"

[@paulfitzgibbon4110]

'Run her in". They all drop to sprinter's starting crouches, Someone fires a gun & away they run.

[@paulmanning8897]

No you idiot! You`ve RUINED IT! He only says "sergeant" ONCE!!! The joke doesn`t work otherwise! It`s the "AND" that makes it work!

[@JosephFlores-yn4yi]

@@paulmanning8897 ok

[@karlellis7193]

@@paulmanning8897 exactly! He says, "Seargant Takeraway and Booker" to make us assume he meant "take her away and book her" - I lose complete respect in a person when I have to explain or correct them on simple things like that 🤣

[@ThePlumAbides]

I heard the British military tried to weaponize the show for use in WWII before they found the Killer Joke

[@filthy.kasual]

Kevin Simmons Lol I get it

[@lukesinclair4101]

Monty Python reference?

[@dehavillandvampire]

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Bayerhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

[@dubsy1026]

De Havilland Vampire no it's gespurt

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

Zere ver sree peanuts valking down ze strata, unt one vuz a salted... peanut... hehehe...

[@123rudyc]

"I take it black, like my men"

[@harrycargill3551]

She looks like ten

[@harrycargill3551]

That makes it a lot funnier

[@Gammaburst1298]

I like my women like I like my video games. Animated, “can mute” and can have infinite stamina with endurance.

[@lucybarnes8969]

Harris thats the joke ahaha

[@superpaul79]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! YOU SAID THE THING THE GIRL IN THE VIDEO SAID!! HILARIOUS! DO IT AGAIN!!

[@kyleketchum9283]

"It always comes back to penis"-Karl Smallwood, 2018

[@johnex1029]

Smallwood

[@elgurkus6885]

Shirley Smallwood*

[@jblue1622]

Shirley Smallwood, for Prime Minister 2020

[@RagnarokMic]

Police Squad has one of my favorite lines of all time, a brilliant line that can slip right by you if you're not paying attention: "There'd been a recent wave of gorgeous fashion models found naked and unconscious in laundromats on the West side, unfortunately I was assigned to investigate hold ups in neighborhood credit unions...I was across town doing my laundry when I heard the call on the double killing."

[@michaelramsey1299]

It did take me a second before it clicked but your right that’s pretty good.

[@karlellis7193]

Fantastic 😂 10/10 comedy like this is an endangered talent and people just don't appreciate it - a lot of people I know don't get jokrs like this or wordplay jokes etc and they just think I'm unfunny but I just feel they lack a certain spark of intelligence 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@n0ame1u1]

THIS IS THE COMEDY POLICE! THE JOKE'S TOO FUNNY!

[@TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

I'M NOT GOING BACK TO JAIL!

[@wesker100000000]

You have the right to remain cancelled, any comebacks you do try will be used....in movies, you have a right to be on dvd and shirley a lot more.

[@k9feline2]

"Married. One girl. It didn't work out. So next time he married a grown woman."

[@WJames-nq2df]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Police Squad. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of forensic science, most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Drebin's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Police Squad truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Drebin's existential catchphrase "It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day." which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Leslie Nielsen and David Zucker's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂 And yes, by the way, i DO have a Police Squad tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

[@sarabjeetkaur4860]

W. James I understood that reference!

[@b4nes]

a very fitting meme, sir

[@GRAVESGGS]

How does iq fit with being knowledgeable? You're just an idiot who likes to read.

[@D3niz3n]

Ghydeon Stuart r/woosh

[@Egghead012]

W. James r/iamverysmart

[@obi-wanjabronii]

Makes me think it was beating one of their other comedies and they got salty

[@KelticTim]

Check out Leslies cameo in M*A*S*H. It’s incredible. He plays a legit John Wayne type and pulls it off like a champ.

[@seth1130]

I've seen Police Squad so many times, and every time I wish there were more than six episodes.

[@Wario7793]

I remember seeing Leslie Nelson in one of his serious roles in the 1957 movie "Forbidden Planet". He was serious through much of the movie, but when he started pranking the other crew members on the space ship he was on, that was pretty funny!

[@AdventuresofVindalf]

There was a man in old Iceland whose wife did divorce him because his manhood was too big. To do so, she had to call together a council composed of, like everybody in Iceland, and publicly swear that his wedding tackle was more massive than she could deal with. I can't remember how to spell his name (Hreuter Hjerlofson poissibly?). If you can find his story, it would make a good video.

[@AdventuresofVindalf]

Found it: HISTORY OF UROLOGY Wednesday, 26 March, 12.45-14.15, Black Hall: HRÚTUR HERJÓLFSSON: A VIKING TOO LARGE FOR HIS WIFE? URO-PHILOLOGICAL WORKUP OF A 1000 YEAR OLD STORY

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

09:59 The way I heard it expressed was that people had a fondness for getting up, going to the fridge to get something to drink/munch etc. With other TV shows, they could do that without missing much. But with _Police Squad_ , they’d lose a whole lot of the jokes, forever gone into the ether.. If only they had some device for recording the shows, so they could watch them later at their leisure...

[@mmmhhm]

Leslie Nelson said he was grateful he got the role in Airplane because as he was getting older, the only roles he was getting were grandfather roles.

[@Jim_the_Hermit]

In the 70's there was a TV show called "Soap." It made people literally laugh out load. They had to cancel it.

[@noclue30]

Love that show also!

[@sliceoflife4220]

I loved soap thank goodness i had a chance to watch the re runs

[@sidfletcher4955]

Brilliant show.

[@sidfletcher4955]

Which triggers memory of the UK show Brass...another classic

[@vinnyganzano1930]

I remember that it was brilliant.

[@SJReid82]

"I just want to tell you both; good luck. We're all counting on you."

[@johnrankin7135]

Yes I remember, I had the lasagna.

[@xedasxedas]

Essentially one ABC director profiled the entire American audience as to to stupid....to the point they would be offended for being told jokes they didn't get. Nice.

[@trendrekt8363]

w-well he's not that wrong though

[@xedasxedas]

@@trendrekt8363 Now why would you said that? That's not fair or accurate. There's all kinds of people in all states from rural to urban areas. To me all it takes is to get to know one good american and my extrapolated opinion already differs from yours. Their greatest virtues and flaws came from the same sources: young countrie, easely manipulated by patriotic stuff, their constitution, two extremly polarizing political parties. The worse thing i would said to them would be: thank you for running this "weird" social model for us to learn from.

[@AgentTasmania]

There are no bigger misanthropes than marketing and studio executives

[@ravlikahfi741]

Remember that time A&W sold a Third pounder burger to compete with maccie's Quarter pounder, and failed because people thought 1/4 is bigger than 1/3? yeah... there might be some truth to that P.S. maccies is Mcdonalds btw

[@justinsutton5005]

@@ravlikahfi741 So the burger failed so instead A&W said the people were stupid. It was probably terrible tasting.

[@andrewclodfelter6760]

I love when Shirley uploads a fact fiend video!

[@jerknorris2483]

Andrew Welch Shirley your joking?

[@floppaquest4916]

Jerk Norris Shirley not

[@elgurkus6885]

WE CAN CHANGE IT! I have started a petition. we if we get enough people to sign it, that Karl will talk about it, then we succeedet. MAKE FACT FIEND GREAT AGAIN! CALL HIM SHIRLEY! www.change.org/p/karl-smallwood-rename-karl-smallwood-to-shirley

[@mmitchum3826]

Thanks for this video... I was 14 when the movie Airplane came out. You finally made me realize 40 years later where I got my sense of humor from. It shouldn't have taken me this long, surely.

[@IndigoWhiskey]

can't believe people left you hanging for two years. and don't call me Shirley

[@briansrandomstuff76]

I heard that the producers were actually a little glad to get canceled, because they were honestly running out of plot ideas for it. They were worried that they wouldn’t be able to keep up the quality writing much longer.

[@Kwekwe]

Well l think Naked Gun 3 shows what would've have happened if Police Squad had continued (embarrassingly strained and unfunny humour)

[@Chidsuey]

I recommend the documentary, "That Guy...Who Was in that Thing".

[@jasonbolin151]

As a twelve-year-old I was so pissed when they cancelled that show and I got every joke in it

[@ZachHixsonTutorials]

Karl, u need to show us that sick tattoo on your arm one of these videos! I can make out a Metroid and Crocomire Also, r u going to get it shaded at any point?

[@jellybeanjackrabbit]

I think he said on his instagram he was gonna get it coloured cos he was saying about some f it would be gree and blend in with the green screen

[@ZachHixsonTutorials]

Yeah, every time he wears that Metroid shirt he always has a hole in his chest XD

[@spaceboi231]

Zach Hixson *Shirley

[@asudholt3471]

My history teacher showed the 6 episodes when we had some time

[@greendroid77]

This guy with that badass UK accent drinking Bud Light of all beers.

[@greendroid77]

@@flankspeed well yeah i guess if my work is offering me free beer I'm not that picky. Although my buddy in our early 20s gave Bud Light the nickname Butt Wipe as he noticed only after a few cans they were giving most of us the toxic shits 🤣

[@casono]

Imagine if it was pabst blue ribbon.

[@weirdskyreallyweird.5519]

I wouldn’t even drink bud light back when I was 15 and stealing beers from my parents lol

[@vinnyganzano1930]

Bud Light🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@joshedwards7012]

I remember watching police squad as a 13-14 year old, in like 2011-2012, and it was possibly some of the funniest shit ever, I still love the freeze frames at the end of each episode 😂

[@poxyclypse]

I watched Police Squad during its original airing, and I always loved the epilogue "freeze frame". The pouring coffee, the perp getting away, the monkey throwing papers. And always Martin, Dutch Gundersen and Sally Decker. Also, the recurring tall guy Al gags. Comedy gold! Must rewatch.

[@montgomer8042]

Nice shirt, my grandpa has like 20 of those.

[@klobiforpresident2254]

The Hawaii shirts or "it always comes back to penis"?

[@montgomer8042]

Hawaiian Shirts

[@bbcradio7180]

Monty Cox r/wooosh

[@montgomer8042]

Dammit

[@ZaWarubro]

He’s got good taste in fashion

[@ToonamiT0M]

Angie Tribeca is also similar to Police Squad in it's comedy style.

[@joshuaquintrell6732]

If they ever do a reboot of Police Squad, they should cast Patrick Warburton as the lead. He'd be perfect for the role.

[@degrassi420]

Joshua Quintrell I think his voice is a little too goofy and unique for it

[@spcsongparodycentral4612]

@@degrassi420 but... he could bring his smoker...

[@DocTommy1972]

He should do a live action American Dad

[@chrislenferna4384]

Yeh they did. Its called Brooklyn Nine Nine

[@michaelramsey1299]

Chris Lenferna not really Brooklyn 99 is just a police sitcom. Police squad was more a serious police drama set in a world where everyone was a little crazy. So much so that despite being obviously stupid Dremond was almsot brilliant by comparison.

[@RS-jr1qd]

Please please tell me you went and saw Dracula dead and loving it after you watched this or filmed this. It’s gold!

[@TheSidei]

Something is wrong with my KZbin. I was watching this video and then I just got the notification telling me that it had JUST been posted! Like how am I already halfway through watching a video when according to KZbin it was only posted 10 seconds ago!?!?

[@chloe-qf5fn]

yeah i get notifications for livestreams that started two hours ago and have since finished

[@hectorsjourneys8249]

It's because KZbin has a system that makes the notification bell crucial if you want to see your videos you have to press the bell if you want to see videos immediately

[@chloe-qf5fn]

the thing is, i dont want to have to click the notification bell everytime i sub to someone. it defeats the purpose of subbing in the first place

[@Error0101]

chloe Subbing just puts them in your recommended now and then and let's them show up in your subscribed tab. The problem is that people like me are easily subbed to over 200 channels and so the bells were invented in order to reduce spam.

[@oneDonly]

Hello from the past.

[@wolframstahl1263]

THIS GOT CANCELLED? The "may I check your coat?" joke alone had me almost falling off my chair.

[@mistwolf]

‘I’m not going to explain it because you either get it or you don’t’. uncool, man. uncool. i need to understand and I don’t! but that would be a terrible reason to cancel something. also, did those execs go on to work at Fox, circa Firefly?

[@existingpersonyes2028]

Ok get rid of eed in feed and seed becuase its sneed now take chuck now add uck to f and s and you get chucks fuck and suck

[@mistwolf]

Feddy feaker OwQ thank you! now I can laugh with my betters at a joke i felt was down that road but i kept getting lipstick on it

[@AirLancer]

You had to go and ruin it.

[@existingpersonyes2028]

AirLancer yes

[@mistwolf]

AirLancer he’s a good person in a good community. cheers to him. jeers to you.

[@richshealer3755]

The opening of each episode featured a celebrity death. Episode 6 originally featured John Belushi wearing cement shoes, but the John ended up dying before the show aired. They refilmined it with classic radio star William Conrad.

[@cityhawk]

Rich Shealer Any footage of it released?

[@richshealer3755]

@@cityhawk I've not found any. Someone else said that it was never actually filmed.

[@charlesbaker7703]

IIRC, the celebrity was billed as a "special guest star" Also the title card never matched what the announcer said.

[@justincarr8178]

Favourite Police Squad line "Married 1 kid,it didn't work out so he married a grown woman"

[@Kittsuera]

with so many yokes per second even if someone missed one there would be another one to enjoy before they noticed.

[@PhilMasters]

Hey, Leslie Nielsen was in Forbidden Planet - a stone cold classic.

[@zanzibarzamfir276]

when he said he was going to crack open a cold one I was thinking it was beer but it was canned water!

[@HarbingerIV]

B C, - yes, that was the joke.

[@Zabernacked]

well no harm done then when he emptied it into a half full glass of water! watering down water! HOLY SMOKES! GET YOUR BIG BOY BRITCHES ON!

[@alfredlear4141]

Is a light beer a ber?

[@iammenotu8483]

That was clearly a bud light 1st can introduced in 2016, I'm such a drunk...ugh

[@mossadon]

Then he drank it from a jar mug....fuckin jars, given handles....Hipster doughbaggery right there. Coz...ya know...country hicks n people who don't give a toss drinking from jars is sooooo "Don't give two fucks!" it's awesome....but jars are everywhere...what we need to do is make jars with handles and sell them to people who give way too many fucks about acting kool they don't actually drink from jars.

[@jasontremayne6701]

...yeah, do one on 1977's The Big Bus. You will lose your minds! Without The Big Bus, there would not have been Airplane. And yes, it was a fairly big thing at the time.

[@ianwebster3489]

- Cigarette? - Yes, I know.

[@viddork]

-Coffee? -Yes, I know. They were never afraid to re-use a joke

[@soupisfornoobs4081]

I don't get the joke, I'm offended.

[@viddork]

@@soupisfornoobs4081 Don't worry --- nowadays that's completely normal.

[@davidpage3893]

Or…Cigarette? Yes it is.

[@Derpmaster001]

I think tbs made a show similar to this called angie tribeca

[@thomasswafford250]

Me too

[@brxyz]

Had to scroll too far through the comments to find this.

[@olivia3698]

i actually genuinely like the shirt

[@mattwillerton6775]

It's honestly a nice shirt, can't see why its getting so much hate lmao

[@ThisisalGOOGLESCHANNEL]

but this was an age before 'on demand' and even before there was VHS in every home i'm still finding new jokes in Airplane

[@viddork]

I recently rewatched Airplane! (after learning about Zero Hour! - look it up on KZbin if you're not familiar with it) and found that it hasn't aged quite as well as I thought it would - I think mainly because I now just know the jokes too well. Even so, I still had two or three LOL moments from jokes I had forgotten. Their philosophy seemed to be, never tell one joke where five will do.

[@AnnoyingMoose]

@@viddork Airplane! hasn't aged well?? Surely, you can't be serious!

[@viddork]

@@AnnoyingMoose I am serious, but that's not important right now.

[@icemaglite]

@@AnnoyingMoose don't call him Shirley

[@shune84]

one of favorite lines was from way out west - laurel and hardy "tell me about my dear father is he really dead?!" "well we hope so, they buried him".

[@kdrapertrucker]

We found this ransom note tied to this window and thrown into the Rock garden.

[@artemiswolf4508]

Most underrated joke from airplane: “I didn’t come there that night to fall in love... It hit me like a thunder bolt I had to ask the guy next to me to pinch me” *guy slowly backs away*

[@viddork]

The one that's stuck in my head at the moment was something like: This man needs to get to a hospital immediately! What is it, Doctor? It's a big building where they take sick people, but that's not important now.

[@lucyhtml]

10:30 dammit karl!!

[@Martianorbit]

JedDraws Bazinga!

[@RobinDavey-ge8vn]

*shirley

[@lucasclark1669]

British humour is the best form of humour

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Very true. The reason being is that in America, the actors try to be funny through personality and pandering. British humor, it is the all about the performance in delivering the lines. Airplane-using all non-comedic performers is the perfect example. British comedy is subtle. American comedy is like a sledgehammer. American comedians perceive that they are funny. British comedic actors know they are funny, but play the hilarious scenario as straight, allowing the audience to make that judgement. Some american humor is great, however, on the most part, a joke is usually made at the expense of somebody else. In Britain, the joke is usually made at the expense of joke-tellers themselves.

[@JasnoGT]

I'm a yank and people have always told me I have dry Brit style of humor even when I didn't realize it.

[@jblue1622]

This is true, and American humor is the best kind of humor ;P

[@stankey69]

Sense of humour is subjective...

[@wesker100000000]

To be frank (who i'm not) both forms of humor can be very funny (mel brooks films, scrubs, frasier) and our ones from the U.K (before they became un ok).

[@MacAisling]

The rumor that filtered down to my neighborhood at the time was that the execs were afraid that audiences, having (and wanting) to pay more attention to this, would start being more critical of all the lazily written shows that filled up the rest of the slate. What I remember most from the 4 episodes that aired was the closing credits "freeze frame".

[@aaronstark5060]

To piggy back on the point about him starting out as a dramatic actor, Leslie Nielsen auditioned for the part of Judah Ben-Hur and there’s footage of it. It’s surreal.

[@frostyframe]

Shirley Smallwood

[@Jacqueline_Hyde]

Is your human disguise faling? Your arm looks a bit messy.

[@oracleofvideos5220]

Maybe is vampire?

[@orion-nebula4264]

Maybe he is Vampire?

[@dragonicbladex7574]

That means he could be a dio

[@ladwigs]

Someone, could try rebooting Police Squad now

[@djm5687]

It wouldn't work. It would be too funny.

[@UnChannelDuVulpineX]

Angie Tribeca was very Police Squaddy.

[@kevstacey8639]

I couldn't agree more that Leslie Nielsen was a brilliant actor and I'd love to see this unfairly short-lived series someday, because it's got all the right ticks in all the right boxes for me, though it appeals to me as a Monty Python fan as well as a Simpsons fan. Meanwhile, you improved Bud Light by making a shandy of it. And you chose well in that regard, because you just wouldn't do that to a good beer.

[@williamgreenough8350]

your british and drinking lite american beer??? what are you a girl???? byes d' byes, lol, ps, you forgot to mention that lesley nelson was Canadian, eh !

[@juliopazzaglia9027]

You should watch Dirk Gently

[@ConnorMcCartney95]

julio pazzaglia the 2nd season is kinda shit compared to the first. Not that it's similar to Police Squad.

[@juliopazzaglia9027]

the firsst season is just gold! The second one not as much, but still very enjoyable

[@ConnorMcCartney95]

julio pazzaglia I loved the first season and I still haven't finished the 2nd season, got like 2 episodes left. It's too different and stupid.

[@waltertomaszewski1083]

How gently should I watch Dirk?

[@viddork]

@@waltertomaszewski1083 On a scale of 1 to 5, make it a C.

[@petergwbaker]

Angie Tribecca and Brooklyn Nine-Nine need to be around forever.

[@TheGreg_T]

Suggestion for 200K special: Brad face reveal!

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

I can't remember ANY of the context, but there was a scene in Police Squad where someone was trying to make a key and as the scene ended the bench grinder he was using took the squad and sent it flying into the ceiling. The camera then panned up to twenty or so keys embedded into it.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

Technically, you could say Police Squad had 9 episodes, since all three Naked Gun films were "from the files of Police Squad."

[@nachopascual96]

14:20 Well that reminds me of Beloved Character Actress Margo Martindale

[@robertkiefer3879]

I do recall watching it as a kid, ABC ran the episodes during the Writer's Strike in the 90's.

[@LG-xg8fw]

I like the way his beer messes with the green screen

[@Mew_Master]

“Ed and I drove around for hours for no particular reason. We came up empty.” Sergeant Frank Drebin, Lieutenant Detective Police Squad, 3/18/1982

[@BlankKnightt]

..."You know, In this show, it always comes back to penis" - Karl Smallwood 2018...

[@connor5187]

"Cigarette?" "I know." Made me burst out in uncontrollable laughter

[@connor5187]

Also, I think the "problem" (if you can call it that) with "sneed's feed and seed" is that it's not very intuitive. It's funny when you're in on the know, but the step to change the other two words in the sign isn't a logical next leap for audiences to make. So you sort of need someone to give you a nudge and say, "hey, change the other words to rhyme with chuck"

[@professionalmemeenthusiast2117]

@@connor5187 That actually went over my head until you gave that hint. I obviously knew that "seed and feed" was an innuendo, but couldn't get why "Chuck's" made it funnier.

[@mikesantini65]

Dracula dead and loving it needs is great watch it

[@leonrider313]

Sergeant Take-her-away and Sergeant Book-her 😂😂😂😂

[@paulmanning8897]

No you idiot! You`ve RUINED IT! He only says "sergeant" ONCE!!! The joke doesn`t work otherwise!

[@Panyc333]

Always attend peoples funerals or they might not show up to yours. - Yogi Berra

[@chuckwilliams6261]

6:18 You didn't just call Police Squad "the holy grail of comedy." I'm hereby revoking your Britishness.

[@professionalmemeenthusiast2117]

Holy Grail is the holy grail of comedy

[@Jaykman]

I feel that Karl did you all a small disservice by overlooking the beauty that is Angie Tribeca. B99 is wonderful, but Angie Tribeca was literally Police Squad with a 30-year update. do yourself a favour and go watch a couple seasons of that.

[@therealkillerb7643]

Hey Karl; I think some kid was drawing on your arm with a magic marker. Might want to wash that arm before your next video; just saying...

[@kilaliam671]

I love the IT crowd so much

[@coralreefee695]

Second time I’ve watched this episode and I still expected him to say too good at dating