Police Academy

branie

Anyone here ever watch this comedy series that got progressively worse with each film?

lord lucan

Yep and loved every single one of them.:D

Sure they were corny and relied on juvenile humour and toilet gags but that was what made them fun.

Ruu

Michael Winslow was the only reason I watched them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq4P6u8NN7E

darkdubh

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Michael Winslow was the only reason I watched them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq4P6u8NN7E

i diden't know till recently that he does the noises for real I thought they were studio added sound affects.

Lawrence1895

It was some decent films alright, but I couldn't stand the title track

Aglomerado

The hooker in the podium scene in the first film always cracks me up!

padd b1975

I think there's another one in production, but it has been delayed following the death of the actor who played Hightower.

I Loved them all except the 7th one! I can do a great impression of Zed too!

Aglomerado

Deleted User wrote: »

I Loved them all except the 7th one! I can do a great impression of Zed too!

I love Zed! "Jughead's a good American name, uhurr uhurr!"

InchicoreDude

branie wrote: »

Anyone here ever watch this comedy series that got progressively worse with each film?

Aah I always thought the 3rd one was the best! Isnt the one where the little dweeb cop comes into it? He was awesome!

Steve_o

branie wrote: »

Anyone here ever watch this comedy series that got progressively worse with each film?

I disagree that they got worse, I love all of them! PROCTOOORRRRR

Kersh

InchicoreDude wrote: »

Aah I always thought the 3rd one was the best! Isnt the one where the little dweeb cop comes into it? He was awesome!

Third one for me too. Sweetchuck was his name. And Tackleberry came into that one too iirc.

rubadub

InchicoreDude wrote: »

Aah I always thought the 3rd one was the best! Isnt the one where the little dweeb cop comes into it? He was awesome!

3rd was on TV the other night. Looked quite dated but that guy was funny, pants up to his chest.

greenman09

Kersh wrote: »

Third one for me too. Sweetchuck was his name. And Tackleberry came into that one too iirc.

Tack was in one or two. He definitely got married in PA2.

Mars Bar

I loved the granny that liked her guns as much as Tackleberry liked his.

It also has my favourite theme tune to any movie, ever.

syklops

Kersh wrote: »

Third one for me too. Sweetchuck was his name. And Tackleberry came into that one too iirc.

No. Tackleberry is the first recurring character you see in Police Academy(1).

I was hooked on PA when I was a kid. Stand by for some genuinely useless and thoroughly uninteresting PA trivia.

Police Academy premièred on Irish television the same night as the final episode of Dallas. It was also the same weekend Telecom Eireann lowered the cost of calling the US to just 1 pound per minute. It was such a big thing that they did a TV ad for it.

I recorded it on video the night it premiered and I watched it so many times I wore out the tape. Somehow I missed the showing of PA 2 and 3, and the next one I watched and recorded(and therefore rewatched ad nauseum) was PA4: Citizens on Patrol, which introduced Mrs Feldman which was Tackleberry in little old lady form. She's the one who during induction asks can they pack heat(carry guns).

PA5 Assignment Miami Beach was the first one which Steve Guttenberg(Mahoney) did not appear in. Bobcat Goldthwait(Zed) also did not return for this. It is one of the weakest of the entire set of movies. PA6:City Under Seige I enjoyed. Again no Mahoney. PA7 Mission to Moscow I only saw once, and I only stuck it out for the gorgeous Claire Forlani. Maybe i had outgrown the humour, but I have to say PA1 was on TV a few weeks back and I really enjoyed it.

PA8 is in the works. The actors who played Hightower and Tackleberry have passed away. Whatever happened to Steve Guttenberg remains unclear.

Caonima

Aglomerado wrote: »

The hooker in the podium scene in the first film always cracks me up!

ditto

Isotonik

They did get worse but if you loved them from the start then I dare say you'd love them to the end.

My favourite character was Captain Harris - along with Proctor it was just non stop laughs. One of his best scenes was during "Citizens on Patrol" when he and Proctor are trying to apprehend the "skateboarding punks".

syklops

In 2 and I think 3 the "bad guy" was Captain Mowser but Harris was way better and was brought back for 4,5 and I think 6. I'll have to go back and watch them all again(All 6 anyway).

Isotonik

I read somewhere recently that the actor Art Metrano who played Mowser suffered spinal injuries as a result of a fall not long after his Police Academy appearances. Unfortunately they left him rather badly paralysed and unable to work. Sad.

SEPT 23 1989

I loved these characters NSFW

http://media.screened.com/uploads/2/26126/644425-callahan_wet_top_2_.png

old hippy

Could never understand the fascination with these movies. No redeeming factors whatsoever.

syklops

old hippy wrote: »

Could never understand the fascination with these movies. No redeeming factors whatsoever.

As you should have already realized different people have different tastes. Whats so hard to understand?

old hippy

syklops wrote: »

As you should have already realized different people have different tastes. Whats so hard to understand?

The Blue Oyster.

nlgbbbblth

Law of diminishing returns for me. Saw the first two in the Ritz cinema, New Ross.

gobnaitolunacy

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Law of diminishing returns for me. Saw the first two in the Ritz cinema, New Ross.

The first one was good, IMHO at the time...the rest were kind of a Hangover 2 recycling effort.