Police Squad vs M Squad
I knew they'd done this with Airplane, but didn't realise that Police Squad was also an old show with jokes added.
"We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 14 Sep 2021, 23:53,
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would have made blocking out the scenes pretty easy
interesting link, I knew it was homage to it but didn't realise it was a shot for shot rip-off
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 15 Sep 2021, 2:11,
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Police Squad was full of subtle clever bits.
Like the rubbish bins at the start of each episode.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 15 Sep 2021, 2:59,
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I read that the ZAZ model was a joke in foreground or a joke in background but never both at the same time. If a character has exposition heavy dialogue foreground there will be a stupid visual joke going on in the background. It's really clever.
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don't get me wrong, I dug it
saw airplane! (released as "flying high" in australia) as a nipper as thought it was the funniest movie I'd ever seen, though with each outing their movies got less funny and more obvious
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 15 Sep 2021, 7:36,
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They did this with Zero Hour!/Airplane as well
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs
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Somebody should do this with
Allo Allo and Secret Army
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 15 Sep 2021, 10:12,
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Fascinating that
Sledge Hammer also does a very good remake of Assault on Precinct 13 for a whole episode.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Wed 15 Sep 2021, 10:16,
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