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Monday 25th January 2010 - Comments (0) - Add A Comment
Heroes. Part 2 of X: Frank Drebin.



An occasional series based on shady personal recollection rather than wikipedia.



I'm not talking about Lieutenant Frank Drebin from the alright Naked Gun films, more from their precursor; Police Squad. Whilst I must have watched the Airplane films first (also produced by the Zuckers - leading the charge on the Coens and Farrelly's in the comedy brother production team stakes) were I to draw one up, it is Police Squad that probably heads a time-line of influential comedy tv series in a life that has watched quite a few.



There must have been some series I enjoyed before hand, but the likes of Desmonds, Home to Roost, Terry and June etc were exactly what they were, good old fashioned take-it-or-leave-it British comedy. The Young Ones passed me by, and, thinking about it now whilst I enjoyed Blackadder and occasionally Red Dwarf, they were no way big-hitters in the way Police Squad was. This was an entirely different kettle of fish – an introduction to spoof, to deadpan, to the entirely absurd. From the cop car light title scene through to the “freeze frame” credits, it was comedy gold from start to finish. Full of recurring gags such as brief cameos from Abraham Lincoln and Jonny the shoeshiner, with his word on the street, as well as killer lines that I can still quote now despite not having seen it for years.



“Who are you? and How did you get in here?”

“I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith”



Brilliant.

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