Shirley You Can't Be Serious?

[Road Runner]

Leslie Nielson died in Sunday aged 84 from complications related to pneumonia.

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RR.

[deepthroat]

Damn... guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

[guydesavoy]

Vale Leslie.

[f0xxee]

(deepthroat @ Nov. 29 2010,14:56) Damn... guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Sorry DT, but that quote belongs to Lloyd Bridges...

Anyhow one of the few that managed to rebuild a career later in life by basically taking the piss out of himself. As good a character actor as you would wish to see, and a great straight man.

[Steff]

And a great Canadian. RIP

[Bumpa STIKKA]

A great talent who had a long and fulfilling innings as an actor and a man.

I'm a big fan of 50s sci fi movies (even the bad ones) and I can't watch the ones with Leslie Nielson in them without smirking.

He was so good at the dead pan comedy that he could never play a straight man ever again!

[Bumpa STIKKA]

Sensitive questioning

Nielsen plays Frank Drebin, a hapless (but invariably successful) cop.

Mrs Twice [a grieving widow]: "Please go away. I don't want to answer any more of your questions."

Drebin: "We're sorry to bother you at a time like this, Mrs Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."

From Police Squad!, 1982

A simple explanation

Drebin has gone undercover as a locksmith to investigate a gang of blackmailers. He breaks into the lair of the gang's boss.

Boss: "Who are you, and how did you get in here?"

Drebin: "I'm the locksmith. And I'm the locksmith."

From Police Squad!, 1982

Them's fighting words

Drebin has gone undercover as a boxing coach. He takes on a young boxer, Buddy Briggs.

Drebin: "Do you think you can beat the champ?"

Briggs: "I can take him blindfolded."

Drebin: "What if he's not blindfolded?"

Briggs: "I can still beat him."

From Police Squad!, 1982

At the lab

Drebin has asked Ted Olsen, a scientist at the police laboratory, to analyse a rock that had been hurled by criminals through a window.

Drebin: "Where did it come from?"

Olsen: "That's very interesting €“ I have a theory about that. As you know, Frank, billions of years ago, our Earth was a molten mass. But for some reason, not understood by scientists, the Earth cooled, forming a crust €“ a hard, igneous shell. That's what we scientists call €˜rock'."

From Police Squad!, 1982

Tact

Drebin and his boss, Ed Hocken, are trying to console Wilma, the wife of their colleague Nordberg, who has been seriously injured.

Drebin: "A good cop, needlessly cut down by some cowardly hoodlums."

Hocken: "That's no way for a man to die."

Drebin: "No, you're right, Ed. A parachute not opening €“ that's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine, having your nuts bitten off by a Laplander... that's the way I wanna go."

Wilma: "Oh Frank! This is terrible!"

Hocken: "Don't you worry, Wilma. Your husband is going to be all right. Don't you worry about anything. Just think positive. Never let a doubt enter your mind."

Drebin: "He's right, Wilma. [Pause.] But I wouldn't wait until the last minute to fill out those organ donor cards."

[Wilma bursts into tears.]

Hocken: "What I'm trying to say, Wilma, is that as soon as Nordberg is better, he's welcome back at Police Squad."

Drebin: "Unless he's a drooling vegetable. But I think that's only common sense."

[Wilma flies into hysterics.]

From The Naked Gun, 1988

A small misunderstanding

Drebin: "That's the right-light district. I wonder why Savage is hanging around down there."

Hocken: "Sex, Frank?"

Drebin: "Uh, no, not right now, Ed."

From The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, 1991

The happy news

Drebin: "Congratulations, Ed! I hear Edna's pregnant again."

Hocken: "Yeah, and when I find the guy that did it..."

From Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, 1991

Identity problem

Drebin is stopped while trying to enter the Oscars ceremony.

Drebin: "Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant, Police Squad."

Security guard: "Yeah, and I'm Robert De Niro."

Drebin: "Mr De Niro, we've got to get inside."

From Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, 1994

[Socrates999]

(Bumpa STIKKA @ Nov. 29 2010,18:41) ... I'm a big fan of 50s sci fi movies (even the bad ones) and I can't watch the ones with Leslie Nielson in them without smirking ...

What's the name of the one where he leads a group of astronauts on a mission to a planet occupied by a scientist and his hot daughter and basically, they have to battle a monster that is a product of their collective sexual urges? Not played for laughs at all. Scared the shit out of me when I was young- the scene where the invisible creature walks up the stairs to the spaceship, with the stairs deforming under its weight with each step.

Let's hope he made his last exit with his same realized sense of self.

-brain clicks in: Forbidden Planet-

[Jake_Sully]

Forbidden Planet is one of my fav movies too. One of the early sci-fi classics and consequently I'm a huge sci-fi nut.

[BlueBallz]

AIRPLANE-what a hilarious film!!!

[Jake_Sully]

Striker? Striker?!? Striker?!?!?!? STRIKE HER!!!!!!!!!!! (Pow!)

[ALASKAN BEAR]

(Jake_Sully @ Nov. 29 2010,21:52) Forbidden Planet is one of my fav movies too. One of the early sci-fi classics and consequently I'm a huge sci-fi nut.

Same here love scifi. he was so funny will miss you funny man . RIP

[daveduke007]

Loved the Airplane Films and the Police Squad TV series + films  

Still crack me up today  

Thanks for the laughs Leslie, R.I.P.  

[Dieter]

So many times I laugh when saw your movies .... but now me cry....

Rest in Pease .... Leslie...


Dieter

[Dieter]

Sorry about the new thread .. me to slowly....

Dieter