i first remember bump into this zaniness from the zucker brother and jim abraham and back in the early day at comedy central . back in those day ( the 90 ) their programming consist of benny hill rerun and the original mst3k and complete with bearded host . capt . frank drebin ( play by the stone face and dead pan filibuster and leslie nielson ) be a process create first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists ( think dragnet meet starsky and hutch the show ) and boil in a flask full of well know police television show plot and scenario . this be distil and 3 time to produce the most pure policeman every make . forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz ( for now . save it for later ) . frank drebin be clueless at most time and a terrible driver and a terrible shot and macho yet sensitive and vulnerable . he be a master of the police investigative methodology ( a. k. a ask johnny the leathery old shoe shine boy ) . this do not make him a bad cop . cop get lucky also . capt drebin ( notice he a captain here ) have perfect it . along with his partner and nordberg and and the rest of force and perfectly parody the police drama over the course of 6 golden episode . the show be a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote ables . most of the sight gag be a bit dated and silly . the magic never come from the sight gag and however . at it core be a nonsensical and straight face conversation and activity in the foreground and with crazy thing occur in the background . the movie can best be describe a 90 minute compilation of the best gag from this series . think of monty python and now for something completely different . if you like airplane 1 and 2 and naked gun 1 and 2 and 3 and or top secret and then you will definitely enjoy this . i always like the series well than the movie and even though i saw the movie first . why . 2 word represent no o. j .