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46. Police Squad!

Fri Mar 30, 2012, 08:53 PM

Mar 2012

6 episodes, and deemed too complicated for the masses without the laugh track. Later made into the much inferior Naked Gun movies.

I have the DVD and I'm still noticing new things to laugh at even after a dozen viewings.

"Is this some kind of bust?"
"Yes, it's very nice"

"He married, one child. That didn't work out, so he married a grown woman"

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