It's Enrico Palazzo!

[Batman]

Watching "The Naked Gun" on Comedy Central right now (it's in the middle of the baseball scene) and just couldn't help but wonder about the trail of events that led to Reggie Jackson getting brainwashed.
Was he kidnapped at an L.A. cocktail party? Did Vincent Ludwig lure him to some tropical island for a vacation, and then do nefarious things to him?
Too bad this movie came out before the DVD era. I'd have loved to have seen this as a deleted scene or extra feature.

Also, how would Sportscenter have handled its coverage of this game?

 

[kingcreole]

The guy who yells that is also Francis in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" and the fat kid in "Teen Wolf".

 

[dooley_womack1]

And what the hell is Jay Johnstone doing hitting leadoff?

 

[bigpern23]

It always cracked me up that there are like nine radio announcers, including Dr. Joyce Brothers.

 

[Batman]

Didn't realize it until looking at the IMDB page, but the Angels manager is Lawrence Tierney (the old crime boss from "Reservoir Dogs").
Any idea who played Dave Spiwack, the Angels' pitcher? I tried a quick Google search and nothing popped up, and he's not in the IMDB credits. In the movie it looks like he can actually pitch, so I thought he might be a major leaguer.

 

[kingcreole]

I liked the one inning where the Angels hit a grand slam. Problem was, all four runners rounded second base.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Reggie didn't get brainwashed. The brainwashing mechanism was on his watch.

I always love the part where the mayor warns Drebin about not repeating what happened on the west side and Drebin says that when he sees men in togas stabbing someone to death, he shoots the bastards.

"That was a Shakespeare in the Park rendition of Julius Caesar, you moron. You killed five actors. Good ones!"

That, and the scene where Drebin is cleaning out his desk, and he opens a manilla envelope:

"Hey, here's the missing evidence in the Kellner case. By God, he was innocent!"

"He went to the chair two years ago, Frank."

"Oh."

 

[DanOregon]

It always cracked me up that there are like nine radio announcers, including Dr. Joyce Brothers.

And yet we don't even blink now watching ESPN's Monday Night coverage (3 in the booth, 3 at the stadium, 3 or more in Bristol) or the other Sunday football shows.

 

[Batman]

Reggie didn't get brainwashed. The brainwashing mechanism was on his watch.

Wasn't the watch just the trigger? Seems like he should've still needed some brainwashing to know what his mission was. Otherwise, why wouldn't he want to kill the umpire or one of the Mariners instead of the queen?

 

[Trey Beamon]

Hahahaha ... love that movie.

Don't know about Reggie. I mean, something had to have been planted on him for him to want to kill the queen. He most certainly liked the spotlight, but probably wouldn't care for an impending murder trial.

I'm curious who took over in CF for the Mariners player who got his head chopped off in the video. And who let the tiger on the field?

Also, did we ever find out if Frank knocked out the real Mr. Palazzo with an official bat or not?

 

[Batman]

Also, did we ever find out if Frank knocked out the real Mr. Palazzo with an official bat or not?

He knocked out the umpire. They showed Palazzo tied up on the couch when Drebin was destroying the national anthem.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Also, did we ever find out if Frank knocked out the real Mr. Palazzo with an official bat or not?

He knocked out the umpire. They showed Palazzo tied up on the couch when Drebin was destroying the national anthem.

Yikes ... brain fart on my part.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Reggie didn't get brainwashed. The brainwashing mechanism was on his watch.

Wasn't the watch just the trigger? Seems like he should've still needed some brainwashing to know what his mission was. Otherwise, why wouldn't he want to kill the umpire or one of the Mariners instead of the queen?

Ludwig set up the mechanisms in each object. Such as the set of keys that got stepped on by the USC band trigged Jane wanting to kill Frank, only Frank talked her out of it or the woman who was about to kill herself before Ludwig talked her out of it.

Reggie didn't have anyone to talk him out of his trance.

 

[Batman]

Reggie didn't get brainwashed. The brainwashing mechanism was on his watch.

Wasn't the watch just the trigger? Seems like he should've still needed some brainwashing to know what his mission was. Otherwise, why wouldn't he want to kill the umpire or one of the Mariners instead of the queen?

Ludwig set up the mechanisms in each object. Such as the set of keys that got stepped on by the USC band trigged Jane wanting to kill Frank, only Frank talked her out of it or the woman who was about to kill herself before Ludwig talked her out of it.

Reggie didn't have anyone to talk him out of his trance.

True, but Ludwig had ample opportunity to plant the subliminal messages in the minds of Jane and his secretary so that they'd specifically target those people. And it's easy to see WHY they'd be picked to target those people -- Papshmir as a demonstration, and Drebin to remove an obstacle.
Even if the assassin's targeting was random or coerced by someone, how and why would Reggie Jackson pick the Queen of England to kill from a crowd of 50,000 people? It's not like he was next to her, or Ludwig or someone else was there to influence him. They were both several hundred feet away.
And I doubt Reggie was thinking much about the Queen right then, with all of that craziness going on on the field.
If it was random, Reggie should have targeted a heckler in right field, one of the Mariners or an umpire -- someone in close proximity who he'd have a beef with at the moment.
I'm telling you, something fishy happened to Reggie and I want to know what it was.

 

[slappy4428]

Hahahaha ... love that movie.

Don't know about Reggie. I mean, something had to have been planted on him for him to want to kill the queen. He most certainly liked the spotlight, but probably wouldn't care for an impending murder trial.

I'm curious who took over in CF for the Mariners player who got his head chopped off in the video. And who let the tiger on the field?

Also, did we ever find out if Frank knocked out the real Mr. Palazzo with an official bat or not?

To this day, I still sing the end of the National Anthem as "The hoooome of the land, and the land of the freeeeeeeeeee......"

 

[Small Town Guy]

At that stage in his career, Reggie shouldn't have been in the field anyway. they must have planted something on the manger to brainwash him into keeping Reggie out of the DH slot.

 

[Poor John Carney]

Good analysis Batman. My two favorite parts of that scene:

When Frank Drebin is arguing with the other umpires and he notices Reggie Jackson pull out a gun. So Drebin does the same, which prompts the other umps to drop their argument: "OK, you're the boss."

Help me out on this one: After Jake and Frank make up out on the concourse and everyone in the stands follows suit, is it Curt Gowdy who tells Jim Palmer in tears, "I'm sorry I yelled at you."

 

[slappy4428]

Reggie didn't get brainwashed. The brainwashing mechanism was on his watch.

Wasn't the watch just the trigger? Seems like he should've still needed some brainwashing to know what his mission was. Otherwise, why wouldn't he want to kill the umpire or one of the Mariners instead of the queen?

Ludwig set up the mechanisms in each object. Such as the set of keys that got stepped on by the USC band trigged Jane wanting to kill Frank, only Frank talked her out of it or the woman who was about to kill herself before Ludwig talked her out of it.

Reggie didn't have anyone to talk him out of his trance.

True, but Ludwig had ample opportunity to plant the subliminal messages in the minds of Jane and his secretary so that they'd specifically target those people. And it's easy to see WHY they'd be picked to target those people -- Papshmir as a demonstration, and Drebin to remove an obstacle.
Even if the assassin's targeting was random or coerced by someone, how and why would Reggie Jackson pick the Queen of England to kill from a crowd of 50,000 people? It's not like he was next to her, or Ludwig or someone else was there to influence him. They were both several hundred feet away.
And I doubt Reggie was thinking much about the Queen right then, with all of that craziness going on on the field.
If it was random, Reggie should have targeted a heckler in right field, one of the Mariners or an umpire -- someone in close proximity who he'd have a beef with at the moment.
I'm telling you, something fishy happened to Reggie and I want to know what it was.

He was forcefed Reggie bars until he promised his tormentors he would do their bidding if they would just stop feeding him that cow flop.

 

[mpcincal]

It always cracked me up that there are like nine radio announcers, including Dr. Joyce Brothers.

And yet we don't even blink now watching ESPN's Monday Night coverage (3 in the booth, 3 at the stadium, 3 or more in Bristol) or the other Sunday football shows.

Yes! I watched the end of a Monday Night Game a couple of months ago and it suddenly hit me that they went up to the game crew for a discussion of the game, then down to the pre-game show crew for their thoughts on the game, and then to the ESPN studio with Berman and his cohorts to discuss - that's right - the same game the other two groups already dissected. All of this in the span of 30-45 minutes.

So an absurdly humorous little scene in a Zucker Bros movie turned out to be a Nostradamus moment.

 

[Chef2]

It always cracked me up that there are like nine radio announcers, including Dr. Joyce Brothers.

Can you name the announcers?

BONUS: Who was the third base umpire?