Talk:The Naked Gun

Word of Mouth
Hi I was just wondering I heard through the Grape Vine that there is going to be a forth Naked Gun coming out, straight to Video. Is there any truth behind this? --MattyC3350 10:40, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

YES, this was mentioned on Australian radio show "Get This" inwhich Wierd Al Yankovic guest starred on. Follow the link [|here] - Dizrythmia 11:32, 30 October 2007

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TV series
This article should be expanded to also explain the relationship with the TV series 76.66.196.229 (talk) 15:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Song title
In the first film, what is the title of the ragtime song on Ludwig's player piano? Frank accidentally starts it playing when he attempts to search the place. 216.16.80.162 (talk) 22:18, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

tone
This article fails to discuss the gross shift in tone, style, attitude (whatever you want to call it), between the TV series and the movie.

The TV shows are deadpan parodies of police dramas, with surrealistic, absurdist, and non-sequitur humor, plus literal visualizations of clichéd dialog ("Cover me, Frank."; "We've got men working around the clock."). Most of this is discarded in the films, with Frank Drebin becoming a kind of Magoo-ish dolt, not far-removed from Inspector Clouseau.

This change must have been intentional. It would be interesting to know why it was made. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 21:23, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Fractions
I like Template:Frac, and I really appreciate how legible it makes fractions appear compared to their ASCII counterparts: 2$1/2$ vs. 2&#189;, and 33$1/3$ vs 33&#8531;. However, this article had several issues with the use of this template, and so I replaced some of them with ASCII fractions in this edit. I first noticed the issue when the section headings would look fine, but the TOC would include a plus sign  in the middle of the $2 1/2$ fraction. The next section's heading resolved this issue by moving the whole number outside the template:. However, the template still poses issues when linking to other articles and sections.

It is okay to use Frac in the label of a link, but it cannot appear in the link target; in link labels and in bulleted lists, Frac will output as a forward slash fraction rather than the expected template output. The ASCII versions of &#189; and &#8531; however, are acceptable as part of a URL without being percent-encoded (WP:ENCODE); note, this does not guarantee that you won't need to percent-encode ASCII fractions for external links. The decimal values of  (½) and   (⅓) are normally acceptable for encoding the source within Wikipedia as an alternative to direct ASCII characters. Frac should only be used when appropriate to do so.


 * Special note: Apparently, Template:Frac was moved to Template:Fraction, which included some changes to the coding that I was unaware of, and have made note of it below the move discussion on its talk page. &#8212;&#160;CJDOS,&#160;Sheridan,&#160;OR&#160;(talk) 07:31, 9 August 2021 (UTC) (edited 07:43, 9 August 2021 (UTC))