The Naked Gun: A Preview

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1. Hosts gush about The Naked Gun

   0:14

   The hosts open by praising Akiva Schaffer's film before previewing it. The show's usual promotional approach is treated lightly here.

   both me and Andy have seen your movie and not blowing smoke here. It's fucking great.
   Quaid Army

2. Fans point here

   7:20

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 17 likes.

   Anyway, so in terms of your great question about taking something from the past, the main thing I was taking was figuring out how they pulled off, like, the magic trick of making it the way it is. And then the other… — Akiva

3. Liam Neeson and the 'Taken' persona

   15:39

   Akiva explains that Neeson's sketch cameo with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant parodied his action-hero image, which convinced him the actor could do comedy.

   That was all you need to see to know he could do this.

4. Naked Gun's relation to the past

   23:55

   The teaser's shrine-to-Leslie-Nielsen moment set the film's thesis about honoring the original while staying original.

   I want to be just like you, but at the same time, completely different and original.

5. Quaid Army shout in a restaurant

   34:13

   Andy reports a fan shouted 'Quaid Army' at a restaurant and he answered 'Righteous kill,' the proper Quaid response.

   someone just yelled Quaid army, uh, ... Righteous kill!

   Goes back to righteous kill, Ep. 52, 38:17: Oh, Righteous Kill. Have we ever talked about Righteous Kill as a saying?

   Quaid Armyrighteous kill

6. For the Tades origin

   44:26

   Paul Rust recalls Andy and Akiva asking staff to order food to share, which shortened to 'For the Tades' and stuck with him.

   And by the end of the first day, For the Table got abbreviated down to For the Tades.
   for the tabes

7. For the Tades in the 2009 writers' room

   44:32

   The phrase came out of the MTV Movie Awards writers' room, where Andy and Akiva asked about sharing food. Paul Rust says he still uses it.

   For the Table got abbreviated down to For the Tades.
   for the tabes

8. Universal Amphitheater became Wizarding World

   45:48

   The Universal Amphitheater closed in 2013 and was demolished for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, as the chat feed notes.

   I believe it's where Hogwarts is now

9. Matt Murray meets the hosts in 2004

   47:36

   Matt Murray recalls the 2004 Movie Awards as where he met the Lonely Island, and the 2005 show where they met Higgins and Shoemaker, leading to SNL hires.

   that's when you got hired at snl

10. Eminem/Triumph incident

    48:43

    Matt Murray recalls Triumph the Insult Comic Dog accosting Eminem at a 2002 VMA and Eminem's entourage angrily confronting the puppet backstage.

    Triumph, the insult comic dog, sort of accosted Eminem, not planned

11. Tim Kalpakis's first job

    51:15

    Kalpakis recalls Fred Armisen asking the room about the bits, and Andy holding his hand during a Kings of Leon soundcheck.

    And then I felt somebody take my hand and I looked down and it was Andy.

12. Hand of the Host joke

    51:57

    Paul Rust pitched a bit where Andy reads 'Land of the Lost' as 'Hand of the Host,' which didn't make the show.

    Hand of the host. So just giving the audience the credit to do the math

13. Delgo becomes the writers' joke

    56:57

    Scott Aukerman says Jason Manzoukas found Delgo at the bottom of a box office list and kept inserting it into jokes. The writers even considered a Delgo opening number.

    And Jason just would not let Delgo go.

14. Writers' room jokes rarely air

    58:40

    Andy notes the funniest things in context in a writers' room often never make it to air because they'd confuse viewers.

    the funniest things in context in the writer's room never make it out.

15. Summer at Justin Long's hills house

    1:00:12

    Akiva recalls living in Justin Long's empty Hollywood Hills house during MacGruber, saying the star let him rent it for free.

    I have a house that I just emptied because I'm about to put it on the market.

16. The publicist's complaint

    1:02:48

    Scott Aukerman describes a publicist sneaking a look at the script and asking for changes to his clients' intro. The writers refused, and the stars later loved the joke.

    they hate their intro. So, you know, please just change it.

17. Tipping off presenters

    1:04:42

    Andy and Akiva would sometimes warn presenters about jokes, so they could react well on camera. Megan Fox's straight-man reaction is an example.

    we went and tipped them off because we are not mean people

18. The staged Eminem/Bruno bit

    1:06:06

    Scott Aukerman describes a staged bit where Sacha Baron Cohen dangles from wires and lands on Eminem's face. It became a major news story after it spread online.

    we all saw that Eminem-Bruno thing and we all thought like, oh, funny bit.

19. Aaron Stoller credit correction

    1:11:00

    Akiva corrects that Aaron Stoller directed the MTV promos, not Jason Carley as previously said.

    Aaron Stoller was the director.

20. Vault, not Pommel

    1:12:39

    A listener corrects that Andy's routine in the Bobby Brooks story is a vault, not a pommel horse routine.

    technically vaulting, not Pommel.

21. Queen Bee clean callback

    1:15:37

    Andy reports getting a Queen Bee clean in the NYT Spelling Bee, a callback to the 'clean' vocabulary.

    I did get Queen Bee clean today.

    Goes back to Queen Bee, Ep. 8, 18:30, Seth: By the way, I also got, he didn't tell me to check my phone, but he also got Queen Bee on the spelling bee, which he texted me right before this started.

    cleanQueen Bee

22. Later Quaids sign-off

    ~1:16:29

    The show ends with the sign-off 'Later, Quaids,' with Seth's Schwarzenegger impression as an in-joke.

    Later, Quades.
    later, Quaids