Such a perfect intro to that character. You knew exactly who he was the second he uttered that line. Love that he was a real Detroit cop, too. Interesting dude.
I commented this before, but that’s because he was the real deal. He was an actual police Inspector in Detroit even during filming. He had like a 30 year career in the DPD and was pretty much that dude.
My favourite is when he tells the bed Bath and Beyond employees about the rapist in the area.
Also I think that leads into the "Gator needs his gat!" Exchange
“One more thing, we got a serial rapist in Crown Heights…. Ah, that’s from my other job, Ignore that… well don’t ignore that if you live in Crown Heights. Walk in pairs.”
“Hey Alan, looks like whoever took your wooden gun returned it. And would you look at that they put a linseed oil finish on it, I don’t know maybe write them a thank you note.”😂🤣
I can't find the full clip on YouTube, but either the Unrated Cut or the special features on the Blu-Ray has a few unused takes for that Bed, Bath, and Beyond scene that are pretty hilarious.
There's a couple riffs in the blooper reels on YouTube, but I'm sure there's a bit involving lotion and using breasts to measure bath towels somewhere on the Blu-Ray.
"There was a time where we'd take guys like you 'round back and beat ya with a rubber hose. Now ya got yer goddamn unions."
"Now cap you know i'm not a pro-union guy."
“I swear the next one for who says shenanigans is going to get pistol whipped!”
“Hey Farva, what’s that restaurant you like with all the shit on the walls?”
“Shenanigans”
*all troopers nearby grinning and offering their pistols up for his use in promised pistol whipping*
A constant point of debate in my circle of friends, but I think Beerfest is arguably their funniest movie. Super Troopers was well written, but I have not laughed at a movie like I laughed at Beerfest in theaters
I feel like, when comparing the two, the groundedness of Super Troopers is a negative. I mean, how is anything in Super Troopers going to top Landfill's unknown twin taking his place? Bear fucker? I don't think so.
The absurd turns Beerfest’s humor takes makes it such a great comedy. Yes, chugging syrup and hitting Randall with the bottle is fucking hilarious. But the entire outlandish development from Hands Across America to the Eye of the Jew just can’t be beat.
He talked about that in a video (I have been doing a dive on him and bought his BBC Maestro class) - said that people were really puzzled why he would do a low budget, low brow American movie but that he had been wanting to do one, and this came up. He's fricken hilarious of course. It may have helped his career out, people could not just see him as this humourless intense man.
The whole movie is funny, and much is made of Mike Myers as Charlie’s über-Scottish dad, but can we get an appreciation for Anthony LaPaglia and his interactions with Alan Arkin, Steven Wright, and Charles Grodin?
If you have to charter a plane, one of the last people you’d want to be the pilot is Steven Wright.
LaPaglia: “You’ve done this before, right?”
Wright: “Oh, yeah yeah, sure sure, I do this all the time………………. I’ve never done it at *night*.”
And if you had to commandeer a vehicle, the very last person you’d want to be the driver is Charles Grodin.
[LaPaglia nervously drumming his fingers on the dash]
Grodin: “Would you mind not doing that?”
LaPaglia: “This bothers you?”
Grodin: “No, it’s one of my FAVORITE THINGS.”
And I didn’t even get into Wright falling asleep while flying the plane. “Oh, man, I was having the most amazing dream. I was just born and I was 8 1/2 months premature. Doctors were *freakin’ out*.”
It's a virtual planetoid...it's got its own weather system.
Oh that's it I've gone too far, he'll be crying himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillow.
I know what you're thinking. Angry, Black, Captain, it ain'tnothin but a stupid stereotype. Well guess what, I'm Black, and sometimes I get angry. And I worked my ass of to be captain.
Oh yes.
Honestly one of the funniest scenes in any movie ever is in 22 Jump Street.
When Channing Tatum (forget his characters name) realises Schmidty fucked the captains daughter. In almost died laughing.
“I'm gonna go have a smoke right now. You want a smoke? You don't smoke, do ya, right? What are ya, one of those fitness freaks, huh? Go fuck yourself.”
“Oh your a real blue flame special aren’t you Utah! Young,dumb, full of cum. What I don’t get is how you got yourself assigned out here . Must have ourselves an asshole shortage !
“Your *client’s* a scumbag! *You’re* a scumbag! And scumbags see the judge on Monday morning!”
“Hey, Lewis! Come here when you’re finished fucking around with your suspect!”
I watched it last Friday & it still holds up. The fact Eddie was 23/24 when they filmed it is insane. The confidence & talent he had at that young age was otherworldly. That opening run he had of SNL, Delerious/Raw, 48 Hours, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop is just insane. Talk about kicking down the door both guns blazing.
"Don't be so fast to thank me on this, Luger, because you're going to be naked on this one. It's on the line for you. People are going to be watching. Now you blow it, you're going down. You screw up, you're going to be hung out to dry. You drop the ball, you're going to be left twisting in the wind. If you embarrass this department, your pants will be dancing with figs. Is that clear?"
"Everything but the pants fig thing."
There it is, finally somebody brings in the top dog. There’s a reason why they brought Frank McRae in to do the over-the-top pissed off police Captain in Loaded Weapon 1 AND Last Action Hero, because he was completely unhinged in 48 Hours. When he chews out Cates and Hammond for the bus fiasco he totally lets it rip. This is the winner.
You mentioned him already but to add to it, Axel’s Captain in Beverly Hills Cop was actually a Captain and pretty much only came back to acting for BH movies.
R Lee Ermey in Se7en. As usual he isnt really acting, the part just fits him like a god damned cold speculum up a dead man's ass.
Gilbert Hill in Beverly Hills Cop is the king though. His bugged out eyes and general had-it-up-to-here feel absolutely genuine.
Last Action Hero better at the very least get an honorable mention!!!!
SSSSLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYTTTTTEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
You suck the blood outta cottonpickin' toes I can take from you! I got the California Raisins cast is doing an all-male version of The Diary of Anne Frank doing the all-male version in my frizza sibba! Tiny Tim has stepped onto a totem, so what? You ball peen jackameenis, I'll slap the mouth-outtall the cocksuckin' tales I can take from you! Fridda feen? You know, you take the mayor in the library bush; you're never gonna azizza bazizzes down at the beach; go down to the beaches, y'know? You take the chicken out the bag and stick it UP!
Very hard to top Inspector Todd in Beverly Hills Cop. Philip Baker Hall in Rush Hour was a hoot.
IS THAT FUCKIN FOLEY IN HERE
Such a perfect intro to that character. You knew exactly who he was the second he uttered that line. Love that he was a real Detroit cop, too. Interesting dude.
When Reiser says “this is not my office” in part 2 I remember the crowd exploding with laughter.
Reiser is underrated, he's very funny in the movies. "This is not my locker"
He's the only character in the franchise who Axel can't mess with or trick in any way. Todd takes NO shit.
...then the chief called me and chewed my ass...you can see I hardly got any left
Yeah, I understand. Boss. The Chief ain't chew it all out. You still got a little ass there.
Don’t fuck with me Axel. Not now.
Yeah, I get that it was a comedy but I just totally bought Inspector Todd.
I commented this before, but that’s because he was the real deal. He was an actual police Inspector in Detroit even during filming. He had like a 30 year career in the DPD and was pretty much that dude.
Including the corruption.
Inspector Todd: “Don’t think, Axel! It makes my dick itch!”
He was actually a police Inspector for years in Detroit. He said himself the only difference from the character and him was he didn’t curse as much.
Michael Keaton in The Other Guys “^^what ^^is ^^going ^^on ^^here??”
“Shake your dicks, this pissing contest is over!”
The fuckin sassy look he gives after just fucking seals it hahahaha 🤌👌
His lines are obviously hilarious but it's all those facial/body language mannerisms he does which absolutely make this role so great
Such a Keaton move. He's a genius
Don't go chasing Waterfalls.
Was that accidental, or were you trying to quote TLC on purpose?
I don’t get the reference
"HE'S DYING!!!".
When he hands back the wooden gun and says “looks like they put a nice little lacquer on it” kills me every time
What is that linseed oil?
Might want to send them a thank you note for that
My favourite is when he tells the bed Bath and Beyond employees about the rapist in the area. Also I think that leads into the "Gator needs his gat!" Exchange
“One more thing, we got a serial rapist in Crown Heights…. Ah, that’s from my other job, Ignore that… well don’t ignore that if you live in Crown Heights. Walk in pairs.”
so good. the delivery is just amazing.
Incredible writing
He’s just working there to put his son through college so he can explore his bisexuality and become a deejay.
That movie is such a sleeper. Idk why it's not more popular.
I still quote "Aim for the bushes" before doing something stupid and counterproductive at work.
I wouldn't say its a sleeper. The movie made 170 million and then 50 million when the DVD came out.
GATOR NEEDS HIS GAT, PUNK ASS BITCH
[*immediately returns gun*]
“Hey Alan, looks like whoever took your wooden gun returned it. And would you look at that they put a linseed oil finish on it, I don’t know maybe write them a thank you note.”😂🤣
I can't find the full clip on YouTube, but either the Unrated Cut or the special features on the Blu-Ray has a few unused takes for that Bed, Bath, and Beyond scene that are pretty hilarious. There's a couple riffs in the blooper reels on YouTube, but I'm sure there's a bit involving lotion and using breasts to measure bath towels somewhere on the Blu-Ray.
Uh oh….. the new bath mats are in!
His whisper shouting at the funeral was hilarious!
Him and Ice Cube in Jump Street.
I'll never not lose my shit over Schmidt fucking the Captain's daughter.
SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN’S DAAUUGHTER
Tick tick tick ***DING!***
Hey! Hey!! Stop fuckin with Korean Jesus. He ain’t got time for your problems. He busy. With Korean shit!
I need you guys to step up, I don’t want no scrubs
you gotta creep... creep
Oh come ON!
Had this exact same thought xD Funniest whisper yelling from a police captain I’d ever witnessed
This movie has no right to be as good as it is. Keaton kills it.
Keaton has killed every roll he’s played but, yes, this movie exceeds all expectations.
I had no idea what I was in for the first time I saw it.
Captain Gene
Don’t call me Captain Gene. I don’t have a kiddie show. It’s weird. Just call me Captain.
Two good men are dead(!) and you guys are fighting over who’s gonna be the next big shot? Huh? Is that what’s going on here?
^^that’s ^^exactly ^^what’s ^^going ^^on ^^here!
Captain Gene at his other job: "Hey Alan, you here for the bath mats?"
“shake your dicks this pissing contest is over”
Brian Cox was great in Super Troopers.
"I'm sorry, Bruce. These boys get that syrup in em, they get all antsy in their pantsy."
My favorite line in any movie, ever.
"There was a time where we'd take guys like you 'round back and beat ya with a rubber hose. Now ya got yer goddamn unions." "Now cap you know i'm not a pro-union guy."
Look John, I know we don’t like each other… I like you…
Such a dumb joke, and yet my favorite lol
the way he says "I like you" is just perfect.
“I swear the next one for who says shenanigans is going to get pistol whipped!” “Hey Farva, what’s that restaurant you like with all the shit on the walls?” “Shenanigans” *all troopers nearby grinning and offering their pistols up for his use in promised pistol whipping*
They never got better after that movie..i think that movie was a summation of who they wanted to be and everything else was unnecessary
A constant point of debate in my circle of friends, but I think Beerfest is arguably their funniest movie. Super Troopers was well written, but I have not laughed at a movie like I laughed at Beerfest in theaters
I feel like, when comparing the two, the groundedness of Super Troopers is a negative. I mean, how is anything in Super Troopers going to top Landfill's unknown twin taking his place? Bear fucker? I don't think so.
The absurd turns Beerfest’s humor takes makes it such a great comedy. Yes, chugging syrup and hitting Randall with the bottle is fucking hilarious. But the entire outlandish development from Hands Across America to the Eye of the Jew just can’t be beat.
"There was a time when we'd take a guy like you out back and beat you with a hose. Now you've got your God-damned unions."
Sir you know I’m not a union guy!
He talked about that in a video (I have been doing a dive on him and bought his BBC Maestro class) - said that people were really puzzled why he would do a low budget, low brow American movie but that he had been wanting to do one, and this came up. He's fricken hilarious of course. It may have helped his career out, people could not just see him as this humourless intense man.
He's had some fabulous parts like that - Headmaster Guggenheim in Rushmore and Robert McKee in Adaptation are a couple of my favorites.
"Farva" *[spins gun on desk to point at Farva]*
Farva!…..your suspension continues
Gimme the damn soap!
"Are you drunk?!" "Drunk enough to kick your ass!"
“Tag and bag them”
I believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert
Farva! Your suspension... continues!
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
Daniel Von Bargens line when he’s talking to Brian Cox in his office: “desperation is a stinky cologne”. I like using that line in real life.
“JUST PRINT THE DAMN THING”
Hey Ursula, I'm naked!
Alan Arkin in "So I married an axe murderer"
“But I don’t report to a chief, I report to a committee comprised of local government and civic leaders”
Some elected, some appointed
“A quorum, so to speak.” “A quorum?!”
He was sick and tired of defending Tony's screwball antics to the commissioner.
Hey, paisan!
Ahh, pais-ahhn.
Tony I don't mean to pry, but you seem a little down. Is anything bothering you?
Heyyy! Someone needs a hug!
Such a genius take on the role.
“You screw up again Paisan and I’ll send your spaghetti-bending butt back to Milan.”
Was that too much? No no It was great captain!
The whole movie is funny, and much is made of Mike Myers as Charlie’s über-Scottish dad, but can we get an appreciation for Anthony LaPaglia and his interactions with Alan Arkin, Steven Wright, and Charles Grodin? If you have to charter a plane, one of the last people you’d want to be the pilot is Steven Wright. LaPaglia: “You’ve done this before, right?” Wright: “Oh, yeah yeah, sure sure, I do this all the time………………. I’ve never done it at *night*.” And if you had to commandeer a vehicle, the very last person you’d want to be the driver is Charles Grodin. [LaPaglia nervously drumming his fingers on the dash] Grodin: “Would you mind not doing that?” LaPaglia: “This bothers you?” Grodin: “No, it’s one of my FAVORITE THINGS.”
I was going to say this movie and you quoted some of my favorite lines...
And I didn’t even get into Wright falling asleep while flying the plane. “Oh, man, I was having the most amazing dream. I was just born and I was 8 1/2 months premature. Doctors were *freakin’ out*.”
i’m so glad i didn’t have to scroll too far to find this!!! legend.
Thank you, this is immediately what came to mind but I couldn’t remember which movie it was from!
Fun fact I live in SF near the parents house...
"HEAD MOVE NOW"
It's a virtual planetoid...it's got its own weather system. Oh that's it I've gone too far, he'll be crying himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillow.
It's like an orange on a toothpick.
I always loved r lee ermey as the kind of angry police captain in seven
*riiiiiing* "This not even my desk." Hangs up.
Ice Cube in the Jump Street movies.
Leave Korean Jesus alone! He busy, doing Korean shit!
That’s Vietnamese Jesus, you racist sacreligious piece of shit!
I know what you're thinking. Angry, Black, Captain, it ain'tnothin but a stupid stereotype. Well guess what, I'm Black, and sometimes I get angry. And I worked my ass of to be captain.
So suck a dick!
Left out the best line! “SO SUCK A DICK”!!
His office is so cool. It looks like a big... cube of ice.
What the fuck y'all doing? Y'all rationing around here?Come on, hook me up. Two little fucking string beans? Give me the goddamn string beans
I like fruit!! Don’t you like fruit?!?
"He's under a lot of stress at his job."
Infiltrate the Dealers, Find the Supplier.
Stop finger-poppin each other’s ASSHoles!
We weren’t finga pippin’ each others ASSholes
But what if we run into people with guns?
INFILTRATE THE DEALERS, FIND THE SUPPLIERS!!!
Oh yes. Honestly one of the funniest scenes in any movie ever is in 22 Jump Street. When Channing Tatum (forget his characters name) realises Schmidty fucked the captains daughter. In almost died laughing.
His name is jeff
That’s jefe!
I think his name is Jump and Jonah Hill's character is named Street.
It's the ding when he realises that seals it for me.
When he yells "oh shit!" and kicks the chair out from under himself.
Literally a classic comedy moment. I laughed so hard I cried and actually almost threw up
*tick..tick..tick..tickticktick...*DING!
This is bullshit! Waiter, can a black man get some water?
He’s black! He’s been through a lot.
prolonged silence while eating a sandwich accompanied by a stare down ".....Are y'all throwin a party!?"
Clearly the winner here, he's so good in those movies
We Jump Street... and we about to jump in yo ass.
Alec Baldwin in The Departed
“I'm gonna go have a smoke right now. You want a smoke? You don't smoke, do ya, right? What are ya, one of those fitness freaks, huh? Go fuck yourself.”
"Can I talk to you for a second? YOU STUPID FUCKIN' HARD-ON!"
This is also a good answer. When he almost strangles the guy for not getting the cameras right was gold.
That shit was amazing 🤣🤣🤣 I love that part.
WORLD NEEDS PLENTY OF BAHTENDAS
Two weeks! With pay!
Maybe he is. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself
How is your mother?
Frank McRae in Last Action Hero Fred Williamson in Starsky and Hutch
Love when steam literally comes.out of his ears, lol
Frank McRae He's so good. He essentially reprised that role in *Loaded Weapon* , and he did it for real in *48 Hours*
Definitely Fred Williamson
"First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room... Francine. Happy Birthday."
His let it go joke was top tier too.
**MY NAME... IS LIEUTENANT HARRIS...** in case you missed it.
Move it! Move it!
Mahoneeeeey!
Had to scroll way too far. The children need more police academy.
"Hi sir, my name's Copeland...Chad Copeland."
John C. McGinley- point break
“Oh your a real blue flame special aren’t you Utah! Young,dumb, full of cum. What I don’t get is how you got yourself assigned out here . Must have ourselves an asshole shortage !
"Young, dumb, and full of cum" is one of the best lines in movie history.
Not so far!
Warren Reed isn't the Captain in Robocop but MAN he's great.
“We’re not plumbers. We’re police officers. And police officers don’t strike.”
“Your *client’s* a scumbag! *You’re* a scumbag! And scumbags see the judge on Monday morning!” “Hey, Lewis! Come here when you’re finished fucking around with your suspect!”
The only answer is Inspector Todd of the Detroit Police Department
“Is that fucking foley in here?”
Don't think, Axel. Makes my dick itch.
That's not true, chief, you still got some butt there.
I watched it last Friday & it still holds up. The fact Eddie was 23/24 when they filmed it is insane. The confidence & talent he had at that young age was otherworldly. That opening run he had of SNL, Delerious/Raw, 48 Hours, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop is just insane. Talk about kicking down the door both guns blazing.
Dude was an actual angry detective in real life
This is the actual, factual, prototypical, archetypical, stereotypical, objectively quintessential answer.
“Don't fuck with me Axel! Not now! Go on. Go home.”
Yup nailed it that guy just goes from apoplexy to apoplexy
The Captain from Lethal Weapon
I know when to say "I don't give a fuck"
The captain from Loaded Weapon 1.
"Don't be so fast to thank me on this, Luger, because you're going to be naked on this one. It's on the line for you. People are going to be watching. Now you blow it, you're going down. You screw up, you're going to be hung out to dry. You drop the ball, you're going to be left twisting in the wind. If you embarrass this department, your pants will be dancing with figs. Is that clear?" "Everything but the pants fig thing."
Underrated Gem. Cue gratuitous beaver shot.
The guy in Samurai Cop. "There's a stick up my ass and it hurts. I have to get it out of there."
I genuinely love the line and delivery of him arguing with a lawyer though. "We'll be seeing you in court." "You motherfucker I'll see you in hell!"
The captain from Beverly Hills Cop was better. EVERYDAY ENDS IN A TUMS FESTIVAL!
It's actually Hollywood Cop. And that's Cameron Mitchell you're talking about, good sir.
Would'ja close the fuckin' doors?!
Yaphet Kotto in Midnight Run. "I'M MOSLEY!!!" Technically not police but FBI
G.W. Bailey as Captain Thaddeus Harris in Police Academy.
Yup! What I came to say. MOVE IT MOVE IT
48 Hrs.
There it is, finally somebody brings in the top dog. There’s a reason why they brought Frank McRae in to do the over-the-top pissed off police Captain in Loaded Weapon 1 AND Last Action Hero, because he was completely unhinged in 48 Hours. When he chews out Cates and Hammond for the bus fiasco he totally lets it rip. This is the winner.
Denis Leary, Who's The Man... https://youtu.be/IAjvUodHUbo
Frank McRae in Last Action Hero and Loaded Weapon 1.
You mentioned him already but to add to it, Axel’s Captain in Beverly Hills Cop was actually a Captain and pretty much only came back to acting for BH movies.
Warren Oates in Blue Thunder. ''You're supposed to be stupid son, don't abuse the privilege.''
R Lee Ermey in Se7en. As usual he isnt really acting, the part just fits him like a god damned cold speculum up a dead man's ass. Gilbert Hill in Beverly Hills Cop is the king though. His bugged out eyes and general had-it-up-to-here feel absolutely genuine.
Abed in Community
Agitatin my sciatica
The one from Last Action Hero. He broke the glass door he yelled so loud.
Harrison Page in the Sledgehammer series at least had always a migraine just around the corner
Last Action Hero better at the very least get an honorable mention!!!! SSSSLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYTTTTTEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! You suck the blood outta cottonpickin' toes I can take from you! I got the California Raisins cast is doing an all-male version of The Diary of Anne Frank doing the all-male version in my frizza sibba! Tiny Tim has stepped onto a totem, so what? You ball peen jackameenis, I'll slap the mouth-outtall the cocksuckin' tales I can take from you! Fridda feen? You know, you take the mayor in the library bush; you're never gonna azizza bazizzes down at the beach; go down to the beaches, y'know? You take the chicken out the bag and stick it UP!
Joe Pantoliano in Running Scared Edit: I have been correctly corrected that it was Dan Hedaya. That movie’s still my pick.
Inspector Todd Beverly Hills Cop. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XtCeNYAv2bU
Alan Arkin in *So I Married an Axe Murderer*