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Naked gun baseball bloopers: Why it's still funny after 35 years



The baseball blooper reel shows a ballplayer's head coming off when he crashes into a fence. This scene is a tribute to a quote from San Diego Padres announcer Jerry Coleman: "Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall - and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres."


1. "Naked Gun" -- Everyone forgets how funny this movie was when it came out. I distinctly remember nearly choking to death on a Sour Patch Kid during the Jumbotron scene with the baseball bloopers. For some reason, "Gun" didn't hold up the way "Caddyshack," "Animal House," "Just One of the Guys" and some of the other classics from the '70s and '80s have held up. I don't have an answer for this. Maybe it's O.J.'s fault.




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The baseball pickle is, arguably, the silliest moment in the game. The runner misjudged his options, choosing risk over safety and now is trapped. It's a game of children's tag played out in front of thousands of people between professional adults worth millions of dollars. It's beautiful and dumb -- like all the best things in life. I mean, there's a reason why "The Naked Gun" knew this was the play it needed to lampoon:


So, in honor of National Pickle Day on Wednesday, let's look at a few of our very favorite pickles. Because every day is a day to enjoy madcap, high-octane comedy. The King of the PickleEveryone is the best at something. Sometimes it's a skill like throwing a baseball harder than anyone else. Other times, it's being the best at driving a remote control car. Josh Harrison's greatest talent is somewhere in the middle. Harrison can extend the rundown and avoid the tag better than pretty much anyone on earth. Just look at these moves -- he chucks the helmet, shucks multiple tags and (I don't care that he went on the grass, this is cooler than your baseline rules) dives into third base. Oh, lordy.


Any kid who grew up a baseball fan in the nineties has a soft spot for Angels in the Outfield, one of a trio of movies released in 1993 and 1994 about children whose love of their local team results in them helping call the shots on the field. As a kid, these movies were a chance to pretend like these baseball teams could love us as much as we loved them; a few decades later, however, and we can see the machinations of corporate synergy (Disney owned the then-California Angels) and savvy public relations (baseball was struggling financially and headed for a 1994 player strike) that made these films possible. Still, heartwarming or scandalous, movies like Angels in the Outfield belong in any baseball cannon, and few films from the modern era have such firm ties back to their hometown crowd.


The climax takes place in a baseball match, and therefore is incomprehensible to me. A bit like the climax to Trading Places. Reggie Jackson is a sleeper assassin, which would have been funny if I had known who Reggie Jackson is.


The italian who is falling out of the pictures right now! (in the intro to most early SM64 bloopers videos)FatassCrazy Red GuyRed ManRed Italian GuyMr. Red Chubby ManRacist Fat ManThe Chosen OneMario The 300k HeroLarioGayrioMario the Sexy PlumberMario is not gayMaster MarioEl' Homo MarioMister Pregnant LadyMr. OooowowofohofodsefgCreepy Fat Italian DudeFat Italian BoiStupid MarioMario #8052011RedOptimus Prime 3000Plump ManBafoonFat ManMayroMayonnaiseMayoMr. Funny GuyFat idiotThiccBoispaghettilover41Dumbass ItalianA Fatass BitchFriend of PickleRed TomatoSuper Wahoo ManMongrioTomato Manmariofatass69King MarioThe Thicc Juicy Moustache BoiMar (Bob)The biggest idiot of the show (SMG4, WOFTI 2021)Spaghetboi666 (Roblox username)


SpaghettiHumping spaghettiBeing nakedFameCakePepsiBeing mean to LuigiAnnoying ToadAttentionHaving swagFoodSlendermanAnime (kind of)Being famousPizzaRavioliMoneyRappingAbusing JubJub BoopkinsSome kind of chocolateLakitu's Cloud


The trio made a rush to the store, running over a Cheep Cheep, a Toad, and Peach, only to be encountered by the Koopalings with a similar plan. Iggy Koopa then pulled out an axe and attacked the trio only to be stopped by SMG4 with a baseball bat. The plumber then distracted the Koopa by saying there were chicks causing Iggy to turn his head and be kicked by SMG4 overboard. He then grabbed Bowser Jr. and demanded to know "where the f*ck" were his parents. He then threw Junior at Wendy, knocking her down and causing her to explode with Tari shocked and Mario happy.


The gang was formulating a plan to get revenge on Bob. Mario suggested slugging him with a baseball bat which Toad agreed on while Tari suggested a less-violent idea involving them challenging Bob to a video game competition. However, Mario and Toad instead laughed at her idea while Meggy showed disinterest. Luigi then came back with Saiko, who was angry at Bob for manipulating her and for what she did to Boopkins but was unable to say the word "friend" at first (although she eventually did, which relieved him). When the gang welcomed her, Saiko suggested an idea in order to teach Bob a lesson he would not forget.


Mario is a (possibly) 37 or 38 year old Italian human. Mario has fair skin, is short and stocky in stature, and is a bit portly (albeit earlier bloopers constantly referred to him as morbidly obese due to his relentless gorging on spaghetti, likely for comedy factor). He has bright blue eyes, a big nose and a thick dark-brown mustache with six bumps. Mario has short brown hair with two sideburns, three large bangs pointing upwards, four short bangs point upward the back of his neck and a sprout-shaped cowlick.


The only sounds from beyond the wire are creaking frogs and thedrumming of the monsoon rain. I throw down Maggie’s Drawers. Then, with both hands, I givethe Phantom Blooper the finger. Midnight. The hawk is out. Ghosts are out. The winter monsoon is blowing so hard that it is raining sideways. Meanwhile, the silence beyond the rumble of the rain is growing larger. I sit down in an old aluminum lawn chair on top of an abandonedperimeter bunker at Khe Sanh. Cold bullets of monsoon rain wash mud from my body. With my battered pearl-gray Stetson shielding my face, I lean back and getcomfortable. My right hand is touching the wet metal of a field radio under mychair. Between my bare feet is an M-60 machine gun set up on its bipod legs. I pick up my long black killing tool. It makes me feel less naked when I holdit. A smooth feed might save my life, so I adjust the heavy belt of cleangolden bullets. Every fifth round is a red-tipped tracer. When I am onehundred percent satisfied that there are no kings in the belt, I slam the feed cover downhard and jack a round in the chamber. Happiness is a belt-fed weapon. The Phantom Bloopers laughs, a cold black laugh. Maybe if I ignore the Phantom Bloopers he'll go away. If you tryto debate philosophical issues with the Phantom Blooper, and lose the debate, well, hejust comes right up and kills your ass. The Phantom Blooper has never talked to meand I am very disappointed. I could use the distraction of stimulating conversation. Life at Khe Sanh has always been tired but wired. Now that the siege has beenlifted we need something to keep our mind occupied because boredom makes us think toomuch. Meanwhile, the Phantom Blooper comes every night and the suspense iskilling me. At Khe Sanh Combat Base in Quang Tri Province in the Republic of VietNam, the United States Marine Corps has sometimes lacked grace under pressure, but we havestuck it out, just the same. We have burrowed into this dead hill like


Now down in the rain in the dark the Kid From Brooklyn is digginginto mildewed pockets for colorful bits of gummed paper. It all started when the Kid From Brooklyn pulled an R&R in Japan. He took the bullet train to Kyoto, scarfed up beaucoup sake and Japanese bennies,and took long hot baths with slant-eyed naked jailbait. “I’m a salty Lance Corporal who is short, short, short,”the Kid From Brooklyn said when he came back from Japan. “I’m so short, Icould fall of a dime. I’m so short the gooks probably can’t even seeme.” In Tokyo the Kid sourvenired himself a small black stamp album. Now he’s back in-country to pull his tour of duty in a world of shit. Only he’s different now. He has changed. Now the Kid From Brooklynis a dedicated stamp collector. Enemy postage stamps depict exciting scenes of war and politics. North Vietnamese troops shake hands with smiling Viet Cong under a Communist redstar and wreath. Columns of ragged and forlorn American prisoners of war are marchedoff to Hanoi prison camps. A helicopter gunship with an over-sized U.S. on its sideplunges to earth in flames to the cheers of an all-girl peasant militia crew behind thevillage anti-aircraft gun. An old papa-san walks along a paddy dike, a hoe in onehand and a rifle in the other. I watch the Kid From Brooklyn, hunched over a suspended carcass,indulging himself in his grubby hobby. I know that it is my job to climb down thereand drag his section eight ass back behind the wire where it belongs. I know that I should do that, most ricky-tick, but I don’t. I need him as bait. “Damn,” the Kid From Brooklyn says, gently shaking his legloose from a wild strand of tanglefoot that has caught him in the ankle. He bendsdown to another shredded lump of shadow and frisks it for diaries, wallets, piasters, loveletters, and crumbling black-and-white photographs of gook girlfriends. Everythingthat looks like it might have postage stamps in it gets stuffed into one of the cargopockets on the front of his baggy green trouser legs. In the monsoon rain the Kid is a black silhouette. His poncho isoutlined by silver blips. He is a perfect target. 2ff7e9595c


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