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Police Academy (1984)
In director Hugh Wilson's surprise hit police-related
comedy - the first in a long series with six sequels - based upon
the premise of a new city policy (during a crime wave) announced
by the female mayor that any recruit that applied to be a police
cadet was accepted (including misfits and losers of all kinds, those
physically unfit, or without education, etc.) for 14 weeks of training:
- the introduction of a prospective 'misfit' held
in a police station before being given a deal to be recruited into
the Police Academy: petty criminal and troublemaker Carey Mahoney
(Steve Guttenberg) met Larvell Jones (Michael Winslow) - who introduced
himself as
"Doctor Monsignor Larvell Jones M.D."; he showed off his
talent by making sound-effects with his mouth; he simulated a machine
gun sound inside the police station, causing everyone to duck for
cover; Mahoney was told how to avoid jail-time: "Police academy
or jail....They can throw you out. But you can't quit. If you quit,
you're back in jail. And that's the deal"
- during a lineup of the cadets applying for the Policy
Academy, Mahoney challenged himself to be kicked out ("Time
to get thrown out") by pretending to intimidate one of the pretty
recruits from behind - Karen Thompson (Kim Cattrall): "What's
your name, cadet?...You live around here?...What's your telephone
number, Thompson? Come on, eyes front. Telephone number....Okay,
let's see the thighs"; he was reprimanded by the academy's strict
instructor Lt. Thaddeus Harris (G.W. Bailey): "What's your name,
dirtbag?...Get back in line, Mahoney!"; Lt. Harris' main goal
was to get the incompetent cadets to quit the force
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Mahoney to Thompson: "Let's see the thighs"
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Lt. Harris: "Get back in line, Mahoney!"
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- the scene of Cmndt. Eric Lassard (George Gaynes)
addressing the recruits ("Some of you will be... Here at the
academy... Here at the academy...You will learn, you will learn..."),
when a dog named Princess began to hump his leg and he quipped: "Princess?
Looks more like a prince to me"; Lt. Harris grabbed the dog
away from its owner: "He's a queer!"
- the various pranks played upon Lieutenant Harris by
Mahoney, including putting brown shoe polish on the mouthpiece of
his megaphone that he used during the cadets' obstacle-course training,
and the embarrassing scene of Harris riding a tricked out motorcycle,
and being propelled into the back end of a horse (off-screen) in
a trailer; Mahoney came upon the scene and yelled out: "Someone
call a veterinarian!"; afterwards, although Mahoney promised
Lt. Harris he had told no one of the embarrassing incident, all of
the cadets were snickering at him, and Larvell made the sound of
a horse-neighing
- the scene of defensive training when busty female
blonde Sgt. Debbie Callahan (Leslie Easterbrook) floored one of the
recruits and sat on his neck with her thighs, and then asked for
the next volunteer: "Who's next?" - and all the other recruits
raised their hands
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Sgt. Callahan's Defensive Maneuver
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"Who's next?"
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- the infamous podium fellatio scene - in which befuddled
Cmndt. Lassard delivered a speech to VIP senior dignitaries, while
a hooker (appropriately cast porn star Georgina Spelvin) and cadet
Carey Mahoney hid inside the podium - during the speech (Lassard: "I
think you'll find the presentation interesting as well as very,
very stimulating!" - followed by the sound of his zipper being
unzipped); Lassard showed facial signs of being pleasured, with
contortions, distorted speech, groans and moans: ("Now, this
first SLIIIDE shows a very, very interesting thing: our main building.
In slide TWO! We see another view of IT! Oh, my God, you wouldn't
believe it!")
- when Lassard finished the delivery, he summarized:
"Well, I hope this was as much fun for you as it was for me,"
as he walked away from the podium, Lassard saw Mahoney, not the
hooker, emerge from beneath the podium: (Mahoney smiled and delivered
the deadpan line: "Good speech")
- the night before a driving test exam, recruit Cadet
Mahoney administered a practice driving lesson-test to giant sized
Moses Hightower (Bubba Smith) - late at night, the two stole Cadet
Chad Copeland's (Scott Thomson) compact car and ripped out the front
seats (to sit in the back), immediately rear-ended another vehicle
(Mahoney: "You didn't hit the brake" Hightower: "You
didn't tell me to"), and then became involved in a chase with
a police cruiser - bringing the car back wrecked, although Hightower's
driving skills had improved immensely
- the concluding rooftop hostage crisis when both Lt.
Harris and Mahoney were kidnapped and held at gunpoint by a crazed
outlaw; they were saved by the actions of Hightower (who had recently
been kicked out of the academy), who appeared in civilian clothes
and knocked out the outlaw with a solid punch, and sent him spiraling
down a flight of stairs
- the short sequence when Cmndt. Lassard mistakenly
thought two of his graduating cadets were homosexual, when he caught
them kissing ("You men stop that!"), but discovered it
was Mahoney and Thompson; he then apologized: ("Oh, That's more
like it. Good man. Keep up the good work")
Lassard's Revenge on Mahoney
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- in the final scene during the cadets' graduation
ceremony (when Mahoney and Hightower were both being commended
for bravery), it was revealed that Cmndt. Lassard had hired the
prostitute to hide under the podium while Mahoney delivered a speech
- to seek revenge against him
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Larvell Jones and Carey Mahoney
Ducking for Cover in Police Station
Dog-Humping Cmndt. Lassard's Leg
Obstacle Course Training
Shoe-Polish Ring Around the Lieutenant's Mouth
Firing Range Training
Lt. Harris' Tricked-Out Motorcycle Ride into Backend of
Horse - Cadets Snickering at Harris
Two Hostages Held on Rooftop by Gun-wielding Outlaw,
Who Was Punched by Hightower
Mahoney and Thompson Kissing - Reprimanded by Lassard: "You
men stop that!"
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