The filmmaking trio of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker (better known as Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker or ZAZ) made their mark on cinema early in their careers. They began with The Kentucky Fried Movie, an anthology film of sketch comedy that did quite well critically and commercially, and then with their sophomore effort, they all but created a genre of film. Airplane!, released in 1980, took the idea of a parody film and cranked it up to eleven. The film is a lean 87-minute parody of the disaster film Zero Hour! that the filmmakers stuffed to bursting with some of the funniest slapstick, absurdist, sight gags, and wordplay that had been committed to film. It was a huge hit, grossing $83 million, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of the year.
In the years that followed, the team wanted to make another parody film based on police procedurals, using police procedurals of the 1950s and 60s as a basis. This is the film series we now remember as The Naked Gun, which debuted in 1984, but this franchise has its beginnings in television.
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