Hot Shots Part Deux is somehow even funnier than the first one.

Pro Tip: Don't try to drink anything when Lloyd Bridges is on screen. Also, "Hot Shots! Part Deux" (1993) is definitely worth watching. Somehow Lloyd Bridges is even funnier in the sequel.

National lampoon's loaded weapon has Bruce Willis appear essentially as his character from die hard for a cameo.

Top Secret! has some spoof elements in it, has similar humor, and is directed by the Zucker Abrams Zucker trio who directed Airplane! You may want to add that to your list.

Some of the more random seeming stuff was spoofing other well known movies from around the same time as Top Gun, like the food/fridge thing was spoofing a famous scene from 9 1/2 Weeks (1986) with Mickey Rourke and Kim Bassinger and the piano scene was taken from The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) with Jeff and Beau Bridges and Michelle Pfeiffer.

The sequel Hotshots part Duex parodies Apocalypse Now and has a brief cameo from Martin Sheen. That's at least one case where the original actor appeared in the parody. Another example is when John Hurt appeared in Spaceballs to reprise his Alien chest bursting scene and utters the line, "not again."

One of my favourite running gags is the infestation of chihuahuas. No. There is no explanation. It's just funny. Plus, Cary Elwes is impossibly handsome here. Good lord.

I can confirm in the 90's you always had to check your seat for a Chihuahua

Admiral Benson taking the earbuds like pills gets me every time. The timing of that whole segment is perfect.

The Native American asking for batteries is just naming off Michael Jackson's siblings. "Latoya, Tito, Jermaine..."

The food scene is a reference to 9 1/2 weeks.

“Not Another Teen Movie” is the last great parody movie. It does feature a couple actors in it from the movies it spoofs. You should definitely watch it, as I think you have seen most of the movies it parodies now: American Pie, She’s All That, Cruel Intentions, every John Hughes teen movie.

Loaded Weapon (leathal weapon spoof with insane cast), Hot Shots 2 (Rambo 2 & 3 spoof) and Scary Movie (Scream and I know what you did last summer) are other amazing parody movies that I can't recommend enough

You should put "Top Secret" on your list if you like spoofs, that was Val Kilmer's first role and hilarious! 🤣

The only time I can remember an original star showing up in a spoof/parody/movie was Robert Patrick who played the T-1000 and literally played the T-1000 in Wayne's World in one of the most random, funniest scenes ever imo. He also had a small cameo as such in Last Action Hero.

4:30 In Hot Shots Part Deux, the movie is a spoof on Rambo, and one of the Rambo actors reprises his role for the whole movie. It’s amazing

17:04 he’s referencing the godfather, saying “moe green, tatalia, barzini, all the heads of the five families are dead.”

Please do the sequel too:-) It is the rare comedy sequel that’s actually good

This is classic but HOTSHOTS PART DEUX is even more hysterical.

You got John Hurt spoofing his scene from Alien in Space Balls, I suppose that counts as an original actor in a spoof!

The sitting on the chihuahua recurring gag is simply an exercise in dismissing returns. I love it. For some reason, the hardest I laugh is the damn “it’s Vick’s… I have a cold.” line. I’m a very fickle person when it comes to spoof movies. I can take or leave Airplane and i actually don’t enjoy Space Balls. But all three Naked Guns, both Hot Shots and Men In tights are genius in my opinion.

Sitting on Chihuahua is a spoof on Caprain Kirk sitting on a Tribble in the original Star Trek episode The Trouble with Tribbles.

"If it helps, I didn't have seconds." ... I loved the delayed reaction on that one. :D

"God I *love* a good funeral!" Such a great movie.

_"Has there ever been a spoof movie where the star from the original suddenly shows up?"_ Literally Hot Shots, Part Deux. *"I loved you in Wall Street!"*

RIP Baklavah, Pita, Hummus, Taoubleh, Couscous, Babaganoush and Kabob. You did your best.

Michael Jackson's siblings were often the butt of jokes back in those days hence the indian saying "Tito, Jermaine." back then everyone would have immediately recognized the names.

So glad you guys did this. You absolutely have to do the sequel, it's amazing

Another AWESOME spoof movie is “Loaded Weapon 1” with Samual L. Jackson and Emilio Esteves. They play spoof characters of the Lethal Weapon franchise. It also spoofs Silence of the Lambs, Die Hard, and a host of other action stereotypes. Bruce Willis actually spoofs his character from Die Hard. It’s well worth watching. It’s freakin’ hilarious.

The realisation that there are people who have not seen Hot Shots, is somehow making me feel older than I am.

Lloyd Bridges, man! What an absolute fucking legend! 😂😂😂

The scene of making eggs and bacon in the stomach are a spoof of "9 1/2 weeks" with Kim Basinger. This movie was so fun and the sequel have his moments too. PD Love your laughs Simone

Paula Abdul was Charlie Sheen's sister-in-law at the time of this movie. Hot Shots Part Deux is just as funny and makes fun of Chuck Norris and Rambo movies. This was also spoofing the Iron Eagles series which likely don't hold up very well, they're USAF have cool jets too movies.

The Freshman starring Matt Broderick as a new NYU student who gets caught up with a NY mafia boss played by Marlon Brando spoofing his Godfather character. One of my favorite movies.

Not star as such but Richard Crenna plays the same part both in Rambo and in Hot Shots Part Deux which is amazing. I haven't found another case of an actor playing the same part both in the original and in the parody.

I was so happy to see Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson together in this. One my favorites with them is "The Chase" (1992, I think), which was heaps of fun.

In spaceballs, there was a scene at the end that spoofed the Alien scene where the xenomorph exploded from the guy's chest. They used the original actor, and he even said "not again!"

My dad showed me this when I was tiny because he had a ridiculous sense of humor. Cant wait for Part Deux!

4:28 - Spaceballs. At the tail end of the movie, in the diner, an alien bursts out of someone's chest. They look down at it and say "Oh no. Not again". That man was John Hurt, who starred in the original Alien, and whose character died when the Xenomorph burst out of his chest.

Near the end, the dentist saying "Is it safe?" is a reference to Marathon Man, a 70s thriller starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. A great movie, BTW

The reason Airplane! feels more coherent as a story is because it’s based on an actual disaster movie (Zero Hour from 1957) that they bought the rights to and added jokes to it, rather than just hanging a story around a series of scenes.

the "is it safe" reference at the end of the movie was a weird choice as even when this movie was released that would have been a deep cut. If you've not seen it Marathon Man is a great 70's thriller that they pulled from. Even weirder is how dark that is it safe" scene is to reference it in a comedy.

In Spaceballs, John Hurt comes back to repeat the Alien scene with the xenomorph coming out of his chest.

The red dress scene is the fabulous baker boys…the whole movie isnt just top gun but mainly

Wait to watch Part Deux 😸 You brought back so many memories, thanks Guys!

I worked on this film as one of the Purple Crewmembers on the aircraft carrier. The carrier was built of wood on the cliff bluff in Palos Verdes, CA at the old Marineland that had just closed. The planes on the carrier were fake and could be pushed around easily. I worked on the sequel as a prisoner of war and it was funny too. Lloyd Bridges becomes the President in the sequel "Hot Shots Part Deux".

That guy who plays Saddam at the end was a lobbyist in California who took on a part time job as a professional impersonator. In fact, his entire acting career has been playing Saddam Hussein. His biggest role was in the sequel.

4:23 Yes. The spoof of The Exorcist called *Repossessed* features Linda Blair (the girl from The Exorcist.)

Your question George of if there had ever been a spoof where the original actor came back? There was Repossessed starring Linda Blair. Really funny film where Reagan grows up and becomes a mother and the possession starts again. With Leslie Nielson as the exorcist.

Loaded Weapon has some cameos of actors from some shows. The dog gag was just a random thing that would happen when it wasn’t expected.It’s kind of a thing if you have a small dog or know people that have small dogs where you tend to accidentally step on it or sit on it when you not paying attention.

Lloyd Bochner in the second Naked Gun film references his legendary Twilight Zone episode appearance, To Serve Man, yelling out "It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!" It cracks me up every time.

At 4:22 George asks if there has been a spoof movie in which the original actor from the original movie appears in the spoof. Answer: Hot Shots Part Deux. I won't spoil who.

A lot of the scenes like the food sex scene (9 1/2 weeks) and the crawling on piano scene (The fabulous Baker Boys) are spoofs on actual scenes in 80s movies - not just top gun :)

Hot Shots part Deux has Richard Crenna in it spoofing his own character from the first three Rambo movies. He only agreed to do it after getting Stallone’s blessing.

What you were saying about the scene with Ramada singing in the red dress is very funny. That scene is taken from a movie called "The Fabulous Baker Boys" where Michelle Pfeiffer is the singer in the red dress, and she said in an interview that she felt ridiculous sliding around on top of the piano singing in the red dress. So, good call :).

The thing about the "ZAZ" (Zucker Abrams Zucker) movies is the sheer *number* of jokes, gags, puns, parodies, and so on. Like if the first joke didn't make you laugh, there's another one right on it's tail. I think "Airplane" even has a record of most jokes per minute. And the Annoying Dog is, well, just that. A little dog who shows up to be in somebody's way whenever it's funny. There IS some payoff in the next "Hot Shots", but I think the first movie's simple "Why is this dog here" running gag is funnier.

Lloyd Bridges is a legend 😂

Lloyd Bridges is THE factor in the Hot Shots movies to me, he already was big time in Airplane, imo. I am laughing tears every time I see him drop out of the plane, fall down the stairs to flight deck or tell some weird stories😂😂😂 As always, great reaction, keep going, greetings from Germany!🙂 Ps. As much as I love seeing you react to comedy movies, I'd also like to suggest the imo best German movie of all times, "Das Boot" , directed by Wolfgang Petersen. I'd love to see, how you like it(if you decide to, go for German with english subs, the dubbing is... awful🤐😬)

Ron Lester parodied his own Varsity Blues character in Not Another Teen Movie.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned it yet... Beat the Devil (1953) is a spoof of Film Noir, basically a spoof of Bogart movies. Not only does it star Humphrey Bogart in the lead role, he's also the executive producer. Not appreciated in its time, it is extremely funny.

Charlie Sheen can go from being being in a Great War drama like Platoon to being in a great spoof comedy. There was a time when he was a good actor. Another great comedy of his that I recommend is “Men at Work” with his brother Emilio Esteves.

Any "spoof" movie involving the names Zucker, Abrahams, (or, Zucker *AND* Abrahams) or Brooks is probably going to be pretty good. I do increasingly believe that there should be an annotated version of these movies, for when the references become a tad dated.

I don't know how many reactions to this movie I've seen, but so far not one reactor has gotten the "Latoya, Tito, Jermaine" joke when Owatonna asks Topper to get AA batteries while he's gone.

In the 90s, Paula Abdul was not only a famous singer, but an ex-Lakers girl and a dancer and a sought after dance choreographer. She was the dancer choreographer for Janet Jackson before she got big

One of my favourite silly smart movies. Glad you got around to watching this one :)

The spoof movie has persisted in certain forms, but it's evolved some since Date Movie/Epic Movie/Disaster Movie poisoned the well. In particular, there are a few modern-ish movies that have perpetuated it, all of which are pretty good, and almost all of which involve music. In 2007, we got two: Judd Apatow produced the music spoof Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, which is great, and that same year The Lonely Island made their movie debut with Hot Rod. Both of them returned to the well a few years later: Apatow produced the action spoof The Other Guys in 2010, and in 2016, The Lonely Island returned with Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which is a mockumentary-style parody. Most recently, Weird Al followed in the footsteps of Walk Hard with Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, which would make a good pairing with his 1980s spoof-driven comedy UHF. I would also say that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are spoofs, just not quite as slapsticky/cartoons (and you've already done them). I also recommend the same classics of the genre you'll see all over the comments: Top Secret!, the other two entries in the Naked Gun trilogy, and Hot Shots! Part Deux. There's also the film the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team made *before* Airplane!, Kentucky Fried Movie, and the similar sketchy-spoof film Amazon Women on the Moon (which, if you watch it, watch through the credits). Finally, at the tail end of the original era, there was the Fugitive parody Wrongfully Accused, which I remember as being much better than the other late-'90s Leslie Nielsen spoof movie Spy Hard (which was the first volley by the guys who would go onto do Date/Epic/Disaster).

that refrigerator sequence is a parody of 9 1/2 weeks from 1986 with Mickey Rourke.

Repossessed (1990) is a parody of The Exorcist, and has Linda Blair reprising her original role, also Leslie Nielsen as the priest

I love classic parody movies like Naked Gun, Hot Shots, Top Secret, Airplane. I think you are gonna love Hot Shots 2: Part Deux. Because you have watched some of the movies they spoof in that. Looking forward to it. You asked if there been a star in the original movie that is in a spoof movie, well you'll see if you watch Hot Shots 2.

If you continue the Lethal Weapons, definitely watch Loaded Weapon 1. Very underrated spoof

To answer your question at 4:20 there hasn't been a movie per say, but in Space Balls the guy in the diner with the Alien Chest Burster is played by John Hurt. Same actor who was the first ever Chest Burster victim in Alien. Hence why his character even says "Not again."

The sitting on the dog is what is called in comedy...a running gag.

Spoof movies with an original star, the best example I can think of is "Not Another Teen Movie." Spoofing all the various teen dramas/comedies, Molly Ringwald does make an appearance and she was great.

Hot Shots 2 is the best one! Definitely watch the sequel!

4:20 Yes, George. John Hurt in Spaceballs.

Every time you watch hot shots you notice new things in the background. I loved these movies as a child.

If you guys haven't seen 'Not another teen movie', please watch it. It's one of the best spoof movies ever made!

I love Lloyd Bridges in those. His deadpan delivery is as good as Leslie Nielsen's.

Valeria in the red dress on the piano is what Michelle Pfeiffer does in the Fabulous Baker Boys

Hot Shots Part Deux please, even funnier. Oh and Top Secret.😊

The difference between the spoof movies in the 80s/90s versus the 2000s ones that messed everything up is that the earlier ones played it straight. You watched a world/universe that was completely absurd and everyone in it thought it was normal. The 2000s ones changed into "Hey look, we are spoofing this thing. Aren't we funny? Look! Look!" Making the movies unbearable and annoying

for the original top gun, you can find some behind the scenes footage. they're actually using model planes and just manually shaking the camera. it was ingenious.

Around 1991, you're correct: Paula Abdul was at the height of popularity, sex scenes with food were popular in films (like 9 1/2 Weeks), and the Persian Gulf War had been fought. So the humor here isn't quite as timeless as Airplane! and it appears random 30 years later.

Richard Crenna who played Colonel Trautman in the "Rambo" franchise, essentially reprises his character in the sequel "Hot Shots Part Deux"

Repossessed is a spoof of the exorcist and the main women in that, is the same actress who played the little girl in the exorcist

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19:43 *George,* The *Superman* _time travel thing_ is often misunderstood. He's not flying around the Earth in order to make it spin backwards. He's supposedly flying _so fast_ that he's going back in time. Thus, we see the rotation of the earth going the other way, because we are now seeing him going back in time. Sorry for any redundancy there. 🙋🏼‍♂️

A spoof that features the original actor is in Spaceballs when they do the parody of Alien in the diner at the end John Hurt reprises his role as Kane the guy who the alien bursts out of his chest. So in spaceballs when it happens again he says “oh no, not again”

The girl on the piano at about 11:20 is definitely a spoof of Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys! You gotta see that one, it is a brilliant movie! Michelle doing Making Whoopie is unforgettable!

RIP, Lloyd Bridges. I was seven years old when this movie came out.

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In case you missed it... Ramada singing on the piano is from The Fabulous Baker Boys with Michelle Pfeiffer. The dentist asking "is it safe?" is from Marathon Man where Sir Lawrence Olivier tortured Dustin Hoffman by drilling into his teeth with no anaesthesia.

Well, since you asked: By a strange coincidence, the sequel of this one, "Hot Shots: Part Deux" has one original main actor basically reprise his role from the movies that are spoofed.

The piano scene is a parody of “The fabulous Baker Boys” and the food part is from “nine and a half weeks”

Don't forget Airplane! was a remake of a serious movie - Zero Hour! - so that's why it follows more of a story. Hot Shots is what you get when you give Jim Abrahams a budget and tell him to go play.

A great example of comedy from taking phrases literally, is the 1951 MGM cartoon short "Symphony in Slang."

“Eagle river?” I use it every time I share a memory and someone is connected 😂😂😂

At "Dead Meat's" funeral, Adm Benson declares him dead. He then adds, "So is Moe Greene, Tataglia, Barzini, the heads of all the five families." This is what Michael Corleone tells his brother-in-law Carlo at the end of The Godfather after his people had carried out the killings. I laughed so hard when I first watched Benson say this.

Similar slapstick comedies *(Top Secret)* *(The Naked Gun)* *(Hot Shots) Part Deux*

I love that even after all of that... "How'd that horse get there?"