Talk:Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Spelling of Drebin's Cover Identity

When imprisoned with Rocco, Frank Drebin assumes a cover identity by the name of 'Nick 'The Slasher' McGurk'. There are various widespread misspellings of this cover identity across the internet, most commonly McGuirk, McGerk or McGirk. The official DVD version of the movie shows the name to be McGurk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.102.167.97 (talk) 21:22, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Anna Nicole Smith

No mention of Anna Nicole Smith in the movie? She played a main character in the movie!

Inspirations?

"The opening scene in the train station was inspired by The Untouchables (1987 film)" -

I havent seen The Untouchables, but i think it was rather from The Battleship Potemkin, can someone confirm?

As the DVD commentary remarked, setting the scene on a train station steps refers to The Untouchables (1987 film), which itself referred to The Battleship Potemkin in the setting of a gun battle on stairs and the baby in a pram in peril. 119.11.19.206 (talk) 11:09, 30 November 2008 (UTC) M BG

I'm sure that the prison breakout is a parody of The Great Escape, where the English dig a tunnel from their quarters, and get rid of the dirt outside. 91.84.7.89 20:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Titles

I don't think the international titles section is noteable. Lots42 (talk) 18:16, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

It's certainly not important, so I've removed it.--Drat (Talk) 09:09, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Is there a reputable source for the "Just for the Record" title? I mean, is IMDB trivia that reliable? I've had stuff "published" on there before, so how reliable can it be? I do recall Leslie Nielsen on the Tonight Show quoting this alternate title as the original, but I don't know how serious he was or where a video (or transcript) of that interview can be produced. I'm not necessarily saying this should be removed, but at least stated with less certainty. --Sm5574 (talk) 15:35, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Bomb envelope

In the spirit of fairness, I'll give everyone time to respond to this before I edit the article. The bomb was not placed in the "Best Actress" envelope, that was just the top envelope on the stack that Jane was pilfering through. The bomb was, in fact, in the "Best Picture" envelope. Deimos1313 (talk) 02:03, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

“Lowest grossing in the series”?

How is it that the Box Office section mentions this is the lowest grossing film in the series when it grossed $122 million while the second one only grossed $86 million? That should be fixed. PokeHomsar (talk) 23:48, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Because the second one did not only gross $86 million. It grossed $86 million in the United States and Canada. Other countries in the world exist. Websites like Box Office Mojo and The Numbers don't have worldwide grosses for most films prior to the late 1990s.Sudiani (talk) 18:48, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 12 July 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Judekkan (talk) 18:33, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult → Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult – According to Graham87 on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics/Archive 4#Accessibility of precomposed fraction characters and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Text, ⅓ is not safe for screen readers. Digesting MOS:FRAC, the logical solution would be to move this article to Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult and use the following to make the title appear as "Naked Gun 33 ¹/₃", without changing the copy-paste value:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Naked Gun 33 <sup>1</sup>/<sub>3</sub>: The Final Insult}}

(I tested this on Draft:Ranma 1/2.)

-- Beland (talk) 06:07, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

• Support – thanks, yes that works for me. Graham87 06:38, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 09:51, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support as WP:COMMONNAME, judging by the article's sources which generally do not use the fraction character. Additionally, MOS:TM goes on to say that Avoid using special characters that [...] simply substitute for English words or letters (e.g., "♥" used for "love", "!" used for "i") or for normal punctuation, unless a significant majority of reliable sources that are independent of the subject consistently include the special character in the subject's name. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 23:09, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

+ in links to this article

Watchers here may be interested in the discussion at Template talk:Fraction#Unwanted plus sign. -- Beland (talk) 18:29, 22 July 2022 (UTC)