Nov 22, 2021 6:56 PM
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munchmunchmunch
I thought this was a movie comedy scene or something
CanThinkOfUsername
Other neat detail, he is also a actor and knows in advance he has to not not (duck) in this scene.
VonEichward
I'm just the same. I can't shoot a second time if i haven't been cocked properly.
letuswatchtvinpeace
Pretty sure it was written in the script
ThePastmaster
RIP Tackleberry. It's been a long 20 years.
superbest
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
MellifluousJoker
Barbara!
DaNylz
Actually the weirdest detail is the idea that policemen actually need any training for their job.
polarbearbaby
I loved these movies as a kid!
iLikeTurtlesAndPizza
Is that Alec Baldwin?
tomcruisealwaysbringshisagame
Can't be; no-one got shot
tenthousandwinters
Hey! You give Allen Tsai the credit he deserves! Check out his YouTube channel for more facts like this!
MrHappySmiles
I’m a marksmanship instructor, and that cute fact does very little to calm my sheer terror that he flagged the group, and ignored the rule 1
Never point the weapon at anything you didn’t intend to destroy. A rule filled with negatives, but has to be so.
welluhwhatdoyouwantmetosay
Feel old yet?
popejubal
Skylanders Academy has a character that sounds like he’s doing a Bobcat Goldthwait impression. Turns out it’s actually Bobcat Goldthwait!
pitiflus
Monkeyfighter
IThinkALot
Tackleberry (David Graf) died 20 years ago at age 50, heart attack.
StephenDaniels
Was he shaking his head at the cadets who didn't know it couldn't fire or was he shaking it at the guy for pointing it wrong?
4vie
Both?
Jawesome19
Did you know that it's a movie
dafawkudoin
Hey Alec, nobody asked you.
TheRicM
Cartoon was totally cool too
AxellTheDragon
paulbloface
Fun fact: visually checking the bore for obstructions *after following specific clearing procedures* is an accepted safe practice.
Lambast
Look, James May might be called "Captain Slow", but he is not actually boring.
realrealluckless
His faith that a dumbass wouldn't randomly rack it while sweeping a crowd is higher than mine...
stja
The post is just bullshit. Tackleberry is supposed to be super-mega-badass and demonstrates it here by ignoring danger.
CapitalNick
This.
JetsterDajet
Love all the people here analyzing Police Academy.
DVSBSTrD
If he racked it again he would've heard and had time to duck.
azze20
Look up slamfire and that might change your mind on anyones ability to react fast enough to that.
Jimmyvtss
Na Tackleberry would’ve just shot him
moosemulligan
Thank you!
Then their faith that it isn't worn to the point that one can slamfire it is then another point higher than mine...
mrsdowneyjr
That's what I thought
Humanfrenchfry
Idk how knowing you have to chamber another round on a pump shotgun makes you a gun nut
AvailableAvacado
Thats not what made him a gun nut. The fact that his character was written to be a gun nut in the whole rest of the movie is.
joker2814
Have you seen Police Academy?
ChloeRed
"Son, where did you get this gun?" "My Mom gave it to me!"
Chaimgoldbergenstein
These days, knowing anything beyond "point gun at thing make boom" makes you a "gun nut." Common sense isn't so common.
You guys literally did not watch the movie did you
I'm referring to a general sense. Not commenting on the character.
Starhaven350
Trust me. He's a nut
aageek33
July 4, in the pool, watching neighbors about 150 yards away shooting. One of them who clearly has never handled a gun before sweeps them /1
AND THEN sweeps us. I had a discussion about this with the dad. He wasn’t too happy. I heard him screaming at them later. Best ending
updootyourpootsnoot
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
Is that Andy Richter playing Barbara?
Donovan Scott.
Thanks!
sffmunkee
Gun safety isn’t something to fuck with, even I know to treat all guns as loaded & cocked, and never to aim at something you don’t want dead
I hope youre not looking for safe practices in the movie Police Academy.
More a comment on the folk who see him as badass for thinking he’s above basic gun safety.
FromTheBeyond
Poor David Graf, died like 20 years ago
Heart attack, age 50
Poor bastard
FragileDonkey
FieryDoom
*blueshirtguyreaction.gif*
itypewerdsonline
CrispyD
Horrible trigger discipline. I hope they all get a new instructor and that one loses his job.
mynamespaul
At least he kept the gun pointed down range at a few feet of concrete at all times?
J0765
Did you know that Police Academy was a comedy and not meant to be safety advice or a political statement?
Strangedays2024
The safety advice I'd agree with, to a degree, but it definitely had political statements. The entire plot is started by a policy to1/2
NO. Whatever subcontext you managed to find. The script is meant to make you laugh. Jesus FUCKING Christ you people are miserable.
Things can have more purposes than just being entertainment. Comedy is one of the best ways to open up discussions about many topics1/2
The fact is many people use humor as a defense against the harsher realities of life. It doesn't detract from the entertainment aspect of2/3
To find deeper meaningss, it can even be unintended thou in the case of police academy the writers probably knew what they we doing3/3
Increase community involvement in policing. Major points of contention are highlighted by the chief of police in a comment to the schools2/3
Commandant by saying, "the right shape, right color and right gender." A major scene is when a character flips a car because another3/4
Cadet uses a racial slur. There's more but I figure 4 deep should be enough.4/4
Dvicemuse
Still treat a gun as though it’s always loaded. Tackleberry is an idiot
catsandcoke
He was an irresponsible gun owner
Yeah maybe they were just portraying him as a tough guy here
That’s what I would assume. But I’ve never seen the movies
In the movies the explanation in the post makes more sense. The character isn't particularly a "tough" guy. It's a 40 year old movie,1/2
I think the term for it from the period is "Idiot Savant." He is hyperfocused on specific information to the point of ignoring other things.
RPCharImages
It *is* loaded, the difference is that it physically can be fired again because the previous shell is in the way
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
That is if its a gun you are familiar with, there are a couple semi/pump hybrids like the Spas-12, other hybrids can be furnitured 1/?
This is clearly not a hybrid made from other guns, or to look like another gun though. This is a police issue pump shot gun, on a police -
-range, for a police firearms test. Tack knows this. Your argument is a non-starter.
So its best to train yourself to believe every gun is safe? Its a good idea to sweep your friends because you think a gun is safe?
with wood (granted up close it is obvious this one is not) So unless Tackleberry was doing it on *purpose* he was training himself to 2/?
sweep his friends. If he 'accidentally' sweeps with a pump action that means he would sweep with a semi-auto or god forbit full auto. 3/3
Tackleberry is the guy at the back that didnt duck. Not the guy holding the shotgun
Let me rephrase. A gun should be treated like it’s always ready to fire. Making excuses for anything otherwise is irrelevant
OlderWiser
It's a movie. It's in the script. Tackleberry is a character.
I understand it’s a movie. But presenting a reason for his brazen act of fearlessness as definitive knowledge is still a dumb excuse
TakeTheStairs
more and more youll notice that some people on here cant seperate fiction from reality at all. even the tone of this clip is weird. 1/2
the clip presents this like its some kind of interesting fact but actually its just a detail WRITTEN into a story....sheeesh
Yes it's reality for many now.
Shovi
But we can still say that a character is an idiot in a certain context even if they are not a real life person.
If they had said that. Something like the writers are idiots for portraying the Tackleberry character facing a gun. But they didn't.
My point was that the excuse for the characters reaction is bullshit. I make no claims towards the writers. Only the explanation in the post
I cannot see it that way because someone wrote what the actor was supposed to do and he did it. We'll just leave it there.
GoliathSkittles
I mean....do you know the characters of Police Academy?...
To be fair I’ve never seen the movies
Ahh well in that case, most of the jokes stem from them all being huge idiots.
BigDumbGinger
Watch the first one - worth it for the concept behind the series... and Kim Cattrall
I’ll give it a shot. Lol. Pun intended. I’ll see myself out
Rikther
Police became required to allow any person to join the academy and all the recruits are idiots varying different categories. Hilarious movie
MrFenixx
not all the recruits, just the D division, D as in Dumbasses.
So the movie foretold the future!
unremarkableasterisk
Weird, gun nuts like to point out how they are the safest gun nuts in the history of gun nuts and that you should treat all guns as loaded.
JeYdevoir
Was going to make this comment - anyone should never make the assumption, especially those remotely familiar with guns.
3PiecesOfBread
It's a good thing this is just a comedy from the 80s and not real life then huh?
Lamplord
Eh, Tackleberry is also a bit cocky though. He's not a responsible gun nut, he's like that Texan friend with 20 guns who shoots at gas cans.
ForestRed
Tannerite go boom!
Jamesstin
I like making their heads explode by using that rule to explain how absurd they are. If its always loaded then how do they not barrel sweep1
All their neighbors? Or how do they clean them especially if it's a firearm like a Mosin nagant where you have to pull the trigger to 2/
Pull the bolt put? 3/3
blackomega
To be fair to Mosins, you actually have to have the bolt pulled back when you release it. The rifle physically cannot fire.
erikna
Yeah, bolt action designers are anal about two things, out of battery fire (this case) and double feeding. Both are prevented mechanically
ChiliBeef
Had to upvote just because you mentioned Mosin Nagant. And, they kick like a god damn mule. Moreso with Bulgarian ammo.
echonite
That isn't being clever on your part. You are taking a simple rule way too strictly to be purposefully obtuse. The rules are about being
mindful of your surroundings and the status of the gun itself.
TicklishOwl
I think the point is that this is a comedy, so that behavior is part of a joke, and not how someone should act in that situation for real.
arkuamore
He's more an ammosexual than gun nut
mikeatike
Different kind of "nut"
eetsumkaus
sounds like it's a great detail for his characterization then!
drdavessardogs
Ya, Alex. Tell us about gun safety...
KaraokeLemur
Those are not the nuts. The nuts are the ones overconfident in their knowledge and abilities.
KoalaOnTheJuice
Exactly. The ones who think they're the safest gun nuts in the history of gun nuts, like they said ^
LiamPhoto
Yeah like Tacklebury, he cnat be certain it hasn't been cocked, the gun and officer aren't in is view for a significant time before the turn
Like the Gravy Seals.
stonetemplefox05
Oh God I can't wait for Thanksgiving *stuffs dinner roll in mouth*
Ha! We pissed off a member!
Hazzah
tentaclesfortesticles
Those safety guidelines are okay for a beginner, but I'm an exbert.
A pro. Experts are the ones who clean up after pros have had a go.
MadeYouLookAgain
It’s a joke. In a movie. Relax. You’re just a regular nut it appears.
SJohnson23
I didn’t hear anyone else laughing, did you?
What? No. I’m in a room with a cat and a dog. Had I watched the movie in a theater I’m sure I would have heard plenty. Did you have a point?
https://youtu.be/1HuIILdA8Lg Do we even live in a Simpsons worshipping country any more?
Settle down grandpa, and no. Loved the show 20 years ago. Haven’t seen a new episode in about 10
But I will happily reverse my downvote. Insert>it’s an old reference but it checks out sir.gif
munchmunchmunch
I thought this was a movie comedy scene or something
CanThinkOfUsername
Other neat detail, he is also a actor and knows in advance he has to not not (duck) in this scene.
VonEichward
I'm just the same. I can't shoot a second time if i haven't been cocked properly.
letuswatchtvinpeace
Pretty sure it was written in the script
ThePastmaster
RIP Tackleberry. It's been a long 20 years.
superbest
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
MellifluousJoker
Barbara!
DaNylz
Actually the weirdest detail is the idea that policemen actually need any training for their job.
polarbearbaby
I loved these movies as a kid!
iLikeTurtlesAndPizza
Is that Alec Baldwin?
tomcruisealwaysbringshisagame
Can't be; no-one got shot
tenthousandwinters
Hey! You give Allen Tsai the credit he deserves! Check out his YouTube channel for more facts like this!
MrHappySmiles
I’m a marksmanship instructor, and that cute fact does very little to calm my sheer terror that he flagged the group, and ignored the rule 1
MrHappySmiles
Never point the weapon at anything you didn’t intend to destroy. A rule filled with negatives, but has to be so.
welluhwhatdoyouwantmetosay
Feel old yet?
popejubal
Skylanders Academy has a character that sounds like he’s doing a Bobcat Goldthwait impression. Turns out it’s actually Bobcat Goldthwait!
pitiflus
Monkeyfighter
IThinkALot
Tackleberry (David Graf) died 20 years ago at age 50, heart attack.
StephenDaniels
Was he shaking his head at the cadets who didn't know it couldn't fire or was he shaking it at the guy for pointing it wrong?
4vie
Both?
Jawesome19
Did you know that it's a movie
dafawkudoin
Hey Alec, nobody asked you.
TheRicM
Cartoon was totally cool too
AxellTheDragon
paulbloface
Fun fact: visually checking the bore for obstructions *after following specific clearing procedures* is an accepted safe practice.
Lambast
Look, James May might be called "Captain Slow", but he is not actually boring.
realrealluckless
His faith that a dumbass wouldn't randomly rack it while sweeping a crowd is higher than mine...
stja
The post is just bullshit. Tackleberry is supposed to be super-mega-badass and demonstrates it here by ignoring danger.
CapitalNick
This.
JetsterDajet
Love all the people here analyzing Police Academy.
DVSBSTrD
If he racked it again he would've heard and had time to duck.
azze20
Look up slamfire and that might change your mind on anyones ability to react fast enough to that.
Jimmyvtss
Na Tackleberry would’ve just shot him
moosemulligan
Thank you!
realrealluckless
Then their faith that it isn't worn to the point that one can slamfire it is then another point higher than mine...
mrsdowneyjr
That's what I thought
Humanfrenchfry
Idk how knowing you have to chamber another round on a pump shotgun makes you a gun nut
AvailableAvacado
Thats not what made him a gun nut. The fact that his character was written to be a gun nut in the whole rest of the movie is.
joker2814
Have you seen Police Academy?
ChloeRed
"Son, where did you get this gun?" "My Mom gave it to me!"
Humanfrenchfry
Chaimgoldbergenstein
These days, knowing anything beyond "point gun at thing make boom" makes you a "gun nut." Common sense isn't so common.
AvailableAvacado
You guys literally did not watch the movie did you
Chaimgoldbergenstein
I'm referring to a general sense. Not commenting on the character.
Starhaven350
Trust me. He's a nut
aageek33
July 4, in the pool, watching neighbors about 150 yards away shooting. One of them who clearly has never handled a gun before sweeps them /1
aageek33
AND THEN sweeps us. I had a discussion about this with the dad. He wasn’t too happy. I heard him screaming at them later. Best ending
updootyourpootsnoot
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
Is that Andy Richter playing Barbara?
ThePastmaster
Donovan Scott.
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
Thanks!
sffmunkee
Gun safety isn’t something to fuck with, even I know to treat all guns as loaded & cocked, and never to aim at something you don’t want dead
AvailableAvacado
I hope youre not looking for safe practices in the movie Police Academy.
sffmunkee
More a comment on the folk who see him as badass for thinking he’s above basic gun safety.
FromTheBeyond
Poor David Graf, died like 20 years ago
IThinkALot
Heart attack, age 50
FromTheBeyond
Poor bastard
FragileDonkey
FieryDoom
*blueshirtguyreaction.gif*
itypewerdsonline
CrispyD
Horrible trigger discipline. I hope they all get a new instructor and that one loses his job.
mynamespaul
At least he kept the gun pointed down range at a few feet of concrete at all times?
J0765
Did you know that Police Academy was a comedy and not meant to be safety advice or a political statement?
Strangedays2024
The safety advice I'd agree with, to a degree, but it definitely had political statements. The entire plot is started by a policy to1/2
J0765
NO. Whatever subcontext you managed to find. The script is meant to make you laugh. Jesus FUCKING Christ you people are miserable.
Strangedays2024
Things can have more purposes than just being entertainment. Comedy is one of the best ways to open up discussions about many topics1/2
Strangedays2024
The fact is many people use humor as a defense against the harsher realities of life. It doesn't detract from the entertainment aspect of2/3
Strangedays2024
To find deeper meaningss, it can even be unintended thou in the case of police academy the writers probably knew what they we doing3/3
Strangedays2024
Increase community involvement in policing. Major points of contention are highlighted by the chief of police in a comment to the schools2/3
Strangedays2024
Commandant by saying, "the right shape, right color and right gender." A major scene is when a character flips a car because another3/4
Strangedays2024
Cadet uses a racial slur. There's more but I figure 4 deep should be enough.4/4
Dvicemuse
Still treat a gun as though it’s always loaded. Tackleberry is an idiot
catsandcoke
He was an irresponsible gun owner
TheRicM
Yeah maybe they were just portraying him as a tough guy here
Dvicemuse
That’s what I would assume. But I’ve never seen the movies
Strangedays2024
In the movies the explanation in the post makes more sense. The character isn't particularly a "tough" guy. It's a 40 year old movie,1/2
Strangedays2024
I think the term for it from the period is "Idiot Savant." He is hyperfocused on specific information to the point of ignoring other things.
RPCharImages
It *is* loaded, the difference is that it physically can be fired again because the previous shell is in the way
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
That is if its a gun you are familiar with, there are a couple semi/pump hybrids like the Spas-12, other hybrids can be furnitured 1/?
RPCharImages
This is clearly not a hybrid made from other guns, or to look like another gun though. This is a police issue pump shot gun, on a police -
RPCharImages
-range, for a police firearms test. Tack knows this. Your argument is a non-starter.
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
So its best to train yourself to believe every gun is safe? Its a good idea to sweep your friends because you think a gun is safe?
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
with wood (granted up close it is obvious this one is not) So unless Tackleberry was doing it on *purpose* he was training himself to 2/?
OnlyWantToSayOneThing
sweep his friends. If he 'accidentally' sweeps with a pump action that means he would sweep with a semi-auto or god forbit full auto. 3/3
RPCharImages
Tackleberry is the guy at the back that didnt duck. Not the guy holding the shotgun
Dvicemuse
Let me rephrase. A gun should be treated like it’s always ready to fire. Making excuses for anything otherwise is irrelevant
OlderWiser
It's a movie. It's in the script. Tackleberry is a character.
Dvicemuse
I understand it’s a movie. But presenting a reason for his brazen act of fearlessness as definitive knowledge is still a dumb excuse
TakeTheStairs
more and more youll notice that some people on here cant seperate fiction from reality at all. even the tone of this clip is weird. 1/2
TakeTheStairs
the clip presents this like its some kind of interesting fact but actually its just a detail WRITTEN into a story....sheeesh
OlderWiser
Yes it's reality for many now.
Shovi
But we can still say that a character is an idiot in a certain context even if they are not a real life person.
OlderWiser
If they had said that. Something like the writers are idiots for portraying the Tackleberry character facing a gun. But they didn't.
Dvicemuse
My point was that the excuse for the characters reaction is bullshit. I make no claims towards the writers. Only the explanation in the post
OlderWiser
I cannot see it that way because someone wrote what the actor was supposed to do and he did it. We'll just leave it there.
GoliathSkittles
I mean....do you know the characters of Police Academy?...
Dvicemuse
To be fair I’ve never seen the movies
GoliathSkittles
Ahh well in that case, most of the jokes stem from them all being huge idiots.
BigDumbGinger
Watch the first one - worth it for the concept behind the series... and Kim Cattrall
Dvicemuse
I’ll give it a shot. Lol. Pun intended. I’ll see myself out
Rikther
Police became required to allow any person to join the academy and all the recruits are idiots varying different categories. Hilarious movie
MrFenixx
not all the recruits, just the D division, D as in Dumbasses.
FieryDoom
So the movie foretold the future!
unremarkableasterisk
Weird, gun nuts like to point out how they are the safest gun nuts in the history of gun nuts and that you should treat all guns as loaded.
JeYdevoir
Was going to make this comment - anyone should never make the assumption, especially those remotely familiar with guns.
3PiecesOfBread
It's a good thing this is just a comedy from the 80s and not real life then huh?
Lamplord
Eh, Tackleberry is also a bit cocky though. He's not a responsible gun nut, he's like that Texan friend with 20 guns who shoots at gas cans.
ForestRed
Tannerite go boom!
Jamesstin
I like making their heads explode by using that rule to explain how absurd they are. If its always loaded then how do they not barrel sweep1
Jamesstin
All their neighbors? Or how do they clean them especially if it's a firearm like a Mosin nagant where you have to pull the trigger to 2/
Jamesstin
Pull the bolt put? 3/3
blackomega
To be fair to Mosins, you actually have to have the bolt pulled back when you release it. The rifle physically cannot fire.
erikna
Yeah, bolt action designers are anal about two things, out of battery fire (this case) and double feeding. Both are prevented mechanically
ChiliBeef
Had to upvote just because you mentioned Mosin Nagant. And, they kick like a god damn mule. Moreso with Bulgarian ammo.
echonite
That isn't being clever on your part. You are taking a simple rule way too strictly to be purposefully obtuse. The rules are about being
echonite
mindful of your surroundings and the status of the gun itself.
TicklishOwl
I think the point is that this is a comedy, so that behavior is part of a joke, and not how someone should act in that situation for real.
arkuamore
He's more an ammosexual than gun nut
mikeatike
Different kind of "nut"
eetsumkaus
sounds like it's a great detail for his characterization then!
drdavessardogs
Ya, Alex. Tell us about gun safety...
KaraokeLemur
Those are not the nuts. The nuts are the ones overconfident in their knowledge and abilities.
KoalaOnTheJuice
Exactly. The ones who think they're the safest gun nuts in the history of gun nuts, like they said ^
LiamPhoto
Yeah like Tacklebury, he cnat be certain it hasn't been cocked, the gun and officer aren't in is view for a significant time before the turn
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
Like the Gravy Seals.
stonetemplefox05
Oh God I can't wait for Thanksgiving *stuffs dinner roll in mouth*
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
Ha! We pissed off a member!
stonetemplefox05
Hazzah
tentaclesfortesticles
Those safety guidelines are okay for a beginner, but I'm an exbert.
KaraokeLemur
A pro. Experts are the ones who clean up after pros have had a go.
MadeYouLookAgain
It’s a joke. In a movie. Relax. You’re just a regular nut it appears.
SJohnson23
I didn’t hear anyone else laughing, did you?
MadeYouLookAgain
What? No. I’m in a room with a cat and a dog. Had I watched the movie in a theater I’m sure I would have heard plenty. Did you have a point?
SJohnson23
https://youtu.be/1HuIILdA8Lg Do we even live in a Simpsons worshipping country any more?
MadeYouLookAgain
Settle down grandpa, and no. Loved the show 20 years ago. Haven’t seen a new episode in about 10
MadeYouLookAgain
But I will happily reverse my downvote. Insert>it’s an old reference but it checks out sir.gif