@nocontexttrek TBF, the context doesn’t really add much to one of my favorite episode of the original series.
It’s just so bonkers.
Police Squad! In color. Starring Leslie Nielsen (gunfire) … also starring Alan North (gunfire, people on fire, people jumping out of windows) … and Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln (top hat flies off in theater, turns around and starts shooting back at John Wilkes Booth)…
Mayor: Drebin, I don't want anymore trouble like you had last year on the South Side. Understand? That's my policy.
Frank: Yes. Well, when I see 5 weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards. That's *my* policy.
Mayor: That was a Shakespeare-In-The-Park production of "Julius Caesar", you moron! You killed 5 actors! Good ones.