The reboot of The Naked Gun from Akiva Schaffer and Seth MacFarlane features rapid-fire jokes and visual gags throughout its runtime, but the jokes don’t stop even when the credits begin to roll. Starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser and an entertaining array of huge surprise cameos, the spoof comedy has debuted to a record-breaking Rotten Tomatoes score.

Theatrical comedies in general, but especially spoof comedies, are becoming increasingly rare as the best in comedy writing shifts towards TV writing and streaming platforms. The Naked Gun is a big swing for Paramount Pictures, but it could return dividends given how impressive its reviews have been when it comes to the movie’s non-stop avalanche of absurdist comedy.

That rapid-fire style of jokes never relents throughout the movie’s entire 85-minute runtime, and continues right through the credits. The Naked Gun has both a mid-credits and post-credits scene after the movie’s hilarious ending, but in keeping with Naked Gun franchise tradition, it has many more gags and Easter eggs sprinkled into the actual credits themselves.

The Naked Gun’s Mid-Credits Scene Explained

It’s A Callback To The Original Naked Gun Movies

The movie’s mid-credits scene follows swiftly after the narrative concludes, and features Liam Neeson’s Frank Drebin, Jr. and Pamela Anderson’s Beth Davenport enjoying a tropical resort surrounded by other police officers. They’re all supposedly being investigated by Internal Affairs (which is the name of the resort) in a bit of satire about the lack of consequences for police officers accused of wrongdoing.

After a few moments, time stops around them in a nod to the freeze-frame endings of the original Police Squad show that the Naked Gun movies originated from. In a further nod to the original franchise, Frank and Beth panic about what’s going on around them, breaking the fourth wall to interact with the overlaid credits and comment on their situation.

Unlike the typical mid- and post-credits scenes that are included in many franchise movies, the credits scenes in The Naked Gun don’t actually mean much. They don’t set up any future stories, and are instead used to pay off jokes from earlier in the movie and call back to The Naked Gun franchise as a whole.

The Naked Gun’s Post-Credits Scene Explained

A Franchise Stalwart Gets A Moment To Not Shine

The post-credits scene accomplishes both a nod to the classics and the payoff of a prior joke. Midway through the movie, evil billionaire Richard Cane (Danny Huston) gives details about his personal private bunker, from which he and his friends intend to wait out the world’s demise. He notes that absurdist comedian Weird Al Yankovic will be in the bunker with them to perform.

The post-credits scene shows Weird Al taking the stage in the bunker’s comedy club, ready to perform for a full house. However, since Cane’s plan is foiled by Frank, the billionaires never made it to the bunker. Unfortunately, nobody told Weird Al, and he still came out expecting to play his accordion in front of a large crowd.

Weird Al is actually a staple of the Naked Gun franchise, as he appeared in all three original movies before showing up again in The Naked Gun reboot. He played himself in cameos in both The Naked Gun: From the Files of the Police Squad! and the threequel Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. He also cameo’d as a criminal in The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear.

The Naked Gun Has Other Hidden Gags In The Credits

Eagle-Eyed Moviegoers Will Notice Small Written Gags

Between the two scenes, the credits themselves are littered with jokes. The most significant is the payoff of a joke from earlier in the movie, which saw Frank describe a song that he had written about rediscovering love after the death of his wife to Beth, which was invalidated by her when she plugged his TiVo into the internet and wiped his collection of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes.

Frank angrily notes that he had “booked studio space” to record the song he wrote, and that recording plays over the first part of the credits. It begins with appropriately absurd lyrics with Liam Neeson singing as Frank before it devolves into Frank simply exploring the studio space, playing random instruments and commenting on what he sees.

Aside from that, the credits contain a number of jokes hidden in the movie’s real credits in a direct homage to Leslie Nielsen’s spoof comedies of the 1980s, including Airplane! and of course The Naked Gun: From the Files of the Police Squad! Past movies have mocked specific members of the crew or the ridiculous names of some of the crew roles.

The Naked Gun continues this tradition with things like a hidden Netflix pᴀssword, a full (and functional) eye exam, and a number of crew role callouts. For example, in the Grips section there are a number of tennis racket grips listed, like Eastern and Continental. In another example, next to the “Tool Person” credit there is a “Tool Non-Person” credit for “Buzz Saw”.

Yet another is on the “On-Set Dressing” credit, which lists various salad dressings. There are likely plenty more to unearth, so it’s worth sticking around after the movie’s main plot is over to see what you can spot for yourself. It’s a fun and worthy callback to The Naked Gun franchise and spoof comedies in general, and is proof of Schaffer’s deference to the classics.