Well, apparently, he's a huge asshole in real life that most people would just rather not have to deal with on set.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Hot Shots movies as well. It's just that they lack a little bit of the magic that The Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane, and Top Secret have.

Kilmer utterly sells it.

Yeah, they just adopted the Nazis look in a nod to the WWII espionage movies.

Don't you mean 'Sucks the dust onto the book…"?

Top Secret is their last truly great film. I think it's their last one together. Abrahams did 'Wrongfully Accused' as a 'The Fugitive' parody. While it wasn't that good, the one bit where he's running from the train that seems to follow his every turn, hides behind a rock, and peeks out only to show the train peek out…

It's an old joke, and never not funny.

"If you were an alarm clock, how would you wake me up?"
"I wouldn't. I'm no ding-a-ling."

Or if you're a Gemini like me, you won't know what to expect.

Him pouring black powder down the barrel of the Tommy Gun and packing it like a muzzle loader get me.

It's still a one handed catch of something shot off the bookshelf. I believe that's what OLF was referring to.

Chocolate Mousse firing indiscriminately into a melee of German soldiers and resistance. Only the soldiers fall down.

The horse pun. The potato farm ("Yes, I am Albert Potato."). The underwater saloon fight. The exploding Ford Pinto. "Driver, this isn't the Howard Johnson." It's just a damn fun ride.

My favorite as well.

Be young, incredibly handsome, filthy rich, and have a cock that can hammer in a railroad spike.

The carrier pigeon joke in that same scene is my favorite. "I see you have dealt with him accordingly."

LATRINE!!!

You just shut your hot lips!

You've got a hawkeye for that sort of thing.

We used to swap the characters' heads around in a kind of take on the cliche 'mind swap' stories.