When Does "The Naked Gun" (2025) Take Place?
"The Naked Gun" is a comedy crime film written by Dan Gregor with Doug Mand, Akiva Schaffer, Seth MacFarlane, Mark Hentemann, and Alec Sulkin that released August 1st, 2025. So when is "The Naked Gun" set?
It takes place in the year:
We know this because when Detective Frank Drebin Jr. says, "I wasn't thinking clearly, I was furious about the Janet Jackson Super Bowl." (there was controversy around Janet Jackson's Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show which happened on February 1st, 2004 in the real world) and then when Police Chief Davis points out, "That was 20 years ago!", he replies: "Not to me!"
2024 AD
We know this because when Detective Frank Drebin Jr. says, "I wasn't thinking clearly, I was furious about the Janet Jackson Super Bowl." (there was controversy around Janet Jackson's Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show which happened on February 1st, 2004 in the real world) and then when Police Chief Davis points out, "That was 20 years ago!", he replies: "Not to me!"
2004 + 20 = 2024.
It is the fourth film in the Police Squad! universe and can be watched at its timeline point after "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" (1994).
