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@PedroCastillo_1980

11 ай бұрын

Next time Airplane II: The Sequel

@CWGAMES210

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for providing the great content. I definitely advise watching Scarface though if you have not heard of it Al Pacino is a very talented actor who somehow really is in tune with the character of Tony Montana and I think you would enjoy the film as a whole. And the Ending well it's best I don't spoil it but I think you will be SHOCKED. In the words of Montana "SAY GOODNIGHT TO THE BAD GUY"

@andrewlustfield6079

11 ай бұрын

@@PedroCastillo_1980 The squeal isn't nearly as good. Naked Gun is a better follow up to Airplane.

@PedroCastillo_1980

11 ай бұрын

​@@andrewlustfield6079I love The Naked Gun

@andrewlustfield6079

11 ай бұрын

@@PedroCastillo_1980 In my opinion, it's the best followup to the kind of deadpan humor that Airplane is exploring---and also just as fearless.

The casting of Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, and, Leslie Nielsen was perfect, because, all of them were known for playing either villains, or, dramatic leads. They all delivered such absolutely RIDICULOUS dialogue with perfect, dead-pan, sincere delivery. It makes the movie.

@LordVolkov

11 ай бұрын

The only missed casting is George Kennedy, who is in all the Airport movies, as well as some other disaster flicks. He's hilarious in Naked Gun and would have been great here too.

@MrTech226

11 ай бұрын

I read that Lesile was known to play pranks or jokes during his most serious movies in the 50's. I believe this movie set a trend for him his later career in comedies up to his death in 2010. I think all serious actors wanted a change or a challenge in their careers.

@josemuse4119

11 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly, after Robert Stack accepted the role and started rehearsing his lines with Lloyd Bridges, Mr. Stack was saying "How is this funny? Where is the joke?". Lloyd Bridges understood and told him "we are the joke." Leslie Nielsen was a lifelong prankster but always played straight dramatic roles and relished the chance to play in a comedy.

@codyclaeys2008

11 ай бұрын

And Ethel Merman cameo is the icing on the cake

@ThomasVanhala

11 ай бұрын

I director ones said to me that that in comedy you can go with a ridicules character in a perfectly normal situation or a normal character in a ridicules situation, I guess that is why I never liked the character Johnny in Airplane!

The actors speaking Jive actually wrote that dialogue themselves.

@porflepopnecker4376

11 ай бұрын

It's funny to see reactors having an uncomfortable inner debate over whether or not it's politically correct to laugh at these scenes.

@maddwitch

11 ай бұрын

@@porflepopnecker4376 TBH this the first time I've seen a reactor really seem uncomfortable with it, but it's understandable if she's unsure whether the joke is trying to make fun of the people speaking AAVE or people not getting it. One of the problems with people reacting to Airplane! these days is that sooo much of it's humor relies on the culture of it's time and they miss so much of it. It's essentially chock full of memes that people born a decade or so after, lack the context for.

@porflepopnecker4376

11 ай бұрын

@@maddwitch I've seen several reactors who are clearly uneasy about laughing at something that was acceptable "back then" but not in today's more enlightened time.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

11 ай бұрын

No. Barbara Billingsley wrote it.

@thorguff

11 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, these very uncomfortable people worried about "political correctness" think that modern day, predominantly-Black slang talk is perfectly fine when it is far more ridiculous and atrocious than anything from the past.

I just want to tell you Good Luck we're all counting on you.

@MrUndersolo

11 ай бұрын

You can't be serious! - signed, Shirley

@joshuacampbell7493

11 ай бұрын

@@MrUndersolo I am serious and don't call me Shirley.

@Mark-xx3gh

11 ай бұрын

I just want to tell you Good Luck we’re all counting on you.

@BeOtterMyFriend

11 ай бұрын

I just want to tell you Good Luck we're all counting on you.

@user-er8be9wl8x

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

A lot of people don’t know this movie is a direct parody of a movie called “Zero Hour!”. The plot, the central characters, some of the lines, the whole weird ptsd storyline, the flashbacks and melodrama: all from that movie.

@joshuashelton6355

11 ай бұрын

They actually bought rights to zero hour because they used so much of it.

@chrisleebowers

11 ай бұрын

"Zero Hour" (1957) was not a particularly famous or popular movie, it just had a classic (cliche?) disaster movie structure that feels familiar and recongnizable even if you haven't seen it. You've seen something *like* it so you know the tropes and the story beats, which made it a perfect framework to hang all their jokes on. It was also over 20 years old at the time and wasn't something audiences in the 80's really remembered, but the writer Arthur Hailey went on to write the novel "Airport" (1968) which was adapted into a movie franchise in 1970 that was popular enough for three sequels from 74-79.

@Mark-xx3gh

11 ай бұрын

*Some* of the lines? Most of the lines.

@trolleyfan

11 ай бұрын

That's part of the reason it's so melodramatic - to mimic that 1950s film. There are a few KZread videos that have a side by side comparison of some scenes...and it's amazing how exact the copying is, but with somehow one being deliberately funny.

@DerekDominoes

11 ай бұрын

Also, to a lesser extent, movies like "Airport" and "Airport 1975."

"I take it black, like my men" is the single funniest line in the movie. I wonder what that girl's parents thought when they first saw it.

@Dystopia1111

11 ай бұрын

Not just the girl - the boy's facial expression is perfect. His look of simultaneous confusion and disappointment might be the best piece of acting in the whole movie.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

11 ай бұрын

They thought "seven hundred twenty-two thousand four hundred ninety-six dollars and fifteen cents in royalties and residuals."

The actress who translated the jive talk was Barbara Billingsly, the mom from the Leave It To Beaver show. So having quite possibly the most strait-laced character ever be able to speak the most up to date jive was the key to the joke. Also, the actress who played the young boy’s mother was in a series of coffee commercials where someone offers the husband a refill on his coffee and he accepts eagerly, while she thinks to herself “that’s funny, Jim never has a 2nd cup at home”. To me, one of the funniest sight gags is the Doctor who called from the “Mayo clinic” and there were jars of mayonnaise all over the shelves.

@markdenio4537

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for explaining the coffee reference. I remembered the commercial but not that she was in it.

"The hell I don't!" Kareem getting increasingly annoyed with Joey is so funny! It's one of the more obvious casting jokes, but pays off so well every time they bring it up.

@hypnomagician

11 ай бұрын

Roger that. Over ..

@MGower4465

11 ай бұрын

The little boy didn't know in advance Kareem was going to act angry, his reaction is real fear. Kareem and the director both apologized to the boy as soon as the scene ended when the saw how genuinely scared the boy was.

@kettle_of_chris

9 ай бұрын

_I've been hearin' that shit ever since I wuz at UCLA_

Congratulation!! You're one of the very few reactors that actually waited for the post-credit scene! lol

The two black guys wrote that dialogue (Jive) and taught Barbara Billingsley (the old lady) how to do it. Also, the natives playing basketball were the Harlem Globetrotters.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

11 ай бұрын

Other way round.

@kettle_of_chris

9 ай бұрын

"the natives playing basketball were the Harlem Globetrotters" - you know I think I heard that before but man, that is shocking each time I hear it. They were so famous back then but they didn't do many cameos if memory serves

looks like i picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

@phousefilms

11 ай бұрын

Timotheereacts? Is this a CROSSOVER episode?!

@andrewlustfield6079

11 ай бұрын

one of the best lines from a movie full of great lines

Watching the final end credit scene, like no one did: priceless.

The two men talking Jive improvised their lines on the fly, essentially they were given what the subtitkes would say and were cut loose. Barbara Billingly, the older white woman, was coached by the two men in what to say, how to deliver the lines, and her body language. They had so much fun they stayed friends many years after filming their parts. One of the Jive-talkdrs gets a role in the sequel, still talking the smooth.

@kettle_of_chris

9 ай бұрын

Yeah I remember the Zucker brothers talked about that on a commentary they did on one of the DVD releases - highly recommend giving that a watch (with their commentary) they're funny to listen 2

How you enter a plane depends on the airport. There are still places where you can use the stairs to board or deplane.

@americanmutt9089

11 ай бұрын

I think climate helped determine what airports had enclosed boarding gates or stairs on the tarmac.

@TheForwardSlashSlash

11 ай бұрын

Yes I've been on maybe 4 or 5 flights where we walk onto the runway before loading or after and waiting for our pink tag bags to be rolled out. Still somewhat common depending on the airport.

@AlexSwanson-rw7cv

11 ай бұрын

Quite a lot of places if you fly cheap airlines in UK/Europe.

@ericdaniel74

11 ай бұрын

Burbank, ca airport mainly uses that.

@josemuse4119

11 ай бұрын

Long Beach was the same when I flew there. My local airport uses a ramp that snakes back and forth as it slowly reaches the elevation of the plane's door.@@ericdaniel74

Always interesting to watch younger reactors watching this movie. They hesitate to laugh at some things because they think they're supposed to be uncomfortable or think it's inappropriate. In many ways, it's good that we've moved past some of our old attitudes but at the same time, I miss when we all could just laugh at stuff, even when we're the target of the joke. People are very sensitive now. Again, sometimes that's good, but sometimes it's silly.

@insaneprepper2832

9 ай бұрын

She appears to have omitted the Jive exchange between Barbara Billingsley and the two men. And the hilarious air traffic controller Johnny. Sad that the young people today worry about being woke rather than just enjoying harmless comedy. Kids these days are soft!

People rarely mention that in the establishing shots of the outside of the jet, the foley sound is of a propeller plane 😲🤣🤣

I guess you picked the wrong week to try a new genre.

@kettle_of_chris

9 ай бұрын

LMAO - my vote for best comment

In the 70s, there were lots of "moonies" and other panhandlers that would hang around airports, malls, etc, begging for donations.

The lady messing up her makeup was the director’s and writers mother who is in all their films.

More than 4 decades later and it's still just as funny. That's what I call a truly timeless comedy.

@jspettifer

11 ай бұрын

A lot of the jokes don’t stick these days. But there are so so many of them that it doesn’t matter.

The "entering the airplane through the stepladder" thing depends on if your plane has an inner (right next to the building) or outer (out on the field) parking space. If you have an outer parking space, a bus takes you out on the field and you go up the stairs. At least, that's what I experienced so far.

@AlexSwanson-rw7cv

11 ай бұрын

Even if the plane is parked next to the terminal, some terminals just don't have jet bridges, and some airlines will avoid using them to save on airport fees.

@myopinion69420

11 ай бұрын

​@AlexSwanson-rw7cv our local airport does not have bridges at all. (Regional airport) the larger city ones will load via the bridge for front half of the plane, but for rear half you have to go down the stairs, then walk to the back and up the stairs.

Welcome to the craziness of the early 80s 🤣 They had no limitations to the jokes and hilariousness. You need to see & realize that it was another time.... Those were the days. I love reliving these movies that I just loved back then with you like this. You make it fun to watch again. Love your videos!

nah that jive speaker gag is hilarious. it's not making fun of black people or the speech, it's making fun of people's awkwardness in that situation (awkwardly nodding rather than trying to ask for a translation); specifically the joke was at the stewardess' expense. and the old white lady who DID speak it was june cleaver from leave it to beaver lol the couple arguing about red and white zones and abortions over the PA in the very beginning were also a real life married couple who both ACTUALLY did airport PAs, too!

Hi Clariss! Great reaction (as always!). By now you know that the movie is a spoof of the 1957 disaster film "Zero Hour". As the story goes, the directors were watching a late night showing of the movie on TV and couldn't stop laughing (even though it isn't a comedy). Many of the scenes and dialogue are exactly like it is in the movie as well. The directors told the actors to deliver there lines seriously which they did and since many of the were well known for as dramatic actors (Peter Graves from the TV series Mission Impossible, Robert Stack from the Untouchables, Llyod Bridges from Sea Hunt and Leslie Neilson - Forbidden Planet & Poseidon Adventure). Leslie Neilson in particle did such a great job it led to his later role in the Naked Guns series. Kudos for recognizing the beach scene from the classic "From here to Eternity" movie and for staying long enough for the post-credit scene. Fun fact, the gentleman waiting in the cab is Howard Jarvis a conservative Tax policy activist who was responsible for getting Prop.13 passed in California. So for him to wait so long in the taxi as the meter kept running was hilarious! Take care!! XOXO

One of the gags that most people miss is that the sound you hear throughout the movie is if a propellor plane. This is a callback to the source film, Zero Hour, which was a propellor plane.

@RustyPopcorn

11 ай бұрын

GOOD catch

Little Joey's parents were characters in a TV ad campaign for a brand of coffee. They would be at someone's house when the wife would offer a second cup of coffee. She would say, "I will but Jim won't." Then he would say, " I will have a second cup." Then she would "think" "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home." (because she used the wrong brand) That cultural knowledge set up several quick jokes in the film. Also, most don't notice that whenever the JET plane is shown in the air, the sounds are that of a "propeller" airplane/

Fun Fact about the Saturday Night Fever spoof: While he was doing Airplane, actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) was also doing a short lived sitcom called Angie and his Angie Co-Star Donna Pescow was in Saturday Night Fever. There is a sequel to Airplane called Airplane 2 The Sequel which is also worth a look just to see William Shatner steal the show.

@Dystopia1111

11 ай бұрын

​@@timd.3837Agreed. Born in 74, so the sci-fi references really hit for me as well (not to mention that majestic Battlestar Galactica theme music).

@kettle_of_chris

9 ай бұрын

"Captain, these lights keep blinking out of sequence!" "Well get 'em to blink _in_ sequence!"

The speech Leslie Nielson says to Robert Hays about Lt. Ziipp is a spoof of a classic speech from the movie KNEWT ROCKNIE: ALL AMERICAN where Ronald Reagan plays doomed football player George "The Gipper" Gipp who pleads with his coach (Rocknie) that the team go out, "and win one for The Gipper."

@audiododd

4 ай бұрын

Knute Rockne: All American was set at the University of Notre Dame and the music that starts playing slowly and then speeds up and swells after the speech as Stryker goes to cockpit (the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit - but that’s not important right now) is the Notre Dame fight song.

Jive-talking old lady was the mom on Leave it to Beaver, the iconic 1950s conservative family sitcom.

In the 1970's I lived in a smaller town in Alaska, the local airport was just large enough to handle a 737, we would board and deplane by the mobile stairs. The planes at the time did have smoking sections too.

This movie has an end credits scene. Also, the credits contain the following entries: GENERALLY IN CHARGE OF A LOT OF THINGS: MIKE FINNELL AUTHOR OF A TALE OF TWO CITIES: CHARLES DICKENS Also, the legal disclaimer ends with "SO THERE."

“Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home.” The housewife that says that also did a coffee commercial where she and her husband are leaving a party but he wants a second cup. The commercial says “Jim never has a second cup of MY coffee…”

@RideAcrossTheRiver

11 ай бұрын

No thanks!

I’ve used the ladders, but only because they were smaller airports (Burbank, CA and Jackson Hole, WY). There’s something neat about walking out in the tarmac to board. Walking down the jetway just feels like going from one room, down a hall, to another room.

@justincollins4262

11 ай бұрын

I used them once on a work trip a few years ago. I didn’t even realize they were still used by airlines. The destination was only an hour away so it was a smaller plane.

@billolsen4360

11 ай бұрын

It's an entirely different kind of boarding, altogether.

@noracola5285

11 ай бұрын

​@@billolsen4360 It's an entirely different kind of boarding.

@turbulentlobster

11 ай бұрын

Up until the 1960s, the ladders were the only way to board. Larger airports began building jetways in the 60s, but when I was a kid in the 70s a lot of smaller airports still didn't have them.

The jive talk was not only performed by, but was also written and taught by the actors who did it. the Zucker brothers had put the space in the scrip for jive talk but, as I just said, left it up to the actors Norman Alexander & Al White to write the lines and was also asked by Barbara Billingsley, the jive lady, to teach her how to both speak and perform when speaking jive. Also during the 70's, for sure, and I think the 60's, different types of Jive was a vary common way of talking within some of the black communities that where in major U.S cities, but during the 80's for some reason or another died off.

13:33 That Classified joke hits home. I was never allowed to tell my family where I was or when I was coming home. Then one day I got an email from my sister saying "CNN says your ship is off the coast of Somalia with a mission to...." followed by "Mom is freaking out!"

@audiododd

4 ай бұрын

I love that he told when they were leaving, where they were going, what they doing, and how they were going to approach the target but he couldn’t tell Elaine when he’d be back because THAT was classified. 🤣🤣

Airplane! is a spoof on every big scale drama and disaster imaginable, specifically a movie called Airport (1970) also the bit about airplane food being the catalyst for the whole plot to begin with both rings true and hilarious to me for some reason.

@tj5579

11 ай бұрын

Zero Hour

It's not that they got away with jokes in 1980. We actually had a sense of humor then and didn't get offended by our own shadows

@mikecarew8329

11 ай бұрын

Amen. I’d hate to see young reactors like this react to a Friar’s roast with Don Rickles, the Rat Pack, etc!

@allenruss2976

11 ай бұрын

@@mikecarew8329 or any Don Rickles. I've been binging Foster Brooks the past couple of days. You cannot not laugh at him

The reason the acting was so old school was because the filmmakers were spoofing a very specific old film called "Zero Hour." which they bought the rights to. "Airplane!" is an almost shot for shot remake with zany stuff stuck in between.

@DaleKingProfile

11 ай бұрын

To be precise the original was Zero Hour! Don't forget the exclamation point

@porflepopnecker4376

11 ай бұрын

The acting was also rigidly deadpan, which, if done well as it is here, can be screamingly funny.

@BluesImprov

3 ай бұрын

@@porflepopnecker4376 I don't think she gets that. . .

I find it so funny that you think walking up to a plane is an old thing. Here in Greece, in small airports, like in Crete, you still do exactly that. If the plane is too far away from the terminal, you take a shuttle, but you still walk up the stairs to get in.

@LordVolkov

11 ай бұрын

Very common on islands and small airports. I guess that's just the city girl in Clariss 😉

Mel Brooks also has some great movies like this. Those are a must watch if you haven't yet . Mel Brooks also produced the true story " The Elephant Man " with Anthony Hopkins & John Hurt . Although on the credits he used another name .

Back at the time, air traffic controllers were reported in the news suffering a rash of mental breakdowns (hence, Johnny) as well as addition to amphetamines and other narcotics (hence, "Looks like I picked a bad week to give up...."). Yes, the tunnel experience was only at the largest airports back in the day. And we did have to run a gauntlet of solicitors in the terminal. I think this was the first movie with a post-credit scene. Now, you have to react to Blazing Saddles, which did something similar for westerns.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

11 ай бұрын

How 'bout some coffee?

@nowthatsjustducky

7 ай бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiver No thanks.

Ladders still exist, although airports seem to be replacing them with ramps to help people get their luggage on board. I used a ramp on the tarmac earlier this week in Asheville, NC.

I LOVE that you actually took 15 seconds and looked up if that’s actually Kareem. The majority of reactors that I look at, didn’t give it a second thought. I think it adds to the comedy of this movie !

@angru_arches

10 ай бұрын

Nah, she was getting too racially sensitive....she couldn't laugh until she ascertained it was him and not the possibility of it being a play on the trope of mistaking people of certain races for each other....

I have boarded and deplaned via stairs a few times over the years. When I fly out of smaller airports like Burbank or Long Beach and even the airport in Berlin, they do not have jetways, or tunnels as you called it, and so we board using stairs or ADA ramps. The good thing about this is that they often board both from the front and rear and it makes the whole thing that much faster. I had another trip to Japan about 6 years ago and apparently there was no available gate for us, so they had us deplane via stairs and then get on a shuttle which took us to the terminal. I personally love using the stairs because I love being able to see the aircraft up close.

Airplane! is an absolute, outrageous take off of the 1957 movie Zero Hour! Whole scenes are parodied, often with word-for-word quotes.

so two things. 1 you mentioned about boarding the plane from the stairs which I did as a kid and teenager when my towns regional airport had a commuter flight to the city. 2 it took me about 5 times watching this movie to notice this but if you listen to the plane especially when they show outside shots of it you'll hear the sound of propellers engines even though it's a jet plane. Not a lot of people notice that on there first watch of the movie great reaction glad you liked it.

Airplane was a genre creator. This kind of movie wasn't out before then - except for the previous film that Zucker, Zucker, and Abrahamson had written - The Kentucky Fried Movie, which I saw as a freshman in college in 1978. Glad that you enjoyed it.

Yep, done the outdoor boarding many times. Grew up with that at the small airport we had. I remember when they got the jet bridges put in at that airport when I was 5 or 6. Currently live in an area with a small airport and we still board like that here. The stairs (at least where I am) are switchback ramps now instead of stairs though because of rolling suitcases and wheelchairs.

Leslie Nielsen always had a humorous attitude and he was a practical joker behind the scenes and on movie sets early in his career.

There are still many airports around the world, including the US, where you walk out to the plane for boarding. In America, you’ll mostly see it at a regional airport instead of a big hub.

Boarding planes in the 50's, 60's, and early 70's most airports did this, as they didn't have boarding tunnels. Even now regional airports still use ramps for the smaller plans. Speaking Jive back in late 70's and early 80's was an inner city thing that African Americans spoke. And yes it was funny to us way back then.

@porflepopnecker4376

11 ай бұрын

Later known as "ebonics."

@angru_arches

10 ай бұрын

And it isn't funny now?

There's an extra dimension to the joke about the guy in the taxi. He's Howard Jarvis, a political activist who championed a California ballot proposition to lower property taxes. Thus, he was associated with thrift in the same way that Jack Benny had been a generation earlier.

No, the one plane trip I took around that time, we had to go through the tunnel thing, no ladders. As for references, it was just a parody of disaster films in general, but particularly "Zero Hour" and the "Airport" series (and I think the first one featured a similar food poisoning plotline). The war flashbacks, and the line, "It's quiet... TOO quiet" and "It's just what they'd be expecting" are just general spoofs of war movie lines. You got "From Here to Eternity". The dance scene was obviously a parody of "Saturday Night Fever". The horse in the bed was a spoof of a scene in "The Godfather" when a rival gang member leaves a decapitated horse's head in someone's bed as a warning. The bit about the woman thinking, "Jim NEVER has a second cup of coffee at home!" was a spoof of an instant coffee commercial of that time. Oh, and the nun with the guitar was a spoof of an odd movie trend of the 60s; there were a few movies about singing nuns, usually with guitars. They might have been inspired by a French nun who actually recorded a record; I think she sang "Dominique" (in French, of course). Even Julie Andrews had a guitar briefly in "The Sound of Music) and when Sally Field starred in the sitcom, "The Flying Nun", she would occasionally sing and play guitar, too.

Believe it or not, prior to this movie, Leslie Nealson was typecast as a gritty serious actor. This was his first ever comedy and it shocked a ton of people according to my dad. If you want something different, I recommend the cult classic, 'They Call Me Bruce.' It has a lot of 60's and 70's pop culture references but its _really_ funny all the same.

The Kareem joke is funny, period. There is no need to wonder how to "grade it". God, people need to get the uppity self-righteous stick out of their asses these days and just enjoy comedy.

Having recently discovered the Airport disaster movies that a lot of the side gags are pulled from (the sick girl and singing stewardess for example), I only wish they had gotten George Kennedy (who would later flex his comedic chops in Naked Gun with Leslie Nielsen). George is in all the Airport movies, as well as a few other disaster movies, and is quite funny when given the chance. An underrated performance of his is The Eiger Sanction, alongside Clint Eastwood.

@Greenwood4727

11 ай бұрын

the Airport movies were fun if you can call a disaster movie fun

@LordVolkov

11 ай бұрын

​@@Greenwood4727The one where they get stuck underwater is wild.

Airplane spoofs specifically a 1957 disaster film named Zero Hour! Some of the dialogue is exactly the same but made for comedy purpose.

“Airplane!” Is a spoof of a 1950’s movie called “Zero Hour”. It gets the melodramatic acting from that movie. It also includes elements from a series of four disaster films from the 1970’s. These are “Airport”, “Airport 1975”, “Airport ‘77”, and “The Concorde: Airport ‘79”.

You: "Please be asleep, please be asleep!" (Before camera pan) Me: "Oh, she's asleep!"😂

To answer your question, yes I have been on a plane through the step ladder. I don't remember when exactly, perhaps 15 years ago, perhaps more. It is still a thing depending on the size of the plane and the airport. In the 90s I also got on planes where smoking was still allowed. I still can't believe it was ever a thing.

To board most regional turboprop planes, you have to walk outside. A friend was going to a far northern town in Canada. He was changing planes and the lady who weighed his carry-on, tagged it and handed it back to him, and said: " Follow me." She was also the flight attendant/co-pilot/check-in desk.

Amazing how younger reactors react to this - they tend to not laugh but rather say “oh no!” at the air marshaler sending the plane into the terminal glass when that was a huge laugh in the day; they are shocked instead of laughing their heads off at the old woman hanging herself, they find the racial / ethnic jokes offensive or cut them from their reactions, they tend to react more with stress/horror at the IV getting knocked out from girls arm, etc. I get missing the references and cameos that are of the time (the coffee ad lady, JJ from good times, Mrs Cleaver translating the jive, win one for the Gipper reference, etc but the change in sense of humor itself is notable. I still love you can find jokes after multiple viewings: the plane noise is always a prop plane even though it’s a jet; Ted says he was in the Air Force but he’s in a Navy uniform at the bar, etc. Outdoor boarding is still common. At big US airports like Seattle, PDX, and LAX, I’ve boarded small regional jets by stairs or ramps outside on tarmac. It’s common even in large jets at smaller airports or tropical ones like in Hawaii or Tahiti. In Europe, there are often “bus gates” where you wait at a normal gate in the terminal and then they bus you to your plane at a remote stand and you walk up air stairs like in this movie.

The showing of the wires in the disco scene was intentional. It's their humor style.

I saw in a show where they interviewed the actors several years later. Peter Graves said when his agent sent him the script he threw in across the room. But he changed his mind. When he went to the opening people went nuts. They ran movie again because no one wanted to leave the theatre.

It's interesting that you mention the "dated" humor. It would be interesting to see your take on Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, which has some similar humor, but it goes a very different direction. I think you'd appreciate the differences.

@porflepopnecker4376

11 ай бұрын

And it's also funny that humor referred to as "dated" is still making people of today roar with laughter.

I've been on a couple of airline flights in the last few years where I got on and off the plane using the stepladder thing. Also three skydives, where exiting the plane was a bit different to the usual way! ;)

What I love about the 'hanged lady' bit is that it's swiftly followed by a cluster of edgy bits - 'black coffee', 'grown man nak*d', 'basketball pilot' etc. Then a bit later there's 'bed horse' etc etc. But my favourite joke is the aggressive labrador, as a lot of dog owners are oblivious to how bad their dogs are! And I love how the whole film kinda reeks of masculine men and feminine women being deflated. Even the kids have it tough. The animals (horse, labrador, vulture and kinda the fish) have things in hand.

Great movie. You should also watch Top Secret 1984 and The Naked Gun Trilogy from the same directors. Props for you for recognizing the "From To Eternity" movie spoof no other reactor has ever recognize that. Fyi the disco scene is as spoof on Saturday Night Fever movie.

@TommygunNG

11 ай бұрын

Truly, none of the others recognize the ”Eternity” parody.

"Hello Clariss...have the lambs stopped screaming?" I don't know if you've seen Silence of the Lambs yet, probably. Anyway, if you're going down this road I suggest Robin Hood Men in Tights. It's hilarious and Dave Chappelle's first movie. Surely you will appreciate it if you enjoy this...and don't call me Shirley 👀

@LordVolkov

11 ай бұрын

Dave was in Undercover Blues before Men in Tights, fyi...

I'm guessing you probably know this, but the scene of the woman running alongside the plane waving goodbye to the man on board is a parody of the scene of Audrey Hepburn waving goodbye to Gary Cooper on a train in Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon, and Leslie Nielsen's speech about the late George Zip is a parody of Pat O'Brien's speech about the late George Gip (played by Ronald Reagan) is Knute Rockne: All American - hence the soundtrack orchestra playing the Notre Dame fight song at the end of the scene. Also, the taxi passenger is played by Howard Jarvis, a then very well known conservative California politician.

i love when you went "please be asleep please be asleep"....i was like uhoh she went to sleep alright she took a dirt nap

If you look closely underneath the blue neon star on the wall when Elaine throws Ted into the crowd you can see Robert Hays crouching down waiting to switch places with his stunt man.

In Zero Hour, the original movie that is being parodied, the co-pilot was played by a famous football player. The movie also makes fun of the drama that goes on in the control tower of Airport. Many of the lead characters were played by actors who had previously only done serious drama and action parts.

Back then it was both , the step ladder and the tunnel. When you got off the step ladder , a shuttle would take you to the airport to get your luggage or catch your next flight . Some of these references were taken from tv commercials. For instance the wife with the husband saying that he never has a second cup at home & he never vomits at home .

I’ve been on steps from the tarmac to a plan within the past year lol when you’re flying from a smaller airport it’s far more common, or even on smaller planes.

They used Zero Hour! as as the baseline story for Airplane! You can find a shot-for-shot comparison, which makes Airplane! feel even more creative. Some of the same dialogue is used because ZAZ bought the rights to Zero Hour!, so they weren’t restricted by copyright. They put a humorous spin in the story but kept the acting feeling melodramatic. I started watching this as a child in the 80s. So many jokes went over my head but I laughed anyway cause it all seemed so silly. As an adult, the jokes landed better and I still catch things I’ve never noticed before. One of my all-time favorites.

I got to climb onto a plane via stairs when I was about 8 in 1989. They even let us stop and wave for my mom taking a picture before boarding. It was a different time :)

It actually happens today, go through the tunnel, enter the tarmac, walk through it, up the steps, YAY, Airplane!!!

Clariss, the biggest thing it's riffing from is the 1970 film "Airport" that was based on a novel. It was a melodrama that partly involved a man with a bomb on a plane. It spawned three sequels that fell in line more with other disaster films of the decade. Each movie having a more outlandish air disaster. You stuck around to see who in the all-star cast was left standing by the end. The singing nun and sick girl were lifted from "Airport '75". What there is of a plot in "Airplane" is from 1957's "Sero Hour".

@Cau_No

11 ай бұрын

Airport '75 got famous for a transfer between planes stunt that only got topped by what Chris Nolan did on the Dark Night Rises. Airport '77 had its plane submerged under the sea level to be resuced. (No, they didn't forsee MH370 …) And Airport '79/'80 featured the Concorde. (Also long before a real disaster struck that type of aircraft.) There also was another movie in the same vein, "Starflight" about a suborbital plane in distress. Being SF, it still could pair with the rest of the Airport series. ("Airport '83")

In the 50's, 60's, and 70's, there were several serious drama movies made with the same theme of an airplane in flight with no one to fly and land it. This movie is a parody, a comedy based on those movies with the same cliches, hero's, tough guys, subplots, etc. This movie was made after the 1970's disaster film decade where there were at least three movies about airplane near disaster drama. Also, many of the actors in this movie played tough guys on TV for many years and this movie gave them the opportunity to make fun of the tough guy type characters they played. Familiarity with the times back then made the movie even funnier.

7:12 In smaller airports you definitely did go up steps to get on a plane. You still do. In the 70s (and early 80s) it was more prevalent. But back then I didn't do too much flying. Also, your comment about pre-9-11 is spot on. We used to be able to go all the way tot he gates to wait for or drop off people and watch them get on/off the plane. I do miss those days.

Every location Ted mentions is tied to liquor, like "Drambui". And in the bar flashback, he says h xwas Air Force, but he's in a Navy uniform. He has his hat on indoors, a no-no. And every flying flasback Ted has features aiurplanes from WW2 and esrlier. Clearly he isn't nearly old enough to have flown in any conflict except Vietnam. Certain prop-planes were used, for observation and spotter flights, but Ted was supposed to be a strike leader, and thisecplanes would all be jets.

@visaman

11 ай бұрын

That's a good point about the war. When I saw this in 1980, I didn't know about Zero Hour, so, I was puzzled by the WW2 footage. I had to calculate the age of the actor, and it never worked out, then many years later, I saw Zero Hour on TCM, and it finally made sense. 😂

I grew up in a city that had a quite small airport (Bakersfield, CA), and yea you boarded the planes with a ladder. The terminal was only upgraded to a modern style I think just after 9/11. And one time, while reporting to a ship I was flying through Rome, and my connecting flight was actually parked out on the tarmac, and they took us there by Bus, and we boarded on the tarmac by stairs like that, in Rome (this was around 2010 or so). Also, FYI Airplane! is almost an exact scene for scene parody of "Zero Hour!" with a few extra references thrown in, right down to the sound of the propellors on a jet engine, lmao. There is a youtube video that actually shows some of the scenes back to back comparing the two movies.

Disaster movies, even specifically Aeroplane disaster movies were a big genre a little before this movie came out (there were a few afterwards as well, but not nearly as many). These days the pilot and co-pilot never have the same meal and the in-flight movie will never feature a plane crash. There were some jokes that were based on American pop-culture at the time. I am so glad you watched the post-credits scene, but there are (non pop-culture) jokes hidden in the credits, too.

I didn't know about Chicago's Disco Demolition event until years later but I caught a reference I'd never noticed before.

Yes, Leslie Nielsen was known primarily as a dramatic actor but an early episode of M*A*SH gave a hint of how how effective he could be at comedy. And, not surprisingly, it was by basically playing his part straight.

The best part about the beginning of the movie, the argument between the announcers about red and white zones is going right past her because she wants to keep talking about what she saw Julie Haggerty in. She has no idea how funny that was.

@martinishot

11 ай бұрын

Now she wants to keep talking about how airports are depicted differently in old movies compared to now and completely has us missing the literally smoking ticket that Ted' striker gets handed.

Personally, I think grain looks incredible on high definition screens. Not that it’s the grain itself, but the image captured by actual film elements.

The Gentleman in the Cab at the end. His name was Howard Jarvis. He was big in California politics. He recently ( from the time this movie was made ). Led a successful tax revolt. Lowering California property taxes by about 2/3's. He was a very popular figure at the time.... at least in California.

The sound the plane is making during the outside views is that of a turbo prop plane, not a jet. And Captain Kramer asked Stryker if he had ever flown a monoengine plane before and he replied "No, never." All of the war planes in the flash backs were monoengine.

I don’t know if you have seen it Claris’s but the comedy movie “What About Bob” stars Julie Hagerty as mother and wife Faye Marvin. “What About Bob” is centered around a character named Bob Wiley played by Bill Murray.

Lol, I am 62. That was definitely the way you got onto aircraft in the 60's. When the larger hubs began to open in the 70's (DFW. JFK etc ) they had what you see today. But, when I flew into smaller airports in the 80's and 90's they still had you walk onto the tarmac and walk up the ladder.

Fun fact,one of the stunt performers was Sandra Lee Gimple ,girl scout fight scene was 41at the time of filming

If you liked this style of humor I'd recommend; * The Kentucky Fried Movie (absolutely outrageous) * Top Secret (WWII spy parody) * Police Squad (cop tv parody series that lasted only a few episodes but was the precursor to The Naked Gun movies)

@NightRanger-lz6tp

11 ай бұрын

Also Hot Shots Hot Shots Part Deux National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 Fatal Instinct

@RideAcrossTheRiver

11 ай бұрын

_Animal House_

The Black gentlemen were making fun of urban "jive talking" that was kinda, sorta a thing in the 1970's. The actors came up with their own language for the movie. I found it hilarious, along with the subtitles that were just as silly.

😄👍 First of all, I just want to mention that there's one gag in this movie that you not only have to be old like me to understand, but from California as well. The guy in the taxi at the beginning and end of this film is Howard Jarvis. If you're at all curious, look him up in Wikipedia. Believe it or not, Zucker Zucker & Abrahams' next movie, "Top Secret!" (1984) is even funnier than this one and all the Naked Gun movies. 🐄

13:58 I JUST realized he told her every important detail of the mission then said his *return* time is classified, lol.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

11 ай бұрын

Never flew mono-engine planes. Flashbacks all monos. Jet has four.

If she thinks these jokes are old hat, she'd probably think Shakespeare is just too full of cliches.

Also on your comment about the acting. You are right. The style of even 70's (and early 80s) movies still had that same "stage" feel to it a lot of the times, although I think they definitely did it that way for the comedy.

Hi Clariss. Great reaction! Down here in Tasmania, (the forgotten state of Australia,) you still walk across the tarmac to climb stairs onto our planes. A real “bummer” if it’s raining, which happens occasionally.