The reference to the patient who thought he was Ethel Merman, a popular singer from the 1950s and 1960s, is that it was the real Ethel Merman in the role singing one of her signature songs, Everything's Coming Up Roses.

@reservoirdude92

11 ай бұрын

Speaking of Ethel, he should watch It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ASAP.

@thegladve

11 ай бұрын

@@reservoirdude92 I second that notion.

@jaysverrisson1536

11 ай бұрын

Ethel Merman was a big Broadway star, even by the early 1930s.

@edp5886

11 ай бұрын

@@reservoirdude92 Hell Yea!

@Anson_AKB

10 ай бұрын

@@jaysverrisson1536 she died in 1984, and this was her last movie in 1980

The look on the boy’s face when the girl says she takes her coffee black like her men, it just kills me every time.

@Roddy556

11 ай бұрын

I wonder how they coached him for that scene. He looks just stunned.

@dialecticsjunkie7653

11 ай бұрын

You can see her struggling to not break character and laugh in one of the shots

@randysmith7045

7 ай бұрын

he deserved an award for that

Jive was the urban slang of the 70's, just like Ebonics was the 90's and early 2000's. also, the old lady translating, is Barbara Billingsly, who's most famous for playing June Cleaver, in the classic sitcom Leave it to Beaver. Her character was the idealized, pearl clad, perfect suburban mother and wife by 1950's standards. So, her being the translator of all people is another level to the joke, being cast completely against her image and typecast, it's like the Wayne Brady skit from The Chappelle Show. In fact, almost the entire cast, were dramatic actors, who had never been in a comedy before, including Leslie Neilsen. This is nearly a shot for shot parody of the disaster film, Zero Hour, but apart from that it's also a parody of the whole disaster genre, which while prominent back in the day, is much rarer these days, not counting things like Sharknado, Snakes on a Plane, etcetera. Also, as is it didn't seem like you recognized him, Llyod Bridges, the guy who picked the wrong week to quit everything, not only is he the father of, Beau and Jeff Bridges, aka The Dude himself, but he also plays Admiral and later President Benson, in the Hot Shots movies.

@Mickkie

6 ай бұрын

The first time i saw AirPlane was 1980. The whole family and a host of friends watched it. It was a great evening! Great memories!

"I take it black - like my men" Funniest line EVER

@heywoodjablowme8120

11 ай бұрын

What it is big momma I dug her rap.

There was a well known commercial for a brand of coffee, where the wife would think to herself how strange it was for her husband to want a second cup of coffee when they were dining out, but not her brand x coffee she served at home. They got the actual actress who did that commercial to spoof it here.

@DaleKingProfile

11 ай бұрын

While it was the same actress, that was a coincidence and they didn't even realize it.

@kylestubbs8867

11 ай бұрын

@@DaleKingProfileReally? So she assumed they _knew_ it was her, they assumed she just _looked_ like her, and neither assumption was challenged until all was said and done? That’s remarkable.

@Mark-xx3gh

11 ай бұрын

@@kylestubbs8867 it was Yuban coffee, and I believe they were looking for someone similar to the original actress and thought she was perfect, not knowing. kzread.info/dash/bejne/f35ozaV_YpW1Yto.html

@ClayLoomis1958

11 ай бұрын

It was a 1970's Yuban coffee ad. It's available online.

@ClayLoomis1958

11 ай бұрын

@@DaleKingProfile Of course they realized it. They hired the couple who actually did the airport announcements at LAX to do the airport announcements in this movie. Did they realize that?

I saw a commercial yesterday that started with: “Hi, I’m Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.” I immediately thought: “Your name is Roger Murdoch. You’re the copilot.”

@0okamino

11 ай бұрын

Roger needs to work harder on defense.

The joke in the hospital that you didn't get the reference was this: The man who thought he was Ethel Merman WAS Ethel Merman. An actress/Singer since the 1930's. Check out her performance of Everything's Coming Up Roses from the JFK Inaugural Ball, its on youtube.

A lot of reactors do not get the mayo clinic joke. Kudos to anyone who does.

@dr.burtgummerfan439

11 ай бұрын

It's also rare for reactors to recognize Kareem.

@iknowuare4716

7 ай бұрын

I know. I have seen many people react to Airplane and not know about the Mayo Clinic. They handle particularly difficult medical conditions and seemingly hopeless cases. Give me ham on 5 and hold the Mayo is very cute.

what killed me was robert stack, capt. rex cramer, doing his own stunts in the airport. was NOT prepared for a dude from a 60’s tv series, who was like in his 40’s at the time, to be rockin and rolling over guys in the airport! i howled the first time seeing that. 😆

Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy. “Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”

@Cau_No

11 ай бұрын

Robert Stack played Elliot Ness on the "Untouchables" TV show in the 1960s. There was a later movie adaptation with Kevin Costner in that role. Teri Garr, playing his wife, was also on Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" and one episode of the original Star Trek. (Assignment: Earth) Lloyd Bridges was also on a TV show at that time, called "Sea Hunt". Some jokes in "Hot Shots! Part Deux" harken back to that one. He also was in many cowboy movies. Peter Graves was mostly known from his role as Jim Phelps, the leader of the IMF team in the 1960s hit series "Mission: Impossible", and he reprised that role in a short revival at the end of the 80s. (Yes, long before Tom Cruise took over the franchise) Leslie Nielsen had done "Forbidden Planet", a classic pre-Star-Trek SF movie that should be on every reactor's watchlist. The whole storyline of an airplane in distress due to food poisoning was taken from the movie drama "Zero Hour".

In another comment section A guy said a relative was a pilot and Leslie Neilson was on the the plane. He asked the stewardess to see the pilots. When he peaked in the cockpit door he said " I just wanted to tell you, good luck and we are all counting on you" lol

@FlixTalk

11 ай бұрын

My heart would drop and I would die laughing

Movie is still funny after 43 years!!

The taxi meter included 2 digits of cents, which goes to 99 before the dollars increase. Where you read it as 1100 dollars was actually 113 dollars and 70 cents! You can look at any bill or receipt and see that there are 2 numbers after the decimal point! As you saw, the last scene of the movie was the taxi and the man saying I will give it 20 more minutes, but that is it! Thanks to Marvel you always have to wait to see if there is any end credit scenes!! 👱‍♀👱‍♀👗👗👠👠❤❤

So many awesome quotes in this film! You can watch this over and over and still catch new things.

@Mark-xx3gh

11 ай бұрын

One of the details most people miss is that the plane is a jet, but the sounds you hear throughout is from a prop plane. This is a throwback to the original source material, 1957’s Zero Hour.

@PCLoadLetter

2 ай бұрын

Like how Striker's voice-over at the start of the bar scene said he was in the air force, and you immediately see him wearing navy dress whites.

I love how through out the movie when they show the plane from the outside it sounds like a propelled plane even though it's a jet.

When the doctor is talking to Ted about the Medical Corp, he makes the second Ronald Reagan joke (Reagan was elected President in 1980). He is talking about George Zipp. Reagan played a real life early college football star and coach of Notre Dame. In the film he is called the Gipper and the name stuck to him. When the doctor finishes, the music is the Notre Dame Fight Song.

I saw this in the theater (several times) when I was 17yrs old. Makes me laugh just as much today as it did then. 😂

The Ethel Merman joke is basically where Snickers got its commercial "You play like Betty White" and it shows the real Betty White.

I was in college when Airplane! came out, and I first saw it in the campus movie theatre. I didn't expect to find it funny, but I laughed nonstop from start to finish. But a lot of the references that were well-known then haven't held up through the years. It's still one of my favorite comedies. We were a generation that grew up with Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the early years of SNL, and they shaped our sense of humor a lot.

A behind the scenes joke with this movie is that it is pretty much a shot for shot remake of a dramatic movie called "Zero Hour" only with a shit ton of silliness and dad jokes added. The producers wanted to avoid any possible copyright infringement so they literally BOUGHT the rights to the movie they were ripping off/parodying.

Widely regarded as the OG (or Grandfather) of modern Parody movies. My understanding is that it is practically a shot-for-shot copy of the disaster movie Zero Hour. While you can see it seems to MOSTLY be a parody of the Disaster movie genre, it clearly adds in other genres too. (Romance/ love story genres & the like) Such an amazing movie that still makes me laugh no matter how many times I've seen it!

Saw this in the theater when released. Been enjoying it ever since, it is a 5 for me. A LOT of it is of the time: The second cup of coffee bit was from a commercial done by that actress. The old white lady who spoke jive played the mother in Leave It To Beaver, a lily-white suburban sitcom of the 50s-60s. The LAST person you would expect to do so. Anita Bryant was a famously homophobic singer in the 70s. Ronald Reagan, former movie star and governor of California,, was running for President. The entire "win one for the zipper" bit near the end was a copy of an old Reagan film, Knute Rockne, All American and had to do with Notre Dame's football team. Hence the school's fight song as Striker got up. From the 40s, not the 70s, but we all knew it back then. The guy in the cab was Howard Jarvis, famous for California's Proposition 13 freezing property taxes and generally fighting for responsible government spending. There really WAS a smoking section in planes back then, and there really were religious solicitors in the terminals. But they did not have a section labeled "Whacking Material". The drive to the airport was an extra-silly shot at rear-projection techniques, complete with attacking Indians whose spear shows up later. Did you notice that the jet aircraft was always making piston-engine noise? Apparently the studio insisted on a jet to be modern, but Zero Hour! took place on a prop plane, so they went that way with the sound. Made for a new gag, and a good one. Did you notice Captain Cramer step THROUGH the mirror? Most people miss that. Folks say this doesn't have a plot, but I beg to differ. It clearly has a story from beginning to end that ties everything together. The side stories and gags are more important, of course, but it is there. Fun reaction!

@Lugnut64052

11 ай бұрын

The Barbara Billingsley scene was the best gag in the movie. Also, it's almost a direct line-for-line ripoff of the movie Zero Hour (1957)

@garyglaser4998

11 ай бұрын

Yes. Young reactors miss A LOT of the jokes because they are so specific to 1980.

@tranya327

11 ай бұрын

The reviewer is correct when he notes that there are levels to the jokes (not all of which are apparent to viewers). For instance... - The annoying solicitors in the airport, really were a permanent way of life in the U.S. at the time; that's the obvious level, level one. Notice also something more subtle: ALL of the solicitors are from fringe organizations or movements - NEVER anything mainstream (We never see Methodists or Presbyterians pestering the people, for example.) Of all the groups/organizations bothering the people, the ONLY one that has gone mainstream since the film came out, is "Nuclear Power." - The black passengers and their speech: Level 1: "what if 'black dialect' really were a completely separate language (needing translators, subtitles, etc.)? Level 2: The subtitles are intentionally bad, missing about 80-90% of the nuance; Level 3: Could the film be poking fun at a trend of English film subtitles of the era in general? As in: 'The original language has racy/edgy dialogue, and we the filmmakers, or the censors, judge it to be 'too much' for our American audiences, so the subtitles must be reworked to provide a more mainstream, 'acceptable' meaning, even if they're inaccurate.'

@coletrickle-km7cl

11 ай бұрын

It's THAT what the spear was for? I never understood that joke until now.

@Cau_No

11 ай бұрын

@@coletrickle-km7cl It probably was just the answer to the dialog line "that was a long time ago", like in American Frontier Wars. At the time the movie was made, that was a hundred years.

Dude, the fish was bad. Everyone who ate the fish got sick. And the ambulance carrying the little girl crashed trying to get her to the hospital. This movie is easily a 6 outta 5

The Air Israel joke is STILL my favorite.... and the end credit scene damn it!!!

The guy in the taxi was Howard Jarvis. He was an advocate in changing tax laws in the 70s and 80s or something. I don’t know a whole lot about him but he had Howard Jarvis Taxpeyers Association. He was responsible for Prop 13 in the late 70s in California that kept property tax low for some people.

@garybassin1651

11 ай бұрын

He wanted to help seniors whose property taxes were believed to be too high. His proposition 13 lowered those taxes but to make up for the loss, funding was taken away from public schools. It was good for seniors but school students, teachers and education suffered.

@ravenpoe7093

11 ай бұрын

@@garybassin1651 yeah I know it was very controversial. I was too young to really know anything. I just remember mail my grandparents got

@tranya327

11 ай бұрын

The reason they went with Howard Jarvis specifically (and not someone else, or some random dude) - he had a reputation specifically of being a take-no-prisoners tough guy on government waste and on ordinary people getting financially screwed.

This is practically a scene by scene remake of Zero Hour, where it's played much straighter. I think it's still on KZread.

@johnnehrich9601

11 ай бұрын

I'm not sure about the full movie Zero Hour, but there is a scene-by-scene comparison between the two on KZread.

Man the moment you said it reminds you of playing Top Gun on Nintendo just instantly filled me with extreme dread. Between that and the swimming level in the TMNT game.... terrifying

@thegladve

11 ай бұрын

not as much dread as having to play that god awful Superman game on the NES64.

the woman all concerned about her husband’s coffee in silence, was a sendup if ALL those damn coffee commercials from the 70’s. wives were frickin obsessed with how their husbands took their coffee!

@XCC23

11 ай бұрын

specifically it was a commercial where the husband only took one cup of coffee and never took a second (until the wife brought a specific brand that the commercial was trying to sell).

(Arabian guy blows out the match) Mr flix talk: "Woooh he got clos--KABOOOOM!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The look on your face was lol panic!!!!

Ethel Merman was a famous singer in the 50's, 60's and 70's. The joke is that was the real Ether Merman in the hospital.

11:05 - the exact moment when you get the joke.

As someone said below, casting the most white bread character in all sitcom history as the jive translator was even more hilarious. And those two gentleman wrote their own dialogue - and taught the lady her dialogue too. She talks about it here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mYmrlMiCkZPKg6w.html

When you said 'home run', that scene was a parody of 'Knute Rockne: All American', a film about the legendary Notre Dame player and coach.

I like the line "Ok Boys let's get some pictures " and start taking them off the wall🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Another good one to react is Mel Brooke’s 1981 movie “History of the World Part 1”

3:08 - that's the right reaction to that joke.

First time I saw it was at a movie theater when it was released. I was 17 and I took my friend's mom and she slept through most of it but my laughter kept waking her up. I watch it often on DVD and try to catch every reaction.

That's JJ from Good Times checking the oil and cleaning the windshield.

Most people don't know that the man waiting in the taxi was played by Howard Jarvis, an American businessman and politician who lowered California's property taxes by spearheading Proposition 13. And that's the joke. Jarvis, who was primarily known for his strong views on fiscal responsibility and limited spending kept waiting while the meter ran up a big tab.

I grew up with phrases my parents would use: do you like gladiator movies? , pass the porter, no parking in the red zone, no the white zone, and of course: “turn on the lights? no, that’s what they’ll expect us to do”

In 1990 there was a poll of the best comedy for the entire decade of the 1980s. Airplane was voted as number one.

I saw this in the theater with my godfather... Such a great memory, the whole place was laughing and the world was a really nice place!!!!

Jive was 70s urban slang an was made popular in the movie Shaft. The directors saw that film and couldn't understand a word they said. So they thought it was funny and put it in this film. The 2 actors were given what the subtitles were going to be and improvised their lines. The woman that did the Jive with them was the mother from the 50s TV show Leave it to Beaver. Ethyl Merman was an actress. She was in the movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. If you like comedy check that one out a couple scenes from Airplane! are references to that film as well.

Given the difference in years, the equivalent joke now would be. "It's Lieutenant Hurwitz. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Thinks he's Madonna", then it would be the actual Madonna.

Fun fact: The airplane window washer was JJ from Good Times.

Note Leslie Nelson was a dramatic actor. See Forbidden Planet to see him very young.

Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor, this movie started his stint as a comedic actor

This movie is a riot just looking for a place to break out.

It's a spoof of "Zero Hour"

Disaster movies, especially aeroplane disaster movies were a genre just before this movie came out.. The eggs from the mouth is a well-known magic trick. They are all playing it completely straight apart from 'Johnny' who ad-libbed all his lines. There are jokes hidden in the credits too if you watch them carefully.

The ridiculous romance he had with the stewardess added to the hilarity of the movie.

Props off the bat for the huge library ON DVD...

@FlixTalk

11 ай бұрын

And thata only about 1/3 of my collection lol I have an addiction

At 9:36 - that IS the real Ethel Merman (a famous singer from the 50s, 60s, etc.)

Everyone misses the end credit scene. This movie was the first time I had ever seen an end credit scene when I watched it back in 1982.

I first saw Airplane in theaters when it was originally released. I was young and didn't get half the jokes, but I still thought it was hilarious.

@heywoodjablowme8120

11 ай бұрын

Same, I was 9 yrs old and will never forget the naked boobs. I remember my Dad laughing at the scene when she blows up the automatic pilot but was too young to get the joke.

@Windupchronic

11 ай бұрын

@@heywoodjablowme8120 It's funny, though, that some of the jokes I did get as a kid, like "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home," go completely over someone's head today, but I got back at the time, because that commercial was always on.

The passenger in the taxi who kept looking anxiously at the meter, was Howard Jarvis. He was an outspoken anti-taxer, and ran for mayor of LA. several times. He never won, but he did succeed in getting taxes reduced throughout California in 1978. He sparked a lot of controversy. People either loved him, or hated him.

Great movie. You should see Top Secret 1984 another spoof movie from the same directors of this movie.

@FlixTalk

11 ай бұрын

Oh really? Same directors! I have that one too

@boyfester

11 ай бұрын

Top Secret is freaking amazing!

This movie parody’s the “Airport” movies of the ‘70’s (Airport, Airport ‘75 and Airport ‘77). The woman in singing in the hospital was the real Ethel Merman. The second cup of coffee was a reference to a popular ad campaign for coffee at the time.

Well in the 1970s they had a series of "Airport" disaster films all massively filled with celebrites ..So this Airplane movie is making fun of these 5 films...Airport, Airport 1975, Airport '77 and The Concorde and Airport '79

Airplane's not really a parody movie but it is a damn funny comedy. 😂

1. I guess I picked the wrong week to stop watching "first time reaction" Airplane clips. 2. This movie requires more than one watch in order to catch as much as possible. Little things to look for: Ted was in the Air Force but at the bar he's wearing a Navy Lt. Uniform. Elaine's trombone sounds like a trumpet. One of the fish was a freshwater catfish. A woman throws a baby into the air when the plane crashes through the window. Captain Kramer steps out of a mirror before leaving for the airport. The woman with the horse in bed is the creepy Captain Oveur's wife. She is also hitting on to Captain Kramer. It's a jet but the background noise is of a prop plane. The ambulance crashes after the plane lands. 3. Otto/Auto pilot has his own webpage on IMDB 4. Elaine has permission to sit on MY face.😍😋 5. IMVHO Airplane II is good too, destination moon.

You would have had to grow up in the 70's to get most of these jokes.

Back in the 70’s, disaster movies were very popular. This movie was a parody of movies like Airport 77, etc.

At 9:35 - I think you're too young to get that joke, Ted was saying that the guy thought he was Ethel Merman and when the camera shows the guy it was Ethel Merman, she was an actress and singer in 50s and 60s

@FlixTalk

11 ай бұрын

I kinda figured that in my mind after...it's kinda like that Snickers commercial when everyone acts like a diva so they need a Snickers lol I just didn't know any of her work

The guy in the taxi was a California politician that ran on a platform of reducing government waste. So seeing him wasting time waiting while the meter was running adds a new layer to the joke!

by the way the disco lives forever is a reference to "the Disco Demolition” night, Chicago July 12, 1979" ...look it up

OK true story. I was stationed at Fairchild AFB WA near Spokane. We went to see Saturn 3. There was a sneak preview playing with it. We had no idea what it would be, it was Airplane

As funny as this film still is, it was much funnier in 1980. There are so many contemporary references which don't work without the context.

It's always tons of fun for us oldsters watching younger generations enjoying some of the movies that made us laugh so much. Great reaction and thanks for posting.

@rah62

7 ай бұрын

Uh, no. It's painful for us oldsters to watch younger generations miss dozens and dozens of cultural references that made the movie even funnier.

Let’s see- references to pornography, drug use, pedophilia, oral sex, bestiality, bare breasts, suicide… and the film was rated PG. This was before the PG-13 rating was added to the list.

I saw Airplane! on TV, but I saw the movie Airport in the theaters, and among other things this was a parody of that film more than any other.

Summary of often over-looked jokes: (Some of which I learned elsewhere in the comments. Thank you.) The jive translator was Barbara Billingsley who played June Cleaver in Leave it to Beaver. Ethel Merman was a cameo by Ethel Merman. Peter Graves (Captain Ovuer) was Mr. Phelps in the original Mission Impossible TV series. The Mayo Clinic is a reputable hospital in Rochester MN. Robert Stack (Rex Kramer) played the tough guy lead in the original TV series The Untouchables. The George Zip reference was to a Notre Dame football movie with the tag line "Win one for the Gipper", and the Notre Dame fight song was played when Stryker sucked it up and went to fly the plane. Airplane! is an almost shot for shot parody of the filme Zero Hour. The abandoned taxi passenger was a cameo by Howard Jarvis, a California politician of the time. Lloyd Bridge's best line was from a different movie when, as Admiral Benson, he asks (rhetorically), "Do I have to think of everything?" For other obscure references, you'll just have to read the rest of the comments.

Since this movie is over 40 years old, the kids in it are in their 50s now.

Ted on the plane literally boring people to death. The jive was made up by the 2 actors because what was on the script wasn't working. They sat down with Barbara Billingsley (played the quintessential 50's suburban mom on Leave It To Beaver) and taught her the jive lines. Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were definitely first since they were in the 70's.

In 1975, there was an actual food poisoning outbreak on a plane. Nearly 200 people got sick after eating contaminated ham omelets that were served at breakfast. Fortunately, the pilots hadn’t eaten the omelets and were able to make an emergency landing. It was by pure luck that the pilots hadn’t eaten the omelets. Because their biological clocks were still on Alaska time, they had ordered steak dinners instead of the breakfast omelets. The incident resulted in recommendations that passengers and crew be served different meals on flights.

55 HERE SAW IT IN THE THEATER 🎭 BACK THEN ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY USED TO SMOKE 💨 POT IN THE THEATER 😂😂😂

It’s an entirely different kind of spoof movie… altogether.

@jamesalexander5623

11 ай бұрын

"It's an entirely different kind of Movie Spoof!"

@epsteinisms1483

11 ай бұрын

​@@jamesalexander5623OOPS! Sorry. Got here too late for the ensemble. (Traffic!)

" I just want to say good luck were all counting on you "

Jive Talkin' was a BeeGees hit song.

Someone probably already answered this, but Airplane was a parody of a genre of films popular in the 1970's - they were called "Disaster" movies. Towering Inferno, Airport, Avalanche, Poseidon Adventure, ect.

The woman whose husband had a second cup of coffee spoofed a Yuban coffee commercial.

This was a comedic remake of the 1950's movie "Final Hour!" The plot and even some of the dialog came directly from it.

@dlweiss

11 ай бұрын

I believe the title was "Zero Hour!" but otherwise, yes! :)

@astroworfcraig9164

11 ай бұрын

@@dlweiss God yes. My mind must be failing. lol

@kevinpogue7294

11 ай бұрын

The movie was Zero Hour. The Kentucky Fried Theater had a video recorder that they would tune into one of the local TV stations and then let it run overnight. One night the station ran Zero Hour as their late movie. When everybody watched the tape the next day, they were inspired to write comedy gold!

@johnnehrich9601

11 ай бұрын

There is a KZread post that shows a scene-by-scene comparison between the two, it is that close - type "Airplane" and "Zero Hour." This movie makes a lot more sense when you see what they are spoofing.

@DaleKingProfile

11 ай бұрын

​@@kevinpogue7294let's be precise it was Zero Hour!. Don't forget the exclamation point

I have yet to se a reactor realize that although it is a jet plane, the sound of propellered engines is heard throughout.

Mrs. Ouver's husband is away far to much. She's starved for affection.

It's a spoof on Airport. Also all the incorrect jokes were funny at the time as they were daring and adult. I loved the 70s for that reason.

Airplane AKA Dad Joke the movie lol

Striker says that he's in the Air Force, but he is wearing a navy officer's uniform.

I just want to tell you both, good luck. We’re all counting on you.

Was kind of amazed at how many of the gags you actually understood. Very impressive. You closed your eyes and missed the jello part, but that's the only thing you seemed to miss.

The line about the Turkish prison (11:45) is a reference to the 1978 movie "Midnight Express." It would be a good movie to react to, if you've not seen it. But be warned, it is most definitely _NOT_ a comedy.

No one notices the open, bus style overheads ... No doors. And why check on the turkey cooking? It was in an early microwave, the RadarRange from Amana. Everyone who ate fish got sick ... It probably just went bad ...

Fyi, the glue sniffer airport guy was legendary actor Loyd Bridges, father Jeff Bridges. Hopefully you're not too young to know Jeff Bridges, "The Dude"😎 from Big Labowski! ...also, Jive is '70's word for street slang, & older woman who translated played the Beave's mom on '50's tv show "Leave It To Beaver." Ethel Mermon(?) joke was that was really her, a famous, guess could say, vaudevilleian singer? Was before my time but still pop culture enough to know as a kid born in '71, 🤘🌎❤

@FlixTalk

11 ай бұрын

Awesome trivia. Yes , the big Lebowski is one of my favorites. I've seen a few Jeff Bridges movies as well

@satyadasgumbyji8956

11 ай бұрын

​​​​​@@FlixTalkwas editing comment, bro! Might wanna See? Jeff EXCELLENT in EVERYTHING!!! King Kong, The Fisher King & others must-sees if haven't? ✌😎

There was a flight crew that actually had Kareem Abdul Jabbar sit in the cockpit for the takeoff so that they could say they flew with Roger Murdock.

This movie is a remake of Zero Hour. But made as a comedy. KZread had the side by side.

The inspirational speech cones from Nute Rockney All American.

Hah, Yes, The Kareem is on that crew. I saw Airplane in out local movie house in Derry, Ireland. I remember being with my little gang and we must have reenacted twenty scenes from this movie, mostly because they were dirty and that's all we cared about. Julie Haggerty steals the movie with her perfect timing and delivery. Do you think so too?

@FlixTalk

11 ай бұрын

Yes Julie is great. I really love her in "What About Bob?"

Movie theater when it first came out. Saw it a few times. Kareem and Mrs Cleaver are the best ( Leave it to Beaver )

As you liked this, you may enjoy, from the same production/directors, Top Secret (1984), first main role for Val Kilmer. Maybe even crazier than this!

Another parody from the ZAZ Brothers... Top Secret! I think it rivals Airplane! when it comes to laughs and absurdity.

At this time there were all kinds of disaster movies. This was making fun of them.