I just want to tell everybody in the comments: good luck, we're all counting on you.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Hahahahah

@manrayma

Ай бұрын

good luck, we're all counting on you.

@letsgobrandon5809

Ай бұрын

Ya didn’t notice all the jars of mayonnaise at the Mayo Clinic 🤣🤣🤣

@letsgobrandon5809

Ай бұрын

Hey I know you you’re kareem abdul-jabbar you play for the Las Angelas lakers 🤣

@owenbb505

Ай бұрын

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit reading KZread comment threads.

This morning, Siri said, "Don't call me Shirley." It seems I had accidentally left my phone in Airplane mode.

@corralescoyote

Ай бұрын

😂😂

@TylerLL2112

Ай бұрын

Nice.

@jjryan1352

Ай бұрын

Airplane! mode

@amehak1922

Ай бұрын

This needs more likes

@UWalvern0810

Ай бұрын

Cute…😂

"You're Kareem Abdul Jabbar!" "I don't watch Baseball" That one got me real good. 😂

@IamGenoBlack

Ай бұрын

It actually sounded like an Airplane line

@cainealexander-mccord2805

24 күн бұрын

When i saw your comment, I assumed you were just being piquant. Turns out, you were and you weren't.

@stupoo

8 күн бұрын

Mental

This movie has so many jokes, a young person can laugh at 100 of them, and miss the other 100, and still be perfectly tickled.

@captainnerd6452

Ай бұрын

That's exactly what happened to me when I saw it the first time back in '80, when I saw it in the theater, I was laughing so hard I kept missing gags, plus everyone else in the theater was laughing so much too it was hard to hear! I had to see it a couple of times (that was a thing we did back in the late70's-early 80's, see a movie several times) just to get the whole thing. It was relentless!

@gsparkman

Ай бұрын

I started typing out a list of all the joke/references that younger people didn’t catch. I tired of the task after about 30-40 items. Of course one of the most brilliant moves was to cast so many actors well known for straight dramatic roles in this outrageous comedy. Seeing them in these new roles made the lines they had twice as funny.

@dkajj

24 күн бұрын

Saw it first in 88 or 89, and I had to rewind many times because I couldn't keep count of the jokes I missed while laughing!

@billclay9489

20 күн бұрын

I saw this in 1980 at age 8 and laughed at 40% of the jokes. i watched it again and again as I aged and I still catch stuff I didnt see before. Small stuff like when Dr. Rumark sat down to help the lady with the eggs in her mouth. when he sat down. someone off screen handed him something. LOL And the guy in the train uniform saying "better get aboard sonny." LOL

@lmckrosen123

14 күн бұрын

@@gsparkman Right? I think most of the younger people doing these reaction videos miss more of the jokes than they get! It would be a hard task to make a list and take forever to explain everything!

The guy who "picks the wrong day to quit" is Lloyd Bridges, father of Beau and Jeff Bridges.

@jldog134

Ай бұрын

I remember hearing that Lloyd thought this film would ruin his credibility, Jeff and Beau both talked him into doing it.

@LordVolkov

Ай бұрын

I love how many serious actors took a sharp turn into comedy with Airplane. Lloyd is my favorite part of Hot Shots and probably wouldn't have done it without Airplane.

@chrisfofficial

Ай бұрын

Love Lloyd. Been there, done that 😅

@o0pinkdino0o

Ай бұрын

He's great in Hot Shots

@motorcycleboy9000

Ай бұрын

"President Benson." "No, you're not. He's an older man, about my height. I've seen him on TV."

Airplane is one of those movies you think you're better than. You think it's cute but corny. Then a joke hits you and you can't help but belly laugh. Then you get hit again.

@disposablehero4911

Ай бұрын

If jokes were punches this movie would be like going ten rounds with Ali and Tyson both in their prime.

@Vinterfrid

Ай бұрын

Your comment is absolutely incomprehensible. Seems like you picked the wrong time to stop sniffing glue.

@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017

Ай бұрын

Speak for yourself.

@dougaldouglas8842

Ай бұрын

Blazing Saddle comes at you from nowhere, just hits you in the face

As a 25 year flight attendant, I can tell you that this movie is 100% accurate.

@richard63

Ай бұрын

Good to know...lol

@Sairin13

17 күн бұрын

Wow, 25 years, that's a long flight

@brentaughe7539

9 күн бұрын

@@Sairin13that’s great!

@stevedavis5704

8 күн бұрын

I have been told that due to a couple of incidents they had two different meals on the airplanes. This allowed them to feed the crew but have a rule that the pilot and co-pilot could not both eat the same meal in case of bad food in one meal or the other.

"A hospital? What is it?" "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now."

Never has a second cup of coffee at home was a commercial at the time. It's an entirely different kind of flying ALL TOGETHER.

@Sal-gh1se

Ай бұрын

It’s an entirely different kind of flying.

@OneThousandHomoDJs

Ай бұрын

Yep, you can find it on youtube, "jim never has a second cup of coffee at home commercial," same actress and everything.

@phredphlintstone6455

Ай бұрын

I believe it was maxwell house. Could be wrong, didn't drink coffee at the time.

@altaclipper

Ай бұрын

​@phredphlintstone6455 I think it was Folger's but I'm not entirely sure. The audience who saw this in theaters would have known.

@phredphlintstone6455

Ай бұрын

@@altaclipper yeah, idr. I knew it at the time.

Love the fact that while it is a jet engine aircraft, you constantly hear propeller engine sounds.

@gordonduke8812

Ай бұрын

It's the longest running gag in the film.

@davestang5454

Ай бұрын

That might be mimicking the plane engine in "Zero Hour", set in the 1950s.

@bitingontinfoil

Ай бұрын

Holy crap...55, watched it countless times & never noticed this...thanks!!😂😂

@matthewfike4491

Ай бұрын

Big radial engines.

@naelar13

Ай бұрын

A lot of reaction videos I've seen totally miss this one. Of course, there was some stuff that I missed, too, even as big a fan as I am of this movie. I must have seen this movie about 20 times before I noticed the ice cream cone at the press conference. 🤣

I love how in the beach scene, Striker tells Elaine the entire attack plan: When they will ship out, what the target is, from which direction they will be approaching, at which height, etc. But when she asks when he'll be back, he just answers: "I can't tell you that, it's classified" 🤣

@michaelkemmet834

22 күн бұрын

Agreed. There's also a second joke buried in there. The place names are actually alcoholic drinks. The bar where Ted and Elaine meet is in Drambuie(a liqueur made with Scotch whisky) and the target of the doomed air raid is Daquiri. I suspect there was supposed to be an even more obvious third alcoholic place name(comedy rule of three) that ended up on a cutting room floor.

Roger Ebert had a great way of describing these movies. He said you laugh at every joke twice: once at the joke, and then once again at yourself for laughing at the joke.

One of the craziest things about this movie is that it actually a remake of the 1957 melodrama Zero Hour. They bought the rights and use a lot of the dialogue word for word.

@pedroV2003

Ай бұрын

Absolutely correcgt. I posted a comparison of the two movies above.

@6LVRDRGN

Ай бұрын

The dedication to camera angles a shot-by-shot matching is great!

@user-wm4yj3ux9r

Ай бұрын

Re-using the propeller engine sound throughout a movie about a jet aircraft is one of the low-key funniest gags in comedy movie history.

@FloridaMugwump

Ай бұрын

It's a parody of the Airport subgenre of disaster movies. At least 75 % of the jokes are directly from Airprt movies.

@jameshenner5831

Ай бұрын

There is a comparison video on youtube that shows many shot-for-shot matches with Zero Hour

The jive lady was Barbary Billingsley, the mother on the sitcom "Leave it to Beaver." Her portrayal of the kind, straight laced, white bread, demure middle class housewife was almost a parody in and of itself. To see her show up speaking jive was the funniest gag in the entire movie.

@josiahslack8720

Ай бұрын

She got coaching from the two actors she had to "interpret" for and apparently had a lot of fun with the whole thing.

@thestingman2966

Ай бұрын

So disappointed that part of that scene was edited out.

@gregoryberg5806

Ай бұрын

I think she said th “n” word when she was walking away in the original movie.

@rorychivers8769

23 күн бұрын

@@gregoryberg5806 nahh, it was "Chump don't want deh help, chump don't get deh help. Jive ass dudes don't got no brains anyhow" You are just imagining things.

@richardhinshaw2116

8 күн бұрын

Nope. Stryker in disco pose getting his jacket thrown at him.

In case you didn't see it, in the post credits we see that the guy is still waiting in the cab and says "Well, I'll give him another 20 minutes, then I'm leaving"

@anime_cyko

2 күн бұрын

Should just tell her to watch post credits. Don’t spoil it

@mcjsrn

2 күн бұрын

The mam in the cab was the real Howard Jarvis. He wrote Proposition 13. A California Property Tax Reduction Law in the late 70's.

Watching this movie in a theater back when it came out in the 1980s, the audience was howling with laughter. The jokes were rapid-fire.

@dougaldouglas8842

Ай бұрын

Same here and stupidly when Blazing Saddles came out I went and watched that, thinking it was a western, until the orchestra appeared in the scene of the two cowboys riding across the plane

@grahamkey8496

19 күн бұрын

I went to see it twice. And I still keep seeing gags that I missed.

@GaseousClay3

15 күн бұрын

Watching this in the theater when this first came out in 1980 - when the radio station said "This is WZAZ where disco lives forever!" and the plane knocks out the radio tower, the entire theater broke out into applause...

@dougaldouglas8842

15 күн бұрын

@@GaseousClay3 Those where the days of true satire, and same here, in the cinema, and when Blazing Saddles was aired that was even better

One of my favourite jokes in this movie is a kinda subtle one that tends to go by unnoticed, when Kramer steps through the mirror.

@LordVolkov

Ай бұрын

It's really well executed visual gag that's almost too subtle.

@THOMMGB

Ай бұрын

Most people miss that. I know I did, but once you figure it out, you realize how cool that shot is.

@kellynorton

Ай бұрын

I didn't notice that gag until about the 30th time I saw this movie.

@gregorybrown3272

Ай бұрын

Another subtle joke that I missed, the first dozen times around, was the sound of the plane, it is a jet liner, but every time the cut to an exterior shot of the plane flying, you hear the sound of a propeller plane.

@HelloMisterJAMWAH

Ай бұрын

@@gregorybrown3272 Yes! It wasn't until somebody mentioned it on a podcast that I found out. I felt pretty stupid, but it's not like I'm hanging out in the sky checking for accuracy

"He gave himself a samurai death" Though he doesn't get a line, the disdainful way James Hong (the Japanese officer) looks over at Ted slays me. The man is a treasure.

@0okamino

Ай бұрын

It really pisses him off to no end, but he keeps his composure. Ted just doesn’t get it.

@Jessica_Roth

Ай бұрын

James Hong is still with us, having turned 95 in February. And yes, he slays every role, no matter how small.

@Irish381

Ай бұрын

He was the restaurant owner in the Seinfeld classic the Chinese restaurant. He also played the Dad of Wayne Campbell’s Girlfriend in Wayne’s World.

@haroldmunoz819

Ай бұрын

check him out on booger meets master. R of the nerds

@kale27

16 күн бұрын

@@0okamino He wasn't put here to GET IT Mr @0okamino

Kareem really was a very famous basketball star in the late 70s and early 80s. His cameo was freaking awesome.

@kh884488

Ай бұрын

More recently, Kareem acted as a RV salesman in the TV show "Fresh Off the Boat".

@armybeef68

Ай бұрын

I miss that sky hook.

@tannhauser5399

Ай бұрын

The same with James Hong (that Japanese officer sitting next to the main character, commiting seppuku because of his life story) - the famous guy behind David Lo Pan from "Big Trouble in Little China", or more recent "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (too many movies to list here!). Or even his part in the "Gangham" style parody, "Lo Pan Style" :)

I've seen this movie a million times. I never noticed the "whacking material" sign on the magazine rack until Ames just pointed it out.

The mechanic who is popping the hood of the plane is comedian Jimmie Walker AKA JJ Evans from the 70s sitcom Good Times.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Cool I should check that out!

@williambryan3346

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna If you’re going to react to a comedy like this one, where the jokes come at you pretty fast, I would strongly suggest that you pause the movie if you’re about to take a drink of something. Otherwise, you’re either going to end up feeling dehydrated by the end of the movie, or you’re going to be spraying liquid just about every time you take a drink.

@williambryan3346

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna @12:23 It’s a spoof of a coffee commercial that was shown a lot back then.

@tothra

Ай бұрын

That's Dy-no-MITE! 😂

@bighuge1060

Ай бұрын

@@williambryan3346 Yuban coffee. And they used the same actress from the commercial. There's quite a few comedic references that are missed by younger audiences. The two Hara Krishnas (sp) is one of those often missed as they used to be solicit at airports in the 1970s (the whole, "we gave at the office" line).

Best line of trivia from IMDb: "Robert Hays was in real life a licensed pilot, having completed his training in 1974. Although this was an entirely different kind of flying altogether."

@dravenblackthorn4765

Ай бұрын

Although this was an entirely different kind of flying.

@kingkrimzon3889

Ай бұрын

Although this was an entirely different kind of flying

@thomasbrown9402

Ай бұрын

Although this was an entirely different kind of flying

@motorcycleboy9000

Ай бұрын

Although this was an entirely different kind of flying

@Briansgate

Ай бұрын

Although this was an entirely different kind of flying

Airplane is one of those comedies you can watch over and over again and see jokes you missed the first time.

One of THE BEST comedies of all time. The drop dead perfect line delivery is Oscar worthy. Airplane is a legend played by legends.

The lady with the inner dialog about second cups of coffee and is beaten up by the passengers was the same actress in a series of popular Yuban coffee commercials where you hear her thoughts... about Jim not having a second cup of coffee.

@wernerschmid5727

Ай бұрын

In Europe we had the same commercials. "Jacobs Kaffee" named. 😂

@garyseward1641

Ай бұрын

When she auditioned for the part the producers didn't realize till after the movie was made that she was the actual actress from the coffee commercials.

@dan_hitchman007

Ай бұрын

@@garyseward1641 If that was the case, I'm sure they decided to add the joke about the coffee after they realized it.

@garyseward1641

Ай бұрын

@@dan_hitchman007 No, the joke was already written in the script. It was just a case of not realizing that she was the one in the commercial. From what I read, it wasn't known by them till after the movie was released. as Bob Ross would say, just a happy accident.

@jonathonmenth3901

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah, I remember that!

"It is a different type of flying... ALL TOGETHER." Then they all say it together.

@dougaldouglas8842

Ай бұрын

Blazing Saddles is another, coming at you when you least expect it

@grahamkey8496

19 күн бұрын

It's a different type of flying.

@blaze1148

18 күн бұрын

...she is a bit slow isn't she.

The fact that you picked up on the Saturday Night reference despite not having seen it was most impressive, nicely done.

28:37 “why does that one have a beard - is it a sports team?” Oh, so precious.

"Nervous?" "Yes."First time?"No, I've been nervous lots of times"

I laughed my ass off when you said you don’t watch baseball! You are a treasure! 😂❤

@rustybarrel516

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣👍

@codemonkey9

Ай бұрын

Tommy's exchange with "Roger" is absolutely in line with late 70s sports columns on Kareem

@rustybarrel516

Ай бұрын

@@codemonkey9 And by the time this hit theaters, the Lakers had won the NBA Finals, then went on to 7 more Finals appearances, won 4 more titles, and he didn’t hear as much of those criticisms anymore. 😎

@danferguson2724

Ай бұрын

She didn't 'get' Kareem's goggles while those of us who watched him know that he started playing with them for eye protection.

@72tadrian65

Ай бұрын

@@danferguson2724 To be fair. I am a 51-year-old man. Of course I know who Kareem is. I really don’t expect the young folks to know who he is.

_"It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether."_ _"It's an entirely different kind of flying."_ Because Ted said "altogether," the others repeated his quote ... altogether.

@marauderdz

25 күн бұрын

They also said it in a monotone and were looking at him like that to indicate that they were confused about why he asked them to repeat that line.

My favorite running gag in this is the engine noise. Every time they show an external shot of the jet you hear the sound of an old World War II type propeller airplane.

Easily one of the funniest movies ever made.

@jjryan1352

Ай бұрын

Police Squad tv show is really good too. Same guys

I will never be able to hear Robert Stack’s voice without thinking about Unsolved Mysteries.

@cruelangel8689

Ай бұрын

Strike Force for me. Short lived (unfortunately) cop show from 1981.

@bryanb3352

Ай бұрын

"Maybe you can help solve a mystery." His voice as the FBI agent in the Beavis and Butthead movie was perfect too.

@jcoptimus

Ай бұрын

Ultra Magnus in the Transformers movie.

@mikejankowski6321

Ай бұрын

Calling out to Rico and Youngblood on The Untouchables. But then, I’m old.

@dougaldouglas8842

Ай бұрын

The Untouchables

The reactions to “like my men” and “wriggle it” lines are what I watch Airplane reactions for. Those never disappoint.

I saw this at the Colosseum theater in Oslo Norway when it came out. I was an exchange student from the US and it was the weirdest feeling to be the only person in a theater of 2,000 who was laughing at all the "inside" jokes from American 70s culture and TV commercials. Great flic.

Peter Graves (Capt Clarence Oveur) , Robert Stack (Rex Cramer), Leslie Nielsen ( Dr. Rumack), and Lloyd Bridges (McCroskey) were known only for heavy, serious, dramatic roles prior to this film, which made the film even more surprising and funny in 1980. The Zucker brothers asked them to play their roles "straight." For some of these actors it changed the course of their careers. The woman who has the panic attack suggested to the directors that the people line up to beat on her. The pep talk Dr Rumack gives is a parody of a scene in "Knute Rockne, All American." There is a character (also an actual person) by the name of George Gipp, with the nickname "The Gipper." He was a player on the Notre Dame football team. Here, the character's name is George Zipp, with the nickname "The Zipper." And in the background while the Doctor is speaking, the soundtrack is playing the Notre Dame fight song. Julie Hagerty is great in the film "What About Bob?"

@LordVolkov

Ай бұрын

It's a real shame they couldn't convince George Kennedy to join. Him being in all the Airport movies would have been a perfect casting joke for Airplane. Glad he came around for Naked Gun because he's such a funny guy.

@motorcycleboy9000

Ай бұрын

Graves = original Mr. Phelps in Mission: Impossible Stack = original Elliott Ness in The Untouchables Bridges = the guy from Sea Hunt and a bunch of Westerns, including High Noon Nielsen = the captain in Forbidden Planet and a frequent actor in spy and crime shows Jive Translator = Beav's mom from Leave It to Beaver Cab passenger = Howard Jarvis from the Jarvis Foundation Johnny = just kinda showed up

@dragon6172

Ай бұрын

Can't forget that the older lady who speaks jive was the mom from Leave it to Beaver

@facubeitches1144

Ай бұрын

Robert Stack kept turning the part down because he didn't get the movie. Finally, it was Lloyd Bridges who explained to him that "they want us to play *us*" (i.e., play exactly as they would if it was a serious role). Then he saw how funny it would be and agreed.

@seajaytea9340

Ай бұрын

And the character George Gipp was play by Ronald Reagan in the movie Knute Rockne All American. A call back to when the first sick passenger mentions that she hasn't "felt this bad" since "seeing that Ronald Reagan movie" (and he was also running for US President at the time).

Leslie Nielsen had been a dramatic actor on television and in theatrical films going all the way back to the 1950s, often playing villains. But with the success of “Airplane!” in 1980, he was able to reinvent himself professionally and enjoy an entire second career as a comic actor through the 1980s, ‘90s, and 2000s.

@jjryan1352

Ай бұрын

I remember him from an episode of The Streets of San Francisco

@BrennanYoung

Ай бұрын

He played the lead in "Forbidden Planet" (1956)

@jsigmo

Ай бұрын

He was one of the main regular cast members of the series "Mission Impossible". Again, a serious role. Once he was recognized as being so good at comedy, he got the lead in the Police Squad series which spawned the Naked Gun movies.

@kwebb121765

Ай бұрын

@@jsigmo Actually, it was Peter Graves, the guy who played Captain Oveur, who was in Mission: Impossible.

@PereMarquette1225

27 күн бұрын

He played the very serious captain in The Poseidon Adventure in 1972. Poor guy didn't even survive the capsizing.

I'm impressed! Youngsters don't usually get many of the jokes and references, but you got at least half of them 👏

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

Lots I MISSED!!

@jeffreyphipps1507

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna Most people miss a bunch. It's good to rewatch it on your own. Also, there's a LONG IMDB trivia list.

Part of what makes this movie amazing is you can ask ten different people what they liked the most and probably get ten different answers. Everything with the kids is just too funny.

you ended before the end, the guy was still waiting in the cab

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

I waited in the credits! Nothing! 🙈

@stevenruvolo499

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna at the end of the credits the guy says I'll wait 10 more minutes but that's it. Lol

@THOMMGB

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna Ames, There's all kinds of goofy things in the credits, if you look for them.

@Vinterfrid

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna You did not wait long enough.

@ToniMcGinty

Ай бұрын

@@holddowna Plus, there are loads of jokes written in the credits...

The Mayo Clinic is a real place, and the joke was that there were jars of mayo on the shelf. The same people who made Airplane made Top Secret, which is my favorite comedy of all time. That is definitely one to see.

@krerickson1

Ай бұрын

It's in Rochester Minnesota and is one of the top research hospitals in the US.

@gravypatron

Ай бұрын

Top Secret, one of the greatest goofy comedies ever made. 😊

@edwarddeitman1195

Ай бұрын

heck yeah Top Secret

@user-ul9vn6hn2g

Ай бұрын

Have you seen? Kentucky fried movie It was made before Airplane by the same people. It will kill you if you don't have strong stomach muscles because of all the laughing. You have been warned.

@user-td4zp4gq2p

27 күн бұрын

I was in the Army with a mayo from the clinic family. He was too dumb for medical school. I guess we all were!😅😅😂😂😂

I love how when the panicked woman was calm for a moment, Leslie Nielsen slapped her again just for good measure.

@kevinhenderson5928

Ай бұрын

I read that the second slap was unscripted, and he actually made contact. Being a professional, she rolled with it.

@largol33t12

Ай бұрын

The first time I saw this movie, I was bawling my eyes out laughing when I saw the line of people and one lady had a revolver in her hand. I guess she planned to shoot her in the leg...

@nathanfitzgerald6651

Ай бұрын

@@kevinhenderson5928 I'll bet it was.

The propeller sounds when it shows the plane always gets me. 😂

@karidrgn

22 күн бұрын

They are the soundtrack to the plane in the disaster film this movie is based on. Staring John Wayne as the pilot.

I just want to wish you good luck with your reaction. We're all counting on you. 😎

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@charleshartley9597

Ай бұрын

Surely you can't be serious?

@zieten9983

Ай бұрын

@@charleshartley9597 Dont call her Shirley!

@toob1979

Ай бұрын

This is an entirely different kind of reaction video altogether.

@righthandwolf306

Ай бұрын

​@@toob1979*"It's an entirely different kind of reaction video!"*

No matter how many times I see this movie the magazine rack with one named "Box Lunch" always makes me smile.

And for those that wonder why Gen X just doesn't care about your feelings, remember this is what a PG movie was when we were growing up.

What makes this movie work is that all of the characters are completely serious (except Johnny), and were played by actors known for drama instead of comedy. It gave Leslie Nielsen a big career boost. Up until Airplane!, he did serious roles, mostly in B movies. Airplane! turned him into a comedy star. The couple of voices bickering about white zones and red zones were played by the actual couple who did recorded announcements at LAX. They were married in real life. There was a TV commercial for Yuban coffee that showed a couple at a party. The host offered a guy a 2nd cup of coffee, to which his wife replies that he never has a 2nd cup. When the husband accepts the coffee, the wife thinks to herself, "Jim never has a 2nd cup of coffee at home." They got the same two actors in the movie who were in the commercial and gave them the same dialogue. Doctors always have stethoscopes in their ears, even when they're not working. A pap schmear? I'm not eating any bagels at your house! The jive translator lady was Barbara Billingsley. She played the mother on the old TV family sitcom Leave It to Beaver. The show was set in a very white suburb, and her character of June Cleaver was often shown doing things like vacuuming while wearing pearls. For people who grew up watching that show, it was very unexpected (and funny) to see her talking in an exaggerated black dialect. In The Godfather, Jack Woltz woke up with a horse's head in his bed, but in Airplane!, Mrs. Oveur had an entire horse. The show 60 Minutes used to have a Point/Counterpoint segment, that had two commentators with opposite viewpoints debating each other. The "let 'em crash" bit was a parody of that. There's a post-credits scene that shows the guy still waiting in the taxi. He says, "Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes, but that's it!" The actor was Howard Jarvis, a prominent California politician of that time.

@douglasiles2024

Ай бұрын

The horse in her bed was to represent that she was sleeping with a "stud" on the side, while her husband was gone.

@steveweidig5373

Ай бұрын

Just to add about the stethoscope Dr Rumack is wearing, early plane headphones really looked a lot like a stethoscope, so people at the time wouldn't have immediately realized that he's a doctor and would rather have assumed he was listening to the in-flight movie.

These videos make my work day much better. As the son of two airline employees, dad was a retired pilot and mom is a retired flight attendant, This movie was like the Bible in the house growing up. ❤

Leslie Nielsen didn't break character because up to this point, he never did comedy. He was an oldschool drama actor. He always wanted to do something funny, but he was boxed into serious roles. So doing comedy that works with his style was a revelation to him.

This is one of those movies that you quote during random conversations and either people know or they don't

Fun video. She missed the Mayo clinic joke. Damn! She did miss a few, but I'm glad she appreciated the ones she got.

@81OH4Z4RD

Ай бұрын

i missed that through several watches. the heart always demanded my full attention.

Yes and no about comedy pushing boundaries. When it was released none of this humor was considered scandalous. It was just funny. Maybe over the top or outrageous , but no one got upset or was “outraged “. Because it was all in good fun. It used to be so simple. Thanks for reacting.

@tomchris60

Ай бұрын

Exactly! It was an era of Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and Saturday Night Live (when it was funny). Everything and everybody was a target for humor. Can you imagine a writer today wanting to poke fun at black guys talking jive? They would be ordered to take "sensitivity training." It's sad that a 40 year old comedy is more outrageous than today.

@galandirofrivendell4740

16 күн бұрын

This is why comedy just isn't funny anymore. The politically correct people have to approve everything. People are just too thin-skinned these days. I've been offended by jokes before, but I never saw the need to vilify the comedian for his sense of humor. I just moved on to the next joke. If a comedian was truly offensive to me, I just avoided him or her. Today, you're not allowed to offend anybody, and therefore, humor is no longer humorous. Thank God these films have been preserved for posterity so that we can all be reminded of what genuine comedy is.

One thing I've never seen mentioned; when the plane destroyed the radio tower of the station that had just proclaimed "disco forever", it was in reference to disco demolition night in Chicago where haters of disco music were encouraged to bring all their disco records to be blown up on the field between games of a White Sox baseball doubleheader.Thousands of people responded and the explosion was so large that the field and the stadium was so severely damaged that the second game of the doubleheader was cancelled. It actually did signify the end of the disco era, and the destruction of the tower of the station that had just proclaimed "disco forever"when hit by the plane wryly alluded to that demolition event which had just occurred less than a year before this movie was made.

@righthandwolf306

Ай бұрын

The sight gag in that scene is the sign with the call letters of "WZAZ," which was for Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker, the people behind this movie as well as _Kentucky Fried Movie_ from 1978.

@rs-ye7kw

Ай бұрын

@@righthandwolf306 Thanks. That one got past me.

One thing I've learned from watching so many Airplane! reactions... no one under a certain age has ever heard of the Mayo Clinic

He said "altogether" get it

the guy checking the turkey cooking in the oven is Mike Ehrmantraut from "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul"

@hurricane1951

Ай бұрын

Amana made one of the first microwave ovens. It was call "Radar Range" which was the joke.

@paulsander5433

Ай бұрын

Actually, the actor's name is Jonathan Banks. He's a familiar face from a lot of roles.

@Michigan_Tactical

16 күн бұрын

During WWII, Raytheon corporation was working on the magnetron tube that was the heart of radar, to find a way to make them faster. During testing, one of the engineers noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket melted when near the device. Later Raytheon developed the first microwave oven using the magnetron tube and called it the "Radar Range"

@Michigan_Tactical

16 күн бұрын

​@@paulsander5433 I believe he was in Gremlins for one.

25:02 Radarange was a brand of microwave ovens back in the 70s. So it was a pun. "Check the radar range" and he looked in the microwave.

The "never has a second cup" line was from a contemporary tv commercial for coffee. Enjoyed your reaction video, thank you!

Someone can correct me on this. That the couple arguing in the P.A. System in the opening scene are a real couple who do this in real life. ( the job, not the arguing) LOL!

@dannyadams4765

Ай бұрын

Yes they were

@johnnehrich9601

Ай бұрын

Yes, and I understand that do this at LAX and their voices are familiar to frequent passengers there.

@LadyIarConnacht

Ай бұрын

They are (or were) and the announcements were almost as annoying in real life. I was stuck at LAX for hours in 1978, and couldn't get the zoning announcements out of my head for weeks.

@0okamino

Ай бұрын

Yes, and fortunately they did go to marriage counseling to settle the issues of which zone is for stopping, and which zone is for loading and unloading.

I took my cousin to the theater to watch this movie. She laughed so hard that I was embarrassed. She actually peed her pants.

I saw this in the theatre the week it was realessed. I was 12 years old. I had never laughed so hard. The entire audience was in stitches throughout the movie.

I saw this movie for the time in 87 when I was 13. It changed my life. It opened me to all sort of humor, puns, visual, background event. I watched it at least once per week during a long long time, ofter finding something new I missed. And here, until today, I NEVER noticed the guy in the passenger seat had scratches on his face because of the dog.

The guy stuck in the cab is Howard Jarvis who was a famous California politician at the time. He had been one of the main proponents of Proposition 13, which modeled the use of citizen's initiatives to pass legislation and limited property taxes. It was a big deal and most people in 1980 would have recognized him.

@rg3388

Ай бұрын

He adds an extra level to the joke of overcharging someone by being a guy associated with thrift and economy as Jack Benny had been a generation earlier.

@danielcameron9857

Ай бұрын

I'm bummed that she missed the post-credit scene! Most reactors do, though, somehow.

@rg3388

Ай бұрын

@@danielcameron9857 I use it as a meme when sympathizing with impatient people.

@benballesteros6346

Ай бұрын

I thought I was the only one who remembered him

@tomw324

Ай бұрын

The joke is he is the fiscal responsibility guy stuck in a cab with a fare skyrocketing through to the end of the film.

This movie is almost a scene-by-scene parody of the 1957 movie, Zero Hour. There are several clips on KZread which show the parallel scenes side by side. After watching this, some of the elements of Airplane! (like having a famous athlete for the co-pilot) make a lot more sense. ---- Early on, a soldier says good to his girl as the plane starts up. This is a direct spoof of a well-known (at the time) 1944 wartime movie. The guy gives his sweetheart one long embrace while the conductor walks up, pulls out his pocketwatch on a chain and says "Better hurry son and get on board." The soldier gets on the train but stands in the vestibule (the ends of the passenger cars), with the top of the dutch door open. He throws his watch to the girl who runs alongside as the train picks up speed. She winds up ALMOST running into the platform light posts. This is copied on Airplane! except she does run into the poles. (You will note the plane starts with chugging sounds.) You can watch this specific scene on KZread: Since You Went Away, chasing the train ---- The beach scene is a take on the iconic scene in the 1953 From Here to Eternity, also spoofed in the beginning of Shrek2. ---- The woman who is astonished by her husband having a second cup of coffee is the actor from a well-known commercial for coffee. Her coffee is not good because she uses "brand X" although when they are at a restaurant, he does like a second cup. ---- I still don't get the women with the eggs in her mouth. It is NOT a take-off of the name bird flu, including the bird that flies away (flew) when he cracks the egg. The disease was first diagnosed in 1878, called "fowl plague." In 1981, it was officially named "avian influenza." The first human case was recorded in 1997. Not sure exactly when the nickname bird flu was first used or first popularized. ---- The woman who can speak "jive" was Barbara Billingsley, who had played June Cleaver on the most vanilla tv sitcom, Leave It To Beaver. She was the epitome of the suburban housewife of the 1950's, who did housework dressed up, with her string of pearls almost a trademark. Her big goal in life to make sure the house was always in order and she had dinner on time for her "boys" (husband and two sons). As the feminist movement began to take hold, her character was held up as the one they most wanted to avoid. The producers could NOT have picked a more iconic actress for her role here. (Come to find out, she had a sort of hollow in the front of her neck, which the strong tv lights emphasized by its shadow, so she wore the necklace to hide it. They improvised all the jive talk and years later she recalled how much fun she and the two guys had making this scene.) ---- American audiences were still in shock at the time over the most famous scene from the recently released Godfather. A Hollywood producer wakes up with the severed head of his prize race horse next to him in bed because he ignored "the offer he couldn't refuse." ---- The turkey being cooked was because the first commercially available microwave was introduced in 1975, the Amana "Radarange" because the heating effect of microwaves was first discovered when technicians worked around radar installations. (A guy found a chocolate bar in his pocket completely melted.)

@JPDillon

Ай бұрын

The eggs in the mouth is just an old sleight of hand magic trick. The fact that it is treated like a serious medical condition IS the joke.

@LordVolkov

Ай бұрын

They also spoof elements of the Airport disaster series. The sick girl and singing stewardess are from one of them.

@LadyIarConnacht

Ай бұрын

It's more than a remake. There are dozens of pop-culture references and industry jokes. Some of my favorites are the local LAX jokes - the notorious announcements and the mobs of cultists, etc.

@RealMiami33141

Ай бұрын

Sailors on ships at sea equipped with the first radar arrays would stand on the deck in front of them because it was warmer.

Old stuff: there was a popular TV commercial at the time. A couple have dinner at a friends' house. When offered coffee, the husband has a second cup. The wife wonders, "Jim never has a second cup at home." Then the wife asks the friend what brand of coffee she used. The wife uses it, and the husband likes it better. The man in the cab is Howard Jarvis, famous legislator and author of California's infamous Prop. 13.

The gags come fast and furious in this movie. Every time you raised your soda can, I was thinking, "Be careful. You don't want to ruin your equipment."

Ames: "What's this now, a scene from a movie I haven't seen?" ( yes, yes it is .... the classic , From Here To Eternity❤)

Fun fact: Sigourney Weaver auditioned the part of Elaine, but they didn't like the way she delivered the "set on your face and riggle" line😂😂😂

@Vinterfrid

Ай бұрын

"Sit on your face and wiggle"!

@bigpictureguys8415

Ай бұрын

Not a big fan of the actress they went with so I wish they had gone either the dream weaver

@mallninja9805

Ай бұрын

wriggle

@tehawfulestface1337

Ай бұрын

Perhaps Sigourney was going through PTSD and misread the line as ‘face hugger’!

@jjryan1352

Ай бұрын

I don't think she can do comedy even as the straight man so to speak

- Nervous? - Yes. - First time? - Oh no I've been nervous lots of times...

One of the best lines in this movie is too often ignored, "Give me Ham on 5, hold the Mayo"....

Merman played as one of the lead characters in what I believe is the funniest movie ever made: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, a 3 hour masterpiece of comedy as 8 people go on a journey to locate stolen cash. It was re-done, to a lesser extent, in the movie Rat Race. I keep a copy of It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World out to play at least 2 - 3 times per year since it was released on VHS in the 80s. And i watch it whenever i can when it is on TV.

Ethel Merman was a singing star for many years whose trademark was a loud and powerful voice, which earned her the nickname "Old Yeller"

@Chordonblue

Ай бұрын

She plays a GREAT role in 'It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world!' Funny!

@vegasbaby3669

Ай бұрын

Ahhhh ok. Thanks for explaining that. I never understood that joke.

@michaelodonnell824

Ай бұрын

It was also Ethel Merman's last role...

@seannolan9857

Ай бұрын

My dad's old roommate used to do a comedy skit where he'd perform soft ballads in an Ethel Merman style.

Your reaction to the , ".... Sit on my face ..." joke was fucking hilarious !! 😅. 😂.

Barbara Billingsly saying "Oh stewardess, I speak jive." was so outrageous at the time since she was only known for Leave it to Beaver.

This movie relaunched several careers, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, and notably Leslie Nielson, who always played serious dramatic roles in their early careers delighted audiences with this comedic turn. It spoofed a series of Airport disaster movies, familiar TV commercials, 70's cultural trends and events.

I grew up warching reruns of Leave it to Beaver. Watching Barbara Billingsley, who I can only see as a 50s housewife, speak jive is still one of the funniest things I've seen. It's right up there with watching Betty White, the sweet old lady from Golden Girls, in Lake Placid using words that would make a sailor blush.

What makes it funnier, most of the actors were known for serious dramas IRL.

"That's no way to treat a lady" She's no lady, she's HYSTERICAL!

It’s amazing how many miss the fact that it’s a jet but throughout the entire movie there’s an airplane propeller sound effect going

@Gravydog316

Ай бұрын

i have seen this like 20 times & never noticed until i read it like a week ago

@paulbrawley2595

Ай бұрын

I only know of that from reading comments like yours.

One of my friends, who is pretty tough to crack when it comes to "older" movies. Watched this the other week and he loved it. He described it as "meme humour before memes existed" and I thought that was a pretty perfect description 😂

Airplane! was primarily a send-up of the disaster movies that were in common back then. Movies like Airport, Towering Inferno, Earthquake. But it was also a parody of everything of the day that we now call pop culture. Similar to something like Scream.

"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" is a reference to an old commercial for Yuban coffee. The actress who says the line was in the commercial.

11:07 that was the most Airplane-like reaction you could have had 😂

I admire editing this reaction. How to choose which parts to cut considering pretty much every line is a joke.

@holddowna

Ай бұрын

So true!!!

@joeywood9333

Ай бұрын

She got most of the best ones tho.

@davewhitehead5116

Ай бұрын

She missed the “I’ve been nervous lots of times,” line. But overall, great job reacting.

I love that fully halfway through the movie, you still thought there was a plot!😂 It makes it even better..

My favorite hidden joke was the cab passenger and the fare on the meter of $113.30. The man's name was Howard Jarvitz, the main proponent for CA Prop 13 which limited property taxes to 1%.

Yes, Shirley. That was the legendary Ethel Merman as Lieutenant Horowitz! I grew up watching three actors here in dramatic roles. Lloyd Bridges in Sea Hunt 1958 (I was born two years later). Peter Graves as the leader in the 1967 tv series Mission Impossible, and Leslie Nielsen who often portrayed the bad guy in classic tv series. Seeing them as comedic genius later in their career was incredible. And then there’s Robert Stack (Rex Kramer). That all four veteran actors mostly never broke from their serious persona, but still were the funniest ever! They were ‘robotic’, Shirley, because Ted said, “all together.”

@Vinterfrid

Ай бұрын

No, in fact he said "altogether".

@tehawfulestface1337

Ай бұрын

@@Vinterfrid Yes. But they thought he said ‘all together.’

@Vinterfrid

Ай бұрын

@@tehawfulestface1337 Yes, and that was the joke.

@michaeldmcgee4499

Ай бұрын

My main memory of Robert Stack is from the TV series "The Untouchables" where he played agent Elliot Ness.

If listen carefully, you’ll notice that the Jet plane engines sound like propeller engines!!😂😂😂

@John-nr1tu

Ай бұрын

Holy jeesus I'm 50yo and I've watched this 100's of times and never noticed that 😂😂😂😂

@John-nr1tu

Ай бұрын

I love this movie 😊

As I write this at the very beginning, and I think I speak for everyone here, I can tell that this is going to one of your favorite reactions that trounce done. So silly but just amazingly written.

12:20 it’s from a old coffee commercial. The commercial context made it seem the husband didn’t drink a 2nd cup because the wife made crappy coffee. Until they upgraded to the coffee that is being advertised

The gag about being 26 and unmarried doesn't land nowadays - but back then it was still actually meaningful. Great reaction.

We always watched this movie every year before we went to airport :)

The jet sounds like an airplane the entire movie lol

Several of the actors in this movie had a long history of doing only serious roles, like the pilot and the doctor, so seeing them in this movie playing comedic parts was a dramatic change. The second cup of coffee reference is a Folger's coffee commercial. The references to commercials, entertainers, movies and events is very very extensive.

The older woman that speaks Jive is Barbara Billingsley, better known as June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver

The "he never has a second cup of coffee at home" line was making fun of an old coffee commercial. Nearly every reactor is so distracted by the dog that they don't notice Rex stepping through the mirror.

The guy at the microwave at 25:02 is Mike from Better Call Saul.

A few jokes from the movie that post-Gen X'ers generally don't get: Airports in the United States were considered public domain outside of the gate areas, so loitering laws were not enforced. They therefore became a haven for various cults and religious organizations who would solicit donations and new members there. Ted Striker's flashbacks to "the war" are all from World War 2 (or earlier, toward the end). Any pilot who flew in WW2 would have been at least in his 50s at the time, much older than Striker. The Mayo Clinic is a highly regarded US medical institution, based in Minnesota but with branches around the country (and one in London). They don't generally feature shelves of mayonnaise, though. That was actually Kareem Abdul-Jabar playing the copilot. He was also one of the biggest stars in the National Basketball Association, and acted in several other features. "Boy's Life" was a magazine published by the Boy Scouts of America (it's still published under the more inclusive title of "Scout's Life"). "Nun's Life" was not actually a magazine. "Jim never has...." The instant coffee brand Yuban had an infamous commercial in the late '70s, featuring the same actress, where her husband would uncharacteristically ask for a second cup of coffee at a dinner party (where the host obviously served Yuban). Lt. Hurwitz was indeed played by Ethel Merman, a famous actress and singer whose career spanned many decades. The Japanese soldier who committed seppuku rather than listen to Ted's story was played by James Hong, who you might know as Gong Gong from "Everything Everywhere All At Once" (and *numerous* other movies). The woman who "speaks Jive" was played by Barbara Billingsley, famous for playing June Cleaver in the decidedly white bread tv series "Leave it to Beaver". I probably forgot a few. There's so many of them! 🤣

@mikejankowski6321

Ай бұрын

Very good compilation nonetheless!

@lawrencewestby9229

Ай бұрын

The scene where Ted and Elaine are kissing in the surf is from the movie "From Here to Eternity" starring Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr. As far as I know, Lancaster does not tell Kerr the complete plan of attack except for when he's due back.

@joeywood9333

Ай бұрын

The natives learning basketball were the Harlem Globetrotters.

I never noticed before that a young woman throws her baby in the air when the airplane crashes through the terminal window. 🤣

@John-nr1tu

Ай бұрын

The jokes so nonstop you will almost always catch something new😅