The scene with the hysterical passenger was originally written with just one person slapping her. The actress herself came up with the idea of the long line of people with progressively more lethal weapons and approached the director with it, and he loved it.

@iAmEbolaWoT

Жыл бұрын

All these years of watching this movie and laughing every time and I had no idea. That's freaking awesome!

@josheldridge8546

Жыл бұрын

That surprised look she gives Leslie Neilsen? He actually connected with that slap by accident.

@janna2245

3 ай бұрын

Yuban cofee!

@lauracwhitney

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for that information. that makes the scene even better!

The two businessmen were told to make up their own lines of "Jive." The woman who could translate was Barbara Billingsley, who had become famous as the mother June Cleaver in the c. 1960 tv sitcom, Leave It To Beaver. She was always unflappable, and devoted her life to keeping the house in order and having dinner on the table on time for her "boys" (the husband, Wally, and The Beav). She was always dressed up, in heels and her trademark string of pearls around her neck. As women began to fight for more opportunities, June Cleaver became THE symbol of what they wanted to get away from. In an era of the all-vanilla idealized world of the American suburb, the last person anyone at the time would be expected to talk jive was her. For so much of this movie, they spared no effort to get the best actor or actress in order for the spoof to work. For instance, the woman who thought "he would never do this at home" was the one in a well-known commercial about coffee, where her husband would order a second cup of coffee when they were dining out, but not at home as she was serving the Brand X not-so-good coffee.

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

This is a comedic masterpiece

@tallyp.7643

Жыл бұрын

They deliberately picked the most white bread person to be able to translate Jive. Supposedly, she had so much fun talking with these guys rehearsing the lines together.

@THOMMGB

Жыл бұрын

@@tallyp.7643 Barbara Billingsley said in an interview that the two black guys were great. She said they really helped her learn to speak jive and that the scenes with those two jive-talking guys reignited her career.

@dr.burtgummerfan439

Жыл бұрын

It was a nice subtle touch when Billingsley took that pause and glanced up before she started talking, just like people do when they're about to say something in a foreign language and they're getting their thoughts together.

@christinegelabert1651

Жыл бұрын

It cracked me up they had all those subtitles under it cuz I'm like HUH? I'm like why don't ppl know this because to me I knew ppl who spoke job so it makes sense to me! I can't tell you how many times I said catch you on the flip side growing up. Bwaaah Haaaa! #Taino #Mohawk #NYGenXBIKERLady

Omg it was infinitely funnier watching the boys shock and disapproval. Welcome to the 80s, boys. Where any topic is up for laughs and no one cared because people weren't so easily offended. I miss those days.

@richardlacey4923

Жыл бұрын

Those 2 are complete pansies

@JeanDumas24601

Жыл бұрын

The 80s and 90s were great. I'm black and one of my favorite scenes was the basketball one with the Harlem Globetrotters. For one things I played JV basketball at the time plus I had gone to a Harlem Globetrotters game/show before. Back then you could make fun of any group, in fact it would have been considered racist not to make fun of a group because of their race/colors since it meant that you were not treating the members of that group equally to others, a view I still share today.

@timarsenault1774

Жыл бұрын

I do love showing this movie to younger people like my nieces and nephews. They grow up in such a sensitive world that they couldn't believe that movies like this existed.

@nenabunena

Жыл бұрын

He did not get the projector gag though

@evanirvana500

Жыл бұрын

@@nenabunena lmao true!

The 'natives' who were playing basketball were actually members of the Harlem Globetrotters. This was a general parody of the airplane related disaster movies, but the base script was from an older movie called "Zero Hour". There is a side-by-side comparison video of this and Zero Hour and it is remarkable how close it follows that original script with joke after joke inserted.

@jakubfabisiak9810

Жыл бұрын

that's because Abrahams, Zucker, and Zucker just bought the rights to Zero Hour, to avoid any accusations of plagiarism.

@clarencewalker3925

Жыл бұрын

Also "Airport" released in 1970.

This is what real comedy looks like! Sadly, we'll never have comedy like this ever again!😢

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

so sad but true

@Michelle-ce1qh

Жыл бұрын

Too many wussies getting their feelings hurt. It's comical at this point.

@Browncoat66

Жыл бұрын

@@RKnights Yes we will FUCK PC CRAP!!!!

@dimitrakapa4887

Жыл бұрын

Because all thé Amazing actors are dead Also ....who tf will replace them?? Just Say ...😥

@Martin.Wilson

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely correct. I was watching Blazing Saddles the other night and thinking the same thing.....they could never make that movie today. I believe we lived through the Golden Age of comedy and humour from the 70's through the 90's. Now it's just a toboggan ride downhill into politically correct, non-offensive, sanitized mediocrity. At least we still have some reminders like this movie.

"I don't think I could be shocked any more by this movie." Right. When you make fun of everything, it's all funny and nobody is offended. That's comedy. At least... That's what it used to be.

@ericomartins9794

9 ай бұрын

I always thought they were also making fun of the film industry's own prejudice and use of stereotypes. They basically take all the stereotypes and dial up to absurd levels thus drawing attention to how the films make ridiculous representations of minorities.

@cpmf2112

2 ай бұрын

No, it is the intent that differentiates Airplane and Blazing Saddles and a few others. They made fun but not to be intentionally cruel which is unfortunately the prevalent attitude now.

I’m laughing at how shocked the young lads are. I loved this film as a kid back in the day 🤣

Watching Gen Z’ers react to this movie is always amazing. They’re never sure what is appropriate to laugh at. ITS COMEDY. LAUGH AT EVERYTHING.

@richardlacey4923

Жыл бұрын

2 freaking pansies

@ajclements4627

Жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly.

@dr.burtgummerfan439

Жыл бұрын

Society hasn't aged well.

@dupersuper1938

Жыл бұрын

Roger Ebert's review of Airplane!:"You laugh, and then you laugh at yourself for laughing.".

When Robert Stack pulls off his sunglasses to reveal another pair of sunglasses kills me every time. 😂 And, the naughty magazines being labeled "Whacking Material" 😂😂

@bigsarge8795

10 ай бұрын

Which is why i wear two pairs of sunglasses in my daily life for just such an occasion

You hit the nail on the head.....no limits. That's when comedy reaches its full potential and you fellas never stopped laughing the entire movie. Comedy rocks when it's irreverent, lewd, unpredictable, offensive, merciless and edgy. Comedy dies when you try to limit it, sanitize it, censor it and demonize it. That's why comedies in the 70's through the 90's were so superb and the comedies of today are just a pale shadow of humour.

@jonathancunningham8739

20 күн бұрын

Uh Scary Movie, Tropic Thunder etc you can still makes spoofs today just not many want to risk enraging higher ups right now if we could get a Super Hero spoof like Airplane! then it would do extremely well.

Best Airplane! reaction ever! Those youngsters look traumatized! 😂

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

Totally appreciate that

The reason these comedy films worked so well compared to now is because back then they used actors who were known for serious roles.

@sdfried4877

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges were all famous as serious leading men who had never done comedy before.

This was a time when people could LAUGH and not be offended by every/anything. And EVERYONE laughed because there were jokes about EVERYONE. No one was safe. It's always great to be reminded that there was a time where we could laugh and just have fun!

The funny thing is that back in the 1980s, I would have believed that future audiences would see movies like Airplane! as tame and even quaint by the time they watched it in the 21st century, so it's surprising that modern audiences see movies like this as extreme and in some cases triggering.

@jonathancunningham8739

20 күн бұрын

Those who are triggered are usually white and ignorant most progressives like me like this film.

Leslie Nielsen (the doctor), Peter Graves (the captain) and Robert Stack (Rex Kramer) were all very serious actors known for their dramatic roles at the time, that’s why they were casted, for the shock value. They were worried about not being able to be funny and the director told them not to try to be funny, to play their role as seriously as possible, and the text would make it funny. It launched Leslie Nielsen career into comedy and he practically did nothing else but comedies after that.

My face hurt for a day after seeing this in the theater. Only perhaps 3 movies have ever made my face hurt.

Leslie Nielsen was known as a deadpan SERIOUS actor before this movie. Airplane turned him into a comedy icon.

I'm 53, saw this opening weekend, I understood almost all the jokes, still one of my favorites 😂🎉

Fun fact: the dialogue written for the black jive-talking dudes was deemed by them to be ridiculous and not authentic. So the director told them to just word it however they wanted, so long as it translated. So what you hear was worked out by the two actors - whether it's real or invented is up to you do decide. :D

Guys, you have no idea how many times I just laughed beforehand, I just know this movie by memory and I was just waiting to see your faces 😸 Oh, we laughed so hard, thanks for this good time guys. It's like watching the movie with old good friends! Hugs from Chile!

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

Saludos friend. Glad you were able to spend some time with us :-)

@cesarvidelac

Жыл бұрын

@@RKnights 🤗😸😄

One of the biggest hits just before this movie came out was The Godfather, and the most iconic scene, which still had everyone shocked, was where a Hollywood producer ignored "an offer he couldn't refuse." He woke up the next morning with bloodied severed head of his prize racehorse next to him in his bed. The horse in this movie is positioned the same, although there is also the joke perhaps the wife was having an affair with someone hung like a horse.

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

That seen in this movie was such a shock

@Trip_Fontaine

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact about that scene in The Godfather. The horse's head was 100% real. They got it from a glue factory. Making glue from horses was still legal in the USA at that time. They also didn't tell the actor the head was going to be real too, and that's part of the reason he acts so shocked and horrified.

@dereksinistre5078

Жыл бұрын

She had a stud in her bed. Is the joke here.

@johnnehrich9601

Жыл бұрын

@@dereksinistre5078 Some people see at as such. But this movie came out at the beginning of the sexual revolution, so talking about a guy being hung like a horse was not as common as it was today. If you look at the Godfather scene, you can see how the horse is posed the same way. Might be a joke both ways.

@michaelburke750

Жыл бұрын

Well, hung like a horse wasn’t as common a saying, but being a real stud or a stallion in bed was the metaphor…

EVERYBODY who reacts to this movie starts dancing when Stayin Alive starts playing. Love it!

In 1990 movie comedy poll, Airplane was ranked as the best comedy for the entire 1980 decade. Now 40+ years later a lot of the jokes still hit. Imagine back then when every joke was funny. That's how good it was.

@diverbob33

Жыл бұрын

This is interesting, I would have put my money on Caddyshack. Oh wait, Caddyshack might have been 1978 or 1979?

@athos1974

Жыл бұрын

@@diverbob33 Caddyshack was also 1980, same year as Airplane. Probably because Airplane was a much bigger box office draw, more people saw it, so it won the poll in 1990.

This movie is a classic. I actually saw this on an advanced screening before its release when I was 17. I laughed so hard. There are many jokes that todays younger generation won't get.

I saw this when it came out in the theater when I was 14, and it was not a huge deal for anyone about content. But this gives you an insight into why GenX folks are how we are - these were the movies we watches as kids.

@randabeast

Жыл бұрын

I was 11 and my dad took my sister and I to see it. He was starting to rethink his decision when the boobs went by but there was no going back from there. This was a new type of movie and it was very funny.

@dr.burtgummerfan439

Жыл бұрын

I've heard reactors comment that the movie is full of "dad jokes". Which is funny since many of us who saw it in the theater are now dads. Now they know where we get our humor.

When he said he wasn’t shocked by anything anymore I knew it wasn’t over

I saw this back in the day on a Friday night, then dragged my parents to see it on Saturday. I'd never laughed so hard in my life, which made me miss a whole bunch more jokes. Good thing I've seen this about 17,000 more times... Never gets old. some of my favorite bits... Clearance, Clarence sequence Guitar smacking everyone in the head while coming up the aisle. Whole Jive Guys sequence, especially with the woman who speaks jive Ham on 5, Hold the mayo Magazine rack w/ the label "Whacking Material" Air Israel

A couple of movie facts Red Dawn released in August of 1984 was the first movie to be rated PG-13. When the Captain asked the little kid about being in a Turkish prison it is a reference to the 1978 film Midnight Express about a man trying to smuggle hash out of Turkey and ends up in a Turkish prison, Some of the scenes in that movie are quite graphic

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

We did not know that was a reference to a different movie. Thanks for that info

@GregPrice-ep2dk

Жыл бұрын

@@RKnights The question about gladiators was probably a reference to the movie "Spartacus" (the one with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis). There's a scene where Curtis' character, a slave, is hit on by his Roman owner. (Look for the scene about oysters and snails.)

@MP-ej9pw

Жыл бұрын

@@RKnights and I believe Captain Oveur's question about gymnasiums was a reference to the Village People's hit YMCA

I have a different reaction these days than I did back in the 80s or 90s. When I see the lady hanging herself, I can't help thinking, "Wow! So much headroom!" This movie is so much fun, as is watching younger people react to it. And they're not even getting half of the jokes....

The couple doing the airport announcements were a real married couple. They were also the same people who did the announcements at LAX at the time. So anyone who had flown through LAX got an extra level of humor from those scenes.

Funny that you ship the two airport announcers, because they were a real husband and wife duo who worked as LAX announcers at the time. They found their dialogue for the movie incredibly amusing.

The dumb wittiness (which is actually brilliance) of this movie is timeless.

The "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" and "Jim never vomits at home" bit was spoofing a coffee commercial from the 70's. The neighbor had good coffee which is why Jim wanted the second cup of coffee unlike the crap he drinks at home.

Neat thing is that every time you get a shot of the aircraft on the outside, or when you can actually hear the aircraft, it's a prop plane engine for a giant boeing.

Despite being four years old at the time, I have vivid recollection of the family going out to catch this in theaters opening weekend. My parents had made a whole night of it, with us eating dinner at a restaurant before the showing. A SEAFOOD restaurant. And this four year old "had the fish." It was a different time, you maybe had a few TV commercials and maybe a review in the Friday morning newspaper to have any inkling of what the plot was about. So my parents had absolutely no idea what a spectacularly poor choice of restaurant they had made. But when we got home, everyone got a potent object lesson on the suggestibility of a young child's mind because I was projectile vomiting the rest of the night. No whole eggs though.

@julienn8844

Жыл бұрын

I want to see this in an animated stand up routine. You dont understand how hard i laughed while reading this.

The guy waiting in the cab for the whole movie was a major figure in California politics at the time. His name was Howard Jarvis and he was most famous for pushing through Proposition 13, a property tax limitation.

@chb2551

Жыл бұрын

And then they missed the after-credits-scene that completes that running joke. Guys, Marvel wasn't the 1st studio to do after-credits-scenes.

The actor who plays the Japanese soldier; just got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. James Hong was the first Japanese/American actor to receive a Star, and has been features in more movies over the 80 years of acting, than any other actor. Hong was Ping in Kung Fu Panda, as well as the grandfather in Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.

@tuberaxx

Жыл бұрын

I think you mean “Asian-American”. James Hong is Chinese-American, not Japanese-American.

I love how the kids' minds are being completely blown but me & Ray are just absolutely crying

@julienn8844

Жыл бұрын

Ray and I, but did we all enjoy this movie. If you liked this reaction; check out blazing saddles.

@SubtleAmbition

Жыл бұрын

@@julienn8844 In my defense I was well into my evening's portion of the devil's lettuce and view KZread comments more as stream of consciousness than something I format properly. I'm all over any Mel Brooks reactions, though!

@julienn8844

Жыл бұрын

@@SubtleAmbition ah see when i wrote that message i was in my 4th adult juice glass.

@SubtleAmbition

Жыл бұрын

@@julienn8844 Mmmmmm, adult juice.

@bluejay9940

Жыл бұрын

The funniest movie ever lol, we watched this as kids not much shocked us in those days 😅

It's okay to laugh. They meant it to be funny. One and a half hour of dad jokes. The most fun was that they hired a bunch of serious actors and put them in comedic settings. They were goofing on the movie 'Airport". Have you guys seen "Life of Brian" , "Blazing Saddles", "The Burbs", "Ruthless People" "Throw Mama from the Train", or the early form of "The Producers". All of them will seem disturbing today but they were a howl for us.

@Rocket1377

Жыл бұрын

When the movie came out they weren't "dad jokes", they were just jokes. In fact the film is so old that "granddad jokes" would be more accurate now.

@timgooding9464

Жыл бұрын

How could you possibly forget Naked Gun?

@randallshuck2976

Жыл бұрын

@@timgooding9464 Sorry.

@timgooding9464

Жыл бұрын

@@randallshuck2976 Okay, just this once, I forgive you.

If you like this type of humor, there are many other movies like it. They're called spoofs because they spoof other movies. Recommended list: Top Secret! (spy movie spoof), Loaded Weapon (Lethal Weapon spoof), Hot Shots (Top Gun spoof) and Hot Shots Part Deux (Rambo spoof), Mafia! (mafia movie spoof), the Scary Movie series (horror/slasher movie spoof; 1-4 recommended) and of course the Austin Powers movies (James Bond movie spoof).

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

We plan on checking these all out :-)

@LawNerd24

Жыл бұрын

Austin Powers, Yeah, baby, yeah!

@Harlekijn1982

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Naked Gun Trilogy!

@michaelpopowich5095

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget Spaceballs (Star Wars/Star Trek parody)

The youngsters get so emotional over the littlest things that might be construed as politically incorrect. It's funny to watch.

@KungKokkos

8 ай бұрын

and sad.

AFTER THE CLOSING CREDITS, the man was still in the taxi !!!

Hail the comedy freedom of the 80s! And don't call me Shirley!!

Leslie Nielson, the doctor, played a police detective in the comedy tv series Police Squad. The series only lasted one season. However, they revived the series into movies: Naked Gun. There were three movies.

@Redplant99

Жыл бұрын

Apparently, the creators were a little relieved that the show was cancelled as the first 6 episodes were so packed with jokes most of the good ones they had had already been used. They were worried that they wouldn't be able to come up with enough new material to maintain that level of quality of through a full season.

@whomigazone

Жыл бұрын

​@Derek Holcomb Unfortunately, the audience had to actually watch the series or the jokes would go by too quick, no ironing or housework during this one.

Yep. This is what we grew up on. I think I first saw this somewhere around 7 years old with my parents. We just saw what ever was on TV together.

My favorite piece of trivia for this movie is that Lloyd Bridges asked during filming if the audience really was going to get one of the jokes, and Robert Stack replied, "Lloyd, we _are_ the joke."

There are comedies and then there are films like this which have a special place in the universe. The jokes are still funny to this day because they’re so simple yet delivered so slyly you don’t expect them. That’s the mark of a great writing team that knows how to do humor.

I cannot believe I was 8 years old when this came out. Watched it with the whole family lol. Things were so much more relaxed back then. This parodies a lot of movies and commercials and pop culture of the day. I think getting those jokes makes this a classic.

The line about the 2 cups of coffee at home was mocking a commercial out at that time.

A great reaction to an old classic. FYI - Elaine was originally going to be played by Sigourney Weaver, but she ended up walking away because she felt the humor was too crude. These guys did a movie prior to this called 'Kentucky Fried Movie', which was even raunchier. The 'Where's the forklift' guys are those . brothers .

@celiashen5490

Жыл бұрын

I showed Kentucky Fried Movie to a friend and when the "main feature" ended, he thought it was a wrap for the whole thing.

@clownzzz4837

Жыл бұрын

@@celiashen5490 Who could ever forget Big Jim Slade? LOL

@celiashen5490

Жыл бұрын

@@clownzzz4837 And Lincoln is the capitol of Nebraska!! 😅

@martinmayhew145

4 ай бұрын

Probably a good thing she didn't. Sigourney is not that funny

Took me the longest time to notice when Johnny was describing the plane to the reporters one of them was holding an ice cream cone for a microphone.

I watched this at the theater when I was 17, on a date. The natives playing basketball were played by the Harlem Globetrotters.

Peter Graves (pilot), Leslie Neilson (doctor), Lloyd Bridges (air traffic control) and Robert Stack (pilot in tower) were all well-known dramatic actors with little to no comedic credits. That is why it was so funny to see them acting so silly and saying such ridiculous things, especially so "straight." The woman who talks about her husband never having a second cup of coffee did coffee commercials back then and that was her tag line. The man in the cab was a business man from California who lobbied to get laws passed to curb government spending. The joke is that he just sits there and lets the tab go up. The two black guys who "speak jive" wrote all their own dialog and it was all a set up for the punch line of the older white woman to speak jive to them. He name was Barbara Billingsley. She was the mother on the 1950's TV show Leave It To Beaver, a quintessential white mother and wife.

"Cut me some slack, Jack," that line gets me in stitches every time. Even more considering who the actress is. Same with the creepy pilot and the boy, knowing he's Peter Graves.

Good to see someone laughing at Johnny! His character was great!

Made when people still had a sense of humor. They even showed this on regular TV, they would just dub over the cussing.

A joke I had TOTALLY forgotten about, as a very middle-aged guy......"Doctor, you're wanted on the phone." I remember getting the joke at the time, because when you were on a plane, you weren't going to be getting any calls. But it slips right by me, now.

Some of the actors in this film Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, and Leslie Nielson were primarily known as action film stars at the time. That's part of the humor.

A lesser-known gem by the Zucker brothers is 1984's Top Secret! Starring a very young Val Kilmer. Same style of whacked-out humor.

@mngentry

8 ай бұрын

LATRINE!!!

this is practically a shot for shot mockery of a movie called Zero Hour.

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

We need to check that out

The most laughter I've ever heard in a theater, not even close.

I remember watching this movie as a kid my parents thought it was totally fine and to this day I still think it was damn. I love the '80s

“The Bad News Bears” 1976 is another hilarious movie

I ' m old and this was great

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for spending time with us :-)

From the mid-'30's until 1968, the Hays Code severely limited what Hollywood could show in all matters of morality. Even something so mundane as not allowing priests or nuns to be ridiculed. In 1968, the code was replaced with the current letter system of rating movies, and this was just as the cultural revolution was in full swing. As a result, there suddenly appeared a whole lot of movies using shock value to heighten the comedy (of subjects they couldn't even touch before). Movies like this, Naked Gun, Blazing Saddles, Rocky Horror, Holy Grail, Hard Day's Night, Laugh In (tv), and others gushed out in this new frenzy of freedom.

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

It seems like history looped again, don't think we can make movies like this again

This movie is fun as a parody, but I really enjoyed the series of disaster movies it was spoofing. Airport (1972), Airport 1975, Airport '77, and The Concorde: Airport '79. The 1970s were relpete with great disaster films. My favorite among them is The Poseidon Adventure (1972), but also notable is The Towering Inferno (1974). Any of these would be great movies to get the younger guys to react to. I'd most like to see their reaction to The Poseidon Adventure (1972).

@gmunden1

Жыл бұрын

For sure! If you watch the actual disaster films, you will better understand the jokes in "Airplane!"

At the local hardware store, they recently carded me when i tried to buy glue. Huffing is apparently still a thing with kids. (I'm 56.)

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

Really? I thought that was dead

The 2 cups of coffee lady was from a tv comercial, same actress I think

@visaman

Жыл бұрын

Folgers coffee

Don't call me Shirley!!!!

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

Never gets old! :-)

Everybody made fun of everything and nobody got offended!!! I miss those days😂

@julienn8844

Жыл бұрын

I wish i lived through those days.

@bruceborneman

Жыл бұрын

@@julienn8844 it was a blessing

Top tier comedies. Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Naked Gun. There are too many second tier comedies that are also so great. Little known sleeper great comedies: The Gods Must be Crazy, and Kentucky Fried Movie(but for KFM you need to see "Enter the Dragon" first to get the parody)

People keep saying 'No limits'. It wasn't 'no limits', it was no censorship. All good jokes are based in reality. That's what makes jokes cathartic. Modern society has long forgotten this simple but effective therapy for de-stressing people and society at large. They would rather hurl insults online and then have everything escalate from there. That's the higher consciousness way.

This reaction reminds me of the first time I showed my 14 year old son this movie. My son is confused the whole movie shocked with the double entendres meanwhile I’m over here crying from laughing .😂

@RKnights

Жыл бұрын

These guys made it a lot of fun to react to

People always act like the 'at least I have a husband' line is her being harsh to the stewardess - but I think the joke there is that films always had the 'I'm not even married yet' line from a single lady, but the married ones were never treating it as the be all-end all in the same way. 'At least I have a husband' just isn't a thing.

This is a spoof of some airplane disaster movies made in the 70's called Airport, Airport 75, Airport 77 and Airport 79 the Concorde. The couple doing the announcements apparently worked at LAX doing the announcements and were a couple in real life. I saw this when it came out when I was 9 , obviously didn't get some of the more sexual jokes. The black men were speaking jive which is a slang language created by black jazz musicians back in the 1930's, it became popular again in the 70's. The older white lady speaking it was best known for playing the mom on the 1950's sitcom leave it to beaver which was known for being very wholesome which is why people found it funny to see her speaking Jive. The men he taught basketball too were members of the Harlem Globetrotters. The taxi far was $113.30

Thank you! You are one of the only ones reacting with the music for this movie. People do not understand 25years after a release, song is in public domain aka no licences or limitations.

This was a spoof of the "disaster" movie genre of the 1970s. It started with "Airport" "Airport 2" and "Airport '77". There was also "The Towering Inferno", "The Poseidon Adventure" (And it's sequel), "The Swarm" (killer bees -- OH NO!) and a couple of others. "Airplane!" itself was taken from a 1950s thriller called "Zero Hour". A lot of the dialogue and scenes were taken from that movie. There is a You Tube video that runs the two movies side by side for comparison. The success of this movie spawned the TV show that Ray mentions called "Police Squad!". It was a vehicle for Leslie Neilson who plays the doctor in the "Airplane!" movie. It, too, was taken from a real TV series called "M Squad" with many of the scenes recreated. There is a side by side comparison of the two TV shows, too. There were only 6 episodes and they are worth the reaction. Police Squad! is what spawned the "Naked Gun" movies. So the family tree goes like this: Airplane to Police Squad to Naked Gun. They're all worth the reaction. But if you want a really good reaction to a comedy, and NO OTHER CHANNEL HAS DONE THIS and I do not know why...react to 1977's "Slap Shot" with Paul Newman. One of the best sports movies they have ever done.

Great reaction guys, what the GenX guy said is all true. GenX grew up on this style of comedy EVERY year of the 80's, so much so that nothing offended us of phased us in any way. Everyone loved this style of comedy and we could not get enough of it. What was not said was that the 70's was a very serious decade for movies, there were still plenty of comedies during the 70's but most of the movies had very serious content, Horror, Disaster movies, and so on. By the time this movie came out people were getting sick of the seriousness of it so this type of comedy was born, along with Monty Python. Also, all of the silver haired older men is this movie were VERY serious actors from the 70's and 60's and were all VERY famous actors in their own right from the plethora of serious action, disaster and police movies of that period. so they jumped at the chance to play funny roles in this movie to get away from the old serious roles they once played. They were getting on in age and the audience at the time this movie came out all knew these actors from their previous serious roles so to see them on screen playing goofy characters made the movie TEN times more funnier for us....

My parents took me to see this when it was in theaters when I was 10 or 11 y/o ! Good times.! 😂

Fun facts: Paramount Pictures' Airplane! (1980) is an almost word-for-word remake of Paramount Pictures' Zero Hour! (1957), starring Dana Andrews as Ted Stryker, BUT Zero Hour! (1957) was itself a theatrical film remake of the live CBC-TV play Flight into Danger (1956), starring James Doohan (Scotty)! Flight into Danger (1956) was also remade for the BBC-TV series Studio 4 (1962), as Flug in Gefahr (1964) in West Germany, for the Czechoslovakian radio series Let do nebezpečí, for Australian TV in 1966. At least one of these remakes credited the British novelization (1958) of the original Canadian teleplay, released as Flight into Danger, but retitled Runway Zero-Eight in America. Runway Zero-Eight was made by CBS into the TV-movie Terror in the Sky, starring Doug McClure, in 1971. The lead character originally played by James Doohan was named George Spencer, and the novelization, as well as all the radio & TV remakes, used that same name; only the theatrical films Zero Hour! and Airplane! called him Ted Stryker.

@RKnights

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Wow! Thanks for the info on this :-)

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@@RKnights You're very welcome! This info is so little-known, but I think totally fascinating. (And not only did James Doohan of Star Trek originally play the lead, but William Shatner had a major part in the theatrical sequel, as did Roddy McDowall of Planet of the Apes in the CBS-TV version of the novelization.)

Great reaction guys. That was so funny.Please watch Top Secret! And the Naked gun trilogy. Same type of 80s humor as Airplane.

Waching The Big Lebowski's dad addicted to everything on the planet is just great

This was normal comedy growing up. I weep for the future.

Younger people have no idea what they missed in the 70’s and 80’s before much of the public had to be offended by everything

Most likely the funniest film of all time. They came out with a Airplane 2, but it just couldn't come up to expectations. As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.

Many people will recommend "The Naked Gun" with Lesley Nielsen (the doctor in this movie), but I'd say: First watch "Police Squad" - it's the original TV series that Naked Gun is based on and it's arguably funnier in many ways even. I think there's 6 episodes or so. HIGHLY recommended. Also there's Hot Shots 1 and 2 and Top Secret. And, of course, Airplane 2 with Bill Shatner as Captain of the Moon Base. :)

This is definitely a movie I had to watch again after I saw it so I could find the jokes that I had missed the first time around, because they just keep coming so fast lol. Someone mentioned “Zero Hour“ in another comment. That movie came out in the 1950s, and it was a very good suspense film, but when you watch it now it’s hard not to laugh because the dialogue is so close to the dialogue in “Airplane!”

The reason we could get away with humor like this back in the 80's was we weren't offended by everything like people are today! This movie came out in 1980 when I was 15! Hilarious even today!

Mayo clinic. The shelves were full of mayonnaise. The engine sound all the way through was a propeller, but the plane was a jet.

They couldn’t make a movie like this in our generation with so many “offended people” and Karens around. Hilarious 😂

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I feel sorry for the generation that didn't get to experience life Before The Fun Stopped.

Such a fun movie, and so nice to see a new generation to get enjoy stuff. Yes, things definitely were different then.

Better off Dead, Revenge of the Nerds, Porky's, Police Academy, Stipes, Strange Brew, Weird Science, My science Project, ect. And if you want to watch them blow their minds, Mother, Jugs and Speed!

Mark 28:48 . Howdy! 🤠 I can't wait until the end because I might forget! The author of the book "Roots" also wrote the novel "Airport" and it got adapted into a movie with Dean Martin as the captain of a "Boeing 707" airliner. It was a success, and a few sequels followed. "Airport '79" is the last one because by then, the story setting was a "Concorde"! A mercenary in a "F-4 Phantom II" tries to shoot it down! 😀 "Police Squad" evolved into the "Naked Gun" movies because they did all that they could get away with on television and needed to expand in theatrical movies. So you guys should see the series first. Now that you have seen this movie, you're ready to see William Shatner not play "Kirk"! But as a treat, we do get to see the original "Starship Enterprise" from his series make her only cameo in a big screen movie. "VHS" = "Very High Standard". "VCR" = "Video Cassette Recorder".

The guy who plated Leon in the control tower was a standup comedian and they didn't write any lines for him. He knew the general script but ad-libbed all his own lines.

3:01 The heart's in the ash tray? 7:45 He caught the stunt double's hair color!

Possibly the funniest movie ever made. Try Top Secret! by the same people who made Airplane! This was one of the best reactions of Airplane I ever seen, had me crying here. I saw this in the theater in 1980 and it's as funny today as it was back then. Comedy should have no filters, that's what make's it funny.

I was going to say I thought I'd already seen this reaction.

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Yeah, I had to re upload. I didn't want to lose the video

I was 13 when it came out in the UK, Absolutely Brilliant! Great reaction Guys.....

The thing to remember; is when this movie came out, Airport was on it's 6 film. Airport was a series of Disaster Films going around Hollywood. There were The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, and more. Airplane wanted to make fun of all those types of films, but based it on the Airport films in general. The team that created this; went on to created the short-lived TV show, Police Films, which would later because the movie, The Naked Gun. Scary Movie would later take this idea; and do a take on, well, Scary Movies.

love how the jet plane is making the noise of a prop plane all the way through. top film.