Apparently, when Barbara Billlingsly got the script, she had no idea what jive was. She met with the two other actors in this scene and they all three went out to lunch where they wrote out that entire dialogue. Comedic gold.

@animefan25

Жыл бұрын

That's true. Barbara did an interview where she talked about the scene.

@user-pc3xb4hd8i

Жыл бұрын

That is amazing cuz she killed it with this one quick scene.

@skeetrix5577

Жыл бұрын

I saw that interview

@thefoxcritic1

Жыл бұрын

"they all three" doesn't make sense.

@user-pc3xb4hd8i

Жыл бұрын

@@thefoxcritic1 Cuz you don’t speak jive.

- 'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me! (I ate something that is making my insides cramp up.) - Cutty say'e can't HANG! (My buddy here says he can't take this for much longer.) - Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da rebound on da med side. (Just be patient my friend. She's going to bring something on her way back to make you feel better.) - What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap! (Ma'am, I'm not stupid. I understand what she just said.) - Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da help! (Give me a break! If you don't want help, I won't help you!) - Jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit. (Nevermind. You're stupid, anyway. Golly!)

@zachhaywood1564

9 жыл бұрын

Well done

@mperry1329

9 жыл бұрын

Like I said, TOO FUCKING HILARIOUS!! I am crying!! Damn!!

@csgrambauer5852

9 жыл бұрын

hfontanez98 Hahaha nicely done. Is it strange though, that I'm from Australia and even the first time I watched I understood what they were saying from the get go.

@hfontanez98

9 жыл бұрын

csgrambauer Then you know, you got soul, brother!!!! You can stand tall and proudly say "I speak Jive!"

@csgrambauer5852

9 жыл бұрын

hfontanez98 Hahaha that's good to know. +yells out+ "I GOT JIVE!" +many people give me strange looks+

"Chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help." I have no idea how many times I repeated that line as I grew up... LOVE IT!

@normturner4849

Жыл бұрын

A thing that most ppl miss is that to say ‘chump don’t get no help’ is a double negative so chump apparently WILL be getting some help!😆

@HeyDesire

Жыл бұрын

@@normturner4849 What you miss is what they're saying isn't correct grammar at all dummy

@mournblade1066

Жыл бұрын

@@normturner4849 “Jiveass dude don’t got no brains, anyhow!”

@AnastasiaBeaverhousn

Жыл бұрын

My line is, " what is that velvet"??!! 🤣🤣 From Coming To America 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@kaohsiung99

Жыл бұрын

@@normturner4849 Don't nobody care about that grammar lesson.

“Johnny what can you make of this?” “I can make a hat… or a broach… or a pteroda-“ Lol still makes me laugh

@danielgoss6367

2 жыл бұрын

The tower? The tower! Rapunzel! Rapunzel!

@swanqueen

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite bit from the whole movie! I love the way he flourishes the word brooch with the trill!

@mal1465

2 жыл бұрын

Back in the 80s my neighbor was the asst mgr of a department store. One night one of her co-workers came up to her and asked what she could make of this and handed her a piece of paper. We had just watched AIRPLANE a few night before and she replied to her co-worker…”this?, i can make a hat, a broach a taradactal” (sp). I don’t think her co-worker was impressed…..lol

@GlennTillema

Жыл бұрын

The Zuckers had worked with Johnny (Stephen Stucker) before and they just gave him the script and he wrote his own lines for each scene he was in. The other actors had no idea what he was going to say or do.

@Sanguine_Addiction

Жыл бұрын

It's a big pretty white plane with wheels & curtains, it looks like a big Tylenol!

"Oh stewardess - I speak jive." One of the best lines in movie history.

@thebigbison9949

6 жыл бұрын

One of the best lines? Surely you can’t be serious!

@inisipisTV

6 жыл бұрын

He's serious, and don't call him Shirley.

@besteverepicmillennial5927

4 жыл бұрын

in movie history?

@ericotto314

3 жыл бұрын

Amen 😎

@zapkvr

3 жыл бұрын

You need to get out more often

“Jiveass dude don’t got no brains, anyhow!” June Cleaver will always have that ethereal class.

@Justen1980

3 жыл бұрын

Cut me some slack, Jack!

@christiancarrera4476

2 жыл бұрын

Blood ya gotta speak plain English as most fam here ain’t knowing what ethereal means

@jacknewman9256

2 жыл бұрын

Always wanted to give her the pearl necklace

@Kitu74

2 жыл бұрын

AKA..Barbara Billingsley

@derrickaskew442

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

0:22 I've seen this movie twice and just now realized there's a vulture behind him when he says he has confidence in him coming back alive. This movie just keeps getting funnier and funnier the more I watch it.

@Sanguine_Addiction

Жыл бұрын

There are so many inside jokes with this movie lol

@Anurania

9 ай бұрын

I thought the vulture had grown from the bird that flew out of the cracked egg earlier in the movie.

@MoctezumasRevenge1

8 ай бұрын

I don't get the funny, please help

@ijones36

8 ай бұрын

​@@MoctezumasRevenge1vultures are scavengers and will sometimes circle dying prey waiting for them to die so they can eat em. Or at least, thats what they do in media.

@MoctezumasRevenge1

8 ай бұрын

@@ijones36 thx 👍

This is the funniest scene in the whole entire movie. I’m still dying of laughter 43 years later.

@allezlesrouges

Жыл бұрын

You spent the past 43 years laughing?? I'm shocked you're still alive !!

@hrtz8499

Жыл бұрын

@@allezlesrouges I think he laughed once and has been dying since. Either way we all know how it will end... 😢

@4mySweetheart369

11 ай бұрын

That's a long death.

@shadyganley8877

9 ай бұрын

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@jazzygirl4140

8 ай бұрын

This replies to this comment are sooooooo outta pocket 😂

What’s even funnier is that she keeps on talking Jive to herself as she walks away.

@loveinspired7

3 жыл бұрын

I know, right?!😂😂😂😂😂 I died at that part!

@RichardX1

3 жыл бұрын

It's part of proper Jive grammar.

@georgeedward1691

3 жыл бұрын

Oh excuse me but I speak JIVE. Priceless

@justme-yr2xf

3 жыл бұрын

@@RichardX1 c, senore ẞ

@aquariandawn4750

3 жыл бұрын

That's how jive talkers is... Everyone talking crap as they're all walking away.

I first saw this scene as a child but one burning question has haunted me these past few decades: *why didn't the two gentlemen cut her some slack?*

@wordivore

3 жыл бұрын

It just added to the comedy of the scene.

@dsmj7389

3 жыл бұрын

They were asked to write the scene, and they did it great :)

@SWLinPHX

3 жыл бұрын

Because he was in pain and also didn't appreciate what he saw as condescension assuming because he is black and speaks native Jive that he couldn't also understand white people English. But she was just trying to help but after that reaction she figured "why waste my time?"

@sumanadasawijayapala5372

3 жыл бұрын

@@SWLinPHX I empathize with his physical pain and their frustration that nobody could understand them. They felt isolated and alone, surrounded by people who looked down on them. But it was wrong of them to take out their frustration on the one person who had taken the time to learn their means of communication. Her appeal to be cut some slack conveyed empathy, not condescension. If June Cleaver spoke to me in my native language, I would've been thrilled!

@COMPL3XGAM3R

3 жыл бұрын

How did no one replying catch the joke? I’m sure there’s a section of Reddit for this.

The jive talk scene with Barbara Billingsley is one of my favorite scenes in this movie. I crack up every time. It's absolutely hilarious. You don't expect her to speak jive.Shes funny.I was 10 years old when this movie debuted in 1980.

@T.Z.M4N

Жыл бұрын

Yes you would expect her have a Mrs.Cleaver personallity

@TheFeaz

10 ай бұрын

This was so damn funny. Like you, I was about 10 years old when this movie came out. The funny thing is that some of the lines that were in it didn't quite register with me when I was that age. Like the one where the little boy offers the little girl some coffee, and she says she likes it black, like her men. The The really cool thing is it allowed me to see that movie in whole new ways several times over the coming years. God knows how many years they ran this movie on HBO. Lol

@Heavywall70

9 ай бұрын

Juxtaposed actors out of their genre is almost a cheat code for a good bit. It was a high fastball and she CRUSHED it with aplomb.

@whutzat

2 ай бұрын

What’s even funnier is that she keeps on talking Jive to herself as she walks away.

My favorite part is that the two black dudes aren’t even surprised she speaks “jive”. They just go right along with it like everything is normal.

I actually got to meet the guy on the left at wondercon, he was actually pretty cool. I asked him how much of the jive speak was prewritten or if it was all improvised right on camera? It was from a script, however he told me that he and the other guy wrote it up themselves on set, he also told me that Barbara Billingsley was a delight to work with, absolutely sweet and found the concept of the jive language to be really fun so she wanted to get this scene right and all three of them had a great time teaching her how to deliver the lines.

@jimreily7538

4 жыл бұрын

Really ? Wow. That's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing that

@nswiss19751

4 жыл бұрын

Wonder where Hugh Beamont was

@AZ-kr6ff

4 жыл бұрын

@@nswiss19751 Cutty say Hugh Beaumont couldn't hang.

@zciliyafilms5508

4 жыл бұрын

This is a great lesson in how to work towards social harmony. Being able to laugh at one's own culture on the one hand, and someone outside of it getting in on the joke without condescension on the other (in other words, laughing with them, not at them). That we don't do either of these things anymore is one of the reasons the world is so messed up.

@lealandrayford

4 жыл бұрын

That's dope

Did you know that after Barbara Billingsley passed away in 2010, right after AOL listed her "Leave It To Beaver" credit in her obituary, they included this clip, prefacing it with just four words: She Also Spoke Jive.

@jonchaney

7 жыл бұрын

She spoke great jive.

@tabbypappy

6 жыл бұрын

C.T. Warren That's awesome,if true!

@lemorab1

6 жыл бұрын

I wish she had been vacuuming the airplane aisle carpet in high heels and pearls while talking to those guys.

@mgb4692

6 жыл бұрын

Barbara Billingsley, Leslie Nielsen,and Don Meredith (who would have been the best get if they hadn't been able to get Kareem) all died in a span of about seven weeks😢

@davidphelan8951

5 жыл бұрын

i'd never thought of that...that would have been funny...the vacuuming

It's not just the jive talk, but the fact that as strangers they are instantly & immediately bickering & falling-out with each other at a time of need that still makes me laugh so much every time....!!! Absolute comedy gold...!

@RomulanWarbirdDecloaking-sd2ir

2 ай бұрын

Blessed to have, grown up,in that time period 😊. What an amazing time..... movie's 🎥🍿 and the best music 🎵🎶........

1:12 “Oh stewardess, I speak jive” she sounds like the 1980 Siri would sound, the minute she opened her mouth I was DONE! 😂🤣😂 funniest scene in movie history!

As brilliant as the script for this movie is, I have to say the casting really elevated to genius level. Apparently, to sell it as a satire of disaster movies, the creators knew they needed to have everyone take the script as seriously as possible, so they cast actors known for their dramatic roles in the leads (Leslie Nielsen, for example, WASN’T known as a comedian before “Airplane!”), reasoning it would be funnier. That philosophy is so perfectly captured by putting Barbara Billingsley-June Cleaver herself, THE housewife of 1950’s TV, the pinnacle of wholesomeness-as a foul-mouthed grandmother fluent in jive. Absolute genius!

@manonymous4737

3 жыл бұрын

Christian Krenek Yes! Inspired casting. It wouldnt be the same without Leslie Nielsen’s perfect delivery. All of them played it so perfectly, It was the first of its kind, and set the benchmark. It scared the pants off Mel Brooks - he made Men in tights straight after this came out, completely different from his other films

@natelav534

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah supposedly comedians would constantly overact and overplay the script which made it corny. The script was the funny part they didnt need a comedian to make it funny. So leslie was the perfect actor being such a serious hardass type actor at the time.

@alcd6333

3 жыл бұрын

Several major actors in this film were known for serious dramatic roles: Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen. But that's what made it so funny.

@bellydansah

3 жыл бұрын

foul mouthed?

@jamesjwalsh

3 жыл бұрын

No question - most inspired casting against type in movie history.

The jive talking scene is EASILY one of the funniest scenes in comedy movie history!!!!

@gilessaint-loup2426

2 жыл бұрын

There is something to be said about the "calm down" scene.

@davidthaler7018

Жыл бұрын

@@gilessaint-loup2426 The “sophisticated” children having coffee is a classic too. “I take my coffee black…” Apparently, that was lifted from an older film (with adults of course),

@vsgfilmgroup

Жыл бұрын

Definitely on the list, yes indeed. I would have taken issue if you called it THE funniest, but ranking it as one of certainly qualifies. Excellent restraint, sir, you are truly a man of culture. Or the female equivalent as the case requires.

@johngallagher72

Жыл бұрын

nah ...Joey calling out Kareem will always be the best scene

@Peron1-MC

Жыл бұрын

true but this whole movie is gold :)

Best part is her speaking jive under her breath as she leaves.

One of the hilarious subtleties of this movie was how they used so many well-known actors against type. Barbara Billinsgley speaking jive, Peter Graves as the pilot, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges in the control tower, and, of course, Leslie Nielsen who was able to use this movie to turn his career around 180° and give us some more hilarious performances in later movies.

@LatitudeSky

7 ай бұрын

Some of the parody us lost to time. The husband who asks for two cups of coffee and then she talks to herself were the actual actors from a very prominent coffee commercial on TV. Their scenes in the movie poke directly at their actual TV ads. But this is lost because the ads stopped decades ago and nobody gets the joke.

@dennisflaherty6493

6 ай бұрын

Don’t forget Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

Casting Barbara Billingsley for that scene was sheer brilliance.

@DairangerSentai7

3 жыл бұрын

Why? Cultural significant or a cool historical fact to share?

@stevenpilling5318

3 жыл бұрын

Barbara Billingsley was not only a veteran actress, but one known for her quirky sense of humour. She was a natural for the part of the jive talking white woman. Besides, these movies played heavily on humour that baby boomers, above all, appreciated. That's why so many of the actors were icons from our early years who were doing outrageous self parodies. I'm sure lots of us were as delighted as I was to see June Cleaver back in action!

@DairangerSentai7

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenpilling5318 Thank you, Steven!

@gsxerwhite

3 жыл бұрын

I DUG HER RAP!!

@zolarczakl3880

3 жыл бұрын

@@DairangerSentai7 Because Barbara Billingsly, best remembered as June Cleaver, was the whitest lady you'd ever meet. To cast her in the part of the lady who "speaks jive" is the least likely person you'd expect.

"Chump don't want the help, chump don't get the help"

@photo161

Жыл бұрын

Chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help. No need to whitefly it, Dude.

@photo161

Жыл бұрын

....Sorry, my mistake...

@LibertyRapsher

Жыл бұрын

@@photo161 - the correction is completely wrong. the first guy actually had it close to being right. Chump don’t wanna (want da) help, chump don’t get that help. The only thing for certain is at no point does she come close to saying the word no.

This was the most random movie I watched tonight. And my.... was it the funniest thing I have ever watched.

My 25 year old daughter doesn't like *ANYTHING* that I recommend for her, but she loved this movie for the classic that it is.

"Just hang loose blood" 🤣

@traintrack3761

3 жыл бұрын

Will Terpstra What it is, big mama, my mama no raise no dummies. I dug no rap!

@willterpstra8553

3 жыл бұрын

@@traintrack3761 cut me some slack jack

@janellirving4625

3 жыл бұрын

Chump don't want the help, chump don't get the help!

@traintrack3761

3 жыл бұрын

@Iwwy Iw oh. Thanks

@christopherdieudonne

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

I ordered jive on Rosetta Stone

@belteshazzaradalfuns9317

6 жыл бұрын

LOL! Nice!

@uncleruckus5121

6 жыл бұрын

yeah they ship it from detroit

@Woozlewuzzleable

6 жыл бұрын

How's it going with that?

@-THE_META

6 жыл бұрын

More like Loretta Bone tight me!

@markeishapope944

6 жыл бұрын

Uncle Ruckus more like Harlem

SHE GRAND SLAMMED OUT OF THE PARK! I'M STILL LAUGHING TO THIS DAY!

When she says "just hang loose blood!" I 🤣🤣

Chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help!

@babylonkid

4 жыл бұрын

Say can't hang, say 7-up. Hahaha

@frankie2triggerz334

2 жыл бұрын

That isn't what was said in the original release.

@blockmasterscott

2 жыл бұрын

I love the expression on her face while she said that!

Apparently, multiple producers, studios, and actors turned down this script because it was "too stupid." You can't teach top-level satire. You either get it or you don't. Pure genius!

@43cjd

Жыл бұрын

Ridiculous. That is like calling Blazing Saddles too stupid. You gotta give the audience what it wants and this movie is pure comedic genius satire.

@oz_jones

Жыл бұрын

I mean... It is utterly stupid.

@tisaac8037

Жыл бұрын

@@oz_jones the best kind 😂

@setsers1

Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY

@owensweetland342

Жыл бұрын

Like Benny Hill, Monty Python, etc.😅😂😊

This and Blazing Saddles are hilarious.. probably wouldn’t be made today 🤣🤣🤣

@AzrialAlaria

Жыл бұрын

Probably? Lol! Would NOT be made today.

@thewomble1509

3 ай бұрын

Blazing Saddles is superb.Don't forget Stir Crazy though.

June Cleaver speaking jive... that scene always cracks me up.

I've been Black all of my life, and not even I understood what those Brothers were saying! Shout out to June Cleaver for breaking it down for me! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@vicepresidentmikepence889

5 жыл бұрын

I've been black for most of my life, and I understood exactly what they're saying.

@udsmall7306

5 жыл бұрын

and I been white/AmerIndian all mah life but was raised back East among bruthas n sistahs and understood every word lol...back when Airplane first came out! ☯ (if ya want a _real_ challenge, dive into Hawai'ian local kine pidgin...or Singaporean Chinglish or Thai slang...or even bayou Cajun Creole! I've lived with 'em all and mixed in...beautiful people, fun and funny local dialects will keep yah on yah toes...and teach ya respect heh)

@bluevictory1010

5 жыл бұрын

😂

@vincentlok8894

5 жыл бұрын

I think it has less to do with being black and more to do with being alive in the 1970's.

@TinoSoto

5 жыл бұрын

when I was growing up my best friend's step dad spoke like this, it was hard as hell to understand anything he was saying. After about a year of living on that block and hanging around him so much I started to understand what he was saying.

"what it is big mama? my mama didnt raise no dummy, i dug her rap" translation: what are you talking about madam, my mother didnt raise me to be stupid, i understood what she said"

@matthewhall6288

3 жыл бұрын

Golly!

@Kajiukiller

3 жыл бұрын

Cut me some slack jack

@roypoulos1378

3 жыл бұрын

We have a real jive interpretation here. That’s awesome!

@Polomance862

3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know you understood jive.

@BK-vi3od

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kajiukiller Im not as fluent as the gentleman above, but let me see. Translation: slice me a bit of patience jackery.

I keep expecting Robert Stack to say "You could help solve a mystery"

Comedy classic! Other classics such as Blazing Saddles, Space Balls and Police Academy will never EVER get old!

I was a small boy when my older brother took me to see this at the theatre. It was quite the experience. I had been to a couple movies before but nothing like this. The theatre was completely packed and 85% of the jokes were flying over my head. The laughter was insane. I remember this very heavy woman in front of me actually fell out of her seat from laughing. I remember sitting in the back row and taking it all in. It was strange to see an entire theatre screaming from laughter. Oh and on this scene I remember thinking it was an actual foreign language and didn’t understand why people were laughing.

@007Thanos007

2 жыл бұрын

I can count on the fingers of one hand, the number of times that I was laughing so hard, my stomach started hurting and I was actually begging for the source of laughter to stop making me laugh because it was so funny! It wasn't the jive scene that had me hurting with laughter, it was the scene where Lloyd Bridges had sniffed the glue and was so messed up, he was upside down while the rest of the world was right side up!

@cartergomez5390

2 жыл бұрын

This is the first time I watch this.

@65boogerbutt

2 жыл бұрын

Did she fall out of her seat or did it break from the weight!? lol

Classic scene. The dislikes are jive turkeys.

@thisguyhere6641

6 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@butchcassidy5440

6 жыл бұрын

RetroJenny Exactly right. YEEEAAAAAH

@Probowler37

6 жыл бұрын

Cut me some slack Jack! lol

@jimfinigan1681

6 жыл бұрын

It ain't cool being a jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving! OOPS, wrong movie!

@louissuppa490

6 жыл бұрын

Ur not getting away with that in 2018 thats for sure

What an actress. Those were the days, when the actors and actresses were asked to do something and they could do it on a dime. How did Barbara Billingsley get the tone, the cadence, and the all-around vibe of jive talk? Yes, I know that she worked it out with the actors… but still! Amazing scene in movie history.

Just realized that’s Mrs. Cleaver from leave it to beaver and this makes it so much better.

As much as the "Jive joke" with Mrs Cleaver might be one of the best jokes in the film, how about a shout out for the Vulture sitting on Robert Hayes right shoulder 0:24 while Robert Stack tells him "there's no reason he shouldn't come out of this alive"

@Idlehampster

7 жыл бұрын

I don't get the joke behind the vulture being on his shoulder.

@jojopuppyfish

7 жыл бұрын

Idlehampster Vultures are scavengers....they eat road kill....The Vulture is waiting for them to die so it can eat them. There is a famous photo of an african kid almost dead and a vulture waiting for the kid to die.....its a pulitizer prize winning photo

@jojopuppyfish

7 жыл бұрын

Look for the wiki entry "The vulture and the little girl"

@ZzCanonBull

5 жыл бұрын

It's a subtle joke...a lot of them in these movies

@herrwabbaloo937

5 жыл бұрын

The one I don’t get is when the big spear sails across the room. I’ve watched that over and over and cannot get the reference. Anyone???

what it is big mama my mama didn't raise no dummy, i dug her rap!

@geoffwilliams4478

6 жыл бұрын

michael Woods cut me some slack, jack!

@mgb4692

6 жыл бұрын

Did sound like the other brutha was holding out for some 7up

@xalahuj

4 жыл бұрын

Cutty say he can't hang!

@Jefff72

4 жыл бұрын

Tight me?

@themugthatcould9403

4 жыл бұрын

What XD

I'm 24 and this scene had me in tears 🤣😂🤣😂

@slappymcgillicuddy7532

2 жыл бұрын

welcome to the party, this movie makes me cry with laughter every time

@imnotgoodwithnamesbruh6018

Жыл бұрын

I'm 119 and this scene's got me dead

@camscics

5 ай бұрын

@@imnotgoodwithnamesbruh6018What??? ROFL!!

*I love Johnny. He's so unabashedly flamboyant in 1980 and steals every scene he's in!*

Mrs. Cleaver translating Jive, a true American classic! “Just hang loose blood” 😂🤣😂🤣

I've had a couple of occasions at work where I've actually used "chump don't want the help, chump don't get the help".

@arlo247

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@loveinspired7

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@andreashipp4676

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@rhuttrho88

3 жыл бұрын

I gotta do that!😁

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

2 жыл бұрын

JUST "a couple?"

That movie never gets old. A true classic

@LoneLee2022

Жыл бұрын

So stupid it's brilliant.

Lowell once said, "humor is the instantaneous perception of the incongruous." Seeing white bread mom June Cleaver breaking into jive is the perfect embodiment of this definition. Airplane was genius. Absolutely insane humor.

LOL that vulture looking over his shoulder as he’s being reassured. Every frame of this movie is genius…

@shawni321

2 жыл бұрын

By george I never noticed the vulture

@juansantos-lq2kz

2 жыл бұрын

@@shawni321 Vulture won a Golden Globe for supporting actor.

@Antlab1

2 жыл бұрын

After all these years it took me to read the comments and find out there was a vulture in that scene.

@bennyhill4228

2 жыл бұрын

Lol The Buzzard most people missed, Hilarious :D

@jacobjones5269

Жыл бұрын

Classic cut away.. Hilarious..

I love the scene were the guy asks a little old lady if she wants a drink. She says, 'why certainly not...' and then does a huge hit of nose candy.

@notyetskeletal4809

Жыл бұрын

Haah just reminded me of my Mother. See looks down on pot smokers but smoke cigarettes and is an alcoholic.

@trwent

Жыл бұрын

I like the scene where they are looking at the radar screens in the airport, and all of a sudden one guy takes his laundry out of one of them.

@Shanethefilmmaker

Жыл бұрын

@@trwent Or a turkey or a game of Collecovision basketball.

@omnacky

Жыл бұрын

I like the subtitled jive conversation where it ends with one of the guys saying "shieeeeeet..." but it's translated to "golly!"

@Shanethefilmmaker

Жыл бұрын

@@omnacky I loved how in the second one, one of the Jive guys testifies for Striker's defense and the stenographer is happily typing everything he said, while donning sunglasses. Even that one ended with Shieeeet (Subtitle: Golly)

That damn buzzard gets me everytime, lol

40 years on and this still makes me laugh every single time. So perfect.

The fact they got June Cleaver for this role remains one of the greatest moments in cinematic history.

@mysticgirl916

Жыл бұрын

She also went on to voice Nanny in the original "Muppet Babies" cartoon series

@alexac3098

Жыл бұрын

absolutely agree with you.

@lpr5269

Жыл бұрын

In Kentucky Fried Movie, Tony Dow had a cameo also playing his old character Wally Cleaver.

@thedoneeye

Жыл бұрын

Supposedly they asked Christopher Lee to play Dr. Rumak and he turned them down. Some time later Mr. Lee said that it was one of the biggest regrets of his life.

@MaleOrderBride

Жыл бұрын

Who is she?

As a pilot in training, always wanted to see a gauge that read "A little hot" lol

@grumpyoldgraymetalhead2441

6 жыл бұрын

PRAlex13 On F-111's it was the Master Caution Lamp.

@MKSBEMA

6 жыл бұрын

As a pilot, how common would it be to find "rain and a little ice" conditions at 35000 feet?

@ayf1983

6 жыл бұрын

Also prop noises on a jet plane lol.

@djm5687

5 жыл бұрын

The producers initially wanted a prop plane (like in Zero Hour), but the studio wanted the movie "updated" with jet engines. It's actually ends up being a joke that a jet engine airplane makes propeller sounds.

@trossk

4 жыл бұрын

Long as you dont need to pay for fuel with your credit card

When I saw this as a kid I didn't get why everything was"so silly" Now I can appreciate this masterpiece

@stephenolan5539

2 жыл бұрын

When I saw this, what impressed me the most was all the cultural references. The plane crashing into the airport was a take the scene in The Silver Streak. But even if you don't get any of those references, the movie is still hilarious.

@bmo14lax

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenolan5539 Yeah I was maybe 11 years old when I watched this so I had enough sense to know this was not like a regular movie but everything seemed kind of normal. But the two adults behind me were laughing the entire time, And don't get me wrong there were some silly parts that I knew were not right, I didn't know what the word satire was, kind of a cool time to be alive in your brain.

Can't belive a 2 minute 40 seconds clip can make me laugh till it feels like my ribs would shatter.

The best point is this is June Cleaver all American White Mom. It is just too cool.

@almostfm

8 жыл бұрын

Every couple of months at work, I have the opportunity to say (after the person is gone) "Chump don't want the help-chump don't get the help".

@bigmetroidfan1263

7 жыл бұрын

What made the line funny was her delivery

@LarryMan51

7 жыл бұрын

I love this, it is so F-ing cool.

@averythecoolcat

6 жыл бұрын

Seems like June was hanging in them jazz clubs back in the day before she met Ward.... :-D

@hedrinklz

6 жыл бұрын

Arizona Flutist Slot WINS Get outta here, baby! Next thing you'll try to tell me that copilot actually played in the NBA!

The vulture is perfect example of Zuckers/Abrahams philosophy of never having a shot without a joke in it. Whether it was in dialogue, a sight gag, a running joke, background weirdness, whatever, every single shot was intended to have something funny in it. Often times, a single shot will feature multiple jokes. Almost nothing was off-limits. Even the simple exterior shots of the airplane are hilarious when you realize its a then-modern jet airliner, but has the sound of a WWII-era propeller plane. It's also just a model plane hanging on a string, not moving forward. Lastly, Barbara Billingsley kills it in this scene. Damn funny.

@Izabelle835

3 жыл бұрын

I love the scene when Steve struck a pose while smoking and the photograph behind him was the exact same pose, and the photograph in THAT photograph was also the exact same pose! So funny

@innertubez

3 жыл бұрын

So true!! Yes, this video title is about the jive talking, but there were about 10 other things going on in the span of 3 minutes!!

@user-uh6lm5wv6n

3 жыл бұрын

Spot on your basically getting a smorgasbord of comedy in these films. My other favourite was Top Secret.

@Elitist20

3 жыл бұрын

One I didn't notice til someone told me about it: in the scene where the taxiing jet goes the wrong way and crashes into the terminal, and people jump up and run away, one of them is holding a baby - she throws it up in the air and abandons it!

@KnowledgeSeeker78491

3 жыл бұрын

Besides this scene I used to crack up when they gave I think Lloyd Bridges the phone and he started doing bicep curls with it

What it is Baby Mama? My Mama ain't raise no dummy!" LMFAOOOOOOO😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Here I would never thought that June cleaver would go from your 1950’s housewife to a woman who speaks hood lol

Jesus, they would never in a million years make this scene today lol

@punchline43

4 жыл бұрын

A million years is a looooooong way from today though 😄

@willer3399

4 жыл бұрын

@Richard - or most of Blazing Saddles.

@yuri2604

4 жыл бұрын

Most of the scenes from this film would be impossible. Suicide, pedophilia, I can’t imagine how many triggers would have

@willer3399

4 жыл бұрын

Yuri Silva - Imagine the poopy storm on Social Media!

@williamphillip9749

4 жыл бұрын

Have you seen Harold and Kumar

June Cleaver was always a gangsta. Even when Eddie Haskell was on his BS "you look lovely today, Mrs. Cleaver." shtick, June always gave him that look like "I see you, muthaf*cka."

@bluevictory1010

5 жыл бұрын

IKR?! She knew he was a pure bullshitter.

@bobloblaw9791

4 жыл бұрын

Great assessment sir

@August377

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@ladistar

3 жыл бұрын

Bahahahahahahaha damn

Casting perfection here with choosing “Mrs Beaver” in this iconic jive talk scene. 🎥👍🏼😂

@Patricia-md7lc

4 ай бұрын

I've been trying to remember

Humorously lucky to have someone important to help on the plane. 1. a doctor in the plane, 2. a former pilot to land the plane, 3. a translator who speaks jive hilariously.

What sold this movie wasn’t just the writing but the casting. Having a bunch of actors known mostly only for dramatic and serious roles all playing it straight in such wacky situations is something that should be tried again.

@Danimal1177

2 жыл бұрын

Like Leslie Nielsen in the Naked Gun movies.

@Nekulturny

2 жыл бұрын

@@Danimal1177 Yeah, a lot of people don't realize Leslie Neilsen started his career as a "serious actor" before he did the wacky deadpan comedies hes known for.

@Lord_of_the_Pies

2 жыл бұрын

Is that why the black dudes sound like they're talking so called black for the first time? Lol June cleaver seemed just as natural

@TheNightWatcher1385

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nekulturny In fact, the naked gun series is basically a parody of the cop dramas that Nielsen use to do in the 50s and 60s.

@stephenolan5539

2 жыл бұрын

Mel Brooks asked for a Frankie Laine type singer for Blazing Saddles. Frankie Laine showed up for the audition. He sang the song straight and someone said, he doesn't know it's a spoof. Mel Brooks said don't tell him, it's not funny unless it's done straight.

I remember seeing this film in first run release...it was a huge hit. Nothing like it at at time. The audience was exhausted at the end of the film from laughing so much. I missed those shared crowd experiences.

@kaohsiung99

Жыл бұрын

@@DavidBrown-kf5uw ?

@thecocktailian2091

Жыл бұрын

I only ever had that shared crowd experience at a movie once, but it was for a screening to the Seventh Seal. It was all fun and games for the first half of the film, but then as it progressed into the second half, the theater got deathly silent, everyones breathing was measured. It was quite something.

@flukedogwalker3016

Жыл бұрын

This movie had great shared crowd experiences. Same with Animal House but that had more crowd animation, but the biggest movie who got the most reaction ever was Billy Jack.

@jackiesmith2801

11 ай бұрын

I don't think I ever laughed so hard in my life! Rolling in the aisles! I was 15.

@barrynbreen

9 ай бұрын

They showed in cinema recently here. It was unrealn

I remember my friends and I seeing this in the theater, we were all in our early teens, and we were all howling with laughter during these scenes - along with the rest of the theater 😂😂😂

🤣 I couldn't help but to laugh when hearing Barbara Billingsley speaking jive, especially what she says after walking away from those men...this was GOLD!

This is one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history.

@pressrepeat2000

4 жыл бұрын

Truth! Everything about it is just beyond amazing.

@carybeweary7209

3 жыл бұрын

From one of the greatest movies!

@besteverepicmillennial5927

3 жыл бұрын

wow you must watch some pretty bad movies. In history?

@miked2513

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps, then again, have you ever been to a turkish prison?

@Epiousios18

3 жыл бұрын

You must have sone pretty low standards.

she said she got more fan mail for the i speak jive bit than any of her other work 😀

@JM-fo1te

2 жыл бұрын

That's like getting likes on Facebook, back then.

This scene is STILL funny, many years later. Comedic genius!

One of the greatest scenes n comedy history..Ms cleaver speaking jive

The fact that they even got June Cleaver to do that part is hysterical she nailed it it just shows how an older actress could make something so funny and relevant

@mitchyoung93

3 жыл бұрын

Funny thing is back in the forties, when she would have been a teen/young 20s, a lot of white people used 'jive' expressions.

I saw this as a kid and nearly 50 years later, I'm still laughing at it like it's the first time!

@Herobox-ju4zd

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, you must have went to a really early screening as the movie is just 41 years old.

@vicepresidentmikepence889

2 жыл бұрын

@@Herobox-ju4zd Or, perhaps, he has a time machine and is commenting in 2030

@iwatcher69

2 жыл бұрын

OMG!!!! it was 50 years ago! damn where the hell did the time go.

@tomb7088

2 жыл бұрын

I saw this with my parents at the Dearborn Heights Mi. Drive In. It played with Alien.

@tangiblemammal5273

Жыл бұрын

That means at least 70% of the people in this movie are dead.

I've watched the Beaver episodes for the last 50 years. I always thought Barbera was "beautiful" and a fine actress in that series. Then 20+ years later, in this movie, she's still beautiful and a damn good actress. Bravo for casting her in this movie ...

I'm black and I'm offended! That I didnt watch this scene sooner😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@robair67

2 жыл бұрын

I guess satire can be pretty satirical, sometimes!

@DuncYo

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@donnah5378

Ай бұрын

😂😂

Probably the hundredth time I've seen this clip, and it still kills me every time... R.I.P Jive-Talkin' Barbara Billingsley

I like how they both turn their heads to look at her in disbelief as she walks away lol.

"What it is Big Momma!?" Lmao 😂

Casting Barbara Billingsley in this role was a stroke of genius.

The “cut me some slack Jack” line always gets me because even as a kid I was like, “Hey! That line makes sense” and I understood that jive was supposed to be slang haha

At 00:22 the vulture on the back literally made me choking and crying lol.

@brendopls

7 жыл бұрын

Krisztian Bari I just noticed that lol

‘’You like movies about gladiators?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The Jive scene has me almost crying every time I see it. I think I was 5 when I found out what jive was. oh the 80's. 🤣🤣🤣

I minored in Jive at Harvard.

@jimreily7538

4 жыл бұрын

I know someone who did a PhD thesis on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I believe it was. Kind of annoying.

@herbsgotaZX

4 жыл бұрын

You mean Howard not Harvard lol

@triciajohansen9295

4 жыл бұрын

I learned Jive talking from the School of Bee Gees.

@JohnSmith-qn3ob

4 жыл бұрын

@Lexington73300 Only if you go to Port Chester

@salj.5459

4 жыл бұрын

ike Must have*

"Legg'em down and smack 'em yack 'em. Cold got to be! Shiiieee!!" My brother and I still leave jive messages on each other's phone.

@emiliokcalvillo

3 жыл бұрын

Thats right

If you listen to each and every word the brothers say, it makes perfect sense. This is gold!!!!

I watched this in the theater in a full house and when Barbara Billingsley said "Just Hang Loose, Blood...." I remember the audience bursting out in HUGE laughter

the timing of the dual response, in unison to “cut me some slack jack”, as if she has touched a nerve was worthy of them splitting the award for Best Supporting Actor

And in the theater, the crowd roared.

@philkleinman7002

4 жыл бұрын

I saw it in a theater back when, so much freakin fun!

@connorpusey5912

4 жыл бұрын

Man, I would’ve loved to experience this scene in a theater full of people 😂

@michaelmarino3013

4 жыл бұрын

Movie communal experience. I would have been carrying on too.

@duglloyd9146

4 жыл бұрын

I saw this at the movie theater when it first came out but was too young to get a lot of the jokes but remember everyone in the audience laughing like crazy and thinking what is so funny.

@Nicebitoftucka

3 жыл бұрын

@Jay Ce after they stole your wallet.

I can’t believe this film 42 years old already! It never gets old, a what a 💎 of a movie lol

Could not make this movie today, what a shame...

I’m definitely not a spokesperson for the Black community...but I absolutely LOVED this scene. HILARIOUS. I love it where actors step so far outside their typecasting (like Denzel Washington in “Training Day” or Halle Berry in “Monsters Ball”). June Cleaver, speaking jive? *chef’s kiss* BRILLIANT. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@JnEricsonx

3 жыл бұрын

See also Heath Ledger as the Joker.

@seanhalloran4286

Жыл бұрын

100% agree. The whole idea of this scene is genius! The two black actors were stand-up comedians in the 1970s and they had this bit in their stand-up act where they talked ‘jive’ in normal everyday circumstances. The producers heard about them, loved their bit, and put them in the movie. Meanwhile the producers were loading up ‘Airplane’ with cameos and decided this would be a good place for another surprise appearance. Now … if you got two super-cool jive-talking black dudes, who would be the EXACT OPPOSITE of that? The person you would least expect to understand them? That’s right! Only the whitest woman in TV history: June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley)! This scene is one of my favorite parts of the movie - aw let’s face it this movie has so many great scenes. Comedy gold!!!

@owensweetland342

Жыл бұрын

Why is b uppercase?

@Mark-bw1wx

Жыл бұрын

​@@owensweetland342 pretty soon AI is going to have your nuts in a vice grip, your brain will be frying in summer temperatures that the human brain wasn't made to function in, the Antarctic ice sheet is melting, the aliens are here, and everything else... you're worried about a capital "B"?

@nhf7170

10 ай бұрын

@@seanhalloran4286 I didn't know that was June Cleaver. I was 10 when this movie came out, so for me the humor was all in her delivery. The context just makes it funnier.

Whoever mad at the “Jive Scene” in this film. It’s from folks who ain’t black. Cause this scene is not only funny as hell, it ain’t at all offensive in anyway! Please don’t speak for me or other black folks.

@Jekyll08

4 жыл бұрын

Those people just want to be miserable and offended by everything. They also seem to forget this is a COMEDY, they tend to not know the meaning or purpose of comedy.

@Zhoomz

4 жыл бұрын

Preach. If there’s something that’s been lost through generations wrongfully it’s being able to joke and make fun of quirks about our culture and heritage. This same joke would just be Ebonics in a more ghetto hood dialect in modern times, and that’s all.

@quasicroissant

3 жыл бұрын

I don't see anyone actually being mad about the scene, just a shitton of people strawmanning "everyone being mad" at the scene

@0megacron

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zhoomz Back in the early 2000s or so, a radio show did the same basic skit using ebonics. Look up "Boo Got Shot" - hilarious stuff.

@FFKonoko

3 жыл бұрын

Who are you even talking to? Literally no-one is mad. No-one would be mad. Cancel culture is a myth anyway.

I just realized that a running gag through the whole movie is the background sound of propeller engines but they're on a jet plane.

Lol imagine this passing today. The film company would be cancelled a day after its release…

@AzrialAlaria

Жыл бұрын

You better believe it! Hi! Btw ^.=.^

Cut me some slack jack!!!!

"There's no reason why you shouldn't have complete confidence in your chances to come out of this thing alive in one piece." (buzzard lands on shoulder) Classic.

I love this movie, it is the king of all slap stick! The casting was so phenomenal and one great joke after another, woven into the storyline is pure genius!!

"She gonna catch up on the rebound on the med side" just brilliant