Airplane (1980) MOVIE REACTION!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
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- Cameron and Isaiah sit down and watch Airplane (1980) on Amazon Prime Video for the very first time! if you enjoyed this video please leave a like, share, and subscribe! Comment down below your favorite moment from the movie "Airplane"!
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To all the Airplane fans, we have been reading your comments and have been loving and appreciating the feedback! Thank you all so much! We wanted to let you know that because of your suggestions, we WILL be reacting to BLAZING SADDLES, NAKED GUN, TOP SECRET, and potentially some of the other suggestions as well such as HOTSHOTS, KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE, ETC…! Thanks for watching!
We’ll be reacting to the first three mentioned in the near future!
The Kentucky Fried Movie is an interesting watch for sure. Lots of little skits thrown together and mostly very funny.
MOnty Python & the Holy Grail & Monty Python's Life of Brian are absolute musts in the comedy category.
Johnny Dangerously is a gangster satire with a similar style of humor. It's hilarious.
Don’t forget to thank your stepdad for pushing this movie. If y’all ain’t cancelled yet I dare you to video Blazing Saddles
Those are rock solid suggestions, you are in for a treat. For me, it was just as amusing seeing all the movie references you missed because you have not seen them. I think you will do well with this channel. Good production values and 2 decent lads. So much awesome stuff you have not seen and heard yet. Best of luck with the channel.
I just wanna let you both know, good luck, we’re all counting on you.
I just wanna let you both know, good luck, we’re all counting on you.
Good luck, we're counting on you.
Surely you cant be serious!
@@carlossaraiva8213 I am serious... and stop calling me Shirley.
@@musicaleclecto I just want to say good luck, we are counting on you.
A detail you might not have noticed: the main guy's supposed to be an Air Force pilot, but his military uniform was Navy, and he wound up in an Army hospital.
Man Toontown was a rough war.
Army hospital really doesn’t mean anything, all branches share hospitals. Any qualified person can be seen at any hospital branch. Especially if the army hospital was the closest to his station. The uniform part is correct though
also, not very funny
Leslie Nielsen was a well known dramatic actor who became even more well known for comedies after this movie.
True story. The morning after he passed away the wife and I were carpooling to work listening to the radio. The DJ was on doing the news and said, “In sad news Leslie Nielsen passed away yesterday.”
I immediately said, “Surely you can’t be serious!” And without missing a beat the DJ says, “I am serious! And don’t call me Shirley”.
My wife just turned and stared at me while I literally lol’d.
I felt that was a fitting tribute to the man.
It absolutely was the best tribute. Airplane! literally revitalized Leslie Nielsen's career. After that, he used to carry around a fart noise maker and would use it to make fart noises at random times for his own amusement. I think he would have appreciated your reaction and delivery very much. My hat's off to you.
After Nielsen died, ESPN posted an obituary for Enrico Pallazzo.
@@daviddixon9991 Hey! It's Enrico Palazzo!
@@daviddixon9991 no way... 🤣
Love it!
The woman who could translate jive was Barbara Billingsley, whose made her fame playing June Cleaver in the 1950's Leave It To Beaver series. In that role, she was the iconic vanilla middle-class caucasian suburban housewife, unflappable, perfect. She always was dressed up in high heels and wearing a string of pearls. Many women later came to hate her attributes as they felt they could never measure up to, nor did they think they should.
One literally could not have picked a more opposite character to be speaking jive.
Apparently she and the two men she does the scene with became friendly. They coached her in the delivery (in fact they wrote most of the jive portions as what was originally scripted wasn’t accurate) and had lunch together every day. They were friends until the day she passed.
When I was a kid, I watched Leave it to Beaver reruns with my dad. So when Airplane! came out in the theater and Barbara Billingsley, sweet, kind hearted Mrs. Cleaver, appeared on the screen and said that she spoke jive... I laughed so hard, I thought my head was gonna fall off. And she was so good at it! When she walked off saying, "Jive ass dude ain't got no brains anyhow!" the whole audience was just howling with laughter. I think part of it for me was that I felt so grown up because I actually got the joke... the whole joke. It still remains one of the best laughs of my life.
The discomfort people seem to feel these days, especially at that particular joke, saddens me a little bit. Do they think that the two men speaking jive were being exploited? They were in on the joke. They're doing it to make people laugh... to lighten the mood. They knew exactly what they were doing and, like Gizmo and Mitchell Waldrep said, they wrote all of the their own dialog and grossly exaggerated it for comedic value. We all knew that "jive" didn't really sound like that. We, the audience, were in on the joke too. That's why, at 9 years old, that joke made me feel so grown up.
Now, I am not faulting the reactors in this video for their quiet and slightly uncomfortable reaction to this particular joke. We are all a product of our own time and I might seem crass and politically incorrect to the kids these days... and maybe I am. But I will always treasure the memory of that fantastic laugh.
@@skanecmt I wish I could give you more than just a "Thumbs Up" for this post. Thanks for the memories and the post.
@@skanecmt God help them if they watch Blazing Saddles. If a little jive makes them uncomfortable, That movie will give a full on meltdown.
I've seen a short interview clip with her talking about this. She was a professional actress with a nearly six decades long career and a good sense of humor.
They credited the inflatable pilot as "Otto" as in "Otto Pilot."
He even has his own IMDb page- fun fact.
The inflatable stewardess would have known what a hound dog Otto was. He was a pilot after all.
I watched this as a young child and for a long time actually thought autopilots were inflatable.
"My Air Force One Otto Pilot did NOT have sexual relations with that hot stewardess" - - Bill Clinton
The "I speak Jive" scene probably got the biggest laugh in the theater. And it seems to be the most remembered scene among those who saw it in the theater.
You both looked worried instead of busting up laughing at the truth of it. Much humor has been politically cancelled. Comedians are hard up against it because of that.
Actually in interviews, Barbara Billingsley credits the "jive talk" scene for reviving her acting career.
Twice as funny since it was Beaver’s mom
I LOVE the jive talk bit. It's one of my favorite bits in the movie.
I remember the shit hitting the fan getting the biggest laugh at the theater, as well as the flash of tits.
The announcers in the beginning who argue over the red zone/white zone were the married couple who actually did the PA announcements at LA airport at the time.
Nobody who ever spent time at LAX in the 70's could mistake those announcers.
The dialogue also is cribbed from Arthur Haley's novel _Airport_ .
I remember that all too well.
There are two things that make this movie a "classic".
1) Almost all the veteran actors were known for drama & serious roles before this film, which made it even more funny when seen in theatres, (but is not realized by most of the younger generations. Along with some of the "dated" references.) &
2) ALL the actors were directed to play their roles as IF this was a "serious" movie, about 99% of the time! (Basically, treating the "silliness" around them as "normal".) Resulting in such classics as Leslie Neilson's legendary "deadpan delivery". (which people of ANY age can enjoy)
On the commentary track, one of the directors said that Lloyd Bridges was worrying aloud on the set that the audience wouldn't get a joke, and Robert Stack told him, "Lloyd, we _are_ the joke."
Absolute classic . Think it held a record for the largest amount of gags in any film .
As in "Wrongfully Accused"
I was 13 when this came out theatrically and I will never forget seeing an entire theater full of people falling out of their chairs with laughter.🤣
I was 9 when that movie came out. The man who tore our tickets told us that if we waited for the very end after the credits, that there would be a funny little bit. My face hurt and my stomach muscles ached at the end of that movie. It's still a family favorite.
I was 12. I laughed at it. I fully enjoyed it later on when I was a little older.
I was 13 when this movie was released too, and that's exact what I remember.
too bad that will never happen again
There are are also quite a few jokes that you miss being 40 years removed from when the movie was made. The bit about "Jim never has a second cup at home"....the actress actually did a bunch of commercials for a famous coffee brand back then, Barbara Billingsley was June Cleaver in the 50's show Leave it to Beaver , "Have you ever been in a Turkish Prison" a callback to the movie Midnight Run, the lady who "thinks he's Ethel Merman". she WAS Ethel Merman who was a big deal in movies from the 30's thru the 60's....and so many more.....hilarious
I think you mean the 1978 film: Midnight Express, regarding the Turkish prison reference.
And the guy in the taxi: Jarvis, can't remember his last name, but look up California's Prop 13. And the Hari Krishnas at the airport really did aggressively pass out literature at airports.
Some young people get the Ronald Reagan joke but I haven't seen anyone get the "I haven't seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert." Actually, I think that joke might be missed by most heterosexuals. But it's hilarious if you look up who she is. There are some other great cameos too, probably unknown to most people under 40 - - Jill Whelan, Jimmy Walker, Joyce Bulifant, Lloyd Bridges, the Zucker brothers and Maureen McGovern. There was a lot more spoof behind all the goof.
“ we don’t we just divert them into Lake Michigan and save innocent lives!”
What about the flashback was supposed to be from 1944 and they're playing Stayin' Alive? One of the funniest scenes in the whole movie.
Great reaction video. I’m so shocked that they consider the jive segments racist. Times are so strange. It’s not racist to say slang is sometimes hard to understand and no one is judging them based on their language. It’s smart and funny, no need to feel cringey about it in my opinion.
The funny thing here is when black reactors watch the jive segments, they bust a gut laughing.
Barbara Billingsley said in an interview that the two black guys were wonderful. They taught her how to speak jive. She also said those scenes reinvigorated her career.
@@THOMMGB It’s probably a generational or context thing because that was one of the best parts of the movie when I was a kid. We thought it was hilarious. Maybe since they’re too young to know “Leave it to Beaver” and understand the irony. They just figure it’s old so it must be racist by default. 😂
Plus, it was Norm Gibbs and Al White, the two actors speaking Jive, who actually wrote those lines.
I mean, they probably assumed that the directors wrote the Jive lines. Imo even if that were true, it still wouldn't be racist, because it isn't derogatory, but the fact that the actors actually wrote those lines would ease the minds of anyone who construed it as offensive or 'appropriation' ir whatever
@THOMMGB I saw one black reactor couple didn't even know what jive was, they were like "what language is that." But they still thought it was funny.
An unintentional but positive reaction to this movie was the following: one of the directors of the FAA watched this movie in the theaters and realized that there was a major safety issue on flights. If there was issue with a meal and all pilots had it major issue. The FAA issued a new rule that the team in the cockpit could not have the same meal.
Actually, that rule came in 1975 when nearly 200 people got sick from contaminated omelets. Fortunately, the pilots’ biological clocks made them order steak dinners instead.
This is so true. My father was an airline pilot and he and his co-pilot never ate the same thing.
Yes I remember. I had the lasagna.
@@evaserration6223 lol
The glue-sniffer was Lloyd Bridges, well know at the time for the tv series "Sea Hunt." His sons are Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges, also well known actors.
The guy at the microphone in the control tower was Robert Stack, hero of a popular tv series, "The Untouchables" as Elliot Ness of the FBI (who brought down Al Capone).
The captain was Peter Graves, who was the leader of the Mission Impossible team in the tv series of the same name - the role played by Tom Cruise in the later movie series.
which added to the comedy because they were serious leading men wiliing to go against character for comedic joy (including Barbara Billingsly / June Cleaver clapping back in Jive).
The three director/writers did that in their following film as well. Having previously serious actors (and Leslie Nielsen was one at that time) in comedic roles was pretty novel. In Top Secret!, Omar Sharif (Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, etc.) played a prominent role which finds him crushed into a block of metal from the car he was in to where he could still walk around, operate the windshield wipers and have his radio antenna respond to sexual arousal. The actor who played Dim in A Clockwork Orange played a German military leader and two classic British actors previously featured in the acclaimed stage production of The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby played the heroine and the blind spy in the alley. Then there was Peter Cushing, a veteran of Hammer horror movies and the first Star Wars movie as the owner of a Swedish Book store where the entire scene plays backwards. Most viewers today will miss these. I'm certain many today don't recognize Jimmy Walker as the airplane mechanic checking the fluids and Ethel Merman, a very well-known Broadway actress and singer, playing a patient who thinks he's Ethel Merman. The great thing about Airplane! is there are so many other jokes throughout that if a referenced joke is missed, there's a non-referenced one right after it.
The funniest thing about it was, most of the actors were very serious actors. That was the very first comedy Leslie Nielsen was in. Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves were all very serious actors, and to see them in this movie was absolutely hilarious.
@@rudymarmaro Yes, the more I learn about this movie, the most I am stunned not only for them using these well-known actors but also their ability to get them in the first place,
I saw an interview with Peter Graves who didn't want to do the movie because he didn't get what was supposed to be so funny. He didn't get the joke and Robert Stack told him that they were the joke.
Since this movie is 42 years old, there are a lot of jokes young people would not get because they make reference to pop culture of the day. There are plenty of young people who get enough of the jokes to enjoy the movie. Every now and then I come across young people who almost never laugh at anything in this movie. I don’t think they understand slapstick or parody.
These two guys get it.
Those poor deprived souls. Probably wouldn't laugh at classic Looney Tunes, either.
Bummer and a half.
I agree. It's sad that young people of today, just don't get that kind of satire.
It’s a BRILLIANT movie that actually changed cinematic comedy and ushered in the spoof era (The Naked Gun trilogy also starring Leslie Nielsen is also a must watch!), and it influenced sketch shows and countless other comedies since. There are 223 gags in the 87 minute run time, that’s so difficult to do lol.
And now, genre parodies of today, that try to copy this style , are getting more and more stupid and unfunny. Because the humor is forced and unoriginal.
One running joke that a lot of people don't get is when you see the outside of the plane it sounds like a propeller plane, even though it's a jet.
Some of the jokes that you may not have understood were jokes about social commentary of the time. And most of the actors were only known for serious movies at that time.
Thought about it for awhile but thinking back it seems to make sense to use the propeller sound. The producers and sound crew prob felt the propeller sound was easier on the audience ears from a sound stage standpoint than the raspy sound of a jet engine.
No one ever notices the jars of mayo in the Mayo Clinic
Feels good to see younger people appreciating this movie. It's a classic for a reason. It takes no prisoner! Everyone will be made fun of.
This movie is a line-by-line recreation of a '50's thriller called "Zero Hour". (You can see it here on YT.) The directors got hold of the rights and then used that serious film for their comedy, most of which consists of taking the original lines either literally or to a ridiculous extreme. There are also a lot of topical references, which is all the stuff you guys weren't getting (and there's a lot). But the genius of the film is that it's still hilarious whether you get the era-dependant jokes or not. (Here's one: the guy in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, a California businessman responsible for Proposition 13, which gutted California's tax income and was responsible for the state going down hill in the 70's. Believe me, there was a LOT of laughter seeing him sitting there for hours waiting for a service that wasn't ever going to arrive!)
BTW for more context, they used to tape late-night television and use it as material for their sketch comedy stuff, much of which involved parodying commercials and news segments. They taped Zero Hour by chance and were scanning through it looking for commercials, but realized the film itself was something they could parody. They actually wrote Airplane in 1975, but couldn't get it backed, so made The Kentucky Fried Movie from their sketch material.
Don't forget the franchise of airplane disaster movies known as Airport.
@@LadyIarConnacht Yes, they were popular around the same time and gave AZZ the idea to make this one, so much so that most people think this movie is based on those films. It's not; like I said, it's a scene-for-scene recreation of "Zero Hour".
@@Serai3 ...and "From Here to Eternity".
@@mikejankowski6321 That was one scene. Saturday Night Fever is sent up in one scene, too.
The woman getting slapped is my favorite scene😁😁
Fun fact: This movie was interred in the Library of Congress as one of the greatest comedies made
The guy who played the doctor was Leslie Nielsen, who had had a long and undistinguished career playing serious characters. Airplane provided a break-out role and made him into a great comedic actor, who went on to star in the Naked Gun series. These are not sequels to this movie but boy, they are so funny and worthwhile to follow up from this movie.
Naked Gun series! lol
@@mickeykmiller Yeah, caught that and corrected it. This is what happens when you type too fast.
And Top Secret! starring a young Val Kilmer.
I think Airplane 2 qualifies as a sequel lol
@@Thor_Odinson No, they were saying that the Naked Gun movies weren't sequels to Airplane.
There was a series of disaster movies involving airplanes in the 70's with the title Airport starting in 1970. Then you had Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.
The 2 black actors speaking jive actually wrote the jive themselves because they said what the writers created didn't work.
I sat down and watched the original airport a few weeks ago. It was quite long but worth it.
This movie is a direct spoof of the movie zero hour. Search youtube for the side by side comparison, it's quite interesting
@@Kilo80Kilo Zero Hour is the number one spoof of this film although they did take some scenes from the first two Airport movies.
Airplane 2 also lifts the bomb plot from Airport.
“Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”
@@RetroRobotRadio I saw them all as a kid and thought they were pretty good. my favorite tho was the one where the plane was stuck underwater (airport 77 i think?). but one scene that always stood out tho i can't remember which film it was from, was a shot of cars on a road in stormy/foggy night and the wheel of a plane comes out of the darkness and crushes a car.
You could watch Airplane 50 times and see something you've been missing every time you watch! Some other great comedy movies I think you'd love... The Naked Gun (like everyone else is saying lol) It stars the doctor from Airplane and is insane. Also Dumb & Dumber, There's Something About Mary, Planes Trains And Automobiles. My Cousin Vinny.
Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Space Balls, …..
The very best parody of the disaster films from the era. Can't count how many time I've seen this since it first came out. All the hidden puns & innuendo are still hilarious decades later.
The white lady speaking Jive is played by Barbara Billingsley (the mom on “Leave It To Beaver” TV show… she was the most white bread middle class TV mom ever.)
I just want to tell you both good luck, we’re all counting on you.
The fight in the bar scene was between two girl scouts. The bar was said to be off the coast of Drambuie, which actually is a well-known Scottish liqueur.
Every time he mentions somewhere he was going it was a alcoholic drink he also mentions going to daiquiri
Is that where "a wee dram" comes from?
@@thatsthat2612 It seems most logical but I had to google it: It originally comes from "Drackhme," a Greek coin, used in the bible as a unit of treasure. Shakespeare used the word several times, including in Romeo & Juliet as a unit of a (liquid) poison.
"Drambuie" comes from the Scottish Gaelic "An Dram Buidheach" and means “The drink that satisfies.”
@@johnnehrich9601 ahh I see
Yes but you overlooked the most obvious joke in that scene. He's a retired Air Force Pilot, but he shows up at that bar wearing a Navy Uniform.! LOL Check it out.
Fun fact, this was Leslie Nielsen's first comedy film. Before this he was a serious drama actor in some good movies, with a personal favorite being the sci-fi classic, The Forbidden Planet.
Also in the being sick department I have watched this movie end to end on a flight.
As well as the captain in the original Poseidon Adventure!
Fun fact, no it wasn't. In 1967 he was in the Don Knotts film _The Reluctant Astronaut._ Plus in 1973 he was in an episode of _M*A*S*H_ and in 1977-79 he was in three episodes of _The Love Boat,_ neither of which were films but they were comedies.
He was an on screen voice with the actress who played Ginger from Gilligan's Island in ZAZs early film Kentucky Fried Chicken, during the Theater vignette. That's how they first met him.
@@jb888888888 @Reggie2000
I stand corrected, thanks for the facts. Y'all do good work.
Most of the actors in this movie were known as very serious actors before this movie. They were instructed to play it as straight as possible, not trying to make laughs but just to deliver it as it was normal.
This seems to be one of the rules of funny. It's the situation that's meant to be funny, not the actors.
Fun fact -- the guy who's on so many chemicals was Lloyd Bridges, father of actors Jeff and Beau.
About 15-20 years before this movie (which was NOT a long time), Lloyd was a regular feature on TV with at least one series, and I'm sure a few other things. It was just extra funny to see him doing this kind of edgy comedy. Same as having Barbara Billingsley in the movie -- the creators grew up on TV (as most of us did back then; not so much for you, now) and there are a ton of jokes that are TV references that made a lot more sense in 1980 than they do in 2022.
You say it’s painful, but I say it is glorious comedy like they could never write today
You guys have to watch “The Naked Gun.” Same writers, even funnier.
THIS
THe Police Squad! TV show was even better.
Airplane is hilarious from start to finish! If you want to see something equally as silly, check out Hot Shots it is a spoof of Top Gun! Watch for Lloyd Bridges character pure deadpan comedy genius! Airplane 2 is hilarious as well, it is a spoof of Star Wars, Star Trek, and Battlestar Gallactica! It was pure joy watching you guys watch something I grew up watching. It came out in 1980 I was a freshman in high school! Thank you for reacting!
The Naked Gun movies were crack up as well. Born 82 so yep, grew up watching all these films.
Airplane 2 is more a spoof of 2001: A Space Odyssey than anything else, but otherwise I have to agree with everything else you have said.
And obviously Naked Gun 1 and 2.
There is also a direct connection between Airplane and Hot Shots. The latter was directed by Jim Abrams, the "A" in the comedy writing & directing trio commonly know as ZAZ, which also consisted of brothers Jerry and David Zucker, who were behind the movies Airplane, Top Secret, the TV show Police Squad and its movie spin-offs, the Naked Gun trilogy. Abrams co-wrote Hot Shots with frequent ZAZ collaborator Pat Proft.
@@rikuruohomaki3230 yep
It is totally re-watchable. For over 30 years I've been re-watching it, never gets old.
1980 was a great year for comedies. In addition to this one check out Caddyshack, The Blues Brothers, Used Cars and Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie, all are classics.
You didn't question the start where the plane is taking off and the guy has the door open (but most watchers do). It was spoofing the start of a passenger train, with a guy dressed as a conductor at the bottom of the stairs, the plane making chuffing sounds, and the long farewells possible as it takes time for the train to pick up speed even while the coach doors can remain open.
Yes !!!
In the 80's there werea bunch of disaster movies - people trapped in high rises on fire, earthquakes, any fearful disaster scenarios you could think of... AIRPLANE!
So, it's on to the NAKED GUN films!
This movie came out in 1980. The disaster movies it spoofs were predominant in the 60s and 70s. Specifically the movie Airport! but also many others.
Allot of the jokes are era sensitive. Like the woman thinking her husband doesn't get a second cup of coffee at home is from a popular coffee commercial of the time. Also, the wall in the doctor's office is full of mayonnaise because it's the Mayo Clinic, a famous series of facilities.
And at the time, Radar Range was almost a generic term for microwave ovens.
How is the Mayo Clinic era sensitive? I'm a 33 year old Dane, who only watched Airplane for the first time about 1½ years ago and know what the Mayo Clinic is just from having Googled medical symptoms, lol. They're usually the top result.
@@VelkanAngels This was before internet and most people still watched broadcast tv news. The Mayo Clinic was often in the news for their experimental medicine and treatment of celebrities.
You might be surprised how re-watchable this is, because some of the gags just never get old, and when you re-watch, you will often catch a joke you missed the time before. I have been watching and re-watching this movie since I first saw it in 1980 when it came out. Have probably seen it well over 50 times, and I still enjoy it.
I just wanted to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.
My Husband and I saw this movie when we were dating- I remember us and the whole audience in hysterics… glad to see that the comedy still holds up after 40 yrs… dunno which was funnier- rewatching the movie, or watching your reactions! 👍
Why does everybody else dislike that bald guy , Johnny and his wisecracks? He always made me laugh! And groaning whenever Leslie says "... Stop calling me Shirley!" What is wrong with you? That is a classic line!
Tbh I never liked Johnny in the film. He was just so obnoxious but I also get that's the point of his character.
I do agree their groaning towards the "Don't call me Shirley" line was annoying. It's a classic.
Just found you guys and this is the fifth reaction of yours I watched in a row. Great reactions! And yes, this might be the funniest movie ever made.
This movie was a box office smash because there was no way to describe it to friends, and people went back over and over and brought more people. The theater experience was a party.
My favorite joke is when the reporters say, "Let's take some pictures." And they start taking them down off the walls. I don't know why that one more than any other but it really hit me hard.
And one little detail you may miss is that every time they show the plane from outside, you hear the sound effects of propellers, but the plane actually has jet engines.
I swear I was the only guy in the cinema laughing at the prop sound from the jet 😂
Some of the references you might have missed: The dance scene is a parody of "Saturday Night Fever," and the doctor's inspirational speech is a parody of "Knute Rockne, All American." The tribesmen were played by the Harlem Globetrotters. The woman who says her husband never has a second cup of coffee was the same actress from an old coffee commercial.
Everyone in the Film was playing it Straight .... Except Johnny!
This is one of the best comedies ever made! The fact that it got a PG rating is amazing. If this was made today it’s definitely getting a R.
"The nun has a guitar?"
The nun ALWAYS has a guitar.
After a number of watch throughs and even reactions like yours. I'm still in tears over many of the jokes.
I saw this movie three times in the movie theaters, each with a different group of friends and each time felt like my first as I watched their reactions as well as the entire audience's. I felt that way once again watching your reaction video. As others will probably have written below, there were so many references that are missed by younger audiences. One of the most missed is the wife and mother who comments on her husband having a second cup of coffee. She was the actress in the 1970s Yuban coffee commercials who used to comment the same thing. It would take up too much space to list all the references usually missed and again, I'm sure other comments will mention many of them.
My favorite gag in the movie is such a minor one -- a throwaway -- but it still cracks me up to this day. It's when the soldier tosses his watch to his girlfriend and she frets he'll need it, only to be told that it's okay; it doesn't work. The idea that someone would gift someone something that was broken and useless still puts a smile on my face.
I do want to float one possible reason for all the alcohol-named locations Ted Stryker mentioned in one of his flashbacks. Barbary Coast is both a place and a mixed drink, one very few bars know about. I think that was the reason all the other locations mentioned were named after liquor. Unless someone had a Barbary Coast (an incredibly strong, cream drink with equal parts of every type of alcohol), this connection remains missed. Then, I could be wrong and there was some other reason for those names.
Surely you can't be serious.
@@THOMMGB I am...and don't call me Shirley. 🤨
If you are looking for older comedies, consider: "Tootsie", "Bringing Up Baby", "Cowboy and the Lady", "Barefoot in the Park", "My Man Godfrey", "The Thin Man" (series), "Big"Splash", "Uncle Buck", "Singing in the Rain", "When a Man Answers", "Houseboat", "Heaven Can Wait", Easy Money" to start.
I don't know of anyone who can't watch Uncle Buck again and again. Out of your list of movies, that one seems to be the most re-watchable. I know if I'm flipping through the dial at home and happen across the movie playing, I'll settle in and watch it till the end. All your other movies are great choices as well, although I haven't seen Cowboy' and When a Man Answers. There's a stage version of Barefoot in the Park found on UA-cam with Richard Thomas and Bess Armstrong that is perhaps the best depiction and performance of that play/movie and it's highly recommended.
If I may, I would like to add It Happened One Night as a thoroughly romantic, screwball comedy to watch. Since discovering it on cable, I've purchased the DVD and watched this movie no less than seven times in the course of three years. It's simply charming, sharp (in that 1930's, NY manner) and an Oscar-winner to boot.
The Thin Man! I love all of those movies soooo much! Thank you for mentioning them.
"Arsenic and Old Lace" with Cary Grant and "The Ladykillers" with Alec Guinness belong on that list, too
Maybe also "North by Northwest", to get into Alfred Hitchcock's works.
It just occurred to me that "Singing in the Rain" is, in its own way, a spoof movie also, as the plot involves the transition from Silent Films to "Talkies." Some of the best ever dance routines are in that movie.
You are doing it right. One I'm sure you didn't catch was how the two leads met on the Isle of "Drambuie" which is a whiskey.
You should add the 1974 Mel Brooks send up of racism in Blazing Saddles.
There's another Mel movie Young Frankenstein. You'll get a lot out of both of those.
I had a lot of fun watching this with you guys...thanks for posting
The Mayo clinic was the famous heart transplant hospital, founded by Dr. William Worrall Mayo (and others) in the 19th century. I hope I don't insult your intelligence by pointing out that "mayo" is also short for "mayonnaise" including Hellman's, with jars and jars behind the doctor with the bouncing heart.
They are very young.
Oooh. I'm fairly certain that they are old enough to have heard the term "mayo" for mayonnaise, but I could be wrong. I hope we are not pointing out the obvious for them or coming across as condescending. BTW, we have a Mayo Clinic right here in Jacksonville, FL and they do so much more than just heart transplants. It's always ranked the #1 hospital in Florida. Their Cancer Unit is the best in the world; they even have the resources and training to treat Ebola patients. Their Neurology dept is unmatched as is their facility that treats diabetes. They pay big bucks and hire the best surgeons, research scientists and other specialists. BTW, their cafeteria is best I've ever eaten at from the extensive salad bar, to the grille, the deli, sandwich making station, you name it. Next time you come here, please visit our Mayo Clinic; it's close to the beach and you'll love their cafeteria so also bring your appetite.
@@dunhill1 Dude, I’ve said the same thing about the Cedars Sinai Los Angeles cafeteria food.
You guy's should watch Blazing Saddles. It's races AF but, hilarious. Richard Pryor wrote the script for the white people and Mel Brooks wrote the black
Nice story, but no. Richard Pryor wrote the Mongo scenes mostly. There is way more of it in the "Edited for TV" version. Pryor was the first choice for Bart, but the studio said no. Pryor was at the height of his drug problems, and he had a rep due to how raunchy his standup was. So the studio deemed him unreliable, and wouldn't approve casting him.
I laughed so hard watching this. You two got the kind of laughter where you try to talk but can't get the words out when the flight attendant knocked the tube out of the girls arm. I'm so glad I watched this, you guys made my day.
"Airplane" is one of the most compulsively rewatchable films ever made!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Blazing Saddles. Young Frankenstein; please.
This was a fantastic reaction for this movie, in fact.....it's one of the best! I'm subscribing! Your reaction to the song with the heart transplant girl was PRICELESS! That was EXACTLY the reaction to that scene in the theater I saw it when it came out in 1980, a packed house. You are one of the only reactors to do the post-credits scene, and your post-film conversation/analysis was also excellent. PS: There are great movies from every time period, even the silent era, some of the best ever. Every period has it's own style, it's own vocabulary, it's own perspective....and every period has it's ability to entertain and surprise. So I'm totally here for you to hit the "classics" from time to time. I'm class of '87, so believe me, the 80s and 90s were my "period", but I ALWAYS watched older movies, going back to the earliest stuff, and believe me, there was never a year where a great movie that totally holds up was released. When something can transcend time, be fresh and understandable, it's affirms something about our common humanity, and nowhere is it more evident than a comedy. This reaction is proof! And yeah, this wasn't a "cinematic" film, it was commercial movie....and they just crammed as many laughs as possible, no more, no less, you hit it on the head. That unto itself is an achievment. The 70s had a slew of fantastic, groundbreaking movies, definitely do not skip that decade at least. The horror movie "Carrie", from 1976, you guys would KILL on that one, for instance. "Dog Day Afternoon" with a young Pacino, you'd rock that one! Another super-hilarious comedy from 1980: "Caddyshack". DEFINITELY watch "Caddyshack", with Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield.......unbelievably hilarious. De Niro in Scorsese's "The King Of Comedy" from 1983, you guys would KILL on that one! Another wild, super cinematic comedy:: "Raising Arizona", the 2nd Coen Brothers movie with Nicholas Cage, FANTASTIC comedy! "Fargo" from 1997, or "Boogie Nights" from 1998 (or Tarantino's "Jackie Brown" from 1998 also!), you guys would knock those out of the park! Ok, sorry for the long comment, but you guys did a great "job" on this one, and I'll be seeing you 'round from time to time! I'm subscribed!
There is so much in this movie that people who didn't grow up in that era will miss. The second cup of coffee line, the appearance of Jimmie Walker (J.J.), the identity of the "I speak Jive" woman, the actual cameo of Ethel Merman, the identity of the person waiting in the cab...
But the genius of the movie is even though about half the jokes won't make sense to later generations, it still is funny as hell.
The director had a script for the two black guys but he said the script sounded too racist so the two actors said leave it to us and improvised all of their scenes.🤣😂
One of the greatest comedies of all time. Really set the stage for every parody that came after. And a movie that just couldn't be made in todays "politically correct" environment. I've seen a ton of reactions to this movie and you guys got most of the jokes, which is rare with younger reviewers. But no one seems to notice the propeller airplane noises in a jet airplane :)
Nice to see some young people enjoying this movie. Too many reacters watch it like they don't understand what a comedy movie is and sit confused through most of it.
You guys were fun to watch. And you even understood most of it, which is hard because the movie has gags that are specific to that time period.
It's nice to see that there are still young people watching and appreciating old stuff like this.
First movie I ever paid to see twice. We were rolling in the aisles.
You have to watch it over again for the things you missed, and there was things that were funny if you knew about some of the cast members and things that were lost if you were not alive in the 70s
Leslie Neilson was famous for his dramatic roles prior to this film, the producers wanted someone who wasn't a comedian who could deliver the lines as if they were serious ones.
The movie is so packed with so many little jokes, that everytime you watch it you catch some new joke. Like for example, the sound of the plane was a propeller plane despite it being a jet.
`some of the jokes you would have missed due to references to films that would have been popular at the time.
Leslie Neilson went on to do the Naked Gun series, which was a spoof of police dramas and are brilliant.
another spoof comedy of the time was Top Secret, which is Val Kilmer's first film.
Airplane! isn't A spoof comedy, it is THE spoof comedy film, everything afterwards was in attempt to replicate this film haha.
Another outrageous comedy that would never be made today, but is sheer brilliant is Blazing Saddles.....
You guys are so good at doing reactions to these. You haven't been doing this long but the quality makes it look like you've been doing it forever.
Now that you have watched Airplane, I suggest you watch the The Naked Gun ( from the files of Police Squad) series! The Zucker Brothers did all three of the movies! Hilarious! Also Wrongfully Accused, Scary movie one and two....very slap stick/deadpan comedy. You'll enjoy it!
The funny part about that post script was the man waiting in the cab was Howard Jarvis. He introduced Proposition 13 in California in 1978, cutting property taxes, and cutting tons of services, for which people were not to happy with, so having him stuck in the cab at the end, was satisfying!
Laughed my ass off watching this reaction. My favorite comedy of all time.
Hands down one of the greatest comedy movies ever made.
I love how no one who reacts to this even notices that whenever the plane starts to go out of control it sounds like a propeller plane instead of a jet, lol. If y'all liked this you should watch Police Squad, or it's movie spinoffs like The Naked Gun. Mel Brooks movies run along the same vein of humor as well and are a lot of fun.
This was the first ever spoof comedy. At first people were like wtf. Then you get into it and it's non-stop. Word of mouth made it huge back then. I'm curious to see if you young guys would enjoy even older movies. Big Business with Laurel and Hardy, or anything with Buster Keaton from silent film days. Challenge!
Enjoyed your review. 😄
Theres "Casino Royale" 1967 and "Murder by Death" 1976.
1932 Marx Brothers movie _Horse Feathers_ spoofed a well-known-at-the-time-but-now-lost film _The College Widow._
Mel Brooks and Monty Python might take issue with that. Also, apparently the first real spoof movie was one called The Little Train Robbery, made in 1905. It was a parody of The Great Train Robbery, made in 1903. I haven't seen it. They're probably both on UA-cam.
It's a brave person whom takes drinks while watching this for the first time. Every sip is one step closer to a spew.
Airplane is only super funny to watch again when you are with people who haven't seen it before. I laughed hard with you guys...
Although this movie makes fun of a whole lot things, including popular movies of the time, it actually was an almost one-for-one parody of Zero Hour, made in 1957. There is a scene-by-scene comparison between the two at: ua-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/v-deo.html - which makes some of the stuff in Airplane make more sense.
You can't watch "Zero Hour" without Pissing Your Pants after this!
@@jamesalexander5623 LOL - I don't know of any parody which copies the original so faithfully. The original story was by Arthur Hailey, who also worked on Airplane. Because both movies were owned by the same company, Paramount, copyright infringement of the original movie was not an issue.
If you guys want to do a deeper dive into older movies, you ought to check out 12 Angry Men. Absolute classic and pretty damn close to a 10 on my board.
Love this movie. I've seen it many times, and still laugh till it hurts even though I know exactly what's coming. Great reaction! I enjoyed watching it with you.
You guys are so so funny. Love it. So glad I discovered your channel. ❤
I think you guys would enjoy some of Mel Brooks' movies. Young Frankenstein, and a few other classics.
You can find the original scene from Airport 1975 (one of the many disaster films from that era) where a nun plays a guitar for a child (Linda Blair from The Exorcist) during the flight. It’s amazing how much funnier that scene was to me afterwards.
I second all nominations for Airplane 2 and any of the Naked Gun series staring Leslie Nielsen
Between the Airport movies and the film Zero Hour you can find most of the plot of this film.
I think the woman who played the nun.in that was singer/actress Helen Reddy.
@@chuckvelten5337 yes.
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Hi, the sick child was played by jill wheelan (she played in love boat ), linda blair played in an airport 1975 movie (a drama), it has almost the same movie title :)
"This movie is chaos. It started at a ten . . ." that is SUCH an apropos way to describe the hilarity and insanity that is Airplane. It came out years before I was even born, and I'm still finding such funny easter eggs and shit even up to today. I'm glad it holds up so well. I love younger people discovering and finding that, among the puns and silliness, there was genuine dark humor and filth. I mean, not that you don't believe things were filthy then, but every generation seems to believe they discovered sex and it's so much better when you can laugh at the fact that your grandparents/parents whatever were perverts too--in the funniest ways.
I've seen this when I young; when it first came out. I've seen it many, many times, and still love this movie. I even showed this to my nephew, and he loved it a lot as well. Even though; there's a lot of run on jokes, it was still funnier than I would have imaged this film to be. Forty years later; I still enjoy this film, but I enjoy watching others, like yourselves, watch it for the first time. Thanks for the laughs; this was fun. Also; the sequel wasn't as good, as far as movies go. They tried to hard to recreate this film, and totally missed the mark.
The reason why this film was so funny was; there was nothing like it at the time, and it was a parody of the Airport series of films. Airport was a part of the Great Disaster Film of the 70s; such films like The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), and Airport where all the rage. Airplane did for Disaster films; what Blazing Saddles did to the Westerns. But where Mel Brooks; the master of Spoof Comedy, was great at parodying a genre of films; Airplane only really attacked the Airport movies, with the exception of the Jaws beginning.
The reason why Airplane 2 failed; was it use the same main cast, bring back Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Leslie Nielsen, and keeping the same basic idea of, We need to land the plane, and Ted has to be the one to do it. Once again; Ted and Ellen are having troubles, and once again, Ted followers her on board. And once again; the crew becomes incapacitated, and Ted has to fly the plane. The only difference is; it's in space, and the AI ( a mock up of the HAL 9000 from Space Odysseys), was killing off the crew. The point being; it runs off the same ground; where the Airport movies had a different plane, and different crew, and a different problem; which is what made them so popular at the time. Although the rest of the cast was different; the base jokes where the same; kid in the cockpit with creepy pilot. Marriage problems between the main stars, the drinking problem. Were Airplane is funny on a second watch through; Airplane 2 wasn't as funny, as it did nothing new, which really hurt the film overall
Myself and friends watched this in the theater and laughed so much that our stomachs hurt all day.
The tacless skits had us surprised, agast & stund . I wasn't sure which jokes I dare laugh with and /or how loud?!
Flat out fun for the entire theater. No cringes or WTFs. I'm not sure if any person felt uncomfortable? The next school day, practically every kid
(all colors-faiths-values) were quoting Airplane! Through the week..! I was
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Looking forward too new reactions.
Viewing the two of ya together laughing, ribbing, simply sharing the moment.
Got me nostalgic and I called friends back home. So thank you both !
Great to see you guys laughing and enjoying yourselves so much! Airplane 2 is very funny in the same way.
The "smoking ticket" joke is my quintessential "dad joke before dad jokes had a name." The minute I saw that I was like, "yeah, this is my kind of movie." Glad you boys enjoyed it!
5 years before the movie, there was an actual food poisoning incident onboard a plane. Contaminated omelets caused nearly 200 people got sick. Fortunately, the plane was already near their destination and they were able to land quickly. It was by pure luck that the pilots didn’t eat the omelets. Their biological clocks were still on Alaska time and they ordered steak dinners instead. After the incident, a recommendation was made that the crew be served meals different from the passengers.
Hi guys from Melbourne, Australia. This is my first watch of your channel, loved the reaction.
I was only 10 when I saw this at the cinema as 'family entertainment' around 1980. It was called Flying High in Australia, not Airplane.
There was also a sequel (Flying High 2, The Sequel) with the same characters (and actors) in a space shuttle. Same kind of stuff.
'Arthur' was another movie out around the same time with inappropriate humour (albeit not a spoof movie) that I guarantee a watch.
Airplane is just one long Dad joke, and I'm here for it.
What's a dad joke? Do men have a different sense of humour after they have a baby?
@@5hanesBoard A Dad joke is a specific kind of joke that is highly context-dependant and where the punchline is usually really dumb/obvious/silly. Two examples would be a kid telling their Dad that they are bored, and the Dad replies with "hi bored, I'm Dad". Or, when at a location where people are dancing "I used to be addicted to the hokey-pokey. But I turned myself around."
I've noticed that Dad jokes tend to be predominantly told by males, and the frequency and quality of said jokes gets much higher once a guy becomes a Dad. Not sure why though.
This movie is a 90 minute long dad joke, and I love it! :)
I was a teenager when this came out, I loved it , I’ve carried that type of humour with me since I saw it, it’s great to see you 2 young men watch it with an open mind and appreciate the humour, it’s a shame mostly young society are consumed with such serious interpretations of everything , seeing the lighter side of life should never go out of style
Good to see you both belly laugh at this movie. My favorite part is with the lady getting slapped with a line of passengers with weapons waiting for their turn.
And that was her idea. Family Guy did a parody of it.
If you haven't seen The Godfather, you'd miss the parody presented by the woman waking up to a horse lying beside her - a spoof of the most iconic scene in that movie. (I won't spoil it for you by telling you more.)
It's a reference to have a side piece.
I remember seeing this movie in the theatre when it came out. Imagine an entire theater reacting just as you did.
31:11 - The man on the left in the airport tower control is actor Lloyd Bridges who is the father of Jeff Bridges who plays Kevin Flynn and Clu in Tron, and Tron: Legacy. There is a really excellent suspense/thriller with Jeff Bridges that you two should definitely check out. It's called "Jagged Edge" which also stars Glenn Close, Robert Loggia (from BIG), and Peter Coyote (from E.T.).
Many of the jokes are timeless, but many were specific to the time. Sometimes due to other roles the actors had played. Leslie Nielsen, now known for comedy, was a serious dramatic actor before this.
Not only is there a post-credit scene, there are jokes hidden in the credits, if you actually read them.