The problem with the Dog attacking the guy scene is.... nobody is ever paying attention to the rest of the scene. They completely miss the Mirror gag. Kramer is straightening up in the mirror, his wife is in front of him with her back to the mirror. We only see Kramer's reflection in the mirror. When Kramer is done straightening up his clothes he WALKS OUT OF THE MIRROR.
@@JakkFrost1 that's true. Isn't Contact's though just that the camera isn't seen in the mirror? I've only seen the movie a handful of times and didn't really know to look for the mirror til recently. I think if you are properly engaged watching the movie, you would see yourself as the camera and not even think twice about that one. Might depend how much you get into the movie I guess. I've seen Airplane! a crazy amount of times all my life and never noticed the Mirror gag. Then a couple years ago i was watching a reactor watch it. It suddenly stuck out to me and I had to rewind. The reactor of course didn't seem to notice. It's hard to tell sometimes. People will see things but not physically react. I've also watched a lot of Airplane reactions and I think maybe 1 saw it, but I'm not even sure if there was 1.
@@mattschliemann9683 The way Contact's trick is shot is, for lack of a better description, as if the camera is filming in the mirror "dimension". It precedes young Ellie up stairs and around corners into the bathroom, where the real Ellie comes into frame and shows we've been watching her reflection the whole time, from angles that should be impossible. The clip is on youtube, as well as several breakdowns of it.
The most Abbott & Costello bit in this movie is the exchange between Leslie Nielsen and Peter Graves. “How soon can you land this plane?” … “I can’t tell.” … “You can tell me. I’m a doctor.” Brilliant stuff~! 😆
The woman who speaks Jive was played by Barbara Billingsley, who was the beloved stay-at-home mother, June Cleaver, in the popular tv sitcom, Leave It To Beaver. Feminists despised her character up as the worse example of the role women were stuck in. Ms. Cleaver was always dressed up with an iconic string of pearls, when she did the housework. Her role as she saw it was to keep a happy home for her husband and boys, and always have dinner on time, in this nostalgic view of the idyllic all-American vanilla suburb. Having her able to speak jive was the MOST perfect choice to upend this character.
@@paulpeterson4216 At the time, beaver did not have the sexual connotation it does today. Apparently one of the producers heard a kid with this nickname and just liked it, although later they lamely tried to work it into a backstory. According to Wiki: "It was not until the finale that the writers invented an explanation for the nickname; i.e., as a young child, Wally mispronounced Beaver's given name (Theodore) as "Tweeter" and this became "Beaver." Mathers opined that after 6 years and 234 episodes, the writers could have come up with a better origin story."
Leslie Nielsen is a comedic genius. The way he delivers comedy is simply superb.cant help but wonder, how on earth he put a straight face all that time?
@@crovax1375 - yes. This movie showed that he can do comedy too. And the rest is history. Be that be naked gun or Dracula dead and loving it, or mr magoo, he gave some amazing performances
@crovax1375 "Airplane!" was my first introduction to Nielsen, I was about 10. Later on, seeing him act in earlier, and more serious roles was very weird. I kept waiting for something hilarious to happen. Then there was "Creepshow" dead serious in that.
I am old enough that I actually saw "Airplane" in the theater. True story, during the movie we actually experienced an earthquake and we learned we had had an earthquake only after leaving the theater because this film was so funny and wild. If you stick around to the end of the credits there is actually an after credit scene that pays off the guy waiting in the taxi gag too.
I saw it with friends in a packed House .... And couldn't hear half the Jokes .... Went back to an early show the next day, just to Hear what I missed!
The guy in the cab, Howard Jarvis, was a California politician who helped lower taxes and was known for preaching fiscal responsibility. The joke is that he waits patiently wasting his own money instead of doing anything about it like getting up
We were making so much noise the people in the theater next to door to us could hear us loud & clear & they stopped their film to have people sent over to find out what the hell is going on. We were pissing our pants laughing is what the hell was going on. They had to change movie times to reduce noise pollution in other films. There are jokes with-in jokes with-in jokes. i.e. Here's a few. The Egg Lady is not ill from eating fish. She has. - The Bird Flu. "Boy's Life" was a real magazine, 'Nun's Life' was not. & Howard Jarvis: the taxi passenger, a Calif. politician who's mandate in office was "Cutting Wasteful Spending".
This was Leslie Nielsen's first comedic role. He, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, and Robert Stack were all established dramatic actors, but had no comedies under their belt.
So, in that scene that Jaby mentioned where the guy was doing his laundry, the actor playing the air traffic controller in the foreground is a young Jonathan Banks from "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" along with at least 100 other credits. Just so's ya know.
Even in it's day, Airplane was in a class by itself. There was no joke they wouldn't do. Dumb jokes. Dad jokes. Edgy jokes. Surreal jokes (like the reporter holding the ice cream cone). Their nods to other films like Saturday Night Fever, From Here to Eternity and Knute Rockne - All American were funny to those who got it, but were still funny even if you didn't get the reference. Considering how many topical, late 1970s tropes were in the movie, it's aged surprisingly well. No doubt thanks to the timeless dumb jokes ("don't call me Shirley" etc). I am sorry no one ever watches Airplane! thru the end credits. It's the first movie I ever saw to have a post-credits end bump scene... Decades before Marvel movies made it a thing.
"Let's get some pictures." is such a devilishly simple joke but it gets me every time and I've seen this damn film like 50 times.. I highly suggest watching "Top Secret!" next, that's the hidden ZAZ masterpiece right there.
This was Leslie Nielsen's first comedic role. He had always been a serious dramatic actor up until then. They made fun of so many of the plots of airplane movies in this the fish dinner for example. There are many jokes in there you wouldn't get like the discussion about the coffee came from ubiquitous commercials for both the kids and the woman and her husband.
The "radar range" joke only makes sense for people who remember the old Amana Radarange brand of microwave oven. In fact, for a long time microwave ovens were called radar ranges because the technology for heating food co-evolved with shortwave radar. Fun bit of trivia to go with your comedy.
@@fighteer1 I have an Idea. They should add a supplemental section to the special features of the 4K Disc, that include things like that Coffee Commercial . Explain about Smoking and non-smoking seating areas, etc.
The "other guy" who decided to quit all his vices that week was screen legend Lloyd Bridges. One of his children is Jeff Bridges, our favorite Lebowski. The dude's dad abides. 😉
The two announcers in the beginning who were bickering over the red zone/white zone where the actual married couple who announced at LAX. Their voices were well-known (I've been told) by frequent flyers. The woman who says "strange, Jim never throws up at home" was the actual actress in a oft-seen commercial at the time for a brand of coffee. She laments that her husband doesn't want a second cup when it is her coffee, but will do so when it is any other brand.
"Looks like i picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue" the actor is Lloyd Bridges, father of actor Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, King Kong, et al). He was a well known dramatic actor back in the day.
He did many movies, lots of tv series, and tv movies, up to, and even after his death. He was in Airplane II, & both Hot Shots movies too. Beau Bridges is also his son, and a fine actor as well.
An extra dimension to the taxi joke: the passenger is Howard Jarvis, a political activist who promoted a California ballot proposition to reduce property taxes. He was associated with economy and thrift, just as Jack Benny was a generation or two earlier. So it's extra funny ripping HIM off.
This film along with Blazing Saddles was a huge staple of my childhood. One of those comedies that never fails to make me die laughing every single time.
This movie actually is fading quite a bit, because so many of the jokes were topical. The "white woman" who speaks jive is Barbara Billingsly, the mom from Leave it to Beaver. "He never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a coffee commercial of the day, WITH THOSE ACTORS. The guy that gets stranded in the cab was a politician that lead an anti-property tax campaign in California (Proposition 13). Most of the actors were playing the characters that they were typically typecast as, and part of the gag was that they were playing it straight. etc., etc., etc.
Nah. Lots of the jokes were very topical and don’t hit audiences anymore. But there are so many jokes it doesn’t matter and I don’t think anyone has ever gotten every joke
The joke concerning the dog was that it was a Golden Retriever, which are considered to be gentle and well mannered. The bit at the end about municipal bonds is more subtle. At the time there were major cities on the verge of bankruptcy.
What Mel Brooks said when he was asked if you could make _Blazing Saddles_ today is that they couldn't make it THEN, but they just went ahead and did it anyway without asking. It's always been edgy -- as was _Airplane!_ , though exactly which parts are edgy may change a little over time.
I still die laughing at the scene of the black guys speaking jive and then the old white lady translating for them. Also when that one passenger freaks out and all the other passengers are lining up to “calm her down” their own way.
The hysterical woman was originally only supposed to be slapped by one person, but the actress herself came up with the idea of having a line of people with increasingly more violent means and brought it to the director, who loved it.
Because back then the PG13 rating didn't exist. After Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom had violence that people considered too graphic for a PG the PG13 rating was introduced by Steven Spielberg of all people.
My parents dropped my sister and I off at the movies one Saturday afternoon to see this when we were 14 and 13 years old. I guess they thought it was just a goofy spoof film without anything crude or adult in it. Ha! We had such a good time laughing ourselves silly. And the jokes were often so racy, and there was even a nude woman seen briefly at one point. I'll never forget that. And it is still one of the greatest American comedy films made. It resulted in Leslie Nielsen doing the short lived TV sitcom "Police Squad", which had the same vibe and pacing as "Airplane!" did. Happily, the show did not have piped in fake laughs like so many other filmed shows had back then.
While this movie tends to parody a lot of disaster movies at the time, it actually was an almost frame-by-frame satire of the 1957 Zero Hour. On UA-cam, you can see scene v. scene of the two and watching this makes this movie make a bit more sense.
Also makes it funnier. I couldn't believe the food poisoning angle was actually the catalyst for an air disaster movie and thought it was totally made up for this one just to get the jokes going, but nope. A friend showed me the side-by-side comparison and I still watch it now and again for the hell of it.
The guy that had all the bad habits of sniffing glue and alcohol is Lloyd Bridges. He has two sons Beau and Jeff also actors. The guy from unsolved mysteries is Robert Stack. He was Captain Kramer.
16:34 "Slapping the hysterical passenger" was a key element of most airliner disaster movies, particularly _Airport_ movies; by the time they got to _Airport '77_ it involved big-name cast members (Brenda Vaccaro popping Lee Grant across the face).
This is still my favorite comedy movie of all time. Many of the jokes hold up today, even as others are really dated. It's incredibly raunchy for its PG rating, since PG-13 didn't exist at the time. I saw it as a kid and the adult humor went over my head. I was astonished to see just how dark it was when I rewatched it as an adult.
But I think that the only scene that simply wouldn't be able to be shown today is the one where the pilot is making sexually suggestive comments to the little boy.
That was not ‘a’ white lady, that was THE white lady. Barbara Billingsley played the mom on Leave it to Beaver. She’s the queen of white bread suburban housewives
I first watched Airplane in the 80s, and have done so innumerable times over the last few decades. It's still one of my all-time favorite comedies. Pretty much everyone in my family has watched it, and will quote it occasionally. When I was in wood shop class back in the 90s, there was one substitute teacher who didn't want to bother with supervising us. So he brought in the Airplane VHS and let us watch it instead. When the nude scene happened, I was the only kid who wasn't cheering/shocked by it. Good times.
Fun Fact: The guy operating the microphone in the scene with the guy doing laundry in the background is none other than the great Jonathan Banks. Yep... Mike from Breaking Bad.
They should do another movie like this now. What made this movie so funny is every actor was only known for dramatic roles and never did comedies. Even Leslie Nielsen had never done comedy before, and this was the first movie to put him on his destiny for spoofs which lasted the rest of his life. Also, they played the characters straight and weren't trying to be funny, but it was the lines in the script and the fact they said them so seriously with a straight face that made this forever a classic. The Zucker Brothers also did other spoofs that are hilarious like Top Secret, The Naked Gun Trilogy, Hot Shots 1 & 2 and Scary Movie 3 & 4. Although Scary movie 3 & 4 were done with a lot of comedic actors who were trying to be funny, so they may have been funny, but the overall feel of those 2 movies weren't as funny as past movies. Spoofs afterwards were just ridiculous except one movie in 2000 called Not Another Teen Movie which had the same formula as the Zucker movies and was hilarious also.
Love the reaction! This gem was on cable literally all the time when I was little. All the other comments have basically covered the trivia, but I always find it funny that most reactors miss the subtle “alcohol“ jokes - “drambuie off the barbary coast,” “bombing the depots at daiquiri“ etc lol
1:30 You talked over one of the funniest opening scenes, and you missed it: the two people talking over the PA system were arguing with each other instead of announcing flight information.
Doctors say, "The final written words at the very end of The End Credits have roughly a 14/86 chance of being, oddly enough, proportionally spaced as such; Altogether [Though there's only about a 28% chance of that]: So there."
Airplane was a parody of the Airport movies series (4 airplane disaster movies in the 70s). Nobody remembers the Airport movies but Airplane is regarded as one of the best comedies ever.
One thing that often goes unnoticed is the place names during the war. The dive bar was in Drambuie, and the depot they attacked (mentioned in the beach scene) was Daiquiri.
There's one sight gag in this movie that a lot of people overlook at 15:17 when Rex Cramer is standing in front of the mirror adjusting his suit and in the very next scene his reflection walks out through the mirror to leave. I had watched the movie a hundred times before I ever noticed that gag.
One Aspect of this movie that, unfortunately, got lost in the time is the fact that this was Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges' first time doing comedy since all of them were considered "serious" actors. Them showing up in this movie was a shock to most of the fans back them. And yes, That's Lloyd Bridges the Father of Bo and Jeff (The Big Lebowski) Bridges.
Greatest movie ever. :) Btw. that food poisoning thing is actually real, it happened once onboard an airliner. And because of that the captain and first officer always eats different meals. (atleast unless my memory of a documentary fails me)
The jive Brothers as they're called, actually created the dialect for the movie... In interviews they talk about how jive let's just terms and very short phrases, so they had to work really hard to make a language that actually made sense.... And wasn't just babbling
In the scene where they're all shaking ans slapping that woman, Leslie was only supposed to slap her once before walking off, but he thought it would make his scene funnier if he slapped her a second time, which they agreed with and kept it in the finished cut. Props to the lady for not breaking character and going with it!
@@jamesalexander5623 Thanks. I forget that most young people today have never heard of her. She had an over-the-top voice and personality and so was instantly recognizable to contemporary viewers back then despite her hospital patient getup.
I love that they didn't try to hide the fact that the dog is playing and having fun, they mustve been doing tug of war when he was lying on his back or had treats.
Today, if someone walked up to a ticket counter just before a flight departed and said “I want one ticket, no luggage”, they would immediately be arrested.
The "horse in the bed" wasn't exactly "random". But it WAS a "pun". When a sexually frustrated married women took a lover, the lover used to be called a "Stud". And "Stud" is another name for a male horse. (usually one specifically meant for breeding)
Prior to this movie, Lloyd Bridges ('picked the wrong week to quit...') is best known for his role in TV's 'Sea Hunt, as the dad to his real life sons Beau & Jeff "The Dude" Bridges. It is understandable that you would miss a lot of the joke references (TV and movie) as you weren't from that era.
yall need to do a nNked Guns run!!!! you are correct, you cant really make slapstick comesdies like this, atleast not thte same way. I really want a come-back of this style. it soooo dumb but its done sophiscadidly. Comedy is not easy.
A incredible Classic right from the opening scene with the Jaws homage to the end that still holds up. The Naked Gun movies should be next if you haven't seen them...
They wanted to use dramatic actors for the roles. So much so that Peter Graves would tell his wife he doesn't understand this at all. It's supposed to be a comedy yet no one is laughing except the directors. ... so when they had the screening his wife was cracking up and at the end she was like you don't get it.. the joke was you you were the joke
31:33 Absolutely, the flow is the key reason this movie is such a hit. Top Secret is an amazing movie of the same genre, but never really hit it like airplane since the flow of that movie is just all over the place
Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy. “Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”
The 2 black actors created the jive lines themselves then spent time teaching it to Barabara Billingsley. She used to play the quintessential suburban mom on Leave It To Beaver. It was even more hilarious for my generation to hear her speaking "jive" afyer watching that show. 😂
In later interviews, she told of how much fun she had doing this Jive scene. And if you went back in time to her Leave It to Beaver days, no one back then would believe her doing this Airplane scene some day, that there would be such a scene in the near future. (There is a Dick Van Dyke show a few years later than Leave It to Beaver, where the husband is thinking back to the days of when his son was born. He became convinced the hospital had mixed up his baby with another couple with a similar last name. The episode ends when the other couple shows up at the door, and then turn out to a black couple - neatly dressed in middle-class attire. The studio and network went nuts over whether they could do this, have an ordinary-looking African American couple on the show. They reluctantly did and it received one of the longest laughs and applause from the studio audience but it shows how far things had come to portray two black apparently-successful businessmen NOT as part of a bigger mixed group of businessmen.)
_Airplane!_ is over of the best comedy films of all time. I was fortunate enough to see it in cinema at its release. (Did you wait for the end of the credits...?) Are you aware of the film's background? The Zucker brothers were watching a late night movie on TV to parody late night TV commercials (some of the bits in _Airplane!_ are parodies of well known commercials of that time). They were watching during a showing of the 1957 movie _Zero Hour,_ which they began noticing *_its_* comedy potential, being so _very_ serious, that they literally bought the rights to its script, and it's literally a remake of that (storyline-wise); there are bits of dialogue straight out of the original _Zero Hour_ script. The slapped-woman bit was an homage to the movie _Airport 75_ where a hysterical woman gets unexpectedly slapped. Much of the veteran actors in the film were known for doing mega dramatic roles, so technically they're parodying the types of roles they were doing here. At one point Lloyd Bridges wondered aloud about _why_ it was supposed to be funny. Robert Stack, who really Got the dry wacky humour, clarified to Bridges that they (the experienced actors) were the jokes. After _Airplane!,_ it was tough to watch straight movies of Leslie Nielson (like 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵), and not find his delivery now funny. [The woman unsuccessfully applying make-up during all the turbulence... was the Zucker brothers' Mom...]
Two friends, my little sister and I saw this in the theater because The Empire Strikes Back was sold out. We loved this and when leaving we saw the TESB was almost starting. The 3 of them walked on in and what could I do but follow!😄 For about the first half hour I knew we'd be caught when 4 people complained there were no seats but that didn't happen.
I love when people experience this movie for the first time. The old lady that translates the jive is Barbara Billingsly. She played the mom in Leave it to Beaver, a TV show from the 50s and 60s Now y'all need to watch Blazing Saddles
Great movie. You two had me laughing along with you. You seemed to get most of the references. I’m 65, and even I had to google a few bits, some going back to the 1920s.
Airplane is (and likely will continue to be) the funniest movie of all time. It’s a bummer watching reactions to it and hearing reactors bring up how “they couldn’t do these jokes today”. I feel like we have to squash that mentality. Mike Birbiglia said it perfectly: you can joke about anything - as long as the joke is funny. Humor is the great unifier - it softens the sharp edges of reality and can make a wide variety of people relate to another by laughing at the same thing. I feel like the ratio of people who understand the joke and people who don’t is the same now as it was back in 1980, there’s just more of us now and everyone’s got the opportunity to be louder. So it only seems like society has become less tolerant of “edgy humor”, when in reality the vast majority of us can use our brains when watching comedy. (Or at least I really hope so)
There aren't many comedy movies that are as consistently hilariously funny on every viewing as Airplane! The movie is already a punchline for existing. Perfection!
Everyone misses the gag where the dog is attacking the guy and Robert Stack steps out of the mirror. And the white lady that speaks jive is Leave it to Beaver's mom.
Dude in the taxi is Howard Jarvis a California politician and businessman who was notoriously tight with money. A movie long joke as he is still in the taxi in a post credit scene. Has to be some sort of record for a payoff on a joke.
What's extra awesome about the older white woman translating jive (Barbara Billingsley) is that she played June Cleaver on the popular Leave It To Beaver show from 1957 to 1963. She was Beaver's mom. So, she was kind of Miss White USA back in day. So, big kick being old enough to have seen this back in the day and recognize her and the extra fun they were having.
My granddaughter and I watched it last night. At 13, I really didn't expect her to get all the jokes, but she did alright! She practically rolled on the couch when the June Cleaver said, "Oh, Stewardess! I speak Jive!" Oh, and the horse in bed has to do with The Godfather. Nobody ever gets that joke😢 When Rex Kramer tosses his cig and it explodes, its to show how tough and macho he is. He smokes explosives. This movie makes fun of a ton of tropes. The one where everyone is lining up to slap the hysterical woman (it was her idea btw) comes from movies from the 30s to the 70s. A woman shows anger, fear, and she gets slapped to get her back into control. I actually hate that one. Enjoyed the reaction so much, I watched it twice.
They did ask Mel Brooks about Blazing Saddles, and he said 'we couldn't make it THEN, but we did anyway.' , and other interviews where he's said how to deal with execs making demands 'agree, then don't do it. They'll leave happy and just forget. '
Blazing Saddles is satirical, intelligent and absurdist. Airplane is just plain mental and absurdist. Theyre both brilliant films but in totally different ways. People who think Blazing Saddles is racist have missed the point completely 🤦🏻♀️
When the plane starts up, and the guy keeps the door open to give last goodbye's to his sweetheart, the whole sequence is based on a steam locomotive on a passenger train. There is the traditional railroad conductor at the bottom of the stairs checking his pocket watch, telling the guy to "get aboard." The plane starts with chugging noises. And a passenger train back then could start and continue with a door or two open for awhile. I don't know planes but have read that while the plane (model) is that of a jet, the noise when it is shown flying is the drone of a propeller-driven plane.
every suicide attempt in this movie was a *harold and maude* reference. you aren't ready for THAT movie. Imagine a dark comedy THIS outrageous, if not joke packed
FUN FACT Director Cameo: Jerry Zucker, David Zucker (who made this movie): appear as the ground crew at the movie's beginning (they are the ones that direct the plane into the window of the terminal).
Love Jaby justifying his dating lol. "technically!" This is a movie that I can watch whenever it comes up. Truly a classic. I've been watching the latest Laker's Dynasty show and seeing Kareem portray his char in the movie actually in the show was great. I remember being a kid and going into the cockpit and getting those model planes. Those were some of my favorite memorabilia. Kinda surprised you didn't get the Godfather horse-bed joke.
The problem with the Dog attacking the guy scene is.... nobody is ever paying attention to the rest of the scene. They completely miss the Mirror gag. Kramer is straightening up in the mirror, his wife is in front of him with her back to the mirror. We only see Kramer's reflection in the mirror. When Kramer is done straightening up his clothes he WALKS OUT OF THE MIRROR.
Yeah, everyone misses that, just like they miss the mirror trick in Contact.
@@JakkFrost1 that's true. Isn't Contact's though just that the camera isn't seen in the mirror? I've only seen the movie a handful of times and didn't really know to look for the mirror til recently. I think if you are properly engaged watching the movie, you would see yourself as the camera and not even think twice about that one. Might depend how much you get into the movie I guess.
I've seen Airplane! a crazy amount of times all my life and never noticed the Mirror gag. Then a couple years ago i was watching a reactor watch it. It suddenly stuck out to me and I had to rewind. The reactor of course didn't seem to notice. It's hard to tell sometimes. People will see things but not physically react. I've also watched a lot of Airplane reactions and I think maybe 1 saw it, but I'm not even sure if there was 1.
@@mattschliemann9683 The way Contact's trick is shot is, for lack of a better description, as if the camera is filming in the mirror "dimension". It precedes young Ellie up stairs and around corners into the bathroom, where the real Ellie comes into frame and shows we've been watching her reflection the whole time, from angles that should be impossible.
The clip is on youtube, as well as several breakdowns of it.
When I first saw the film when it was released, as he steps through the mirror, it bent my brain and I was, "Wait, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵...?!" 😉
The older woman who spoke jive was Barbara Billingsley who played TV mom June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver.
I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.
Surely you can’t be serious
@@Raykin225I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.
I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
@@Raykin225he doesnt like being cslled shirley
I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.
The most Abbott & Costello bit in this movie is the exchange between Leslie Nielsen and Peter Graves. “How soon can you land this plane?” … “I can’t tell.” … “You can tell me. I’m a doctor.” Brilliant stuff~! 😆
Can't you take a guess?
Not for another two hours
You’re guess takes 2 hours?
The woman who speaks Jive was played by Barbara Billingsley, who was the beloved stay-at-home mother, June Cleaver, in the popular tv sitcom, Leave It To Beaver. Feminists despised her character up as the worse example of the role women were stuck in. Ms. Cleaver was always dressed up with an iconic string of pearls, when she did the housework. Her role as she saw it was to keep a happy home for her husband and boys, and always have dinner on time, in this nostalgic view of the idyllic all-American vanilla suburb. Having her able to speak jive was the MOST perfect choice to upend this character.
I was sad they edited that scene out of the UA-cam version. I know there isn't room for everything but that scene is iconic!
@@daverowe03 I grew up in that era but she had aged so much, I didn't realize it was her until after many first reactions.
I've read that the two guys were not given any lines, just said to wing it, when they spoke their version of Jive.
One thing that you could absolutely not get away with today is naming an under-age character Beaver-Cleaver.
@@paulpeterson4216 At the time, beaver did not have the sexual connotation it does today. Apparently one of the producers heard a kid with this nickname and just liked it, although later they lamely tried to work it into a backstory. According to Wiki: "It was not until the finale that the writers invented an explanation for the nickname; i.e., as a young child, Wally mispronounced Beaver's given name (Theodore) as "Tweeter" and this became "Beaver." Mathers opined that after 6 years and 234 episodes, the writers could have come up with a better origin story."
Leslie Nielsen is a comedic genius. The way he delivers comedy is simply superb.cant help but wonder, how on earth he put a straight face all that time?
The first time I noticed Him was in "Swamp Fox" a Disney TV Show.
He was also great with Debby Reynolds in "Tammy and the Bachelor"!
Airplane! was his comedy performance. Previously all of his roles was in serious drama movies like The Posiden Adventure
@@crovax1375 - yes. This movie showed that he can do comedy too. And the rest is history. Be that be naked gun or Dracula dead and loving it, or mr magoo, he gave some amazing performances
@crovax1375
"Airplane!" was my first introduction to Nielsen, I was about 10. Later on, seeing him act in earlier, and more serious roles was very weird. I kept waiting for something hilarious to happen.
Then there was "Creepshow" dead serious in that.
I am old enough that I actually saw "Airplane" in the theater. True story, during the movie we actually experienced an earthquake and we learned we had had an earthquake only after leaving the theater because this film was so funny and wild. If you stick around to the end of the credits there is actually an after credit scene that pays off the guy waiting in the taxi gag too.
I saw it with friends in a packed House .... And couldn't hear half the Jokes .... Went back to an early show the next day, just to Hear what I missed!
Wow, that was quite an experience! 💯👌🏻
The guy in the cab, Howard Jarvis, was a California politician who helped lower taxes and was known for preaching fiscal responsibility. The joke is that he waits patiently wasting his own money instead of doing anything about it like getting up
We were making so much noise the people in the theater next to door to us could hear us loud & clear & they stopped their film to have people sent over to find out what the hell is going on. We were pissing our pants laughing is what the hell was going on. They had to change movie times to reduce noise pollution in other films.
There are jokes with-in jokes with-in jokes. i.e. Here's a few.
The Egg Lady is not ill from eating fish. She has. - The Bird Flu.
"Boy's Life" was a real magazine, 'Nun's Life' was not. &
Howard Jarvis: the taxi passenger, a Calif. politician who's mandate in office was
"Cutting Wasteful Spending".
@@jamesalexander5623me too
This was Leslie Nielsen's first comedic role. He, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, and Robert Stack were all established dramatic actors, but had no comedies under their belt.
Actually, Leslie Nielsen had a guest appearance on MASH as a gung ho colonel. He was funny in that role. The name of the episode is The Ring banger.😊
So, in that scene that Jaby mentioned where the guy was doing his laundry, the actor playing the air traffic controller in the foreground is a young Jonathan Banks from "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" along with at least 100 other credits. Just so's ya know.
Even in it's day, Airplane was in a class by itself. There was no joke they wouldn't do. Dumb jokes. Dad jokes. Edgy jokes. Surreal jokes (like the reporter holding the ice cream cone). Their nods to other films like Saturday Night Fever, From Here to Eternity and Knute Rockne - All American were funny to those who got it, but were still funny even if you didn't get the reference. Considering how many topical, late 1970s tropes were in the movie, it's aged surprisingly well. No doubt thanks to the timeless dumb jokes ("don't call me Shirley" etc).
I am sorry no one ever watches Airplane! thru the end credits. It's the first movie I ever saw to have a post-credits end bump scene... Decades before Marvel movies made it a thing.
"Let's get some pictures." is such a devilishly simple joke but it gets me every time and I've seen this damn film like 50 times.. I highly suggest watching "Top Secret!" next, that's the hidden ZAZ masterpiece right there.
I second Top Secret
I've seen a hundred reactions to this and still nobody has picked up on Rex Kramer stepping out of the mirror before leaving home.
Neither have I!
I’ve seen some who caught it, but very few.
I have watched the full movie and then the numerous first-time reactions and totally missed it until I read someone's comments pointing it out.
Everyone always seems so focused on the dog mauling the other guy in the background to notice that.
got it on my first watch
This was Leslie Nielsen's first comedic role. He had always been a serious dramatic actor up until then.
They made fun of so many of the plots of airplane movies in this the fish dinner for example. There are many jokes in there you wouldn't get like the discussion about the coffee came from ubiquitous commercials for both the kids and the woman and her husband.
The "radar range" joke only makes sense for people who remember the old Amana Radarange brand of microwave oven. In fact, for a long time microwave ovens were called radar ranges because the technology for heating food co-evolved with shortwave radar. Fun bit of trivia to go with your comedy.
I'm trying to remember the Brand of Coffee that was.
@@fighteer1 I have an Idea. They should add a supplemental section to the special features of the 4K Disc, that include things like that Coffee Commercial . Explain about Smoking and non-smoking seating areas, etc.
@@thrummer1953 Hey, it's not exactly up to me, but I'd buy that.
“Taking things literally: the movie”
Everything in the movie is amazing
Taking things literally led to my drinking problem.
The "other guy" who decided to quit all his vices that week was screen legend Lloyd Bridges. One of his children is Jeff Bridges, our favorite Lebowski. The dude's dad abides. 😉
Another funny thing in this movie is that even though it’s a jet plane it sounds like a propeller plane.
The two announcers in the beginning who were bickering over the red zone/white zone where the actual married couple who announced at LAX. Their voices were well-known (I've been told) by frequent flyers.
The woman who says "strange, Jim never throws up at home" was the actual actress in a oft-seen commercial at the time for a brand of coffee. She laments that her husband doesn't want a second cup when it is her coffee, but will do so when it is any other brand.
Yuban coffee
"Looks like i picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue" the actor is Lloyd Bridges, father of actor Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, King Kong, et al). He was a well known dramatic actor back in the day.
He did many movies, lots of tv series, and tv movies, up to, and even after his death. He was in Airplane II, & both Hot Shots movies too. Beau Bridges is also his son, and a fine actor as well.
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My sister and i grew up watching four seasons of the Sea Hunt series from 1958.
@@Blue-qr7qe Good show. Both his sons had small roles in an episode or two, plus lots of other future famous actors got their starts with roles too.
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Same for my sister and me as well.
An extra dimension to the taxi joke: the passenger is Howard Jarvis, a political activist who promoted a California ballot proposition to reduce property taxes. He was associated with economy and thrift, just as Jack Benny was a generation or two earlier. So it's extra funny ripping HIM off.
Definitely a comedy classic.
"Nervous?"
"Yeah."
"First time?"
"No, I've been nervous lots of times."
A perennial classic. I don't know if this movie will ever not be funny 😂. Pretty much every joke lands.
This film along with Blazing Saddles was a huge staple of my childhood. One of those comedies that never fails to make me die laughing every single time.
This is the kind of movie that invented a genre and joke structure thats become so common place that people don't get how great this was in its time
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This movie actually is fading quite a bit, because so many of the jokes were topical. The "white woman" who speaks jive is Barbara Billingsly, the mom from Leave it to Beaver. "He never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a coffee commercial of the day, WITH THOSE ACTORS. The guy that gets stranded in the cab was a politician that lead an anti-property tax campaign in California (Proposition 13). Most of the actors were playing the characters that they were typically typecast as, and part of the gag was that they were playing it straight. etc., etc., etc.
Nah. Lots of the jokes were very topical and don’t hit audiences anymore.
But there are so many jokes it doesn’t matter and I don’t think anyone has ever gotten every joke
hospital? what is it?
"It's a big building with patients, but that's not what's important right now." lol dead.
The two Jive guys were hired and they were given what was going to be on the substitutes and they improvised all those scenes.
And taught Barbara Billingsley her Lines!
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The joke concerning the dog was that it was a Golden Retriever, which are considered to be gentle and well mannered. The bit at the end about municipal bonds is more subtle. At the time there were major cities on the verge of bankruptcy.
Holy shit, that's awesome! I didn't know about the Municipal Bonds joke... I thought it was just funny that Striker was offering investment advise.
What Mel Brooks said when he was asked if you could make _Blazing Saddles_ today is that they couldn't make it THEN, but they just went ahead and did it anyway without asking. It's always been edgy -- as was _Airplane!_ , though exactly which parts are edgy may change a little over time.
I still die laughing at the scene of the black guys speaking jive and then the old white lady translating for them. Also when that one passenger freaks out and all the other passengers are lining up to “calm her down” their own way.
The jive translator was the mother in Leave it to Beaver - a super vanilla sitcom in the 1950s and not an advice podcast run by a lesbian...
The hysterical woman was originally only supposed to be slapped by one person, but the actress herself came up with the idea of having a line of people with increasingly more violent means and brought it to the director, who loved it.
It blows my mind that this movie is rated PG. The 80's were a different time.
Because back then the PG13 rating didn't exist. After Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom had violence that people considered too graphic for a PG the PG13 rating was introduced by Steven Spielberg of all people.
My parents dropped my sister and I off at the movies one Saturday afternoon to see this when we were 14 and 13 years old. I guess they thought it was just a goofy spoof film without anything crude or adult in it. Ha! We had such a good time laughing ourselves silly. And the jokes were often so racy, and there was even a nude woman seen briefly at one point. I'll never forget that.
And it is still one of the greatest American comedy films made. It resulted in Leslie Nielsen doing the short lived TV sitcom "Police Squad", which had the same vibe and pacing as "Airplane!" did. Happily, the show did not have piped in fake laughs like so many other filmed shows had back then.
I won't call them a saner time than today... let's just say they were less insane than today.
It blows my mind that you think this should’ve had a different rating
The look on the boy's face when the girl says she takes her coffee black, like her men, just levels me flat every time.
It is one of the best one-off jokes. Just brutal for how out of left field it is.
Not gonna lie though, that's actually a really smooth way to reject someone's advances.
"We have clearance, Clearance." "Roger, Roger, what's our vector, Victor?"
While this movie tends to parody a lot of disaster movies at the time, it actually was an almost frame-by-frame satire of the 1957 Zero Hour. On UA-cam, you can see scene v. scene of the two and watching this makes this movie make a bit more sense.
Also makes it funnier.
I couldn't believe the food poisoning angle was actually the catalyst for an air disaster movie and thought it was totally made up for this one just to get the jokes going, but nope. A friend showed me the side-by-side comparison and I still watch it now and again for the hell of it.
So closely frame by frame that the producers bought the film rights to Zero Hour just to make sure they wouldn't be sued!
Disaster movies were BIG then - and this also related (for US audiences) to Airport (and sequel), Poseidon Adventure, the Towering Inferno.
I was sad that the scene with the old lady speaking jive was cut out of the UA-cam edit. That is probably my favorite scene of the whole movie.
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The guy that had all the bad habits of sniffing glue and alcohol is Lloyd Bridges. He has two sons Beau and Jeff also actors. The guy from unsolved mysteries is Robert Stack. He was Captain Kramer.
16:34 "Slapping the hysterical passenger" was a key element of most airliner disaster movies, particularly _Airport_ movies; by the time they got to _Airport '77_ it involved big-name cast members (Brenda Vaccaro popping Lee Grant across the face).
This is still my favorite comedy movie of all time. Many of the jokes hold up today, even as others are really dated. It's incredibly raunchy for its PG rating, since PG-13 didn't exist at the time. I saw it as a kid and the adult humor went over my head. I was astonished to see just how dark it was when I rewatched it as an adult.
But I think that the only scene that simply wouldn't be able to be shown today is the one where the pilot is making sexually suggestive comments to the little boy.
Same. I didn’t catch the darkness or the sexual innuendo.
And it’s such a classic that NPR did a retrospective for its 25th or 30th anniversary.
That was not ‘a’ white lady, that was THE white lady. Barbara Billingsley played the mom on Leave it to Beaver. She’s the queen of white bread suburban housewives
Obligatory "How have you not seen this?!"
I first watched Airplane in the 80s, and have done so innumerable times over the last few decades. It's still one of my all-time favorite comedies. Pretty much everyone in my family has watched it, and will quote it occasionally. When I was in wood shop class back in the 90s, there was one substitute teacher who didn't want to bother with supervising us. So he brought in the Airplane VHS and let us watch it instead. When the nude scene happened, I was the only kid who wasn't cheering/shocked by it. Good times.
Sure picked the wrong week to teach children
Fun Fact: The guy operating the microphone in the scene with the guy doing laundry in the background is none other than the great Jonathan Banks. Yep... Mike from Breaking Bad.
"The guy's all over the place... What an asshole!" 🤣
They should do another movie like this now. What made this movie so funny is every actor was only known for dramatic roles and never did comedies. Even Leslie Nielsen had never done comedy before, and this was the first movie to put him on his destiny for spoofs which lasted the rest of his life. Also, they played the characters straight and weren't trying to be funny, but it was the lines in the script and the fact they said them so seriously with a straight face that made this forever a classic. The Zucker Brothers also did other spoofs that are hilarious like Top Secret, The Naked Gun Trilogy, Hot Shots 1 & 2 and Scary Movie 3 & 4. Although Scary movie 3 & 4 were done with a lot of comedic actors who were trying to be funny, so they may have been funny, but the overall feel of those 2 movies weren't as funny as past movies. Spoofs afterwards were just ridiculous except one movie in 2000 called Not Another Teen Movie which had the same formula as the Zucker movies and was hilarious also.
This is one of my most quoted films ever. Even the end credits have so many jokes in it.
Love the reaction! This gem was on cable literally all the time when I was little. All the other comments have basically covered the trivia, but I always find it funny that most reactors miss the subtle “alcohol“ jokes - “drambuie off the barbary coast,” “bombing the depots at daiquiri“ etc lol
They didn't show the lady inflating the Autopilot. Hahaha
1:30 You talked over one of the funniest opening scenes, and you missed it: the two people talking over the PA system were arguing with each other instead of announcing flight information.
So sad that today we won’t get a masterpiece like this.
Oh and the missing Autopilot scene 😂
I met the lead actor pilot at comic con. I got his autograph on my copy of Airplane
Please tell me you both saw the movie to the very END of the credits -- there is one final scene after the credits roll that is HILARIOUS!!
Well, Ill Give'em another 20 Minutes .... But That's It!
@@jamesalexander5623 LOLLLL yes! That was hilarious!
Doctors say,
"The final written words at the very end of The End Credits have roughly a 14/86 chance of being, oddly enough, proportionally spaced as such;
Altogether
[Though there's only about a 28% chance of that]:
So there."
Airplane was a parody of the Airport movies series (4 airplane disaster movies in the 70s). Nobody remembers the Airport movies but Airplane is regarded as one of the best comedies ever.
One thing that often goes unnoticed is the place names during the war. The dive bar was in Drambuie, and the depot they attacked (mentioned in the beach scene) was Daiquiri.
I've heard of daiquiris, but never Drambuies. I just assumed it was a real place! 🤗
@@isoldejaneholland8370 It's the brand name for a liqueur made from Scotch
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Hmm, thank you.
There's one sight gag in this movie that a lot of people overlook at 15:17 when Rex Cramer is standing in front of the mirror adjusting his suit and in the very next scene his reflection walks out through the mirror to leave. I had watched the movie a hundred times before I ever noticed that gag.
One Aspect of this movie that, unfortunately, got lost in the time is the fact that this was Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges' first time doing comedy since all of them were considered "serious" actors. Them showing up in this movie was a shock to most of the fans back them. And yes, That's Lloyd Bridges the Father of Bo and Jeff (The Big Lebowski) Bridges.
Greatest movie ever. :)
Btw. that food poisoning thing is actually real, it happened once onboard an airliner. And because of that the captain and first officer always eats different meals. (atleast unless my memory of a documentary fails me)
The jive Brothers as they're called, actually created the dialect for the movie... In interviews they talk about how jive let's just terms and very short phrases, so they had to work really hard to make a language that actually made sense.... And wasn't just babbling
In the scene where they're all shaking ans slapping that woman, Leslie was only supposed to slap her once before walking off, but he thought it would make his scene funnier if he slapped her a second time, which they agreed with and kept it in the finished cut. Props to the lady for not breaking character and going with it!
He actually made contact on one of the slaps. She rolled with it.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar was in the movie because he was trying to buy a $35,000 rug. No lie. LOL
Roger!
In the hospital, the guy who thinks he is Ethel Merman was played by Ethel Merman.
Big Broadway Star .... Big Voice!
@@jamesalexander5623 Thanks. I forget that most young people today have never heard of her. She had an over-the-top voice and personality and so was instantly recognizable to contemporary viewers back then despite her hospital patient getup.
I love that they didn't try to hide the fact that the dog is playing and having fun, they mustve been doing tug of war when he was lying on his back or had treats.
It was the world's only "viscious" Golden Retriever 😂
the "white lady speaking jive" is the actress who played June Cleaver, the mother on the "Leave It To Beaver" TV show.
'They really got mayo.' ++ because so few, so few reactors show they noticed this.
"no, that's just what they'll be expecting us to do" is such an underrated line in this movie. it's so funny.
The guy sniffing glue is none other than Lloyd Bridges - a fantastic actor in his own right and the father of Jeff "The Dude" Bridges.
Today, if someone walked up to a ticket counter just before a flight departed and said “I want one ticket, no luggage”, they would immediately be arrested.
The "horse in the bed" wasn't exactly "random". But it WAS a "pun".
When a sexually frustrated married women took a lover, the lover used to be called a "Stud".
And "Stud" is another name for a male horse. (usually one specifically meant for breeding)
Also, the horse was hung like, well, a horse.
I figured it was a straight-up Godfather reference… assuming this movie came out _after_ the first Godfather.
Prior to this movie, Lloyd Bridges ('picked the wrong week to quit...') is best known for his role in TV's 'Sea Hunt, as the dad to his real life sons Beau & Jeff "The Dude" Bridges. It is understandable that you would miss a lot of the joke references (TV and movie) as you weren't from that era.
yall need to do a nNked Guns run!!!! you are correct, you cant really make slapstick comesdies like this, atleast not thte same way. I really want a come-back of this style. it soooo dumb but its done sophiscadidly. Comedy is not easy.
A incredible Classic right from the opening scene with the Jaws homage to the end that still holds up.
The Naked Gun movies should be next if you haven't seen them...
And Top Secret
CinePals is watching "Airplane!"?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit reaction videos.
BOOM!
This film succeeds by having the actors play it straight while the humor is in the background
They wanted to use dramatic actors for the roles. So much so that Peter Graves would tell his wife he doesn't understand this at all. It's supposed to be a comedy yet no one is laughing except the directors. ... so when they had the screening his wife was cracking up and at the end she was like you don't get it.. the joke was you you were the joke
31:33 Absolutely, the flow is the key reason this movie is such a hit. Top Secret is an amazing movie of the same genre, but never really hit it like airplane since the flow of that movie is just all over the place
You’re right. Top Secret is such an underrated classic.
Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy.
“Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”
Oh my Gosh I didn't think anyone under fifty plus would give this comedy masterpiece/classic a chance
The 2 black actors created the jive lines themselves then spent time teaching it to Barabara Billingsley. She used to play the quintessential suburban mom on Leave It To Beaver. It was even more hilarious for my generation to hear her speaking "jive" afyer watching that show. 😂
In later interviews, she told of how much fun she had doing this Jive scene. And if you went back in time to her Leave It to Beaver days, no one back then would believe her doing this Airplane scene some day, that there would be such a scene in the near future. (There is a Dick Van Dyke show a few years later than Leave It to Beaver, where the husband is thinking back to the days of when his son was born. He became convinced the hospital had mixed up his baby with another couple with a similar last name. The episode ends when the other couple shows up at the door, and then turn out to a black couple - neatly dressed in middle-class attire. The studio and network went nuts over whether they could do this, have an ordinary-looking African American couple on the show. They reluctantly did and it received one of the longest laughs and applause from the studio audience but it shows how far things had come to portray two black apparently-successful businessmen NOT as part of a bigger mixed group of businessmen.)
Don't call me Shirley! One of the most repeated lines from any movie.
I really enjoy how you both laugh hysterically at different things, rarely together.
9:25 My favorite scene from the move. Kareem is a decent actor, though he's playing himself.
_Airplane!_ is over of the best comedy films of all time. I was fortunate enough to see it in cinema at its release.
(Did you wait for the end of the credits...?)
Are you aware of the film's background?
The Zucker brothers were watching a late night movie on TV to parody late night TV commercials (some of the bits in _Airplane!_ are parodies of well known commercials of that time). They were watching during a showing of the 1957 movie _Zero Hour,_ which they began noticing *_its_* comedy potential, being so _very_ serious, that they literally bought the rights to its script, and it's literally a remake of that (storyline-wise); there are bits of dialogue straight out of the original _Zero Hour_ script.
The slapped-woman bit was an homage to the movie _Airport 75_ where a hysterical woman gets unexpectedly slapped.
Much of the veteran actors in the film were known for doing mega dramatic roles, so technically they're parodying the types of roles they were doing here. At one point Lloyd Bridges wondered aloud about _why_ it was supposed to be funny. Robert Stack, who really Got the dry wacky humour, clarified to Bridges that they (the experienced actors) were the jokes. After _Airplane!,_ it was tough to watch straight movies of Leslie Nielson (like 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵), and not find his delivery now funny.
[The woman unsuccessfully applying make-up during all the turbulence... was the Zucker brothers' Mom...]
Two friends, my little sister and I saw this in the theater because The Empire Strikes Back was sold out. We loved this and when leaving we saw the TESB was almost starting. The 3 of them walked on in and what could I do but follow!😄 For about the first half hour I knew we'd be caught when 4 people complained there were no seats but that didn't happen.
I love when people experience this movie for the first time. The old lady that translates the jive is Barbara Billingsly. She played the mom in Leave it to Beaver, a TV show from the 50s and 60s
Now y'all need to watch Blazing Saddles
So happy y’all got a kick out of Johnny, he’s so funny , thanks again
Steven Stucker, a comedy genius.
Johnny is the only Character that is Not playing it Straight!
Johnny Hinshaw, Agent of Chaos.
Great movie. You two had me laughing along with you. You seemed to get most of the references. I’m 65, and even I had to google a few bits, some going back to the 1920s.
Awesome reaction!!
I vote YES for The Naked Gun, and The Police Academy 1 through 3, they are pretty good!!
Airplane is (and likely will continue to be) the funniest movie of all time. It’s a bummer watching reactions to it and hearing reactors bring up how “they couldn’t do these jokes today”. I feel like we have to squash that mentality. Mike Birbiglia said it perfectly: you can joke about anything - as long as the joke is funny.
Humor is the great unifier - it softens the sharp edges of reality and can make a wide variety of people relate to another by laughing at the same thing. I feel like the ratio of people who understand the joke and people who don’t is the same now as it was back in 1980, there’s just more of us now and everyone’s got the opportunity to be louder. So it only seems like society has become less tolerant of “edgy humor”, when in reality the vast majority of us can use our brains when watching comedy. (Or at least I really hope so)
There aren't many comedy movies that are as consistently hilariously funny on every viewing as Airplane! The movie is already a punchline for existing. Perfection!
Part of the reason Blazing Saddles got away with their jokes was that it was co-written by Richard Pryor.
It was supposed to Star Richard Proyer too but his hard partying made the studio nervous that he would be unreliable
"Well dressed children make me nervous" needs to go on a t-shirt.
I _just_ learned what that scene was about. It’s a near-perfect replica of a scene from “Crash Landing”(1958), just adding “like my men” at the end.
Everyone misses the gag where the dog is attacking the guy and Robert Stack steps out of the mirror. And the white lady that speaks jive is Leave it to Beaver's mom.
Dude in the taxi is Howard Jarvis a California politician and businessman who was notoriously tight with money. A movie long joke as he is still in the taxi in a post credit scene. Has to be some sort of record for a payoff on a joke.
Naked Gun is an absolute must! :)
What's extra awesome about the older white woman translating jive (Barbara Billingsley) is that she played June Cleaver on the popular Leave It To Beaver show from 1957 to 1963. She was Beaver's mom. So, she was kind of Miss White USA back in day. So, big kick being old enough to have seen this back in the day and recognize her and the extra fun they were having.
the cigarette exploding outside is probably because kerosine leaks on the rollway were maybe common.
When Rex Kramer is around, it’s not just secondhand smoke that’s a danger to others. 😄
My granddaughter and I watched it last night. At 13, I really didn't expect her to get all the jokes, but she did alright! She practically rolled on the couch when the June Cleaver said, "Oh, Stewardess! I speak Jive!"
Oh, and the horse in bed has to do with The Godfather. Nobody ever gets that joke😢
When Rex Kramer tosses his cig and it explodes, its to show how tough and macho he is. He smokes explosives.
This movie makes fun of a ton of tropes. The one where everyone is lining up to slap the hysterical woman (it was her idea btw) comes from movies from the 30s to the 70s. A woman shows anger, fear, and she gets slapped to get her back into control. I actually hate that one.
Enjoyed the reaction so much, I watched it twice.
They were in an airport, which is basically a gas station for planes. So I always thought the joke was that the cigarette blew something up.
They did ask Mel Brooks about Blazing Saddles, and he said 'we couldn't make it THEN, but we did anyway.' , and other interviews where he's said how to deal with execs making demands 'agree, then don't do it. They'll leave happy and just forget. '
Blazing Saddles is satirical, intelligent and absurdist. Airplane is just plain mental and absurdist. Theyre both brilliant films but in totally different ways. People who think Blazing Saddles is racist have missed the point completely 🤦🏻♀️
gave new meaning to the term bored to death.
I never realized Jimmy Walker was washing that window. Thanks Syntell!
When the plane starts up, and the guy keeps the door open to give last goodbye's to his sweetheart, the whole sequence is based on a steam locomotive on a passenger train. There is the traditional railroad conductor at the bottom of the stairs checking his pocket watch, telling the guy to "get aboard." The plane starts with chugging noises. And a passenger train back then could start and continue with a door or two open for awhile.
I don't know planes but have read that while the plane (model) is that of a jet, the noise when it is shown flying is the drone of a propeller-driven plane.
The song that the stewardess was singing to the sick girl is about the Jordan River. The Jordan river is symbolic of death.
Leslie Nielsen and Lloyd Bridges were, are, and will always be the kings of parody comedies. Both sadly missed.
every suicide attempt in this movie was a *harold and maude* reference. you aren't ready for THAT movie. Imagine a dark comedy THIS outrageous, if not joke packed
FUN FACT Director Cameo: Jerry Zucker, David Zucker (who made this movie): appear as the ground crew at the movie's beginning (they are the ones that direct the plane into the window of the terminal).
Love Jaby justifying his dating lol. "technically!"
This is a movie that I can watch whenever it comes up. Truly a classic. I've been watching the latest Laker's Dynasty show and seeing Kareem portray his char in the movie actually in the show was great.
I remember being a kid and going into the cockpit and getting those model planes. Those were some of my favorite memorabilia.
Kinda surprised you didn't get the Godfather horse-bed joke.