Well, we're up to 1.4K pelvic exams. That's more than 5 pelvic exams a day for a year (with weekends off). I don't know if that's below or above average for a typical obgyn.
I didn't hit the thumps up button. I did what Johnny (actor Steven Stucker died April of 1986) would say if he was still with us today: *"NO THANKS. DON'T NEED A PELVIC EXAM".*
There's so many dated and underlying jokes in this movie that younger audiences of today can't possibly appreciate because of the time gap. One example is the older woman who "speaks jive" to the black guys is Barbara Billingsley. The audience in 1980 would all know that she played June Cleaver in the 1950's T.V. show "Leave It To Beaver". She was the epitome of the white, suburban, nuclear family house wife who wore a dress and pearls just to vacuum the house and clean the kitchen. The notion that she, of all people, can speak JIVE just made the scene that much more hilarious.
@@jenmurrayxo So true. Good old slapstick, sight gags and puns are timeless. If you go on to watch Airplane II, the sequel, it actually has my favorite onscreen sight gags of all-time involving a scene with William Shatner. Too funny.
I think she works as a grandmotherly figure even if you don't know who it is specifically. Now, a gag that really is lost on people today (I'm 42 and I had to have it explained to me when I first watched this movie as a teen) was "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" / "Jim never vomits at home," which was a parody of a commercial of the time that no one remembers now.
First reactor who recognized Peter Graves from Mission Impossible series... Thanks, Jen's dad! Also, at 21:38, Timmy's coffee is a treat! Another great reaction.
@@jenmurrayxo It's just too bad you missed the post-credit scene. Don't worry though, very few reactors actually notice it. It was back before post-credit scenes were a thing. It shows the guy from the taxi still sitting there when he says that he's going to give him just another 20 min. lol
@@bobd2659 Howard Jarvis was a tax policy lobbyist. He is most notable for being the driving force behind California's Proposition 13, which drastically slashed property tax rates. He hard the simple-minded belief that this would cause landlords to pass the savings along to renters. Predictably, they didn't do this. Communities, school districts, and the like suffered budget shortfalls all over the state, especially when voters shot down bond measures designed to make up the shortfalls. That was basically his legacy - voters had to pass bond measures (which always led to couples like Sue and me with a net loss) or watch government services crumble and left voters frustrated. Whenever I watch this hilarious film, I get a flash of annoyance when I see his face, washed away by the amusement of watching Jarvis just setting in the taxi, alone and ignored, while the meter sits - there, totting up the increasing dollars and cents as his fare steadily uses.
It would have capped the price of houses, since no middle class family could afford the property tax each year; the median price per square foot for a single-family house has risen 310% since 1980 in California. It would have stymied growth in Southern Cal. in 1980 the average price of a home in California was under 50K. The average salary was 12K. The average person couldn't pay a higher percentage in property tax. The end of private single-family home ownership would have ended and everyone would have been in apartments forever paying the landlord rent. This is happening right now across the USA. @@akaSlasher
Ethel Merman was a famous Broadway and film actor. This was her last movie. There's something brilliant about the idea of her last role playing a person who thinks they're Ethel Merman.
The Zucker brothers actually bought the rights to a 1950s movie called "Zero Hour!" in order to spoof it without breaking any copyright laws. Besides the jokes, puns and sight gags, most of the film is word-for-word from the original film, and delivered in the same deadpan style. This movie "discovered" the comedic talents of Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves, all of whom had been serious dramatic actors with lengthy careers previous to this film. Numerous deadpan-style comedies followed, most notably the Naked Gun and Hot Shots series. Also, the lady that "spoke Jive" was Barbara Billingsley, the wholesome mom in the "Leave it to Beaver" series from the 50s. The guy checking under the airplane's hood was a cameo by Jimmie Walker from the 70s sitcom "Good Times", famous for his line, "Dyn-o-mite!" "I feel like I've seen him before..." The actor playing the Hare Krishna that you recognized was comedian David Leisure, who became famous in the 80s for a series of automobile ads as the lying car salesman "Joe Isuzu." The first time I ever saw the movie, I was laughing so hard I definitely missed half the jokes and had to watch it again. There are a lot of gags in it that were in the background (blink or you'll miss it jokes), and some of them were very "70s" jokes that don't work well unless you know the 70s, but most of them are still funny today.
Several months ago I had to go to the emergency room, and when I was checking in the nurse asked my what was wrong. I said I was having a problem with my bowel and when she asked, "What is it?" I could not resist. I said, "It's a long tube inside your body where your food goes. But that's not important right now." totally deadpan. Her eyes got big, her mouth dropped open, she smiled and said, "I love that movie." Her reaction was like, "Oh my god, I can't believe that just happened in real life!" To be honest, I was feeling the same it. It was a lot of fun actually. I'm so glad it worked. She picked up the reference instantly.
One of the most pervasive, yet subtlest running jokes of the movie is every time there's an external shot to the plane, they have the drone of propellers, even though it is a jet engine plane.
Lorna Patterson who played "Randy" really did sing "The River of Jordan". That's her voice. --- Robert Hays who played "Ted Striker" is a pilot in real life and is qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft..
You'll see a lot of references in this movie. The line "Win one for the Zipper" was based on a movie that starred Ronald Reagan playing real life college football player George Gipp. Knute Rockney, coach, was visiting Gipp in the hospital due to an illness. Gipp told Rockney that if his team was down, "Win one for the Gipper."
I often wonder how much younger audiences miss due to being references to old movies and, for instance coffee commercials. Some of the references this movie makes were old back in 1980 (like the Gipper scene). Even the casting of actors like Peter Graves and Lesley Nelson (now known overwhelmingly for these parodies) were references to the older disaster movies they often starred in.
The beauty of this disaster movie spoof is the fact that the cast do such a fantastic job of playing their roles completely straight and dramatic as if they were in a serious disaster film. It's genius and allows the jokes to land perfectly, and you can imagine it wasn't an easy task for the actors (except maybe Leslie Nielsen) since they all knew the film was a comedy.
Good memory, Jen. You're correct about the pilot being in the old Mission Impossible shows. He played Mr. Phelps, the guy who listened to the tape recordings before they self-destructed.
Julie Hagerty who played Elaine is also in a hilarious movie you should check out called "What About Bob?". It stars Bill Murray as a neurotic patient with multiple phobias and Richard Dreyfuss as a self-involved psychiatrist. It's a blast!
This movie happily ruined me when I saw Titanic in the theatre. The part where DiCrapio is dancing with Winslet and we get the same POV shot, I burst out laughing because the same scene from Airplane was so ingrained in me. Fortunately there were a few others in the audience that laughed as well. I like to think that it was for the same reason. And honestly, to this day, when I see a wide-shot of people smiling, I instantly imagine someone coming into frame... from the ceiling ;) -loved yer laugh.
Yes, you may have missed what happened after the end credits ... the guy in the taxi appears, looks at his watch and says , "Ill give him 20 more minutes and then that's it"
@@jenmurrayxo The guy in the taxi was Howard Jarvis. He was a California activist for fiscal responsibility from the government (most famous for California's "Proposition 13", which tied property tax to the purchase price of the property: previous to this California had hiked property taxes several times, enraging voters). So it was an in-joke to Californians, this well-known advocate for fiscal responsibility letting his taxi bill go up and up.
After a decade of disaster movies this was a breath of fresh air. This was a slapstick monster.. ZAZ raised the bar for stupid humor and reinforced Three Stooge mentality for sickos like me. Thanx guys! Launched Leslie Nielsen into comedic career after three decades in drama. ENJOY!
Interesting that you mentioned the Three Stooges, because the only thing that could have topped the humor in this movie is a repeat of their scene from Its a Mad, Mad World. ua-cam.com/video/LOfsNiQxfAo/v-deo.html
Airplane(1980) is a spoof of 1970's disaster epics(Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, The Swarm, City on Fire). It's also a spoof of the 1958 film Zero Hour.
5:06 Yes that’s Peter Graves from the TV show, Mission Impossible. His brother was James Arness who played Matt Dillon on the TV western Gunsmoke. It was on the air for about 25 years (plus several years on the radio prior to that). It was the longest running TV show for many years until it was beaten by the Simpsons.
A sequel to Airplane was made 2 years later called Airplane 2 The Sequel. Ted, Elaine, the creepy pilot, Lloyd Bridges, Johnny all come back but instead of Leslie Nielsen, you have William Shatner stealing the show. You should check that one out.
The music is by legendary composer Elmer Bernstein. He had a LONG career composing film scores including scores for movies like The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill A Mockingbird...
You literally quoted a Friends episode there! Jen: “I love that it’s not just ‘Airplane’, it’s ‘Airplane!’” Phoebe Buffay: “The exclamation point in the title kinda scares me, it’s not just ‘Freud’, it’s ‘Freud!’” That is all 😂
There were jokes throughout the credits abd a post credits scene. Yes, you will realize jokes after many views. I first saw this back in 1981 and just recently noticed that when we meet Rex Cramer, he is in front of a mirror, then when leaving he steps through it. The same team made the equally funny but more insane Top Secret!
A lot of the humor in this movie is missed because younger audience members (those watching the movie ten years after it was released) miss the references. The co-pilot was a famous basketball player (just as the assassin baseball player in The Naked Gun was a famous baseball player), the second-cup-of-coffee bit starred the actress who did the same kind of commercials for Yuban coffee and actors Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all serious actors in serious movie and television roles. Having the original Mr. Phelps from TV's Mission: Impossible innocently ask a kid if he ever saw a grown man naked was what rocked audiences when this movie was released. There's also a bit of a carry through having Leave It To Beaver's mother translating jive as the actor who played her oldest son was in the director's previous Kentucky Fried Movie (written and acted by the three and directed by John Landis) playing that role in a court room scene. I'm sure others on this comment section will fill you in on more references, particularly the Zero Hour ones which also included unaltered lines from that movie.
I remember watching this movie, laughing to tears for many years back in the 80s. Seemed I caught something new and funny every time I rewatched it. So far, every reaction for it has been lame, mostly due to none of these "kids" getting the references of the old days. The two funniest moments IMO is Striker sitting at the bar and asks the guy next to him to pinch him for he must be dreaming. The joke there is totally missed by many these days. Then there is the Miss Cleaver speaking jive. My God, I don't remember laughing that hard since seeing that in the theater. lol Some of the best comedic moments are completely missed. Such a shame, but at least we got to enjoy it.
The lady getting all that makeup on her face was Charlotte Zucker. Her sons, Jerry and David, were two of the directors of this film. She would also pop up in later films they also directed and/or produced. The captain at the airport, Rex Kramer, was played by Robert Stack. He would be known in the late 80s and through most of the 90s as the host/narrator of "Unsolved Mysteries", a documentary series which showed re-enactments of real life cases that had gone unsolved for long periods of time. The show recently had a brief revival on Netflix, but it was a little different from the original with Robert Stack.
Robert Stack was in a lot of movies during the 1940s and 50s. I first remember seeing him when he played the Federal agent Eliot Ness in the TV show "The Untouchables" which ran on the ABC TV network from 1959-1963. (I was born in 1954.) The show was about gangsters in Chicago during Prohibition in the 1920s. You can find videos of the show here on UA-cam. Speaking of, I also recommend the movie "The Untouchables" (1987) starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery. Cheers!
Stephen Hill played the team leader in the first season, but being Jewish he refused to work on Saturdays, which was required a lot of the time. He was fired and replaced with Graves as a new character.
I gotta say, putting Airplane! right after Saving Private Ryan is a good move. We all need a good laugh after that horrifying and heart-breaking masterpiece. 👍 Definitely one of my all-time favourite comedies, with seemingly endless rewatchability. 🤣🤣🤣
I love the fact that you hear multi engine prop plane for a jet airliner. Ted was in the US Air Force and was wearing a US Navy officer uniform. This movie is hilarious because everyone is playing it seriously.
The prop noise was also another nod to the original "Zero Hour!" movie, which was several decades older and thus did take place on a propellor-driven plane, accompanied by the distinctive constant engine drone. ZAZ put so much detail into their movies, both onscreen and off, and their films often have almost as many funny stories around them as in them. For example, the bickering husband-and-wife airport announcers were, in fact, husband-and-wife airport announcers. The guy sitting in the back of Ted's cab was a famous crusader against government waste and anti-consumer practices at the time, and so would be the last dude to just sit there and watch the meter run. There's also sillier small jokes, like the lady at 2:58 who instantly hurls her baby into the air as she starts to run from the plane. If you like ZAZ movies, you should definitely check out their spiritual successors, the Farrelly Brothers ("There's Something About Mary", "Kingpin", "Dumb and Dumber", etc).
The first guy you recognized was a total unknown at the time of this movie. He came to fame doing Isuzu commercials (Joe Isuzu) not long after this. He later went on to have a recurring role in the TV show Empty Nest (and a rare appearance on Golden Girls). I’m not sure what you’d recognize him from, as you seem fairly young and I’m not sure what else he’s done since back then. He was a real flash in the pan… a 5-10 year career peak. A nobody before and a nobody since. Btw, this movie has tons of interesting actor/character placements. They used Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen to give it a dramatic expectation (Nielsen had only done dramas up until now). The woman speaking jive is a stereotypical 1950s mom from TV (Barbara Billingsley… June Cleaver from Leave It To Beaver). And there are many more (like JJ Walker). It’s quite a tour de force. Spectacular movie.
You are right. The guy who played Pilot Captain Oveur *WAS INDEED* from the TV series *Mission Impossible.* He was Jim Phelps. The guy in the beginning of each episode was getting his team assignments and to make sure the tape self-desructs.
Kaiser in my city has their hospital for in-patients in one building and their medical offices and out-patient clinics in a couple of other buildings a few blocks away. In 2019, a week after kidney stone surgery, I had an unrelated appointment in one of the out-patient clinics. I felt incredibly sick but didn't realize it was a post-op infection because I always felt horrible after kidney stone removal and because I so sick that I wasn't thinking rationally. I almost passed out walking to the exam table, and noting that I had an elevated temperature and dangerously low blood pressure, the doctor said "We have to get you to the ER and admit you to the hospital!" I said "Hospital? What is it?" and she said "You could be going into shock from a post-op infection." Then I told her "You should have said 'It's a big building with patients.'" Even when I'm delirious from bacterial toxins, I still have my wacky sense of humor.
There are also some jokes specific to that time period like the older lady speaking jive who played the suburban mom on Leave It To Beaver and the 2nd cup of coffee joke with the couple that was referencing an old coffee commercial.
Loved your reaction. One thing that I didn't see in the comments was that Leslie Neilson had for years tried to get a comedic acting role but couldn't get one because he was a 'serious dramatic' actor. and neither the studios or his manager wanted to play with his image. Then along comes Airplane and he steals the show. He never played another dramatic role in his life. I don't know for a fact (because I never spoke to the man) but I suspect his attitude was...WORTH IT.
what made the jokes even better was the majority of actors were known for dramas at the time. Leslie Neilson (the doctor) was best known for playing villains in films until this point and stuck with comedies for the rest of his career.
Since you liked the music, I recommend Stripes (1981), preferably the theatrical cut. The score for both Airplane! and Stripes was done by Elmer Bernstein. Airplane! has serious actors in a comedic role, Stripes has a mostly serious score accompanying a comedic movie. The Stripes March wouldn't be out of place in a classic war film... Bernstein worked on a few of those too.
This movie is an almost scene for scene re make of the 1957 movie Zero Hour. This was the very first movie script that Abrahams and the Zucker wrote. They even bought the rights to the Zero Hour movie so they wouldn't violate copyright laws.
Had you noticed Robert Stack's reflection stepping out of the mirror? (11:39 here but edited out). He says "Let's get out of here" as he does. So many people miss this in their reactions.
This movie is top tier goof overload. I won’t say every joke holds up, but I sure do miss the times when these fast and loose comedy spoof movies were good.
The beach scene (with the seaweed and fish) is a reference to the old black-and-white movie From Here to Eternity. The scene is often considered very romantic, so Airplane showed the problems with that idea.
This movie is absolutely genius comedy wise. Being British I love deadpan humour, when the characters do something outlandish and never acknowledge it like it’s no big deal, like the bits about “It’s such and such but that’s not important right now” get me laughing fit to burst. One of my favourite gags is the subtle joke that the airplane despite having modern jet engines sounds like a WW2 plane. A lot of people miss that.
Awesome review, per usual… 😂 Hilarious movie and you are absolutely right, you can watch it over and over again and still find new things to laugh about. “Hot Shots” and “Naked Gun” series are right up there with the slapstick humor. One of the best gags often gets looked over and that’s the guy in the cab. After the end credits it shows him again. Still sitting in the cab. 😂 Anyway, I hope you’re having a wonderful week and hope you’re staying warm. Until next time Jen. 😉
You were right about Peter Graves from Mission Impossible. The Hari Krishna guy who said he gave at the office was a guy who first became famous for a series of commercials in the 80s where he played a cheesy liar. Later, he had a regular role as the cheesy neighbor on the TV sitcom Empty Nest. You might remember Robert Hays from several things, but his biggest TV roles were as the husband on the sitcom Angie (a show that had a lot of similarities to the sitcom Rhoda). Angie was a waitress who marries a rich guy played by Hayes, and the show was about her adjusting to her new wealth. In the show, she also had a demanding mother and a kid sister, just like Rhoda. And much later, when they turned the sci-fi movie Starman into a regular series, Hays played the role of the alien (played by Jeff Bridges in the movie. Whose father, Lloyd Bridges is in this movie as the guy who keeps quitting all of his addictions this week, BTW). In the series, Starman returns to earth to find his love interest from the movie had a son by him, and he joins with his teenage son to find her. Starman might be a fun movie to check out too.
Robert Hays is in the "Homeward Bound" films where the two dogs and one cat travel a few hundred miles to get back home. Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future) voices one of the dogs in both films. The first film is a remake from a 1960s Disney version.
The key of the success of this movie was how intelligent were David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams when it comes to use the absurd humor. And is because that humor is using from a tragic set and serious actings, mocking about the drama, so the impact is funnier because the sensation of scapism is bigger. Many people hate this film and say its humor is silly...but come on, is really clever and witty. Favorite scenes: the dance in the disco, the sordid conversations between Peter Graves and Ross Harris, Robert Hays covered in sweat while landing the plane, Lorna Patterson singing River of Jordan, Ted's flashbacks about the Molombos tribe, the slap-in-a-row scene, and of course all the scenes of Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack.
1) Legit case for funniest movie ever. 2) Using the kids for the coffee scene was brilliant. Check on UA-cam Airplane coffee scene original and the spoof. 3) Opening a film about an airplane with a JAWS gag. Brilliant! 4) They show establishing shots of a jet plane, but you can clearly hear throughout the film that it's a propeller aircraft. Brilliant audio gag, but in truth they wanted it to be a propeller plane but the studio said it had to be a jet. So they used the jet, but just had propeller sounds throughout. I think that makes it funny for several reasons. It wasn't so much a joke for the audience, it was just going around what the studio wanted. Complying with them, but in the most blatantly noncompliant way possible.
Genius casting, picking actor who, up to this point, had been known primarily for their dramatic roles to play many of the parts - Peter Graves (yes, ftom Mission Impossible), Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges (father of Beau and Jeff Bridges), and Leslie Nielson. Nielson had already had a successful career as a dramatic actor through the 50s, 60s, and 70s before becoming known to a younger generation as a comedic actor. This was Ethel Merman’s last movie role. The two airport crew who crashed the plane into the airport at the beginning of the movie were played by David and Larry Zucker, the writers and directors of the film. Their mother Charlotte played the passenger putting on her makeup. I hope you saw the post credits scene. This was the first movie I’d ever seen with a post credits scene.
the actor who played the guy helping ted land the plane was Robert stack who hosted the show unsolved mysteries on nbc in the late '80s 90's and early 2000's and the speech that Leslie nelson told ted was from a speech Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne he gave to his team and the guy he was talking about was named George Gipp aka the Gipper
I love how the film suddenly does a lot of the darker jokes straight after the bar scene. The old woman hanging herself, the little girl' "like my men", the "have you ever seen a grown man naked" etc!
This is a parody of several movies. However, the primary movie referenced is The Dark Hour. The actor who played the co-pilot was a pro baseball player. In this movie, Kareem Abdul Jabar, a pro basketball player is the co-pilot.
10:19 - LLOYD BRIDGES. Lloyd Bridges Jr. (January 15, 1913 - March 10, 1998) was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.
You are right. I’ve seen this over 100 times and always pick up something new. The plane going through the glass at the beginning was a reference to Blue Streak, another movie.
Funny oversight by many, the nun was Maureen McGovern, known for singing a couple of songs for two famous disaster movies which you already reacted to -The Morning After from “The Poseidon Adventure” -We May Never Love Like This Again - “The Towering Inferno”
Great reaction. If you want silly movies, try Mel Brooks films Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, and Monty Python films Holy Grail and Life Of Brian.
13:59 There are actually several different panels shown. And no, they didn't exaggerate the complexity of the cockpit. The plane featured here is a Boeing 707, which was introduced in 1958 and was one of the first jet planes ever made. Modern cockpits are far simpler. Fortunately, Striker would only have needed to use a handful of those gauges and controls.
This is not a dig on Jen, but this movie is greatly lost on those not of the era in which it was released. So many laughs depend upon recognition of actors in this film going totally against character, and other references to the late '70s (or what we would now consider memes of that time). How many 20-somethings today recognize Howard Jarvis playing the guy in the taxi? Know why he is notable, or know why it was entertaining to see him in this scene? Or what the woman thinking about her husband having a second cup of coffee at home is supposed to mean. I know because I'm 68-years old. But I don't expect a person 40 years my junior to know about the pop culture of that time. At least half the energy of this movie has been eroded by time and memory. If you are young and think this movie is funny, double your funny score for those of us that saw it in the time it was released.
That's fair but I think you could say the same of any comedy that uses topical humor, after a while it just won't land (pun intended 🤣) Luckily lots of jokes stand the test of time and that's what makes it a timeless classic! ☺👍
I would add that all of those people from different groups asking for money in the airport is only slightly exaggerated in my memory from what airports were like in the 70’s.
The filmmakers follow up to this movie is Top Secret which I think is even better. Highly recommend it. THEN move on to their Naked Gun films. I would enjoy watching them with you.
Jen, while the film is packed full of parodies of other works, it was parodied by others too. For example, the dance floor sequence - including 7:06 where his jacket was thrown back into his face - was recreated by Shaun the Sheep in the episode "Saturday Night Shaun".
I love Mel Brooks movies. Silent Movie is often missed, but has loads of cameos. Robin Hood - Men in Tights takes a whole quiver of shots at the plethora of Robin Hood movies. Sheriff: Why should we listen to you? Robin: Because unlike some Robin Hoods, *I* can speak with an English accent! The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother is actually a Gene Wilder movie - he wrote, directed, and stars in it - but the style is familiar to Brooks fans.
One thing you cut out was a scene where an air traffic controller is watching the plane bounce around all over the place on radar and says “What an A-hole”. That actor is Jonathan Banks who went on to play the fixer Mike Ehrtmantraut on the TV show Breaking Bad.
A big part of why this movie worked so well is that they had a bunch of experienced dramatic actors saying and doing very silly things with utmost seriousness.
This is a spoof of some airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70's, one was airport 75 and then airport 77 and then airport 79 the concorde. I saw this movie when it came out when I was 9 years old.
Well, we're up to 1.4K pelvic exams.
That's more than 5 pelvic exams a day for a year (with weekends off).
I don't know if that's below or above average for a typical obgyn.
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5 would be a slow day, average is about 7.
We should ask Momma Dr. Jones.
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I didn't hit the thumps up button. I did what Johnny (actor Steven Stucker died April of 1986) would say if he was still with us today:
*"NO THANKS. DON'T NEED A PELVIC EXAM".*
I'll ask my father; he was one. When he wasn't sleeping with the patients, that is.
There's so many dated and underlying jokes in this movie that younger audiences of today can't possibly appreciate because of the time gap. One example is the older woman who "speaks jive" to the black guys is Barbara Billingsley. The audience in 1980 would all know that she played June Cleaver in the 1950's T.V. show "Leave It To Beaver". She was the epitome of the white, suburban, nuclear family house wife who wore a dress and pearls just to vacuum the house and clean the kitchen. The notion that she, of all people, can speak JIVE just made the scene that much more hilarious.
Luckily lots of the jokes stand the test of time 🤣👍
@@jenmurrayxo So true. Good old slapstick, sight gags and puns are timeless. If you go on to watch Airplane II, the sequel, it actually has my favorite onscreen sight gags of all-time involving a scene with William Shatner. Too funny.
I think she works as a grandmotherly figure even if you don't know who it is specifically. Now, a gag that really is lost on people today (I'm 42 and I had to have it explained to me when I first watched this movie as a teen) was "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" / "Jim never vomits at home," which was a parody of a commercial of the time that no one remembers now.
"Why can’t he drink anything?"
He has a drinking problem.
15:19 "I wish I could drink, but I'm afraid I'll do a spit-take or something."
It's okay Jen, admitting you have a drinking problem is the first step.
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If you haven't watched them yet, you should watch the Naked Gun movies. Same humor, same directors, and starring Leslie Nielsen. They're fantastic.
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Also, "Top Secret," with Val Kilmer, same production team & sense of humor.
Skip "Naked Gun 33 1/3". Much like "Airplane II" it was a sequel without any Zuckers or Abrams; just a studio retread.
One of the funniest with Leslie Nielsen is called "Repossessed" - An AIRPLANE style take on The Exorcist. Funny as Hell - Literally.
@@joaquinlechen8611 Agreed, it was nice to see Linda Blair again. Also really enjoyed "Dracula: Dead & Loving It!"
First reactor who recognized Peter Graves from Mission Impossible series... Thanks, Jen's dad!
Also, at 21:38, Timmy's coffee is a treat! Another great reaction.
Thank you! Lol I'm gonna show my dad your comment he will love it 🤣👍
@@jenmurrayxo It's just too bad you missed the post-credit scene. Don't worry though, very few reactors actually notice it. It was back before post-credit scenes were a thing.
It shows the guy from the taxi still sitting there when he says that he's going to give him just another 20 min. lol
@@chb2551 IIRC, the guy in the taxi was involved in the industry in LA (for or against, I can't remember)...
@@bobd2659 Howard Jarvis was a tax policy lobbyist. He is most notable for being the driving force behind California's Proposition 13, which drastically slashed property tax rates. He hard the simple-minded belief that this would cause landlords to pass the savings along to renters. Predictably, they didn't do this. Communities, school districts, and the like suffered budget shortfalls all over the state, especially when voters shot down bond measures designed to make up the shortfalls. That was basically his legacy - voters had to pass bond measures (which always led to couples like Sue and me with a net loss) or watch government services crumble and left voters frustrated.
Whenever I watch this hilarious film, I get a flash of annoyance when I see his face, washed away by the amusement of watching Jarvis just setting in the taxi, alone and ignored, while the meter sits - there, totting up the increasing dollars and cents as his fare steadily uses.
It would have capped the price of houses, since no middle class family could afford the property tax each year; the median price per square foot for a single-family house has risen 310% since 1980 in California. It would have stymied growth in Southern Cal. in 1980 the average price of a home in California was under 50K. The average salary was 12K. The average person couldn't pay a higher percentage in property tax. The end of private single-family home ownership would have ended and everyone would have been in apartments forever paying the landlord rent. This is happening right now across the USA. @@akaSlasher
Ethel Merman was a famous Broadway and film actor. This was her last movie. There's something brilliant about the idea of her last role playing a person who thinks they're Ethel Merman.
The Zucker brothers actually bought the rights to a 1950s movie called "Zero Hour!" in order to spoof it without breaking any copyright laws. Besides the jokes, puns and sight gags, most of the film is word-for-word from the original film, and delivered in the same deadpan style.
This movie "discovered" the comedic talents of Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves, all of whom had been serious dramatic actors with lengthy careers previous to this film. Numerous deadpan-style comedies followed, most notably the Naked Gun and Hot Shots series. Also, the lady that "spoke Jive" was Barbara Billingsley, the wholesome mom in the "Leave it to Beaver" series from the 50s.
The guy checking under the airplane's hood was a cameo by Jimmie Walker from the 70s sitcom "Good Times", famous for his line, "Dyn-o-mite!"
"I feel like I've seen him before..." The actor playing the Hare Krishna that you recognized was comedian David Leisure, who became famous in the 80s for a series of automobile ads as the lying car salesman "Joe Isuzu."
The first time I ever saw the movie, I was laughing so hard I definitely missed half the jokes and had to watch it again. There are a lot of gags in it that were in the background (blink or you'll miss it jokes), and some of them were very "70s" jokes that don't work well unless you know the 70s, but most of them are still funny today.
Ya this movie is rewatchable for sure! 🤣👍
Jim and the coffee is a reference to the famous Yuban commercial, and the wife is the actress from that commercial.
@@mikejankowski6321 Wow. I always got the joke and I remember the commercial but I never realized that she was in it.
I remember Joe Isuzu. It took me a few seconds. I forgot all about those commercials. They were kind of funny. I remember him from Empty Nest.
I think it's also a parody of Airport.
Several months ago I had to go to the emergency room, and when I was checking in the nurse asked my what was wrong. I said I was having a problem with my bowel and when she asked, "What is it?" I could not resist.
I said, "It's a long tube inside your body where your food goes. But that's not important right now." totally deadpan.
Her eyes got big, her mouth dropped open, she smiled and said, "I love that movie."
Her reaction was like, "Oh my god, I can't believe that just happened in real life!" To be honest, I was feeling the same it. It was a lot of fun actually. I'm so glad it worked. She picked up the reference instantly.
Amazing!! 🤣🤣🤣
One of the most pervasive, yet subtlest running jokes of the movie is every time there's an external shot to the plane, they have the drone of propellers, even though it is a jet engine plane.
The longest running joke in Airplane is the jet making propeller noises.
I can't believe I never consciously realized that until someone pointed it out on another reaction to this movie.
That's a good running joke but the guy waiting in the Taxi for almost the entire movie beats it
Good one!
Lorna Patterson who played "Randy" really did sing "The River of Jordan". That's her voice. --- Robert Hays who played "Ted Striker" is a pilot in real life and is qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft..
Surely you can’t be serious.
You'll see a lot of references in this movie. The line "Win one for the Zipper" was based on a movie that starred Ronald Reagan playing real life college football player George Gipp. Knute Rockney, coach, was visiting Gipp in the hospital due to an illness. Gipp told Rockney that if his team was down, "Win one for the Gipper."
Ohhhhh my dad says that lol 🤣👍
@@jenmurrayxo Which is why the Notre Dame (Knute Rockney's school) Fight Song plays in the background When Stryker heads back to the cockpit.
I often wonder how much younger audiences miss due to being references to old movies and, for instance coffee commercials. Some of the references this movie makes were old back in 1980 (like the Gipper scene). Even the casting of actors like Peter Graves and Lesley Nelson (now known overwhelmingly for these parodies) were references to the older disaster movies they often starred in.
The beauty of this disaster movie spoof is the fact that the cast do such a fantastic job of playing their roles completely straight and dramatic as if they were in a serious disaster film. It's genius and allows the jokes to land perfectly, and you can imagine it wasn't an easy task for the actors (except maybe Leslie Nielsen) since they all knew the film was a comedy.
So brilliant!
The only character who's not playing it straight is Johnny!
@@jamesalexander5623 I see what you did there...
Good memory, Jen. You're correct about the pilot being in the old Mission Impossible shows. He played Mr. Phelps, the guy who listened to the tape recordings before they self-destructed.
Yes! Love that guy 👍
@@jenmurrayxo I watched those shows as a kid. It was always neat to see if they came up with a new way to destroy the recording.
@@jenmurrayxo The actor's name is Peter Graves aka Mr. Jim Phelps Mission Impossible team leader from season 2 thru 7
He was also the real life brother of James Arness who played Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke.
@@toodlescae Arness was also 'The Thing from Another World'. Graves turned up in a cameo in M.I.B. 2 presenting a cable 'Alien Mysteries' show.
My favorite joke in the movie is the one where the reporters say "Lets get some pictures" then proceed to take all the pictures off the walls.
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Hey Jen, I just wanted to tell you good luck we’re all counting on you.
The guy in the taxi was the actual Howard Jarvis, who wrote and successfully promoted the California Prop. 13 tax law.
Please watch "Top Secret!" (1984)! Made by the same guys who made "Airplane!".
Oh ya I want to see that! 👍
That could start a Val Kilmer series too ..
Need to see something with Val Kilmer! 👍
@@jenmurrayxo He stars in "Top Secret!" .. after that, "Real Genius" would be a solid follow-up. Hey .. I'll try using the app ..
Top Secret has so far the only scene filmed backwards in the history of cinema. It's a great movie.
Julie Hagerty who played Elaine is also in a hilarious movie you should check out called "What About Bob?". It stars Bill Murray as a neurotic patient with multiple phobias and Richard Dreyfuss as a self-involved psychiatrist. It's a blast!
This movie happily ruined me when I saw Titanic in the theatre. The part where DiCrapio is dancing with Winslet and we get the same POV shot, I burst out laughing because the same scene from Airplane was so ingrained in me. Fortunately there were a few others in the audience that laughed as well. I like to think that it was for the same reason. And honestly, to this day, when I see a wide-shot of people smiling, I instantly imagine someone coming into frame... from the ceiling ;)
-loved yer laugh.
Thanks! 🤣
At least laughter is not inappropriate in that scene
Yes, you may have missed what happened after the end credits ... the guy in the taxi appears, looks at his watch and says , "Ill give him 20 more minutes and then that's it"
Omg I realized after, can't believe I missed, sooo funny!! 🤣🤣
@@jenmurrayxo The guy in the taxi was Howard Jarvis. He was a California activist for fiscal responsibility from the government (most famous for California's "Proposition 13", which tied property tax to the purchase price of the property: previous to this California had hiked property taxes several times, enraging voters). So it was an in-joke to Californians, this well-known advocate for fiscal responsibility letting his taxi bill go up and up.
Oh my gosh this movie is brilliant on so many levels 👏
I just wanted to tell you both: good luck, we're all counting on you.
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That might be my fav!!!
After a decade of disaster movies this was a breath of fresh air. This was a slapstick monster.. ZAZ raised the bar for stupid humor and reinforced Three Stooge mentality for sickos like me. Thanx guys! Launched Leslie Nielsen into comedic career after three decades in drama. ENJOY!
Interesting that you mentioned the Three Stooges, because the only thing that could have topped the humor in this movie is a repeat of their scene from Its a Mad, Mad World.
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Airplane(1980) is a spoof of 1970's disaster epics(Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, The Swarm, City on Fire). It's also a spoof of the 1958 film Zero Hour.
5:06 Yes that’s Peter Graves from the TV show, Mission Impossible. His brother was James Arness who played Matt Dillon on the TV western Gunsmoke. It was on the air for about 25 years (plus several years on the radio prior to that). It was the longest running TV show for many years until it was beaten by the Simpsons.
It was 20 years as a TV show (1955-1975).
A sequel to Airplane was made 2 years later called Airplane 2 The Sequel. Ted, Elaine, the creepy pilot, Lloyd Bridges, Johnny all come back but instead of Leslie Nielsen, you have William Shatner stealing the show. You should check that one out.
The panicking woman, one of the jive guys and many of the other passengers also reappear.
Old school dead pan comedy. Just what the world needs right now. Bust out the corn for popping good times inbound.
The music is by legendary composer Elmer Bernstein. He had a LONG career composing film scores including scores for movies like The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill A Mockingbird...
You literally quoted a Friends episode there!
Jen: “I love that it’s not just ‘Airplane’, it’s ‘Airplane!’”
Phoebe Buffay: “The exclamation point in the title kinda scares me, it’s not just ‘Freud’, it’s ‘Freud!’”
That is all 😂
There were jokes throughout the credits abd a post credits scene. Yes, you will realize jokes after many views. I first saw this back in 1981 and just recently noticed that when we meet Rex Cramer, he is in front of a mirror, then when leaving he steps through it.
The same team made the equally funny but more insane Top Secret!
A lot of the humor in this movie is missed because younger audience members (those watching the movie ten years after it was released) miss the references. The co-pilot was a famous basketball player (just as the assassin baseball player in The Naked Gun was a famous baseball player), the second-cup-of-coffee bit starred the actress who did the same kind of commercials for Yuban coffee and actors Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all serious actors in serious movie and television roles. Having the original Mr. Phelps from TV's Mission: Impossible innocently ask a kid if he ever saw a grown man naked was what rocked audiences when this movie was released. There's also a bit of a carry through having Leave It To Beaver's mother translating jive as the actor who played her oldest son was in the director's previous Kentucky Fried Movie (written and acted by the three and directed by John Landis) playing that role in a court room scene.
I'm sure others on this comment section will fill you in on more references, particularly the Zero Hour ones which also included unaltered lines from that movie.
I remember watching this movie, laughing to tears for many years back in the 80s. Seemed I caught something new and funny every time I rewatched it. So far, every reaction for it has been lame, mostly due to none of these "kids" getting the references of the old days. The two funniest moments IMO is Striker sitting at the bar and asks the guy next to him to pinch him for he must be dreaming. The joke there is totally missed by many these days. Then there is the Miss Cleaver speaking jive. My God, I don't remember laughing that hard since seeing that in the theater. lol Some of the best comedic moments are completely missed. Such a shame, but at least we got to enjoy it.
This was the beginning of Leslie Nielsen’s comedic acting career.
The lady getting all that makeup on her face was Charlotte Zucker. Her sons, Jerry and David, were two of the directors of this film. She would also pop up in later films they also directed and/or produced.
The captain at the airport, Rex Kramer, was played by Robert Stack. He would be known in the late 80s and through most of the 90s as the host/narrator of "Unsolved Mysteries", a documentary series which showed re-enactments of real life cases that had gone unsolved for long periods of time. The show recently had a brief revival on Netflix, but it was a little different from the original with Robert Stack.
Nice! There's so many references I wouldn't know but I'm glad u guys are sharing with me! 👍
Robert Stack was in a lot of movies during the 1940s and 50s. I first remember seeing him when he played the Federal agent Eliot Ness in the TV show "The Untouchables" which ran on the ABC TV network from 1959-1963. (I was born in 1954.) The show was about gangsters in Chicago during Prohibition in the 1920s. You can find videos of the show here on UA-cam. Speaking of, I also recommend the movie "The Untouchables" (1987) starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery. Cheers!
'We have clearance Clarence,..
..roger! Roger,..
...what's our vector Victor?'. 🤣 Gets me everytime....
Lollll love it 🤣
Yep the Captain is played by Peter Graves who did indeed play Jim Phelps in the original Mission Impossible TV show (67 to 73).
Amazing! Loved that show 👍
He was also in the 1980's version ('88 to '90).
Stephen Hill played the team leader in the first season, but being Jewish he refused to work on Saturdays, which was required a lot of the time. He was fired and replaced with Graves as a new character.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar was a basketball player in those days. He was also friends with martial artist Bruce Lee.
I gotta say, putting Airplane! right after Saving Private Ryan is a good move. We all need a good laugh after that horrifying and heart-breaking masterpiece. 👍
Definitely one of my all-time favourite comedies, with seemingly endless rewatchability. 🤣🤣🤣
I love the fact that you hear multi engine prop plane for a jet airliner. Ted was in the US Air Force and was wearing a US Navy officer uniform. This movie is hilarious because everyone is playing it seriously.
The prop noise was also another nod to the original "Zero Hour!" movie, which was several decades older and thus did take place on a propellor-driven plane, accompanied by the distinctive constant engine drone.
ZAZ put so much detail into their movies, both onscreen and off, and their films often have almost as many funny stories around them as in them. For example, the bickering husband-and-wife airport announcers were, in fact, husband-and-wife airport announcers. The guy sitting in the back of Ted's cab was a famous crusader against government waste and anti-consumer practices at the time, and so would be the last dude to just sit there and watch the meter run. There's also sillier small jokes, like the lady at 2:58 who instantly hurls her baby into the air as she starts to run from the plane.
If you like ZAZ movies, you should definitely check out their spiritual successors, the Farrelly Brothers ("There's Something About Mary", "Kingpin", "Dumb and Dumber", etc).
The scene where Ted and Elaine are on the beach is a reference to a famous 1953 film 'From Here to Eternity'.
The first guy you recognized was a total unknown at the time of this movie. He came to fame doing Isuzu commercials (Joe Isuzu) not long after this. He later went on to have a recurring role in the TV show Empty Nest (and a rare appearance on Golden Girls). I’m not sure what you’d recognize him from, as you seem fairly young and I’m not sure what else he’s done since back then. He was a real flash in the pan… a 5-10 year career peak. A nobody before and a nobody since. Btw, this movie has tons of interesting actor/character placements. They used Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen to give it a dramatic expectation (Nielsen had only done dramas up until now). The woman speaking jive is a stereotypical 1950s mom from TV (Barbara Billingsley… June Cleaver from Leave It To Beaver). And there are many more (like JJ Walker). It’s quite a tour de force. Spectacular movie.
You are right. The guy who played Pilot Captain Oveur *WAS INDEED* from the TV series *Mission Impossible.* He was Jim Phelps. The guy in the beginning of each episode was getting his team assignments and to make sure the tape self-desructs.
Loved that show! 👍
Kaiser in my city has their hospital for in-patients in one building and their medical offices and out-patient clinics in a couple of other buildings a few blocks away. In 2019, a week after kidney stone surgery, I had an unrelated appointment in one of the out-patient clinics. I felt incredibly sick but didn't realize it was a post-op infection because I always felt horrible after kidney stone removal and because I so sick that I wasn't thinking rationally. I almost passed out walking to the exam table, and noting that I had an elevated temperature and dangerously low blood pressure, the doctor said "We have to get you to the ER and admit you to the hospital!" I said "Hospital? What is it?" and she said "You could be going into shock from a post-op infection." Then I told her "You should have said 'It's a big building with patients.'" Even when I'm delirious from bacterial toxins, I still have my wacky sense of humor.
Hahahaha you are a real one 🤣🤣
Hope you're feeling better now!
Much better, thanks!
I highly recommend "The Naked Gun"!
There are also some jokes specific to that time period like the older lady speaking jive who played the suburban mom on Leave It To Beaver and the 2nd cup of coffee joke with the couple that was referencing an old coffee commercial.
Loved your reaction. One thing that I didn't see in the comments was that Leslie Neilson had for years tried to get a comedic acting role but couldn't get one because he was a 'serious dramatic' actor. and neither the studios or his manager wanted to play with his image. Then along comes Airplane and he steals the show. He never played another dramatic role in his life. I don't know for a fact (because I never spoke to the man) but I suspect his attitude was...WORTH IT.
I just want to tell you, Jen, good luck. We're all counting on you.
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what made the jokes even better was the majority of actors were known for dramas at the time. Leslie Neilson (the doctor) was best known for playing villains in films until this point and stuck with comedies for the rest of his career.
Fun fact! ☺👍
The highest rated COmedy movie of all time for a very good reason.
Agreed! 🤣👍
Since you liked the music, I recommend Stripes (1981), preferably the theatrical cut. The score for both Airplane! and Stripes was done by Elmer Bernstein. Airplane! has serious actors in a comedic role, Stripes has a mostly serious score accompanying a comedic movie. The Stripes March wouldn't be out of place in a classic war film... Bernstein worked on a few of those too.
This movie is an almost scene for scene re make of the 1957 movie Zero Hour. This was the very first movie script that Abrahams and the Zucker wrote. They even bought the rights to the Zero Hour movie so they wouldn't violate copyright laws.
So cool! I wonder if that would be possible today 🤔
"AND DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY!"
I have watched this movie probably 60 times. I finally got to the point where I don't notice new jokes anymore! 🤣
Had you noticed Robert Stack's reflection stepping out of the mirror? (11:39 here but edited out). He says "Let's get out of here" as he does. So many people miss this in their reactions.
@@aubergineykwim That's because they're focused on the ferocious golden retriever.
This movie is top tier goof overload. I won’t say every joke holds up, but I sure do miss the times when these fast and loose comedy spoof movies were good.
The beach scene (with the seaweed and fish) is a reference to the old black-and-white movie From Here to Eternity. The scene is often considered very romantic, so Airplane showed the problems with that idea.
Such a fun movie. Check out The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! if you haven't seen that. Done by the same filmmakers, SO good.
Oh definitely want to see that! 👍
@@jenmurrayxo it's got Leslie Nielsen in it also (your MVP). He's the main character (but not the same character as this film). He is brilliant in it.
Amazing!
Surely you can't be serious. "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley. "
This movie is absolutely genius comedy wise.
Being British I love deadpan humour, when the characters do something outlandish and never acknowledge it like it’s no big deal, like the bits about “It’s such and such but that’s not important right now” get me laughing fit to burst.
One of my favourite gags is the subtle joke that the airplane despite having modern jet engines sounds like a WW2 plane. A lot of people miss that.
Awesome review, per usual… 😂 Hilarious movie and you are absolutely right, you can watch it over and over again and still find new things to laugh about. “Hot Shots” and “Naked Gun” series are right up there with the slapstick humor. One of the best gags often gets looked over and that’s the guy in the cab. After the end credits it shows him again. Still sitting in the cab. 😂 Anyway, I hope you’re having a wonderful week and hope you’re staying warm. Until next time Jen. 😉
Thanks Trav! I realized the end credit scene after I stopped recording lol 🤦♀️🤣 Loved it!
Thanks for watching and have a wonderful week too ☺👍
I'll give him 20 more minutes, but that's it
You were right about Peter Graves from Mission Impossible. The Hari Krishna guy who said he gave at the office was a guy who first became famous for a series of commercials in the 80s where he played a cheesy liar. Later, he had a regular role as the cheesy neighbor on the TV sitcom Empty Nest. You might remember Robert Hays from several things, but his biggest TV roles were as the husband on the sitcom Angie (a show that had a lot of similarities to the sitcom Rhoda). Angie was a waitress who marries a rich guy played by Hayes, and the show was about her adjusting to her new wealth. In the show, she also had a demanding mother and a kid sister, just like Rhoda. And much later, when they turned the sci-fi movie Starman into a regular series, Hays played the role of the alien (played by Jeff Bridges in the movie. Whose father, Lloyd Bridges is in this movie as the guy who keeps quitting all of his addictions this week, BTW). In the series, Starman returns to earth to find his love interest from the movie had a son by him, and he joins with his teenage son to find her. Starman might be a fun movie to check out too.
12:32 - when I was a kid my dad and Uncle would laugh their heads off at this scene lol
Robert Hays is in the "Homeward Bound" films where the two dogs and one cat travel a few hundred miles to get back home. Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future) voices one of the dogs in both films. The first film is a remake from a 1960s Disney version.
LOVE that movie!!! 😊
He thinks he’s Ethel merman still one of my fav cameos
The key of the success of this movie was how intelligent were David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams when it comes to use the absurd humor.
And is because that humor is using from a tragic set and serious actings, mocking about the drama, so the impact is funnier because the sensation of scapism is bigger.
Many people hate this film and say its humor is silly...but come on, is really clever and witty.
Favorite scenes: the dance in the disco, the sordid conversations between Peter Graves and Ross Harris, Robert Hays covered in sweat while landing the plane, Lorna Patterson singing River of Jordan, Ted's flashbacks about the Molombos tribe, the slap-in-a-row scene, and of course all the scenes of Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack.
great reaction, fun fact: the main actor is actually also a qualified pilot in real life ;)
Hi, Jen. I just want to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.
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Surely you can't be serious. 😃
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1) Legit case for funniest movie ever.
2) Using the kids for the coffee scene was brilliant. Check on UA-cam Airplane coffee scene original and the spoof.
3) Opening a film about an airplane with a JAWS gag. Brilliant!
4) They show establishing shots of a jet plane, but you can clearly hear throughout the film that it's a propeller aircraft. Brilliant audio gag, but in truth they wanted it to be a propeller plane but the studio said it had to be a jet. So they used the jet, but just had propeller sounds throughout. I think that makes it funny for several reasons. It wasn't so much a joke for the audience, it was just going around what the studio wanted. Complying with them, but in the most blatantly noncompliant way possible.
Genius casting, picking actor who, up to this point, had been known primarily for their dramatic roles to play many of the parts - Peter Graves (yes, ftom Mission Impossible), Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges (father of Beau and Jeff Bridges), and Leslie Nielson. Nielson had already had a successful career as a dramatic actor through the 50s, 60s, and 70s before becoming known to a younger generation as a comedic actor.
This was Ethel Merman’s last movie role.
The two airport crew who crashed the plane into the airport at the beginning of the movie were played by David and Larry Zucker, the writers and directors of the film. Their mother Charlotte played the passenger putting on her makeup.
I hope you saw the post credits scene. This was the first movie I’d ever seen with a post credits scene.
Forgot I'd already watched this, and I just watched it again because I love Jen!
2:25 David Leisure, a/k/a Joe Isuzu in those hysterical Isuzu commercials of the 80s.
"A hospital? What is it?"
"It's a big building with patients but that's not important right now"
the actor who played the guy helping ted land the plane was Robert stack who hosted the show unsolved mysteries on nbc in the late '80s 90's and early 2000's and the speech that Leslie nelson told ted was from a speech Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne he gave to his team and the guy he was talking about was named George Gipp aka the Gipper
Ahhh I see! 👍
I love how the film suddenly does a lot of the darker jokes straight after the bar scene. The old woman hanging herself, the little girl' "like my men", the "have you ever seen a grown man naked" etc!
*@**14:24* don't think you noticed he was posing just like the picture behind him
This is a parody of several movies. However, the primary movie referenced is The Dark Hour. The actor who played the co-pilot was a pro baseball player. In this movie, Kareem Abdul Jabar, a pro basketball player is the co-pilot.
10:19 - LLOYD BRIDGES. Lloyd Bridges Jr. (January 15, 1913 - March 10, 1998) was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.
the counterpoint bit was from a segment that used to appear on 60 Minutes.
You are right. I’ve seen this over 100 times and always pick up something new. The plane going through the glass at the beginning was a reference to Blue Streak, another movie.
Nobody ever picks up on this, but they are using a prop plane sound for the jet plane for the whole movie.
Funny oversight by many, the nun was Maureen McGovern, known for singing a couple of songs for two famous disaster movies which you already reacted to
-The Morning After from “The Poseidon Adventure”
-We May Never Love Like This Again - “The Towering Inferno”
There was a tag at the end of the credits, the guy in the taxi is still there : )
Great reaction. If you want silly movies, try Mel Brooks films Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, and Monty Python films Holy Grail and Life Of Brian.
Oh yes! I want to see those ☺👍
Yes, that pilot was Peter Graves from the Mission Impossible TV show.
Awesome!
Elaine : "... How I used to sit on your face and wriggle."
Jen Murray : "How romantic."
Lol , I'm dead.
The Counterpoint guy made me laugh the hardest.
13:59 There are actually several different panels shown. And no, they didn't exaggerate the complexity of the cockpit. The plane featured here is a Boeing 707, which was introduced in 1958 and was one of the first jet planes ever made. Modern cockpits are far simpler. Fortunately, Striker would only have needed to use a handful of those gauges and controls.
4:53 I don't think any scene based in the '70's is complete without _this_ song.
This isn't Likewise but I recommend Hot Shots for a similar movie.
This is not a dig on Jen, but this movie is greatly lost on those not of the era in which it was released. So many laughs depend upon recognition of actors in this film going totally against character, and other references to the late '70s (or what we would now consider memes of that time). How many 20-somethings today recognize Howard Jarvis playing the guy in the taxi? Know why he is notable, or know why it was entertaining to see him in this scene? Or what the woman thinking about her husband having a second cup of coffee at home is supposed to mean. I know because I'm 68-years old. But I don't expect a person 40 years my junior to know about the pop culture of that time. At least half the energy of this movie has been eroded by time and memory. If you are young and think this movie is funny, double your funny score for those of us that saw it in the time it was released.
That's fair but I think you could say the same of any comedy that uses topical humor, after a while it just won't land (pun intended 🤣)
Luckily lots of jokes stand the test of time and that's what makes it a timeless classic! ☺👍
I would add that all of those people from different groups asking for money in the airport is only slightly exaggerated in my memory from what airports were like in the 70’s.
The filmmakers follow up to this movie is Top Secret which I think is even better. Highly recommend it. THEN move on to their Naked Gun films. I would enjoy watching them with you.
Jen, while the film is packed full of parodies of other works, it was parodied by others too. For example, the dance floor sequence - including 7:06 where his jacket was thrown back into his face - was recreated by Shaun the Sheep in the episode "Saturday Night Shaun".
The Zucker Bros - have cameos. The guy waving the red flashlights at the beginning is a Zucker, and they have their mom as the lady putting on makeup.
If you want silly and funny, start watching Mel Brooks movies. Blazzing Saddles, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and more.
Oh ya I want to see those! 👍
I love Mel Brooks movies. Silent Movie is often missed, but has loads of cameos. Robin Hood - Men in Tights takes a whole quiver of shots at the plethora of Robin Hood movies.
Sheriff: Why should we listen to you?
Robin: Because unlike some Robin Hoods, *I* can speak with an English accent!
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother is actually a Gene Wilder movie - he wrote, directed, and stars in it - but the style is familiar to Brooks fans.
@@MGower4465 Yes. Anything with Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Dom Deluise, or Marty Feldman.
One thing you cut out was a scene where an air traffic controller is watching the plane bounce around all over the place on radar and says “What an A-hole”. That actor is Jonathan Banks who went on to play the fixer Mike Ehrtmantraut on the TV show Breaking Bad.
I've been a Subscribert for awhile now. I very much enjoy your channel.
Thank you! ☺👍
A big part of why this movie worked so well is that they had a bunch of experienced dramatic actors saying and doing very silly things with utmost seriousness.
This is a spoof of some airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70's, one was airport 75 and then airport 77 and then airport 79 the concorde. I saw this movie when it came out when I was 9 years old.
Hi Jen, I thought that I'd give this one a rewatch too, to help you and your channel.
I met the actor Leslie Nielsen who plays the doctor at a golf tournament in Hartford Connecticut years and years ago
Oh cool! 👍
Musta been the 'GHO'
I grew up there in CT ,, and I met Leslie N. when I lived in Scottsdale AZ, at a golf fundraiser. RIP - LN
NOTE: Whenever you watch Naked Gun (any of them), Airplane!, or Top Secret!, watch the credits as well. They always throw in little jokes.
The advantage with the comedy of this movie is-take everything literally!!!