AIRPLANE! (1980) FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION - HAS IT DATED?
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Welcome to our first time watching Airplane!
Classic Comedy. But are the jokes old now?
We put this 45 year old film to the test to see if the humour still works or whether it is now old.
The new generation is to decide!
Airplane! is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut, 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. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for using surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and dark humor.
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“Jay and his dad have a new video out!”
“A video? What is it?”
“It’s a little movie with people in it, but that’s not important right now.”
ooo, i see what you did there !
"What?.. What?... What?... What?... What?...What?" was simultaneously the single most wholesome and uncomfortable exchange ever.
What?
@GenerationMediaReaction What?!
😂😂🤣
@GenerationMediaReactionI know your channel here is relatively new, but try to see that there are going to be comments that are just idiosyncratic and nonsensical like this one.
What do you mean what? What?
It helps to have been alive in 1980 to appreciate all of the comedy.
The co-pilot was actually Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He was a pro basketball player for the LA Lakers and he played with those goggles.
Our fave young gentleman….after a few short years…is now just old enough that he has begun to shoot short glances at dad and kinda wants to say something but holds back.
This time it became kinda verbal.
“What”
“What?”
“What?”
“What?”
lol
So perfect!
Bless him!
Cheers, guys!
That was hilarious, happened a couple of times. I believe we all knew back then as well, just pretended we didn't.
The most subtle running joke in the film is that the jet airliner engines sound like prop engines. It goes for the entirety of the film but no one catches it.
This is my favorite comedy movie. i watch it multiple times a year, and I never noticed that.Thank you, my friend
D: "What the hell is that?"
Jay, without missing a beat: "A horse."
:)
The elderly woman passenger who spoke (translated) to the two black guys speaking "Jive Talk" is Barbara Billingsley. She played the mother in the old TV series "Leave to Beaver" (1957-1963). She always wore a string of "pearls" in TV show ( and even in this movie) because she was very self conscious of a scar on her neck). She is considered one of the top 2 or 3 sitcom moms in TV history.
Top 2 or 3? I'm guessing the other two are the mom from Happy Days and the mom from Married with Children.
don't forget cooking in high heels and pearls. LOL
This was also the second ZAZ movie, _and_ their second _Leave It To Beaver_ reference. Tony Dow shows up as Wally in their first movie.
@@trhansen3244Carol Brady? 😊
Nope, i thinking more towards the 59's & 60's...
Jane Wyatt 1910~2006 (Father Knows Best, 1954~1960, 200 episodes
June Lockhart 1924-current (Lassie, 1954~1974, 208 episodes
Barbara Billingsley 1915-2020 (Leave to Beaver, 1957~1963, 235 episodes)
Harriet Nelson 1909~1994 (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, 1952~1966, 436 episodes)
At the end Barbara, June and Florence Henderson (Brady Bunch) would appear together at shows.
Now you're ready for Top Secret, and then, Hot Shots! We're all counting on you. Good luck!
17:38 I think a lot of people miss that this was based on a commercial. Yuban coffee. "Jim never has a 2nd cup of coffee at home."
Ah! Thank you!
What's great about this joke is that even if you didn't know about the commercial, the joke still works.
@retrotero76 By the way. The commercial was very popular. And even better, they got the woman from the actual commercial to play the part in this movie. You can look up the actual original commercial with her in it. It's on UA-cam.
Came here to say this. That commercial was on TV CONSTANTLY and its the actual actress from it.
@@NetanelWorthy Yuban, yes. Now I really feel old….😂
This movie is a parody of the 1957 film Zero Hour!
Yes, and some of the dialogue is Word for Word😂
It's all hilarious, but Barbara Billingsley speaking jive is the all time best.
jus hang loose blood, she's gonna catch you on the rebound on the med side
She was the housewife and mother in Leave it to Beaver, the whitest suburban TV sitcom of the late 50s/early 60s. The joke there was she would be the LAST person to know urban black slang. Totally unexpected.
The two airport workers directing the plane (hey Larry, where is the forklift?)
They are the Zucker Brothers.
They’re geniuses.
And the woman who keeps trying to apply makeup in turbulence is their mother.
One of the deepest jokes is the voice actors at the airport. Those are the actual voices you heard at LAX at the time, and they were actually husband and wife.
Wow! Really?!
@GenerationMediaReaction Their voices were heard in dozens of airports all across the country at that time.
There's also a black and white movie (Zero Hour) that's not a comedy that is shot for shot what Airplane is based on and you can see just with a little change in tone how drama can go to comedy. There's a video on UA-cam showing side by side comparisons.
i was 10yrs old when i saw this in the theatre. it was PG and mom just dropped me off. after hundreds of viewings over the years, i still catch things i hadn't noticed before. its so nice your son now has the next few decades to do the same. AIRPLANE! 2051😂😂😂❤
The Poseidon Adventure would be a good one in the old disaster movie genre.
You do know who the captain of the Posieden was......?
@curtismartin2866 oh aye, forgot about that. Probably best to watch it before Naked gun lol
Another good one would be The Towering Inferno.
@aaroneilers8805 never seen it. Heard of it though.
The Lt. Hurwitz Joke was funny because it actually was Ethel Merman a Huge Broadway Star! She was also in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"!
In my opinion, her best movie, an adaptation of one of her Broadway hits, is CALL ME MADAM (1953).
when he says all aboard , thats what they used to do in old time train trips
The beauty of this is that J will get some of the jokes now and then, rewatching over the years, more and more jokes will hit.
Similar for all of us, maybe !
@GenerationMediaReaction Exactly! I'm still finding jokes in this and films just like it.
I was 10 when I saw this movie and I have lost track of how many times I have watched it since. It’s so funny to me that as I age, I look at it differently 😂
I think you are the First channel I have seen that recognizes Mike from Breaking Bad👍👍👍👍👍👍
How many points do we get ?
@GenerationMediaReaction
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That is also a new find for me-crazy!
@@AliciaHudson-ui6dh I had to go look it up after, lol.
Love it when I see that wee video notification on a Thursday 😁😁 Can't wait to watch this tonight 👌 Leslie Neilsen is fantastic. Speaking of which - The Naked Gun? 😉
Yes Naked Gun is now on the cards !
@@stewartyoung335 love it when my notification pops up too!
@@cog4life 😁👌
@GenerationMediaReaction Fantastic! 😁😁😁
I love this movie! Hahaha your "What?!" "What?!" back and forth, because you know that he knows but it feels naughty to say, but you both know what it means! I remember being a child and talking to my parents about it made me feel like I lost them somehow, because if you know then you are on your way to becoming independent and adult. It is a strange feeling... You want your parents to know that you are their kiddo and always will be, but you also want them to know that you _know_
I love the way you are showing your kiddo these movies.
1) The actress who got slapped had the idea for the scene and wrote it. Leslie Nielsen accidentally slapped her for real, leading to her distressed/confused look. He then air-slapped her like he was supposed to.
2) Jim Abrahams passed away in November.
3) THANK YOU for including the end-credit scene!
4) Always watch the credits of any of their films. Crazy stuff pops up. My favorite is a recipe for brownies in Hot Shots!
Thank you!
I think it's worth mentioning that the trope of slapping someone who is behaving hysterically was by no means limited to female characters. It was seen in movies, sitcoms, and cartoons, and in comedy, was often followed by the slapped, formerly hysterical person saying, "Thanks. I needed that."
J’s famous quote: “Music never lies.” So true!
A few notes: The "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" is from a coffee commercial AND the actress in that scene was also the actress in those commercials."
The starting point may be "Airplane!" but the next part of the saga isn't The Naked Gun, but rather a short lived TV series called "Police Squad!" which came out in 1982. Leslie Neilson's performance coupled with the success of Airplane, brought about the TV series as a vehicle for Neilson and a way for the ZAZ to capitalize on the success of the movie. The show is brilliant -- a satire of TV police dramas of the 1950s-70s. It wasn't a ratings success, but it spurned the spinoffs of what became the "Naked Gun" movies.
The elderly lady in the Jive talking scene was Barbara Billingsley, well known for her role as June Cleaver in the 1950s-60s comedy "Leave it to Beaver". She was an early iconic figure on TV, well dressed housewife with her hair done perfectly, pearls around her neck while she vacuumed the living room floor. The role of the Jive talker was a send up of her character, polar opposite of what she was best known for. The role revived her career, and Leave it to Beaver became popular again in syndication.
The girl in the coffee scene was a well known actress in TV commercials, and the boy, David Hollander, was a well known child actor of the 1970s -- mostly guest starring roles but was a recurring character in the hit TV series "What's Happening!"
The pilot, air traffic controllers were all prime time TV stars in dramas where they played tough guys -- Peter Graves from Mission Impossible; Robert Stack from The Untouchables and Lloyd Bridges from Sea Hunt (his sons are also actors -- Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges).
Some useless information for you to unpack!
Ethel Merman was an American actress and singer famous from a number of Broadway musicals and a number of movies. I guess the joke was that that actually was Ethel Merman in the bed.
I remember that bit was so funny to me when I first saw it in a theater.
It was also her last film appearance. She passed away not long after.
They built on the movie cliché of a soldier with PTSD thinking he's someone else, but in this case he didn't just _think_ he was Ethel Merman, he _was_ Ethel Merman.
@@bobbuethe1477 Like Ted said War is Hell.
Love that you guys watched this. When I heard I was a bit nervous about some of the jokes for J but watching his reactions were funnier than the movie. Of course Airplane is one of the greatest spoof slapstick comedies but J had me cracking up. Cant wait for Naked Gun.
This is one of the VERY few reactions that waits until the end for the final gag. 45 years later some jokes may be confusing. "Lieutenant Hurwitz", the VA hospital patient who thinks he's Ethel Merman, is played by Ethel Merman. She was a major star of American musical theater. The song she was singing is "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from the musical "Gypsy", in which she had a leading role.
You would be surprised how many people don’t catch on to Kramer stepping through the mirror bit, cheers
22:30 nobody ever notices the guy walking through the mirror gag.
There are people who noticed it. I didn’t until someone pointed it out in the comments a couple years ago but I don’t think any reactors have noticed it.
That one is probably my favourite. So random, that is my kind of humour.😂
A lot of people don't notice the jars of mayo behind the doctor at the Mayo clinic.
When I was in film school, the Zucker brothers prescreened this film to us, and I remember thinking how the topical gags wouldn’t hold up to the test of time (which they didn’t after 45 years).
For example, the stranded passenger in the taxi is Howard Jarvis, who no one today would remember.
But Jay was smart and recognized that many of the sight gags still endure.
Kudos to your son! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The nicest thing about this movie is that there are so many jokes per minute of runtime that it still works today for two reasons.
1. There's an actual, serious plotline. If you take out _all_ of the jokes, you still have an actual movie. (In fact it's called _Zero Hour_ lol).
2. If you don't get a joke or it doesn't land for you, that's okay because there'll be another one coming around in about 3 seconds and the movie's very quickly set up to let you know this.
Plus, this is one of the rare movies where there's almost an infinite number of things to catch on rewatches!
Didnt know the passenger person had further significance - thank you !
Funny how I was about your son's age when I first saw this movie but most of the jokes flew over my head until much later in life. A lot of it is very niche 1970s-80s specific.
At 14:10 STP is a brand of automobile engine products. Mainly fuel additives for cleaning the insides of the engine.
"boy's life" was a real american magazine. they didn't just make it up for the joke. it was around for decades. never knew anyone who bought it but it could be found in medical waiting rooms. there was another kid's magazine in these waiting rooms called "highlights."
this is called "absurdist" humor. and many of the jokes were old as dust. like "don't call me shirley" - kids said that joke for decades before this movie. its the familiarity of the childish, goofy jokes, and the surprise to hear them in a movie, that makes the film so endearing. and there are some original jokes in here too. the "drinking-problem" gag is one of my favorites. and the scene where they're playing instruments. i love that. but my favorite joke in the whole film is the newspaper headline - "boy trapped in refrigerator eats own foot." thanks for the video. and please, next time the auto pilot deflates - let it deflate!
It was a magazine for the Boy Scouts of America and had a lot of interesting articles, how-to for crafts, some scouting news, some comics, and short stories or excerpts of stories, many of which were absolutely iconic. For example, Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Sunjammer" is one of the first mentions of a spaceship powered by 'solar sails' and was published in the March 1964 issue of _Boy's Life_ and is a great read, available online.
Now that the Boy Scouts have reorganized to be inclusive of all genders, the magazine is called _Scout Life_ and is still around.
I think BOY'S LIFE was sold on newsstands and store magazine racks in at least some places, but I believe it was primarily distributed to members of the Boy Scouts by subscription.
Great reaction. The movie that kicked off the disaster-movie fad of the 1970s was “Airport” (1970), a serious but over-the-top drama that was a big hit filled with a lot of major stars. The scene with the couple kissing on the beach was satirizing an iconic scene from the famous movie, “From Here to Eternity” (1953), where Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kiss on the beach just like that---considered rather risques at the time.
My favorite gag is one you didn’t get: the horses behind the car. This is a meta-joke about the movie itself. Like in old Hollywood, the shot uses back projection to simulate driving in the car. But the producers made a “mistake” and projected galloping horses from a western rather than cars behind them.
I got it, it just wasn't a laugh out loud one
I wonder if D forgot how adult some of the jokes are. Or perhaps he didn't realize it himself when he saw this at a young age. 🤔😄
A bit of both !
This was the first time I've ever seen somebody NOT laugh at the famous "don't call me Shirley" joke. I guess it's a joke that only adults pick up on.
It’s one of the daddiest of Dad jokes to be fair!
The kid is not old enough to understand the joke. Most adults have heard the joke, even if they did not know where it came from.
Additionally, this is an American movie and they are in the UK and may not have heard the joke before.
When foreigners watch this movie, I never blame them for not understanding some of the jokes. Number one, the movie is old and number two, the movie is American so the reactor may not have an idea of American pop culture from the 70s which this movie would have referenced since it was released in 1980.
What gets me is the Americans who do not understand sarcasm and they take the jokes in this movie, literally and barely laugh. They’re usually too busy trying to use critical thinking skills that they don’t even have. It’s a silly comedy and they try to put some deep meaning to it when there is none.
I think it was less of a "foreigner" thing and more of an "age" thing because based on dad's reaction during the joke, he certainly understood it. Junior just didn't pick up on the joke. When he gets older he probably will.@@PleaseStayTuned-v1q
Yes, that was Jonathan Banks (aka Mike Ehrmantraut). He has been in countless TV shows and movies.....as well a Mark Margolis (Tio Salamanca). Those guys have played bit parts everywhere.
It looks like "your uncles" are making more cameo appearances than Alfred Hitchcock.
The co pilot “Roger” a famous basketball player from the L.A. Lakers !
Haven't seen this movie in about 30 years, but the one thing I picked up on this time around is how phenomenally great it would have been with Mike, Davy, Peter and Micky in the lead roles.
🎶 Take the last plane to Clarksville! 🎵
My problem is, I'm old enough to get all the jokes and references and recognize all of the more famous actors. The Pilot (played by Peter Graves) was the main character of the TV series "Mission Impossible". Kramer (Robert Stack) hosted the tv show "Unsolved Mysteries", but in the 50's-60's he starred in the TV series "The Untouchables". McCoskey (Lloyd Bridges) starred in an old TV series 50's-60's called "Sea Hunt" and all of these actors also starred in various other tv programs and movies in their day. The lady that told the Stewardess, "I speak Jive." was Barbara Billingsley, recognizable to any American at the time for having been the Mom on the 50's-60's sitcom "Leave It To Beaver", where she played the perfect mom of the perfect American family, always dressed in pearls and high heels and very proper, which made her "Jive" bit so funny. Leslie Nielsen, up to that point had been mostly a "serious" actor. His first starring movie role being in the sci-fi 1956 film "Forbidden Planet".
Stuff like "Jim never has a 2nd cup of coffee at home"? Well, that's a reference to old television advertisements for a particular brand of coffee where the wife would confide in someone who would tell her to try the brand they used, and of course Jim wanted more coffee when she switched brands. The "Radar Range" was the Amana brand's original name for their microwave oven. The horse in the lady's bed, I think, is a reference to "The Godfather", except in that film it's a much grizzlier scene of someone waking up to find themselves in a bed with a horse's severed head.
The Mayo Clinic is an actual hospital, but they don't have jars of mayonnaise on the shelves of their doctor's offices. If you listen to the sound effects throughout the movie, about 90% of the time the plane, even though it's a jet, sounds like a propeller driven aircraft.
I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.
Kareem Abdul Jabar (spelling). Yes he was an extremely talented basketball player.
And delivered one of the best responses to a Jeopardy answer on movie ratings.
He filmed his role on N the way to practice!
The scene where they’re telling the story of being in the jungle and it shows her teaching the women about “Tupperware “ I always get a kick out of that because I still have that yellow pitcher that you see in the scene!!
Oh my...this will be a challenging one for the young man...which jokes will he get or miss, and will any of them go too far for the young sir? I am enthralled and fascinated to find out! 😜😂
Not for a British kid. They are much more precocious than US kids and less hangups about saucy humour.
Just want to say that in these crazy times, how nice it is to spend a little time every week with you two!! You always bring a smile to my face!! I know it me not be your end goal but it is a happy byproduct!!
🙏❤️
They do the 'What is it?... but that's not important right now' joke three times.
Leslie Nielsen was a serious dramatic actor before they discovered his gift for comedy in this film. Many of the others were also serious actors and are playing it seriously, making it funnier.
The co-pilot is really LA basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabaar. He was so famous some reactors have recognised him even before the little boy says who he is.
I remember reading that when Peter Graves read the script, he was appalled at the creepy things he’d need to say as the pilot; but then it was explained to him just what kind of movie it was and he went along - and did a fantastic job.
And yes, getting actors who had been known for serious roles, and getting them to say all sorts of wacky things in dead seriousness, was a stroke of genius and elevated the comedy to heights of absurdity.
Stryker literally boring people to death is an amazing joke... The the old lady with the noose😂😂😂 even the guitar hitting people in the head I'm at still hits me hard every time😊
And I love when the mom is getting into the song too
So many jokes!!
Of all the era specific references in this movie, perhaps the most time and regional specific one is Johnny’s “…and Leon’s getting larrrgerrr!” Leon’s is a furniture retailer in Canada, and when they were expanding the stores to factory showrooms, they would say that in their commercials. I didn’t really get the reference for a long time either, as I’m from around 1500km south of Canada, so it’s not just the Atlantic Ocean that makes the difference. 😄
I have watched this movie what seems like a gazillion times and I had no idea about Leon’s being a furniture store until now. Thank you for the information.
the fact that what made me laugh the most in the whole video was "coincidentally...he looks like one of your uncles" hahahaahahahah
I loved this movie when i first watched it. when i finally was able to watch it as an adult, actually in english and not in spanish. i was crying of laughter.
omg, top secret, yeees!!!
Roger (the African-American man in the cockpit) was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a famous Basketball player when this was filmed.
taken from old movie called zero hour, zuckers bought the rights, most of the dramatic scene dialogues are word for word
I think you're the first reactor I've seen who caught Kramer walking out of the mirror. A lot miss it at first due to the dog attacking the guy in the background but Kramer walking out of the mirror is another all sorts of hilarity (like everything else in this film haha).
Surely you'd be interested in watching more Leslie Nielsen such as Naked Gun. 😂
We are, but don’t call us Shirley
The plot for Airplane was taken from an earlier film, Zero Hour(1957) which is a very good little film you should watch and compare. Some of the dialog in Airplane was taken from Zero Hour. A joke which you two didn't get was the Mayo Clinic. The Doctor speaking to Captain Over on the phone with the jars of mayonnaise behind him. There is a famous clinic named the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
Yeah we didn’t get that one
@GenerationMediaReaction Don't worry about not getting the jokes. You need to be over 60 to understand most of them, being over 80 helps the most. 😂
Yeah, they hadn’t opened the Miracle Whip Clinic yet.
The Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home was a reference to a series of commercials aimed at women to make them worry. The pilot in the basketball uniform was a very famous player Kareem Abdul Jabbar. The guy who kept saying it was the wrong week to quit smoking etc was actor Lloyd Bridges, the father of Jeff Bridges.
Didnt know he was the father the Bridges brothers !
All the humor in this movie dates back to silly slapstick comedy of the 50's thru the 70's, so not all is relatable today.
The jokes go back to 1940. The George Zip one in particular. It's a spoof of a Ronald Reagan movie.
@@visaman true! Thanks for the update. Which also reminded me that the character Ted Striker, fighter pilot, came from John Stryker, in the movie The Sands of Iwo Jima, which came out in 1949. So yes, the 40’s
@HappyOne3 good catch!
"I like my coffee black"... is funny because it is a non sequitur, and something you would not expect a little girl to say, of course. 🙂 The "how'd they do that" question you had about the sweat pouring down Striker's face was likely done using his headset. There are a number of references, such as the singing nun and other bits that are funnier once you know the reference, but even as a kid, before I knew most of them, the jokes could stand on their own because they were silly no matter what. In case nobody mentioned it in the comments already, Lloyd Bridges, one of the pilots at the airport, was Jeff Bridge's dad. And this film's basic plot was almost scene for scene adapted from a 1957 drama, "Zero Hour!"
A quick side note. This film was and will always be known in Australia as 'Flying High' 🛩😅
That’s the alternate title
“Prior to airplane,Leslie,Nelson, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, and Peter Graves were dramatic actors. Airplane was the first comedy for all four of them.
“Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut, 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. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for using surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and dark humor.”
Just when I thought it wasn't coming! 33:33. I do feel this question deserves an answer now, D.....How many uncles does J have? 😂😂
"He thinks he's Ethel Merman" and then it actually is Ethel Merman, who was a big Broadway musical and film star, famous for her "belting" style of singing. The song she sings is the one she's most famous for.
This film was the first one in which Leslie Nielsen played a comedy role. He had always played stalwart heroes before this. The same goes for Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Peter Graves. This was a sort of meta-level joke, casting four serious leading role actors that nobody thought of as comical in this totally goofy movie. Nielsen went on to many other comedy roles, but he always said that his older brother, who was an important Canadian politician, was a much funnier guy. They both grew up in a remote community in the Canadian Arctic. Their father was the local Mountie. If you want to see one his dramatic roles, check out Forbidden Planet, which , for many other reasons would make an excellent film to react to.
Thank you. Forbidden Planet is a great suggestion
14:23 STP was a motor oil. ?? And mechanics often wore the emblem on their coveralls. 😊
Back in those days service stations would still be either "with service "or without service. "With service" stations would often have people in company uniforms standing by who would check your oil and top off wiper fluid and check tire pressure and whatnot while the gas tank was filling up.
Ah ok thanks!
It's a jab at the Indy 500 race.
Another “Uncle”lookalike!!👍
Hope he’s not in the same business as “Mike”??!!😂
28:25 You looked confused. The Amana Radar Range was the first microwave oven marketed for home use.
Ah! I didnt know this, thanks
This was a childhood movie for me, the movies' were so fun back then. Thank you for the reminder!
Hey, hey, hey, holllllld on a second! Shirley you can’t be serious?
The Gibb brothers may have been born on the Isle of Man, but the Bee Gees are from Australia.
Just like the Young brothers were born in Scotland, but AC/DC is 100% Aussie.
And just like there’s a 100% chance that at least one member of each band bears an uncanny resemblance to one of Jay’s uncles…
Haha, well I was on the Isle Of Mann recently, and they claim them !
@ well, of course they do! They ain’t got nothin’ on New Zealand, though, when it comes to little islands making big claims.😉
To be fair, there are certain technicalities that might convince me to concede the Bee Gees to the Isle of Man - but mainly just as a benevolent gift of goodwill.
I’ll never concede Acca, because the principle still stands. Great music can’t be separated from the environment that provided the essential ingredients for the alchemy to occur. You can’t take the Penny Lane out of the Liverpool!
@@riiidiculoso8697 haha, let the Crowded House debate begin !
@ 🤣 Exactly! I’m up for it, Kiwis.
𝗦𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘇 is a New Zealand band, but 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 is Aussie. Fight me!
Hey guys! 😮😮😮😮😮I’m not sure that J will get some of the references. And there’s some….umm….references that are a little…well. You get it. 😅😅LET’S GO!! 😊❤❤ Good Thursday morning to you both!! 😊
Thank you! He didn’t, but I didn’t either. But there’s still enough in there!
@ He’s done VERY WELL!! 🙌
Hey D&J! Can’t wait to watch this later with you guys. 😂 Along with The Naked Gun series, you should also check out “Top Secret!” which is made by the same guys. It has Val Kilmer in it and quite a few British actors. 🇬🇧 It’s also hilarious. Have a great weekend! Christine in abnormally warm Colorado, USA ☀️
The doctor that called about the girl that needs a new heart , showed the doctor with all of the jars of mayonnaise behind him he was calling from the “Mayo Clinic “so a play on words .( Mayo short for mayonnaise)
A famous hospital built by philanthropist William Mayo.
9:20 The nun is reading a copy of "Boy's Life," the magazine published by the Boy Scouts of America. So the joke is the boy reading "Nun's Life". IIRC, the "surfing nun" on the cover is one of the Zucker brothers in a nun's habit.
14:10 STP is a brand of motor oil advertised heavily at the Indianapolis 500. The cool kids at school liked having the logo sticker on their notebooks or lockers.
22:36 Well spotted on the "fake mirror" gag. Most reactors miss it entirely.
28:31 Microwaves were called "radar ranges" when they first came out, as the ones made in the '50s were made using WW2 surplus microwave radar emitters.
31:31 Comedian Steven Strucker played Johnnie and he was allowed to improvise all his lines. My personal theory is Johnnie isn't crazy; he's like Deadpool and is the only character _who knows he's in a comedy._
I always imagined there was something going on with Johnnie, because he sticks out in a way that doesn't make sense, like they thought he was a bit comedian at the time who was about to break out but never did. All of his lines in this movie were improvised and written down for the script by him after getting the surrounding dialogue. I haven't seen his other work, but he had become sick the year before and was eventually diagnosed with AIDS a few years later. Presumably if he hadn't died at 38, he would've been a lot more famous.
Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da rebound on da med side. 😂😂😂
Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da help!.....I just love that Barbara Billingsley (1915-2010) 😂😂😂😂
Have watched this hundreds of times since it came out and still makes me laugh. If youre looking for older comedies, especially with Leslie Neilsen in it, you might consider Dracula, Dead and Loving It! 🧛♂️. Luv Leslie!
As always, a fun reaction with you two! 💯👏🏻👍🏻❤️🛩
I was waiting to get into a Christmas event last year, and because it was cold and the people at the ticket booth knew me, one of them brought me a cup of coffee. When he asked me if I wanted some cream, I told him "No thank you. I take it black...like my men."
A few years ago, I was at the doctor's office for post-op visit, and I almost collapse on the nurse as she led me into the exam room. Turns out that I had a post-op infection that had spread to my bloodstream (it used to be commonly called "blood poisoning'), and the toxins the bacteria were producing were causing my blood pressure to plummeting sending me into shock. The doc called in the paramedics to take me to the main hospital across the street. Then told me "We're admitting you to the hospital." As soon as I heard that I had an infection, I figured it was "blood poisoning," but I couldn't resist asking her "Hospital? What is it?" She gave me the straight medical explanation, and I said "No. You're supposed to say 'It's big building with patients, but that's not important right now.'" She was too young to understand the "Airplane!" reference, but one of the paramedics got it.
Love this story!
Kudos for leaning on humor in a tough situation. My second wife was suffering post-op issues and we went to the hospital, and I was suffering from allergies at the time. The lady asked us our names and I said "She's grumpy, I'm sneezy, and we're here to see Doc." She was not amused.
I have seen reactors to Beverly Hills Cop pointing out that actor as one of the actors from Breaking Bad, but first time I see someone catches him in this movie too.
if you ever watched "zero hour" this movie is a total take off from it word for word except for the comedy, the beach scene is from the movie from the move to eternity with Burt Lancaster, STP is a short form for motor oil products ( Standard temperature and pressure) the guy in the cab was Howard Jarvis, an American businessman and politician who lowered California’s property taxes and was tight with the money so running up the big taxi bill was the joke
There’s a comparison of the two video on UA-cam
@GenerationMediaReactionZero Hour is a Canadian TV movie.
STP stands for Science, Technology, Performance, not " Standard temperature and pressure"
Standard temperature and pressure comes up when I Google stp 😊,
this is the most ive seen you laugh during a reaction, love how much you enjoyed it 😀
Thank you! This one was a joy to edit !
@GenerationMediaReaction i would like to make a movie suggestion. Hacksaw Ridge
@@flashxdoe295 Is it a comedy ?
@GenerationMediaReaction no, its a movie about world war 2. based on a true story but its honestly beautiful and i think you would enjoy
@ Just looked it up, looks good - how violent is it ?
The 2nd cup of coffee lady said that same line in an old coffee commercial.
Great movie choice! 👍.. I highly recommend the movie called nothing but trouble with Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd and John Candy
I was about your sons age when my dad took me to see this in the theater. There were a few uncomfortable moments but a great memory
STP is an automobile engine additive. Also the horse in bed was a nod to THE GODFATHER.
Side note: In 1972, the ZAZ team created a comedy revue in a Los Angeles theater, and titled it "My Nose." This was solely so that the newspapers would have to include it in their theater listings as "My Nose: runs continuously."
In Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker movies you have to watch them more than once. There's always something going on in the backgrounds. Even the end credits are goofy. You have to watch all the way through.
This was great, yall!! Just great! 😂🛩️
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The natives playing basketball were the Harley Globe Trotters
8:25 that was to make it look like a train conductor, how they say all aboard. In older times, trains would also have where you can stick yourself out the window to wave while leaving. And the pilot was also going in gear like a train would. Also, the lady that can speak jive, she is famous for playing on the popular tv show Leave it to Beaver in the late 50s to early 60s.
The aborton joke is actual dialog from Airport 1970. 😂
“Release dates:
Airport (1970)
Airport 1975 (1974)
Airport '77 (1977)
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)”
@@PleaseStayTuned-v1q These were all "big" movies with celebrity casts. AIRPORT stands in relation to them as ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN stands in relation to Universal's FRANKENSTEIN series.
I admire your courage. I showed my son the film... he only laughed once. it was bad☺
Boys Life was a real magazine published by Boy Scouts of America .
Super reaction. Some of the jokes might have been a bit close to the knuckle. The film takes the proverbial out of a 1957 disaster film involving an airplane called Zero Hour.
The black pilot is NBA legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar. 😂
The Mayo Clinic is a famous top rated hospital in the U.S. Did you notice the Mayonnaise Jars behind the Mayo doctor's desk.
Talking JIVE was an inner city slang used by the black community The guy who checked the oil was Jimmy Walker he played in Good Times his catch phrase was "DYNAMITE " THIS WAS THE START OF LESLIE NIELSON comedic roles, police Squad, and some of the Scary Movie franchise. Cobain became the recreational drugs as it was cheap, so business men, doctors, lawyers would parties
STP is a famous brand of oil and fuel additives for cars here in the USA 🙂 Their CEO founded a racing team....his son Mario Andretti is a famous race car driver in NASCAR....being from the San Francisco Bay Area, I'm not so much into NASCAR, and more of a Formula 1 person, especially the new Formula-E (like Formula 1 but with battery powered cars). 🙂
Mario Andretti was NOT the "son" of any STP CEO. He is best known for his Indy Car and Formula 1 racing. He did race in NASCAR and won ONE race, which happened to be the Daytona 500 in 1967.
@@theapocalyptist
"In 1970, STP CEO Andy Granatelli founded the STP Formula One Team. Mario Andretti was hired to drive. The team competed in a total of five races running a March Engineering chassis, their best result being a third place at the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix. In 1972 Granatelli agreed to sponsor NASCAR champion Richard Petty,[8] but their deal almost fell apart before their first race. Granatelli insisted the car be STP day-glo red. Petty held out for his iconic Petty blue, and neither would budge. The resulting two-tone red and blue scheme became more famous than either color alone. "
--wikipedia article on STP.....so I remembered wrong on the son aspect, but the point was that Mario Andretti is associated with STP and I was right about that.
Of course, Fomula-E is way better than nascar, with no trumptards involved. 🙂
“Prior to airplane,Leslie,Nelson, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, and Peter Graves were dramatic actors. Airplane was the first comedy for all four of them.
“Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut, 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. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for using surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and dark humor.”
Here’s some more suggestions… I don’t think you’ve already reacted to these…
Karate Kid (1984), True Lies, Weekend at Bernie’s, Galaxy Quest, Princess Bride, Honey I shrunk the Kids, Hot Shots, RV, Mrs Doubtfire, Jumpin’Jack Flash, Inner Space, Lethal Weapon, Naked Gun and Some Like it Hot (of course)
Thank you, these are some great suggestions
😄👍 Believe it or not, the Zucker, Zucker & Abrahams film that came next, "Top Secret!" (1984) is just as funny as this one. 🐄
28:17 idk if that’s got something to do with the horse head in The Godfather??? Only thing I could think of. 🤷🏻♀️
could be !?
My interpretation was that Mrs. Oveur is being, shall we say “promiscuous” (like the scene in the control tower where she’s rubbing on Captain Kramer 😂) and so she has a “stud” (same term for a breeding horse as well as a hot guy) in the bed with her. 😁🐴
@ oh cool!! Didn’t think of that. Yes, she was a little frisky. lol! 😂
If it helps, they also do a similar donkey joke in the sequel.
I’m sure it was. Airplane references several other movies such as from here to eternity when Elaine and Ted were lying on the beach.
Those awkward moments between father and son in the more adult scenes.
5:42 - Mayo Clinic is a private American academic medical center focused on integrated healthcare, education, and research.
6:39 - no hoods on planes obviously lol
8:23 - The couple was acting like it is a train leaving
13:18 - That's a catfish if you are talking about the black thing with whiskers.
The joke with the captain was supposed to just be that he asks the most random off-the-wall questions, but people thought he was a p-phile in most reactions I have seen.
The NBA player is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the kid called him out on it, so throughout the movie even though he denied it, he starts randomly being seen with basketball gear. One of the best of all time.
27:51 - I think the joke is that horses are known to have big, you know, so she is cheating on her husband because of that fact.
Some people might ding you for not showing this gag or that gag but really, you'd have to show the whole movie since it's one after another.