@@icdogg2361 Why are they controversial? Jokes are meant to exaggerate. I suspect that you're what Mel Brooks wrote about in the April 2018 issue of Vannity Fair, when he said" comedy is dead now, and political correctness killed it."
The horse in the bed is a parody of a scene in "The Godfather", where a guy targeted by the Mob wakes, terrified to find the severed head of his favorite racehorse on the pillow next to his!!
It’s because in this movie they ripped a bunch of the script from a decades earlier passenger plane disaster movie where the plane was also a commercial passenger plane, but small enough and old enough to have prop engines.
@@staciecarrel4492 Not a rip-off, they bought the rights from the earlier movie and used the script as the throughline. Leslie Nielsen was told to play it straight, not to ham it up. It is his first comedic film.
@@CaptainFrost32 I never said they didn’t buy the rights to use the script, I figured they would have. By “ripped” I meant “pulled from”, not “stolen without permission/compensation”
LOL, it seems with each passing year more of the jokes need explanation. From old movie and tv references, to well known commercials of the time, and even the cameo appearances. It's still a great movie, but so much has been lost to time.
That's naturally going to happen, but it's a testament to the comedy in this movie that despite some of the dated references it still works for new viewers.
The co-pilot is Kareem Abdul Jabar, famous basketball star for the Los Angeles Lakers. The guy who 'thinks he's Ethel Merman' is played by the real singer.The 'eggs in the mouth' is a well-known magic trick.
When he grabs the kid it's hilarious. Joey : I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs. "The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA.I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!"
The guy who waits in the taxi the entire movie is Howard Jarvis, an anti-tax activist. Jim having a second cup of coffee is based of commercials for Yuban Coffee. It goes on and on.
The older woman that speaks Jive plays June Cleaver. The mom from the tv show, Leave it to Beaver. The guy who keeps picking the wrong week to quit things is Lloyd Bridges. He was a big action star in the 50's and father to Jeff and Beaux Bridges. Who were big stars in the 80's to early 2000's. Robert Stack plays Kramer the guy who talks to Ted on the Radio. He was the star of the tv show the Untouchables in the 60's. That was about Eliot Ness. Famous FBI dude. Lets see. The pilot of the plane is Peter Graves. He was the star of the original Mission Impossible tv show. The mechanic fixing and falling off of the plane is Jimmy J.J. Walker. Comedian from the tv show Good Times. The little girl with the IV was on a lot of Love Boat episodes. And of course Leslie Nielsen was the Dr. But he was very famous for doing detective movies in the 50's and 60's and most famously he was the star in the iconic sci fi movie Forbidden Planet from the 50's. There are a few more in minor roles but I just gave you the ones I actually knew of.
When this came out, we were so shocked to see actors who always played in dramas.. DO COMEDY!! The old lady who speaks “ jive” played the mother, June Clever on an old television show called “ Leave it to Beaver”. Lloyd Bridges is is Jeff Bridges father, who was on an old television show I used to watch in the early 60’s, called “Sea Hunt”. Peter Graves ( the captain) was on a old spy show called “ Mission Impossible”.. it’s nice to see this movie again !! Love Grandma Debbie
Everyone keeps leaving out that Beaux Bridges is Lloyds son too and he may have been a bigger star than Jeff. And you left out Robert Stack from the old tv show The Untouchables. He was Kramer. Oh and JJ Walker was the mechanic. He was the star of the sit com Good Times.
You’d be amazed how many sayings and phrases the Brits know from American pop culture. It’s interesting to note how both peoples can still understand each other.
@@XX2MediaI don’t think it’s as much the American pop culture references as much as how long ago it was - more of a generational thing. It’s stuff those of us who were around then tend to totally get.
@@pammcclung861 Actually, there would be little chance of them know who Karem Abdul-Jabar is and just how famous he was in the 1980's. Nor would thy know who Barbra Billingsley was. There are quite a few jokes that would require you to be up on American pop culture in the 1980's and 70's.
@@spinblack0Yeah. For those unfamiliar with the show, Leave it to Beaver was a 50s show about a suburban family that's one of the most white bread shows ever and Billingsley played the mother. This role actually revived the actress's career.
One of the greatest movies ever. So unique when it came out. All serious actors doing dry comedy. The writers insisted on having serious actors - not comedians as the talent.
I’ve seen many people react to this movie and in my head I’m always yelling “ stop talking to each other !!! You’re going to miss a joke!!!” Because this movie is just wall to wall jokes.
I'm old enough to have seen this movie in the theaters and I consider this film the funniest I have ever seen .... I have never laughed so hard at any other .
@@jaydouglas8845 ...... I'm 62 yrs. old , still fit and active so I'm pretty sure I've been out plenty but sorry guy but very few movies even come close to the hilarity of Airplane and today's films are absolute trash.
I was born the year this was made(I assume principle photography happened in 1979),it always makes you feel old as hell when you see what the world was that you were born into. Watch a movie from the year of your birth and you feel a thousand years old🤣
The 2 movies I laughed hardest at in a theater were Clerks and Borat,I thought I was gonna choke to death on popcorn laughing at that one and that it would become part of the controversy surrounding Borat. That it killed a viewer😂😂😂. There are plenty of other funny as hell movies but those were the 2 that did it for me the most
Some of my favorite, more subtle gags are: 1) There are dozens of jars of mayonnaise behind the doctor at the Mayo Clinic, which is a real and prestigious hospital. Somehow, I must have seen this film at least a dozen times before I finally noticed this gag, which isn't all that subtle. 2) It does not make sense that a film made in 1980 has a younger character who flew in World War 2, which ended in 1945. This storyline comes from the melodrama "Zero Hour!" which inspired this spoof. It did make sense in that 1957 film. 3) The name of Rex Kramer's seemingly friendly but actually vicious dog is "Shep," which is the name of the dog in at least one of the "Lassie" films about a boy and his canine best friend. 4) During the doctor's pep talk to Ted, he mentions a character named George Zipp. This is a reference to George Gipp (1895-1920). He played American football for the famous team of the University of Notre Dame. Gipp died from infections which would likely be cured with today's medicine. In the Hollywood, probably fictional, version of him on his deathbed, he asked the coach that one day in the future, when victory seemed unlikely, the team should find a way to "win just one for the Gipper." When the doctor in this film says, "win one for the Zipper," the music playing is the "fight song" for the University of Notre Dame "Fighting Irish" football team. 5) There is a scene where the chief in the control tower asks for the compass bearing of the plane. The radar operator is playing an Atari basketball game instead, and he gives the time remaining in the game as the compass bearing. 6) Every time the jet aircraft is shown flying, you can hear the sound of propeller engines.
This film is a parody of every disaster movie and war film over the decades. "Airport," "From Here to Eternity," "Zero Hour ," Towering Inferno, " "Poseiden Adventure," The Pride of the Yankees, " "Knute Rockne, All American." Most of the lead actors are legendary film and television stars who are known for serious roles. Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor before turning to comedy roles in the 80's and 90's. There are a lot of American cultural references you might miss because there are parodies of television advertisements from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. " Leave It to Beaver " was a popular family program during the mid 1950's to the 1960's. Barbara Billingsley plays the mother ,but in "Airplane," she is the "Jive" interpreter. You could find videos of her TV show on UA-cam.
I also love when the gas station attendant is washing the windshield and checking the oil at the beginning. Then the pilot pays by having his credit card run through the old credit card slide. 😂
This is me and my moms favorite movie! I think on some level you have to get some of the cultural references to truly get some of the humor. Glad you guys enjoyed it! Edit the couple arguing over the announcements at the beginning were actually a husband and wife who really announced at the la airport
I especially loved the LAX - specific jokes having just spent a whole afternoon fighting my way through the cultists and listening to the endless parking instructions there while waiting for my lost luggage to come back from Ft. Worth.
You guys understood way more of this than I thought you would. Coming from a time before you were born, on a different continent, with different societies and cultural references. So many old movies, TV commercials and old cultural references.
If you liked that, give the TV series "Police Squad!" a watch! It's written by the same writers, and stars Leslie Nielsen (the doctor from this movie) in a parody of 50's and 60's cop shows. You mentioned that "Airplane!" was like trying to cram as many jokes into an hour and thirty minutes... and that's actually why "Police Squad!" only lasted for one season. The executives at the network thought it moved too fast for TV viewers to catch everything. So the writers then took the concept and made the "Naked Gun" films -- also starring Nielsen, and also worth the view. Lots of sight gags and clever wordplay. One of my favorite lines: a man under investigation asks Nielsen's character "Who are you? How did you get in here?" The detective responds "I'm a locksmith. And I'm a locksmith."
They even parodied the freeze action ending, but the actual actors stopped instead of the camera, and sometime the action continued even though the actors weren't moving. One example is when one of the actors froze stopped while pouring coffee, and the coffee was over flowing.
@@rashadwalker8218 Mel Brooks movie it's a satire western made in 74 considered one of the greatest comedy ever made who ever made this were inspired by mel brooks
Abbrams-Zucker's first endeavor "The Kentucky Fried Movie" was a trial run at 'spoofing' serious films. Just a group of comedic vignettes teasing what they really wanted to do. But, yeah, "Blazing Saddles" was the original.
This has been ranked as one of the best American comedy films ever made. It is definitely my favorite comedy. I bet I have seen it over 100 times and I still laugh my ass off.
The dance scene is making fun of Saturday Night Fever. This movie spoofs a catalog of movies. The beach scene is from From Here To Eternity. The guy in the cab, in real life was notorious penny pincher.
but did you notice that he's wearing a Navy Aviator's uniform in that bar scene, but throughout the movie he's a former Air Force Pilot?. Many folks overlook that as well.
My personal opinion is their editor seems to edit their stuff on a timer or something. He skips a lot of things in all of their stuff that no one else skips. And he cuts the scene at weird spots.
Ronald Reagan had launched his Presidential campaign when the movie was being filmed so there are two jokes aimed at him. The obvious one, and the 'let's do it for the Zipper' line. Reagan had a famous line in one of his movies about 'winning one for the Gipper.'
I just realized the reason why Rumack and Elaine said the line together. Ted said, "it's an entirely different type of flying. All together.". Basically tell the 2 the say the line together at the same time.
One of the (many) brilliant things about this movie is the fact that it's pretty much a shot for shot remake of an old (bad) non-comedy movie from the 1950's called Zero Hour.. They just took the script from that movie and added all the jokes. There are shot for shot comparisons of the 2 movies all over UA-cam.
I love this movie, but people that are not from The US are going to have to watch at least 5 other American movies, just to understand the jokes. Like the girl scouts fighting the bar. 😂😂 I love that you Beesleys are so willing to try to understand. The world needs more like you.
I noticed that foreigners laugh more at this movie than Americans of their same age. Young Americans seem to be clueless about sarcasm and slapstick. The joke about the hospital being a big building with patients goes over their heads. I don’t think I’ll be exaggerating if I said they don’t get 90% of the jokes. Some of the jokes are relative to when the movie was made but there’s enough material for even a young person to understand but not the Americans. A 30ish Australian man watched this movie and was in tears. 30ish Americans watch it and remain stone faced.
Not really about Americans but moreso you need to be up on culture and pop culture. A lot of ppl today especially youtubers are not caught up on pop culture.
@mildred- Im 37 and have known this movie since I was young. Id say its closer to ppl 25 and under who dont have a grasp on things. I think some of the youtubers act like they havent seen movies but really have. Not these guys but there are those on here that have already seen the movies they react to but fake it.
Interesting fact. This movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Most of the actors in this movie had been famous playing serious roles. This was their first comedy. In the 70s, there was a rash of religious panhandlers (like 'moonies') hitting up people for donations. The "Jim never drinks two cups of coffee" was a famous commercial in the 70s.
A cultural reference...The lady speaking "jive" was the actress who played June Cleaver in the 1950/60 sitcom Leave it to Beaver. If you don't know what Leave it to Beaver, then you need to do a whole video on that.
As I read thru all the comments, this explanation is by far the most common. I have already read this same explanation 14 times. Just a personal observation. You likely didn't realize this since your comment was 3 days ago. By now our reactors know that she was June Cleaver and part of some old American show called Leave it to Beaver, which I have no doubt they haven't encountered that program or even seen one episode. Sometimes when we explain a joke, it loses it's impact or humor.
The plane knocking out the antenna "KZAZ in Chicago - where disco lives forever!" (36:14) references "Disco Demolition Night" riot at Comiskey Park in Chicago (July 1979)...check out the story sometime.
Remember the guy in the taxi cab? That was Howard Jarvis, one of the authors of the so-called Jarvis-Gann initiative, also known as Proposition 13, that was (and still is today) important legislation that limits property taxes in California. Having him sit for hours in a cab at the curb for hours with the meter running is delicious topical irony that has been lost for most audiences. And the woman who noted that her husband never has a second cup of coffee at home? That actress spoke that very line in a coffee commercial shown on TV for several years. Did you spot Jonathan Banks, of "Better Call Saul" and "Breaking Bad"?
Hey Beesleys, you guys are great! Glad you liked the movie, it's a classic. 4:15 This was, in fact, Ethel Merman's last movie role, and if you ask me a great one to end with. One subtle joke it took me years to realize, is that although they are on a jet, you hear the drone of propellers throughout the movie. I think my favorite was the "how soon can you land" exchange. And, of course, Johnny!
😂😂😂 this one came out after like 3 airplane disaster movies that kept everybody on the edge of their seats. The one gentleman who needs to keep quitting things is Lloyd Bridges he played the same kind of a role that he's got there at the air traffic control tower. I don't know if you've heard a Dean Martin but he played in the first one. It was like airport one airport 2 airport 77. It was so unexpected and hilarious😂😂😂 what you two need to understand is these are all serious not one of them had ever been in a comedy before😂. So as an audience after watching three disaster films about twa 747s a couple of the gentleman having played in those movies, after actually being in those movies...😂😂😂
almost everything is a joke or a play on something the beginning was a play on jaws, the bar scene with the girl scouts fighting, and the dancing was saturday night fever, the beach scene was from here to eternity its endless movie references the lady that was speaking jive to the black dudes was June Cleaver from leave it to beaver, most of the actors are serious roll actors playing themselves in a funny way. it would take me an hour to type out all the jokes i can remember. another one was the airplane flying noise was a propeller aircraft and they are flying a jet.
Airplane is a great movie. I first watched it on my 16th birthday party with my friends in 1995. I'm not sure if you know this judging from your reaction, but the opening song with the airplane moving through the clouds is the theme from the shark movie Jaws. Other classics I'd also recommend are both Ghostbusters movies, 1989 Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice if you haven't watched them.
@@neutrino78x Oh yeah I forgot about the sequel. It's a good movie too. Also there's a lot of great Mel Brooks movies I forgot to recommend before like Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
3:53 The Mayo Clinic is a medical and research clinic, taking on challenging and life-threatening cases. They were a major source of information during the Coco, for example. Even to this day, 43 years later, they are one of the - if not *the* - highest ranked hospital in the United States.
We have a Mayo Clinic right down the street here in Jacksonville FL; my wife's cousin is an RN there. It's massive and looks like a University Campus. This one also has a huge Cancer Research Center. The patient care is top notch. When you are on the surgery recovery building you'd swear you're in a resort/hotel. The amenities are the best and you can see in the details that no expenses spared. Aside from a fancy formal restaurant, their cafeteria serves really great tasting food for cheap. We've gone there on a few occasions just for lunch due to the choices, quality, and price. What amazed me the most is that there is no "hospital" or "chemical" smell inside. The air is neutral and the facilities are spotless where you could eat off the floor. Just an incredible unique medical facility. The get the best doctors and surgeons since they pay so much more than the other local hospitals.
One reason the main character was played as a WWII pilot was because this is based on the movie Zero Hour from the 50's. Same core plot, just different variations on the dialogue.
"Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive". To get the full extent of the joke, you gotta check out who Barbara Billingsly was (from Leave It To Beaver). Probably one of the funniest moments of the entire movie and why so many older people remember it to this day. Memes created about it lol
Shortly after my wife went into labor, I walked into the delivery room and said "I just want to wish you good luck, we're all counting on you." I don't think she appreciated the humor at the moment.
A lot of this movie makes jokes based on earlier airplane disaster movies like Airport. Disaster movies were big in the 70s - The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure were classic examples.
@pammcclung861 and Leslie Nielsen was in TPA ... in fact, they cast him in this because of that. He'd never done comedy before that and so they wanted to capitalize on his fame as a serious leading man type (imagine like if they made this movie today and had like Martin Sheen or Idris Elba in his role), but he turned out to be so good at it that he got a whole second career out of it and spent the next 2 decades just doing this type of comedy (and he seemed to like it better).
I did love the fact that this movie first has a dig at "I haven't felt so horrible since we watched that Ronald Reagan movie" -- Ronald Reagan was governor of California at the time but he already had the Republican nomination for President by the time the movie was released -- then later on spoofs the heck out of a scene from a Ronald Reagan movie. "Win One for the Zipper" is a takeoff of the "Win One for the Gipper" scene in "Knute Rockne, All-American" where Ronald Reagan played George Gipp, who in real life was a 25 year old football player for Notre Dame who passed away from strep throat and _allegedly_ told Knute Rockne, his coach, to tell the team to 'win just one for the Gipper'. (Most people agree that Knute actually made it completely up these days, but there you go.) Anyway, that's why they play the Notre Dame Victory March during that scene in Airplane, and as a relatively young child watching (the censored TV edit of) this movie I really did love that moment. Then again, my dad was MBA Class of '76 at Notre Dame and my mom worked in the bookstore so I kind of _have_ to be a Notre Dame fan.
Something that many people miss, is that every time they show the JET Airliner, the sound effects are of a PROPELLER plane. AND... if you don't stick around thru the credits, you don't hear the guy in the cab saying, "Ill just give him 5 more minutes".
The late 70's very early 80's had a lot of very, very funny satirical movies. "Blazing Saddles" is a must see, along with "Young Frankenstein", just two of the many. lol My friends & I saw this movie Airplane, in the theater! We all laughed so hard, we had tears in our eyes!
Not to be too technical but the two movies you mentioned are from the mid 70's. 1974. I never realized both were the same year before. Talk about a good year for Mel Brooks.
@@boki1693 Your absolutely right, they both were in 74. Trying to trust my memories from decades ago, can be a scary thing sometimes! lol Thanks for the "technical" correction. :) High Anxiety was another gem of Mel Brooks, 1977. There were so many good & funny movies back then. :)
@@kperry2504 My memory is very bad too but I did know Blazing Saddled was earlier than the late 70's because I saw it with my cousins when I went to spend the summer with them in the Hamptons and I stopped doing that once I went to H.S. in 1974. But I actually thought that one came out more like 1972. So my memory is no better. So I actually did google it. LOL.
@@boki1693 Oh thats great you have a point of reference for the timing. :) Ya, Ive had to google it too! LOL My issue comes with seeing the movies with the same group of friends starting in HS in 1973, & after, so I get confused a wee bit on the "when" question! lol Whats most important though, is the laughter we all shared watching these movies. :)
The woman answering them was super wholesome as the mother on Leave It To Beaver an early American sitcom so her speaking jive was a surprise. If you don’t know who she is you wont get the joke or even know there was one.
Got an ad featuring Kareem Abdul Jabar, what are the odds? Anyway glad you liked it. There's Airplane 2, the three Naked Gun movies, and The files From Police Squad tv series made by the same people. All good imo.
That , believe it or not has become what is referred to as a Cult Classic. This film broke all the rules at the time. It is one of those movies that you need to watch twice , because it is so full of , one liners, verbal and visual Puns, and outrageous silly-ness, that each time you watch it , you catch something new you didn't catch the first time. They made a sequel . " Airplane II" which takes place on a space shuttle .
as far as the main storyline, this is almost a shot-for-shot remake an old Black & White movie called, _"Zero Hour"_ 37:22 the guy unloading laundry is Johnathan Banks. most famously known as Mike Ehrmantraut from _"Breaking Bad"_
Great reaction! Glad you two enjoyed the Movie. If you are curious about the lady thinking about her husband "Jim will never have a second cup of coffee at home". That is a reference to the Yuban Coffee commercials in the 70's Keep up the great work!
Boy's Life is the Boy Scouts of America magazine. And those were Girl Scouts fighting in the bar. They would normally be selling the Girl Scouts cookies for a fundraiser.
Due to this film, the Airline made it a rule that the cockpit crew could not have the same meal as one another. Pilot and Copilot had to eat different things.
Historically, pilots were required to ensure they ate different meals in case the food gave them food poisoning. Having different meals helped to ensure that if one pilot got food poisoning, the other didn’t and could still fly the aircraft. However, the chances of both pilots now 2023 suffering from food poisoning due to eating the food onboard is so rare that it is no longer a requirement. Therefore, pilots don’t need to eat different meals from each other. However, some airlines still recommend the pilots eat different meals. Different airlines have different guidelines and not hard fast rules. This practice was started in 1984, 4 years after this movie was released and it had nothing to do with this movie. It had everything to do with actual incidents within those 4 years.
Since no one else did it, I just want to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you
I am serious and don't call me Shirley
Don't call me Shirley!
I just want to tell you both, Good Luck, we're all counting on you.
I picked the wrong week to quit commenting on reaction videos. 😜😂😉
Calm down, get a hold of yourself!
There is literally nothing “controversial” in this movie. It’s a classic and just fine the way it is.
The "pedo" gags
@@icdogg2361 Why are they controversial? Jokes are meant to exaggerate. I suspect that you're what Mel Brooks wrote about in the April 2018 issue of Vannity Fair, when he said" comedy is dead now, and political correctness killed it."
The horse in the bed is a parody of a scene in "The Godfather", where a guy targeted by the Mob wakes, terrified to find the severed head of his favorite racehorse on the pillow next to his!!
@@davidcosta2244 his comment is bogus though and Mel Brooks don't know squat about comedy.
@sarahfullerton6894 it's also dark humor about her cheating on her husband with someone who was hung like a horse.
i think you missed the after end credits gag. the guy in the cab looks at his watch and says, "I'll give him 20 more min, and that's it."
I saw this movie four or five times before I realized that the plane was a jet but all the plane sounds were propellers.
Except the takeoff, which was a TRAIN!
It’s because in this movie they ripped a bunch of the script from a decades earlier passenger plane disaster movie where the plane was also a commercial passenger plane, but small enough and old enough to have prop engines.
@@staciecarrel4492 Not a rip-off, they bought the rights from the earlier movie and used the script as the throughline. Leslie Nielsen was told to play it straight, not to ham it up. It is his first comedic film.
@@CaptainFrost32 I never said they didn’t buy the rights to use the script, I figured they would have. By “ripped” I meant “pulled from”, not “stolen without permission/compensation”
I just realized that, and I actually have it on DVD.
The most unrealistic part of this movie is how many Americans in 1980 would have chosen fish over steak for dinner.
I would had the lasagna.
@@chuckdacon4797 Well played.
Well, the good doctor had Lasagna instead for dinner.
I'd choose fish over steak at any period of time. 😁
LOL, it seems with each passing year more of the jokes need explanation. From old movie and tv references, to well known commercials of the time, and even the cameo appearances. It's still a great movie, but so much has been lost to time.
"I'll Give'em Another 20 Minutes .... But That's It!"
That's naturally going to happen, but it's a testament to the comedy in this movie that despite some of the dated references it still works for new viewers.
Only a few reactors get to the end of the credits for the ultimate taxi joke...@@jamesalexander5623
Like, tears in rain.
The co-pilot is Kareem Abdul Jabar, famous basketball star for the Los Angeles Lakers. The guy who 'thinks he's Ethel Merman' is played by the real singer.The 'eggs in the mouth' is a well-known magic trick.
When he grabs the kid it's hilarious.
Joey : I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense.
And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs.
"The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA.I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!"
The guy who waits in the taxi the entire movie is Howard Jarvis, an anti-tax activist. Jim having a second cup of coffee is based of commercials for Yuban Coffee. It goes on and on.
The Kareem scenes are my favorite parts of the movie as Kareem talks about dragging Walton up and down the court.
The older woman that speaks Jive plays June Cleaver. The mom from the tv show, Leave it to Beaver. The guy who keeps picking the wrong week to quit things is Lloyd Bridges. He was a big action star in the 50's and father to Jeff and Beaux Bridges. Who were big stars in the 80's to early 2000's. Robert Stack plays Kramer the guy who talks to Ted on the Radio. He was the star of the tv show the Untouchables in the 60's. That was about Eliot Ness. Famous FBI dude. Lets see. The pilot of the plane is Peter Graves. He was the star of the original Mission Impossible tv show. The mechanic fixing and falling off of the plane is Jimmy J.J. Walker. Comedian from the tv show Good Times. The little girl with the IV was on a lot of Love Boat episodes. And of course Leslie Nielsen was the Dr. But he was very famous for doing detective movies in the 50's and 60's and most famously he was the star in the iconic sci fi movie Forbidden Planet from the 50's. There are a few more in minor roles but I just gave you the ones I actually knew of.
When this came out, we were so shocked to see actors who always played in dramas.. DO COMEDY!! The old lady who speaks “ jive” played the mother, June Clever on an old television show called “ Leave it to Beaver”. Lloyd Bridges is is Jeff Bridges father, who was on an old television show I used to watch in the early 60’s, called “Sea Hunt”. Peter Graves ( the captain) was on a old spy show called “ Mission Impossible”.. it’s nice to see this movie again !! Love Grandma Debbie
Everyone keeps leaving out that Beaux Bridges is Lloyds son too and he may have been a bigger star than Jeff. And you left out Robert Stack from the old tv show The Untouchables. He was Kramer. Oh and JJ Walker was the mechanic. He was the star of the sit com Good Times.
@@boki1693 And later Robert Stack in Unsolved Mysteries
You did a good job considering this movie is just 2 hours of inside jokes from American culture almost 50 years ago.
You’d be amazed how many sayings and phrases the Brits know from American pop culture. It’s interesting to note how both peoples can still understand each other.
@@XX2MediaI don’t think it’s as much the American pop culture references as much as how long ago it was - more of a generational thing. It’s stuff those of us who were around then tend to totally get.
My only problem with your comment is they didn't make 2 hour comedies back then. Airplane was 88 minutes
@@pammcclung861 Actually, there would be little chance of them know who Karem Abdul-Jabar is and just how famous he was in the 1980's. Nor would thy know who Barbra Billingsley was. There are quite a few jokes that would require you to be up on American pop culture in the 1980's and 70's.
@@pammcclung861exactly. I was born in the 90s and IDK if I'd understand most of that movie if I hadn't watched it so young
I love how nobody who reacts to this movie gets the "altogether" joke. So subtle, so funny :P
Airplane has one of the funniest lines in 80's comedy"Oh, stewardess! I speak jive". Great film and great post. Keep 'em coming😁
It's funny because it is Barbra Billingsley the mother from " Leave it to Beaver" saying it so it's real out of place from her known character.
@@spinblack0Yeah. For those unfamiliar with the show, Leave it to Beaver was a 50s show about a suburban family that's one of the most white bread shows ever and Billingsley played the mother.
This role actually revived the actress's career.
Naked gun is a great follow up to this style of comedy. Plus the intro suggested that Jaws is one you haven't seen.
I definitely think Naked Gun would be the best follow up to this too. So funny!!
Top Secret as well.
This film succeeds by the actors playing it straight while the humor is the background.
One of the running gags throughout this movie is the airplane sound, it’s a jet that sounds like a prop driven plane.
Thank you! No one ever gets that.😂
Except for the train sound as it pulls away from the gate...
Many folks also don't realize that it's a scale model airplane and not an actual 707.
What about the raindrops on the cabin windows? There cannot be drops falling on an aircraft flying at high speed...
One of the greatest movies ever. So unique when it came out. All serious actors doing dry comedy. The writers insisted on having serious actors - not comedians as the talent.
I’ve seen many people react to this movie and in my head I’m always yelling “ stop talking to each other !!! You’re going to miss a joke!!!” Because this movie is just wall to wall jokes.
He said, "It's an entirely different kind of flying .. altogether". So they said it "together".
I'm old enough to have seen this movie in the theaters and I consider this film the funniest I have ever seen .... I have never laughed so hard at any other .
It was one of first comedies I remember seeing in the theater I was 10. I remember laughing so much it hurt. It was just non-stop.
@@jaydouglas8845 ...... I'm 62 yrs. old , still fit and active so I'm pretty sure I've been out plenty but sorry guy but very few movies even come close to the hilarity of Airplane and today's films are absolute trash.
I was born the year this was made(I assume principle photography happened in 1979),it always makes you feel old as hell when you see what the world was that you were born into. Watch a movie from the year of your birth and you feel a thousand years old🤣
The 2 movies I laughed hardest at in a theater were Clerks and Borat,I thought I was gonna choke to death on popcorn laughing at that one and that it would become part of the controversy surrounding Borat. That it killed a viewer😂😂😂. There are plenty of other funny as hell movies but those were the 2 that did it for me the most
But that was the real Ethel Merman, a Broadway musical and film star for decades.
And that was the real Kareem Abdul Jabar as Roger, the co-pilot.
One of the funniest movies of all time. Pokes fun at all with no apologies like a proper comedy.
Some of my favorite, more subtle gags are:
1) There are dozens of jars of mayonnaise behind the doctor at the Mayo Clinic, which is a real and prestigious hospital. Somehow, I must have seen this film at least a dozen times before I finally noticed this gag, which isn't all that subtle.
2) It does not make sense that a film made in 1980 has a younger character who flew in World War 2, which ended in 1945. This storyline comes from the melodrama "Zero Hour!" which inspired this spoof. It did make sense in that 1957 film.
3) The name of Rex Kramer's seemingly friendly but actually vicious dog is "Shep," which is the name of the dog in at least one of the "Lassie" films about a boy and his canine best friend.
4) During the doctor's pep talk to Ted, he mentions a character named George Zipp. This is a reference to George Gipp (1895-1920). He played American football for the famous team of the University of Notre Dame. Gipp died from infections which would likely be cured with today's medicine. In the Hollywood, probably fictional, version of him on his deathbed, he asked the coach that one day in the future, when victory seemed unlikely, the team should find a way to "win just one for the Gipper." When the doctor in this film says, "win one for the Zipper," the music playing is the "fight song" for the University of Notre Dame "Fighting Irish" football team.
5) There is a scene where the chief in the control tower asks for the compass bearing of the plane. The radar operator is playing an Atari basketball game instead, and he gives the time remaining in the game as the compass bearing.
6) Every time the jet aircraft is shown flying, you can hear the sound of propeller engines.
Thank you for saying that. LOL. I was just about clarify the Mayo reference! lol
so many miss the prop engine sounds for the jet plane
When Rex Kramer starts to leave his house he walks out of the mirror!
What about the raindrops on the cabin windows? There cannot be drops falling on an aircraft flying at high speed...
@@SilvaJrEddie Never noticed that
This film is a parody of every disaster movie and war film over the decades. "Airport," "From Here to Eternity," "Zero Hour ," Towering Inferno, " "Poseiden Adventure," The Pride of the Yankees, " "Knute Rockne, All American." Most of the lead actors are legendary film and television stars who are known for serious roles. Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor before turning to comedy roles in the 80's and 90's. There are a lot of American cultural references you might miss because there are parodies of television advertisements from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. " Leave It to Beaver " was a popular family program during the mid 1950's to the 1960's. Barbara Billingsley plays the mother ,but in "Airplane," she is the "Jive" interpreter. You could find videos of her TV show on UA-cam.
"every disaster movie"? Perhaps, but it is almost a scene for scene remake of Zero Hour.
Love this movie! Seen it like a hundred times, and I STILL find new stuff!
Whenever I get stressed at work, I start quoting, “I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!” 😂🤣
And don’t call me Shirley! 😄😄
I also love when the gas station attendant is washing the windshield and checking the oil at the beginning. Then the pilot pays by having his credit card run through the old credit card slide. 😂
This is me and my moms favorite movie! I think on some level you have to get some of the cultural references to truly get some of the humor. Glad you guys enjoyed it!
Edit the couple arguing over the announcements at the beginning were actually a husband and wife who really announced at the la airport
I especially loved the LAX - specific jokes having just spent a whole afternoon fighting my way through the cultists and listening to the endless parking instructions there while waiting for my lost luggage to come back from Ft. Worth.
That's cool. I didn't know that about the announcements!
IMHO:
"Airplane!" effectively defined the essential pop-culture cinematic experience at every level in the US throughout the 1980s;
Altogether.
You guys understood way more of this than I thought you would. Coming from a time before you were born, on a different continent, with different societies and cultural references. So many old movies, TV commercials and old cultural references.
"What do you make of this?" "You can make a hat, a brooch or a Pterodactyl."
SO MANY great one-liners. This is one of my favorites 😂
Johnny was my favorite character.
Johnny is my spirit animal.
If you liked that, give the TV series "Police Squad!" a watch! It's written by the same writers, and stars Leslie Nielsen (the doctor from this movie) in a parody of 50's and 60's cop shows. You mentioned that "Airplane!" was like trying to cram as many jokes into an hour and thirty minutes... and that's actually why "Police Squad!" only lasted for one season. The executives at the network thought it moved too fast for TV viewers to catch everything. So the writers then took the concept and made the "Naked Gun" films -- also starring Nielsen, and also worth the view. Lots of sight gags and clever wordplay. One of my favorite lines: a man under investigation asks Nielsen's character "Who are you? How did you get in here?" The detective responds "I'm a locksmith. And I'm a locksmith."
They even parodied the freeze action ending, but the actual actors stopped instead of the camera, and sometime the action continued even though the actors weren't moving. One example is when one of the actors froze stopped while pouring coffee, and the coffee was over flowing.
It’s an entirely different type of flying..altogether. Then they say it in unison.
I am serious and don’t call me Shirley. I love that line.
It's an entirety different type of flying
It's an entirely different kind of flying.
It's an entirely different kind of flying
This film started the " movie spoof" genre
What did blazzing saddles do
@@Raven5150 i never seen that film
@@rashadwalker8218 Mel Brooks movie it's a satire western made in 74 considered one of the greatest comedy ever made who ever made this were inspired by mel brooks
Abbrams-Zucker's first endeavor "The Kentucky Fried Movie" was a trial run at 'spoofing' serious films. Just a group of comedic vignettes teasing what they really wanted to do.
But, yeah, "Blazing Saddles" was the original.
@@richardrobbins387 Kentucky fried movie had a few more tiddys that airplane
This has been ranked as one of the best American comedy films ever made. It is definitely my favorite comedy. I bet I have seen it over 100 times and I still laugh my ass off.
Leslie Neilsen was a great Canadian comic actor. His brother was acting Prime Minister for a time and Leslie said he was the funny one!
The dance scene is making fun of Saturday Night Fever. This movie spoofs a catalog of movies. The beach scene is from From Here To Eternity. The guy in the cab, in real life was notorious penny pincher.
but did you notice that he's wearing a Navy Aviator's uniform in that bar scene, but throughout the movie he's a former Air Force Pilot?. Many folks overlook that as well.
I just want to tell you both good luck, we are all counting on you.
The final scene was actually after the credits were done. It showed the guy still in the taxi waiting. "I'll give him 20 minutes, but that's it!"😂
I can't believe you skipped the scene with the girl and her coffee, one of the best bits in the movie. "I take it black, like my men."
My personal opinion is their editor seems to edit their stuff on a timer or something. He skips a lot of things in all of their stuff that no one else skips. And he cuts the scene at weird spots.
If they kept every joke then they may as well play the entire movie and it would be pointless to watch their reaction on Patreon.
@@dunhill1 : I understand that, but the girl and her coffee scene is too ... iconic, too important to be left out.
Ronald Reagan had launched his Presidential campaign when the movie was being filmed so there are two jokes aimed at him. The obvious one, and the 'let's do it for the Zipper' line. Reagan had a famous line in one of his movies about 'winning one for the Gipper.'
I just realized the reason why Rumack and Elaine said the line together. Ted said, "it's an entirely different type of flying. All together.". Basically tell the 2 the say the line together at the same time.
Airplane! is an almost word-for-word satirical remake of the serious drama Zero Hour! (1957).
Funny how often the "it's an entirely different kind of flying,...ALL TOGETHER" confuses people. Confession: I didn't catch it for years :)
Really? I caught it right away, because they were taking it literally to say what Striker told them to say at the same time.
"We have clearance, Clarence."
"Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"
"I want radio clearance, over."
"That's Clarence Oveur. Over."
"Roger."
"Huh?"
"Roger, over."
"What? Huh? Who?"
One of the (many) brilliant things about this movie is the fact that it's pretty much a shot for shot remake of an old (bad) non-comedy movie from the 1950's called Zero Hour.. They just took the script from that movie and added all the jokes. There are shot for shot comparisons of the 2 movies all over UA-cam.
I love this movie, but people that are not from The US are going to have to watch at least 5 other American movies, just to understand the jokes. Like the girl scouts fighting the bar. 😂😂 I love that you Beesleys are so willing to try to understand. The world needs more like you.
I noticed that foreigners laugh more at this movie than Americans of their same age. Young Americans seem to be clueless about sarcasm and slapstick. The joke about the hospital being a big building with patients goes over their heads. I don’t think I’ll be exaggerating if I said they don’t get 90% of the jokes. Some of the jokes are relative to when the movie was made but there’s enough material for even a young person to understand but not the Americans.
A 30ish Australian man watched this movie and was in tears. 30ish Americans watch it and remain stone faced.
Not really about Americans but moreso you need to be up on culture and pop culture. A lot of ppl today especially youtubers are not caught up on pop culture.
@mildred- Im 37 and have known this movie since I was young. Id say its closer to ppl 25 and under who dont have a grasp on things. I think some of the youtubers act like they havent seen movies but really have. Not these guys but there are those on here that have already seen the movies they react to but fake it.
Place names that often slip past people: The dive bar was in Drambuie, and the bombing run was in Daiquiri.
I just wanna tell you both...good luck! We're all counting on you.
Interesting fact. This movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Most of the actors in this movie had been famous playing serious roles. This was their first comedy. In the 70s, there was a rash of religious panhandlers (like 'moonies') hitting up people for donations. The "Jim never drinks two cups of coffee" was a famous commercial in the 70s.
A cultural reference...The lady speaking "jive" was the actress who played June Cleaver in the 1950/60 sitcom Leave it to Beaver. If you don't know what Leave it to Beaver, then you need to do a whole video on that.
Leave it to beaver was a great TV show.
@@deannaschultz1814 It's on METV on Sunday afternoon
As I read thru all the comments, this explanation is by far the most common. I have already read this same explanation 14 times. Just a personal observation. You likely didn't realize this since your comment was 3 days ago. By now our reactors know that she was June Cleaver and part of some old American show called Leave it to Beaver, which I have no doubt they haven't encountered that program or even seen one episode. Sometimes when we explain a joke, it loses it's impact or humor.
Airplane is one of my favorite films. Would love to see you guys react to Caddyshack.
Yep! That is hall of fame basketball player Kareem Abdul Jabbar. 😁
The guy getting the cab was none other than Howard Jarvis, of the California Proposition 13 fame.
Such a classic comedy, up there with Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and others.
The plane knocking out the antenna "KZAZ in Chicago - where disco lives forever!" (36:14) references "Disco Demolition Night" riot at Comiskey Park in Chicago (July 1979)...check out the story sometime.
And DON’T call me Shirley!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love Grandma Debbie
Remember the guy in the taxi cab? That was Howard Jarvis, one of the authors of the so-called Jarvis-Gann initiative, also known as Proposition 13, that was (and still is today) important legislation that limits property taxes in California. Having him sit for hours in a cab at the curb for hours with the meter running is delicious topical irony that has been lost for most audiences.
And the woman who noted that her husband never has a second cup of coffee at home? That actress spoke that very line in a coffee commercial shown on TV for several years.
Did you spot Jonathan Banks, of "Better Call Saul" and "Breaking Bad"?
Hey Beesleys, you guys are great! Glad you liked the movie, it's a classic. 4:15 This was, in fact, Ethel Merman's last movie role, and if you ask me a great one to end with. One subtle joke it took me years to realize, is that although they are on a jet, you hear the drone of propellers throughout the movie. I think my favorite was the "how soon can you land" exchange. And, of course, Johnny!
😂😂😂 this one came out after like 3 airplane disaster movies that kept everybody on the edge of their seats. The one gentleman who needs to keep quitting things is Lloyd Bridges he played the same kind of a role that he's got there at the air traffic control tower. I don't know if you've heard a Dean Martin but he played in the first one. It was like airport one airport 2 airport 77. It was so unexpected and hilarious😂😂😂 what you two need to understand is these are all serious not one of them had ever been in a comedy before😂. So as an audience after watching three disaster films about twa 747s a couple of the gentleman having played in those movies, after actually being in those movies...😂😂😂
almost everything is a joke or a play on something the beginning was a play on jaws, the bar scene with the girl scouts fighting, and the dancing was saturday night fever, the beach scene was from here to eternity its endless movie references the lady that was speaking jive to the black dudes was June Cleaver from leave it to beaver, most of the actors are serious roll actors playing themselves in a funny way. it would take me an hour to type out all the jokes i can remember. another one was the airplane flying noise was a propeller aircraft and they are flying a jet.
Poor James and Millie......they didn't understand so many of the jokes.
Airplane is a great movie. I first watched it on my 16th birthday party with my friends in 1995.
I'm not sure if you know this judging from your reaction, but the opening song with the airplane
moving through the clouds is the theme from the shark movie Jaws.
Other classics I'd also recommend are both Ghostbusters movies, 1989 Batman, Edward Scissorhands,
and Beetlejuice if you haven't watched them.
Had no clue when watching this! Never seen jaws :D James has seen beatle juice :D
@@TheBeesleys99 oh an also the sequel to this is funny as well, Airplane 2 the Sequel....and then both hot shots movies, and the naked gun series. 🙂
@@neutrino78x Oh yeah I forgot about the sequel. It's a good movie too. Also there's a lot of
great Mel Brooks movies I forgot to recommend before like Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein,
Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
3:53 The Mayo Clinic is a medical and research clinic, taking on challenging and life-threatening cases. They were a major source of information during the Coco, for example. Even to this day, 43 years later, they are one of the - if not *the* - highest ranked hospital in the United States.
We have a Mayo Clinic right down the street here in Jacksonville FL; my wife's cousin is an RN there. It's massive and looks like a University Campus. This one also has a huge Cancer Research Center. The patient care is top notch. When you are on the surgery recovery building you'd swear you're in a resort/hotel. The amenities are the best and you can see in the details that no expenses spared. Aside from a fancy formal restaurant, their cafeteria serves really great tasting food for cheap. We've gone there on a few occasions just for lunch due to the choices, quality, and price. What amazed me the most is that there is no "hospital" or "chemical" smell inside. The air is neutral and the facilities are spotless where you could eat off the floor. Just an incredible unique medical facility. The get the best doctors and surgeons since they pay so much more than the other local hospitals.
It took me quite a few viewings as a kid to get the "entirely different kind of flying altogether" (all together) joke
I love how the jet airliner has the sound of piston engines and propellers.
Blazing Saddles next?
If you’re ever looking for a funny “horror” movie try Young Frankenstein.
Kareem Abdul Jabar is a famous retired basketball player and student of Bruce Lee. He was in the Bruce Lee movie Game of Death.
One reason the main character was played as a WWII pilot was because this is based on the movie Zero Hour from the 50's. Same core plot, just different variations on the dialogue.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you must watch Blazing Saddles!
The Mayo Clinic is a famous research clinic in the US. I can't believe I just noticed the mayonaise, and I have this on DVD.
"Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive". To get the full extent of the joke, you gotta check out who Barbara Billingsly was (from Leave It To Beaver). Probably one of the funniest moments of the entire movie and why so many older people remember it to this day. Memes created about it lol
Shortly after my wife went into labor, I walked into the delivery room and said "I just want to wish you good luck, we're all counting on you." I don't think she appreciated the humor at the moment.
The sick girl is a parody of Airport 75. Linda Blair plays a kidney patient and Helen Reddy plays a nun who sings her a song.
A lot of this movie makes jokes based on earlier airplane disaster movies like Airport. Disaster movies were big in the 70s - The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure were classic examples.
@pammcclung861 and Leslie Nielsen was in TPA ... in fact, they cast him in this because of that. He'd never done comedy before that and so they wanted to capitalize on his fame as a serious leading man type (imagine like if they made this movie today and had like Martin Sheen or Idris Elba in his role), but he turned out to be so good at it that he got a whole second career out of it and spent the next 2 decades just doing this type of comedy (and he seemed to like it better).
I did love the fact that this movie first has a dig at "I haven't felt so horrible since we watched that Ronald Reagan movie" -- Ronald Reagan was governor of California at the time but he already had the Republican nomination for President by the time the movie was released -- then later on spoofs the heck out of a scene from a Ronald Reagan movie. "Win One for the Zipper" is a takeoff of the "Win One for the Gipper" scene in "Knute Rockne, All-American" where Ronald Reagan played George Gipp, who in real life was a 25 year old football player for Notre Dame who passed away from strep throat and _allegedly_ told Knute Rockne, his coach, to tell the team to 'win just one for the Gipper'. (Most people agree that Knute actually made it completely up these days, but there you go.) Anyway, that's why they play the Notre Dame Victory March during that scene in Airplane, and as a relatively young child watching (the censored TV edit of) this movie I really did love that moment. Then again, my dad was MBA Class of '76 at Notre Dame and my mom worked in the bookstore so I kind of _have_ to be a Notre Dame fan.
He said “all together” so they both said “its an entirely different kind of flying”. Its a movie you really gotta listen to every line.
Something that many people miss, is that every time they show the JET Airliner, the sound effects are of a PROPELLER plane. AND... if you don't stick around thru the credits, you don't hear the guy in the cab saying, "Ill just give him 5 more minutes".
You can spend a lot of time on the movies of 1980. Was a banner year!
He said "It's and entirely different kind of flying, altogether." So they replied all together "It's an entirely different kind of flying."
Roger (the tall copilot) is Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who was one of the LA Lakers best basketball players.
he was master of the sky hook, a shot that is basically unblockable. it is so much fun to watch, u can find highlights on YT. :)
One joke everyone misses is when the guy waves down Ted in his cab, he’s waving in the wrong direction
Another one missed is the sound of a prop plane instead of a jet.
The late 70's very early 80's had a lot of very, very funny satirical movies. "Blazing Saddles" is a must see, along with "Young Frankenstein", just two of the many. lol My friends & I saw this movie Airplane, in the theater! We all laughed so hard, we had tears in our eyes!
Not to be too technical but the two movies you mentioned are from the mid 70's. 1974. I never realized both were the same year before. Talk about a good year for Mel Brooks.
@@boki1693 Your absolutely right, they both were in 74. Trying to trust my memories from decades ago, can be a scary thing sometimes! lol Thanks for the "technical" correction. :) High Anxiety was another gem of Mel Brooks, 1977. There were so many good & funny movies back then. :)
@@kperry2504 My memory is very bad too but I did know Blazing Saddled was earlier than the late 70's because I saw it with my cousins when I went to spend the summer with them in the Hamptons and I stopped doing that once I went to H.S. in 1974. But I actually thought that one came out more like 1972. So my memory is no better. So I actually did google it. LOL.
@@boki1693 Oh thats great you have a point of reference for the timing. :) Ya, Ive had to google it too! LOL My issue comes with seeing the movies with the same group of friends starting in HS in 1973, & after, so I get confused a wee bit on the "when" question! lol Whats most important though, is the laughter we all shared watching these movies. :)
The opening scene was a play on the theme music for the shark in Jaws.
Millie and James the black guys on the plane are speaking jive .it's basically a form of slang which they called it back then in the 70s
The woman answering them was super wholesome as the mother on Leave It To Beaver an early American sitcom so her speaking jive was a surprise. If you don’t know who she is you wont get the joke or even know there was one.
@@mikeljenksyessss Barbara billingsley
Try Blazing Saddles. The humor is very similar
This is the BEST movie to see people's reaction, and it's how I found your channel. NO ONE is ready for Airplane!
It is a basketball player, his name is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he played for the Lakers, he's the co-pilot
Got an ad featuring Kareem Abdul Jabar, what are the odds?
Anyway glad you liked it. There's Airplane 2, the three Naked Gun movies, and The files From Police Squad tv series made by the same people. All good imo.
Glad you guys liked it. It's one of my all-time favorite movies. I'd also like to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
Shirley you've seen AIRPLANE before today ?!
Preserved at The Smithsonian Instituion as an American Classic
That , believe it or not has become what is referred to as a Cult Classic. This film broke all the rules at the time. It is one of those movies that you need to watch twice , because it is so full of , one liners, verbal and visual Puns, and outrageous silly-ness, that each time you watch it , you catch something new you didn't catch the first time. They made a sequel . " Airplane II" which takes place on a space shuttle .
Like when the reporters were asking questions, and holding mikes, one was holding an ice cream cone like a mike.
as far as the main storyline, this is almost a shot-for-shot remake an old Black & White movie called, _"Zero Hour"_
37:22 the guy unloading laundry is Johnathan Banks. most famously known as Mike Ehrmantraut from _"Breaking Bad"_
Other comedy recommendations; Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Fletch + Fletch Lives as well as Spies Like Us.
I just wanted to tell you both good luck on this reaction. We’re all counting on you.
If you enjoyed all the innuendos of Airplane, you should definitely check out "Robin Hood, Men in Tights"
The amount of things this movie referenced is staggering, i just get it all because my mom had a wicked sense of humor 😂😂😂
Love your channel, I just had to watch your reaction to this movie from you due to how old it is compared to you both
Right off the bat - Apparently not familiar with Jaws.
Great reaction! Glad you two enjoyed the Movie. If you are curious about the lady thinking about her husband "Jim will never have a second cup of coffee at home". That is a reference to the Yuban Coffee commercials in the 70's Keep up the great work!
Boy's Life is the Boy Scouts of America magazine.
And those were Girl Scouts fighting in the bar. They would normally be selling the Girl Scouts cookies for a fundraiser.
I don't think Girl Scouts have the membership they used to since the Boy Scouts now allow girls to join.
Amana radar range was the first microwave oven before they were called microwave ovens.
Due to this film, the Airline made it a rule that the cockpit crew could not have the same meal as one another. Pilot and Copilot had to eat different things.
This movie is a spoof of Zero Hour from 1957
Historically, pilots were required to ensure they ate different meals in case the food gave them food poisoning. Having different meals helped to ensure that if one pilot got food poisoning, the other didn’t and could still fly the aircraft. However, the chances of both pilots now 2023 suffering from food poisoning due to eating the food onboard is so rare that it is no longer a requirement. Therefore, pilots don’t need to eat different meals from each other. However, some airlines still recommend the pilots eat different meals. Different airlines have different guidelines and not hard fast rules. This practice was started in 1984, 4 years after this movie was released and it had nothing to do with this movie. It had everything to do with actual incidents within those 4 years.
@@ndfnq7811 Yes, it is, but the FAA still made new rule after Airplane came out.
@@dunhill1 Hmmm, I guess I learn new things everyday. Perhaps my own source was incorrect.