ACTRESS REACTS to AIRPLANE! (1980) *FIRST TIME WATCHING MOVIE REACTION* ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS

[@callmeclariss]

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[@CWGAMES280]

Thanks for providing the great content. I definitely advise watching Scarface though if you have not heard of it Al Pacino is a very talented actor who somehow really is in tune with the character of Tony Montana and I think you would enjoy the film as a whole. And the Ending well it's best I don't spoil it but I think you will be SHOCKED. In the words of Montana "SAY GOODNIGHT TO THE BAD GUY"

[@andrewlustfield6079]

@@PedroCastillo_1980 The squeal isn't nearly as good. Naked Gun is a better follow up to Airplane.

[@andrewlustfield6079]

@@PedroCastillo_1980 In my opinion, it's the best followup to the kind of deadpan humor that Airplane is exploring---and also just as fearless.

[@LordVolkov]

​@@PedroCastillo_1980Clariss needs to experience 2001: A Space Odyssey first.

[@andrewlustfield6079]

@@LordVolkov Not one of my favorites. The very beginning and the end of the movie--both are brilliant. The middle is really slow without much story going on---most of the pace travel could have been cut.

[@joshuacampbell7493]

I just want to tell you Good Luck we're all counting on you.

[@MrUndersolo]

You can't be serious! - signed, Shirley

[@joshuacampbell7493]

@@MrUndersolo I am serious and don't call me Shirley.

[@Mark-xx3gh]

I just want to tell you Good Luck we’re all counting on you.

[@BeOtterMyFriend]

I just want to tell you Good Luck we're all counting on you.

[@Paula-r3x]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ExUSSailor]

The casting of Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, and, Leslie Nielsen was perfect, because, all of them were known for playing either villains, or, dramatic leads. They all delivered such absolutely RIDICULOUS dialogue with perfect, dead-pan, sincere delivery. It makes the movie.

[@LordVolkov]

The only missed casting is George Kennedy, who is in all the Airport movies, as well as some other disaster flicks. He's hilarious in Naked Gun and would have been great here too.

[@MrTech226]

I read that Lesile was known to play pranks or jokes during his most serious movies in the 50's. I believe this movie set a trend for him his later career in comedies up to his death in 2010. I think all serious actors wanted a change or a challenge in their careers.

[@josemuse4119]

If I remember correctly, after Robert Stack accepted the role and started rehearsing his lines with Lloyd Bridges, Mr. Stack was saying "How is this funny? Where is the joke?". Lloyd Bridges understood and told him "we are the joke." Leslie Nielsen was a lifelong prankster but always played straight dramatic roles and relished the chance to play in a comedy.

[@codyclaeys2008]

And Ethel Merman cameo is the icing on the cake

[@ThomasVanhala]

I director ones said to me that that in comedy you can go with a ridicules character in a perfectly normal situation or a normal character in a ridicules situation, I guess that is why I never liked the character Johnny in Airplane!

[@gmaqwert]

The actors speaking Jive actually wrote that dialogue themselves.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

It's funny to see reactors having an uncomfortable inner debate over whether or not it's politically correct to laugh at these scenes.

[@maddwitch]

@@porflepopnecker4376 TBH this the first time I've seen a reactor really seem uncomfortable with it, but it's understandable if she's unsure whether the joke is trying to make fun of the people speaking AAVE or people not getting it. One of the problems with people reacting to Airplane! these days is that sooo much of it's humor relies on the culture of it's time and they miss so much of it. It's essentially chock full of memes that people born a decade or so after, lack the context for.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

@@maddwitch I've seen several reactors who are clearly uneasy about laughing at something that was acceptable "back then" but not in today's more enlightened time.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

No. Barbara Billingsley wrote it.

[@thorguff]

Meanwhile, these very uncomfortable people worried about "political correctness" think that modern day, predominantly-Black slang talk is perfectly fine when it is far more ridiculous and atrocious than anything from the past.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

The two black guys wrote that dialogue (Jive) and taught Barbara Billingsley (the old lady) how to do it. Also, the natives playing basketball were the Harlem Globetrotters.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Other way round.

[@kettle_of_chris]

"the natives playing basketball were the Harlem Globetrotters" - you know I think I heard that before but man, that is shocking each time I hear it. They were so famous back then but they didn't do many cameos if memory serves

[@TimotheeReacts]

looks like i picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

[@phousefilms]

Timotheereacts? Is this a CROSSOVER episode?!

[@andrewlustfield6079]

one of the best lines from a movie full of great lines

[@MojiBeau]

A lot of people don’t know this movie is a direct parody of a movie called “Zero Hour!”. The plot, the central characters, some of the lines, the whole weird ptsd storyline, the flashbacks and melodrama: all from that movie.

[@joshuashelton6355]

They actually bought rights to zero hour because they used so much of it.

[@chrisleebowers]

"Zero Hour" (1957) was not a particularly famous or popular movie, it just had a classic (cliche?) disaster movie structure that feels familiar and recongnizable even if you haven't seen it. You've seen something *like* it so you know the tropes and the story beats, which made it a perfect framework to hang all their jokes on. It was also over 20 years old at the time and wasn't something audiences in the 80's really remembered, but the writer Arthur Hailey went on to write the novel "Airport" (1968) which was adapted into a movie franchise in 1970 that was popular enough for three sequels from 74-79.

[@Mark-xx3gh]

*Some* of the lines? Most of the lines.

[@trolleyfan]

That's part of the reason it's so melodramatic - to mimic that 1950s film. There are a few KZbin videos that have a side by side comparison of some scenes...and it's amazing how exact the copying is, but with somehow one being deliberately funny.

[@DerekDominoes]

Also, to a lesser extent, movies like "Airport" and "Airport 1975."

[@josephorren8980]

"I take it black, like my men" is the single funniest line in the movie. I wonder what that girl's parents thought when they first saw it.

[@Dystopia1111]

Not just the girl - the boy's facial expression is perfect. His look of simultaneous confusion and disappointment might be the best piece of acting in the whole movie.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

They thought "seven hundred twenty-two thousand four hundred ninety-six dollars and fifteen cents in royalties and residuals."

[@kpmac1]

Always interesting to watch younger reactors watching this movie. They hesitate to laugh at some things because they think they're supposed to be uncomfortable or think it's inappropriate. In many ways, it's good that we've moved past some of our old attitudes but at the same time, I miss when we all could just laugh at stuff, even when we're the target of the joke. People are very sensitive now. Again, sometimes that's good, but sometimes it's silly.

[@insaneprepper2832]

She appears to have omitted the Jive exchange between Barbara Billingsley and the two men. And the hilarious air traffic controller Johnny. Sad that the young people today worry about being woke rather than just enjoying harmless comedy. Kids these days are soft!

[@arraymac227]

Watching the final end credit scene, like no one did: priceless.

[@danielmorency2242]

Congratulation!! You're one of the very few reactors that actually waited for the post-credit scene! lol

[@davidyoung745]

The actress who translated the jive talk was Barbara Billingsly, the mom from the Leave It To Beaver show. So having quite possibly the most strait-laced character ever be able to speak the most up to date jive was the key to the joke. Also, the actress who played the young boy’s mother was in a series of coffee commercials where someone offers the husband a refill on his coffee and he accepts eagerly, while she thinks to herself “that’s funny, Jim never has a 2nd cup at home”. To me, one of the funniest sight gags is the Doctor who called from the “Mayo clinic” and there were jars of mayonnaise all over the shelves.

[@markdenio4537]

Thank you for explaining the coffee reference. I remembered the commercial but not that she was in it.

[@MGower4465]

The two men talking Jive improvised their lines on the fly, essentially they were given what the subtitkes would say and were cut loose. Barbara Billingly, the older white woman, was coached by the two men in what to say, how to deliver the lines, and her body language. They had so much fun they stayed friends many years after filming their parts. One of the Jive-talkdrs gets a role in the sequel, still talking the smooth.

[@kettle_of_chris]

Yeah I remember the Zucker brothers talked about that on a commentary they did on one of the DVD releases - highly recommend giving that a watch (with their commentary) they're funny to listen 2

[@LordVolkov]

"The hell I don't!" Kareem getting increasingly annoyed with Joey is so funny! It's one of the more obvious casting jokes, but pays off so well every time they bring it up.

[@hypnomagician]

Roger that. Over ..

[@MGower4465]

The little boy didn't know in advance Kareem was going to act angry, his reaction is real fear. Kareem and the director both apologized to the boy as soon as the scene ended when the saw how genuinely scared the boy was.

[@kettle_of_chris]

_I've been hearin' that shit ever since I wuz at UCLA_

[@tarzapopohead]

The lady messing up her makeup was the director’s and writers mother who is in all their films.

[@kc0trm]

How you enter a plane depends on the airport. There are still places where you can use the stairs to board or deplane.

[@americanmutt9089]

I think climate helped determine what airports had enclosed boarding gates or stairs on the tarmac.

[@TheForwardSlashSlash]

Yes I've been on maybe 4 or 5 flights where we walk onto the runway before loading or after and waiting for our pink tag bags to be rolled out. Still somewhat common depending on the airport.

[@AlexSwanson-rw7cv]

Quite a lot of places if you fly cheap airlines in UK/Europe.

[@ericdaniel74]

Burbank, ca airport mainly uses that.

[@josemuse4119]

Long Beach was the same when I flew there. My local airport uses a ramp that snakes back and forth as it slowly reaches the elevation of the plane's door.@@ericdaniel74

[@rodentnolastname6612]

People rarely mention that in the establishing shots of the outside of the jet, the foley sound is of a propeller plane 😲🤣🤣

[@jerryfick613]

And continues throughout the film, the prop sound is in the background of all of the interior shots.

[@dfhowes]

Sometimes it actually sounds like a jet or in once case, a train.

[@markb742]

In the 70s, there were lots of "moonies" and other panhandlers that would hang around airports, malls, etc, begging for donations.

[@thegladve]

Airplane! is a spoof on every big scale drama and disaster imaginable, specifically a movie called Airport (1970) also the bit about airplane food being the catalyst for the whole plot to begin with both rings true and hilarious to me for some reason.

[@BlackMatt2k]

Jive-talking old lady was the mom on Leave it to Beaver, the iconic 1950s conservative family sitcom.

[@MadcapMatt]

More than 4 decades later and it's still just as funny. That's what I call a truly timeless comedy.

[@jspettifer]

A lot of the jokes don’t stick these days. But there are so so many of them that it doesn’t matter.

[@Mark-xx3gh]

One of the gags that most people miss is that the sound you hear throughout the movie is if a propellor plane. This is a callback to the source film, Zero Hour, which was a propellor plane.

[@RustyPopcorn]

GOOD catch

[@imdguin]

Little Joey's parents were characters in a TV ad campaign for a brand of coffee. They would be at someone's house when the wife would offer a second cup of coffee. She would say, "I will but Jim won't." Then he would say, " I will have a second cup." Then she would "think" "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home." (because she used the wrong brand) That cultural knowledge set up several quick jokes in the film. Also, most don't notice that whenever the JET plane is shown in the air, the sounds are that of a "propeller" airplane/

[@vincentsaia6545]

The speech Leslie Nielson says to Robert Hays about Lt. Ziipp is a spoof of a classic speech from the movie KNEWT ROCKNIE: ALL AMERICAN where Ronald Reagan plays doomed football player George "The Gipper" Gipp who pleads with his coach (Rocknie) that the team go out, "and win one for The Gipper."

[@audiododd]

Knute Rockne: All American was set at the University of Notre Dame and the music that starts playing slowly and then speeds up and swells after the speech as Stryker goes to cockpit (the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit - but that’s not important right now) is the Notre Dame fight song.

[@davidmeir9348]

Airplane spoofs specifically a 1957 disaster film named Zero Hour! Some of the dialogue is exactly the same but made for comedy purpose.

[@stephandelange1776]

Welcome to the craziness of the early 80s 🤣 They had no limitations to the jokes and hilariousness. You need to see & realize that it was another time.... Those were the days. I love reliving these movies that I just loved back then with you like this. You make it fun to watch again. Love your videos!

[@gregschultz8639]

“Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home.” The housewife that says that also did a coffee commercial where she and her husband are leaving a party but he wants a second cup. The commercial says “Jim never has a second cup of MY coffee…”

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

No thanks!

[@QuestionableLifeChoices]

nah that jive speaker gag is hilarious. it's not making fun of black people or the speech, it's making fun of people's awkwardness in that situation (awkwardly nodding rather than trying to ask for a translation); specifically the joke was at the stewardess' expense. and the old white lady who DID speak it was june cleaver from leave it to beaver lol the couple arguing about red and white zones and abortions over the PA in the very beginning were also a real life married couple who both ACTUALLY did airport PAs, too!

[@wratched]

This movie has an end credits scene. Also, the credits contain the following entries: GENERALLY IN CHARGE OF A LOT OF THINGS: MIKE FINNELL AUTHOR OF A TALE OF TWO CITIES: CHARLES DICKENS Also, the legal disclaimer ends with "SO THERE."

[@mak23686]

The "entering the airplane through the stepladder" thing depends on if your plane has an inner (right next to the building) or outer (out on the field) parking space. If you have an outer parking space, a bus takes you out on the field and you go up the stairs. At least, that's what I experienced so far.

[@AlexSwanson-rw7cv]

Even if the plane is parked next to the terminal, some terminals just don't have jet bridges, and some airlines will avoid using them to save on airport fees.

[@myopinion69420]

​@AlexSwanson-rw7cv our local airport does not have bridges at all. (Regional airport) the larger city ones will load via the bridge for front half of the plane, but for rear half you have to go down the stairs, then walk to the back and up the stairs.

[@NightRanger-lz6tp]

Fun Fact about the Saturday Night Fever spoof: While he was doing Airplane, actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) was also doing a short lived sitcom called Angie and his Angie Co-Star Donna Pescow was in Saturday Night Fever. There is a sequel to Airplane called Airplane 2 The Sequel which is also worth a look just to see William Shatner steal the show.

[@Dystopia1111]

​@@timd.3837Agreed. Born in 74, so the sci-fi references really hit for me as well (not to mention that majestic Battlestar Galactica theme music).

[@kettle_of_chris]

"Captain, these lights keep blinking out of sequence!" "Well get 'em to blink _in_ sequence!"

[@danflashes7125]

The door gag 😂 “Shhhh!”

[@ganggreen9012]

In the 1970's I lived in a smaller town in Alaska, the local airport was just large enough to handle a 737, we would board and deplane by the mobile stairs. The planes at the time did have smoking sections too.

[@toakreon]

ST TRINIANS (2007)! The most crazy, bonkers comedy you'll ever see. Honestly.

[@johnbowersox738]

I guess you picked the wrong week to try a new genre.

[@kettle_of_chris]

LMAO - my vote for best comment

[@DeathsjesterKMNP]

The Kareem joke is funny, period. There is no need to wonder how to "grade it". God, people need to get the uppity self-righteous stick out of their asses these days and just enjoy comedy.

[@Samwise-tx7ub]

Hi Clariss! Great reaction (as always!). By now you know that the movie is a spoof of the 1957 disaster film "Zero Hour". As the story goes, the directors were watching a late night showing of the movie on TV and couldn't stop laughing (even though it isn't a comedy). Many of the scenes and dialogue are exactly like it is in the movie as well. The directors told the actors to deliver there lines seriously which they did and since many of the were well known for as dramatic actors (Peter Graves from the TV series Mission Impossible, Robert Stack from the Untouchables, Llyod Bridges from Sea Hunt and Leslie Neilson - Forbidden Planet & Poseidon Adventure). Leslie Neilson in particle did such a great job it led to his later role in the Naked Guns series. Kudos for recognizing the beach scene from the classic "From here to Eternity" movie and for staying long enough for the post-credit scene. Fun fact, the gentleman waiting in the cab is Howard Jarvis a conservative Tax policy activist who was responsible for getting Prop.13 passed in California. So for him to wait so long in the taxi as the meter kept running was hilarious! Take care!! XOXO

[@noxteryn]

I find it so funny that you think walking up to a plane is an old thing. Here in Greece, in small airports, like in Crete, you still do exactly that. If the plane is too far away from the terminal, you take a shuttle, but you still walk up the stairs to get in.

[@LordVolkov]

Very common on islands and small airports. I guess that's just the city girl in Clariss 😉

[@johng482]

I’ve used the ladders, but only because they were smaller airports (Burbank, CA and Jackson Hole, WY). There’s something neat about walking out in the tarmac to board. Walking down the jetway just feels like going from one room, down a hall, to another room.

[@justincollins4262]

I used them once on a work trip a few years ago. I didn’t even realize they were still used by airlines. The destination was only an hour away so it was a smaller plane.

[@billolsen4360]

It's an entirely different kind of boarding, altogether.

[@noracola5285]

​@@billolsen4360 It's an entirely different kind of boarding.

[@turbulentlobster]

Up until the 1960s, the ladders were the only way to board. Larger airports began building jetways in the 60s, but when I was a kid in the 70s a lot of smaller airports still didn't have them.

[@jstraight1667]

13:33 That Classified joke hits home. I was never allowed to tell my family where I was or when I was coming home. Then one day I got an email from my sister saying "CNN says your ship is off the coast of Somalia with a mission to...." followed by "Mom is freaking out!"

[@audiododd]

I love that he told when they were leaving, where they were going, what they doing, and how they were going to approach the target but he couldn’t tell Elaine when he’d be back because THAT was classified. 🤣🤣

[@dfhowes]

@@audiododd Did you ever notice the locations Striker mentions are always alcoholic drinks? For example, in the From Here to Eternity beach scene "...we're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri".

[@kirkdarling4120]

Back at the time, air traffic controllers were reported in the news suffering a rash of mental breakdowns (hence, Johnny) as well as addition to amphetamines and other narcotics (hence, "Looks like I picked a bad week to give up...."). Yes, the tunnel experience was only at the largest airports back in the day. And we did have to run a gauntlet of solicitors in the terminal. I think this was the first movie with a post-credit scene. Now, you have to react to Blazing Saddles, which did something similar for westerns.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

How 'bout some coffee?

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver No thanks.

[@nickmasuen1859]

The jive talk was not only performed by, but was also written and taught by the actors who did it. the Zucker brothers had put the space in the scrip for jive talk but, as I just said, left it up to the actors Norman Alexander & Al White to write the lines and was also asked by Barbara Billingsley, the jive lady, to teach her how to both speak and perform when speaking jive. Also during the 70's, for sure, and I think the 60's, different types of Jive was a vary common way of talking within some of the black communities that where in major U.S cities, but during the 80's for some reason or another died off.

[@MGower4465]

Every location Ted mentions is tied to liquor, like "Drambui". And in the bar flashback, he says h xwas Air Force, but he's in a Navy uniform. He has his hat on indoors, a no-no. And every flying flasback Ted has features aiurplanes from WW2 and esrlier. Clearly he isn't nearly old enough to have flown in any conflict except Vietnam. Certain prop-planes were used, for observation and spotter flights, but Ted was supposed to be a strike leader, and thisecplanes would all be jets.

[@visaman]

That's a good point about the war. When I saw this in 1980, I didn't know about Zero Hour, so, I was puzzled by the WW2 footage. I had to calculate the age of the actor, and it never worked out, then many years later, I saw Zero Hour on TCM, and it finally made sense. 😂

[@kennethsilverwind7575]

I LOVE that you actually took 15 seconds and looked up if that’s actually Kareem. The majority of reactors that I look at, didn’t give it a second thought. I think it adds to the comedy of this movie !

[@angru_arches]

Nah, she was getting too racially sensitive....she couldn't laugh until she ascertained it was him and not the possibility of it being a play on the trope of mistaking people of certain races for each other....

[@alanmacification]

To board most regional turboprop planes, you have to walk outside. A friend was going to a far northern town in Canada. He was changing planes and the lady who weighed his carry-on, tagged it and handed it back to him, and said: " Follow me." She was also the flight attendant/co-pilot/check-in desk.

[@cliffchristie5865]

Yes, Leslie Nielsen was known primarily as a dramatic actor but an early episode of M*A*SH gave a hint of how how effective he could be at comedy. And, not surprisingly, it was by basically playing his part straight.

[@davidblauyoutube]

Ladders still exist, although airports seem to be replacing them with ramps to help people get their luggage on board. I used a ramp on the tarmac earlier this week in Asheville, NC.

[@alexojideagu]

Although technically 1980 it was clearly made in the 1970s (1979). You can see by the style, words, clothing etc Even the reference to Disco music. Nobody called it "Jive talk" after 1982 either. It's pretty much a 1970s movie. A movie like Back to the Future is 100% 1980s.

[@dan_hitchman007]

The reason the acting was so old school was because the filmmakers were spoofing a very specific old film called "Zero Hour." which they bought the rights to. "Airplane!" is an almost shot for shot remake with zany stuff stuck in between.

[@DaleKingProfile]

To be precise the original was Zero Hour! Don't forget the exclamation point

[@porflepopnecker4376]

The acting was also rigidly deadpan, which, if done well as it is here, can be screamingly funny.

[@BluesImprov]

@@porflepopnecker4376 I don't think she gets that. . .

[@hengineer]

I grew up in a city that had a quite small airport (Bakersfield, CA), and yea you boarded the planes with a ladder. The terminal was only upgraded to a modern style I think just after 9/11. And one time, while reporting to a ship I was flying through Rome, and my connecting flight was actually parked out on the tarmac, and they took us there by Bus, and we boarded on the tarmac by stairs like that, in Rome (this was around 2010 or so). Also, FYI Airplane! is almost an exact scene for scene parody of "Zero Hour!" with a few extra references thrown in, right down to the sound of the propellors on a jet engine, lmao. There is a youtube video that actually shows some of the scenes back to back comparing the two movies.

[@davidzabel5195]

"Please be asleep, please be asleep." She's not asleep.

[@CaddyJim]

You cut it out but when the two black guys are speaking Jive & the older white women comes to translate. That older white woman is from the classic TV show (Leave It To Beaver) which makes the joke funny

[@Trusteft]

To answer your question, yes I have been on a plane through the step ladder. I don't remember when exactly, perhaps 15 years ago, perhaps more. It is still a thing depending on the size of the plane and the airport. In the 90s I also got on planes where smoking was still allowed. I still can't believe it was ever a thing.

[@JohnGunn]

I’ve been on steps from the tarmac to a plan within the past year lol when you’re flying from a smaller airport it’s far more common, or even on smaller planes.

[@dsimon966]

There are still many airports around the world, including the US, where you walk out to the plane for boarding. In America, you’ll mostly see it at a regional airport instead of a big hub.

[@richardzinns5676]

I'm guessing you probably know this, but the scene of the woman running alongside the plane waving goodbye to the man on board is a parody of the scene of Audrey Hepburn waving goodbye to Gary Cooper on a train in Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon, and Leslie Nielsen's speech about the late George Zip is a parody of Pat O'Brien's speech about the late George Gip (played by Ronald Reagan) is Knute Rockne: All American - hence the soundtrack orchestra playing the Notre Dame fight song at the end of the scene. Also, the taxi passenger is played by Howard Jarvis, a then very well known conservative California politician.

[@joits]

I have boarded and deplaned via stairs a few times over the years. When I fly out of smaller airports like Burbank or Long Beach and even the airport in Berlin, they do not have jetways, or tunnels as you called it, and so we board using stairs or ADA ramps. The good thing about this is that they often board both from the front and rear and it makes the whole thing that much faster. I had another trip to Japan about 6 years ago and apparently there was no available gate for us, so they had us deplane via stairs and then get on a shuttle which took us to the terminal. I personally love using the stairs because I love being able to see the aircraft up close.

[@lnwolf41]

Boarding planes in the 50's, 60's, and early 70's most airports did this, as they didn't have boarding tunnels. Even now regional airports still use ramps for the smaller plans. Speaking Jive back in late 70's and early 80's was an inner city thing that African Americans spoke. And yes it was funny to us way back then.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Later known as "ebonics."

[@angru_arches]

And it isn't funny now?

[@wyrmshadow4374]

If she thinks these jokes are old hat, she'd probably think Shakespeare is just too full of cliches.

[@texadan314]

The sound the plane is making during the outside views is that of a turbo prop plane, not a jet. And Captain Kramer asked Stryker if he had ever flown a monoengine plane before and he replied "No, never." All of the war planes in the flash backs were monoengine.

[@jamin7474]

i love when you went "please be asleep please be asleep"....i was like uhoh she went to sleep alright she took a dirt nap

[@heydadchannel]

Airplane was a genre creator. This kind of movie wasn't out before then - except for the previous film that Zucker, Zucker, and Abrahamson had written - The Kentucky Fried Movie, which I saw as a freshman in college in 1978. Glad that you enjoyed it.

[@John-ws2zr]

This is actually a spoof of the 1957 movie, Zero Hour.

[@XCerykX]

Yep, done the outdoor boarding many times. Grew up with that at the small airport we had. I remember when they got the jet bridges put in at that airport when I was 5 or 6. Currently live in an area with a small airport and we still board like that here. The stairs (at least where I am) are switchback ramps now instead of stairs though because of rolling suitcases and wheelchairs.

[@mikeoxstiff]

The showing of the wires in the disco scene was intentional. It's their humor style.

[@guitarman8462]

Mel Brooks also has some great movies like this. Those are a must watch if you haven't yet . Mel Brooks also produced the true story " The Elephant Man " with Anthony Hopkins & John Hurt . Although on the credits he used another name .

[@martinhafner2201]

In Zero Hour, the original movie that is being parodied, the co-pilot was played by a famous football player. The movie also makes fun of the drama that goes on in the control tower of Airport. Many of the lead characters were played by actors who had previously only done serious drama and action parts.

[@bobwallace1880]

I saw in a show where they interviewed the actors several years later. Peter Graves said when his agent sent him the script he threw in across the room. But he changed his mind. When he went to the opening people went nuts. They ran movie again because no one wanted to leave the theatre.

[@Greenwood4727]

the airport announcers ARE REAL announcers, and are married in real life

[@visaman]

The abortion talk is from Airport 1970

[@marcobrinckmann1012]

It actually happens today, go through the tunnel, enter the tarmac, walk through it, up the steps, YAY, Airplane!!!

[@hammerman199374]

I think you may be the first reactor on KZbin who's actually watched the post credit scene with the guy still in the taxi, so congrats! Was wondering if you also caught the hidden jokes in the end credits themselves? This film was made in part as a parody of the series of "Airport" films that were popular in the 1970's, the most popular one being "Airport '77". But the film is in fact a direct parody of an earlier film called "Zero Hour!" (1957). It was such an obscure film the Airplane! producers were able to buy the rights to it outright and do whatever they wanted with the material. If you search for it on KZbin, you should be able to find a side-by-side comparison showing that many of the scenes were lifted wholesale from the earlier film. It's a great way of showing how very similar dialogue can be drastically changed in tone with very small adjustments to the script and the context.

[@alexojideagu]

Yes, Although technically 1980 it was clearly made in the 1970s (1979). You can see by the style, words, clothing etc Even the reference to Disco music. Nobody called it "Jive talk" after 1982 either. It's pretty much a 1970s movie. A movie like Back to the Future is 100% 1980s.

[@texastyrannyresponseteam794]

you mean airport 75.. 77 was the least popular.. the one with jack lemon where they are stuck under water.. 75 was the one where karen black, the stewardess, flies the 747 after the pilot of a Beechcraft Baron has a heart attack and collides with it... then they transfer Charlton Heston midair into it through the hole and he lands the plane.. it was by far the most popular of all the "airport" movies.. and you are correct.. 90+% of the plot/characters and dialog was lifter from zero hour..

[@stephanginther9051]

13:58 I JUST realized he told her every important detail of the mission then said his *return* time is classified, lol.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Never flew mono-engine planes. Flashbacks all monos. Jet has four.

[@IDLERACER]

😄👍 First of all, I just want to mention that there's one gag in this movie that you not only have to be old like me to understand, but from California as well. The guy in the taxi at the beginning and end of this film is Howard Jarvis. If you're at all curious, look him up in Wikipedia. Believe it or not, Zucker Zucker & Abrahams' next movie, "Top Secret!" (1984) is even funnier than this one and all the Naked Gun movies. 🐄

[@toakreon]

Airplane! is an absolute, outrageous take off of the 1957 movie Zero Hour! Whole scenes are parodied, often with word-for-word quotes.

[@stephanginther9051]

12:16 If it makes you feel any better about it, those actors wrote all their own lines for the 'Jive' language.

[@Sarah_Gravydog316]

they say "Shaft" and had no idea what anyone was saying, that's why they have this scene haha

[@kittiedred]

“Airplane!” Is a spoof of a 1950’s movie called “Zero Hour”. It gets the melodramatic acting from that movie. It also includes elements from a series of four disaster films from the 1970’s. These are “Airport”, “Airport 1975”, “Airport ‘77”, and “The Concorde: Airport ‘79”.

[@balzirus]

so two things. 1 you mentioned about boarding the plane from the stairs which I did as a kid and teenager when my towns regional airport had a commuter flight to the city. 2 it took me about 5 times watching this movie to notice this but if you listen to the plane especially when they show outside shots of it you'll hear the sound of propellers engines even though it's a jet plane. Not a lot of people notice that on there first watch of the movie great reaction glad you liked it.

[@MichaelDzikowski-ms9iz]

Leslie Nielsen always had a humorous attitude and he was a practical joker behind the scenes and on movie sets early in his career.

[@88wildcat]

If you look closely underneath the blue neon star on the wall when Elaine throws Ted into the crowd you can see Robert Hays crouching down waiting to switch places with his stunt man.

[@dan_hitchman007]

The Black gentlemen were making fun of urban "jive talking" that was kinda, sorta a thing in the 1970's. The actors came up with their own language for the movie. I found it hilarious, along with the subtitles that were just as silly.

[@jrasicmark1]

No, the one plane trip I took around that time, we had to go through the tunnel thing, no ladders. As for references, it was just a parody of disaster films in general, but particularly "Zero Hour" and the "Airport" series (and I think the first one featured a similar food poisoning plotline). The war flashbacks, and the line, "It's quiet... TOO quiet" and "It's just what they'd be expecting" are just general spoofs of war movie lines. You got "From Here to Eternity". The dance scene was obviously a parody of "Saturday Night Fever". The horse in the bed was a spoof of a scene in "The Godfather" when a rival gang member leaves a decapitated horse's head in someone's bed as a warning. The bit about the woman thinking, "Jim NEVER has a second cup of coffee at home!" was a spoof of an instant coffee commercial of that time. Oh, and the nun with the guitar was a spoof of an odd movie trend of the 60s; there were a few movies about singing nuns, usually with guitars. They might have been inspired by a French nun who actually recorded a record; I think she sang "Dominique" (in French, of course). Even Julie Andrews had a guitar briefly in "The Sound of Music) and when Sally Field starred in the sitcom, "The Flying Nun", she would occasionally sing and play guitar, too.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

`+4:12 - The forklift guys are the Zucker Brothers themselves. And the lady trying to put on her makeup later on is their mother.

[@TrickstyrStudio]

Not using the skywalk is reserved mostly for smaller planes nowadays. Ive only ever gone up the stairs once and it was for a short 30 minute flight.

[@mikefoster6018]

What I love about the 'hanged lady' bit is that it's swiftly followed by a cluster of edgy bits - 'black coffee', 'grown man nak*d', 'basketball pilot' etc. Then a bit later there's 'bed horse' etc etc. But my favourite joke is the aggressive labrador, as a lot of dog owners are oblivious to how bad their dogs are! And I love how the whole film kinda reeks of masculine men and feminine women being deflated. Even the kids have it tough. The animals (horse, labrador, vulture and kinda the fish) have things in hand.

[@bigsteve6200]

The Gentleman in the Cab at the end. His name was Howard Jarvis. He was big in California politics. He recently ( from the time this movie was made ). Led a successful tax revolt. Lowering California property taxes by about 2/3's. He was a very popular figure at the time.... at least in California.

[@alexojideagu]

Smaller internal flights can have stairs in most countries.

[@allenruss2976]

It's not that they got away with jokes in 1980. We actually had a sense of humor then and didn't get offended by our own shadows

[@mikecarew8329]

Amen. I’d hate to see young reactors like this react to a Friar’s roast with Don Rickles, the Rat Pack, etc!

[@allenruss2976]

@@mikecarew8329 or any Don Rickles. I've been binging Foster Brooks the past couple of days. You cannot not laugh at him

[@anonymsly]

I really love your style of reacting, you’re so enthusiastic and engaged with what you’re watching. And as with my earlier comment, I have a movie suggestion: The Great Race. It’s my comedy comfort film.

[@blacktronlego]

Disaster movies, even specifically Aeroplane disaster movies were a big genre a little before this movie came out (there were a few afterwards as well, but not nearly as many). These days the pilot and co-pilot never have the same meal and the in-flight movie will never feature a plane crash. There were some jokes that were based on American pop-culture at the time. I am so glad you watched the post-credits scene, but there are (non pop-culture) jokes hidden in the credits, too.

[@josephedwards8604]

You: "Please be asleep, please be asleep!" (Before camera pan) Me: "Oh, she's asleep!"😂

[@tommyc6066]

I had to walk up those stairs to enter a plane at a small airport in Beaufort, SC. I also smoked on a plane. Smoking section was the last 10 rows in the back of the plane.

[@leowilliam5576]

19:04 / 21:07 I have no idea if the filmmakers intended any reference to this with the WWII Japanese officer (played by James Hong), but in 1974 - 6 years prior to the film's release - two of the last surviving Japanese holdouts surrendered in the Philippines and Indonesia.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Japanese takeouts--?

[@minorshan]

I got to climb onto a plane via stairs when I was about 8 in 1989. They even let us stop and wave for my mom taking a picture before boarding. It was a different time :)

[@philfeb6]

Fun fact,one of the stunt performers was Sandra Lee Gimple ,girl scout fight scene was 41at the time of filming

[@jcg1576]

I don’t know if you have seen it Claris’s but the comedy movie “What About Bob” stars Julie Hagerty as mother and wife Faye Marvin. “What About Bob” is centered around a character named Bob Wiley played by Bill Murray.

[@veronica6325]

Regarding the stuff you missed... The film is loaded with 1970s, and even 1960s, cultural references that go over the heads of anyone under 55. Example: Folgers instant coffee commercials where the wife is surprised he husband asks for a second cup. That's a tiny one, but there too many for me to list. I imagine there are articles and videos available on the internet that list more of them. Even the choice of actors is funny, because of the roles they had previously appeared in. I first saw Airplane as a teenager when it came out with a group of friends. None of us were prepared for what we saw. Never laughed so much at a movie before. Good memories. The two men speaking Jive is culturally insensitive today, but working at Disneyland in the late 70s this little white girl had several similar experiences.

[@meltorme-ntor2933]

Also on your comment about the acting. You are right. The style of even 70's (and early 80s) movies still had that same "stage" feel to it a lot of the times, although I think they definitely did it that way for the comedy.

[@rg3388]

There's an extra dimension to the joke about the guy in the taxi. He's Howard Jarvis, a political activist who championed a California ballot proposition to lower property taxes. Thus, he was associated with thrift in the same way that Jack Benny had been a generation earlier.

[@stephanginther9051]

Believe it or not, prior to this movie, Leslie Nealson was typecast as a gritty serious actor. This was his first ever comedy and it shocked a ton of people according to my dad. If you want something different, I recommend the cult classic, 'They Call Me Bruce.' It has a lot of 60's and 70's pop culture references but its _really_ funny all the same.

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

It's interesting that you mention the "dated" humor. It would be interesting to see your take on Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, which has some similar humor, but it goes a very different direction. I think you'd appreciate the differences.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

And it's also funny that humor referred to as "dated" is still making people of today roar with laughter.

[@llorona7847]

They used Zero Hour! as as the baseline story for Airplane! You can find a shot-for-shot comparison, which makes Airplane! feel even more creative. Some of the same dialogue is used because ZAZ bought the rights to Zero Hour!, so they weren’t restricted by copyright. They put a humorous spin in the story but kept the acting feeling melodramatic. I started watching this as a child in the 80s. So many jokes went over my head but I laughed anyway cause it all seemed so silly. As an adult, the jokes landed better and I still catch things I’ve never noticed before. One of my all-time favorites.