Airplane (1980) *First Time Watching Reaction! Ridiculously Funny!!

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

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[@mikesilva3868]

Borat 😊

[@USCFlash]

Yessssss...go on a classic comedy splurge!

[@USCFlash]

Comedy Suggestions: Caddyshack Vacation Monty Python life of Brian Team America: World Police South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut Borat The 40 year Old Virgin Forgetting Sarah Marshall The Hangover Tropic Thunder Grand Budapest Hotel Best In Show

[@mikesilva3868]

@@USCFlash all great movies huge vacation fan Kentucky fried movie one of the funniest movies ever made 🥨

[@PromptCriticalJello]

"My Favorite Year" (1982) It's a romantic comedy drama with a little action.

[@tempsitch5632]

@3:46 “is that mayonnaise?” Yes, they said it was the Mayo Clinic.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

Well, the Mayo Clinic is a real clinic, just without the mayonnaise.

[@apple4935]

So many people miss the incredible sight gag of Kramer walking through the mirror. It is so seamless as to not catch the eye for most viewers.

[@paulbrawley2595]

Yes, I never caught it. I only know of it from reading a comment section similar to this!

[@stuartryan610]

Yes it's a simple yet clever moment 👍. Another classic is from the sequel when William Shatner spots the Enterprise.

[@danieltate6092]

Yeah, most people don't catch it. I saw this when it came out (I was 8) and it took me till I saw it later when I was 12 or so before I noticed it. Most reaction channels don't catch it.

[@Kevin_Lazar]

@musiclife8893or when the plane starts to take off it sounds like a locomotive 🚂

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

True

[@silvasurfa7962]

"I just want to tell you both: good luck, we're all counting on you." 👍😎

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Haha! Thank you!!

[@nimblehealer199]

@@ForceOfLightEntertainment that's what Bill Murray tells the pilots when he flies. He got it from this film

[@shadowwolf9909]

In Scary movie 3 they did an ode to this scene. I bursted out in laughter, nobody else did, it was a full theater and everyone turned and looked at me. I was in the back row. What little faith in humanity I had was lost on that day lol.

[@gluuuuue]

He keeps talking about “the war” and the aerial combat flashbacks all look like they’re from WW2, some even from WW1, while the bar flashback music is clearly then-recent ‘70s disco music. The iconic shot of the beach scene kiss is From Here to Eternity.

[@Zane1962]

You're the first to notice the baby being thrown into the air when the airplane goes thru window at the beginning! It's one of the parts that really cracked me up when I saw it in the theater and I've been waiting for someone to react! Nice!!

[@jamessweet5341]

The elderly "jive speaking" woman was Barbara Billingsley, the mom from "Leave it to Beaver". That was an extremely popular show from the late '50s. It was a very very straight laced show as was her character. Speaking jive was a great comedic turn for her.

[@clbdyc]

The 2 black guys taught her how to speak jive.

[@nyghtmoon]

​@clbdyc The 2 made up their own "jive" which made it even more funny.

[@DocRunaway]

She said that after her scene in "Airplane" she started getting tons of fan mail, like tons.

[@davestang5454]

The inside joke was the fact that "June Cleaver" was ghetto-savvy.

[@HemlockRidge]

The beach scene was from "From Here to Eternity" . It was Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr.

[@robstoll7542]

Here are a few references that you may not have gotten since the film was released in 1980; 1) The woman who was surprised by her husband having a 2nd cup of coffee. That actress was the spokesperson for Yuban coffee. In 1980, the audience would have recognized her from those ads from the 1970s. Her inner monologs were word for word the Yuban commercial. 2) The speech that the doctor gave, inspiring Ted to "win one for the Zipper," was parodying another movie called Knute Rockne, All American. In it, a coach gives a rousing speech "to win one for the Gipper." Ronald Reagan, who played the Gipper in that movie, was running for president when the film was released. The film inadvertently helped to become a big part of his campaign. 3) Many people felt the film was inspired by the Airport films from the 1970s. While there are a few scenes that directly parody those movies, the majority of this movie is almost word for word taken from a 1950s film called Zero Hour. Paramount had to buy that rights to Zero Hour before they could release Airplane for fear that they would be sued. There is a KZbin video showing several scenes that are verbatim. 4) The actress that spoke jive was Barbara Billingsley, the mother on Leave It To Beaver TV series from the 1950s. Perhaps the "whitest" show ever on television, that scene with her delivering those lines was pure genius.

[@michaelaudreson7761]

Zero Hour was written by Arthur Hailey who also wrote Airport.

[@attorneyrobert]

@@JuandeFucaU Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election and was sworn in for office in January, 1981.

[@CheshireCatFun]

It wasn't just a satire and spoof of the disaster movies, and specifically the airport disaster movies of the time, and a word for word spoof of Zero Hour, it was also a SHOT FOR SHOT spoof of Zero Hour. Plus there were a lot of inside jokes relative to Zero Hour, such as Kareem Abdul Jabar, a famous pro athlete, playing the same role as Elroy "CrazyLegs" Hirsch, a famous athlete of the time, in the original Zero Hour. They essentially did a shot for shot remake of Zero Hour. Even the strident melodramatic tone of Zero Hour has a certain comedic quality before you add the absurdist satire.

[@trolleyfan]

This is actually the film that started Leslie's comedy career. Prior to this he'd always done "straight" roles (for example, in the classic SF film, "Forbidden Planet"). But here, he got to be funny, *really* funny...and he liked it.

[@CheshireCatFun]

@@trolleyfan well, not only that, but the comedy absolutely depended on him playing it totally straight and serious, and that also went for Robert Conrad, Peter Graves, and Lloyd Bridges as well. Up until this point they were all heavies, playing serious pivotal roles, vs. a Soupy Sales or Jerry Lewis type coming in and doing a total spoof or send up on the role of the heavy.

[@NickNapoli]

Possibly one of the greatest comedies of all time.

[@USCFlash]

Possibly? 🤔🤨

[@stoneg.barrow9991]

... Altogether.

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

They need to see Blazing Saddles

[@alanholck7995]

Plus The Producers (1967) & Young Frankenstein to complete the early Mel Brooks trilogy

[@Q1776Q]

Let's not forget about Planes, Trains and Automobiles.....

[@themoderntemplar1567]

I remember seeing this in my very early teens and thought it hilarious, but watching it again as an adult was even better as some of it went way over my head as a kid. The Granddaddy of all parodies and still the best.😂👍

[@finalmonkey9456]

Top Secret starring Val Kilmer is a fun spoof movie that a lot of people overlook.

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

3rd person to mention this so I’m thinking we will check it out!! Thanks!

[@shanenolan5625]

@Force Of Light Entertainment same people that made this that top secret. And hot shots. ( top gun spoof)

[@tempsitch5632]

@@ForceOfLightEntertainmentade by the same people or some of the same people; Top Secret !, The Kentucky Fried Movie, BASEketball, Airplane but not the sequel, Naked Guns (as you know), Hot Shots (1&2), Rat Race.

[@gmaqwert]

The genius of this movie is that these were mostly serious actors delivering very silly lines but they played it straight.

[@corkyduke8673]

The coffee gag was a reference to a commercial in the 70's.

[@XaviClot]

You got rid of my favorite part: the pilot talking to Joey "Joey, do you like gladiator movies?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@PML78]

"Have u ever been in a Turkish prison?"

[@marklar9156]

Yes and if (and as) the humor here is often dumb (but keeps coming like rapid fire) I think exception is captain and his crew starting the flight with: "Roger, Roger! What's our clearance Clarence"-episode, that's genius comedy and everything but dumb ideas behind that. And they skipped that too???

[@GregBanish-dg7ju]

Xaviclot...never understood that joke.... Do you like gladiator movies Why is that funny?????

[@XaviClot]

@@GregBanish-dg7ju its a quote from the movie Airplane, when the captain shows interest for a little boy in a dumb and silly manner with double meaning lines like "hace you ever been in a Turkish prison" or "hace you ever seen a grown man naked"

[@coldflamebluedragon196]

I love the fact that every time the jet is shown flying it’s making a propeller driven airplane sound

[@michellegault4122]

And the thunder… aren’t planes flying above clouds? :)

[@vintagetrikesandquads4012]

Yeah, but a lot of people miss that.

[@davestang5454]

It's because the whole plot of this movie was lifted straight off the 1950s movie "Zero Hour", about a propeller-powered passenger plane emergency.

[@vincent4805]

Fits with all the flashback sequence showing WWII era propeller fighters which are definitely from the wrong war for our hero with PTSD to have fought in given it was the late 70's/early 80's in the movie

[@dupersuper1938]

Reactors are always so distracted by the dog they miss the guy walking out of the mirror.

[@thomasmcintosh390]

My favorite sight gag in the movie!

[@barryervin8536]

None of the actors in this movie had ever done comedy before. They are all known for dramatic roles. Leslie Neilsen got his start doing comedy in Airplane, before that he was known for serious "leading man" parts.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

Yup, that woman threw her baby in the air and ran away when the airplane came through the airport window (2:57). Good catch. You are the first reactors to notice that little detail. Took me 3 or 4 viewings before I noticed it myself.

[@KidYuma1880]

The 2 guys directing plane into window are the brothers who wrote this movie. Little fact In reality in 1970’s a real B747 went thru window similar to this because did not have pilot stopper that pilot would stop before going into window. The lady doing jive talk is Mrs Beaver Cleaver “ Leave it to Beaver”

[@ericjones9487]

The producers did not expect the "Jive" jokes to translate when the movie was dubbed in German, but they heard the audiences laughing harder than American audiences. They found out the Jive had been dubbed in Bavarian with German subtitles. Turns out none of the other Germans can understand Bavarians.

[@SCharlesDennicon]

I can tell you it didn't works that well in French. :D So many bits are lost in translation. The "entirely kind of flying altogether" was doomed from the start.

[@davidpacker7461]

Stimmt!

[@MrMJJFAN1]

There's a post credit scene of the guy in the cab is still sat there lol. One of my favourite comedys

[@fabiencoze9829]

The silliness of this movie is pure gold

[@glenketchum6379]

Yes!! First reactor I've seen call out the baby when the jet crashes thru the window!!

[@ryanje8147]

"Jimmy. Have you ever seen a grown man naked?" LOL

[@karlschmitt6359]

Whomever edited this got rid of the "Cream!" "No thank you, I take it black like my men!" line, but for the most part you did pretty well! This came out in 1980, I was 15, I know every line and still laugh hysterically! Glad you ladies liked it! Now, you need to react to the first Naked Gun and Hot Shots movies, very funny and silly!

[@doberski6855]

Pretty sure because of You Tube restrictions and maybe to protect the FOL channel, that had to be left out. Same with the scene between Peter Graves and Billy in the cockpit and a few others.

[@glenroberts9831]

@@doberski6855 Not so sure about that, every other reaction to this I've seen includes those scenes.

[@glenroberts9831]

@@doberski6855 Also notice the deflating autopilot and horse in bed scenes were also edited out but the violent ones such as the woman getting slapped are still in lt. Good old fashion twisted Western moral standards, lol.

[@karlschmitt6359]

@D Oberski ok, no problem, but in all airplane reactions, and there have been a bunch, that scene is always there!

[@doberski6855]

@@karlschmitt6359 Any number of reasons for the clips that FOL selected to use, ranging from editing for their channel standard, to whether they found it funny enough or not, and the main one. Trying to keep this video to a reasonable length. Let's face it there are a lot of great choices in Airplane to go with. Still trying to decide if I agree with them that Holy Grail is funnier then Airplane. Think that is a subject for another video or maybe their next livestream.

[@johnnehrich9601]

Saw this movie when it first came out and loved it. But learning more about it and the spoofs they do, by getting the real people, continually amazes me. The battling of the red zone/white zone at the beginning was done by the actual married couple who announced at LAX and whose voices were well known. The woman who says "Ralph never has a second cup of coffee, throws up at home" was the real person in a tv ad for instant coffee.

[@gestaltdude]

One of the greatest misdirects in cinema has also proven to be one of the hardest for reactors to spot. During the scene where the dog is attacking the driver, Cpt Kramer comes in from the right and appears to be getting dressed in the mirror in front of him, and we can see the dog attack behind him. Then, when Kramer leaves, he appears to walk through the mirror on the left, again while the dog is still attacking the poor sap sent to pick up Kramer.

[@TheKrensada]

I'm happy I noticed it the very first time I saw it.

[@pandorawombat]

The funny part about the jive talking woman is she played June Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver.

[@GENGHISKHAN-hk3qs]

Definitely one of the best comedies of all time surely you can’t be serious. I am serious and don’t call me Shirley.🤣😂

[@matvangogh]

10:50 there are two movies that the scene is referencing one is From here to Eternity with Burt Lancaster and the other one is Grease with the waves

[@rafaucett]

Great, fun reaction! 👍 *A little obscure trivia:* The guy sitting in the taxi was Howard Jarvis. From Wiki: "Howard Arnold Jarvis was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician. He was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978." At the time, he was well-known in California but probably not as much so in the rest of the USA. The joke in the movie is that he was for fiscal responsibility in government but he sat passively in the taxi letting the fare get larger and larger. Even at the time, I think a lot of people didn't get the joke or recognize Jarvis. BTW, The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association still exists. Cheers!

[@bertpunkaficionado8357]

Some say he's still sitting in that taxi.

[@janpersson9818]

@@bertpunkaficionado8357 Those saying that probably missed the post credit scene.

[@JJ_W]

Jarvis and his Proposition 13 actually got national coverage (including Jarvis' face on the cover of _Time_ in June 1978), so even a Midwesterner like me recognized him in this, in 1980.

[@coletrickle-km7cl]

And like alot of movie reactors they missed the jarvis joke at end of the credits...(joking:) if they would of saw it he would of finally (after 40 plus years) have gotten out of that cab...

[@coletrickle-km7cl]

@@bertpunkaficionado8357 that sounds like one of those lines Jeremy Clarkston (from top gear) would say about the Stig....

[@bobbuethe1477]

After "Airplane!" and before "The Naked Gun," there was "Police Squad," a TV series that only had 6 episodes, and was the basis of the three "Naked Gun" movies. It was one of the funniest shows ever on television, and it was cancelled only because network executives didn't think viewers should have to watch the show to get the jokes. (They figured people only put the TV on to listen to while doing other things.) Highly recommended!

[@emilykruger2844]

One of my favorite comedies ever and I love how crazy and funny it is to watch it. It also feels like a fun trip on a plane when you watch it.

[@o0pinkdino0o]

What was so brilliant about this was that Peter Graves and Leslie Nielsen were both very famous and respected and very serious actors. So their very deadpan delivery of such very silly material which was completely new (this was one of the first spoofs) was so refreshing. Graves doing the very inappropriate comments to the child was very risqué. But it's still funny every time I watch it.

[@traceywoodward1354]

@@o0pinkdino0o Peter Graves from mission impossible

[@dracoargentum9783]

😁 YES! Natalie is one of the only few reactors that caught the baby being thrown in the beginning!

[@jstrahan2]

Thanks for that info. I have seen this movie many times and I never noticed that.

[@monsterkhan3414]

A comedy classic that never gets old. Without this movie there never would have been a Police Squad, or Naked Gun, or Hot Shots. Great reaction! A fun road comedy from the 80s that's worth a watch is "The Cannonball Run" (1981). It has an Allstar cast from the time period and is a lot of fun. It has Jackie Chan in it which was one of his first appearances in an American film. In fact the bloopers during the end credits inspired Jackie to place bloopers at the end of all his films from then on.

[@Niklarus2010]

Oh, stars yes! Cannonball Run is one of the funniest movies ever!

[@3DJapan]

12:30 The Hari Krishna guy on the right is David Leisure, he did Isuzu car commercials for a long time in the 80s as the sleezy used car salesman Joe Isuzu.

[@wscrivner]

Lol! That was a great first watch video. I had fun watching yall laugh at it. I was cracking up when Natalie lost it over "Nun's Life"! 😂

[@wessmurray]

I've seen this movie a thousand times, and I have NEVER noticed the baby being thrown until you mentioned it!

[@Mortismors]

Being made in 79 and released in 80 this movie feels more like a 70s movie than an 80s one to me.

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

It really does!

[@davestang5454]

It's a spoof of the 1970s disaster movies that were so popular at that time. The plot, however, is almost scene for scene a ripoff of the 1950s movie "Zero Hour".

[@ScreamingScallop]

20:27 Some of the humor is subtle. So many viewers initially miss the "not-a-mirror" gag because of the dog shenanigans.

[@NimrodClover]

I have watch two other "Airplane" react videos on KZbin by other rather young women and they too also missed the "not-a-mirror" gag. It seems that the majority of women are watching the dog and physical humor and miss the much more subtle and cerebral mirror / photography gag, which is more impressive.

[@robyfiorili]

OMG...Natalie the red your are STUNNING. Your hair is gorgeous. I LOVE you ❤️😍❤️😍❤️😍 P:S. Nice reaction both

[@traceywoodward1354]

Michelle..natalie...yall are great...and i love rewatching these old movies with you

[@davewhitmore1958]

Wow, that Nun's Life joke really hit Natalie hard!

[@davewhitmore1958]

Also, I don't know if there are any KZbinrs as glamorous as you two!

[@djdeemz7651]

Definitely the funniest film ever and the layers of jokes are insane, no matter how many times you see it you catch one more

[@DominickRuocco]

Airplane is such a 80's classic, and I still remember how hard I laughed the first time I watched this movie. It was a lot of fun watching you react to this.

[@kevinmkraft]

What made AIRPLANE so great was that most of the actors in this were TOP actors, serious, legendary, DRAMATIC actors, not known for comedies, let alone slapstick comedies. I remember literally falling out into the aisles at the movie theater when I saw this for the first time. It really should have been R-rated instead of PG. But it is hilarious. It also introduced Leslie Nielsen (again, known as a strictly dramatic actor) as a comedic talent. This was the first in what ended up revitalizing his long career, and began his comedy stint late in his career.

[@MrJools70]

Surely the jokes in this film never get old 😁

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Never. And quit calling me Shirley.

[@TriRabbi]

2:37 The actor hailing the taxi is Howard Jarvis making a cameo appearance. He spearheaded California's Proposition 13, which put a cap on property taxes. He's a hero among California property owners such as myself.

[@clownzzz4837]

Having seen this in the theater, I was able to enjoy a lot of the jokes referencing TV and movies of that time. Before this movie, most of these actors only played serious roles, such as Leslie Nielsen. Lloyd Bridges' claim to fame was TV's 'Sea Hunt', which included his real life sons, Beau and Jeff (The Dude). The woman who spoke jive was June Cleaver of the TV's 'Leave It To Beaver'. Both shows could still be seen in reruns when this movie was released. 'Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home' is from a coffee commercial, and they even used the same actors.

[@kdrapertrucker]

Leslie Neilson was a serious actor, he was one of three actors cast in AIRPLANE! Strictly because they were known as serious actors. This movie gave him a second movie career. Neilson starred in the science Fiction classic "Forbidden Planet"

[@MrJools70]

Just rewatched this,apart from the surely/shirley jokes the one`s that floored me were "looks like I picked the wrong to give up amphetamine,sniffing glue etc 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnchitwood8799]

The jive speaking old woman was Barbara Billingsley who played June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver, that's what made it so great lol

[@PML78]

"Chump don't want no help chump don't get no help" 😂

[@josheldridge8546]

Leslie took to his newfound career in comedy pretty well. For years he would carry around one of those spongeblock noisemaker things (the kind like you'd find in the back of a comic book) and just constantly see how often he could set it off in public settings before anyone would comment.

[@drwrencho3502]

Wow the two most beautiful reactors I have ever seen. You two are always invited to the party.

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

☺️☺️

[@br1729]

"Monty Python" is a classic. However, "Airplane!" started an entire genre of spoof movies, not just its sequels, but other franchises like "Naked Gun" and "Hot Shots." Also, you've got to watch all the way through the credits.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

The Holy grail is by far the best comedic film of all time

[@br1729]

@@dcmastermindfirst9418 Can't disagree.

[@Sarahbuildsstepsequencers]

At the time, disaster films were very popular. Like “Earthquake,” The Towering Inferno, Rollercoaster, “The Poseidon Adventure,” “The Swarm” “Airport,” “Black Sunday. All still very entertaining on so many levels as you can imagine.

[@garyhall2770]

I always lose it when Robert Stack takes off his sunglasses only to have another pair of sunglasses.

[@garytom1935]

Funny movie, saw it in the theater, good review from you girls, haha 😂😂😂😂 good show 👍

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Thank you!

[@Will-fk2dk]

I think one of the most impressive and interesting facts about this Movie is that the overwhelming majority of the Actors and Actresses had either ZERO Conedic training, nor had they EVER been in a Comedy Movie up to that point! These were major Actors and Actresses and even Awawrd Winners in this Cast! A couple of them have won big time Awards for Acting... Before this, Leslie Nielsen had never been in a real Comedy. Could you imagine never having witnessed the brilliance of a Leslie Nielsen Comedy Movie?!? Thank you, Airplane!

[@jimmybobsap8729]

Otto is my favorite character lol

[@TechyMantis]

A comedy that never gets old, I can still laugh even though I have watched it countless times. Thanks for the reaction.

[@jamesdamiano8894]

I loved that you caught the baby being thrown in the air, no one catches that the first time. The guy cleaning the windshield was Jimmy "JJ" Walker from the Good Times tv show. The beach scene is "From Here To Eternity". When Randi is singing to the girl and everyone shifts and looks into the camera with smiles is taken directly from "Airport". One of several disaster movies of the 70's. The guy in the cab is still there at the end of the credits. Another silly spoof but funny movie is "Young Doctors In Love". "Tropic Thunder" is another very funny movie that's considered politically incorrect. Too many people can't handle movies like that anymore with all their over sensitivty.

[@richardbalducci4490]

“Tropic Thunder” is the last of the great, anything goes, comedies. Your reactions are FUN❗💜🍸

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

It really was! Thank you!!

[@robbie_]

All the Zucker Brothers movies were great but also the TV series Police Squad!, the forerunner to the Naked Gun movies. They didn't make many episodes but it was genius. Same humour + Leslie Nielsen.

[@myphone4590]

The bridge between Airplane and the Naked Gun movies is a six episode miniseries called Police Squad. In Airplane they hired dramatic actors to treat silly material completely straight. Police Squad continued that. But as Leslie Nielsen continued in comedy, he started mugging for the camera more, and by the time he did a movie version of Police squad...

[@greeneyesinfl9954]

Great review ladies, seeing you laughing so much was very entertaining.❤🙏

[@HemlockRidge]

If you would have not turned off the credits, at the end the guy is still in the taxi and says, "I'll just give him five more minutes". And don't call me Shirley.

[@SuperBigblue19]

Part of the appeal of this movie was all the cameos from stars from the period. But most miss David & Jerry Zucker as the ground crew or Jimmy Walker as the guy cleaning the windshield.

[@Jrbrass]

Loved your reaction, so much I subscribed. Nothing better than watching reactions with two beautiful women. Looking forward to your next one.

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Aww thank you!! ☺️

[@hp9697]

I just wanted to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you!

[@PML78]

"We have to take this woman to a hospital... A hospital, what is it?... it's a big building with windows" 😂🤣

[@bobbuethe1477]

If you like this style of screwball comedy, you can't beat the originals. The Marx Brothers' movies were made in the 1930s but the comedy stands up today. "A Night at the Opera," "Duck Soup," "Animal Crackers," "Horse Feathers"... If you've never seen Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo in action, give them a try.

[@werewolfofsicily]

There's also a 1992 film produced by the Zuckers (who did Airplane! and Hot Shots!) called Brain Donors that's like the Marx Brothers reincarnated. It's actually based on A Night at the Opera, with ballet instead. Check that out too if you want to see more screwball comedy.

[@DrJekyll38]

There were only 3 "Naked Gun" movies. The Fugitive spoof you're thinking of is the standalone "Wrongfully Accused", also starring Leslie Nielsen.

[@lawrencefine5020]

I saw this in a theater in 1980, and 42 years later I spot stuff I've never seen before. Funniest movie ever made IMO. Thank you ladies for doing this one. Try Top Secret! by the makers of Airplane!

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Thanks for watching!

[@thomasroucka2689]

It took me way to long to notice the mayo jars at the May Clinic.

[@gillzlife865]

🤣 yeah so this emoji says it all,two LL's had me rolling when she belly laughed when the dog attacked that dude in the living room. I haven't laughed like that in awhile,best review I have seen them give.love Michelle.👍

[@darrellsharrock3859]

When first presented it met a backlash because the sensors had a big problem with the original title. Which was Flying High. The drug ref made it past the Australian sensors though. 😂 And that movie with the couple in the surf was, From here to eternity. And my mom's name is Shirley so you can see how much use that got too.

[@matthewgordon2811]

Great reaction! Classic movie! One of my favorites! 😊

[@russhudson7362]

I saw it in the theatre in 1980 when it was released. One of the best comedies ever.

[@edwardweaverling7312]

Most reviewers miss the fact that all through the movie the jet airliner makes propeller noises. 😂

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

So the how did you pick that?

[@Brett33]

In all the times I have watched this movie, never noticed the woman tossing the baby when the plane crashes through the window.

[@bobkupi9905]

You missed the credits which contain dozens of jokes, and after the credits, the movie keeps going with an after-credit scene. (The taxi)

[@johnscott4196]

Girls, thanks for making me smile and laugh

[@BigGator5]

"Can you fly this plane, and land it?" "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley." Classic comedy. Laugh a minute and very quotable. Fun Fact: In a 2008 interview, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a European flight and asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during takeoff so the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdoch. White-Red Zone Fact: Regarding the argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life. Casting Notes Fact: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.

[@doomtho42]

Huh, I didn’t think there were any gags left that I didn’t already know about, but I’ve somehow never come across that fact about the airport PA voice actors actually being from LAX.

[@garymargeson9350]

I think this was the first time Leslie Nielson did a comedy. He was always a serious actor before, so this was him breaking character which, of course, led to a new phase of his career as a comic actor.

[@DanMarksman]

I just want to say: Good luck with your channel, we are all counting on you.

[@davidpradarelli893]

The iconic movie scene of them lying on the beach with the waves flowing over them I think is a parody of the movie From Here to Eternity.

[@donjackson5522]

I just want to tell you both good luck with this reaction. We’re all counting on you.

[@crazysnake1096]

This was Nielsens first dedicated comedy role. He was adverse to doing comedy but then the producers told him to play the Dr. as straight laced as possible and that sealed him as a comedy genius.

[@cajunsushi]

I apologize for stating my age, 68 but for context it’s important I state it to say Airplane is in my top ten comedies still to this day.😂

[@marcusblackwell2372]

You left out one of the best jokes: "Cream?" "No thank you. I take it black, like my men."

[@everyonelovesmajima]

I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

😂🤩

[@Jimi-ld2vw]

The only thing better than a good comedy is watching it with people who get it. Natalie, your cracking up had me cracking up. In a different sort of comedy if you haven't seen "Easy A" you might like that. Thanks very much.

[@aatragon]

The '70s were an incredible decade for comedy. Here's an incomplete list of the best: "Holy Grail" (which you've seen), Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles (be ready for a rough ride!), Annie Hall (A COMEDY that won best picture!), Love and Death, Animal House, Monty Python's Life of Brian, What's Up Doc?, M*A*S*H, The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Which is part of a series but is so standout that it can be watched on its own), etc, etc, etc...

[@WillLlamas]

That's a good list.

[@SGlitz]

The team that made this also made: Police Squad! The TV Series, The Naked Gun Trilogy, Hot Shots 1 &2, & Top Secret!

[@ChrisEllisMedia]

Wrongfully Accused was the spoof on The Fugitive you were thinking of. There are three Naked Gun movies: The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 21/2: The Smell of Fear & The Naked Gun 331/3: The Final Insult. Drakula: Dead and Loving is pretty good as well as the two Hot Shots movies. I agree that Top Secret should be on the list along with Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Although with Blazing Saddles you’ll have to do some major edits. 😊

[@fgrady1]

Ok, now go back to the place you stopped watching and go through the end credits to the very end! On all the Zucker Bros. films,( all 3 Naked Gun films ) they put so much thought into the end credits! It’s always worth it!

[@havok6280]

The beach scene is From Here to Eternity.

[@emanuellawton7942]

The Mayo clinic and the jars of Mayonnaise on the shelf in the background as the Mayo clinic doctor is talking on the phone with the pilot is still funny after all these years. 😅

[@LordVolkov]

The plot largely follows the air disaster movie Zero Hour, but they also make fun of the Airport movies ('76 is where the singing stewardess comes from). For another ZAZ comedy - Top Secret, with Val Kilmer