AIRPLANE! (1980) Movie Reaction - I Don't Even Know If This Is Allowed on Youtube lol

Another movie reaction! This time I watched "Airplane" for the first time and what the hell was this movie?? I can see why it's so popular among reaction channel viewers. It was funny, scary, confusing but mostly ENTERTAINING :D. Let me know your thoughts below, in the comment section :)
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[@githerax5303]

There's probably 100 jokes you didn't notice or get because they're so specific to the time and place. Nobody born after 1990 would be expected to notice some: - The man that got stuck waiting in the taxi cab was played by Howard Jarvis. Howard Jarvis was a politician in California in the 70's who tried to save money. And now here he is in the movie, sitting in an empty taxi with the meter running up an expensive bill. - Jim's wife who had a second cup of coffee but said "But Jim won't", and then when her husband did take a second cup thought to herself "Jim never has a second cup at home" was reprising her coffee commercial that was popular at the time ("Folger's, so good you'll want a second cup!"). - The tall pilot, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, was one of the most famous basketball players and held the all-time top scoring record for 40 years until just earlier this year (LeBron passed him in Feb 2023). - "Win one for the Zipper". When the doctor was telling Ted the story about George Zip and the music started playing and he said "Win just one for the Zipper", it was a parody of a famous speech by famous American Football coach Knute Rockne made in 1928, and reprised in a movie about Knute Rockne made in 1940. The actor who played Knute later became Governor of California and after that President of the United States, and would occasionally use that line "Win one for the Gipper" during his political campaigns. - The older lady that helped translate "jive" was Barbara Billingsly, who was seen as the most proper, the most "white" woman in America at the time, "America's Mom". Her speaking "jive" was very surprising to audiences who weren't used to black culture in their movies.

[@donaldstewart8342]

It was not America's Mom,it was Leave It to Beaver

[@Finchsterreading]

@@donaldstewart8342 He means that June Cleaver was seen as America's mom, not that was the name of the show.

[@macroman52]

Barbara Billingsly, "Beaver" Cleaver's mum from "Leave it to Beaver" may have been the most proper woman in America but she did get to say to her TV husband "Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night".

[@mrorinocobottle9371]

People not born in the USA, myself included, didn't know these people either. Still my favourite comedy though, or maybe second to the Holy Grail.

[@Lensmaster1]

The coffee joke was built on later when she thinks, "Jim never vomits at home."

[@kevintipcorn6787]

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

[@iiiDartsiii]

I just want to count your luck, we're all telling on you.

[@Hiraghm]

"Win just one for the Zipper" This was made in 1980... Ronald Reagan was running for President of the U.S. Reagan was famous for his role in the movie, "Knute Rockne: All American" where he played a dying football player at Notre Dame university... named "George Gipp". In fact, Reagan's nickname had become "the Gipper". In the movie, Knute Rockne gives a speech to the team where he essentially says the same thing about "the Gipper". The music in the background during Neilson's speech is the Notre Dame fight song.

[@0okamino]

“I haven’t felt this bad since we saw that Ronald Reagan film.”

[@victornewmanforever]

Steven Stucker was gay in real life. He used to work with the writers/directors in a comedy stage show as a piano player. Because he would make them laugh so much, they asked him to come up with his own lines.

[@ljk20001]

And he died young of AIDS..

[@ianstopher9111]

The Gerald Ford line is one of his best improvs.

[@SkullAngel002]

5:40 - That's the joke. The Navy suit doubles as Travolta's Saturday Night Fever outfit. The other joke is that Striker was a pilot in the Air Force but his white suit is a Navy uniform.

[@mikefoster6018]

XD

[@AlohaTrev]

“I say, let em crash.” I love that bit too

[@Lensmaster1]

Most people don't fully get that joke today. 60 Minutes used to end their show with a debate segment called Point/Counterpoint. They would have two commentators argue opposite sides of an issue. We all assume someone just made the argument to rescue them, Then this guy makes the absurd opposite argument. At the same time saturday night live was doing a satire on Point/Counterpoint. It got saterized so much that 60 Minutes dropped it and replaced it with Andy Rooney's thoughts.

[@Hiraghm]

I'm sure someone else has already said it, but a lot of people (including me) thought this movie was a parody of the drama "Airport". In fact, it was a parody of a much earlier movie called "Zero Hour"... it is almost a shot-for shot duplicate of the movie... except for the comedy.

[@matthewgrady3423]

The story behind the movie is great. The directors would record late night movies for inspiration. One night, they ended up recording the movie Zero Hour!, which they used as the model for it. (The hero in it was also named Ted Stryker.) The directors went in and added the various gags. They then cast a lot of actors from movies of that generation like Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, and Peter Graves to play the more serious roles. This was pretty much the start of Nielsen’s turn to comedy.

[@AceMoonshot]

That was the real appeal. Seeing all these serious actors playing such goofy characters with straight faces. Parodying themselves.

[@WhatHaveIMade]

They also had to buy the rights to Zero Hour! to avoid getting sued for using so much of it in the script for Airplane!

[@ctmdarkonestm]

as i understand it, Zero Hour led to airlines putting in a rule that pilot and copilot have to eat different meals to avoid both getting sick

[@the.seagull.35]

@@AceMoonshot It really speaks to the quality of the jokes, that even today the movie works well even without having the main actors as reference points.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

to call the jokes in this movie "childish" is right on target. that was THE POINT! this film was full of jokes 8 year olds told each other for decades. example - "don't call me shirley" was a joke that's been around for 30 years before this film was made. but its the timing and rapid fire delivery of these jokes, along with the familiarity of the jokes that makes the film so endearing and FUNNY! it also used a bunch of familiar tv-faces and dramatic b-movie actors, like graves, stack and nielsen, that gave the film an added punch. the movie can't be duplicated, so - "warning" - avoid the sequel AT ALL COSTS.

[@matthewmarcinko9157]

"And don't call me 'Shirley'"...

[@Hiraghm]

"Give me Ham on Rye, hold the mayo" is a cliched deli order... that's what "Ham on five, hold the Mayo" was referencing.

[@hkpew]

As someone who is old enough to have seen this movie in the theater back when it first came out, I can assure you that you probably didn't get more than half of the jokes in it. So many of them require a pretty thorough knowledge of American pop culture from the time (by which I mean as much as 30 years before the movie came out). For instance, the scene with the woman thinking that her husband never has a second cup of coffee at home is obviously (to those who were around to see it) based on a coffee commercial, and the actress is the same actress as was in the commercial. Also, the scene with the doctor telling Ted the story about George Zip is based on an American football movie (starring Ronald Reagan!) in which a player named George Gipp tells his coach as he's dying to ask the team to "win one for the Gipper". The football team was Notre Dame, and the music in the background of that scene is the Notre Dame fight song.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Exactly. You not only need to be familiar with 70’s pop culture, but you also need to be aware of the pop culture regarding the 2nd World War & movies that were spawned from it, but also the Peace Corps movement of the early 60’s, popular athletes of the time, not to mention knowing who Barbara Billingsley is & the role she played on Leave it to Beaver🤣 I just realized that you could probably write an entire book about the large amounts of information one would need to have assimilated in order to ‘get’ every joke in this movie!

[@davidyoung745]

Lots of young people have never heard of the Broadway singer Ethel Merman who played herself in the hospital scene.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

Radar Range was the first popular brand of microwave oven. For a while it was almost a generic term.

[@victorsixtythree]

...and the film has many, many jokes that you'd probably never notice at all...like near the beginning when the plane crashes through the glass window, there's a woman holding a baby and she inexplicably tosses her baby in the air to get out of the way ( at 1:41). I NEVER noticed that until someone pointed it out. And the constant sound of the engines in the background are the sound of propellers not jet engines.

[@mannygee005]

I guessed that the Zip reference was from a movie so I looked it up. "Win one for the Gipper" is a famous line but I never saw the film. There were a couple of jokes where the punchline is something about having watched a Ronald Reagan movie... then later the joke was having gone to an Anita Bryant concert... lol the references to current personalities of the time... or controversial personalities?

[@mildredpierce4506]

This type of humor wasn’t typical of 1980. It was typical of the specific humor of the writers and directors of this movie. This movie stood out from other comedies of the 80s because it wasn’t typical.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Correct. Typical comedies of the 80s were the Police Academy movies. This movie was such a rare style of comedy that rhen the same filmmakers tried to strike shain with the movie Top Secret dnd the TV series Police Squad, both flopped miserably (Top Secret actually was popular outside the USA where that kind of surreal slapstick comedy is more popular).

[@toddhill7483]

Excellent reaction and yes, that was basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Also, the patient in the hospital bed who " thinks he's Ethel Merman", is actually Ethel Merman. Do you speak Jive Amanda?

[@jamesalexander5623]

Actually it was pretty bad!

[@gallendugall8913]

You're watching Airplane! Surely you must be joking?

[@robertmcghintheorca49]

She isn't joking. And don't call her Shirley.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

I am surely….and don’t call me joking. wait….

[@richardrobbins387]

I can't tell...

[@Texy88]

“You can tell me. I’m a KZbin commenter.”

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Please dont call her shirley.

[@Alexus1138]

Fun fact: The film is called 'Airplane!' because it's largely set on an aeroplane. Airplane is the American English word for aeroplane. Source: This was revealed to me in a dream.

[@everyonelovesmajima]

I never put this together. Wow, looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

[@Alexus1138]

@@everyonelovesmajima same, I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

[@jamesalexander5623]

And it has an Exclaimation Point in the title because the Movie it was taken from "Zero Hour! " had an Exclaimation Point in the title!

[@Ironoclasty]

@@Alexus1138 Yeah, and I picked the wrong week to stop . . . wait, that's my inhaler. I probably shouldn't stop using that, right?

[@green_eggy]

that WAS fun!

[@strongdecaf3729]

This movie is historically important to me because it was the first movie I ever saw on this brand new invention called a VCR. Starting in early-mid-1980s was first time we could see a movie at home and pause and rewind! Revolutionary. It's a shame younger people get so confused by comedy.

[@tomstanziola1982]

Ethel Merman was a great singer, as you kinda heard, Amanda. She performed mainly on Broadway, but she also made films. Her best known Broadway show was ANNIE GET YOUR GUN.

[@hkpew]

And just in case you weren't sure about this, the actress who played the soldier who thought he was Ethyl Merman really was Ethyl Merman. Probably her best known non-musical film was It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, another comedy that you might enjoy.

[@tomstanziola1982]

@@hkpew She is absolutely hilarious in IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD!!! Totally steals the show!!! And her last scene at the end is the very best!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@mannygee005]

Okay did she do television commercials later? I'm thinking that could have extended her familiarity to another generation maybe.

[@tranya327]

Ethel Merman passed away in 1984 - four years after "Airplane!" came out. She was ~76 at the time of her death. Her work had elevated her to fame in previous decades; her most famous song is probably, "There's NO business like show business..." which can sometimes be seen in some old "Let's celebrate classic Hollywood"-themed TV specials. ...I was born in 1967, and so was 13 when this film came out - young enough that I, too didn't really recognize her, and had to infer it from context.

[@Lewis9700]

It actually wasn't "gay writing" The actor, Steven Saunders was gay but the writers didn't give him any lines. They just told him to improvise everything

[@SirHilaryManfat]

It's an unfortunate symptom of modern society, where many younger generations can't understand that not everything offensive was done at the expense of minorities. This movie aside, I know that for example Richard Pryor approved all the racist jokes in Blazing Saddles, as did Eddie Murphy when making Trading Places. Yet I've seen reactions to both these movies where reactors have clutched their pearls over the offensive jokes, without giving the actors and directors enough credit for what they were trying to achieve. I really hope that one day people get away from this culture of victimhood, as it seems to have brainwashed several generations.

[@tempsitch5632]

Another reactor conplained about Johnny, “they just threw in a typical 80’s gay cliche stereotype for a joke”. I was like, firstly that’s an insult to Stucker, secondly, how could it be “stereotypical 80’s” if it was released in 80, therefore conceived and shot in the 70’s ? The joke isn’t about gayness. The joke is that an absurd flamboyant person is behaving that way while surrounded by such seriousness. It’s absurdity amongst the absurdity.

[@lewstone5430]

I thought “gay writing” was writing that was attracted to other gay writing?

[@DavidB-2268]

Stephen Stucker, not "Steven Saunders". He was also one of the first openly gay actors in Hollywood, and died of HIV/AIDS in 1986.

[@mannygee005]

and the word gay used to mean happy - wait, that's going back too far

[@CaddyJim]

This is slapstick comedy never heard it called Boomer humor. But this was rated one of the best comedies ever. Except for the Captain's obsession with the little boy I enjoy the humor Make me wonder if you could handle *(Blazing Saddles.)* Many people get triggered by that movie not realizing they're making fun of Racist not promoting Racism.

[@Theomite]

Slapstick has really gone out of vogue these days because it's seen as abusing the characters for no reason. I first noticed it when I saw my friend's daughters repeatedly bingeing _Adventure Time_ ; I asked them if they'd ever seen _Ren & Stimpy_ and they both said they didn't like it. I couldn't figure out why until I realized that _R&S_ is slapstick while _AT_ is post-narrative/context humor. Gen Z thinks spontaneous incongruities and exaggerations are funny, while slapstick is seen as pointless violence that wounds them empathetically. I personally think _Adventure Time_ is pure nightmare fuel that makes no sense with long melodramatic character arcs, which is a weird warping of humor and drama.

[@chefskiss6179]

When Kate and Leo were dancing in that Titanic movie with their point-of-view shot, this movie popped into my head and I just laughed out loud in the theatre. So did a few other people in the same theatre. 😂😂😂

[@richardrobbins387]

Thanks, now I can't unsee that. But seriously, almost any time I hear the song or watch "Saturday Night Fever" the bar dance scene pops into my head. Also, if I'm at a real dive bar kinda place I expect a Girl Scout fight to break out.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

​ @Richard Robbins Always make sure to buy the same amount of cookies from each one so you don't cause any resentment or jealousy!

[@niftymagic]

Nobody has ever commented on that the jet they are flying has the sound of a propeller airplane. Also they never wait til the end credits to see the guy still waiting in the taxi

[@andrews.5212]

"i look like a mom".. well .. a Mom I Like.. 🤔🤔

[@88wildcat]

"This is a comedy so maybe they are all going to die." Wow, there is someone out there in the world who has an even darker sense of humor than I do.

[@stephenniehaus8635]

It's not boomer humor, it's Gen X humor. Boomer humor is like Bob Hope and McHale's Navy and stuff

[@TTM9691]

It's boomer humor, you silly ass. Boomer humor is NOT Bob Hope (what the hell are you babbling about?) Bob Hope is the humor of their PARENT'S generation. Do the world a favor: don't weigh in on stuff, you're not very bright. This is TOTALLY boomer. It was made by boomers. The older actors were uncomfortable witht his material. It was made for boomers, and some of the Gen X kids saw it (if they were old enough). It 100% is the by-product of the 60s generation, and specifically the movie "Animal House".

[@0okamino]

The writers (ZAZ) are Baby Boomers, but I would say it’s generationally shared humor.

[@stephenniehaus8635]

@icarusii951 it's not wordplay or cleverness. Anything with a punchline is a dad joke. Schitt's Creek is the new Seinfeld for Gen z, who grew up with the Office being the heavy hitter. Thing is, it's not an easy thing to nail down because there's very few comedies that are aimed at Gen Z or that even connect

[@stephenniehaus8635]

@icarusii951 I just watched a reaction to the Naked Gun and one thing I've noticed among reactors under 30: they analyze everything. Absurdist humor goes way over their head

[@Lensmaster1]

​@stephenniehaus8635 yes. I hear many say "I don't understand that joke." A number of jokes are funnier if you get the reference, but as you said most of the humor is absurdist. Just feel it and move on. A good example of the cleverness of the writing is the bar room scene. If you get that it's a reference to Saturday Night Fever that adds a level of humor, but the jokes within it are all physical comedy that anybody can laugh at.

[@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.

[@mconnaghan]

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

[@mconnaghan]

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

[@LadoTsulukidze]

"It's a comedy so maybe they're all going to die" - BEST. CONCLUSION. EVER.

[@zmarko]

There are SO many gags in this movie, its easy to watch it 2, 3, 4 times and keep seeing new things. An excellent silly comedy.

[@alanholck7995]

Stephen Stucker, the actor who played Johnny, was an early victim of HIV/AIDS. In Airplane!, he improvised most of his lines. If you watch the sequel (Airplane II), you can tell how much weight he had lost.

[@DavidB-2268]

He was also one of the first openly gay actors in Hollywood.

[@krisfrederick5001]

Alright if we're going down this road. You have to see Robin Hood Men in Tights. It's hilarious, maybe. Also Dave Chappelle's first movie! P.S. And don't call me Shirley

[@LordVolkov]

Though the primary spoof is Zero Hour, the Airport movies (Airport, Airport '75, Airport '77) all contribute jokes to Airplane. More amusing, they all have George Kennedy, who stars in the Naked Guns alongside Leslie Nielsen.

[@spencerbookman2523]

I discovered only yesterday that the first three Airport movies (I didn't see The Concorde: Airport '79) are on Netflix. Some of the references in Airplane! (like the nun with the guitar and the sick child) are from these movies. Airport '75 is a classic disaster movie on par with all the other disaster movies of the 1970s.

[@richardrobbins387]

Zero Hour (1957) for some more scenes

[@tranya327]

"Airplane!" was a spoof of "Zero Hour!" (1957) A great deal of the dialogue of the earlier film is retold, word-for-word, in "Airplane!", but "Airplane!" is indirectly also spoofing a whole series of big-budget films about disasters - films that had been produced over the previous ten years. Not only the "Airport" films, but also "The Poseidon Adventure," "The Towering Inferno," and others. With the success of "Airplane!" poking fun at this whole genre, the bubble finally popped and it was a number of years before studios began gambling on drama from 'disaster' films again (like "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" in the mid 1990s). One of the plot elements from "Zero Hour!" that doesn't translate perfectly to "Airplane!" is the whole back story of Ted being unable to move on from his experience in "The War." In 1957, the original 'Ted' character referring to "The War" was referencing World War II, which had ended only 12 years before the "Zero Hour!" film was released. The 'Ted' character in "Airplane!" is way too young to have served in World War II. The only war he could have served in would have been Vietnam. Some of the black and white flashback images shown, are showing WW I and WW II aircraft, not aircraft from a generation later. Also, the "Airplane!" characters continually speak about "The War" as though it were World War II: an event that wildly changed the direction of American society and everyone in it. (While the Vietnam War certainly had a giant impact on the nation, and on millions of lives, World War II involved a total national commitment, and changed the lives of everyone in the society, in a way that the Vietnam War did not.) In other words, the characters in the 1980 story don't precisely 'map' to a war-immersed past, in the same way that the 1957 story characters easily did. Because it's a zany comedy, that mismatch doesn't destroy the flow, and doesn't ruin the viewing experience. The "Airplane!" creators knew this, which is why they decided that no substantial rewrite of Ted and his 'war past' was necessary.

[@styles2980]

You might want to check out early and mid 2000's movies like the "Scary Movie" franchise, for an updated version of this type of humor. It was fun watching Amanda's take on a classic from my childhood. I would love to see more 80's movies. BTW, I find Amanda's sense of humor great, I like her comments and her out-takes crack me up.

[@isoldejaneholland8370]

I love Brenda Meeks from Scary Movie! Two of her scenes - as the noisy woman in the movie theater, and encountering the Ring girl in a tv, are among the funniest things I've ever seen, period.

[@jb888888888]

There is a famous and well-regarded medical center in the US called the Mayo Clinic named after its founder, a man named William Mayo. There being jars of mayonnaise in the background of that scene is the gag, confusing "Mayo" (the name) with mayo[nnaise]. I'll leave the rest of the references you may not have gotten alone.

[@Lewis9700]

2:25 - The Mayo Clinic is a real place. It's a world renowned American medical facility in Minnesota.

[@AceMoonshot]

The biggest takeaway from this movie was, ..."And don't call me, Shirley."

[@jamesalexander5623]

"Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

[@AceMoonshot]

@@jamesalexander5623 Peter Graves, of all people, saying that with a straight face? omg...I miss pre-pc humor.

[@huskerchuck9212]

or...."No, thank you. I take it black.....like my men."

[@Lensmaster1]

That was an edgy joke even for 1980. What makes it work is it is repeated to ridiculousness, "Have you ever been to a Turkish prison?"

[@MrVvulf]

About 1 month ago a 21 year old girl landed an airplane that had lost its front wheels. Experts on the ground talked her through the landing procedures and she did great. There are videos here on YT with the real audio of the event.

[@0okamino]

I’d like to buy her a drink and shake her hand. Then we can talk about Christmas memories and municipal bonds.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

​@@0okaminosurely you cant be serious

[@ubiergo1978]

If the ATC didn't said after she landed: "good luck. We're all counting on you" I have no faith in humanity anymore =)

[@brianwilson9206]

Win one for the zipper (Gipper) is reference to a movie about Knute Rockne and Notre Dame football, Hence the Notre Dame fight song,

[@william_santiago]

A second cup of coffee gives you diarrhea?! Don't tell my colon that! I drink an entire pot of coffee before I leave for work.

[@gdiaz8827]

Johnny the gay guy improvised many of his lines. He is actually my favorite character in this movie.

[@da-naz8518]

When I hear an accent I already know 99% of the jokes they won't get.

[@OneThousandHomoDJs]

14:50 -- it was the actress' idea for people to line up and beat the heck of her. She was funny.

[@isoldejaneholland8370]

Two of the disaster films of the 70s had a scene where a passenger became hysterical and "had to be slapped" so that's where that came from.

[@arraymac227]

#FirstSighting officially the first reactor I have seen, after dozens of others I am sure, to see the Mayo Clinic joke... Bravo

[@davewhitmore1958]

Johnny is a legend. He ad-libbed his dialogue ;)

[@williamjones6031]

1. I guess I picked the wrong week to stop watching "first time reaction" Airplane clips. 2. This movie requires more than one watch in order to catch as much as possible. Little things to look for: Ted was a Captain in the Air Force, but at the bar he's wearing a Navy Lt. Uniform. Elaine's trombone sounds like a cornet. One of the fish was a freshwater catfish. A woman throws a baby into the air when the plane crashes through the window. Captain Kramer steps out of a mirror before leaving for the airport. The woman with the horse in bed is the creepy Captain Oveur's wife. She is also hitting on to Captain Kramer. It's a jet but the background noise is of a prop plane. The ambulance crashes after the plane lands. 3. Otto/Auto pilot has his own webpage on IMDB 4. Elaine has permission to sit on MY face.😍😋 5. IMVHO Airplane II is good too, destination moon.

[@cesarvidelac]

Flying harnesses are rigged with piano cords, back in the day they painted them with a matte black paint to avoid reflections. A careful light work and background colors just masked the cables. Now with HD you would notice the cables easily, that's why they edit them out by computer.

[@larryk731]

The film succeeds by having the actors play it straight while the humor is in the background

[@atariboy9084]

FUN FACT Director Cameo: Jerry Zucker, David Zucker (who made this movie): appear as the ground crew at the movie's beginning (they are the ones that direct the plane into the window of the terminal).

[@timreno72]

Even though a lot of the jokes are dated to 1980 I love that so many young people still enjoy it.

[@sca88]

There's lots of films (and commercials) that this film parodies that have been mentioned. Another one is the beach scene which parodies the classic 50's film 'From Here to Eternity'.

[@GregInHouston2]

Well, you did a great job of putting in 30% of the humorous content.

[@PedroCastillo_1980]

Amazing classic one of the greatest funniest movies ever made Airplane! directed by Jim Abrahams, David and Jerry Zucker starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges. The famous line is just epic "Surely you can't be serious...I am serious and don't call me Shirley". Thank you Amanda great reaction next time Airplane II: The Sequel

[@bhpinball]

Not familiar with the Zucker brothers? That's them misguiding the airplane through the lobby😁

[@CaddyJim]

I find it hilarious non-black people reacts this movie they're triggered or won't comment on the Black guys speaking "JIVE." Yet when Black people watches they find it hilarious. Relax it's effing comedy

[@mildredpierce4506]

It’s OK to make a comment about the black guy speaking jive. It was meant to be funny. The two actors made up those words they said.

[@ShaDoWLoC187]

Was back, when ppl had a sense of humor 😂

[@WhatHaveIMade]

I know working around the copyright restrictions for this movie has become very difficult over the last couple of years. You did a good job of keeping the movie's jokes intact.

[@lewstone5430]

Lots of reactors have included those other jokes tho. And those reactions are still up. Jus sayin’.

[@LS-wn5cd]

The technique they used for Wire Removal before computers - First, the live action plates of actors or models suspended on wires are filmed in front of a green screen. Editors can then erase the wires frame by frame, without worrying about erasing the backdrop, which will be added later.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

One of the funniest films ever made! Great review. As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.

[@JCastle12495]

Good luck..... We're all counting on this reaction!👍

[@jimdetry9420]

One of the funniest movies ever made.

[@harryrabbit2870]

The whole "Win One For The Zipper" speech is a reference to a very old movie about an American football coach and one of his player whose name was Gipp (who was played by Ronald Reagan before he became President.) There's a couple of digs at Reagan (who had just been elected when this movie came out) in the movie but unless you grew up around the time this movie was made, it would go right by you. Most reactors miss it.

[@wwoods66]

The film was made in 1979 and released in the summer of 1980. Reagan was a candidate, but not yet elected. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!

[@P.Paramo]

Some fun facts. One of the jokes, not many catch is the shelves full of mayo jars in the background during the Mayo Clinic call -which by the way, is one of the most famous hospitals in the US. The African tribe playing basketball was the Globe Trotters. The lady saying Jim never drinks coffee twice at home was replaying a line from a commercial in which she said a similar line. The jive lady was famous for her role as the most white stereotypical woman on TV who would be the last person on earth to understand jive. The two black guys speaking jive improvised their lines using real jive slang from the time. The autopilot’s name was Otto; if you read his name out loud it’d be Otto-Pilot or autopilot. The Turkish prison and movies about gladiators lines referenced a couple of famous movies from that time. The beach and algae scene also referenced another movie. The whole slapping scene was proposed by that same lady getting slapped. The surfing nun was actually a guy dressed as a nun while surfing in California. This was Leslie Nielsen’s first comedy. When the flight attendant sings, that’s her real voice. Smoking sections were pretty common on airplanes until the early 90s. The guy on the radar is Jonathan Banks, the actor who plays Mike Ehrmantraut on Breaking Bad. The singing lady at the hospital was in fact, Ethel Merman. The guy in the taxi was a Californian politician famous for his tax and money-saving policies. there is a post-credits scene with him still waiting for the cab driver at the end of the movie. There are tons of more fun facts worth reading about.

[@leupgada6983]

No Amanda, no es humor boomer. Es humor. Pero en aquella época las personas adultas eran adultas.

[@srenjrgensen1468]

I just subscribed to your channel and I just want to wish you good luck! We are all counting on you. 😉😎💯

[@matthewcostello3530]

the George Zipp was really about Notre Dame running back George Gipp

[@MetabolicSpore0]

I love this film, it's so dense with jokes it's perfect for rewatching.

[@makesnosense6304]

3:39 You should. It's funny. This just shows the conditioning media and movies are putting on people these days. This scene is nothing negative like today's stupidity would make you think it is. Hell, even the actors made it up themselves.

[@toddmoore9841]

"Oh, stewardess! I speak jive." That line was spoken by the actress Barbara Billingsley. She played June Cleaver in the 50's sitcom "Leave it to Beaver". The show was a huge hit that ran in reruns throughout the 60's, 70's, and 80's, and every American alive in 1980 knew who she was. "Leave it to Beaver" was an idelized view of white, suburban nuclear family life and had virtually no black people. So, for June Cleaver to pop up and be fluent in Jive was both increadibly funny and incredibly subversive.

[@sld1776]

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the most famous Basketball player in the planet when in 1980. Just about every person in the theater would have recognized him.

[@subitman]

The opening scene with the plane flying through the clouds and then jumping up is in reference to 'Jaws'. It's a Steven Spielsberg directed movie about a shark attacking a New England town in the summer. There's also a Happy Days tv episode that showed later when the Fonz actually jumped a shark. The show tanked afterwards.

[@TheSoleProprietor]

I watched her reaction to Jaws. I was amazed that she didn't seem to get that? Or maybe it was someone else's reaction to Jaws video.

[@tduffy5]

There was a popular movie in the 70s called THE SINGING NUN. It fostered a hit TV series. The remark about the second cup of coffee was from a commercial on TV. The same actress played the part. Evryone would have been very familiar with this in 1980. The woman translating the "jive talk" played the mother, June Cleaver on the LEAVE IT TO BEAVER TV show. In the show she was very proper. She wore a dress everyday at home, accessorized with a pearl necklace. You know, the typical housewife. Who knew that she spoke jive. The thing with the eggs was an old magic act that was oft seen on TV variety shows. Mrs. Over's husband is away far too much. George Zipp is a parody from a role played by President Reagan in the '50s, George Gipp. He played football at Notre Dame. On his death bed he asked the priest, I think, to tell the team to, "Win one for the Gipper (his nickname)." They are playing the Notre Dame fight song in the background.

[@sabalomglitz6478]

Comedy, from the Dark ages when people had a sense of humor and could take a joke. Everyone was onn the table. Everything was fair game

[@mannygee005]

"Let's take some pictures!"

[@nl817]

I don't know if you know this, but when there was a fight in the bar; the first fight with the girls. They're girl scouts. At least a thing in the US. They're usually young girls who, among other things, do good deeds, do stuff together, earn "merit badges", sell cookies, and are generally doing nice good things. Seeing them in such a bar or fighting with each other would be an absolutely absurd sight.

[@lawrenceallen8096]

For a while "Jive" was popular slang among African-Americans...circa 1970s

[@UberDurable]

Considered one of the funniest movies ever!

[@Lethgar_Smith]

The singing nun with a guitar is a bit of an American cliché due to a movie called The Singing Nun made in 1966. It was a semibiographical film about the life of Jeannine Deckers, the nun who recorded the chart-topping song "Dominique" For a time during the 60s and 70s it was very popular among many Catholic nuns to learn the guitar. So much so it became quite a cliché. This movie makes a lot of fun of clichés.

[@taterplays7282]

"I remember how you would hold me, How I would sit on your face and wriggle, How we would watch the sun come up and it was like each new day was created only for us." - Elaine Dickinson Me - "Now! I know what true loves looks like... Too bad when she's not under the sheets, she is for the streets...

[@macroman52]

Funny you should say "what are they smoking when they wrote this". In a TV interview the three writers said they were watching the old movie "Zero Hour" on late night TV and smoking weed, and making up silly responses to the serious lines, like "Pour every light we have on to that runway" when they got the idea for a movie.

[@bobogus7559]

14:23 That's actually no exaggeration. There are a few cuts to different panels, but overall there are six or seven different panels in a Boeing 707 (like the one on in the movie), all of which are quite complex and intimidating to look at. This is why it required a three-person flight crew - nowadays, a lot of specific functions are taken over by computers, meaning a two person crew in a far simpler cockpit is all that's needed today.

[@OneThousandHomoDJs]

9:00 -- that was a reference to a FAMOUS commercial of the era. That actress was the same one from the commercial.

[@randycarter2001]

In Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker movies you have to watch them more than once. There's always something going on in the backgrounds. Even the end credits are goofy. You have to watch all the way through.

[@nimblehealer199]

Before this movie, Leslie Nielsen was known for more serious roles.

[@Soundhypno]

Another fun reaction Amanda!

[@JebWCManning]

Great reaction. If you liked this, I'd recommend the Naked Gun Trilogy starring Leslie Nielsen. It's done by the same people, and they're hilarious.

[@VegasLoungeAct]

I like your reactions. Your expressions and your voice are adorable. 😉

[@jonowhitney5515]

Classic movie.glad u liked it.

[@Lewis9700]

The Mayo clinic is a real medical and research facikity in the US. The mayonaisse jars in the background was a joke. A play on the word Mayo

[@bobbuethe1477]

A couple of years before "Airplane!," Neil Simon's "The Cheap Detective" had much of the same type of comedy. But to appreciate it, you have to have seen the two classic Humprey Bogart movies that it parodies: "Casablanca" and "The Maltese Falcon."

[@nthman123]

Stephen Stucker who played Johnny was an openly gay actor who was in a sketch comedy troupe with the director's Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker.

[@mildredpierce4506]

There’s a joke about every 10 seconds in this movie. Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy. “Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”

[@dneill8493]

Boomer Humour! Love it. The best sub class of the comedy genre. 🤣😁

[@tomantush4867]

There were a lot of jokes that were cultural references of the day and parodies of other movies that you younger generations would not catch. I can easily see how some jokes are just confusing.

[@Theomite]

It's weird to think about how this movie needs annotations the way Anime fandubs do.

[@vissenekku]

I remember as a child I couldn't finish this movie. 😄 It was too much. Now, I could finish but it's not the best. I really love Naked Gun movies though.

[@hbron112]

Well Amanda! Now that you've seen Monty Python, you've watched Airplane, it's time to complete the trio - time to experience Blazing Saddles. More of everything, including jokes you won't get, but I bet there will be laughs out loud too!

[@lyger1980]

I found it funny 10:15 you asked if that's Leslie Nielsen and he answered your question "That's Right"

[@jotham777]

“Ever see a grown man na-“

[@victornewmanforever]

They erased the wires when they released it in HD.

[@danmesnard8761]

I love this movie!!! Thanks for the video!

[@mannygee005]

"And Leon's getting larger!"

[@ThomasTreece-mp8md]

I think it's fine if you look like a mom OR you look gay. You are lovely regardless! Thanks for reacting to Airplane! 💗

[@isoldejaneholland8370]

That line startled me, since I have that exact same shirt. 😊 And I've been thinking it's a pretty shirt for three years.