Airplane! | Canadians First Time Watching | React & Review |

[@CineBingeReact]

So we had quite the difficult time getting this video through YTs bots; first part is how consistent this movie had music underlying dialogue, and we kept getting copyright blocks, and second is the scene with the kids. Essentially, having kids in any videos now will automatically get the videos comments disabled and the video suppressed like our Harry Potter video. Anyways, the 20 or so minutes is what YT allowed us to keep.

[@js0988]

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

[@waterbeauty85]

For more of Leslie Nielsen (support your fellow Canadian) and this brand of comedy, you should watch "The Naked Gun" (1988). Most popular KZbin reactors already have, so you two need to catch up!

[@MrKeychange]

This was perfect! More commentary afterwards would have been fun to see, but the reaction itself was spot-on and you're both extremely likeable. I just subscribed and will definitely join Patreon if you plan to do more comedy going forward. This video was really fun!

[@daveb947]

When Life of Brian is watched, i hope you guys leave all or most of the BD scene in. Dont want to spoil the scene, but someone is mentioned and the extras crackup and it ends up being mostly improv at that point.

[@Wishbone1977]

That's weird. The scene with the kids is in almost every other Airplane! reaction on YT. Comments aren't disabled on any of them.

[@merchillio]

Leslie Nielsen was a very serious actor at the time, never did comedies, and that’s why he was chosen. When he expressed his doubt at being able to do comedy, the director told to NOT play it as a comedy but to play it very seriously. The deadpan delivery is one of the big factors why this movie works so well.

[@turbulentlobster]

Yup. Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges were also primarily known as serious actors who played tough guys. Barbara Billingsley, the "Jive Lady", was famous for the very wholesome mom June Cleaver on the TV show Leave It To Beaver back in the 50s and 60s.

[@Carandini]

The part of the doctor was originally offered to Christopher Lee, but he'd already signed on to make '1941' and wasn't available.

[@Blue-qr7qe]

Leslie Nielson carried that clueless dead-pan seriousness into the Naked Gun triology (and other comedies) to the point where it became his trademark shtick. You really ought to do Naked Gun.

[@ScreamingScallop]

You're VERY right; the way he plays it seriously makes it all the funnier. The broader "goofy face" performances they demanded of him in the _Naked Gun_ movies (not to mention crud-duds like _Mr. Magoo)_ became increasingly awful. If one only knows Nielsen for his comedy roles, they _have_ to see William Girdler's _Day of the Animals_ (1977). His role as a confrontational (and increasingly violent) business-exec dirtbag is wild. He's in astonishingly good shape for his age, plus he _fights a bear._

[@krannok]

Robert Stack in particular had a lot of trouble with the part. He didn't get it, was trying to do an exaggerated performance and getting it all wrong, until one of the other guys said to him "They want us to play us! Just be you, don't act." and the part came together. (I think it was Stack. It was one of them, anyway.)

[@tiger1chu]

I just wanna tell you both. Good luck, we're all counting on you

[@newfate26]

@@carm3d Surely you can't be serious!

[@robertc.1958]

@@newfate26 And carm3d should reply, "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." lol! 😉

[@JohnSmith-qn3ob]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop watching react videos

[@robertc.1958]

@@JohnSmith-qn3ob Yeah, me either. It's fun watching people react, especially first time reactors, to old movies.

[@Pete...NoNotThatOne]

This man needs to be gotten to a hospital!

[@biggary9602]

"There is an old movie with John Travolta where he is at a disco" And Saturday Night Fever sighed.

[@jameswilson7790]

@@biggary9602 So did the Bee Gees.

[@merchillio]

The joke about “Jim never has a second cup at home” is that that couple were playing in an old coffee ad (well… old now, but contemporary at the time) where the husband had more coffee than usual because it was so much better than the one the wife made at home. They got the same actress (not sure about the actor) to play in the movie and it’s almost verbatim the text from the ad. (Except when he’s sick, obviously)

[@sharkdentures3247]

Yeah, a lot of the jokes are a bit "Dated" for younger audiences. (with more becoming so every year) It's kind of inevitable. But I do give props for (almost) getting SOME of them. (Like the Saturday Night Fever reference) Such a FUN movie! With SO many jokes.

[@dave29123]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3uXnHZ8Z5eCaNk :)

[@MrUndersolo]

(Commentators never leave a second comment on KZbin)

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

@@dave29123 Yuban??????????????? I would have NEVER guessed that was the coffee.

[@zoppie]

@@TonyTigerTonyTiger Yuban is what the KZbin algorithm does.

[@lordjimbo2]

The "Pinch me" line in the bar gets overlooked by a lot of other reactors but the extra's behavior as he backs away is one of my favorite moments in cinema.

[@robsambosky6444]

Barbara Billingsley is Beaver's mom in Leave it to Beaver from the 1950's. That she was the model of motherhood on TV, the joke is that she speaks "jive"

[@erictaylor5462]

I had to go to the emergency room once when I had an issue with my bowels. The intake nurse was taking my information asked my I was there. I said, I had a problem with my bowels. She asked, "What is it?" I couldn't resist and said, "It's a long tube inside my belly, but that's not important right now."

[@erictaylor5462]

@@mattslupek7988 The look on her face when I did that was like she was confused at first, then slowly her face got a delighted expression and she started laughing. I love it when I tell a joke and it takes a second for the other person to get it. I am an amputee. Have been an amputee since I was 3 (I'm 52 now). Last year I applied to get a wheelchair to help me get around the house when I don't have my leg on. I was doing a telephone interview and the woman asked me how I got around the house before and I said, "I hopped" She asked why I could no longer to that and I told her, "Well, the International House of Pancakes went out of business." She was like, "What does that have to- Ohhhhh." and she started laughing really hard.

[@LudmilaRamirez7]

I love u internet stranger

[@captmurdock]

@@erictaylor5462 You may just be my spirit animal. Good on you, amigo.

[@What_Makes_Climate_Tick]

...except it was important at that time.

[@GTQcNumber1]

@@erictaylor5462 wow gotta love that humour XD They say laughing is one the best medicine :D

[@bd001217]

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but the black guy checking under the hood of the plane before takeoff was a cameo from Jimmie Walker, who played James Evans Jr. ("J.J.") in the sitcom "Good Times". He was Kid (clap) "DY-NO-MITE!!"

[@KC1976fromDetroit]

Fun fact: the white woman who spoke jive to the African American passengers was Barbara Billingsley...June Cleaver on the 50's sitcom Leave It To Beaver. She was the whitest white lady that was ever white on TV, which is why the fact that she speaks jive is hilarious.

[@drchaos2000]

i love it... "Top Secret" hits the same vibe

[@cesarvidelac]

Oh, yes, I hope they also react to it. Classic 👍

[@Xoferif]

Also created by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker who brought you "Airplane!" I slightly prefer "Top Secret!" if anything, but they're both classics. =)

[@richardrobbin2225]

"This is NOT Mel Torme!"

[@cesarvidelac]

@@richardrobbin2225 😹😂😂

[@1ListerofSmeg]

@@Xoferif👍❤😎 Top Secret! is my favorite from ZAZ. It's a shame it's a bit of a hidden gem.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

14:48 Regarding the vulture: The man on the radio just said, "There's no reason why you shouldn't have complete confidence in your chances to come out of this thing alive." Of course, where do we typically see vultures -- especially in cartoons? Circling or looming over people (like in a desert) who are about to die (like from thirst). Therefore the vulture's presence suggests the man on the radio isn't being completely honest.

[@Protoman85]

I've seen many reactions to Airplane now and I'm surprised at how many don't get the vulture joke. Vultures eat carcasses, they turn up in the desert when you're about to die, etc. I thought that was common knowledge

[@Cheepchipsable]

The film uses a lot of tropes form older movies, the Vulture as a harbinger of doom, hysterical woman needing a slap, the sick kiddie, pilot sweating profusely...

[@russb24]

This is an almost scene-for-scene spoof of "Zero Hour!", so much that the producers bought the rights to the original, and a lot of the really corny dialogue is straight from that movie. Most of the older actors in Airplane, including Leslie Nielsen, were always dramatic actors before this, which made it so much better the way they delivered all their lines so straight. Edit: the actor on the microphone at 17:13 is Jonathan Banks, AKA Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

[@dabe1971]

Indeed ! Even down to the fact that the co-pilot in Zero Hour was genuine ex-Football player who turned to acting which is why they had NBA star Kareem Abdul Jabbar guest star in Airplane! To see how close it is see kzbin.info/www/bejne/bl7ZY3V-g6eJedU

[@stuartanderws5705]

When you find out the film was real its so much better.

[@jamesparson]

Zero Hour! ? What is it?

[@marcpower4167]

Yeah, the producers used to record late night TV looking for commercials to parody for their sketch comedy theater, but on this occasion, they happened to record an airing of Zero Hour and thought it was prime for parody. As for Kareem Abdul-Jabar they actually wanted to get baseball star Pete Rose but filming was in the summer during baseball season so he was unavailable. Kareem was offered $30,000 but negotiated $35,000 and used the money to buy a rare oriental rug.

[@Notsosweetstevia]

The kids coffee scene is funnier every time I see it.

[@dustman820]

@@BigJohnLXV They say why in the pinned comment. If they showed too many kids, it would get put in KZbin Kids meaning comments would be disabled and not reach the target audience they wanted.

[@andrewft31]

@@dustman820 other reactors don't have that issue though with this movie

[@Eric-ms1ry]

What frustrates me is that about 99 percent of the time you hear the "edited" version of the line.The little girls line is not simply that she takes it black ..like her men.....the original line is that she takes it" HOT and BLACK ...like her men "

[@markreed392]

When the doctor appeared I just wanted to scream, "Yes damnit that's Leslie Nelson!"

[@VestinVestin]

I just wanted to tell you both "Good luck". We're all counting on you.

[@Postscriptom]

After the movie Leslie Nielsen said that to the pilots of every plane he took...

[@zmarko]

Such a fun movie. The Naked Gun is the same kind of fun, also starring Leslie Nielson. That should definitely go on your list.

[@iche50]

YES..... part 2, part 2,5 and part 3,33.....

[@IvorClegg]

Don't forget Police Squad, the TV series that spawned The Naked Gun! There are only 6 episodes, and it's well worth watching too.

[@michaelccozens]

Makes sense; they're both Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker (or ZAZ) films, as are, to one extent or the other, the Hot Shots! movies, Top Secret! with Val Kilmer debuting, etc.

[@dacsus]

I has feeling that everyone forget Hot Shots.

[@falxonPSN]

@@iche50 The first was Naked Gun, then Naked Gun 2 1/2, and the final was Naked Gun 33 1/3 (the last was a reference to the speed of Vinyl LPs for young folks).

[@LolliPop2000]

Two running gags no Reactor on YT gets: the Folger's Coffee ad ("Jim never asks for a second cup at home") and the guy in the cab is Howard Jarvis, who led the movement to cap property taxes in California ("Prop. 13").

[@jamesnoneyabizness5611]

Not Folger's, Yuban Coffee (by General Mills, back when they did coffee). Here's one of the original commercials that *Airplane!* parodied: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3uXnHZ8Z5eCaNk

[@erictaylor5462]

8:00 When Peter Graves saw the script he almost quite. He's like, "I can't say that to a kid!"

[@noraa1991]

Leslie nielson actually used to be a serious actor for a long time iirc this was his first comedy role and he became a legend in comedy/spoofs ever since

[@StromBugSlayer]

What about "Police Squad"?

[@noraa1991]

@@StromBugSlayer police squad was ‘82, this was 2 years before in 1980

[@arctan2010]

“Top Secret” starring Val Kilmer is very similar to “Airplane.” I hope you guys eventually react to it.

[@1ListerofSmeg]

Top Secret! (The exclamation mark is part of the title🤫) Is my favorite from ZAZ.❤

[@stobe187]

Top Secret! is the hidden ZAZ masterpiece.

[@paulinegallagher7821]

the giant telephone

[@MadcapMatt]

This is one of the funniest movies ever made. Consistently dropping jokes it's easy to miss them. You need to watch it at least a couple more times to catch all the background jokes too.

[@StromBugSlayer]

Like the credit card slate before take off ..

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

Airplane actually opened a new standard in comedy genre, although there were Woody Allen, Blake Edwards, the Monty Python guys or Mel Brooks already. It didn't matter a plot or real characters development, the important thing was the fascinating and non-stop absurd that spoofed serious situations and classic disaster films. Iconic and unique style, really

[@Cheepchipsable]

Yes, it's just a thin plot to put a bunch of gags around.

[@DaviniaHill]

Then they flamed out in a couple of years.

[@johnmaynardable]

Are you connected to the Orlando murder mystery dinner theater?

[@PixelPro-4000]

Leslie Neilson went on to star in 3 Naked Gun movies... all of which are worth watching, and all of which are in this same style.

[@davidbeach4682]

And Dracula: Dead and Loving It

[@ksbsnowowl3569]

Don’t forget the short-lived Police Squad series, on which The Naked Gun films were based.

[@PixelPro-4000]

@@ksbsnowowl3569 Only 6 episodes. ABC felt the humor was too far over most American's heads at the time. :)

[@hellowhat890]

4:48 "No I've been nervous lots of times." Honestly, I love using that line and the real fans of this movie are the ones who get it when I quote from this.

[@jmcdermid]

I just wanted to wish you both good luck. We're all counting on you.

[@w.randyhoffman1204]

The running gag about people being begged for donations by cult members when they enter the airport pretty much reflects the actual level of solicitation in airports at that time, particularly by Krishna Consciousness adherents ("Hare Krishnas"). (Thus the added joke with two of the travelers being dressed in robes similar to those of Krishna Consciousness members and saying "We gave at the office.") Airports were deemed public "free speech zones" in which this kind of activity had to be tolerated until a Supreme Court decision in 1992 enabled airports to prohibit it. The bit with the eggs in the woman's mouth is a formerly famous bit of cut-rate stage magic that most people in this day and age have never encountered. Every YT reactor who includes that scene seems to be confused by it.

[@Gore_Oatku]

Crazy thing is it is a basic palming technique most reactors cant seem to notice

[@tcanfield]

Thanks for that explanation to the younger ones. No one would imagine how omnipresent Krishnas were at airports back then. I actually had a memorable encounter with one once though. My first time in San Francisco a gorgeous Hispanic woman shot me a beautiful smile and handed me a red rose as she passed on the sidewalk. No pitch or words at all, just pure sweetness that I’ll never forget.

[@Logan_Baron]

I'm always amazed that reactors never get the reference to the egg magic bit. I never say anything because it's hard to explain something so simple, and unimportant. It's cute funny if you know the magic bit, but then explaining it makes it like "Okay how is that a joke". Well its funny if you know the magic bit and then to see a "doctor" doing it, but then if you aren't familiar it falls into the "If I have to explain it, it's not funny anymore".

[@michaelccozens]

@@tcanfield I think the Hare Krishnas were the first ones to really exploit the "priming" technique in human psychology. Basically, they would give you a little trinket or flower, or rather force one upon you unasked, as seen in the video. They would then ask for a donation. People would feel an increased sense of obligation to give, because they had already "accepted" a "gift". It really works wonders in terms of fund-raising, though it's definitely on the under-handed side.

[@marcpower4167]

They mentioned on the director's commentary of the DVD, at the first screening people gave the scene with Cpt Kramer beating up everyone who asked for a donation a standing ovation. I guess everyone gets so annoyed by it it's pretty much everyone's desire to do that 😅

[@Hogtownboy1]

This and Blues brothers is my go to movies when I feeling low. 80 minutes later on I’m happy

[@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames]

There's actually a thing called "Leslie Nielsen Syndrome." Its when an actor long known for serious, dramatic roles suddenly does a comedy and is not only hilariously funny, but it sparks the "serious actor" to start doing more and more comedies until eventually all they're really known for anymore is comedies. Leslie Nielsen had a long career as a dramatic actor and leading man. He played a lot of heroic military officers and cops and the like. Leading up to this film his career was beginning to peter out. And then he did this movie, and suddenly he had a whole new late-in-life career as a comedian. It was like he had a switch that got flipped from "serious" to "comedy" and nothing after that was the same. By the way, the opposite effect, where an actor known solely for comedies suddenly does a serious picture and after that all he does is serious roles is known as "Tom Hanks Syndrome."

[@RichardX1]

Like what might happen to Andre Braugher now that "Brooklyn Nine Nine" is finished.

[@ckobo84]

I liked Robin Williams more in serious roles, outside of Mrs. Doudbtfire. I hated Robin Williams when he was on a talk show trying to act all funny every single second.

[@ranger-1214]

The dancing disco scene was from the 1977 John Travolta movie "Saturday Night Fever." The scene that most people don't get is when they are on the beach and the wave washes over them. That is a spoof of 1953's "From Here To Eternity" with Burt Lancaster & Deborah Kerr.

[@Cheepchipsable]

How could they miss a reference to a 70 yo movie? Kids today! 🤷‍♂

[@UnclePengy]

"I think my favorite jokes was where the dialog was taken seriously." This movie was pretty much a shot-for-shot remake of a serious airplane disaster movie (with some really disastrous dialog) from the 1950s called Zero Hour. The Zucker brothers got ahold of the script and decided to do the whole movie deadpan, but for laughs, and throw in jokes and sight gags along the way. A lot of the "jokes" were actually lines from the original script, but in the context of the silliness of the premise they just sounded hilarious. (There's a KZbin video that compares the two movies, somewhere... oh look, a search bar up there! 😉)

[@gregall2178]

I knew Lorna Patterson (Randi, the singing stewardess) when she was in high school. She lived down the street from us in Whittier, Ca... had a little bit of a crush on her (but then I was only around 9 or 10 :-D )

[@weirds0up]

I think what sells the movie is that the majority of the main cast aren’t comic actors and that they play the whole thing totally straight no matter how ridiculous things get

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Except Johnny!

[@ZacCostilla]

“I speak jive…” is one of the funniest movie scenes of my childhood!

[@1nelsondj]

I'm surprised, every other reactor to this film has that scene with the boy bringing the girl coffee, they all lose it on that one. You did keep in one of my favorite random lines, "No, that's just what they'll be expecting us to do." So dramatic yet utterly pointless. I also like when the doctor comes on scene, sticks out his hand and someone off-screen hands him an instrument. The trick to this film was hiring known serious actors to read their lines straight (except for Johnny). The captain was played by Peter Graves of the original "Mission: Impossible" series, also host of "Biography". Lloyd Bridges (father of Jeff and Beau) played McCroskey starred in the TV show "Sea Hunt". Robert Stack (Capt. Kramer) was Eliot Ness in "The Untouchables" TV show. Leslie Nielsen had never done comedy before this, he starred in the classic Sci-Fi film "Forbidden Planet". There are all sorts of jokes, puns, visual gags in this as well as references to older films and ads. Did you notice that throughout the film you can hear the prop engines but there are only jet engines on the plane? And there's no engine under the 'hood' so there's no oil to check. Watch it again and you'll find more jokes you missed. The sequel was not done by the same creators, it's still pretty funny but not as good. Yes definitely do "Life of Brian", it doesn't have the surreal aspect of this one but still a classic.

[@jp3813]

Read their comment above. These are the scenes that KZbin allowed them to keep.

[@memnarch129]

@@jp3813 If you mean the Coffee scene then why does every other reactor have that scene in their YT videos?? YT isnt the one demanding it be cut out.

[@jp3813]

@@memnarch129 That's also explained in that thread I was referring to. They said that it's like they're on "probation".

[@txaggievet]

@@jp3813 LIterally EVERY youtube reaction to this includes that scene... and the basketball scene as well

[@jp3813]

@@txaggievet Read my 2nd post.

[@j0hnn13K]

For me, this is one of the best and most detailed comedy movies ever created, such a parody masterclass. The details alone are literally countless, from the airport announcers being the actual real life announcers of that airport, who also happened to be married, to the droning of propellers on a jet plane, the shot for shot remake of the movie it spoofed (Zero Hour!) or the coffee scene that revisits a popular commercial of those days (with the original actors from that commercial if i am not mistaking). And ofc the fact that this comedy has not a single comedy actor in it (at the time), each of them was a respected (drama) actor who were able to bring the lines in a deadpan manner. (unlike comedians, who tried to add their comedy to the acting, that was not what the makers had envisioned, therefor serious actors were used) So yes, absolute comedy gold right here... and my favorite line of any comedy movie will always be "Surely you cant be serious? - Yes i am... and dont call me Shirley", lines like that only come from the greatest comedy minds.

[@NeverGiddy]

j0hnn13K - "Surely you cant be serious? - Yes i am... and don't call me Shirley", simply great, just like another of theirs, "Isle of Lucy". from the KFM.

[@j0hnn13K]

@@NeverGiddy such a great movie :D

[@jamesnoneyabizness5611]

Yuban Coffee kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3uXnHZ8Z5eCaNk

[@tylerfun3158]

Robert's voice. I immediately here the Unsolved Mysteries theme every time

[@rafaucett]

Well, I'm an old guy... When I hear Robert Stack's voice I think of the old TV show "The Untouchables." (The show first ran 1959-1963.) 😃

[@thomaswilliamson298]

"There's an old movie with John Travolta..." Oh God, I feel like a dinosaur.

[@charleslee8313]

7:40 -- that's a reference to "From Here To Eternity". The old lady that speaks jive is best known as the mother on "Leave It To Beaver". The entire film is a parody of "Zero Hour!", most of which is using the same lines of dialogue.

[@1ListerofSmeg]

The writers/directors say on the DVD commentary that they were puzzled by that comparison as they had not seen 'From Here to Eternity' when they wrote this, Just a heads up🙂. Fun Fact: The beach is the same as the one w the Statue at the end of Planet of the Apes though.

[@agffans5725]

Life of Brian is a must watch... as for Leslie Nielsen, then he has become a national treasure of US comedy though his father was an immigrant from Denmark who joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his brother became Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. So a Danish-Canadian citizen of half Danish and half Welsh (his mother) origin. So if you have not yet watched 'The Naked Gun', then this is pretty much the perfect masterpiece of Leslie Nielsen comedy.

[@parissimons6385]

What is it with Canadian actors in classic American sci-fi space adventures? Leslie Nielsen in Forbidden Planet (not a comic role), and then William Shatner in Star Trek. And now for something completely different: Life of Brian is one of my favourite movies. Saw it the weekend it was released in movie theatres in North America, and all of us laughed so hard that I must have missed half of it, and had to go see it again to catch more of the jokes. As well, the behind-the-scenes story about George Harrison getting involved, which led to the formation of Handmade Films, is something special, too.

[@rnorth8812]

I take exception to you saying Leslie Nielsen became a national treasure of US comedy. I agree that he is a treasure but he is Canadian. We shared him with you. Watch "Men With Brooms" and make sure that you all watch "Police Squad", all six episodes.

[@agffans5725]

​@@rnorth8812 .. Well, Leslie Nielsen was born in Canada, but familywise not really more Canadian than he was Danish, both considering his father but also his half-uncle, the Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt who twice was awarded an honorary Oscar and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in his honor the "Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award" became a special Oscar named by the Oscar Academy, and Leslie was very proud of his Danish-American uncle, who he often mentioned. But really he spend most of his acting career in the USA and also lived in Florida where he was buried. It's worth noticing btw, that he at times had his children and relatives playing as an extra in his film, his wife Barbaree Earl Nielsen was in 3 of them and likewise his two children Thea Nielsen Disney and Maura Nielsen Kaplan. Btw, half of my family are also Nielsen's

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

"An old movie with John Travolta" - That's cold girl. Really cold.

[@tomloft2000]

I went to see that movie in college.is she trying to make me feel old?

[@davidmckie7128]

It is a shame that time constraints didn't let you show scenes with dialogue like "Surely you cannot be serious" "I am serious and don't call me Shirley" and the scene when they are asked to get into crash positions.

[@darrengibbs4288]

elderly Lady translating the jive talk was Barbara Billingsly, or June Cleaver, Beavers mom in Leave it to Beaver.

[@lashutterbug]

This was actually Ethel Merman's last appearance on film.

[@wishfulstinker8327]

June Cleaver from "Leave it to Beaver" Speaking Jive makes me laugh everytime. Loved her.

[@lurkerrekrul]

20:30 - The woman only had one egg in her mouth. It's a classic illusion. Each egg was already in his hand when he pretended to pull it out of her mouth and then the actress just moved the egg back a little to make it look like her mouth was empty. Notice the strange position he hold his hand in. He's hiding the egg from view and then moving it up to his fingertips. After seeing this movie, I've always wanted someone to offer me something by just holding it out and saying its name in the form of a question, just so that I can reply "Yes, it is." :)

[@hellowhat890]

12:00 "She already had a couple of eggs in her mouth right?" Actually, yes and no. Technically, it started with the one she was holding in her mouth which Leslie Nielson is seen removing; But if you watch when his hand goes to grab the next eggs that come out of her mouth, look at how his hand is hiding it from the camera. He actually has the eggs and is making it look like he's pulling multiple ones while she only has the one in her mouth to make it look like she's sick. He has them hidden up his sleeve as a sleight of hand which is out of view of the camera and he passes off the illusion of multiple eggs.

[@cesarvidelac]

God, I'm so old 😹 many of the nuances are so old it seems I'm the only one that remembers them, like Ethel Merman or Saturday might fever and so on. I love this movie, I watched when I was like 12 and at my 50s I still laugh as hard as the first time 😸😹 This was Leslie Nielsen's first comedy ever, what a discovery he was, miss him a lot. Always remember Macho Grande! 😹

[@YoureMrLebowski]

And you will continue to laugh as hard as the first time, as your ability to recall those memories continue it’s inevitable course. So you got that going for you.

[@cesarvidelac]

@@YoureMrLebowski Even if I haven't seen the movie for years, I still remember most of the gags! 😹

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

I remember when "Radarange" was a generic term for a microwave oven back when they were new. Like "Xerox" for a photocopier or even a photocopy itself.

[@cesarvidelac]

@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Thanks for the internet! my mother tongue is Spanish and this movie was dubbed back in the day, but I always re-watch it in English and I'm still learning. Good to know many are still enjoying this movie! 🙂

[@RossM3838]

This is a scene for scene parody of the melodrama zero hour. The producers even bought the rights to zero hour so they could do this. Zero hour is hillarious in its own right because it takes itself dead seriously. Zero hour was written by the same guy who would later write the movie airport.

[@markharrold6876]

Comedy was not rewarded in Hollywood in those days, so the appearances of Leslie Nielson and Lloyd Bridges in comedic roles was truly great.

[@scotthewitt258]

The woman who said the dirtiest thing on 1950s TV speaking jive us so funny.

[@CaddyJim]

More Slap Stick comedy... *(Hot Shots)* *(Hot Shots part Deux)* *(Top Secret)* *(Space Balls)* *(Naked Gun) (2&1/2) (33&1/3)* *(Police Academy)* *(Hot Fuzz)*

[@claw320]

I just wanna tell all the commenters good luck, we're all counting on you!

[@SebastianWeinberg]

It's an entirely different kind of comedy, altogether. 😁

[@jamesnoneyabizness5611]

It's an entirely different kind of comedy.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

It's an entirely different kind of comedy.

[@KingHarkinianMah21]

It’s an entirely different kind of comedy

[@AtomicNumber420]

It's an entirely different kind of comedy.

[@mrdarkshoe]

Its an entirely different kind of comedy.

[@alittlebitgone]

I have never felt so old as watching you two try to figure out the jokes, lol

[@brom00]

The 70's was the decade of the disaster pic, earthquakes, burning skyscrapers, and on, and on. The most successful was "Airport", it spawned several sequels. This is a spoof of those, as well as borrowing the plot of a 50's(?) film called "Zero Hour".

[@aussiebloke609]

Less borrowing the plot and more a shot-by-shot recreation of _Zero Hour!_ that uses the same camera angles and a virtually identical script - albeit with a few additional lines. Here's a comparison video you'll probably enjoy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bl7ZY3V-g6eJedU

[@stoneg.barrow9991]

One must never fail to omit mention of the 1977 Samuel L. Bronkowitz Cinematic Disaster Extravaganza "That's Armageddon", to that particular end; Mind you. But I guess that generally tends to go without saying. 😊😊😊

[@buddytesla]

Leslie Nielsen started out as a dramatic actor. This was his first comedy.

[@michaelwardle7633]

So, yeah, Saturday Night fever was spoofed, also From Here to Eternity (the waves scene). The coffee gag was spoofing an old Yuban instant coffee ad campaign that maybe 5% of modern audiences would recognize.

[@jamesnoneyabizness5611]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3uXnHZ8Z5eCaNk

[@nowthatsjustducky]

I'm surprised Yuban hasn't brought that commercial out of retirement by now. It was a pretty decent one.

[@robertpearson8798]

Leslie Neilson’s brother Eric was a deputy Prime Minister of Canada for almost two years in the 1980’s.

[@o0pinkdino0o]

Disco scene - Saturday Night Fever. The joke with Captain Oveur and Joey is that Peter Graves was a serious and respected actor, so to have him say increasingly inappropriate lines to a small child was shockingly funny. This was the first successful spoof movie ripping off all the 70s disaster movie tropes (there were a TON of Airport movies.) There was a TV series with Leslie Nielson called Police Squad, which eventually became The Naked Gun. Police Squad criminally was only shown for six episodes. The networks removed it because you had TO WATCH IT to get the jokes, where-as most evening comedies in the 80s you could just leave on in the background and still enjoy at home. Massive recommendation for both Top Secret (WW2/ Elvis with Val Kilmer) and Hot Shots (Top Gun spoof) by the same creators. Also South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stowe made a movie with the Zucker Brothers called Baseketball which is an underrated gem (imagine South Park humour mixed with Airplane gags).

[@ChicagoDB]

The scene in the surf is referencing “From Here To Eternity”…the disco scene is parody of “Saturday Night Fever”. The pep talk is referencing “Knute Rockne - All American”. The coffee woman was actually in a famous coffee commercial of the time…and she suggested many things used in the movie.

[@lacucaracha5993]

This was the first "spoof" movie, poking fun at the recent hit movie "Airport" and the two subsequent sequels. One of the many genius aspects of the movie is that Leslie Nielsen was a serious, dramatic actor for his whole career prior to Airplane. He found his niche and never looked back. Also, if you watch this movie multiple times, you will catch subtle things in the background that are hilarious as well.

[@badelementofstyle5238]

This is actually the Zucker brothers' second movie. Kentucky Fried Movie contained a parody of Enter the Dragon.

[@paulinegallagher7821]

one of the people queuing up to 'calm' the hysterical woman was ma barker the mother gangster.

[@hellowhat890]

Fun fact: The man and woman doing the PA announcements at the beginning was an actual married couple and they really did the recorded announcements at Los Angeles International Airport.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

And apparently, the argument about her getting an abortion was from a cheesy sleazy romance novel he bought at one of the shops in the airport before filming this scene.

[@ilovecatweazle]

'It looks like I picked a hell of a time to try and give up watching movie reactions!'

[@Zarni-fv2fj]

Had a coworker with the name Mattick. We put him on a magazine mailing list with the name Otto Mattick😂.

[@mithroch]

The bit with the wife's inner monologue "he never has a second cup at home" is a dated reference to a series of coffee commercials in the 70s and 80s.

[@jamesnoneyabizness5611]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3uXnHZ8Z5eCaNk

[@saffmichael4369]

"Old movie with John Travolta where he is at a disco" I have literally never felt older than when she said this :(

[@TheGorignak]

Nobody ever gets that woman thinking about her husband never having a second cup of coffee at home. It's a reference to a famous coffee commercial of the time.

[@Zarni-fv2fj]

You can watch it 10 times and still see bits you didn't notice before.

[@kathyastrom1315]

I love that my favorite line in the movie nearly had you falling out of your seat. “Why, I can make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl!” My brother, sister, and I would just randomly say that while walking around the house after seeing the movie.

[@aussiebloke609]

The tower! The tower! Rapunzel!! 😀

[@1ListerofSmeg]

FunFact: 'Leons is getting larger' was the tag line of a furniture store chain - Leons- that was increasing their sales floorspace.

[@greyfade]

Fun fact: Airplane! was a shot-for-shot remake of an older drama called Zero Hour. They even bought rights to the script of Zero Hour so they could rewrite it as a comedy.

[@Journeyman.71]

I'm 50, and saw this film as a kid. Much of the humor holds up, but, I also feel like there needs to be an annotated version explaining some of the gags and references that are maybe a bit dated!

[@theoriginalshew]

My favorite joke is the propeller plane engine sound even though they're on jet engine plane

[@kurtb8474]

The magic of this movie is that the dialog is almost totally straight. Barely any set-ups and punchlines. And it was a real treat for those of us are old enough to know who all of the these actors are. Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges were all serious dramatic actors who played cops and spies and western heroes. It's so funny to see them in a movie like this. Another hilarious movie is It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World.

[@bigredtlc1828]

"Surely, you can't be serious." "I am, and don't call me Shirley."

[@darylabrams2]

The serious actors is what made this film so funny. They delivered their lines so dramatically and it was hilarious. It's definitely one of the funniest movies ever. I think Lloyd Bridges was worried people wouldn't get the jokes. Robert Stack said We are the joke.

[@duke613]

"He never has a 2nd cup at home" comment came from an old Coffee TV commercial in the 70's.

[@davidludwig1492]

I love that when an exterior shot of the plane in flight happens, the sounds of the engines is that of a turboprop motor, not a jet. Almost no one catches it. There's no way to give someone a head's up about a movie like this. Except to say expect a laugh in nearly every minute or less.

[@Logan_Baron]

I had seen this movie SO many times and never caught the prop sounds instead of jet engine sounds until someone pointed it out.

[@moonakieater2308]

I didn't get it either until I found out the producers bought the rights to "Zero Hour" to make this an almost shot by shot remake only with more laugh gags. Then it makes total sense because that plane had a propeller engine. Also, I was always wondering why the "war" references looked like they were from WWII, because "Zero Hour" was after WWII. That movie had a football player playing the copilot's role so they get Kareem to do this one.

[@h4a2u0s]

Leslie Nielsen sitting in his seat with his stethoscope already on always gets me.

[@3DJapan]

I suggest Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist. The director re-edited an old kung-fu movie, redubbed all the voices, mostly by himself, and also cast himself as the lead character.

[@granadosvm]

16:42 The actor used to play the character Eliot Ness in the TV series "The untouchables", a police drama where that phrase would be used from time to time while strategizing their next move against the mafia.

[@JayTor2112]

"A Fish Called Wanda", and "This is Spinal Tap" are a couple more comedies i highly recommend.

[@antoineporche-rideaux4841]

The scene we're Leslie Nielsen is giving the win 1 for the zipper speech came from American college football coaching Legend knute Rockne gave his football team at halftime there was losing but the name of the player he was talking about was named the Gipper

[@wwoods66]

And the actor who played George Gipp wound up keeping the nickname "the Gipper". He was in the news quite a bit when _Airplane!_ was being made and first shown.

[@jksgameshelf3378]

I saw this movie opening weekend in theaters, and I still say "Roger, Roger. What's the vector, Victor?" all the time. Before this film, the Zucker Brothers and Jim Abrahams wrote a movie called 'Kentucky Fried Movie' with really similar humour, but it was actually directed by John Landis, who then did 'Animal House', 'An American Werewolf in London', etc. Also, big thumbs up on 'Life of Brian', so can't wait to see your reaction to that one.

[@ksbsnowowl3569]

Kentucky Fried Movie is hilarious.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

11:13 "Is the joke just gonna keep going until, by the end of the movie, _everyone_ on the plane has committed suicide?" No, no. See, this is what's called a running gag. _Airplane!_ has these _everywhere,_ and that, I think, is a key part of just what makes it such a funny movie. A running gag is a gag that happens exactly three times; no more, no less. Pick out something that happens in this movie that makes you laugh. Then watch for it to happen again. You'll see that it happens exactly three times.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

16:55 There's one.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

17:39 There he is again.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

I call that the Rule of Three. They also did that with the "What is it?" gag.... Headquarters, Cockpit, and Hospital.

[@tehdipstick]

The Japanese guy at 10:33 is played by none other than James Hong, a prolific actor and voice actor.

[@waterbeauty85]

James Hong is an absolute icon.

[@stoneg.barrow9991]

@@waterbeauty85 The joke's on you, Striker: It's Lady Speed Stick! Get me Rex Kramer. 😊😊😊

[@Lewis9700]

Everyone always misses the very end after the credits where the guy's still waiting in the Cab.

[@IvorClegg]

I've always thought that the 'Turkish prison' bit HAD to have been a reference to Midnight Express (1978), the kinda-mostly-truish story of the experiences of a young American guy in a Turkish prison for smuggling hashish. I've never seen this proposed or confirmed anywhere though, so it's highly likely I'm wrong.

[@blkluv100]

I don't think so. Gladiators, gymnasiums, Turkish prisons all have some type of homoerotic subtext. With the Turkish prisons we wouldn't know about this if it wasn't for the that movie.

[@themonkeytrainer]

​@@blkluv100 The Pilot's inappropriate questions to the little boy were mostly a joke about a major Hollywood Controversy going on in the 70's: A missing twenty minutes of Stanley Kubrick's 1960 Roman spectacle, Spartacus, had been found and there was much turmoil over whether or not to restore it to the publicly available version of the film (the newly recovered footage included Laurence Olivier and Tony Curtis, bathing together in a Roman bath house, having a discussion that included both homo-erotic and homophobic undertones. It was part of the original film's release, but had been censored and lost in the 1967 re-release ) outraged conservatives thought re-including the footage was unspeakably immoral. The Zucker Brothers obviously thought the pearl-clutching over the scene was hysterical. The footage was ultimately restored in a widely acclaimed 1991 re-master of Spartacus.

[@CaddyJim]

*(The Naked Gun)* staring *Leslie Nielsen* *(Naked Gun 2&1/2)* *(Naked Gun 33&1/3)*

[@alanhilton3611]

One of my absolute all time favorites if America had Monty Python this would be it just utter silliness.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

We technically had Monty Python, considering one of the original members was fully American. :D

[@CitiesTurnedToDust]

It is funny how younger people can't tell Peter Graves from Leslie Neilson...me having grown up with Peter Graves being one of the most famous actors in the U.S. for at least two decades (Mission: Impossible!!)

[@Absher_501st]

I like that you guys did Airplane when everyone else is doing Halloween movies. Needed the laughs! Thanks 🤘

[@davidr1050]

Actor Robert Hays who played Ted Striker is actually a pilot in real life and is qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft. :D

[@Rob-H]

Naked Gun would work with this for so many reasons!

[@TheCamarosBand]

One of the greatest and most subtle gags is the sound of the jet is actually a prop plane. 😊

[@drewc981]

The scene with the two kids and the coffee is my favourite thing in this movie lol

[@CineBingeReact]

yeaah we really loved that scene too and wish we could've kept it. but unfortunately both in writing on YT's guidelines and from 2 of their agents we spoke to, any video with Children will have the comment sections disabled if the channel itself is not categorized as "for kids". so its not too far of a stretch for us to make the assumption that by leaving the kids scene in, YT will also suppress this video.

[@w.randyhoffman1204]

@@CineBingeReact I've seen at least fifteen or twenty YT reactions to this film and they've all included that scene without being blocked.

[@Cau_No]

@@CineBingeReact Since when do they use that excuse now? As stated above, there are several reactions with that scene and their comments intact. Surely they can't be serious, and, yes I call them Shirley ...

[@MovieVigilante]

@@CineBingeReact Every other reaction of this movie that I've seen has included the kids scene so YT seems to be pulling a fast one on you.

[@CineBingeReact]

​@@w.randyhoffman1204 yes we've seen those as well, and have sent it to the YT representatives as examples and all we got return were copy and pasted responses about the rules of Children with videos. this issue with our channel and YT goes back over a month now, where it began with our American History X reaction which has since been taken down all together.

[@brianlanning836]

It's so much fun watching young people watch this movie and miss 50% of the jokes. lol Yes that was actually Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Yes that was actually Ethyl Merman. The guy checking the oil on the plane was Jimmy Walker, JJ from Good Times. And the woman translating Jive was Barbara Billingsly, the mom from Leave it to Beaver. "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home"... They're making fun of a coffee commercial that was run a lot in the 70s. The woman with the eggs in her mouth was a common magic trick that used to be done at the time, including breaking the egg and the bird flying away.

[@michaelccozens]

The egg trick is a classic bit of stage magic. Basically, the "victim" holds one egg in their mouth. They make it protrude a little. The magician pretends to be grabbing the egg, while, in reality, the victim uses the cover of the magician's hand to draw the egg back in, while the magician shifts their grip on the egg they already have palmed to make it look like they're grabbing something. The magician puts the egg on the table, then, as the victim starts to protrude "another" egg and thereby distracts the audience, the magician dips their hand out-of-view, loads another egg, and reaches up to repeat the trick. Continue until an impossible and absurd number of eggs accumulates, to the delight of all. It's also an absurd thing for an apparently-serious doctor to be doing with a sick person. Also, for what it's worth, it's hilarious to see you guys laughing at stuff I think is really funny.

[@robertawesome2410]

This movie had one of the first after the credit scenes, with the guy in the taxi from the beginning on the movie, with the guy still waiting in the taxi saying "I'll give him 10 more mins, but that's it!"