Airplane! | Couple's first time watching Reaction!!

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. Just a heads up everyone we had some issues with the subtitles on this movie (super delayed for some reason) and tried our best to edit around it!

[@mikealvarez2322]

You have to watch the trailer for the 1957 movie ZERO HOUR. The movie Airplane copies the plot and even some of the dialogue from the 57 movie. ZERO HOUR is not a comedy but after watching AIRPLANE you'll laugh your asses off.😂😂❤❤

[@evilvolts]

he had a "Drinking Problem" ]:P

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@mikealvarez2322 lol I could see us laughing to it! we'll check it out for sure!

[@evilvolts]

famous speach "win one for the Gipper" an old 40's or 50's movie line a football coach

[@gameday123123]

"Why does he keep spilling on his face?" He has a drinking problem

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

I was gonna say the EXACT same thing. :-)

[@vincentsaia6545]

You talked over the line.

[@amyjordan195]

"He doesn’t like your coffee." Finally someone got the joke. It was based on a coffee commercial starring that same lady.

[@neutrino78x]

you gotta be the right age to remember that....I am JUST BARELY old enough, those ads were still on TV when I was like six 🙂

[@joek468]

I was going to reply about the Yuban commercial but found this before I did, I new the commercial but had no recollection that the actress was from the commercials, so I just learned something.

[@johnlindauer5324]

I hate to confess, but I remember those commercials😒

[@ceherrera7437]

It was Sanka if I remember correctly

[@ceherrera7437]

I think the husband was also in the commercial too

[@Ironoclasty]

One of my favorite parts that nobody seems to catch is where Kramer is complaining while getting ready to go and the guy from the airport is fighting the dog in the background, and Kramer steps through the mirror to get going.

[@longfootbuddy]

i heard the film makers talking about it, and saying that it wasnt shot quite right, so most people dont even notice, but theyd spent a lot of time on the shot

[@Js-fr1ov]

You both missed that Ted developed his "drinking problem" in one of his stories. But you naturally got the Ethel Mermon joke in the hospital. Most reactors NEVER get that! Great job.

[@mangelwurzel]

Most reactors are just way too young to remember Ethel Merman. She was born in 1908, so it's not surprising that almost nobody gets the reference. I am older than dirt, so she does occupy a spot in my musical memories.

[@Js-fr1ov]

@mangelwurzel Right! I don't expect ANYONE to know that name (me as well) but to at least "get" that it was actually her is rare. (...I'm sure they didn't know of her but still got the joke)!

[@americanmutt9089]

Ted spilling his drink on his face was his "drinking problem." He had a problem with drinking...properly.

[@aheretic]

Did you happen to notice that the jet they were flying in always sounded like a plane with propellers ? 😉

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@aheretic omg how did we miss that?! Lol

[@pdm881]

Lol one of my favorite gags of the movie 😂

[@brainfloss9710]

I've seen this movie over a hundred times. I have definitely noticed this bit, but it never occurred to me that it could play out through the entire movie. I love that I can still enjoy new gags on movies i can virtually rehearse. These old slapsticks have no comparison.

[@harryrabbit2870]

Yes! Almost NOBODY comments on that! It's a sound gag that always get missed, like the airplane that sounds like a train when it gets moving.

[@andrewkline5611]

A 1980 PG rating was a whole different animal than today.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@andrewkline5611 absolutely!

[@TheNascarfan999]

It's worth noting that PG-13 did not exist at this time, so the only options were for a PG rating or an R rating.

[@ALCAN52]

@@TheNascarfan999 Correct. The first PG-13 movie was Red Dawn released August 10, 1984.

[@criskity]

@@ALCAN52 Red Dawn was the first to be screened with a PG-13 rating, but Dreamscape was the first to be assigned the PG-13 rating.

[@kevinlewallen4778]

The lady who speaks jive was carefully chosen. Barbara Billingsley played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, where she was one of those 50s housewives who vacuums in sensible heels and pearls. You could argue she was one of the whitest ladies in America, so her part as the jive lady added extra punch to the joke.

[@CR41489]

Don’t forget the extra scene at the very end of the credits. 😂

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@CR41489 We missed it but thanks for the heads up. Checking it out now!

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Glad to see the horse get an acting credit. And the taxi part… 🤣

[@ericwalker8636]

The joke is that that was Howard Jarvis, a businessman and political lobbyist who was responsible for California's Prop13 tax law. He was a very conservative and thrifty person in real life and wouldn't have paid such a high price for a cab ride.

[@criskity]

He didn't call her a pisser. He called the situation a pisser.

[@TarossBlackburn]

Breaking the fourth wall by talking directly to the audience too.

[@robertobrien5709]

Lesley Nielsen was a serious actor up to this point, this was his first comedic role. He was so comedic that he basically just did comedy after this, for which he is now famous.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@robertobrien5709 Had no idea about his acting history! Do you know of any note worthy serious movies he’s been in?

[@amyjordan195]

​@@OfficialDNJmoviehousehe was in Forbidden Planet, which is a must see.

[@marcconnery]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Forbidden Planet 1956. Tammy and the Bachelor 1957 Creepshow 1982 and if you can find it he had a Walt Disney presents show call Swamp fox.. Did a lot of TV Drama guest appearances in the 60s and 70s

[@mikejankowski6321]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse He was one of the stars in Forbidden Planet (1956). He played the villain in movies and TV shows. Peter Graves (the pilot) was the leader of the Mission Impossible team during its first run as a TV show. Robert Stack (Rex Cramer) had played Elliot Ness in the TV series The Untouchables. Lloyd Bridges had starred in Sea Hunt. All of these were serious dramatic roles and they were very famous. They took their deadpan delivery into this comedy and that added a dimension to the hilarity. Bridges also went into comedy after this - see Hot Shots.

[@mikealvarez2322]

​@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, RANSOM, THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, NIGHT TRAIN TO PARIS, FORBIDDEN PLANET and many more plus TV series like THE SWAMP FOX, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, and a whole host of guest appearances.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

The basketball playing natives were the Harlem Globetrotters.

[@danshoham1714]

During the reception at my own wedding, when the DJ happened to play Stayin' Alive, I tossed my jacket over to my wife who was taking a breather on the sideline. Without any preplanning or coordination, and not missing a beat, she tossed it right back, reenacting the Airplane! scene.

[@salsonny]

he spilled the drinks on his face because he ha a "Drinking Problem"

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@salsonny we totally missed that while watching and only picked it up during editing…woops!

[@grosbeak6130]

Actually the movie did have a kind of serious coherent storyline from beginning to end, and that is Ted overcoming his post-traumatic stress disorder.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@grosbeak6130 That’s fair. They did a great job in presenting a normally serious topic with great humor!

[@ericwalker8636]

I've seen this movie dozens of times since it was first released and almost as many YT reactions over the last couple years and this is the first time it's been brought to my attention that Otto, the autopilot, is looking to the side as he's deflating as if he's asking for help. 😂

[@FrancisXLord]

The vulture is there to imply they have reason to believe that they're not going to get out of the situation alive. Kramer tells them that there's no reason to believe they wouldn't get out alive, cut to a shot of Striker with a vulture on his shoulder. I never got the joke before I realised (quite recently) it was a vulture (we don't have them over here). Vultures were commonly known as signifiers of impending death as they hang around dying animals in the desert.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@FrancisXLord now that you explained it, it def makes more sense! Ty for clarifying!

[@mikealvarez2322]

The part of the movie where Striker talks about George Zip is a spoof of the 1940 movie KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN. Ronald Reagan played George Gipp, a Notre Dame football player that died in the 1940 movie George Gipp tells his coach, Knute Rockne, "Tell the boys when the team is down to win one for the Gipper." Of course in AIRPLANE Striker is told that George Zipp said, "Win one for the Zipper." The beach scene with Ted and Elaine getting covered by the waves and seaweed is a spoof on the movie FROM HERE TO ETERNITY.😂😂❤❤

[@albertmassingo4249]

The mayo clinic, On the shelves behind him were jars of mayonnaise

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@albertmassingo4249 we were so focused on the heart lol. We might need to watch this one a few more times!

[@mikejankowski6321]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse You will see new things each time for a while.

[@TarossBlackburn]

@@mikejankowski6321 Absolutely. Keep this in mind. The filmmakers wanted to have a joke going on in EVERY scene. If it's not a verbal joke it has to be a sight-gag and if it's not being done by the people in the foreground, something is happening in the background.

[@fredrickpinckney1092]

One that I have never heard a reactor mention is when the pilot shifts the airplane into gear just like shifting a manual transmission in a car.

[@longfootbuddy]

spose to be a train

[@marcconnery]

The soldier saying goodbye to his girl was a sendup of films where the lovers part in a train station the column were a staple of such scenes

[@johnnehrich9601]

It is actually a spoof of a very specific scene, a 1944 wartime tear jerker, Since You Went Away. The solider and his girl are hugging and kissing and a conductor comes up, pulls out his pocketwatch to check the time and says "You better get on board, son." He does but stands in one of the vestibules but with the upper half of the dutch door open so he can continue to talk. The train begins, we hear its chugging sound. She is able at first to walk, then run alongside. He throws her his watch as a keepsake - and this is the specific part - as she is running, she barely avoids running into the platform light stands. (In Airplane, she runs into them.) On KZbin, type in: Since You Went Away, chasing the train to see the segment.

[@stormingelysium1996]

: p He didn't call her a pisser, it meant a the situation is a downer

[@GothikBeerTV]

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

[@mavv-i-am]

This was Leslie neilsons first comedy, prior to this he did mainly drama which is the reason for his spot on deadpan delivery that made this performance so great, after this he was all comedy and moved on to the naked gun series and the rest is history

[@mikejankowski6321]

Great reaction, you caught a lot of the jokes. To help out with understanding the pep talk, Ronald Reagan was in Knute Rockne, All American where he played a football player named George Gipp, nicknamed The Gipper, on the Notre Dame team. His motivational contribution (no spoilers) was "win one for the Gipper". When the doctor told the story of George Zipp, it was a parody of that earlier movie and that is why the Notre Dame fight song is playing. The pilot's name and fate was a setup throughout the movie for this gag. Also another dig on Reagan. The airplane crashing through the window was a scale model of a 747 nose mounted on a truck. It was big enough to be convincing in a quick take. Did you notice the flying baby?

[@longfootbuddy]

and reagans films werent that bad, but he was pres, so hipsters started repeating that reagan had bad films

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Thanks for clarifying on the pep talk! Also we did not catch the flying baby

[@dupersuper1938]

@@longfootbuddy It's simpler than poking fun at his bad financial policy...

[@johnniekight1879]

The coffee lady was in a coffee commercial back then where she thought the same thing. The Nun was Maureen McGovern who had the hit "The Morning After.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@johnniekight1879 TY for the context!

[@0okamino]

But she never has voiced-over internal dialogue at home. 🤔

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@0okamino LOL

[@curtismartin2866]

Fun Fact: the producers were casting for someone to spoof the coffee commercial and didn't realize that they hired THE SAME actress from the TV commercial.

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

At work I was having a serious conversation with my boss with me saying “I’ll do this” and him saying and “I’ll do that” and a colleague burst through the door and shouted, “and Leon’s getting larger!” We just stared blankly at him so he walks back through the door, jumps back in and even louder screams, “AND LEONS GETTING LARGER!” We stare blankly at him, disappointed he just said, “ah forget it!” Ten years later I watched airplane and finally got it 😂

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 couldve been even more awkward if he rubbed someones belly while saying it lol!

[@mikejankowski6321]

Some jokes just take a while to hit.

[@richardlicht7927]

Airplane was Leslie Nielsen's first role as a comedy actor. It really came out of nowhere. He always had serious roles until this. That's why he did not have a huge role in this one but after this his comedy career really took off.

[@TarossBlackburn]

The actor for Johnny, who was a personal friend of the directors I think, was given full ad-lib freedom for his lines.

[@vincentsaia6545]

"Jim never the as a second cup of coffee at home," was a reference to a popular TV commercial.

[@garylee3685]

The dance sequence to Stayin Alive is a parody of Saturday Night Fever. The beach scene is a parody of From Here to Eternity. STP was an oil treatment. Ronald Reagan was in some bad movies when he was an actor.

[@billsimonis]

stp is still around

[@therealhotdog]

as the younger generations see this a lot of stuff is missed, generation X and boomer pick up on these very easy, like the the two people as announcers were the real LA airport announcers, the Jim never drinks coffee were the real people in a coffee commercial , the beach scene is from the movie here to eternity, the Jive talking woman is Barbra Billingsley from leave it to beaver tv show and there is a scene at the very end with the guy in the cab this was was taken from the movie Zero hour almost scene from scene,

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Thanks for clarifying on those. This was a really fun watch even without knowing those references I can only imagine what it must've been like to watch when it first came out

[@michaeltellez2755]

if u listen to the engines its a jet aircraft using propeller sound

[@darchon5]

So glad that you guys had a great reaction to one of the funniest, most underrated lines (that too many reactors don't even include): "No... that's just what they'll be expecting us to do." (with the vacant stare and music)

[@DarkPaladin24]

This is an entirely different kind of comedy altogether.

[@BigJoeEspo]

It's an entirely different kind of comedy.

[@NightRanger-lz6tp]

Fun Fact on 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.

[@chrpike1]

We just want to wish you both good luck-we’re all counting on you.

[@salsonny]

Leslie Neilson's first comedy after doing 30ys of drama movies

[@AmperSand666]

4:07 is a punch card. It was used in companies, factories, institutions, to mark when you start or end your job, for instance go for lunch break or end of the day.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Are you sure because it looks like he's handing him a credit card... either way it's all good!

[@AmperSand666]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Im 90% sure because, at that time, one of my friend's dad was a bus driver on an interstate route, and everytime before starting the journey, it was one of company employee coming exactly like in the movie, next to the window, and the driver was swiping this card on that device and he told us it's a punch card.

[@TarossBlackburn]

@@AmperSand666 It's a creditcard roller. You put your card in the slot and the operator puts the bill on top of it and then roll an inked sheet across it, stamping the raised letters of your card onto the bill so they can send it to the bank for payment processing. It was a very common way to pay for gas and service at full-service gas stations. The entire scene up to then mimicked the airplane as a car getting gas and serviced: Window clean, oil check, etcetera :D

[@AmperSand666]

@@TarossBlackburn It makes sense, I didn't associate the windshield cleaning and oil checking with the window payment 👍

[@salsonny]

A Parody of the 1950s movie Zero hour

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@salsonny was that one any good?

[@garylee3685]

​@OfficialDNJmoviehouse same plot points and names but 100% serious. The filmakers actually bought the rights to that movie so they couldnt be sued.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@garylee3685 Ok that's awesome! good move lol

[@marcconnery]

I watched videos on KZbin comparing the two, some times it was word for word.

[@dan_hitchman007]

This movie gets funnier the more you watch it. You will often catch sight gags that you might have missed. Plus, you just have to roll with the very literal visual and verbal jokes.

[@notvalidcharacters]

Sorry but Leslie Nielsen wasn't the most famous actor here. Aside from Kareem there were Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack, all bigger names and none of whom (including Nielsen) were known for comedic roles before this film.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@notvalidcharacters dont be sorry, thanks for the context! For us, Nielsen was the most recognizable face.

[@arraymac227]

Has someone mentioned the contents of the shelves at the Mayo Clinic?

[@longfootbuddy]

im sure they will a few dozen times

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Yep it's been mentioned, as well as the drinking problem joke that we missed lol

[@3DJapan]

I believe these days the pilots always have a different meal than the passengers.

[@0okamino]

Yeah, they should have also had the lasagna, but I guess Dr. Rumack already ate it all.

[@jamesraykenney]

Actually, the Pilot and Co Pilot have to have different meals from EACH OTHER...

[@meherenowmaybe]

So for our haven't heard any reactor, notice that the missions he goes on are all in places named after alcoholic drinks. Drambuie? Daiquiri?

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Ohh nice catch. We've never heard of Drambuie so that one easily went over our heads

[@DrD0000M]

There were 2 Reagan jokes, probably because 1980 was when Reagan was elected. The lady being sick before due to seeing a Reagan film, he made some corny ones like "Bedtime for Bonzo", where he co-starred with a chimp. And the "Win one for the Zipper" scene with sports music playing is from another Reagan movie "Knute Rockne All American" (based on a true story), where he played a Notre Dame football player named George Gipp, dying of pneumonia in 1920, and asks his coach to go tell his team to "Win one for the Gipper", which became Reagan's slogan during his actual presidential campaign.

[@vincentsaia6545]

"Win one for the Zipper," is a reference to the Ronald Reagan movie KNUTE ROCKNE: ALL AMERICAN where he played football star George Gibb who on his death bed said to Rockne to tell the boys to, "go out and win one for the Gipper."

[@kaleemdin7963]

Yes! You are right. Those are barf bags

[@Steve-gx9ot]

George Gipp =famous Notre Dame football player = figt song in background = he was dying during season and he told knute rockne invented forwrd pass = to use his words as motivation. This is called HISTORY, KIDS!!°

[@billsimonis]

the lady putting on the makeup is Charlotte Zucker mother to the zucker brothers. shecappears in most of their movies. there was a sequel but zaz weren't involved. you should watch the naked gun series and top secret

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Naked Gun is def on the list! Someone else also mentioned top secret so we'll take a look!

[@danielberg7644]

"Win one for the zippe"r is a reference to the Notre Dame star football player George Gipp, the lady talking to herself is a reference to a Yuban Coffee commercial from the 70s, and this whole movie is based on the movie "Zero Hour".

[@kaleemdin7963]

Actually. The meter said. $11,333

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@kaleemdin7963 lol even better!

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

“How did he know George Zip’s name?” Ted was telling his story out loud on the plane.

[@TarossBlackburn]

I think the point here is like a fateful meeting. The doctor never met George but happened to have been treating his teammate in the war and probably brought up this story as a pep talk for a lot of patients of his who gave up on something or other. He just happened to tell it to the right guy this time :D

[@andreww1225]

He keeps spilling his drink because he has a drinking problem lol

[@IFM5]

I would highly recommend the movie Top Secret with Val Kilmer if you guys enjoyed this! Great reaction as always ✌

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@IFM5 noted! And ty!

[@0okamino]

Just be sure you have the proper security clearance. After all, it’s _Top Secret!_

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@0okamino already got it, we'll be watching this at 1800 hours in the Daiquiri storage depot in the north.

[@0okamino]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse But when will you be back?

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@0okamino Thats classified.

[@bryangarner671]

Top Secret is another hilarious movie worth watching made by the same guys that made this movie.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Others have recommended this one as well. We'll add it to the list!

[@BigJoeEspo]

This movie is a nearly shot-for-shot parody of a movie called "Zero Hour". In fact, someone put together a side-by side comparison on KZbin.

[@ceherrera7437]

PG doesn't mean it is a child movie, it is Parental Guidance suggested. So it was up to the parents to decide if they thought it would be ok for them to watch. He poured his drink on the side of his head because, he had a drinking problem

[@ploppill34]

So you're saying some of those Airplane jokes flew over your head?

[@PhoenixFit2024]

I still think the funniest joke is the stewardess handing the lady a pamphlet of famous Jewish sports legends. 😊

[@mgordon1100]

It took me many years to get that joke, and I'm Jewish. I should know that Jews don't generally get into sports. Hence, it's only a leaflet.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

I feel like we missed a lot on the first watch and we'll need to watch it again > not that that's a bad thing!

[@0okamino]

Just in case you didn’t catch it before, watch back through the scene when the guy gets attacked by the dog, and see if you notice anything strange about the way Capt. Kramer exits the shot. 😄 This movie has quite a bit of rewatch value, just from the sheer volume of jokes in both the fore and background.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Oh that's brilliant. Ty for pointing that out!

[@christophermcbride2522]

Once again... PG films were completely different back then. This was 1980, a few years before the PG-13 rating existed.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@christophermcbride2522 we go a little more into it in the video discussion at the end!

[@christophermcbride2522]

@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Is "Gremlins" going to be next? Also, if you're fans of Ninja Turtles, check out the 1990 film.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@ Life of Brian will be the next video. I’ve seen the first 2 ninja turtle live action movies but Jane hasnt so its a possibility!

[@christophermcbride2522]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse do you have a Christmas movie planned before the year is over?

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@ christmas themed? No not really

[@stormingelysium1996]

Vultures wait above animals that are about to die. Looney Tunes was good at using Vultures to show a character was in dire straits.

[@stormingelysium1996]

I think it might actually be a buzzard : p ...but the meaning's the same

[@longfootbuddy]

theres a lot of good comedies from the 70s, like kentucky fried movie, and the groove tube.. but theres so much nudity, it would be hard to react to, so i dont even suggest them for youtube.. but theyre like amazon women on the moon, where its not a single story, but almost like watching television programming, where theres commercials, and other bits, and then it will go into full features, and such.. but i always thought that kind of mostly 70s movies were really fun to watch, and show people for the first time.. quite a few movies were made like that, but those were some of my favs

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Well if they are too hard to edit a reaction for we'll at least keep those in mind for personal watching! We'll see what we can do and add those to the list!

[@neutrino78x]

Nice! There's an Airplane 2 as well, it is also pretty funny, it has William Shatner (Kirk from Star Trek) 🙂

[@arraymac227]

Do check out the end end credit scene, if you haven't already. I think this film might have pioneered the concept.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Thanks for the heads up! We did end up checking it out lol

[@paulschuckman6604]

Yes yes I had lasagna. Moral of the story always order the vegetarian option.

[@dazedandconfusedconfused9500]

She questions, "kids won't know what whacking means right?" I was 10 when I saw this when it finally showed on HBO, and I knew what whacking material was . (Was too scared to try it because I had heard rumors about going blind because from doing it.)

[@dupersuper1938]

He didn't call HER a pisser, just the situation.

[@confucius12012]

Guys, I was 8 years old when this came out in 1980 and me and my 10 year old friend biked to the theater to watch this(no parents needed. lol). It was a great time to be a kid.

[@paulmartin2348]

Wow and hello. (I was also 8 years old in 1980) Born in '72. I try not to think about the way things were back then too much. Simpler times that I miss.

[@aipaloovik]

23:57 That's 'Leave it to Beaver's' mom, btw... lol

[@mikealvarez2322]

Did you catch the Mayo Clinic with a wall of mayonnaise jars.?

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@mikealvarez2322 we were so focused on the heart we missed it haha

[@watchreadplayretro]

Fantastic as always guys! BTW have you seen Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul... A young 'Mike' (Jonathan Banks) is in the control tower on the radio (with background changing washing machine loads) at 28:19 :D Always cracks me up! There is a movie from the 50s or 60s that Airplane! copied almost scene for scene, not word for word but the scenes are in a very similar order, I forget the name now, but a search should find it, fun to watch the serious one and see the similarities! Anyway cheers guys, so much fun!

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

That's an awesome tidbit about Johnathan Banks! And you're right about the 50's movie, other viewers have mentioned it (Zero Hour). With us watching Airplane first I would imagine we would be snickering/laughing during this one even though it's supposed to be serious lol.

[@orangeandblackattack]

At the end of the credits, the guy is still in the taxi and says "I'll give him 20 more minutes then I'm gone." lol This is so LITERAL humor. And Rated PG seems light, but We Gen X kids already knew what everything represented. I was 13 and my 18 yr old cousin took me. Laughed my a$$ off. The beach scene was making fun of the movie "From Here to Eternity". The nun was pop singing star, Helen Reddy, and her voice is why the song sounds so good. Jaws was 5 years earlier in 1975. There were no complaints about the boobie shots by parents because PG was PG-13 in today's rating.

[@BigJoeEspo]

Before this, Leslie Neilson was a serious actor like so many of the others (Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, etc.).

[@kaleemdin7963]

That drink was Gatorade.

[@0okamino]

Which isn’t usually such a problem.

[@lonbecker113]

Leslie Nielson was not famous when this movie came out. Airplane was mocking a series of disaster movies from the early 70s that tended to have past their prime actors (like Paul Newman in Towering Inferno) making easy money. So many of the actors here were well know for serious roles in the past, like the pilot who was a regular on Mission Imposible. Nielson had a long, but undistinguished, career playing mostly villains in TV westerns. But this movie made him popular for his deadpan delivery. And then he did a variety of movies, and a TV series with the people behind Airplane. The biggest dated reference in the movie, I didn't know it when I saw it at 13, is a reference to The Knute Rockne Story. Ronald Reagan played George Gipp, a football player at Notre Dame who dies. Rockne was the coach of Notre Dame and he gives the speech to his players saying they should win one for the Gipper. Reagan's nickname was the Gipper ever after. A reference that I'm more surprised people don't get, but probably shouldn't be, is that the scene of them rolling on the beach is a takeoff of a very famous scene from From Here to Eternity. It may be the most satirized scene in movies. A version appears in The Seven Year Itch, and probably in some other places. Obviously they do not have the fish and seaweed problem in the original scene.

[@chrism70kc]

Most people don't understand the horse in the bed. The movie "Godfather" had just come out a few years earlier and it was a reference to that movie where a guy wakes up in bed with a horse head.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

No. She's just having sex with the horse. If it was a "Godfather" reference, it wouldn't be a whole, live horse. It would be just the head of a dead horse, like in the "Godfather".

[@tranya327]

@@Fast_Eddy_Magic Exactly. And, there are two other bits in the film that lend weight to YOUR interpretation: 1) The same woman, can't resist rubbing the chest of McCrosky in the control tower - so much so that he has to stare at her, to tell her: knock it off!. 2) The woman is the wife of Captain Ouver - who keeps asking the kid questions with homo-erotic themes. These scenes (combined) suggest that this couple has sexual appetites that are very "out there."

[@longfootbuddy]

@@Fast_Eddy_Magic yeah

[@RatelRegalement]

She's 'in bed with a stud' 😂

[@paulamoya7956]

Reagan was an actor in many movies way before he was President.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

We knew he was an actor, but this joke seems to imply this movie was a bad one?

[@kevinlewallen4778]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Reagan was a mediocre actor at best.

[@rccraig7580]

I'm glad you two enjoyed this type of comedy. Not not everyone appreciates fourth wall breaking , sight gags and clever word play type movies. Be sure to follow up with Airplane 2. I don't think it was as funny as the original but still worth a watch since it had the same type of humor ( plus a famous sci-fi character is in the next one ) Also if you haven't seen the Naked Gun movies with Leslie Nielsen definitely check those out since they have the same type of humor.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@rccraig7580 Ty! We’ll add the sequel to the list, and we’ll def keep an eye on Naked Gun for a reaction soon!

[@anyone9689]

Nice . Please consider"the addams family" it's classic dark humor

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@anyone9689 we’ll check it out and add it to the list!

[@paulamoya7956]

1980 was still 70’s to me 😬

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

haha that's fair!

[@timroebuck3458]

This movie is a riot just looking for a place to break out.

[@markymontrosemark]

PG-13 was created in 1984 with the movie Red Dawn being the first movie with that rating.

[@Jsspres]

There is a sequel. Airplane 2.

[@Castragroup]

Crazy pilot

[@NarnianRailway]

Ronald Reagan was a running in the film starting with the boy's US News magazine "election impact" article. George Zipp is a play on Reagan's character George Gipp from '39 Knute Rockne All American and the doctor's pep talk is a parody of Gipp's death scene. Good catch on the magic act reference when the doctor removes eggs from the lady's mouth, magic acts were popular in tv shows and specials.

[@yournamehere6002]

more jokes in the closing credits

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@yournamehere6002 Ahhh shoot we missed those. Thanks for the heads up

[@brianschaffer9220]

Ronald Reagan used to be an actor before politics.

[@dazedandconfusedconfused9500]

What did everyone have for dinner? The steak or the fish?

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@dazedandconfusedconfused9500 lasagna of course! 😆

[@dazedandconfusedconfused9500]

@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse That's my favorite part of the entire movie. I'm so glad you caught that. Most other reactors seem to miss that one.

[@EKomar-z6h]

At ~11:40: She ain't playing that guitar. There's an audio overlap! Who knows if she's really singing as well.

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

@@EKomar-z6h ah crap it looked like she was playing it to us! Good catch

[@longfootbuddy]

the film makers said she was singing

[@arraymac227]

The Japanese soldier: James Hong, also seen in _Blade Runner_ and _Everything Everywhere All At Once_

[@longfootbuddy]

and everything else

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Jane mentioned to me he looked very familiar!

[@vincentsaia6545]

The vulture was supposed show that they are doomed.

[@harryrabbit2870]

"Do you like movies about gladiators?"

[@SuperiorlySubversive]

My favorite thing to do while traveling by plane is to bring a bag of peanut dust with me. So far they havnt caught me.

[@longfootbuddy]

to snort?

[@lauriebarrett6789]

Leslie Nielsen was great as the president in Scary Movie 3 and 4.

[@BigJoeEspo]

You may find PG in the 70's/80's was a bit less 'restrictive'. This is before PG-13.

[@Blue-qr7qe]

"Jim never has a second cup at home". Popular coffee commercial from the time of the movie. Even used the same actors: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3uXnHZ8Z5eCaNksi=Wpg6a6AUCwhyMjxs

[@timberwolf4698]

DO BLAZING SADDLES!

[@OfficialDNJmoviehouse]

Added to the list!