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Airplane! (1980)
Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debuts, 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. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws 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 dark humor.
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[@IWDTC]

Perhaps the longest running gag in the movie is the fact that every time we see the airplane in flight we hear the sound of propellers rather than a jet😂😂

[@firedoc5]

Beat me to it. LOL

[@metoo7557]

Well the taxi's meter still running might be longer.

[@wolviespartan]

@@metoo7557 it is in fact running to this day...

[@rong4189]

@@wolviespartan No, the man got tired of waiting and was seriously considering writing a letter to the cab company.

[@jd190d]

Except when the soldier is waving goodbye, it is a train sound then.

[@ThunderPants13]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit commenting on KZbin videos. ✈

[@Shatterpath]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop commenting on comments on KZbin videos.

[@OgreProgrammer]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop commenting on comments on KZbin videos.

[@mrKrabbz]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop commenting on KZbin videos.

[@Cobalt_Dragon0716]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to commenting on KZbin videos.

[@MarcV_IndieGameDev]

Surely you can't be serious!

[@victorsixtythree]

7:16 - okay, raise your hand if you're old enough to remember using those credit card "click-clack" devices...

[@triadmad]

I've often wondered in previous reactions to the movie, if the person(s) watching understood what was being done.

[@Belleplainer]

When I was a teenager in the 90s, I worked at a gas station that had one of those. Every couple weeks I'd get some guy who'd ask me if I'd ever been in a Turkish prison or if I liked gladiator movies. It never didn't make me laugh.

[@chadjenkins4876]

I'm not old enough, but I have encountered the rare business that doesn't have a modern reader and still uses one of those

[@andyroot1242]

/raise

[@jeromeshaw2248]

Recently there was a computer outage. Everyone was freaking out saying cash only. But one store still had one of those and stayed in business

[@dupersuper1938]

Reactors are always so distracted by the dog attack that they completely miss Kraemer walking out of the mirror.

[@paulbrawley2595]

I only know of it because of a reactor's comment section!

[@mattschliemann9683]

I was coming here to mention the mirror gag, but as always I try to browse the comments to see if anyone else mentioned it. It's becoming more common that I'm not the one first mentioning it these days lol. In the KZbin edit they didn't show the actual gag, so I take it she didn't notice it?

[@Trip_Fontaine]

Wow, I've watched Airplane several times and watched several reaction videos and I never noticed the mirror gag before.

[@mattschliemann9683]

@@Trip_Fontaine it's amazing right! Seen the movie countless times for 40 years before I noticed it

[@AstriaStarwynd]

That's ok. This is one of those movies you can see 20 times and on the 21st you notice something you'd never noticed before.

[@mjrose44]

This morning, Siri said, "Don't call me Shirley." It seems I had accidentally left my phone in Airplane mode.

[@kevincosta9228]

post of the month.

[@seanla38]

Booo hisss hisss booo jk 😂

[@bobbuethe1477]

"Airplane!" was the start of Leslie Nielsen's comedy career. For 30 years before this, he was known as a dramatic actor. He starred in the 1956 science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet."

[@tacocanada1888]

He was the captain in the poseidon adventure too

[@MrBoyYankee]

And a real creep in Creepshow.

[@shons2760]

He also starred in an episode of M*A*S*H

[@bobbuethe1477]

And he played the title character in the second season of "Bracken's World," a 1969-70 prime-time soap opera set at a Hollywood movie studio, which my mother used to love.

[@Swamp_Fox]

Coby, many of these actors (Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, and Leslie Nielson) were all serious dramatic actors up until this point, and if I'm not mistaken, this movie revitalized Leslie Nielsons career with him becoming a comedic actor. Also, the lady who translated the “jive” was Barbara Billingsly, who was the mother on the show Leave It to Beaver from the 50’s or early 60’s… I've seen this movie at least 20 times and still catch something new each time

[@LordVolkov]

Robert Stack has the funniest deadpan delivery.

[@Swamp_Fox]

@@LordVolkov the sunglasses part kills me every time!!!

[@Ayshir]

yep, Peter Graves, for instance, was famous for the 1966 series "Mission Impossible"

[@andrewj9831]

Agree...it's a movie people need to watch multiple times just to keep up with the humor. The two "jive" guys made their lines up, and taught Barbara it. The Zuckers are from the Milwaukee area and I had a chance to attend their 25th Anniversary showing, and they wrote it as a drama...the only "real" comedian was Johnny. As they said who would make fun of so many things (crashes, drugs, mental health, etc)

[@user-gt2uf8cq9y]

Man waiting in the cab is Howard Jarvis, author of California's Proposition 13.

[@tfpp1]

14:30 - Bonus points for recognizing the "From Here To Eternity" reference. Nobody ever gets that one. 🤣

[@CitiesTurnedToDust]

Actually I've been surprised how many reactors do get the reference, like this lady, who seems way too young to ha e ever heard of the movie.

[@tfpp1]

@@CitiesTurnedToDust yeah but she’s an actress, so one would hope she’s more cinematically educated than the average person.

[@Dillpicks95]

Coby I just wanted to tell you Good Luck, we’re all counting on you!

[@brandonparisien2381]

Wasn't that his line in his Scary Movie scene? :)

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

@@brandonparisien2381As a callback.

[@AndyHarrisGoogle]

Coby I just wanted to tell you Good Luck, we’re all counting on you!

[@petermeisner2390]

@@brandonparisien2381 Don't know, but it's used in the Family Guy Star Wars edition.

[@flrrb]

I love the "We can't show every joke" disclaimer. Not only would you have to show the entire movie, but you'd have to rewind to laugh at the joke you missed while laughing at the first one!

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Being a pilot this movie is endlessly quoted to this day at work. Especially if you spill a drink on yourself in flight it's basically SOP on the flight deck to say "drinking problem?"

[@0okamino]

I’ve heard that this movie is pretty accurate, except for the purple light on the console, which is a total Hollywood fabrication.

[@miller-joel]

Otto pilot doesn't get the credit he deserves.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

@@miller-joel He does most of the work and I get paid, I owe him many beers.

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

I bet there are jokes you see happening in real time. :-)

[@gkiferonhs]

A joke almost everyone misses is the guy in the cab. He is a former secretary of the treasury famous for being a real tight-wad. The fact that he even let the cabbie hit the flag was a joke, but for him to sit there forever added to it.

[@LolliPop2000]

Close! That's Howard Jarvis, who led the property tax "revolt" in California (Prop 13). Same idea, getting stuck with the huge taxi bill.

[@regould221]

That's one that I didn't even get until I started reading comments and I saw this movie when it came out. Another joke that no one gets is the checking the oil for the plane. The hood is from the front of a VW bug but the engine would be in the rear.

[@Leekle2ManE]

The joke I keep waiting for a reactor to catch is the fact that all the outside shots feature the sound of a prop plane instead of a jet.

[@MeltonECartes]

@@regould221 They also don't get that the "gas station attendant" is Jimmy J.J. Walker.

[@timonsolus]

​@@regould221 No, the 4 engines would be hanging under the wings. The plane's a Boeing 707, not a McDonnell Douglas DC-9.

[@javix2013]

Please, let Coby also react to Top Secret, everyone who reacts to Airplane should also go through Top Secret, they are the 2 best in that style of humor.

[@0okamino]

Well, she doesn’t seem like a security risk to me, so that should be fine.

[@aclark7243]

Second that!

[@orolab4048]

@@javix2013 OH MY GOD YES!

[@DrJohnnyFever.]

LOVE Airplane! But I feel like Top Secret! is them perfecting the formula.

[@stobe187]

Absolutely. Airplane is rightfully the most popular ZAZ film, but Top Secret is the hidden champ.

[@Need2Pleaze]

Coby, I have watched a lot of reactions to Airplane! and you got more of the old movie references than anyone else I have seen. Way more. Great job!

[@thebkg]

"That's where that comes from!!" The answer is always found in 80s & 90s movies.

[@dan_hitchman007]

Or 70's.

[@johnsilva9139]

@@dan_hitchman007 Or 40s, 50s &. 60s. And of course 1939 for "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind".

[@glennwisniewski9536]

@@johnsilva9139 And the early 1930s: "It's Alive, it's alive, it's alive..."

[@miller-joel]

@@thebkg Also, they could never make this movie today. It would offend too many Karens.

[@jimuicker4731]

@@miller-joel LOL everyone always says this, but it's almost never true. Certainly, people are offended by different things than they used to be, but it isn't true that it was easier to produce content that offends people in the past. Up until 1968, the Hays Code restricted what was allowed to be in movies. Making a movie from the Edward Albee play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" required a First Amendment lawsuit to include the prohibited phrase, "hump the hostess." After the rating system was introduced, people complained about movies like "Gremlins" and "Indiana Jones," resulting in the introduction of the new PG-13 rating, and "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" resulted in 'X' being replaced by "NC-17." Back then, controversial movies were protested with picket signs (I was working at a movie theatre when "The Last Temptation of Christ" was released, and I got overtime pay to provide security). "Silent Night, Deadly Night" was picketed by parent associations in 1984. "Basic Instinct" was protested by the LGBT community for portraying a hot lesbian murderess. There have always been too many Karens, and with so many platforms and less censorship now than ever before, it is far easier today to make a controversial movie than it has ever been.

[@NemeanLion-]

New viewers don’t always realize this is the first time this type of humor was ever attempted. Comedy was straight forward jokes and gags before this. This type of comedy was filmed in a serious tone and the serious actors that were hired didn’t even understand it. The jokes are a bit dated, but I saw this back in 1980 and people were literally rolling in the aisles laughing.

[@dipzperth786]

@@NemeanLion- ...actually, I think 'The Kentucky Fried Movie' predates this...

[@tonyberezowski7859]

@@dipzperth786 not to mention Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World: Part 1, etc...

[@shaknit]

Kentucky fried movie was before this and so was the Holy Grail.

[@user-EricWatson55]

Julie Hagerty was in "What About Bob?" starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. She played Dr. Leo Marvin's wife.

[@cobyconnell1]

Yesssss! Thank you!!!

[@PourlephoneProductions]

@@cobyconnell1 And she was also in "A Christmas Story Story" a couple of years ago, playing Ralphie's mom.

[@Novaximus]

love that movie. "But Leo, maybe bob can stay with us?" Noooooooo

[@R.J.Godzilla81]

Hagerty was also in Freddy got Fingered and I’m pretty sure was Hyde’s mom on That 70’s Show.

[@eskreskao]

@@R.J.Godzilla81 Nah, Ms. Gross Edna was played by Katey Sagal

[@jeromeshaw2248]

Total respect for being the first reactor I’ve seen who saw the final scene

[@raydurz]

The "guy on the left" did some sitcoms in the 80s, but I'll always remember him as Joe Isuzu from the Isuzu car ads.

[@dupersuper1938]

I always remember him as Charlie on Empty Nest.

[@bobbuethe1477]

He was a regular on the sitcom "Empty Nest," which was a spinoff of "The Golden Girls."

[@bobbuethe1477]

And I just remembered his real name: David Leisure.

[@mark_a_schaefer]

Yes! I was trying to place him--thank you!

[@jdnaz1288]

@@dupersuper1938 Same here.

[@docrob2236]

I’ve been watching it for 30 years and I still find things I missed. It’s a master class in making every single frame count.

[@mattschliemann9683]

Have you noticed the mirror gag in the scene with the dog attacking the guy?

[@Sheffield_Steve]

6:00 It seems you might've missed the fact that the Doctor was calling from "The Mayo Clinic" and there were jars of Mayonnaise on the shelves behind him?! 🤭🤣

[@johngalt97]

The brand label has changed.

[@DB-zp9un]

I'm amazed how many miss the jars of mayo..

[@marauderdz]

@@DB-zp9un Nobody under a certain age has heard of the Mayo Clinic. It just sounds like random nonsense to them.

[@sld1776]

Reactors miss the Mayo Clinic gag.

[@ripley_hicks_newt_86]

Mayo Clinic is pretty famous. I don't get it that they all miss it.

[@MadcapMatt]

I kept waiting the entire reaction for Colby to acknowledge her accidental cosplay as Elaine. Right down to the oversized headphones while she's in the copilot seat.

[@criminalcontent]

we're all counting on you, cobes

[@LordVolkov]

We just want to wish her good luck

[@BigDave423]

All of us? 🤔 Surely you can't be serious? 😉

[@criminalcontent]

@@BigDave423 yes, all of us, including shirley

[@Neilxtc]

Good luck!

[@ThunderPants13]

@@BigDave423 I am serious. And don't call me Shirley. 😁

[@Paul77ozee]

How could you not like Johnny. He steals every scene he’s in.

[@NataliePine]

I'm afraid I've never liked him either. Not one of his gags ever landed for me 😢

[@thekennethofoz3594]

He came close to ruining the movie for me. Totally unfunny. The whole point of the movie was gags that left it for the viewer to work out, whereas he was doing slapstick. Badly.

[@SorendeSelbyBowen]

@@thekennethofoz3594 So, so wrong.

[@fcamp265]

His humor was perfect for this movie.

[@firedoc5]

So very impressed with the reference to "From Here to Eternity", not many young'uns know it. In the bar, Ted was said to be in the Air Force, but he was wearing a Naval Officer's uniform. There was the disco scene, but towards the end the radio station was "where disco lives forever", but they killed it with hitting the antennae. There's just so many little gags that you cannot spot them all in just one viewing.

[@thebkg]

I'm guessing Coby knew Here to Eternity because she went to film school.

[@ianstopher9111]

Still good that she got the reference, not many reactors do.

[@jimspetdragons3737]

Also ironic bc disco died by 1980 (same year as the movie) from that event in Chicago (Comiskey Stadium, I think) hosted by a radio personality that started all the destruction of disco records in the1979 event. Record sales tanked across the country and disco was dead.

[@stevenwoodward5923]

The one most people miss is the pep talk is in reference to the Ronald Reagan movie Knute Rockne, All American

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

@@stevenwoodward5923Yeah, I’ve never seen a reactor get that joke!

[@jimuicker4731]

39:01 Many people won't remember this, but the 1980 audience for this movie certainly would. There was a 1940 movie starring Ronald Reagan, called "Knute Rockne, All American." It was the true story of a Notre Dame football coach. Reagan played football player George Gipp, who died of pneumonia at age 25, three weeks after a victory over Northwestern University. At the point of death, on his hospital bed, Gipp reportedly told Rockne: "I've got to go, Rock. It's all right. I'm not afraid. Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, ask them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock. But I'll know about it, and I'll be happy." This is the speech that Reagan delivered in the movie, which is why "Win one for the Gipper" was Reagan's campaign slogan in the 1980 presidential campaign (same year as this movie). With a few minor changes for "George Zipp," it's the same speech Leslie Nielsen delivers here.

[@carlchiles1047]

If I’m not mistaken, Rockne died in a Kansas cornfield..in ‘30 or ‘31..and the flyer, Amelia Earhart was born 20 miles east of my hometown…in Atchison, Kansas..

[@paulfrombrooklyn5409]

Knute Rockne died in a plane crash in 1931.

[@88wildcat]

All the times I have seen this movie and I just now realized that the guy on the phone talking about how he is a menace to everything else in the air, birds too is talking to McCluskey who is on another phone about three feet away from him.

[@chudez]

@@88wildcat me too! Just too many gags running one on top of the other

[@0okamino]

ZAZ really love those unusual proximity for the situation jokes. Even the first episode of _Police Squad_ has one.

[@goransundell7914]

Better late then never.

[@samswords9993]

me too!!

[@dfhowes]

Are you freeking kidding me!!! I saw Airplane when it came out (yes, I'm 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 old) and even after watching it umpteen times I never noticed that.

[@joezollner3387]

"No thanks, I take it black, like my men." - One of the funniest lines and deliveries ever!

[@noswonky]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3mZfIpsmrKKgKs

[@Chordonblue]

Mainly b/c it was so surprising - especially in 1979!

[@LilHoss]

Julie Hagerty was Ryan Reynolds mom in Just Friends.

[@robgeach8105]

"be yourselllllllf, be your sellllf"

[@garylee3685]

You get bonus points for seeing the From Here To Eternity Reference.

[@cincysteelersfan]

One thing no one ever catches is the fact that the plane is a jetliner but the sound effects are of a propeller plane! 😂

[@davidpeterson2585]

My dad caught it right away!

[@johnhunt3071]

And a train when it's taxing

[@paulstroud2647]

The writers wanted to set the movie on a propliner like the one in 'Zero Hour', (the inspiration for Airplane!) but the studio insisted on a jet - so they used the sounds instead.

[@timonsolus]

@@paulstroud2647 : Yes. By the 1970's, there were no turboprop airliners still operating passenger flights in the USA, except in Alaska - so having the movie set in one would have made it look dated and anachronistic.

[@OklasoonaHomer]

Did you notice? Rex Kramer came down the stairs, walked up to his wife, and started putting on his jacket as he was talking to her. As he was doing this, he moved out of the scene to the viewer's right and we were left with only his reflection in the mirror. Then his reflection stepped out of the mirror and departed.

[@mattschliemann9683]

I'm glad this mirror gag is becoming more known by people. Like everyone is always just watching the dog and miss it entirely

[@PCLoadLetter]

​@mattschliemann9683 and as much as everyone is laughing at the dog, most don't notice it's a vicious dog's barking audio dubbed over a labrador. Has anyone ever seen a vicious labrador?

[@mikeduplessis8069]

Julie Haggerty has been in 33 films, including just last year. This was her first film.

[@leroythemaster4268]

Was in What About Bob and then mostly nothing. She also was a baby sitter in Malcolm In The Middle.

[@MrBoyYankee]

Groundhog Day & What about Bob, are my all-time favorites from Sir.Bill.

[@ajivins1]

Think I saw her in Everybody Loves Raymond behind a desk.

[@Bryaneergle]

@@mikeduplessis8069 most recently I think she was the mother/grandmother in A Christmas Story Christmas. She was also the mother in Just Friends, IIRC

[@mercuryrising2424]

@@leroythemaster4268 Coby is probably thinking about What About Bob.

[@glennwisniewski9536]

It's David Leisure at 4:05 as a Hare Krishna. He was "Joe Isuzu" in commercials for Isuzu cars in the 1980s and later played "Charley Dietz" on TV's Empty Nest. Airplane! was his first acting job. When he guest starred as Captain Roger on TV's The Goldbergs, the episode was entitled "Airplane!"

[@Somehiguy]

The Jive talking grandma is Barbara Billingsley, she was 50's-60's TV mom on Leave it to Beaver.

[@terrylandess6072]

As a kid in the 60's watching so many of these TV shows I had specific impressions of certain characters like Eddie on 'Beaver' and Dr. Smith on 'Lost in Space'. Later as an adult I grew to appreciate these characters in ways I never could as a child and really enjoy their additions.

[@ThunderPants13]

I love that Coby gets all the references most people miss (like the "From Here to Eternity" spoof).

[@terryanderson2450]

Don't worry, Coby. I've probably watched Airplane! 50 times and I still find new things to laugh at that I missed previously.

[@markcutting6504]

Same as but I'm not concentrating on the film😵😜

[@mattmid7012]

One of the last one's I caught was throwing the baby up in the air when the plane comes through the window at the start

[@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.

[@markcutting6504]

Quick joke.why did captain kirks wife leave him.because William Shatner😘

[@tonyberezowski7859]

True, but for me the courtroom scenes are right at the top of any jokes in either movie!

[@krisfrederick5001]

Leslie Nielsen is surely a comedic legend and treasure by any measure. And don't call me Shirley

[@zoppie]

This was the first time Nielsen had been offered such a non-serious role. He said to his agent, "Don't tell them this, but I would pay them to play this part." Not many people know that Vincent Price had been offered this role. Before he died, Price admitted that turning it down was one of his biggest regrets.

[@thejamppa]

Leslie Nielsen, surely you mean Enrico Pallazzo?

[@shanekirbyson2370]

And he was from Canada.

[@jfowler702910]

Omg... I've seen Airplane a thousand times growing up but I felt like I was seeing it all over again for the first time watching it with Coby! I laughed out loud again just seeing her smiles and laughs throughout the review. I felt like I was there watching it with her (I wish)! Thanks Coby I'm loving all of your Popcorn reviews!

[@LordVolkov]

"Omg! Who writes this stuff?!" Otto is one of the best gags. I wonder how many takes it took to get his head to bob in such an enthusiastic way after the head turn 🙂 Also very funny that they get to do really pervy jokes with him that probably wouldn't fly with a real person That Otto gets a happy ending is pretty fun too

[@darkchashy2663]

@@LordVolkov Couple happy endings.

[@huskerchuck9212]

@@darkchashy2663 Although he may have to explain the lipstick on his belt buckle. 🤣

[@emeraldcity_]

“Ted is struggling” is the most accurate statement I’ve heard

[@Kevin.Costner.]

The “like my Men☕️” Line is the first time I’ve been caught off guard from a movie😭😭

[@LordVolkov]

The little boy's face is classic! 😲

[@harveylee51]

@Kevin.Costner The boy offers ''Cream ?'' and she answers '' No thanks i take it black like my men !☕ That was a spit out your coffee moment for many of us .🤣

[@damiannieman2870]

The actress who played the girl is now a realtor now who help me buy my first house!

[@professionaljackass]

@@damiannieman2870 she was also the voice of penny in "the rescuers"

[@noswonky]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3mZfIpsmrKKgKs

[@tbmike23]

Never thought I could laugh and drool at the same time. Great reaction

[@gavinkistner772]

I mean, seriously. I truly watch Coby for her intelligent and experienced pickup on SO many movie and actor references…but her outfit this time was its own bonus feature. Coby, you are stunning!

[@DrJohnnyFever.]

What makes this movie so hilarious is obviously the nonstop literal jokes but also everyone plays their part completely straight. *Except for Johnny.

[@0okamino]

In a world like that, Johnny is actually the sane one.

[@THOMMGB]

@@DrJohnnyFever. Out of the whole cast, Johnny was the only real comedian. Everyone else was a serious actor saying ridiculous lines.

[@jasonbeatty831]

Johnny had me HOWLING as a kid.

[@stevelangdon3250]

you don't try to make sense of it. That's the joy. Just sit back and laugh and laugh. One of my all time favorite comedies.

[@mrtveye6682]

I love the fact that with Johnny, they added a "comic relief" in a movie with a joke every 20 seconds.

[@LordVolkov]

Johnny is the most divisive element among reactors. They either love him or don't get him 😅

[@chrisleebowers]

He's the one character that actually knows he's in comedy. Ted knows he's in a movie, but even when he breaks the fourth wall, he remains in playing-it-straight character.

[@emilmlodnicki3835]

Johnny is meant to be an agent of chaos. Pure non-sequitur

[@thunderstruck5484]

He been cracking me up 40 plus years

[@FollowingGhost]

The actor who plays Johnny wouldn't do his lines or do anything the director wanted. Finally, the director just turned him loose, and he did the rest unscripted.

[@jaydigshistory36]

Coby, this was by far the best reaction to this movie that I have ever seen. The best about this movie is there is nothing serious and just detaches from reality in such a good way. There is a lot to this movie if you ever see the making of or a documentary about it.

[@johnnehrich9601]

It is unusual but this movie is a direct almost one-for-one spoof of the 1957 movie Zero Hour. (You can watch side-by-side clips of the two several places on KZbin.) Also some major parts from Airport, another disaster movie.

[@LordVolkov]

The parts from Airport are some of my faves now that I have seen those movies. It makes me sad that George Kennedy turned down a role since he's in all the Airports ☹

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

And "Airport 75"

[@mrtim5363]

It's so close to "Zero Hour" they bought the rights to "Zero Hour" to prevent getting sued.

[@damiannieman2870]

So awesome that you got the FROM HERE TO ETERNITY reference! Well done!

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

Give me Ham on 5 and hold the Mayo.

[@stevesheroan4131]

Julie Hagerty’s reaction and recovery to the spit-take in the hospital is comedic acting gold.

[@davidpeterson2585]

Agreed!

[@hawkmaster381]

Congratulations! You are one of the VERY few that got the “From Here to Eternity” reference.

[@noxomox]

I knew that . . but i'm in my 50's

[@alexanderdgray]

When the film was in final post production, they would play it to test audiences, and record the reactions to make sure that audiences at least had a chance to get the next joke if they were still laughing from the previous joke. Apparently there's a ton of jokes on the cutting room floor. I wish we could see that version today.

[@KarlDahlquist]

Coby is just a baby! This was my favorite movie growing up. I had a VHS tape and memorized every line of this movie. It used to be if you were hanging around "with the guys" you could drop a line and they could finish it.

[@randyronny7735]

When Barbara Billingsly, from Leave it To Beaver, did that translation scene, it started her second career. Younger people recognized her and she got more offers to appear in films and TV shows.

[@DrJohnnyFever.]

I love how Coby keeps trying to push the movie away but it's still right in her face.

[@terrylandess6072]

You could see the fatigue setting in. "Are we there yet?" BTW - Our Stewardess was born in WKRP land.

[@DrJohnnyFever.]

@@terrylandess6072 👍

[@johnscott4196]

Oh honey if you think there were lots of jokes, you would be shocked at how many went over your head because it was way before your time. So many cultural references that are no longer around, and movies, commercials all kinds of spoofs. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@johngalt97]

The guy at the hospital in the white lab coat with 'STP' looked equally out of place in the oil-additive automotive commercials of the day. Ethel Merman must be a reference to the cameo-filled movie, Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

[@PCLoadLetter]

​@@johngalt97It literally was Ethel Merman. It was her last movie role before she passed away in 1984. The most obvious dated reference was Barbara Billingsley as jive lady, who movie audiences in 1980 literally all recognized as June Cleaver, the white bread heels and pearls mom in Leave it to Beaver, the last person you'd expect to use lines like hang loose & cut me some slack Jack. A less obvious dated reference was the lady from the Yuban Coffee commercial whose husband didn't like her instant coffee & never wanted a second cup of coffee at home. ZAZ casted a random actress to parody the commercial, or so they thought. They didn't realise they inadvertently hired the actress from the commercial.

[@loadmastergod1961]

I got to met kareem abdul on my way to basic training. He was on his way into the airport as we were on our way to the bus for basic. He stopped and thanked each of us for joining. I had no clue who he was tho. Haha.

[@lee32476]

You were the perfect person to react to this, it’s such a dumb fun movie. The balance of cackling laughter and eye-rolling at all the dad jokes. Leslie Nielsen was perfectly cast for it, and it’s almost a beat-for-beat of an actual movie called Zero Hour.

[@jasonsmith6795]

You have it backwards. Leslie Nielsen did Police Squid (TV show) because of this, and Naked Gun is from "the files of Police Squad." :)

[@shag139]

Airplane is a near shot for shot remake of Zero Hour from 50’s. It was a serious disaster movie, but Airplane mocks the disaster genre. Love it. There is a YT video that shows a shot for shot comparison. You can see the scenes and even the lines are damn near exact. Search Airplane Zero Hour shot for shot remake

[@noxomox]

yup

[@wild_lee_coyote]

Minor correction, it’s Zero Hour! With the exclamation mark. That is why there is an ❗️ at the end of Airplane.

[@johnnehrich9601]

I've been told that the Zucker bros. play the two attendants that wave the plane into the building. When the front of the plane crashes through the window, a mother throws up baby up in the air. The plane taking off is a spoof of a 1944 wartime tear-jerker movie, Since You Went Away. The soldier is saying goodbye to his girl in the train station. A conductor comes up and says "better get on board, son" as he pulls out his pocketwatch to check the time. The soldier gets on the train but stands in the vestibule between cars, with the top half of the dutch door open, and continues conversation with his girl, as the train picks up speed as indicated by the faster and faster chugging sound. He throws her his watch and she tries to run alongside the train, almost bumping into the station lampposts. (In Airplane, the pilot pulls back on a railroad-type throttle and the plane makes the same chugging sounds.) The clip of this famous scene can be seen on KZbin: Since You Went Away, chasing the train For the rest of the movie, the jet plane flies with the droning sound of a propeller plane.

[@harveylee51]

I'm almost certain the Plane crashing through the huge window was taken from AIRPORT 🛫 a disaster movie that's parodied in this . This is really the O.G parody movie there are so many references throughout with that twisted sense of humor and scenes that'll leave you in stitches ! 🤣 this has to be watched a few times to make sure you get all the jokes and references 44 years later this classic still holds up really well. 😄

[@johnnehrich9601]

@@harveylee51 I haven't seen Airport (guess I am going to have to) but did see Zero Hour, which makes sense of some things in this movie.

[@harveylee51]

@@johnnehrich9601 As near as i can remember AIRPORT is where that scene is lifted from and i have heard this is mainly inspired by Zero Hour i'll have to watch that sometime . Cheers .

[@mikeoxstiff]

You are correct about the Zucker brothers, and it's their mother, Charlotte Zucker, playing the woman trying to put on her makeup. Also, the third writer/director, Jim Abrahams is the guy on the bike that Rex Kramer drives over.

[@paulbrawley2595]

There's a video on youtube that shows a side by side comparison of Zero Hour and Airplane. A lot of Airplane's dialog was lifted directly from Zero Hour.

[@PeterBondeVillain]

A fun trivia thing about the Zucker brother movies is that they had a rule: if something in the foreground is funny, whatever is happening in the background is serious, and the other way around. Once you notice it you can't unsee it!

[@rhphotocdn]

Hey Coby, you're not supposed to make sense of it, that's what make this movie so funny!! CLASSIC!! I think your thinking of her playing Mrs. Parker in A Christmas Story Christmas?

[@tehdesp]

I can't even begin to articulate how enamored I am with the fact that your mind went straight to Stone Temple Pilots upon seeing the STP motor oil logo.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but they used propeller sounds for the jet airliner. It's probably the least-known bit of trivia, so all of you are welcome!

[@MrBoyYankee]

Stephen Stucker was one of the MVP'S of this film.

[@victorsixtythree]

I love the music score in Airplane! - by the legendary Elmer Bernstein (LONG career in film music, composed scores for legendary films like The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill A Mockingbird...)

[@danshoham1714]

At my own wedding reception, when the DJ happened to play "Staying Alive", my wife was taking a breather on the dance floor sideline. With no earlier planning, I tossed over to her my tux, and, without missing a beat, she tossed it right back, thus recreating the scene from Airplane!

[@timd.3837]

What really makes the Airplane movies such classics is that there's never just one gag or joke going on at a time. You can watch the movie five times and every time you'll find stuff you missed previously. As for the actors, most of whom were dramatic stars at the time, they were all really nervous about even taking on these roles since they'd never done comedy before. The directors just told them to play it as though they were making a drama. The rest is cinematic history. Especially for Leslie Nielsen, as this led to him being cast in the Naked Gun movies and other comedies. Julie Hagerty has appeared in so many different movies and t.v. shows, I really couldn't say what role you remember her from. Others have already named off some of her better ones.

[@mattschliemann9683]

Like the Mirror Gag, nobody notices it

[@MichaelGriswold-b4n]

Great reaction Coby. Never seen anyone get mad at a comedy before, lol. My favorite is every time they show an outside view, it's the sound of a small propeller plane instead of an airliner.

[@pebbles2626]

Many of the jokes go over the heads of the younger viewers. For one thing, I remember when the Hare Krishnas were at the airports. A law was passed to stop that. Or that the epitome of 1950s good wife, June Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver, is talking jive. Or the coffee commercials I saw as a kid where the husband likes the coffee and she thinks in her head 'he never wants a second cup' and she debates changing coffee brands. And so much more. The spoof of From Here to Eternity when rolling on the beach/waves. So many!

[@victorsixtythree]

The "he never wants a second cup at home" woman is the same woman from the actual coffee commercials. Her name is Lee Bryant and it was a series of commercials for Yuban coffee.

[@Calamity_Jack]

Yeah, it's hard to believe until you realize this movie's 44 years old. That's like a young person in 1980 not getting pop references made in a 1936 movie! Kinda understandable.

[@notvalidcharacters]

@@victorsixtythree Yup, and also you have to be a certain age to remember that when microwave ovens first came out they were commonly generically called by the name of one particular popular one, the Amana "Radar Range". That's what the guy's doing when he says "about two more minutes, chief".

[@Blackferret66]

The genius of the movie was getting actors who normally did dramatic roles (Leslie Nielson, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges) to do a lot of the main roles, so they delivered these ridiculous lines in a straight manner, which made them even more funny.

[@kingscorpion7346]

long before Leslie Neilson did these comedic roles in Airplane, the Naked Gun movies, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, you should see him when he was much younger and more serious, when he played a starship captain in the cult classic sci-fi Forbidden Planet (1956).

[@ericmcavoy1108]

I've lost count of how many times I've seen this. I watch it again and I still get the giggles. You are not supposed to work it out, just enjoy the silliness

[@LolliPop2000]

Fun Fact: the guy "checking the radar range" and later commenting "what an asshole" is Mike from Breaking Bad.

[@CaddyJim]

Halfway through I wasn't sure if *Coby* was going to survive the "Literal Jokes"

[@johnathanstruble1064]

It's a Jet , yet the sound effects for said , jet ...are propellers! 😂😂😂

[@The_Dominic]

One thing a lot of reactors don’t know is that prior to this film, there was a string of disaster films (including films based on planes) that made this such a brilliant parody/satiire. In context, it was even funnier back then. And the fact that they used actors that were previously only in dramas made for great comedy!

[@mattschliemann9683]

It's a direct parody of the 1957 disaster film Zero Hour!

[@The_Dominic]

@@mattschliemann9683 I saw some Airport 75 in there too

[@kunserndsittizen2655]

That MAYO CLINIC doctor was the original cool menacing voice of BOBA FETT

[@Lethgar_Smith]

The girl scout who slams her head into the jukebox was the stunt performer in the salt vampire costume in Star Trek TOS, Sandra Lee Gimple. She also played a background Talosian in the original pilot episode.

[@kunserndsittizen2655]

@@Lethgar_Smith that’s some really good trivia. Also Mrs Cleaver was in this and my father was in the AIR FORCE with Beaver.

[@TheCkent100]

And there were jars of mayonnaise lining the shelves behind the doctor.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

@@kunserndsittizen2655 I saw you were a sci fi fan so I thought you would appreciate it. She had quite the career.

[@JasonHauser125]

I don't know if many people know, but the entire Airplane movie is almost a shot for shot recreation and parody of a 1957 film called "Zero Hour!" where it borrows the plot, central characters, and some dialogue. They bought the script rights for cheap because they weren't sure if they could legally take so many liberties without owning the material.

[@ternilapilli]

The couple doing the LAX parking announcements were (a) an actual couple and (b) the people who had recorded the actual LAX announcements at that time. If you can find the DVD commentary, it's really good (and guaranteed to uncover gags and film references you'll have missed).

[@scottwallace3450]

I am an old guy who saw this movie in the theater the weekend it came out. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen it since then and I laugh myself silly every time. I watched this video to watch you and your reaction to this classic fo silly comedy, and really enjoyed your reaction. Yes, it is an assault on the senses with so many jokes, sometimes many at one time, but there are many jokes you wouldn't possibly get, because they were topical jokes in 1979 and you really had to be there. Some jokes are in the actors: Leslie Nielson and Peter Graves had always been "leading man" types who were cast because the producers didn't want the roles played straight--they wanted the roles to be played dead seriously. They learned that Nielson was a terrific comedian only after filming began. That led to him becoming Frank Drebbin in the Naked Gun series. The jive-speaking woman was played by Barbara Billingsley, who was best known for playing June Cleaver, the Beaver's mom in the 50's family sitcom "Leave it to Beaver," so her jive talk was one of the best jokes in the movie. Then Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack, both serious actors absolutely nailing the slapstick humor . . . chef's kiss! My one disagreement with you is about Johnny. Back in the day, he was one of our favorites in the movie. Sadly, Steven Stucker, who played Johnny, died of AIDS not long after the movie was made. RIP.

[@joshuacampbell7493]

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

[@Ironoclasty]

There's a rumor that he would drop this line in the cockpit when taking commercial flights. Just have one of the flight attendants open the door for him, he's give the line and leave, and you could hear the flight crew laughing before the door shut again.

[@LordVolkov]

I just want to tell you all good luck, we're all counting on you

[@emilsitka9537]

The sick little girl, Jill Whelan, is a parody of Airport 1975. In that one Linda Blair is the girl, Helen Reddy plays a nun who sings her a song.

[@jamesspringer-rj3iq]

Most everybody misses the scene with Cramer looking at the mirror, and his reflection walks through the mirror! I watched the movie several times before I caught it.

[@happydaysarehereagain-g1l]

Coby, you have one of the most contagious laughs I've ever heard. 😂❤

[@TheChapelGrove]

Hardly anyone ever mentions that even though they're flying in a jet, we always hear propeller plane motors running. The only time we hear a jet is when we see the in-flight movie of a plane crashing -- and that plane is a prop plane. Hilarious!

[@coreymeyer6488]

Yes! Nobody ever catches it.

[@jd190d]

The Japanese soldier is played by James Hong (who is Chinese) and has been in over 600 movies since 1954. It would be amazing if you hadn't seen him in another movie.

[@edwardweaverling7312]

Taxi-ing with the door open & the plane making train noises. Once it takes off, the jet makes propeller noises.

[@katenunyabizness9221]

One of the more obscure facts about this movie is that it is based on Zero Hour! The main plot of a guy who hasn't flown in years is on a flight were everyone who has the fish gets sick is the same. In fact the script borrowed so much from Zero Hour! that they believed they needed to negotiate the rights to create the remake of the film and ensure they remain within the allowance for parody within copyright law. They were able to obtain the rights from Warner Bros. and Paramount for about $2,500 at the time.

[@waterbeauty85]

When I went to the outpatient clinic, it turned out I had a post-op infection that had gone systemic and was sending me into toxic shock, and I almost collapsed on the physician's assistant when she led me to the exam room. When the doc told me the paramedics were going to take me to the ER down the street and admit me to the hospital, I asked "Hospital? What is it?. " and she gave me a serious answer about the post-op infection, so i told her "You're supposed to say 'It's a big building with patients, but that isn't important right now." She was too young to get the "Airplane!" reference, but the older paramedic (who was teaching a rookie paramedic the ropes) got it. Even though that was a life threatening situation, it didn't scare me nearly as much as the difficulties I'm going through trying to regain function and control after my recent stroke.

[@paulbrawley2595]

You will be in my thoughts and prayers and I hope rewatching this movie brightens your day a little!

[@waterbeauty85]

@@paulbrawley2595 Thank you!

[@bjgandalf69]

Julie Beth Hagerty (born June 15, 1955) is an American actress. She starred as Elaine Dickinson in the films Airplane! (1980) and Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). Her other film roles include A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), Lost in America (1985), What About Bob? (1991), She’s the Man (2006), A Master Builder (2014),[3] Instant Family (2018), Noelle, Marriage Story (both 2019), and A Christmas Story Christmas (2022).

[@dennisschmalstiig3961]

She's also fantastic as Poppy in Noises Off.

[@mkhud50n]

Possibly the greatest movie ever made. ✈

[@rexrossman6666]

Just after Airplane, Leslie Nielsen played his last dramatic role in the movie "Nuts" with Barbra Streisand. Even though the scenes he was in were very serious, the audience would often laugh when Nielsen delivered his lines. Thus, it was the end of his dramatic career.

[@danielsmith5088]

Airplane! does hold the official record for most jokes per minute in a movie, it averages a joke every 20 seconds.

[@jasongallegos651]

The guy who checks the radar range and says "about two more minutes Chief" is Mike from Breaking Bad.

[@chudez]

I am constantly getting taken aback by Coby shooting out random airline operation tidbits like commercial airline flight ceilings followed by a squeal of incredulity at another gag in the movie.

[@notvalidcharacters]

She knows too much about aviation for her own good.

[@David-cg1lh]

​@@chudez what's her job? She must know so one atleast in the indudtry

[@alanjames6236]

The thing that makes this still funny is Leslie and all those older actors made a career decades before playing characters in movies that were exactly like the way they were acting ,the 40s and 50s i believe , action ,scifi ,drama ,all the old style movies were acted like this ,as well as the sweet talk nice stuff. Today's generation watching this might laugh at the obvious gags but might not realize they are taking the piss at the old serious acting method by putting them in bazaar situations going on in the background etc. Im not that old lol but remember after seeing this ,seeing Leslie in a serious old movie and he was a bit younger but the same character ,knowing this makes it that much funnier