FIRST TIME WATCHING: Airplane! (1980) REACTION (Movie Commentary)

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[@porflepopnecker4376]

"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a familiar commercial at the time.

[@kevinburton3948]

Bit of trivia- they used the same actress in that scene that was in the commercials- hence the joke.

[@theradgegadgie6352]

:-O

[@scottmoore1614]

A lot of references that are lost now. You just have to be a certain age.

[@SGlitz]

@@scottmoore1614 like the Notre Dame Knute Rockney joke

[@scottmoore1614]

@@SGlitz Yes! And the hilarious Ethel Merman cameo, among other things.

[@davidr1050]

Leslie Nielsen used to do his "I just wanted to tell you good luck... We're all counting on you..." every time he flew somewhere.. He'd stick his head in the cockpit and deliver his line to actual airline pilots.

[@CapedInformer]

That’s awesome of him lol

[@davidr1050]

@@CapedInformer -- They just don't make celebrities like that anymore...

[@turgid_member8717]

They also don't let passengers in the cockpit anymore lol

[@thekububeach]

@@turgid_member8717 Yes, that's a shame. I remember I went to the cockpit a few times when I was a kid traveling with my family. Good thing the pilots didn't ask if I haven't seen a grown man naked.

[@matthewbarrett256]

Bill Murray, actually.

[@apple4935]

The way that lady in line is holding the gun to take care of panicked passenger is just plain Oscar-worthy.

[@CapedInformer]

Don’t think some of them were acting... lol

[@ryansullivan4298]

That lady they're slapping around is the only one who ate fish that didn't get sick.

[@jennytalks5882]

The way she has that gun pointed in the air. Its so dead pan. So funny.

[@MontagZoso]

Mmm, don’t know about an Oscar. Just an extra holding a gun.

[@jennytalks5882]

@@CapedInformer HAHAHAHA! Too funny

[@corvus1374]

The couple arguing about the white and red zones were a real couple, and they did the actual announcements at LA Airport. The two black guys wrote their own lines, and also Barbara Bilingsley's lines.

[@waynesmith5442]

The lady that could speak jive was Barbara Billingsly. She played the mother on the TV show Leave it to Beaver, in the 1950s

[@victoriamartinez1211]

"Oh stewardess... I speak jive." 😂😂 kills me every time Also the nun singing RESPECT was something else 😭

[@CapedInformer]

80s humor was on another level 😂😂😂

[@LegoTux]

Especially coming from Barbara Billingsley "Mrs. June Cleaver" from Leave it to Beaver the model 60s white american house wife.

[@thunderstruck5484]

This movie in particular you pretty much have to know a lot of pop culture from the previous 20 years to get most of the gags still it’s funny as heck !

[@theradgegadgie6352]

@@CapedInformer Seventies humour even moreso. As one seventies character remarked.... "This is moving as fast as a spastic in a magnet factory."

[@DavidB-2268]

The singing nun was Maureen McGovern, who sang "(There's Got To Be) A Morning After", the theme to The Poseidon Adventure.

[@Ugramosch]

"We have clearance, Clarence." "Roger, Roger." "What´s our Vector Victor?" Love that little part.

[@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime]

That's Clarence Over, Over. Huh? What?

[@dessindenfer1253]

And the captain last name is oveur

[@bighuge1060]

My favorite moments are the small throwaway lines that often get lost. The soldier throwing his girlfriend his watch ("That's okay; it doesn't work."), Elaine confessing "no" she's not strong enough to hear bad news and the pilot being asked if he wanted him (the copilot) to check the weather and the pilot answering "No, why don't you do that.". They're these teeny little throwaways that never fail to crack me up.

[@bighuge1060]

This movie's largest spoof target is the Dana Andrews movie, Zero Hour right down to the pilots getting food poisoning and the use of some lines verbatim. There's one or two videos on youtube that have a comparison of the two movies. Also, the Turkish Prison question to Joey by the pilot most likely was inspired by the 1978 movie Midnight Express that introduced a scene of homosexuality between two inmates.

[@kasheppard503]

"Keep them at 24,000... No. Feet." Gets me every time! lmao

[@88wildcat]

"How about some coffee", "no thanks"

[@Arthezius]

Same. There are so many nuggets strewn about this film, and a lot tend to miss them. There is just so much.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

2:19 How many times did you watch this movie before you noticed that as the plane comes through the airport window, a woman throws her baby in the air and runs away? I didn't notice until my fourth time. This is a movie that rewards multiple viewings. It's the epitome of absurdist humor.

[@nickmanzo8459]

The Kareem Abdul-Jabar role is a joke on the fact that the movie this one is primarily spoofing, Zero Hour, had a football player who was trying to transition to acting playing the co-pilot.

[@Lewis9709]

9:37 that was a spoof of a popular TV Coffee commercial in the late 70's. That woman was the same actress from those commercials.

[@bighuge1060]

I think it was Yuban coffee, Lewis.

[@RetroRobotRadio]

Here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3uXnHZ8Z5eCaNk

[@Lewis9709]

@@bighuge1060 I would never have guessed that. Never heard of Yuban. I assumed it was Tasters Choice, or Folgers.

[@DashcamRiprock]

And the directors didn't know that she was the same actress in the commercial when they cast her.

[@jamesstringer5170]

The two actors speaking jive didn't really have a script, having made up their lines on the spot.

[@Sara_Feingold]

And they helped Barbara Billingsly learn jive for her part :)

[@scottmoore1614]

@@Sara_Feingold Beaver Cleaver’s mom!

[@SGlitz]

They actually wrote their own dialog based on what the scene was supposed to get across. Then they taught Barbara Billingsley her lines.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

I love how Barbara Billingsley pauses and thinks for a second before she speaks jive, just like people do when trying to translate to a different language. Such a great touch.

[@martinbraun1211]

You have to watch "The Naked Gun"-trilogy with Leslie Nielsen !

[@voodoochile333]

Only the first one

[@MoMoMyPup10]

I'm thinking too many people don't understand what type of movie he would like 👆

[@jeromyjohnson6073]

Shirley you can’t be serious I am serious and don’t call me Shirley😂😂😂😂

[@CapedInformer]

😂😂😂 everytime

[@MoMoMyPup10]

"Surely"

[@shirleyduffer2081]

Yup...heard this one my WHOLE life🤣

[@laurahughes4799]

@@MoMoMyPup10 Um that's the joke shirley lol

[@VelkanAngels]

@@laurahughes4799 - No, the joke is that "surely" sounds the same as "Shirley" in some dialects. It's a wordplay joke. If you write it as "Shirley you can't be serious", you actually DID call him Shirley, which ruins the whole point of the joke :l

[@kevinburton3948]

The airplane knocking down the radio station tower at the end announcing that "Disco lives forever!".... By 1980 everyone was totally fed up with Disco music.

[@ajvasta]

There was applause in the theater when it first came out

[@gdiaz8827]

Yet the bee gees are still on many peoples playlist

[@scottb3034]

The "chief" at Air Traffic Control is the legendary Lloyd Bridges, might know him as the father of Jeff and Beau Bridges. Lot of legendary actors in this film, Robert Stack, Nielsen, etc

[@MWhaleK]

Yeah, the fact that they had so many well-known serious dramatic actors playing serious characters in an utterly ridicules set of circumstances is a large part of why the movie works so well. Nielsen especially showed that playing a silly character in absurd situations as if they were in the sort of utterly serious drama he used to be in, can be gut busting hilarious.

[@doughbafett]

It's an entirely different kind of comedy. Altogether.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

It's an entirely different kind of comedy

[@dessindenfer1253]

Its an entirely different kind of comedy

[@TheTitandog70]

Still funny today. It always makes me laugh every time I watch it. The two announcers at airport in the was actual people who did the announcement at real LAX. They were real life married couple. Great reaction.

[@RunsLikeMays]

1980 was the perfect time for this movie to come out. The Disaster Film Genre had hit its peak, and once it picked up again, it dealt more with bigger things, like alien invasions, global warming, and natural disasters. Spoofs had begun to pick up steam, thanks to Mel Brooks. Nowadays, spoofs have been ruined beyond repair thanks to Meet the Spartans, Date Movie, and other disasters like those. However, Airplane! is so perfectly acted and written that the movie has outlived most of the movies they were mocking, and you can enjoy this without watching The Towering Inferno, Saturday Night Fever, From Here to Eternity, Airport, and many others.

[@mohammedashian8094]

For real tho prior to seeing airplane which is an all time favorite of mine and other great parody movies I HATED, LOATHED, DESPISED parody movies like genuinely hated them I didn’t like the stupidity of the characters but I grew up realized that I was watching godawful ones and only watch the good parody movies now Ps: I was just a kid when I hated parody movies just to be clear

[@mattslupek7988]

“Airplane!” wasn’t just a spoof movie of disaster flicks, but it was an almost shot-by-shot replica of a particular 1957 disaster film called “Zero Hour!”. Jim Abrams and the Zucker brothers were watching “Zero Hour!” at a drive-in and making fun of it the whole time, inserting some of the “Airplane!” lines (before they were “Airplane!” lines) in their respective places. They even bought the rights to the film so they could make theirs.

[@jeffthompson9622]

It's good that you have seen enough previous movies to get the references.

[@DoctorVell]

A few facts.. 1) The lady putting on her make up during the turbulence was the mother of the Zucher Brothers. 2) Barbara Billinsly was known as the mother in Leave it to Mother, she spoke Jive to the two men who spoke it. They actually taught her and she really respected them for helping her out. 3) This was Leslie Neilson (the doctor) in his first comedic role, before that he was known as a very serious actor. 4

[@SkullAngel002]

16:15 - To clarify, the black actors created the Jive language which won them the audition for their parts. It's literally gibberish so it's not meant to be understood. The white actress (Barbara Billingsley) was specifically chosen to make a cameo as the lady who talks to them as she was a popular actress in the show, Leave it to Beaver (1957), which was about the stereotypical Caucasian American family. The idea was to add extra humor by having the whitest lady speak a funky language with no one seeing it coming. Billingsley admitted she was apprehensive doing the cameo but felt at ease when the black actors taught her the language and she had a blast shooting the scene. 16:50 - The joke is the wife is cheating on her husband with someone who is....well hung. 22:05 - Yes you're correct, the Scary Movie franchise is a descendent of Airplane. Unfortunately the genre has since become less-than-watchable (Scary Movie 5 - Really?) The golden years of this genre was between 1980 to about the mid-1990's. The last great parody flicks were Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993), National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), Hot Shots 1 & 2, and The Naked Gun trilogy.

[@namelessjedi2242]

There was a string of spoof films like this, mainly by the Zucker brothers. The Naked Gun (also with Leslie Nielsen, and based on his TV series Police Squad) is another classic.

[@kittylynnlpn]

If you want to see another classic comedy definitely check out "Blazing saddles" by Mel Brooks. Mel Brooks is one of the best comedy writers ever. Also Richard Pryor was a writer on this movie as well.

[@michaelgonzalez6295]

You said how much people could get away with? This child of the '70s has the comedy for you: BLAZING SADDLES.

[@SasuNaruL0vR80]

i never understood y ppl didnt crack up over Johnny being random as f*ck through the whole thing he deserves BIG props cause he ad-libbed ALL his lines! XD

[@po5283]

Couple of things the old lady speaking jive was Barbara Billingsly who played June Clever the quintessential gold standard for mothers back in the day in Leave It to Beaver. A few other spoof/parody films to check out, Hot Shots, Kung Pow, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, Robin Hood Men in Tights etc

[@maxducoudray]

The craziest trivia about this movie is that they adapted a cheesy 50s war movie, Zero Hour. All the non-joke dialogue comes straight from the original and they added gags in-between. Many of the shots are direct remakes and his flashbacks come from the first movie.

[@SGlitz]

And one of the subtle jokes is the propeller aircraft noise though out, on a jet

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

Someone has a side-by-side comparison between airplane and zero hour.

[@peterbooth1525]

Until this movie Leslie Nielson, Peter Graves,and Robert Stack hadn't done any comedy.

[@cliffchristie5865]

Actually, Leslie Nielsen was pretty funny in an episode of "M*A*S*H".

[@chrisleebowers]

There have been spoofs forever. James Bond is a common early target. Mel Brooks made his career off various spoof movies starting a decade earlier. The Zucker Brothers, Jim Abrams and John Landis all collaborated as far back as "Kentucky Fried Movie" which is a bunch of spoof shorts including the best ever parody of "Enter The Dragon" "Top Secret" was another early hit of theirs before the Naked Gun movies. "Amazon Women On The Moon" and "Brain Donors" are two other under-appreciated gems from them

[@PixelPro-4000]

A Fistful of Yen! Best part of the whole movie!

[@beandean23]

Catholic High School Girls in Trouble

[@1ListerofSmeg]

IMO Top Secret! Is their best work.😅😎👍❤

[@SuaveGemini]

The crazy thing about ZAZ is that they are known for the spoofs. And then they put out "Ruthless People" a straight comedy and to be honest my favorite of theirs. It just shows they could do both easily.

[@BuffaloC305]

See the film a few more times in years ahead and the "overly dumb Johnny" character becomes accepted, even funny, but yeah... he was hard to take that first time or two. Repunzel-!!

[@VIKDR1]

I htought he was funny from the start, but I also thought the Repunzel line fell flat.

[@bobbymcbay1586]

How about some coffee Johnny? No thanks....

[@d3l3tes00n]

The paper hat bit gets me every time.

[@reverbscherzo7850]

I saw this in the theater way back when, and when the plane hits the Disco tower, the entire theater erupted in cheers. 😂

[@christopher5889]

OMG. I NEEDED you to do this TODAY

[@Strazman]

Yes, planes used to have projectors in them. Mainly the wide bodies, where they could project onto a center wall at the front of each section of cabin. This is where the safety videos would be displayed at departure and an in-flight movie. When it comes to A/V technology, planes have pretty much mirrored the technology available at the time throughout history.

[@ramonalfaro3252]

My Friends dad came up with the idea of individual screens at every seat.

[@bismarckswalkingstick]

@@ramonalfaro3252 Bless your father, indeed!

[@lewis9702]

9:33 - The "Jim never has a 2nd cup of coffee at home" was a spoof of a popular coffee commercial popular in the late 70's. In fact that woman is the same actress from those commercials.

[@theradgegadgie6352]

10:35 That was a cameo by the Harlem Globetrotters.

[@moviegeek8586]

Disaster movies were really popular in the 70’s especially the air disaster franchise Airport. Also there is a very funny after credit scene you missed. You should watch it.

[@scottmoore1614]

One of my all time favorites. Still cracks me up big time. Saw it on the big screen with my dad when it first came out. I was ten years old. I’d never seen anything like it!

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

They used to smoke in hospitals when I was a kid. There was literally a ceiling of smoke cause everybody was basically smoking including the Docs and nurses.

[@thunderstruck5484]

And the blanket of hazy smoke above everyone’s head at the movie theater!

[@dianem8544]

I'm pretty sure there's a scene in Jaws where they smoke in the hospital.

[@thunderstruck5484]

@@dianem8544 you’re going to sign this Larry and we’re going to hire Quint to kill it!

[@dianem8544]

@@thunderstruck5484 Exactly! That's the one.

[@clearsmashdrop5829]

@@thunderstruck5484 Don't forget smoke layers at the bowling alley on Friday night!

[@peterbooth1525]

Back in the day there was a coffee commercial that went like that. They were just making fun. And the Turkish prison reference was from a movie called "Midnight express.

[@garylee3685]

The guy at the airport who picked "the wrong week to quit drinking" is Lloyd Bridges, Jeff Bridges father.

[@cypher515]

I wonder how many people get the little two-part bit where first, they have the line "I haven't felt this bad since we watched that Ronald Reagan movie"; then later the "Win One For the Zipper" thing cribbed from "Knute Rockne, All American" (1940) which had Ronald Reagan as George Gipp, aka the Gipper. Thus the use of the Notre Dame Victory March at that moment then over the credits.

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

Incidentally, Ronald Reagan becomes president in 1980 the year the film comes out and Reagan jokes begin to start.

[@kevinsisler9379]

The horse in bed was a Godfather reference.

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

17:06 that's character actor Jonathan Banks, he's been in a lot of 80s and 90s movies usually as a bad guy or a police officer, but he's on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

[@thepayne7862]

The story behind Kareem's casting for the movie was a bit funny. He was called up and they made him an offer. However the offer wasn't enough. There was a new rug he wanted to buy. I believe it was an oriental rug. So he came back with the price of the rug, the producers agreed. In an interview later when he was giving a tour of his home he showed the rug he had recently bought .

[@heatherdale5571]

I saw this in the early 80's with my mom at the drive-in when I was little...it was one of the most awesome and fun times! Love this movie!!

[@revolversntulips]

I like your reaction videos. They seem sincere and not to planned.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

“Turkish Prison” is a reference to the movie Midnight Express.

[@antoinettelopes]

That's a really good movie actually.

[@DavidB-2268]

And Lawrence of Arabia

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

And it is currently referenced in the Cable Guy when Jim Carrey puts his bosom against the glass to Matthew Broderick.

[@GoldenQuill16]

I believe that shortly after this film came out airline's changed their policies so that both pilot and copilot on a plane could no longer eat the same thing. Amazing to think that nobody had thought of food poisoning being a thing until this movie did ot do over dramatically.

[@markvargus6519]

Airplane started out as an almost line for line rewrite of the 1957 disaster movie Zero Hour, which had the food poisoning premise, so this movie did not do it first. However, it is unarguable that this version was far more talked about, mostly because it is just so much fun. (and yes, they did add in all the jokes, so its no longer a perfect match for the original, but its still surprisingly close.)

[@ChefRye1]

Mel Brooke and monte python are the OG spoof films

[@DashcamRiprock]

Two other oddball castings that get overlooked: The passenger waiting in the cab was Howard Jarvis who led a big tax revolt in California that culminated with the passage of Proposition 13 in the late 70s, and the nun was played by singer Maureen McGovern, who sang "The Morning After," the theme song from another disaster film "The Poseidon Adventure."

[@mattslupek7988]

One of the countless great things about this flick is that they used serious dramatic actors for the cast, like Leslie Nielsen (“The Poseidon Adventure”, Robert Stack (“The Untouchables” TV show), Peter Graves (“Mission: Impossible” TV show), and Lloyd Bridges (“Sea Hunt” TV show). They were also told to play it serious, because if they didn’t, it wouldn’t work. They were RIGHT!!

[@americanfreedomlogistics9984]

Capt Oveur is just as pervvy in airplane 2

[@wesleyrodgers886]

FIRST PARODY MOVIE?. The little train robbery 1905. Parody of The great train robbery 1903.

[@zevongrie1402]

This is one of those movies that you will spot something new every time you watch it. It is one of the funniest movies you will ever see. “Have you ever seen a grown man naked?“

[@lisag5002]

The Cannonball Run 1981 staring Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. and an all-star cast is a great non-PC movie. In that movie you make fun alcoholics, fat people, religion, and even race.

[@PedroCastillo_1980]

One of the greatest funniest movies ever made a true masterpiece very classic😄😄😄😄Airplane directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. Starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen and Lloyd Bridges. Thank you so much great reaction👍👍

[@xrusted]

My all time fave movie!!! I would say Mel Brooks probably did the very first big budget parody films -- that would be Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles , also very non-PC. Cheers and much respect.

[@sherrellbennett1333]

The guy in the taxi is Howard Jarvis, the man who initiated Prop 13 in California to lower home taxes.

[@1ListerofSmeg]

When they cut back to the taxi after the super LONG camera pan of the flight deck instrument panel. The cab meter is just turning over to $133.30. The Writers/Directors of this film used to run a theater in Madison, Wi called Kentucky Fried Theater. It was located at 11330 Regent St.

[@waynesmith5442]

The two black guys thought the jive wasn't real enough, so all of their dialogue was improvised by them..The old lady that translated was Barbara Billingsley, who played the mom in Leave it to Beaver, the ultimate white bread 50s tv comedy show

[@paulwagner688]

The spoof movie genre was started by Mel Brooks. See "High Anxiety", the spoof of Hitchcock's movies, "Blazing Saddles", his spoof on Westerns, "Young Frankenstein", "Spaceballs", and "Robin Hood: Men In Tights".

[@martinbraun1211]

Please watch "The Neverending Story"!

[@rammsteinrulz16]

Agreed, either that or the Princess Bride I know, but trust me

[@smokeyverton7981]

@@asfdadfgdasfh4444 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5uQgKOKfc6rprc Still makes me cry

[@jackmaritt5094]

Hey Caped The lady wondering about her husband's coffee drinking habits changing is riffing on an old commercial 😁

[@pablom-f8762]

- Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison? I think that's a reference to the movie "Midnight Express"

[@parallaxnick637]

The "Turkish prison" joke is a reference to a movie called "Midnight Express" which you probably shouldn't watch.

[@tomstevenson161]

Not to mention how hard it is to take the movie Galdiator seriously offer this.

[@1ListerofSmeg]

Fun fact: In the Turkish dubbed release, That is a Greek prison joke. And... When dubbed in German, The Jive talk is all in the Bavarian dialect (The south of Germany)

[@Taskent12]

There were parody movies made in the 70s by Mel Brooks. 1974, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Both very funny.

[@jpiccone1]

"He never has a second cup at home" was a parody of a famous coffee commercial. "Have you ever been in a Turkish prison" was a reference to Midnight Express, about a guy who ends up in a Turkish prison for drugs and gets raped by a guard, so that line is really creepy. The beach scene was a paraody of From Here to Eternity - a really famous romantic scene. The old lady who speaks jive is Barbara Billingsly, who played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, the whitest white show you can imagine - super-wholesome 1950s stuff.

[@cosmicwarrior1562]

The guy who dances and knocks over the pop corn in the bar was my dad 😂😂💀💀

[@kingscorpion7346]

Peter Graves, playing Captain Over, was the original James Phelps in the TV series; Mission Impossible.

[@baronbrrrrett]

12:10 thats a perfectly timed cut

[@antoinettelopes]

I think there were always parodies. At the very least YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is older than this, but you'd have to see the classic FRANKENSTEIN if you were going to watch it. My favorite of the Abrahams/Zucker movies is TOP SECRET! It was great growing up in the 80s. SIXTEEN CANDLES which was a teen movie could never be made today. Times have changed for the worse in my opinion.

[@kurtb8474]

16:26 That's Barbara Billingsly aka June Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver. The gag is that she was one of TV's many moms and she speaks jive. Barbara sat down with the two black actors for several days and they taught her how to speak jive for the movie.

[@nick3745]

Every scene is 5 laughs!

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Always a pleasure seeing your channel!

[@CapedInformer]

Appreciate it!

[@solvingpolitics3172]

@@CapedInformer Hey “Blades of Glory” is a great comedy to view.

[@douglasmcneil6689]

if you haven't yet, you need to check out Young Frankenstein.

[@RAD-82ndABN]

The illness the passengers received was a pun. When the Doctor took out the egg from the lady’s mouth and cracked the egg? It was the “Bird Flu” or “Bird Flew” if you get the pun….

[@Hum0ng0us]

3:37 the guy who pops the hood is Jimmie JJ Walker from Good Times!!

[@RobSandage]

Yes back until I believe it was the mid 80's you could smoke on a plane. I remember when I was 13 years old they had ashtrays on the arms in the seat of a airplane.

[@williamwalsh3983]

Spoofs started with Mel Brooks. But you can trace that from old black and white short films from artists like Charlie Chaplin.

[@mikerotch4597]

“ when Kramer hears about this the shits gonna hit the fan “

[@christopher5889]

You might check out Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks . His costar Tawny Kitean just passed away last week😥

[@Pinkielover]

Still no cause of death? I bet she od ed either way rip

[@christopher5889]

@@Pinkielover please don't tack on your accusations to my post Tawny contributed to my childhood via Whitesnake, Remote Control, Etc. Please don't bring negativity my way

[@themidsouthcyclist8880]

Airplane was revolutionary in comedy. Sure, there were movies with the occasional joke and reference, but nothing ever like this had been done before: nonstop legit humor. Most people had to see this more than once just to hear all the dialogue because they were otherwise laughing so loud and hard.

[@gardenplots283]

I've watched more than a few of the Airplane reactions and while most of the sight gags and pop culture references go over the heads of most of the reactors who are too young to know what the jokes are and don't know the actors probably 99% of reactors have said "Is that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?" when he steps into the cockpit.

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

@Caped Informer 11:10 that line about a Turkish prison is referencing the film Midnight Express released in 1978 about the true story of a young man who gets busted at the Turkish airport smuggling hashish into the United States and faces a 30-year prison sentence. It is also referenced in the Jim Carrey comedy The Cable Guy.

[@claygirlcan]

🤣🤣🤣 classic! Kudos on reacting to this!!!

[@jackmaritt5094]

Yeah, someone already gave the Godfather shout out with the horse in the bed, maybe you'd enjoy the Irwin Allen type of disaster flicks from the 1970s, they were serious so that's why an airplane crashing into the building is funny 😄

[@joeriveracomedy]

I know I'm getting old but proud to report I was able to recall all the actors' names from memory. Good vid

[@paulmiddleton8699]

I like the joke of having the sound of a propeller engine.

[@hdrmobile6068]

Don't forget to watch the end credits! It may be q&a, definition of a dolly grip or best boy, or directions for making brownies. You have to pay attention to the credits of Abams Zucker Abrams films.

[@jacksparrowismydaddy]

fun fact the guy who popped the hood of the plane was JJ Walker.

[@OneThousandHomoDJs]

3:43 -- Jimmie "JJ" Walker as the windshield wiper guy.

[@thribs]

This is why pilots and co pilots have to have different meals from each other

[@Drawkcabi]

21:45 If I sounded like Robert Stack I'd love to hear myself talk too.😝

[@CapedInformer]

Haha that’s what I meant lol cool speaking voice

[@oskar27971]

The Zucker Brothers cameo, the Directors of the film were the “where’s the forklift” bit

[@1ListerofSmeg]

It's a trio that wrote and directed this, (ZAZ). The A is for Jim Abrahams & he is the cyclist Kramer hits on the way to the airport as well as the donation seeker in the blue shirt that says "Help Jerrys kids?" to Kramer in the airport. Btw, The agents at the ticket counter are a cousin and a sister of the Zucker brothers and their mom is the passenger struggling to apply her makeup throughout the flight.🙂

[@mattirzzmattimuss]

"Fear of a Black Hat" is a parody movie also, the movie is funny as hell, no CAP!.

[@birdboot78]

After hearing some of his comments I now feel soooooooo old 😂😂😂

[@xrusted]

This slapstick style of satire movie was the first of its kind -- that and the Zucker Bros very first film: Kentucky Fried Movie, which actually followed the sketch comedy segment format. They also made the precursor to Naked Gun which was on TV as Police Squad in 1980. It was cancelled because it was TOO FUNNY. Not even joking.

[@zooks527]

"In addition to spoofing the whole disaster movie genre that was popular at the time, "Airplane" was a direct spoof of "Zero Hour", so much so that the producers bought the rights to the earlier movie to avoid any legal issues. Watching the two side by side is great in and of itself. There's a comparison here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bl7ZY3V-g6eJedU

[@neilsun2521]

'The Naked Gun' (1988) would be next, if you haven't seen. Definitely next level spoof movie.