"Side-by-side" comparison: Zero Hour! (1957) Vs Airplane! (1980)

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• Airplane (1980) Vs. Ze...

[@tokyworld]

OP, this must be one of the most tedious video in the history of KZbin... But some of us here, particularly me, would want to buy you a drink and shake your hand.

[@davehallett3128]

Nice

[@davehallett3128]

@aDBo'Ch 1 nicer even spelled properly. Unusual for youtube. Especially homophones. Looks like i picked the right week to stop bitching about other people s spelling

[@justincronkright5025]

I'm the drunks at '8:02 & 8:03'... and so would want to buy you a shake and drink your hand!

[@kashgarinn]

wow.. I never did get that joke.. fascinating

[@itwontcomeout5678]

I have a drinking problem. (Throws water on groin)

[@fractode]

Well done!!! Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up KZbin...

[@ccmyart]

Hah, a good one.

[@shenjingbing6021]

Best comment. lol

[@HoldenNY22]

That Comment really made laugh which I really needed.

[@92jwiener]

Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop replying to comments.

[@alasdairwatson712]

Surely you’re joking? I’m not joking and stop calling me Shirley.

[@AxelQC]

Amazing how easy it is to turn a sappy melodrama into an unforgettable farce.

[@tedhenkle]

The website TV Tropes calls it the “Weird Al Effect,” where the parody becomes better known than the original source material.

[@aresef]

A line here, a line there and drama turns into comedy.

[@ImpendingJoker]

@@tedhenkle But this was before Weird Al got popular.

[@AndreOutlaw]

@whraglynx I'm going to guess he just needs 2500 to buy a script...

[@Duomaxwell02M]

@@tedhenkle Only proves that Wierd Al Yankovic is a talent unlike any other. Truly a master of lyrics and presentation

[@joefunsmith]

The bit about the co-pilot in Zero Hour being played by a well-known athlete from the era makes the dialog between "Roger" and the kid so much funnier. The decision to have him actually be Kareem using a psedonym in the movie is brilliant.

[@Jay.McCarty]

And semi-plausible. I mean; sometimes you just gotta get away. 😏

[@jamesmcinnis208]

"actually"

[@GregJamesMusic]

The funniest part is how "Roger Murdock" keeps denying he's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar until Joey accidentally insults Kareem's playing. "The hell I don't!"

[@kcjazzcat7822]

Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.

[@speechmeister]

you can add bill lambeer to that list

[@sdsdfdu4437]

There was a choice. Steak, fish. Yes I remember now, I had lasagna

[@justgonnastay]

Nowadays your choice is pretzels or . . . nothing.

[@starcrafter13terran]

@@justgonnastay Stop taking delta...

[@bmxfreakxyo]

My favorite movie quote of all time

[@andrewbuhman1066]

@@justgonnastay Fly Korean Air.

[@AndrewTJ31]

I love that in Zero Hour he says that he had meat.

[@barnabydodd8956]

I almost spit my drink out when Leslie Nielsen says "that's right" with the stethoscope in his ears.

[@JoelEmberson]

absolute legend

[@karlsmith2570]

Barnaby Dodd that's what you call, " Making it blatantly obvious that he is a doctor"

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

Lmaooo

[@dumphoneuser800]

Say no more

[@dannigro8794]

Barnaby Dodd That was simply the beginning of his long comedy career. The exact point at which his career took a turn.

[@steveward6099]

This is what so many modern Spoofs have missed. What made Airplane so funny was how straight it was played. The dialogue and acting just needed little subtle stings here and there to make it hysterical. Epic Movie and it's ilk just make 20 pop culture references a minute and don't even focus on the genre or plot they are spoofing.

[@deafmusician2]

Nowadays they would think it's a "Soul Plane" spoof.. 🙄

[@fatbikerchick6717]

I only saw Epic Movie all the way through because I'd bought the huge popcorn and didn't want to go and eat it in the lobby. Biggest mistake I ever made. Not the popcorn. That was great.

[@J.R.in_WV]

So, Stevie…..You ever hang around a gymnasium?

[@jymbo1969]

Superhero Movie was good. They played it straight.

[@joedunman1269]

The only good spoof movie in the "Epic" era was Not Another Teen Movie, which plays it deadpan pretty well.

[@bigskyvideo]

As a video editor and rabid Airplane! fan, I have to say that this is brilliantly done. I don't envy the time it took to cut this, but THANK YOU for doing it!

[@jeffreysnow2640]

Just an amazing job !!!

[@bobbyobrien81]

I totally agree its a lot of work people don't realize unless they have done it. The trick is making it seem so seamless. Wonderfully done!

[@iareawriter]

Seconded :)

[@floresarts]

Yes! It was edited brilliantly! Fun interspersing of the films! Quite the opposite of tedious. I had a great time. I could have watched more! 😂

[@unevenspleener]

That was great! Am I the only person on earth who had to wait 39 years to learn the origin of the Airplane spoof?

[@eknaap8800]

No. I was surprised too...

[@DondeArandas]

I had to wait, also. Lol

[@snowinblood5243]

No.

[@chivalryalive]

unevenspleener -- Wow! Yeah... I know what you mean. I waited 40 years! :-O

[@dilligaf1009]

Nope

[@kato64]

“Flying is just like riding a bicycle. Except it’s a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.” I still think ‘Airplane!’ is perhaps the funniest movie ever made.

[@NickHunter]

You're not wrong

[@Helo_rides_for_commies]

"Yes , birds too." I always imagine his wife on the other end asking him that. It kills me every time.

[@raypurchase801]

Surely you don't believe that. (Wait for it...)

[@NickHunter]

@@raypurchase801 I do believe it. And don't call me Shirley

[@dx1450]

@@Helo_rides_for_commies A second later in the scene, Lloyd Bridges is on the phone saying "I know he is, but what other chance have we got?" As if he was talking to the first guy.

[@voxorox]

Tedious? That made my day. Especially when the two movies started talking to each other.

[@nonplayercharacter6478]

Me too. That was amazing, not at all difficult to watch; but I bet it was tedious as hell to edit. ;)

[@dantheguitarist5823]

Tedious as in... Ted-ious? 😉

[@GeorgePenton-np9rh]

@@dantheguitarist5823 Don't call me Ted-ious.

[@VortechBand]

​@@dantheguitarist5823 I just wanted to say good luck and we're all counting on you

[@julieporter7805]

I love that bit especially when the different pilots talked on the phone to the other flight attendants.

[@richmcgee434]

My fondest memory of Airplane will always be the first time I saw it in the theater. My mother (who apparently didn't understand movie ratings) took my ten year old sister and I to go see it opening night. When the film got to the scene at 9:40 (which continues with the wife getting out of bed and waking up the horse she was sleeping with) the whole theater went dead silent for a couple of seconds as people processed the joke, and god bless here, sis piped up at the top of her lungs with "They're horsing around!" Whole theater was laughing so hard we missed about a minute of dialog, and mom slapped her hand over both our mouths to muzzle us. She still bitches about how embarrassed she was to this day.

[@katazack]

That's hilarious! 🙂

[@vjcodec]

Amazing!!

[@ricogomez4020]

I thought you were going to mention the scene where the stewardess is blowing the inflatable auto pilot.

[@TPaine1776]

Or the topless girl running across the screen.@@ricogomez4020

[@allenhoughton246]

I was 10 years old too. Our ride home was just as funny talking about the movie we just saw, with my dad and 3 brothers. My mom wasn't so impressed. great memories. this is a great clip comparison.

[@cooperhilinsky6361]

As someone who’s seen Airplane at LEAST 150 times, I’m totally shocked I never knew this about it. What a treat! Thank you so much!

[@karlsmith2570]

You're not the only one who was shocked to find out that Airplane was heavily modeled on Zero Hour

[@felixcat9318]

150 times, surely you can't be serious!

[@bcm137]

I am serious. And don't call me Shirley

[@rafaelnegron7007]

You and I both. Airplane is in my top 5 and I didn't know that.

[@ChatGPT1111]

Only 150! Ha, Amateur!!!

[@sheilamarucut9164]

Watching this is so unnerving, but also comfortable. Kinda like when you know the Weird Al version of a song better than the original.

[@Hiraghm]

I heard/saw both "White and Nerdy" and "Amish Paradise" before I even knew the songs they parodied existed...

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

Just the other day a Song was playing on the Radio, and after I bit I realized it was one of the Original Songs that Weird Al had Parodied. There are still many of the Originals I have never Heard. I finally heard Green Day's 'Basket Case', and I recalled some of the Lyric in a Weird Al Song, I can't remember which one though

[@mickf3787]

my favorite was the "Ebay" parody of "I Want It That Way"

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

@@mickf3787 That was a Very Good Parody.

[@jonmohney6975]

Don McLean heard weird al's the saga begins (parody of American Pie) so many times from his kids playing it, he sometimes gets confused when he sings.

[@Countrygirltori24]

Zero Hour was on TCM the other day, and about 10 minutes in I kept thinking, this is a lot like Airplane! even the dialogue is very similar. When the stewardess asked if they wanted fish or meat I went straight to google because there HAD to be a connection.

[@isbestlizard]

Yes, I remember. I had lasagne.

[@Mark-xx3gh]

I had first heard about Zero Hour on TCM. I caught part of Ben Mankiewicz introduction where he had mentioned the connection to Airplane, and he mentioned to “be prepared to hear things you’ll find familiar”, but I didn’t realize it was taken so much from the original. I had switched to something else, then came back mid film to find the pilot was also named Stryker, and was surprised that so much had been taken from the original film. I bought Zero hour on DVD.

[@SBluesBrotherhood]

I did the same! I sat there the whole time thinking "This is like the UN-funny parody of AIRPLANE!". I didn't realize that there were SO many line-for-line connections!!! My favorite is still the "Jaws" reference at the beginning with the tail fin of the plane sliding through the clouds and also the "propeller" sounds coming from a JET aircraft! I have seen AIRPLANE! at least 30 times and still want to see it another 30 times!

[@dx1450]

I knew that "Airplane!" was a parody of "Zero Hour!" but I've never even seen clips of that movie until I saw this video. I'd love to see the whole thing but I'd probably keep making "Airplane!" jokes the whole time.

[@mikejohnson3338]

The creators of Airplane! talk about Zero Hour being the inspiration for their new film: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioHaf4l9ZpmCf68

[@johnledingham852]

The splicing of the two films made the end product absolutely hilarious, and extremely entertaining. I chuckled and chortled, and LOL!

[@ZReviews]

When Leslie Nelson goes in for that second slap ... That is when I lose it.. Bravo on this video.

[@HareDeLune]

Zeos! I knew you were a man of taste.

[@totallyfrozen]

I died! 🤣 He gave her one to go! BWAA haa haa!!

[@alancarnell2747]

He clearly wasn't done

[@vcv6560]

Its so wrong I can't help myself from laughing out loud!

[@Carl-LaFong1618]

She was clearly asking for it.

[@J.R.in_WV]

Peter Graves’ line “Have you ever seen a grown man naked!?” Still makes me laugh audibly after seeing it at least 500 times Lloyd Bridges was genius in this as well, he always has such a serious, anxious, almost ready to snap energy to him while he’s spouting out some of the most outrageous things you’d never expect to hear from an over the hill air traffic controller.

[@jasonk8793]

Back then, the idea of a grown man naked with a boy was insanely rediculous.

[@MisssKayy]

Also, when she asks if he's a doctor and he's sitting there wearing the stethoscopes.😂 Gets me every time!

[@daxtonbrown]

"Have you ever been in a Turkish prison"?

[@ghanthor]

@@daxtonbrown Yes, I was caught hanging around gymnasiums

[@hoilst265]

Bridges' comic delivery is absolutely gold. Love him in Hot Shots: "Senator Edward, Prime Minister Tojo, my fellow Americans - and our millions of illegal aliens. Seems like only yesterday I was strafing your homes and villages, now here I am begging you not to make such good cars..."

[@manonymous4737]

“I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley”. I mean it’s so old now, been seen so many times, but the first time i heard that, it was the funniest joke i had ever heard. This film made me cry with laughter, and still does. And getting Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen! Lloyd Bridges! Robert Stack! These guys were legends! It wouldn’t have been half the film it was without them. This films greatness was no accident, it was a brilliantly crafted work of absolute genius.

[@sbyrstall]

What made it best was it required serious, drama actors to make it work.

[@sketchur]

@@sbyrstall And then, there was Johnny. LOL

[@Hiraghm]

Leslie Neilsen, the iron-jawed, steely-eyed captain of "Forbidden Planet" and Peter Graves, the iron-jawed, steely-eyed Mr Phelps of "Mission: Impossible" both being brilliant comedians in "Airplane!"

[@stulumbus]

I read an article a year or so ago where the Zucker Brothers talked about how Airplane came together and they said that Lloyd Bridges and, believe it or not, Robert Stack, both “got” the idea that they were spoofing their images and they bought into it totally. Peter Graves, on the other hand, wasn’t too sure what he was doing, particularly with regard to the homoerotic elements of his dialogue with the young boy, but he finally got into the spirit of the thing and it brought him a new generation of fans. Leslie Neilsen was a complete goofball, according to the Zuckers; he didn’t need an ounce of coaching to act pompous and foolish. He alone among the ‘serious’ actors in the cast was a total natural at appearing stupid with a straight face.

[@thomasrinschler6783]

@@stulumbus That's just who Neilson was, apparently. He probably leapt at the chance to comedy after all those years in serious roles, and he built a very successful second career doing so!

[@fredneecher1746]

"Ready for clearance, Clarence." "Roger, Roger." It's a fact - Airplane is the funniest film ever made.

[@WorstChicken]

Blazing Saddles would like to have a word with you. haha

[@davidnofsinger3427]

"What's our Vector, Victor?"

[@karlsmith2570]

"What's your vector, Victor?"

[@DiscoScottie]

@Jamie Pritchard - they're both on the Mount Rushmore of Comedy.

[@craigkdillon]

@@WorstChicken Sorry, it's Cocoanuts (Marx Bros)

[@dazgreen63]

It’s amazing how they often say exactly the same dialogue, but the spin or emphasis they put on certain words can change the meaning to something totally different from the original. Excellent, thanks for the heads up, like most people I had no idea.

[@Fuzcapp]

And that one line added to make the joke (like the woman sniffing the coke or Lloyd Bridges sniffing glue etc)

[@UnclePengy]

It changed the meaning to something completely different, altogether.

[@Kooozer]

It changed the meaning to something completely different

[@jasondashney]

Since they bought the rights, they should release both movies in a mini box set. Why did they keep this as an inside joke?

[@godfreecharlie]

Damn, this was nearly as good as the entire movie. Running the scenes together was a great idea. Thanks for the work! One of the best actors for parody type movies Nielson would've been great in the earlier film.

[@YouKevo]

All this time I never knew Airplane! was a parody of Zero Hour. I knew it was a parody of disaster movies but not that particular one. Well done.

[@benabaxter]

It was more of a parody of Airport, which was written by the same guy as who wrote Zero Hour. The film version of Airport (plus a sequel!) came out within the '70s and started the disaster movie craze of the period. So Airplane! was a lot closer to home than Zero Hour. It's just that Zero Hour was cheaply available.

[@TheJTMcDaniel]

The novel is "Runway Zero-Eight." Hailey collaborated with John Castle on it.

[@goingtothewhisky]

Somehow this makes the movie 1000x more hilarious

[@whatsgoingon407]

Captain Howdy Dltto!! Never heard of it before -brilliant intermixing

[@davidmann281]

I agree with you Captain Howdy. The whole time I'm watching this video I'm thinking,"This just makes it even funnier. Who can I send this to?" Also, 12 dislikes? They must be brain dead.

[@JCYoung-ni4cy]

Someone needs to turn a complete Zero Hour / Airplane edit into the next Rocky Horror Show

[@HoldenNY22]

Very Interesting Video. I never knew or heard of the this Zero Hour Movie. I'm not sure it makes it funnier, but it defintely make defintely more Interestingly. The ACtress didn't give a Blowjob the Authomatic Pilot in ""Zero Hour" did she?

[@ti12870]

After 40 years, I learned that “Airplane” was a spoof from a 1957 film “Zero Hour!” Now the love story and war scenes make better sense. They did not correspond to 1980 standards of reflections from the past. That always bugged me.

[@rickc303]

I'm "only" 33 and this is a favorite movie, and those two aspects never made sense to me even as a kid watching this and bugged me until seeing Zero Hour! Amazing! Airplane!

[@moonakieater2308]

I'm 47 and when I first watched it, I thought the war stuff was part of the joke. Because he's not old enough to be a WWII pilot. It wasn't till the internet came out I found it was from Zero Hour😂

[@melvinlee9263]

Another joke I didn't realize until decades later is the plane has a jet engine, but the sound effect is that of a propeller plane.

[@rickc303]

@@melvinlee9263 and whether piston or turbine powerplant, neither have a gear shifter on the throttle quadrant to shift into reverse 🤣

[@ThomasKnip]

That always bugged me, too. It seemed like some memory of the Korean war, which is much more fitting in a 1957 movie. But then, we got fighting girls scouts in a bar in Drambouie in Airplane!. ^^

[@PsychadelicoDuck]

Not tedious at all. Switching back and forth gets the point across beautifully without being redundant.

[@KnickKnack07]

A side by side would have been better. Just switch the audio from one to the other.

[@eleSDSU]

@@KnickKnack07 Also valid, that wouldn't require people to know the movie line by line even though this style is better than side by side.

[@KnickKnack07]

But side by side allows us to see at all times how the staging was also the same

[@eleSDSU]

@@KnickKnack07 Yes, but if you know the other movie, like shot by shot (maybe I have seen it too many times?) this way is better.

[@robertsimoneau5232]

Boy you can say that again!

[@matrixphijr]

Wow, this is amazing. Honestly, this makes Airplane about a hundred times funnier now that I understand the connection. I can just see all the creators of Airplane sitting in the same room watching Zero Hour going, "Oh my God, wouldn't it be so funny if...?"

[@lascaris23]

Well done, this just made Airplane more funny than it already was.

[@mads_in_zero]

6:51 - Fun fact, the sheer absurdity of this specific line, delivered deadpan by both the original actor and Nielson, is the _entire_ reason this movie was made, and the reason it's all played so straight.

[@craiga2002]

Neilson said to his agent, "Take any reasonable offer. I'll pay THEM to be in this movie!"

[@SuperCosty2010]

To both of you - he is NielsEn, the surname is danish

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

We should give other 50s movies the Airplane treatment

[@dustinmichel7608]

Their is several that would be amazing.

[@itsacorporatething]

Maybe it would be more appropriate to parody 90s movies.

[@xx_chill_xx6715]

Mystery science theatre 3000

[@planetofthegapes]

@@dustinmichel7608 what are your recommendations?

[@Steve20127]

@@dustinmichel7608 . "THERE ARE" several......etc etc.

[@lorriesmith5086]

No matter how many times you see Airplane, you will catch something new! Like a Monty Python movie.

[@Danimal77]

Same with "Top Secret!" (1984).

[@whouster]

Brilliantly put together, and the mini-interlude with John Cleese was a touch of class!

[@KenVic02]

Lining up the dialogue word for word between the two movies is a heck of an editing job. Well done. It doesn't make Airplane any less funny whatsoever even knowing the backstory.

[@rhuttrho88]

It makes it that much better DEWEY!😁

[@handmadehearts]

Now I see *Airplane* saved a bundle of 💰 on screenwriting.

[@lowbudgetstudios]

Zero Hour came on AMC one night and they had mentioned it was the movie Airplane was ripped from. My Dad and I sat there and laughed our asses off!! While watching you could just shout out the punchline or giggle and laugh at the similarities of the dramatics. My dad passed a year ago. And that will remain a memorable movie night till the day im gone. Thanks for the comparison video. I’ve told so many friends how similar they are. And this proves it without having to find Zero Hour to watch. However. If you want a good laugh. Watch it with a group of friends who are more familiar with Airplane than you are.

[@daledickerson8835]

When "Zero Hour" was on and I watched it, I couldn't help but laugh through the whole movie thinking of the spoofs in "Airplane."

[@kisbie]

One of my fave bits of Airplane trivia is the original script contained spoof adverts, as though the viewer had caught a broadcast on late-night TV, which is where ZAZ first saw Zero Hour. (They also wanted to make it in black-and-white to complete the effect, but the studio wanted it more contemporary.)

[@EndlessNameless5]

Great video! One thing that really stood for me was that a lot of the "serious" roles were cast for much older looking actors in Airplane!, which make the lines sound even more serious, and funnier. On the other hand, Ted Stryker is younger, which is also funnier, because he has traumas related to all history of aviation!

[@dredaylarue]

and whats funny too is all those older actors that they used they had always played serious roles none of them had ever did comedy.

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

I think it's just that actors and people generally looked older back then. The haircuts, the rampant smoking that aged people prematurely... I look at old films assuming an actor is in their 40s only to find out they were 26 or 28 when they made it.

[@xaenon]

I always assumed AIRPLANE was a parody of the AIRPORT movies. Never even knew about ZERO HOUR. Almost 40 years later, I learned something.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Certainly it parodies bits of those movies. But the core comes from _Zero Hour_ .

[@tiggerroo8838]

Lawrence D’Oliveiro zero is an airport movie is it not?

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

The “Airport” series dates from the 1970s.

[@doginstine]

Thing is Arthur Hally wrote both Zero Hour and Airport.

[@Davis-lq8re]

I laugh at Joey in the cockpit and Sterling Hayden say “It looks like I picked the wrong time to quit smoking”. There are many others as well.

[@shimma25]

I always knew Airplane was inspired by a '50s disaster movie but had no idea it was this closely based on it. Absolutely brilliant to see this side-by-side though, and I'll never not laugh at the line - "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley".

[@bbartky]

Same here. I knew it followed the basic details of “Zero Hour” but I never realized it followed it so closely.

[@ChristopherZavalaVlogs]

It's amazing that Dana Andrews was in this movie, and then in 1974, she was in Airport '75 knowing that there's a connection with Zero Hour with Airport movies and how some of the extras in Zero Hour were in Airplane!

[@davidreidenberg9941]

She?

[@ciabattatom521]

@@davidreidenberg9941 I could be wrong, but wasn't Dana Andrews one of the Andrews Sisters or have I had too much Rum and Coca-cola? I do have a drinking problem, you know. (And a wet shirt!) I'd rate Leslie Nielsen as a lovely actress as well. (Shirley, you can't argue with that.)

[@ravenzyblack]

@@ciabattatom521- Dana Andrews is a Man. HE is Stryker in Zero Hour.

[@ciabattatom521]

@@ravenzyblack I was having a bit of fun with the original comment, but my humor can be vague, lol. I honestly do appreciate you making sure I had not actually been mistaken. I am familiar with Dana Andrews mostly from "Laura" where he investigates who murdered a victim, played by a guy named Gene Tierney. (I'm only teasing! Thank you.)

[@chuckhoffman8680]

Dana Wynter was in Airport. (1970)

[@roomwithapointofview]

" _Shanna, they bought their tickets_ , _they knew what they were getting into_ . *_I say_* , *_let 'em crash_* ." *Jack Kirkpatrick*

[@guillaumechevalier3368]

Why, John! You old stick-in-the-mud! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3_Oo32Ni8eXic0

[@boataxe4605]

That was a rip on the ‘Point counterpoint’ bit that 60 minutes used to do.

[@neilgodfrey2669]

“I just remembered..... I ate fish too!!” Hilarious...and that’s the pilot from Zero Hour!!!

[@harrysachz6748]

I remember that too ... I had lasagna.

[@muttleycrew]

"I just remembered that I'm a pilot too."

[@kisbie]

The fact that “looks like I picked the wrong week…” and “that was the lousiest landing…” are actually lifted from the original ‘serious’ film is mindblowing.

[@estranhokonsta]

It just show how much those cheaper melodrama can be ridiculous and why they are prone to parody.

[@mrchopsticks3]

I have seen Airplane no less than 20 times and I STILL laugh hysterically every time I see it.

[@Anamnesia]

Surely you must be joking...

[@mrchopsticks3]

***** I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirley.

[@Scripture-Man]

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

[@whyalwaysme2522]

+Clutch Cargo 😂😂👌🏿

[@xaenon]

It was a brilliant movie, the start of the whole 'spoof movie' genre, and a jump start of Leslie Nielsen's second career as a comic actor. I've seen the movie quite a few times myself, and I swear, I still spot something new every time I see it.

[@robbiereilly]

And we mustn't forget Robert Stack here, the seasoned veteran pilot talking down Ted Stryker played a pilot very similar to Ted Stryker, who kept having flashbacks, in the film 'The High and the Mighty'. A sort of side tribute. This film is a masterpiece of tributes and inside jokes on top of the non stop hilarity and best deadpan comedy on film. Period.

[@sct913]

One clarification: In The High and the Mighty. it was co-pilot Dan Roman (John Wayne's character) who had the flashbacks, not Captain John Sullivan (Robert Stack's character). Still, casting Robert Stack as Captain Rex Kramer in Airplane was a great decision.

[@BritanniaPacific]

The way it’s edited, makes it look like the movies are interacting with each other

[@olliversdad8447]

I have seen both movies. Airplane is my all time favorite movie. That’s why I became an airline pilot. But I absolutely love the side by side. Awesome. Shirley you can’t be serious. I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.

[@janetkaygallagher1555]

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

[@FishFeelPain]

love this--can't imagine how much time it took to put together. Truly appreciated

[@nonyabusiness999]

Didnt realise this was a parody of another film which makes the jokes so much better because they were added to actual dialogue from the original film....absolute genius

[@dadmoo12]

Every once in a while you find a dusky jewel amongst the noise and interference on KZbin. I loved this video.

[@gokaury]

They need to put this on every future copy of the Airplane Blu-Ray/DVD from here on out. Fantastic work.

[@fakshen1973]

That move made the most sense. Being able to overlay all those gags on a drama was brilliant. Though I wish there was an analog for 'the shit hitting the fan." I saw this movie at a drive in and pissed myself silly when the fan was knocked over.

[@pajaco6502]

I love Airplane, never even knew Zero Hour existed. The cuts between them were great. Awesome video :)

[@franl155]

I'd heard that it was "based on", but not that it was a virtual remake, with jokes

[@SuperGaleford]

This new bit of knowledge makes “Airplane” even more remarkable.

[@winthorpetrois]

I didn't see the original version of "I take my coffee black..."

[@karlsmith2570]

The part I wish they showed was the of June Cleaver herself (Barbara Billingsley) talking Jive

[@georgiasmith64]

@@karlsmith2570 we ALL do 😂

[@jondury9450]

Like my men.

[@matthewbittenbender9191]

Segregation

[@julieporter7805]

Apparently that was from another movie, Crash Landing.There is a KZbin comparison of the two scenes as well.

[@spavliskojr]

This is what makes that movie even funnier- How they kept the exact feel and tone of the dialogue but crammed it with jokes that if you blink you miss!

[@phillyflash43]

Well done. There are some of us here, particularly me, like to buy you a drink and shake your hand.

[@ThreadBomb]

Which is definitely a euphemism.

[@MKIVWWI]

Dang! Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

[@Reactordrone]

Loneliness, that's the bottom line. I was never happy as a child... Christmas, Ted, what does that mean to you?To me It was living hell. Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and getting kicked, in the head? With an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does, that never happens. Sorry, Ted, it's a dumb question, skip that.

[@samuelstensgaard4828]

MKIVWWI Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit taking amphetamines.

[@ronpetersen2317]

I think that was what they said in the 30s instead of Netflix and Chill

[@abc456f]

This was great! Thanks for the work putting it together. That second slap by Neilson was hysterical.

[@ozgurkaratas6450]

Like many others I've seen the Airplane many times but didn't know this and loved this excellent video. I enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you for this awesome work.

[@karlsmith2570]

OZGUR KARATAS agreed, now I need to find a copy of the movie "Zero Hour"

[@ddd228]

ROGER,OVER! HUH?

[@stevemccroskey1211]

Still picked the wrong week to quit sniffin' glue...

[@fredlaughlin6343]

I caught Zero Hour a few years ago and figured this out. Thought i was the only one. Great video!!!

[@yvwic50]

Hearing the original dialogue (somewhat stilted by today's standards) makes "Airplane" all that much funnier.

[@pennagain6207]

It's not so much stilted as pretty bad overacting - it was a B movie melodrama, just ripe for parody. Same year: 12 Angry Men, Witness for the Prosecution, Bridge on the River Kwai, Old Yeller and much more.

[@illinoisan]

I saw Zero Hour! on TCM and realized very quickly what I was seeing as the original Airplane! and was howling with laughter throughout. Every scene brought forth the memories of Airplane! and seemed even funnier.

[@mikeb8674]

Man, they jacked the scene spot fo' spot! (IT APPEARS THAT THEY HAVE SIMPLY RECYCLED THIS EARLIER MOVIE) Sheeeeeeeeit. (GOLLY)

[@SweetBearCub]

"Oh, KZbin commenter, I speak Jive."

[@oxmcginnes6253]

Look up Reefer Madness, same thing, crazy cool musical from a stupid mariuana propaganda flick... lol

[@rescuediver7187]

Git the broad to booty yak ‘em... Lay go down and smack ‘em, yak ‘em! Cold, got to be!!! Sheeeeit! 🤣🤣🤣 Fun fact: The actors who played the jive talking dudes would do that as an improv stand up schtick. When they auditioned for roles in the film, they did their improv routine. Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker thought it was so funny they wrote them into the script. This, in turn, launched their acting careers.

[@mrpurple11]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Embur12]

RescueDiver 71 They also taught Barbara Billingsly how to say her lines...

[@LuisOrtiz-xo5kc]

So, there's no blowing-the-autopilot scene in "Zero Hour!"?

[@circuschris2880]

Another fun fact in case you missed it is that the control room guy at 11:35 is Jonathan Banks who played Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

[@GasCityGuy]

Excellent side by side! I could never watch Zero Hour! now without laughing.

[@Scripture-Man]

You'd be like: "Surely this film can't be serious?"

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

Yes.. is there a fine line between stupid and clever? and the answer is eleven?

[@ThisGuyRides]

No, the answer is forty two.

[@IsiahTomas]

This Guy At the same time?

[@billanthony7896]

EXACTLY!!!

[@Crf89]

"that was probably the lousiest landing in the history of this airport." Probably? 🤣

[@HelgaCavoli]

Subtle

[@crazeenydriver]

I saw Airplane when I was young with a kid who I was friends with at the time. We loved the movie, but we had no idea that it was spoofed from that 1957 movie. In fact today is November 4, 2019 and this is the first I am hearing about that 1957 movie. Who knew?

[@chrisvalford]

Love it! Never realised that one of the reporters was holding ups an ice cream cone

[@OrangeVision]

Love how both movies' clips are hilarious for different reasons.

[@teflondonski]

I Just came across this. What a masterpiece you've created !

[@elshaddai87]

My husband and I have been fans of this movie since it came out and did not know about the movie "Zero Hour" or the connection between the two. The $2500 the writers paid for the script was the best bargain in history! That movie was written for them!

[@Davis-lq8re]

I have both on VUDU. I figure have a double feature with Zero Hour first and then Airplane. When I heard that Airplane was based on Zero Hour and first saw that movie, I started laughing at some of the similar scenes (e.g. Joey in the cockpit)

[@deathwrenchcustom]

"Over Macho Grande?" "No, I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande."

[@AlejandroBosque]

"Those wounds run... pretty deep...

[@muffdiver240]

Wrong movie...still funny though.

[@StaciArdmore]

This presentation was so well put together! I had seen this before, and I bought Zero Hour! Trust me, you won't be disappointed!

[@MattMcIrvin]

Apparently "Zero Hour!" was itself a remake of a Canadian teleplay called "Flight Into Danger", in which the Ted Striker character (who had a different name) was played by James "Scotty" Doohan! There was also a straight made-for-TV remake of it in the 1970s heyday of disaster movies, which is extremely obscure.

[@meyhemmolly]

I was watching Zero Hour about a year ago and i was laughing the whole way thru it realizing this was the movie they spoofed with Airplane! Prior to seeing the film, i had no idea. But boy is it obvious! Go watch Zero Hour.

[@kwijibo1au]

The time invested in producing this side by side comparison for KZbin..! You Sir are a champion!

[@bigorange000]

One of my favorite satire movies. I did know it was based on Zero Hour, but that's the magic of it. Classic comedy.

[@pwneytube]

ROFL I never noticed Kareem was in basketball shorts when they dragged him out of the cockpit!

[@DiscoScottie]

How could you possibly not notice that?!?

[@itwontcomeout5678]

DiscoScottie well the man _did_ say he’s *not* Kareem Abdul-Jabar, didn’t he? 😭

[@swaldron5558]

Cos we’re British we never heard of him.

[@joeharris3878]

It was over 20 years between seeiing Zero Hour and Airplane, but I knew it was a parody of the former. What I didn't realize wae how close it followed the original,but done for comedy. Excellent KZbin video.

[@justintime1343]

No less funny today than it was in 1980.

[@onometre]

This came out 15 years before I was born. I first saw it when I was 10. It was my favorite movie then, and it's no less side splitting to me at 25, 40 years after release

[@sketchur]

Thing is, I am afraid a lot of jokes may be lost in future generations. But... we can always help educate. This will forever be a classic in my heart.

[@EliahHoliday]

Note: When on a plane, don't order the fish.

[@pudgebl67]

And have lasagna instead

[@williammay2332]

Fish weren't designed to fly.

[@jamesparson]

William May even flying fish?

[@peterjames7073]

Give that man 2 Medals ! In case he loses the 1st one. Absolutely brilliant detective work, Zero Hour! is now on my Must Watch list !

[@crystaleevee1334]

I heard Airplane! was based on an older film, but I had no idea they took *that* much from the original. (What’s especially amusing is how unintentionally funny some of the scenes in the original where.) What’s also great about this video is that it is also a showcase of why a spoof film like Airplane! succeeds where a film like Epic Movie fails. In Airplane the gags are placed organically into a “serious” narrative at points where it makes sense and doesn’t interrupt the flow of the story it’s trying to tell. The gag doesn’t bog the scene down and it’s already moving along to the next. So if you didn’t laugh at the joke, don’t worry, it’s already at the next one. In most modern spoof films, they do the opposite. The “jokes” feel forced, and drag the movie to a halt. Like “hey we referenced that one character from that one unrelated movie! Now we’re going to reference it a few more times because it’s funny that that character is doing something you wouldn’t see them doing. Lolz” Which, yeah. Obviously that doesn’t work.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Eddache has a great video on the rise and fall of spoof movies. Ultimately the Zuckers ended up with the same hacky writing as Friedberg and Seltzer (who killed the genre). Marlon Wayans has still been trying though, to more success (sometimes). I think the true modern "spoof movie" is officially licensed, like Lego Batman or Deadpool. Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers isn't a spoof but it keeps that same energy.

[@jedijones]

Yes, a joke only works when you don't see it coming. You need to "normalize" the viewer's emotions first before you surprise them with something ridiculous. The serious plot of Airplane is serving as the "straight man" for the jokes.

[@felipeeusebio6313]

This is the most amazing video I ever seen on a movie, I even crying now, this is so well done, that you don't even know what to feel, congratulations

[@magicmandj]

Oh God! I haven't laughed so hard since I saw the original back in 1980. Great job!

[@DorianPhQ]

This is a thing of pure genius. A masterpiece. Thank you for doing this!

[@tiadaid]

Dana Andrews, who plays Ted Stryker in Zero Hour, was also in Airport '75 as the pilot who collided with the airliner

[@JimHalpertFromTheOffice]

13:58 The "so there" reference is actually a direct reference to the movie Airplane. In the end credits, they added those words to the FBI anti-piracy disclaimer. The FBI wasn't too happy about that, but nothing they could do.

[@libertyprime7911]

Dubious. The FBI anti-piracy warning was an early 90's thing for VHS/DVD.

[@mc2engineeringprof]

Striker: "I can't fly this. It's a completely different kind of plane, altogether!" Doctor and Flight Attendant (in unison): "It's a completely different kind of plane."

[@robertmorris8997]

Flying, not plane.

[@jovetj]

If you're gonna quote a great line, at least get the quotation correct! This is, like, the fourth bad quote I've seen in these comments in 5 minutes.

[@qutoobe]

I love the subtle cruising at the end, I was hoping to see the scene play out in the bathroom......but that's another website, altogether! Crowd: "That's another website!"

[@jonathanc4166]

It would have been hilarious if the have you ever seen a grown man naked line was in the zero hour movie as well.

[@Scripture-Man]

LOL

[@amishrobots]

when I watched "Zero Hour!" for the first time, and it came to that scene, I sat there just waiting, seriously half expecting him to say it.

[@paddlehard5722]

That’s a true eye opener! After so many years of ignorance. Thank you so much! Your edit was excellent, as if watching both movies in the same time.

[@dahawk8574]

Stryker's look of concern was that they'd be coming for his precious bodily fluids.

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

Mine Furer, I ate the fish!

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

Ya and they were spilling out as sweat as he landed the plane Maybe he had trouble replenishing his precious bodily fluids due to his drinking problem?

[@guesswho5122]

@MakeMeThinkAgain: "Mine Furer ..." Nice. This reminds me of what Arlene Francis keeps on saying to her husband (and ambitious Coca Cola representative in West Berlin) James Cagney in Billy Wilder's (once a temporary Berliner, by the way) comedy One Two Three (1961): "Jawohl, mein Führer". BTW, his excuse for repeatedly being late for dinner is that he has to learn all about the German umlaut from his secretary. That same Mr. Billy Wilder, in his other comedy set in Berlin, the 1948 film A Foreign Affair, has Congresswoman Phoebe Frost repeatedly say "Jawohl". And talking of Furer(s): One of the main representatives of American naturalism in literature, Theodor(e) Dreiser, who was of German descent, in his short story Typhoon, set in New York's German community, has a mean character by the name of Edward Hauptfuhrer. Dreiser wrote that story in 1926, mind you, when, over in Berlin, there was a political agitator by the name of Adolf H. but not yet the actual Führer. Eerie, indeed!

[@starguy2718]

OK, but if you're wrong about this, you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.

[@coolmanjack1995]

This only makes Airplane infinitely funnier

[@KilroysPlace]

I had no idea that it was based on a movie that was not one of the Airport series of movies. This was enlightening, and very enjoyable to watch! Well done!

[@Pascalore]

Too many comments to find it but the actor from Zero Hour who talked the plane down from the tower was the commander of the military base in Stanley Kubrick's film, Dr. Strangelove. Nice to see other material these actors have done. Nice comparison also. I own copies of both Airplane! and Airport and have read the book Airport as well. Never heard of Zero Hour. Thanks.

[@herbbluntman2287]

Sterling Hayden as General Jack D. Ripper. Dr. Strangelove is a classic!

[@leglessinoz]

He did quite a few westerns

[@dougfriendly7676]

Always knew it was based on "Zero Hour." Surprised that so many thought it parodied "Airport."

[@bbartky]

Same. I’ve always known the connection to “Zero Hour”. It wasn’t until I watched this video and read the comments that I learned some people think it’s a parody of the “Airport” movies.

[@cg62262]

They forgot to add the segment in Airplane! where the older lady took a few snorts of cocaine after she said "Certainly not!" when she was asked by another passenger if he wanted a drink. LOL

[@muffdiver240]

If this video included every gag, it would be as long as the movie itself.

[@sha11235]

They were trying to show basically the similarities. They didn't need to show the added gag there.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

I was wondering what the snooty lady in Zero Hour was going to indulge in instead.

[@flyjarrett]

And the part where Elaine said she used to sit on Ted’s face and wriggle.

[@jemlittle1787]

You sir obviously dont know the meaning of tedious That was frikin awesome ;) TOP CLASS Thanks for the education on my fav film, who knew lol

[@mrmike73]

I was today years old when I learned the original source for the movie. I grew up on the Airport movies and before the internet, so when it came out, everyone I knew assumed they were spoofing them. Esp. with scenes like the nun playing guitar. It just was a little crazy about the war thing that was bothering him, but again we assumed it was just part of the comedy. Now you see the origin of that being in the movie. Thanks for putting this together.

[@Hennessey_and_smoke]

"Ok boys, let's get some pictures."