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.
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.
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.
I knew Airplane was based on Zero Hour but this is the first time I've seen them side by side... it's an entirely different kind of experience seeing them like this altogether.
@@MattMcIrvin It seems like someone saw Zero Hour, MSTed it, and then insert their commentary into the script for a remake. It's a strange production strategy - but hey, it paid off.
9:51 is absolutely priceless! It makes this Airplane! scene even funnier when you know how surprisingly similar the new scene was to the original version.
You mean two movies that take place mostly on a plane is going to have a lot of similar terminology and situations? Next time im on a flight im going to lose my mind at anybody that uses airplane terminology and if they get air sick, by god, they aren't getting any Dramamine. You all aren't that bright.
Just seems like they used the original as a template and tacked on modern references as the script developed. No doubt it was much closer to the Zero Hour! when first written, but evolved to include other references. I liked the plane view of the tarmac when landing in Zero Hour! better - just looked like a guy on a motorbike swerving all over the runway.
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!
I just about died laughing the first time I saw Zero Hour when the guy said "The fog is getting thicker" because I knew the next line from Airplane was "and Leon is getting larger!"
@@efrainsantiago5225He's in Trading Places with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. He's the guy who signs off loading the gorilla on the train before it leaves near the end of the movie.
I'm listening to the audiobook Surely You Can't be Serious, about the making of the film. Stephen Stucker was a friend of the writers. He was in their improv/ theater group Kentucky Fried Theater on Pico in LA. He was added to the script because he was so funny.
OP, this must be one of the most tedious video in the history of TH-cam... But some of us here, particularly me, would want to buy you a drink and shake your hand.
@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
The genius of 'Airplane' was getting serious actors (Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Neilsen, Robert Stack) playing the comedy straight. They could have easily gotten comedic actors, but it was even funnier with this cast.
That is why when I heard of a Naked Gun remake and wanted a comedic actor to play it I thought they were making a mistake. You need a very serious older bloke to pull it off.
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.
It took years for me to notice that the sounds of the jet were those of a turboprop, and now I notice it's the exact same turboprop sound effect from Zero Hour. :)
My BF and I discovered "Zero Hour" one night on TV and were laughing ourselves silly, having seen "Airplane!" many times. I was amazed at how much of the dialog in the latter came from the former. You did a good job in comparing the two side-by-side.
“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.
@@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.
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.
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.
I have never heard of Zero Hour, I always thought Airplane was based on the 1970’s Airport movies. You put a ton of work into this!!! This is great, Thanks so much.
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.
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
I love how the plot is basically 100% the same, you'd think that the weird plot point of the entire flight crew getting sick from eating fish is something the writers of Airplane came up with as a joke on contrived disaster plots, but no it was played completely straight on Zero Hour. Also the gag about the co-pilot being played by a Basketball player is the best kind of reference humour, it's funny because of the absurdity alone but gets better if you know the background of it. Way better than most modern pop culture humour just being "Hey look it's something you know, isn't that funny to see something you know from a different movie?". It has layers
Spot on. The “Disaster Movie” types of later years missed the mark because they are just a string of “look at this thing/reference you know!” moments with a paper thin plot as an excuse to move between those moments. In contrast you take the humor out of Airplane! and you still have a decent drama movie. That’s why it feels cohesive and even funnier as a result. Abhrams, Proft, and the Zucker bros did this in almost all their movies (Naked Gun, Hot Shots), with the exception of Top Secret! which they admitted was missing that underlying story binding everything together (even though the humor is hilarious and very creative). On a side note the badly named “Superhero Movie” actually does this as well (Pat Proft was behind that movie), being essentially Spiderman 1, and again a movie that if you remove the comedy from it ends being a competent action/superhero movie.
I remember I saw an expert in a video that actually commended airplane (and by extension Zero Hour) as being one of the most realistic depiction of a contagious sickness in a film. Like the slow build of cases and it not hitting every person in the same way I think was the reasoning. I dunno if I agree if it's the most contrived thing I've seen - It's a real protocol and a law in some countries that pilots can't eat the same meal to prevent both of them getting ill.
'I haven't felt this awful since we saw that Ronald Reagan film.' Completely forgotten how funny that film was. Nothing like it today. Good work juxtaposing the relevant scenes.
@@MrJeffcoley1 Mike Myers based his original script for Wayne's World 2 on an old British film. The studio found out soon before shooting was to begin, threatened to destroy his career and forced him to hastily write a new script. I don't know why they didn't just try and buy the rights to the old movie.
Amazing, had no idea. When the doctor is told he has a phone call he slaps the panicking woman one more time is freaking halarious. And of course when he says, "...and don't call me Shirley" NEVER gets old!
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.
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..."
Unfortunately this joke does not work at all in the German translation. Because „drinking problem“ in German just means „you have problems when drinking something“... and not „problem with too much alcohol“. So no double meaning, and no pun.
@@auronoxe Translating jokes between German and English is hard. "Der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der Straße, und von vas assaulted...peanut. Ohohohoho!"
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 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 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.)
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!
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.
I'm sorry, son, but you must have him confused with someone else. His name is Roger Murdock. He’s the co-pilot. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
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.
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.
Watched 'Zero Hour' for the first time a couple years ago and it really was just 'Airplane' but without the constant humour. Good film. Brilliantly edited video too. 😊
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.
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.
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!
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.
The most amazing thing about all movies made in the 50s is no matter what disaster people have gone through, their hair, especially the women (and the makeup) remains perfect.
Actually they still do in most movies & TV. I especially laugh when they depict women waking up in bed in the morning with perfect makeup - lip gloss and all.
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.
I didn't notice that until about 5 years ago. Every one of the 396 times I've seen the movie I find something new! Just now, watching this video I finally noticed that one of the reporters is holding a chicken leg!
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.
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!
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.
Every once in a blue moon, TH-cam recommend something truly brilliant, like this. It wasn’t tedious; not in the least. I applied to you! Yes... My comment was inspired by the video.
I’d say more than once in a while. Just in the last couple of yrs TH-cam recommended clips I never in million yrs would have found on my own. And most of it ( in my case ) hilarious.
“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.
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!"
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.
@@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!
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.
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?
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...?"
Superb editing that supports a well defined thesis ! Well done. The last clip with the funky 70s exploitation music was spot on. Someone on staff knows what their doing. Thanks for sharing.
Never saw "Zero Hour" before. I have seen and loved "Airplane" many times. Watching this side by side comparison is like having a joke explained that you didn't get and it makes "Airplane" that much more funny. Thanks!
Saw Airplane! when it was first released and watched it many times since then. But it took me until this year, 40 years later, to get the joke about Ted Stryker's drinking problem. I mean I SAW him always trying to drink with his forehead. But I just didn't get that was the joke. That's his drinking problem. And 40 years later I'm laughing like it was new. What a great movie.
@@paulverdoia308 I've seen "Zero Hour" and trust me, it's very hard to watch with a straight face after seeing "Airplane". "Zero Hour" however is a good movie despite it's low budget.
Made no difference to me. It has enough in common with generic airplane disaster movies that they are all pretty much transferable. I'm willing to bet that if someone cared to analyse they would find extremely similar melodramatic moments and jargon between the pilots etc, in most of these types of films I don't think the fact they used Zero Hour! as a template is relevant, (it is to them of course since they bought the rights...)
@@epicon6 it's a joke from airplane. "Surely you cant be serious?" "I am serious, and dont call me shirley" literally the most quoted joke from the movie
That's brilliant. I was at a screening in Los Angeles many years ago where the Zucker brothers talked about how they had based the film on Zero Hour, and showed the little boy in the cockpit clip to show how "uncreative" they were. I had no idea just how much the movie was copied from Zero Hour. Thanks for doing this.
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.
Thank you! I had TCM on late last night and as I was falling asleep I heard someone talking to “Ted Stryker” about flying during the war!! Right away I put it on my DVR “record” … I thought there’s no coincidence here. It’s 2022 and I’m just finding out about this now? Anyway, this is a GEM & thanks so much for editing them together. Superb job!
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".
Best line was airplane 2. "I have a question." "What is it?" "An interrogative statement used to test knowledge, but that's not important right now..." *eye roll*
@@starcrafter13terran Airplane 2 is vastly underrated - that scene where you think the person is on a viewscreen and you realise it's just a door gets me every time. th-cam.com/video/kG-0V-85H_0/w-d-xo.html
Zero Hour was a Canadian teleplay first with Scotty from Star Trek as Ted Stryker. Also Dana Andrews, Stryker in Zero Hour, played the pilot of the small plane that collided with the 747 in Airport 1977. Another franchise started by Arthur Hailey.
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.
If you're old enough to have seen Zero Hour when it first came out, you would remember sitting in the balcony with your best friend trying to smother our laughter. Melodrama is always funny.
The first time I happened to watch Zero Hour, I couldn't stop laughing, as I referenced the Airplane parody. I really think Paramount & WB should get together and allow these films to be released as a double feature DVD.
That Zero Hour was just begging to be spoofed! But Lord knows those 3 genius producers did this one to perfection! A comedy classic for the ages. Perfect cast, genius writing, and brilliant performances. All these years later, and I still cry laughing!!! Shirley you all agree with me.
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.
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!
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😂
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!. ^^
I knew that Airplane! was based on Zero Hour - and that they actually had the movie playing while filming to get the nuances the same - but when you see them side by side like this... I mean so much of the dialogue is literally the same! And I didn't realise Arthur Hailey wrote Zero Hour and then used the same script to write Airport - that explains why there were so many common elements. I knew Arthur Hailey was Canadian - but I didn't know that Ted Striker was supposed to be Canadian as well. :) Thanks for the vid - that was a lot of fun. :)
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!"
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There was a choice. Steak, fish.
Yes I remember now, I had lasagna
Nowadays your choice is pretzels or . . . nothing.
@@justgonnastay Stop taking delta...
My favorite movie quote of all time
@@justgonnastay Fly Korean Air.
I love that in Zero Hour he says that he had meat.
Amazing how easy it is to turn a sappy melodrama into an unforgettable farce.
The website TV Tropes calls it the “Weird Al Effect,” where the parody becomes better known than the original source material.
A line here, a line there and drama turns into comedy.
@@tedhenkle But this was before Weird Al got popular.
@whraglynx I'm going to guess he just needs 2500 to buy a script...
@@tedhenkle Only proves that Wierd Al Yankovic is a talent unlike any other. Truly a master of lyrics and presentation
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.
That's hilarious! 🙂
Amazing!!
I thought you were going to mention the scene where the stewardess is blowing the inflatable auto pilot.
Or the topless girl running across the screen.@@ricogomez4020
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.
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.
And semi-plausible. I mean; sometimes you just gotta get away. 😏
"actually"
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!"
Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
you can add bill lambeer to that list
"He'll be a menace to himself and everything else in the air... yes, birds too."
one of my favs.
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit quoting Airplane
Feronanthus, I quote this movie all the time. So many great classic lines!!
cigarette?
Yes, it is.
Shirley, you can't be serious
@@georgiasmith64 I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
My dad took me to see Airplane in the theater, and I’ve never heard that many theater goers laughing so hard. What a great memory.
Those SIGNS...
Aisle 1-15: "no smoking"
Aisle 16-30: "no f****g"
Some Moral Majority types complained about the PG rating.
Mark of a great comedy film...
Likewise, in Australia!
I knew Airplane was based on Zero Hour but this is the first time I've seen them side by side... it's an entirely different kind of experience seeing them like this altogether.
IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KIND OF EXPERIENCE SEEING THEM LIKE THIS
It's an entirely different kind of experience.
It's an entirely different kind of experience
It's an entirely different kind of experience.
It's an entirely different kind of experience
There is no human alive who, after seeing Airplane! several times can watch Zero Hour! with a straight face. Can't be done.
This is true.
I watched "Flug in Gefahr" a couple weeks ago and got amused at times when it wasn't supposed to be funny. th-cam.com/video/nAVVdg2OM34/w-d-xo.html
@Dave Mitchell I'll bet Senator Reid could do it
So true! Even when he says, "Sluggish, like a wet sponge" makes me laugh.
Can't watch Airport 1975 with a straight face either. As soon as the nun starts singing to the sick girl....I lose it.
The Hirsch - Kareem connection was brilliant casting.
What's crazier is that they both played on Wisconsin teams in their early careers. Crazylegs with the Badgers, Kareem with the Bucks.
That, I didn't expect--that the Kareem bits were actually riffing on something in Zero Hour!
@@MattMcIrvin It seems like someone saw Zero Hour, MSTed it, and then insert their commentary into the script for a remake. It's a strange production strategy - but hey, it paid off.
I especially love when they drag KAJ out and he's got his Lakers uniform on under his suit. 😂😂😂🤣
@@alyzu4755 What's even funnier is that under his lakers shorts you can clearly see his jockstrap.
9:51 is absolutely priceless! It makes this Airplane! scene even funnier when you know how surprisingly similar the new scene was to the original version.
You mean two movies that take place mostly on a plane is going to have a lot of similar terminology and situations? Next time im on a flight im going to lose my mind at anybody that uses airplane terminology and if they get air sick, by god, they aren't getting any Dramamine.
You all aren't that bright.
That second slap is hysterical 🤣😂🤣😂
Just seems like they used the original as a template and tacked on modern references as the script developed.
No doubt it was much closer to the Zero Hour! when first written, but evolved to include other references.
I liked the plane view of the tarmac when landing in Zero Hour! better - just looked like a guy on a motorbike swerving all over the runway.
@@thomgizziz sit down fella you’re making a fool of yourself
@@thomgizziz You aren't that nice.
This new bit of knowledge makes “Airplane” even more remarkable.
Tedious? That made my day. Especially when the two movies started talking to each other.
Me too. That was amazing, not at all difficult to watch; but I bet it was tedious as hell to edit. ;)
Tedious as in... Ted-ious? 😉
@@dantheguitarist5823 Don't call me Ted-ious.
@@dantheguitarist5823 I just wanted to say good luck and we're all counting on you
I love that bit especially when the different pilots talked on the phone to the other flight attendants.
I almost spit my drink out when Leslie Nielsen says "that's right" with the stethoscope in his ears.
absolute legend
Barnaby Dodd that's what you call, " Making it blatantly obvious that he is a doctor"
Lmaooo
Say no more
Barnaby Dodd That was simply the beginning of his long comedy career. The exact point at which his career took a turn.
The splicing of the two films made the end product absolutely hilarious, and extremely entertaining. I chuckled and chortled, and LOL!
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!
Just an amazing job !!!
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!
Seconded :)
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! 😂
I just about died laughing the first time I saw Zero Hour when the guy said "The fog is getting thicker" because I knew the next line from Airplane was "and Leon is getting larger!"
I had to stop watching when the pilot in the control tower says "I picked the wrong day to quit smoking" in Zero Hour, I effing lost it!!
🤣🤣🤣
@@jswaggart01 Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.
And Leon’s getting LAAA-A-A-A-ARRRGER!!
Just that one line? I laughed basically for the entire movie because I knew what was the Airplane! counterpart line!
"what is it ?"
"its a remake, but thats not important right now "
Surely, you can't be serious?
It's not the same. It's a totally different movie...all together.
It is a pronoun, and that's more important just now.
@@PhantomFilmAustralia it's a totally different movie.
@@PhantomFilmAustralia it's a totally different movie.
This is incredible. Airplane! is one of the true comedy classics and it still holds up today.
R.I.P to Stephen Stucker who played Johnny, who blended in with the nuttiness perfectly
I did research on that guy I wanted to find out more about him. He lived a short life and I think Hollywood was too much for him.
@@efrainsantiago5225He's in Trading Places with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. He's the guy who signs off loading the gorilla on the train before it leaves near the end of the movie.
I'm listening to the audiobook Surely You Can't be Serious, about the making of the film. Stephen Stucker was a friend of the writers. He was in their improv/ theater group Kentucky Fried Theater on Pico in LA. He was added to the script because he was so funny.
OP, this must be one of the most tedious video in the history of TH-cam...
But some of us here, particularly me, would want to buy you a drink and shake your hand.
Nice
@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
I'm the drunks at '8:02 & 8:03'... and so would want to buy you a shake and drink your hand!
wow.. I never did get that joke.. fascinating
I have a drinking problem.
(Throws water on groin)
The genius of 'Airplane' was getting serious actors (Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Neilsen, Robert Stack) playing the comedy straight. They could have easily gotten comedic actors, but it was even funnier with this cast.
yes, the deadpan humor is the key from serious actors.
snakeguy76 Leslie Neilson was a serious actor in the 60's and 70's. This movie propelled him into parodies.
He was the capain of the Poseidon.
Cana Dude Yeah, the only thing close to comedy that I remember Leslie Neilson doing before Airplane was an appearance on an early episode of MASH.
That is why when I heard of a Naked Gun remake and wanted a comedic actor to play it I thought they were making a mistake. You need a very serious older bloke to pull it off.
40 years later and still one of the funniest films ever made!
IT WAS THE 80 TODAY TO MANY PEOPLE WOULD GET OFENDED IF THEY MADE THE MOVIE TODAY
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.
Neilson said to his agent, "Take any reasonable offer. I'll pay THEM to be in this movie!"
To both of you - he is NielsEn, the surname is danish
It took years for me to notice that the sounds of the jet were those of a turboprop, and now I notice it's the exact same turboprop sound effect from Zero Hour. :)
Wow! That comment should be at the top. that and the one about the ice cream cone . . .
Not a turboprop, a radial engine.
Well done!!! Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up TH-cam...
Hah, a good one.
Best comment. lol
That Comment really made laugh which I really needed.
Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop replying to comments.
Surely you’re joking?
I’m not joking and stop calling me Shirley.
How Leslie could keep his straight face making all these parody movies is beyond me lol
My BF and I discovered "Zero Hour" one night on TV and were laughing ourselves silly, having seen "Airplane!" many times. I was amazed at how much of the dialog in the latter came from the former. You did a good job in comparing the two side-by-side.
“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.
You're not wrong
"Yes , birds too."
I always imagine his wife on the other end asking him that. It kills me every time.
Surely you don't believe that.
(Wait for it...)
@@raypurchase801 I do believe it. And don't call me Shirley
@@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.
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.
Nowadays they would think it's a "Soul Plane" spoof.. 🙄
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.
So, Stevie…..You ever hang around a gymnasium?
Superhero Movie was good. They played it straight.
The only good spoof movie in the "Epic" era was Not Another Teen Movie, which plays it deadpan pretty well.
I have never heard of Zero Hour, I always thought Airplane was based on the 1970’s Airport movies. You put a ton of work into this!!! This is great, Thanks so much.
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.
That was great! Am I the only person on earth who had to wait 39 years to learn the origin of the Airplane spoof?
No. I was surprised too...
I had to wait, also.
Lol
No.
unevenspleener -- Wow! Yeah... I know what you mean. I waited 40 years! :-O
Nope
Watching this is so unnerving, but also comfortable. Kinda like when you know the Weird Al version of a song better than the original.
I heard/saw both "White and Nerdy" and "Amish Paradise" before I even knew the songs they parodied existed...
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
my favorite was the "Ebay" parody of "I Want It That Way"
@@mickf3787
That was a Very Good Parody.
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.
I love how the plot is basically 100% the same, you'd think that the weird plot point of the entire flight crew getting sick from eating fish is something the writers of Airplane came up with as a joke on contrived disaster plots, but no it was played completely straight on Zero Hour.
Also the gag about the co-pilot being played by a Basketball player is the best kind of reference humour, it's funny because of the absurdity alone but gets better if you know the background of it.
Way better than most modern pop culture humour just being "Hey look it's something you know, isn't that funny to see something you know from a different movie?". It has layers
Spot on. The “Disaster Movie” types of later years missed the mark because they are just a string of “look at this thing/reference you know!” moments with a paper thin plot as an excuse to move between those moments.
In contrast you take the humor out of Airplane! and you still have a decent drama movie. That’s why it feels cohesive and even funnier as a result. Abhrams, Proft, and the Zucker bros did this in almost all their movies (Naked Gun, Hot Shots), with the exception of Top Secret! which they admitted was missing that underlying story binding everything together (even though the humor is hilarious and very creative).
On a side note the badly named “Superhero Movie” actually does this as well (Pat Proft was behind that movie), being essentially Spiderman 1, and again a movie that if you remove the comedy from it ends being a competent action/superhero movie.
I remember I saw an expert in a video that actually commended airplane (and by extension Zero Hour) as being one of the most realistic depiction of a contagious sickness in a film. Like the slow build of cases and it not hitting every person in the same way I think was the reasoning. I dunno if I agree if it's the most contrived thing I've seen - It's a real protocol and a law in some countries that pilots can't eat the same meal to prevent both of them getting ill.
'I haven't felt this awful since we saw that Ronald Reagan film.' Completely forgotten how funny that film was. Nothing like it today. Good work juxtaposing the relevant scenes.
I knew Zero Hour became Airplane! ... but I did not know that the writer of Zero Hour went on to write Airport. That links them all together nicely.
I know. now I want to watch "Airport"
And the original teleplay was Canadian, and starred James Doohan from "Star Trek"!
@@blofeld39 I always wanted Scotty to tell Kirk, "I may bend your precious starship..."
@@blofeld39 I even saw the original when it was first broadcast!
That was the best $2,500 anyone ever invested.
Don't the producers of "The Terminator" wish they had bought the rights to that old Outer Limits episode. Probably could have got it for $50.
They are probably kicking themselves for selling it now. They could have gotten a crapload of lawsuit money.
a good return on investment! this movie has been responsible for laughter all over the world
@@MrJeffcoley1 Mike Myers based his original script for Wayne's World 2 on an old British film. The studio found out soon before shooting was to begin, threatened to destroy his career and forced him to hastily write a new script. I don't know why they didn't just try and buy the rights to the old movie.
Amazing, had no idea.
When the doctor is told he has a phone call he slaps the panicking woman one more time is freaking halarious. And of course when he says, "...and don't call me Shirley" NEVER gets old!
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.
Back then, the idea of a grown man naked with a boy was insanely rediculous.
Also, when she asks if he's a doctor and he's sitting there wearing the stethoscopes.😂 Gets me every time!
"Have you ever been in a Turkish prison"?
@@daxtonbrown Yes, I was caught hanging around gymnasiums
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..."
This actually makes a lot of sense now, how they were able to come up with gag after gag
I still love Ted Strikers "Drinking problem ".
Top ten movie gag for me.
Unfortunately this joke does not work at all in the German translation. Because „drinking problem“ in German just means „you have problems when drinking something“... and not „problem with too much alcohol“. So no double meaning, and no pun.
@@auronoxe Translating jokes between German and English is hard. "Der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der Straße, und von vas assaulted...peanut. Ohohohoho!"
@@michaelholland8693 This might be the real reason why joke warfare was banned by the Geneva Convention.
@@auronoxe good thing the movie is in English so you don’t have this problem!
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!
She?
@@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.)
@@ciabattatom521- Dana Andrews is a Man. HE is Stryker in Zero Hour.
@@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.)
Dana Wynter was in Airport. (1970)
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!
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.
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.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in his Lakers shorts with his jockstrap and his knee pads it was hilarious.
AND DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY!!
I'm sorry, son, but you must have him confused with someone else. His name is Roger Murdock. He’s the co-pilot.
Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
You cannot even blink watching that movie. You will miss something!
It was hot! 🔥
And his sport glasses :)
I had no idea! Tedious....are you kidding? Loved every second. Even the slapping scene was included.
I am watching it for a second time.
I’ll never be able to watch Airplane again unless it has the bits from Zero Hour included.
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.
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.
Watched 'Zero Hour' for the first time a couple years ago and it really was just 'Airplane' but without the constant humour. Good film. Brilliantly edited video too. 😊
I just watched Zero Hour and was cracking up thinking about how Airplane handled all the familiar scenes.
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.
Yes, I remember. I had lasagne.
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.
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!
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.
The creators of Airplane! talk about Zero Hour being the inspiration for their new film:
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The most amazing thing about all movies made in the 50s is no matter what disaster people have gone through, their hair, especially the women (and the makeup) remains perfect.
Actually they still do in most movies & TV. I especially laugh when they depict women waking up in bed in the morning with perfect makeup - lip gloss and all.
@@ronswansonsdog2833 Ahh... in a perfect world.
Actually they often had strategically placed "bruises" and "scuffs" by a make up artist with professionally "messed up" hair.
@@ronswansonsdog2833 Mainly in US TV.
With that landing they should have been splayed all over the walls.😵💫
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.
I just saw this film again for the First time in about 10 years on Christmas Eve with friends. I haven’t laughed that hard in a very long time.
One thing I've loved about Airplane is that it's a jet, yet you hear props. The movie is a masterpiece.
And... This video was masterful editing.
I didn't notice that until about 5 years ago. Every one of the 396 times I've seen the movie I find something new!
Just now, watching this video I finally noticed that one of the reporters is holding a chicken leg!
@@jimBobuu I think it's an icecream.
@@jimBobuu I only just saw that too !
The whole airplane was just a bunch of props.
@@alanr4447a 😂😂.
Seeing Leslie Nielsen with the stethoscope made me want to watch this movie again immediately.
ApemanMonkey so much subliminal shit going on in this movie!
It's such a dumb joke, but that's what makes it so funny.
I orginaly though he was listening to music!
I think the stethoscope on his neck was the obvious and part of the joke when he was asked if he’s a doctor.
@@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9 But also because it looks like the earphones passengers wear to listen to music.
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.
It makes it that much better DEWEY!😁
Now I see *Airplane* saved a bundle of 💰 on screenwriting.
Thank's for posting this. "I'd like to buy you a drink and shake your hand!"
This solved why Airplane had such an old timey feel!
That and the jet plane made propeller sounds.
@@ki5aok The drone of the prop engines is one of my favorite elements in Airplane...
@@fosmith61 Agreed, as if someone left the window open during the flight LOL
Well, by now it is an old timey film!
Airplane is 41 years old! It's pretty old time as it is.
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!
You're not the only one who was shocked to find out that Airplane was heavily modeled on Zero Hour
150 times, surely you can't be serious!
I am serious. And don't call me Shirley
You and I both. Airplane is in my top 5 and I didn't know that.
Only 150! Ha, Amateur!!!
You absolutely nailed it! It's been a very long time since I've seen a TH-cam video this well put together.
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!
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.
And that one line added to make the joke (like the woman sniffing the coke or Lloyd Bridges sniffing glue etc)
It changed the meaning to something completely different, altogether.
It changed the meaning to something completely different
Since they bought the rights, they should release both movies in a mini box set. Why did they keep this as an inside joke?
Every once in a blue moom TH-cam recommends something truly brilliant, like this. It wasnot tedious, not in the least. I applaud you!
ali Servan blue mooM.
Also, i concur
Every once in a blue moon, TH-cam recommend something truly brilliant, like this. It wasn’t tedious; not in the least. I applied to you!
Yes... My comment was inspired by the video.
I’d say more than once in a while. Just in the last couple of yrs TH-cam recommended clips I never in million yrs would have found on my own. And most of it ( in my case ) hilarious.
@tim conway Get ahold of yourself *slap!* *slap!*
@tim conway I was going for my best
Nielsen impression but LOL no (good nick tho)
love this--can't imagine how much time it took to put together. Truly appreciated
So insane! When you think a masterpiece is a masterpiece, but turns out, its even more than that.
No matter how many times you see Airplane, you will catch something new! Like a Monty Python movie.
Same with "Top Secret!" (1984).
“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.
What made it best was it required serious, drama actors to make it work.
@@sbyrstall And then, there was Johnny. LOL
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!"
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.
@@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!
Marvellous! I’ve always been a huge Airplane! Fan but I never knew this. It was fascinating to watch them side by side.
Peggy King should have gotten an Oscar for this role. She actually completed full training as a stewardess to prepare for this role.
Seeing this makes Airplane even funnier. If only you could do the complete movies side-by-side.
Somehow this makes the movie 1000x more hilarious
Captain Howdy Dltto!! Never heard of it before -brilliant intermixing
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.
Someone needs to turn a complete Zero Hour / Airplane edit into the next Rocky Horror Show
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?
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...?"
The Captain Clarence Oveur stuff makes so much more sense when you see how uncomfortable the scenes with Billy in Zero Hour are.
Superb editing that supports a well defined thesis ! Well done. The last clip with the funky 70s exploitation music was spot on. Someone on staff knows what their doing. Thanks for sharing.
Never saw "Zero Hour" before. I have seen and loved "Airplane" many times. Watching this side by side comparison is like having a joke explained that you didn't get and it makes "Airplane" that much more funny. Thanks!
Saw Airplane! when it was first released and watched it many times since then. But it took me until this year, 40 years later, to get the joke about Ted Stryker's drinking problem. I mean I SAW him always trying to drink with his forehead. But I just didn't get that was the joke. That's his drinking problem. And 40 years later I'm laughing like it was new. What a great movie.
Never heard about zero hour always loved airplane this was sick ! Great video!
@@paulverdoia308 I've seen "Zero Hour" and trust me, it's very hard to watch with a straight face after seeing "Airplane". "Zero Hour" however is a good movie despite it's low budget.
You like movies about Gladiators?
Made no difference to me. It has enough in common with generic airplane disaster movies that they are all pretty much transferable.
I'm willing to bet that if someone cared to analyse they would find extremely similar melodramatic moments and jargon between the pilots etc, in most of these types of films
I don't think the fact they used Zero Hour! as a template is relevant, (it is to them of course since they bought the rights...)
When Leslie Nelson goes in for that second slap ... That is when I lose it.. Bravo on this video.
Zeos!
I knew you were a man of taste.
I died! 🤣
He gave her one to go! BWAA haa haa!!
He clearly wasn't done
Its so wrong I can't help myself from laughing out loud!
She was clearly asking for it.
This was fantastic. Thanks for putting it together and sharing it with all of us!
Leslie Nielsen will always be the greatest comedy actor in this type of films
And don't call me Shirley!
This and of Course Frank Drebin. "Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes."
@@epicon6 really tom? spot on Derek!
@@epicon6 it's a joke from airplane. "Surely you cant be serious?" "I am serious, and dont call me shirley" literally the most quoted joke from the movie
Jesse Woops. My bad. And i have just seen it twice in the last 4 months and i missed it.
Not tedious at all. Switching back and forth gets the point across beautifully without being redundant.
A side by side would have been better. Just switch the audio from one to the other.
@@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.
But side by side allows us to see at all times how the staging was also the same
@@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.
Boy you can say that again!
I caught Zero Hour a few years ago and figured this out. Thought i was the only one. Great video!!!
This was great! Thanks for the work putting it together. That second slap by Neilson was hysterical.
"I said it might get tedious" No way, you had my attention all the way through. VERY well done. :D
+Braden E Nelson Thanks. It's definitely easier than watching Zero Hour in it's entirety...
Yeah not tedious at all. And when you have the characters from the two different films interacting it gets pretty funny actually. Good job.
That's brilliant. I was at a screening in Los Angeles many years ago where the Zucker brothers talked about how they had based the film on Zero Hour, and showed the little boy in the cockpit clip to show how "uncreative" they were. I had no idea just how much the movie was copied from Zero Hour. Thanks for doing this.
So disappointed they did not say "don't call me Shirley" in the original movie.
New Wave Studios It was on Time Warner Classics not to long ago😁
whoever disliked it probably had fish.
great job mate
4 people had the fish...
...now 11. People STILL keep eating the fish!
dfulwilder Fish, huh? I had the lasagna.
Or they saw a Ronald Reagan film.
Fabio Manetta Yes, I had the lasagna.
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.
Thank you! I had TCM on late last night and as I was falling asleep I heard someone talking to “Ted Stryker” about flying during the war!! Right away I put it on my DVR “record” … I thought there’s no coincidence here.
It’s 2022 and I’m just finding out about this now?
Anyway, this is a GEM & thanks so much for editing them together. Superb job!
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".
Same here. I knew it followed the basic details of “Zero Hour” but I never realized it followed it so closely.
"A hospital....? What is it.?"
"its a big building with patients."
Classic
Best line was airplane 2. "I have a question." "What is it?" "An interrogative statement used to test knowledge, but that's not important right now..." *eye roll*
"But that's not important right now."
@@starcrafter13terran Airplane 2 is vastly underrated - that scene where you think the person is on a viewscreen and you realise it's just a door gets me every time. th-cam.com/video/kG-0V-85H_0/w-d-xo.html
First time I saw it, I thought he said "It's a big building with patience".
So, there's no blowing-the-autopilot scene in "Zero Hour!"?
The slapping of the passenger is just amazing !
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."
Ah Leslie Nielsen, he will be forever missed.
Shirley, you jesting. :D
“We’ll be on instruments” will always be my favourite visual gag 😂😂😂
ME TOO :D Such an underrated one!
Zero Hour was a Canadian teleplay first with Scotty from Star Trek as Ted Stryker.
Also Dana Andrews, Stryker in Zero Hour, played the pilot of the small plane that collided with the 747 in Airport 1977. Another franchise started by Arthur Hailey.
Is this true??
Great job putting this together. I grew up in the 70’s and never knew about zero hour. Now I have to watch it.
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.
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.
The novel is "Runway Zero-Eight." Hailey collaborated with John Castle on it.
Zero Hour is supposed to be serious, but I can't help laughing because the lines become funny after seeing Airplane.
If you're old enough to have seen Zero Hour when it first came out, you would remember sitting in the balcony with your best friend trying to smother our laughter. Melodrama is always funny.
It was serious... but don't call me 'Shirley.'"
The first time I happened to watch Zero Hour, I couldn't stop laughing, as I referenced the Airplane parody. I really think Paramount & WB should get together and allow these films to be released as a double feature DVD.
Good good. So you grasp the point of this video. Good. Just like gerald ford
@@HardRockMaster7577 great idea. Hurry before someone steals your idea
That Zero Hour was just begging to be spoofed! But Lord knows those 3 genius producers did this one to perfection! A comedy classic for the ages. Perfect cast, genius writing, and brilliant performances. All these years later, and I still cry laughing!!! Shirley you all agree with me.
I do, and don't call me Shirley.
That's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. I laugh every time no matter how many times I've seen it.
We should give other 50s movies the Airplane treatment
Their is several that would be amazing.
Maybe it would be more appropriate to parody 90s movies.
Mystery science theatre 3000
@@dustinmichel7608 what are your recommendations?
@@dustinmichel7608 . "THERE ARE" several......etc etc.
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.
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!
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😂
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.
@@melvinlee9263 and whether piston or turbine powerplant, neither have a gear shifter on the throttle quadrant to shift into reverse 🤣
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!. ^^
I knew that Airplane! was based on Zero Hour - and that they actually had the movie playing while filming to get the nuances the same - but when you see them side by side like this... I mean so much of the dialogue is literally the same! And I didn't realise Arthur Hailey wrote Zero Hour and then used the same script to write Airport - that explains why there were so many common elements.
I knew Arthur Hailey was Canadian - but I didn't know that Ted Striker was supposed to be Canadian as well. :)
Thanks for the vid - that was a lot of fun. :)
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!"
Well done, this just made Airplane more funny than it already was.