The mechanic was checking the oil, under the hood, as you would with a car. And actually no, they weren't laminating the pilot's ID. That was an old school credit card machine that would process the sale and make a carbon copy. Looks pretty quaint now. And, though the back story would take too long, the "George Zip" speech is a parody reference to a character and scene from a 1940 Ronald Reagan movie titled "Knute Rockne, All American".
@4:05, they were not laminating his ID. They were taking an imprint of a credit card. Back then, they did not have chip readers or magnetic stripe readers. The name, card number, and expiration date were in raised letters and numerals. The imprinter was a manual device that physically imprinted that information onto carbon (and later carbonless) forms by pressing the raised letters/numerals against the forms.
Actually, no they weren’t. This is one of those rumours that gets changed/misinterpreted and then repeated over time. They didn’t work at LAX. They worked for the PA equipment company as salespeople.
Ethel Merman, the lady playing one of the guys at the psychiatric hospital (who is singing) is one of the lead Actors in It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, one of the funniest of the funniest movies ever made. On league with Blazing Saddles, for it's crazy antics except much longer.
I love Mad World, but I've only seen one millennial react to it and she hated it because, unlike those of us who grew up watching the amazing cast in mid-century movies and on TV, she didn't know anybody in the movie, except for the Three Stooges. Blazing Saddles still has relevance, but no one under the age of 50 should try to watch Mad World...they just won't get it.
@flarrfan if told ahead of time that it is a long movie with a break, young people watch it. I give that reference before starting the movie for people who never watched it before.
This amazing movie is actually a remake of a late 1950's B film, "Zero Hour," which was supposed to be a serious drama. It's fun to watch scenes from the first movie and realize that many were presented EXACTLY the same way in the movie Airplane! The director kept having to stop the actors and remind them not to try to make the scenes funny - they had to act hem as seriously as in the original. And yet they were hysterically funny.
You can find several TH-cam episodes comparing the two movies, side-by-side. Zero Hour is an over-the-top melodramatic movie, which can seem corny in later years.
Yes, because the effect of microwaves to heat things was discovered when a technician was working around a radar dish and found a chocolate bar had melted in his pocket.
What's more, the person in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, the man who campaigned to get California's Prop 13 passed, which limited property tax increases. A weird cameo, but there you go.
Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy. “Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”
In fact, ZAZ had to actively push back on the studios trying to push comedic actors on them--Dom DeLouise was suggested, Eddie Murphy, a few others. The held firm that the comedy of the movie only worked if everyone it it DIDN'T realized they were in a comedy. Except for Johnny.
One of the things that 99% of the viewers miss is the sound the plane makes while in flight. It is supposed to be a jet airliner with loud jet engines BUT throughout the movie it makes the sound of an older plane with propeller engines.
No, I think that was deliberate. In Zero Hour, the co-pilot was Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, a football star at the time, apparently chosen more for his star-power than his acting skills. In Airplane, they wanted Pete Rose but he was embroiled in his gambling problems.
@@mikecarew8329 That's what I read on the internet - which of course is NEVER wrong. There may have been other reasons they didn't use him OR maybe they never wanted him in the first place.
4:20 they were swiping his credit card, like they used to do back in those days. Obviously, he wasn’t paying for it, but that was the joke. 20:40 back in the day, when people had panic attacks, a common practice was to slap them out of it, literally. Since women “panic” more, they made the joke about her and just went overboard with it for comedic effect. Of course, the feminists will say that it’s “misogyny”
Before 911, people could freely roam around in the airport, even if they were not passengers, and even if they weren’t there to pick up passengers. That is why there were so many religious solicitors in the airport. I don’t know when that stopped but definitely everything stopped after 911. Passengers are allowed in certain areas now.
I looked it up: It was a 1992 US Supreme Court ruling: soliciting at airports, is not protected speech under the first amendment - therefore, airports had the legal right to stop it, and they did so. I imagine that 9-11 brought a further tightening of standards.
I can remember as a kid Johnny Carson joking about the Hare Krishna type of religious people at the airports. I never witnessed it myself living in southwest Missouri. Plus we never flew. Our vacations were taken by driving around the US.
One of the religious zealots was played by Jim Abrahams, one of the directors. 2:21 those two are Jerry and David, the other two directors. The woman who was having trouble putting on her make up is Charlotte Zucker, their mother
That scene was a parody of a very similar scene from Airport '75. The sick little girl in that scene was played by Linda Blair. The idea of a singing nun was probably inspired by Sœur Sourire (French for 'Sister Smile') often called The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries, a Belgian Catholic singer-songwriter and former member of the Dominican Order. She had a worldwide hit in 1963 with Dominique.
The Hays Code, which only had been lifted a decade earlier, forbid making fun of religious people. The Singing Nun was hit movie in 1966, starting Debbie Reynolds. In order to get the photo for the photo of their "Nun's Life," the directors went down to the beach and found a surfer who was willing to don a nun's outfit just long enough for a shot. By the way, it was the replacement of the Hays Code with our current letter-code rating system in 1969 (allowing multiple levels of censorship) which opened the field in the following decades for a whole rash of zany often-gross movies with lots of sexual references like this movie, Blazing Saddles, Rocky Horror, Life of Brian, Holy Grail, and the Naked Gun series (and others I'm forgetting at the moment).
Universal Pictures threatened to sue if the nun sang in the film because of the same scene in Airport '75; Lorna Patterson sings well, but Maureen McGovern playing the nun was famous for her singing.
the couple on the intercom were married in real life. mechanic is jimmie walker (good times actor) jive translator was Barbara Billingsly - mother on Leave it to Beaver. Directors originally wanted Harriet Nelson (ozzie and harriet) but she rejected due to the crudeness of the script george zip speech is a parody of the speech in Knute Rockney but instead his was George Gip (The Gipper). at the end of the scene, the fighting irish song is playing Naked Gun film series is a must
It's fun seeing people who don't expect this humor. BTW I heard the announcers arguing about the red/white zones were the actual couple who recorded those for LAX
This film has been rated to have the most laughs per minute. It’s a comedic remake of an original movie from 1957 called ZERO HOUR - th-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/w-d-xo.html BTW, the producers bought the rights to ZERO HOUR just to avoid being sued. References: Opening plane in clouds mimicking the movie JAWS. Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home (coffee commercial spoof) - th-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w-/w-d-xo.html same actress in real coffee commercial Boy/Girl Coffee Scene: The Original and the Spoof - th-cam.com/video/yH6KW6eMWJI/w-d-xo.html From Here to Eternity- Beach Scene - th-cam.com/video/7TlDNMc_hFk/w-d-xo.html Also: He walked out from the mirror at Captain Kramer’s house. A lot of people don’t catch that joke. A lot of people miss the jokes throughout the credits and afterwards the man in the cab says he’s going to give him another 20 minutes but that’s it. - th-cam.com/video/DPeYFD-vVHg/w-d-xo.html
In fact, according to their book, they would do test screenings and record audience reaction, and would cut jokes that audiences were missing because they were still laughing from the previous joke.
As far as the nun and sick girl, that was taken from one movie in a series of about five airplane disaster movies that came out during the 70s. The guitar may have been in there too but I can't remember. Haven't seen those movies since I saw them in the late 70s and early 80s when they would air on one of our US national network tv stations.
@@YoursAlwaysKemi You weren't far off with your first guess, either. Also, there is a strong visual reference to the Godfather film with its horse head in the bed visual going on. The joke worked on a lot of levels back in the 80s.
Hello KSO! Love your reactions, but I have to say, a clear sign that you are young is when you missed well over half of the jokes in this film because they're based on topical references from the day! Still enjoyable just because of the physical humor, but I had just as much fun watching the reference humor sail over your head, i.e. the Maxwell House coffee commercial. You're awesome!
I like how you are aren't like all these new reactors that are always saying 'We don't this' or 'Im not', self inserting themselves in the film. You respect the characters as being as they are, with them reacting with their own personalities. Badly explained, but it hit me when you were saying 'them' during one of the scenes instead of yourself. Strange you cut out the jive talking old lady, usually that is a good laugh. One of the things I'm always tickled by and no one else seems to be, is when the reporters are talking to the airline guys. Everyone always laughs at the ice cream cone as a mic, but I laugh at how the guy in charge is answering the questions completely factual with zero spin. Something that would never happen.
the guy checking the oil is Jimmy Dynomite Walker, of the "good times" tv show, there was a Yuban coffee commercial years ago where the woman says Jim never has a second cup of coffee that was a take off from that
They weren't laminating his ID that was a credit card machine back then it imprinted copies of credit cards. The gag was he had to pay for the gas with his credit card
4:08 they weren’t laminating his ID. That was the pre-Internet way of scanning a credit card. Your card would be placed on the device and a receipt would be placed on top to make carbon copies after The little thing which I don’t know the name of was slid across the receipt in which your credit card information would be printed on it. That was something you would do when you bought gas or went to a retail store to make your purchases with a credit card. This will not take place on an airplane. Same thing with the mechanic lifting up the hood/bonnet checking the oil. This is a slapstick comedy with a bunch of things that were not happening in real life not even back then.
They weren’t laminating his ID😂. That scene Jimmie Walker from “Good Times “ fame was lifting the hood, checking the oil and washing the windows like a gas station attendant used to do for your car in the full serve islands. In those days that would make a copy of your credit card onto a receipt that you sign for your bill. No electronic scanners back then. The subtitles were making fun of the black guys speaking jive, translating their slang.
The subtitles weren't poking fun at the guys. Rather, the subtitles were •intentionally bad• -- as in, missing ninety percent of the nuance. The film creators were making jokes on multiple levels with this gag. Level one, was the incomprehensible slang. Level two was the bad subtitles (the movie RECOGNIZES that the guys, though speaking English words, are effectively speaking a foreign language needing translating... and at the same time, the film is making fun of OTHER MOVIES with subtitles that were being shown to American audiences, with the subtitles in those other films, accidentally or deliberately missing the nuance or spicy meaning (or both) of the original language). The 'multiple levels' shows up in other parts of the film also, like when Captain Oever hands his credit card to a guy outside the plane to process it: Level one: The cockpit window wouldn't open (at least, not that way); Level two: an airline pilot (we hope!) wouldn't be buying or selling anything as his aircraft is prepping to take off; Level three - the gag is in close proximity to Jimmie Walker "checking the oil" and wiping the windshield, as if the encounter were a car at a gas station (and the pilot...(driver of the passenger car?) handed his credit card to the gas station attendant as payment.). Level four - which just occurred to me: If the captain were presenting his credit card for payment... is the airline really having the PILOT pay, with his own money for refilling a commercial aircraft with jet fuel?
They weren't laminating his ID - that was how credit cards were charged in the past. You put the card on a two-part carbon sheet and rubbed a copy for billing later. One copy for the customer, one for the company billing. There was no commercial Internet in the 1980s. Commercial Internet transactions didn't exist until around 1992 and beyond.
The two actors speaking Jive were told to just make up their lines. Later, the woman who came forward because she also spoke Jive was Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver in the tv sitcom, Leave it to Beaver, of the late '50's. June was the perfect unflappable housewife (as envisioned at the time) in the so-vanilla suburbia, devoting her life to doing the housework and making sure she had dinner on the table on time for her husband and boys. She was always shown dressed up with an iconic string of pearls, and feminists at the time hated her character as she above all embodied the role they were so trying to get away from. Later on, she recalled how much fun she had with the two guys playing the business men, coming up with her lines. ---- Speculation continues on the horse in the bed. Frankly, I think it is a spoof on the most iconic scene in the recent blockbuster movie, The Godfather, where a Hollywood producer wakes up next to the bloodied severed head of his prize race horse, because he had turned down "the offer he couldn't refuse."
That "lamination" is how we used to pay gas. The customer got one paper, the store got the second paper, & the gasoline company got the third. The pilot was asking the boy homosexual questions.
The mechanic was checking the oil, under the hood, as you would with a car. And actually no, they weren't laminating the pilot's ID. That was an old school credit card machine that would process the sale and make a carbon copy. Looks pretty quaint now. And, though the back story would take too long, the "George Zip" speech is a parody reference to a character and scene from a 1940 Ronald Reagan movie titled "Knute Rockne, All American".
FYI, the mechanic was JJ Walker.
This one is an all-time classic. Never gets old.
19:01 you are one of the few reactors who get the “it’s an entirely different kind of flying altogether” joke.
Also, one if the few to catch the whacking material sign.
the "eggs in a mouth" is an old fashioned magic trick
I saw this movie when I was 6 years old. For years I was terrified that if I got poisoned, that I would throw up whole eggs.
@4:05, they were not laminating his ID. They were taking an imprint of a credit card. Back then, they did not have chip readers or magnetic stripe readers. The name, card number, and expiration date were in raised letters and numerals. The imprinter was a manual device that physically imprinted that information onto carbon (and later carbonless) forms by pressing the raised letters/numerals against the forms.
The vulture was on Ted’s shoulder because of the imminent death it sensed
The 2 people arguing over the zones were real announcers from LAX and they were married in real life.
AND their voices were familiar to frequent travelers going through LAX.
Actually, no they weren’t. This is one of those rumours that gets changed/misinterpreted and then repeated over time. They didn’t work at LAX. They worked for the PA equipment company as salespeople.
@@tempsitch5632 Good to know going forward. Thanks!
Let’s hope that incident finally gave Ted a more interesting story to tell people. That alone could save many lives.
That's hillarious 😅😅😅
Ethel Merman, the lady playing one of the guys at the psychiatric hospital (who is singing) is one of the lead Actors in It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, one of the funniest of the funniest movies ever made. On league with Blazing Saddles, for it's crazy antics except much longer.
I love Mad World, but I've only seen one millennial react to it and she hated it because, unlike those of us who grew up watching the amazing cast in mid-century movies and on TV, she didn't know anybody in the movie, except for the Three Stooges. Blazing Saddles still has relevance, but no one under the age of 50 should try to watch Mad World...they just won't get it.
@flarrfan if told ahead of time that it is a long movie with a break, young people watch it. I give that reference before starting the movie for people who never watched it before.
The movie that made quirky comedy movies cool.
This amazing movie is actually a remake of a late 1950's B film, "Zero Hour," which was supposed to be a serious drama. It's fun to watch scenes from the first movie and realize that many were presented EXACTLY the same way in the movie Airplane! The director kept having to stop the actors and remind them not to try to make the scenes funny - they had to act hem as seriously as in the original. And yet they were hysterically funny.
You can find several TH-cam episodes comparing the two movies, side-by-side. Zero Hour is an over-the-top melodramatic movie, which can seem corny in later years.
This movie is one big chain-dad-joke, and we love it!
The little girl didn't die, she just traded the plane for a cruise ship. 😂
A love boat, so to speak.
Is it cannon
Actually, after they load her into the ambulance, you can hear it crash off-screen.
@@alexanderdgray Everyone else in the ambulance died, the little girl was the only survivor. 😂
Radar range is the old name for microwaves. Specifically, there was a brand called Amana radar range.
Yes, because the effect of microwaves to heat things was discovered when a technician was working around a radar dish and found a chocolate bar had melted in his pocket.
Best of all the actor running the radar range is the guy who plays Mike in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
there is a "final scene" (after the credits) ... the passenger is STILL in the taxi - and says he'll give them another 10 minutes
"But that's it!"
@@smeglor1 im sorry - i dont know the exact line
What's more, the person in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, the man who campaigned to get California's Prop 13 passed, which limited property tax increases. A weird cameo, but there you go.
I’ve been so crabby this week…
K you’re a shining light just lifting me up I’m cry laughing right now with you🤣🤣🤣
Thank you K!💞
Every time you see this movie, you notice something you missed in previous views.
18:00 Too many people focus on the dog and don't notice the mirror trick.
Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy.
“Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”
In fact, ZAZ had to actively push back on the studios trying to push comedic actors on them--Dom DeLouise was suggested, Eddie Murphy, a few others. The held firm that the comedy of the movie only worked if everyone it it DIDN'T realized they were in a comedy. Except for Johnny.
Didja notice what was on the shelves at the Mayo Clinic?
I thought for sure you had reacted to this before.
Your reactions make funny movies even funnier
One of the things that 99% of the viewers miss is the sound the plane makes while in flight. It is supposed to be a jet airliner with loud jet engines BUT throughout the movie it makes the sound of an older plane with propeller engines.
100% of them miss the Rex Kramer mirror and June Cleaver Jive interpreter
You both know your stuff
@@TheCpage66 Not everyone. I missed it my entire life until a reactor laughed about him walking out of the mirror.
Sounded strange because Kareem was reading straight off a tele prompter. 😅 but we love him he is a beloved athlete anyway ,!
No, I think that was deliberate. In Zero Hour, the co-pilot was Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, a football star at the time, apparently chosen more for his star-power than his acting skills. In Airplane, they wanted Pete Rose but he was embroiled in his gambling problems.
@@johnnehrich9601 the Rose gambling scandal didn't surface for another 4 years.
@@mikecarew8329 That's what I read on the internet - which of course is NEVER wrong. There may have been other reasons they didn't use him OR maybe they never wanted him in the first place.
@@johnnehrich9601All your comments are wrong. Stop repeating things you half heard and half understand.
4:20 they were swiping his credit card, like they used to do back in those days. Obviously, he wasn’t paying for it, but that was the joke. 20:40 back in the day, when people had panic attacks, a common practice was to slap them out of it, literally. Since women “panic” more, they made the joke about her and just went overboard with it for comedic effect. Of course, the feminists will say that it’s “misogyny”
Before 911, people could freely roam around in the airport, even if they were not passengers, and even if they weren’t there to pick up passengers. That is why there were so many religious solicitors in the airport. I don’t know when that stopped but definitely everything stopped after 911. Passengers are allowed in certain areas now.
I looked it up: It was a 1992 US Supreme Court ruling: soliciting at airports, is not protected speech under the first amendment - therefore, airports had the legal right to stop it, and they did so. I imagine that 9-11 brought a further tightening of standards.
I can remember as a kid Johnny Carson joking about the Hare Krishna type of religious people at the airports. I never witnessed it myself living in southwest Missouri. Plus we never flew. Our vacations were taken by driving around the US.
One of the religious zealots was played by Jim Abrahams, one of the directors.
2:21 those two are Jerry and David, the other two directors.
The woman who was having trouble putting on her make up is Charlotte Zucker, their mother
their mom, Charlotte appears as one of the women passengers (the makeup lady, I think)
There was a hit song back then by a (French?) nun, she sang and played a guitar. I think that's why.
That scene was a parody of a very similar scene from Airport '75. The sick little girl in that scene was played by Linda Blair. The idea of a singing nun was probably inspired by Sœur Sourire (French for 'Sister Smile') often called The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries, a Belgian Catholic singer-songwriter and former member of the Dominican Order. She had a worldwide hit in 1963 with Dominique.
@@Zebred2001 That's the one! Thanks! 😀
Not to be confused with The Flying Nun. Though she was on an airplane, so I guess she qualifies as that, too.
The Hays Code, which only had been lifted a decade earlier, forbid making fun of religious people. The Singing Nun was hit movie in 1966, starting Debbie Reynolds.
In order to get the photo for the photo of their "Nun's Life," the directors went down to the beach and found a surfer who was willing to don a nun's outfit just long enough for a shot.
By the way, it was the replacement of the Hays Code with our current letter-code rating system in 1969 (allowing multiple levels of censorship) which opened the field in the following decades for a whole rash of zany often-gross movies with lots of sexual references like this movie, Blazing Saddles, Rocky Horror, Life of Brian, Holy Grail, and the Naked Gun series (and others I'm forgetting at the moment).
Universal Pictures threatened to sue if the nun sang in the film because of the same scene in Airport '75; Lorna Patterson sings well, but Maureen McGovern playing the nun was famous for her singing.
You have the best laugh and a fantastic sense of humour.
You're on fire with these classic films:)
the couple on the intercom were married in real life.
mechanic is jimmie walker (good times actor)
jive translator was Barbara Billingsly - mother on Leave it to Beaver. Directors originally wanted Harriet Nelson (ozzie and harriet) but she rejected due to the crudeness of the script
george zip speech is a parody of the speech in Knute Rockney but instead his was George Gip (The Gipper). at the end of the scene, the fighting irish song is playing
Naked Gun film series is a must
this movie is voted as one of the best movies of all time
"I just want to tell you both good luck, we're counting on you."
2:21 That's still my favorite joke in this whole movie.
The horse sharing that woman's bed was her "stud".
The pilot handed the guy his credit card to run through a credit card reader.
It's fun seeing people who don't expect this humor. BTW I heard the announcers arguing about the red/white zones were the actual couple who recorded those for LAX
I thought she was going to die laughing. Imagine if she actually got all the jokes that went over her head because she's too young to understand them.
I am 20 minutes in and this might be your best reaction ever so glad to see you laughing instead of crying
This film has been rated to have the most laughs per minute.
It’s a comedic remake of an original movie from 1957 called ZERO HOUR - th-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/w-d-xo.html
BTW, the producers bought the rights to ZERO HOUR just to avoid being sued.
References:
Opening plane in clouds mimicking the movie JAWS.
Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home (coffee commercial spoof) - th-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w-/w-d-xo.html same actress in real coffee commercial
Boy/Girl Coffee Scene: The Original and the Spoof - th-cam.com/video/yH6KW6eMWJI/w-d-xo.html
From Here to Eternity- Beach Scene - th-cam.com/video/7TlDNMc_hFk/w-d-xo.html
Also:
He walked out from the mirror at Captain Kramer’s house. A lot of people don’t catch that joke.
A lot of people miss the jokes throughout the credits and afterwards the man in the cab says he’s going to give him another 20 minutes but that’s it. - th-cam.com/video/DPeYFD-vVHg/w-d-xo.html
In fact, according to their book, they would do test screenings and record audience reaction, and would cut jokes that audiences were missing because they were still laughing from the previous joke.
No, he was checking the oil under the hood of the airplane lol
As far as the nun and sick girl, that was taken from one movie in a series of about five airplane disaster movies that came out during the 70s. The guitar may have been in there too but I can't remember. Haven't seen those movies since I saw them in the late 70s and early 80s when they would air on one of our US national network tv stations.
The horse, a male horse used for breeding is called a stud. Stud is also old slang for a sexy man so the wife is cheating on her husband with a stud.
Ohh I didnt get that, thanks for explaining
@@YoursAlwaysKemi You weren't far off with your first guess, either. Also, there is a strong visual reference to the Godfather film with its horse head in the bed visual going on. The joke worked on a lot of levels back in the 80s.
The nun with the guitar was a reference to the movie The Singing Nun.
Also Helen Reddy as the nun who sings in Airport '75.
a comedy where everyone is dead serious! 😂
"What do you make of this, Johnny?"
Good for a laugh every time. I love this movie. It is a great parody of the movie ' Zero hour'.
Hello KSO! Love your reactions, but I have to say, a clear sign that you are young is when you missed well over half of the jokes in this film because they're based on topical references from the day! Still enjoyable just because of the physical humor, but I had just as much fun watching the reference humor sail over your head, i.e. the Maxwell House coffee commercial. You're awesome!
Just want to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you
I like how you are aren't like all these new reactors that are always saying 'We don't this' or 'Im not', self inserting themselves in the film. You respect the characters as being as they are, with them reacting with their own personalities. Badly explained, but it hit me when you were saying 'them' during one of the scenes instead of yourself.
Strange you cut out the jive talking old lady, usually that is a good laugh.
One of the things I'm always tickled by and no one else seems to be, is when the reporters are talking to the airline guys. Everyone always laughs at the ice cream cone as a mic, but I laugh at how the guy in charge is answering the questions completely factual with zero spin. Something that would never happen.
the guy checking the oil is Jimmy Dynomite Walker, of the "good times" tv show, there was a Yuban coffee commercial years ago where the woman says Jim never has a second cup of coffee that was a take off from that
Not only that, but the woman in Airplane is the actress who was the one in the commercial.
More than a take off - it is the same actress.
You're watching this? Surely you can't be serious?
Why? It's a freaking legendary comedy.
I am serious, and don't call me shirley!
@@darena55 Ah....*slaps forehead^ 😂
@@jasp19😀👍
They weren't laminating his ID that was a credit card machine back then it imprinted copies of credit cards. The gag was he had to pay for the gas with his credit card
FYI - the engines are on the wings - not the front.
Fun movie !
4:08 they weren’t laminating his ID. That was the pre-Internet way of scanning a credit card.
Your card would be placed on the device and a receipt would be placed on top to make carbon copies after The little thing which I don’t know the name of was slid across the receipt in which your credit card information would be printed on it.
That was something you would do when you bought gas or went to a retail store to make your purchases with a credit card. This will not take place on an airplane. Same thing with the mechanic lifting up the hood/bonnet checking the oil.
This is a slapstick comedy with a bunch of things that were not happening in real life not even back then.
Credit cars had embossed (raised) names and info, which made an impression via the carbonless carbon paper.
They weren’t laminating his ID😂. That scene Jimmie Walker from “Good Times “ fame was lifting the hood, checking the oil and washing the windows like a gas station attendant used to do for your car in the full serve islands. In those days that would make a copy of your credit card onto a receipt that you sign for your bill. No electronic scanners back then. The subtitles were making fun of the black guys speaking jive, translating their slang.
The subtitles weren't poking fun at the guys. Rather, the subtitles were •intentionally bad• -- as in, missing ninety percent of the nuance. The film creators were making jokes on multiple levels with this gag. Level one, was the incomprehensible slang. Level two was the bad subtitles (the movie RECOGNIZES that the guys, though speaking English words, are effectively speaking a foreign language needing translating... and at the same time, the film is making fun of OTHER MOVIES with subtitles that were being shown to American audiences, with the subtitles in those other films, accidentally or deliberately missing the nuance or spicy meaning (or both) of the original language).
The 'multiple levels' shows up in other parts of the film also, like when Captain Oever hands his credit card to a guy outside the plane to process it: Level one: The cockpit window wouldn't open (at least, not that way); Level two: an airline pilot (we hope!) wouldn't be buying or selling anything as his aircraft is prepping to take off; Level three - the gag is in close proximity to Jimmie Walker "checking the oil" and wiping the windshield, as if the encounter were a car at a gas station (and the pilot...(driver of the passenger car?) handed his credit card to the gas station attendant as payment.). Level four - which just occurred to me: If the captain were presenting his credit card for payment... is the airline really having the PILOT pay, with his own money for refilling a commercial aircraft with jet fuel?
19:26 $113.30 Unless you're a government accountant. ;-)
They weren't laminating his ID - that was how credit cards were charged in the past. You put the card on a two-part carbon sheet and rubbed a copy for billing later. One copy for the customer, one for the company billing. There was no commercial Internet in the 1980s. Commercial Internet transactions didn't exist until around 1992 and beyond.
This movie is a parody of the disaster film "Airport", which was not a comedy.
Seems Like Old Times, Arthur, Tootsie and 9-5 are all great comedies. Around the same time. Early 80s.
19:29 the fare was $113.30.
A ton in 1980!
@mikecarew8329 but not the two orders of magnitude she thought.
@ obv not
I thought you already reacted to this? Is this a re-upload?
the horse had to do with the Godfather, they just had the head she had the whole horse
😅 You didn't edit out the partial 🍈🍈I watched this movie as a teenager and couldn't stop laughing. But has a lot of sexual connotations.
The two actors speaking Jive were told to just make up their lines. Later, the woman who came forward because she also spoke Jive was Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver in the tv sitcom, Leave it to Beaver, of the late '50's. June was the perfect unflappable housewife (as envisioned at the time) in the so-vanilla suburbia, devoting her life to doing the housework and making sure she had dinner on the table on time for her husband and boys. She was always shown dressed up with an iconic string of pearls, and feminists at the time hated her character as she above all embodied the role they were so trying to get away from.
Later on, she recalled how much fun she had with the two guys playing the business men, coming up with her lines.
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Speculation continues on the horse in the bed. Frankly, I think it is a spoof on the most iconic scene in the recent blockbuster movie, The Godfather, where a Hollywood producer wakes up next to the bloodied severed head of his prize race horse, because he had turned down "the offer he couldn't refuse."
Johnny will always be my favorite character...
19:46 Once they reach 88 mph, those Indians won't even be there.
lol. Awesome. They predicted Back to the Future. ;-)
That "lamination" is how we used to pay gas. The customer got one paper, the store got the second paper, & the gasoline company got the third.
The pilot was asking the boy homosexual questions.
Running the charge a plate! Not laminating id