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- I watch a classic parody movie in AIRPLANE (1980) for the FIRST TIME! 🤣
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This spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot with a drinking problem must cooperate with his ex-girlfriend turned stewardess to bring the plane to a safe landing.
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The reason you can't understand the jive-talk is because the actors who were playing those roles thought the original jive written in the script was too easily understood. They intentionally made it very hard to pick up on what they were saying, lol. And the white woman who spoke jive was best know for playing June Cleaver in one of the most wholesome sitcoms of the early days of TV. To have her not only speak jive but to rudely clap back at the two dudes was such a shock.
That's not exactly true. I know that the phrase, "Cut me some slack Jack" means don't be so hard on me or give me a break. When one says, "That honkey be messin' with my old lady, got to be runnin' cold upside his head" translates to "That white man fooling around with my wife doesn't know what trouble he's getting into" , when one says, "I dug her rap" translates to "I understand what she said" "Legga down a smack em' yack em'."
June Cleaver was the whitest woman in the history of Television LMAO
I saw it in the theater when it came out (old fart I guess). So those in my age bracket would have instantly recognized ''America's Mom'', sweet, and very white. Yep, shocking...and hilarious.
At the time I even recognized Howard Jarvis in the cab. If you knew his story that weird cameo was also hilarious.
That's some pretty smart comedy disguised as a goofy dumb movie. The casting was brilliant but I get that the memory of many of the actors is fading: Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem...
Fortunately there's so much there it still holds up today.
People miss that when the two gentlemen order dinner they aren't speaking "jive", but short order cook slang.
Thank you for sharing that with me. I understand most of the references, but not the background on all of them. Blazing Saddles is another outrageous and wonderful film written, produced and acted in by Mel Brooks. Also full of references and a mockery of racism and prejudices of all kinds. Mel Brooks also wrote and produced a very successful Broadway production called "Springtime for Hitler". No kidding. And there is a scene up on stage of a big chorus line of Waffen SS officers dancing to the music of "Springtime for Hitler, music and lyrics. Hysterically funny and offensive only to whose who do not pick up on the references.
This wasn't just the greatest parody movie of its time, it's arguably the greatest parody movie of all time. There are a *ton* of references, but the great thing about it is that it's funny even if you don't know what they are.
This also launched Leslie Nielsen's career in comedy. Before this, he was known for dramatic roles, but he was so dead on that it led to Police Squad! and the Naked Gun movies, which he also made with the writers/directors of this movie.
I was coming in to say the exact same thing. Best parody ever, especially because it understood that parody works best when played completely straight.
This is THE movie of it's time in cinema. Almost every other parody movie following this one is 90% drawing on this one.
@@GeraldWalls And generally missing the point.
Such a strong parody that the creators actually *bought* the rights to the original 1950s Disaster movie that it most closely parodies 😀 (Edit: I had to check, the original film was "Zero Hour" - Airplane! was effectively the first "parody" movie, a concept that is now well established)
Plus in the late 70s there were a slew of disaster movies…. So it’s also a parody of the movies of the time.
"Don't be so naive, Arthur." Kareem getting visibly annoyed when Joey recognizes him is low-key one of my favorite scenes in this whole movie.
One of the best parts of that scene the best I think is it just shows that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar actually had a sense of humor and could laugh at himself due to the fact he let the kid give the speech about his dad calling him a slacker on defense Etc most of what the kid said were actually legit things people were saying about Kareem.
I get the whole point of him having the name Roger Murdock for those "Roger" ... "huh.?" Jokes.. Personally I think it would have been an absolutely hilarious one if he responded to the kid saying he was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with " No kid, you must be mistaking me for somebody else my name is Lew Alcindor, and I'm a pilot ... "
@@RobwLPOC His cameo was also basically spoofing the trend in the 1970s of professional athletes trying to become movie stars.
@@patrickflanagan3762 This film is a direct spoof of Zero Hour where football player Elroy Hirsch played a co-pilot.
A great film - the unfortunate part is allot of the jokes and parodies are from the 1960’s and 1970’s so younger reactors won’t have context. The disco dance scene is from “Saturday Night Fever” (1977), John Travolta’s iconic dance drama - often considered synonymous with 1970’s culture. The lady who said “Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home” is from a 1970’s tv commercial for Yuban ground coffee. Another topical reference was to ex-president Jerold Ford (who had an undeserved reputation as being not too bright). The scene where Leslie Nielsen inspires Ted to land the plane and “win one for the zipper” (while rousing college band music plays) is from a famous scene from the film “Knute Rockne All American” (1940) about a famous Norte Dame football player and coach. The early scene where Ted and Elaine are embracing on the beach in the surf is taken from “From Here to Eternity” (1953) another iconic scene from a steamy romance for its time.
Knute Rockne All American starred Ronald Reagan, that is, 40 years before this. In 1980 at the time of the movie filming, Ronald Reagan was running for President. "Win one for the gipper," was I guess, about George Gipp rather than George Zipp. And they play the Notre Dame fight song a couple times.
The second cup of coffee joke was uttered by the actual lady in the commercial being parodied.
The battling PA announcers in the beginning were a married couple who actually did the PA announcing at LAX and voices were recognizable by frequent travelers to and from Los Angeles.
Gerald
The reason "Knute Rockne All American" was referenced was Ronald Reagan played the part of George Gipp(an actual player for Notre Dame. He was the team captain, and was nicknamed "The Gipper". Unfortunately Gipp died while still in school. And in the movie Knute Rockne before a big game against Army told his team to "Win one for the Gipper" while George was on his deathbed).
Reagan was running for President in 1980, and was all over the news.
"Why say that in sync, together?"
Me-"it's an entirely different type of flying. Altogether." Really LOOK at that sentence.
The dancing scene spoofs "Saturday Night Fever", John Travolta's big 70s break.
A joke that you probably missed was in the psych ward. It was a common trope for a shell shock soldier to think they were Ethel Merman, a famous singer at the time. In the scene here the soldier who thinks he is Ethel Merman is played by Ethel Merman.
I caught and laughed at that joke my first time watching, despite never having heard of Ethel Merman, seen what she looked like or knowing what she was famous for :D It just logically followed in a movie like this, when someone says that a man recovering in the same hospital room thinks he's ~insert female name~ and then the camera goes to an actual woman, getting out of a hospital bed as she's singing and being brought back to bed by doctors. The only way that would be a joke, was if Ethel Merman was a singer and it was really her portraying the shell-shocked soldier, lol.
This movie was about a 60 percent shot for shot parody of the 1957 movie Zero Hour. It also combined parodies of scenes from other movies, TV shows and commercials. Being born in the 90s you were bound to miss those jokes. But it was also filled with sight gags and puns that you should get. It also took several actors that had been known to always play serious roles and trolled their previous performances. It was created by the Zucker Brothers which followed this up with the Naked Gun series.
lots of details everywhere, and even when knowing more movies and other things, it takes several rewatches to get most (still not all) of them.
btw: the title of this movie is "Airplane!" while the other movie's title is "Zero Hour!" (both with a "!")
The airports were full of people begging for donations to churches and charities before they tightened security in 2001. They could get really annoying. The Hare Krishna's in Los Angeles would dance at sing. The violence was cathartic for a lot of people.
I remember that in the theater when Stryker punches one of the religious nuts in the face the audience didn't laugh at it but cheered and applauded
The white lady speaking jive is the mother from an old TV show called *(leave it to Beaver)* who is the most straight lace woman in the world which makes that scene even more funny
That would be Barbara.
If you don't watch this movie DOZENS of times, you'll MISS something.
Most people miss things like the fact that you hear PROPELLER ENGINES on a jet. SO many subtle jokes you miss if you only watch this one time!!
That's because you have to take into consideration the age of the reactor. Youngsters in this generation have never flown a prop plane, so they would not even pick up on that. They also don't pick up the fact that we are looking at a scale model airplane and not a real Boeing 707.
I've seen it several times and only now did I notice the woman throwing her baby when the plane goes through the window. 2:05
Blazing Saddle’s is an absolute must! We need to get back to laughing at each other and knowing we are all the same ❤
Indeed 🙏🏼
@@mrflickswatchesThen after Blazing Saddles. You must react to Robin Hood: Men in Tights. (Made by the same director.)
Blind reactions are very much preferred. This is the very first of its kind and the over the top humor still has people laughing today. Timeless.
The wife who said Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home was a very popular TV commercial at the time
The Jive Lady is Barbara Billingsly, June Cleaver of "Leave it to Beaver" one of the most famous TV Mom's Ever.
The last person we would expect, but she was hip to the jive.
Ya'll should try to find the interview where she talks about it
I’m 50 y/o, this is one of the earliest movies I remember my parents laughing hysterically at. I only understood some of it, but as I got older and saw more movies, it gets funnier. As an old man now, I appreciate it more than ever. Even though this movie parodied older movies, there are plenty of movies that parodied this one.
I'm 55 and saw it in the theater. Had and have the same reaction you do. As a young boy the absurdity was enough, now that I'm older, the references are more meaningful.
When this movie came out in theaters my parents took us to see it. It was so funny that My grandparents took us the very next day to see it again. Saturday night fever was the first rated R movie I saw in the theater. I believe I was 12. How times have changed. Sure miss the good old days. I sure miss the way movies were made and the way they made you feel. Today’s movies have no feeling and hardly plots at all. Believe me I would go back to 1985 in a heartbeat. Love and prayers
So would I. Despite the fact that I was born in 1989 and wouldn't even exist yet. Still might choose it, lol.
There were a lot of catastrophe dramas during that time, one being the movie Zero Hour. This movie spoofs "Zero Hour" so closely (almost frame by frame), that before they released it, the producers bought the rights to "Zero Hour". Check out a great TH-cam video showing some scenes of the two movies side by side. th-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/w-d-xo.html
Airplane was the first of the "spoof movie" genre. It's essentially the father of every spoof movie ever done. And it is still one of the funniest just by your reaction to it! It also gave dramatic actors an entry into comedy. Nobody took advantage of that like Leslie Nielson, who despite showing up way after the movie had started, stole the show and went on to have a fantastic career doing comedy and spoofs.
Absolutely essential to watch to see how they matched it scene for scene.
This is an old spoof movie, which means it's a parody to even older movies, so no shame if you missed something. For the dancefloor scene, yes, Ted got it from this film, and this film got it from Saturday Night Fever.
Kids were given cough syrup on the plane back in the day to shut them up. And it was glorious.
5 years before the actual movie, there was a food poisoning outbreak on a plane due to contaminated omelets. Fortunately, the pilots hadn’t eaten them and were able to make an emergency landing. By luck, their biological clocks were still on Alaska time and they had ordered steak dinners.
The reason the drinks kept missing his mouth is cuz he had a "Serious Drinking Problem" like an alcoholic. lol, that one always cracks me up
It’s made funnier by repeating the joke when you least expect it 😂
I prefer if a reactor comes into a movie knowing nothing except the genre. Some movies, it’s important to know that it’s a comedy or whatnot or else you miss out on the first part of the story trying to figure it out.
Loved your reaction and looking forward to checking out more from you!
My parents didn't know.
Thought it was an Airport movie.
Saw it when I was 12.
There are so many things people miss no matter what. For example did you notice the airplane was making a propeller engine sound, not a jet engine.
I've seen a lot of reactions to this movie, but I can't recall anyone ever noticed the propeller sound 😅
Not only that, but the plane starts off with the soldier waving goodbye to his girl is done like a train. First a guy dressed like a railroad conductor who checks his pocket watch. The pilot pulls back on a throttle and the plane starts chugging faster and faster. And people could and did lean out of open coach doors for one last goodbye and the train pulls away from the station platform.
Also when Elaine throws Ted during the dance sequence if you look real close under the neon blue star light on the wall you can see Robert Hays crouching down waiting to switch places with his stunt double.
@@zcdat True. Mostly because these younger reactors have never flown on a prop airline to know what a turbo jet should sound like and it's really not a hilarious to even point out. No one also ever mentions that what we see is a scale model airplane and not a real Boeing 707.
Plus the gear shifter on the floor to get the plane rolling.
"Naked Gun" is a must after this. "Saturday Night Fever" is an experience you need as well.
FYI the dance scene originally came from "Saturday night fever. This movie launched Leslie Nielson's comedy career you definitely have to watch the naked gun series with Leslie. Imo,I prefer when reactors go in completely blind. This movie is funny even if you don't know any of the other films it referenced I only knew one. Great reaction keep up the good work ✌️.
“Do you want me to check the weather, Clarence?”
“No. Why don’t you take care of it.”
lol
The Zucker Brothers who made this (the ground crew at the beginning. Their mother was the "Make up" Lady) also made: Naked Gun Trilogy, Hot Shots 1 & 2, Top Secret and were the inspirations for a generation of parody movies all the way up to The Scream Movies. They also made "The Kentucky Fried Movie" several years BEFORE This as their first movie,
Kentucky Fried Movie would require a LOT of editing. Its basically soft porn, for today's standards. Top Secret spoofed early Elvis movies, and early spy movies.
Also, one thing to note. This was rated PG at the time. Yeah....exactly
Rumor has it that this movie was the reason the FAA required the Pilot and CoPilot to have have different dishes to avoid both of them falling ill.
yes that's true
the amount of time it took you to process that mayo clinic joke was perfection lol
13:09 This REALLY freaked me out when I was a kid.
Lady has one egg in her mouth that never comes out.
Leslie Nielsen has very tight fingers, magician's fingers.
I have skinny fingers and big knuckles so you can see between them. I could never do sleight of hand.
Nielsen palms each egg under the heel of his thumb and raises it in front of the lady's mouth and blocks the view with his whole hand.
Your brain tells you what should be happening, that you can't see, so you just observe what you expect to see.
What really does happen is that Nielsen uses the tip of his thumb to push the egg back into her mouth while he curls his fingers around the egg in his palm, which he then reveals.
He puts the egg down and then picks up another egg from just offscreen and does it, again.
The tiny bird is in the cup which has thin paper taped over it.
When he breaks the egg, it is an empty shell, and he pushes it through the paper, releasing the tiny bird.
It was a PERFECT coincidence that he watched as the bird happened to fly back through the shot, and is hilarious.
Special effects, Baby!
Movies is MAGIC!
Leslie Nelson is basically the godfather of these 80s and 90s slapstick movies
my aunt owns the house Leslie lived in until he was about 4 years old in Regina Canada 🙂
"Can you fly this plane, and land it?"
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious... and don't call me Shirley."
Classic comedy. Laugh a minute and very quotable.
Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Julie Hagerty.
Celebrity Pilot Fact: In a 2008 interview, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a European flight and asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during takeoff so the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdoch.
Better Living Through Chemistry Fact: At one point, a woman (Nora Meerbaum) refuses alcohol in favor of sniffing cocaine. Although seemingly righteous and indigent at being offered alcohol, she is correct in refusing a depressant (whiskey) if she was going to take a stimulant (cocaine).
White-Red Zone Fact: Regarding the argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life.
Casting Notes Fact: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.
Bridges during filming also became frustrated because he did not understand the humor and what exactly was going on. Robert Stack told him "They just want us to be us" and he got it.
The subtitles for the Jive Bros. is so great because when they say “shiiiiiiiiitttt”, the subtitle says “GOLLY.” I frequently watch and quote this movie and I’m 46.
oh golly
12:50 The lady thinking her husband "never has a second cup of coffee at home" is from a famous series of coffee commercials in the 70s! I love your reaction to this film...same as mine the first time I saw it.
I didn’t know about the commercials. I just thought it was an overly paranoid wife which is just as funny
@@Captainaceguy00 YES either way it works! The paranoid coffee wife commercials were pretty common in the 70s.
The lady that is speaking jive is Barbara Billingsley who played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, which made her speaking jive all the funnier. The actor walking Ted thru landing the plane is Robert Stack, He hosted a long running program called "Unsolved Mysteries" and much of his dialogue here mimics how he would deliver it on that show. This movie was hilarious when it came out. Yes, you'll miss a lot of the references, but there is still enough comedy to keep you laughing even if you don't know a lot of the references.
I saw in an interview, She didn't tell her family that she was in this movie, so when her teenage grandson went to go see it with friends and she popped up, he apparently stood up in the theater and yelled (in shock) thats my Grandma.
This was back when PG actually meant that parental guidance was needed. I still remember talking about how movies have changed with my sister's fiancé. He understood Jaws being PG, but he could not believe that this film was as well.
The scene in Ted was a parody of this dance scene but this dance scene was a parody of Saturday night fever! This was the funniest thing ever when I was a kid! You should definitely do the naked gun! Deadpan humor at its finest!!
The "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a reference to a common coffee commercial from the 1970s. The extra layer of the joke is that the woman who plays that role in the Airplane movie is the same actress who was in that coffee commercial. I'm not 100% certain if it was the same guy though. Maybe someone else can confirm. th-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w/w-d-xo.html
The "extra", extra layer is that the producers didn't know they had hired the same actress.
to list every pop culture reference in this movie would require to write a book. the dance scene was from "saturday night fever." the beach/seaweed scene was from "from here to eternity." the mention of the "turkish prison" was a reference to "midnight express." the "win one for the zipper" was from "Knute Rockne, All American." in the movie there's a famous line "win one for the gipper." and the music behind the comment was the notre dame college football theme that was also in that movie. and there's 100 more references on top of those.
the egg scene was a common magician's trick, the original egg never leaves the lady's mouth. nielson uses slight of hand to make it appear he's removing different eggs from her mouth. the whole movie was practically a shot-by-shot remake of the 1957 low budget disaster film "zero hour." with jokes and sight gags added. the directors bought the rights to "zero hour" to keep from being sued.
Leslie Nielsen is the actor you recognize he was in naked gun. He died in 2010. RIP.
Airplane/Zucker Brothers was the forefront of the absurd parody genre that continued into Scary Movie, and Not Another Teen Movie types. Airplane was sending up a lot of disaster movies, commercials very prominent at the time, and at the time the leads were VERY serious actors that used this to transition into comedy.
"Why do you insist on drinking like that, bruh?" Because he has a drinking problem.
There is no way in the world they would allow anyone to make this movie today, NO WAY! I’m not gonna lie, I miss this time, all the off the wall jokes. They weren’t trying to be mean towards anyone. The humor was so much more “free”. I’m not saying no one was offended, but not like now. There was no one expressing how offended they were, threatening cancellation of anyone. This is a totally different world we live in now. Sometimes I wish I could go back. Oh well, life goes on! 🤷🏾♂️
BS. They said that about Blazing Saddles for decades, then they made Tropic Thunder. There have always been offended people, and always been comedians pushing the envelope. Life of Brian had people so offended they actually banned it in some places, and that came out around the same time as Airplane!
Such a dumb response
The plot of the movie is mainly based on, and spoofing a really old move called Zero Hour! But there was also a movie called Airport in the 70s that had 2 sequels that I think also inspired some of this.
The beach scene was a spoof of a scene from a really old movie called From Here to Eternity.
The dance scene was a spoof of the John Travolta movie, Saturday Night Fever.
The guy who thought he was Ethel Merman was played by the real Ethel Merman. She was a very famous Broadway star (the song she sang in that scene was from the Broadway musical, Gypsy that she also starred in), but she's also famous for doing a few movies.
The nun with the guitar was a spoof of several singing nun movies from the 60s which were in turn inspired by an actual singing nun who recorded a song in France.
The woman who kept thinking, "Jim never does that at home" was a spoof of a coffee commercial from that time where they would switch the coffee served in fancy restaurants with instant coffee and the wife was always shocked that her husband loved their coffee more than hers.
The horse in the bed was probably partly what you thought, but mainly it was a spoof of a scene from the Godfather when a rival gang member puts a decapitated horse's head in another character's bed as a warning.
I think the line, "That's just what they'd be expecting" was just a spoof of many old war movies where the hero would say that about the enemy.
Same with the random spear thrown in the background; that was a spoof of a lot of old jungle movies where that would happen.
That's all I can think of.
All of those observations would not be noticed by anyone born in the 90's and later. Just not part of their culture or our culture today. Those are all examples reflecting 60s and 70s pop culture. For clarity, I read in an article years ago that the actual horse in bed scene was not a spoof of the Godfather but an inside joke that Mrs. Over is cheating on her husband with a horse.
Well, sure, that was clearly what was
happening, she was cheating on her
husband with a horse, and the absurdity of
that made it funny even for those who didn't get the Godfather reference. For those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s, there were only 4 networks, and all the UHF channels showed old movies (for free) so there was a greater likelihood that most of us would have seen all the classic movies as well as all the commercials and top TV shows, so we had more of a shaired culture so we got most of the references. Now with streaming TV and thousands of cable channels, there's no guarantee anyone will get any references anymore@@dunhill1
12:52 so, that woman who says "Jim never vomits at home", she was in some TV ads back then, and the reason I remember this even though I was born in 1978 is that they were still playing these ads like ten years later....Jim drinks a certain brand of coffee and asks for another cup, and she says to herself "Jim never has a 2nd cup at home", so as to suggest that this brand tastes good. lol 🙂
The movie was a take-off on the airplane crash movie genre in the 70's, but more specifically a scene by scene parody of the movie "Zero Hour" which was much older. There were also timely jokes about commercials of the day (Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home) and (Leon's getting larger). And the dance sequence was from Saturday Night Fever, which is worth watching, but only one scene is related to this movie. Other than zero hour, which probably isn't worth your time, there is nothing else specific you should watch in order to get more of this. Although you should know that really was Ethel Merman, a Broadway star of the 40's-60's.
Whatever you were thinking about what the horse in bed meant......we have a winner!
Just found your channel...great reaction! I think it's a testament to this film that it still holds up despite some dated jokes. The real joke for many of us was watching these actors we grew up with in serious roles totally spoofing themselves.
"Airplane!" isn't just the top comedy of the time period that it came out in, it has been on top of best comedy lists ever since. Sure, some jokes are dated but so many of the gags don't require knowledge of the references because they are so surprising and outlandish. I think this film is pretty damn timeless. A bona fide classic.
I highly recommend watching "Top Secret!" - it's made by the same directors and is their hidden gem IMO. Val Kilmer's first big movie role, and he kills it. The jokes are just as unexpected and "smart dumb" as in this film, but some of them are even more absurd. It's so so good.
I love you saying "that's a fair response" after the pterodactyl moment lol
I love that the copilot was Kareem Abdul Jabar. He keeps denying that he is a world-famous basketball player. Also, the guy who keeps pouring liquid on his face instead of in his mouth, is demonstrating what he called his "drinking problem".
Saturday Night Fever is the move that dance came from.
the horse in the bed thing is a Godfather reference. In the movie, the mob puts the head of a horse in some guy's bed to scare him, but in Airplane! They made the joke so that it's not only a horse head, but the whole horse who was ... well you got the rest
Yes, one of the most iconic scenes in that recent blockbuster movie that shocked audiences at the time.
Or simply that she's cheating on her husband with a stud.. :p
An hour and a half of the greatest dad jokes ever shown on camera
they stopped visits to the cock pit I think even years before 911. security protocols and airline regulations have changed so much from the 70s that I'm stoked when younger people catch the jokes...
it took me twenty years but I finally got the "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home"
its an old coffee commercial. where the wife (same actress) is at a party with her husband. he's offered a second cup of coffee where he accepts prompting that thought from her. turns out he only ever had one cup of coffee at home because the coffee she made wasn't that great and he was being polite.
I think the dancing scene came from Saterday Night Fever.
Leslie Nielsen's second movie was a Science Fiction Classic called Forbidden Planet. He was the young Captain that leads a group of space travelers to an unusual planet with a very unusual "monster." It's a serious film although there are some funny scenes. It introduced Robbie the Robot who ended up being the robot on the old Lost in Space television show in the 60's. For it's time it was a very well done science fiction movie. (Have to admit it was one of my husband's favorite sci-fi movies.) You don't necessarily need to watch this for your channel but you may be interested in watching it to see Leslie Nielsen in a serious role but you might find the mystery of the "monster" to be interesting.
This film succeeds by the actor playing it straight while the jokes occur in the background.
To fully get every pop culture joke you have to have been alive in the late 70s/early 80s in the US.
One part of the movie almost nobody gets is the one where Ted decides he will land the plane and you can hear the audience cheering and clapping. My dad told me that back in the 40s and 50s there was this type of generic movie where there was a hero that past the first half of the movie would feel beaten and defeated and would give up. Then, close to the end, he would re-gain self-confidence somehow and would decide he would face the villain. At that point, audiences from back then would cheer and clap for real in the theater.
The Naked Gun series with Leslie Nielsen is by this same team. Same type of comedy presentation.
This is the Godfather of spoof movies.
In hindsight, watching The Big Lebowski's dad playing a major drug addict is unintentionally hilarious
to me the best type of reaction is where there are two reactors, one who has never seen it and one who has to be able to explain things if need be
The "Jim never has a second cup at home" bit was from a coffee commercial.
And I might be wrong, but I believe it was the same actress.
@@Clell65619 you're right. I forgot about that. 👍
The brand was Yuban and the ad can be found on YT. According to the actress it was just a coincidence that she was the one from the commercial
This was during an awesome time when people could make movies like this because comedy was comedy and people didn’t take every damn thing seriously
The slapstick over-the-top comedy of this era is timeless. There’s so many subtle and clever joke’s happening so quickly. It makes it great to rewatch and catch some of the jokes you missed the first time watching
If you're a Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul fan, you'll recognize Jonathan Banks (Mike Ermentraut) at the radio "about 2 more minutes, chief!"
"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home," was the tag line from a commercial for Yuban coffee that ran a LOT in the 1970s.
23:47 - That's one of my favorite jokes in the entire movie . . . "retroactive irony" 🤣
This parodies the airport disaster movies of the 70’s. There was always a nun with a guitar, a sick kid, or incapacitated pilots.
The "No, that's just they'll be expecting us to do" was used several times by this same actor when he starred in a show called The Untouchables which is from the '60s
You should check out Top Secret! that came from the same folks that did this one.. If you think this is random you haven't seen anything yet.
Robert Stack "Captain Rex Kramer" was the host of "Unsolved Mysteries" during the 1980's and 1990's. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a huge star in the NBA around the time this was made.
Air Israel was what was known as a sight gag. And you saying "you wrong for that" was the funniest part!
the jive talk lady was played by Barbara Billingsley ( June Cleaver from the tv show Leave It To Beaver)
Fun Fact: the “Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home” was actually a commercial back in the day!
(My dad told me this, he grew up in the 80’s) P.S. You should watch the Naked Gun movies, they star Leslie Nielsen!
22:10 "Was this the greatest parody movie of this time period?" The was the GREATEST PARODY MOVIE TO THIS POINT IN HISTORY. All other parody movies after this one are based upon 90% of this movie's DNA. This is the Seminal Modern Parody movie.
The creepy questions from the pilot start with "Have you ever seen a grown man naked"? to set the tone.
Gladiator movies...reference to a deleted scene from the original theatrical release of the movie Spartacus which was thought to be referencing homosexuality.
Gymnasiums was probably because of the Village People's song YMCA. The group was named for Greenwich Village a large gay community in Manhattan and dressed in stereotypical costumes representing macho gay personas.
Turkish prison is referencing a movie Midnight Express. A movie adapted about an American guy who was arrested for drug smuggling in Turkey. One scene depicts a male guard raping the prisoner.
Guy in the cab was Howard Jarvis. A face for the California Prop 13 which reduced property taxes and was known for not wanting politicians to waste money.
No one has ever picked up on the Anita Bryant joke that Dr. Rumack says right after admitting he ate Lasagna, which was not even on the menu. He was comparing the mass sickness that most of the passengers got from eating fish to Anita Bryant who was famous for being a very outspoken anti-gay activist and her songs were not well received back then.
13:06 - the woman producing eggs out of her mouth....a pretty common sleight of hand trick. She actually only has the one egg in her mouth. When he takes the egg out of her mouth, he actually already has a new egg hidden in his hand and she just keeps the same egg in her mouth. Then he grabs a new egg which he hides in his hand and the whole process repeats.
The dance scene was "Saturday Night Fever" made just years before this movie.
I love watching these reactions because your faces when you catch the joke are so entertaining. I love it.
This movie was legendary. June Cleaver speaking jive - that one kills me even to this day. I am serious and don’t call me Shirley….I still say that. I still laugh when I see it after 40 years! So many double entendres, it was quite genius for the time.
An amazing movie. Yes, there are a HUGE number of things people now just miss...like the cameos of JJ Walker and Ethyl Merman, and Jarvis (in the taxi), like the Folgers commercial (same woman who did the commercial parodying the lines here), etc. etc. etc. Some reactors don't even get that that is really Kareem Abdul Jabar playing Kareem pretending to be Murdoch. But despite the fact half the jokes are dated, it still makes people laugh.
The dancing in this as a reference from Saturday night fever and the dance scene in Ted is a reference to this one in airplane.
The watermelon had nothing to do with race...
It's definitely better for a reactor to go in completely blind. The worst ones are the ones where the reactor has seen "bits and pieces" of it or, worse yet, they have seen it "but it was years ago and I barely remember anything."
The horse in the bed meant she had a stud while her husband was gone.
"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a TV commercial at the time.
The Stayin Alive dance scene is a parody of Saturday Night Fever. The song is from that Travolta film.
This was a great reaction! I was having some good laughs. The pacing of this movie is absolutely fantastic. Apparently he woman who kept wondering about Jim doing things differently from home was from a commercial that was on a lot at the time. (I was born in 1988, so some references went over my head as well.) This is THE greatest parody movie. Period.
8:10 "She's either asleep or gone." Oh, she's gone alright. RIP, old lady.
You missed the scene after the credits. And READ the credits. Among other things, they got in trouble for ending the FBI warning with "So there."
"Go out there and give just one for zipper" is a speech done in a 1940s film All American: by Knute Rockne. Another place this speech is used, is the movie RUDY ( as both are central around Notre Dame Fighting Irish) they just used it as a generic heart felt motivational speech in Airplane. but its reference to All American.
Airplane is a nearly shot-for-shot remake of a serious drama from the 1950's called Zero Hour. They bought the rights for $2000, added jokes and movie references.
The lady kept the egg in her mouth the entire time. The doctor had another egg hidden behind his palm and made it look like he was removing eggs from her mouth. Typical magician's misdirection. The gag of the scene was he began moving like a magician.
Ted was doing a reference to this movie. Of course this movie was doing a reference to Saturday Night Fever at the time.
If you liked this, watch "Top Secret!" Same directors/writers.
"...feel like this is a parody..."
Not of anything specific. There were a lot of 'plane disaster' movies out earlier (none really worth seeing these days), this is making fun of those.
"...were you nervous your first time on a plane..."
Not about the plane. Planes are vastly safer as a form of travel than any other. You hear about almost _every_ plane crash _because_ it's so unusual. Trains are up there for the same reason. Meanwhile even busses get into crashes basically daily _somewhere_ in every country, and unless you live in the city it happens in... it's unlikely you'll hear about it _at all,_ and maybe not even if you're there.
No, I was nervous for _entirely_ different reasons.
"...I don't know whether it comes from an older movie..."
The dance thing is basically from Saturday Night Fever, 1977, three years prior to the movie you're watching. Funnily enough, I've never watched it, either, I just know where it's from.
"...as a black guy, I needed the subtitles right there..."
Fun bit, the two actors playing those parts came up with the lines. The writers, directors, producers, etc, were all white guys, so they had those two come up with their own lines for it. It worked out _so_ good!
"...Blazing Saddles, never seen that one..."
Be careful, it's a very dangerous movie. It might get you into Mel Brooks films. And _then_ you'd almost be obligated to watch Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, and Spaceballs... though this last one would require that you watch a _bunch_ of other movies, and be aware of a few things in order to be able to enjoy it, movies being Planet of the Apes (1968), Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (you should watch A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back first), any Indiana Jones movie, watch anything from Star Trek (almost any episode will do, _certainly_ any movie), and the Wizard of Oz... all of which are worth watching on their own, so... y'know... an anthology of good stuff all in prep for a movie that is pretty okay.
"...just because of a second cup of coffee..."
It was part of an ad campaign that was popular at the time, where they went to a friend's house and tried coffee there, and the guy had a second cup... intending to imply that coffee is better than whatever she was using at home. Of course, given coffee in North America is, from what I'm told, absolute garbage compared to other places (because American companies are willing to buy the stuff companies in other countries won't touch since they can sell it cheap), this wouldn't be hard.
The later reference was just a callback to that and kinda making fun of it.
"...finally a familiar face..."
Leslie Neilson. A semi-famous, serious actor who did dramas and so on... until this movie... where he was _deliberately_ hired _because of_ his reputation as a serious person, able to deliver serious lines. After this movie, he went on to do several comedies, because his straight-man routine is utterly hilarious!
"...doesn't he play in the Naked Gun, I haven't seen it..."
Sacrilege! Must see. And yes, it was after this movie.
"...layin' eggs... how did they even do this?..."
Simple magic trick. She has one object, probably a Ping-Pong ball, in her mouth. Neilson lifts his hand, which already has the egg in it, up to her mouth, passes over it, and then produces the egg he was holding while she closes her lips. Repeat as many times as you have eggs.
You should watch the seven principles of magic by Penn and Teller. 4 minutes to show you how it all works.
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"...why do you insist on drinking like that..."
He said earlier. He has a drinking problem.
"...I caught the joke while editing..."
It's hilarious when you do.
"...there's no way it was that long..."
Also look at what some of those controls _actually_ are. I think there's a washing machine in there somewhere.
"...is it better for a person to go in blind..."
YES! Absolutely. The less you know the better, because your reaction is more genuine, and thus any enjoyment or dislike. When I look at movie trailers, _the moment_ I know I want to watch the movie... I stop watching _that_ trailer and any others for the movie. All they can do is _spoil_ the movie. The _sole_ exception to this is parodies which are making fun of _specific_ other movies (like Spaceballs). There... you kinda need to know which movies you have to watch. _But,_ the key thing about that is that no one has to tell you _why_ you need to see them, which gives nothing about the parody itself away.
"...how did they do this..."
With the nose. ... Not sure, but it's not hard. He has on a piece over his nose, my guess is that you can't see the hidden air tube slowly inflating a balloon out of the holder on his face, all colored the same way so you can't see it. For the longer shot, it's a different angle, so you cut, and have someone slowly extend a prop across the camera view while the audio keeps going.
The old woman who 'speaks Jive'? Yeah, she used to play June Cleaver, the mom in Leave it To Beaver, a totally white-toast, utterly suburban show from the late fifties.
"...I'm not sure there's a meaning behind it..."
Sure there is. She has a stud in bed with her. :P
"...was this the greatest parody of this time period..."
It's one of the best ever. But... parody was far more alive back then than it is now, and, honestly, comedy was ridiculous but somehow slightly more intellectual.
"...that cone..."
I love how that distracted you from them 'getting some pictures'.
"...I'm 29 and I'm not married, what's wrong with that..."
Today? Nothing. In 1980? It was considered a bad sign. We were _really_ dumb back then, but then we'd grown out of a nasty war (WWII, Korea, Vietnam), plus a time period before that (Victorian and earlier) where life expectancy was low and human population growth was slow. We hadn't, in 1980, realized yet that the population explosion was a thing and that it was a _bad_ thing that needed to be stopped.
"...this guy hasn't passed, has he..."
If you mean Leslie Neilson, yeah. In 2010. He was born in 1926. He was 54 when he did this movie. If he were alive now, he'd be 97.
If you mean the guy playing Ted, Robert Hays, no. He's 76.
"...who did this movie..."
Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker. ZAZ. They made some other weird stuff, too. Pretty funny guys.
One thing I'm wondering is if you caught the continual silliness. For instance, when they were pulling away down the runway to take off at the beginning, did you notice that there were train sounds going on? Or how about how the whole move has propeller noises in it... on a jet plane?
Movie Suggestions:
"Blazing Saddles", "The Producers", "Young Frankenstein", "Robin Hood: Men in Tights", "The Naked Gun" (and its two sequels), "Top Secret!", "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "Monty Python's The Life of Brian", "Trading Places", "Ghostbusters" (the original, none of those that came out after are worthwhile), "Tootsie", "South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut", "Shaun of the Dead", "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation", "Coming to America", "A Shot in the Dark" (and it's sequels "The Pink Panther" and "Return of the Pink Panther"), "Toy Story", "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Arsenic and Old Lace", "Legally Blonde", "Wayne's World", "Major Payne", "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective", "Liar Liar", "Office Space", "Meet the Parents", and "My Cousin Vinny".
Warning: Watching many of the above successively may have unintended side effects. Effects include: laughing, snickering, inability to take things seriously, random giggling at inappropriate times, sore cheeks, and bladder control issues. Should excessive side splitting occur, seek immediate treatment such as watching "Schindler's List", "My Girl", "The Green Mile", or American politics over the last 20 years. Not recommended for those with preexisting conditions such as no sense of humor, taking themselves too seriously, modern hypersensitivity to various social norms, an inability to enjoy black and white films, or rectally inserted sticks.
Have a nice day!
Blazing Saddles is a great movie. 95% of Mel Brooks movies are fantastic
So many jokes went right over this reactor's head. LOL
He said that himself and asked for help to understand them. You are no help.
A lot of them are just too relevant to the time, most young reactors don't get a lot of them.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439This is and was the most basic juvenile humour of all time, if you don't get it you've got some serious problems.
Yayyy.. You saw the jars of Mayo when the Mayo clinic called! You are the first reactor that I have watched that noticed that!! Nice!!
Considered widely the best hospital in the world, the Mayo Clinic was named after the brothers that founded the first clinic. Nothing at all dealing with Mayonnaise. We have one right here in Jacksonville FL and it's amazing--looks like a University Campus with so many specialized separate buildings for Cancer research, patient surgeries, patient care, labs, etc.
"He never has another cup of coffee at home" was from a famous coffee commercial.
The white lady who translated the jive was Barbara Billingsley, the Mom from the 1950s sitcom "Leave it to Beaver." That show was kind of considered very white bread, that's why Barbara delivering those lines was so funny!
Leave it to Beaver is a great show! Lots of fun, lite 50s comedy. Very charming, funny, and relaxing.
After some research, only Peacock Premium has Leave It To Beaver. I doubt our gracious reactor is going to subscribe and watch an old outdated, unrelatable, sitcom when he has so much on his plate. For this generation, Leave It To Beaver is boring and they can't even relate to the antiquated technology and vernacular used. Just not going to happen. And having to explain it doesn't make the gag any funnier.
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I recommend you react to :
🔥 *Police Academy* (1984) 🔥
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the disco scene with the song Stayin Alive is in reference to the film Saturday Night Fever
16:53 - the reason they said that in sync was because he said "It's an entirely different kind of flying, alltogether". Back in the day when someone ends a sentence with "alltogether" it was meant to say or sing something in unison. Even though that's clearly not what Ted meant. You have to remember a lot of these jokes were puns based on 1970's slang and expressions.
My spoof recommendations, pretty much the ZAZ guys, who made this: Kentucky Fried Movie (especially the second half), Police Squad, Top Secret, Naked Gun, Hot Shots Part Deux and then Walk Hard (not a ZAZ movie, but excellent).