I know Mary is Australian and hasn't grown up in American culture, but yet I'm still surprised she missed 80% of the jokes. I guess this is one of those movies where you have to be American, and a bit older to really get the jokes.
I'm a pilot myself and I can promise it doesn't matter if you're working with people in their 20s or 60s, everyone knows the movie and you still get the occasional quotes thrown around at work. I love it.
The smoking sections on planes were always in the back, so smokers had a better chance of surviving a crash. The tail section is always safer. LOL Japanese (and a lot of other countries) flights still had smoking sections on the planes for years after they were outlawed in the US, but Japan couldn't have them on international flights. I flew on an old Russian Tupolev in 2003 that still had ashtrays build into the armrests. It was very nostalgic.
In 1973, we flew to Jamaica from Toronto. I got invited to the cockpit (I was 9 years old). Very similar to the movie with the exception of the pedo/homo-erotic questions from the pilot.
Definitely one of the most influential comedy movies ever. I love the fact that every time the jet is shown flying it’s making a propeller driven airplane sound
I watched Airplane as a double feature at the drive in with Cheech and Chongs Next Movie. I laughed so much harder at Airplane than the other and I still quote it to this day.
@@skywillfindyou actually the writers insisted on the sound of a prop plane as they apparently loved the sound even though the studio said that it had to be set on a jet plane.
Some context for the older woman who can speak jive. Her real name is Barbara Billingsley. She played June Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver in the late 50's and early 60's. She was basically America's tv mom. She was viewed as prim and proper, the mold for a suburban housewife. So it was a real curveball to see her in this role. People absolutely loved it! Years later in an interview, she would say how she got way more fan mail for her role in Airplane than she did for all her other roles!!! To be June Cleaver and more loved for a very small role in this movie is amazing. That's how big of an impact this movie had.
This is the film that practically turned Leslie Nielsen (who was known as a character actor is dramatic movies up until this point) into an overnight comedy star. He made comedies from this point forward up until his death in 2010.
Love how Mary is talking bout how people are too distracted too notice the dog attacking the guy. All the while Mary is too distracted by the dog to notice Kramer actually steps out of the mirror and it wasn't his reflection after all.
The speech the Doctor gave Ted was taken almost word for word from an old Ronald Reagan movie called Knute Rockne: All American. Since Ronald Reagan was running for president at the time, his movies were trending. The line was "Win one for the Gipper.", in Airplane! it became "Win one for the Zipper."
Yup. Every "random" thing the captain said to Joey had a homoerotic element. The Turkish prison reference was from Midnight Express, which has a homoerotic scene.
They used to let small children check out the cabin before the flight took off. They would also give you a little metal toy airplane for free. Eventually the toy airplane became a simple diecast model. Then it became plastic. Then it was just an airplane lapel pin or sticker. After 9/11 they stopped letting kids look at the cabin.
@@earlbrown I never got a toy either I think that was before the early '80s. By the time I was young enough to have an interest and form memories it had switched to the diecast model. I do remember the downgrade to plastic, and then the wings pin, and then stickers, and then nothing 😞
I ended up gettimg the diecast and plastic planes, Hot Wheels size, not the big one Billy got. I also got the diecast wings pin too... from Delta I think.
When boarding (about 10 years ago) I showed my young son (he was 8 at the time) the cockpit as we walked by and the co- pilot waved at us and invited us in, that was pretty cool.
I highly recommend "Top Secret" by the same team. It's a WWII, spy, musical parody starring Val Kilmer (in his first role). It's the same style of humor and is criminally underrated. 🤟😎
I came here to say that. Didn't expect it to get mentioned. I'm glad I'm not the only one! It's my favorite of all these types of overboard movies. Been trying to find it (at a reasonable price) on blu-ray and it's seemingly impossible. :( 💓 Top Secret!
I flew in the 80's. It is all fairly accurate. There was a smoking section, if you were lucky you could go up to the cockpit and talk to the pilot. Friends and family could go right up to the gate, occasionally onto the plane to see you off. There were open overhead compartments on SOME planes.
I believe that planes were no longer being made with open overhead compartments by the time that this movie was made, but there were still some with them in service into the 80s, obviously, and it makes sense that they filmed with one that had already been retired.
@@tubekulose Considering Guatemala used the Boeing P-26 Peashooter as a fighter up into the 1950s, I'd say it's amazing they even have a word for airplane rather then calling them "infernal flying contraptions".
As a child in the 70s, a flight crew member gave me a quick tour of the cockpit during boarding once. Not a single word was mentioned about gladiator movies, though.😂
Yes, always at boarding, never during flight. & Only when they were 1st settling in, never working such as doing preflight check list. Near the front of the boarding line you could get pulled in for a quick tour. & In those days a few 'unescorted minors' were watched over by the crew. In my case the crew would escort me on, w/them.
Airplane flights used to be so relaxed, and loosey-goosey on the rules and seating regulations... AND THEN 9/11 HAPPENED, and everyone lost their damn minds (for good reason, mind you, I'm just pointing out that that's the moment everything changed).
@@mrtim5363yep had the same happen my first time flying. I was unescorted going to visit my dad (dad was career military but in the states briefly at the time). They flight crew gave me a toy plane. But no awkward questions from anyone and a pretty stewardess kept an eye on me.
@@chrisclark7170 Yep. For example, the "Radar Range" joke meant something back when the Amana Radar Range was the most common microwave oven, but not today.
This major classic was best seen with a theater audience. The place roared. One of those movies that can make you cry from laughing so hard. Glad you got to see it. Airplane II was almost as good.
In the '80s there was no flat screen technology. There was not a screen for every individual seat. They would pull down a screen and use a projector to show films for the entire cabin.
what makes this film so endearing is its use of famous, b-movie dramatic actors in deadpan, comedic roles. robert stack, lloyd bridges, peter graves and leslie nielsen were all familiar faces to us movie goers back then. and most of the jokes were old, familiar jokes that have been told for decades before the film was ever made. its almost a shot per shot remake of the 1957 b-movie melodrama "zero hour" with just none stop one liners and sight gags thrown in. thanks for the video.
Flying in the 80s was insane. There was hot food, snacks, friendly service, leg room, seating space, happy passengers, and a bunch of other unbelievable stuff.
Airplane is the US spelling. Legend has it that Leslie Nielsen pulled the “I just want to tell you both, we are all counting on you” gag on the crew of a flight he was actually on. If you want a trippy experience watch Zero Hour! Immediately after watching Airplane!. It’s the movie this parodied. All serious acting and straight lines so you are waiting for the punch lines that never happen
Apparently sometimes, when boarding a plane, he'd ask to see the cockpit. After recognizing him, pilots would reply "Surely you can't be serious". And of course, he would play along.
A Huge man too, about 7 feet tall. The scene where they drag him and captain over down the aisle, the actress couldn't budge Kareem cause he was too big. So they put him on a small wheeled trolley, even then a crew member had to help her from the front (off camera).
Prior to "AIRPLANE!" Leslie Neilson, Peter Graves and Richard Stack were not known for any Comedic Roles. They were Drama and Action Stars and this was their Coming out Party! The Elderly Caucasian woman that spoke "Jive" was Barbara Billingsley, the Mom on the 50's sitcom "Leave it to Beaver".
Now watch the 1957 ‘drama’ “Zero Hour”. Airplane is an almost shot for shot parody of this ‘serious’ film. You can’t watch it now without cracking up….😂
@@randyshoquist7726 The basic plot and a lot of dialogue (some verbatim) came from Zero Hour but there were definite nods to the Airport movies, particularly Linda Blair's organ transplant patient from Airport 75. What's sad but inevitable are the many references lost in time. I loved that they brought in the actress from the 70's Yuban coffee commercials to reprise her comment about her husband never having a second cup of coffee at home.
@@jeffreyseidman8100 They used to record overnight commercials to get material for their sketch comedy theater (Kentucky fried Theater) but in this case they just happened to record an airing of zero hour, got caught up in how corny it was and knew it had to be parodied
Back in the 70s there were a series of disaster movies. One of the more well known in the series was AIRPORT & AIRPORT 2. The beach scene where Elaine is covered in seaweed is a spoof on the 50s movie FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. The Mayo clinic is one of the best known medical centers in the US. Mayonnaise on the sheves is a screamer. The co-pilot is played Kareem Abdul Jabbar a famous professional basketball player of that era. Few people get the George Zip joke. In the 1940s they made a movie about Knute Rockney, Nortre Dame's famous football coach. In it they portrayed George Gip a dying football player that said, "....tell the team to win one for the Gipper. The 2 black guys were talking Jive a trend that was popular back in the day I hope the help with some of the jokes.
And the girl running alongside the plane to say goodbye to her boyfriend is a reference either to Jennifer Jones running alongside a train in Since You Went Away or to Audrey Hepburn doing the same in Love in the Afternoon, or to both.
The man waiting in the cab was a famously impatient and notoriously frugal businessman, so him patiently waiting with the meter running through the whole film was another "against type" gag.
The cameos in this were insane. Almost every actor in this film played, primarily, dramatic roles before this movie. They were mid-20th century film/television icons.
& Early on microwave ovens were called a... Radar Range. When he said "check the Radar Range", those of us that grew up with one in the kitchen had heard that line 1,000 times. We're waiting for dinner.
The story The doctor told is a riff on an old movie about Knute Rockne All-American (1940). It stared Pat O’Brien as the coach of Notre Dame football team. On the team was a popular player named George Gipp (played by future President Ronald Regan). Gipp falls ill and dies during the season and the coach uses basically the same speech to motivate the team to win the big game. The original line is “win one for the Gipper”. It was such a memorable line that Regan was affectionately nicked named “The Gipper” by his followers in his political career.
Leslie Nielson's speech was a play off of the movie Knute Rockne: All American, where the character George Gipp was suffering from a serious medical condition and told his team to "Win one for the Gipper."
Yeah I wouldn't call it the funniest joke in film history. Perhaps the most shocking joke since that was a child but as Richard is pointing out Blazing Saddles is shocking from start to finish so probably not even there.
In the 80s, as a 12 yr old, I flew from Seoul to LA next to a man who smoked cigarettes the entire 15 hr flight, and yes we watched a few communal movies.
As someone who flew on planes in the 70s, yes, they were much roomier and there was one movie screen for each section. Smoking was allowed, too. There is a lot of nuanced comedy in this movie that was related to the times back then that are lost now in the current times. Great reaction!
One of these references is cult solicitation in airports. It was a common thing back then, and it took a Supreme Court decision to allow airports to freely ban it. It was primarily the Hare Krishnas who did the soliciting, so it's funny to see the two Hare Krishna (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) monks refuse to donate to the guy from the "Church of Religious Consciousness".
I was born in 81, but my mom was a flight attendant in the 70's and we flew a lot in the 80's. Yes, it was mostly like that on a plane in the 70's and early 80's. Smoking was banned on all flights in 1988 but some airlines did it earlier. But it was pretty ridiculous, they had smoking "sections", as if you could escape the smoke by sitting a few rows away in an enclosed metal tube. There was almost no security in the 70's before some terrorist incidents. Anyone could walk up to the gate without a ticket, even up until 9/11 you could get through security without a ticket. I can only remember a time when the overhead bins were closed, but I'm sure that wasn't always the case. Yes, the in-flight entertainment was projected on a screen for everyone to see. You had to plug special proprietary headphones (provided for free by the flight crew) into a jack in your arm rest to hear the sound. The movie they were showing was what you got, no choices. You could look in a magazine provided in the seat back in front of you and see what movies were playing on which routes that particular month. You'd always wish you were on a different flight with a better movie. Free meals were par for the course back then, as long as the flight was long enough. Everybody, regardless of where you sat, got a meal. First class just got better quality meals. There was soooo much more leg room and seats reclined back much further. Flying was better, period. People would get dressed up to fly in the 40's-80's.
2:59 "What is with her voice?" Apparently, it is the "mid Atlantic" accent, a lot of actors developed the accent because it is easy to understand, as opposed to the slow and lazy Southern drawl, or the lofty, airy "totally tubular" west coast accent, the nasally northeastern accent, or the short and brusque western accent.
I believe the Mid-Atlantic accent was actually taught in NE US prep schools, and wasn't natural to any region. It was adopted by actors, politicians, academics and others who wanted to sound sophisticated &/or educated. It declined and largely faded away in the 60s.
There is a great video on TH-cam about the history of the Mid Atlantic accent, but that's not really what I hear Elaine doing. The vowel sounds don't match that. She's just using a higher pitched light kind of voice. Mid Atlantic was taught a long time ago in acting and theater schools. Part of the purpose of it was that refined cultured sound, but also it was during an era when radio recording and broadcasting sound quality wasn't as good, so it was intended to stick with sound ranges and vowel tones that would be easier to hear and understand.
@@MaryCherryOfficial My impression is that she's playing an immature (emotionally) woman to come off as sweet and innocent. Each major character in the movie has to have some level of goofiness, and this voice is a part of it for her.
Fun Fact on the Saturday Night Fever Spoof: While he was doing Airplane, actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) was also doing a short lived sitcom called Angie and his Angie Co-Star Donna Pescow was in Saturday Night Fever. There is a sequel to Airplane called Airplane 2 The Sequel which is also worth a look just to see William Shatner steal the show. Also the reason Airplane was rated PG was because the PG-13 rating didn't exist yet. The PG-13 rating would be introduced in 1984 with Red Dawn being the first PG-13 rated movie.
Good catch with Donna Pescow. I knew she was on Saturday Night Fever and remember her and Robert Hays in Angie but didn't connect that flashback dance scene. Or maybe I did, its been more than a few decades.
@@kpobuibo The ground crew guy with the flashlights "directing" the plane before the big window crash is Jerry Zucker. David said later the joke was that having Jerry be one of the "directors" would also end up in a big F***-Up.
The Japanese soldier was James Hong, most recently in "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." Hong may hold the all-time record for the total amount of movie appearances. Two major scandals in the news of the day was of air traffic controllers taking amphetamines (hence: "I picked a bad week to stop....") and air traffic controllers having nervous breakdowns on the job (hence: Crazy Johnny).
Hi Mary, This movie has so many references to other movies, TV shows and pop culture it’s amazing. For instance, the actress (“Jim never has a second cup of coffee”) was the actual actress in the commercial. That commercial somewhere here on TH-cam. The real Girl Scouts of America were not very thrilled to see the two ladies in Girl Scout uniforms cheating at cards and in a knock down, drag out bar fight. Check out Top Secret, done by the same guys who did Airplane!
There were a lot of jokes about things that were current in 1980, on TV, etc. that you probably missed. Yes, there was smoking on the planes back then. There was no security at the airports, you could walk into the terminal and go directly to the gate to board or to meet an arriving friend coming off the incoming plane. The Hare Krishnas (who got punched repeatedly in the movie) were always roaming the airport terminals asking for donations.
15:49 I'm still amazed at how many reactors don't notice that Rex Kramer steps THROUGH the mirror in this scene. Anyway, this movie is chock full of gags, but most of them are visual, so it requires you to really pay attention. It's a hard one to comment along with because you'll miss a lot. Some of the gags are also products of their time or only make sense to American audiences. Anyway, a classic!
Fun fact. For Leslie Nielsen, this was his *first ever* comedy role. He was a moderately famous actor, but he was type cast as a gritty, serious actor. This movie and his role in it actually caused a bit of a stir because of not only a serious actor doing a comedy, but also how *well* he did it.
Prior to this film, all of the older men in the film, Leslie Nielsen (Dr. Rumack), Lloyd Bridges (Steve McCrosky), Robert Stack (Cpt. Rex Kramer), and Peter Graves (Captain Clarence Oveur) were considered to be serious dramatic actors, so to see all of them being goofy was what made this movie even funnier. All of them have stated that this movie extended their careers by decades. Also the "jive speaking" woman was Barbara Billingsley, who was best known as June Cleaver from the 1957-1963 American sitcom, "Leave it to Beaver." She was THE O.G. TV mom.
As an old, it makes me feel extra old seeing so many of the jokes whoosh over the heads of younger reactors because the necessary context is 40 years out of date.
I love how that supposed vicious dog is a golden retriever, the only thing they'll do is try to lick you to death. Even in the movie here the dog is clearly just playing with him.
Classic! Can't wait for your Naked Gun 2 reaction. Also since you've seen all the Lethal Weapons, I suggest looking into their spoof Loaded Weapon 1. Super underrated
I've watched this movie countless times since I was a child, it was always on tv. A few years ago I watched one of the movies that it spoofed "Airport 1975" starring Charlton Heston and I could not take that movie seriously for the life of me. Mary your laugh is so contagious and your facial expressions and commentary are so great. Thanks for this reaction!
Fun fact: The air traffic controller who gets high (Steve McCroskey) is played by Lloyd Bridges, the father of Jeff Bridges. You have seen Jeff Bridges in THE BIG LEBOWSKI.
Love the reaction. And yes the smoking and everything was a thing in the 70s and early 80s. This is one of those movies that the more you watch it the more you will realize you had missed that the first time watching. There is so much going on in the background it is a must see again and again.
I still die laughing at the scene of the black guys speaking jive and then the old white lady translating for them. Also when that one passenger freaks out and all the other passengers are lining up to “calm her down” their own way.
The Old Lady was Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver in Leave it to Beaver, one of the most wholesome American TV sitcoms in the 1950s. To have her being the one to speak Jive was so against character that it was funny on its own.
Yes, that's what being on a plane in the 70s 80s used to be like. Watching one film on a screen for the whole cabin. And smoking in the back rows of each cabin and class.
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Hi Mary
BLANK CHECK NEXT PLEASE!!!!
Yes, you could smoke on planes back then. It was a lot more fun than it is now.
Did you notice that they are in a jet, but the sound is that of a propeller plane?
I know Mary is Australian and hasn't grown up in American culture, but yet I'm still surprised she missed 80% of the jokes. I guess this is one of those movies where you have to be American, and a bit older to really get the jokes.
I'm a pilot myself and I can promise it doesn't matter if you're working with people in their 20s or 60s, everyone knows the movie and you still get the occasional quotes thrown around at work. I love it.
Surely, in this day and age, you must be kidding.
It's a wonder you haven't all been done for sexual harassment.
@@THOMMGB He's not kiddin, And don't Call him Shirley.
@@THOMMGB oh yes because you know how he lives he's life
Whoosh
The longest running joke in this movie is the sound of propellers in the background...... But it's a jet plane.
but it's not really funny
@@adamskeans2515 yes it is
What!!!! OMG I never picked up on that! Still discovering new jokes from this film!
@@filegrabber1 meh, your results may vary. Doesn't tickle my funny bone, but to each their own.
@@adamskeans2515 People groan when they hear you're gonna be at the party
Oh, so you're watching "Airplane"? Well I just wanted to tell you: Good luck! We're all counting on you.
President from Scary Movie 3 just stopped in to say "Good luck! We're all counting on you"
Airplane!
Yes to overhead cabinets,
Yes to smoking section on airplane,
Yes to communal movie screen.
All these existed.
What plane doesn't have overhead cabinets?
@@titanuranus3095 I think he meant overhead cabinets without any cabinet doors.
@@titanuranus3095 Private jets I guess.
The smoking sections on planes were always in the back, so smokers had a better chance of surviving a crash. The tail section is always safer. LOL
Japanese (and a lot of other countries) flights still had smoking sections on the planes for years after they were outlawed in the US, but Japan couldn't have them on international flights.
I flew on an old Russian Tupolev in 2003 that still had ashtrays build into the armrests. It was very nostalgic.
In 1973, we flew to Jamaica from Toronto. I got invited to the cockpit (I was 9 years old). Very similar to the movie with the exception of the pedo/homo-erotic questions from the pilot.
Definitely one of the most influential comedy movies ever. I love the fact that every time the jet is shown flying it’s making a propeller driven airplane sound
For Western market, maybe.
I watched Airplane as a double feature at the drive in with Cheech and Chongs Next Movie. I laughed so much harder at Airplane than the other and I still quote it to this day.
@@skywillfindyou Correct...the market that is the highest tier of filmmaking.
@@skywillfindyou actually the writers insisted on the sound of a prop plane as they apparently loved the sound even though the studio said that it had to be set on a jet plane.
Some context for the older woman who can speak jive. Her real name is Barbara Billingsley. She played June Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver in the late 50's and early 60's. She was basically America's tv mom. She was viewed as prim and proper, the mold for a suburban housewife. So it was a real curveball to see her in this role. People absolutely loved it! Years later in an interview, she would say how she got way more fan mail for her role in Airplane than she did for all her other roles!!! To be June Cleaver and more loved for a very small role in this movie is amazing. That's how big of an impact this movie had.
This is the film that practically turned Leslie Nielsen (who was known as a character actor is dramatic movies up until this point) into an overnight comedy star. He made comedies from this point forward up until his death in 2010.
RIP
@@MaryCherryOfficialThat's what his tombstone says, or more precisely "Let 'er rip".
Did you know he was in the sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet?"
Not only that, but it was also Lloyd Bridges' and Robert Stack's first comedy, if not first movie.
@@johnbarry1712 And Peter Graves (Cpt. Oveur).
“She’s horsing around!”
LOL
A joke worthy of this movie. I loved it! That was the first time I’ve seen someone make that remark. Brilliant. :-)
Now she’s getting it!
The guy in the army hospital who thought he was Ethel Merman was played by the real Ethel Merman!
Her last role before her death.
Love how Mary is talking bout how people are too distracted too notice the dog attacking the guy. All the while Mary is too distracted by the dog to notice Kramer actually steps out of the mirror and it wasn't his reflection after all.
Everyone misses that. One of my favorite gags.
Mary - "Surely that will help him."
Everyone watching - "Maybe it will... but stop calling him Shirley !"
😂
@@MaryCherryOfficialYou walked yourself right into that one….
The speech the Doctor gave Ted was taken almost word for word from an old Ronald Reagan movie called Knute Rockne: All American. Since Ronald Reagan was running for president at the time, his movies were trending. The line was "Win one for the Gipper.", in Airplane! it became "Win one for the Zipper."
It's funny how when the pilot was asking the boy questions,
Mary found them to be "Random" but not inappropriate. 😂
Lmao I was thinking that too.
@@danielwalker1538 I guess we're lucky she wasn't our mommy 😂
@@Wezwolf right!! lol, we’d be SOL
Nobody ever catches the pedo jokes. It's so dark it's funny
"He's reading about an election, this little boy?" He's also *blatantly* scoping out another child in an adult manner. 😂
Mary not understanding that the captain was flirting "do you like gladiator movies" is the funniest part of this video.
Yup. Every "random" thing the captain said to Joey had a homoerotic element. The Turkish prison reference was from Midnight Express, which has a homoerotic scene.
"Flirting"? He's a pedo.
They used to let small children check out the cabin before the flight took off. They would also give you a little metal toy airplane for free. Eventually the toy airplane became a simple diecast model. Then it became plastic. Then it was just an airplane lapel pin or sticker.
After 9/11 they stopped letting kids look at the cabin.
I never got a toy from flying in the 80s. I always got wings (and a set of playing cards).
@@earlbrown I never got a toy either I think that was before the early '80s. By the time I was young enough to have an interest and form memories it had switched to the diecast model.
I do remember the downgrade to plastic, and then the wings pin, and then stickers, and then nothing 😞
I ended up gettimg the diecast and plastic planes, Hot Wheels size, not the big one Billy got. I also got the diecast wings pin too... from Delta I think.
When boarding (about 10 years ago) I showed my young son (he was 8 at the time) the cockpit as we walked by and the co- pilot waved at us and invited us in, that was pretty cool.
Aeroflot Flight 593 should have got kids banned form the cockpit.
Otto the Autopilot is a separate character - he even has an IMDB page! Can’t be more of a character than that!
Mary, I just wanted to tell you Good Luck we're counting on you.
Nervous?
Yes I am......First time?
No I've been nervous lots of times
😂 This movie is timeless
"I just want to tell you both, Good luck. We're all counting on you."
I've said that to several couples who were about to get married!
@@kpobuibo
😂😂😂
He actually pulled that line on a real flight crew as he was boarding a flight once
I just want to tell you both Good Luck. We’re all counting on you!
I highly recommend "Top Secret" by the same team. It's a WWII, spy, musical parody starring Val Kilmer (in his first role). It's the same style of humor and is criminally underrated. 🤟😎
I came here to say that. Didn't expect it to get mentioned. I'm glad I'm not the only one! It's my favorite of all these types of overboard movies. Been trying to find it (at a reasonable price) on blu-ray and it's seemingly impossible. :(
💓 Top Secret!
@@michaelm.1947 Skeet Surfing.. That is all.
Ill always remember you deja vu
I flew in the 80's. It is all fairly accurate. There was a smoking section, if you were lucky you could go up to the cockpit and talk to the pilot. Friends and family could go right up to the gate, occasionally onto the plane to see you off. There were open overhead compartments on SOME planes.
wowwww
@@MaryCherryOfficial You could do a lot of that through the 90s too. It was only 9/11 that change all that.
In the 70s there wasn't even a smoking section - there were ashtrays built into the arms of the seats so you could smoke anywhere.
I believe that planes were no longer being made with open overhead compartments by the time that this movie was made, but there were still some with them in service into the 80s, obviously, and it makes sense that they filmed with one that had already been retired.
@@Osprey850: Yes, the aircraft they used was a Boeing 707 - which was produced between 1958 and 1978.
It always cracks me up seeing young people trying to take the "plot" of Airplane seriously. 🤣
I know right? I think she thought this had a story when it’s just a big spoof lol
Airplane is the North American way of saying aeroplane. This movie is absolutely hilarious. Glad Mary finally got around to watching it.
I don't think they say "airplane" in Guatemala. 😂
@@tubekulose
Considering Guatemala used the Boeing P-26 Peashooter as a fighter up into the 1950s, I'd say it's amazing they even have a word for airplane rather then calling them "infernal flying contraptions".
"Aeroplane"? How posh these Australians are . . . 🙂
@@mikearmstrong8483the plane was retired in 1956, so that’s not really crazy. If they used it into the 70’d or 80’s that would be another thing.
It was called "Flying High" in Australia.
Julie Hagerty always had that specific "voice" 😄
As a child in the 70s, a flight crew member gave me a quick tour of the cockpit during boarding once. Not a single word was mentioned about gladiator movies, though.😂
Haha, I guess you dodged a bullet then! 😄
Yes, always at boarding, never during flight. & Only when they were 1st settling in, never working such as doing preflight check list. Near the front of the boarding line you could get pulled in for a quick tour. & In those days a few 'unescorted minors' were watched over by the crew. In my case the crew would escort me on, w/them.
Airplane flights used to be so relaxed, and loosey-goosey on the rules and seating regulations... AND THEN 9/11 HAPPENED, and everyone lost their damn minds (for good reason, mind you, I'm just pointing out that that's the moment everything changed).
Yep, and they gave us the plastic pilots wings.
@@mrtim5363yep had the same happen my first time flying. I was unescorted going to visit my dad (dad was career military but in the states briefly at the time). They flight crew gave me a toy plane. But no awkward questions from anyone and a pretty stewardess kept an eye on me.
He was stationed in Drambuie and his mission was to bomb Daiquiri. I see a pattern there.
“I just wanna tell you both, good luck, we’re all counting on you”, I swear this movie lives rent free in my head.🤣🤣🤣
"Wow, he's dedicated to get her back..."
I love Ted's "No baggage..." line, when he is laden with emotional baggage from Elaine and the war 😅
Yeah, no luggage but a helluva lot of baggage.
@@disposablehero4911more issues than national geographic.
I think Mary completely missed the Pilot and Joey scenes. She is so innocent!
She took the Ted and Elaine relationship so seriously.
That's not all she missed. 3/4 of the jokes flew over her head.
@sharongreely to be honest some of the references are dated
@@chrisclark7170 Yep. For example, the "Radar Range" joke meant something back when the Amana Radar Range was the most common microwave oven, but not today.
@@chrisclark7170 and a lot them are based on American advertising and pop culture of the 80's, so even older generations of Aussies wouldn't get them.
Mary is too innocent for this world. I’m glad you still enjoyed it.
I've never seen so many jokes go over someone's head before. *Whoooosh*
This major classic was best seen with a theater audience. The place roared. One of those movies that can make you cry from laughing so hard. Glad you got to see it. Airplane II was almost as good.
In the '80s there was no flat screen technology. There was not a screen for every individual seat. They would pull down a screen and use a projector to show films for the entire cabin.
that's so wholesome
Security wasn't as strict as it is now either. Also, you could smoke on the plane in certain sections. That ended in 1990.
And they used to have a smoking section.
They were still using the one big screen even in the late 90's I remember.
I'm not sure when they upgraded.
And you rented the headset to listen to it and needed to carry cash. If you didn't give them back, you could use it on another flight.
what makes this film so endearing is its use of famous, b-movie dramatic actors in deadpan, comedic roles. robert stack, lloyd bridges, peter graves and leslie nielsen were all familiar faces to us movie goers back then. and most of the jokes were old, familiar jokes that have been told for decades before the film was ever made. its almost a shot per shot remake of the 1957 b-movie melodrama "zero hour" with just none stop one liners and sight gags thrown in. thanks for the video.
"Just wanted to let you know we're all counting on you.."😂 Never Gets old 👏
The questions the captain is asking the kid are not random. They are suggesting that the captain is a child predator.
What's funny is that the actor always played such a straight laced law and order person in everything before this.
Or.. they could simply be about homosexuality..
@@jd190d So did the other two, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen.
@@notvalidcharacters I know, I was just trying to explain his departure from his norm.
@@jd190d Not quite. He was the traitor in Stalag 17.
WAIT UNTIL MARY SEES THOSE TWO KIDS DRINKING COFFEE!!!
😂
None for Johnny, though, thanks.
Flying in the 80s was insane. There was hot food, snacks, friendly service, leg room, seating space, happy passengers, and a bunch of other unbelievable stuff.
Airplane is the US spelling.
Legend has it that Leslie Nielsen pulled the “I just want to tell you both, we are all counting on you” gag on the crew of a flight he was actually on.
If you want a trippy experience watch Zero Hour! Immediately after watching Airplane!. It’s the movie this parodied. All serious acting and straight lines so you are waiting for the punch lines that never happen
Apparently sometimes, when boarding a plane, he'd ask to see the cockpit. After recognizing him, pilots would reply "Surely you can't be serious". And of course, he would play along.
"He never met a kid before"
He met too many, it seems.
Airplane forever! Leslie Nelson at his best. So many jokes you have to watch it multiple times.
Kareem Abdul Jabar is a real-life Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball player in the 70s and 80s, the tall black pilot.
A Huge man too, about 7 feet tall. The scene where they drag him and captain over down the aisle, the actress couldn't budge Kareem cause he was too big. So they put him on a small wheeled trolley, even then a crew member had to help her from the front (off camera).
Prior to "AIRPLANE!" Leslie Neilson, Peter Graves and Richard Stack were not known for any Comedic Roles. They were Drama and Action Stars and this was their Coming out Party!
The Elderly Caucasian woman that spoke "Jive" was Barbara Billingsley, the Mom on the 50's sitcom "Leave it to Beaver".
Same for Lloyd Bridges.
Robert Stack not Richard Stack.
Now watch the 1957 ‘drama’ “Zero Hour”. Airplane is an almost shot for shot parody of this ‘serious’ film. You can’t watch it now without cracking up….😂
I though it was a send-up of "Airport."
@@randyshoquist7726 The basic plot and a lot of dialogue (some verbatim) came from Zero Hour but there were definite nods to the Airport movies, particularly Linda Blair's organ transplant patient from Airport 75.
What's sad but inevitable are the many references lost in time. I loved that they brought in the actress from the 70's Yuban coffee commercials to reprise her comment about her husband never having a second cup of coffee at home.
Abrams and the Zucker brothers caught Zero Hour on a late night movie on tv, saw the potential in it, and chipped in to BUY the rights to it.
@@jeffreyseidman8100 They used to record overnight commercials to get material for their sketch comedy theater (Kentucky fried Theater) but in this case they just happened to record an airing of zero hour, got caught up in how corny it was and knew it had to be parodied
“But that’s classified” 😂
It's comedy gold, start to finish. Nonstop jokes in a way that could have been terrible, but ends up being a masterpiece.
Back in the 70s there were a series of disaster movies. One of the more well known in the series was AIRPORT & AIRPORT 2.
The beach scene where Elaine is covered in seaweed is a spoof on the 50s movie FROM HERE TO ETERNITY.
The Mayo clinic is one of the best known medical centers in the US. Mayonnaise on the sheves is a screamer.
The co-pilot is played Kareem Abdul Jabbar a famous professional basketball player of that era.
Few people get the George Zip joke. In the 1940s they made a movie about Knute Rockney, Nortre Dame's famous football coach. In it they portrayed George Gip a dying football player that said, "....tell the team to win one for the Gipper.
The 2 black guys were talking Jive a trend that was popular back in the day
I hope the help with some of the jokes.
There are more references to the Knute movie as watching that Regan movie.
And the girl running alongside the plane to say goodbye to her boyfriend is a reference either to Jennifer Jones running alongside a train in Since You Went Away or to Audrey Hepburn doing the same in Love in the Afternoon, or to both.
There was Airport, Earthquake, Towering Inferno, and The Poseidon Adventure...
The man waiting in the cab was a famously impatient and notoriously frugal businessman, so him patiently waiting with the meter running through the whole film was another "against type" gag.
A classic spoof comedy! Can confirm smoking was a thing on planes. They stunk of old cigarettes, and there were ashtrays on all the armrests.
Ironically, the air quality was actually better back then. Since they stopped allowing smoking, airlines also stopped filtering the air.
The cameos in this were insane. Almost every actor in this film played, primarily, dramatic roles before this movie. They were mid-20th century film/television icons.
The guy checking the microwave is Jonathan Banks who plays Mike in Breaking Bad
And was the main henchman in “Beverly Hills Cop”
Nobody ever gets that "RadarRange" joke because nobody is aware that RadarRange used to be a brand of microwave ovens back in the '70s-'80s.
& Early on microwave ovens were called a... Radar Range.
When he said "check the Radar Range", those of us that grew up with one in the kitchen had heard that line 1,000 times. We're waiting for dinner.
We really need comedy movies like this! 😭
The power of sound effects. He's just playing with the dog.
The dog’s obviously having a great time! 😂
The story The doctor told is a riff on an old movie about Knute Rockne All-American (1940). It stared Pat O’Brien as the coach of Notre Dame football team. On the team was a popular player named George Gipp (played by future President Ronald Regan). Gipp falls ill and dies during the season and the coach uses basically the same speech to motivate the team to win the big game. The original line is “win one for the Gipper”. It was such a memorable line that Regan was affectionately nicked named “The Gipper” by his followers in his political career.
Don’t forget the Notre Dame fight song.
Leslie Nielson's speech was a play off of the movie Knute Rockne: All American, where the character George Gipp was suffering from a serious medical condition and told his team to "Win one for the Gipper."
Yeah Mary obviously missed the Gipper reference with win one for the Zipper.
and the significance of it being a Reagan movie in 1980.
Its a good thing that you didn't understand the captain and kid question part.
“…like my men.” Arguably the funniest line in film history. 😂
The little boy's face is the cherry on that joke 😯
"Where are the white women at"? from Blazing Saddles is up there too...
Yeah I wouldn't call it the funniest joke in film history. Perhaps the most shocking joke since that was a child but as Richard is pointing out Blazing Saddles is shocking from start to finish so probably not even there.
"Released in 1980, so it's an older film." I died a little.
In the 80s, as a 12 yr old, I flew from Seoul to LA next to a man who smoked cigarettes the entire 15 hr flight, and yes we watched a few communal movies.
As someone who flew on planes in the 70s, yes, they were much roomier and there was one movie screen for each section. Smoking was allowed, too.
There is a lot of nuanced comedy in this movie that was related to the times back then that are lost now in the current times.
Great reaction!
One of these references is cult solicitation in airports. It was a common thing back then, and it took a Supreme Court decision to allow airports to freely ban it. It was primarily the Hare Krishnas who did the soliciting, so it's funny to see the two Hare Krishna (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) monks refuse to donate to the guy from the "Church of Religious Consciousness".
This Marry chic doesn't get half the jokes.
The funniest part of this film to me is that even though it’s a jet plane ✈️ it sounds like a propeller plane.
“Turns out this was the wrong time to quit smoking/drinking/pills/sniffing glue” 😂
I was born in 81, but my mom was a flight attendant in the 70's and we flew a lot in the 80's. Yes, it was mostly like that on a plane in the 70's and early 80's. Smoking was banned on all flights in 1988 but some airlines did it earlier. But it was pretty ridiculous, they had smoking "sections", as if you could escape the smoke by sitting a few rows away in an enclosed metal tube.
There was almost no security in the 70's before some terrorist incidents. Anyone could walk up to the gate without a ticket, even up until 9/11 you could get through security without a ticket. I can only remember a time when the overhead bins were closed, but I'm sure that wasn't always the case.
Yes, the in-flight entertainment was projected on a screen for everyone to see. You had to plug special proprietary headphones (provided for free by the flight crew) into a jack in your arm rest to hear the sound. The movie they were showing was what you got, no choices. You could look in a magazine provided in the seat back in front of you and see what movies were playing on which routes that particular month. You'd always wish you were on a different flight with a better movie.
Free meals were par for the course back then, as long as the flight was long enough. Everybody, regardless of where you sat, got a meal. First class just got better quality meals.
There was soooo much more leg room and seats reclined back much further. Flying was better, period. People would get dressed up to fly in the 40's-80's.
In the early 60s The Singing Nun had a hit song and traveled the world with her guitar preforming.
In the disaster film "Airport 1975", singer Helen Reddy played a Nun.
2:59 "What is with her voice?"
Apparently, it is the "mid Atlantic" accent, a lot of actors developed the accent because it is easy to understand, as opposed to the slow and lazy Southern drawl, or the lofty, airy "totally tubular" west coast accent, the nasally northeastern accent, or the short and brusque western accent.
Thanks for explaining 😊
I believe the Mid-Atlantic accent was actually taught in NE US prep schools, and wasn't natural to any region. It was adopted by actors, politicians, academics and others who wanted to sound sophisticated &/or educated. It declined and largely faded away in the 60s.
There is a great video on TH-cam about the history of the Mid Atlantic accent, but that's not really what I hear Elaine doing. The vowel sounds don't match that. She's just using a higher pitched light kind of voice.
Mid Atlantic was taught a long time ago in acting and theater schools. Part of the purpose of it was that refined cultured sound, but also it was during an era when radio recording and broadcasting sound quality wasn't as good, so it was intended to stick with sound ranges and vowel tones that would be easier to hear and understand.
@@MaryCherryOfficial My impression is that she's playing an immature (emotionally) woman to come off as sweet and innocent. Each major character in the movie has to have some level of goofiness, and this voice is a part of it for her.
A classic. Not only could people smoke in airplanes back then but also in restaurants and even hospitals!
Fun Fact on the Saturday Night Fever Spoof: While he was doing Airplane, actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) was also doing a short lived sitcom called Angie and his Angie Co-Star Donna Pescow was in Saturday Night Fever.
There is a sequel to Airplane called Airplane 2 The Sequel which is also worth a look just to see William Shatner steal the show.
Also the reason Airplane was rated PG was because the PG-13 rating didn't exist yet. The PG-13 rating would be introduced in 1984 with Red Dawn being the first PG-13 rated movie.
Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker were not involved in Airplane 2, and claim to have never seen it.
Good catch with Donna Pescow. I knew she was on Saturday Night Fever and remember her and Robert Hays in Angie but didn't connect that flashback dance scene. Or maybe I did, its been more than a few decades.
Shatner melting down in Airplane 2 is my favorite scene of his ever.
I thought pg-13 was invented because of Indiana jones temple of doom (or gremlins), but red dawn makes sense too.
@@kpobuibo The ground crew guy with the flashlights "directing" the plane before the big window crash is Jerry Zucker. David said later the joke was that having Jerry be one of the "directors" would also end up in a big F***-Up.
The Japanese soldier was James Hong, most recently in "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." Hong may hold the all-time record for the total amount of movie appearances.
Two major scandals in the news of the day was of air traffic controllers taking amphetamines (hence: "I picked a bad week to stop....") and air traffic controllers having nervous breakdowns on the job (hence: Crazy Johnny).
You cut the dude doing all the drugs?? That's crazy it's one of the best parts. 'It's coming right for us!' *jumps out the window*
That was Lloyd Bridges, his son Jeff was 'The Dude'
@@RobertJuzstone holy shiz
This Is Pure Comedy Gold a Real Classic Film Still So, So Damn Funny. So Glad You Enjoyed This.
Hi Mary, This movie has so many references to other movies, TV shows and pop culture it’s amazing. For instance, the actress (“Jim never has a second cup of coffee”) was the actual actress in the commercial. That commercial somewhere here on TH-cam. The real Girl Scouts of America were not very thrilled to see the two ladies in Girl Scout uniforms cheating at cards and in a knock down, drag out bar fight. Check out Top Secret, done by the same guys who did Airplane!
Suggest Hot Shots as well.
"I take it black .... like my men"
that line will never NOT be funny
The way that kid delivered it so matter-of-factly.
@@BH6242KCh
The look on the boy's face as she delivers it deadpan.
There were a lot of jokes about things that were current in 1980, on TV, etc. that you probably missed.
Yes, there was smoking on the planes back then. There was no security at the airports, you could walk into the terminal and go directly to the gate to board or to meet an arriving friend coming off the incoming plane. The Hare Krishnas (who got punched repeatedly in the movie) were always roaming the airport terminals asking for donations.
The questions the pilot was asking the kid were NOT random, innocent questions.
I don't think Mary really got the point of this movie.
Love this young lady. One of my favorite reactors.
Nothing's random. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it's random.
15:49 I'm still amazed at how many reactors don't notice that Rex Kramer steps THROUGH the mirror in this scene. Anyway, this movie is chock full of gags, but most of them are visual, so it requires you to really pay attention. It's a hard one to comment along with because you'll miss a lot. Some of the gags are also products of their time or only make sense to American audiences. Anyway, a classic!
Fun fact. For Leslie Nielsen, this was his *first ever* comedy role. He was a moderately famous actor, but he was type cast as a gritty, serious actor. This movie and his role in it actually caused a bit of a stir because of not only a serious actor doing a comedy, but also how *well* he did it.
The remake with Liam Neeson should be interesting.
Prior to this film, all of the older men in the film, Leslie Nielsen (Dr. Rumack), Lloyd Bridges (Steve McCrosky), Robert Stack (Cpt. Rex Kramer), and Peter Graves (Captain Clarence Oveur) were considered to be serious dramatic actors, so to see all of them being goofy was what made this movie even funnier. All of them have stated that this movie extended their careers by decades.
Also the "jive speaking" woman was Barbara Billingsley, who was best known as June Cleaver from the 1957-1963 American sitcom, "Leave it to Beaver." She was THE O.G. TV mom.
As an old, it makes me feel extra old seeing so many of the jokes whoosh over the heads of younger reactors because the necessary context is 40 years out of date.
Mary, your reactions are either top-tier "not getting the joke", or top-tier trolling
I love how that supposed vicious dog is a golden retriever, the only thing they'll do is try to lick you to death. Even in the movie here the dog is clearly just playing with him.
The outrageous dog attack sounds they play over the scene are hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
Everyone always misses the gag when Kramer is adjusting his tie in the mirror, but then steps right through it.
Yes!!! One of the best comedies around. I was only 4 when this was made. It’s great to see reactors of today watching this gift of a movie
11:11 That's the Harlem Globetrotters.
This movie actually led to a new rule that both pilots can't have the same meal in-flight.
7:21 Man can tell a killer story 😂
0:27 What’s more interesting is that this film was called _Flying High_ here in Australia, which as a fellow Australian, Mary should’ve mentioned.
Classic! Can't wait for your Naked Gun 2 reaction. Also since you've seen all the Lethal Weapons, I suggest looking into their spoof Loaded Weapon 1. Super underrated
This is one of my favorite movies! Thanks for the reaction.
The fact that you think the Captain doesn't know how to talk to children is very funny in itself.
"Air Israel please clear the runway. "
I've watched this movie countless times since I was a child, it was always on tv. A few years ago I watched one of the movies that it spoofed "Airport 1975" starring Charlton Heston and I could not take that movie seriously for the life of me. Mary your laugh is so contagious and your facial expressions and commentary are so great. Thanks for this reaction!
Fun fact: The air traffic controller who gets high (Steve McCroskey) is played by Lloyd Bridges, the father of Jeff Bridges. You have seen Jeff Bridges in THE BIG LEBOWSKI.
Lloyd was Izzy Mandelbaum in Seinfeld.
@@stevec5465 Mandelbaum Mandelbaum Mandelbaum!
Lloyd steals every scene in Hot Shots and Hot Shots Part Deux. His dry delivery of the most absurd lines was classic.
Nothing fun about that.
It’s go time.
Love the reaction. And yes the smoking and everything was a thing in the 70s and early 80s. This is one of those movies that the more you watch it the more you will realize you had missed that the first time watching. There is so much going on in the background it is a must see again and again.
I still die laughing at the scene of the black guys speaking jive and then the old white lady translating for them. Also when that one passenger freaks out and all the other passengers are lining up to “calm her down” their own way.
The Old Lady was Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver in Leave it to Beaver, one of the most wholesome American TV sitcoms in the 1950s. To have her being the one to speak Jive was so against character that it was funny on its own.
@@kpobuibo She was also the voice of Nanny, on the Muppet Babies cartoon.
Yes, that's what being on a plane in the 70s 80s used to be like. Watching one film on a screen for the whole cabin. And smoking in the back rows of each cabin and class.
In the 80s, people smoked everywhere. Airplanes, elevators, supermarkets. My high school had a student smoking area outside the cafeteria.
Thanks for reacting to this classic comedy. I was 8 years old when I first saw this in 1980 and it's still the funniest movie I've ever seen🙂