I saw Leslie Nielsen jogging along Palos Verdes Drive North when I was a kid. I reached over and honked the horn of my mom's car from the passenger seat. He knew he'd been recognized, and pretended to be startled. He stumbled dramatically, then he turned and flashed a big smile at me and waved before jogging on. It was one of the best moments of my life.
+Faith Smith did you watch the movie? its a quote from the movie: "Sir, there's a problem in the cockpit." "The cockpit? What is it?" "It's a little room in the front of the plane, but that's not important right now." -or- "How soon can we land? These people have got to be brought to a hospital." "A hospital? What is it?" "It's a big building with patients, but that's now important now." -or- "You just got a letter from headquarters." "Headquarters? What is it?" "It's a big building with generals, but that's not important right now." get it now? :-)
I seriously miss old Leslie. God bless my old friend. You made us laugh in the darkest of days. You became family without you even knowing us. No one will ever be Leslie Nielsen.
My favourite line is not one of the most spoken of: "They could be miles off course" "That's impossible! They have instruments!" Cuts to everyone playing clarinets and trumpets in the cockpit. Cracks me up to this day XD
That is actually my favorite part of the movie. lol Also my other favorite part is. "Should we turn on the runway lights?" "No that is exactly what they would expect us to do."
This is the best joke-per-minute film I've ever seen. Literally every frame is a comedy. Every time you see it, you will recognize something new. They are toying with perception, reality and word play all_the_time.
Leslie Nielsen and Peter Graves born in the same year 1926, both passed away same year 2010. Forever united by this classic film, the funniest comedy film of all time without a shadow of a doubt. Rest easy and thanks for the memories.
"LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!" -Best out of character line in Airplane!
I worked on that movie. Both Otto pilots were made in my San Diego living room along with the rubber duck life preserver. Behind the scenes, it was near constant laughter. Producers changed the ending of the movie because of the Otto pilots.
RIP Leslie Nielson, Peter Graves, Robert Stack. They all died similarily in age. 84, 84 and 83. Leslie and Peter died within 4 months of each other. They leave a legacy of laughs!
Cana Dude And of course who could forget Peter from the original Mission Impossible? Now finding out if TH-cam's got that classic TV show from late 1960s.
@@scoobycarr5558 they also have the show that Peter Graves' Mission:Impossible co-star's Barbara Baine and Martin Landau starred in "Space:1999" on here as well
I still get sad thinking that Leslie is gone. There are only two people who I sincerely believe are comedy gods. Leslie and Mel Brooks. This is also one of the only movies I can watch over and over. The movie ends and I start it over. I can quote every line and every scene.
One of THE great moments of my life was sitting in first class, for the first time, on a plane in Phoenix and having Leslie Nielsen walk in and sit down in the seat in front of me. He was much shorter than I imagined, but looked otherwise just like he does here. I was tempted, but resisted the urge to tap him on the shoulder & say "I just wanted to say good luck, we're all counting on you."
Having grown watching all the giants - Jabbar, Graves, Nielsen, Bridges and earliest Stack - this movie was absolutely hilarious and enjoyable. Then Billingsly pops up talking jive - amazing. Pure genius.
Some of the best parts were subtle things, such as when the pilots are talking in the cockpit before pushback and a guy outside the plane lifts the hood, checks the oil, cleans the windscreen, etc. And when he's done, Peter Graves hands him a credit card through the window. Absolutely classic.
In my airline, every single time we're starting to request for atc clearence, it's always one guy asking "clearance, Clarence?" and the other guys replying "roger, Roger!". 3000+ pilots same habit.
Is there anybody else out there that has seen the movie about 50 times! And will watch it again to the end while channel surfing?! Back in 1982 I was a young pilot that had just become a flight instructor and was recommending this movie to everybody!
Friend of mine, we both flew fir an airline. He was lucky, had Leslie Nielsen as a passenger from Seattle to Los Angeles. Asked Flt attendant if they could chat in LA. Unfortunately, Leslie had a tight connection at Tom Bradley terminal. “Oh well” thought Mark. Guess we won’t get to chat. Gets to gate, shutting down engines, checklists to run, etc. Opens cockpit door as main cabin door is opening into jetway. Leslie Nielsen pokes head into cockpit, apologizes, says he wishes he had more time to stay and chat. Then, just before he goes, “gentlemen, we’re all counting on you!” And dashes off the plane. Perfect exit. Great sense of humor. Class act
As a young projectionist back in the day, I watched Airplane! 10 times in five days. Found something new to howl at during every viewing. My favourite thing was listening to the audience reactions. I often thought about filming their reactions, but I didn't have a Super 8 camera. I'm not even sure home video tape cameras existed then. Imagine the goodies I'd be able to share if I had owned a camera! Once a week I was the usher. When something startling was about to happen in a movie, I would make my way up to the screen, stand in the dark by an exit door and watch them all react. Forty years later, everyone is doing that on TH-cam. A missed opportunity, to be sure.
One of the funniest films ever. As a Brit > thank you USA for this film!... RIP Leslie Nielsen + Peter Graves + Lloyd Bridges. (++) . All legends.. I first saw this as child in 1980-81 at our family friends house, their dad was a British Airways pilot who managed to a get an early Video of the film for all of us to watch .. we all laughed our socks off,, all ages and both families.. Even if aged 8 I didn't understand everything,, it soon grew on me :).... Also this airline pilot had many many pilot friends between UK+USA who all pissed themselves watching it. This humour is universal and will never die... I can watch this film a 1m times along with Naked Gun and still keep watching it..... Even recently - I was doing a work conference call in the UK, one colleague in scotland, one in northern england/midlands and the rest of us in London. Towards the end of the call one of us used a Airplane joke, then for the next the next moment we all started quoting the classic lines. "Surely you can't be serious....". ...'' yes I remember, I had lasagna'''''.....'what a pisser' ,, etc etc , (+tons more) .. and our scottish colleague came out with the best '....looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!"
He had it with him on his 1982 Letterman appearance as well. That's where I first saw it and it was one of his best uses of it. Very nonchalant LOL! th-cam.com/video/-8DMdfl53g4/w-d-xo.html
@@TooBokoo He had it on Pat Sajak show in 1989 too, first time I saw it myself watching it recently, and it led to a rather amusing ending lol. th-cam.com/video/q7EoHGVLMS4/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/PrxhinQ2Yp8/w-d-xo.html (it's in two parts)
RIP Neilson and Graves - There scene was so hilarious and epic. Lmao Doctor how so can we land? I can't tell. You can tell me I'm the Doctor. No I mean I'm not sure. Well can't you take a guess? Well, not for another 2 hours. You can't take a guess for another 2 hours? No I mean we can't land for another 2 hours.
Don't get me wrong. Airplane is my all-time favourite comedy movie but the "speaking jive" part of the movie was the only part I didn't find funny. I live over the pond in Northern Ireland and I guess the humour didn't travel.
@@adrianbradley8513 Barbara Billingsley was known coast to coast as the wholesome beloved "Mom" of America from her stint as Mother to child star Jerry Mathers "Beaver" on Tv sitcom here in the states in the 1950's called "Leave it to Beaver", a show about a almost perfect lily white suburban proper family in middle America circa 50's. To see her in a iconic twist to fluently know present day urban street lingo was beyond funny. Kinda of like for you if the Queen "Mum" herself did the same role.
I went to see a special showing of this last week, folks, and I'm not exaggerating when I write you that there were numerous explosions of maniacal, hysterical laughter among us all! I was wiping my eyes frequently.
+ecavuto That's great! I went to a showing here in Reno (the little big city where these asshole moviegoers _never_ get uproarious), and there were about three other people in the theater. I'm not a fan of this place.
I remember on the TV Ad (I think), they said it was a joke every 60 seconds. And that sounds about right. Still funny, even now. An interesting thing that I didn't notice for YEARS was that at the VERY end of the credits, when it says something along the lines of "Any similarities to persons living or dead" (etc) there's a blank line and then "So there!" Very funny. (Plus the guy waiting in the taxi cab who says, "I'm waiting just one more minute and THAT'S IT!"
@@JustWasted3HoursHere When I saw the movie for the first time in 1980 and the credits started rolling, people were leaving the theater and I told my husband, "These guys i.e. the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams are so crazy, they'll probably do something with the credits" and sure enough! I've seen it so many times over the past 38 years and it's still funny!
@@lovesmusic36 Yep, and a lot of people think that _Airplane!_ is a spoof of _Airport 77_ and those disaster movies of the 70s (and there IS _some_ of that in there), but actually it is almost a shot-for-shot parody of a movie they bought the rights to before filming called _Zero Hour._ Here's an interesting analysis of that: th-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/w-d-xo.html
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Yes, that's true. Even the character of Ted Stryker came from Zero Hour. The 1950s was the decade for the typical drive-in theater-type movie. Of course, the "winner" would have to be Plan 9 From Outer Space! Sorry to say that I'm old enough to remember...! But back to Airplane, I think the Zuckers and Jim Abrahams made it for next to no money; between box office revenue and what was then video cassettes, they raked in a fortune!
"Airplane!" was a remake of the movie "Zero Hour!" Many of the lines were taken directly from "Zero Hour!", except "Zero Hour!" was not a comedy, which makes it hilarious today. I can highly recommend it to all fans of "Airplane!"
KC3141 and don't forget the huge success of the airplane disaster movies of that time was the "airport", "airport 75" "Airport 77" & "airport 79". "Zero Hour" started the whole thing...lol..thank you Arthur Hailey
i was looking for this. airplane took not just "many of lines", it's nearly a verbatim copy of the dialog from zero hour. the magic of airplane happens with the music, facial expressions and the comic timing as they deliver their lines!
Flew for a major airline for 22 years, and bought and gave away six fart machines that I found in a toy store. As a flight attendant, I worked coach and first class often. Can't begin to tell you the hilarious pranks we pulled on passengers and cockpit crews. Best purchase ever, and best gift to give airline crews as well. Just way too much fun and laughs, no matter the age!😅
@Morbo The Annihilator Absolutely... "How he survived, I'll never know" "So....Howie survived?" "Afraid not,...we lost Howie the next day" "Over Macho Grande ?" "No...i don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande....those wounds run........pretty deep"
Lmao I only caught that a few years after I first saw it. The T.V version had cut it out. After seeing it a few times on TV I finally rented it. A big difference. That belongs in the " things that wouldn't fly today" file.
Jesse Bucasas and don't forget that plane was a 5 speed manual transmission...The captain is shifting gears as they take off...still makes me bust out laughing
@@lauranolastnamegiven3385 My understanding is the Zucker brothers wanted a prop plane but Michael Eisner, the head of Paramount at the time, insisted it be a jet. So the kept the prop sound effects becase that's what they wanted.
When I transferred to material control in a factory my new supervisor asked me if I could drive a forklift. I told him I had driven one about 15 years earlier in a different factory. I told him driving a forklift is just like riding a bicycle, it’s just harder to put baseball cards in the spokes. He didn’t get the reference. I work with too many young kids. Sigh.
Leslie Nielsen was one of a kind and the cast of airplane really stepped up and everything was delivered flawlessly with a straight face. Must’ve been so much fun making that film.
OH FFS I've seen this film over 50 times since it first came out, I seem to get another joke each time as there are so many, everywhere, but my God it is only now that I too got Otto Pilot OMG
I worked with a woman named Shirley in the late 90s. The poor ol’ gal had to hear that joke every day. (And I’m guilty of saying it to her a couple times, too.)
I so miss the great spoof movies, Leslie Neilson made them the best. His Frank Dreben character had me in stitches all the time as a kid. Loaded Weappn with Samuel Jackson was also funny by as hell.
They have nothing funny to hide anyway...that's why they all have targets on their backs for the next generation of writers and audiences who understand life. The karen videos are a taste of things to come....they are "Airplane" humor in real life.
One of my favourite lines is right at the end. It cuts back to the passenger in Striker's taxi who says.' Well, I'll give him 20 more minutes, but then that's it'
Leslie's brother was the deputy prime minister of Canada, heavy into politics and he is running around with a fart machine, one of the funniest men on the planet , different trajectories in life.
Leslie was by accounts quite intelligent, but not as educated as his brother. Erik Nielsen was not part of any of the Mulroney scandals, although his fairly sensible proposals for dealing with the deficit were largely ignored. Still, being a Cabinet Minister is a pretty big accomplishment.
There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
Bunch of TALL guys... Leslie Nielsen 6' 1" - Robert Hays 6'2" - Peter Graves 6' 4" - Kareem Abdul Jabbar 7'2" Note: Peter Graves' older brother is James Arness (Marshal Matt Dillon - Gunsmoke) and even taller at 6' 7". Lloyd Bridges was the midget' at just 6'0"....
Almost 2020 and this is STILL one of the funniest movies ever! And I don't mind admitting I nearly peed myself the first time I heard the B1 Battle Droids give us a 'Roger, Roger!'
My favorite line was when the ground crew was directing the plane into the terminal and another guy distracted the man by asking where the forklift was and the first guy points with his flashlight, the pilot of the plane thinks he is supposed to direct the plane into the terminal that way the next thing you know the nose of the plane breaks through the terminal window
“How about some more coffee Johnny? No thanks!” 🤣🤣🤣 “Johnny what do you make of this? This? Why you can make a hat! Or a brooch! Or a pterodactyl!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pretty much all of Johnny's scenes and lines are what I call "throwaway scenes"; they're not needed to move the plot along. However, every single one of them is pure comedy GOLD! Any scene he was in was better and funnier because of how he played that role. Collectively, I think he's the funniest character in the whole movie.
To think that Leslie Nielsen was the ship captain in Poseidon Adventure, which was a serious role, I'd so different than how most of him know him in Airplane! and Naked Gun.
I've never forgotten the scene in the terminal where there is a Movie poster on the wall behind them for "Rocky XXXII" showing an elderly Stallone with boxing gloves. Prophetic! lol
Everyone in the movie was great. Airplane is a classic. But I fell out of my chair laughing when Leave it to Beaver’s Mom said, “excuse me, I speak jive!”
A lot of people don't know that Airplane was almost a line for line copy of a serious movie from 1957 called "Zero Hour!" Watching them side by side is amazing and hilarious.
Just had that opportunity--to the point where I kept quoting all the Airplane! punchlines missing from Zero Hour. Yes, all fans need to see how many scenes play out verbatim. This film, along with Blazing Saddles and Monty Python formed my sense of humor--the best gift a mom and dad can give!
It wasn't strictly a "line", but I still want to scream with laughter every time I watch Robert Stack pummel his way through that never-ending line of airport panhandlers. He acted out a dark fantasy that I believe many of us covertly harbor. And there was just a hint of the Duke's style when the melee was concluded and Stack went on his way - appropriately so, given Stack's role in "The High and the Mighty" (a VERY early disaster-drama, and one of John Wayne's favorite peacetime-non-Western roles).
I saw Leslie Nielsen jogging along Palos Verdes Drive North when I was a kid. I reached over and honked the horn of my mom's car from the passenger seat. He knew he'd been recognized, and pretended to be startled. He stumbled dramatically, then he turned and flashed a big smile at me and waved before jogging on. It was one of the best moments of my life.
+Docktor Jim
Thanks for sharing that nice memory of a fine actor who made us all cry.........with tears of laughter that is!
+Docktor Jim Lucky bro
lostone13 I thought so.
Dude, epic!
thats awesome!
Grew up and became a pilot. You'd be amazed how often this movie is quoted in cockpits all over the world. 42 years later. Love this movie.
That's slightly concerning. Over.
I just want to tell you good luck
And your name is Roger 😂
@@zibberebbiz And stop calling me Shirley.
That's crazy! Amazing that even pilots love it haha 🤣🤣
RIP Leslie Nielsen.
A 70 year old man for thirty years!
In Steve Martin territory.
A favorite son of the Yukon
I can imagine him reading this and saying something like "and i never aged a day in that 30 years!"
He made the most of it,our good fortune
I love how they're sitting in airplane seats -- nice inspired touch.
Thanks I didn't notice
"I just saw this great clip on TH-cam."
"What is it?"
"Oh, it's a website with pictures and videos, but that's not important now."
+Faith Smith
What's not important now?
+Faith Smith did you watch the movie? its a quote from the movie:
"Sir, there's a problem in the cockpit."
"The cockpit? What is it?"
"It's a little room in the front of the plane, but that's not important right now."
-or-
"How soon can we land? These people have got to be brought to a hospital."
"A hospital? What is it?"
"It's a big building with patients, but that's now important now."
-or-
"You just got a letter from headquarters."
"Headquarters? What is it?"
"It's a big building with generals, but that's not important right now."
get it now? :-)
+Marc Weiner "we have to get these people to hospital" "a hospital! what is it?!"
+pile maker yeah lol
You win at internet today!
I just came here to wish you good luck. We're all counting on you.
I seriously miss old Leslie. God bless my old friend. You made us laugh in the darkest of days. You became family without you even knowing us. No one will ever be Leslie Nielsen.
Airplane! should have won the Best Picture Oscar for 1980.
Empire. Tough to beat. They should’ve released it one year later/earlier for that
Way better than the overrated big budget TV movie “Ordinary People “ that did win.
Shirley u cant bee Sirius?
...what a pisser
@@bigspicywiener7120 LMAO!!! The way Ted said that was hilarious!! Great scene :)
I was 19 when Airplane come out i'm 60 now never gets old rip to Mr Neilson And Mr Graves
R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen. Thank god for the internet. Great video.
R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen and Peter Graves
Aye. Real talent. Sorely missed.
And Lloyd Bridges, the dude's father..
*****
Damn right..
Tarook82
R.I.P. NBC "News" credibility.
My favourite line is not one of the most spoken of:
"They could be miles off course"
"That's impossible! They have instruments!"
Cuts to everyone playing clarinets and trumpets in the cockpit.
Cracks me up to this day XD
That is actually my favorite part of the movie. lol Also my other favorite part is. "Should we turn on the runway lights?" "No that is exactly what they would expect us to do."
This is the best joke-per-minute film I've ever seen. Literally every frame is a comedy. Every time you see it, you will recognize something new. They are toying with perception, reality and word play all_the_time.
When they line up to "knock sense" into the hysterical woman... hilarious, but it would never be done now
One of my favourites is: "I want every light you have poured onto that field."
On cue, a truck dumps hundreds of household lamps on the runway
A cockpit? What is it?
Leslie Nielsen and Peter Graves born in the same year 1926, both passed away same year 2010. Forever united by this classic film, the funniest comedy film of all time without a shadow of a doubt. Rest easy and thanks for the memories.
i work in Hollywood and the one guy i really would have love to meet was peter graves.
It’s a great movie but Bean’s disaster movie is also there.
Didn't know that.
I started laughing in 1980 and haven’t stopped.
I’ve seen it 100 times and it STILL makes me laugh! Every single time.
Right up there with Blazing Saddles in my book !
And The Shawshank Redemption. Yup, my all time best three - ever.
A classic comic film from so long ago, and in 2021 it’s still as funny yet as it was back then. 10/10 film
"LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!"
-Best out of character line in Airplane!
Absolutely!
It was so hilarious and still is😂
I love that he aggressively grabs the kid as well😂
The look on the kid's face after that rant was brilliant.
I worked on that movie. Both Otto pilots were made in my San Diego living room along with the rubber duck life preserver. Behind the scenes, it was near constant laughter. Producers changed the ending of the movie because of the Otto pilots.
RIP Leslie Nielson, Peter Graves, Robert Stack. They all died similarily in age. 84, 84 and 83. Leslie and Peter died within 4 months of each other. They leave a legacy of laughs!
Cana Dude And of course who could forget Peter from the original Mission Impossible? Now finding out if TH-cam's got that classic TV show from late 1960s.
@@scoobycarr5558 they also have the show that Peter Graves' Mission:Impossible co-star's Barbara Baine and Martin Landau starred in "Space:1999" on here as well
And Lloyd Bridges (father of Jeff "The Dude" Bridges) and Stephen "Johnny" Stucker - they are dead, but their comedic legacy is immortal.
And Lloyd Bridges was 85 when he passed on.
I miss these guys.. if only they were here to make us laugh still
I still get sad thinking that Leslie is gone. There are only two people who I sincerely believe are comedy gods. Leslie and Mel Brooks. This is also one of the only movies I can watch over and over. The movie ends and I start it over. I can quote every line and every scene.
And he literally had not done comedy before that. Neither had Peter Graves, or the other big stars. Absolutely amazing.
We got a lovely long time with both of them. Mel is still good to go.
@@jerbear7952 Knock on wood! God bless that man, he's the definition of a national treasure.
May the Schwartz be with you 🖖🏾
I’ve watched it since I was a kid in the 80s and I still find new things every time!
One of THE great moments of my life was sitting in first class, for the first time, on a plane in Phoenix and having Leslie Nielsen walk in and sit down in the seat in front of me. He was much shorter than I imagined, but looked otherwise just like he does here. I was tempted, but resisted the urge to tap him on the shoulder & say "I just wanted to say good luck, we're all counting on you."
Missed opportunity
and you should have asked "Sir? Are you a doctor?"
"Surely, your not Leslie Neilsen?" 😋
@@helenchelmicka3028”I am Nielsen, and don’t call me Shirley.”
Aw fantastic!!
OMG, you should totally have done that ... I'm sure he would have loved it.
Having grown watching all the giants - Jabbar, Graves, Nielsen, Bridges and earliest Stack - this movie was absolutely hilarious and enjoyable. Then Billingsly pops up talking jive - amazing. Pure genius.
Don, Lloyd Bridges was in an episode of the Three Stooges.
@@shermankelly9062WTF??!! SURELY you can't be serious!
I love that Leslie pranked them back by using a quote from Naked Gun after they made him stop his story.
Some of the best parts were subtle things, such as when the pilots are talking in the cockpit before pushback and a guy outside the plane lifts the hood, checks the oil, cleans the windscreen, etc. And when he's done, Peter Graves hands him a credit card through the window. Absolutely classic.
We're all going to die. Together. "We're all going to die!"
Agreed 👍 those were the best parts 😂😂
Jimmy Walker was that window and hood guy
God, Peter Graves died just four days after this video was posted. RIP to him, Nielsen, and all the others from the film who've passed.
like stephan Stucker (johnny)
And Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges.
And Barbara "I speak jive" Billingsley.
They will live until the end of time :) Wonderful people.
You mean the TV segment back in 2010 not this TH-cam clip which was posted in 2015, five years after they passed away. RIP.
In my airline, every single time we're starting to request for atc clearence, it's always one guy asking "clearance, Clarence?" and the other guys replying "roger, Roger!". 3000+ pilots same habit.
That's perfect
Vector, Victor?
Just wanted to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.
Is there anybody else out there that has seen the movie about 50 times! And will watch it again to the end while channel surfing?!
Back in 1982 I was a young pilot that had just become a flight instructor and was recommending
this movie to everybody!
Friend of mine, we both flew fir an airline. He was lucky, had Leslie Nielsen as a passenger from Seattle to Los Angeles. Asked Flt attendant if they could chat in LA. Unfortunately, Leslie had a tight connection at Tom Bradley terminal. “Oh well” thought Mark. Guess we won’t get to chat.
Gets to gate, shutting down engines, checklists to run, etc. Opens cockpit door as main cabin door is opening into jetway.
Leslie Nielsen pokes head into cockpit, apologizes, says he wishes he had more time to stay and chat.
Then, just before he goes, “gentlemen, we’re all counting on you!”
And dashes off the plane. Perfect exit. Great sense of humor. Class act
As a young projectionist back in the day, I watched Airplane! 10 times in five days. Found something new to howl at during every viewing. My favourite thing was listening to the audience reactions. I often thought about filming their reactions, but I didn't have a Super 8 camera. I'm not even sure home video tape cameras existed then. Imagine the goodies I'd be able to share if I had owned a camera! Once a week I was the usher. When something startling was about to happen in a movie, I would make my way up to the screen, stand in the dark by an exit door and watch them all react. Forty years later, everyone is doing that on TH-cam. A missed opportunity, to be sure.
One of the funniest films ever. As a Brit > thank you USA for this film!... RIP Leslie Nielsen + Peter Graves + Lloyd Bridges. (++) . All legends.. I first saw this as child in 1980-81 at our family friends house, their dad was a British Airways pilot who managed to a get an early Video of the film for all of us to watch .. we all laughed our socks off,, all ages and both families.. Even if aged 8 I didn't understand everything,, it soon grew on me :).... Also this airline pilot had many many pilot friends between UK+USA who all pissed themselves watching it. This humour is universal and will never die... I can watch this film a 1m times along with Naked Gun and still keep watching it..... Even recently - I was doing a work conference call in the UK, one colleague in scotland, one in northern england/midlands and the rest of us in London. Towards the end of the call one of us used a Airplane joke, then for the next the next moment we all started quoting the classic lines. "Surely you can't be serious....". ...'' yes I remember, I had lasagna'''''.....'what a pisser' ,, etc etc , (+tons more) .. and our scottish colleague came out with the best '....looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!"
RIP those guys. Timeless movie.
they will be horsecrap on the fan a lot of times
I can't get over the fact that Leslie squeezes a whoopee cushion everytime he answers a question. Never fully grow up, people. It's hilarious.
Bodenlose Dosenhose - Is that what that was? Weird
Canadians really seem to have a passion for fart jokes - his modern-day successors are Terrance and Philip.
All he ever wanted was to make people laugh.
It’s actually a fart machine he carries around.
@@rizandro Yeah, makes more sense. Don't know why I called it whoopee cushion, it's three years ago. :D
Otto Pilot never showed up for the reunion, probably because he has such an inflated opinion of himself.
Possibly, but I also heard he doesn't like to go "on air" anymore to talk about past movie roles.
I have it on good authority that he doesn't get pumped up for these occasions any more
The pompous windbag.
Ok.Ok.These jokes are deflating.
what an enormous pleasure watching you guys shoot the breeze!
This movie taught me an important lesson. Budweiser and ice cream trucks are emergency vehicles.
Don’t forget the concrete mixer truck.
"It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether!"
"It's an entirely different kind of flying."
"IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KIND OF FLYING!"
+smittykins IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KIND OF FLYING!
"IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KIND OF FLYING!"
+smittykins IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KIND OF FLYING!
"IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KIND OF FLYING!"
God damn Nielsen. He was carrying that fart machine even when he was at Conan O' Brien back in 1993. What a legend.
He had it with him on his 1982 Letterman appearance as well. That's where I first saw it and it was one of his best uses of it. Very nonchalant LOL!
th-cam.com/video/-8DMdfl53g4/w-d-xo.html
@@TooBokoo He had it on Pat Sajak show in 1989 too, first time I saw it myself watching it recently, and it led to a rather amusing ending lol. th-cam.com/video/q7EoHGVLMS4/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/PrxhinQ2Yp8/w-d-xo.html (it's in two parts)
He didn’t take himself seriously. A great quality
RIP Neilson and Graves - There scene was so hilarious and epic. Lmao
Doctor how so can we land? I can't tell. You can tell me I'm the Doctor. No I mean I'm not sure. Well can't you take a guess? Well, not for another 2 hours. You can't take a guess for another 2 hours? No I mean we can't land for another 2 hours.
I am busting out laughing even right now....that happens today so often with the miscommunication.
the same vein of humor as "Who's On First?"
and the magic of the humour - delivered in absolutely dead pan.
good old leslie
one of the top 5 best comedies in film history!
Absolute best part of movie, Barbara Billingsley "oh stewardess, I speak jive"
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Don't get me wrong. Airplane is my all-time favourite comedy movie but the "speaking jive" part of the movie was the only part I didn't find funny. I live over the pond in Northern Ireland and I guess the humour didn't travel.
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@@adrianbradley8513 Barbara Billingsley was known coast to coast as the wholesome beloved "Mom" of America from her stint as Mother to child star Jerry Mathers "Beaver" on Tv sitcom here in the states in the 1950's called "Leave it to Beaver", a show about a almost perfect lily white suburban proper family in middle America circa 50's. To see her in a iconic twist to fluently know present day urban street lingo was beyond funny. Kinda of like for you if the Queen "Mum" herself did the same role.
When Peter Graves shares his story about the little boy at the check out with his mom. That made me laugh. :D
I would have loved to see Robert Hays finish off the interview with his "drinking problem."
I used that joke in a bar. 😏
33 people have been to a Turkish prison.
94 people had fish for dinner.
Or had seen a grown man naked
102 now, and then...
Their name is Shirley
@@Bonez0r Ah, I see. I had the lasagna.
Bad news. Fog is getting thicker. And Leon's getting larger!
Yes! Johnny was the best.
Airline negligent. Passengers certain to die. There's a SALE at Penneys.
It's sad that we don't have good comedy's like this anymore.
R.I.P. Stephen Stucker. Such an amazingly funny guy who left way too early.😥But his famous quotes will live on.
That's the most boring line
I went to see a special showing of this last week, folks, and I'm not exaggerating when I write you that there were numerous explosions of maniacal, hysterical laughter among us all! I was wiping my eyes frequently.
+ecavuto That's great! I went to a showing here in Reno (the little big city where these asshole moviegoers _never_ get uproarious), and there were about three other people in the theater.
I'm not a fan of this place.
I remember on the TV Ad (I think), they said it was a joke every 60 seconds. And that sounds about right. Still funny, even now.
An interesting thing that I didn't notice for YEARS was that at the VERY end of the credits, when it says something along the lines of "Any similarities to persons living or dead" (etc) there's a blank line and then "So there!"
Very funny. (Plus the guy waiting in the taxi cab who says, "I'm waiting just one more minute and THAT'S IT!"
@@JustWasted3HoursHere When I saw the movie for the first time in 1980 and the credits started rolling, people were leaving the theater and I told my husband, "These guys i.e. the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams are so crazy, they'll probably do something with the credits" and sure enough! I've seen it so many times over the past 38 years and it's still funny!
@@lovesmusic36 Yep, and a lot of people think that _Airplane!_ is a spoof of _Airport 77_ and those disaster movies of the 70s (and there IS _some_ of that in there), but actually it is almost a shot-for-shot parody of a movie they bought the rights to before filming called _Zero Hour._ Here's an interesting analysis of that: th-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/w-d-xo.html
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Yes, that's true. Even the character of Ted Stryker came from Zero Hour. The 1950s was the decade for the typical drive-in theater-type movie. Of course, the "winner" would have to be Plan 9 From Outer Space! Sorry to say that I'm old enough to remember...! But back to Airplane, I think the Zuckers and Jim Abrahams made it for next to no money; between box office revenue and what was then video cassettes, they raked in a fortune!
"Airplane!" was a remake of the movie "Zero Hour!" Many of the lines were taken directly from "Zero Hour!", except "Zero Hour!" was not a comedy, which makes it hilarious today. I can highly recommend it to all fans of "Airplane!"
KC3141 and don't forget the huge success of the airplane disaster movies of that time was the "airport", "airport 75"
"Airport 77" & "airport 79".
"Zero Hour" started the whole thing...lol..thank you Arthur Hailey
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The comparison video on here about the similarities is pretty cool.
i was looking for this. airplane took not just "many of lines", it's nearly a verbatim copy of the dialog from zero hour. the magic of airplane happens with the music, facial expressions and the comic timing as they deliver their lines!
good humour, no script writer necessary. axa Zero Hour
Flew for a major airline for 22 years, and bought and gave away six fart machines that I found in a toy store. As a flight attendant, I worked coach and first class often. Can't begin to tell you the hilarious pranks we pulled on passengers and cockpit crews. Best purchase ever, and best gift to give airline crews as well. Just way too much fun and laughs, no matter the age!😅
Rest in Peace:
Lloyd Bridges (1913-1998)
Robert Stack (1919-2003)
Peter Graves (1926-2010)
Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010)
Barbara Billingsley (1915-2010)
Debbie Downer !!
Stephen Stucker ("Johnny," 1947-1986)
And Leons getting larger.
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The best!
Wow....3 died same year 😔
Cream? No, thank you. I take it black.... like my men.
Imagine that joke in nowdadays movie
Berly Tannyono Putra Never happen!
"But he came unglued"
"Buddy came unglued??"
"NOOO...Buddy was a ROCK...best tailgunnar in the outfit"
@Morbo The Annihilator
Absolutely...
"How he survived, I'll never know"
"So....Howie survived?"
"Afraid not,...we lost Howie the next day"
"Over Macho Grande ?"
"No...i don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande....those wounds run........pretty deep"
Lmao I only caught that a few years after I first saw it. The T.V version had cut it out. After seeing it a few times on TV I finally rented it. A big difference. That belongs in the " things that wouldn't fly today" file.
Just the fact that Leslie as a quite mature adult kept and treasured a fart machine is in and of itself funny / awesome
Rest in peace Leslie, Peter, and Robert Stack. The three of you got me to laugh so many times when i was feeling down.
A throwaway movie made with almost no budget.
And after seeing it soooooo many times over the years....it's still HILARIOUS!!!
This reunion was as funny as the movie itself. This shows the great chemistry of this actors.
What I love most about this movie is that a jet liner has engines that sound like an old piston airplane. Classic.
Jesse Bucasas and don't forget that plane was a 5 speed manual transmission...The captain is shifting gears as they take off...still makes me bust out laughing
Yes! I loved that! Guess I'm not alone loving the old Intake/compression/firing/exhaust ....
I believe that was on purpose, to further replicate "Zero Hour!"
@@lauranolastnamegiven3385 My understanding is the Zucker brothers wanted a prop plane but Michael Eisner, the head of Paramount at the time, insisted it be a jet. So the kept the prop sound effects becase that's what they wanted.
When I transferred to material control in a factory my new supervisor asked me if I could drive a forklift. I told him I had driven one about 15 years earlier in a different factory. I told him driving a forklift is just like riding a bicycle, it’s just harder to put baseball cards in the spokes. He didn’t get the reference. I work with too many young kids. Sigh.
I would've given you a raise for that!
Leslie Nielsen was one of a kind and the cast of airplane really stepped up and everything was delivered flawlessly with a straight face. Must’ve been so much fun making that film.
I love them all and how humble they were.
Thank you for being such an unforgettable part of my life.
Both Leslie Nielsen & Peter Graves were 82 years young at the reunion. They are sorely missed.
Nielsen skipped his brother Erik's funeral to be on this. What a guy. He didn't even go to his best friend Robert Goulet's funeral. What a guy...not.
Usually theses reunions suck, but this was fun!
Hey Mike, Lloyd Bridges was in an episode of the Three Stooges.
Worst of all, I think they all last too short. Every guest only seem to have time to answer one question.
Graves and Nielsen...true gentlemen :)
"Otto Pilot". Oh My God, I'm so embarrassed. I just got it.
ilovebeinagirl 😂😂😂
OH FFS I've seen this film over 50 times since it first came out, I seem to get another joke each time as there are so many, everywhere, but my God it is only now that I too got Otto Pilot OMG
Nidge OSullivan i’m slow. i thought it was something different.
what’s your unserstanding of the joke?
i also just got it, but i watched the movie in italian so it does not translate
@@pauldwalker The autopilot's name was "Otto"...Otto-pilot.
"you can't take a guess for a couple of hours". That part always has me in stitches
Still love the cockpit scene the most, roger, uh, ovuer, roger, vector victor, roger, uh ,ovuer, roger uh. Just brilliant.
if there's a blooper reel, it must be gold!
R.I.P Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen is dead? Surely you can't be serious.
Bang on
My favorite line is
Kramer on the phone: "No, we can't do that. The risk of flame-out is too great. Keep them at 24,000...no, feet."
finao o...
That's THE most under-rated line from the film... I love that line!! lmao..."keep them at 24,000......no,..feet"
“Surely you can’t be serious”
“I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley”
Funniest. Thing. Ever.
Damn skippy!
One of the best exchanges in film history.
best line in the film, imho.
I worked with a woman named Shirley in the late 90s. The poor ol’ gal had to hear that joke every day. (And I’m guilty of saying it to her a couple times, too.)
I so miss the great spoof movies, Leslie Neilson made them the best. His Frank Dreben character had me in stitches all the time as a kid. Loaded Weappn with Samuel Jackson was also funny by as hell.
And Hot Shots
And "Repossessed"
R.I.P Leslie Nielson. What a great actor.
The serious & straight actors made this film a timeless comedy
Peter Graves story about the boy in the supermarket is hilarious!
Yes it is!! Haha
And the way he repeated his line to the kid in the store, was identical to the way he delivered it in the movie, even had the same facial expression!
Bloody Hell!! Peter Graves!! OMFGAA!!
the kid in the supermarket and Gladiator movies reference!! I lost it!a
THAT is comedy!
I've heard the story in a couple of different interviews, but he told it really funny this time. LMAO too!
He could've gotten into trouble if he asked the kid if he'd ever seen a grown man naked!
Over forty years later and this show is still infinitely quotable.
"He's a menace to everything in the air. What? Yes, birds too."
Over Macho Grande??
@@applejacks971 I'll never be over Macho Grande.
2:50 perfect explanation of deadpan humor. Hide the fun parts and find them yourselves. Makes it way more hysterical. No movies these days do the same
They have nothing funny to hide anyway...that's why they all have targets on their backs for the next generation of writers and audiences who understand life. The karen videos are a taste of things to come....they are "Airplane" humor in real life.
God bless them all for making me laugh harder than I’ve laughed in 44 years.
Oh, the jive talk was hilarious!!...."Sheeet" and the subtitle says "golly".
One of the craziest, and funniest movies of all time. I was blessed to see its first release, and, I still remember everything
People dedicated to making you happy. God-bless them all!
One of my favourite lines is right at the end. It cuts back to the passenger in Striker's taxi who says.' Well, I'll give him 20 more minutes, but then that's it'
That was Howard Jarvis, a California politician.
When I was first watchin the movie in cinema, I believe it was 1983, I was dying from laughing 🙂We missing people like Leslie, Peter, Robert Stack...
The epitaph on Leslie’s tombstone:
“Let er Rip”
What a legend. RIP
Rodney dangerfields says there goes the neighborhood
Leslie's brother was the deputy prime minister of Canada, heavy into politics and he is running around with a fart machine, one of the funniest men on the planet , different trajectories in life.
@@powerboatguy2308 Leslie's brother Erik was brilliant and educated. Leslie, not so much.
Leslie was by accounts quite intelligent, but not as educated as his brother.
Erik Nielsen was not part of any of the Mulroney scandals, although his fairly sensible proposals for dealing with the deficit were largely ignored. Still, being a Cabinet Minister is a pretty big accomplishment.
There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
Also, we're out of coffee
@@GrooveYouVerse I think that line was in the sequel, but it's still hilarious.
@@bluebear1985 haha it was, but I used it cause the sequel was my fav
😆😆😂😂
Bunch of TALL guys...
Leslie Nielsen 6' 1" - Robert Hays 6'2" - Peter Graves 6' 4" - Kareem Abdul Jabbar 7'2"
Note: Peter Graves' older brother is James Arness (Marshal Matt Dillon - Gunsmoke) and even taller at 6' 7". Lloyd Bridges was the midget' at just 6'0"....
It is a criminal shame this cast never had a crossover with the Night Court cast. For obvious reasons.
Almost 2020 and this is STILL one of the funniest movies ever! And I don't mind admitting I nearly peed myself the first time I heard the B1 Battle Droids give us a 'Roger, Roger!'
One of????????
@@dwlopez57 Yeah, up there with 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and 'A Fish Called Wanda' in my humble opinion.
“Get ahold of yourself, slaps her, gives her a second whack” everybody following has even more severe weaponry. That’s the best line.
Yes! The extra slap he gets in makes that scene lol
It happens again in Airplane II when she is losing her shit on the witness stand.
Omg I looove that one!! Esp the woman in the queue with the gun 🤣🤣🤣
The extra slap kills me every time.
My favorite line was when the ground crew was directing the plane into the terminal and another guy distracted the man by asking where the forklift was and the first guy points with his flashlight, the pilot of the plane thinks he is supposed to direct the plane into the terminal that way the next thing you know the nose of the plane breaks through the terminal window
that was great. if i'm not mistaken, the crew guys were cameos by writer/directors David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams. not sure which 2.
for all the great lines - and there are many, many - there is also tons of visual humor, that maybe doesn't get the respect it should
More than one airline pilot said that "plane hitting the window" thing has actually or almost happened! "Art imitates life."
“How about some more coffee Johnny? No thanks!” 🤣🤣🤣
“Johnny what do you make of this? This? Why you can make a hat! Or a brooch! Or a pterodactyl!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That guy cracked me up.
Love that line !
Pretty much all of Johnny's scenes and lines are what I call "throwaway scenes"; they're not needed to move the plot along. However, every single one of them is pure comedy GOLD! Any scene he was in was better and funnier because of how he played that role. Collectively, I think he's the funniest character in the whole movie.
I use that "I picked the wrong week to stop..." all the time, and just change up what it is based on the moment.
To think that Leslie Nielsen was the ship captain in Poseidon Adventure, which was a serious role, I'd so different than how most of him know him in Airplane! and Naked Gun.
I've never forgotten the scene in the terminal where there is a Movie poster on the wall behind them for "Rocky XXXII" showing an elderly Stallone with boxing gloves. Prophetic! lol
I can quote this movie word for word. One of the greats!!
Just watched 1 and 2 again it's a classic it never gets old got a huge crush on Julie Haggerty as well such pretty eyes.
Everyone in the movie was great. Airplane is a classic. But I fell out of my chair laughing when Leave it to Beaver’s Mom said, “excuse me, I speak jive!”
A lot of people don't know that Airplane was almost a line for line copy of a serious movie from 1957 called "Zero Hour!" Watching them side by side is amazing and hilarious.
Just had that opportunity--to the point where I kept quoting all the Airplane! punchlines missing from Zero Hour. Yes, all fans need to see how many scenes play out verbatim. This film, along with Blazing Saddles and Monty Python formed my sense of humor--the best gift a mom and dad can give!
In fact, to avoid the possible lawsuits they bought the right to the Zero Hour and did whatever liked to do. The result is this fantastic parody.
Kareem NEVER came off badly with the public... he's one of the greatest ball players of all time!
we know
YOU try dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
The hell I do!
Roger!
Listen, kid, I get that same crap every night.
It wasn't strictly a "line", but I still want to scream with laughter every time I watch Robert Stack pummel his way through that never-ending line of airport panhandlers. He acted out a dark fantasy that I believe many of us covertly harbor. And there was just a hint of the Duke's style when the melee was concluded and Stack went on his way - appropriately so, given Stack's role in "The High and the Mighty" (a VERY early disaster-drama, and one of John Wayne's favorite peacetime-non-Western roles).
Help Jerry's kids? Oyyy vey.
Jews for Jesus?
And the dog at his house mauling that guy was great too!
I saw "The High and the Mighty" as a small child...the way they had to scuttle their suitcases affected my attitude toward collecting too much stuff!!
....SCIENTOLOGYYYYY!!!
I never get bored of watching this movie! Love it!
I just want to tell you all good luck. We're all counting on you.
I say this line every time I walk in the bathroom when my wife is sitting on the toilet!
@@Area51Gregos You walk in on your wife going to the toilet? :/