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- My viewers have been calling for a reaction to this movie even though I've seen it already. Gotta give my faithful viewers what they want, right?
Here's my reaction to the classic comedy Airplane! from 1980.
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I think the funniest aspects of this movie are that guys like Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, and Leslie Nielson had only worked in serious acting roles until this movie was made, and it launched Neilson's career as a comedic actor.
"Keep 'em at 24,000. No feet."
There is an interview with Leslie Nielson where he was asked what it was like to have to say such ridiculous things with a straight face. His response was that he had been in plenty of movies where had to silly things with a straight face, but at least for these movies the writers were in on the joke.
Agree, those four really help set the deadpan, uninflected tone for the whole piece, and the fact that their parts are as carpeted with slapstick as everyone else's just makes their jokes hit all the harder. One imagines the movie was an easy sell for all four actors, they clearly are having so much fun.
@@AlanCanon2222 Not so much Peter Graves, at first anyway. He didn’t like the script at all, for obvious reasons, but his agent convinced him to take the role.
@@fivebearrugs Thanks, I didn't know that. I don't know what he thought of his participation after that but I'm willing to bet that getting overnight and permanent name re-recognition for creating an all-time iconic comedic role wasn't too painful to endure.
I've been watching this movie for about 40 years. I never realized that he walked through a mirror.
Yeah, I dunno if I ever saw that either, but I definitely never saw "whacking material" on the magazine rack. Funny, she mentioned it and I was like, wtf?
@@eastbaymauiboy I know I never saw, until I watched the commentary, that there is at least one shot where you can see that the airplane interior wall is held together by duct tape.
He doesn’t. You were meant to think he walked through a mirror.
@@swifty1969 It would be impossible.
That's OK.
It took me a little over 40 years to realize what the first joke was all about in the following lines from the Absolute Best Film of 1980:
Rumack: "Captain, how soon can you land?"
Captain Oveur: "I can't tell."
Rumack: "You can tell me. I'm a doctor."
Captain Oveur: "No. I mean I'm just not sure."
Rumack: "Well, can't you take a guess?"
Captain Oveur: "Well, not for another two hours."
Rumack: "You can't take a guess for another two hours?"
40+ years in, and I finally got the joke about physician-patient confidentiality early this year, in the Spring of '21.
I should guess that I likely would say that such epiphanies are better late than never,
Altogether;
But it's looking like I can't take a guess for another two hours.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop drinking Absinthe and smuggling hashish across the Turkish border.
So there.
There are so many sight gags and secondary jokes, Airplane never gets old!
The end credit scene is very funny too where the guy is still in the cab 😂
As soon as the, "It's an entirely different kind of flying," line hit and you said it with me, I subbed. You are obviously an individual of taste and sophistication.
The old man sitting in the taxi throughout the movie is the late, famous California taxpayer advocate Howard Jarvis. Also, the scene spoofing the famous "old time" movie was referencing "From Here To Eternity." And the wonderful Johnny Henshaw Jacobs ("More coffee Johnny? No thanks.!") in the movie was played by late actor Steven Stucker. Not a well-known actor but certainly memorable here.
I love the small throwaway gags most. Girlfriend frets her soldier boyfriend might need the watch he just gave her and he replies it's okay because it didn't work/The pilot is asked by the copilot if the pilot wants him to check weather conditions and the pilot (instead of answering yes) answers, No, why don't you take care of it./Elaine is asked if she can handle some unpleasant facts and she honestly answers no...These are not huge gags but little gems often left unnoticed between those huge gags.
I've always gotten a huge kick out of the "...well, we have this pamphlet; 'Famous Jewish Sports Stars'..." Being part Jewish I know we're not known for athletics.
Love your reviews of comedies!
Your smile at the camera was hilarious!
Fun fact the two announcers who were arguing over the intercom for actually husband and wife and they actually work for the LA airport
I have seen this movie more times than i can count but i still find details that i have missed.
You Surly told her Emanuel
"Kay vibing!?!" Kay reacting to "Mystery Men" is now a "moral imperative." "Disco is NOT dead! Disco is LIFE!!!"
No one seems to notice that although he's Airforce. He's wearing a Navy uniform in this scene. And yes it was so they could Saturday Night Fever.
You forgot to mention the funniest gag: Ethel Merman as Lieutenant Hurwitz.
The guy left stranded in the cab was a politician named Howard Jarvis who for a time was one of the most hated people in CA because of his prop 13 which cut a lot of funding for schools and other areas. Him being left stranded in a cab was a huge and very satisfying laugh for people back then. It was extremely cathartic. 😄
He wasn't hated by everyone, except those who wanted to be taxed to death
First time I watch this, I nearly passedout from laughter. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The seemingly random story the doctor relates to Ted is a parody of a scene from the film "Knute Rockne, All American". It's an inspirational speech to the football team about a deceased player named George Gipp who wanted them to go out and "win one for the Gipper".
It's based on the 1957 b/w film "Zero Hour!" which starred Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell and Sterling Hayden. Warner Bros. released it on DVD back in 2007, it's funny watching it and waiting for the punchlines that never come. Some of the character names and a lot of the dialogue is the same.
Fun reaction... it was nice to revisit this one with someone who's seen it before and doesn't miss any of the jokes.
I was 9 when this movie came out. I've seen this movie a hundred times and never noticed that it said "whacking material" on the magazine rack. This movies got a surprising amount of edge to it
I never noticed the dead fish on the beach before, just the seaweed.
My favorite line is the "All together..." line. Too clever.
"Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue" 🤣🤣🤣
Smoking and non-smoking never made sense in restaurants. We were all breathing the same air.
Hardly ANYBODY ever talks about Stanley Kubrick's comedy masterpiece *Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb,* yet it's one of the funniest movies ever. It's from 1964 and stars Peter Sellers (who plays three roles), George C. Scott, Slim Pickens (who had a part in Blazing Saddles), and was James Earl Jones' first movie. Check it out.
ABSOLUTELY -- MY FAVORITE COMEDY! Then Airplane
It's a little...dark. But hey, what's NOT funny about the end of the world, right?
Your channel is great. Came across it about a week ago, and then today you're watching "Airplane!". Very cool.
In WWII (which might as well be the nameless war that is mentioned in the film) there wasn't yet a US Air Force: planes were flown by the US Navy and US Army Air Corps. USAF came about as a service unto itself in 1947. The famous beach scene is Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster, "From Here to Eternity", 1953.
The American navy is the 2nd biggest airforce in the world.
As someone who is old enough to remember when this movie came out, I'm pretty sure everyone at the time thought of it as the Vietnam war. Stryker's age combined with the current airport, airliners, and fashions makes that the only real possibility. A lot of the air strikes in that war were carried out by Navy airmen based on aircraft carriers, so the naval uniform is not at all unrealistic.
@@hkpew I'm prepared to agree with you (I was 10 when it came out, and probably 13 when I first saw it, on cable TV). The movie does employ the conceit of seeming slightly out-of-time (based as it is on a script from 1957) in a way I appreciate: like the 1978 Superman, or the more fanciful Brazil (1985), which is explicitly set "Somewhere in the 20th century...." I sometimes wonder which of today's movies will appear timeless to future audiences.
The USMC had fighter squadrons in the Pacific: the "Flying Leathernecks", Pappy Boyington and VMF-214 Black Sheep, etc.
"Zero Hour" is the 1957 movie that this is based on, they use virtually the same script but added the comedy bits and sight gags.
I was working my first real job after college when this came out. The other guy working in the office was a smoker, so of course since he loved the movie too, he would offer to me: "cigarette?", and I would always answer "Yes it is." This routine was always done in front of the two women in the office, neither of whom were impressed by the movie.
Other candidates for funniest movie, ever.
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1985)
I described this movie to a couple of friends of mine once as a "live action story in MAD Magazine". They both immediately agreed and told me they'd never heard a better explanation of it.
Not sure if you know this but the scene where the mechanic is checking the oil and cleaning the window is Jimmie Walker. He appeared as JJ on Good Times.
Airplane is a an amazing movie to watch!! Love your reaction!! 😀 Can Watch this movie over and over again!! Never gets old !
One of the greatest funniest movies ever made. I love Airplane thank you so much Kay great reaction😄😄😄😄😄
3:35 On the dance floor, you'll see Rosemary Clooney (George's aunt) on the far left in a black dress.
A Classical Fun Movie!!
Finally someone else who gets the whole scientology line! :)
The scene on the beach their parodying is "from here to eternity."
"they used to smoke everywhere back in the day" Me, who remembers smoking/non-smoking sections at IHOP:......god damn i feel old
There are so many jokes that I didn't realize before that are purely visual, without words, these are called sight gags in the business. For instance, smoking or non smoking and his ticket was smoking. You rarely see these in movies. It's nice.
You are the first reactor on TH-cam I've seen take notice of the mirror joke, which if memory serves is the joke the Zucker bros. were proudest of (and greatly influenced the direction they decided to go with their jokes in "Top Secret").
I think after all these years and countless viewings, it's the timing that gets me ROFL as opposed to the jokes on their own. Also the fact that these actors deliver their lines with absolute dramatic conviction.
Except for the one. "And Leon's getting laaaaaaarger!"
I honesty never noticed before. Ill have to rewatch now.
I have been waiting for any commenter to catch that joke. It's one of my favorites, but super subtle. Nice catch. Let's see how many people missed it entirely. =D
Understandable takeaway. If you take a look at the numerous deleted scenes: all of them match the film's tone, a lot of them may have worked, and together they take up roughly the same amount of screen time that Stephen Stucker does in the final cut.
On the DVD commentary, the Zuckers mention that Stucker's presence in the second half is the reason test screenings didn't have walkouts. For me the easiest explanation is that Stucker breaks the monotony, both by offering a change of style and by indirectly commenting on the stone-faced stupidity of the other characters.
In any case, it shows a time in the Zuckers' (and Abrahams's) careers when they were willing to experiment with all the ways you can get a laugh ... a phase that was only brought down by the box-office failure of "Top Secret". Even though I love "The Naked Gun" as much as anyone does, it does objectively plays things more safe for easier laughs.
I love Stacks fight seen too. I never noticed the mirror gag til you pointed it out and I’ve seen this many times
Great laugh it's contagious
Thanks for reacting to my reply Kay you are what I like to call good people.
...and it *still* holds up, some forty-odd years later! So many tried to imitate the formula, only to fail, over and over again.
From Here to Eternity - beach scene.
Airplane is a parody of a 1950s movie called Zero Hour and the 1970s series of airplane disaster movies. The first of that series was Airport.
The 70s was full disaster movies: Earthquake, the Towering Inferno and Airport. Each had a plethora of major stars. Airplane does too: Lloyd Bridges (dramatic actor), Robert Stack (dramatic actor, hosted Unsolved Mysteries), Leslie Nielsen (comedic actor, later played in Naked Gun), Peter Graves (dramatic actor, was in the original Mission Impossible TV show) and Kareem Abdul Jabar (basketball legend).
The blonde flight attendant, the sick girl and her mother all could be seen on television during that time.
Random fun facts: even though they were in a jet the entire movie, the soundtrack featured the drone of a propeller airliner.
The story about the Zipper wasn't entirely random. Back when he was still an actor, Ronald Reagan played George Gipp in Knute Rockne, All American. Gipp was dying, and the coach made an emotional speech before a big game, imploring the team to "win one for the Gipper." Since Airplane! came out in 1980, when Reagan won the presidency, everyone got the joke.
...I read somewhere that Johnny ad-libbed all his lines through the entire movie.
Lloyd Bridges was hilarious in the Hot Shot movies
And in "Mafia"
Your laugh is adorably contagious
I remember when I was a youngin at the theater there would be a smoky haze about a foot above everyone’s head ! This movie is classic and never gets old so many gags it’s great! Johnny is hilarious! Thanks for sharing your fun reaction!
This is a spoof of the movie "Zero Hour". That being said, most people usually never mention my favorite quote from this movie. It is when Jimmy, the boy, talks with Ted Stryker. "Mr. Stryker, I have a question. " Stryker asks, "A question, what's that?" Jimmy replies, "It's an interrogative statement used to test knowledge, but that's not important right now. "
Abbott and Costello who's on first is hilarious
I really enjoy your reactions videos. One fun bit of trivia, Airplane! wasn't just based on airline disaster movies, it is 99% an actual airline disaster movie script. Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker bought the rights to an actual film and pretty much made the movie nearly shot-for-shot but adding jokes and gags, with most of the dialogue coming directly from the original script ("Zero Hour"). There's a video out there where they compare the original film against this one and it's crazy how much of it stayed intact in Airplane!
really enjoyed your reaction. One of my favourite films. Keep up the good work
I've seen this plenty of times before but I was laughing right along with you! I had fun! Keep up the good work!!
In the 70s, there was a string of "Airport" disaster movies- Airport '75, Airport '76, etc, so it was perfect timing for a spoof airplane disaster movie.
I think the "Don't call me Shirley" line is so often quoted, compared to others is because the setup is so common. People are always saying some form of "Surely you can't be serious." Personally, my favorite line is the young girl saying she prefers her coffee black "like my men." Whenever I see this I wonder what ever happened to that actress.
The ground crew at the beginning who send a plane crashing into the airport were played by David and Jerry Zucker, two of the writers and directors of the movie. Their mother, Charlotte Zucker, played the makeup lady on the plane.
If you liked this, I think you'd like The Princess Bride.
Interesting commentary on smoking. My family doctor allowed smoking in his waiting room, and he even smoked while doing examinations in the late 60's and early 70's. My how the world has changed!
...for the better! Some piece of shit wants to pollute his own lungs, fine. But they can fuck off with imposing that shit on the rest of us!
Yes “Airport” from 1970 was Great! Allstar cast that started the whole disaster movie genre back then , The Towering Inferno and Earthquake also Airport 77 were great and big hits at the theater throw in Jaws and Star Wars, Close Encounters and going to the movies and seeing the coming soon posters was a magical time for myself anyway, Thanks again!
Airplane is the best comedy
beach part spoof "From Here to Eternity" :-)
"I just want you to know, we're all counting on you..."
The old guy in the cab is Howard Jarvis. His claim to fame is co-writing California's property tax reform policy that was proposition 13. It froze property taxes at current levels with a small increase each year-until the property changes ownership. THEN it reverts to current levels.
For more fun watch
-"Top Secret!" (1984)
-"The Naked Gun"-trilogy
-"Hot Shots!" (1991)
-"Hot Shots! Part Deux" (1993)
I was ten when I watched it for the first time and it's just as good now, timeless comedy as you've just proven 👍👍
12:37 that joke was so funny it's on par with the film well done 🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
9:40 I never realized there was no stuntman. He did that whole fight scene in one take LOL!!
Beach scene is a spoof on the 1953 film FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. The horse in the bed spoofing THE GODFATHER.
The horse in the bed is a reference to a scene in The Godfather. The plot was taken from Zero Hour, which they bought the rights to to prevent a lawsuit.
The Turkish prison line is a reference to "Midnight Express" which had been a big hit in 1978.
"He thinks he’s Ethel Merman”
The guy in the taxi was anti-tax advocate Howard Jarvis, who was well known at the time for his many TV appearances.
The doctor who delivered me lived in our neighborhood, and became the family doctor(mostly did house calls). He was a big fat guy and I remember him listening to my heart with his stethoscope, while he had a cigarette dangling from his mouth the whole time.
I think there is no movie as funny as this one. They would never be able to get away with it today. The deadpan humor is my favorite kind, and Leslie Nielsen was the king of it, may he rest in peace. I believe the "description" when people say "What is it", along with "Don't call me Shirley" are the two things I quote the most
The air on a plane when passengers smoked was actually fresher because they vented the cabin more often.
Most of you know that the film airplane is a direct parody of Zero Hour. You can watch a video film comparison on TH-cam, and that David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams copied the entire film, they just made it funny.
9:57 That’s the third writer and director Jim Abrahams. While David and Jerry Zucker were the air traffic monitors.
the last shot is one more check on the guy still in the taxi after everything else is done
One joke many younger people miss out on is the one point about the introduction of Leslie Nilson's character, in the movie he's wearing a stethoscope. Of course people see it and think its either funnny or obvious he's a doctor. But back in the day, airline headsets looked exactly like stethoscopes (you can google images of them) , so the joke is he is a doctor and introduced as wearing a doctor's stethoscope as a headset rather then just wearing it just for the heck of it as a doctor (not sure if that makes sense lol). In the movie you see the real headsets when the old woman is watching the airplane crash movies on the projector.
I didn't realize until recently, but Airplane! is almost a shot for shot remake of Zero Hour, with some obvious gags introduced. theres a video on youtube showing just that.
Robert Stack was in that other film as the airplane pilot. The movie was The High and The Mighty.
Another fun fact the actor who was playing a guy who was cleaning the windows on the airplane and checking the oil was named Jimmy Walker and he played JJ on Good times with Quincy Janet Jackson Michael Jackson sister was on as well
Couple more cast notes, remembering this movie as a tween. Lorna Patterson, as the deputy flight attendant to Julie Hagerty's Elaine. Goldie Hawn had been in the rated-R film "Private Benjamin" (too young to see it at the time, I still have not seen it). It is a dark comedy-drama about the integration of women into the United States Army. Lorna Patterson took on the role of Private Benjamin, when a short lived TV-spinoff from the Goldie Hawn movie appeared, and we all watched. She was good in it, too (there's probably like six or twelve episodes of it). I now read that the nun was played by Maureen McGovern, who did not appear in the granddaddy of all disaster films, The Poseidon Adventure, but it was Maureen McGovern who got a Grammy for recording the song from the movie, "There's Got to Be A Morning After." Anyway....one more thing to learn about a movie I've been watching for 40 years.
Female patient is Jill Whalen was on Love Boat as Captain Stubing's daughter Vicky
This whole movie is just a string of one-liners, but it works! The only ones that fall flat for me are Johnnie’s jokes.
...and those were ad-libbed by Johnnie.
You should do Airplane 2 The Sequel. William Shatner steals the show in that one.
Let's be honest. Shatner makes that movie. And the Star Trek door jokes. Other than that, the whole movie is just more of the same. This one was new.
My favorite line is the one I use after tech support calls when they won't listen to my instructions. "Chump don't want the help, chump don't get the help."
"Jive ass dude don't got no brains, anyhow"
I’ll never get tired of this movie. Please react to Top Secret!
5:22 From here to eternity!
7:36 Here's the beginning of one of the great comedic careers ever.
The Navy has planes also. Aircraft carriers, remember?
This whole time I never noticed he stepped through the mirror. Where was I?🙄😛
Wow! I never knew too!
@@TheMrPeteChannel Me neither!
One of my favorite jokes that so few pick up on
I did a web engineering course some years ago. The assignment was to make a web site to showcase and purchase movies. Guess which movie was in my catalog.
The main movie Airplane is spoofing is called "Zero Hour". There's actually whole lines copied in this film from that one, but done in a comedic way rather then the serious drama that was. There's a comparison video here on TH-cam somewhere that shows the sequences that are in common. It's pretty hilarious. The directors of "Airplane" actually purchased the rights to the other film as they borrowed so much. The commentary on this film by the three directors is wonderful and one of the best I've heard. All three of them have cameos in the movie too. One was the air traffic ground crew guy who accidentally sends the plane crashing into the terminal early on. And all three of them are playing different religious missionaries in the scene where Robert Stack beats most of them up. The Director's mother is the lady trying to put on her makeup while the plane is landing. Truly a hilarious movie and one of my all time favorite comedies.
My favorite production anecdote is that Airplane was originally written as taking place on a propeller driven aircraft [just like Zero Hour], but the studio thought it should be on a jetliner. ZAZ relented, but retained the sound of propellers, rather than a jet, and it became a subtle background joke that many people miss.
@@darcywiley5096 because I saw this movie before ever living or working near an airport, I also missed this production gag.
Very cool!
The scene with the kiss on the beach was originally in From Here to Eternity.
1:55 the original cool menacing voice of boba FETT
i’ve seen this movie at least 20x, not including reaction vids. it always makes me laugh.
Great reaction to this classic film. Somehow it gets even more funny if you watch the movies it was mostly parodying like Airport and Zero Hour.
such a fun movie. I've said before, Johnny is my favorite though. Nothing wrong with a re-watch. Just say it upfront. No one wants a lot of forced fake reactions. But if a movie/show is good enough we all enjoy rewatching it again. It is VERY losely based/parodying the movie Airport- a series of disaster airplane movies the first came out in 1970. You might check that out, its somewhat dated, but a pretty fair movie. There were TONS of disaster movies in the 70s. Irwin Allen made alot of them.
4:10 top pilots are from the navy, they use the most skilled pilots to land on carriers under any weather's conditions.
The guy who comes into scene upside down looks like comedian Andy Kaufmann.
*Info:* Back when you were allowed to smoke cigs on flights they used fresh air to keep the cabin fresh but now they recycle the cabin air which is nowhere as pure but it's cheaper
Hey Kay my name is Amanda Lynn Tucker you did a pretty good reaction this movie is priceless plus you're pretty funny and you seem like a nice person anyway good job.
I caught a bus from London to Edinburgh and they had a smoking section and anon-smoking section on the bus