Airplane! (1980) Reaction | FIRST TIME WATCHING! | Movie Reaction
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- Naked Gun's Leslie Nielson joins Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty in what is a phenomenal parody to watch and directional debuts of David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams. My first time watching and reacting to Airplane! (1980)! I hope that you all enjoy watching my reaction, commentary, and review of the episode at the end of the video.
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0:00 - Intro
1:33 Show and Commentary
37:13 - Thoughts and Outro
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Movie Description:
Ex-fighter pilot Ted Striker is a traumatized war veteran turned taxi driver. Because of his pathological fear of flying and subsequent "drinking problem"-he splashes beverages anywhere but into his mouth-Ted has been unable to hold a responsible job. His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson, now a flight attendant, breaks off her relationship with him before boarding her rostered flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. Ted abandons his taxi and buys a ticket on the same flight to try to win her back. Once on board, however, Elaine continues to reject him, causing Ted to accidentally drive several other passengers to suicide as he sadly reminisces.
After the in-flight meal is served, the entire flight crew and several passengers fall ill. Passenger Dr. Rumack discovers that the fish served during meal service has caused food poisoning. With the flight crew incapacitated, Elaine contacts the Chicago control tower for help and is instructed by tower supervisor Steve McCroskey to activate the plane's autopilot, a large inflatable dummy pilot dubbed "Otto", which will get them to Chicago but not be able to land the plane. Elaine and Rumack convince Ted to take the controls. When Steve learns Ted is piloting, he contacts Ted's former commanding officer, Rex Kramer-now serving as a commercial pilot-to help talk Ted through the landing procedure. Ted becomes uneasy when Kramer starts giving orders and he briefly breaks down amid more wartime flashbacks. Elaine and Rumack both bolster Ted's confidence and he manages to once again take the controls.
As the plane nears Chicago, the weather worsens, complicating the landing. With Elaine's help as co-pilot and Rex's guidance from the tower, Ted is able to land the plane safely, despite the landing gear shearing off, and the passengers suffer only minor injuries. Rescue vehicles arrive to help unload the plane. Impressed by Ted's display of courage, Elaine embraces and kisses him, rekindling their relationship. The two watch as "Otto" takes control of the plane, inflates a female companion, and takes off. - บันเทิง
At last! Someone noted the plane was making propeller noises! 😃
Ayeee 👏👏
@@EversPrimeTime Just for that... subscribed! 😸
@@cesarvidelac ayooo thank you :)
I never got how some people found that funny, but hey, to each their own.
@@jasonskeans3327 I'm an aviation nerd. It's hilarious. Just trust me and laugh along.
"No, that's just what they'll be expecting us to do..." is a direct reference to when the actor (Robert Stack) starred in the old series, "The Untouchables" where he played Elliot Ness.
Ahhhhh, that explains the camera zoom/dead pan 🤣 That's great
@@EversPrimeTime you missed the after credit scene with the Taxi
There is an after credit scene that you missed in which I believe you'll be happy to watch.
Oh dude he would of totally of loved the end credit scene, hope he still checks it out some time
"I'll give'em another 20 minutes and that's it!"
I literally skimmed the credits to make sure and missed it. I'm SO mad at myself lol
@@EversPrimeTime some of the credits themselves are pretty funny
There are *_tons_* of jokes and references in this movie that are lost to current audiences, because they referenced stuff from the movie's time.
Just one example is the lady passenger who gets a thought-voiceover to the effect of "Jim _never_ takes a second cup of coffee at home…" and later on "Jim never vomits at home…" That is a reference to a coffee commercial from that time (Zuban Coffee, I think?), that was aimed at instilling insecurity in housewives ("If your husband isn't guzzling coffee like there's no tomorrow, you're using the _WRONG BRAND_ and are a _BAD WIFE!!!"_ ) They even hired the _exact same_ actress from that commercial to do it.
I have seen a few of this movies reaction videos now - and pretty much everyone seems to miss when Striker is asked if he has ever flown a mono-engine plane before and he says no. . .
It wasn’t zuban, it was either Folgers or maxwell house.
The inclusion of Barbara Billingsley is itself a joke most will miss, since the cultural impact of leave it to beaver is so far in the past
Also all the LAX jokes. After being stuck there for hours one time fending off the moonies and listening to the endless zoning announcements, then seeing this movie - I about pissed myself.
@@LadyIarConnacht The fact that they hired the *_actual_* people who had voiced the LAX announcements back then was a stroke of genius!
I love watching the shock of younger generations at the jokes and comedy genre of this movie. This is slapstick comedy, MEANT to be ridiculous with a joke every second. In the 80s with comedy there was no subject matter that was off limits to using as a joke. Today everything is so politically correct with everyone so thin skinned and easily offended. Comedy today just doesn't have the color and punch as this. Airplane went on to inspire a plethora of memes and after 40 years that means they did something right
The idea that a movie made in 1980 could be a parody of '80s movies is Hilarious to me.
Ikr, the movie was released in 1980, which means it was made in 1979.
'Airplane' is based on 'Zero Hour' (1957). A lot of the dialogue is literally word-for-word. (This warns you what you're in for if you watch it, because it wasn't meant to be a comedy...)
It's so strange hearing so many of the exact same lines, but delivered seriously!
That's "Zero Hour!" .... "Airplane!" even kept the exclaimation point in the title!
Yeah, I was told the directors bought the rights to the movie to be able to do this parody? Which is HILARIOUS.
@@EversPrimeTime I can't imagine it cost too much...😁
@@EversPrimeTime There are videos on TH-cam that do a direct comparison of various scenes between the two movies. It's pretty awesome.
Actor Robert Hays is a pilot in real life and is actually qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft...
Leslie Neilson was a serious actor in his younger days. He was the commander in the sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet." And the romantic lead in the movie "Tammy," starring a young Debbie Reynolds.
I'm definitely going to have to see a role of him being serious now 😂
Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges were also cast for that dramatic actor/comedic movie juxtaposition.
@@EversPrimeTime Surely, he wasn't serious.......
Leslie Nielsen was the Captain on the USS Poseiden in "The Poseiden Adventure".
@@0okamino Lloyd Bridges was trying to play it funny, & Robert Stack told him,
"no, Lloyd, they just want us to play ourselves!"
One last comment. I'm glad you liked Johnny. Johnny is a polarizing figure and reactors either love him or hate him. For me, he also carries a sad reminder as well. The actor, Stephen Stucker, was one of the very first to publicly say "yeah, I have AIDS". I distinctly remember him on an episode of Donohue (before Ellen or Oprah, Phil Donohue was the king of daytime talk TV) where he boldly insisted that he would live just as long as he would have without AIDS. That it was manageable. Despite this outlook Stephen died in 1986 from AIDS. Whenever I see him in this film, it always makes me a little bit sad. More than that, however, this actor acting Out and Proud with reckless abandon and utterly embracing his Queerness brings joy.
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It parodies so many things from commercials to movies. I'm amazed how so many miss the "From Here To Eternity" reference. I guess that movie didn't hold up. Also, "Panhandlers" in the airport was a thing once upon a time.
I need a cultural video on the 80s so I can understand all the parodies 🤣 Either way, it was great to watch and I'm excited to do a rewatch at some point. Thanks for watching!
Hare Krishna guys: “We gave at the office.”
Sex scenes were not allowed so they used metaphor. From here to eternity used waves on the beach moving in and out, but the actors weren't hit by the water
This is a flick you have to watch about 4 or 5 times just because while you're busy laughing your ass off at one joke, you've missed about 3 other ones.
I love that it's very literal humor for the most part and nobody seems to have peripheral vision. The "what is it?" answers as the running gag just never stop. And the deadpan serious delivery sells it all. The "Scary movie" and similar parody franchises over the years just tried too damned hard. I still laugh harder at this flick than any of those others on first viewing, and I've seen this one a hundred times.
You're the first reactor I've seen catch the prop noise from a jet plane. Nice one Ever.
You have no idea how happy this makes me. I'm usually the one who misses EVERYTHING 😂 Thanks for watching!
@@EversPrimeTime I started watching your Avatar reactions and I think you are an awesome reactor and person.
A lot of reactors don’t seem to notice the train noises either, so good catch on that one as well. Understandably, the open door on the plane is a very distracting concern in that scene.
@@EversPrimeTime Well, you did miss a lot of other stuff, but then you weren't around back then to catch most of it.
@@EversPrimeTime Yeah, props to you, man.
Good job noticing the engine sound. Nobody does
Another one that is almost always overlooked: When Rex Kramer gets dressed at home, he steps in front of a large mirror. The camera pans so that you only see his reflection, but his wife continues facing where he must be standing, just off-camera, as they continue talking. When Kramer has finished adjusting his uniform, he _steps out of the mirror,_ grabs his jacket from his wife, and leaves.
It's so underplayed, with nothing calling attention to it, that most people never even notice.
I just came here to mention that. I've never seen a reactor catch that before! He caught the catfish on the beach, as well.
This movie is a gem. It would never be made today, so I'm glad it was made back then. I am a huge fan of deadpan humor and even after years of watching it, I always see something in the background I had never noticed before.
3:55 - *“He **_does_** look familiar. Is he in… Oh, **_Police Academy_** or something like that?”*
You are thinking of Steve Guttenberg, who _did_ look quite similar at the time, especially the hairdo. The first _Police Academy_ wasn't actually too terrible, and even had a bit of a message against racism, sexism, and not judging a book by its cover - sadly, the series went kinda downhill from there. But I still maintain that it had an _amazingly_ kick-ass theme song.
5:52 - *“Why is a **_jet_** plane making the sound of a propelled air plane?!”*
You caught that! Very few people do; I myself needed to have it pointed out to me.
The story goes that the writer-director team wanted a propeller plane, like in the original _Zero Hour!_ but the production company insisted it _had_ to be a modern jet plane. So they caved and used a jet model, but got back at them by sneakily overlaying propeller engine noises for the entire movie! 😆
7:08 - *“Have I seen this parodied somewhere.”*
Almost certainly. The Disco dance movies _Saturday Night Fever_ and its sequel _Staying Alive,_ both starring John Travolta, have been parodied and referenced literally _hundreds_ of times - though this was probably one of the earliest and most elaborate parodies.
20:49 - *“I feel like, though, I **_should_** have watched whatever this is parodying - unless it's just parodying 80s movies in general […]”*
While _Airplane!_ most closely parodies the older movie _Zero Hour!_ (right up to the exclamation point in the title), it also takes a lot of "inspiration" from the _Airport_ series of disaster movies that were big in the 70s. Plus _loads and loads_ of other things.
26:16 - *“[wheeze] **_why is there a-_** … Why is there a horse in the bed, dude!?”*
Come on. You _know_ why there's a horse in the bed.
29:48 - *“Yo~o~o, is he making it up, though?”*
I can't speak for the "Win just one for the Zipper" speech (which is a parody of the "Win one for the Gipper" speech from _Knute Rockne: All American,_ which earned Ronald Reagan the nickname "Gipper"), but Dr. Rumack _did_ work at the army hospital at that time. In the earlier flashback featuring Elaine, Ted, and his… painting, you can hear Dr. Rumack being paged over the PA in the background.
This movie revitalised Leslie Nielsen's acting career, thanks to his brilliantly deadpan delivery amidst the insanity of this movie. In an interview he once said something to the effect of, "I've been delivering very silly dialogue with a straight face for _years._ The only difference now is that it's very silly _on purpose."_
The bird in the cockpit was a buzzard, a carrion feeder. The joke implies they're dead meat.
Ahhh that makes sense. Thank you!
@@EversPrimeTime The film itself is brilliant and almost impossible to catch every joke. Just a consistent barrage of comedy. Thanks for reviewing this classic.
I lost it when you saw the lady just hanging there after the Stayin' Alive scene. You have a great laugh!
I genuinely cannot overstate how much I didn't expect that to happen. Absolutely hilarious
@@EversPrimeTime It never gets old seeing somebody new react to that scene - the shock and then the uncontrollable laughter. :) PS - the cultists in the airport were a very real part of the LAX experience back then. Also, if you're worried about the guy in the taxi - you have to watch the after credit scene!
In the original movie "Zero Hour", the co-pilot was played by a famous football player who went into acting. So in the comedy version, they brought in Kareem Abdul Jabaar and then did the gags referring to his basketball career.
Enjoyed your reaction. Haven't watched this in ages. This film parodies a lot of stuff. Airport was a very popular, all-star airplane disaster movie from 1970 that actually go a Best Picture nom at the Oscars. But many films were parodied including the Staying Alive part from Saturday Night Fever. There's even inside jokes like the passenger in the cab was Howard Jarvis, a tax policy activist responsible for passage of Prop 13 in CA which limited property taxes.
Thanks for watching! Yeah there was SO many parodies...parodies within parodies 🤣 It was so much fun to watch even though I didn't get a lot of the references. Very enjoyable!
@@EversPrimeTime After continually mentioning the guy in the cab, I can't believe that you didn't show him in the post-credits scene. You DID watch all the way through to the end of the credits, didn't you? ;)
@@zooks527 I didn't 🥲 I had no idea. I've since though watched the scene 😂
The movie "The Godfather" had come out a few years earlier and the most iconic line was "making an offer one can't refuse" and the scene where a Hollywood producer wakes up with the bloodied severed head of his prized racehorse next to him.
Ahhh, ok that makes sense. I've still not seen The Godfather 😶
Actualy from the way she talked to the horse and how she acted later in the movie she was cheating on her husband WITH the horse
@@nekuraookami Yeah. Her husband was gone so she found herself a real stud.
Regarding the airport promoter scenes, back in the day airports used to be big hubs for religious and activist groups to pass out pamphlets and the like because airports were considered public forums. Considering the number of people who passed through airports, it made sense for those groups. The government later clamped down on this and significantly reduced how the public could advertise in airports. So what you’re seeing in the movie is a highly exaggerated but still recognizable scene of how people were swarmed by pamphlet pushers back in the day.
It wasnt all that exaggerated. I worked for TWA during a couple of summers in that very same terminal and omg the Krishnas and nuns were out in FORCE that summer. Craziness!
The flower thing was a thing in the airports back then.
My favorite gags are the old woman hanging herself and Barbara Billingsley (aka June Cleaver) speaking jive was amazing
As you could see - I absolutely DIED at the hanging scene. It was just so wildly unexpected. I loved it.
When the plane goes to take off and the guy keeps the door open is a parody of many a railroad "farewell" scene. There is a guy saying "all aboard," decked out in full conductor's uniform and the plane makes chugging noises as it gets up to speed.
You losing it to Airplane! was worth a watch.
It was INFINITELY more funny than I expected it to be. Especially for having a lot of cultural references. I would totally watch it again!
"Can you fly this plane, and land it?"
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious... and don't call me Shirley."
Classic comedy. Laugh a minute and very quotable.
Fun Fact: In a 2008 interview, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a European flight and asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during takeoff so the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdoch.
White-Red Zone Fact: Regarding the argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life.
Casting Choice Fact: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.
Ayee, thanks a lot for the fun facts, I love that they got the actual announcers for the bit. That's just the extra mile that I'm sure absolutely KILLED people who knew when they watched 😂 Such a fun movie with so many gags!
You're welcome! 😁
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
I was stuck at LAX for hours one time in 1978 and those announcers just never stop with the zoning announcements. The airport was also packed with moonies, Hari Krisnas, etc. recruiting and fundraising.
At one point in the control tower, they go to check the radar and instead it is a turkey being cooked in a microwave. The first home-use microwave was Amana's Radarange, introduced in 1967. The concept itself dated back to 1945, when an engineer working on a radar project, discovered the chocolate candy bar in his pocket had melted. Radar uses microwaves.
About five years before the movie, there was an actual food poisoning incident onboard a plane which resulted in recommendations that pilots and passengers be served different meals during flights. Contaminated breakfast omelets caused nearly 200 passengers to get sick. Fortunately, the pilots, whose biological clocks were still on Alaska time, didn’t get sick since they had ordered steak dinners and were able to make an emergency landing.
This is a film that makes almost everyone laugh, because it catches you off-guard time and time again. Doesn't matter your age, either.
Can confirm, as a 27 year old, I still thought it was hilarious. Punchline after punchline
@22:43, you asked "what is with the flower thing," referring to the religious guys in the airport -- back in the day, before airports had as much security as they do now, people from churches, or representing political causes used to solicit people in the terminal, asking for donations, sign petitions, and stuff like that.
Another reference that I've never seen a reactor pick up on: The whole "George Zipp" pilot story is taken from the old football movie "Knute Rockne, All American." In that movie, a Notre Dame football player named George Gipp (portrayed by a young Ronald Reagan) dies, but before he does he makes a speech for his teammates in which he asks them to "win one for the Gipper." It's also why the Notre Dame fight song is played when Striker tells Dr Rumack, "I've got a plane to land" after the doctor's motivational talk.
It is from that movie, it is also a real story, Rockne read a letter to his team left by Gipp. It was based of true events. On a side note, no one had ever seen the letter so some question if it was real and Rockne just made it up.
There's nothing like the first time watching this movie. It's so fucking dense.
VERY Dense, but in such a good way. I'll be watching it again soon :)
@@EversPrimeTime honestly this is so dense you could probably make that another video. Like Shaun of the dead and hot fuzz
Leslie Nielson was also famous for marrying the Dorothy character in The Golden Girls. There really is a famous "Mayo Clinic" in the opening scene. The Vector Victor/Rodger Roger is a Who's on First/What's on Second from Abbott and Costello. The co-pilot really is former basketball star Kareem from LA Lakers.
@3:28 Why is it that no reactors to this movie ever get the "Mayo Clinic" joke?
The world's only 1 hour 28 minute dad joke
No kidding 😂
Great review, this was actually PG when it was released, PG-13 didn't exist 😁. It would probably be rated x today 🤣 Steve Gutenberg was the actor in Police academy.
I'm *pretty* sure any nudity gets an R rating now, I could be wrong. But with that, it BLOWS my mind that this was considered PG 😂 But things were obviously different. Less regulation and what-not in movies
@@EversPrimeTime PG used to mean "Parental Guidance" and it was meant seriously. For some real eye-openers, check out the films with the original "M" rating (for "Mature" audiences, when we had G, M, R, and X. Hokey smoke, Bullwinkle!
When Kramer was getting ready at home he walked right through the mirror.
The scene in the sand, with the waves,is a remake of a FAMOUS scene from "From Here to Eternity" with Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr.
I think you're the only person to have mentioned this one. Thank you! This video has been out for like a month, and I'm still learning bits 😅
This movie is actually a direct parody of a 1957 film called "Zero Hour". It uses essentially the same plot as ZH
The movie came out in '80 so it's not parodying 80's movies. Jaws, Saturday Night Fever, From Here To Eternity was '53 and Knute Rockne All American was '40.
Victor was a navigator, an obsolete job now.
You need to rewatch it to catch the jokes you missed when you taped your reaction.
The guy who "picked a bad time to stop using" is Lloyd Bridges, Jeff's father.
Yeah I didn't really think about when this movie had came out 😅 But this also just made me realize that Jaws is a 70s movie and not an 80s. wow.
13:30"He's in stuff. Seteve...Steve...Steve Martin?" I put my head in my hands in despair at my age.
I see all the regular Airplane! commenters have gathered together once again to either delight or be dissapointed in a reactor's response.
Your's was among the best! I'm subbing. And you need to watch it again because you won't get all the jokes the first time. There are so many things in the background.
This movie is a parody of three specific disaster films : Airport 1975, Airport (1970) and Zero Hour (1957) and a lot of scenes in it are borrowed from one or more of those. For instance, in Airport 1975 a nun with a guitar sings for a sick little girl. And in two of them, a hysterical passenger is slapped.
There isn't a specific movie to watch before this. It's mainly a spoof of 1970s airplane disaster movies titled Airport-something or other (usually just the year of release, like "Airport 1976"). There were three or four in the series if I recall. Airplane 2 takes takea place on a passenger version of a space ahuttle, and spoofs both Star Trek and Wars.
The movie is a parody of a third-rate movie called Zero Hour from the 50s or 60s, with a lot of references from more modern movies.
The outcome of the cab passenger was after the credits.
First time........ watching? Obviously.
Glad you enjoyed it. These old comedies are still funny no matter how many times I rewatch them. Still gets chuckles from me.
Try watching the Naked Gun series where Leslie Neilsens stars.
Naked Gun is on my list to do at some point! I didn't realize those were comedies too...so that'll be a trip 😂
Don't worry about not having seent the specific movie they were spoofing. It was a film called "Zero Hour" from the 50s and almost no one has seen it, but apparently at times this is almost a shot-for-shot remake. With jokes.
I'm going to HAVE to watch that movie 😂 Thanks a lot for watching :D
@@EversPrimeTime You can save some time, there is a TH-cam video called something like Airplane! vs Zero Hour! that compares them shot for shot in about 10 minutes.
At the time, there were some who wanted to define inner-city slang a separate language of its own (I think to give it respect), called "Ebonics" (or "Eubonics"). Instead of writing the lines for them, the directors told the two actors to just make it up when they were speaking "Jive." This slang had been universal in racist memes of the subservient black person in any film such as a character named Rochester on the Jack Benny show. Part of the joke in this movie was that they were portrayed in formal business attire.
The older woman who was able to "translate" was Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver on the long-running tv series (1957-'63), "Leave it to Beaver." She was depicted in the series as the totally unflappable mother in a completely vanilla middle-class American family, representing an idealistic but rarely attainable life. Minorities of any type rarely "intruded" on these shows.
She was a stay-at-home spouse whose goal every day was to get the housework done and to have hot meals on the table for her husband and two boys. She was always smartly dressed, with an iconic string of pearls.
At the time, this was in line with other Hollywood representations of the standard family. But as woman began to push back against the social norms that so restricted them, June Cleaver, with her pearls, became the symbol of this now despised picture of perfection, as real women went to work, developed careers, all while expected to balance keeping the home life on an even keel.
The producers could not have picked a better actor to shock the audience by being fluent in Jive.
The child didn't die but the ambulance crashed immediately as it left.
OHHH that's where the hub cap came from. Oh my god, I didn't even put that together 😂
@@EversPrimeTime LOL, then you missed the screech and the crash sound.
1. I guess I picked the wrong week to stop watching "first time reaction" Airplane clips.
2. This movie requires more than one watch in order to catch as much as possible. Little things to look for:
Ted was in the Air Force but at the bar he's wearing a Navy Lt. Uniform.
Elaine's trombone sounds like a cornet.
One of the fish was a freshwater catfish.
Captain Kramer steps out of a mirror before leaving for the airport.
The woman with the horse in bed is the creepy Captain Oveur's wife. She is also hitting on to Captain Kramer.
It's a jet but the background noise is of a prop plane.
The ambulance crashes after the plane lands.
3. Otto/Auto pilot has his own webpage on IMDB
4. Elaine has permission to sit on MY face.😍😋
5. IMVHO Airplane II is better. Destination moon. I saw it first. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
6. Two other Funny Movies (that are connected somewhat) for you to share are: "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles"🤣🤣
Second the Blazing Saddles!
The plots, names, and scenes in this movie come from a dramatic film called Zero Hour! The producers of Airplane! bought the rights to Zero Hour! so they could use it for this movie. In that movie, the role played by Kareem Abdul-Jabber was played by professional football player and Hall of Famer Elroy Hirsch.
The water on the beach is a direct ripoff of a romantic scene in From Here to Eternity.
Until 9/11, airports were full of people begging for money for various causes. The airports couldn't get rid of them, because courts had ruled that they had the right to free speech. You had to dodge around them.
Win one for the Zipper is based on a Ronald Reagan movie, "Knute Rockne, All American", where he played a real-life Notre Dame player named George Gipp, who died in mid-season,. Reagan told the other players that they needed to "win one for the Gipper".
You missed the last scene, with the guy in the taxi.
When this film came out it was an "A" certificate in Britain- anyone could watch it, there was no restriction.
You need to watch to the very end to find out about the guy in the taxi.
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After Credits scene man still in taxicab
There is a sequel, Airplane 2. Kentucky Fried Movie is another movie directed by the Zucker Brothers.
You should have heard the theater during this movie.
I'm sure it was nothing but wheezing 😂
All the war references are Alcohol drinks.
He talks about air force duties but he shows up at the bar in a Navy uniform.
Ahhh, I see. That's why I didn't get any of them. I'm not a big drinker 😅
19:26
Second comment, I know, but seriously look at this guy right here! As far as actors go, this guy is the unsung hero of the film. This man held an actual burning match in his hand and managed to keep his gazed fixed on the other actors, while those very real flames were creeping closer and closer towards his fingers. THAT takes dedication.
It's mainly a parody of the 50s drama movie called Zero Hour!. But a lot of the jokes are from pop culture of the time.
Back in the day, public places, especially airports, had solicitors begging for money. Did not matter which organization they belonged to they would be pests. Was later that the beggers were banned from doing this.
What Ted did to that guy in the beginning was what everyone wanted to do these pests
One of those guys Robert Stack dealt with was grappling legend Judo Gene LeBell. He trained Ronda Rousey in judo way back when.
Ahhh, ok. That's what I figured was going on. But I didn't know if there was like more to it than that. Thanks for the explanation!
@So Everdream Glad to help. Later on the solicitors (pests) were eventually banned from the airports due to security I think in the 80s.
@@delariean Not for Security reasons but because a lot of the organizations were fake charities making a fortune scamming and annoying travellers. Charity collecting was still allowed up until recently but they had to go through airport management to cut a deal. One of those groups was Hare Krishnas which makes the joke of the Hare Krishna saying that he “gave at the office” extra funny.
This movie is not a spoof, it is a comic remake of a 1957 movie called Zero Hour. Some of the dialog is exactly the same, the producers of this movie purchased the script.
If you liked that you should check out Blazing Saddles.
I would *like* to, but I have to get some other shows out first for variety. I hear VERY good things about LoK so I'm definitely interested already.
thanks for your reaction.glad you enjoyed the utter silliness of the film (which i'm old enough to have seen as a young teen on its opening weekend in 1980🙄), though i can see how most of the references parodied here would be baffling and bewildering to someone of your generation, and there are enough of them to fill an extended essay, everything from the hugely popular disaster film genre (and its many tropes) of the 1970s to the coffee commercials that would have been familiar from tv at the time. some of the story arc (such as it is) refers back to the grandaddy of all air disaster films, "the high and the mighty" (1954), a john wayne vehicle that also starred robert stack, who plays captain kramer in "airplane!". a lot of these references have since become pretty obscure, but even in 1980, some of them would have been obscure to younger viewers, such as the making out on the beach scene, which parodies a similar, very iconic scene in "from here to eternity" (1953). even more obscure is the scene referenced in the tearful farewell bit with the distraught young woman running alongside the taxiing plane, which comes from the 1944 world war ii home-front drama "since you went away," where it mich more plausibly takes place on a train station platform, where the girl runs alongside the departing train, dodging several columns as she continues to say goodbye, which of course in "airplane!" sets her up for a collision with the columns, and which are of course completely and absurdly out of place on an airfield.
I wish you would have watched past the credits. The taxi passenger was still there, in the car, and said, "Alright, I'll give him 20 minutes...but that's it!"
Trust me, I wish I did too. I messed up 😂
“Airplane! “ is mainly a parody of a 1957 movie called “Zero Hour”. The Zucker Brothers bought the rights to the movie so they could copy some of the hokey dialog. I bought “Zero Hour” from Amazon so I could see for myself. The acting in “Airplane!” Is copying the style of the original movie.
Several other elements in “Airplane” are from a series of 1970’s disaster films, “Airport”, “Airport 1975”, “Airport ‘77”, and “Airport ‘79”. They are available as a set if you’d like to see where “Airplane!” got it’s inspiration.
You have to watch the credits all the way to the end. You'd be satisfied...😂
I knowwwww, I messed up!
Hope you caught the post-credits scene. One final return to the old guy in the cab!
13:07. This is a reference to a "Folgers" commercial at that time where the wife was shocked that her husband got a second cup of coffee at a friend's house and thinks out loud "funny, he never gets a second cup at home." Obvious inference that she failed as a wife because she didn't serve him Folgers. A slightly different era.
2:47 that was a huge problem in airports back in the 1980s. Hare Krishna was especially notorious for doing that. Hence, the “we gave at the office” joke.
Um Steve Martin is not in this film and is NOT the same guy as Leslie Nielsen who is!
I know I know, I put a little text edit in the video! I fucked up 😅
Most of the extras were know. From other things. The coffee woman was in an advert for coffee, the woman who knew jive was the mother in leave it to Beaver, the taxi guy a business man/politician with a special anti tax/fiscal responsibility interest
If you watched through the end of the credits you would have gotten more taxi!
I knowwww, this has scarred me. I'll never skip credits again 🤣
You win! You get the chocolate factory! You are the ONLY reactor I've seen get the propeller plane sounds gag.
Hellll ya 😁
The original movie is Zero Hour and I believe they bought the rights, because many lines are pretty much the same. Kareem's joke is because the copilot on Zero Hour was a famous player back then and there he was, casually playing a pilot like a regular actor. I believe Zero Hour cast him to achieve more audience, since he was famous. For playing football/basketball (I don't remember) 😒🤣
This was a fun reaction to watch. Had to subscribe 👍🏻. More movies coming I hope. 🤔 😊
Thanks so much for watching! Yes, I focus on series, but I'm at a minimum trying to get two movies out per month. More in the future - but definitely more to come!
Honestly there are so many jokes, that it takes numerous watches to catch them all and while not as good as the original, the sequel "Airplane 2! The Sequel" is still quite funny and both less obscure in its references and slightly less dated! If you decide to watch it, recommend 2001 A Space Odessey and at least some general knowledge of the original Star Trek cast, namely recognizing William Shatner and his role as Capt. Kirk, as pre-watch material.
As for the guy in the cab, there is actually in end credit scene!
I think you're the first reactor I've seen, that noticed that the plane was making propeller noises. I mean, there's very few examples of those types of sounds for reference, these days. You are also one of the few that noticed that it they were recreating a train departure scene, when the door was open. Yes, that was a catfish. Channel cats can tolerate both salt and freshwater. You might want to try out more Zucker movies. It's a cruder production, but there's "Kentucky Fried Movie". It has some weird bits, but it also has some unexpectedly hilarious stuff, too. It makes even less sense.
A few other funny movies from around the same time are Arthur, Seems Like Old Times, Tootsie, 9-5 and Foul Play.
All great suggestions
As other commenters have noted, while this movie spoofed a lot of similar ones, it was actually a direct parody of "Zero Hour." In fact, there is a TH-cam post showing side-by-side comparisons:
""Side-by-side" comparison: Zero Hour! (1957) Vs Airplane! (1980)"
I haven't seen it in a long time but various religions often had people trying to recruit you in places like airports. When I was in college around 1997 I saw them at the train station all the time. A Hare Krishna guy gave me a vegetarian recipe book once.
All of Johnny's lines were improvised.
also, funny that this movie came out in 1980 and disco died that year because of a stunt in Chicago.
Looks like you forgot the extra credit scene.
The Naked Gun is next in the Leslie Nielson movie marathon.
Ever please go back and watch the end credit scene for this, you'll love it
There are jokes all throughout the credits.
I KNOW I TOTALLY EFFED UP. I'm so mad 😅
I've watched many of these reaction clips, and they miss so many of the in-jokes. For example, the singing patient in the hospital is actually Ethel Merman, in her last movie appearance. The scene on the beach is taken straight out of From Here to Eternity, without the seaweed. And the man in the cab is Howard Jarvis, a well-known California conservative who would never pay a cab fare like that one. Also, there are references to all the Airport disaster movies and even the Singing Nun.
I think I had fish on a plane, too and from Japan on Air China. I just remember that most of the food was pretty good.
The Doctor is Leslie Nielsen.
The disco scene was parodied in Ted.
This was really a movie of its time. Just some of the movies audiences back then would have been familiar with off-hand, and which were particularly parodied: Zero Hour!; Saturday Night Fever; Knute Rockne All American; From Here to Eternity; The Singing Nun; Airport 1975; and so many others. Not to mention Johny's many add'l references. Or the horse in bed. And let's not forget that era's ubiquitous Yuban commercials, and the weekly 'Point/Counterpoint' 60 Minutes segments. And that's just a start.
This is a spoof of some airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70’s, they were called Airport, Airport 75, Airport 77 and Airport 79 the concorde.
The couple doing the airport announcements apparently worked at LAX doing them and were a couple in real life.
I saw this movie when it came out and I was 9 years old, I obviously didn’t get some of the sexual jokes.
No one seems no notice that when he mentions where he was stationed during the war and went on missions that it’s always alcohol names like Drambuie.
Some of the questions that the pilot asks the kid are references to movies with gay themes like Spartacus and midnight express.
The woman shocked that her husband had a second cup of coffee is a reference to a famous coffee commercial from the 70’s.
The taxi fare was 113.
The spear was a call back to when he was being chased by Indians in the driving scene.
7:23
You actually could play this song if you wanted to, it's technically not owned by The Bee Gees. Copyright laws weren't as watertight back in the 80's as they are now, and the version of "Stayin' Alive" that plays in this film has both its pitch and playback speed slightly altered from the original. The filmmakers specifically did this so they wouldn't have to pay royalties for using the song.
In the 70's, members of various religious cults, such as the Krishnas (the two guys in the two-colored robes) or the Moonies (followers of the Reverend Sun Young Moon) were free to panhandle in our airports.
Concerned parents, fearing for the sanity of their adult children, would have them kidnapped and turned over to deprogrammers, in order to bring them back to reality.
Most of the dialog in this movie is lifted from the movie Zero Hour. The hysterical woman scene parodies a similar scene from Airport, the beach scene is From Here to Eternity, the pep talk from Knut Rockne from which Ronald Reagan gets the nickname "The Gipper".
I thought you were going to leave out the jive brothers completely, but you saved the day.
It was VERY close to being cut. I just didn't laugh at those parts, at all. Not for any particular reason, I think I just didn't get it. I just stared 😂
The lead guy was not in Police Academy, you might be thinking of Steve Guttenberg.
Yes! I didn't realize I mixed them up. Thank you!
You really should watch 80ies and early 90ies comedy movies, cause since mid-90ies the kind of comedy changed dramaticly
Honestly, the vibe of this, I need it more in my life lol
@@EversPrimeTime So let me know if you need names of 80ies and early 90ies comedys you should react to. Most of them are not so mad as "Airplane", but you'll laugh a lot. A you should check out the anarchic comedys from the Marx brothers made between 1929 and 1940.
This is one of my very favorite comedies of all time. I'd probably only put it second to The Big Lebowski, but it's a close call, and they're very different movies. While Police Squad and the Naked Gun movies have similar humor, I don't find them nearly as funny. I mean, they're cool and all, but they don't quite have the magic of Airplane! My only real gripes with the movie are that I think the end is a bit weak (at least comparatively speaking), and I don't find Johnny (the goofy guy in the air traffic tower) even slightly amusing, but those are minor flaws in something that's otherwise spectacular.
Yeah, there's definitely some things I could nitpick, especially the ending. But any movie that can keep me laughing for it's ENTIRETY is pretty great in my book! I plan to watch The Big Lebowski at some point as well! Thank you for watching :D
The best comedy of all time is Some Like It Hot, and it's pretty much timeless...though putting the two male stars in drag for most of the film as they both chase Marilyn Monroe was not only hilarious but actually quite groundbreaking for the 1959 time frame. I try to encourage millennial reactors to try a few of the great film classics, like Casablanca, Best Years of our Lives, and so many more that help explain the evolution of great cinema.
18:54 I think that's a joke about yogic flying.
20:18 ...altogether / all, together.
Re. "And Leo's getting larger..." Pretty much all of the Johnny moments were improvised. They just let him have fun.
Yesssss I love it 😂
Zero Hour is the primary source material... the rest is just ZAZ being who they are. :-)
Also, the bar scene (a Saturday Night Fever parody) was reproduced in Ted.
Also Also, always watch the full credits on a ZAZ film. ;-)
You might have caught it during editing, but you looked a bit confused by the 2 of them repeating what Stryker said at 20:22. The reason was because Stryker had said that he couldn't fly the plane because "it's an entirely different kind of flying, 'all together'." So they said it together since he clearly asked them to. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh, also, the movie was rated PG. At the time, a lot of things were accepted in PG movies that wouldn't be today. PG does stand for Parental Guidance suggested, after all. So they expected the parents to see the movie before allowing their children to and decide if it was appropriate for them. G movies were what a lot of movies are rated PG today. G being for General audiences.
PG-13 wasn't added until later on in the decade as more of a mid-point between PG and R. It differentiated movies that weren't quite Restricted rated but were too adult oriented for children to watch. Even then, PG-13 was a bit more liberated than what we consider PG-13 today. Anymore, R rated movies cover a broad spectrum. Some R movies have less adult oriented content in them than some PG-13 movies. I honestly don't have a clue what gets movies rated what, now days.
The "Win one for the Zipper," was a parody of an old football speech to a losing team at half-time to pump them up where the coach said, "Win one for the Gipper." Hence the classic football music playing.
If they lost the wheels when landing they'd just slide, like a toboggan, on the asphalt. The tires don't like sliding so they grip and slow the plane. The metal of the underbelly of the plane would just skid.
And you missed the after-credits-scene that would have answered your question about what happened to the guy in the taxi. He was still waiting in the taxi and said, "I'll give him just 20 more minutes." Then the movie actually ended. 🤣🤣🤣
There were several air disaster movies in the 70’s “Airport “ , “ Airport II “ etc that led to this parody . Maybe checkout the original if you want to see the serious movie that led to this.