There's so many dated and underlying jokes in this movie that younger audiences can't possibly appreciate because of the 44 year time gap. One example is the older woman who "speaks jive" to the black guys is Barbara Billingsley. The audience in 1980 would all know that she played June Cleaver in the 1950's T.V. show "Leave It To Beaver". She was the epitome of the white, suburban, nuclear family house wife who wore a dress and pearls just to vacuum the house and clean the kitchen. The notion that she, of all people, can speak JIVE just made the scene that much more hilarious.
Seriously, I'm trying to think of an actor who would be familiar to young people now that would be as shocking and hilarious as it was to see Barbara Billingsley do this scene. Sitcoms they grew up with were much more ironic, it would be hard to pull off. That's not their fault or anything, it's just a different landscape.
@@astrotter She's the last person anyone expects to communicate with these gentlemen. The fact she is old, white, and feminine is enough to put the joke across. If they had hired an anonymous character actor, it still would work.
@@Sirala6 Yeah, but I remember when Airplane! came out. When it came to this scene, the theater was all, "WAHHH HA HA HA! IT'S JUNE CLEAVER SPEAKING JIVE!"
Barbara Billingsley said in an interview, that the two guys taught her how to talk jive and that they were wonderful. She also said those scenes revived her career.
Barbara Billingsly said she got as much fan mail from her cameo in Airplane! as her six year stint as June Cleaver in Leave it to Beaver (1957). It revitalized her career after she thought it was long over.
Most of the reactors these days don't have any idea who Barbara Billingsley was, but everybody in the theater back in 1980 knew her well, which made this the biggest laugh in the whole movie.
I know that some people are offended by this. And yet, I still laugh... -Signed, a black man who grew up in the 80s and has not lost one funny bone yet.
I especially like this part of Airplane! Bringing in Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver, was a genius move on the part of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker. 🤣
it was actually kind of a subversive move on their part considering that the bellwether for the Reagan years (80's) was the comparison to "Leave it to Beaver" society as the ideal.
NOTE: The two gentlemen speaking "Jive" are actually EXTREMELY intelligent and erudite men who speak as if they have advanced degrees from Yale. I have seen both of them interviewed and their command of English is worthy of a PROFESSOR.
I do find it kind of sad that many won’t completely get the joke because they may be too young and they don’t know that she was Beavers mom. I remember the theater going completely nuts when this scene played. It was exactly the opposite of what anyone would expect from the Beav’s mom.
As crazy as this soubds, growing up in the 80s taught u three important things: how to be tough, how to be resilient and most of all how to have a sense of humor, BEST DECADE EVER!!!
The cherry on top that all this generation of reactors is missing is that this was Beaver's mother, the most "Apple Pie" type mother of that era of television. The joke goes to 11 knowing this white neighborhood housewife was a Jive talkin' player.
The 'Leave it to Beaver' show was from 1957-1963. I grew up watching the show later during reruns in the 70's. So, I knew who she was and why it makes it so funny. She was the ideal mother figure back then. A sweet, kind, loving and nurturing mom. Hearing her talk like that just makes it so funny. If you haven't seen the show, check it out. It's wholesome show and has many moments of great parenting. Just watch out for that Eddie Haskell guy. He's a jerk! :)
Hilarious as this scene is, it is 1000X funnier to Gen X and Boomers. The June Cleaver factor. It would be like Taylor Swift or Ryan Seacrest speaking like a drill rapper today.
Actually, those two groups aren't afraid to laugh at it. All the newbie generations shift uncomfortably in their seats and there might be a guilty chuckle. Comedy vs. Conditioning
@@alrose8870 She played June Cleaver on the 50's show "Leave it to Beaver". She was a very prim and proper suburban housewife who wore a dress and a string of pearls around the house. Us oldheads that see her telling the Stewardess that she speaks Jive made us all LOL. When she finished with "Chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help. Jive ass dude ain't got no sense no how" well, we lost it 😂 😂
We were laughing so hard at this scene back in 1980 we missed a bit of the movie. Seen it 100 times since then. To me this was the funniest part of the film. "...I take black, like my men" would be second.
In the german dub of the movie these two men speaking bavarian while the others speaking normal german, so funny😂 For all who don't know: Bavarian is a German dialect but everyone is making jokes it's not German because nobody understands it
Being raised in Mississippi in the 1960s/70s, I speak fluent Jive. Back thenn I LITERALLY had to interpret what was being said for White visitors from the North.
Less than 1% of them knew that was Barbara Billingsley, aka June Cleaver, the 1050's dress and pearl necklace wearing suburban housewife on "Leave it to Beaver". All us oldheads knew it when she first stood up and by the time she was done we were nearly rolling in the movie aisles.
Barbara Billingsley also appeared in her June Cleaver persona in an episode of "Roseanne," alongside several other classic TV mothers, and in an episode of "Amazing Stories," in which a magic TV remote causes several TV characters to come to life (each played by their original actors).
The only problem with a current audience watching this wonderful 40+ year old movie is that most probably won't "get" some of the humor. They don't know who Barbara Billingsley is. The probably haven't seen the actual airplane disaster movies (and certainly not the original black and white movie "Zero Hour" that is the serious version of Airplane). They may not know many of these classic actors such as Leslie Nielsen or Peter Graves or so many others. Hopefully they get enough out of it to be entertained and to take NOTHING in it seriously.
You know, I actually never seen those movies. And while I am not the current audience, I think I got a lot of the references. But you're right. I've seen a few of these reactors that completely miss a lot of the references. They didn't know about how big Saturday Night Fever was or how much of a phenomenon disaster movies were, never watched Leave it to Beaver(or Muppet Babies). Don't know the breath of work from people like Neilson and Bridges. You can tell the humor was missed. It's like that with a lot of spoof movies. They were made with what was going on in the time they made them. Watching them out of time can seem dated to modern audiences.
Yes but..... This was about how white screenwriters wrote black characters. This was kind of "Jive Plus." Black talent may have been trained in Shakespeare at Juliard, but this is how they had to talk to get the part of "hoodlum number one" on some weekly police drama.
Even when talking to the white stewardess, the old woman, played by Barbara Billingsley, best known for playing the mom in a family sitcom from the 50s, says the stereotypical AAVE "hep" instead of "help".
I'm thinking that not one of these reactors know who that woman is and how out of character it was for her to be cast in this part. All of us that watched Leave It To Beaver in the '50s and '60s cracked up when "June" did this scene.
@@lanolinlight It certainly seems strange to those of us who watch the reruns in the 70s and 80s with our kids that none of these reactors had even been born then (and in some cases, their parents weren't around yet). Time does fly.
This actress was Barbara Billingsley who played the squeaky clean white bread suburban mom in a show called "Leave it to Beaver". They kept her in character and manner of appearance to make her the least likely person to speak "jive".
Its so sad that this kind of jokes (at both sides) aren't allowed now anymore. Back then people were making fun about each other without beeing mad about it
There can be such a difference between some reactions from people who are like 19-35 watching this movie and people who are older, who get more of the references and aren't scared to death of being politically incorrect. Only the biggest difference is we're more used to just laughing something off as a joke and then not getting scared to death and overly worried about offending people all the time. We were able to have a pretty good balance of that for a really long time in this country. This gag is joking around about how much sometimes we can't understand each other as ethnic groups if we're too deep in our own culture's lingo. It wasn't done in a mean-spirited way at all. it's done because that's what comedy is about: laughing about patterns of behavior, their differences, similarities and hyperbolic exaggeration of those differences and similarities.
To all the people complaining about the millennials who can't recognize Barbara Billingsley: This is a 44-year-old scene using an actress from a show that was 20 years old even then. That's the equivalent of expecting the audience in 1980 to recognize an actress from a movie made in 1916. In 1980, could you even name a single movie from 1916 that isn't "Birth of a Nation", much less any actors? My point is: We are old as dirt. Cut them some slack, Jack.
Best cameo of the film. Second best was the "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home..." lady from the old coffee commercial. The directors were looking for an actress who would remind audiences of her. It wasn't until filming started that she told them, "Uh, you realize I'm the same actress, right?"
I really feel old now cause I didn't need captions. I understood perfectly what they said BEFORE Beavers mom translated. . 🤣...My momma didn't raise no dummies I dug her rap..." = I ain't stupid, I understand what she said.
Some 70s references young people will not understand in a lot of older people don't get the fact that the lady that understands jive is the mother from Leave it to Beaver. she's literally June cleaver. So that's why it was even so much funnier to us back then, because most of us knew that Barbara Billingsley is Mrs Cleaver. Also, we would have been more aware of the then popular spate of disaster movies that were hits and the fact that people like Robert Stack and Beau Bridges (the guys in the control tower) were in those movies.
Just for the record.....this two black actors wrote most of the jive talk lines. They're friends who came to the audition with them. The writers and director quickly scrapped their work and used the actors lines.
I saw an interview online that Barbara Billingsley said that she had no idea what her lines meant. She memorized the words and then and then got some assistance on how to pronounce them.
I still remember watching this in 1980 in the theater and it was just HILARIOUS watching June Cleaver from Leave It To Beaver translating jive. People under 50 won't get the full extent of just how funny this scene is since most of them have never seen Leave It To Beaver. Even never having seen the show the scene is still funny with a 60 year old woman talking jive, but it's full on hilarious if you've seen her in Leave It To Beaver (1950's family sitcom). (She played the suburban housewife, always wearing a dress, even when doing housework - the last person in the world you'd expect to understand those guys!)
@@claymccoy So, it's never been off the air in reruns, like on MeTv today and is on most streaming tv channels like Netflix, etc. Face it, most of todays youth are halfwits that only know what happened 5 mins ago. and I would be willing to bet everyone of these reactors have been brainwashed by todays woke msm, to think this scene is "racist" lol
Some of these reactors are too young know about Leave to Beaver even though show is in syndication. Barbara Billingsley (1915-2010) making her 95 when she died. It was an awesome move for having her in this classic
Rosetta Stone. I was at Best Buy. Went over to the Rosetta Stone Language Display. Asked the sales person if they had “Jive”. He called another person over. She didn’t know. So they called the manager over. He said we could look it up and try to order it. No clue. How high up the chain could I run this. Before switching over to Ebonics.
They're speaking jive, with English subtitles. What is even funnier is that the two black actors were interviewed many years later about this scene, and of course they speak perfect English ........ ... but throughout the interview, there were subtitles in jive!
Watching this on opening night in a large theater was still the funniest thing I have ever experienced. Half the audience had peed in their pants by the end of the film. God Bless Barbara Billingsley!
Most people aren't familiar with Barbara Billingsley today, but she played Beaver Cleaver's mom on the 50's sitcom, Leave It To Beaver. Just listening to her in this scene makes all of us who grew up her just laugh in delight!
Barbara billingsly ( leave it to beaver) was so on board with this and worked with both guys and was such a sport, she did great and the guys loved working with her on this skit
I saw this in theater when it came out (several times). The audience was roaring at this scene (especially since they recognized the lady that spoke “jive”).
The joke works because the actress is the mother character of the 1950’s wholesome TV show “Leave It to Beaver”. Young people don’t fully appreciate the joke
Being born in 1991, I had heard of Leave It to Beaver but never watched it growing up and had no clue who June Cleaver was. So, while I still found this scene hilarious, I didn't understand the context of Barbara Billingsley's cameo here. I hadn't seen the Aiport franchise that Airplane!'s plot drew influence from either, until the first three came to Netflix and I binged them all. If anybody is interested, they're worth a watch (Airport '77 is my favorite in terms of its premise). The older I get, the more I appreciate the amount of thought in this parody's script. This style of humor we now commonly associate with more modern spoofs like Scary Movie is owed partially to the direction & writing of the Zucker bros. The team of David & Jerry Zucker, together with Jim Abrahams, sowed the DNA for the timeless formula of the Naked Gun franchise (and the series Police Squad it was based on), The Kentucky Fried Movie, Scary Movie 3-5, and others: The iconic use of slapstick, running gags, wordplay, and tonal absurdity juxtaposed by characters playing the scenarios straight, etc. You'll find traces of that in almost all the genre parodies that dominated throughout much of the 2000s. Of course, that period of cinema is also owed to the comedic chops of the Wayans brothers and Farrelly brothers. You can find similarities between their styles, and it's plausible that they were all influenced by comedic icons they grew up with. The generational legacy is definitely there. But the more I learn about how these tropes have been carried across decades and the context in which they were formed, the more enjoyable their evolution in media is. It's like a family tree of laughs.
It will be hilarious if she went back to leave It to Beaver Talking like this😂😂😂😅 That is literally the most jive I've ever heard..and i was born in 74😂
People who watch a lot of 70's television will recognize this is the flip side of a gag a lot of black comedies at the time did where a black character would translate what white characters said to other black characters. So for black audiences it was funny on another level, in addition to pretty much everybody having seen at least one episode of "Leave it to Beaver" through reruns when the film was released and knowing who Mrs. Cleaver was.
None of these reaction people understood what made this scene so funny. Everyone who saw this movie when it was released grew up watching Leave It To Beaver reruns. This was soooo out of turn for Barbara Billingsley/June Cleaver nobody saw it coming, that's what made this scene hilarious.
It's crazy that the younger people have no idea what jive is. It would have cool if the "Beave" (Leave it to Beaver) was in the background looking embarrassed.
This scene is especially hilarious to anyone old enough to know who June Cleaver is.
Exactly.
And she’s still wearing her pearls😆
@@robertpearson8798Great catch! I hadn't noticed the pearls. That makes it even a little bit funnier. 😂
All these people reacting are pansies
Barbara Billingsley Nailed that scene perfectly I was rolling in the floor laughing so hard
There's so many dated and underlying jokes in this movie that younger audiences can't possibly appreciate because of the 44 year time gap. One example is the older woman who "speaks jive" to the black guys is Barbara Billingsley. The audience in 1980 would all know that she played June Cleaver in the 1950's T.V. show "Leave It To Beaver". She was the epitome of the white, suburban, nuclear family house wife who wore a dress and pearls just to vacuum the house and clean the kitchen. The notion that she, of all people, can speak JIVE just made the scene that much more hilarious.
Seriously, I'm trying to think of an actor who would be familiar to young people now that would be as shocking and hilarious as it was to see Barbara Billingsley do this scene. Sitcoms they grew up with were much more ironic, it would be hard to pull off. That's not their fault or anything, it's just a different landscape.
@@astrotter She's the last person anyone expects to communicate with these gentlemen. The fact she is old, white, and feminine is enough to put the joke across. If they had hired an anonymous character actor, it still would work.
@@Sirala6 Yeah, but I remember when Airplane! came out. When it came to this scene, the theater was all, "WAHHH HA HA HA! IT'S JUNE CLEAVER SPEAKING JIVE!"
@@academyofshem No doubt there was a twist to it.
Kitty from “That 70’s Show” and “That 90’s Show” would be a close comparison.
Barbara Billingsley said in an interview, that the two guys taught her how to talk jive and that they were wonderful. She also said those scenes revived her career.
Revived her career ??? I never knew this,so cool.
@@kerry-j4m The video of Barbara Billingsley where she talks about this is on TH-cam.
God bless her! What a sense of self awareness and humor!
@@kerry-j4mshe was the mother in the 50's TV show Leave it to Beaver..
And for years she was stopped by fans who wanted to recreate the scene. She always did.
I love that the Jive actors looked at their lines, decided they could do better and wrote their own lines.
Even worked with Barbara to come up with that scene.
Barbara Billingsly said she got as much fan mail from her cameo in Airplane! as her six year stint as June Cleaver in Leave it to Beaver (1957). It revitalized her career after she thought it was long over.
One of the greatest cameos of all time.
"Chump dont want the help - chump dont get the help"
ROFLMAO 😂
Greatest line in any movie in the 1980s
I can't count the number of times I have used that expression
Barbara Billingsley with the greatest cameo ever
Mrs Cleaver and these two black guys became life long friends till she passed
Is that true?
In my opinion, this is the best use of a cameo ever put into a film that has yet to be topped and easily my favorite scene in the whole movie.
Bob Saget in "Half Baked" might come pretty close, actually.
The best part is when he says Shiiiiiit....and the caption says, "Golly!"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I wish they had included the same kind of bland translated subtitles for this part as they did for the earlier one.
I disagree. The best part is when “honkey” is translated to “white fellow” in the beginning!!! 😭😭😭
That’s the best part for sure. Fuckin hilarious
She played the mother on the 60s show " LEAVE IT TO BEAVER" Barbara Billingsley 🤓
Nobody gets the reference they are too young when I watched this in the theater back then the whole audience burst with laughter
1950s yo!
The was was from the 50s, not the 60s. And it was still in reruns in the late 70s/80s in the afternoon.
And voiced Nanny on Muppet Babies.
Yeah, that's what made it so funny. She was the ultimate white suburban family mom. The LAST person you would expect to find hangin' in the hood. 🤣
“Cut me some slack, Jack!”😤
😂
Most of the reactors these days don't have any idea who Barbara Billingsley was, but everybody in the theater back in 1980 knew her well, which made this the biggest laugh in the whole movie.
I know that some people are offended by this. And yet, I still laugh...
-Signed, a black man who grew up in the 80s and has not lost one funny bone yet.
Black people in the 80's thought this scene was hilarious. Not only the concept of it in a movie, but they also know who the actress was.
No one in the 80’s knew what “being offended “ was lol. It was ok to laugh at ourselves and others. Comedy is dead now ..
They're not really offended now, they're just taught to be offended.
I bet those offended are white Americans. They LOVE to be offended on behalf of other cultures.
No one's offended by this, then or now.
Geez Wally, I didn't know mom could speak jive. "Don't be such a dope Beav"
I especially like this part of Airplane! Bringing in Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver, was a genius move on the part of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker. 🤣
it was actually kind of a subversive move on their part considering that the bellwether for the Reagan years (80's) was the comparison to "Leave it to Beaver" society as the ideal.
I loved that role for her lol
The true humor is guys my age were hearing these words from Barbara Billingsly. The super straight-laced all-American mom from Leave It To Beaver.
People would think this is funnier if they knew she was America's mom in the early 60s. This cameo was inspired!
"Juhz hang loose blood...." 😆😆
NOTE: The two gentlemen speaking "Jive" are actually EXTREMELY intelligent and erudite men who speak as if they have advanced degrees from Yale. I have seen both of them interviewed and their command of English is worthy of a PROFESSOR.
They actually wrote that whole dialogue
I do find it kind of sad that many won’t completely get the joke because they may be too young and they don’t know that she was Beavers mom. I remember the theater going completely nuts when this scene played. It was exactly the opposite of what anyone would expect from the Beav’s mom.
Yeah. Glad they enjoy it anway but if they knew her character on LitB it would be so much funnier
Yes, and the people who don't understand what "jive" is.
I surprised a lot of viewers of this channel are older than 40 and know how the Internet works.
@@alrose8870 We invented the internet LOL
@@descepticon9213 my generation millennials took full advantage of it
The nervous laughter & "Can I laugh at this" facial expressions were HILARIOUS!!!!
As crazy as this soubds, growing up in the 80s taught u three important things: how to be tough, how to be resilient and most of all how to have a sense of humor, BEST DECADE EVER!!!
Only thing I liked about the 80's, is that I was born.
The idea of June Cleaver doing this is hilarious.
The cherry on top that all this generation of reactors is missing is that this was Beaver's mother, the most "Apple Pie" type mother of that era of television. The joke goes to 11 knowing this white neighborhood housewife was a Jive talkin' player.
Oh my god. Decades level this is still freakin hilarious! 😂
The 'Leave it to Beaver' show was from 1957-1963. I grew up watching the show later during reruns in the 70's. So, I knew who she was and why it makes it so funny. She was the ideal mother figure back then. A sweet, kind, loving and nurturing mom. Hearing her talk like that just makes it so funny.
If you haven't seen the show, check it out. It's wholesome show and has many moments of great parenting. Just watch out for that Eddie Haskell guy. He's a jerk! :)
What made the scene funny was that it’s Barbara Billingsley. 😂
Hilarious as this scene is, it is 1000X funnier to Gen X and Boomers. The June Cleaver factor. It would be like Taylor Swift or Ryan Seacrest speaking like a drill rapper today.
Actually, those two groups aren't afraid to laugh at it. All the newbie generations shift uncomfortably in their seats and there might be a guilty chuckle. Comedy vs. Conditioning
@@ronlackey2689 Youngsters are so completely "conditioned" that they don't even have the urge to laugh. Pathetic.
As a millennial, I barely understand it and only think it's funny because the lady was talking like an old school black person.
@@alrose8870 She played June Cleaver on the 50's show "Leave it to Beaver". She was a very prim and proper suburban housewife who wore a dress and a string of pearls around the house. Us oldheads that see her telling the Stewardess that she speaks Jive made us all LOL. When she finished with "Chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help. Jive ass dude ain't got no sense no how" well, we lost it 😂 😂
Isn't the other lady from The Love Boat
We were laughing so hard at this scene back in 1980 we missed a bit of the movie. Seen it 100 times since then. To me this was the funniest part of the film. "...I take black, like my men" would be second.
I'd have to say the autopilot was my top laugh
The fact that she was the mother on Leave It To Beaver made it even more funny
I've been trying to talk like that old woman for 40 years
In the german dub of the movie these two men speaking bavarian while the others speaking normal german, so funny😂
For all who don't know: Bavarian is a German dialect but everyone is making jokes it's not German because nobody understands it
Brilliant!
Being raised in Mississippi in the 1960s/70s, I speak fluent Jive. Back thenn I LITERALLY had to interpret what was being said for White visitors from the North.
Less than 1% of them knew that was Barbara Billingsley, aka June Cleaver, the 1050's dress and pearl necklace wearing suburban housewife on "Leave it to Beaver". All us oldheads knew it when she first stood up and by the time she was done we were nearly rolling in the movie aisles.
Barbara Billingsley also appeared in her June Cleaver persona in an episode of "Roseanne," alongside several other classic TV mothers, and in an episode of "Amazing Stories," in which a magic TV remote causes several TV characters to come to life (each played by their original actors).
The only problem with a current audience watching this wonderful 40+ year old movie is that most probably won't "get" some of the humor. They don't know who Barbara Billingsley is. The probably haven't seen the actual airplane disaster movies (and certainly not the original black and white movie "Zero Hour" that is the serious version of Airplane). They may not know many of these classic actors such as Leslie Nielsen or Peter Graves or so many others. Hopefully they get enough out of it to be entertained and to take NOTHING in it seriously.
You know, I actually never seen those movies. And while I am not the current audience, I think I got a lot of the references.
But you're right. I've seen a few of these reactors that completely miss a lot of the references. They didn't know about how big Saturday Night Fever was or how much of a phenomenon disaster movies were, never watched Leave it to Beaver(or Muppet Babies). Don't know the breath of work from people like Neilson and Bridges. You can tell the humor was missed. It's like that with a lot of spoof movies. They were made with what was going on in the time they made them. Watching them out of time can seem dated to modern audiences.
Jive was a real thing.
The Bee Gees even have a song called Jive Talking.
And not usually a language white, suburban housewives were usually fluent in back then.
Yes but..... This was about how white screenwriters wrote black characters. This was kind of "Jive Plus." Black talent may have been trained in Shakespeare at Juliard, but this is how they had to talk to get the part of "hoodlum number one" on some weekly police drama.
@@curtismartin2866 bullshite
@@curtismartin2866Absolutely not true.😂
Even when talking to the white stewardess, the old woman, played by Barbara Billingsley, best known for playing the mom in a family sitcom from the 50s, says the stereotypical AAVE "hep" instead of "help".
Barbara billingsly was so on board when they asked her to do this, such a good sport, she was great
She was so great, such a great sport
I'm thinking that not one of these reactors know who that woman is and how out of character it was for her to be cast in this part.
All of us that watched Leave It To Beaver in the '50s and '60s cracked up when "June" did this scene.
And 70's and 80's re-runs.
@@lanolinlight It certainly seems strange to those of us who watch the reruns in the 70s and 80s with our kids that none of these reactors had even been born then (and in some cases, their parents weren't around yet). Time does fly.
@@stevemiller6923 they still show the reruns everyday on MeTv & streaming tv channels.
Most these young people have no idea she was Mrs. Cleaver, Beaver's mom!
Her name was Barbara Billingsley. There's a short documentary on TH-cam where she's giving the backstory of how she landed that role.
Pretty cool!
Imagine how much funniwer it would be if any of these people knew who Barbara Billingsley is/was.
That is Beaver MOM Dude!!!!
This actress was Barbara Billingsley who played the squeaky clean white bread suburban mom in a show called "Leave it to Beaver". They kept her in character and manner of appearance to make her the least likely person to speak "jive".
Its so sad that this kind of jokes (at both sides) aren't allowed now anymore.
Back then people were making fun about each other without beeing mad about it
If you had no idea who she was, this scene would be hysterical. But knowing that she was June Cleaver (Beaver’s mom) makes it exponentially funnier!
There can be such a difference between some reactions from people who are like 19-35 watching this movie and people who are older, who get more of the references and aren't scared to death of being politically incorrect. Only the biggest difference is we're more used to just laughing something off as a joke and then not getting scared to death and overly worried about offending people all the time. We were able to have a pretty good balance of that for a really long time in this country. This gag is joking around about how much sometimes we can't understand each other as ethnic groups if we're too deep in our own culture's lingo. It wasn't done in a mean-spirited way at all. it's done because that's what comedy is about: laughing about patterns of behavior, their differences, similarities and hyperbolic exaggeration of those differences and similarities.
LMAO THIS NEVER STOPS BEING FUNNY!!!
To all the people complaining about the millennials who can't recognize Barbara Billingsley: This is a 44-year-old scene using an actress from a show that was 20 years old even then. That's the equivalent of expecting the audience in 1980 to recognize an actress from a movie made in 1916. In 1980, could you even name a single movie from 1916 that isn't "Birth of a Nation", much less any actors? My point is: We are old as dirt. Cut them some slack, Jack.
Barbara Billingsly credited this part with revitalizing her career and had work for the rest of her life.
For the youngins, this scene is the equivalent of Martha Stewart rapping in a mumble rap video 😂
Nobody understands that the joke isn't that she's speaking jive. The joke is that it's Barbara fuckin' Billingsley, JUNE CLEAVER is speaking jive!
Best cameo of the film. Second best was the "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home..." lady from the old coffee commercial. The directors were looking for an actress who would remind audiences of her. It wasn't until filming started that she told them, "Uh, you realize I'm the same actress, right?"
I really feel old now cause I didn't need captions. I understood perfectly what they said BEFORE Beavers mom translated.
. 🤣...My momma didn't raise no dummies I dug her rap..." = I ain't stupid, I understand what she said.
Barbara Billingsley, famous for playing June Cleaver the most square mom ever on Leave It To Beaver.
you can tell some of the reactors are afraid to laugh, IT'S OK! IT'S FUNNY!
Some 70s references young people will not understand in a lot of older people don't get the fact that the lady that understands jive is the mother from Leave it to Beaver. she's literally June cleaver. So that's why it was even so much funnier to us back then, because most of us knew that Barbara Billingsley is Mrs Cleaver. Also, we would have been more aware of the then popular spate of disaster movies that were hits and the fact that people like Robert Stack and Beau Bridges (the guys in the control tower) were in those movies.
Just for the record.....this two black actors wrote most of the jive talk lines. They're friends who came to the audition with them. The writers and director quickly scrapped their work and used the actors lines.
I cant reason out why i not only like reaction videos, but reaction to reaction videos...how far does this phenomena go.
I saw an interview online that Barbara Billingsley said that she had no idea what her lines meant. She memorized the words and then and then got some assistance on how to pronounce them.
You have way too much fun putting this stuff together. Good job.
I still remember watching this in 1980 in the theater and it was just HILARIOUS watching June Cleaver from Leave It To Beaver translating jive. People under 50 won't get the full extent of just how funny this scene is since most of them have never seen Leave It To Beaver. Even never having seen the show the scene is still funny with a 60 year old woman talking jive, but it's full on hilarious if you've seen her in Leave It To Beaver (1950's family sitcom). (She played the suburban housewife, always wearing a dress, even when doing housework - the last person in the world you'd expect to understand those guys!)
I think the reactors are too young to fully grasp the humor in this scene.
Would've been funnier if they were actually speaking slang lol
Funny funny! Lots of good material in "Blazing Saddles," also.
Do none of these reactors realize that’s the mom from Leave It To Beaver?!!! What’s the world coming to.
Hate to tell you that means we're old
That show was over 60 years ago.
I’m 30 and I only know that because my parents told me. Most people around my age haven’t even heard of the show.
@@claymccoy So, it's never been off the air in reruns, like on MeTv today and is on most streaming tv channels like Netflix, etc. Face it, most of todays youth are halfwits that only know what happened 5 mins ago. and I would be willing to bet everyone of these reactors have been brainwashed by todays woke msm, to think this scene is "racist" lol
Some of these reactors are too young know about Leave to Beaver even though show is in syndication. Barbara Billingsley (1915-2010) making her 95 when she died. It was an awesome move for having her in this classic
Holy cow, you’d think people would read the comments before pointing out it’s June cleaver for the 10 billionth time
Rosetta Stone.
I was at Best Buy. Went over to the Rosetta Stone Language Display.
Asked the sales person if they had “Jive”. He called another person over. She didn’t know. So they called the manager over. He said we could look it up and try to order it.
No clue. How high up the chain could I run this. Before switching over to Ebonics.
If this is true hilarious. Though a bit mean to waste their time.
The movie was hilarious. The looks of being uncomfortable and not exactly knowing where to laugh was equally funny.
This was Leave it to beavers mom. So was a clean Angel 😂😂😂😂
This would be funnier to people who grew up watching Leave it to Beaver.
For one generation, it's June Cleaver. For another, it's Nanny from Muppet Babies. Either way, it's frigging hilarious.
They're speaking jive, with English subtitles.
What is even funnier is that the two black actors were interviewed many years later about this scene, and of course they speak perfect English ........
... but throughout the interview, there were subtitles in jive!
I have to say that Airplane is one of the most funniest movies ever made
TV show called Leave it to Beaver mom-The actress made history in this movie speak Jive. Fun movie.
Watching this on opening night in a large theater was still the funniest thing I have ever experienced. Half the audience had peed in their pants by the end of the film. God Bless Barbara Billingsley!
Anytime I'm sick... I tell my wife, "I need to hang loose and catch up on the rebound with the medicide.."
On the med side!
Most people aren't familiar with Barbara Billingsley today, but she played Beaver Cleaver's mom on the 50's sitcom, Leave It To Beaver. Just listening to her in this scene makes all of us who grew up her just laugh in delight!
We older folks were on the floor because we instantly recognized Barbara Billingsley from TV's Leave It To Beaver (1957 - 1963).
Too bad not a single one of these people has any idea who the "jive" speaking lady is. They completely lose 90 percent of the joke!
Barbara billingsly ( leave it to beaver) was so on board with this and worked with both guys and was such a sport, she did great and the guys loved working with her on this skit
I saw this in theater when it came out (several times). The audience was roaring at this scene (especially since they recognized the lady that spoke “jive”).
To have June Cleaver say it is EPIC.
Nobody got the best part of the joke: June Cleaver speaks jive.
KNOW YOUR TV HISTORY!!!
Compilation is fantastic idea, love it.
The joke works because the actress is the mother character of the 1950’s wholesome TV show “Leave It to Beaver”. Young people don’t fully
appreciate the joke
Being born in 1991, I had heard of Leave It to Beaver but never watched it growing up and had no clue who June Cleaver was. So, while I still found this scene hilarious, I didn't understand the context of Barbara Billingsley's cameo here.
I hadn't seen the Aiport franchise that Airplane!'s plot drew influence from either, until the first three came to Netflix and I binged them all. If anybody is interested, they're worth a watch (Airport '77 is my favorite in terms of its premise).
The older I get, the more I appreciate the amount of thought in this parody's script. This style of humor we now commonly associate with more modern spoofs like Scary Movie is owed partially to the direction & writing of the Zucker bros.
The team of David & Jerry Zucker, together with Jim Abrahams, sowed the DNA for the timeless formula of the Naked Gun franchise (and the series Police Squad it was based on), The Kentucky Fried Movie, Scary Movie 3-5, and others:
The iconic use of slapstick, running gags, wordplay, and tonal absurdity juxtaposed by characters playing the scenarios straight, etc. You'll find traces of that in almost all the genre parodies that dominated throughout much of the 2000s.
Of course, that period of cinema is also owed to the comedic chops of the Wayans brothers and Farrelly brothers. You can find similarities between their styles, and it's plausible that they were all influenced by comedic icons they grew up with.
The generational legacy is definitely there. But the more I learn about how these tropes have been carried across decades and the context in which they were formed, the more enjoyable their evolution in media is. It's like a family tree of laughs.
It will be hilarious if she went back to leave It to Beaver Talking like this😂😂😂😅
That is literally the most jive I've ever heard..and i was born in 74😂
Beaver's mom saying "Just hang loose blood," had my 8 year old self falling over on the floor laughing.
People who watch a lot of 70's television will recognize this is the flip side of a gag a lot of black comedies at the time did where a black character would translate what white characters said to other black characters. So for black audiences it was funny on another level, in addition to pretty much everybody having seen at least one episode of "Leave it to Beaver" through reruns when the film was released and knowing who Mrs. Cleaver was.
Don't start none, won't be none.
Barbra Billingsly. The "Beavers" Mom. Best cameo ever.
The best is Dos Cavazos!!
None of these reaction people understood what made this scene so funny. Everyone who saw this movie when it was released grew up watching Leave It To Beaver reruns. This was soooo out of turn for Barbara Billingsley/June Cleaver nobody saw it coming, that's what made this scene hilarious.
The fact that it's June Cleaver🤣🤣🤣
This movies is a classic. Fun & entertaining, too. Thanks for sharing.
It's crazy that the younger people have no idea what jive is.
It would have cool if the "Beave" (Leave it to Beaver) was in the background looking embarrassed.
The old white lady who speaks Jive is Barbara Billingsly, the mother on the tv show, "Leave it to Beaver," which makes it hilarious.