You'll notice that Johnny is the only character who actually says intentionally funny things. Every other character, it's just sight gags and comic timing. That's the pure genius of this movie. Hilarious without any actual jokes (except for Johnny).
@@Caseytify correct. They gave him the script with straight lines and then told him to do what he wanted. Unfortunately he died very young from AIDS related illnesses
Yep, the Amana Radar Range. In 1945 a Raytheon employee was working around an active radar set, and a candy bar he had in his pocket melted, and the microwave oven was born.
Fun fact: Lloyd Bridges was known as a serious actor who'd never done full-on comedy before. On set, he told fellow actor Robert Stack that he was worried he just wasn't being funny enough. Stack told him not to try to be funny and just say the lines like it was a serious drama. The rest is history.
I was at an outpatient clinic for a wound check of an abscessed cyst on my back and collapsed because I was going into shock from a bad post op infection from a kidney stone removal. The doctor called the paramedics to take me to the Emergency Room at the in-patient hospital which was across the street. She told me they were admitting me to the hospital, so I asked her "The hospital? What is it?" Not realizing that I was referencing "Airplane!" she gave me a serious answer about the infection causing my blood pressure to drop dangerously, and I told her "You should have said 'The hospital is a big building with patients.'" She didn't understand, but one of the paramedics said "That's from 'Airplane!' Right?" as he started an IV on me. I'm a firm believer in never losing my sense of humor.
Not all heroes wear capes- some are able to say jokes while facing Death, like you did. Your story reminded me of how my mom kept her sense of humour while being in a horrible situation with no good ending available as an option. What a way to be remembered. Thanks one more time for your story.
This movie was actually based on another movie, Zero Hour, which it matched virtually scene for scene, just with an insane dose of silliness and parody. Airplane is absolutely loaded, and a lot of the comedy can go right over a first time viewer's head. I would highly recommend watching it again sometime, you'll be amazed at how much more you pick up. The recurring themes are a lot more obvious too...like how nobody wants to hear Striker's old sob stories, they'd rather kill themselves. Reading up on some of the more obscure comedic choices is an option too. For instance, the actress who spoke Jive was the mother in an old sitcom "Leave it to Beaver," which was utterly traditional and wholesome, so seeing her talking like that was comedy gold for those who knew her.
I think some of the script is basically the same as Zero Hour, which was a completely serious disaster movie, so it really shows what a difference some comedic timing makes!
@@DisorderedArray Yup. Zero Hour is basically Airplane without the jokes. Of course, you also see references to other films, like Airport, From Here to Eternity, Saturday Night Fever and even a coffee commercial.
They ended up buying the rights to Zero Hour since yah, a lot of the movie is a shot-for-shot remake, reusing the same lines. Probably the best one they kept in was "finding someone who can not only fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner!" th-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/w-d-xo.html Also the guys who spoke "Jive" wrote their own lines. They came in to read for it and the writers apologized up front because they knew what they had written was bad.
I doubt she would get much from multiple viewings. You would need to make a list of movies for her to watch first. so she can get those references, a list of cultural norms at the time, plus a bunch of other things, like jet engines don't make propeller engine noises, and Daiquiri is a drink, etc.
Your reactions are so adorable, so fun to watch. Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges (father of Beau and Jeff Bridges) all had long successful careers as dramatic actors before agreeing to do this film. So did Leslie Neilson (the doctor). He was known for his dramatic roles in the 50s through the 70s before finding another, younger audience as a comedic actor in the 80s and 90s. The airport workers who sent the plane into the airport at the beginning of the movie were played by Larry and David Zucker, two of the writers and directors of the film. Their mother Charlotte played the makeup lady on the plane. Some other great 80s comedies you might want to consider are: Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, The Princess Bride, This is Spinal Tap, Beetlejuice, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, and Crocodile Dundee.
@@mikegilgenbach4840 One of Neilson's earliest roles was the captain of a starship in Forbidden Planet, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. He looks like a young William Shatner.
The couple on the P.A. at the airport were the actual people who did the announcements at LAX and were, I believe, a married couple. The taxi passenger was a well known business man at the time who crusaded to get many laws passed in California to reign in government spending. That he sat there for so long while the fare kept going without doing anything was a spoof of himself. The jive talk, written by the two black actors, was all a set up for the punchline of the older lady doing it back to them. Her name was Barbara Billingsley. She was the mother in "Leave It To Beaver" and personified 1950's wife and mother stereotypes. The lady who questions why her husband took a second cup of coffee used to do coffee commercials around that time, for Folgers I think. Questioning why her husband would want a second cup of coffee away from home was her catchphrase and theme of the commercials. The "soldier" who thought he was Ethel Merman WAS Ethel Merman. She was a famous actress and singer.
@@michaelfisher1395 IIRC the jive talk was written by the three of them over breakfast (or re-written). Johnny was basically the only comedic actor in the movie, and a good portion of what he did was improv...
The scene w the lovers saying goodbye as if it was a train is one of the most underrated hilarious parts of the film where he throws his watch to her youre gonna need this and he says "it's alright! It doesn't work" gets me every time. Funniest movie ever
Mayonnaise at the Mayo Clinic. "Johnny" improvised all his lines. End credits has the guy STILL waiting for the taxi driver... Naked Gun series is more of this on steroids & features Leslie Neilson (the doctor in Airplane!). It's 3 must see movies
The man in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, who led the push to pass the 1978 Proposition 13 to reduce Property Taxes in California. It started a wave of similar propositions across the country.
21:00 YES, that's Jonathan Banks, aka Mike Ehrmentraut from Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul. He's been acting forever. He's got a great bit part in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension as well, getting strangled by John Lithgow's evil Italian/alien character.
Also Professor Buzz Hickey on "Community" and appearances in dozens and dozens of TV shows and movies from as far back as I can remember watching them, usually as a background or secondary character. The guy's everywhere.
This is one of those movies that it helps if you are familiar with pop culture of the 60's and 70's to understand most of the references and understand several of the jokes. Barbra Billingsley was actually in a show from the 50's. And yes, this is the movie that brought us "Don't call me Shirley". I did really enjoy your reaction. It is nice seeing young people enjoy the movies I enjoyed as a kid.
Getting the full impact of one joke requires some knowledge that would be considered very obscure outside of 1970s California: The guy in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, an actual California businessman and politician who spent his whole career pushing for strict limits on property taxes. The joke is that a man who was so dedicated to tax reduction patiently watched a huge fare run up.
Yeah, most people now don't even know about Jive Talk. And the commercial references. Even the magic trick of pulling eggs out of someones mouth doesn't seem to be a thing anymore. But it's great that people can miss so many of the references, but still find the movie hilarious from the stuff left.
The movie is a parody of a 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour! Some scenes are shot for shot remakes, similar dialogue (except for the jokes of course) and the similar plot. When i saw this in theaters the audience was crazy laughing,
And of course it's also a parody of the Airport series of movies, which were part of the disaster epic trend of the 70s. That bizarre seemingly out of nowhere bit about abortion at the beginning is a nod to a subplot in the original Airport.
@@RossM3838 Airplane! Was written and directed by Zucker Abrans Zucker. They were 7-13 years old when Zero Hour was made. No. It wasn't the same writer.
Good catch noticing the Jonathan "Mike Ehrmantraut" Banks cameo as an air traffic controller. Although, I wonder if in your edit/rewatch whether you finally realized what was going on with that 'floating old lady'. Keep these reactions coming, they're really enjoyable and fun.
There is SO much to this movie... it has more layers than a whole field of onions... You could watch it a dozen times and still find new things! Broad AND HYPER local (like the airport announcers, and the guy in the cab...all LA centric)...
Loving your movie reaction videos. This movie was so much funnier when it came out. I was lucky enough to see it in the theater when it came out. People don't get many of the jokes now because they reference news, movies, and TV shows from the 70's.
It's also culturally different. Airports aren't like they were 24 years ago. And 25 years ago they weren't like they were 50 years ago. You actually used to have to push away religious types like in the intro. That was less comedy, and more power fantasy of the time.
The Doctor, Leslie Nielsen, is in the Naked Gun and the Police Squad movies. His Brother, Eric Nielsen, was Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence in the early 1980s. The Pilot, Peter Graves, was in the original Mission: Impossible TV series. Peter Graves is the brother of James Arness, star of the long running (20 year)TV series, Gunsmoke. One of James Arness' first roles was playing the alien in The Thing from Another World, 1951. You just watched the remake.
I remember going through the airport in Houston as a kid in the 70s. The HariKrishnas, Jews for Jesus, and others were EVERYWHERE. Folks today don’t get how hilarious that scene was.
I remember them outside the Atlanta airport. They were relentless. My Dad always said to them, "I gave at the office." Which wasn't true; it was just an excuse to get them to leave him alone. Haha
Liked and subscribed! You actually got several of the Gags that many reactors miss. A couple of fun facts for ya. The arguing announcers were the Real LAX Airport announcers at that time. And they were married in real life. The Mayonnaise on the wall was because it was "the mayo clinic" which a famous medical center. When microwaves were new, they were called radar ranges. Also, during the first panic scene, I noticed you left "a couple things" out. Ahem. I would like to request Galaxy Quest.
It's named the Mayo Clinic because it was founded by the Mayo Brothers who were doctors; it has nothing to do with the condiment. We have one right here in Jacksonville FL
@@curtismartin2866 Yes, that is the gag as is the jumping heart on the desk. It's just that our wonderful young reactor is not aware of the Mayo Clinic, it's reputation and history. It's a basic play on the word "mayo". Folks in their 20's would not get that scene at all.
Wow, nice catch on Jonathan Banks/Mike Ehrmantraut. I never noticed him til somebody pointed him out to me once. I'm so glad you watched this. It's a classic parody movie. "Don't call me Shirley" has been quoted endlessly.
To answer your question the 80’s was full of movie parodies spoofing on other movies. Movie trivia fact: Airplane is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film called “Zero Hour”
You’re 4 for 4! The Zucker Brothers & Abrahams (known as the ZAZ boys) specialized in “throw spaghetti at the wall” humor-they’d just cram as many jokes into the film as possible & a good number would hit. Airplane mostly parodies Zero Hour, but also throws in parodies of dozens of other pop culture things from the time. The woman who muses about her husband not drinking coffee at home was famous for a Yuban coffee commercial in which she (the same actress) does the same thing. The “I speak jive” woman is played by Barbara Billingsley, who was famous as America’s most wholesome mom from starring in Leave it to Beaver.
Now you have to explain Leave It To Beaver because she's never heard of it nor seen it. When you have to explain a joke it looses its impact no longer funny.
If you want to see the exact movie that this is a parody of, look for a movie from 1957, called “Zero Hour” A lot of the dialogue is literally Word for Word, except it’s serious instead of funny. A lot of the characters have the same name as well, like Ted Stryker. It was actually a really suspenseful movie when it first came out, but now it’s hard to watch it without laughing, because you remember “airplane!”
@@tombstoneshadow4614 one of the airport movies that came out in the 1970s was based on “zero hour” (the food poisoning thing) but I’m not sure which year it was either. I should google it 🙂
I literately just got the “it’s a entirely different kind of flying altogether” joke. The first time I saw this film was a year after it’s release. I’m slow sometimes.
The man and woman over the loudspeakers in the airport were the actual airport announcers at LAX and were also a married couple. The man in the cab was not an actor. He was a well-known businessman from California who lobbied heavily to reign in government spending in California. It’s obscure, and you’d have to have been from California at that time to even know who he was, but the joke is that he just sits there allowing the tab to keep going up without doing anything. The black guys speaking jive, which they wrote themselves, was all a setup for the punchline of the older white woman speaking it as well and back to them. The actress was Barbara Billingsley. She played June Cleaver in the 1950’s TV show Leave It To Beaver and was the epitome of a white middleclass mother and housewife of that era. The woman who thinks to herself that her husband never has a second cup of coffee at home was an actress who did national coffee commercials - I think for Folgers - and that was always her catchphrase. Peter Graves (pilot), Leslie Neilson (doctor), Lloyd Bridges (air traffic controller) and Robert Stack (pilot in tower) were very famous and legendary dramatic actors who had done little to no comedy. Casting them in this movie and having them say and do such ridiculous things was SO out of character for them. That is what made it so funny. Peter Graves was the main character in the original TV series Mission Impossible, which the Tom Cruise movies are based on. There is a reference to it in Airplane!2. Lloyd Bridges sons, actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges, begged him to do this movie so they could laugh at him. It led to many more comedy roles for all of them. Lloyd Bridges was also in a couple of episodes of Seinfeld toward the end of his life. Ethel Merman was a very famous and successful actress, singer and Broadway star. Yes, that was her in the hospital flashback basically playing herself. The song she sings was one of her trademarks. I’m not sure, but the horse in bed with the pilot’s wife might be a reference to The God Father. The ridiculous images in the background while Robert Stack is driving to the airport is making fun of the bad special effects used up till around that time whenever people are driving.
17:04 "It's so cliché." It's more than that -- the speech is modeled directly on the "inspire the players" moment in the 1940 football movie Knute Rockne: All American when the coach says to "win one for the Gipper."
The Last Starfighter (1984) is an underrated gem about a boy and his video game. A family adventure film with heart, a perfect addition to this channel👍
It is also the first movie with fully CGI scenes (space scenes). It was state of the art at the time, but by today's standards, will seem kinda hokey looking. I still love it, it was a milestone for CGI movie making.
"Airplane" was a spoof of several "disaster" movies of the seventies, including a series of movies called "Airport". And yes, the radio guy also plays Mike Ermantraut on Breaking Bad. Now you know what he looks like with hair (sorta). Basically any movie made before this one was fair game for having fun poked at it. Examples: "From Here To Eternity" (The beach scene), "Saturday Night Fever" (the dance scene) and as mentioned "Airport" (basically the whole movie). AND you MISSED (or failed to mention) the post-credit scene (I think this movie actually created it) which shows the guy sitting in the taxi (still) saying "Okay, I'll give him another 20 minutes...but that's it!"
And, the man in the taxi was played by Howard Jarvis, the noted (notorious?) anti-tax activist who was behind California's Prop 13, which provided a benefit to homeowners by capping property taxes, but handed big money corporations the same benefit, providing them a huge windfall that has lasted to this day. It was a disaster for funding things like schools in the state.
The gag at 15:50 with the "Radar Range" was that microwave ovens were developed by Raytheon after WWII. The magnetron that radar uses is what microwave ovens use to heat. The first microwave ovens were marketed under the name Radar Ranges.
So many of these scenes will make more sense once you've seen a tonne more movies. Like the "Mogumbo bar" is named after a Clark Gable/Ava Gardner film. The scene on the beach is from "From Here to Eternity". There are so many references that i don't think anyone will get them all.
The whole "my husband never vomits at home" running gag was based on a series of coffee commercials, and that's the actual actress from the commercials.
The ill child and the nun with the guitar are straight out of _Airport 1975,_ although in that one the nun does the singing; almost every _Airport_ movie (and many plane disaster films before them) had a "hysterical" passenger who got smacked in the face for humor/pathos.
It’s called slapstick comedy, the old hung her self, she wasn’t floating and did you notice it was a jet but the sound effects made it sound lime propellers. You shut it off early but if you go back and wait thru all credits they show the guy still waiting in the cab. Love your new channel. Chris
A couple of things that most younger people miss: "The war" was World War II ---- He wasn't even born then. The second suicide was a Japanese soldier from WWII. The "radar range" question when he opened the microwave was because many people called microwaves "radar ranges" ----- They were still uncommon when this movie was made. Most of the serious roles were played by actors that had been known for serious roles, so the humor was often enhanced by their fish out of water behavior. Leslie Nielson went into comedic roles because of this movie.
Love how Whimsory comments on the film being very literal...and then takes everything that happens so literally...and from now on I'm gonna refer to people who hang themselves in movies as 'floating' 😳
Great reaction and I love this movie! One of the overlooked jokes is when it shows the plane itself. The sound effects are that of a propeller plane, but its a jet engine plane! I didn't learn that until years later! 🤣
"Why was there so much mayonnaise in there?" Because it was the Mayo Clinic, of course! (That's a real-life medical center, but "Mayo" was the name of its founding brothers -- not a condiment.)
Love your reactions. You have a fun personality. The doctor's office had so much mayonnaise in it because it was the "mayo" clinic. Lol. It's such a dad joke. Thank you for your channel. You're a lot of fun.
Half the jokes and references will mean nothing to the current generation...and yet it STILL holds up as a hilarious movie. That is genius. So many cameos, references, and dated jokes. But it never stops being funny.
Great reaction! This is one of my favorite comedies. This movie spawned so many pop culture references, and relied on so many others that have kind of faded with time. Like the woman who says her husband never has a second cup of coffee at home, she was in TV commercials advertising coffee (th-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w/w-d-xo.html) and people would have recognized her immediately. Still, a lot of the jokes are truly timeless. If you ask "is this where that joke came from", the answer is probably yes!
@@dunhill1 and they come too fast one after the other, missing the next three jokes while laughing for the first. the movie needs to be watched a few times, also watching all the jokes in the background (eg a picture at the wall that copies the foreground), or what she saw and said but didn't connect fast enough ("why is there so much MAYOnnaise in the MAYO clinic")
“I wanna know what’s going on with that floating lady!” Oh, sweetheart. That was precious. Thank you for that. I sorry. But, she wasn’t floating. Gravity was very much still in play. There was a rope looped just under her head that was keeping her from falling.
Thank you for explaining how the force of gravity works because nearly everyone her called her floating lady. You are correct the rope about her head prevented her from falling. She's actually more or less "hanging around."
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, is the copilot. He just had his scoring record broken a few nights ago by Lebron James.
Excellent choice! Though I'm biased. It's one of my favorite comedies. If you need more funny to detox after the darker movies I recommend the Naked Gun movies by the same creative team (and staring the same actor who played the doctor), and Top Secret! Also, check out Clue, Galaxy Quest, Spaceballs, and Monty Python's Life of Brian!
This movie was a spoof on the movie Airport (1970), Airport 2 (1975), Airport 3 (1977). Those three movies were dramas that got progressively worse with each one. So by 1980 it was time for a spoof on those movies. The opening credits were a spoof of Jaws .The religious people in the airport was a spoof of all the people that used to hang out in airports asking for money. The beach scene is a spoof of the movie From Here to Eternity. There were a bunch of other little spoofs in the movie which only people who grew up in the 70s would understand, like disco. This is where ''don't call me Sherly" came from
If you need another break, go for The Jerk. It's pointless and very funny. The airport announcers were actually married. It's the mayo clinic... I'm looking forward to this.
No kidding, I've watched this movie probably a dozen or so times in my life. It took me 10 years to get the "It's an entirely different kind of flying, all together" joke.
Another great review! This movie is classic craziness - since you are into fantasy, how about TIME BANDITS or THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHHAUSEN - those were two great fantasy/sci fi/com-dram films
In your first 5 movie reactions you've covered two of the most famously infamously absurd, or infamously famously absurd comedies in of all time. Can't wait until you get through the Princess Bride, Life of Brian, and Spaceballs to round out the top 5.
literally just discovered your channel. i was going to go to bed but instead watched the thing, monty python and the holy grail and terminator back to back. guess ill have to watch this as well. really good stuff, you have a new subscriber. cant wait for you to hopefully watch alien and its sequel aliens in particular!
When I watch reactions to Airplane!, I always like to see the reaction to the old woman hanging herself because of having to listen to Ted's story. The people who really get the movie think it's hilarious. Some people are shocked and don't seem to know what to think. I don't think I've ever seen it where the react-tor didn't realize what had happened.
It helps if you have watched the real disaster films parodied in this film. Zero Hour, "Airport ", "Towering Inferno, " "From Here to Eternity (beach scene), "Poseiden Adventure ". There are several 1960's and 1970's cultural references as well as popular TV shows and commercials from the same decades.
The Naked Gun is obviously the godfather of Leslie Nielsen movies. It's only quiet later i've seen Airplane. I would also say Hotshots Part 1/2 are almost as funny as Naked Gun. But also surely: Spaceballs and History of the World Part I- absolutely love it.
the "don't call me shirley" joke has a special references here. the actor playing the doctor's name is Leslie Nielson. fun fact... a lot of what we consider boys names were girl's names. british WWII widows named their daughter after the husbands they lost in the war. boys names that became girls names: Lauren. First appearing on the SSA's list in 1900, Lauren was almost exclusively a male name until 1945, though never a popular one. Ashley. Leslie. Allison. Meredith. Lindsay/Lindsey. Whitney. Beverly.
Shelley and Courtney used to be boys names too now seen as almost exclusively girls name. You don't find many guys named Kelly here in UK so some of us in the 90s were a lil amused by the US surfer Kelly Slater. :P Nothing wrong with any of it. Just part of language and society changing over time. I find it funny when people complain about giving a kid a 'weird' name when surely every name sounded weird the first time it was used, before other people copied it for their kids. All the Jonathans and Emmas and Jacks and Sarahs had to start somewhere. :P
@@mattslupek7988 Duh... yeah i used the wrong wording in my comment. surely not shirley. but the reference to the actor's name still stands. thanks for pointing that out.
This is one of my favorite movies! And I love to watch the reactions of people that have never seen. I must admit you have officially confirmed that I am old! So much is so outdated in this that so much passed you by. I was a kid when this came out and Have watched it throughout the years so many times. Having said all that your innocence is refreshing! Keep the reviews coming!
I was born in the late 70s and am too young to have understood quite a few of the references on the first viewing. It must seem a bit alien to young people nowadays.
It does, most of the jokes are very dated and refer to 1970's culture. Example, at the magazine stand, "Whacking Material" was a term for jacking off or masturbating. We all called it Spanking The Monkey or Choking The Chicken. Today those terms are gone or forgotten.
Whenever watching a Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker film (Airplane!, Top Secret!, the Naked Gun series, etc) always watch until the end of the credits and read all the credits for hidden jokes.
You are the youngest person I've ever seen reacting to this movie, and even the ones twice your age are too young to get at least half of the jokes but somehow it still works. I say too young because so many of the jokes are based on pop culture references that are way before your time. A few of them are really a little before my time, and I'm 62 now. Things like jokes based on a coffee commercial from a few years before the movie came out, or the bit in the hospital about the soldier who thinks he's Ethyl Merman being played by the real Ethyl Merman (who most younger folks have never even heard of these days). I'm impressed that you know who Kareem is and recognized him - most younger reactors these days don't. I've even seen reactors who are completely thrown for a loop by the smoking ticket - they are totally unaware that smoking on planes was ever a thing. Much of the scene in the cockpit before the plane leaves the gate is based on the way gas stations used to work, but even the credit card part is so different from the way things work now that a lot of reactors don't understand what's happening. I think the film still works mostly because it is so densely packed with jokes that even if you miss half or more of them there's always one that you do get coming along pretty quickly. Anyway, good job! I'm glad you enjoyed the movie. If you are interested, there's a series of three later films from the same producers and starring the man who played the doctor in this film called The Naked Gun. Same kind of humor, same high density of jokes.
Well it does work on a slapstick level, but the bulk of the film os small cultural references, and even though a scene might be funny/wierd, ("Win this one for the Zipper!"), it's much funnier if you know the thing it is satirising.
Nice job! I really enjoyed your reaction to this move. Also, I have watched many videos of reactions to this movie, and you are the first one who recognized Kareem Abdul-Jabbar right away.
9:21 "It appears he _is_ a doctor. _Very_ doctorly looking." That actor is Leslie _Nielsen._ Prior to this movie, his roles were mainly _serious._ This movie introduced him to the world as a virtuoso of deadpan _humor;_ a trait for which he developed a bit of a _reputation,_ right up until his death in 2010.
Another great reaction so, I subscribed to your channel. If you like some comedy mixed with Sci-Fi, I highly suggest that you react to 'Galaxy Quest', I promise that you won't be disappointed. 🙂
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.
This was the first real "spoof" movie, and was intended to poke fun at the blockbuster movies of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Back then, disaster movies (such as "The Towering Inferno", "The Poseidon Adventure", "Airport" and "Airport 77" were much like the Marvel movies of today are - they were the ones that everybody went to see. This movie took many of the tropes and themes from those films and made fun of them. Oh, and the little old lady speaking jive? She's Barbara Billingsley, who was famous way back when for playing June Cleaver, who was the stereotypical American housewife on TV. So her, speaking jive, was completely unexpected. Leslie Nielsen, who played the doctor, got his start as a comedic actor with this role. Prior to it, he was known for playing the villain or other serious roles in film and television. He wound up with a career spanning decades from playing these types of comedic characters. ...and yes, "Don't call me Shirley" is DEFINITELY from this movie.
"I want to know what was going on with that floating old lady" was quite possibly the most unexpected thing I have ever heard.
You know, floating with a harp and wings.
i guess the mystery of the floating old lady will forever remain unsolved
Same thing with the floating old man in Shawshank
She was just hanging around.
I was thinking the same.
"That floating old lady..." The definition of innocence.
YEEES!!!
Not to mention the pilot
"Why was there so much mayonnaise at the MAYO clinic?" I love it 😂
Not sure if you already know, but there are jokes in and after the credits 😅
Lol yeah I just said oh you sweet sweet summer child to myself at that bit. Its a lil endearing though
i'd like to wish you good luck with this channel. we're all counting on you.
Just don't call her Shirley.
Yes, the line "And don't call me Shirley" came from this movie. A sign of a great film is when people are still using it's quotes over 40 years later.
5:50 - The "floating old lady" was a visual joke suggesting she hanged herself because of how long and boring his flashback story was :P
Ya beat me to it!
Ya also beat me to it. That comment made my day!!
Was Elaine having sex with a doll?? That is siiiick
I love that they made a movie with a joke every 20 seconds, and than added Johnny as a comedic relief. Genius.
You'll notice that Johnny is the only character who actually says intentionally funny things. Every other character, it's just sight gags and comic timing. That's the pure genius of this movie. Hilarious without any actual jokes (except for Johnny).
Johnny is the Only Character that's NOT Playing it Straight!
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@@benjauron5873 I've read that all of his lines were improvised...
@@Caseytify correct. They gave him the script with straight lines and then told him to do what he wanted.
Unfortunately he died very young from AIDS related illnesses
"Floating old lady" Oh my, you are young and innocent (Someone else tell her, I don't have the heart)
I just wanna tell you Good luck, we all counting on you.
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15:47 "Radar Range" was an old term (or maybe a brand trademark) for a microwave oven.
Yep, the Amana Radar Range. In 1945 a Raytheon employee was working around an active radar set, and a candy bar he had in his pocket melted, and the microwave oven was born.
Fun fact: Lloyd Bridges was known as a serious actor who'd never done full-on comedy before. On set, he told fellow actor Robert Stack that he was worried he just wasn't being funny enough. Stack told him not to try to be funny and just say the lines like it was a serious drama. The rest is history.
hot shots 2..excellent
I was at an outpatient clinic for a wound check of an abscessed cyst on my back and collapsed because I was going into shock from a bad post op infection from a kidney stone removal. The doctor called the paramedics to take me to the Emergency Room at the in-patient hospital which was across the street. She told me they were admitting me to the hospital, so I asked her "The hospital? What is it?" Not realizing that I was referencing "Airplane!" she gave me a serious answer about the infection causing my blood pressure to drop dangerously, and I told her "You should have said 'The hospital is a big building with patients.'" She didn't understand, but one of the paramedics said "That's from 'Airplane!' Right?" as he started an IV on me. I'm a firm believer in never losing my sense of humor.
Not all heroes wear capes- some are able to say jokes while facing Death, like you did. Your story reminded me of how my mom kept her sense of humour while being in a horrible situation with no good ending available as an option. What a way to be remembered. Thanks one more time for your story.
TMI
But that s not important right now
don't call her Serious.
If you do, try retracing your steps. That sometimes works.
This movie was actually based on another movie, Zero Hour, which it matched virtually scene for scene, just with an insane dose of silliness and parody. Airplane is absolutely loaded, and a lot of the comedy can go right over a first time viewer's head. I would highly recommend watching it again sometime, you'll be amazed at how much more you pick up. The recurring themes are a lot more obvious too...like how nobody wants to hear Striker's old sob stories, they'd rather kill themselves.
Reading up on some of the more obscure comedic choices is an option too. For instance, the actress who spoke Jive was the mother in an old sitcom "Leave it to Beaver," which was utterly traditional and wholesome, so seeing her talking like that was comedy gold for those who knew her.
I think some of the script is basically the same as Zero Hour, which was a completely serious disaster movie, so it really shows what a difference some comedic timing makes!
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Yup. Zero Hour is basically Airplane without the jokes. Of course, you also see references to other films, like Airport, From Here to Eternity, Saturday Night Fever and even a coffee commercial.
They ended up buying the rights to Zero Hour since yah, a lot of the movie is a shot-for-shot remake, reusing the same lines. Probably the best one they kept in was "finding someone who can not only fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner!" th-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/w-d-xo.html
Also the guys who spoke "Jive" wrote their own lines. They came in to read for it and the writers apologized up front because they knew what they had written was bad.
There are also a number of bits stolen from Airport and Airport 75 as well. Which most people these days have also never seen.
I doubt she would get much from multiple viewings.
You would need to make a list of movies for her to watch first. so she can get those references, a list of cultural norms at the time, plus a bunch of other things, like jet engines don't make propeller engine noises, and Daiquiri is a drink, etc.
Your reactions are so adorable, so fun to watch.
Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges (father of Beau and Jeff Bridges) all had long successful careers as dramatic actors before agreeing to do this film. So did Leslie Neilson (the doctor). He was known for his dramatic roles in the 50s through the 70s before finding another, younger audience as a comedic actor in the 80s and 90s.
The airport workers who sent the plane into the airport at the beginning of the movie were played by Larry and David Zucker, two of the writers and directors of the film. Their mother Charlotte played the makeup lady on the plane.
Some other great 80s comedies you might want to consider are: Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, The Princess Bride, This is Spinal Tap, Beetlejuice, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, and Crocodile Dundee.
Thats a pretty good list of essential 80s movies.
@@mikegilgenbach4840 One of Neilson's earliest roles was the captain of a starship in Forbidden Planet, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. He looks like a young William Shatner.
The couple on the P.A. at the airport were the actual people who did the announcements at LAX and were, I believe, a married couple.
The taxi passenger was a well known business man at the time who crusaded to get many laws passed in California to reign in government spending. That he sat there for so long while the fare kept going without doing anything was a spoof of himself.
The jive talk, written by the two black actors, was all a set up for the punchline of the older lady doing it back to them. Her name was Barbara Billingsley. She was the mother in "Leave It To Beaver" and personified 1950's wife and mother stereotypes.
The lady who questions why her husband took a second cup of coffee used to do coffee commercials around that time, for Folgers I think. Questioning why her husband would want a second cup of coffee away from home was her catchphrase and theme of the commercials.
The "soldier" who thought he was Ethel Merman WAS Ethel Merman. She was a famous actress and singer.
Try “The Breakfast Club” too. Another ‘80s classic.
@@michaelfisher1395 IIRC the jive talk was written by the three of them over breakfast (or re-written). Johnny was basically the only comedic actor in the movie, and a good portion of what he did was improv...
The scene w the lovers saying goodbye as if it was a train is one of the most underrated hilarious parts of the film where he throws his watch to her youre gonna need this and he says "it's alright! It doesn't work" gets me every time. Funniest movie ever
Mayonnaise at the Mayo Clinic.
"Johnny" improvised all his lines.
End credits has the guy STILL waiting for the taxi driver...
Naked Gun series is more of this on steroids & features Leslie Neilson (the doctor in Airplane!). It's 3 must see movies
The man in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, who led the push to pass the 1978 Proposition 13 to reduce Property Taxes in California. It started a wave of similar propositions across the country.
21:00 YES, that's Jonathan Banks, aka Mike Ehrmentraut from Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul. He's been acting forever. He's got a great bit part in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension as well, getting strangled by John Lithgow's evil Italian/alien character.
He's also in Gremlins.
He was also in Beverly Hills Cop, 1 or 2, I think.
Freejack and 48 Hours
Also Professor Buzz Hickey on "Community" and appearances in dozens and dozens of TV shows and movies from as far back as I can remember watching them, usually as a background or secondary character. The guy's everywhere.
And he was in 'Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles' (aka Crocodile Dundee 3)
This is one of those movies that it helps if you are familiar with pop culture of the 60's and 70's to understand most of the references and understand several of the jokes. Barbra Billingsley was actually in a show from the 50's. And yes, this is the movie that brought us "Don't call me Shirley". I did really enjoy your reaction. It is nice seeing young people enjoy the movies I enjoyed as a kid.
Agreed i watched a lot of movies from the 20s to the 80s so I have seen a lot of zombie movies too if the uploaded is interested🎉
Getting the full impact of one joke requires some knowledge that would be considered very obscure outside of 1970s California: The guy in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, an actual California businessman and politician who spent his whole career pushing for strict limits on property taxes. The joke is that a man who was so dedicated to tax reduction patiently watched a huge fare run up.
Yeah, most people now don't even know about Jive Talk. And the commercial references. Even the magic trick of pulling eggs out of someones mouth doesn't seem to be a thing anymore. But it's great that people can miss so many of the references, but still find the movie hilarious from the stuff left.
The movie is a parody of a 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour! Some scenes are shot for shot remakes, similar dialogue (except for the jokes of course) and the similar plot. When i saw this in theaters the audience was crazy laughing,
its so close i think the filmmakers bought the rights to it just to make it even though few people have even heard of it
And of course it's also a parody of the Airport series of movies, which were part of the disaster epic trend of the 70s. That bizarre seemingly out of nowhere bit about abortion at the beginning is a nod to a subplot in the original Airport.
Also, Airport '77 and other disaster movies
Zero hour was written by the same guy who wrote airport
@@RossM3838 Airplane! Was written and directed by Zucker Abrans Zucker. They were 7-13 years old when Zero Hour was made. No. It wasn't the same writer.
Good catch noticing the Jonathan "Mike Ehrmantraut" Banks cameo as an air traffic controller.
Although, I wonder if in your edit/rewatch whether you finally realized what was going on with that 'floating old lady'.
Keep these reactions coming, they're really enjoyable and fun.
Another hilarious movie is Galaxy Quest with Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen, Allan Rickman, and Sam Rockwell
Any movie with Leslie Nielsen in a major role is comedic gold.
Like Forbidden Planet? 🤖
There is SO much to this movie... it has more layers than a whole field of onions... You could watch it a dozen times and still find new things! Broad AND HYPER local (like the airport announcers, and the guy in the cab...all LA centric)...
Loving your movie reaction videos. This movie was so much funnier when it came out. I was lucky enough to see it in the theater when it came out. People don't get many of the jokes now because they reference news, movies, and TV shows from the 70's.
I could tell she didn’t get most of the references.
Don't know about funnier, just relevant to the time.
It's also culturally different. Airports aren't like they were 24 years ago. And 25 years ago they weren't like they were 50 years ago.
You actually used to have to push away religious types like in the intro. That was less comedy, and more power fantasy of the time.
The Doctor, Leslie Nielsen, is in the Naked Gun and the Police Squad movies. His Brother, Eric Nielsen, was Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence in the early 1980s.
The Pilot, Peter Graves, was in the original Mission: Impossible TV series. Peter Graves is the brother of James Arness, star of the long running (20 year)TV series, Gunsmoke. One of James Arness' first roles was playing the alien in The Thing from Another World, 1951. You just watched the remake.
"I like it black. Like my men." Still cracks me up each time.
The floating old lady was the funniest part of this reaction!
She is floating permanently
I remember going through the airport in Houston as a kid in the 70s. The HariKrishnas, Jews for Jesus, and others were EVERYWHERE. Folks today don’t get how hilarious that scene was.
I remember them outside the Atlanta airport. They were relentless. My Dad always said to them, "I gave at the office." Which wasn't true; it was just an excuse to get them to leave him alone. Haha
Yes, Whimsory, there is a TV show with this kind of humor: Police Squad! It was created by the same people who made this movie.
Liked and subscribed! You actually got several of the Gags that many reactors miss. A couple of fun facts for ya. The arguing announcers were the Real LAX Airport announcers at that time. And they were married in real life. The Mayonnaise on the wall was because it was "the mayo clinic" which a famous medical center. When microwaves were new, they were called radar ranges. Also, during the first panic scene, I noticed you left "a couple things" out. Ahem.
I would like to request Galaxy Quest.
RadaRange [sic] is actually the brand name of Raytheon/Amana microwaves.
@@jb888888888 it was kind of the Xerox of Microwaves as I recall. It was a frequent prize on game shows.
It's named the Mayo Clinic because it was founded by the Mayo Brothers who were doctors; it has nothing to do with the condiment. We have one right here in Jacksonville FL
@@dunhill1 duh. The mayonnaise on the shelf is the gag.
@@curtismartin2866 Yes, that is the gag as is the jumping heart on the desk. It's just that our wonderful young reactor is not aware of the Mayo Clinic, it's reputation and history. It's a basic play on the word "mayo". Folks in their 20's would not get that scene at all.
Wow, nice catch on Jonathan Banks/Mike Ehrmantraut. I never noticed him til somebody pointed him out to me once. I'm so glad you watched this. It's a classic parody movie. "Don't call me Shirley" has been quoted endlessly.
To answer your question the 80’s was full of movie parodies spoofing on other movies.
Movie trivia fact: Airplane is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film called “Zero Hour”
You’re 4 for 4!
The Zucker Brothers & Abrahams (known as the ZAZ boys) specialized in “throw spaghetti at the wall” humor-they’d just cram as many jokes into the film as possible & a good number would hit. Airplane mostly parodies Zero Hour, but also throws in parodies of dozens of other pop culture things from the time.
The woman who muses about her husband not drinking coffee at home was famous for a Yuban coffee commercial in which she (the same actress) does the same thing. The “I speak jive” woman is played by Barbara Billingsley, who was famous as America’s most wholesome mom from starring in Leave it to Beaver.
Abrahams.
@@richardb6260 Whoops! Fixed, thanks.
Also known as the "shotgun" method of comedy.
Someone did the math forAirplane! and it's something like 1.5 jokes per minute, so you can watch it multiple times and catch something new everytime.
Now you have to explain Leave It To Beaver because she's never heard of it nor seen it. When you have to explain a joke it looses its impact no longer funny.
If you want to see the exact movie that this is a parody of, look for a movie from 1957, called “Zero Hour”
A lot of the dialogue is literally Word for Word, except it’s serious instead of funny. A lot of the characters have the same name as well, like Ted Stryker. It was actually a really suspenseful movie when it first came out, but now it’s hard to watch it without laughing, because you remember “airplane!”
Is that movie any good?
@@christopherb501 It was pretty good - it was probably one of the first “airplane disaster” movies, and I was impressed with the acting.
I think a lot of it also comes from Airport 1975 (from 1974).
@@tombstoneshadow4614 one of the airport movies that came out in the 1970s was based on “zero hour” (the food poisoning thing) but I’m not sure which year it was either. I should google it 🙂
I literately just got the “it’s a entirely different kind of flying altogether” joke. The first time I saw this film was a year after it’s release. I’m slow sometimes.
The man and woman over the loudspeakers in the airport were the actual airport announcers at LAX and were also a married couple.
The man in the cab was not an actor. He was a well-known businessman from California who lobbied heavily to reign in government spending in California. It’s obscure, and you’d have to have been from California at that time to even know who he was, but the joke is that he just sits there allowing the tab to keep going up without doing anything.
The black guys speaking jive, which they wrote themselves, was all a setup for the punchline of the older white woman speaking it as well and back to them. The actress was Barbara Billingsley. She played June Cleaver in the 1950’s TV show Leave It To Beaver and was the epitome of a white middleclass mother and housewife of that era.
The woman who thinks to herself that her husband never has a second cup of coffee at home was an actress who did national coffee commercials - I think for Folgers - and that was always her catchphrase.
Peter Graves (pilot), Leslie Neilson (doctor), Lloyd Bridges (air traffic controller) and Robert Stack (pilot in tower) were very famous and legendary dramatic actors who had done little to no comedy. Casting them in this movie and having them say and do such ridiculous things was SO out of character for them. That is what made it so funny. Peter Graves was the main character in the original TV series Mission Impossible, which the Tom Cruise movies are based on. There is a reference to it in Airplane!2. Lloyd Bridges sons, actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges, begged him to do this movie so they could laugh at him. It led to many more comedy roles for all of them. Lloyd Bridges was also in a couple of episodes of Seinfeld toward the end of his life.
Ethel Merman was a very famous and successful actress, singer and Broadway star. Yes, that was her in the hospital flashback basically playing herself. The song she sings was one of her trademarks.
I’m not sure, but the horse in bed with the pilot’s wife might be a reference to The God Father.
The ridiculous images in the background while Robert Stack is driving to the airport is making fun of the bad special effects used up till around that time whenever people are driving.
17:04 "It's so cliché." It's more than that -- the speech is modeled directly on the "inspire the players" moment in the 1940 football movie Knute Rockne: All American when the coach says to "win one for the Gipper."
So happy I found your channel ❤😊 this movie has been one of my all time comedic faves ! They don’t do movies like this anymore 😂
The Last Starfighter (1984) is an underrated gem about a boy and his video game. A family adventure film with heart, a perfect addition to this channel👍
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It is also the first movie with fully CGI scenes (space scenes). It was state of the art at the time, but by today's standards, will seem kinda hokey looking. I still love it, it was a milestone for CGI movie making.
"Airplane" was a spoof of several "disaster" movies of the seventies, including a series of movies called "Airport". And yes, the radio guy also plays Mike Ermantraut on Breaking Bad. Now you know what he looks like with hair (sorta). Basically any movie made before this one was fair game for having fun poked at it. Examples: "From Here To Eternity" (The beach scene), "Saturday Night Fever" (the dance scene) and as mentioned "Airport" (basically the whole movie). AND you MISSED (or failed to mention) the post-credit scene (I think this movie actually created it) which shows the guy sitting in the taxi (still) saying "Okay, I'll give him another 20 minutes...but that's it!"
And, the man in the taxi was played by Howard Jarvis, the noted (notorious?) anti-tax activist who was behind California's Prop 13, which provided a benefit to homeowners by capping property taxes, but handed big money corporations the same benefit, providing them a huge windfall that has lasted to this day. It was a disaster for funding things like schools in the state.
The gag at 15:50 with the "Radar Range" was that microwave ovens were developed by Raytheon after WWII. The magnetron that radar uses is what microwave ovens use to heat. The first microwave ovens were marketed under the name Radar Ranges.
Well spotted catching a young Jonathan Banks (Mike from BB/BCS)! He's in a lot of great stuff, so keep an eye out for him here and there.
So many of these scenes will make more sense once you've seen a tonne more movies. Like the "Mogumbo bar" is named after a Clark Gable/Ava Gardner film. The scene on the beach is from "From Here to Eternity". There are so many references that i don't think anyone will get them all.
June Cleaver speaks jive.
The whole "my husband never vomits at home" running gag was based on a series of coffee commercials, and that's the actual actress from the commercials.
The ill child and the nun with the guitar are straight out of _Airport 1975,_ although in that one the nun does the singing; almost every _Airport_ movie (and many plane disaster films before them) had a "hysterical" passenger who got smacked in the face for humor/pathos.
It also very much a generational thing. What was in and funny in 1980 doesn't translate well to 2023.
It’s called slapstick comedy, the old hung her self, she wasn’t floating and did you notice it was a jet but the sound effects made it sound lime propellers. You shut it off early but if you go back and wait thru all credits they show the guy still waiting in the cab. Love your new channel. Chris
another related bit of trivia: that was not even a real Boeing 707; it was a scale model painted up to look real.
A couple of things that most younger people miss: "The war" was World War II ---- He wasn't even born then. The second suicide was a Japanese soldier from WWII. The "radar range" question when he opened the microwave was because many people called microwaves "radar ranges" ----- They were still uncommon when this movie was made. Most of the serious roles were played by actors that had been known for serious roles, so the humor was often enhanced by their fish out of water behavior. Leslie Nielson went into comedic roles because of this movie.
Love how Whimsory comments on the film being very literal...and then takes everything that happens so literally...and from now on I'm gonna refer to people who hang themselves in movies as 'floating' 😳
Great reaction and I love this movie!
One of the overlooked jokes is when it shows the plane itself. The sound effects are that of a propeller plane, but its a jet engine plane! I didn't learn that until years later! 🤣
"Why was there so much mayonnaise in there?" Because it was the Mayo Clinic, of course! (That's a real-life medical center, but "Mayo" was the name of its founding brothers -- not a condiment.)
Or it was just a play on the word "Mayo". You are correct. We have one right here in Jacksonville, FL.
Thats a completely different kind of mayo altogether.@dunhill1
Love your reactions. You have a fun personality.
The doctor's office had so much mayonnaise in it because it was the "mayo" clinic. Lol. It's such a dad joke.
Thank you for your channel. You're a lot of fun.
Technically, they're all Dad jokes, considering that many of us who saw it when it was released are Dads now.😁
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 lol. True enough.
Half the jokes and references will mean nothing to the current generation...and yet it STILL holds up as a hilarious movie. That is genius. So many cameos, references, and dated jokes. But it never stops being funny.
This type of humor is called slapstick. Similar to Blazing Saddles and Naked Gun....... As for the "floating old lady", she was just "hanging" around.
Also I just looked through/ followed your Tik Tok too. You're seriously talented. 🔥
Great reaction! This is one of my favorite comedies. This movie spawned so many pop culture references, and relied on so many others that have kind of faded with time. Like the woman who says her husband never has a second cup of coffee at home, she was in TV commercials advertising coffee (th-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w/w-d-xo.html) and people would have recognized her immediately. Still, a lot of the jokes are truly timeless. If you ask "is this where that joke came from", the answer is probably yes!
okay, but there are about 1000 more jokes that you forgot to explain.
@@dunhill1 and they come too fast one after the other, missing the next three jokes while laughing for the first. the movie needs to be watched a few times, also watching all the jokes in the background (eg a picture at the wall that copies the foreground), or what she saw and said but didn't connect fast enough ("why is there so much MAYOnnaise in the MAYO clinic")
I'd recommend the Gods Must Be Crazy. It broke all kinds of records when it was released and it is absolutely hilarious.
Going through the gates in Jeep with no brakes was my favorite part.
The Bushman's quest to rid his village of the Evil Thing.
A real generational divider that one. Older folks loved it and younger ones didn't.
I love that movie.
“I wanna know what’s going on with that floating lady!”
Oh, sweetheart. That was precious. Thank you for that.
I sorry. But, she wasn’t floating. Gravity was very much still in play. There was a rope looped just under her head that was keeping her from falling.
Thank you for explaining how the force of gravity works because nearly everyone her called her floating lady. You are correct the rope about her head prevented her from falling. She's actually more or less "hanging around."
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, is the copilot. He just had his scoring record broken a few nights ago by Lebron James.
Excellent choice! Though I'm biased. It's one of my favorite comedies. If you need more funny to detox after the darker movies I recommend the Naked Gun movies by the same creative team (and staring the same actor who played the doctor), and Top Secret! Also, check out Clue, Galaxy Quest, Spaceballs, and Monty Python's Life of Brian!
Floating old lady.
Your innocence is genuinely the best.
My new favorite reactor!!! Still voting for “My Cousin Vinny”!
This movie was a spoof on the movie Airport (1970), Airport 2 (1975), Airport 3 (1977). Those three movies were dramas that got progressively worse with each one. So by 1980 it was time for a spoof on those movies. The opening credits were a spoof of Jaws .The religious people in the airport was a spoof of all the people that used to hang out in airports asking for money. The beach scene is a spoof of the movie From Here to Eternity. There were a bunch of other little spoofs in the movie which only people who grew up in the 70s would understand, like disco. This is where ''don't call me Sherly" came from
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Another fun comedy from the the early 80's was "The Blues Brothers" (also a musical). Animal House, and Ghost Busters were also great comedies
If you need another break, go for The Jerk. It's pointless and very funny. The airport announcers were actually married. It's the mayo clinic... I'm looking forward to this.
"The Jerk" is classic!
Yes. The Jerk!!! almost no one on TH-cam reacts to it for some odd reason. Extremely funny.
No kidding, I've watched this movie probably a dozen or so times in my life. It took me 10 years to get the "It's an entirely different kind of flying, all together" joke.
The old guy in the taxi was the Howard Jarvis of California's Prop 13. You can look him for context of the joke.
Another great review! This movie is classic craziness - since you are into fantasy, how about TIME BANDITS or THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHHAUSEN - those were two great fantasy/sci fi/com-dram films
Time Bandits, BRAZIL, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (in THAT order)
In your first 5 movie reactions you've covered two of the most famously infamously absurd, or infamously famously absurd comedies in of all time. Can't wait until you get through the Princess Bride, Life of Brian, and Spaceballs to round out the top 5.
I'd switch out Spaceballs for What We Do In The Shadows. ☺
She hung herself which is actually quite common in jet transportation.😮😮❤😅
It was a painting he was making, but off-camera there was this live model posing for his painting complete with props.
literally just discovered your channel. i was going to go to bed but instead watched the thing, monty python and the holy grail and terminator back to back. guess ill have to watch this as well. really good stuff, you have a new subscriber. cant wait for you to hopefully watch alien and its sequel aliens in particular!
You've been picking great movies so far!
"He has a lot of unusual questions for that kid." - Oh you sweet summer child.
Those questions belong on a certain type of list or registry.
When I watch reactions to Airplane!, I always like to see the reaction to the old woman hanging herself because of having to listen to Ted's story. The people who really get the movie think it's hilarious. Some people are shocked and don't seem to know what to think. I don't think I've ever seen it where the react-tor didn't realize what had happened.
It helps if you have watched the real disaster films parodied in this film. Zero Hour, "Airport ", "Towering Inferno, " "From Here to Eternity (beach scene), "Poseiden Adventure ". There are several 1960's and 1970's cultural references as well as popular TV shows and commercials from the same decades.
This is the best reaction of Airplane by a young person that I've seen; You got loads of the references and weren't offended. Thank you.
The post credits scene at the end where we get to see what happens to the cab is pretty funny too...
The Naked Gun is obviously the godfather of Leslie Nielsen movies. It's only quiet later i've seen Airplane. I would also say Hotshots Part 1/2 are almost as funny as Naked Gun. But also surely: Spaceballs and History of the World Part I- absolutely love it.
They took mostly people known for serious drama and TV and movie legends and made them absurd and comedic by playing it dramatic.
the "don't call me shirley" joke has a special references here. the actor playing the doctor's name is Leslie Nielson. fun fact... a lot of what we consider boys names were girl's names. british WWII widows named their daughter after the husbands they lost in the war. boys names that became girls names:
Lauren. First appearing on the SSA's list in 1900, Lauren was almost exclusively a male name until 1945, though never a popular one.
Ashley.
Leslie.
Allison.
Meredith.
Lindsay/Lindsey.
Whitney.
Beverly.
Shelley and Courtney used to be boys names too now seen as almost exclusively girls name. You don't find many guys named Kelly here in UK so some of us in the 90s were a lil amused by the US surfer Kelly Slater. :P Nothing wrong with any of it. Just part of language and society changing over time. I find it funny when people complain about giving a kid a 'weird' name when surely every name sounded weird the first time it was used, before other people copied it for their kids. All the Jonathans and Emmas and Jacks and Sarahs had to start somewhere. :P
The “Don’t call me Shirley” is referring to Ted saying “surely”.
@@carn9507 I met a dude named Courtney in college 20 years ago
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Duh... yeah i used the wrong wording in my comment. surely not shirley. but the reference to the actor's name still stands. thanks for pointing that out.
This is one of my favorite movies! And I love to watch the reactions of people that have never seen. I must admit you have officially confirmed that I am old! So much is so outdated in this that so much passed you by. I was a kid when this came out and Have watched it throughout the years so many times. Having said all that your innocence is refreshing! Keep the reviews coming!
What is going on with the “Floating Old Lady” is what Commodore Norrington from Pirates of the Caribbean described “A short drop and a sudden stop.”
another series of movies if you like this is the Naked Gun movies. Leslie Neilson is a legend(the doctor)
I was born in the late 70s and am too young to have understood quite a few of the references on the first viewing. It must seem a bit alien to young people nowadays.
It does, most of the jokes are very dated and refer to 1970's culture. Example, at the magazine stand, "Whacking Material" was a term for jacking off or masturbating. We all called it Spanking The Monkey or Choking The Chicken. Today those terms are gone or forgotten.
The floating old lady only reminds us of her youth. I liked that lol.
Whenever watching a Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker film (Airplane!, Top Secret!, the Naked Gun series, etc) always watch until the end of the credits and read all the credits for hidden jokes.
You've GOT to keep doing comedies; this was amazing. 😁👍 You have a great sense of humor. ;)
It's a completely different kind of comedy, altogether.
It's a completely different kind of comedy.
It’s a completely different kind of comedy.
It's a completely different kind of comedy.
You will likely enjoy Top Secret with Val Kilmer as well. Similar humour, similar people made it actually. Kind of a spy story.
Good eye with Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul! I've seen Airplane! dozens of times and never made that observation! Nice!
You are the youngest person I've ever seen reacting to this movie, and even the ones twice your age are too young to get at least half of the jokes but somehow it still works. I say too young because so many of the jokes are based on pop culture references that are way before your time. A few of them are really a little before my time, and I'm 62 now. Things like jokes based on a coffee commercial from a few years before the movie came out, or the bit in the hospital about the soldier who thinks he's Ethyl Merman being played by the real Ethyl Merman (who most younger folks have never even heard of these days). I'm impressed that you know who Kareem is and recognized him - most younger reactors these days don't. I've even seen reactors who are completely thrown for a loop by the smoking ticket - they are totally unaware that smoking on planes was ever a thing. Much of the scene in the cockpit before the plane leaves the gate is based on the way gas stations used to work, but even the credit card part is so different from the way things work now that a lot of reactors don't understand what's happening. I think the film still works mostly because it is so densely packed with jokes that even if you miss half or more of them there's always one that you do get coming along pretty quickly. Anyway, good job! I'm glad you enjoyed the movie. If you are interested, there's a series of three later films from the same producers and starring the man who played the doctor in this film called The Naked Gun. Same kind of humor, same high density of jokes.
Well it does work on a slapstick level, but the bulk of the film os small cultural references, and even though a scene might be funny/wierd, ("Win this one for the Zipper!"), it's much funnier if you know the thing it is satirising.
She got the "all together" joke. That 1 goes over most reviewers heads.
Whimsory, I love your channel. Thank you. May I suggest _Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010-Horror/Comedy)_ Peace.
Nice job! I really enjoyed your reaction to this move. Also, I have watched many videos of reactions to this movie, and you are the first one who recognized Kareem Abdul-Jabbar right away.
9:21 "It appears he _is_ a doctor. _Very_ doctorly looking."
That actor is Leslie _Nielsen._ Prior to this movie, his roles were mainly _serious._ This movie introduced him to the world as a virtuoso of deadpan _humor;_ a trait for which he developed a bit of a _reputation,_ right up until his death in 2010.
(my auntie owns the house Leslie lived in until he was about 4 years old, in Regina, Canada ☺)
I suggest you check out 'The Naked Gun' its main character is the doctor from this movie Leslie Nielsen, absolutely hilarious.
HA! Perfect.
Another great reaction so, I subscribed to your channel.
If you like some comedy mixed with Sci-Fi, I highly suggest that you react to 'Galaxy Quest', I promise that you won't be disappointed. 🙂
He is NOT just from Breaking Bad. He waa a professional killer in The Eddie Murphy masterpiece "Beverly Hills Cop"
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.
Suggest that you include a few more clips to get a full 30 minute reaction video
Always loved watching reactors to see if they notice the sound of a prop plane coming from a jet✈️🛩️
You come across as a genuinely balanced person who has her act together.
When this movie was made, microwave ovens were relatively new. The most popular model was one called a "Radar Range".
This was the first real "spoof" movie, and was intended to poke fun at the blockbuster movies of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Back then, disaster movies (such as "The Towering Inferno", "The Poseidon Adventure", "Airport" and "Airport 77" were much like the Marvel movies of today are - they were the ones that everybody went to see. This movie took many of the tropes and themes from those films and made fun of them.
Oh, and the little old lady speaking jive? She's Barbara Billingsley, who was famous way back when for playing June Cleaver, who was the stereotypical American housewife on TV. So her, speaking jive, was completely unexpected.
Leslie Nielsen, who played the doctor, got his start as a comedic actor with this role. Prior to it, he was known for playing the villain or other serious roles in film and television. He wound up with a career spanning decades from playing these types of comedic characters.
...and yes, "Don't call me Shirley" is DEFINITELY from this movie.