Great reaction Homies. The Mayo Clinic is a famous hospital in the U.S. known for organ transplants among other things. Roger the co-pilot was played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a famous basketball player. You are right, this is a difficult one for people whose native language isn't English. There is a lot of subtle word play and puns which are easy to miss. Also, a lot of the jokes were based on things in American pop culture when the movie came out - as an example, when the woman said, "Jim never throws up at home", the joke was that same actress was in a coffee commercial in which she says "Jim never has a second cup at home." Also, the older woman who spoke 'jive' played the mother on Leave it to Beaver a wholesome, black and white family sitcom from the 1950's, so she is the last person you would think of being able to speak 'jive'
Another example of what was current back then is when the radio station WZAZ in Chicago announced that disco would live forever. It's believed that disco met its end in Chicago during a baseball game while this movie was in production.
Also, "Boy's Life" is an actual magazine for Boy Scouts of America. It has since been renamed Scout's Life. The "Counterpoint" bit comes from the TV show _60 Minutes'_ "Point/Counterpoint" discussions, in which that guy would often take the most heartless, coldblooded stance.
A lot of subtle humor in this that no movie reactors seem to pick up on, at least that I've seen, such as the absurd maudlin love story music for Ted and Elaine, and the most subtly ridiculous thing, Ted's age. Even when this movie was made, there's no way he could have been old enough to have fought in ww2, the war had been over 35 years when this came out and it was set in modern time and it got more ridiculous in the sequel when, looking exactly the same, he's piloting a shuttle to the moon. Oh, and none of them have picked up on the Godfather jab when the woman is in bed with the horse. Has to be the very best of all the movies of this type. Very funny 😂
@@nomorerepublicans825 You missed it yourself. That is not a Godfather reference. The horse is alive. It is a reference to the malicious stories told about Catherine the Great’s sexual appetites.
I love 80's comedy. Especially Leslie Nielson, the king of literalism. Incidentally, the Homies should watch Young Frankenstein, a truly wonderful comedy classic.
The backstory of this movie is great. The Zucker Brothers, who made the movie, had a VCR and would record old movies that networks would air after midnight. One night, they recorded a movie called “Zero Hour!” and they wrote the script for “Airplane” so close to “Zero Hour”, they bought the rights to “Zero Hour” to avoid being sued.
There was a whole series of fairly big budget air disaster movies that came out in the 70's ("Airport", " Airport 1975", " Airport '77", and the much less successful "The Concord - Airport '79") which the Zucker's claimed that they'd never even heard of. I find that claim hard to believe, since the first three of those movies were all big hits. I kind of suspect that they bought the (probably much cheaper) rights to Zero Hour to avoid being sued by the Airport people. But it's true that Airplane follows the plot of Zero Hour pretty closely, remarkably so considering how much of it seemed to be an obvious parody of the Airport movies to people like me who'd seen them and hadn't even heard of Zero Hour. I can only conclude that the Airport scripts all stole liberally from Zero Hour.
I detected that at least Ellie seemed to be aware of the mirror gag. The scene with the guy on the floor being attacked by the dog and then Kramer walks out the mirror he was looking into in the previous shot. This is the first time I have ever seen anyone reacting to seeing that (and, in fairness, I've watched a lot of Airplane reactions). It looks like a very expensive gag as it involved building a mirror image of the set on the other side of the mirror and it's a shame most people miss it.
Even if English is your first language you can miss a lot of jokes in this movie, so don’t worry about that. There are a ton of references and if you’re not familiar with them you won’t fully get the joke. Having English as a second language definitely would add to the difficulty curve of some of the jokes in Airplane though, especially the Jive Talk. Luckily this movie is so loaded with joke that even if you miss a bunch there’s bound to more than enough to enjoy. Sight gags in particular will keep people entertained in it. I highly recommend Naked Gun. It’s similar in tone, but I think it relies less on understanding references so you should find its comedy more straightforward to understand.
naked gun, yes, me too. I just wish the editing didn't cut out the last part of the blowjob joke. other female reactors are laughing hysterically. i guess we just have to go to patreon, Nooooo!
The co-pilot is one of the most famous basketball players of all time, Kareem Abdul Jabar. The goggles and shorts and knee pads were what he wore while playing.
The scene where the woman was slapped, the actor suggested more people waiting with weapons, they only did one take and Leslie Niesens second slap made contact but she carried on
In the 1970's there were a lot of very serious disaster films. Earthquake, Airport, The Towering Inferno and on and on. This was a great way to look back and laugh at the genre. Great review!!
And many of those actors, including Leslie Nielson, were known for their dramatic TV roles - not for comedy. This movie was the best thing that could have happened to Leslie Neilson.
My favorite Johnny line was in the second movie I believe. "Tell me everything, from the beginning." Johnny: "well first there were the dinosaurs, but they got fat and lazy and turned into oil. Then came the Arabs....."
Honestly there are even more jokes that without pop culture knowledge from the time period you will simply miss out on. A good example is the white lady who translates jive for the stewardess. She played June Cleaver on a tv show from the Leave It to Beaver, American television sitcom. She portrayed pretty much the whitest middle class lady in the US for years. To have her speak jive was so out of her tv character's persona it was funny as hell.
Barbara Billingsley/June Cleaver has a great little interview where she explains how that _Airplane!_ role happened for her. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch (under 3 minutes), th-cam.com/video/gUw2fIa0dSI/w-d-xo.html
But I _did_ see the episode where she said, "Ward, weren't you a little hard on the Beaver last night?" I was shocked to discover that she had actually said it.
That reminds me of the joke inside the hospital, where Striker says "He thinks he's Ethel Merman." Most people nowadays don't know that it was actually Ethel Merman singing there.
@@chaelmavik None of the reactors I've seen have recognized her. None understood the J.J. Walker joke (or who he was), they didn't recognize Howard Jarvis in the cab, or the LAX announcers. And invariably, the kids don't know who any of the stars are in this film. Makes me feel old, I must admit.
Sure, you missed a lot because of the language/culture/time differences, but glad to see you enjoyed it! When I was little I had an aunt who would do Julie Hagerty's voice whenever she saw she was in a movie. "Oh! Is Julie Hagerty in this?"
19:54 - That was a spoof of a popular news segment in the 70's, and 80's. In the US there's a News program called "60 Minutes". At the end of every episode, they feature a segment entitled "Point-Counterpoint. It was a brief debate between a Liberal and a Conservative
The beach scene is from an old film 1953 "From Here to Eternity" about WWII with actors Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra. "Airplane" is a collection of parodies of old films and films through the 1970's.
Almost nobody notices when the airplane comes through the windows (it happens at 1:07 in this vid), a woman just throws her baby in the air. You have to watch this movie carefully to catch all of the humorous nuance.
@@MrEAus Well, I've seen this movie over a dozen times, and I'm old and get all the other references from the time too. For instance, that's Howard Jarvis in the cab (who, by the way, has the last line in the film, if you hang around long enough), and he was a big anti-tax advocate at the time. The humorous part really was that he would be the last person who would just sit in a cab and let the charges pile up. Oh, and those two people arguing over white zone/red zone were an actual married couple who did the real announcements at LAX.
I took one of the brothers (writers/makers) of this film out to dinner in London, a few years after this film came out. Three girls just like you were sitting at the next table and we started flirting together. I asked them if they had seen Airplane, to which they said no. My new friend proceeded to say and do the most outrageous things, which I thought absolutely hilarious, and they thought we were totally crazy. I still recall the evening with fondness all these years later.
The plane was a jet plane, but the sound effects were of a Propeller plane. Just one of dozens of jokes that can be missed in this brilliant film. Beautiful reactions Cheer's ladies 🇬🇧
I absolutely love at 16:50, the "I got to get out of here" scene... Rarely have I seen Michelle laugh so wholeheartedly with such big smile and Ellie's shock rising with every second while laughing at the same time. The same at 25:45 ("Just kidding... Ah-haha!"). Loved Michelle's big laugh while Ellie is in total shock :D This movie is great and had so many jokes that you cannot stop smiling/laughing in any scene :D LOVE IT! Love the reaction, Homies
What makes that so funny is the idea that all the lights on a runway at an airport can just be plugged in to one electrical outlet with an extension cord.
Airplane! is an almost scene-for-scene copy of an old movie called "Zero Hour"... except Airplane! is a parody. They actually licensed the rights to "Zero Hour" to avoid complications with their parody.
The key of the success of this movie was how intelligent were David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams when it comes to use the absurd humor. And is because that humor is using from a tragic set and serious actings, mocking about the drama, so the impact is funnier because the sensation of scapism is bigger. Many people hate this film and say its humor is silly...but come on, is really clever and witty. Favorite scenes: the dance in the disco, the sordid conversations between Peter Graves and Ross Harris, Robert Hays covered in sweat while landing the plane, Lorna Patterson singing River of Jordan, Ted's flashbacks about the Molombos tribe, the slap-in-a-row scene, and of course all the scenes of Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack.
Fun fact: here, in France, this movie is titled "Is there a pilote in the airplane?" And all the comedic movies with Leslie Nielsen have a title that starts with "Is there...?", and thus are considered part of the same franchise. Those include: Is there a cop to save the queen? Is there a cop to save the president? Is there a cop to save Hollywood? Etc.
The beauty of this movie is that no matter where you're from the humor still works. Yes you missed some jokes because of the language but funny is funny and it seem like you had a great time. Loved your reaction 😁😅🤗.
It’s not just a language issue, but also age and culture. Many younger reactors miss many of the jokes based on American pop culture from the decades before the early 1980s.
Don't feel bad for missing lots of the jokes; it's not just that they're doing wordplay on very specific English sayings, they are making fun of a certain kind of old dramatic movies from 1950's and 60's, about airplane disasters, AND they're doing it using the references that a 1970's American audience would have recognized. So even Americans your age will miss a lot of the humor, because it's so outdated. Though of course some of the stuff is timeless, like the wonderfully deadpan Leslie Nielson as the doctor.
This comedy is based on the airplane disaster movies from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. There was a movie where food poisoning was the problem, there was a movie where there was a young girl ready for a transplant, and other situations that were written in the Airplane script. Many of the actors in the movie worked in television for many years. The movie script had them making fun of the tough guys they played in the past.
SO glad you watched this LOL... If you enjoy this type of silliness... DO check out the writers/directors next project called 'Top Secret!' It stars a young Val Kilmer in his first role and i'd describe it as a combination of an Elvis Musical Beach movie & a WWII espionage film with a huge dose of absurdity thrown on top.
They would not get the comedy in those ones either, I would hate to see their reaction to one of the funniest movies from 1976 Mel Brooks classic 'Silent Movie' which is hilarious! th-cam.com/video/-DhJA73Ps5U/w-d-xo.html
I have to say that this movie was one of the most awesome experiences on the big screen with my family in a full theater on a weekend evening. Just one of those experiences I am unable to really describe.
Guys: This movie was a direct response to the 1970s fad for disaster movies. A lot of its stranger scenes were a direct parody of either Airport '75 or Zero Hour. For instance, in one a hysterical passenger is slapped, and that's why Airplane! had that one scene. In another, there's a little sick girl, and a nun sings her a song. As for the horse in the bed, there is a famous horrifying scene in The Godfather where a guy wakes up and finds the head - just the head - of his champion thoroughbred racehorse on his bed. Gaahh! So that's what that's all about.
Leslie Nielson who played the doctor was also in six episodes of a TV show called Police Squad written by the same team. There was a sequel, Airplane 2 (naturally) and then 'Top Secret' followed by 'The Naked Gun' films, based on Police Squad.
So many of the gags weren’t even shown lol This is a spoof of a couple of airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70’s, one was called airport 77 and the other was airport 79 the Concorde.
There are quite literally jokes, site gags, double-entendre and cultural references every few seconds throughout the entire movie…most of which would be difficult for younger people and people who aren’t Americans to detect…often several at one time. Imagine how exhausting it is to laugh the entire time 😉
This guy saw that Magic Magy was going to overtake him in subs.. so he cut himself out and brought in all females as hosts...now his subs have increased more than Magy. What a guy.
If English is not your first language, you'll miss 40% of the jokes. If you were not an American born before 1970, you'll miss 70% of the jokes. There are a lot of references poking fun at pop culture events of the time. How many people will remember the Yuban coffee commercial - much less recognize this woman as the same actress in that commercial? "Saturday Night Fever" was a monster phenomenon a couple of years prior, so that really resonated. For many of us, you had some very serious actors doing their first comic turns. Leslie Nielson, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and Robert Stack we all well known dramatic actors. And, seeing cameos from Barbara Billingsley , Ethel Merman and Jimmie "J.J." Walker, was a trip at the time.
I was literally just on walmart looking at the movies on sale and passed by Airplane and was wondering if it was a good movie or not and then boom here's a reaction to it
I love you ladies! :-D I've seen dozens of reactors watch this movie and no one has stayed for the very end ... there is an end-credit gag where they go back to the guy at the original airport ... still waiting in the cab ...
Unfortunately, Airplane has a LOT of jokes that are specific to that era. The co-pilot, Roger, for example was played by an actual NBA athlete named kareem abdul jabbar, which is why he was wearing NBA shorts when they pulled him out. They also made a joke about Kareem Abdul Jabbar at one point in the movie but I don't remember what it was. And the joke about "I haven't felt this bad since I saw that Ronald Reagan film" is of course mocking the movies Reagan made. Lots of other era-specific jokes. And a lot of it was play on words. My favorite part of the whole movie is in that flashback showing how the main characters met each other when it showed that one guy get stabbed in the back and he started trying to point at the knife in his back with his thumbs and the woman thought he was dancing with her. That will always be my favorite moment.
Roger is Kareem Abdul Jabbar known as Lee Alcindor in College who turn into one of the greatest Center in Basketball history. At the time people had a hard time guarding him because he was very athletic for be 7 foot 2 inches tall.
@@goochdawg I am bias toward Kareem as I was in High School when he was in College watching him a Lot since he was in California and I in Washington same time zone same league.
@@willardwooten9582 I only saw him play for the lakers i seen his last 5 seasons then he retired. kareem had the unstoppable sky hook shot even though he was way before my time i seen him in his older years he could still score points etc. sports networks today,dont give kareem the respect he deserves they always put jordan, magic johnson,lebron james, kobe bryant over kareem im pretty sure kareem and jordan have won the most awards and mvp's both are also 6 time nba champions as well
@@goochdawg If this old guys memory hasn't gone I believe he was undefeated in High School and I think he lost one at UCLA but they had a 33 game win streak the got drafted by Milwaukee .
@@willardwooten9582 Hehe. You are right!. And yes kareem is still considered the #1 NCAA college basketball player of all time. Espn had a poll and i could not believe! The BS! They majority said Michael Jordan is the greatest NCAA basketball player of all time lol which its not even close! Jordan yes did win on NCAA championship but he was not the main player on the team plus he did not play all 4yrs of college ball. As NBA Jordan goes? Yeah he is considered the GOAT and all that Mj was one hell of a player no BS on that i will say Kobe Bryant is the closest resemblance of a NBA player Michael Jordan was but jordan was over all a better player than kobe.
Airplane! is a parody of airplane disaster movies from the 70's. There are so many more movies with the same humor that are parodies of other movies. Check these out: Top Secret, Loaded Weapon, Hot Shots, Hot Shots Part Deux, Mafia!, Scary Movie (1 thru 5).
Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home - th-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w/w-d-xo.html - same actress Airplane! Coffee Scene: The Original and the Spoof - th-cam.com/video/yH6KW6eMWJI/w-d-xo.html From Here to Eternity- Beach Scene - th-cam.com/video/7TlDNMc_hFk/w-d-xo.html Everyone always misses after the credits the man in the cab says he’s going to give him another 20 minutes but that’s it. - th-cam.com/video/DPeYFD-vVHg/w-d-xo.html
All the main actors were known for serious rolls and were told to play it straight (except Johnny) after this film Leslie Nielsen became best known for his comedic rolls in Naked Gun etc.
I could see some of you ladies were lost on the humor. Some of the humor is over 45 years old and you won't get it. The part that people don't get is when the plane knocked over the tower that was playing Disco, the DJ said disco will never die, disco was coming to the end in 1980 and that plane knocking over the tower was a symbolization of disco being dead.
Modern parodies like 'Scary Movie', 'Not Another Teen Movie', and 'Epic Movie' owe a lot to the Zucker Brothers films like 'Airplane'. My personal favorite is 'Kentucky Fried Movie' (1977) but if you haven't seen Bruce Lee's 'Enter the Dragon' you probably wouldn't get a lot of the gags.
This was a parody of the old "Airport" set of movies that were disaster/adventure films. Usually people watch it and then watch it again and see things they missed the first time around.
this is one of the movies you have to watch over and over to get all the gags, some are subtle i know subtle in airplane. like the sound of the plane being a propeller rather than a jet, just so so manyi saw this first time when it came out, and i just 3 months ago found a gag i never knew was in it the coffee woman
Airplane was made as a parody on the disaster movie "Airport" (that is based on the "Airport" of Arthur Haley). There is also Airplane 2 (much funnier), Naked Gun 1 and 2 (parody on Lethal Weapon, so watch it first to understand some jokes), Hot Shots! (parody on Top Gun, watch it first), Top Secret!
Surely you're not serious? Yes, I am serious. But don't call me Shirley. This quote, perhaps the movie, saved Leslie Nielsen's career (the doctor). He worked with the director again on the "The Naked Gun" trilogy.
One of my all time favourite comedies ever. So many jokes it took me many, many rewatches to catch them. Even not their are some Iv'e missed.The one joke that is so subtle and I missed until very recently. Every time you hear the plan its a propellor plane not a jet engine. A brilliant little joke hidden away very cleverly. Great reaction and you must watch The Naked Gun trilogy. It's a lot easier to follow. Also starring Lesley Nelson one of the true comedy greats and a very good serious actor as well.
If you know that it's a "Zero Hour" remake, it makes total sense that it was a propeller sounding plane because that's what that plane was. And even "Ted" was an ex WWII pilot here which also doesn't make sense for the time.
You guys are so fun to watch, in all your various configurations. I’m amazed and curious as to how several Bulgarians learned English so well. Some of the jokes were due to language/joke differences, and some were cultural and old movie references, but it’s so much fun to watch, isn’t it?
This movie was a parody of the airport disaster films which is why there was so much oddity to it (like a literal crap hitting the fan). It wasn't so much a language barrier issue as it was a time period unfamiliarity.
There are a lot of plays on other movies. The Original movie Airport 1970, Saturday Night Fever 1977, From Here to Eternity 1953, Jaws 1975, and Zero Hour 1957, are a few but, I'm sure there are others.
Fascinating reaction video girls. English has to be the first language I think to get the most out of this movie but you got a lot and you got the literal comedic references. Onwards and upwards ! ❤️
I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
Surely you can't be serious?
@@Pumbli I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
It’s just been revoked
Oh wrong movie lol
@@-M0LE LOL!! I watched the channel Just Summ reaction to that movie today!!!
Nice set up for these ladies if they watch Scary Movie 3 where Leslie Neilsen repeats that line!
This movie has so many jokes that even if you miss half of them, you'll still enjoy it.
Well apparently they only got half of them at most.
Every time I watch it again, I discover a joke I haven't seen before!
Someone could probably only get 20% of the jokes... and STILL hurt themselves laughing.
@@stockbrotsalat7577 They missed, "Hamm on Five, hold the Mayo," but caught "sit on your face."
Says a lot.
They had to cut out over half of the good jokes due to copyright strikes
Great reaction Homies. The Mayo Clinic is a famous hospital in the U.S. known for organ transplants among other things. Roger the co-pilot was played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a famous basketball player. You are right, this is a difficult one for people whose native language isn't English. There is a lot of subtle word play and puns which are easy to miss. Also, a lot of the jokes were based on things in American pop culture when the movie came out - as an example, when the woman said, "Jim never throws up at home", the joke was that same actress was in a coffee commercial in which she says "Jim never has a second cup at home." Also, the older woman who spoke 'jive' played the mother on Leave it to Beaver a wholesome, black and white family sitcom from the 1950's, so she is the last person you would think of being able to speak 'jive'
Another example of what was current back then is when the radio station WZAZ in Chicago announced that disco would live forever. It's believed that disco met its end in Chicago during a baseball game while this movie was in production.
Also, "Boy's Life" is an actual magazine for Boy Scouts of America. It has since been renamed Scout's Life.
The "Counterpoint" bit comes from the TV show _60 Minutes'_ "Point/Counterpoint" discussions, in which that guy would often take the most heartless, coldblooded stance.
A lot of subtle humor in this that no movie reactors seem to pick up on, at least that I've seen, such as the absurd maudlin love story music for Ted and Elaine, and the most subtly ridiculous thing, Ted's age. Even when this movie was made, there's no way he could have been old enough to have fought in ww2, the war had been over 35 years when this came out and it was set in modern time and it got more ridiculous in the sequel when, looking exactly the same, he's piloting a shuttle to the moon. Oh, and none of them have picked up on the Godfather jab when the woman is in bed with the horse. Has to be the very best of all the movies of this type. Very funny 😂
@@ScreamingScallop I actually had a sub to that - as well as "Ranger Rick" and I think one was called "Highlights" with Goofus and Gallant.
@@nomorerepublicans825 You missed it yourself. That is not a Godfather reference. The horse is alive. It is a reference to the malicious stories told about Catherine the Great’s sexual appetites.
I love 80's comedy. Especially Leslie Nielson, the king of literalism. Incidentally, the Homies should watch Young Frankenstein, a truly wonderful comedy classic.
And The Naked Gun.
And Blazing Saddles!
Now you should watch " The Naked Gun". You'll recognize the main character. And laugh so hard it might hurt.
And Top Secret
The backstory of this movie is great. The Zucker Brothers, who made the movie, had a VCR and would record old movies that networks would air after midnight. One night, they recorded a movie called “Zero Hour!” and they wrote the script for “Airplane” so close to “Zero Hour”, they bought the rights to “Zero Hour” to avoid being sued.
Wow.
There was a whole series of fairly big budget air disaster movies that came out in the 70's ("Airport", " Airport 1975", " Airport '77", and the much less successful "The Concord - Airport '79") which the Zucker's claimed that they'd never even heard of. I find that claim hard to believe, since the first three of those movies were all big hits. I kind of suspect that they bought the (probably much cheaper) rights to Zero Hour to avoid being sued by the Airport people. But it's true that Airplane follows the plot of Zero Hour pretty closely, remarkably so considering how much of it seemed to be an obvious parody of the Airport movies to people like me who'd seen them and hadn't even heard of Zero Hour. I can only conclude that the Airport scripts all stole liberally from Zero Hour.
The Zucker brothers were also the two guys on the tarmac with the light wands who waved the plane through the terminal window.
@@MJ-we9vu and one of the religious zealots in the airport and their mother is the one doing her makeup the whole movie.
I detected that at least Ellie seemed to be aware of the mirror gag. The scene with the guy on the floor being attacked by the dog and then Kramer walks out the mirror he was looking into in the previous shot. This is the first time I have ever seen anyone reacting to seeing that (and, in fairness, I've watched a lot of Airplane reactions). It looks like a very expensive gag as it involved building a mirror image of the set on the other side of the mirror and it's a shame most people miss it.
Yes!! I also want ppl to notice this I have seen others notice it too though
Like you I've also watched alot of airplane reactions and so far only one other has spotted the mirror gag
That was funny. I think I did get it when I first watched this movie but didn't think about it too much. Props for mentioning this... that is funny. 😄
Ellie is the only to get the hospital gag too
No need to build mirror image of the set, just move the camera to the other side of the "mirror" and make part of the wall around it ;)
Even if English is your first language you can miss a lot of jokes in this movie, so don’t worry about that. There are a ton of references and if you’re not familiar with them you won’t fully get the joke. Having English as a second language definitely would add to the difficulty curve of some of the jokes in Airplane though, especially the Jive Talk. Luckily this movie is so loaded with joke that even if you miss a bunch there’s bound to more than enough to enjoy. Sight gags in particular will keep people entertained in it.
I highly recommend Naked Gun. It’s similar in tone, but I think it relies less on understanding references so you should find its comedy more straightforward to understand.
naked gun, yes, me too. I just wish the editing didn't cut out the last part of the blowjob joke. other female reactors are laughing hysterically. i guess we just have to go to patreon, Nooooo!
15:05 The fact that this bit made it into the edit for this video - and it's still up on youtube - is just brilliant.
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue” & don’t call me Shirley 😂
"But that's not important right now"
The co-pilot is one of the most famous basketball players of all time, Kareem Abdul Jabar. The goggles and shorts and knee pads were what he wore while playing.
The scene where the woman was slapped, the actor suggested more people waiting with weapons, they only did one take and Leslie Niesens second slap made contact but she carried on
how did you learn that? that is very interesting
This is a comedy masterpiece, great choice
In the 1970's there were a lot of very serious disaster films. Earthquake, Airport, The Towering Inferno and on and on. This was a great way to look back and laugh at the genre. Great review!!
And many of those actors, including Leslie Nielson, were known for their dramatic TV roles - not for comedy. This movie was the best thing that could have happened to Leslie Neilson.
Don't forget the poseiden adventure.
The actor that played Johnny was given the straight lines, and allowed to improvise all his responses.
My favorite Johnny line was in the second movie I believe.
"Tell me everything, from the beginning."
Johnny: "well first there were the dinosaurs, but they got fat and lazy and turned into oil. Then came the Arabs....."
Just like Gerald Ford.
Honestly there are even more jokes that without pop culture knowledge from the time period you will simply miss out on.
A good example is the white lady who translates jive for the stewardess.
She played June Cleaver on a tv show from the Leave It to Beaver, American television sitcom. She portrayed pretty much the whitest middle class lady in the US for years. To have her speak jive was so out of her tv character's persona it was funny as hell.
Barbara Billingsley/June Cleaver has a great little interview where she explains how that _Airplane!_ role happened for her. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch (under 3 minutes), th-cam.com/video/gUw2fIa0dSI/w-d-xo.html
But I _did_ see the episode where she said, "Ward, weren't you a little hard on the Beaver last night?" I was shocked to discover that she had actually said it.
@@Hiraghm Or when Theodore got in trouble? June said from the top of the stairs, "Ward, come upstairs and talk to the beaver." We never suspected.
That reminds me of the joke inside the hospital, where Striker says "He thinks he's Ethel Merman." Most people nowadays don't know that it was actually Ethel Merman singing there.
@@chaelmavik None of the reactors I've seen have recognized her. None understood the J.J. Walker joke (or who he was), they didn't recognize Howard Jarvis in the cab, or the LAX announcers. And invariably, the kids don't know who any of the stars are in this film. Makes me feel old, I must admit.
Michelle's Elaine impression had me wheezing laughter
I noticed that she and Ellie are really good at impressions and sound effects. I liked Ellie's Chewbacca, Ewoks, and R2D2.
"Top Secret!" 1984. It'll blow your minds.
26:29 Leslie Neilson: I just want to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you.
Girl on the right: Again 😂
Sure, you missed a lot because of the language/culture/time differences, but glad to see you enjoyed it!
When I was little I had an aunt who would do Julie Hagerty's voice whenever she saw she was in a movie. "Oh! Is Julie Hagerty in this?"
The reaction to the horse in the bed was priceless.
now they need to watch the godfather
@@drchaos2000 Ellie would be traumatized
19:54 - That was a spoof of a popular news segment in the 70's, and 80's. In the US there's a News program called "60 Minutes". At the end of every episode, they feature a segment entitled "Point-Counterpoint. It was a brief debate between a Liberal and a Conservative
The beach scene is from an old film 1953 "From Here to Eternity" about WWII with actors Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra. "Airplane" is a collection of parodies of old films and films through the 1970's.
Almost like a movie of jokes that fly over your head????
Almost nobody notices when the airplane comes through the windows (it happens at 1:07 in this vid), a woman just throws her baby in the air. You have to watch this movie carefully to catch all of the humorous nuance.
Oh wow - well spotted...
Hopefully OJ Simpson was able to catch it, as he did in the opening of Naked Gun 33 1/3 ..!
@@MrEAus Well, I've seen this movie over a dozen times, and I'm old and get all the other references from the time too. For instance, that's Howard Jarvis in the cab (who, by the way, has the last line in the film, if you hang around long enough), and he was a big anti-tax advocate at the time. The humorous part really was that he would be the last person who would just sit in a cab and let the charges pile up. Oh, and those two people arguing over white zone/red zone were an actual married couple who did the real announcements at LAX.
I took one of the brothers (writers/makers) of this film out to dinner in London, a few years after this film came out. Three girls just like you were sitting at the next table and we started flirting together. I asked them if they had seen Airplane, to which they said no. My new friend proceeded to say and do the most outrageous things, which I thought absolutely hilarious, and they thought we were totally crazy.
I still recall the evening with fondness all these years later.
The plane was a jet plane, but the sound effects were of a Propeller plane. Just one of dozens of jokes that can be missed in this brilliant film. Beautiful reactions Cheer's ladies 🇬🇧
We rented this movie on VHS cassette when it was released, and we was like 😱🤣😂🤣👍
I absolutely love at 16:50, the "I got to get out of here" scene... Rarely have I seen Michelle laugh so wholeheartedly with such big smile and Ellie's shock rising with every second while laughing at the same time. The same at 25:45 ("Just kidding... Ah-haha!"). Loved Michelle's big laugh while Ellie is in total shock :D This movie is great and had so many jokes that you cannot stop smiling/laughing in any scene :D LOVE IT! Love the reaction, Homies
26:49 "Push a button!" 😂
Johnny unplugging the runway lights is my favorite part. So damn funny.
"Just kidding!"
R.I.P. to the actor who played him.
I like Kramer's dramatic line around there, "No, that's just what they'll be expecting us to do." Accompanied by suspenseful music of course.
What makes that so funny is the idea that all the lights on a runway at an airport can just be plugged in to one electrical outlet with an extension cord.
@@88wildcat This movie went for total accuracy and realism. Puts _Apollo 13_ to shame.
Airplane! is an almost scene-for-scene copy of an old movie called "Zero Hour"... except Airplane! is a parody. They actually licensed the rights to "Zero Hour" to avoid complications with their parody.
The key of the success of this movie was how intelligent were David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams when it comes to use the absurd humor.
And is because that humor is using from a tragic set and serious actings, mocking about the drama, so the impact is funnier because the sensation of scapism is bigger.
Many people hate this film and say its humor is silly...but come on, is really clever and witty.
Favorite scenes: the dance in the disco, the sordid conversations between Peter Graves and Ross Harris, Robert Hays covered in sweat while landing the plane, Lorna Patterson singing River of Jordan, Ted's flashbacks about the Molombos tribe, the slap-in-a-row scene, and of course all the scenes of Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack.
Lia definitely gets it. 🙂
Fun fact: here, in France, this movie is titled "Is there a pilote in the airplane?"
And all the comedic movies with Leslie Nielsen have a title that starts with "Is there...?", and thus are considered part of the same franchise.
Those include:
Is there a cop to save the queen?
Is there a cop to save the president?
Is there a cop to save Hollywood?
Etc.
Airplane 2 and the naked gun trilogy are comedy gold too. Watch them all
The beauty of this movie is that no matter where you're from the humor still works. Yes you missed some jokes because of the language but funny is funny and it seem like you had a great time. Loved your reaction 😁😅🤗.
It’s not just a language issue, but also age and culture. Many younger reactors miss many of the jokes based on American pop culture from the decades before the early 1980s.
@@markhamstra1083 A reactor, what is it? It's a big building with Uranium in it, but that's not important right now.
@@Phil-p7p: lol! 😉
Don't feel bad for missing lots of the jokes; it's not just that they're doing wordplay on very specific English sayings, they are making fun of a certain kind of old dramatic movies from 1950's and 60's, about airplane disasters, AND they're doing it using the references that a 1970's American audience would have recognized.
So even Americans your age will miss a lot of the humor, because it's so outdated.
Though of course some of the stuff is timeless, like the wonderfully deadpan Leslie Nielson as the doctor.
This comedy is based on the airplane disaster movies from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. There was a movie where food poisoning was the problem, there was a movie where there was a young girl ready for a transplant, and other situations that were written in the Airplane script. Many of the actors in the movie worked in television for many years. The movie script had them making fun of the tough guys they played in the past.
1980 I was 3. A special time for movies just like homies
Sometimes you have to rewatch this movie just to understand or appreciate some of the comedy scenes, especially if you're not american..
Great reaction, Homies! I loved watching Ellie's expressions go from hysterical to horror and back again.
SO glad you watched this LOL... If you enjoy this type of silliness...
DO check out the writers/directors next project called 'Top Secret!'
It stars a young Val Kilmer in his first role and i'd describe it as a combination of an Elvis Musical Beach movie & a WWII espionage film with a huge dose of absurdity thrown on top.
Great reaction Homies. You should watch Top Secret! (1984), The Naked Gun trilogy, and also Austin Powers trilogy.
They would not get the comedy in those ones either, I would hate to see their reaction to one of the funniest movies from 1976 Mel Brooks classic 'Silent Movie' which is hilarious! th-cam.com/video/-DhJA73Ps5U/w-d-xo.html
I have to say that this movie was one of the most awesome experiences on the big screen with my family in a full theater on a weekend evening. Just one of those experiences I am unable to really describe.
The scene where the lovers kiss on the beach is taken from "From Here to Eternity!"
Guys: This movie was a direct response to the 1970s fad for disaster movies. A lot of its stranger scenes were a direct parody of either Airport '75 or Zero Hour. For instance, in one a hysterical passenger is slapped, and that's why Airplane! had that one scene. In another, there's a little sick girl, and a nun sings her a song.
As for the horse in the bed, there is a famous horrifying scene in The Godfather where a guy wakes up and finds the head - just the head - of his champion thoroughbred racehorse on his bed. Gaahh! So that's what that's all about.
No. you cannot unsee this movie but you CAN enjoy the sequel Airplane II!
The full title is "Airplane II: The Sequel!"
You all actually understood some of the jokes better than some others who have reacted to this movie (and English is their first language).
I think Roger Ebert said it best about Airplane, "First, you laugh at the movie. Then, you laugh at yourself for laughing at the movie.",
I can't cope with how adorable you all are. And great choice of film. Requests: TOP SECRET; POLICE ACADEMY; LIFE OF BRIAN and BLAZING SADDLES
Leslie Nielson who played the doctor was also in six episodes of a TV show called Police Squad written by the same team. There was a sequel, Airplane 2 (naturally) and then 'Top Secret' followed by 'The Naked Gun' films, based on Police Squad.
-Just watched The Homies.
-The Homies? What is it?
-It's a TH-cam channel, but that's not important right now.
Barbara Billingsley
Robert Stack
Leslie Nielson
Lloyd Bridges
Peter Graves
These are all famous actors who starred on their own TV shows and films.
So many of the gags weren’t even shown lol
This is a spoof of a couple of airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70’s, one was called airport 77 and the other was airport 79 the Concorde.
There are quite literally jokes, site gags, double-entendre and cultural references every few seconds throughout the entire movie…most of which would be difficult for younger people and people who aren’t Americans to detect…often several at one time. Imagine how exhausting it is to laugh the entire time 😉
This guy saw that Magic Magy was going to overtake him in subs.. so he cut himself out and brought in all females as hosts...now his subs have increased more than Magy. What a guy.
Yeah but he runs all three channels magy homies trixy blue
Fair play to him I hope he’s making P$£
Difficult movie for English as Second Language people. There are many sight gags but their puns that are hard for non-native speakers.
The expressions on your faces!! Hahahaha! Great reaction ladies!
Airplane is a spoof/satire on disaster movies and is based on, 'Flight into Danger' which in turn is a remake of 'Zero Hour'.
This is one of my favorite old movies. I wondered if it would hold up to a first viewing now, and I'm glad it did.
If English is not your first language, you'll miss 40% of the jokes. If you were not an American born before 1970, you'll miss 70% of the jokes. There are a lot of references poking fun at pop culture events of the time. How many people will remember the Yuban coffee commercial - much less recognize this woman as the same actress in that commercial? "Saturday Night Fever" was a monster phenomenon a couple of years prior, so that really resonated. For many of us, you had some very serious actors doing their first comic turns. Leslie Nielson, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and Robert Stack we all well known dramatic actors. And, seeing cameos from Barbara Billingsley , Ethel Merman and Jimmie "J.J." Walker, was a trip at the time.
I was literally just on walmart looking at the movies on sale and passed by Airplane and was wondering if it was a good movie or not and then boom here's a reaction to it
I love you ladies! :-D
I've seen dozens of reactors watch this movie and no one has stayed for the very end ... there is an end-credit gag where they go back to the guy at the original airport ... still waiting in the cab ...
It has always bothered me too I'll give it twenty more reaction but that's it
Love your reactions, you ladies always bring me smiles. Ellie, I still think there's room for one more on your couch. Ha Ha
Of all the reaction vids of this film, nobody ever comments that the jet's engines sound like propellers.
Unfortunately, Airplane has a LOT of jokes that are specific to that era. The co-pilot, Roger, for example was played by an actual NBA athlete named kareem abdul jabbar, which is why he was wearing NBA shorts when they pulled him out. They also made a joke about Kareem Abdul Jabbar at one point in the movie but I don't remember what it was. And the joke about "I haven't felt this bad since I saw that Ronald Reagan film" is of course mocking the movies Reagan made. Lots of other era-specific jokes. And a lot of it was play on words.
My favorite part of the whole movie is in that flashback showing how the main characters met each other when it showed that one guy get stabbed in the back and he started trying to point at the knife in his back with his thumbs and the woman thought he was dancing with her. That will always be my favorite moment.
That awkward moment when the editor forgets to censor the nude scene lol.
Lia's contribution to the introduction was great.
..............."yep" -Lia
She's my favorite.
Roger is Kareem Abdul Jabbar known as Lee Alcindor in College who turn into one of the greatest Center in Basketball history. At the time people had a hard time guarding him because he was very athletic for be 7 foot 2 inches tall.
True but there were big men who also played against kareem who were good as well. kareem was more dominate in the NBA during the 1970's
@@goochdawg I am bias toward Kareem as I was in High School when he was in College watching him a Lot since he was in California and I in Washington same time zone same league.
@@willardwooten9582 I only saw him play for the lakers i seen his last 5 seasons then he retired. kareem had the unstoppable sky hook shot even though he was way before my time i seen him in his older years he could still score points etc. sports networks today,dont give kareem the respect he deserves they always put jordan, magic johnson,lebron james, kobe bryant over kareem im pretty sure kareem and jordan have won the most awards and mvp's both are also 6 time nba champions as well
@@goochdawg If this old guys memory hasn't gone I believe he was undefeated in High School and I think he lost one at UCLA but they had a 33 game win streak the got drafted by Milwaukee .
@@willardwooten9582 Hehe. You are right!. And yes kareem is still considered the #1 NCAA college basketball player of all time. Espn had a poll and i could not believe! The BS! They majority said Michael Jordan is the greatest NCAA basketball player of all time lol which its not even close! Jordan yes did win on NCAA championship but he was not the main player on the team plus he did not play all 4yrs of college ball. As NBA Jordan goes? Yeah he is considered the GOAT and all that Mj was one hell of a player no BS on that i will say Kobe Bryant is the closest resemblance of a NBA player Michael Jordan was but jordan was over all a better player than kobe.
Airplane! is a parody of airplane disaster movies from the 70's. There are so many more movies with the same humor that are parodies of other movies. Check these out: Top Secret, Loaded Weapon, Hot Shots, Hot Shots Part Deux, Mafia!, Scary Movie (1 thru 5).
The lead actors are famous for starring in serious filns and popular TV dramas. They are doing a parody of their real characters.
4:40 hahaha... after seeing this scene, I hope they watch, "Saturday Night Fever"
Movie is almost a scene-for-scene parody of a 1957 b&w drama called "Zero Hour."
Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home - th-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w/w-d-xo.html - same actress
Airplane! Coffee Scene: The Original and the Spoof - th-cam.com/video/yH6KW6eMWJI/w-d-xo.html
From Here to Eternity- Beach Scene - th-cam.com/video/7TlDNMc_hFk/w-d-xo.html
Everyone always misses after the credits the man in the cab says he’s going to give him another 20 minutes but that’s it. - th-cam.com/video/DPeYFD-vVHg/w-d-xo.html
All the main actors were known for serious rolls and were told to play it straight (except Johnny) after this film Leslie Nielsen became best known for his comedic rolls in Naked Gun etc.
You guys should watch Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (1987) it is hilarious!
If you enjoyed that type of comedy then you should watch "Top Secret" (1984), it's made by the same people who made Airplane.
I could see some of you ladies were lost on the humor. Some of the humor is over 45 years old and you won't get it. The part that people don't get is when the plane knocked over the tower that was playing Disco, the DJ said disco will never die, disco was coming to the end in 1980 and that plane knocking over the tower was a symbolization of disco being dead.
Modern parodies like 'Scary Movie', 'Not Another Teen Movie', and 'Epic Movie' owe a lot to the Zucker Brothers films like 'Airplane'. My personal favorite is 'Kentucky Fried Movie' (1977) but if you haven't seen Bruce Lee's 'Enter the Dragon' you probably wouldn't get a lot of the gags.
The folks that made this went on to do several comedies you might like: the Naked Gun, Top Secret, Hot Shots
This was a parody of the old "Airport" set of movies that were disaster/adventure films. Usually people watch it and then watch it again and see things they missed the first time around.
this is one of the movies you have to watch over and over to get all the gags, some are subtle i know subtle in airplane. like the sound of the plane being a propeller rather than a jet, just so so manyi saw this first time when it came out, and i just 3 months ago found a gag i never knew was in it the coffee woman
15:05 y’all got no chill lol
Airplane was made as a parody on the disaster movie "Airport" (that is based on the "Airport" of Arthur Haley). There is also Airplane 2 (much funnier), Naked Gun 1 and 2 (parody on Lethal Weapon, so watch it first to understand some jokes), Hot Shots! (parody on Top Gun, watch it first), Top Secret!
Great reactions. I loved Michelle's imitation of Julie Haggarty. She even did it with an American accent.
12:00 He is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar a highly laureated NBA player and the yellow pants are from his team, Los Angeles' Lakers.
The opening shot of the plane in the clouds is a parody of Jaws, which you MUST react to! 🦈
Funny how they laughed hardest at the air israel gag.
22:22 The speach Is from The movie Knute Rockne, All American from 1940. Staring Ronald reagan
Surely you're not serious?
Yes, I am serious. But don't call me Shirley.
This quote, perhaps the movie, saved Leslie Nielsen's career (the doctor). He worked with the director again on the "The Naked Gun" trilogy.
One of my all time favourite comedies ever. So many jokes it took me many, many rewatches to catch them. Even not their are some Iv'e missed.The one joke that is so subtle and I missed until very recently. Every time you hear the plan its a propellor plane not a jet engine. A brilliant little joke hidden away very cleverly. Great reaction and you must watch The Naked Gun trilogy. It's a lot easier to follow. Also starring Lesley Nelson one of the true comedy greats and a very good serious actor as well.
If you know that it's a "Zero Hour" remake, it makes total sense that it was a propeller sounding plane because that's what that plane was. And even "Ted" was an ex WWII pilot here which also doesn't make sense for the time.
Comedies in general probably don't translate as well, but this genre (Airplane!, Naked Gun, etc) within comedy must be really hard to figure out.
You guys are so fun to watch, in all your various configurations. I’m amazed and curious as to how several Bulgarians learned English so well. Some of the jokes were due to language/joke differences, and some were cultural and old movie references, but it’s so much fun to watch, isn’t it?
*(The Naked Gun)* is similar slapstick comedy
3 beauties watching a funny movie, love it.
Humor tends to be culturally specific so I was wondering how the jokes in this movie would translate. I would say 75% landed :p
This movie was a parody of the airport disaster films which is why there was so much oddity to it (like a literal crap hitting the fan). It wasn't so much a language barrier issue as it was a time period unfamiliarity.
There are a lot of plays on other movies. The Original movie Airport 1970, Saturday Night Fever 1977, From Here to Eternity 1953, Jaws 1975, and Zero Hour 1957, are a few but, I'm sure there are others.
Fascinating reaction video girls. English has to be the first language I think to get the most out of this movie but you got a lot and you got the literal comedic references. Onwards and upwards ! ❤️
Poor Ellie is wide eyed freaking out.