This has to rank high on anyone’s shortlist of a performer taking a moribund film by the scruff of the neck and willing it back to life. Shatner’s commitment to every single gag is heroic and his timing is surgical.
Shatner's performance is the only reason to watch Airplane II. He's hysterical every minute he's on screen. The rest of the film is pretty horrendous though.
Part of me likes to think he did that out of improv but obviously there was nothing else to carry it on so he went back to the script but still funny as
especially when he talks about all the buttons.....that were blinking and beeping and flashing......they were blinking and beeping and flashing......AND BLINKING AND BEEPING AND FLASHING.....I CANT STAND IT ANYMORE! OH GOD......WHY DOESNT SOMEONE JUST SMACK ME WITH A 2 X 4 ALREADY!!!!!???? 🤪🤪🤪
While he is probably best know for being a little...over the top, some of his best work is indeed those moments when he's subdued, understated, and playing things dead serious. Mostly I think because it does seem such a striking contrast.
This is probably William Shatner's single greatest role in a film, has me chuckling every time...."blinking and beeping and flashing, they're flashing blinking and beeping....why doesn't someone pull a plug!"
“I see. Pretend nothing has happened and hope everything turns out alright in the morning. Just a thought, Sir. I’ve considered that; there’s got to be a better angle.” I’ve always loved that little exchange too
I use the “we could try ignoring it and see if it goes away in the morning” joke as a network engineer all the time. Very funny to the right audience, not funny at all to the wrong person.
I had forgotten them "shushing" the automatic doors, (the "ssh" sound), a parody of the Star Trek sound effect. That's some seriously high quality satire! Lol
love the fact that the machine with red flashing lights is actually in Star Trek II. Best bit when he sees the enterprise on the periscope. Shatner nailed this. Legend.
It's in a lot of things. There was a rental prop company near the studios in Hollywood. There are a lot of these props and all of Star Trek. I think it was even on a couple episodes of Knight Rider.
That periscope we see at 2:16 is the exact same one used in _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea_ and countless other TV shows and movies featuring submarine scenes. It's like Hollywood only had one periscope.
@@Frankie2012channel they are in a ton of movies, I also remember seeing them in the last starfighter, where you even see one of the key actors Interacting with it.
@@davidmansell5986 Someone had to handle the "straight-man" role. Leslie Nielsen restructured his acting career using his dramatic film history to deliver deadpan humor with what it needs...a little bit of gravitas.
@@daynechastant There's an anecdote about Leslie Nielsen filming the first "Airplane". The story goes that he was so good at the deadpan delivery because he simply did not get this style of comedy.
@@TheMrPeteChannel It wasn't like they had much choice other than have some poor intern tell the crew over radio "Hey, yeah... uhm... you're probably not gonna make it home. We can't fix the damage while you're in orbit and we don't have the budget to launch a second shuttle to pick you guys up. But don't worry, some high school in Clear Lake, TX will name their football stadium after you."
@@Riley_Mundt That's not true, regarding budget, in such a public emergency situation budget won't be an issue and NASA would have got all the budget and support they would have needed in order to rescue the crew, regarding time, Columbia had enough supplies to stay in orbit for another month if needed, in that time NASA could have managed to get another shuttle ready for a rescue mission or at least to be able to send them more supplies until such a mission will be ready.
@@gsxerwhite Actually they couldn't do that because they were in a very different orbit trajectory and they didn't had enough fuel to change it to dock with the ISS and MIR crashed I think in 2001, but like I wrote they could have stayed in orbit for another month, even 2 with strict rationing of their supplies, by that time NASA could have come up with some kind of a rescue plan, maybe using the ISS Soyuz capsules might have worked.
One of my favorite comedy characters, Buck Murdock! This was probably the first time I saw this guy let his hair down and really show his comedic range. (Especially when he paints the sarcasm with 3 coats) Just think same year he played an awesome Lunar Commander in fantastic fashion he also played my favorite Captain Kirk role in Wrath of Khan. The end scene where he truly feels loss while helplessly watching Spock slip away was nothing short of exceptional acting in my book.
Shatner didn't go "camp" until Boston Legal and the Priceline ads in the 90's, so watching him go the full Leslie Nielsen for the first time in an early-80's Airplane movie was a thunderbolt at the time. : D And only SIX MONTHS after Khan.
@@jameswilker1774 legendary acting in both roles. I cried in that Spock scene, and laughed so hard at ‘why the hell aren’t I notified about these things?’ !!
I know, right? But I thought even back then that they could have played that even more: When the shuttle went into ".5 Worp," they should have spliced in footage of the Enterprise taking evasive action and the bridge crew throwing themselves every which way including loose. That I think would really have gotten laughs from the audiences, especially considering all the seat-belt jokes that have been around almost as long as "Star Trek."
Me too 😍. William Shatner is a genuine camp actor and everyone doesn't expect anything else from him 😂😂...... "No Tower? Why the hell aren't I told about these things" 😜
I love the way William Shatners gets annoyed with things happening in the base His over the top acting is legendary (The way the lights keep blinking and beeping 😋😋😋)
There is actually a back story to those lights. Apparently they were used in a number of Sci-fi television series and a few movies. The line delivered by Shatner wins gold but knowing the writers intent makes it even better.
“I want a 6 foot trench dug around the entire base. Fill it with gasoline! Get the women and children to the lower shelters. Contact the Japanese ambassador!” LEGEND
@@Yngvarfo It's a bit less inventive than the mirror gag, but funnier. The first one was a head-scratcher; with this one you realise how easily you were fooled and can't help but laugh.
@@acxezknightnite1377 - Well, so many people miss that gag, while everybody sees it in Airplane II. Is it a testament to the genius of the original movie that they managed to make us not notice, or is it just sloppiness?
I remember when Shatner walked through that door--where you assumed he was communicating via a viewscreen--I just fell apart laughing my ass off. So unexpected and so hilarious. Shatner was great here--and the reason why I actually like Airplane II.
3:54 Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here, there are literally hundereds and thousands of blinking, bleeping, and flashing lights. Blinking, and beeping, and flashing. They're flashing, and they're beeping. I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE. THEY'RE BLINKING AND BEEPING AND FLASHING. WHY DOESN'T SOMEONE PULL THE PLUG!!!!
The way he is looking at Pervis, when he grabs him, still in full meltdown...! Little touches like that make William Shatner a comedy acting craftsman, in my book. In 7 minutes he carried the carcass of that film on his own back, over the line and made it work! Genius.
I don't think it gets enough credit either. I know it wasn't the original team working on the writing and directing but I thought they did fine all the same.
Great compilation. Saw these Shatner clips literally hundreds of times in the '80s as my roommates played it every day for a year. We could recite every line. "I want a six-foot trench dug around the entire base, fill it with gasoline."
Love this post. The “blinking lights” scene cracks me up every time. Also the captains chair Shatner sits on at the end. The Star Trek references are everywhere..Love it.
When I first saw this movie, it was limping along when suddenly William Shatner showed up in it and brought it to life. Suddenly I was engaged, trying to keep up with him as he rode the line between deathly serious and slapstick. I always wished after this that he would do more bit pieces in movies. He could get blood from a stone, he could. Even though it was dead, Jim.
"The lights are blinking out of sequence sir, what do you want us to do?" "Get them to blink IN sequence!" 😂😂😂😂 William Shatner is hysterical in this movie!!!
I wonder how often Captain Kirk was on his way to a nervous breakdown because of all the flashing and beeping lights but managed to keep it down until he reached his quarters where he could scream in peace.
Shatner is very deprecating and is respected for that, 25 years ago during first 'wave' of Internet Business Startups he was approached to appear in an Advert for an Internet Business but the owners could not afford to pay him , he asked them to explain the new business and he agreed to do Advert for nothing for a percentage of shares and a year later they were worth $100 Million ! !
Who knew Shatner's true gift lay in his style working perfectly with this sort of comedy? Starship captain, cop, moon base commander - jack of all trades.
So did no one else catch the reference to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s character from the original Airplane when Striker says on the radio, “Roger, Murdock”???😁
Love him in Airplane 2! He only has 7 minutes in a 80 minutes movie, but he still it! Every moment, word and move he's done in this movie was perfect and funny. The scene at 1:10 awesome! The red... thing also appears in Star Trek II on the space station - later also appears at the Voyager's sickbay!
William Shatner steals every movie he's in - that's a stone cold fact. He has a similar cameo role in Showtime with Robert DeNiro and Eddie Murphy, and he steals the movie out from under both of them.
"thank you Rorschach. What do you make of these captain?" "that's a bird, that's a cow, that's a horse with a hat on." lol I remember seeing this in the theater. It dragged until Shatner came onscreen and then it got a burst of energy from his presence and comic timing.
This is why Shatner is awesome. Anyone in an industry full of narcissists, overly concerned with their own image who can actively go out out and spoof HIMSELF and the role he is most known for is impressive. Sir Roger Moore was the same way.
To be fair, Bill CAN be kind of a dick and full of himself. But that said, he's also aware he's known for being kind of a dick and full of himself and isn't afraid to lean into it for the sake of a gag or laugh under the right circumstances.
One of the funniest things is also the most subtle. After his freak out and he says “I’m all right”, the Lieutenant gives him a nod and a pat on the shoulder. THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE
This is a great clip, but they actually cut out the funniest line in that scene! After being told he needs a piece of metal, Ted Striker says, "Where am I going to get a piece of metal? Out here in space? At this hour"?
LOL! "Get me a complete file of everyone who has seen the 'Sound Of Music' more than four times." I wonder what the hell that file was going to tell him?
That command is so random, which is why its hysterical😂😂😂😂 Why does he need such files? What is the point of knowing how many times someone has watched The Sound of Music?😂😂😂😂 Maybe it would have helped him get over Macho Grande lol
This whole scene brilliantly makes fun of the majority of sci-fi scenes in movies with all lights and switches beeping and blinking, and lights and switches beeping and blinking, and lights and switches beeping and blinking, I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE
The only people who think airplane 2 isn't funny have never gotten over macho grande. Shatner is hysterical
I'll never get over Macho Grande!
All these little lights that are flashing and beeping No we’ll never get over Macho Grande
@@johnathanlewis2049 FLASHING AND BEEPING, BEEPING AND FLASHING!
@@davidmansell5986 - Yes!
@@davidmansell5986 The enterprise😂
1982 was the greatest year in Willian Shatner's career. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, T.J. Hooker, and Airplane II. What a phenomenal year for him.
Oh yeah I never thought of the year And for various other films too 😍
Even an appearance on mork and mindy in the 4th season in an episode in February 1982
And all the world
In 2005 he won both an Emmy and a golden globe awards
2021 he went to Space.
It's that first scene I love - where he seems to be on a screen, then opens the door!
I saw it in the theater and it was rolling when he opened the door. I laughed so hard!
It's like in Spaceballs when President Skroob (Mel Brooks) walks through the door after beaming him doesn't work.
Just found this supercut. I remember this in the theater and the crowd went absolutely bonkers. It's a great bit.
@@Bookhermit saw it at the theater. Bout busted a gut
@@Bookhermit “WHY THE HELL AREN’T I NOTIFIED ABOUT THESE THINGS?” 😂
This has to rank high on anyone’s shortlist of a performer taking a moribund film by the scruff of the neck and willing it back to life. Shatner’s commitment to every single gag is heroic and his timing is surgical.
Only Shatner could top Airplane I. Genius.
Shatner's performance is the only reason to watch Airplane II. He's hysterical every minute he's on screen. The rest of the film is pretty horrendous though.
He acts like Trump
Stop talking like that lol he was funny yes
Ron, what's wrong with that?
Ted Striker, never heard of him. Wait, that’s not exactly true. We were like brothers. 😂😂😂😂
Each time i wach the airplane movies i find ot new funny things lol
Funniest line from the movie. A complete 180 and he does it with ease. 😁
Part of me likes to think he did that out of improv but obviously there was nothing else to carry it on so he went back to the script but still funny as
😂😂😂 hilarious line
Dammit Jim!! Pull yourself together!!
Whoever knew that Shatner had such comic talent? He’s a winner!
I knew...i've always known...
"Comic? I... don't... follow you... "
He showed it in many vignettes in TOS
@@T0mR0b1n Of course not. You don't even know where I walk.
I love the fact that he’s still giving directions after the shuttle has landed.
He's locked in!
That has always been one of my favorite things! :D
And up until Striker and Elaine’s wedding
Especially with no oxygen 😜
And down safe
And people say William Shatner can't act. This is amazing.
All time classic
I think he was one of the only saving graces of the sequel. He does some great scenes.
especially when he talks about all the buttons.....that were blinking and beeping and flashing......they were blinking and beeping and flashing......AND BLINKING AND BEEPING AND FLASHING.....I CANT STAND IT ANYMORE! OH GOD......WHY DOESNT SOMEONE JUST SMACK ME WITH A 2 X 4 ALREADY!!!!!???? 🤪🤪🤪
Those are the same people who say Shakespeare couldn't write.
While he is probably best know for being a little...over the top, some of his best work is indeed those moments when he's subdued, understated, and playing things dead serious. Mostly I think because it does seem such a striking contrast.
This is probably William Shatner's single greatest role in a film, has me chuckling every time...."blinking and beeping and flashing, they're flashing blinking and beeping....why doesn't someone pull a plug!"
I like the beeping sound gets louder and then, after Murdock breaks down, they went back to normal level. 😆😆😆
I use this reference at least once a month. If you are dedicated enough you can work it into any conversation.
He's reaction to the Enterprise get me every time.
It’s hilarious how he pulls back when the Enterprise comes past
Can't escape your most popular role.
🤣
Better hope they have the right stuff.
I love that part too lol also the main view screen from TOS too in background lol
After watching this movie I’ll never get over Macho Grande
Nobody can get over macho grande sir
Over Macho Grande?
Nope. I'll never get over Macho Grande.
"Those wounds run...pretty deep."
We could pretend nothing has happened and hope everything turns out alright in the morning. Just a thought.
I love when after just a few seconds of not finding a piece of metal, he completely gives up on them. ‘Might as well write ‘em off. Turn it all off.’
That's how I deal with any problem in my life xD Then get back like it never happened a second later.
Goes without saying that Shatner completely stole the show, but “we could try ignoring it, sir” is a fantastic line in its own right.
“I see. Pretend nothing has happened and hope everything turns out alright in the morning.
Just a thought, Sir.
I’ve considered that; there’s got to be a better angle.”
I’ve always loved that little exchange too
@@disconnected22Shh!
Ok, but that wasn't his line.
I use the “we could try ignoring it and see if it goes away in the morning” joke as a network engineer all the time.
Very funny to the right audience, not funny at all to the wrong person.
The neon tube prop gag was spot on. By the time this movie came out it has been on everythin from Star Trek to The Last Starfighter.
I had forgotten them "shushing" the automatic doors, (the "ssh" sound), a parody of the Star Trek sound effect. That's some seriously high quality satire! Lol
love the fact that the machine with red flashing lights is actually in Star Trek II. Best bit when he sees the enterprise on the periscope. Shatner nailed this. Legend.
It's in a lot of things. There was a rental prop company near the studios in Hollywood. There are a lot of these props and all of Star Trek. I think it was even on a couple episodes of Knight Rider.
They made fun of it in Lower Decks.
That periscope we see at 2:16 is the exact same one used in _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea_ and countless other TV shows and movies featuring submarine scenes. It's like Hollywood only had one periscope.
The Machine with the red lights were also on Star Trek The next Generation, in engineering.
@@Frankie2012channel they are in a ton of movies, I also remember seeing them in the last starfighter, where you even see one of the key actors Interacting with it.
"That's a horse with a hat on it" Only Bill Shatner could deliver such a crazy line in a dead pan way. Superb!
Absolutely genius from Shatner. He may have been the first to joke about his own style of acting in this way. So many have copied him since.
Most people who do a Shatner impersonation are actually copying him from this film.
Why the hell aren’t I notified about these things??
I watched this at the theater and when he walked through that screen the whole crowd burst into laughter.
I bet…they had no idea what was coming! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was one of them. 😂
I love Shatner's complete deadpan attitude.
He reinvented "Deadpan".
@@davidmansell5986 Someone had to handle the "straight-man" role. Leslie Nielsen restructured his acting career using his dramatic film history to deliver deadpan humor with what it needs...a little bit of gravitas.
@@daynechastant There's an anecdote about Leslie Nielsen filming the first "Airplane". The story goes that he was so good at the deadpan delivery because he simply did not get this style of comedy.
Shatner should have won an academy award for this.
I agree 100%. In all seriousness. He should have won best supporting actor for this role.
It would have been ironic for him to be nominated when Ricardo Montalban was not. But then, irony can be pretty ironic.
Happy Belated 90th Bill! You have been and always shall be our Captain!
Shatner is going to space on a blue origin rocket soon.
@@kdrapertrucker Iets hope he doesn't have similar landing as the shuttle in the film.
Except for that brief period, when you were our Admiral.
Pretend nothing’s happening and hope it all works out in the morning.
Basically NASA when Columbia was in trouble.
@@TheMrPeteChannel It wasn't like they had much choice other than have some poor intern tell the crew over radio "Hey, yeah... uhm... you're probably not gonna make it home. We can't fix the damage while you're in orbit and we don't have the budget to launch a second shuttle to pick you guys up. But don't worry, some high school in Clear Lake, TX will name their football stadium after you."
@@Riley_Mundt That's not true, regarding budget, in such a public emergency situation budget won't be an issue and NASA would have got all the budget and support they would have needed in order to rescue the crew, regarding time, Columbia had enough supplies to stay in orbit for another month if needed, in that time NASA could have managed to get another shuttle ready for a rescue mission or at least to be able to send them more supplies until such a mission will be ready.
@@E_y_a_l yea couldn’t they have docked at ISS or Mier and waited for another shuttle.
@@gsxerwhite Actually they couldn't do that because they were in a very different orbit trajectory and they didn't had enough fuel to change it to dock with the ISS and MIR crashed I think in 2001, but like I wrote they could have stayed in orbit for another month, even 2 with strict rationing of their supplies, by that time NASA could have come up with some kind of a rescue plan, maybe using the ISS Soyuz capsules might have worked.
One of my favorite comedy characters, Buck Murdock! This was probably the first time I saw this guy let his hair down and really show his comedic range. (Especially when he paints the sarcasm with 3 coats) Just think same year he played an awesome Lunar Commander in fantastic fashion he also played my favorite Captain Kirk role in Wrath of Khan. The end scene where he truly feels loss while helplessly watching Spock slip away was nothing short of exceptional acting in my book.
Shatner didn't go "camp" until Boston Legal and the Priceline ads in the 90's, so watching him go the full Leslie Nielsen for the first time in an early-80's Airplane movie was a thunderbolt at the time. : D And only SIX MONTHS after Khan.
“KHAAAANNN!” You feel the love tonight?
@@ericjanssen394 Oh, yes. Boston Legal. He and James Spader was gold. I need to find that series and rewatch. :P
@@jameswilker1774 legendary acting in both roles. I cried in that Spock scene, and laughed so hard at ‘why the hell aren’t I notified about these things?’ !!
I dunno why but the "down safe" bit always gets me
I laughed when he spots the Enterprise
I know, right? But I thought even back then that they could have played that even more: When the shuttle went into ".5 Worp," they should have spliced in footage of the Enterprise taking evasive action and the bridge crew throwing themselves every which way including loose. That I think would really have gotten laughs from the audiences, especially considering all the seat-belt jokes that have been around almost as long as "Star Trek."
Me too 😍. William Shatner is a genuine camp actor and everyone doesn't expect anything else from him 😂😂...... "No Tower? Why the hell aren't I told about these things" 😜
@@aloysiusbelisarius9992 Sometimes less is more, even in an Airplane movie.
Same here.
The scene with reed light is a joke about the star treek movies🤣
I love the way William Shatners gets annoyed with things happening in the base His over the top acting is legendary (The way the lights keep blinking and beeping 😋😋😋)
There is actually a back story to those lights. Apparently they were used in a number of Sci-fi television series and a few movies.
The line delivered by Shatner wins gold but knowing the writers intent makes it even better.
@@jameswilker1774 the long red lights they are standing over are on Star Trek generations, when Laforge and Data are on the space station
@@jameswilker1774 Weren't those blinking lights a reference to the Star Trek too? (The TV series)
I think he refers to star trek :)
@@budwhite9591 they were also in the regula I lab in Star Trek II. And in plenty of other films and episodes
Thank you for combining all the Buck Murdock scenes in one package. Makes me want to dance to a Ted Striker polka record.
They’re worse than you think
...and you’re not gonna like it
Same here 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
“I want a 6 foot trench dug around the entire base.
Fill it with gasoline!
Get the women and children to the lower shelters.
Contact the Japanese ambassador!”
LEGEND
The door screen is one of the finest gags ever.
But it's really just a variation of the "stepping out of the mirror" gag in the first movie.
@@Yngvarfo It's a bit less inventive than the mirror gag, but funnier. The first one was a head-scratcher; with this one you realise how easily you were fooled and can't help but laugh.
@@Yngvarfo but that was genius too!
@@acxezknightnite1377 - Well, so many people miss that gag, while everybody sees it in Airplane II. Is it a testament to the genius of the original movie that they managed to make us not notice, or is it just sloppiness?
This was actually Shatner's favorite role to play because he got to do a comedic character which he never gets to do in other roles
He’s great in Loaded Weapon
The door sound in this scene and on the plane were used in the Star Trek movies 1-6. I love how the Enterprise was shown too.
Those 7 minutes of screen time literally saved the movie. What a legend 😂
What do you mean saving ?
My first Airplane that I saw was Airplane II - The Sequel. That is why I regard this film as better than Airplane.
Why?
I got over Macho Grande.
I remember when Shatner walked through that door--where you assumed he was communicating via a viewscreen--I just fell apart laughing my ass off. So unexpected and so hilarious. Shatner was great here--and the reason why I actually like Airplane II.
Shatner's comedic timing is perfect
“No looking back” as he looks back is the best part
3:54 Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here, there are literally hundereds and thousands of blinking, bleeping, and flashing lights. Blinking, and beeping, and flashing. They're flashing, and they're beeping.
I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE. THEY'RE BLINKING AND BEEPING AND FLASHING. WHY DOESN'T SOMEONE PULL THE PLUG!!!!
The way he is looking at Pervis, when he grabs him, still in full meltdown...! Little touches like that make William Shatner a comedy acting craftsman, in my book. In 7 minutes he carried the carcass of that film on his own back, over the line and made it work! Genius.
Utterly hilarious. Love this bit.
Those red light moving back and forth has been in most Scifi movies and tv shows. It was on the Enterprise D.
Airplane 2 is criminally underrated!!!
I don't think it gets enough credit either. I know it wasn't the original team working on the writing and directing but I thought they did fine all the same.
Great compilation. Saw these Shatner clips literally hundreds of times in the '80s as my roommates played it every day for a year. We could recite every line. "I want a six-foot trench dug around the entire base, fill it with gasoline."
Love this post. The “blinking lights” scene cracks me up every time.
Also the captains chair Shatner sits on at the end. The Star Trek references are everywhere..Love it.
When I first saw this movie, it was limping along when suddenly William Shatner showed up in it and brought it to life. Suddenly I was engaged, trying to keep up with him as he rode the line between deathly serious and slapstick. I always wished after this that he would do more bit pieces in movies. He could get blood from a stone, he could. Even though it was dead, Jim.
Seen loaded weapon 1? Loved him as the bad guy
That is a gem! AIRPLANE II is awesome and William Shatner nails that performance.
My vote for the best supporting actor performance for 1982.
"Close it up, lights out" and that entire scene 😁😂🤣🤣🤣 4:34
I remember I laughed way too loud and hard when Shatner opened the door after talking on screen 🤣
“Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya?”
Other than some of the “security” monitors at the start, Shatner was the best part of the movie.
@@daveolson6001 “Then make them blink IN SEQUENCE!” 😂
"The lights are blinking out of sequence sir, what do you want us to do?"
"Get them to blink IN sequence!"
😂😂😂😂 William Shatner is hysterical in this movie!!!
I wonder how often Captain Kirk was on his way to a nervous breakdown because of all the flashing and beeping lights but managed to keep it down until he reached his quarters where he could scream in peace.
Roger, Murdock. I never noticed that before. Great callback to the original.
Shatner is very deprecating and is respected for that, 25 years ago during first 'wave' of Internet Business Startups he was approached to appear in an Advert for an Internet Business but the owners could not afford to pay him , he asked them to explain the new business and he agreed to do Advert for nothing for a percentage of shares and a year later they were worth $100 Million ! !
Who knew Shatner's true gift lay in his style working perfectly with this sort of comedy? Starship captain, cop, moon base commander - jack of all trades.
Likes fruit cocktails... On second thought,,don't mention the fruit cocktails. (If you know, you know...🍇🍈🍉🍊🍋🍌🍍🍎🍓🍒🍑🍐🍏)
Every second of this is absolute insanity.
Shatner makes sure every joke lands perfectly, even if it means lingering on them for a second or two longer than some actors would. He's a genius.
Because. Every. Word. Is. A. Sentence.
So did no one else catch the reference to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s character from the original Airplane when Striker says on the radio, “Roger, Murdock”???😁
At least 15 people did, yes
Huh? What's my Victor Victor? What?
Shatner looked like he was having an absolute ball doing this.
William Shatner is incredible.
"WHY DOESN'T SOMEBODY PULL THE PLUG!!!?"
Absolutely brilliant. I didn't get the Rorschach joke until my Intro to Psych class a decade later.
Love him in Airplane 2! He only has 7 minutes in a 80 minutes movie, but he still it! Every moment, word and move he's done in this movie was perfect and funny.
The scene at 1:10 awesome! The red... thing also appears in Star Trek II on the space station - later also appears at the Voyager's sickbay!
William Shatner steals every movie he's in - that's a stone cold fact. He has a similar cameo role in Showtime with Robert DeNiro and Eddie Murphy, and he steals the movie out from under both of them.
SF nostalgia, Easter eggs, and saving money on the budget. Win-Win-Win.
“Why the Hell aren’t I notified about these things!!”
"thank you Rorschach. What do you make of these captain?"
"that's a bird, that's a cow, that's a horse with a hat on."
lol
I remember seeing this in the theater. It dragged until Shatner came onscreen and then it got a burst of energy from his presence and comic timing.
Shatner plays it seriously which is outstandingly funny!
The Leslie Nielsen Method.
I'll still never understand what the hell a man is doing with a bobby pin...
Because a lock needs to be picked sometimes.
No one's mentioned the guy on the left struggling at 2:27 to turn a piece of paper 😆
“Ted Stryker, never heard of him……..that’s not exactly true, we were like brothers. We flew together during the war, we were close real close” 😂
Happy 90th birthday, William Shatner!!
"We have no tower sir." LOL.
"No tower...?"
No tower???? Why the hell aren't I told about these things 😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉
@@aloysiusbelisarius9992 just the bridge sir
@@inuyashason81 😆
"Never heard of him..That's not exactly true.." Shatner is legend!!
He was class in this
Never heard of him, we were like brothers. 🤣
How he can speak at the end with no air is a testament to his acting ability...
This is why Shatner is awesome. Anyone in an industry full of narcissists, overly concerned with their own image who can actively go out out and spoof HIMSELF and the role he is most known for is impressive. Sir Roger Moore was the same way.
To be fair, Bill CAN be kind of a dick and full of himself. But that said, he's also aware he's known for being kind of a dick and full of himself and isn't afraid to lean into it for the sake of a gag or laugh under the right circumstances.
Patrick Stewart also parodies himself quite well. He voiced himself in every Family Guy cutaway gag featuring the TNG crew.
Cannonball Run!
Hugh Grant did it in Paddington 2 as well, which was pretty good.
I like how main heroes looking almost same as at first airplane
But technologies now allow commercial passenger flights to moon
Shatner and Stephen Stucker owned this movie.
The best part is when he’s ready to call everything off. Shut it done
Shatner at his best
One of the funniest things is also the most subtle. After his freak out and he says “I’m all right”, the Lieutenant gives him a nod and a pat on the shoulder. THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE
Thank you so much for doing this!
This is just brilliantly acted. It really is.
Tailor made role for Shatner, brilliant here as ham acting personified. One of my heroes.
Thanks for posting this. High speed gags, expertly delivered by the legend.
It's in my opinion one of his best performances, ever! And the voice activating doors! No tower, just a bridge! Bsshhht bssshhht 😂
Greatest acting performance of all time
"COMPLETE SHATNER" sounds so powerful goddamn!
Oh my God this is way funnier than I remembered
"I'm all right! I'm all right. Alright, Striker!"
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. This is a master class in comedy 💯
Bill "The Shat" Shatner! The greatest actor of all time!
William Shatner made Airplane II a great movie.
This is a great clip, but they actually cut out the funniest line in that scene! After being told he needs a piece of metal, Ted Striker says, "Where am I going to get a piece of metal? Out here in space? At this hour"?
The part where he's talking on the "screen", and then he opens the door and walks in always cracks me up! 😂😂
Surely we could never thank you enough for this.
I'm positive you could. But don't call them Shirley.
@@daynechastant would actually love to call them, and please don't call me Shirley !!!!!!!
2:29 "I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes."
LOL! "Get me a complete file of everyone who has seen the 'Sound Of Music' more than four times." I wonder what the hell that file was going to tell him?
What the hell a man was doing with a bobby pin, of course.
That the hills are alive...with the sound of music
That command is so random, which is why its hysterical😂😂😂😂
Why does he need such files? What is the point of knowing how many times someone has watched The Sound of Music?😂😂😂😂
Maybe it would have helped him get over Macho Grande lol
This whole scene brilliantly makes fun of the majority of sci-fi scenes in movies with all lights and switches beeping and blinking, and lights and switches beeping and blinking, and lights and switches beeping and blinking, I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE
And he's making the door whooshing sounds as he walks through them.
Awesome
This movie was where William literally went all out random. Lol
"Why the hell aren't I notified about these things?!"
Because you didn't subscribe and click the bell icon. 😂
@@my3dviews lol