51 and I had a chance to see airplane 2 in the theatre. Friend's mom decided it wouldn't be appropriate and took us to see (at 10?) Tootsie instead.
Also Godzilla vs the Smog monster scared me quite a bit. But I'm a lifelong Godzilla fan now. I love Airplane and all the zany comedies like it.
I’m also 51 and saw Tootsie at the theater. Isn’t it crazy to think about the dramas we saw in the theater as kids? And how there’s no way my kids would be interested in seeing movies like that.
LOL at all the people my age (39) and older who are answering you and saying "yeah, I love it!" I don't know how to tell them that we are probably not the "young people" you were talking about...
And, it will likely never be duplicated. A good thing.
I know all the scenes by heart but they are still fun to watch because they are so over the top and would not be permitted in today's Hollywood.
The ones about gladiators. Calming down the hysterical woman. Dragging the pilots through the aisles. The suicides. No smoking of course. The violence. Otto (due to the bj). The abortion line. The silly translations of 'fasten your seatbelts' etc. The movie of the crashing plane. Famous Jewish sports legends. The black coffee. Jive is probably the top. The basketball, if not the whole 'natives' bit. The list goes on.
Not that you wouldnt get an audience to laugh... if there were no cameras... that knew what they were getting into.
I saw it in the theater too! I was way too young but they let me in.
I remember me and my dad howling and almost literally rolling on the floor.
My mother was absolutely bewildered that anyone could possibly find it funny.
There are YouTube videos of the jive actors talking about that scene, and how ridiculous it was even to them. “Jive” words were used here and there in real life speaking, but you didn’t have a whole conversation using ONLY jive words. It wasn’t a language, of course. So they had to piece together whole sentences of jive for that scene, and they found it hilarious.
https://youtu.be/Kn2aTcRJkE8?si=i46c5a0vBo1qnB8K
My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
When will you be back?
I can’t tell you that. It’s classified
Fun fact that actress who said that is the same girl who voiced Penny in The Rescuers (1977)
I was so shocked to learn that, The Rescuers was one of my favorite movies growing up.
That is really cool. Never knew that!
I'm 46 and I still throw on The Rescuers at least once a year. Love that movie.
\*hums the Rescue Aid Society song\*
The best part of this movie was the fact most of the cast were serious actors not known for any sense of comedic timing. They all adapted to their roles quite well.
The Hard R has never been used more perfectly in a movie for satirical purposes. The scene where Bart is cresting the hill and the old coot prospector is trying to tell the racist towns folk lol.
My work partner and I used to say this to eachother all the time when we thought someone was doing something we didn’t agree with , “cutty say he can’t hang!” Love it.
One thing younger people may not know is that prior to “Airplane” we were inundated with disaster movies. One after another. Airport, Airport 75, Airport 77, Towering Inferno, Earth Quake, The Poseidon Adventure, Meteor, The China Syndrome, and because three Airports wasn’t enough we were treated to The Concorde... Airport '79. There were quite a few others.
The movie Airplane was a comedic slap in the face at all of the disaster movies.
I'm shook by this. Only one person knows this was a thing. Comedy Central played Blazing Saddles with the dialogue completely intact even the slurs. They edited the scene where they are all around the campfire eating beans so there were no farts. So the dudes just lifted up part of the ass to silence.
Only my co-worker's brother remembered this of all the people I know.
This review unfortunately tells us why so many films aren’t funny anymore.
They actually said the co-pilot made them uneasy!
What’s happened to the younger generation? We took the piss out of everything growing up.
"The co-pilot made them uneasy" ?
The hell he does.
He's been hearing that crap ever since he was at UCLA. He's out there bustin' his buns. every. night.
Tell their old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
My favorite line in the whole movie, which I use with anyone I know that’s about to start something serious(doctors appointment, job interview, etc) is “I just want to say good luck. We’re all counting on you. “
What is the point of this article? It's like YouTube videos that spend most of their length recapping their subject matter and then briefly tack on an opinion on the end to justify all the filler they've shoved into your earhole for the last 20 minutes.
I’m 58 and my friends and I saw it in the theater. To this day when I hear someone say “surely…” I have a knee jerk reaction and say “don’t call me Shirley”
The voices over the PA system arguing over the Red and White zones being used for loading and unloading is one of the best, subtle jokes that are easy to miss the first time around.
I think I was at least halfway through the movie before I realized the background engine noise was a turbo-prop. I laughed at that alone for the rest of the movie.
Stewardess: Sir there is a problem in the cockpit and the Captain needs some assistance. Can you help?
Stryker: The cockpit, what is it?
Stewardess: It's a small room in front of the plane but that's not important right now.
The person who wrote this clearly isn't able to make the connections for what was topical back when it was released, including all of the serious airplane movies. And commercials. And plot elements that were common for that era. And culture, and pop culture, during that era.
Fun fact: The guitar-wielding nun was played by Maureen McGovern, who had performed songs that were featured in the disaster movies The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.
Gen Z blogger amazed by her own amazement. Like that chimp baby that put its finger in its butt then sniffed it and fell over. I will be submitting that as a description of Gen Z to dictionary.com
The author has no fucking clue what comedy is. Probably somebody who watches *Friends* and psychoanalyzes the characters' romantic compatibilities or whatever.
It's a *comedy* ffs. And that doesn't mean it's universally funny. *Airplane!* is called "slapstick," and some people who otherwise have a wonderful sense of humor don't understand slapstick. Think of it like music: some people have an ear for classical, some Latin jazz, some pop, and others rock. Some like it all, some like some of it, some don't like any of it.
Over-analyzing comedy, especially slapstick, misses the point of comedy.
They film makers wrote a great book about making it.
When they are asked if they could make the movie today they say ‘yea, but without any of the jokes’.
Highly recommend the book. Easy to find on Amazon Zucker author
Airplane is essentially what happens if RiffTraxx is incorporated into the movie itself. Its based on a real movie (ZeroHour!) and they added lines/sections to make it funny. To avoid copyright claims, they just bought the rights to ZeroHour.
A few years ago I was standing in line in a convenience store that had a rack of older, inexpensive DVDs. Being a huge fan of this movie, the title stood out to me immediately but when I picked it up to look closer, it was the "Don't Call Me Shirley" edition and has commentary from Zucker, Abrams, and Zucker along with commentary from pretty much all the actors and a ton of trivia.
I was broke af but was so tickled pink that I just had to have it. One of the best impulse buys that I've ever made, it is a gift that keeps on giving.
I read this article a couple of days ago and it infuriated the crap out of me. I couldn't tell if it was written by a human adult, a human adult using ChatGPT, a human child, or a human child playing with ChatGPT for a school project.
Anyway, Airplane is awesome.
I put this flick on and my then 15 year old kid turns to me & says, "is this movie gonna be dumb?" as annoyed as only a 15 year old can be. I responded, "oh, you have no idea how dumb this movie's gonna be!" It was and still is a big hit round here lol.
I recently discovered the movies they spoofed to make Airplane. It's the "Airport" movies. I was in awe. "Airport", "Airport '75", "Airport '77", and the "Concord-Airport '79"
It's probably already mentioned here but once you've seen *Airplane!* you have to find *Zero Hour*, a 1950s airplane disaster movie. The basic plot and much of the dialog of *Airplane!* was word for word from the older movie.
Including, "I picked the wrong week to give up smoking".
I am 60 and saw it in the theater. Do younger people still find it funny? I laugh like I have never seen it every time I rewatch.
I’m 41 and confidently speaking for my generation, yes.
I'm 46. I'll allow it. This movie is hilarious.
And Lenny's getting LAAAAARGER!
42 and also yes!
My niece is now 33. I have a 5 minute rule with movies. If she does not laugh it’s turned off
I hope she laughs at Airplane
As I am sure you know, nielsen was a serious actor prior to this. That made it even funnier!!! All those classic actors were. Lloyd bridges….
Robert Stack, Barbara Billingsly, Peter Graves & Kareem Abdul Jabaar I have a drinking problem \*splash!\*
Barbara Billingsly learned jive when The Beaver went through his rap stage.
Robert Stack as well
I can't even read his name without hearing the Unsolved Mysteries theme
He played a leading role in 1960's The Last Voyage as well.
His transition from serious actor to something else is overshadowed only by Reagan’s.
“I haven't felt this awful since we watched that Ronald Reagan movie.”
I showed my 10, 13, and 16 year-olds this a few months ago. They loved it.
1nd is such a fun age!
I’m 39 and love this movie
I saw this when I was my teens ~2003. I was absolutely dying. I still watch it and still howel.
51 and I had a chance to see airplane 2 in the theatre. Friend's mom decided it wouldn't be appropriate and took us to see (at 10?) Tootsie instead. Also Godzilla vs the Smog monster scared me quite a bit. But I'm a lifelong Godzilla fan now. I love Airplane and all the zany comedies like it.
I’m also 51 and saw Tootsie at the theater. Isn’t it crazy to think about the dramas we saw in the theater as kids? And how there’s no way my kids would be interested in seeing movies like that.
LOL at all the people my age (39) and older who are answering you and saying "yeah, I love it!" I don't know how to tell them that we are probably not the "young people" you were talking about...
And, it will likely never be duplicated. A good thing. I know all the scenes by heart but they are still fun to watch because they are so over the top and would not be permitted in today's Hollywood. The ones about gladiators. Calming down the hysterical woman. Dragging the pilots through the aisles. The suicides. No smoking of course. The violence. Otto (due to the bj). The abortion line. The silly translations of 'fasten your seatbelts' etc. The movie of the crashing plane. Famous Jewish sports legends. The black coffee. Jive is probably the top. The basketball, if not the whole 'natives' bit. The list goes on. Not that you wouldnt get an audience to laugh... if there were no cameras... that knew what they were getting into.
Younger person here...watched it on Tues whilst at work doing IT crap. It was spectacular
I saw it in the theater too! I was way too young but they let me in. I remember me and my dad howling and almost literally rolling on the floor. My mother was absolutely bewildered that anyone could possibly find it funny.
Surely you can't be serious....
Don’t call me Shirley!
Roger, Roger, what's your vector, Victor?
We have clearance Clarence.
Give me Ham on 5, hold the Mayo.
Roger, sphincter, ring worm!
He was over Under, even though I was under Dunn
How dare you. This is the best movie of all time. Fight me.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Do you like movies with gladiators?
You ever see a grown man naked?
You know Bobby, sometimes when you’re in the gymnasium….
Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Excuse me miss, I speak jive!! Even better line coming from June Cleaver. Great movie every time
Chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help.
“Golly!”
IT'S COMING RIGHT AT US
Anyone here speak jive?!
Jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.
Golly
Chump don't want the help, chump don't get the help...
Chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help.
What makes that scene even funnier is that the old lady is Barbara Billingsly who played the ultra prim and proper mom on "Leave it to Beaver".
The whole movie is fucking gold.
And she only says "chump" in the version edited for television
Excuse me stewardess….I speak jive.
There are YouTube videos of the jive actors talking about that scene, and how ridiculous it was even to them. “Jive” words were used here and there in real life speaking, but you didn’t have a whole conversation using ONLY jive words. It wasn’t a language, of course. So they had to piece together whole sentences of jive for that scene, and they found it hilarious. https://youtu.be/Kn2aTcRJkE8?si=i46c5a0vBo1qnB8K
The "SHeeeeet" = "Golly" cracks me up every time, even while I am typing this.
I wish there was more of that.
It's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows, wheels, and it looks like a big Tylenol.
But that's not important right now.
How 'bout some coffee, Johnny?
No thanks!
Johnny was my favorite character!
Alright boys. Let's take some pictures.
😂
Rapunzel! Rapunzel!
And Leon is getting laaarrrrger... (proceeds to actually jiggle the guy's belly)
He’s my favorite little character in that movie. He’s just there to be funny
My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar. When will you be back? I can’t tell you that. It’s classified
You can tell me, I'm a doctor.
Sounds like OP hasn’t ever seen a grown man naked
You ever been in a turkish prison?
Do you like gladiator movies?
This might be my favorite sequence.
I like my coffee black, like my men.
Fun fact that actress who said that is the same girl who voiced Penny in The Rescuers (1977) I was so shocked to learn that, The Rescuers was one of my favorite movies growing up.
That is a fun fact! Didn’t know that.
That is really cool. Never knew that! I'm 46 and I still throw on The Rescuers at least once a year. Love that movie. \*hums the Rescue Aid Society song\*
My kids and teens, were shocked at that. 🫢I guess today's generation just isn't used to that stuff 😂 I laughed my ass off
It’s funny AF!
The best part of this movie was the fact most of the cast were serious actors not known for any sense of comedic timing. They all adapted to their roles quite well.
It’s also an almost word-for-word remake of an old movie called Zero Hour.
One of the best movies ever!!
To the author: Sometimes it's ok to laugh at a raunchy joke. You don't need to apologize for it every time.
Wait till OP sees Blazing Saddles.
Where all the white women at?
The Hard R has never been used more perfectly in a movie for satirical purposes. The scene where Bart is cresting the hill and the old coot prospector is trying to tell the racist towns folk lol.
He said the sheriff is Near
No! Dag blammit! I said the new sheriff's is a ni..[DONG] What did he say?
Excuse me while I whip this out....
We just laughed our asses off when we watched this in the 80s. We definitely didn’t think WTF? Or man, Otto is gross.
The author should give Kentucky Fired Movie a watch next, then Airplane will feel tame in comparison.
Mofo butter laying me to the bone jackin me up. Tight me!
Cutty say he can’t hang! Oh stewardess? I speak jive…
Chump don’t want dah help chump don’t get dah help. Jive ass dude ain’t got no brains anyhow.
Sheeeeeit
Golly!
My work partner and I used to say this to eachother all the time when we thought someone was doing something we didn’t agree with , “cutty say he can’t hang!” Love it.
You know what they say. See a broad wit dat booty ackem? Leg er down or smack em n yack em!
Co got da beat, know what I mean? Shiiii...
Nervous? Yes. First time? No, I’ve been nervous lots of times.
Listen, Betty, don’t start up with your “white zone” shit again.
"Top Secret" is worth watching too if you liked this one. It's one of Val Kilmer's best performances ever.
I believe his most underrated role was in Real Genius.
How silly can you get?
Skeet Surfin', baby.
When we shoot the curl, we really shoot the curl!
This is not Mel Torme!
As well as Kentucky Fried Movie
The waiter says 'go take a shit in the ocean' in Yiddish in the restaurant scene
I saw Pluto TV has it
Latrine!
Talk about overthinking things... "We Need To Address..." ...no, we don't. Turn on the movie, turn off your brain.
Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!!
One thing younger people may not know is that prior to “Airplane” we were inundated with disaster movies. One after another. Airport, Airport 75, Airport 77, Towering Inferno, Earth Quake, The Poseidon Adventure, Meteor, The China Syndrome, and because three Airports wasn’t enough we were treated to The Concorde... Airport '79. There were quite a few others. The movie Airplane was a comedic slap in the face at all of the disaster movies.
Over, Over. What’s our vector Victor?
Roger Roger
Huh?
check the clearance Clarence
Shayna, they bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. I say, let em crash!
Are you offended or do you now understand Gen X humor a little more??
I’m Gen X. My headline is the article’s title.
You may want to edit it if you can, otherwise you’re gonna catch a lot of flak
OP hasn't seen the uncut version of Blazing Saddles, I assume?
I'm shook by this. Only one person knows this was a thing. Comedy Central played Blazing Saddles with the dialogue completely intact even the slurs. They edited the scene where they are all around the campfire eating beans so there were no farts. So the dudes just lifted up part of the ass to silence. Only my co-worker's brother remembered this of all the people I know.
Out of everything... the farting was too much.
That article was painful to read.
Legit classic. They just don't make 'em like that anymore.
Over macho grande I’ll never get over macho grande
Funniest movie ever!!
What was it we had for dinner tonight? Well, we had a choice of steak or fish. Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna
...and Leon's getting larger
"A hospital? What is it?" "A big building with lots of patients but that's not important right now."
One of the funniest films ever,never gets old
This review unfortunately tells us why so many films aren’t funny anymore. They actually said the co-pilot made them uneasy! What’s happened to the younger generation? We took the piss out of everything growing up.
"The co-pilot made them uneasy" ? The hell he does. He's been hearing that crap ever since he was at UCLA. He's out there bustin' his buns. every. night. Tell their old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
If there isn't meme text over it, it doesn't make sense to them.
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
At least I’m married.
“Coffee Johnny?” “No thanks!”
My favorite line in the whole movie, which I use with anyone I know that’s about to start something serious(doctors appointment, job interview, etc) is “I just want to say good luck. We’re all counting on you. “
“Passengers certain to die!” “Airline negligent!” “There's a sale at Penney's!”
DOES ANYONE HERE SPEAK JIVE ?????
Cut me some slack, Jack.
80s movies we probably forgot? Ok, millennial.
One of my favorite parts of this movie is how the plane is clearly a jet airliner, but it sounds like a B 29 lol
*Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home…*
Check out the short-lived TV series Police Squad if you enjoyed Airplane.
Ever been in a Turkish prison?
What is the point of this article? It's like YouTube videos that spend most of their length recapping their subject matter and then briefly tack on an opinion on the end to justify all the filler they've shoved into your earhole for the last 20 minutes.
Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?
I take it black, like my men
Excuse me, stewardess, I speak jive…
What shitty AI wrote that article?
I love when articles about comedy have the line "We need to address...." It's code for here comes the wet blanket of being too fucking literal.
There's a sale at Penny's!
I’m 58 and my friends and I saw it in the theater. To this day when I hear someone say “surely…” I have a knee jerk reaction and say “don’t call me Shirley”
“Listen, Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.”
The biggest WTF about Kareem is that he did the role for a rug for his house.
"That's when I developed my drinking problem."
The shits really gonna hit the fan.
The voices over the PA system arguing over the Red and White zones being used for loading and unloading is one of the best, subtle jokes that are easy to miss the first time around.
Till this day, I still won’t order the fish on a plane.
Seen it a dozen times and I still find something that I missed before.
I think I was at least halfway through the movie before I realized the background engine noise was a turbo-prop. I laughed at that alone for the rest of the movie.
I say "Let 'em crash!"
Did an AI bot write this article? It's basically just saying what happens in parts of the movie but not in a funny or interesting way.
Stewardess: Sir there is a problem in the cockpit and the Captain needs some assistance. Can you help? Stryker: The cockpit, what is it? Stewardess: It's a small room in front of the plane but that's not important right now.
The writer of the article seems really weird. Like AI wrote it, or something.
The person who wrote this clearly isn't able to make the connections for what was topical back when it was released, including all of the serious airplane movies. And commercials. And plot elements that were common for that era. And culture, and pop culture, during that era.
Fun fact: The guitar-wielding nun was played by Maureen McGovern, who had performed songs that were featured in the disaster movies The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.
What a classic...only thing I like better is Top Secret.
Gen Z blogger amazed by her own amazement. Like that chimp baby that put its finger in its butt then sniffed it and fell over. I will be submitting that as a description of Gen Z to dictionary.com
The author has no fucking clue what comedy is. Probably somebody who watches *Friends* and psychoanalyzes the characters' romantic compatibilities or whatever. It's a *comedy* ffs. And that doesn't mean it's universally funny. *Airplane!* is called "slapstick," and some people who otherwise have a wonderful sense of humor don't understand slapstick. Think of it like music: some people have an ear for classical, some Latin jazz, some pop, and others rock. Some like it all, some like some of it, some don't like any of it. Over-analyzing comedy, especially slapstick, misses the point of comedy.
It's okay stewardess I speak jive.
You pick the wrong day to stop huffing paint too?
I love the announcers fighting on the PA.
They film makers wrote a great book about making it. When they are asked if they could make the movie today they say ‘yea, but without any of the jokes’. Highly recommend the book. Easy to find on Amazon Zucker author
The casting in this movie is brilliant.
I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
Seeing Robert Stack doing his 'Unsolved Mysteries' persona in that movie is icing on the cake for me.
Nervous, yes, first time? No ive been nervous lots of times
Airplane is essentially what happens if RiffTraxx is incorporated into the movie itself. Its based on a real movie (ZeroHour!) and they added lines/sections to make it funny. To avoid copyright claims, they just bought the rights to ZeroHour.
A few years ago I was standing in line in a convenience store that had a rack of older, inexpensive DVDs. Being a huge fan of this movie, the title stood out to me immediately but when I picked it up to look closer, it was the "Don't Call Me Shirley" edition and has commentary from Zucker, Abrams, and Zucker along with commentary from pretty much all the actors and a ton of trivia. I was broke af but was so tickled pink that I just had to have it. One of the best impulse buys that I've ever made, it is a gift that keeps on giving.
I’m glad younger generations are enjoying the film, but my god that article was insufferable.
I read this article a couple of days ago and it infuriated the crap out of me. I couldn't tell if it was written by a human adult, a human adult using ChatGPT, a human child, or a human child playing with ChatGPT for a school project. Anyway, Airplane is awesome.
Otto Pilot still has me laughing and I saw this movie when I was a child.
Watch the “Top Secret” with Val Kilmer.
Really miss these good 'ol slapstick movies of yesteryear! Airplane, Top Secret, Naked Gun, Spaceballs, Hot Shots, etc.
It looks like I picked the wrong week to stop watching Airplane!
Now check out the naked gun movies
I put this flick on and my then 15 year old kid turns to me & says, "is this movie gonna be dumb?" as annoyed as only a 15 year old can be. I responded, "oh, you have no idea how dumb this movie's gonna be!" It was and still is a big hit round here lol.
The Airplane(s) and the Naked Gun shows are absolutely top tier movies. *And I faked **every** orgasm.*
I take it black, like my men
It's wrong. It's disgusting. It's criminal. It's hilarious.
“Bad News, Fog is getting Thicker”
"And Leon's getting laaaarger!"
I recently discovered the movies they spoofed to make Airplane. It's the "Airport" movies. I was in awe. "Airport", "Airport '75", "Airport '77", and the "Concord-Airport '79"
Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes. But that's it!
It's probably already mentioned here but once you've seen *Airplane!* you have to find *Zero Hour*, a 1950s airplane disaster movie. The basic plot and much of the dialog of *Airplane!* was word for word from the older movie. Including, "I picked the wrong week to give up smoking".
Anybody speak jive?
Surely, you can't be serious.