I Finally Watched AIRPLANE (1980) For the First Time & I Couldn't Stop Laughing!
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I had an aunt in the 80s who was a flight attendant and I remember her telling us all the story of Leslie Nielson flying with them and somewhere in the flight he asked her to open up the flight deck door for him. He peaked his head in and said his famous line, "I just want to tell you all, good luck. We're all counting on you." Apparently the pilots laughed so hard that they could be heard by the passengers. It had to have made their day.
That’s hilarious 🤣. Leslie Neilson was a legend and my favourite comedian actor.
What a legendary story! Thank you for sharing.
What a legend
I heard that Leslie neilson never really understood why he was funny, which led to his later movies of him just gurning at the camera.
That's amazing. Bill Murray apparently insists on doing this joke on every flight he's on (or at least he did, maybe post 9/11 this has stopped due to restrictions - though if you're Bill Murray I guess you get more doors opened to you than the rest of us!)
The fact that you immediately knew who Ethel Merman was and started singing along, made my entire day 😂 ❤️❤️
I'm a super theater nerd!!!! That part made me so happy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, me too.
I was shocked that she knew..i dont think i have seen on person react to this movie that knew who that was.
Of all the reactions, you're the first one that actually laughed at that! Congrats! I also believe this was her last on-film appearance.
Yeah. I think that's a first.
Apparently this movie even has its place in airline safety. After this movie became popular, the FAA passed a ruling that pilots and co-pilots could not have the same meal in case one of the meals was contaminated. So not only is this arguably one of the funniest comedies ever, it has even potentially saved lives.
Not quite true. Airplane was a line for line remake of a B-movie 'Zero Hour'. It wss Zero Hour that triggered the meal policy.
@@PCLoadLetter Some claim it was even earlier than that, that someone thought of it about the same time as they thought having a co-pilot was a good idea, so not sure. However, the idea that it was Airplane, whether true or not, is arguably the most popular version.
The fact that the plane is a jet and you always hear turbo prop sound effects is always overlooked and just another layer of hilarity.
Piston engine/prop sound, but close enough. ;)
Indeed. "that's not how 'planes work".
ZAZ wanted to use a prop plane in order to follow Zero Hour! which Airplane! was based on. The studio wouldn't let them do that, so they opted just to use the engine noise.
@@MultiSteveB Not just piston engine, but radial engines
oops.. missed your comment.. it's so subtle.. this movie is a masterpiece. :)
You're the first reactor I've seen who actually recognized Ethel Merman. That got you a like!
Most don’t know who Frank Sinatra is either
She's a LEGEND!!!!
Still waiting for anyone who knows From Here to Eternity or The Knute Rockne Story...
I always found the "rooo...sess..." part kinda sad, especially when I found out that this was her last movie appearance. Fortunately, she appeared on "Love Boat" a few times, so this wasn't actually her swan song.
She got the Mayo Clinic as well!👍
This movie changed Leslie Nielson's career from a serious actor to a dead pan comedy genius. My favourite line/quote of his is from Police Squad (which became the basis for The Naked Gun) is "We're sorry to bother you at a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."
My favourite line too! Such a brilliant series.
Not only Leslie, but the cast as a whole was not made up of comedy actors which I think helped the point about how did they not crack up doing the scene because they were either serious actors or non-actors at all in the case of people like Ethel and Kareem. I believe there's something like 200 total jokes/gags/bits in the movie and many of them are not going to be recognized by modern audiences given the movie is over 40 years old. The only other thing I will say is you didn't show any of the taxi scenes and that makes me think you didn't see the post-credits scene.
Who are you? And how did you get in here?
I'm a locksmith and...... I'm a locksmith
😂
That is true. I do like him in "Forbidden Planet," but dead pan comedy was his strength because he was emotive. Nielson's screen tests for the role of Messala in "Ben-Hur," are funny only in retrospect.
@@curtismartin2866 Came here to leave this same comment. Best line ever. 😂
Fun fact! The airport announcers in this movie were not only the real announcers for LAX back in the day, but they were also actually a married couple IRL.
"I take it black, like my men." So epic. I can only imagine the conversation they had with that young actress about what she was about to say.
The beach scene wasn’t “Grease”, it was “From Here to Eternity” with Burt Lancaster. The jive talking woman was Barbara Billingsley, who played the mom on “Leave It to Beaver”, the nun with the guitar was from “Airport”, a disaster movie, the woman whose husband had the second cup of coffee was in a commercial for Yuban Coffee where the same thing happens. Ted was wearing the same outfit that John Travolta wore in “Saturday Night Fever”. He was also wearing a navy uniform when he was supposed to be in the Air Force.
The sister was played by Maureen McGovern, a singer of note, who most famously had a number one hit with the theme from the disaster pic The Poseidon Adventure. The song was The Morning After which she recorded and went gold but was not the singer on the movie version
Thanks for helping out the young lady with the correct reference.
It was the woman, not the man, who was in the "Yuban" coffee comercials.
The lady from the coffee commercial was actually the same actress. Ironically, they didn't realize that when they hired her.
@@blkluv100
That’s what I said.
FUN FACT: when i watched this, im sure you noticed, but the scene with Rex Kramer walking through the mirror.. it took me watching it a SECOND time (because i loved it so much) to realize that he WALKED THROUGH THE FREAKING MIRROR LMAOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣 you could probably see that i was so distracted by the guy getting mauled by the dog in the background 🤣
I LOVE this movie...
Nice catch! There's another one a lot of people miss. The little girl having the heart transplant. She survives the plane crash landing, they load her into the ambulance and then as it drives off and the scene changes, if you listen you'll hear it crash 🤣
I hope you noticed that the vicious dog was a Golden Retriever. Such an angry breed.
There are so many snippets and you also have to look in the background as well. That comes somewhat more apparent if you also watch the films that came after this one in same style, such as "Top Secret", "Airplane II", Hot Shots I & II", and yes there is also "Loaded Weapon I", in case you haven't seen those. If you love Leslie, he did do The Naked Gun 1 - 3 as well as "prequel-series" of "Police Squad.
Miranda, I noticed that you missed that in the 1st viewing but as we all know this film takes several watches to catch the rapid fire of jokes. I was 11 when this came out and got a lot of “street cred” by showing it to my fellow 7th graders on vhs, especially the nsfw scenes which to your credit you took in stride. This was a “kitchen sink” style of comedy that I hope makes a comeback.
one of my fave shots of all time... and it took me a few years... so well done on getting it on your second view XD
The only drawback to this movie is that as time passes, people don't recognize the cameos in this. I'm glad you recognize Ethel. I always love it when people get the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar joke when he grabs the kid and explains his game. Or the cameo by June Cleaver herself, Barbara Billingsly.
Personally, I never got the cameos (I'm from UK) but I could tell most times when they were referencing someone that is well known and I understood that's where the humour was coming from. Even as a child I got it, it was just my instinctual reaction.
Still have yet to find anyone who gets the "Jim never has a second cup at home" reference. It was from a Yuban Coffee commercial. Only one reactor I've seen so far managed to find the Post Credits scene, which at least is understandable because that was unheard of back then.
No one seems to have caught Jimmie Walker ("JJ" from "Good Times") as the guy who cleaned the windshield of the plane and then fell off.
@@hammerman199374 The best part of that is the actress in the movie is the same one from the commercial. She got the role in the movie without the producers knowing it was her.
Or that the singing nun was Maureen McGovern, who sang "The Morning After" in The Poseidon Adventure. And the post-credits reappearance of the taxi passnger, who wasHoward Jarvis, an anti-tax activist.
I saw this movie in the first week of release and the entire theatre was laughing like maniac hyenas for 90 minutes. People were in tears and gasping for breath, shouting lines as they realized what the joke was and then doubling over with laughter as the next joke hit the screen. It was one of the most amazing, awesome and fun things to be a part of that I've ever experienced. And now, more than 40 years later, the movie is still riotously funny, drawing laughs even from people who weren't even born in that century.
masterpieces of creation endure. :)
I experienced that with "the naked gun"...did not know airplane then...I just couldn`t believe how funny the movie was and the amout of good jokes...you really got the impression that everybody in there was laughing the whole time...
That has been my experience as well, from the first time to every release.
Notes: 1) The beach Scene was a famous reference from the movie From Here to Eternity 2) The woman speaking Jive to the 2 Black gentleman was Barbara Billingsly who was a very famous straight-laced mother from the Leave it to Beaver television show 3) The co-pilot was Kareem Abdul Jabber who was a hall of fame basketball player with the LA Lakers 4) Leslie Neilsen was the doctor and his performance in this movie gave him a springboard to the Naked Gun series of movies, which are also incredibly funny.
Additional notes: 5) The couple arguing over the PA system about red zone/white zone parking were married in real life and actually made those announcements at the airport (not the arguing part though...LOL) 6) The Hare Krishna were a huge problem trying to solicit donations and recruit at LAX 7) When the woman is saying to herself that her husband never has a second cup of coffee at home, it is from a famous Yuban coffee commercial back in the day 8) and yes, there was a smoking section at the back of the plane
There is so much more, but so glad that you enjoyed one of the best movies around and got the comedy.
The Kareem joke was that at that time he was taking so much flack from his fans about not making enough effort that he had to go into hiding, disguising himself as an airline pilot.
Yeah, Barbara Billingsly was a lot more hip than people might have expected, while also a pretty genuinely wholesome lady.
"George Zipp" is a play on the name "George Gipp", The famous line :"win just one for the Gipper" became "win just one for the Zipper". The full story of the line is too long, but short version is that the line was used by a famous football back in the 1920s to motivate his team. Most people knew the line because of a 1940s movie about the coach. It's the quintessential "Go for it line" for people of my parent generation. To put my previous sentence in perspective, I'm in my mid 50s.
Also one thing that you got to remember is that Leslie Nielsen has done a lot of movies I think he's a movie called Forbidden Planet or he did some different movies with different actors he was in actually move a show called Murder She Wrote and he was a strait-laced actor. That's why he's so funny this movie cuz he plays everything so serious even though it's completely silly
I just want to tell you good luck, Miranda! We're all counting on you.
I just want to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you
I just want to tell you good luck, Miranda! We're all counting on you.
I just want to tell you good luck, Miranda! We're all counting on you.
Apparently sometimes when Leslie Nielsen would fly commercially, he'd step into the cockpit, and when the pilots turned around he'd repeat the scene, "I just want to tell you both good luck; we're all counting on you" then step out. 😂🤣😂
Surely you can’t be serious.
Interesting facts about this movie. It only took 2.5 weeks to film. "Don't call me Shirley. " was an adlib by Leslie Nielsen. After all this time, it's still the second funniest movie I've ever seen.
What's the funniest movie you've seen
@@Paws42 Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Just my opinion.
I guessed it before I opened your comment! @@EMarvinJohnson
I'd say that the sequel was as funny as the first Airplane movie.
@@EMarvinJohnson That's the right answer.
What's amazing is this is a nearly scene by scene remake of an earlier movie. Zero Hour (1957) is the basis.
Yes, I was looking for this comment. Everyone should watch the video titled "Side-by-side comparison: Zero Hour! (1957) Vs Airplane! (1980)".
One thing that I think often gets overlooked when watching Airplane is that it occurred after a series of increasingly silly and over-the-top disaster movies (Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Poseidon Adventure, Airport '77, and many more). But after Airplane, it became no longer possible to produce disaster movies in the same vein (no more singing nuns, sick children, etc.), because no one could take them seriously any more. Airplane effectively changed the entire genre for the better.
You're right. I really think it wasn't until Independence Day that the disaster movie returned.
You forgot Rollercoaster! lol
@@getlitlightingpyrotechnics7181 I saw that one in the theater! In Sensurround.
Hey, The Poseidon Adventure was epic
The real kicker is the the plot is taken directly from the disaster movie "Zero Hour" and large sections of Airplane are a shot for shot remake (with ZAZ's amazing humor added, obviously)
Four of the five male leads were well known dramatic actors. The key to all the jokes working (and basically the film as a whole) was their ability to deliver serious performances, oblivious to all the silliness. Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible), Robert Stack (The Untouchables), Lloyd Bridges (Sea Hunt) and Leslie Nielsen (The Poseidon Adventure).
A lot of the cameo appearances were by well-known actors, and part of the humour was that they were playing against type. Jive granny, for instance, was known from a series where she was the mother of a wholesome apple-pie 1950s type family.
@@hypsyzygy506 Barbera Billingsly of "Leave it to Beaver".
Yeah, I love the fact that this movie literally changed Leslie Nielsen's entire career trajectory. Going from a serious drama actor to a comedy staple!
@@lareolanKFPLeslie Nielsen also did "Police SQuad" in 1982 and Airplane II and then followed later with Loaded Weapon series ("from the files of Police Squad!").
I only knew Robert Stack from Unsolved Mysteries so imagine my shock at realising he was a famous actor😂
My favourite joke in the film is the “Air Israel” gag.
Your reaction to it is absolutely priceless.
I actually saw Ethel Merman sing once. I was in the Naval Academy's Glee Club, and we sang at a thing for Ronald Reagan, put on by Frank Sinatra, and after we did our sound checks we hung out and watched the other acts. Merman was one of them, maybe two years before she died. Even in her seventies she had the most powerful voice I've ever heard. She bounced sound of the walls and ceilings of the Capital Center. I was in awe.
The longest running joke through the whole movie is that the aircraft is a jet, yet all the engine noise is piston engines. Brilliant film, and the jokes are layers upon layers upon layers. You almost get a new joke on every watch. Wonderful reaction.
Not to mention that Striker says he's from the Air Force, but when he met Elaine he was using a Navy uniform. XD
You really do!!
Yeah, there are a lot of really subtle jokes in this one. Like the beach scene where they are surrounded by fish. That alone is funny, playing off the seriousness of the scene. But one of the fish is a freshwater catfish, totally out of place for a ocean beach. I'm sure you could write a book annotating all the jokes in this movie.
@@JPDillon One gag I have yet to see anyone get is the "vicious" Golden Retriever.
@@TheMirandalorianReacts By the way, have you seen the last joke after the credits ?
SUCH a good reaction!!!! The woman that “speaks Jive” is Barbara Billingsley, who famously played June Cleaver in “Leave it to Beaver” - she was seen as America’s mother for her entire career. That’s why the scene was extra funny. 😊
June Cleaver was the WHITEST woman in TV history
What was the dirtiest line in tv?
"Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night"
~~~ Revenge of the Nerds ~~~~
@@bugvswindshieldA classic joke from a classic movie. Porky's was really funny back then to a 13 yr old.
I saw this in the theater as a 12 year old. I thought the jive scenes were funny just because of the way they talked and the older lady knowing how to speak jive. This was pre cable so I had never seen Leave It To Beaver. Years later I saw it and realized the joke was that it was June Cleaver speaking jive.
@@bugvswindshieldThat was the line that nearly got the show canceled.
I'm starting to theorize that the Zucker brothers - with things like Airplane and The Naked Gun - may have been the ones that created modern "dad humor". The movie is just chock full of things we now consider dad humor, and it's the timing makes sense for being present for an entire generation in a way to influence their sense of humor.
Their mother appears in all their movies.
They also usually include a shot at Detroit in every film.
One of the things you missed, which you will need to take into account for future reactions, is that this was the first movie to place an 'Easter Egg' during/after the end credits. After this movie, lots of movies started to use that. Prior to this there were outtakes and bloopers, but not a 'scene' designed specifically to go there.
Next time you watch this, watch all the credits.
The first post-credits scene was actually used in the 1966 movie 'The Silencers'
“I take it black…” one of the best comedic ambushes of all time.
You already gained a lot of respect in my eyes when you caught the joke with all the mayonnaise on the shelves of the doctor in the Mayo Clinic. I've seen a number of other reactions to this movie and almost every one of them were clueless to the joke.
"Hamm on 5 and hold the Mayo" cracks me up every single time.
cause the joke was too dump and corny. or too mayo'y?
It's amazing how relentless it is with the jokes!! During the editing process they'd screen it at universities, and take a tape recorder with them to record the audience reactions. When they'd play the tape back, if there was a long gap or a joke with no laughs, they'd cut that part out of the film. It gave them some issues with the running time in the end, but the pace leaves you breathless with laughter! One of the most brilliant comedies out there! So glad you loved it!
No joke,I 've seen this movie at least 50 times. I was 12 years old when it came out. Thanks for some laughs,it's fun watching someone react for the first time viewing it. Take care,keep them coming!!!❤😊
One favorite moment: Rex Kramer is looking at himself in a mirror, as he gets ready to go help Ted land the plane. His reflection then steps through the mirror, as he's about to leave.
Illhave to look for that😅
I just wanna tell you. Good luck, we're all counting on you🙂
Surely you’re not serious!
The "Don't Call Me Shirley" is possibly the single most well-known quote of any movie ever made, although a lot of people I'm sure don't realize that it originated here. The reason it worked was because Leslie Neilsen wasn't known for comedy, and it was because of this small role that made him into one of the most well-known comedic actors.
This movie changed what was possible and acceptable for comedy movies, (and is stellar,) although in some ways Airplane II was the real defining moment for comedy history. It took everything that was great about this first one, and somehow expanded on it, both interweaving and making fun of the first movie at the same time. You can't even really explain any of the movie without spoilers. I believe it was the first sequel to ever attempt what it did, and still to this date, possibly the most successfully done one. If you liked this movie at all, then Airplane II is an absolute must.
I liked Airplane 2 as a kid, but rewatching it lately it just shows it's a mess of recycled jokes from the first movie. The writers of the first Airplane were against it and still today refused to watch the sequel.
You are such a complete joy to watch, especially with comedies. Amazing.
You caught more jokes than any other reactor I’ve seen do this film. You’ve earned a sub.
I am on board this PLANE! SMOKIN’! Instant sub! You “got” wayyyyy more jokes than average. And you seem genuinely nice too…..“we’re all counting on you”. 🤪😍
Yes, she sure did! How refreshing.
It's clearly not her first time watching
Same here
My favorite fun fact about this movie is that it inspired a real world change of rules for airlines that the pilot and the copilot are not allowed to eat the same meal as a precaution.
And they always have to have lasagna as an option.
The "Smoking Ticket" moment, when you froze for a second and then realized what kind of ride you were in for was absolutely hysterical. These movies are amazing for the dumb humor.
This film is a gem! SO much humor packed into every second, like you said! A LOT of wordplay, puns, double meanings, etc. A lot of slapstick, physical humor. A lot of absurdist, surrealist humor. A lot of topical, cultural references of its era! Name drops, personality references, actors acting out of "type" (like Kareem Abdul Jabbar- if someone is not familiar with him as a basketball superstar, then the whole discussion about him being a pilot, rather than himself, is largely lost. Or like Barbara Billingsley- the jive-talking old woman: it's funny that a white lady should be speaking jive to the two black guys ("Jive" itself being a relatively outdated form of African American slang; slang terminology has changed over the years), but when you grew up in the 1950s with her playing June Cleaver, the mom on "Leave it to Beaver,: one of the most white-bread, suburban shows ever- her jive talk becomes that much more hilarious). If someone doesn't know who Ethel Merman is, the idea of some guy in an army hospital being a singing older woman may be silly, but not a gut belly laugh. But if you KNOW who she is (as you do), that whole joke lands solid, for a terrific laugh out loud moment! The scene in his flashback, when he first met Elaine: VERY much a take on the then-recent "Saturday Night Fever," from the music to the dance to his outfit to him throwing his jacket. So it is very interesting to see people of different generations enjoying this film: some jokes land on different levels, depending on the cultural reference and social touch-points with which one is familiar. And other jokes are more or less universal, like all the puns and sight gags and slapstick! That's a big part of what makes this film so timely and timeless at once, and why it remains such a classic!
If you like this type of humor, you should watch The Naked Gun trilogy, Hot Shots, Top Secret, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights
One of the best Airplane! reactions I've seen. Most younger reacters don't get most of the humor (and take some of it WAY too seriously; some even try to follow the "plot"). You just went with the silliness, as intended!
I consider the "Air Israel" bit to be one of the best visual gags in movie history.
5:22 most of the reactors I’ve seen had a similar reaction to the idea of smoking on airplanes. It was quite common. I remember my dad (who was a million miler on Delta -even considering he preferred Eastern when they were still around) complaining because he got stuck in the smoking section of the airplane in a cross country trip. He was really happy when airlines in the U.S. were forced to go smoke free.
Great reaction, Miranda! 👍 *A little obscure trivia:* The guy sitting in the taxi was Howard Jarvis. From Wiki: "Howard Arnold Jarvis was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician. He was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978." At the time, he was well-known in California but probably not as much so in the rest of the USA. The joke in the movie is that he was for fiscal responsibility in government but he sat passively in the taxi letting the fare get larger and larger. Even at the time, I think a lot of people didn't get the joke or recognize Jarvis. BTW, The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association still exists. Cheers! 🙂
You are the person I know of that has recognized Jarvis. This particular joke is why I tell younger, or non-Californians, that the film is “of its time” and you had too be there to catch all the clever references and brilliant casting.
I'm 51 years old, lived in CA since 1985 (from DC) and seen Airplane! about 35 times. I own 3 versions of the movie.
And only now am I learning this? Reading comments really pays off! Anyway I watched this movie w/the Zucker Brother's commentary and I can't remember if they mentioned that or not. I don't think they did but I could be wrong.
The bones of the movie are an older film called Zero Hour. There's a video on RUclips that shows how they added lines and changed the context of certain scenes to make the scenes funny. Leslie Nielsen is remembered mostly for his comedies but this was his first comedy. He and many of the other leads had careers in disaster films or other serious dramas and they were told to play it entirely straight. Kareem Abdul-Jabaar was cast because they were riffing on the casting of a football player as one of the pilots in Zero Hour. The coffee scene in Zero Hour featured adults and didn't have the "like my men" line.
You didn't pick up on June Cleaver as the jive lady. And the airport announcers were the real life voices of LAX at the time, and were a couple.
My dad and I laughed all the way through zero hour because of the closeness of the two films.
They bought the rights to zero hour so they could make this film
Did you happen to spot that the engine noise (During exterior shots,) for the plane was completely wrong. Instead of the screams that jet engines make, the engine noise was of the type of passenger plane that was used in Zero Hour. (The principal source movie.)
I didn't know that they were real, and a couple!
Somewhere, I have the original play/story off of which both films are based. I think it was called "A Flight Into Danger".
I might be mistaken. Merry Christmas.
What was Zero Hour? There was a screenplay about bad fish being substituted on a prop liner in the '50s, and an Air Vet, fighter pilot had to land it, but it had a different title.
Also, this was a spoof of the Airport franchise, a series of movies that all happened on airplanes. I remember the one with Jack Lemon and Christopher Lee where the plane was submerged. It also had Jimmy Stewart.
I saw this in a theater in 1980 when it first came out. I was laughing during the opening credits, along with everybody else in the audience, and then never stopped. The movie where the jokes and laughs never end. Loved watching your reactions to it.
What makes the "I speak Jive" scene even funnier is the fact that the actress in it played June Cleaver in the old Leave it to Beaver TV series. I remember seeing June Clever speaking jive and just losing it.
This, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are my Top 3 comedies. Classics!
Now that's a bona fide list.
I’d have to say those are my top 3 as well. We have good taste :)
BLUCHER !!!
@@jamesalexander5623 *neigh*
It's Fraank unt schteeen!!!
I'm 50 years old. I remember when my parents took me to see this. It's as funny today as it was back then. I still laugh which is amazing considering I've seen it so many times. My favorite is still conversation between the pilot and Joey. A little trivia- Actor Peter Graves who played the pilot was scared to death he would get arrested for that scene. He actually feared that when the director said cut, he would be arrested. He was humiliated by the scene. He didnt want to attend the screening. He was afraid the audience would be horrified and that his career would be over. He couldn't believe the laughs it got from the audience. He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital”
“A hospital? What is it?”
“It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
“Captain, how soon can you land?”
“I can't tell”
“You can tell me. I'm a doctor”
“No. I mean I'm just not sure”
“Well, can't you take a guess?
“Well, not for another two hours”
“You can't take a guess for another two hours?”
😂😂😂😂😂
Leslie Neilson is easily one of my favourite actors, he’s hilarious and I love his style of comedy and I relate to it so much. Also I just found out “I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you” was also in Family Guy Blue Harvest, in the scene were they are attacked by TIE Fighters, a guy, who is Rumack himself, pops up and says that exact line and I never understood the reference as a kid but I do now
i literally burst out laughing reading the jokes, even though ive seen the movie many times including at the cinema when it was first released. thats just how funny they are, as are many other jokes in this movie. it really is a masterpiece.
I’ve seen this movie many times in life. One thing I’ve never noticed was the reporter holding an ice cream cone. Thanks for pointing that out, it was hilarious😂.
Awesome reaction. Honestly, I think you got more of the jokes than any other reactor I've seen who watched this!
Shirley it's because this was a truly wonderful comedy 😂
@@TheMirandalorianReacts It was a truly wonderful comedy . . . . . and stop calling him Shirley!! 😆
@@TheMirandalorianReactsBut, don't call me Shirley.
Hi Miranda!
The movie "Airplane" was based on an actual dramatic movie called "Zero Hour." It was from the 1950s, and in some parts of Airplane copies Zero Hour word for word, so much so that the producers bought the rights to Zero Hour so they could use it in their movie.
PS. Watch the credits to the end. You'll find out what happened to the guy in the taxi.
Arthur Hailey was the author of the book Airport, which many people mistakenly thought the film Airport was the basis for Airplane. Before Zero Hour (1957), however was Hailey's script for a CBC TV drama called Flight into Danger (1956) which more or less was adapted into Zero Hour. In Flight into Danger, Hailey created the template for future disaster films. As an aside, a young James Doohan of Star Trek fame starred in Flight into Danger. The teleplay would grow to be very influential, as after being shown in the UK, the supervising producer of CBC's television dramas, Sydney Newman, was brought across to work in the UK. There he made a significant impact on the British television drama industry.
They even used the Exclamation Point !!
This also explains why he seems to be a WWII pilot even though it would have been at least 25 years. In Zero Hour, the character would have only been 10 years out of the war.
More of the plot of Airport was used in the sequel, Airplane II, though.
The guy in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, famous for California Proposition 13, that slashed taxes
Years ago I arrived at LAX and got outside the terminal only to hear the real “no parking in the red zone” announcement. People travelling with me couldn’t understand why I burst out laughing!
Apparently the scene where they destroy the disco radio tower got huge cheers by audiences in theatres. By the time this movie came out disco was well and truly dead, to the point where people had actually turned on it.
ha ha ha.. I had the same experience flying into San Fran.. 'no stopping in the red zone.. the black zone is for security vehicles..'. what's your vector victor has been a running joke in my famly for decades. truly a masterpiece.
The people doing the voices for that were actual people that did that for at least one real airport. I can't remember which though.
Disco wasn't quite dead yet, but it was definitely on its way out. Yeah, people were starting to get sick of its oversaturation on radio and TV shows. By mid-1981, disco fizzled out like a really bad fart.
It's always fun seeing people discover these classics and react to them. This still makes me cry laugh today.
This movie works so well in part because they populated it with several leading actors, including Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves. All were known for serious movie and tv roles and played everything perfectly straight, placing their well known dramatic personas into absurd situations.
it started Leslie Neilson on a whole new career path.
Julie Hagerty is also in another amazingly funny movie: "What About Bob?"
She is also in Lost in America with Albert Brooks.
I had SO MUCH FUN watching you enjoy this timeless comedy masterpiece! It was like watching it again for the first time.
If you do watch this again, be sure to pay attention to the end credits... there's a lot of humor thrown in there too. Enjoying your reactions!
Seeing as you loved this film, I highly recommend watching "Top Secret!" - IMO it's the hidden masterpiece by the same directors. ps. It's also a bit of a musical..
oh yeah, "Top Secret!" was hilarious! Young Val Kilmer appeared in many good, quirky movies, like my all time nerd favorite "Real Genius"!
@@tomteiter7192 his "I Love Toxic Waste" shirt should be in the Smithsonian.
starring the best movie Batman ever!
Heck yea!!! Val Kilmer at his greatest!
The dance routine in the hotel and Skeet Surfin'...love Top Secret!
What was even funnier about the lady speaking "Jive", is that she played the Mom on "Leave it to Beaver." So for many of us, watching Beaver's Mom speak "Jive" is one of the funniest things because it was such a "white bread" show, and I mean even for the 60's.
My favorite scene
@@toddhill7483 Mine too. I mean seeing Beaver's Mom speak jive.....priceless.😅🤣😂
Dang, seen this movie so many times, and didn't realize that was Beaver's mom. smh
So that nice old lady talking Jive? She didn't know what it was at first, so those other two actors took her out to lunch and taught her.
Which is a conversation I would have loved to see.
One of my favourite movies of all time. The humour works on so many levels, sight gags, dumb, celebral, word play etc.. Whilst some of the context has been lost over the years, what was pushing the boundries of appropriateness at the time is now so inappropriate it's even funnier than before.
Your reactions had me crying with laughter and just enhanced my memories of this movie. Liked and subbed.
I'm so glad you enjoyed this. If you want to continue the madness from the same minds that brought you this I highly recommend the Naked Gun series of movies.
If it's anything like this, I will definitely have to add it to my list!
@@TheMirandalorianReacts It absolutely is. Leslie Nielsen's iconic work.
If you've never seen it, I'd add BASEketball to the list, as well. It was written and directed by David Zucker, and led by South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone. So on top of Zucker's slapstick and sight-gag brand, you can close your eyes and imagine the dialogue being spoken by Stan, Kyle, and Cartman (literally, in one scene). Lmfao.
Though, word of warning, there is a *lot* of profanity, so good luck editing it if you do watch it. Lol.
The actor playing the doctor, Leslie Nielsen, had been in serious roles since the 1950's and this was his first comedic role.
He proved so popular that got his own show (Police Squad that lasted for 6 episodes) and later a movie inspired by the show, The Naked Gun that came out in 1988.
Since then till his death (in 2010) he became a comedy icon known for his dry delivery of the most random and outrageous things and the guy is genuinely funny.
Do watch The Naked Gun (the first one is the best but 2 and 3 are funny too).
It's by the same team who made airplane so if you loved that movie, you'll love The Naked Gun.
Another film by the Zucker brothers that is as good as airplane and the naked gun is the 1984 Top Secret starring Val Kilmer in his first role.
Joke for joke, Top Secret might be their best movie.
My fav line is very subtle and could easily be missed. In the airport, Capt Over gets a phone call and when they call him over the intercom, they tell him to pick up the white courtesy phone. He picks up a different color phone and the recording on the phone says, “no, the white phone”. I don’t know why but that gets me every time. Also, you should watch Airplane 2. It’s not quite as funny but there are some cast members that come back, notably Ted & Elaine. There are funny new characters too. It’s the same humor, one joke after another. I think you’d like it, it’s a good laugh.
In the bar scene he says he’s in the Air Force, but he’s wearing Navy whites. Everyone misses the prop engine sounds on a jetliner. Also the little sick girl played Captain Stubing’s daughter on the Love Boat.
There are a few jokes in this movie that I love watching YOUNG people react to for the first time. The lady hanging herself, the black coffee joke, etc. So satisfying.
There really is something about it - watching younger people see movies we saw as kids. And Airplane! is one of the best movies for a 1st time react video, other than Holy Grail and Team America. Anyway I am in totall agreement with you!
"they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say let 'em crash!" I use that line sometimes when I'm being purposefully argumentative 😀🤣🤣
This gag is actually ripped off from the First ZAZ movie, The Kentucky Fried Movie. That movie may be too raunchy for a you tube reaction, but I seriously recommend it. Perhaps it's best viewed while the viewer is, um, enhanced.
@@curtismartin2866 I've seen a few RUclipsrs tackle Kentucky Fried 😲
They universally say "could not be made today" 🤣
One of my favorite scenes in the movie 😂🤣😂🤣
It was a parody of the popular '"60 Minutes" segment Point/Counterpoint that ran in the '70s. SNL also parodied the liberal/conservative quick debate format with Jane Curtain and Dan Aykroyd.
@@MrDcwithrow in Kentucky Fried Movie they do have both sides. Same actor and set too.
I knew I’d found gold on my first date with my now husband because of this movie. It was the day Leslie Neilson (who played the doctor) died. All day people were saying he died and id say “surely you can’t be serious” and they all answered, “ yeah, I am”. It was very frustrating. Then I went on my date. He said, “did you hear Leslie Neilson died?” I responded, “surely you can’t be serious,” and he said, “I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.” I was in love. 😍😍
When I saw this movie in the theater, I actually had to go out into the lobby area so that I would stop laughing and could catch my breath. Still my favorite comedy of all time.
I saw this in 1980 in the theater.
And all the jokes hit just as hard as they do today.
This was rated PG in 1980.
Loved watching you laugh at a 43 year old movie.
Try Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
This movie has aged VERY well!
No doubt this movie would have been rated PG-13 except for the fact that it predated that rating. Back then, the rating scale went from PG to R with no stop in between.
Wow, when it was released! I must have been an experience.
Your laughter is infectious! Today has been a particularly bad day for me, and you brightened my day ! Thank you. I knew I could count on you!
Awwww I'm glad I could help make it a bit better ❤ hang in there! Tomorrow will be better :)
@@TheMirandalorianReacts thank you 😊
We were all counting on her 😊
@@TheMirandalorianReacts Yep, you could almost say everything will be coming up roses!
I've seen this movie probably a dozen times over the years, and yet I still saw a couple of things I have missed during your review. Love your reactions! So honest and spot on!
Post-credit scene!!
“…I’ll give him 20 minutes, but that’s it!”
I am 51 years old. I loved this movie when I was a kid. And for you to get all the jokes makes me smile! You are precious! Keep doing what you’re doing girl! And like Ernesto….. I can’t believe you knew who Ethel Merman was! That’s awesome.
Johnny - the off-the-wall guy on the ground - was, if I remember right, the only guy who wasn't told to act it as straight as possible. And on top of that, given fairly free reign to improv a bunch of his scenes. He's one of my favorite characters by far :D
That's interesting, he's the only thing I've never LOVED about the movie. He's sort of the odd one out.
Stephen Stucker, a sketch theater comedy troupe member. He was given the straight lines from the script and allowed to write his own responses, as a skilled improv performer.
The person who thought of beginning an airplane movie with a Jaws reference was brilliant.
Also I love the fact that the film repeatedly shows a jet airplane, but throughout the film you can clearly hear that it's a propeller aircraft. This wasn't really planned as a joke. The filmmakers wanted it to be a propeller aircraft because that's what the plane from the film they were spoofing was, but the studio said modern audiences wouldn't enjoy the film if it isn't a jet. So they showed establishing shots of a jet, but kept the sound of the propeller aircraft.
Also also, check RUclips for the kids scene original vs the spoof. It's titled something like Airplane! coffee scene original and the spoof. You can also see shot for shot comparisons of both films.
One of the funniest things about this movie is something that is now lost to time. Many of the older actors in this movie had only ever known for dramatic movies. So seeing them in not just a comedy, but such a goofball comedy was hilarious.
Fun fact: the actress who was slapped many times suggested to the director more then one person, she mentioned the line. The director loved it and recordered the scene. I just found your channel. Love from Brazil.
The people doing the airport announcements ("The White Zone is for loading and unloading only..") were actual airport announcers and actually married! The guy stuck in the taxi at the beginning of the movie (and after the credits finish rolling) was a local politician at the time. Speaking of credits, be sure to read them because they are hilarious too!
Airplane is one of the most classic comedies. Naked Gun next! ps. You laughing is so beautiful. That was half of my enjoyment of you reacting.
The layers of jokes on the movie are second to none!
Hi Miranda,
So glad you enjoyed this! It is definitely not "PC" today, a product of its time, but HILARIOUS!
On your next rewatch (and you are right, you will want to do several to catch even more of the humor), be sure to watch to the very end. As I recall, this is one of the earliest movies to use a post-credits clip, possibly the first one, and it is well worth it! You should even pay attention to the text in the credits! Some real zingers in there!
Bee Gees is indeed the name of the group who sung Stayin Alive. The scene with the song i think was inspired by the movie Saturday Night Fever staring a young John Travolta and used many of The Bee Gees hits.
How am I just now discovering this channel??? I love Airplane! :D I've done that one joke... "we've got a problem and I need to speak to you in the conference room." "what is it?" "it's a room where we hold meetings, but that's not important right now!"
Love your reactions to this movie!! My favorite movie genre is definitely comedies. I was laughing right along with you!! Thanks for this upload😊😂👏👏
Congratulations on finally watching one of the greatest comedic masterpieces of all time. The actors were confused about what kind of movie they were making. Robert Stack has since commented that after reading the screenplay he felt that these guys have no idea what they're doing or they're geniuses. This film has stood the test of time and any rewatching is very rewarding. Thank you for making my afternoon better.
I saw this film for the first time during the eighties (yes I am old). And even having seen it dozens of times, I NEVER noticed that ice cream cone among all the mics 😂😂😂 Absolute masterpiece of a film. The intelligence of the humor at times, and the timing and delivery of them is perfect. Leslie Nielsen is a legend 👍
same here!!!!! never noticed it!!!! LOL!!
Glad I'm not the only one!!
I've been watching this movie since I was a kid, and had always been my go to comedy. And I never noticed the ice cream cone either!!
One of the greatest comedy movies of all time, just non-stop sight gags and slapstick comedy, definitely worth a re-watch or two to see everything.
sometime when watching you're videos you just lose it emotionally anger sadness laughing i love it!!!😂
I am so glad you reacted to this! It is considered by many to be the top comedy of all time. The way they pulled off the perfect deliveries was a genius idea: Almost all of the actors are dramatic heavy actors! That allowed them to deliver absolutely silly lines in silly situations with the utmost seriousness. Leslie Neilson (The Doctor) was so perfect at it it launched an entire career in comedy for him. The only traditional comedic stuff comes from the character of Johnny (Played by comedian Stephen Stucker) who was allowed to ad lib most of his lines, because he was long time friends with the writers/producers, and they knew that if they just set him up to interact at certain timings, his improv would be pure gold.
I absolutely LOVE when directors, writers, anyone in charge let's the actors and people in involved with the movie have creative freedom! Letting people do what feels good to them and allows them to have fun with the work is always a good time!!
@@TheMirandalorianReacts BTW, this movie also is the home of the original post-credits scene, and I don't even know if you caught it. One thing about these writer/producers is that you have to pay attention to the credits of their movies, as they put jokes in the credits as well, and in this movie, we even get a scene after the credits that most people miss.
This has got to be one of the best reactions to this film that I've ever seen.
Best reaction to this movie. This woman was so quick to pick up so many of the comedy references..
Fun fact - this is based almost verbatim on a Fifties disaster movie Zero Hour where the producers bought the rights for a tiny amount and based this entire film on the original.
I've rewatched this movie hundreds of times over forty years. Just imagine watching in the theater with everyone laughing. So many jokes were missed because of all the laughing.
This was the last movie I saw in theatre pre-pandemic. Small crowd, but everyone was busting a gut.
I am fairly ancient, and I can say that I've never been in a theater when the entire audience was laughing hysterically from the first thirty seconds and it didn't stop . Never....
The woman that spoke “jive” was Barbra Billingsly from “Leave It to Beaver” where she played basically the perfect Mom/Wife. Another movie similar to this is The Naked Gun… It will have you laughing hysterically as well!!!
The woman that spoke jive was a t.v. icon in the 50s/60s (Barbara Billingsley) who played the mom on 'Leave it to Beaver.' I was in jr. high when it came out in the theater. There are so many jokes that you would've had to be familiar with culture at the time as well like 'Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home,' which is in reference to a Folger's coffee commercial; the attention to detail and the writer's creativity are exceptional.
So much of the humor is taken from the culture of that time and the ebonics, moonies, TV shows, commercials, and movies like Airport, Saturday Night Fever (John Travolta dancing,) From Here to Eternity and The Godfather. When people, missing all of that, still laugh, it says alot for Airplane.
Thank you, Miranda! This is easily one of the funniest reactions to this film that I've ever seen! 🤣 Most reactors of your generation don't get half of the jokes that you did (said the grouchy old man). Well done! 👍👍
Luckily I surround myself with a lot of people that this is exactly their type of humor, so I'm very used to it! I'm so glad you found the reaction funny!
We miss all the inside jokes about commercials and shows and stuff from the 70s too😞😂
So amazed you recognised Ethel Merman. You’re the only reactor to do so, as others have said.
Most of the actors had actually only played serious roles prior to this, including Leslie Nielsen.
Ok, this is the third reaction video I see from you. I'm subscribing. I saw "Airplane" back in 1986 for the first time. It's a pleasure to see you react to it like you were living in the 80s. You even knew the songs from the movie. :D
Love the Bowie shirt!
You know, I watch your reactions and think of all the jokes I know are coming because I’ve seen this movie at least a hundred times.
Yet, I didn’t get the “no baggage” joke until you pointed it out!!
You rock!