The scene @ 10:10 where the lady gets out of the hospital bed and starts singing: That actually IS Ethel Merman who was a VERY famous singer and actress in the 1950s and 1960s. She died about 4 years after this movie was made.
The repeated joke where Striker kept dumping water on himself is that he has a drinking problem (as in, not that he drinks alcohol but that he has trouble drinking).
The joke of the soldier with severe shell shock who thought he was Ethel Merman is that the role was actually played by Ethel Merman. She was a popular singer/actress from the 1950s and 1960s.
@@Filard25 Jive is usually just dropping a word or a phrase here or there, but instead they substituted as much as they could throughout the dialogue, then made up new phrases to cover the rest. The sequence was already in the script, but the two actors reworked the dialogue, since the original writers, by their own admission, were just "two white Jewish guys trying to write jive."
I love all the little things people miss, like the sounds of propellers on a jet plane, or why he said he was in the air force, yet he is wearing a Navy officer's uniform in the bar, so many details. Most the main characters at that time were famous for parts that portrayed them in completely different roles. The pilot was always in super serious dramas and now he is asking a little boy if he ever saw a grown man naked, the old lady that spoke "Jive" was Beaver Cleaver's Mon from Leave it to beaver. On and on at ever turn in the movie.
The guy in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, the guy responsible for CA Proposition 13 in the early 70's. It lowered property taxes and gutted the state's economy, sending all kinds of services into a tailspin. Believe me, the sight of that guy sitting there forever waiting for service that will never arrive brought a LOT of laughter!
Five years before the movie, there was an actual food poisoning incident onboard a plane. Contaminated breakfast omelets caused nearly 200 passengers to get sick. Fortunately, they were near their destination and the pilots were able to make an emergency landing and get them treated. It was pure luck that the pilots didn’t eat the omelets. Since their biological clocks were still on Alaska time, the pilots had ordered steak dinners instead. The incident resulted in recommendations that pilots and passengers be served different meals during flights.
Actually, this movie is almost a carbon copy of a 1957 film called “Zero Hour!” , which basically had the same plot, including the sick passengers and crew from eating bad fish, and the ex-Air Force pilot with PTSD took over the flight, et cetera.
@@JasonRule-1 Yeah, they have stuff from other movies, too. Like the nun with the guitar was from one of the Airport movies, the kids with the coffee was from “Crash Landing”, except the people were adults and she didn’t say she took coffee black like her men, and of course, the beach scene was from “From Here to Eternity”.
This is 1970's-80s humor where people knew how to laugh and weren't so full of themselfs and there wasn't P.C Police stationed around every corner. I'm going back to the 1970s whos with me just jump on board.... next stop the free and easy times of the sweet rockin' 1970s 😎👍 Also most of these jokes were made for older people or younger people with old souls ! There are lots of jokes from back in the 80s time period. Thank you for the video give it another watch I bet you find many you missed on the 1st run through... good luck 🙂👍
The black language was an idea the directors had after seeing the movie Shaft. They said they couldn't understand a word in that film and thought of doing a scene where guys were talking in Jive but having subtitles. These 2 (Jive) guys Norman Gibbs and Al White got the part and they gave them the script as to what the subtitles were going to be and they ad libed those entire scene making it up as they went.
"Can you fly this plane, and land it?" "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley." Classic comedy. Laugh a minute and very quotable. Fun Fact: In a 2008 interview, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a European flight and asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during takeoff so the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdoch. White-Red Zone Fact: Regarding the argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life. Casting Choice Fact: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.
The airline's name, TransAmerican, was a play on TWA (Trans-World Airlines). It was the high class airline in the 60's and 70's, so Elaine has a good, cushy job.
In that scene where he looks in the microwave, I doubt these reactors got the joke that he was opening a RadarRange brand microwave oven right after the question "what's the radar range?"
Must say I was bit amazed that they didnt seem to pay attention to the question "have you seen a grown man naked before" instead they talked about something else related to that specific scene.
@@williamshelton4318 Understanding this joke and the 2 or 3 other jokes about naked men is kinda essential for getting the context of the jokes in the scenes with the pilot.
@@sliceofheaven3026There were many things that they didn't seem to pay attention to or missed entirely. :-( Talking over dialogue... looking away... It was disappointing. :-(
There was an after credit scene; where the dude is still in the taxi. The key thing to know about this movie is that it was making fun of pop culture and 1970’s disaster movies.
25:26 Why does he do that? Because he has a “drinking problem”. They’re trying to infer he’s an alcoholic, but the funny part is that his drinking problem is that he literally can’t drink properly, and pours drinks to his upper face and not his mouth.
This film has been rated to have the most laughs per minute. It’s a comedic remake of an original movie from 1957 called ZERO HOUR - ruclips.net/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/видео.html BTW, the producers bought the rights to ZERO HOUR just to avoid being sued. References: Opening plane in clouds mimicking the movie JAWS. Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home (coffee commercial spoof) - ruclips.net/video/MJ4kCF22O2w-/видео.html same actress in real coffee commercial Boy/Girl Coffee Scene: The Original and the Spoof - ruclips.net/video/yH6KW6eMWJI/видео.html From Here to Eternity- Beach Scene - ruclips.net/video/7TlDNMc_hFk/видео.html Also: He walked out from the mirror at Captain Kramer’s house. A lot of people don’t catch that joke. A lot of people miss the jokes throughout the credits and afterwards the man in the cab says he’s going to give him another 20 minutes but that’s it. - ruclips.net/video/DPeYFD-vVHg/видео.html
Those kids on the plane were dressed up in adult clothes and talked mature so when that young girl said that line that’s what the director wanted to make sure that the audience knew to make that scene funny to the adults laugh
Every time you watch this you get something else. Some things are from that time era and y’all wouldn’t understand like the lady “thinking” her husband never has another cup of coffee at home. That was a coffee commercial that played all the time back then. So funny. One of my all time favorite comedies.
When I used to go on trips via plane, I would always poke my head into the cockpit on the way out and say that to the pilots, and every time it resulted in them bursting out laughing.
Fun Facts: As it pertains to the Saturday Night Fever spoof: While he was doing Airplane, Actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) was also doing a short lived sitcom called Angie and his Angie Co-Star Donna Pescow was in Saturday Night Fever. This movie would actually be the comedic debuts for Leslie Nielsen (the Doctor), Peter Graves (Clearance Over), Lloyd Bridges (McCrosky) and Robert Stack (Rex Kramer) as all of them were known more for serious roles. Nielsen and Bridges would have a whole new career birth doing comedy movies. There is a sequel called Airplane 2 The Sequel which you should also check out just to see William Shatner steal the show.
Did you watch the movie all the way to the end? The guy in the taxi, looms at his watch and says "I'll give him 5 more minutes ". LOL. Also, the guy that was cleaning the windows and checking under the hood of the plane was Jimmie Walker aka JJ Evans from Good Times.
They missed the jokes because they're not paying attention or they over-talk the dialogue. If you don't hear the line where he admits to having a drinking problem you're not going to get the joke. This is one of the worst reactor videos for this movie that I have seen.
@ 25:16 you are right to get Family Guy vibes. That very joke, among so many others from this movie are all in Family Guy because the show creator Seth MacFarlane is a big fan of this movie and uses the exact same jokes in a lot of his episodes. Also if you've seen Breaking Bad, Mike from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is in this movie. The guy wearing the brown leather jacket@ 23:04.
In that scene where he looks in the microwave I doubt these reactors got the joke that he was opening a RadarRange brand microwave oven right after the question "what's the radar range?"
I watched this movie 4 times to get all of the jokes over a decade ago. So I thought. I watched a reaction to it a few days ago and noticed 2 more jokes I never even got.
Only 4 times? I'd say 80 to 85%. Keep going. Ted Striker's 'attack dog' was a golden retriever. A breed known for their gentle, loving demeanor. Boy's Life was real. Nun's Life was not. & The inflatable autopilot? In the credits, his name is Otto.... He's Otto Pilot. Jokes come so fast you can't keep up.
Such a classic! It's amazing how the humour is so consistent in some ways, but so varied in others between sight gags, puns, and just general absurdism. You should check out the sequel too, some people don't like it as much but I think it's good.
3:55 Crickets.... Which is unusual because normally people laugh alittle bit.. I think you both were still recouping from the whole "jive talking" bit..
Y'all don't understand I was born in 77. The movies and TV shows of the 80's and 90's were crazy. If they had and ideal and a budget they made it. No questions asked.
Great reaction! After they cast the jive dudes, the directors were thinking who would be the last person on earth to understand them. They picked the wholesome perfect mom from Leave it to Beaver, and she crushed it.
1K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍 You're welcome! Thanks! 😊 I just subscribed! Notes: I haven't seen the actual movie in some time, so lately, I've been viewing reactions like yours. 😅 Thanks for including scenes that the others didn't. Like the Pinocchio nose reference, the jiggling, the dog, et cetera. 😎 This movie has one sequel. In it, you get to see the "Starship Enterprise" appear as she did in the original series. That's the first and last time for such a cameo! 🖖 Author Alex Haley, who wrote "Roots" also wrote the novel "Airport" that a Dean Martin movie was based on. 😀 It became a franchise that ended in 1979 with an adventure about the "Concorde" versus an "F-4 Phantom II"! The beach scene parodies the famous and infamous one in a movie about Pearl Harbor. A lot of strict religious people didn't approve of the beach scene! 😕 Actor Leslie Nielsen dramatically and romantically played a starship captain in the movie "Forbidden Planet" and then he was the stoic ocean liner captain in the original "The Poseidon Adventure"! Then, he comically played a starship captain in the movie "The Creature Wasn't Nice" (also known as "Naked Space" and "Spaceship".)
I’m always confused by people who don’t seem to understand comedy. I suspect it may have something to do with convergent vs divergent thinking, given that most comedy comes from divergent thought.
I won't spoil it (& I hope no one else does) BUT There's a good reason to watch this ALL the way through until AFTER the end credits ... & not just because of the jokes within the credits themselves.😄😁😂 For that matter, it's worth watching again to see all the jokes you missed because you were laughing at a previous joke.😂😂😁👍
In this movie, the End does not mean it’s the end. There are jokes in the closing credits that need to be read and there’s one more scene after the closing credits which most people miss. Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy. “Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”
I think the one nobody gets because it’s so old is the “Jim never has a 2nd cup of coffee at home” joke. It’s a reference to an old coffee commercial. Hopefully y’all also caught the post credits clip
Jive was the name of the slang used by inner city blacks at the time. Everything that was said in "jive" was understood by those of us who saw this movie in the theater. The entire joke of the old white woman understanding was She was the actress who played the loveable mom on the 1950,60 s TV show "Leave it to Beaver"
I've seen many "reactions" to this film, and so far no one has picked up on the taxicab passenger joke - I guess you have to be a Boomer to recall that in 1978 the voters in the state of California passed Proposition 13, limiting property taxation, largely through the efforts of the man in the cab - Howard Jarvis. He had a reputation for being a tightwad.
Mair and Sophie, I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.
I have seen this type of comment on just about every Airplane! reaction video.
@@PlasmaMongoose Surely you can't be serious?
@@RareHarmony I am serious and don't call me Shirley!
@@PlasmaMongoose Looks like I picked the wrong week to start sniffin glue.
Mair and Sophie, I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.
The scene @ 10:10 where the lady gets out of the hospital bed and starts singing: That actually IS Ethel Merman who was a VERY famous singer and actress in the 1950s and 1960s. She died about 4 years after this movie was made.
The repeated joke where Striker kept dumping water on himself is that he has a drinking problem (as in, not that he drinks alcohol but that he has trouble drinking).
Striker couldn’t get any liquid into his mouth, but it was the captain’s wife who was really thirsty, especially for Kramer. 😉
@@0okamino
Yep. BAHAHAHAHAHA!
These two I swear.
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
3:35 In case you’re confused, airlines used to let people smoke on planes. The joke is that the ticket is actually smoking.
Right. But he admitted not paying attention and so he missed the joke completely.
They were too busy talking over it, and they don't get half of the jokes. I'm out of here!
@@johnhickman2033 yep! 👍
The joke of the soldier with severe shell shock who thought he was Ethel Merman is that the role was actually played by Ethel Merman. She was a popular singer/actress from the 1950s and 1960s.
There was a black reactor that thought Stryker had turned into Ethyl Merman. SMH
Fun fact: some of the Malumbo villagers in the basketball clip were played by actual members of the Harlem Globetrotters.
I've heard that too but I've never been able to find anything to confirm it!
Fun Fact: The two actors talking jive actually made up the language themselves. It wasn't in the script.
And it was June Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver who was the old white lady that spoke Jive. That was the joke part.
They didn’t make up the language. Jive was created by Cab Calloway in the 1930s. They wrote the dialogue themselves but not the language
@@Filard25 Jive is usually just dropping a word or a phrase here or there, but instead they substituted as much as they could throughout the dialogue, then made up new phrases to cover the rest. The sequence was already in the script, but the two actors reworked the dialogue, since the original writers, by their own admission, were just "two white Jewish guys trying to write jive."
I love all the little things people miss, like the sounds of propellers on a jet plane, or why he said he was in the air force, yet he is wearing a Navy officer's uniform in the bar, so many details. Most the main characters at that time were famous for parts that portrayed them in completely different roles. The pilot was always in super serious dramas and now he is asking a little boy if he ever saw a grown man naked, the old lady that spoke "Jive" was Beaver Cleaver's Mon from Leave it to beaver. On and on at ever turn in the movie.
I never caught on to Striker listing alcoholic beverages as bombing targets until watching a reaction video. had no idea drambui is a cocktail
@ClearSmashDrop EVERYbody misses that one. I've been waiting for someone to get it. You're the first person I've seen mention it.
@@clearsmashdrop5829 It's actually a liqueur that is used to make certain cocktails.
The guy in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, the guy responsible for CA Proposition 13 in the early 70's. It lowered property taxes and gutted the state's economy, sending all kinds of services into a tailspin. Believe me, the sight of that guy sitting there forever waiting for service that will never arrive brought a LOT of laughter!
The sad part is, they didn’t understand 75% of the jokes!
The scene where the soldier was saying bye to his girlfriend that was a train conductor to make you think it’s not a plane it’s actually a train
Five years before the movie, there was an actual food poisoning incident onboard a plane. Contaminated breakfast omelets caused nearly 200 passengers to get sick. Fortunately, they were near their destination and the pilots were able to make an emergency landing and get them treated. It was pure luck that the pilots didn’t eat the omelets. Since their biological clocks were still on Alaska time, the pilots had ordered steak dinners instead. The incident resulted in recommendations that pilots and passengers be served different meals during flights.
Actually, this movie is almost a carbon copy of a 1957 film called “Zero Hour!” , which basically had the same plot, including the sick passengers and crew from eating bad fish, and the ex-Air Force pilot with PTSD took over the flight, et cetera.
Excellent trivia! Thanks for the info! 👍
@@mattslupek7988
Seriously? Wow!
@@JasonRule-1
Yeah, they have stuff from other movies, too. Like the nun with the guitar was from one of the Airport movies, the kids with the coffee was from “Crash Landing”, except the people were adults and she didn’t say she took coffee black like her men, and of course, the beach scene was from “From Here to Eternity”.
Actually, they recommended the pilots eat different meals
This is 1970's-80s humor where people knew how to laugh and weren't so full of themselfs and there wasn't P.C Police stationed around every corner.
I'm going back to the 1970s whos with me just jump on board.... next stop the free and easy times of the sweet rockin' 1970s 😎👍
Also most of these jokes were made for older people or younger people with old souls ! There are lots of jokes from back in the 80s time period. Thank you for the video give it another watch I bet you find many you missed on the 1st run through... good luck 🙂👍
Come on, guys, you're missing everything ! The clerk gave him a ticket that was on fire because he asked for "Smoking" !
Airports were a whole different animal 40 years ago.
Yeah! I think he only watched half the movie.
The black language was an idea the directors had after seeing the movie Shaft. They said they couldn't understand a word in that film and thought of doing a scene where guys were talking in Jive but having subtitles. These 2 (Jive) guys Norman Gibbs and Al White got the part and they gave them the script as to what the subtitles were going to be and they ad libed those entire scene making it up as they went.
No one explained whacking? Spanking the monkey, choking the chicken, saluting the purple helmet...
“What is Jive”? Ask your Gen X Aunties and Uncles.
"Can you fly this plane, and land it?"
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious... and don't call me Shirley."
Classic comedy. Laugh a minute and very quotable.
Fun Fact: In a 2008 interview, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a European flight and asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during takeoff so the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdoch.
White-Red Zone Fact: Regarding the argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life.
Casting Choice Fact: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.
FINALLY a reactor knows who Kareem is!
11:39 That was actually because they’re played by the Harlem Globetrotters.
For real? Wow!
(Fact! A search using Perplexity verified the info for me.)
The airline's name, TransAmerican, was a play on TWA (Trans-World Airlines). It was the high class airline in the 60's and 70's, so Elaine has a good, cushy job.
20mins in and I can tell they don't like it much. Lovely couple but young.
This flicks definitely in its own category..
In that scene where he looks in the microwave, I doubt these reactors got the joke that he was opening a RadarRange brand microwave oven right after the question "what's the radar range?"
What's scarier then the Pilot asking Joey perverted questions ...is reactors not knowing why he's asking those questions.
They do. They just don't give a darn.
Must say I was bit amazed that they didnt seem to pay attention to the question "have you seen a grown man naked before" instead they talked about something else related to that specific scene.
@@williamshelton4318 Understanding this joke and the 2 or 3 other jokes about naked men is kinda essential for getting the context of the jokes in the scenes with the pilot.
@@sliceofheaven3026There were many things that they didn't seem to pay attention to or missed entirely. :-(
Talking over dialogue... looking away... It was disappointing. :-(
There was an after credit scene; where the dude is still in the taxi. The key thing to know about this movie is that it was making fun of pop culture and 1970’s disaster movies.
I’m glad you knew enough about Jaws to recognize that the opening scene is a parody of Jaws. If you didn’t, the joke would have gone over your head.
Watching Jeff Lebowski's dad be addicted to everything on the planet is hilarious
You mean Lloyd Bridges! I used to watch him as the lead in the TV series Sea Hunt.
I think Sophie should get hazard pay with you jumping/pushing on her the whole show. lol
Mair! I can count on one hand the number of reactors who recognized Kareem and knew who he is. Kudos to you, my man!👍🏽
25:26 Why does he do that? Because he has a “drinking problem”.
They’re trying to infer he’s an alcoholic, but the funny part is that his drinking problem is that he literally can’t drink properly, and pours drinks to his upper face and not his mouth.
“I just want to tell you good luck ,
we’re all counting on you”
This film has been rated to have the most laughs per minute.
It’s a comedic remake of an original movie from 1957 called ZERO HOUR - ruclips.net/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/видео.html
BTW, the producers bought the rights to ZERO HOUR just to avoid being sued.
References:
Opening plane in clouds mimicking the movie JAWS.
Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home (coffee commercial spoof) - ruclips.net/video/MJ4kCF22O2w-/видео.html same actress in real coffee commercial
Boy/Girl Coffee Scene: The Original and the Spoof - ruclips.net/video/yH6KW6eMWJI/видео.html
From Here to Eternity- Beach Scene - ruclips.net/video/7TlDNMc_hFk/видео.html
Also:
He walked out from the mirror at Captain Kramer’s house. A lot of people don’t catch that joke.
A lot of people miss the jokes throughout the credits and afterwards the man in the cab says he’s going to give him another 20 minutes but that’s it. - ruclips.net/video/DPeYFD-vVHg/видео.html
The woman in hospital bed who thought she was Ethel Mermen. It was the real Ethel Mermen, a singer during World War 2
Those kids on the plane were dressed up in adult clothes and talked mature so when that young girl said that line that’s what the director wanted to make sure that the audience knew to make that scene funny to the adults laugh
Every time you watch this you get something else. Some things are from that time era and y’all wouldn’t understand like the lady “thinking” her husband never has another cup of coffee at home. That was a coffee commercial that played all the time back then. So funny. One of my all time favorite comedies.
ruclips.net/video/MJ4kCF22O2w/видео.html&ab_channel=spuzzlightyeartoo
Also, the woman in that role in the movie is the same person that played the wife on the coffee commercial, which makes it even funnier.
I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you. 🤣
When I used to go on trips via plane, I would always poke my head into the cockpit on the way out and say that to the pilots, and every time it resulted in them bursting out laughing.
Fun Facts: As it pertains to the Saturday Night Fever spoof: While he was doing Airplane, Actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) was also doing a short lived sitcom called Angie and his Angie Co-Star Donna Pescow was in Saturday Night Fever.
This movie would actually be the comedic debuts for Leslie Nielsen (the Doctor), Peter Graves (Clearance Over), Lloyd Bridges (McCrosky) and Robert Stack (Rex Kramer) as all of them were known more for serious roles. Nielsen and Bridges would have a whole new career birth doing comedy movies.
There is a sequel called Airplane 2 The Sequel which you should also check out just to see William Shatner steal the show.
The dance sequence in the bar is a parody of Saturday Night Fever.
"We have clearance, Clarence."
"Roger, Rodger. What's our vector, Victor?"
Did you watch the movie all the way to the end? The guy in the taxi, looms at his watch and says "I'll give him 5 more minutes ". LOL. Also, the guy that was cleaning the windows and checking under the hood of the plane was Jimmie Walker aka JJ Evans from Good Times.
25:26 He has drinking problems. And the reporters did "take" pictures, they didn't only "get" them. 🤔😂
They missed the jokes because they're not paying attention or they over-talk the dialogue. If you don't hear the line where he admits to having a drinking problem you're not going to get the joke. This is one of the worst reactor videos for this movie that I have seen.
"You push in the opposite direction you want to go" .... if I'm ever in a plane that's going down - do NOT let Sophie take the controls!! 🤣🤣
3:44 Don’t be afraid to laugh. Al White and Norm Gibbs, the two Jive speaking guys, wrote those lines. It’s only exaggerating the Jive words.
"Is he a doctor, or a magician?"
(bird flies out of cracked egg)
@ 25:16 you are right to get Family Guy vibes. That very joke, among so many others from this movie are all in Family Guy because the show creator Seth MacFarlane is a big fan of this movie and uses the exact same jokes in a lot of his episodes.
Also if you've seen Breaking Bad, Mike from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is in this movie. The guy wearing the brown leather jacket@ 23:04.
Some people say this movie is full of dad jokes. It’s a very “the chicken or the egg” situation.
In that scene where he looks in the microwave I doubt these reactors got the joke that he was opening a RadarRange brand microwave oven right after the question "what's the radar range?"
I've lost count of how many times I've seen this movie, and it's just as funny each time.
Oh Jaws is such legendary piece of movie=)
airplane is one of the funniest movies I have seen.
I watched this movie 4 times to get all of the jokes over a decade ago. So I thought. I watched a reaction to it a few days ago and noticed 2 more jokes I never even got.
Only 4 times? I'd say 80 to 85%. Keep going. Ted Striker's 'attack dog' was a golden retriever. A breed known for their gentle, loving demeanor. Boy's Life was real. Nun's Life was not. & The inflatable autopilot? In the credits, his name is Otto.... He's Otto Pilot. Jokes come so fast you can't keep up.
You didn’t stay for the scene at the very end. The guy was still sitting in the cab after the credits ended.
Such a classic! It's amazing how the humour is so consistent in some ways, but so varied in others between sight gags, puns, and just general absurdism. You should check out the sequel too, some people don't like it as much but I think it's good.
Such a great time watching with y’all!! Always hilarious! 😅❤
3:55 Crickets.... Which is unusual because normally people laugh alittle bit..
I think you both were still recouping from the whole "jive talking" bit..
Y'all don't understand I was born in 77. The movies and TV shows of the 80's and 90's were crazy. If they had and ideal and a budget they made it. No questions asked.
Great reaction! After they cast the jive dudes, the directors were thinking who would be the last person on earth to understand them. They picked the wholesome perfect mom from Leave it to Beaver, and she crushed it.
There should have been another scene at the end that showed the man still waiting in the taxi cab.
There was an end credit scene featuring him .
@@DoctorVell He meant they should have included that scene in the video review.
Did you miss the point of the plane smashing into the terminal ? A guy distracted the attention of the dude who was directing it !
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Notes: I haven't seen the actual movie in some time, so lately, I've been viewing reactions like yours. 😅 Thanks for including scenes that the others didn't. Like the Pinocchio nose reference, the jiggling, the dog, et cetera. 😎
This movie has one sequel. In it, you get to see the "Starship Enterprise" appear as she did in the original series. That's the first and last time for such a cameo! 🖖
Author Alex Haley, who wrote "Roots" also wrote the novel "Airport" that a Dean Martin movie was based on. 😀 It became a franchise that ended in 1979 with an adventure about the "Concorde" versus an "F-4 Phantom II"!
The beach scene parodies the famous and infamous one in a movie about Pearl Harbor. A lot of strict religious people didn't approve of the beach scene! 😕
Actor Leslie Nielsen dramatically and romantically played a starship captain in the movie "Forbidden Planet" and then he was the stoic ocean liner captain in the original "The Poseidon Adventure"! Then, he comically played a starship captain in the movie "The Creature Wasn't Nice" (also known as "Naked Space" and "Spaceship".)
There was once a time when seeing a nice pair was just enjoyable... And rewindable!
2:35 That was a common occurrence during the 1970s and 80s. Hare Krishna were the most notorious in doing that.
In 1975 I actually did that once where I took the flower but kept on walking. He tracked after me pretty fast to get it back.
The crap going to hit the fan was my favorite part 💩 😂
I’m always confused by people who don’t seem to understand comedy. I suspect it may have something to do with convergent vs divergent thinking, given that most comedy comes from divergent thought.
Hey, hey, hey, gitchurr, "Jaws" on!!! ✊🏽
What made this movie great was serious dramatic actor Leslie Nielson doing comedy with that dry delivery.
First five minutes you guys missed so much. You can't talk over the movie in this or you'll miss most of the jokes.
It's funny how you said the comedy was very subtle right before the plane crashed through the window. 😂
Those two African Americans were speaking Jive that’s what they called what they spoke through the 1970’s,1980’s &1990’s
Very considerate of them to put in subtitles for those who weren’t hip to the jive.
those two also wrote those lines.
This film succeeds by the actors playing it straight and placing the jokes in the background
I won't spoil it (& I hope no one else does) BUT
There's a good reason to watch this ALL the way through until AFTER the end credits ...
& not just because of the jokes within the credits themselves.😄😁😂
For that matter, it's worth watching again to see all the jokes you missed because you were laughing at a previous joke.😂😂😁👍
In this movie, the End does not mean it’s the end. There are jokes in the closing credits that need to be read and there’s one more scene after the closing credits which most people miss.
Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy.
“Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”
Mair: "Is he a doctor or a magician?"
I think the one nobody gets because it’s so old is the “Jim never has a 2nd cup of coffee at home” joke. It’s a reference to an old coffee commercial. Hopefully y’all also caught the post credits clip
After the credits, they go back to the guy waiting for his taxi driver.
@16:30 was the best random scene to happen in a “PG Rated” movie 😂
A lot of reactors start grooving along to 'Staying Alive'!
There is a post-credits scene with the guy still waiting in the taxi.
The African basketball players were actually members of the Harlem Globetrotters 😂
Whacking is what you do to mechanical moles at the fair. 😅
The fact that they didn’t know what jive was 😂
Scary Movie wouldn't exist if not for Airplane! this is THE classic parody movie hahaha
Why are you guys questioning everything? Comedy doesnt work when you take it literally. Lighten up!
Gotta comment for the wacking comment bro haha !
great movie, great reaction... the sequel is good too x
Its a COMEDY.... every 5 to 10 seconds theres a joke happening somewhere ! 😂😂😂
The basketball playing tribe was the Harlem Globetrotters.
This was a movie we would take a hit of acid...and watch...there are a lot of those movies back in the 70's/80's...
If you haven't you really, really want to see Top Secret with Val Kilmer, basically the same production/director crew and even more mad and funny.
A shame that you did not enjoy it.
Jive was the name of the slang used by inner city blacks at the time. Everything that was said in "jive" was understood by those of us who saw this movie in the theater. The entire joke of the old white woman understanding was She was the actress who played the loveable mom on the 1950,60 s TV show "Leave it to Beaver"
Why Sophie spend 90% of the movie trying to turn away from him lol
You must watch the sequel, Airplane 2. You're going to love it.
Fun Fact: The guy directing the plane into the airport is Jerry Seinfeld.
How can I like this, you told me to smash that button....
This put me to sleep 5 minutes after watching😂😂😂😂
I dont think the girl knows shes watching a comedy.
Many people believe the crash position is for their protection, in reality it is designed to kill you 🤷🏻♂️
Ever went to somebody’s house and their dog jumps all over you
You two GOT TO watch Jaws!
I've seen many "reactions" to this film, and so far no one has picked up on the taxicab passenger joke - I guess you have to be a Boomer to recall that in 1978 the voters in the state of California passed Proposition 13, limiting property taxation, largely through the efforts of the man in the cab - Howard Jarvis. He had a reputation for being a tightwad.
You guys are fun to watch movies with