They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. Just a heads up everyone we had some issues with the subtitles on this movie (super delayed for some reason) and tried our best to edit around it!
You have to watch the trailer for the 1957 movie ZERO HOUR. The movie Airplane copies the plot and even some of the dialogue from the 57 movie. ZERO HOUR is not a comedy but after watching AIRPLANE you'll laugh your asses off.😂😂❤❤
The Knute Rockne story. A famous Notre Dame coach. Their fight song played briefly also. But the line was from a sick player in the locker room @@evilvolts
I was going to reply about the Yuban commercial but found this before I did, I new the commercial but had no recollection that the actress was from the commercials, so I just learned something.
You both missed that Ted developed his "drinking problem" in one of his stories. But you naturally got the Ethel Mermon joke in the hospital. Most reactors NEVER get that! Great job.
Most reactors are just way too young to remember Ethel Merman. She was born in 1908, so it's not surprising that almost nobody gets the reference. I am older than dirt, so she does occupy a spot in my musical memories.
@mangelwurzel Right! I don't expect ANYONE to know that name (me as well) but to at least "get" that it was actually her is rare. (...I'm sure they didn't know of her but still got the joke)!
Yes, they also miss the "Bill never has a second cup of coffee" joke. It is a pure 70s reference that only some people will understand. The STP on the back of the doctor's white coat is another joke lost to time.
One of my favorite parts that nobody seems to catch is where Kramer is complaining while getting ready to go and the guy from the airport is fighting the dog in the background, and Kramer steps through the mirror to get going.
i heard the film makers talking about it, and saying that it wasnt shot quite right, so most people dont even notice, but theyd spent a lot of time on the shot
The lady who speaks jive was carefully chosen. Barbara Billingsley played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, where she was one of those 50s housewives who vacuums in sensible heels and pearls. You could argue she was one of the whitest ladies in America, so her part as the jive lady added extra punch to the joke.
I've seen this movie over a hundred times. I have definitely noticed this bit, but it never occurred to me that it could play out through the entire movie. I love that I can still enjoy new gags on movies i can virtually rehearse. These old slapsticks have no comparison.
To be fair it's less obvious now. At the time this came out the engines of commercial jets made more of a "whoosh" but now they're buzzier sounding, more like props.
The vulture is there to imply they have reason to believe that they're not going to get out of the situation alive. Kramer tells them that there's no reason to believe they wouldn't get out alive, cut to a shot of Striker with a vulture on his shoulder. I never got the joke before I realised (quite recently) it was a vulture (we don't have them over here). Vultures were commonly known as signifiers of impending death as they hang around dying animals in the desert.
The joke is that that was Howard Jarvis, a businessman and political lobbyist who was responsible for California's Prop13 tax law. He was a very conservative and thrifty person in real life and wouldn't have paid such a high price for a cab ride.
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouseEVERY Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker film has crazy credits. My favorite is a recipe for brownies in Hot Shots! Also, RIP Jim Abrahams, who recently passed.
Lesley Nielsen was a serious actor up to this point, this was his first comedic role. He was so comedic that he basically just did comedy after this, for which he is now famous.
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Forbidden Planet 1956. Tammy and the Bachelor 1957 Creepshow 1982 and if you can find it he had a Walt Disney presents show call Swamp fox.. Did a lot of TV Drama guest appearances in the 60s and 70s
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse He was one of the stars in Forbidden Planet (1956). He played the villain in movies and TV shows. Peter Graves (the pilot) was the leader of the Mission Impossible team during its first run as a TV show. Robert Stack (Rex Cramer) had played Elliot Ness in the TV series The Untouchables. Lloyd Bridges had starred in Sea Hunt. All of these were serious dramatic roles and they were very famous. They took their deadpan delivery into this comedy and that added a dimension to the hilarity. Bridges also went into comedy after this - see Hot Shots.
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, RANSOM, THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, NIGHT TRAIN TO PARIS, FORBIDDEN PLANET and many more plus TV series like THE SWAMP FOX, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, and a whole host of guest appearances.
During the reception at my own wedding, when the DJ happened to play Stayin' Alive, I tossed my jacket over to my wife who was taking a breather on the sideline. Without any preplanning or coordination, and not missing a beat, she tossed it right back, reenacting the Airplane! scene.
@@mikejankowski6321 Absolutely. Keep this in mind. The filmmakers wanted to have a joke going on in EVERY scene. If it's not a verbal joke it has to be a sight-gag and if it's not being done by the people in the foreground, something is happening in the background.
"Win one for the Zipper," is a reference to the Ronald Reagan movie KNUTE ROCKNE: ALL AMERICAN where he played football star George Gibb who on his death bed said to Rockne to tell the boys to, "go out and win one for the Gipper."
There were 2 Reagan jokes, probably because 1980 was when Reagan was elected. The lady being sick before due to seeing a Reagan film, he made some corny ones like "Bedtime for Bonzo", where he co-starred with a chimp. And the "Win one for the Zipper" scene with sports music playing is from another Reagan movie "Knute Rockne All American" (based on a true story), where he played a Notre Dame football player named George Gipp, dying of pneumonia in 1920, and asks his coach to go tell his team to "Win one for the Gipper", which became Reagan's slogan during his actual presidential campaign.
I actually learned the whole Win One for the Gipper history from my dad when I played a video game called Splinter Cell Chaos Theory from 2005 which I played probably within a couple years after it came out around 16 and the main character who is a government agent named Sam Fisher who is infiltrating a North Korean missile launching base in a certain mission and as a missile is launched and closes in on the USS Ronald Reagan and his team who gives him order tell him he has to go to the launch computer and self destruct it, his response is "You mean I have to win one for the Gipper", of course I had to ask my dad about what that meant. And I think I didn't know Ronald Reagan was an actor before he was president until I heard them talk about that in Back to the Future which I guess I saw for the first time as a kid probably several years before I played that game but I still didn't know any movies he was in or his slogan at that point. In the game the North Koreans missile launch platform is being hacked by a crazy general in Japan who launches the missiles to frame them which leads to a re breakout of the Korean War with the US,Japan and South Korea on one side and North Korea and China and former USSR elements on the other, which is a great plot twist and all far to real sounding (although in real life I believe it would really be NK doing it), came out in 2005 and nothing has changed which is a good thing too because nothing real bad has happened either. Here's to good change or neutral change at the very least, a divided Korea is still better than one ruled by the North entirely. And all this stuff would have been as relevant when this movie came out which is kind of my point that as the saying goes the more things change the more they stay the same.
It is actually a spoof of a very specific scene, a 1944 wartime tear jerker, Since You Went Away. The solider and his girl are hugging and kissing and a conductor comes up, pulls out his pocketwatch to check the time and says "You better get on board, son." He does but stands in one of the vestibules but with the upper half of the dutch door open so he can continue to talk. The train begins, we hear its chugging sound. She is able at first to walk, then run alongside. He throws her his watch as a keepsake - and this is the specific part - as she is running, she barely avoids running into the platform light stands. (In Airplane, she runs into them.) On RUclips, type in: Since You Went Away, chasing the train to see the segment.
STP was an oil additive for race cars that stood for "Specially Treated Petroleum." The company was a major sponsor of race teams, you'd see the pit crew with STP emblems on their overalls, and they'd be on the race cars as well. Auto parts shops would give the stickers away for free, and I used them to wrap the handlebars on my bicycle when I was 12 years old.
as the younger generations see this a lot of stuff is missed, generation X and boomer pick up on these very easy, like the the two people as announcers were the real LA airport announcers, the Jim never drinks coffee were the real people in a coffee commercial , the beach scene is from the movie here to eternity, the Jive talking woman is Barbra Billingsley from leave it to beaver tv show and there is a scene at the very end with the guy in the cab this was was taken from the movie Zero hour almost scene from scene,
Thanks for clarifying on those. This was a really fun watch even without knowing those references I can only imagine what it must've been like to watch when it first came out
At work I was having a serious conversation with my boss with me saying “I’ll do this” and him saying and “I’ll do that” and a colleague burst through the door and shouted, “and Leon’s getting larger!” We just stared blankly at him so he walks back through the door, jumps back in and even louder screams, “AND LEONS GETTING LARGER!” We stare blankly at him, disappointed he just said, “ah forget it!” Ten years later I watched airplane and finally got it 😂
George Gipp =famous Notre Dame football player = figt song in background = he was dying during season and he told knute rockne invented forwrd pass = to use his words as motivation. This is called HISTORY, KIDS!!°
@@Steve-gx9otThis was depicted in the 1940 movie "Knute Rockne, All American", about the coach; the George Gipp part was played by Ronald Reagan, who was running for president when Airplane! was released (1980). Reagan's famous line from that movie, "Win just one for the Gipper" became his campaign slogan. Reagan was subsequently affectionately referred to as "The Gipper".
Fun Fact on 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. There is a sequel to Airplane called Airplane 2 The Sequel which is also worth a look just to see William Shatner steal the show.
"Curtain Call" credits are when the credits at the end of the movie start with still pictures or clips of each character, along with their names and the names of the actors who played them. They used to do them more often, back in the day, than they do now, although there have been a handful of relatively recent movies that used them.
"Win one for the zippe"r is a reference to the Notre Dame star football player George Gipp, the lady talking to herself is a reference to a Yuban Coffee commercial from the 70s, and this whole movie is based on the movie "Zero Hour".
The vulture is not random! Vultures circle overhead when they see dead or dying animals. Just when Captain Kramer re-assures them that their chances of making it out alive are good, the vulture appears.
The part of the movie where Striker talks about George Zip is a spoof of the 1940 movie KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN. Ronald Reagan played George Gipp, a Notre Dame football player that died in the 1940 movie George Gipp tells his coach, Knute Rockne, "Tell the boys when the team is down to win one for the Gipper." Of course in AIRPLANE Striker is told that George Zipp said, "Win one for the Zipper." The beach scene with Ted and Elaine getting covered by the waves and seaweed is a spoof on the movie FROM HERE TO ETERNITY.😂😂❤❤
This movie gets funnier the more you watch it. You will often catch sight gags that you might have missed. Plus, you just have to roll with the very literal visual and verbal jokes.
I've seen this movie dozens of times since it was first released and almost as many YT reactions over the last couple years and this is the first time it's been brought to my attention that Otto, the autopilot, is looking to the side as he's deflating as if he's asking for help. 😂
So glad that you guys had a great reaction to one of the funniest, most underrated lines (that too many reactors don't even include): "No... that's just what they'll be expecting us to do." (with the vacant stare and music)
Editing tip, when you show a joke, such as "you can tell me, I'm a doctor" and then show your laughter reacting, I would then show the rest of the punchline. Its more satisfying for the viewer
PG doesn't mean it is a child movie, it is Parental Guidance suggested. So it was up to the parents to decide if they thought it would be ok for them to watch. He poured his drink on the side of his head because, he had a drinking problem
4:12 when the 90s, early 2000s are referred to as "old school" He was up there taking payment for gas station services 5:50 it was a parody of 1940s (look at the clothing style) train station military guy leaving the station. 8:50 "From Here to Eternity" movie 26:33 parody of the drama of a real life football player played by Ronald Reagan. It is a scene with him in the hospital where he says, "Win one for the Gipper".
"Transylvania Twist" is another pun filled comedy with lots of references to other TV shows and movies, long before "Scary Movie", and even before "Dracula: Dead and Loving It".
STP was a brand of oil. You would see that same STP patch on the backs of the members of pit crews during races (and pit crew overalls tended to be white like a doctor's). I guess that made it sort of fashionable or cool for some. I wasn't even a race fan, but I somehow recognized the patch and knew what it represented despite never watching races. When I was a kid, they would run an ad for various patches illustrating trends of the time and one of the patches was that same STP patch. I'm not sure I ever saw the patch ORL, but I just remembered, sometimes kids would have a sticker of the STP logo on their lunchboxes.
Sorry but Leslie Nielsen wasn't the most famous actor here. Aside from Kareem there were Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack, all bigger names and none of whom (including Nielsen) were known for comedic roles before this film.
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Yeah he became famous because of this movie pretty much, it was this movie that led him to getting roles in later films which propelled his status, notably the Naked Gun trilogy and the TV show it was based on that came before Police Squad, which was made by the same people who did this movie. I guess they call that a breakout role and this was his. Also if you didn't know Lloyd Bridges is the father of actors Jeff and Beau Bridges who have each had as successful careers as their dad.
The dance sequence to Stayin Alive is a parody of Saturday Night Fever. The beach scene is a parody of From Here to Eternity. STP was an oil treatment. Ronald Reagan was in some bad movies when he was an actor.
theres a lot of good comedies from the 70s, like kentucky fried movie, and the groove tube.. but theres so much nudity, it would be hard to react to, so i dont even suggest them for youtube.. but theyre like amazon women on the moon, where its not a single story, but almost like watching television programming, where theres commercials, and other bits, and then it will go into full features, and such.. but i always thought that kind of mostly 70s movies were really fun to watch, and show people for the first time.. quite a few movies were made like that, but those were some of my favs
Well if they are too hard to edit a reaction for we'll at least keep those in mind for personal watching! We'll see what we can do and add those to the list!
This was Leslie neilsons first comedy, prior to this he did mainly drama which is the reason for his spot on deadpan delivery that made this performance so great, after this he was all comedy and moved on to the naked gun series and the rest is history
She questions, "kids won't know what whacking means right?" I was 10 when I saw this when it finally showed on HBO, and I knew what whacking material was . (Was too scared to try it because I had heard rumors about going blind because from doing it.)
I’d recommend you watch it and remain throughout the end credits. The same goes for Airplane 2 and their 3 Naked Gun films. They had fun creating fun end credits for every film they made!
Airplane was Leslie Nielsen's first role as a comedy actor. It really came out of nowhere. He always had serious roles until this. That's why he did not have a huge role in this one but after this his comedy career really took off.
The "I say let 'em crash" guy was a reference to "Point/Counterpoint" which was a segment on "60 Minutes" at the time with a conservative guy and a liberal woman in a brief debate on a current issue.
This is a spoof of some airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70's, they were called Airport, Airport 75, Airport 77 and Airport 79 the concorde. Kareem Abdul Jabar didn't want to do the movie at first but there was an oriental rug that he wanted that was $35,000 so he told the producers he would do it for $35,000 and they agreed. The coffee lady was a reference to a famous 70's coffee commercial where wives would be shocked that their husbands asked for a second cup when they were at a friend's house or a restaurant. The black guys were speaking jive which is a slang language created by jazz musicians in the 1930's, the old lady was famous for playing the mother in the very wholesome 1950's sitcom leave it to beaver which is why it was funny to see her speaking it. All of Ted's military references are names of alcoholic drinks like daiquiri and drambuie Some of the questions the pilot asked the boy where references to movies that have a homoerotic theme like Spartacus and midnight express. The tribe was played by the Harlem Globetrotters who were a performance basketball team who were very famous in the 70's. The movie also has references to saturday night fever and from here to eternity.
The coffee lady was in a coffee commercial back then where she thought the same thing. The Nun was Maureen McGovern who had the hit "The Morning After.
Fun Fact: the producers were casting for someone to spoof the coffee commercial and didn't realize that they hired THE SAME actress from the TV commercial.
One of the reasons Airplane is such a great film is that the overlap between the scenes you chose and the scenes other reactors choose. If you chose to show every joke or reference, it would be a couple of hours long.
No one ever watches the credits in Airplane! There are almost as many jokes in them than in the rest of the movie. Plus there's a post credit scene. Seriously though, in any ZAZ comedy, watch the credits. You won't be disappointed.
I'm glad you two enjoyed this type of comedy. Not not everyone appreciates fourth wall breaking , sight gags and clever word play type movies. Be sure to follow up with Airplane 2. I don't think it was as funny as the original but still worth a watch since it had the same type of humor ( plus a famous sci-fi character is in the next one ) Also if you haven't seen the Naked Gun movies with Leslie Nielsen definitely check those out since they have the same type of humor.
Leslie Nielson was not famous when this movie came out. Airplane was mocking a series of disaster movies from the early 70s that tended to have past their prime actors (like Paul Newman in Towering Inferno) making easy money. So many of the actors here were well know for serious roles in the past, like the pilot who was a regular on Mission Imposible. Nielson had a long, but undistinguished, career playing mostly villains in TV westerns. But this movie made him popular for his deadpan delivery. And then he did a variety of movies, and a TV series with the people behind Airplane. The biggest dated reference in the movie, I didn't know it when I saw it at 13, is a reference to The Knute Rockne Story. Ronald Reagan played George Gipp, a football player at Notre Dame who dies. Rockne was the coach of Notre Dame and he gives the speech to his players saying they should win one for the Gipper. Reagan's nickname was the Gipper ever after. A reference that I'm more surprised people don't get, but probably shouldn't be, is that the scene of them rolling on the beach is a takeoff of a very famous scene from From Here to Eternity. It may be the most satirized scene in movies. A version appears in The Seven Year Itch, and probably in some other places. Obviously they do not have the fish and seaweed problem in the original scene.
The lady getting slapped had the idea and wrote the scene. Leslie Nielsen accidentally actually slapped her (note her shocked face) so he did it again, this time air-slapping her.
"...since we watched that Ronald Reagan movie." This was 1980. Reagan was running for President. The leftists in Hollywood were ridiculing, and demonizing Reagan like they do all conservative, or anyone else that disagrees with them. The use of the name George Zipp was also a reference to a Reagan movie. Reagan played George Gipp, the Notre Dame football player, who died during the season. On his deathbed he asked the coach to tell the team, "Win one for the Gipper." "He never has a second cup at home." was from a TV coffee commercial that the actress also did herself, so the tie-in was well known.
Just in case you didn’t catch it before, watch back through the scene when the guy gets attacked by the dog, and see if you notice anything strange about the way Capt. Kramer exits the shot. 😄 This movie has quite a bit of rewatch value, just from the sheer volume of jokes in both the fore and background.
This movie is an almost shot for shot remake of black and white air disaster film drama. You can find on RUclips video showing scenes side by side or one after the other.
I think the point here is like a fateful meeting. The doctor never met George but happened to have been treating his teammate in the war and probably brought up this story as a pep talk for a lot of patients of his who gave up on something or other. He just happened to tell it to the right guy this time :D
They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into.
Just a heads up everyone we had some issues with the subtitles on this movie (super delayed for some reason) and tried our best to edit around it!
You have to watch the trailer for the 1957 movie ZERO HOUR. The movie Airplane copies the plot and even some of the dialogue from the 57 movie. ZERO HOUR is not a comedy but after watching AIRPLANE you'll laugh your asses off.😂😂❤❤
he had a "Drinking Problem" ]:P
@@mikealvarez2322 lol I could see us laughing to it! we'll check it out for sure!
famous speach "win one for the Gipper" an old 40's or 50's movie line a football coach
The Knute Rockne story. A famous Notre Dame coach. Their fight song played briefly also. But the line was from a sick player in the locker room @@evilvolts
"Why does he keep spilling on his face?" He has a drinking problem
I was gonna say the EXACT same thing. :-)
You talked over the line.
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"He doesn’t like your coffee." Finally someone got the joke. It was based on a coffee commercial starring that same lady.
you gotta be the right age to remember that....I am JUST BARELY old enough, those ads were still on TV when I was like six 🙂
I was going to reply about the Yuban commercial but found this before I did, I new the commercial but had no recollection that the actress was from the commercials, so I just learned something.
I hate to confess, but I remember those commercials😒
It was Sanka if I remember correctly
I think the husband was also in the commercial too
You both missed that Ted developed his "drinking problem" in one of his stories. But you naturally got the Ethel Mermon joke in the hospital. Most reactors NEVER get that! Great job.
Most reactors are just way too young to remember Ethel Merman. She was born in 1908, so it's not surprising that almost nobody gets the reference. I am older than dirt, so she does occupy a spot in my musical memories.
@mangelwurzel Right! I don't expect ANYONE to know that name (me as well) but to at least "get" that it was actually her is rare. (...I'm sure they didn't know of her but still got the joke)!
Yes, they also miss the "Bill never has a second cup of coffee" joke. It is a pure 70s reference that only some people will understand.
The STP on the back of the doctor's white coat is another joke lost to time.
One of my favorite parts that nobody seems to catch is where Kramer is complaining while getting ready to go and the guy from the airport is fighting the dog in the background, and Kramer steps through the mirror to get going.
i heard the film makers talking about it, and saying that it wasnt shot quite right, so most people dont even notice, but theyd spent a lot of time on the shot
I always love that bit, you are not alone!
Ted spilling his drink on his face was his "drinking problem." He had a problem with drinking...properly.
The lady who speaks jive was carefully chosen. Barbara Billingsley played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, where she was one of those 50s housewives who vacuums in sensible heels and pearls. You could argue she was one of the whitest ladies in America, so her part as the jive lady added extra punch to the joke.
The two black men made up the jive dialog they would speak, and coached Barbara on her lines.
Jim Abrahams, one of the writers, just died in November 2024. RIP.
RIP
The basketball playing natives were the Harlem Globetrotters.
Did you happen to notice that the jet they were flying in always sounded like a plane with propellers ? 😉
@@aheretic omg how did we miss that?! Lol
Lol one of my favorite gags of the movie 😂
I've seen this movie over a hundred times. I have definitely noticed this bit, but it never occurred to me that it could play out through the entire movie. I love that I can still enjoy new gags on movies i can virtually rehearse. These old slapsticks have no comparison.
Yes! Almost NOBODY comments on that! It's a sound gag that always get missed, like the airplane that sounds like a train when it gets moving.
To be fair it's less obvious now. At the time this came out the engines of commercial jets made more of a "whoosh" but now they're buzzier sounding, more like props.
He didn't call her a pisser. He called the situation a pisser.
Breaking the fourth wall by talking directly to the audience too.
The vulture is there to imply they have reason to believe that they're not going to get out of the situation alive. Kramer tells them that there's no reason to believe they wouldn't get out alive, cut to a shot of Striker with a vulture on his shoulder. I never got the joke before I realised (quite recently) it was a vulture (we don't have them over here). Vultures were commonly known as signifiers of impending death as they hang around dying animals in the desert.
@@FrancisXLord now that you explained it, it def makes more sense! Ty for clarifying!
Don’t forget the extra scene at the very end of the credits. 😂
@@CR41489 We missed it but thanks for the heads up. Checking it out now!
Glad to see the horse get an acting credit. And the taxi part… 🤣
The joke is that that was Howard Jarvis, a businessman and political lobbyist who was responsible for California's Prop13 tax law. He was a very conservative and thrifty person in real life and wouldn't have paid such a high price for a cab ride.
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouseEVERY Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker film has crazy credits. My favorite is a recipe for brownies in Hot Shots! Also, RIP Jim Abrahams, who recently passed.
He didn't call HER a pisser, just the situation.
Exactly. It’s like saying what a mess.
Lesley Nielsen was a serious actor up to this point, this was his first comedic role. He was so comedic that he basically just did comedy after this, for which he is now famous.
@@robertobrien5709 Had no idea about his acting history! Do you know of any note worthy serious movies he’s been in?
@@OfficialDNJmoviehousehe was in Forbidden Planet, which is a must see.
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Forbidden Planet 1956. Tammy and the Bachelor 1957 Creepshow 1982 and if you can find it he had a Walt Disney presents show call Swamp fox.. Did a lot of TV Drama guest appearances in the 60s and 70s
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse He was one of the stars in Forbidden Planet (1956). He played the villain in movies and TV shows. Peter Graves (the pilot) was the leader of the Mission Impossible team during its first run as a TV show. Robert Stack (Rex Cramer) had played Elliot Ness in the TV series The Untouchables. Lloyd Bridges had starred in Sea Hunt. All of these were serious dramatic roles and they were very famous. They took their deadpan delivery into this comedy and that added a dimension to the hilarity. Bridges also went into comedy after this - see Hot Shots.
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, RANSOM, THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, NIGHT TRAIN TO PARIS, FORBIDDEN PLANET and many more plus TV series like THE SWAMP FOX, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, and a whole host of guest appearances.
The sight gag of Robert Stack coming out of the mirror at his house is one of my favorite moments. It cracks me up every time.
During the reception at my own wedding, when the DJ happened to play Stayin' Alive, I tossed my jacket over to my wife who was taking a breather on the sideline. Without any preplanning or coordination, and not missing a beat, she tossed it right back, reenacting the Airplane! scene.
lol that's awesome. Did she proceed to throw you up in the sky after that?
I will never get tired of Barbara Billingsley saying, "Just hang loose blood..."
“Chump don’t want no help, chump don’t get da help.”
@@markdenio4537 "Cut me some slack, Jack!"
The mayo clinic, On the shelves behind him were jars of mayonnaise
@@albertmassingo4249 we were so focused on the heart lol. We might need to watch this one a few more times!
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse You will see new things each time for a while.
@@mikejankowski6321 Absolutely. Keep this in mind. The filmmakers wanted to have a joke going on in EVERY scene. If it's not a verbal joke it has to be a sight-gag and if it's not being done by the people in the foreground, something is happening in the background.
Actually the movie did have a kind of serious coherent storyline from beginning to end, and that is Ted overcoming his post-traumatic stress disorder.
@@grosbeak6130 That’s fair. They did a great job in presenting a normally serious topic with great humor!
"Jim never the as a second cup of coffee at home," was a reference to a popular TV commercial.
"Win one for the Zipper," is a reference to the Ronald Reagan movie KNUTE ROCKNE: ALL AMERICAN where he played football star George Gibb who on his death bed said to Rockne to tell the boys to, "go out and win one for the Gipper."
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Or this
A 1980 PG rating was a whole different animal than today.
@@andrewkline5611 absolutely!
It's worth noting that PG-13 did not exist at this time, so the only options were for a PG rating or an R rating.
@@TheNascarfan999 Correct. The first PG-13 movie was Red Dawn released August 10, 1984.
@@ALCAN52 Red Dawn was the first to be screened with a PG-13 rating, but Dreamscape was the first to be assigned the PG-13 rating.
The actor for Johnny, who was a personal friend of the directors I think, was given full ad-lib freedom for his lines.
There were 2 Reagan jokes, probably because 1980 was when Reagan was elected. The lady being sick before due to seeing a Reagan film, he made some corny ones like "Bedtime for Bonzo", where he co-starred with a chimp. And the "Win one for the Zipper" scene with sports music playing is from another Reagan movie "Knute Rockne All American" (based on a true story), where he played a Notre Dame football player named George Gipp, dying of pneumonia in 1920, and asks his coach to go tell his team to "Win one for the Gipper", which became Reagan's slogan during his actual presidential campaign.
I actually learned the whole Win One for the Gipper history from my dad when I played a video game called Splinter Cell Chaos Theory from 2005 which I played probably within a couple years after it came out around 16 and the main character who is a government agent named Sam Fisher who is infiltrating a North Korean missile launching base in a certain mission and as a missile is launched and closes in on the USS Ronald Reagan and his team who gives him order tell him he has to go to the launch computer and self destruct it, his response is "You mean I have to win one for the Gipper", of course I had to ask my dad about what that meant. And I think I didn't know Ronald Reagan was an actor before he was president until I heard them talk about that in Back to the Future which I guess I saw for the first time as a kid probably several years before I played that game but I still didn't know any movies he was in or his slogan at that point. In the game the North Koreans missile launch platform is being hacked by a crazy general in Japan who launches the missiles to frame them which leads to a re breakout of the Korean War with the US,Japan and South Korea on one side and North Korea and China and former USSR elements on the other, which is a great plot twist and all far to real sounding (although in real life I believe it would really be NK doing it), came out in 2005 and nothing has changed which is a good thing too because nothing real bad has happened either. Here's to good change or neutral change at the very least, a divided Korea is still better than one ruled by the North entirely. And all this stuff would have been as relevant when this movie came out which is kind of my point that as the saying goes the more things change the more they stay the same.
The soldier saying goodbye to his girl was a sendup of films where the lovers part in a train station the column were a staple of such scenes
It is actually a spoof of a very specific scene, a 1944 wartime tear jerker, Since You Went Away. The solider and his girl are hugging and kissing and a conductor comes up, pulls out his pocketwatch to check the time and says "You better get on board, son." He does but stands in one of the vestibules but with the upper half of the dutch door open so he can continue to talk. The train begins, we hear its chugging sound. She is able at first to walk, then run alongside. He throws her his watch as a keepsake - and this is the specific part - as she is running, she barely avoids running into the platform light stands. (In Airplane, she runs into them.)
On RUclips, type in:
Since You Went Away, chasing the train
to see the segment.
STP was an oil additive for race cars that stood for "Specially Treated Petroleum." The company was a major sponsor of race teams, you'd see the pit crew with STP emblems on their overalls, and they'd be on the race cars as well. Auto parts shops would give the stickers away for free, and I used them to wrap the handlebars on my bicycle when I was 12 years old.
This movie is a nearly shot-for-shot parody of a movie called "Zero Hour".
In fact, someone put together a side-by side comparison on RUclips.
An iconic movie like this can only get 5/5!
One that I have never heard a reactor mention is when the pilot shifts the airplane into gear just like shifting a manual transmission in a car.
spose to be a train
So you're saying some of those Airplane jokes flew over your head?
as the younger generations see this a lot of stuff is missed, generation X and boomer pick up on these very easy, like the the two people as announcers were the real LA airport announcers, the Jim never drinks coffee were the real people in a coffee commercial , the beach scene is from the movie here to eternity, the Jive talking woman is Barbra Billingsley from leave it to beaver tv show and there is a scene at the very end with the guy in the cab this was was taken from the movie Zero hour almost scene from scene,
Thanks for clarifying on those. This was a really fun watch even without knowing those references I can only imagine what it must've been like to watch when it first came out
At work I was having a serious conversation with my boss with me saying “I’ll do this” and him saying and “I’ll do that” and a colleague burst through the door and shouted, “and Leon’s getting larger!” We just stared blankly at him so he walks back through the door, jumps back in and even louder screams, “AND LEONS GETTING LARGER!” We stare blankly at him, disappointed he just said, “ah forget it!”
Ten years later I watched airplane and finally got it 😂
@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 couldve been even more awkward if he rubbed someones belly while saying it lol!
Some jokes just take a while to hit.
George Gipp =famous Notre Dame football player = figt song in background = he was dying during season and he told knute rockne invented forwrd pass = to use his words as motivation.
This is called HISTORY, KIDS!!°
@@Steve-gx9otThis was depicted in the 1940 movie "Knute Rockne, All American", about the coach; the George Gipp part was played by Ronald Reagan, who was running for president when Airplane! was released (1980). Reagan's famous line from that movie, "Win just one for the Gipper" became his campaign slogan. Reagan was subsequently affectionately referred to as "The Gipper".
Fun Fact on 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.
There is a sequel to Airplane called Airplane 2 The Sequel which is also worth a look just to see William Shatner steal the show.
There's a lot of sequel recommendations for some of the movies we react to, we'll have to add that one to the list!
"Curtain Call" credits are when the credits at the end of the movie start with still pictures or clips of each character, along with their names and the names of the actors who played them.
They used to do them more often, back in the day, than they do now, although there have been a handful of relatively recent movies that used them.
@@Warlocke000 i really enjoy these actually!
"Win one for the zippe"r is a reference to the Notre Dame star football player George Gipp, the lady talking to herself is a reference to a Yuban Coffee commercial from the 70s, and this whole movie is based on the movie "Zero Hour".
The vulture is not random!
Vultures circle overhead when they see dead or dying animals. Just when Captain Kramer re-assures them that their chances of making it out alive are good, the vulture appears.
The part of the movie where Striker talks about George Zip is a spoof of the 1940 movie KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN. Ronald Reagan played George Gipp, a Notre Dame football player that died in the 1940 movie George Gipp tells his coach, Knute Rockne, "Tell the boys when the team is down to win one for the Gipper." Of course in AIRPLANE Striker is told that George Zipp said, "Win one for the Zipper."
The beach scene with Ted and Elaine getting covered by the waves and seaweed is a spoof on the movie FROM HERE TO ETERNITY.😂😂❤❤
Him with the 'sick move' was Robert Stack, TV's original Elliot Ness.
he spilled the drinks on his face because he ha a "Drinking Problem"
@@salsonny we totally missed that while watching and only picked it up during editing…woops!
This movie gets funnier the more you watch it. You will often catch sight gags that you might have missed. Plus, you just have to roll with the very literal visual and verbal jokes.
Top Secret is another hilarious movie worth watching made by the same guys that made this movie.
Others have recommended this one as well. We'll add it to the list!
I've seen this movie dozens of times since it was first released and almost as many YT reactions over the last couple years and this is the first time it's been brought to my attention that Otto, the autopilot, is looking to the side as he's deflating as if he's asking for help. 😂
This is an entirely different kind of comedy altogether.
It's an entirely different kind of comedy.
It's an entirely different kind of comedy.
So glad that you guys had a great reaction to one of the funniest, most underrated lines (that too many reactors don't even include): "No... that's just what they'll be expecting us to do." (with the vacant stare and music)
Editing tip, when you show a joke, such as "you can tell me, I'm a doctor" and then show your laughter reacting, I would then show the rest of the punchline. Its more satisfying for the viewer
@@johnscott4196 noted!
I just want to tell you both 'Good Luck'. We're all counting on you.
PG doesn't mean it is a child movie, it is Parental Guidance suggested. So it was up to the parents to decide if they thought it would be ok for them to watch.
He poured his drink on the side of his head because, he had a drinking problem
So for our haven't heard any reactor, notice that the missions he goes on are all in places named after alcoholic drinks. Drambuie? Daiquiri?
Ohh nice catch. We've never heard of Drambuie so that one easily went over our heads
@meherenowmaybe Yes, I keep waiting for someone to understand the Drambuie reference.
Serious question. Does the Magumbo Bar refer to anything?
4:12 when the 90s, early 2000s are referred to as "old school"
He was up there taking payment for gas station services
5:50 it was a parody of 1940s (look at the clothing style) train station military guy leaving the station.
8:50 "From Here to Eternity" movie
26:33 parody of the drama of a real life football player played by Ronald Reagan. It is a scene with him in the hospital where he says, "Win one for the Gipper".
"Transylvania Twist" is another pun filled comedy with lots of references to other TV shows and movies, long before "Scary Movie", and even before "Dracula: Dead and Loving It".
We'll take a look! Thanks for the recommendation!
STP was a brand of oil. You would see that same STP patch on the backs of the members of pit crews during races (and pit crew overalls tended to be white like a doctor's). I guess that made it sort of fashionable or cool for some. I wasn't even a race fan, but I somehow recognized the patch and knew what it represented despite never watching races. When I was a kid, they would run an ad for various patches illustrating trends of the time and one of the patches was that same STP patch. I'm not sure I ever saw the patch ORL, but I just remembered, sometimes kids would have a sticker of the STP logo on their lunchboxes.
TY for clarifying!
Sorry but Leslie Nielsen wasn't the most famous actor here. Aside from Kareem there were Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack, all bigger names and none of whom (including Nielsen) were known for comedic roles before this film.
@@notvalidcharacters dont be sorry, thanks for the context! For us, Nielsen was the most recognizable face.
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Yeah he became famous because of this movie pretty much, it was this movie that led him to getting roles in later films which propelled his status, notably the Naked Gun trilogy and the TV show it was based on that came before Police Squad, which was made by the same people who did this movie. I guess they call that a breakout role and this was his. Also if you didn't know Lloyd Bridges is the father of actors Jeff and Beau Bridges who have each had as successful careers as their dad.
The dance sequence to Stayin Alive is a parody of Saturday Night Fever. The beach scene is a parody of From Here to Eternity. STP was an oil treatment. Ronald Reagan was in some bad movies when he was an actor.
stp is still around
This was the movie that moved Leslie Nelson into the comedic role, before this he was a serious drama actor.
I just want to tell you both good luck--we're all counting on you.
The beach scene is an homage to the 1953 movie FROM HERE TO ETERNITY.
That series of coffee commercials back then were funny and oddly popular. The beach scene spoofed another famous movie "From Here To Eternity"
I believe these days the pilots always have a different meal than the passengers.
Yeah, they should have also had the lasagna, but I guess Dr. Rumack already ate it all.
Actually, the Pilot and Co Pilot have to have different meals from EACH OTHER...
theres a lot of good comedies from the 70s, like kentucky fried movie, and the groove tube.. but theres so much nudity, it would be hard to react to, so i dont even suggest them for youtube.. but theyre like amazon women on the moon, where its not a single story, but almost like watching television programming, where theres commercials, and other bits, and then it will go into full features, and such.. but i always thought that kind of mostly 70s movies were really fun to watch, and show people for the first time.. quite a few movies were made like that, but those were some of my favs
Well if they are too hard to edit a reaction for we'll at least keep those in mind for personal watching! We'll see what we can do and add those to the list!
“Some of the jokes flew over your head”? Haha, no pun intended right?😅
We just want to wish you both good luck-we’re all counting on you.
He keeps spilling his drink because he has a drinking problem lol
This was Leslie neilsons first comedy, prior to this he did mainly drama which is the reason for his spot on deadpan delivery that made this performance so great, after this he was all comedy and moved on to the naked gun series and the rest is history
She questions, "kids won't know what whacking means right?" I was 10 when I saw this when it finally showed on HBO, and I knew what whacking material was . (Was too scared to try it because I had heard rumors about going blind because from doing it.)
Little did we know what scene would come up later lol
I’d recommend you watch it and remain throughout the end credits. The same goes for Airplane 2 and their 3 Naked Gun films. They had fun creating fun end credits for every film they made!
Airplane was Leslie Nielsen's first role as a comedy actor. It really came out of nowhere. He always had serious roles until this. That's why he did not have a huge role in this one but after this his comedy career really took off.
The crashing of the plane nose into the terminal is an homage to "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World, from 1963
@@randybass8842 oh interesting, thx for that tidbit!
The "I say let 'em crash" guy was a reference to "Point/Counterpoint" which was a segment on "60 Minutes" at the time with a conservative guy and a liberal woman in a brief debate on a current issue.
@@hamilton7750 this one was one of my favs
This is a spoof of some airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70's, they were called Airport, Airport 75, Airport 77 and Airport 79 the concorde.
Kareem Abdul Jabar didn't want to do the movie at first but there was an oriental rug that he wanted that was $35,000 so he told the producers he would do it for $35,000 and they agreed.
The coffee lady was a reference to a famous 70's coffee commercial where wives would be shocked that their husbands asked for a second cup when they were at a friend's house or a restaurant.
The black guys were speaking jive which is a slang language created by jazz musicians in the 1930's, the old lady was famous for playing the mother in the very wholesome 1950's sitcom leave it to beaver which is why it was funny to see her speaking it.
All of Ted's military references are names of alcoholic drinks like daiquiri and drambuie
Some of the questions the pilot asked the boy where references to movies that have a homoerotic theme like Spartacus and midnight express.
The tribe was played by the Harlem Globetrotters who were a performance basketball team who were very famous in the 70's.
The movie also has references to saturday night fever and from here to eternity.
Nice! There's an Airplane 2 as well, it is also pretty funny, it has William Shatner (Kirk from Star Trek) 🙂
In the doctor’s office it was the world famous Mayo Clinic. Behind him were jars of MAYONNAISE.
Movie in 1941 KNUTE ROCKNE, Reagan plated a sick man and when the other players were leaving they dedicated the game ONE FOR THE GIPPER.
The coffee lady was in a coffee commercial back then where she thought the same thing. The Nun was Maureen McGovern who had the hit "The Morning After.
@@johnniekight1879 TY for the context!
But she never has voiced-over internal dialogue at home. 🤔
@@0okamino LOL
Fun Fact: the producers were casting for someone to spoof the coffee commercial and didn't realize that they hired THE SAME actress from the TV commercial.
One of the reasons Airplane is such a great film is that the overlap between the scenes you chose and the scenes other reactors choose.
If you chose to show every joke or reference, it would be a couple of hours long.
No one ever watches the credits in Airplane! There are almost as many jokes in them than in the rest of the movie. Plus there's a post credit scene.
Seriously though, in any ZAZ comedy, watch the credits. You won't be disappointed.
I'm glad you two enjoyed this type of comedy. Not not everyone appreciates fourth wall breaking , sight gags and clever word play type movies. Be sure to follow up with Airplane 2. I don't think it was as funny as the original but still worth a watch since it had the same type of humor ( plus a famous sci-fi character is in the next one ) Also if you haven't seen the Naked Gun movies with Leslie Nielsen definitely check those out since they have the same type of humor.
@@rccraig7580 Ty! We’ll add the sequel to the list, and we’ll def keep an eye on Naked Gun for a reaction soon!
Before this, Leslie Neilson was a serious actor like so many of the others (Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, etc.).
Leslie Nielson was not famous when this movie came out. Airplane was mocking a series of disaster movies from the early 70s that tended to have past their prime actors (like Paul Newman in Towering Inferno) making easy money. So many of the actors here were well know for serious roles in the past, like the pilot who was a regular on Mission Imposible. Nielson had a long, but undistinguished, career playing mostly villains in TV westerns. But this movie made him popular for his deadpan delivery. And then he did a variety of movies, and a TV series with the people behind Airplane.
The biggest dated reference in the movie, I didn't know it when I saw it at 13, is a reference to The Knute Rockne Story. Ronald Reagan played George Gipp, a football player at Notre Dame who dies. Rockne was the coach of Notre Dame and he gives the speech to his players saying they should win one for the Gipper. Reagan's nickname was the Gipper ever after.
A reference that I'm more surprised people don't get, but probably shouldn't be, is that the scene of them rolling on the beach is a takeoff of a very famous scene from From Here to Eternity. It may be the most satirized scene in movies. A version appears in The Seven Year Itch, and probably in some other places. Obviously they do not have the fish and seaweed problem in the original scene.
The lady getting slapped had the idea and wrote the scene. Leslie Nielsen accidentally actually slapped her (note her shocked face) so he did it again, this time air-slapping her.
17:40 "Why does he keep spilling on his face?"
Because he has a drinking problem.
"...since we watched that Ronald Reagan movie."
This was 1980. Reagan was running for President. The leftists in Hollywood were ridiculing, and demonizing Reagan like they do all conservative, or anyone else that disagrees with them. The use of the name George Zipp was also a reference to a Reagan movie. Reagan played George Gipp, the Notre Dame football player, who died during the season. On his deathbed he asked the coach to tell the team, "Win one for the Gipper."
"He never has a second cup at home." was from a TV coffee commercial that the actress also did herself, so the tie-in was well known.
Just in case you didn’t catch it before, watch back through the scene when the guy gets attacked by the dog, and see if you notice anything strange about the way Capt. Kramer exits the shot. 😄
This movie has quite a bit of rewatch value, just from the sheer volume of jokes in both the fore and background.
Oh that's brilliant. Ty for pointing that out!
"Do you like movies about gladiators?"
: p He didn't call her a pisser, it meant a the situation is a downer
This movie is an almost shot for shot remake of black and white air disaster film drama.
You can find on RUclips video showing scenes side by side or one after the other.
21:28, Rex Kramer is indeed on a mission. An impossible one.
Do check out the end end credit scene, if you haven't already. I think this film might have pioneered the concept.
Thanks for the heads up! We did end up checking it out lol
“How did he know George Zip’s name?”
Ted was telling his story out loud on the plane.
I think the point here is like a fateful meeting. The doctor never met George but happened to have been treating his teammate in the war and probably brought up this story as a pep talk for a lot of patients of his who gave up on something or other. He just happened to tell it to the right guy this time :D
When Ted and Elaine were on the beach kissing, that's an homage to "From Here to Eternity."
Before Gremlins and Temple of Doom, there was no PG 13 rating, so PG had a LOT of stuff in it.
23:57 That's 'Leave it to Beaver's' mom, btw... lol
PG-13 was created in 1984 with the movie Red Dawn being the first movie with that rating.
Reagan was president from 1981-1989, his last show business film was TV series DEATH VALLEY DAYS, the joke about his movie was just a joke.
The entire movie the sound is of a prop plane when the plane is actually a jet.
I would highly recommend the movie Top Secret with Val Kilmer if you guys enjoyed this! Great reaction as always ✌
@@IFM5 noted! And ty!
Just be sure you have the proper security clearance. After all, it’s _Top Secret!_
@@0okamino already got it, we'll be watching this at 1800 hours in the Daiquiri storage depot in the north.
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse But when will you be back?
@@0okamino Thats classified.
I still think the funniest joke is the stewardess handing the lady a pamphlet of famous Jewish sports legends. 😊
It took me many years to get that joke, and I'm Jewish. I should know that Jews don't generally get into sports. Hence, it's only a leaflet.
I feel like we missed a lot on the first watch and we'll need to watch it again > not that that's a bad thing!
The vulture was supposed show that they are doomed.
Oh, 'Zero Hour' was the original, serious movie this was based on.