Hi everyone! I hope you're all well ❤ It's my first video back!! I hope you all enjoy it as this was a lot of fun to watch. As per usual with hilarious movies like these, it's definitely hard to cut out stuff but alas it has to be done 😢 If you didn't see, I posted a video the other day updating you all on everything, so feel free to check that out, but overall, I'm back and will be posting every Friday! Gonna start off slowly and just do what I can, and I'll try my best to get back to doing two videos a week but we shall see ❤ Also, if you've watched my videos before, you'll notice in this one that I did a little reformatting with my editing! Let me know what you think. I can only do so much since I'm editing the way I do so I don't get copyright claimed. Hope this is a bit better than before, and I more so hope this works. Thanks for watching!!
To answer your inquiry on who directed this movie, it was David Zucker. He also helmed The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2 1/2, BASEketball, Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4 and shared directing with Scary Movie 5. He did not direct The Naked Gun 33 1/3. These are just the ones I’ve seen personally. All his entries share the same type of dumbish humor that we all love. BASEketball is the sole entry in these mentions that has an R rating.
When I grew up in the 70s most of the famous celebrities were old, Merman, Hope, Benny. You didn't know how cool they were in their day. Ethel was a real hottie back in her early days which you would have never thought seeing her then.
This has to be one of the best movies ever. Consider how much people still find it funny and, yet, how many jokes got lost in time… 1) Does anyone still recognize JJ Walker? 2) How about Kareem? 3) How about June Cleaver speaking jive? 4) And how about Leslie Neilsen doing comedy? We all know him for that now, but this was his first comedic role. They purposefully cast serious actors (like him, Stack, Graves, Bridges, etc). 5) And the Ethel Merman cameo? 6) Tupperware parties? 7) The inner monologue woman, which is mocking a famous coffee commercial (Folgers, I think)? 8) The religious proselytizing at airports, which used to be a thing back then? 9) Smoking ticket? Most today don’t even realize that planes used to have a smoking section. 10) The radar range gag? Yes, old microwaves used to be called radar ranges. 11) The Mayo Clinic isn’t a dated reference. It still exists. But I think fewer people are aware of it now than we’re then. So, I think that joke goes over the heads of a lot of modern viewers. And I’ve barely scratched the surface here. Most viewers under 50 won’t get half the jokes here… and they STILL find the movie hysterical. Hell, even the green screen foolishness when they’re driving is a dated reference. Yes, it could still be done today, but it’s dated because it was a specific attempt to abuse the technology. Green screen was new at the time. The movie creators intentionally got idiotic with it because it was new. One reference which isn’t dated, but is still missed by most, just because it’s never explained: the two airport announcers arguing over the PA system? They were real LAX airport announcers AND real-life husband and wife. Knowing that makes their exchange just that much funnier. Great movie. Gotta be one of the funniest movies ever. Certainly in the “spoof” form of comedy it’s top five (#1 in my book, far and away… but if you polled the public, gotta be top five). Most people don’t even get half the jokes, and it’s STILL funny.
Fun Fact: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was offered the role as one of the Co-Pilots(while playing himself) for $30,000, but would only agree to $35,000. He explained that it’s because he wanted to buy a rug that costs exactly $35,000. The producers thought it was just him being funny and agreed to pay him that much. It wouldn’t be until years later that they learned that Kareem ACTUALLY bought a rug for $35,000 after he was paid.
Also originally the role was going to be played by Pete Rose but for some reason the studio forgot who they cast and scheduled filming for August so they had to recast the role.
I guess the $35K was well worth getting to roast him about his performance on the court (while still telling him he’s among the greatest, of course). 😉
@@PhilBagelsElroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, halfback for the AAFC Chicago Rockets in the late 40s and (more famously) an "end" for the L.A. Rams in the early to mid 50s.
The "jive translator" was played by Barbara Billingsley, who was well known at the time as June Cleaver, the mom from Leave it to Beaver (1957-1963). Much like the other famous stars in this film, it was very unexpected to see her play that role. It also helped re-launch her career, as she appeared in numerous TV shows in the 80s, 90s, and even 2000s.
I heard the writers said they had no idea what dialogue to use for this scene so they just asked Norman Alexander Gibbs and Al White to write their own words (and the words for Barbara Billingsley)
@@Chorleypie The FUNNIEST part of that is that "Jive" was actually the precursor to "Ebonics", and was spoken quite a bit in both predominantly black neighborhoods, and "mixed" neighborhoods (that had a large black influence) all through the 1970s. At the time, I was quite fluent in it, so even without the subtitles, I understood their "slang" (as many people called it). But then again, I grew up being friends with a lot of people with different backgrounds.
@@IggyStardust1967 I understand "my momma didn't raise no dummy" but generally the guys talk so fast I can't even make out the words, if I knew the words maybe I'd understand the sentences, or maybe not... obviously the subtitles don't help (but they are hilarious)
There's an extra dimension to the joke about the guy in the taxi: He's Howard Jarvis, a political activist who championed a California ballot proposition to lower property taxes. Thus, like Jack Benny a generation or two earlier, he was associated with thrift and economy, making him the most ironic person to overcharge.
I lived in CA at the time. The joke most people here took from it was that, having ruined the state budget and decimated social services (as well as turning higher education ruinously expensive), it was damn hilarious to see him sitting there waiting for a service he was never going to get. (This was seven years after Prop 13, remember. We'd had time to see the effects of the "thrift and economy" he was so willing to indulge in with OTHER people's money.)
California property taxes were absolutely out of control. Howard Jarvis was an actor who became active in stopping the outrageous tax policies. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers' Association is still going strong in California. Proposition 13 was essential in preventing CA from becoming like a third-world nation, or at least slowed it down.
@@PhilBagels You clearly didn't live in CA in the 70's, and so did not see the devastating effects of "stopping the outrageous tax policies." You wingnut always and only think of yourselves, never the community, never the rest of the people around you. Nope, all that matters is that YOU don't have to participate or contribute to the country you live in. You take, take, take, and are never willing to give back. Bunch of whiny toddlers crying about all the ice cream you're not being allowed to take from the other kids.
Fun fact, the Nun was played by Maureen McGovern who sang the main theme songs for two major disaster films in the 70s, “The Morning After” The Poseidon Adventure (72), and “We may never love like this again” The Towering Inferno (74)
Yes, LOL, those songs are so old and were popular wayyyy before our lovely reactor was born so she still has no idea what those songs are. Most of the gags and jokes are cultural and generational for audiences that grew up in the 70s like me. When most commentors have to explain them, that tells you right there that they are so dated and old, these young reactors can't relate even with the explanations. She still laughed and had a great time. I don't think she was asking for deep analysis or confusing history of where the jokes came from. Face value reactions are funny just as they are like in this case. I've seen this move at least 100x, but I was enjoying watching our reactor laugh and have a good time.
There's quite a few very contemporary jokes that can be hard to understand now. -Airports at the time were notorious for religious pitchmen hanging around trying to recruit the people passing through. The most hated of all were the Hare Krishnas, hence the joke where they're actually the ones being bothered by these people and brush them off with "I gave at the office." Kramer beating them all up was quite cathartic for a lot of people. -"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a line from a popular set of coffee ads at the time, featuring the same actress in the film. -Airplanes did indeed have smoking sections at the time, which didn't last much longer with the '80s really ramping up anti-smoking efforts and reduction of second-hand smoke. -The "I say let 'em crash" guy is a reference to a popular news segment called Point/Counterpoint where conservative and liberal pundits would argue about some current event. It was also famously being spoofed at the time by Saturday Night Live with Jane Curtin as the liberal and Dan Aykroyd as the conservative, who would always start his argument with "Jane, you ignorant slut!", the show's first big catchphrase. -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was at this exact time, before the arrival of his teammate Magic Johnson, the most famous and beloved player in basketball, and his breaking character is a spoof of a trend at the time of movies stunt-casting non-actors who were famous in some other field, most often sports. When he's dragged out of the cockpit he's wearing his game gear apart from his shirt, with the implication that the scene is being filmed just moments before he had to leave for a game.
Excellent list! Let me just add a couple things... the 70's were rife with disaster movies. Some were outstanding (like Airport, Jaws, The Poseidon Adventure) and others were just plain awful. The genre was perfect for spoofing by the early 80's. Also, the four side characters of the pilot, the doctor, the airport director, and the commander who talked the plane down were all played by well-known actors who were known for doing deadly serious roles. To see them deadpan their way through a silly movie like this was comedy gold!! Oh, and the horse in the bed was a skewed reference to the Godfather where the horse (well part of him) was found in the bed.
And another...In 1980 Ronald Reagan was running for president. Years earlier he appeared in a movie where he played an injured Notre Dame football player named George Gipp who told his coach to tell the team to "win one for the Gipper." He went for the rest of his life with the nickname "Gipper"...and of course the music as Ted marches toward the cockpit was the Notre Dame fight song.
-Striker was far too young to have flown in World War Two, which is what his flashbacks kept showing (until near the end when he flashed back to the birth of flight). Even in 1980. -Boy's Life was indeed a magazine, published by the Boy Scouts. It's technically still being published, but the name was changed to the more inclusive "Scout's Life". Nuns' Life was not, and I dare say will never be, an actual magazine. -I think OGB recognized her, but for those who didn't the man who thought he was Ethel Merman was played by Ethel Merman, a very famous actress & singer throughout the mid twentieth century.
This is one of those movies where you can watch it over and over again and keep finding new jokes. Another reactor I saw recently pointed out a joke I had never before noticed: when buying his ticket, Striker specifically says "No baggage" except the whole point of his story is that he has an absolutely enormous amount of emotional baggage.
For me, one joke I missed completely for years was when Stryker goes to adjust his tie in front of the mirror while the other guy is getting mauled by the dog, the scene cuts to the dog for a moment before returning back to the previous view of Stryker. When Stryker says "let's go", it's the 'reflection' that steps out and leaves.
Until this reaction, it never hit me that the floatation devices were pointless because they were completely over land. Considering I saw this in a theater when it first came out, that's a long payoff for a joke. :)
To call the automatic pilot "handy" is the funniest thing I have ever heard in a reaction to this movie (considering what is coming). Thanks for that great laugh-along!
Johnny is the best character here! From what I’ve heard, all of his lines were improv by the actor, who died too soon from AIDS just a few years later.
I saw this when it came out when I was 9. The couple doing the announcements apparently worked at LAX doing them and were a couple in real life. The lady surprised by her husband having a second cup of coffee was a reference to a famous 70’s coffee commercial where wives were always shocked when their husbands wanted a second cup when they were at a friends house or restaurant. The questions that the captain asked Joey about gladiators and a Turkish prison were referencing the movies Spartacus and midnight express which both had homoerotic themes. Congrats on getting the taxi fare correct, I have seen other reactors say 11330 dollars?! The scene with the old lady speaking Jive was funny because she was famous for playing the mom in the 1950’s sitcom leave it to beaver which was known for being very wholesome. The actor who played the silly airport employee who said Leon is getting larger sadly died from aids in 86.
I love how by the time you get to the Rivers of Jordan guitar scene the way the film has been going so far we either think that her singing is going to be horrible or the song choice will be something crazy and when neither of those things happen we're initially lulled into a sense of false security - and that's when the film bodyslams us by having her knock the oxygen tube out and keep singing while the mom is just jamming in the background - talk about dark comedy
Lorna Patterson was cute as a bug in this movie, and speaking of music I just noticed the music for Airplane was by Elmer Bernstein who is famous for his poignant and rousing score for The Great Escape and 200 other films.
@@jethro1963 He'd done his first comedy Animal House a couple years earlier, where he learned that making the music as if the movie was a serious drama would make it funnier.
As a medical professional. Since Oxygen is a gas, O2 is only administered via a breathing tube which gently blows into the nostrils. You never inject any kind of gas directly into the blood stream as the air gaps would cause immediate cardiac arrest. For a transplant patient, the IV is most likely NaCl, sodium chloride 0.9% with glucose 5% or even Plasma-Lyte 148 mixed with a type of sugar called glucose 5%.
Something alot of people don't realise is the running gag through the entire film is that scenes on the plane have a propeller sound in the background. But the plane is a jet.
One running joke throughout the movie, and one I never noticed until I saw it pointed out, was that when they showed the plane in flight, the sound effect was for a propeller plane even though the were in a jet.
Love the Kareem jokes. In fact, there was a bit of discussion back in the day about his going through the motions until the playoffs. A bit of that was his making the game look so easy but it's very clever of the writers to tap into that argument.
What i only noticed later on but which i really like, is how as things get worse everybody gets more stressed, but they show it in such ridiculous ways. In my opinion it makes the movie even funnier as it goes on. Which with comedies i usually feel they run out of steam in the second half.
Similar to the Naked Gun films this one also has jokes in it's end credits plus there is a post credit scene of the man still in the same taxi cab looks down at his watch and says "I'll give him five more minutes."
Yes, the 80s were a different time. As has been mentioned, this is actually a pretty faithful remake of Zero Hour from 1957. That movie takes itself completely seriously but I can't help but laugh at some of the dialogue they reused in Airplane. There are videos here on YT that compare this movie and Zero Hour and they are a lot of fun. And welcome back.
I had the pleasure of seeing this back when it came out. The theater was packed and was going nuts. When Barbara Billingsley showed up and said, "I speak Jive". The audience exploded. It was awesome. What made it so funny is we all grew up watching her playing a straight lace suburban mom on the sitcom, Leave it to Beaver. One of my great movie viewing experiences.
The woman's inner dialogue about her husband was in reference to an 70's/80's coffee commercial. In the scene they're in a restaurant and her husband asked for a 2nd cup of coffee which he never has at home... Meaning she needs to switch brands
This film came out and it blew the roof off comedies. Yeah of course it's completely off-the-wall and makes your jaw hit the floor. The casting in this film is phenomenal actors like Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves.. they were all known for their straight man dramas. So for them to be in this film was comedic genius. Welcome back sweetie we have all missed you.
One of my favorite jokes is when the doctor talks to Randy and she says she’s scared and not married, but then Jim’s wife says “at least I have a husband”. 😂🤣 That’s the best retroactive irony I’ve ever seen.
That inner monolgue is from an 80's commercial of coffee. That the coffee is so good , when asked the man responds after bring asked " If he wants another cup of coffee ? " and the wife is thinking " He never has second cup of coffee at home ".😂
The thing about this movie , the cast was told not to laugh at the jokes. It was a comedy , but the director wanted the audience in the theatre to understand the joke. Thats why you dont see any of the cast members laughing .
15:05 That is the actual actress singing. I don't know if she is singing live or it was prerecorded, but she is the one who is singing. Beautiful voice and singing ability.
I didn't see anyone mention it yet, so I will: One joke that almost everyone misses is that every time you see an exterior shot of the plane (a jet), the sound effect is from a plane with a propeller. Great reaction Sam
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.
Welcome back!!! You have been missed!! “OMG! What?! You can’t look away from this movie, like, at all….”. 😂😂 Yeah, I’ve seen it countless times, and I still see new stuff! 😂
They went all out on this, with all sorts of references to current movies and ads at the time, going to the trouble to get the real actors to spoof themselves. The beach scene is an iconic one from the movie, from Here to Eternity, with the incoming waves washing over the embracing couple. (Also spoofed in Shrek 2). The two people fighting over the PA system about which loading zone was which were the real married couple whose distinctive voices over the PA system of LAX where familiar to frequent flyers. There was a commercial at the time of a woman who was at a restaurant with her husband. He accepted a second cup of coffee, and in the woman's mind, she thought to herself "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home," the idea being her coffee, not being Yuban coffee, was not as good. They got the actual woman to repeat her role her, along with the following "Jim never throws up at home." One of my favorite jokes was the two business men speaking "jive" (which the directors told them to just make up as they went along). But the woman who translated was Barbara Billingsley, who was the mother in the tv series Leave It To Beaver. She represented the idyllic modern ideal of life in the vanilla suburbia. Her only goal in life (as she was portrayed) to be content to just keep the house clean and have dinner on the table for her husband and sons, always dressed up in high heels and a string of pearls. The feminist movement was just developing and they rebelled against this limited role she represented for women. So for her to appear in movie as translating jive was so totally out of character to the point of being shocking. (She later admitted she had a ball doing this in the movie.)
ZAZ later admitted that they weren't familiar with From Here to Eternity and the beach scene wasn't a deliberate parody of it. The scene had just become so iconic that they knew about the basic setup anyway.
I've been told by several buddies (with darker epidermal hue) that many of the phrases said, were authentic and actual Ebonics lines. Case in point, "I dug her wrap" is real and it means, "I understand what she was saying.". "Hey that honkey be messin' with my old lady got to be runnin' cold upside down his head." This is also a legit Jive or Ebonics sentence, which translates to, "Hey, that white man who is flirting/courting my wife doesn't realize he's make a big mistake." "Legga' down a smack em yack em'!"
@@dunhill1That makes sense of course, as there really was such a way of talking. I also found out that not only was it sort of a very strong Southern accent but also much of it dates back to slavery, where they devised ways to speak to each other that couldn't be understood by their masters. I have a feeling, too, that this might have been among the first time the media showed two black obviously successful businessmen by themselves, instead of one or two as tokens in a larger group. It is hard to think that would be groundbreaking this late, but for instance, part of the Fresh Prince of Belaire and the Jeffersons was they broke some new ground by having middle-class black families. There was a Dick Van Dyke episode from the '60's where he and Laura remember when their son was born and Rob begins to think the hospital made a mistake - and gave them the wrong baby, from the similar name of Peters (not Petrie). The episode ends by this other couple showing up at the front door and they turn out to be black, and presented as a middle-class couple. At the time it took every bit of convincing to let the network do this - and turns out it was warmly greeted by the studio audience after getting one of the longest laughs and applause of any of their episodes. Shortly after this, the networks tentatively presented Julia, a sitcom of a Mary Tyler Moore type of individual successful single woman, played by Diane Carroll. Wasn't allowed to be too funny and was short-lived. And btw, love the coffee black joke in Airplane.
If you gave a chance, you need to watch the original films being parodied in this comedy: "Airport," "The Poseiden Adventure, " " Towering Inferno," "From Here to Eternity, " and several others. There is also another disaster parody from 1976, "The Big Bus," starring Joe Bologna, Bob Dishy, John Beck, and Stockard Channing.
Overjoyed to hear your merry laugh again! I’ve really missed your reactions. Airplane was a great choice for an OGB Reacts triumphant return to RUclips.
Something that a lot of people miss is the plane is a jet but it makes the sound a propeller plane makes all through the whole movie! Great reaction and awesome movie! Cant wait for airplane 2 reaction!
It’s so good to have you back! This film was directed by the team of Jim Abrahams, and brothers David & Jerry Zucker (collectively known as Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, or ZAZ), and they wrote Airplane! while they were performing with the Kentucky Fried Theatre, a theatre group they founded in 1971. To obtain material for comedy routines, they routinely recorded late night television and reviewed the tapes later primarily to pull the commercials, a process Abrahams compared to "seining for fish". During one such taping process, they unintentionally recorded the 1957 film Zero Hour!, and while scanning the commercials, found it to be a "perfectly classically structured film" according to Jerry Zucker. Abrahams later described Zero Hour! as "the serious version of Airplane!". It was the first film script they wrote, completed around 1975, and was originally called The Late Show. The script originally stayed close to the dialog and plot of Zero Hour!, as ZAZ thought they did not have a sufficient understanding of film at the time to structure a proper script. ZAZ's script borrowed so much from Zero Hour! that they believed they needed to negotiate the rights to create the remake of the film and ensure they remain within the allowance for parody within copyright law. They were able to obtain the rights from Warner Bros. and Paramount for about $2,500 at the time. The original script contained spoofs of television commercials but people who proofread it advised them to shorten the commercials, and they eventually removed them. When their script was finished, they were unable to sell it. While failing to sell their script, the trio met director John Landis, who encouraged them to write a film based on their theatre sketches. They managed to put The Kentucky Fried Movie into production in the late 1970s. David Zucker said "it was the first time we had ever been on a movie set. We learned a lot. We learned that if you really wanted a movie to come out the way you wanted it to, you had to direct. So on the next movie, Airplane!, we insisted on directing". Eventually the Airplane! script found its way to Paramount through Michael Eisner. Eisner learned of the script via Susan Baerwald, another scriptwriter with United Artists, and had Jeffrey Katzenberg track down and meet with ZAZ to discuss details. Avco Embassy Pictures also expressed interest in producing the film, but ZAZ decided to go with Paramount. Paramount insisted the film be shot in color rather than black-and-white as ZAZ wanted, and to be set aboard a jet airliner rather than propeller plane to better identify with modern filmgoers. In exchange, Paramount acquiesced to ZAZ's desire to cast serious actors for the film rather than comedy performers. Principal photography began on June 20, 1979, and wrapped on August 31, with the bulk of filming having been done in August. Jerry Zucker stood beside the camera during shooting, while David Zucker and Jim Abrahams watched the video feed to see how the film would look; they conferred after each take.
An additional fact: ZAZ all make appearances in the film: David and Jerry are the two airport ground workers: "Hey, Larry, where's the forklift?" "Forklift? It's over there, by the baggage loader." Jim Abrahams is the guy who gets knocked over on the bicycle (via rear-projection) while Captain Kramer is driving to the airport, and then yells, "Asshole!" at the reckless driver.
I saw Kentucky Fried Movie co-featured with Animal House at the drive-in, with a couple of besties and one of the bestie’s mom (we didn’t drive yet), back in 1979. We had no context/knowledge of ZAZ, and hadn’t read any reviews. In today’s parlance, we were blind reactors! But we laughed and laughed, felt a little naughty (and probably embarrassed to be with a mom). But the next year we went to see Airplane! (By then someone was driving and had access to a car), and we all loved it! Not every single joke landed, but 95% of it did. Airplane! was groundbreaking and paved the way for all the Naked Gun movies and Police Squad TV series - it revitalized Leslie Nielsen’s career and made him a household name. You can tell the ZAZ team really loved movies, and I love that.
'This inner monologue of this random woman,' was a parody of an 80s coffee commercial. The 'never vomits at home' was an extension of the joke template.
That lady who got the makeup all over her face is Charlotte Zucker. Her sons Jerry and David are directors for this. She would have small parts over the years in films that her sons produced and/or directed.
A lil pop culture the great Sigourney Weaver auditioned for the part of Elaine but they didn't like the way she delivered the set on your face and riggle line 😂😂😂
Finally someone who gets 80%-90% of the jokes. That was a brilliant reaction. The key is to not take the jokes literally,.. even though the movie does. That was a breath of fresh air as reactions go. Thank you kindly!!!!😂
@@OGBReacts You got more than most people, so you can be glad & proud of that. I don't know if it's possible for any human to get ALL the jokes & references in the film - both because the culture has moved on from the contemporary-to-the-era references of 43 years ago, and also because the film is so packed with jokes that you barely have time to process one, before the next rapid-fire batch arrive. There are also a few instances of 'joke-layers' in the film, so much so that one honestly doesn't know whether the filmmakers intended the 'deeper layers' as jokes or not. For instance: The two African-American Jive talkers: •Layer One: What if black dialect really were a completely separate language - so impossible to understand that one needed subtitles, translators, etc. •Layer Two: The subtitles are intentionally bad, with the translation missing about 90 percent of the nuance of the original. •Layer Three: Could the intentionally-bad subtitles be a shot at modern (at the time) American movies that had subtitles? As in: the actual, translation was routinely thought to be 'too much' for 1970s mainstream American audiences to accept, therefore the film companies (or perhaps the MPAA or censor board) insisted that subtitles be dumbed-down, to be less risque and more 'acceptable'?
Directed by the Zucker brothers, they also did the Naked Gun movies based on their short lived tv series Police Squad--In Color! The more you watch their stuff the more jokes you notice that you missed. "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home"...was part of a well known ad back then for Folgers coffee, so some of the jokes, only those of a certain age will get but most are still relevant. I hope you get a chance to see some of their other movies as well.
The older male actors, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, and Robert Stack were all known up til then as dramatic actors, so this movie reinvigorated their careers. Up until then, they weren't getting as much work in films and this movie single-handedly gave them all another 2 decades of excellent work. Lloyd Bridges and Leslie Nielsen starred in a bunch of wacky parody movies like "Hot Shots" and "Naked Gun." Both Robert Stack and Peter Graves became successful as television hosts for "Unsolved Mysteries" and "A&E Biography." All of them loved being able to spoof their previous stoic typecasting and be part of silliness. Steven Stucker (Johnny) was one of the first public figures to openly admit that he was gay and had AIDS in 1984, way before Rock Hudson admitted to being sick. He died in 1986 at 38 years old.
In case no one else has mentioned it, the inner monologue gag was a reference to this commercial: ruclips.net/video/MJ4kCF22O2w/видео.html Glad to see you back! Watching you lose it to this movie has made my day.
❤❤❤ I'm so happy you're back. AIRPLANE is a stupid, sick disaster flick. There is so much stuff to grasp. The coffee lady was based on some coffee commercials. "The Zipper" based on Ronald Reagan being "The Gipper." And Ethel Merman. We got this after a decade of disaster movies, and we were ready to bust. Nobody ever mentions the propeller drone instead of jet noise. Oh, well. Lots of stupid stuff to take in and it is better when you have references. But you really don't need them to enjoy this. Again, welcome back. We've missed you.
Like the new digs. Welcome back! You look great and well-rested. Boy’s Life was a magazine that the Boy Scouts published. When this came out it created a whole new genre of comedy. I’ve seen this movie dozens of times since 1980 and it never gets old. Be sure to go back and see the end credit scene.
Remember the two guys near the beginning, one looking for a fork lift and the other directing the plane into the terminal window? Those are the directos. Also, the "make-up lady" is their mom
This was too funny. Your reaction to the “surfing nun” and just like “okay, but wh- okay” with the train conductor. Oh yeah! You’re well and truly back! ❤️
The "flamboyant" control room worker Johnny was played by Stephen Stucker. He was one of the first well know actor's of the early 80's to become HIV+. He died at the age of 38 in 1986 from AIDS. But the Zucker brother's who directed Airplane! let him write his own lines for his character. For both this and the sequel.
When it comes to Hollywood comedies, it's hard to get any nuttier than the Zucker brothers. They did their best work with their writing partner Jim Abrahams. Apart from "Airplane", their most famous film is "The Naked Gun" which also features Leslie Nielsen. Their most offensive film is their first one, "Kentucky Fried Movie". But their greatest achievement in just being all-around deranged is underrated "Top Secret" which was the acting debut of Val Kilmer. Ironically, they had no involvement with the sequel "Airplane II" and if you ever have the misfortune of seeing that sequel, you might agree the absence of the Zuckers is clear from start to finish.
There was a coffee commercial in the 70's and it had the wife thinking to herself "My husband never asks for a second cup of coffee at home" supposed to mean she was using the wrong coffee. And I remember it all these years later. Psychology in advertising runs deep
I loved when you said what the hell is going on? When Ethal Mirman popped up out of bed. First thing popped into my head was wait till you see the horse in the lady's bed.
First- love the squishmallows! ❤ second love how attentive you are. You caught a lot of the jokes that most miss… “its an entirely different kind of flying, all together”… that one took me a while 😂
I've loved this movie for so many reasons, not the least of which was it launched Leslie Nielsen's comedy career. Johnny was always my favourite character. I strongly suggest you also watch Hot Shots Parts one and two, I can virtually guarantee you'll love it. Lloyd Bridges is in both and is an absolute crack up. I had seen this movie dozens of time over the years, and it wasn't until a couple of years ago I even notice the jars of mayonnaise in the background. Good on you for recognizing the need to take a break; material and financial health means nothing if your mental health is suffering. Hope you're in a better place now. And I like the blue on the walls. Make me feel all wibbly-wobbly, timey-whimey, if you know what I mean. If not, ask and I'll enlighten you. :D
OMG OGB! I just realized when I get a notification pop up in my phone for a video, right from there I can drop in my "Watch Later" list (i usually add several throighout the day and watch them at night) This totally changes my relationship with OGB AND RUclips in general. All hail this is a glorious day! . . And I cant want to watch this video later on. Fun film!
I love this movie! There are many things you missed because you are so young but still so enjoyable. You picked the best movie to come back with. I really enjoyed watching this with you. I missed your reactions very much. You are so much fun! Welcome back! Looking forward to your next one!!
Great to see you back! I first saw this as a kid (amazing what was PG in the 1980s) and half of the jokes probably flew over my head, but it's become one of my standbys for when I need a mood lift. It's even funny in translation! In the German dub, the two jive talking guys speak thick Bavarian dialect, which is hilarious to me because it's so unexpected.
"Caucasian translation." 🤣 I'm part of an extended Latino/Black/White/straight/gay family. I am TOTALLY using the "Caucasian translation" line at our next get-together. 😄
SO much fun. You made me laugh. This movie kind of invented the modern spoof. It was like the Scary Movie of its day. A lot of the jokes hit harder if you've seen the original Airport moves, which were like popcorn disaster movies, very popular genre in the 70's. But it's still outlandish. And too risque for a PG movie by today's standards.
Welcome back Sam! Airplane is a great amalgamation of disaster movies (Zero Hour almost beat for beat, and several jokes related to the Airport disaster series). The singing stewardess + sick little girl is from one of the Airports, where the sick child is played by Linda Blair of The Exorcist.
Hi everyone! I hope you're all well ❤ It's my first video back!! I hope you all enjoy it as this was a lot of fun to watch. As per usual with hilarious movies like these, it's definitely hard to cut out stuff but alas it has to be done 😢
If you didn't see, I posted a video the other day updating you all on everything, so feel free to check that out, but overall, I'm back and will be posting every Friday! Gonna start off slowly and just do what I can, and I'll try my best to get back to doing two videos a week but we shall see ❤
Also, if you've watched my videos before, you'll notice in this one that I did a little reformatting with my editing! Let me know what you think. I can only do so much since I'm editing the way I do so I don't get copyright claimed. Hope this is a bit better than before, and I more so hope this works.
Thanks for watching!!
I really miss you girl...i ve noticed your tattoos!!! 🔥Im so glad to have you back!! 🤘🥳🥳🥰🌅
Sam you Like movies about gladiators? 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
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To answer your inquiry on who directed this movie, it was David Zucker. He also helmed The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2 1/2, BASEketball, Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4 and shared directing with Scary Movie 5. He did not direct The Naked Gun 33 1/3. These are just the ones I’ve seen personally. All his entries share the same type of dumbish humor that we all love. BASEketball is the sole entry in these mentions that has an R rating.
So glad you recognized Ethel Merman. Most reactors have no clue.
When I grew up in the 70s most of the famous celebrities were old, Merman, Hope, Benny. You didn't know how cool they were in their day. Ethel was a real hottie back in her early days which you would have never thought seeing her then.
A reaction to " It's a Mad Mad Mad World" would introduce people to a host of the best comedians of yesteryear
No kidding. Makes me feel old. Of course, I am. Most folks don’t recognize JJ either. Half don’t even recognize Kareem. SMH. So old.
I love it that the automatic pilot whose name is "Otto Pilot" was credited in the character scroll and has his own IMDB page.
The jars of mayo were a punchline, but ++ for noticing them, a surprisingly rare occurrence.
Now you know why this is one of the most loved comedies of all time!
This has to be one of the best movies ever. Consider how much people still find it funny and, yet, how many jokes got lost in time…
1) Does anyone still recognize JJ Walker?
2) How about Kareem?
3) How about June Cleaver speaking jive?
4) And how about Leslie Neilsen doing comedy? We all know him for that now, but this was his first comedic role. They purposefully cast serious actors (like him, Stack, Graves, Bridges, etc).
5) And the Ethel Merman cameo?
6) Tupperware parties?
7) The inner monologue woman, which is mocking a famous coffee commercial (Folgers, I think)?
8) The religious proselytizing at airports, which used to be a thing back then?
9) Smoking ticket? Most today don’t even realize that planes used to have a smoking section.
10) The radar range gag? Yes, old microwaves used to be called radar ranges.
11) The Mayo Clinic isn’t a dated reference. It still exists. But I think fewer people are aware of it now than we’re then. So, I think that joke goes over the heads of a lot of modern viewers.
And I’ve barely scratched the surface here. Most viewers under 50 won’t get half the jokes here… and they STILL find the movie hysterical. Hell, even the green screen foolishness when they’re driving is a dated reference. Yes, it could still be done today, but it’s dated because it was a specific attempt to abuse the technology. Green screen was new at the time. The movie creators intentionally got idiotic with it because it was new.
One reference which isn’t dated, but is still missed by most, just because it’s never explained: the two airport announcers arguing over the PA system? They were real LAX airport announcers AND real-life husband and wife. Knowing that makes their exchange just that much funnier.
Great movie. Gotta be one of the funniest movies ever. Certainly in the “spoof” form of comedy it’s top five (#1 in my book, far and away… but if you polled the public, gotta be top five). Most people don’t even get half the jokes, and it’s STILL funny.
And it keeps giving I've seen it probably 20 times on tv etc and just now caught the ice cream cone being held
@@jimbeehler4064I've seen this movie countless times, and I still catch myself seeing (or forgot I had another noticed) things in the backgrounds
7) Not only mocking it , she's the actress in the original commercial.
Fun Fact: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was offered the role as one of the Co-Pilots(while playing himself) for $30,000, but would only agree to $35,000. He explained that it’s because he wanted to buy a rug that costs exactly $35,000. The producers thought it was just him being funny and agreed to pay him that much. It wouldn’t be until years later that they learned that Kareem ACTUALLY bought a rug for $35,000 after he was paid.
Also originally the role was going to be played by Pete Rose but for some reason the studio forgot who they cast and scheduled filming for August so they had to recast the role.
I guess the $35K was well worth getting to roast him about his performance on the court (while still telling him he’s among the greatest, of course). 😉
The original movie that this was based on was called "Zero Hour!" and a well-known (at the time) professional football player played the same role.
@@PhilBagelsElroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, halfback for the AAFC Chicago Rockets in the late 40s and (more famously) an "end" for the L.A. Rams in the early to mid 50s.
35 grand for a rug? What an idiot.
"I'll take it black, like my men" - most famous quote. :D
The "jive translator" was played by Barbara Billingsley, who was well known at the time as June Cleaver, the mom from Leave it to Beaver (1957-1963). Much like the other famous stars in this film, it was very unexpected to see her play that role. It also helped re-launch her career, as she appeared in numerous TV shows in the 80s, 90s, and even 2000s.
Just about every news report about her death in 2010 played this scene.
Just hang loose blood
I heard the writers said they had no idea what dialogue to use for this scene so they just asked Norman Alexander Gibbs and Al White to write their own words (and the words for Barbara Billingsley)
@@Chorleypie The FUNNIEST part of that is that "Jive" was actually the precursor to "Ebonics", and was spoken quite a bit in both predominantly black neighborhoods, and "mixed" neighborhoods (that had a large black influence) all through the 1970s. At the time, I was quite fluent in it, so even without the subtitles, I understood their "slang" (as many people called it). But then again, I grew up being friends with a lot of people with different backgrounds.
@@IggyStardust1967 I understand "my momma didn't raise no dummy" but generally the guys talk so fast I can't even make out the words, if I knew the words maybe I'd understand the sentences, or maybe not... obviously the subtitles don't help (but they are hilarious)
I just want to say good luck, Sam. We're all counting on you.
There's an extra dimension to the joke about the guy in the taxi: He's Howard Jarvis, a political activist who championed a California ballot proposition to lower property taxes. Thus, like Jack Benny a generation or two earlier, he was associated with thrift and economy, making him the most ironic person to overcharge.
I lived in CA at the time. The joke most people here took from it was that, having ruined the state budget and decimated social services (as well as turning higher education ruinously expensive), it was damn hilarious to see him sitting there waiting for a service he was never going to get. (This was seven years after Prop 13, remember. We'd had time to see the effects of the "thrift and economy" he was so willing to indulge in with OTHER people's money.)
California property taxes were absolutely out of control. Howard Jarvis was an actor who became active in stopping the outrageous tax policies. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers' Association is still going strong in California. Proposition 13 was essential in preventing CA from becoming like a third-world nation, or at least slowed it down.
@@PhilBagels You clearly didn't live in CA in the 70's, and so did not see the devastating effects of "stopping the outrageous tax policies." You wingnut always and only think of yourselves, never the community, never the rest of the people around you. Nope, all that matters is that YOU don't have to participate or contribute to the country you live in. You take, take, take, and are never willing to give back. Bunch of whiny toddlers crying about all the ice cream you're not being allowed to take from the other kids.
Fun fact, the Nun was played by Maureen McGovern who sang the main theme songs for two major disaster films in the 70s, “The Morning After” The Poseidon Adventure (72), and “We may never love like this again” The Towering Inferno (74)
Yes, LOL, those songs are so old and were popular wayyyy before our lovely reactor was born so she still has no idea what those songs are. Most of the gags and jokes are cultural and generational for audiences that grew up in the 70s like me. When most commentors have to explain them, that tells you right there that they are so dated and old, these young reactors can't relate even with the explanations. She still laughed and had a great time. I don't think she was asking for deep analysis or confusing history of where the jokes came from. Face value reactions are funny just as they are like in this case. I've seen this move at least 100x, but I was enjoying watching our reactor laugh and have a good time.
There's quite a few very contemporary jokes that can be hard to understand now.
-Airports at the time were notorious for religious pitchmen hanging around trying to recruit the people passing through. The most hated of all were the Hare Krishnas, hence the joke where they're actually the ones being bothered by these people and brush them off with "I gave at the office." Kramer beating them all up was quite cathartic for a lot of people.
-"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was a line from a popular set of coffee ads at the time, featuring the same actress in the film.
-Airplanes did indeed have smoking sections at the time, which didn't last much longer with the '80s really ramping up anti-smoking efforts and reduction of second-hand smoke.
-The "I say let 'em crash" guy is a reference to a popular news segment called Point/Counterpoint where conservative and liberal pundits would argue about some current event. It was also famously being spoofed at the time by Saturday Night Live with Jane Curtin as the liberal and Dan Aykroyd as the conservative, who would always start his argument with "Jane, you ignorant slut!", the show's first big catchphrase.
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was at this exact time, before the arrival of his teammate Magic Johnson, the most famous and beloved player in basketball, and his breaking character is a spoof of a trend at the time of movies stunt-casting non-actors who were famous in some other field, most often sports. When he's dragged out of the cockpit he's wearing his game gear apart from his shirt, with the implication that the scene is being filmed just moments before he had to leave for a game.
Also the point counterpoint bit was in the brother's first move The Kentucky Fried Movie.
Excellent list! Let me just add a couple things... the 70's were rife with disaster movies. Some were outstanding (like Airport, Jaws, The Poseidon Adventure) and others were just plain awful. The genre was perfect for spoofing by the early 80's.
Also, the four side characters of the pilot, the doctor, the airport director, and the commander who talked the plane down were all played by well-known actors who were known for doing deadly serious roles. To see them deadpan their way through a silly movie like this was comedy gold!!
Oh, and the horse in the bed was a skewed reference to the Godfather where the horse (well part of him) was found in the bed.
And another...In 1980 Ronald Reagan was running for president. Years earlier he appeared in a movie where he played an injured Notre Dame football player named George Gipp who told his coach to tell the team to "win one for the Gipper." He went for the rest of his life with the nickname "Gipper"...and of course the music as Ted marches toward the cockpit was the Notre Dame fight song.
-Striker was far too young to have flown in World War Two, which is what his flashbacks kept showing (until near the end when he flashed back to the birth of flight). Even in 1980.
-Boy's Life was indeed a magazine, published by the Boy Scouts. It's technically still being published, but the name was changed to the more inclusive "Scout's Life". Nuns' Life was not, and I dare say will never be, an actual magazine.
-I think OGB recognized her, but for those who didn't the man who thought he was Ethel Merman was played by Ethel Merman, a very famous actress & singer throughout the mid twentieth century.
@@Harv72b yeah it would have been Vietnam
This is one of those movies where you can watch it over and over again and keep finding new jokes. Another reactor I saw recently pointed out a joke I had never before noticed: when buying his ticket, Striker specifically says "No baggage" except the whole point of his story is that he has an absolutely enormous amount of emotional baggage.
For me, one joke I missed completely for years was when Stryker goes to adjust his tie in front of the mirror while the other guy is getting mauled by the dog, the scene cuts to the dog for a moment before returning back to the previous view of Stryker. When Stryker says "let's go", it's the 'reflection' that steps out and leaves.
I always missed that too! I only learned of it via reading these message boards.
Until this reaction, it never hit me that the floatation devices were pointless because they were completely over land. Considering I saw this in a theater when it first came out, that's a long payoff for a joke. :)
@@zipadeedooda7938 there's so many jokes in here, we'll likely still be finding them in another 44 years 😆
Also the autopilot, played by “Otto.” In this movie, “Otto” is the pilot, “Otto The Pilot.” “Otto Pilot” - sounds like how Americans say “Autopilot.”
OMG, your deadpan looks over to your camera just had me in stitches!!!! So glad to have you back. Thanks for being you.
As I was editing this I was like, oh I did that a lot for this huh 😂
@@OGBReacts It always reminds me of Oliver Hardy breaking the fourth wall.
To call the automatic pilot "handy" is the funniest thing I have ever heard in a reaction to this movie (considering what is coming).
Thanks for that great laugh-along!
'Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home'... a play on a popular series of coffee commercials in the late 70s
Johnny is the best character here! From what I’ve heard, all of his lines were improv by the actor, who died too soon from AIDS just a few years later.
he's brillant, my all-time favorite comedic character, at least for a side character.
Johnny was the only character that was playing the serious roll as a comic. Everyone else was being comical but were acting serious.
I saw this when it came out when I was 9.
The couple doing the announcements apparently worked at LAX doing them and were a couple in real life.
The lady surprised by her husband having a second cup of coffee was a reference to a famous 70’s coffee commercial where wives were always shocked when their husbands wanted a second cup when they were at a friends house or restaurant.
The questions that the captain asked Joey about gladiators and a Turkish prison were referencing the movies Spartacus and midnight express which both had homoerotic themes.
Congrats on getting the taxi fare correct, I have seen other reactors say 11330 dollars?!
The scene with the old lady speaking Jive was funny because she was famous for playing the mom in the 1950’s sitcom leave it to beaver which was known for being very wholesome.
The actor who played the silly airport employee who said Leon is getting larger sadly died from aids in 86.
I love how by the time you get to the Rivers of Jordan guitar scene the way the film has been going so far we either think that her singing is going to be horrible or the song choice will be something crazy and when neither of those things happen we're initially lulled into a sense of false security - and that's when the film bodyslams us by having her knock the oxygen tube out and keep singing while the mom is just jamming in the background - talk about dark comedy
Absolutely hysterical 😂
Lorna Patterson was cute as a bug in this movie, and speaking of music I just noticed the music for Airplane was by Elmer Bernstein who is famous for his poignant and rousing score for The Great Escape and 200 other films.
@@jethro1963 He'd done his first comedy Animal House a couple years earlier, where he learned that making the music as if the movie was a serious drama would make it funnier.
It's a shame that the author of the Jordan River song was not glad that they used his song in that way lol
As a medical professional. Since Oxygen is a gas, O2 is only administered via a breathing tube which gently blows into the nostrils. You never inject any kind of gas directly into the blood stream as the air gaps would cause immediate cardiac arrest. For a transplant patient, the IV is most likely NaCl, sodium chloride 0.9% with glucose 5% or even Plasma-Lyte 148 mixed with a type of sugar called glucose 5%.
Something alot of people don't realise is the running gag through the entire film is that scenes on the plane have a propeller sound in the background. But the plane is a jet.
i have watched this probably 20 times & never noticed until i read it like a week ago on another reaction video
I highly recommend the "The Naked Gun" trilogy.
One running joke throughout the movie, and one I never noticed until I saw it pointed out, was that when they showed the plane in flight, the sound effect was for a propeller plane even though the were in a jet.
And the sound changes from prop, to jet and also to train.
Love the Kareem jokes. In fact, there was a bit of discussion back in the day about his going through the motions until the playoffs. A bit of that was his making the game look so easy but it's very clever of the writers to tap into that argument.
What i only noticed later on but which i really like, is how as things get worse everybody gets more stressed, but they show it in such ridiculous ways.
In my opinion it makes the movie even funnier as it goes on. Which with comedies i usually feel they run out of steam in the second half.
*_AIRPLANE! 🤣🤣🤣👍👍 I live for people's reaction to "I take BLACK... Like MY MEN!"_*
The boy's reaction is so classic. 😮
This screened years back in NYC outdoors at Bryant Park and the crowd was amazing. That joked killed. Lol.
You would be amazed at the number of people who don’t get the “drinking problem” joke 😂
Took me a second but I got it and the facepalm ensued 😂
Similar to the Naked Gun films this one also has jokes in it's end credits plus there is a post credit scene of the man still in the same taxi cab looks down at his watch and says "I'll give him five more minutes."
Yes, the 80s were a different time. As has been mentioned, this is actually a pretty faithful remake of Zero Hour from 1957. That movie takes itself completely seriously but I can't help but laugh at some of the dialogue they reused in Airplane. There are videos here on YT that compare this movie and Zero Hour and they are a lot of fun. And welcome back.
I'm campaigning to get her to react to Zero Hour! as well.
@@moonbrooke27 She'll have to watch Airplane again afterwards, which is not a bad thing. I like watching them back to back.
I had the pleasure of seeing this back when it came out. The theater was packed and was going nuts. When Barbara Billingsley showed up and said, "I speak Jive". The audience exploded. It was awesome. What made it so funny is we all grew up watching her playing a straight lace suburban mom on the sitcom, Leave it to Beaver. One of my great movie viewing experiences.
The woman's inner dialogue about her husband was in reference to an 70's/80's coffee commercial. In the scene they're in a restaurant and her husband asked for a 2nd cup of coffee which he never has at home... Meaning she needs to switch brands
This film came out and it blew the roof off comedies. Yeah of course it's completely off-the-wall and makes your jaw hit the floor. The casting in this film is phenomenal actors like Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves.. they were all known for their straight man dramas. So for them to be in this film was comedic genius.
Welcome back sweetie we have all missed you.
One of my favorite jokes is when the doctor talks to Randy and she says she’s scared and not married, but then Jim’s wife says “at least I have a husband”. 😂🤣
That’s the best retroactive irony I’ve ever seen.
I wanted to fit that in here but at that point I felt like I had too much movie in a row so had to scrape it D:
14:41 "Okay. Thought it was gonna be bad."
Oh, no. She really _kills_ it.
Did you notice the icecream cone in with all the microphones at the press conference? This movie is so jam packed with silliness :)
Yes!! I actually commented on it but it didn’t make the RUclips cut! Just too many funny moments to put all in here
One thing that always cracks me up is that the inflatable pilot is named Otto. Otto Pilot.
"Surely you can't be serious.....I am serious and don't call me Shirley" 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
That inner monolgue is from an 80's commercial of coffee. That the coffee is so good , when asked the man responds after bring asked " If he wants another cup of coffee ? " and the wife is thinking " He never has second cup of coffee at home ".😂
The thing about this movie , the cast was told not to laugh at the jokes. It was a comedy , but the director wanted the audience in the theatre to understand the joke. Thats why you dont see any of the cast members laughing .
the beach waves scene is a play on one of the most famous movie scenes of all time- 'From Here to Eternity'
15:05 That is the actual actress singing. I don't know if she is singing live or it was prerecorded, but she is the one who is singing. Beautiful voice and singing ability.
"Why? Why? Why?" They were key to the plot obviously. Lol
The good old days when you didn't have to worry about offending. Yay to you recognising Merman 😀
which is why this movie could never be made today with the WOKE crowd controlling all entertainment. It would be canceled in a split second.
I didn't see anyone mention it yet, so I will:
One joke that almost everyone misses is that every time you see an exterior shot of the plane (a jet), the sound effect is from a plane with a propeller.
Great reaction Sam
I mentioned it, but I was 4 hours later to the party than you! As a pilot, that is one of my favorite sneaky jokes in this.
Oh my goodness. I didn’t notice at all! 😂 There’s so many random subtle jokes like that in this film, it’s amazing.
@@OGBReacts You pick up more stuff in rewatches that were missed the first time around. Like, did you notice the baby being thrown?
@@mikejankowski6321 no 😂😂
@@OGBReacts I won't say when, you'll just have to be on the lookout for it! 😉
I just want to say: Good luck with your channel, we are all counting on you.
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.
Welcome back!!! You have been missed!!
“OMG! What?! You can’t look away from this movie, like, at all….”. 😂😂 Yeah, I’ve seen it countless times, and I still see new stuff! 😂
They went all out on this, with all sorts of references to current movies and ads at the time, going to the trouble to get the real actors to spoof themselves.
The beach scene is an iconic one from the movie, from Here to Eternity, with the incoming waves washing over the embracing couple. (Also spoofed in Shrek 2).
The two people fighting over the PA system about which loading zone was which were the real married couple whose distinctive voices over the PA system of LAX where familiar to frequent flyers.
There was a commercial at the time of a woman who was at a restaurant with her husband. He accepted a second cup of coffee, and in the woman's mind, she thought to herself "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home," the idea being her coffee, not being Yuban coffee, was not as good. They got the actual woman to repeat her role her, along with the following "Jim never throws up at home."
One of my favorite jokes was the two business men speaking "jive" (which the directors told them to just make up as they went along). But the woman who translated was Barbara Billingsley, who was the mother in the tv series Leave It To Beaver. She represented the idyllic modern ideal of life in the vanilla suburbia. Her only goal in life (as she was portrayed) to be content to just keep the house clean and have dinner on the table for her husband and sons, always dressed up in high heels and a string of pearls. The feminist movement was just developing and they rebelled against this limited role she represented for women. So for her to appear in movie as translating jive was so totally out of character to the point of being shocking. (She later admitted she had a ball doing this in the movie.)
ZAZ later admitted that they weren't familiar with From Here to Eternity and the beach scene wasn't a deliberate parody of it. The scene had just become so iconic that they knew about the basic setup anyway.
I've been told by several buddies (with darker epidermal hue) that many of the phrases said, were authentic and actual Ebonics lines. Case in point, "I dug her wrap" is real and it means, "I understand what she was saying.". "Hey that honkey be messin' with my old lady got to be runnin' cold upside down his head." This is also a legit Jive or Ebonics sentence, which translates to, "Hey, that white man who is flirting/courting my wife doesn't realize he's make a big mistake." "Legga' down a smack em yack em'!"
@@dunhill1That makes sense of course, as there really was such a way of talking. I also found out that not only was it sort of a very strong Southern accent but also much of it dates back to slavery, where they devised ways to speak to each other that couldn't be understood by their masters.
I have a feeling, too, that this might have been among the first time the media showed two black obviously successful businessmen by themselves, instead of one or two as tokens in a larger group. It is hard to think that would be groundbreaking this late, but for instance, part of the Fresh Prince of Belaire and the Jeffersons was they broke some new ground by having middle-class black families.
There was a Dick Van Dyke episode from the '60's where he and Laura remember when their son was born and Rob begins to think the hospital made a mistake - and gave them the wrong baby, from the similar name of Peters (not Petrie). The episode
ends by this other couple showing up at the front door and they turn out to be black, and presented as a middle-class couple. At the time it took every bit of convincing to let the network do this - and turns out it was warmly greeted by the studio audience after getting one of the longest laughs and applause of any of their episodes.
Shortly after this, the networks tentatively presented Julia, a sitcom of a Mary Tyler Moore type of individual successful single woman, played by Diane Carroll. Wasn't allowed to be too funny and was short-lived.
And btw, love the coffee black joke in Airplane.
If you gave a chance, you need to watch the original films being parodied in this comedy: "Airport," "The Poseiden Adventure, " " Towering Inferno," "From Here to Eternity, " and several others. There is also another disaster parody from 1976, "The Big Bus," starring Joe Bologna, Bob Dishy, John Beck, and Stockard Channing.
"Johnny, how about some coffee?" "No thaaanks!" My man consistently steals the entire movie.
Overjoyed to hear your merry laugh again! I’ve really missed your reactions. Airplane was a great choice for an OGB Reacts triumphant return to RUclips.
The very end of the movie shows the man still waiting in the cab 🚕 😂
You are the first reactor to understand the Mayo Clinic joke. Kudos.
Something that a lot of people miss is the plane is a jet but it makes the sound a propeller plane makes all through the whole movie! Great reaction and awesome movie! Cant wait for airplane 2 reaction!
Even more people miss the fact that we are not seeing a real Boeing 707, but a scale model.
It’s so good to have you back!
This film was directed by the team of Jim Abrahams, and brothers David & Jerry Zucker (collectively known as Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, or ZAZ), and they wrote Airplane! while they were performing with the Kentucky Fried Theatre, a theatre group they founded in 1971. To obtain material for comedy routines, they routinely recorded late night television and reviewed the tapes later primarily to pull the commercials, a process Abrahams compared to "seining for fish". During one such taping process, they unintentionally recorded the 1957 film Zero Hour!, and while scanning the commercials, found it to be a "perfectly classically structured film" according to Jerry Zucker. Abrahams later described Zero Hour! as "the serious version of Airplane!". It was the first film script they wrote, completed around 1975, and was originally called The Late Show. The script originally stayed close to the dialog and plot of Zero Hour!, as ZAZ thought they did not have a sufficient understanding of film at the time to structure a proper script. ZAZ's script borrowed so much from Zero Hour! that they believed they needed to negotiate the rights to create the remake of the film and ensure they remain within the allowance for parody within copyright law. They were able to obtain the rights from Warner Bros. and Paramount for about $2,500 at the time. The original script contained spoofs of television commercials but people who proofread it advised them to shorten the commercials, and they eventually removed them. When their script was finished, they were unable to sell it.
While failing to sell their script, the trio met director John Landis, who encouraged them to write a film based on their theatre sketches. They managed to put The Kentucky Fried Movie into production in the late 1970s. David Zucker said "it was the first time we had ever been on a movie set. We learned a lot. We learned that if you really wanted a movie to come out the way you wanted it to, you had to direct. So on the next movie, Airplane!, we insisted on directing".
Eventually the Airplane! script found its way to Paramount through Michael Eisner. Eisner learned of the script via Susan Baerwald, another scriptwriter with United Artists, and had Jeffrey Katzenberg track down and meet with ZAZ to discuss details. Avco Embassy Pictures also expressed interest in producing the film, but ZAZ decided to go with Paramount.
Paramount insisted the film be shot in color rather than black-and-white as ZAZ wanted, and to be set aboard a jet airliner rather than propeller plane to better identify with modern filmgoers. In exchange, Paramount acquiesced to ZAZ's desire to cast serious actors for the film rather than comedy performers. Principal photography began on June 20, 1979, and wrapped on August 31, with the bulk of filming having been done in August. Jerry Zucker stood beside the camera during shooting, while David Zucker and Jim Abrahams watched the video feed to see how the film would look; they conferred after each take.
An additional fact: ZAZ all make appearances in the film: David and Jerry are the two airport ground workers: "Hey, Larry, where's the forklift?" "Forklift? It's over there, by the baggage loader." Jim Abrahams is the guy who gets knocked over on the bicycle (via rear-projection) while Captain Kramer is driving to the airport, and then yells, "Asshole!" at the reckless driver.
Although ZAZ lost the battle about the jet, they got their way by using prop noise to accompany it - adding another element of hilarity.
I saw Kentucky Fried Movie co-featured with Animal House at the drive-in, with a couple of besties and one of the bestie’s mom (we didn’t drive yet), back in 1979. We had no context/knowledge of ZAZ, and hadn’t read any reviews. In today’s parlance, we were blind reactors! But we laughed and laughed, felt a little naughty (and probably embarrassed to be with a mom). But the next year we went to see Airplane! (By then someone was driving and had access to a car), and we all loved it! Not every single joke landed, but 95% of it did. Airplane! was groundbreaking and paved the way for all the Naked Gun movies and Police Squad TV series - it revitalized Leslie Nielsen’s career and made him a household name.
You can tell the ZAZ team really loved movies, and I love that.
@tranya327 And speaking of cameos, the Zucker brother's mom is the lady on the plane that is trying to put on her make-up
15:23 The actor next to Ted is James Hong, who was recently in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
YES! I recognized him! He’s been in so much.
'This inner monologue of this random woman,' was a parody of an 80s coffee commercial. The 'never vomits at home' was an extension of the joke template.
That lady who got the makeup all over her face is Charlotte Zucker. Her sons Jerry and David are directors for this. She would have small parts over the years in films that her sons produced and/or directed.
Comedian, Rob Schneider has done the same thing with his Mom. She makes a quick cameo in all of his movies as well.
Most people didn't notice this, but the male members of the Molombo tribe were played by the Harlem Globetrotters.
A lil pop culture the great Sigourney Weaver auditioned for the part of Elaine but they didn't like the way she delivered the set on your face and riggle line 😂😂😂
6:20 I always like at this part that you can see him crack a smile trying not to laugh when she gives him the smoking ticket 😂
surly you can't be serious ? ... i am serious, and don't call me Shirley !! ... the greatest line ever !!
Finally someone who gets 80%-90% of the jokes. That was a brilliant reaction. The key is to not take the jokes literally,.. even though the movie does. That was a breath of fresh air as reactions go. Thank you kindly!!!!😂
Thanks so much! I'm glad I got pretty much everything.
@@OGBReacts You got more than most people, so you can be glad & proud of that. I don't know if it's possible for any human to get ALL the jokes & references in the film - both because the culture has moved on from the contemporary-to-the-era references of 43 years ago, and also because the film is so packed with jokes that you barely have time to process one, before the next rapid-fire batch arrive.
There are also a few instances of 'joke-layers' in the film, so much so that one honestly doesn't know whether the filmmakers intended the 'deeper layers' as jokes or not.
For instance: The two African-American Jive talkers:
•Layer One: What if black dialect really were a completely separate language - so impossible to understand that one needed subtitles, translators, etc.
•Layer Two: The subtitles are intentionally bad, with the translation missing about 90 percent of the nuance of the original.
•Layer Three: Could the intentionally-bad subtitles be a shot at modern (at the time) American movies that had subtitles? As in: the actual, translation was routinely thought to be 'too much' for 1970s mainstream American audiences to accept, therefore the film companies (or perhaps the MPAA or censor board) insisted that subtitles be dumbed-down, to be less risque and more 'acceptable'?
@@tranya327 Golly! That was insightful.
Directed by the Zucker brothers, they also did the Naked Gun movies based on their short lived tv series Police Squad--In Color! The more you watch their stuff the more jokes you notice that you missed. "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home"...was part of a well known ad back then for Folgers coffee, so some of the jokes, only those of a certain age will get but most are still relevant. I hope you get a chance to see some of their other movies as well.
The older male actors, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, and Robert Stack were all known up til then as dramatic actors, so this movie reinvigorated their careers. Up until then, they weren't getting as much work in films and this movie single-handedly gave them all another 2 decades of excellent work.
Lloyd Bridges and Leslie Nielsen starred in a bunch of wacky parody movies like "Hot Shots" and "Naked Gun." Both Robert Stack and Peter Graves became successful as television hosts for "Unsolved Mysteries" and "A&E Biography."
All of them loved being able to spoof their previous stoic typecasting and be part of silliness.
Steven Stucker (Johnny) was one of the first public figures to openly admit that he was gay and had AIDS in 1984, way before Rock Hudson admitted to being sick. He died in 1986 at 38 years old.
In case no one else has mentioned it, the inner monologue gag was a reference to this commercial: ruclips.net/video/MJ4kCF22O2w/видео.html
Glad to see you back! Watching you lose it to this movie has made my day.
Yup coffee shaming homemakers at it's finest.
Pretty sure there was a whole series of those.
❤❤❤ I'm so happy you're back. AIRPLANE is a stupid, sick disaster flick. There is so much stuff to grasp. The coffee lady was based on some coffee commercials. "The Zipper" based on Ronald Reagan being "The Gipper." And Ethel Merman. We got this after a decade of disaster movies, and we were ready to bust. Nobody ever mentions the propeller drone instead of jet noise. Oh, well. Lots of stupid stuff to take in and it is better when you have references. But you really don't need them to enjoy this. Again, welcome back. We've missed you.
The joke at the start about the loading zone announcements. That couple were the actual people who did the intercom announcements for LAX.
Like the new digs. Welcome back! You look great and well-rested. Boy’s Life was a magazine that the Boy Scouts published.
When this came out it created a whole new genre of comedy. I’ve seen this movie dozens of times since 1980 and it never gets old.
Be sure to go back and see the end credit scene.
You are one of the very very few rectors who understood it’s a different type of flying altogether joke.
Remember the two guys near the beginning, one looking for a fork lift and the other directing the plane into the terminal window? Those are the directos. Also, the "make-up lady" is their mom
She's back! With an all time classic!
the basketball-playing tribe was played by members of The Harlem Globetrotters.
This was too funny. Your reaction to the “surfing nun” and just like “okay, but wh- okay” with the train conductor. Oh yeah!
You’re well and truly back! ❤️
So glad you’re back!! And you’re right, this was the perfect movie to re-start your reactions!! 😊
The "flamboyant" control room worker Johnny was played by Stephen Stucker. He was one of the first well know actor's of the early 80's to become HIV+. He died at the age of 38 in 1986 from AIDS. But the Zucker brother's who directed Airplane! let him write his own lines for his character. For both this and the sequel.
Oh no :( That’s so upsetting to know, honestly. May he rest easy knowing he made millions laugh ♥️
Oh shit, I didn't know that. Makes me love his character even more. ❤️
"Johnny, how about some coffee?" Johnny replies, "No thanks." LOL. Love that exchange. Happens 2 or 3 x in the movie.
“How long until we land?”
“I can’t tell.”
“You can tell me, I’m a doctor.”
When it comes to Hollywood comedies, it's hard to get any nuttier than the Zucker brothers. They did their best work with their writing partner Jim Abrahams. Apart from "Airplane", their most famous film is "The Naked Gun" which also features Leslie Nielsen. Their most offensive film is their first one, "Kentucky Fried Movie". But their greatest achievement in just being all-around deranged is underrated "Top Secret" which was the acting debut of Val Kilmer.
Ironically, they had no involvement with the sequel "Airplane II" and if you ever have the misfortune of seeing that sequel, you might agree the absence of the Zuckers is clear from start to finish.
It's lovely to see you back, and I'm glad you seem to have had a restful break. The writers on this film all went to the same high school I did.
This has to be Seth Macfarlene’s favorite movie because I’ve seen countless references of it on Family Guy and in the Ted movies.
There aren't many movies 40 years old that are this funny. Glad you enjoyed it
There was a coffee commercial in the 70's and it had the wife thinking to herself "My husband never asks for a second cup of coffee at home" supposed to mean she was using the wrong coffee. And I remember it all these years later. Psychology in advertising runs deep
I loved when you said what the hell is going on? When Ethal Mirman popped up out of bed. First thing popped into my head was wait till you see the horse in the lady's bed.
First- love the squishmallows! ❤ second love how attentive you are. You caught a lot of the jokes that most miss… “its an entirely different kind of flying, all together”… that one took me a while 😂
I've loved this movie for so many reasons, not the least of which was it launched Leslie Nielsen's comedy career. Johnny was always my favourite character. I strongly suggest you also watch Hot Shots Parts one and two, I can virtually guarantee you'll love it. Lloyd Bridges is in both and is an absolute crack up. I had seen this movie dozens of time over the years, and it wasn't until a couple of years ago I even notice the jars of mayonnaise in the background.
Good on you for recognizing the need to take a break; material and financial health means nothing if your mental health is suffering. Hope you're in a better place now. And I like the blue on the walls. Make me feel all wibbly-wobbly, timey-whimey, if you know what I mean. If not, ask and I'll enlighten you. :D
Sam! Glad you’re back. Without you, there was no reason on YT to stop making left turns. I was getting dizzy.😂
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You want to know the _best_ part of this movie? There are places where the jokes come at you so fast you don't _catch_ 'em all on the first viewing.
When I was editing this I caught some I didn’t even realize during the first viewing!
Great to see you back. My favorite character in this film was Robert Stack. Loved what he did.
Hope you do the sequel soon!
That backflip is all him, at age 61.
For those of us who primarily know him from Unsolved Mysteries, his cameo in Baseketball is fantastic. His serious delivery of ridiculous lines is A+
@@LordVolkov Scenario 2: Coop went to Disney World.
OMG OGB! I just realized when I get a notification pop up in my phone for a video, right from there I can drop in my "Watch Later" list (i usually add several throighout the day and watch them at night)
This totally changes my relationship with OGB AND RUclips in general.
All hail this is a glorious day!
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And I cant want to watch this video later on. Fun film!
Johnny is the ULTIMATE peanut gallery!!!
"To the tower!? Repunzel, Repunzel !" RIP Johnny
I love this movie! There are many things you missed because you are so young but still so enjoyable. You picked the best movie to come back with. I really enjoyed watching this with you. I missed your reactions very much. You are so much fun! Welcome back! Looking forward to your next one!!
Yeah definitely missed a few things BUT I did pretty good overall 😂 Thank you!
Great to see you back! I first saw this as a kid (amazing what was PG in the 1980s) and half of the jokes probably flew over my head, but it's become one of my standbys for when I need a mood lift. It's even funny in translation! In the German dub, the two jive talking guys speak thick Bavarian dialect, which is hilarious to me because it's so unexpected.
The eggs in the mouth bit was a popular magic trick at the time.
Wow. You recognized Ethel Merman! I'm really impressed. 👍
"Caucasian translation." 🤣 I'm part of an extended Latino/Black/White/straight/gay family. I am TOTALLY using the "Caucasian translation" line at our next get-together. 😄
SO much fun. You made me laugh. This movie kind of invented the modern spoof. It was like the Scary Movie of its day. A lot of the jokes hit harder if you've seen the original Airport moves, which were like popcorn disaster movies, very popular genre in the 70's. But it's still outlandish. And too risque for a PG movie by today's standards.
✈ Oh hey, it's a Sam! Welcome back! I like the Cinema sign with "Airplane!" in your background!
Thank you! I can change up the board every video now!
Great to see you back! I enjoy your reaction videos because you always seem to have a good time no matter what movie you’re watching 😊
Welcome back Sam!
Airplane is a great amalgamation of disaster movies (Zero Hour almost beat for beat, and several jokes related to the Airport disaster series). The singing stewardess + sick little girl is from one of the Airports, where the sick child is played by Linda Blair of The Exorcist.
Fun fact: the red zone/white zone people were the actual announcers at LAX, and they were married!