People were doing the "What is it.. but that's not important right now" and "Don't call me Shirley" gags for a year around the water cooler in the office and in schools.
I've watched this dozens, maybe even hundreds of times thanks to cable and didn't get that until watching the DVD commentary. I also like how almost every reaction video misses the gag of Kramer walking through the mirror because they are focused on the dog attacking the guy.
at 22:26, no one ever seems to get the mirror joke scene. Rex Kramer comes down the stairs and takes the coat and hat from his wife and you watch as he dresses in the mirror, but then he suddenly walks out of the mirror and past his wife and camera. I think the dog "attack" happening at the same time detracts everyone from the other joke that was happening. You can see the scene by looking up "Airplane! (1980) Rex Kramer Mirror Scene" in youtube search if you've never noticed it before.
@@Pausenton I believe they built a reversed version of the set behind the mirror. At first the scene uses a real mirror that the actor is standing in front of, but then there's a cut (to show the dog "attacking"), and it switches to the actor standing inside the reversed set and a double for the actor with his back to the camera on the "real" side.
@@RocketToTheMoose That's been my only conclusion, but that would involve building reverse banister scrolls, reverse clocks, and more just for a 20 second gag. Which, maybe they did, but I've always wanted someone to dive into the details of that scene. But yeah, only like 1 in 10 reactors pick up the fact he walks out of the mirror, and I had high hopes for Shanelle. At least she liked Johnny.
The film totally changed Leslie Nielsen's career. He was solely known for straight dramatic roles. Airplane comes along, the Naked Gun movies follow and he's now recognised as one of the greatest comic actors of all time.
Police Squad came before Naked Gun, and it had the same absurd humor (unsurprising, as it was made by the same team of Abrahams, Zucker, and Zucker). Also, Nielsen was known for Poseidon Adventure, and Forbidden Planet.
@@jamestaylor3805 He was the captain in The Poseidon Adventure, one of the most popular disaster movies of the time. That's probably why they hired him.
11:17 I saw this in the theater in 1980. After 40 years of watching this movie, I just realized he said he was in the Air Force but was wearing a Navy uniform. WOW!
i just always thought he was a navy pilot, and "air force" was just referring to his navy planes, but now, looking at the humor, I might be way off lol
bc I was in the navy I definitely noticed the uniform. But until recently I hadn't noticed the props instead of jet sounds 😅 and I've watched it for decades also.
You have to understand the historical context: this spoofed a late 1970's-era of disaster movies (The Towering Inferno, Airport, Earthquake, Avalanche, Grey Lady Down, many others) whose tropes included famous athletes doing cameos, huge crowd panic scenes, normal people with hero redemption arcs, trauma flashbacks, cheesy love triangles.
@@ShanelleRiccioWhile this movie is a great parody of the 1970’s “disaster” genre - as described above - the actual story is from a 1957 movie that is 100% old Hollywood melodrama. “Abrahams and the Zucker brothers wrote the screenplay for their comedic masterpiece based on the 1957 film _Zero Hour!_ , a World War II drama from director Hall Bartlett that takes itself extremely seriously (the Zuckers bought the rights to the film, so there’s no issue of copyright infringement).”
Right down to the exclamation point in the title. The co-pilot in _Zero Hour!_ was played by a then-famous former college football star turned actor - hence the choice of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the role. They also wanted to have an old propeller engine plane as the model for "external" shots, but the studio forced them to use a modern jet engine model - but for the entire movie, they overlaid _propeller_ noises on the shots of the _jet plane_ model, and hardly anyone notices, unless it's pointed out (I certainly didn't), because to most people that's just "typical plane noises".
And some elements are copped directly from the _Airport_ franchise (which had only just finally hemorrhaged to death the year before with the incredibly bad _The Concorde--Airport '79,_ a comedy in its own right). The nun with a guitar and the girl getting a transplant are straight out of _Airport 1975_ and "slapping the hysterical passenger" was a key element in most of them.
@@lifeincarnate7304 - No... she talked right over that line. And she talked over a lot of other classic lines. This is what happens when reactors get swollen egos and start to think of themselves as comedians. As if we're here to see their bad "jokes" instead of their reactions to comedy. It's sad, but it happens to a lot of otherwise decent reaction channels.
@@Mr.Ekshin especially when she said ‘well, that’s the second question he asked that’s inappropriate’ about Leslie Nielsen’s questions to the kid. What?!?!? EVERYTHING the captain says to the kid is inappropriate!!!That’s the point!! and she totally missed his ‘ever seen a grown man naked?’ line.
I had to go to the ER once. The triage nurse asked me what was wrong and I said I had a problem with my bowels. When she asked, "What is it?" I said, "It's a long tube inside you where your food goes. But that's not important right now." The look on her face started out shocked then slowly morphed into delight. She said, "I can't believe that just happened." It turned out it was her Monday. The night before her boy friend had shown her a movie she had never heard of. Airplane! Imagine watching a 40+ year old movie and the very next day some random stranger makes a joke from that movie.
The woman who spoke jive, Barbara Billingsley, played June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver, the mother in a very wholesome family sitcom. This added to the irony of her role as translating jive. Also, of course you can vary your video intro, improv is always welcome. Be yourself, why else would we be here?
I saw it in theatre opening weekend. One scene that everyone caught, but reactors never get, is the "Win one for the Zipper" speech, which was a word-for-word reprise of Ronald Reagan's "Win one for the Gipper" speech as George Gipp in Knute Rockne All-American. Reagan was running for president in 1980.
@@ianstopher9111 I got that one, but never noticed the fresh water fish (I've never been into fishing so I know nothing about what comes from where lol), and I never knew the movie reference, I just thought it was a reference to romance movies in general. All these years later and this movie is still giving us new jems to laugh at, this is a true comedic masterpiece... I feel like Life of Brian is in the same vein for me, I think there are probably still things I don't get in that movie. These comment threads can sometimes be really negative, but sometimes, like this one, they can really make our day a little bit better, a new understanding of something we didn't even know was funny.... Or maybe I just feel that way coz I've had a few bourbons for my birthday lol.... Either way, I appreciate all these comments.
At 27:15 , the actor that says "About 2 more minutes, Chief." That actor is Jonathan Banks, who would go on to play Mike Ehrmantraut or Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fame
What makes this film work so well is most of the leads, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, had only done dramatic roles, so people were unprepared for the seriousness in which they delivered the most inane of jokes. (I know you covered this in the trivia section, I just had to emphasize it.)
One of my favorite lines is when Leslie Nielsen was asked how he could say such silly lines with a straight face. He told them he had been saying silly lines for 30 years, but it was nice that the writers were in on the joke.
I like how in the Peace Corps scene, with the tribe that had been "isolated" from civilization, the women have stylish clothing, perfectly coiffed hair, and manicured nails. Also, the men who played basketball were played by the Harlem Globetrotters.
If you're not familiar with Peter Graves, he was in the TV version of "Mission: Impossible", from 1967 to '73. His brother was James Arness. He played Marshal Matt Dillon, in the TV series "Gunsmoke", from 1955 to '75.
Actor Robert Hays is a pilot in real life, he lives in Hawaii and is qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft. Of course, if I got on a plane, and Ted Striker was my pilot... I'd have to re-evaluate my life choices....
The bigger joke is : That is the same couple. Similarly- the "Red Zone" and "White Zone" couple at thr beginning ARE a couple and actually recorded the recordings played at th LA Airport.
@@libertyresearch-iu4fy A lot of coffee commercials played on the idea of not liking coffee made at home, and discovering better coffee at a restaurant, a neighbor's house, a friend's party, etc., which turns out to be an affordable brand. Even if I never saw that particular Yuban commercial, it's obvious to me that the bit in Airplane is a riff on some coffee commercial.
During the reception at my own wedding, when the DJ happened to play Stayin’ Alive, I tossed my jacket from the dance floor 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.
"Win one for the zipper" was a take off on a line from an famous old movie, about a dying college football player who says "win one for the Gipper", and starred a future President in the title role. It was why President Reagan was often referred to as "The Gipper," he was once a movie star
The movie was Knute Rockne, All-American, and takes place at Notre Dame University - the music during the Win One for the Zipper speech is the the school song for the Fighting Irish.
Oh, I've got a theater story for this one! Imwas five-years-old when I saw this movie in the theater. I remember seeing on TV the commercial for another movie coming out. It looked totally hilarious! It had all these people in it acting crazy and doing all these whacky things. The movie was called Airplane! I begged and pleaded with my parents to take me to see it and eventually, they acquiesced. We got to our seats in the theater, and the movie started. Right from the start when the Jaws theme started playing instead of upbeat fun comedy movie music I felt on edge. It only got worse from there. The music continued to be suspenseful and all the characters, regardless of what was happening around them, were acting very seriously. All the word play, the puns, and the innuendo were all going over my head. Even most of the sight gags I didn’t get because I had no references for them to work with. Then the problems on the plane started with the food poisoning with the passengers getting sick and then the pilots getting sick. I was horrified! I kept asking my mom in a worried tone, “What’s going to happen now?” as if she knew. She just shushed me saying she didn’t know but this was all supposed to be silly. I just couldn’t grasp that. These people were in really trouble, many were dangerously sick, how could this be funny? There was that one guy at the control tower that kept acting silly, but that just disturbed me more. We’re there really people in this world that didn’t care when other people were in danger? Then Otto, the inflatable auto pilot, appeared. I didn’t know what to make of that. It was this inflatable man that seemed at times to actually have thoughts of its own. Then the movie ended but the fear didn’t end for me, in fact it became all encompassing. This was where having an imagination like I did got me in trouble. You see, the plane was on the ground but because I didn’t see the pilots and the sick passengers leave the airplane I thought they were still on it. Then the plane took off again, sans wheels no less, and it was Otto at the controls. I had this image in my head of the plane forever in the sky, the people still on it alive but too weak and miserable to do anything and were at the mercy of this evil sentient balloon man and his blow up girlfriend. No matter what my mom said, that everybody got off the plane, that it would be impossible anyway for the plane to take off without wheels, none of it could ever happen. I didn’t believe her. I knew it for certain, that plane was up there and there were people on it in some living Hell and Otto was their demon overlord. We came home and I couldn’t get to sleep at all that night. I kept having images in my head of those people being so ill and in a no way out situation. I would even start shaking uncontrollably at times. Over the next few nights the fear lessened but if I thought about the movie I could get worked up again. It may sound absolutely absurd that anyone could be scared by the movie Airplane! but you just never know how something is going to affect a kid.
I didn't have it that bad, but I first saw it as the second feature in at a drive-in after E.T. I was very upset early in the movie by something that should have seriously hurt someone. I might have been actually crying, and my dad leans over and explains it's like a live action cartoon. After that it just clicked and everything was funny, I mean except for the stuff that just went right over my head.
Omg this is gold!!! I get it, things as a kid are totally different! I thought the Very Brady Movie was completely real 😂😂😂 took everything absolutely seriously
5:44 Few people ever notice that in the middle of the screen, there is a husband and wife sitting there, the wife is holding their baby in the pink bundle.... the plane comes through the window, the husband pushes the wife back towards the plane as he runs for safety and she flings the baby up in the air and runs. Always loved that. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
One joke that went over your head was the line, "No. That's just what they'll be expecting!" That line is a cliche in old war movies. The commander's subordinate suggests a strategy and the commander would say that, implying that the best strategy would be what the enemy wouldn't be prepared for.
What lands the joke is that the actor, Robert Stack, was best known at the time for playing detectives (like Elliot Ness) who had to outwit criminal masterminds.
18:14 Actually that's the fourth 1. "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?" 2. "You ever hang around a gymnasium?" 3. "Do you like movies about gladiators?" 4." You ever been in a Turkish prison?" I'll add that 2 and 3 may not be inappropriate in and of themselves, but among the others, they paint Clarence to be a very sus character
The whole joke is that they’re in the cockpit and, political correctness not being what it is now, the questions were based on a lot of homoerotic tropes and stereotypes. Definitely a joke that hasn’t aged well.
If you want to read more into it, you could say that he has a fascination with these things because he is homosexual but isn’t aware of it… and his latent leanings are why his wife sleeps with a horse and feels other men up. It’s really a savage indictment of how repression can harm people and those around them, and why openness and understanding are vital to us all! Or not… 😁 Or it’s just 🤔
Glad you enjoyed this film. Two things: 1. Since the release of this film, the FAA issued a rule that the pilot, co-pilot, and navigation engineer cannot eat the same meal, and 2. The background noise of the jet airplane is the sound of propeller aircraft. Subtle but still funny for those who spent time on the flight line. ✈🛫
@@ShanelleRiccioI believe that rule was issued after the movie ‘Zero Hour’ was released. If it hasn’t been mentioned yet, the plot of this movie was lifted from the 1950s movie ‘Zero Hour.’
My mom showed this one to me when I was eight. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen, and that's with half the jokes already going over my head. And yes, Stephen Stucker as Johnny was the real MVP.
It amuses me when younger people have no clue about the famous references in a movie like Airplane. There is so much hilarious humor they just don’t understand at all.
It took me about 35 years to get the "Leon's getting larger!" joke. It was an advertising slogan of Leon's furniture chain that was expanding its stores' floor space, that is, getting larger.
At 22:22 the editor cut just short of it, but Rex Kramer (Robert Stack) actually steps out of the mirror. Out of all the reactions I've watched of this movie I think only one reactor actually noticed it.
The cast is stacked with stars of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond. Leslie Neilson was already a star and is the lead in “Forbidden Planet”. Lloyd Bridges is the father of Jeff and Beau, and was the star of a very popular show called “Sea Hunt”. Robert Stack was the host of “Unsolved Mysteries” and “The Untouchables”. Peter Graves (pilot) was the star of “Mission Impossible”. It goes on and on. You can even get a glimpse of Mike from Breaking Bad, Jonathan Banks checking the Radar Range.
I think the "I picked the wrong week to quit..." running gag kind of works as a doubled-up Rule of 3. You get the first 3, then they do the 4th one, BUT the 4th one is done 3 times.
Elmer Bernstein, the score’s composer, was a legend in Hollywood. He was nominated for at least one Oscar every decade from the 1950s to the 2000s. His most iconic work was in films like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, and The Ten Commandments. In the late ‘70s, he started doing comedic films-this one, Animal House, Ghostbusters, among others.
Half this movie is missed by most new viewers (e.g. JJ Walker's cameo). And yet they still love it. THAT is a classic. One of the funniest movies EVER. I was so excited that you were watching this. It seems right up your alley.
7:38 - Friends and family used to be able to wait with you at the gate until you boarded, and then they would leave. 19:58 - Meals used to be included with your ticket on all flights over four hours. Real meals too, in ceramic dishes.
The turkish prison question got one of the biggest uncomfortable laughs as I recall. It came from a massive hit movie, Midnight Express, a true story about someone getting caught smuggling drugs out of Istanbul and was sent to prison (not good things happened there). That and Jaws and Saturday Night Fever being referenced because they were still being played in some second-run cinemas and were still 'topical'. Also, there were a series of disaster flicks in the 70's simply called Airport (and the year), so this title is a riff off those flicks 😂
Shanelle, I have to give you some credit here as most reactors don't get the joke about the couple where the man appears to be boarding a train when the plane starts taxiing down the runway. Bravo!
When my sister and I saw the movie they referenced, we about died laughing. Since You Went Away with Claudette Colbert, Shirley Temple, Jennifer Jones, and Joseph Cotten. We were late going to Thanksgiving dinner because we wanted to watch Jennifer Jones run after Robert Walker on the train.
@nikigunn I appreciate that anecdotal information. I didn't realize that it was a specific reference to one film...just thought it was a reference to a film cliche.
@-M0LE Well, all I can say is you must be watching different reactions than I have, and I've watched a ton of reactions to this film as it is one everyone reacts to as most reactors don't seem to be able to come up with good movies to react to on their own.
@@bjgandalf69 octokrool and cinebinge got it I think Ashleigh burton did too As for watching the same movies I think there is a connection to the movie industry that allows or gives a list of movie that are easy to react without getting copyright infringement I agree there are many reactions to the same movies I think it’s because it also brings a decent pay for the reactors they can see how popular it was on other channels This movie is definitely top 5 of those movie nearly Every reactor has done airplane now
I was hoping you would catch the sight gag at 22:25 where Robert Stack walks out of the mirror. It's a great camera trick they do. ETA, you're correct that Johnny is the best character. He slays me.
100% about Johnny. I always see people thinking he’s annoying or hating him, and I’m just perplexed: for me, he’s the best character in this movie. Love him!
I presume his proper name in the movie series is John Jacobs. If someone had produced an Airplane 3 in Stephen Stucker's lifetime would the character be referred to Jingleheimer or Schmidt?
For decades, I thought "...and Leon's getting larger" was just a silly throwaway line. I was just told recently that, in 1980, the Leon's Furniture Store chain was expanding on the west coast, and their commercials said, "Leon's is getting larger!"
The older man in the beginning who called for a "TAXI" is none other than Howard Jarvis. Wikipedia: Howard Arnold Jarvis (September 22, 1903 - August 12, 1986) was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician. He was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978. Just thought I'd share in case you didn't know. Hi Shanelle! 🤓
And there is the one of the very first post credit scenes that gets missed in these reactions ..so many times.. go back and look at it. It's not hilarious, but it does fulfill that rule of three, Shane. And watch the credits in the zaz movies. Sometimes they add phrases and make those funny as well, especially through top secret. Watch all "top secret" credits
Pre 9/11 I would take the kids to the Cincinnati International Airport to watch the planes and the people. We would get a big bag of freshly popped pop corn and go up to the observation deck and watch the planes come and go, then go down to the gates and people watch. It was a very different time in America!
Right? My dad worked for an airline and we used to be able to enter airport thru a “back entrance” but that changed after something happened, other liberties were taken away after other incidents but then 9/11 and everything changed
flying was at it's best before planes were hijacked to Cuba and airport security started. The airport was a place of meetings and departures of family and friends. After security was implemented and only passengers could go to the gates, I used to go to the trash and pick up an old boarding pass to hang out of my shirt pocket so security let me through to meet friends at their arrival gate. The pilots in the '60s were former war flyers and you would know if they were fighter pilots or bombers by the way they came in for a landing. Fighters would accelerate and decelerate on approach and maybe bounce it a couple times. The bombers would come in steady and touch down softly. On one flight, I didn't know we were on the ground until he applied the breaks.
Many people would agree with you - Johnnie is the best character. I’ve only ever spotted him in one other film, about a 5-second clip in Trading Places. He died of AIDS in the ‘80s. He’s still well-loved.
Llyod Bridges is Jeff and Beau Bridges father, but Shirley you can't be serious!!!, plus wanted to wish you a belated Christmas and Happy New Year Shanelle, you always make me smile. 😊
38:41 --- Absolutely true.. The ground crew has to remain focused at all times because a missed cue or small mistake could spell major disaster when you are directing something as large as a plane....
I was in a Christmas movie called 'Noelle' with Julie Haggerty and Anna Kendrick a few years ago. I was an Elf. I think she was Mrs. Claus. She is so nice.
21:50 - this is why this wonderful movie isn't really a parody of "Zero Hour" (1957) but actually a remake - that ludicrous line (and many others) about finding someone who can both fly the plane and didn't have fish for dinner is lifted verbatim from the original - which is why the producers had to buy the rights to Zero Hour.
It's too bad that film copyright isn't like music copyright, especially considering that films are much closer to music as an artform than they are to books. If it were, the producers could have just paid a nominal licensing fee to the copyright owners of the Zero Hour script without having to worry about it beyond that.
I saw Airplane in a packed cinema when it was released and is probably the funniest film I've ever seen. The entire theater was in hysterics for almost the entire time, and laughter being infectious made it all the better. I really like your reaction to it; you obviously know your way around movie commentary. This is a movie that is much more fun when you have someone to watch it with, especially if they appreciate "stupid" humor. One of my favorites. Good job!
When the plane went through the window, did you notice the lady tossing the baby? Lol. I did not fully understand maybe half the gags when I saw this as a kid, but certainly appreciated them as an adult lol🤣
Surely that can't be the first time you've heard the Shirley joke! That's the one I just assume is universal at this point. Also I laughed at "I know Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" followed immediately by "oh he's a basketball player!"
My dad was a USAF pilot. This was one of his favorite movies because of the propeller sounds whenever the plane was on screen. It was the weirdest thing.
As a kid I was in hospital for a long time and had a big surgery where they had to cut open my stomach. As I stayed in the hospital to recover from the surgery my dad had the brilliant idea to bring a TV, a VHS player and the Airplane! movie which I couldn't finish because I was laughing so much which hurt as hell. 😂 We had to finish the movie later and then watched the second one as well.
My "similar story" is that I was recovering from and abdominal surgery and my wife came to visit and turned on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (which we'd never seen before) and we had to turn it off again since it hurt to laugh.
Yes, Shanelle, that was Jeff bridges father, Glad you almost got the humour we had in the 80s. Thanks for your reaction! Today’s humour is so serious! But the humour we had the 80s was less serious!! Even though I didn’t get it at first!!
They also always miss that the taxi passenger is Howard Jarvis, a well-known (at the time) anti-tax crusader who was behind Proposition 13 in California. Everyone also misses that there are jokes IN the credits (such as silly job titles. nursery rhymes and mocking of historical figures). There are some hilarious jokes in the credits.
My uncle every time he came to visit always wanted to watch two movies and two movies only - Stripes and Airplane. It got to the point where my dad just put both movies on one Betamax tape and 'here ya go - ill get the pizza comin." So ive watched both of those movies multipe times and my uncle laughs just as hard as he did the first time 300 viewings later. Kentucky fried movie is a very wild ride - just to forewarn you if you decide to take that journey.
yeah, the jokes in Kentucky Fried Movie are certainly not for people who don't have a funny bone. They certainly wouldn't fly today, Rex Kramer Danger Seeker comes to mind. I still break out Kentucky Fried Movie a couple times a year and laugh my ass off. Catholic High School Girls In Trouble!!
My favorite part is when the reporters ask what kind of plane it is and Johnny says, “Oh it’s a big pretty white plane with red stripes and curtains in the window and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol”. 😂
The actress who played the hysterical passenger was the one who thought up the long line of people waiting to smack her around/commit violence on her. Originally, it was just going to be one or two people. She approached the directors with the idea and they loved it!
I saw this as a double feature with "Caddyshack" at a drive-in of all places, and I was only 9! My dad took his girlfriend (now his wife) on a date and us kids (me & my step sister) were in the back seat. I remember some of watching Caddshack, but Airplane! stuck with me. Loved slapstick humor. Loved the sequel even more! Funny now to think back. My dad is soo straight-laced, serious, and he chose these two movies to go on a family date?? Wild...
never even thought about it, but up until the 90's adult magazines were on the top racks, out of reach of children, then in the 90's they covered him behind a hard plastic cover except for the title. By the early 2000's they were basically out of everything but bookstores. If not the first, one of the first parody movies; it was almost a scene for scene remake of a drama. Most of the actors were considered dramatic actors including Leslie Nielson.
Two of the my favorite spoofs in this movie went right over your head. 1) the woman who talks jive is Barbara Billingsley - she was the all American model mother/housewife in Leave It To Beaver. Her cameo is making fun of her image, she spoofed herself - so brilliant. 2) When the doctor gives him a little inspiring speech, they are parodying the pep talk from an old football movie "Knute Rockne, All American" - the speech from that movie in the locker room - the 'win one for the Gipper' speech - is famous, if you've ever seen the movie Rudy its the one he recites when he gets inside Notre Dame's locker room. The inspiring music you noticed was the Notre Dame fight song. Lloyd Bridges is Jeff Bridges dad. Also Beau Bridges.
each to their own humor, a lot went over your head (because of reference points)- "current" events from the time, famous cameos of people you don't know, and it was a spoof of old 70s disaster movies like "Airport 75". BUT- the missing drinks on his face? he has a DRINKING PROBLEM. you have to take most of these jokes LITERALLY. LOL
She spent so much time trying to "make sense" of everything. How much crazy stuff needs to happen before you realize that its farce. The story is almost beside the point. The knowing looks at the camera when you know she doesnt get it were frustrating.
Ted says he was stationed in Drambuie. Well that must have been difficult because Drambuie is not a place but a liqueur made from Scotch whisky. Also, R.I.P. actor Nicholas Pryor who played Joey's dad. He passed away October 7, 2024 at age 89. Hopefully, he's in a place now where the coffee is always good.
When I was fourteen, my first Job was dishwasher in terminal E of Logan in Boston. I had my own master key. It opened any door in the building other than private offices. I used to go back and forth theough customs all the time. Whole different world.
13:03 Arguably the funniest moment in Cinematic History. The sheer unexpectedness of it is gargantuan.🤣 19:08 Land a plane? Yes. Survivors|?...I'll get back to you
I saw this in the theater with my mom. We went to see something else and kept hearing uproarious laughter from the theater next door. My mom was intrigued so we went over to the other theater and laughed our butts off. Great memory. Also, you missed so much, but you're young so I can understand. There are so many movies spoofed that just aren't really known by the younger generations.
Two quick ones that get missed are the Beach scene is in From Here to Eternity and the scene where Ted gets talked back into the cockpit is from Knut Rockne All American. Also, the lady who speaks jive is Barbara Billingsley who was the mother in Leave it to Beaver. Love your reviews!
He was sniffing glue. Back in the day, you could get plastic scale model airplanes and cars, that you had to assemble. Sorta like the computers of the 70's, they kept kids off the street. Testors made glue and paints for the models. You'd snip the pieces off the plastic tree they were molded on, glue them together and paint the model, usually there were decals, as the finishing touch. I'm sure you've seen the words, "USE IN A WELL VENTELATED PLACE". That glue gave a whole new meaning to those words. I got buzzed, just working on a model, forget about sniffing the shit.
I made models with that glue! It used to make me lightheaded. I'm not even sure I always washed my hands afterwards either. Funny what kids were allowed to play with back then (remember mercury thermometers?). It's a wonder Gen X managed to survive as long as we have.
People who seriously sniffed it (which causes brain damage BTW) would squeeze it into a paper lunch bag and huff it hard with the bag held tight over nose and mouth.
Good choice. I was worried at first because you weren't laughing your ass off the whole time, but by the time you got to the tupperware party, you definitely "got it." Nice reaction.
At the start of the movie you commented on how you loved the man in a suit with glasses who "stepped into frame" with "no cut". You wouldn't recognize the man as I assume this movie was made before you were born. The man was well recognized in Calif. He is Howard Jarvis. He & Paul Gann were responsible for the Jarvis & Gann Proposition 13 that froze home property tax appraisals in Calif. Due to real estate speculation counties were increasing the appraisals of homes annually at such a high rate that home owners on fixed incomes were being forced to sell their homes. The proposition allowed the counties to reappraise the property to current value only when it was sold. I believe that there are 2 more cameo shots of Jarvis sitting in the taxi in the middle & at the end of the movie.
This movie and “The Naked Gun” are on my list of movies I saw when I was way too young to see them, but the inappropriate jokes flew over my head. I randomly caught this movie on network tv when I was about 9 years old and I recognized Leslie Nielsen from the Naked Gun. I instantly loved it because of the slapstick and other visual humor, but now over three decades later, it’s one of my favorite comedies for all the other reasons you may expect. Oh, and I have to say, it took you over 4 years on this channel to get around to watching it?! Surely you can’t be serious! 😇
SHAN!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR💯🥳💯 No lie gf this was the BEST of the roughly GAZILLION reactions I've watched for this movie! Keep on doing what you do!!! 😊💯😎
Shanelle, you missed some of the best punchlines while you were talking. They come at you fast and constantly in this movie. You were confused about the captain asking about gymnasiums because you just missed the set up of the captain asking if he'd ever seen a grown man naked.
It's been too long since I've watched a Shanelle reaction! You bring great perspective, I love the imdb review at the end, and mostly I love your smiling face and great personality!
Myth busters did an episode on plane myths. One test was if an Air traffic controller could guide a passenger through landing a plane. Both Jaime and Adam were able to land the simulator. But all three found the experience stressful.
"This is so stupid." - Yes. That's what makes it great. One thing that makes this movie work is that all the actors but one play it completely straight, as if it weren't a comedy. Stephen Stucker, who played Johnny, was the exception. Most of his lines were ad-libbed. Lloyd Bridges was Jeff Bridges' father. There's a post-credits scene that shows the guy still waiting in the taxi. He says, "Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes, but that's it!" The actor was Howard Jarvis, a prominent California politician of that time.
You should consider watching "Airplane 2: The Sequel". A lot of people dismiss it because of the non-involvement of ZAZ, but the movie is delightfully wacky. You should watch "The Kentucky Fried Movie" but cutting it down to be safe for RUclips might be tricky.
Could be tricky but could be easily done. The balloon sounds shower scene for Catholic High School Girls in Trouble could be blurred, and the first syllable of what Rex Kramer shouts could be muted, but not the last part of "the word" because that is the joke, hence him being a Danger Seeker. Plenty of other things, but yes Kentucky Fried Movie would be a great choice right after watching Airplane!
Saw this in the theater at 14 when it came out. You can tell a lot about a person by their opinion of this movie. If their top 5 comedies doesn't include this, a Mel Brooks and a Monty Python movie I don't trust their opinions. 😂
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People were doing the "What is it.. but that's not important right now" and "Don't call me Shirley" gags for a year around the water cooler in the office and in schools.
He has a "drinking problem" get it?
Kentucky Fried Movie is hilarious, also Top Secret from the same ZAZ team
you'd like the other spoof movies better- TOP SECRET, or HOT SHOTS.
The most subtle joke in this film is that it's a jet airplane but you hear a propeller engine throughout the movie
One of my favorite subtle jokes is that they are flying a jet airplane, however the sound is always of a propeller plane throughout the movie.
My dad pointed this out the first time we saw it in 1980, and I'm disappointed I was robbed of eventually discovering the joke for myself.
@@ccthomas But did you notice at the end when Otto takes off with his date, then there is the jet engine noise?
Except when it’s a steam train.
Apparently it had something to do with the copyright of the original. Couldn’t show the prop engines from 12 O’clock High, so they used the sound.
I've watched this dozens, maybe even hundreds of times thanks to cable and didn't get that until watching the DVD commentary. I also like how almost every reaction video misses the gag of Kramer walking through the mirror because they are focused on the dog attacking the guy.
at 22:26, no one ever seems to get the mirror joke scene. Rex Kramer comes down the stairs and takes the coat and hat from his wife and you watch as he dresses in the mirror, but then he suddenly walks out of the mirror and past his wife and camera. I think the dog "attack" happening at the same time detracts everyone from the other joke that was happening.
You can see the scene by looking up "Airplane! (1980) Rex Kramer Mirror Scene" in youtube search if you've never noticed it before.
Still waiting for a reactor to get it!
@ShanelleRiccio ,as a filmmaker, can you please explain how they did the mirror sceene
@@Pausenton I believe they built a reversed version of the set behind the mirror. At first the scene uses a real mirror that the actor is standing in front of, but then there's a cut (to show the dog "attacking"), and it switches to the actor standing inside the reversed set and a double for the actor with his back to the camera on the "real" side.
@@RocketToTheMoose That's been my only conclusion, but that would involve building reverse banister scrolls, reverse clocks, and more just for a 20 second gag. Which, maybe they did, but I've always wanted someone to dive into the details of that scene.
But yeah, only like 1 in 10 reactors pick up the fact he walks out of the mirror, and I had high hopes for Shanelle. At least she liked Johnny.
@@mattmullett9521 Yeah, AFAIK, they DID put a massive amount of effort into a joke that almost no one notices.
"Elaine, you're a member of this crew. Can you face some unpleasant facts?"
"No."
@@csurampower I have always loved how she delivers that single word so perfectly!
One of my favorite jokes.
Sometimes, the simplest jokes are the funniest.
The film totally changed Leslie Nielsen's career. He was solely known for straight dramatic roles. Airplane comes along, the Naked Gun movies follow and he's now recognised as one of the greatest comic actors of all time.
I mean he was almost entirely known for a single role on a day time tv serial drama(soap opera).
Police Squad came before Naked Gun, and it had the same absurd humor (unsurprising, as it was made by the same team of Abrahams, Zucker, and Zucker).
Also, Nielsen was known for Poseidon Adventure, and Forbidden Planet.
Got a heart from Shanelle - BEST DAY EVER
@@jamestaylor3805 He was the captain in The Poseidon Adventure, one of the most popular disaster movies of the time. That's probably why they hired him.
@jamestaylor3805 Also known for being the Captain on Forbidden Planet.
11:17 I saw this in the theater in 1980. After 40 years of watching this movie, I just realized he said he was in the Air Force but was wearing a Navy uniform. WOW!
i just always thought he was a navy pilot, and "air force" was just referring to his navy planes, but now, looking at the humor, I might be way off lol
@MjrCoxwell Yeah. Earlier he said he was in the Air Force as was I. I entered in 1981 to 1990.
I don't think I would know the difference.
bc I was in the navy I definitely noticed the uniform. But until recently I hadn't noticed the props instead of jet sounds 😅 and I've watched it for decades also.
I’ve been waiting for years for a realtor to actually notice that he is in a naval officer’s uniform 🤣
You have to understand the historical context: this spoofed a late 1970's-era of disaster movies (The Towering Inferno, Airport, Earthquake, Avalanche, Grey Lady Down, many others) whose tropes included famous athletes doing cameos, huge crowd panic scenes, normal people with hero redemption arcs, trauma flashbacks, cheesy love triangles.
I feel like this is my first little taste of that and now I’ll be able to pick up on it if we hit more!
@@ShanelleRiccioWhile this movie is a great parody of the 1970’s “disaster” genre - as described above - the actual story is from a 1957 movie that is 100% old Hollywood melodrama. “Abrahams and the Zucker brothers wrote the screenplay for their comedic masterpiece based on the 1957 film _Zero Hour!_ , a World War II drama from director Hall Bartlett that takes itself extremely seriously (the Zuckers bought the rights to the film, so there’s no issue of copyright infringement).”
and its a shot for shot remake/parody of Zero Hour.
Right down to the exclamation point in the title. The co-pilot in _Zero Hour!_ was played by a then-famous former college football star turned actor - hence the choice of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the role. They also wanted to have an old propeller engine plane as the model for "external" shots, but the studio forced them to use a modern jet engine model - but for the entire movie, they overlaid _propeller_ noises on the shots of the _jet plane_ model, and hardly anyone notices, unless it's pointed out (I certainly didn't), because to most people that's just "typical plane noises".
And some elements are copped directly from the _Airport_ franchise (which had only just finally hemorrhaged to death the year before with the incredibly bad _The Concorde--Airport '79,_ a comedy in its own right). The nun with a guitar and the girl getting a transplant are straight out of _Airport 1975_ and "slapping the hysterical passenger" was a key element in most of them.
"Nervous?"
"Yes."
"First time?"
"No, I've been nervous lots of times!"
yeah but she cut it out!
@@lifeincarnate7304 - No... she talked right over that line. And she talked over a lot of other classic lines. This is what happens when reactors get swollen egos and start to think of themselves as comedians. As if we're here to see their bad "jokes" instead of their reactions to comedy. It's sad, but it happens to a lot of otherwise decent reaction channels.
@@Mr.Ekshin especially when she said ‘well, that’s the second question he asked that’s inappropriate’ about Leslie Nielsen’s questions to the kid. What?!?!? EVERYTHING the captain says to the kid is inappropriate!!!That’s the point!! and she totally missed his ‘ever seen a grown man naked?’ line.
@@Mark_McC - Yup... it's so cringe when she's making a snarky "joke" while talking over something that's way funnier than she could ever be.
@@Mr.Ekshin Glad I wasn't the only one thinking so!
I had to go to the ER once. The triage nurse asked me what was wrong and I said I had a problem with my bowels. When she asked, "What is it?"
I said, "It's a long tube inside you where your food goes. But that's not important right now."
The look on her face started out shocked then slowly morphed into delight. She said, "I can't believe that just happened."
It turned out it was her Monday. The night before her boy friend had shown her a movie she had never heard of. Airplane!
Imagine watching a 40+ year old movie and the very next day some random stranger makes a joke from that movie.
But in actuality, your bowels WERE important right then.
The woman who spoke jive, Barbara Billingsley, played June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver, the mother in a very wholesome family sitcom. This added to the irony of her role as translating jive. Also, of course you can vary your video intro, improv is always welcome. Be yourself, why else would we be here?
And she's wearing her pearls
As Oscar Wilde said," Be yourself. Everyone else is taken."
Love that you gave johnny MVP he's alway been my fave character... chuckles galore
i feel like we have to start an MVP of the movie series
Airplane is like watching a movie completely filled with “Dad jokes” come to life
Hahaha yes!!!
It’s one of the sources many dads got their jokes from. 😄
@@0okaminohey Dad jokes have to have inspiration from somewhere.
Back then, they were just called "jokes". Like men, most age well.
They are just called jokes. The term “dad joke” is relatively new
So many of the jokes are lost on younger people but there's so much comedy that it is still a funny movie.
I think Top Secret is a must see.
I know a like German. He's sitting right over there.
All ZAZ movies are
I don't think she likes these kind of movies.
@larrys3821 It does require a particular sense of humor 😅
You might me right
If you enjoyed this style of humour then the Naked Gun is a must.
Thanks for the awesome uploads and happy new year!
All Hail June Cleaver!!! (Barbara Billingsley) she speaks Jive!
I saw it in theatre opening weekend. One scene that everyone caught, but reactors never get, is the "Win one for the Zipper" speech, which was a word-for-word reprise of Ronald Reagan's "Win one for the Gipper" speech as George Gipp in Knute Rockne All-American. Reagan was running for president in 1980.
Also that the music underneath the scene is the Notre Dame Victory March. (Gipp/Rockne were at Notre Dame)
13:34 The kissing on the beach scene is a parody of “From Here to Eternity”
And the fish were fresh water species on an ocean beach.
I knew it was a ref!! I only had Grease to reference 😂
"We're leaving at 0800 hours. We're flying in from the north; under their radar!"
"When will you be back?"
"I can't tell you that. It's classified."
@@ScooterBond1970 I never noted that gag before.
@@ianstopher9111 I got that one, but never noticed the fresh water fish (I've never been into fishing so I know nothing about what comes from where lol), and I never knew the movie reference, I just thought it was a reference to romance movies in general. All these years later and this movie is still giving us new jems to laugh at, this is a true comedic masterpiece... I feel like Life of Brian is in the same vein for me, I think there are probably still things I don't get in that movie.
These comment threads can sometimes be really negative, but sometimes, like this one, they can really make our day a little bit better, a new understanding of something we didn't even know was funny.... Or maybe I just feel that way coz I've had a few bourbons for my birthday lol.... Either way, I appreciate all these comments.
At 27:15 , the actor that says "About 2 more minutes, Chief." That actor is Jonathan Banks, who would go on to play Mike Ehrmantraut or Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fame
His skill as a comedian is sorely underutilized. He was in the one of the best comedy episodes of _Tales From the Crypt_ with Corey Feldman.
31:47 "Is this meme neverending?" Shan, you have no idea. Leslie Nielsen was still making that same joke in Scary Movie 3 over 20 years later!
I love a never-ending😂 bit
The "like my men" joke by the girl is priceless and has lived in my head rent free since 1980
What makes this film work so well is most of the leads, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, had only done dramatic roles, so people were unprepared for the seriousness in which they delivered the most inane of jokes.
(I know you covered this in the trivia section, I just had to emphasize it.)
It does bear repeating
No bears were harmed in the making of this movie.
Soooo serious 😂 but WORKED SO WELL
But it was also crucial for the music to be dead serious throughout; right up to the end with the military sounding music.
One of my favorite lines is when Leslie Nielsen was asked how he could say such silly lines with a straight face. He told them he had been saying silly lines for 30 years, but it was nice that the writers were in on the joke.
I was one of those that saw this movie in the theater in 1980. The audience was cracking up... constant laughter.
One reactor said the movie was full of "Dad jokes". I pointed out that many of us who saw this in the theater are indeed now Dads.
“Ok, give me Ham on five, hold the Mayo”
Considering what he had been reading, I guess hold the pickle, too.
I always thought he should have said “Gimme ham on WHITE, hold the mayo” because he was on the white phone and white is also a type of bread.
@@logann7942 Definitely works better but they were trying to work in a "Ham on rye" joke
I like how in the Peace Corps scene, with the tribe that had been "isolated" from civilization, the women have stylish clothing, perfectly coiffed hair, and manicured nails. Also, the men who played basketball were played by the Harlem Globetrotters.
If you're not familiar with Peter Graves, he was in the TV version of "Mission: Impossible", from 1967 to '73. His brother was James Arness. He played Marshal Matt Dillon, in the TV series "Gunsmoke", from 1955 to '75.
Hello. My name is Peter Graves, and I want to enroll here at the University of Minnesota. Much respect to anyone who gets that. Lol.
@@NWAWskeptic Always nice to encounter a fellow MSTie! I'm Peter Graves, and this is Biography.
What he wasn’t in, however, is _Earth vs Soup._
And Stalag 17.
Minnesotans! MST3K!
Actor Robert Hays is a pilot in real life, he lives in Hawaii and is qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft. Of course, if I got on a plane, and Ted Striker was my pilot... I'd have to re-evaluate my life choices....
What if Randi is flight attendant! I'd fly that!
I always get a kick out of the old Folgers old commercial parody.
"Weird, he never throws up at home".😂😂
It is Yuban coffee. She read it in her recap.
@libertyresearch-iu4fy i saw that. I was wrong. It's been 50 years since I've seen that commercial.😂
God im old
The bigger joke is : That is the same couple.
Similarly- the "Red Zone" and "White Zone" couple at thr beginning ARE a couple and actually recorded the recordings played at th LA Airport.
@@Deathbird_Mitch i had heard that. It's really cool.
@@libertyresearch-iu4fy A lot of coffee commercials played on the idea of not liking coffee made at home, and discovering better coffee at a restaurant, a neighbor's house, a friend's party, etc., which turns out to be an affordable brand. Even if I never saw that particular Yuban commercial, it's obvious to me that the bit in Airplane is a riff on some coffee commercial.
During the reception at my own wedding, when the DJ happened to play Stayin’ Alive, I tossed my jacket from the dance floor 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.
"Win one for the zipper" was a take off on a line from an famous old movie, about a dying college football player who says "win one for the Gipper", and starred a future President in the title role. It was why President Reagan was often referred to as "The Gipper," he was once a movie star
This came out during Reagan's presidential campaign, that's why he's mentioned multiple times
The movie was Knute Rockne, All-American, and takes place at Notre Dame University - the music during the Win One for the Zipper speech is the the school song for the Fighting Irish.
Oh wow. Someone else actually caught this one. You must be ancient!
@@otheus Who do you think watches these reactions to old movies? A lot of us oldies! (Born under Sputnik, myself.)
@@mikejankowski6321 I was also born under Sputnik, 10/20/1957
Also, JJ from "Good Times" was the attendant checking the oil and closing the "hood" on the plane before takeoff.
Oh, I've got a theater story for this one!
Imwas five-years-old when I saw this movie in the theater.
I remember seeing on TV the commercial for another movie coming out. It looked totally hilarious! It had all these people in it acting crazy and doing all these whacky things. The movie was called Airplane!
I begged and pleaded with my parents to take me to see it and eventually, they acquiesced.
We got to our seats in the theater, and the movie started. Right from the start when the Jaws theme started playing instead of upbeat fun comedy movie music I felt on edge. It only got worse from there. The music continued to be suspenseful and all the characters, regardless of what was happening around them, were acting very seriously.
All the word play, the puns, and the innuendo were all going over my head. Even most of the sight gags I didn’t get because I had no references for them to work with.
Then the problems on the plane started with the food poisoning with the passengers getting sick and then the pilots getting sick. I was horrified!
I kept asking my mom in a worried tone, “What’s going to happen now?” as if she knew. She just shushed me saying she didn’t know but this was all supposed to be silly. I just couldn’t grasp that. These people were in really trouble, many were dangerously sick, how could this be funny? There was that one guy at the control tower that kept acting silly, but that just disturbed me more. We’re there really people in this world that didn’t care when other people were in danger?
Then Otto, the inflatable auto pilot, appeared. I didn’t know what to make of that. It was this inflatable man that seemed at times to actually have thoughts of its own.
Then the movie ended but the fear didn’t end for me, in fact it became all encompassing. This was where having an imagination like I did got me in trouble. You see, the plane was on the ground but because I didn’t see the pilots and the sick passengers leave the airplane I thought they were still on it. Then the plane took off again, sans wheels no less, and it was Otto at the controls. I had this image in my head of the plane forever in the sky, the people still on it alive but too weak and miserable to do anything and were at the mercy of this evil sentient balloon man and his blow up girlfriend.
No matter what my mom said, that everybody got off the plane, that it would be impossible anyway for the plane to take off without wheels, none of it could ever happen. I didn’t believe her. I knew it for certain, that plane was up there and there were people on it in some living Hell and Otto was their demon overlord.
We came home and I couldn’t get to sleep at all that night. I kept having images in my head of those people being so ill and in a no way out situation. I would even start shaking uncontrollably at times. Over the next few nights the fear lessened but if I thought about the movie I could get worked up again.
It may sound absolutely absurd that anyone could be scared by the movie Airplane! but you just never know how something is going to affect a kid.
I didn't have it that bad, but I first saw it as the second feature in at a drive-in after E.T. I was very upset early in the movie by something that should have seriously hurt someone. I might have been actually crying, and my dad leans over and explains it's like a live action cartoon. After that it just clicked and everything was funny, I mean except for the stuff that just went right over my head.
Otto flying a hellplane through the skies for all eternity would’ve made an awesome alternate sequel!
Yikes. Don't read The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy then. It's got a hellplane in it, despite being a comedy.
Omg this is gold!!! I get it, things as a kid are totally different! I thought the Very Brady Movie was completely real 😂😂😂 took everything absolutely seriously
5:44 Few people ever notice that in the middle of the screen, there is a husband and wife sitting there, the wife is holding their baby in the pink bundle....
the plane comes through the window, the husband pushes the wife back towards the plane as he runs for safety and she flings the baby up in the air and runs. Always loved that.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve missed SO much in this but all the more reason for a rewatch 😂
@@ShanelleRiccio
Slow down that baby scene and watch...I always find that hilarious 🤣🤣
One joke that went over your head was the line, "No. That's just what they'll be expecting!" That line is a cliche in old war movies. The commander's subordinate suggests a strategy and the commander would say that, implying that the best strategy would be what the enemy wouldn't be prepared for.
What lands the joke is that the actor, Robert Stack, was best known at the time for playing detectives (like Elliot Ness) who had to outwit criminal masterminds.
@charlize1253 Yes yes Indeed!
One joke? lol.
@dubbleplusgood yes. I only mentioned one joke. The implication was that there were others she missed.
@@dubbleplusgood One joke of many.
18:14 Actually that's the fourth
1. "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"
2. "You ever hang around a gymnasium?"
3. "Do you like movies about gladiators?"
4." You ever been in a Turkish prison?"
I'll add that 2 and 3 may not be inappropriate in and of themselves, but among the others, they paint Clarence to be a very sus character
The whole joke is that they’re in the cockpit and, political correctness not being what it is now, the questions were based on a lot of homoerotic tropes and stereotypes. Definitely a joke that hasn’t aged well.
If you want to read more into it, you could say that he has a fascination with these things because he is homosexual but isn’t aware of it… and his latent leanings are why his wife sleeps with a horse and feels other men up. It’s really a savage indictment of how repression can harm people and those around them, and why openness and understanding are vital to us all!
Or not… 😁
Or it’s just 🤔
I was a little worried she didn't consider most of those inappropriate.
Oh yes, that confirms he missed the others while talking.
@@tracithomas6543 I can HEAR your bloomers knotting.
Glad you enjoyed this film. Two things: 1. Since the release of this film, the FAA issued a rule that the pilot, co-pilot, and navigation engineer cannot eat the same meal, and 2. The background noise of the jet airplane is the sound of propeller aircraft. Subtle but still funny for those who spent time on the flight line. ✈🛫
That’s actually a great rule!! 😂😂
@@ShanelleRiccioI believe that rule was issued after the movie ‘Zero Hour’ was released. If it hasn’t been mentioned yet, the plot of this movie was lifted from the 1950s movie ‘Zero Hour.’
My mom showed this one to me when I was eight. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen, and that's with half the jokes already going over my head. And yes, Stephen Stucker as Johnny was the real MVP.
It amuses me when younger people have no clue about the famous references in a movie like Airplane. There is so much hilarious humor they just don’t understand at all.
I'm surprised at the amount of people that have never seen Kareem before.
There's a reason the media calls them "The Lost Generation." First generation to have no knowledge of ANYTHING before they were born
That's why I made this playlist:
ruclips.net/p/PLGxVpdTGGjUK99PL5jwJNfQFBnpJoiSiu
Riiiiight over my head
That’s the thing about comedy, it has a shelf life after a while the pop culture references are lost.
It took me about 35 years to get the "Leon's getting larger!" joke. It was an advertising slogan of Leon's furniture chain that was expanding its stores' floor space, that is, getting larger.
I also did not know this.
Remember, Supperware keeps hot dog buns fresh, even during monsoon season.
no one ever mentions that detail. I always wonder if they even know they're saying _supperware,_ rather than Tupperware™
At 22:22 the editor cut just short of it, but Rex Kramer (Robert Stack) actually steps out of the mirror. Out of all the reactions I've watched of this movie I think only one reactor actually noticed it.
Same. They're all so distracted by that dog...
The cast is stacked with stars of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond. Leslie Neilson was already a star and is the lead in “Forbidden Planet”. Lloyd Bridges is the father of Jeff and Beau, and was the star of a very popular show called “Sea Hunt”. Robert Stack was the host of “Unsolved Mysteries” and “The Untouchables”. Peter Graves (pilot) was the star of “Mission Impossible”. It goes on and on. You can even get a glimpse of Mike from Breaking Bad, Jonathan Banks checking the Radar Range.
Barbara Billingsley -- who speaks jive -- was June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver.
Jimmy "JJ" Walker (guy checking the aiplane's oil) from Good Times.
Peter Graves, in his 20s, was a German Mole put in with US prisoners in the 50s WWII movie _"Stalag 17"_ starring William Holden
I think the "I picked the wrong week to quit..." running gag kind of works as a doubled-up Rule of 3. You get the first 3, then they do the 4th one, BUT the 4th one is done 3 times.
Elmer Bernstein, the score’s composer, was a legend in Hollywood. He was nominated for at least one Oscar every decade from the 1950s to the 2000s. His most iconic work was in films like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, and The Ten Commandments. In the late ‘70s, he started doing comedic films-this one, Animal House, Ghostbusters, among others.
And my personal favorite- Spies Like Us.
Half this movie is missed by most new viewers (e.g. JJ Walker's cameo). And yet they still love it. THAT is a classic. One of the funniest movies EVER.
I was so excited that you were watching this. It seems right up your alley.
I've never seen a reactor notice the jetliner sounds like a propeller plane. 😂
It's so subtle, but a great joke.
These guys were geniuses.
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Or 'Otto pilot'!
7:38 - Friends and family used to be able to wait with you at the gate until you boarded, and then they would leave.
19:58 - Meals used to be included with your ticket on all flights over four hours. Real meals too, in ceramic dishes.
The turkish prison question got one of the biggest uncomfortable laughs as I recall. It came from a massive hit movie, Midnight Express, a true story about someone getting caught smuggling drugs out of Istanbul and was sent to prison (not good things happened there). That and Jaws and Saturday Night Fever being referenced because they were still being played in some second-run cinemas and were still 'topical'. Also, there were a series of disaster flicks in the 70's simply called Airport (and the year), so this title is a riff off those flicks 😂
This is based entirely on the 50's film "Zero Hour!"
@@jamesalexander5623 Yes, you're correct. But I was just talking about the title of the movie is all.
Shanelle, I have to give you some credit here as most reactors don't get the joke about the couple where the man appears to be boarding a train when the plane starts taxiing down the runway. Bravo!
When my sister and I saw the movie they referenced, we about died laughing. Since You Went Away with Claudette Colbert, Shirley Temple, Jennifer Jones, and Joseph Cotten. We were late going to Thanksgiving dinner because we wanted to watch Jennifer Jones run after Robert Walker on the train.
@nikigunn I appreciate that anecdotal information. I didn't realize that it was a specific reference to one film...just thought it was a reference to a film cliche.
All the reactors I’ve seen totally got that
@-M0LE Well, all I can say is you must be watching different reactions than I have, and I've watched a ton of reactions to this film as it is one everyone reacts to as most reactors don't seem to be able to come up with good movies to react to on their own.
@@bjgandalf69 octokrool and cinebinge got it I think Ashleigh burton did too
As for watching the same movies I think there is a connection to the movie industry that allows or gives a list of movie that are easy to react without getting copyright infringement
I agree there are many reactions to the same movies I think it’s because it also brings a decent pay for the reactors they can see how popular it was on other channels
This movie is definitely top 5 of those movie nearly Every reactor has done airplane now
I was hoping you would catch the sight gag at 22:25 where Robert Stack walks out of the mirror. It's a great camera trick they do.
ETA, you're correct that Johnny is the best character. He slays me.
that one is great, because it isn't really funny, it's just totally disconcerting. The joke is on the audience. Which makes it funny!
100% about Johnny. I always see people thinking he’s annoying or hating him, and I’m just perplexed: for me, he’s the best character in this movie. Love him!
I presume his proper name in the movie series is John Jacobs. If someone had produced an Airplane 3 in Stephen Stucker's lifetime would the character be referred to Jingleheimer or Schmidt?
For decades, I thought "...and Leon's getting larger" was just a silly throwaway line. I was just told recently that, in 1980, the Leon's Furniture Store chain was expanding on the west coast, and their commercials said, "Leon's is getting larger!"
@@bobbuethe1477 I can't find any evidence anywhere to support that, so I think somebody made it up. Unless you have a source?
Also the "dog attack" is done by perhaps the most goofy, good hearted loving dog out there, a Golden Retriever.
Naked gun seems the natural progression to this😊
And/or Police Squad!
And the “Scary Movies”
The older man in the beginning who called for a "TAXI" is none other than Howard Jarvis. Wikipedia: Howard Arnold Jarvis (September 22, 1903 - August 12, 1986) was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician. He was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978.
Just thought I'd share in case you didn't know. Hi Shanelle! 🤓
And there is the one of the very first post credit scenes that gets missed in these reactions ..so many times.. go back and look at it. It's not hilarious, but it does fulfill that rule of three, Shane. And watch the credits in the zaz movies. Sometimes they add phrases and make those funny as well, especially through top secret. Watch all "top secret" credits
Pre 9/11 I would take the kids to the Cincinnati International Airport to watch the planes and the people. We would get a big bag of freshly popped pop corn and go up to the observation deck and watch the planes come and go, then go down to the gates and people watch. It was a very different time in America!
Right? My dad worked for an airline and we used to be able to enter airport thru a “back entrance” but that changed after something happened, other liberties were taken away after other incidents but then 9/11 and everything changed
My family used to do this also when I was a kid.
flying was at it's best before planes were hijacked to Cuba and airport security started. The airport was a place of meetings and departures of family and friends. After security was implemented and only passengers could go to the gates, I used to go to the trash and pick up an old boarding pass to hang out of my shirt pocket so security let me through to meet friends at their arrival gate.
The pilots in the '60s were former war flyers and you would know if they were fighter pilots or bombers by the way they came in for a landing. Fighters would accelerate and decelerate on approach and maybe bounce it a couple times. The bombers would come in steady and touch down softly. On one flight, I didn't know we were on the ground until he applied the breaks.
Miss those times. Waiting for people at the gate.
I was a kid in the 70s and I remember my parents taking us to LAX to watch the planes takeoff also. Yes, a very different time in America.
Many people would agree with you - Johnnie is the best character. I’ve only ever spotted him in one other film, about a 5-second clip in Trading Places. He died of AIDS in the ‘80s. He’s still well-loved.
He's the only character who wasn't played straight. Naturally, since he's gay!
Llyod Bridges is Jeff and Beau Bridges father, but Shirley you can't be serious!!!, plus wanted to wish you a belated Christmas and Happy New Year Shanelle, you always make me smile. 😊
38:41 --- Absolutely true.. The ground crew has to remain focused at all times because a missed cue or small mistake could spell major disaster when you are directing something as large as a plane....
I was in a Christmas movie called 'Noelle' with Julie Haggerty and Anna Kendrick a few years ago. I was an Elf. I think she was Mrs. Claus. She is so nice.
"I'll Give Him Another 20 Minutes, But That's It!"
21:50 - this is why this wonderful movie isn't really a parody of "Zero Hour" (1957) but actually a remake - that ludicrous line (and many others) about finding someone who can both fly the plane and didn't have fish for dinner is lifted verbatim from the original - which is why the producers had to buy the rights to Zero Hour.
To say nothing of the fact that both protagonists are named Ted Striker.
It's too bad that film copyright isn't like music copyright, especially considering that films are much closer to music as an artform than they are to books. If it were, the producers could have just paid a nominal licensing fee to the copyright owners of the Zero Hour script without having to worry about it beyond that.
What Elaine said to Ted about different cities etc. is verbatim what some old guy said to the protagonist in Zero Hour!
It was the ZAZ team who bought the rights to Zero Hour.
I saw this movie in 1980, I’m 78, and it was only in the last 10 years that I got the crash position joke!!! Glad you caught it!!!
28:25----"The shit's gonna hit the fan"! That made me laugh harder than any other joke in the movie!!! 😂😂 It still does after all these years!!! 😂😂
I saw Airplane in a packed cinema when it was released and is probably the funniest film I've ever seen. The entire theater was in hysterics for almost the entire time, and laughter being infectious made it all the better. I really like your reaction to it; you obviously know your way around movie commentary. This is a movie that is much more fun when you have someone to watch it with, especially if they appreciate "stupid" humor. One of my favorites. Good job!
When the plane went through the window, did you notice the lady tossing the baby? Lol. I did not fully understand maybe half the gags when I saw this as a kid, but certainly appreciated them as an adult lol🤣
Surely that can't be the first time you've heard the Shirley joke! That's the one I just assume is universal at this point.
Also I laughed at "I know Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" followed immediately by "oh he's a basketball player!"
Great movie. No one ever notices Kramer walking through the mirror in the dog attack scene. Hilarious.
Nobody remembers Leslie Nielsen in the _M*A*S*H_ episode that is JUST like this film!
My dad was a USAF pilot. This was one of his favorite movies because of the propeller sounds whenever the plane was on screen. It was the weirdest thing.
As a kid I was in hospital for a long time and had a big surgery where they had to cut open my stomach. As I stayed in the hospital to recover from the surgery my dad had the brilliant idea to bring a TV, a VHS player and the Airplane! movie which I couldn't finish because I was laughing so much which hurt as hell. 😂
We had to finish the movie later and then watched the second one as well.
My "similar story" is that I was recovering from and abdominal surgery and my wife came to visit and turned on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (which we'd never seen before) and we had to turn it off again since it hurt to laugh.
Yes, Shanelle, that was Jeff bridges father, Glad you almost got the humour we had in the 80s. Thanks for your reaction! Today’s humour is so serious! But the humour we had the 80s was less serious!! Even though I didn’t get it at first!!
They always miss the after credit scene ;)
Yeah... The guy in the taxi waiting for Ted to return to drive him to his destination.
They also always miss that the taxi passenger is Howard Jarvis, a well-known (at the time) anti-tax crusader who was behind Proposition 13 in California.
Everyone also misses that there are jokes IN the credits (such as silly job titles. nursery rhymes and mocking of historical figures). There are some hilarious jokes in the credits.
the beach scene is giving 'From Here to Eternity'.
My uncle every time he came to visit always wanted to watch two movies and two movies only - Stripes and Airplane. It got to the point where my dad just put both movies on one Betamax tape and 'here ya go - ill get the pizza comin." So ive watched both of those movies multipe times and my uncle laughs just as hard as he did the first time 300 viewings later.
Kentucky fried movie is a very wild ride - just to forewarn you if you decide to take that journey.
yeah, the jokes in Kentucky Fried Movie are certainly not for people who don't have a funny bone. They certainly wouldn't fly today, Rex Kramer Danger Seeker comes to mind. I still break out Kentucky Fried Movie a couple times a year and laugh my ass off.
Catholic High School Girls In Trouble!!
My favorite part is when the reporters ask what kind of plane it is and Johnny says, “Oh it’s a big pretty white plane with red stripes and curtains in the window and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol”. 😂
And if you look, you notice that one of the "microphones" is an I e cream cone
The actress who played the hysterical passenger was the one who thought up the long line of people waiting to smack her around/commit violence on her. Originally, it was just going to be one or two people. She approached the directors with the idea and they loved it!
"I like the Rule of Three joke you're doing with me, but can we make it Rule of Fifteen and get some wrenches and a gun involved?"
Leslie Nielsen's 2nd hit inadvertently made contact. She stayed in character like a champ!
I saw this as a double feature with "Caddyshack" at a drive-in of all places, and I was only 9! My dad took his girlfriend (now his wife) on a date and us kids (me & my step sister) were in the back seat. I remember some of watching Caddshack, but Airplane! stuck with me. Loved slapstick humor. Loved the sequel even more!
Funny now to think back. My dad is soo straight-laced, serious, and he chose these two movies to go on a family date?? Wild...
never even thought about it, but up until the 90's adult magazines were on the top racks, out of reach of children, then in the 90's they covered him behind a hard plastic cover except for the title. By the early 2000's they were basically out of everything but bookstores. If not the first, one of the first parody movies; it was almost a scene for scene remake of a drama. Most of the actors were considered dramatic actors including Leslie Nielson.
At Publix grocery stores, they cover up stuff like fashion magazines, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Two of the my favorite spoofs in this movie went right over your head. 1) the woman who talks jive is Barbara Billingsley - she was the all American model mother/housewife in Leave It To Beaver. Her cameo is making fun of her image, she spoofed herself - so brilliant. 2) When the doctor gives him a little inspiring speech, they are parodying the pep talk from an old football movie "Knute Rockne, All American" - the speech from that movie in the locker room - the 'win one for the Gipper' speech - is famous, if you've ever seen the movie Rudy its the one he recites when he gets inside Notre Dame's locker room. The inspiring music you noticed was the Notre Dame fight song.
Lloyd Bridges is Jeff Bridges dad. Also Beau Bridges.
each to their own humor, a lot went over your head (because of reference points)- "current" events from the time, famous cameos of people you don't know, and it was a spoof of old 70s disaster movies like "Airport 75". BUT- the missing drinks on his face? he has a DRINKING PROBLEM. you have to take most of these jokes LITERALLY. LOL
Haha yeah I wanted to make her pause and just listen to that setup line again. It's a DRINKING PROBLEM! It's stupid, but it's right there! 🤣🤣
She spent so much time trying to "make sense" of everything. How much crazy stuff needs to happen before you realize that its farce. The story is almost beside the point. The knowing looks at the camera when you know she doesnt get it were frustrating.
@@Mr34Monster love her reactions, have literally watched numerous reactions from her but i 1000000% agree with this
@@jerodastWhenever I spill something while eating, it's either a drinking problem or an eating disorder
It only took me at least 2 decades before I finally got the joke...
Ted says he was stationed in Drambuie. Well that must have been difficult because Drambuie is not a place but a liqueur made from Scotch whisky. Also, R.I.P. actor Nicholas Pryor who played Joey's dad. He passed away October 7, 2024 at age 89. Hopefully, he's in a place now where the coffee is always good.
6:30 - Did you notice the magazine rack labels? 😉
One of the last jokes i ever noticed in 50 + watchings. That & the lady throwing her baby in the air when the plane crashes through the wimdow.
When I was fourteen, my first Job was dishwasher in terminal E of Logan in Boston. I had my own master key. It opened any door in the building other than private offices. I used to go back and forth theough customs all the time. Whole different world.
The longest running gag in the film is the sound of the airplane. It's a jet engine plane but on board it sounds like a propeller plane.
Great reaction Shanelle
13:03 Arguably the funniest moment in Cinematic History. The sheer unexpectedness of it is gargantuan.🤣
19:08 Land a plane? Yes. Survivors|?...I'll get back to you
I saw this in the theater with my mom. We went to see something else and kept hearing uproarious laughter from the theater next door. My mom was intrigued so we went over to the other theater and laughed our butts off. Great memory. Also, you missed so much, but you're young so I can understand. There are so many movies spoofed that just aren't really known by the younger generations.
oh yeah not a reference was caught! haha
Two quick ones that get missed are the Beach scene is in From Here to Eternity and the scene where Ted gets talked back into the cockpit is from Knut Rockne All American. Also, the lady who speaks jive is Barbara Billingsley who was the mother in Leave it to Beaver. Love your reviews!
He was sniffing glue. Back in the day, you could get plastic scale model airplanes and cars, that you had to assemble. Sorta like the computers of the 70's, they kept kids off the street. Testors made glue and paints for the models. You'd snip the pieces off the plastic tree they were molded on, glue them together and paint the model, usually there were decals, as the finishing touch. I'm sure you've seen the words, "USE IN A WELL VENTELATED PLACE". That glue gave a whole new meaning to those words. I got buzzed, just working on a model, forget about sniffing the shit.
I made models with that glue! It used to make me lightheaded. I'm not even sure I always washed my hands afterwards either. Funny what kids were allowed to play with back then (remember mercury thermometers?). It's a wonder Gen X managed to survive as long as we have.
People who seriously sniffed it (which causes brain damage BTW) would squeeze it into a paper lunch bag and huff it hard with the bag held tight over nose and mouth.
Good choice. I was worried at first because you weren't laughing your ass off the whole time, but by the time you got to the tupperware party, you definitely "got it." Nice reaction.
12:42 "She's out. She's sleeping."
Me: Yep, she's in for the Big Sleep
"Cut me some Slack, Jack!" Great Review. You're FANTASTIC and probably the greatest person ever!💙
At the start of the movie you commented on how you loved the man in a suit with glasses who "stepped into frame" with "no cut". You wouldn't recognize the man as I assume this movie was made before you were born. The man was well recognized in Calif. He is Howard Jarvis. He & Paul Gann were responsible for the Jarvis & Gann Proposition 13 that froze home property tax appraisals in Calif. Due to real estate speculation counties were increasing the appraisals of homes annually at such a high rate that home owners on fixed incomes were being forced to sell their homes. The proposition allowed the counties to reappraise the property to current value only when it was sold. I believe that there are 2 more cameo shots of Jarvis sitting in the taxi in the middle & at the end of the movie.
This movie and “The Naked Gun” are on my list of movies I saw when I was way too young to see them, but the inappropriate jokes flew over my head. I randomly caught this movie on network tv when I was about 9 years old and I recognized Leslie Nielsen from the Naked Gun. I instantly loved it because of the slapstick and other visual humor, but now over three decades later, it’s one of my favorite comedies for all the other reasons you may expect.
Oh, and I have to say, it took you over 4 years on this channel to get around to watching it?! Surely you can’t be serious! 😇
16:03 “Jim never has a second cup of coffee” is a reference to a Coffee commercial the actress was in
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SHAN!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR💯🥳💯 No lie gf this was the BEST of the roughly GAZILLION reactions I've watched for this movie! Keep on doing what you do!!! 😊💯😎
That means so much to me!!!! thanks for watching!
Shanelle, you missed some of the best punchlines while you were talking. They come at you fast and constantly in this movie. You were confused about the captain asking about gymnasiums because you just missed the set up of the captain asking if he'd ever seen a grown man naked.
It's been too long since I've watched a Shanelle reaction! You bring great perspective, I love the imdb review at the end, and mostly I love your smiling face and great personality!
I am SO glad you are back! :)
Myth busters did an episode on plane myths. One test was if an Air traffic controller could guide a passenger through landing a plane. Both Jaime and Adam were able to land the simulator. But all three found the experience stressful.
Then they should've done the same myth again with the B team except they had to get wasted first.
"This is so stupid." - Yes. That's what makes it great.
One thing that makes this movie work is that all the actors but one play it completely straight, as if it weren't a comedy. Stephen Stucker, who played Johnny, was the exception. Most of his lines were ad-libbed.
Lloyd Bridges was Jeff Bridges' father.
There's a post-credits scene that shows the guy still waiting in the taxi. He says, "Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes, but that's it!" The actor was Howard Jarvis, a prominent California politician of that time.
You should consider watching "Airplane 2: The Sequel". A lot of people dismiss it because of the non-involvement of ZAZ, but the movie is delightfully wacky.
You should watch "The Kentucky Fried Movie" but cutting it down to be safe for RUclips might be tricky.
Could be tricky but could be easily done. The balloon sounds shower scene for Catholic High School Girls in Trouble could be blurred, and the first syllable of what Rex Kramer shouts could be muted, but not the last part of "the word" because that is the joke, hence him being a Danger Seeker. Plenty of other things, but yes Kentucky Fried Movie would be a great choice right after watching Airplane!
A2 recycles a lot of jokes, but they're pretty good jokes. Also, Shatner is sooo good, steals every scene.
Shatner is the best part of that movie
I've totally missed the channel thanks to the algorithm.... Glad to see you again and excited for the reaction!
Saw this in the theater at 14 when it came out. You can tell a lot about a person by their opinion of this movie. If their top 5 comedies doesn't include this, a Mel Brooks and a Monty Python movie I don't trust their opinions. 😂
As far as I'm concerned the Holy Trifecta of absurdist 70s-80s comedies are Airplane!, Blazing Saddles and Monty Python & the Holy Grail.