Yeah cuz I don't know how that guy from Mission Impossible and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar held such a straight face. I don't know how many times they took and redid that scene
I believe the intention was to cast actors and actresses known for serious and dramatic roles just to add to the tone of all these people treating ludicrous situations and dialogue with almost comical intensity, which was the norm of so many disaster movies of that era.
He did a couple of episodes of Columbo--he was completely serious but I kept waiting for the joke to come. Hard to take him serious after seeing him in Airplane and Police Squad.
That's just it about this movie...every line is either a punchline or the set-up. Just like last night, when I realized I just watched a marathon of "Bar Rescue" then watched several DVR episodes of "Cash Cab." The irony of the two choices back-to-back made me think of the movie "Airplane!" lol
One of my instructors, a calculus instructor in college, used to quote that scene, especially when talking about Vectors, and fractions (Unger/over...here's our Vector, Victor)...the aloof class didn't catch the references but I did. That may be the only reason he passed me. I had very little grasp of calculus, but I understood the sh*t out of his obscure 80's references.
"no, I mean I'm just not sure" "well can't you take a guess?" "well not for another 2 hours" "you can't take a guess for another 2 hours?" I was dying at that point lol
I liked when Leslie Nielsen said "Everyone on this plane who had fish for dinner is going to become violently ill", and Peter Graves looks down at his plate on the floor and there's an entire fish skeleton, including the head and tail 🤣
"We have to get these people to a hospital." "A hospital!? What is it?" "It's a big building with patients. But that's not what's important right now."
I would give you another up vote, but it's at '747' and I don't wanna be the one to spoil it. ALTHOUGH, 'B748' is technically the code for the Boeing 747-800....so, tough call!
One of the underappreciated masterstrokes of this movie was the way they persuaded all these taciturn, tough-guy actors -- Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, and glory of glories, Leslie Nielsen -- to deadpan their way through mocking their own images. Absolutely inspired.
this movie is an actual masterpiece, the humor in it still holds up to this day and I genuinely think it's the funniest movie of all time. There's no sad scenes, no serious scenes, just straight comedy the whole time. Also don't call me Shirley.
Everything in this movie just hits perfectly. I've watched it countless times, and it has never failed to make me laugh! Easily one of the best comedies ever made
Yep. Everything about it is extremely clever, while also being incredibly stupid. It's an absolute work of art that should be on any film studies course 😂
See I love the one with the little boy asking the girl if she would like some coffee: boy: "excuse me, I happen to be passing and I thought you might like some coffee" girl: "oh that is very nice of you, thank you... oh won't you sit down?" boy: "thank you, cream?" girl: "No thank you, I take it black, like my men"
@@mikewhatley8237 What do you mean, you missed the scene in Airplane where they had Richard Nixon on and declared he was the best president of all time?
@@tjwash5118 If Airplane! ever gets a big theatrical rerelease, for like an anniversary or something, Yuban needs to bring those commercials back for at least half a year before the movie comes back out. Or was it Sanka? I think it was Yuban.
Im a flight attendant and whenever I leave the flight deck I tell the pilots “i wanna wish you both good luck, we’re all counting on you” After YEARS of people not getting the reference, a first officer replied “surely you can’t be serious” and I followed. That’s the highlight of my career xD
David Godfrey Umm.. Hanging around at the gymnasium implies looking at Women/Men Working out. obviously showing hes quite wierd. Have you ever watched Gladiator Movies means that he sees all the death and gore.. obviously wrong to say this to a child! (Thats what makes it Funny)
Arguably the greatest comedy movie of all time. Slapstick comedy is an extremely fine line to walk between clever and awful, and this did it better than anything else. My mom was 19 when this came out in theaters, she said her and her friends all got stoned before watching it and almost died laughing so hard. I'm pretty jealous tbh. 😂
"Captain, how soon can you land?" "i can't tell" "you can tell me, i'm a doctor" "no, i mean, im just not sure" "well, cant you take a guess?" "well, not for another two hours!" "you can't take a guess for another two hours"?
Cool2BCeltic Thats what made Airplane so special. They made an exceptionally long movie, showed it to an audience, and litterally cut everything that did not get a laugh. There has never been a movie quite like it.
Damian Louden They think he's telling them to repeat what he just said, all together/at the same time. But at this point I'm confused as to which part you're not getting: The "all together" thing, or the fact that he said "altogether".
This movie is just absurdly funny. And every one keeping a strait face makes it better. My favorite gag was when Rex Kramer just casually walks through a mirror, and it took me time of seeing it to notice. Truely the greatest comedy of all time.
Imagine someone walking out of Airplane and trying to talk someone into seeing it. "You gotta see this awesome comedy? "Comedy? What is it?" "It's a genre that involves getting audiences to laugh, but that's not important right now." "Is it a musical comedy? Romantic comedy?" "No, it's an entirely different kind of comedy, all together." (Both) "IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KIND OF COMEDY"
The funniest part for me is that he was sleeping one second, without the stethoscope, and the next, he looks like he's been awake the whole time, all ready to go, with the stethoscope already in his ears! XD
That's also a subtle homage to airline amenities in the dark ages. To listen to the entertainment channels, they gave you plastic tube headphones that were very similar to a stethoscope, and were worn the exact same way.
After being relentlessly battered by joke after joke for the duration of the film, when they were dramatically struggling to land the plane and he walked through the door to wish them good luck, I couldn’t help myself anymore and just died laughing
What’s also funny is that this scene firstly implied that the plane has 2 area like a restaurant, the one with smoking allowed (usually outdoor) and the other with no smoking allowed (usually indoor)
@@Roxasora123 that was the point, in the 80´s smoking in planes was still normal so you had to choose to sit among smokers or in the non smoking section
For all those curious with the last joke, it's because Leslie Nelson voiced the Star Wars voice at the Death Star run. The part where the voice tells the pilots, good luck were all counting on you.
the part that made me laugh hysterically more than any scene was when leslie nielson walked in as the plane was falling out of the sky to casually reaffirm that everyone is counting on them 😭😭😭
Probably because with our modern 'offense' and post air terror culture.. its highly unlikely that you could get away with making something like this today..
Missed my fav bit, when in the tower someone asks: "Shouldn't light up the landing lights"? And the head pilot responds:"No, that's what they are expecting us to do!"
And later after II... Coming soon from Paramount Pictures, Airplane III! Buck Murdock (aka Shatner): That's just what they would be expecting us to do.
I used that when I worked at a school age daycare. Kid: What's snack? Me: It's a small amount of food eaten between meals, but that's not important now. That joke received some epic eye rolls from 4th and 5th graders.
Several real Air Traffic Controllers and I went to see this movie, which was hilarious. We laughed through the entire film about scenes we were reminded of things we had actually encountered on the job. Others in the theater had no idea why we were the only ones laughing about several scenes. I was an Enroute Air Traffic Controller 1974-2006 ZAB/ZDV.
did NOT expect to see this here. "Check the radar range!!" "This guy's all over the place....he's at 9000ft, then up to 13,000ft......what an asshole!" Thank you for your service...it must've been amazing back in the day when planes actually used airways with VOR and DME. *sulks* As much as I enjoy GPS, there was something visceral about using ground-based navaids.
+Carolus Rex *LOL* I've been watching this movie since I was a little kid, and that one went over my head a zillion times; when I finally got it, it became my favorite joke in the movie :)
Wonderful! Turner Classic Movies sponsored Airplane in movie theaters a few weeks ago, but COVID had changed the dates a few times and I forgot about it. Darn. Would have loved to have seen it again on the big screen. Love the bit where the pilot is at the bar and says "pinch me" and the guy next to him moves slowly away. Also, the "kind, gentle" dog attacking the boss pilot when his driver comes to pick him up. Gets me every time.
Indeed. The third death that occured when Ted was talking about his backstory is now harsher in hindsight thanks to terrorist-related plane crashes, especially 9/11.
My favourite scene: The passengers are running amok with terror, so, to calm them down, they announce that an in-flight movie will be shown. The passengers resume their seats. On comes the film, and the first thing we see is--a plane crashing into a cliff! Yes, just the thing they need to relax:)
How about the people waiting at the terminal for the plane that's skidding across the tarmac. "Gate #45. Gate #46. Gate #47" and they take off running onto each new gate.
"Nervous?"
"Yes"
"First time?"
"No I've been nervous before"
My favourite 😂
😁😂🤣
Tbh same.
“No, I’ve been nervous lots of times.”
ROTFL
I LOVE that joke..lol
Rip to all translators who had to make the Shirley joke work in their languages
I think this whole movie was a nightmare for them! Lol. Like the smoking or not smoking plane ticket
This movie was so beige...
@@TermlessHGW 1980 was beige
Surely, we can work this out Shirley
It worked pretty well in German. "Meinen Sie das ernst?" "Ja, ich meine das. Und nennen Sie mich nicht Ernst".
The beauty of Airplane was that every actor/actress was able to play it totally straight. God knows how they did it!
They purposely cast actors who weren't in comedic roles
Yeah cuz I don't know how that guy from Mission Impossible and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar held such a straight face. I don't know how many times they took and redid that scene
With tens of hundreds of cut scenes, lol
It's pretty easy when the jokes aren't funny.
@@found6393 you don’t have a sense of humor if you think those jokes are not funny.
Leslie Nielsen was a serious stage actor but when he found that his true calling was comedy he completely smashed it!
Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, even Peter Graves were like B++ leading men in their day, and they all killed it in this movie.
I believe the intention was to cast actors and actresses known for serious and dramatic roles just to add to the tone of all these people treating ludicrous situations and dialogue with almost comical intensity, which was the norm of so many disaster movies of that era.
Good point. And how about the 'I speak jive' scene?
He did a couple of episodes of Columbo--he was completely serious but I kept waiting for the joke to come. Hard to take him serious after seeing him in Airplane and Police Squad.
"We have clearance Clarence" "roger roger, what's our vector victor?"
My favorite quote in this movie lol
I liked the bit of who worked for whom earlier.
Something like were you over Unger,?
No I was under Unger.
Unger was over Dun.
That's just it about this movie...every line is either a punchline or the set-up. Just like last night, when I realized I just watched a marathon of "Bar Rescue" then watched several DVR episodes of "Cash Cab." The irony of the two choices back-to-back made me think of the movie "Airplane!" lol
I played that several years ago in a taxiing A319. Priceless!
There’s an achievement in Zuma’s Revenge with the same phrase. I realize now that it’s from this movie.
One of my instructors, a calculus instructor in college, used to quote that scene, especially when talking about Vectors, and fractions (Unger/over...here's our Vector, Victor)...the aloof class didn't catch the references but I did. That may be the only reason he passed me. I had very little grasp of calculus, but I understood the sh*t out of his obscure 80's references.
"How soon can you land?"
"i cant tell"
"you can tell me im a doctor"
XD
"no, I mean I'm just not sure"
"well can't you take a guess?"
"well not for another 2 hours"
"you can't take a guess for another 2 hours?"
I was dying at that point lol
Genius lol
THIS was the best exchange.
@@SgtKanyoliterally something I would say😅
I liked when Leslie Nielsen said "Everyone on this plane who had fish for dinner is going to become violently ill", and Peter Graves looks down at his plate on the floor and there's an entire fish skeleton, including the head and tail 🤣
"passengers had the choice of fish or chicken"
"ah yes, I remember, I had the lasagna."
I always crack up at that scene.
Pauldzim....Hey!... Nothing gets past you eh? Are you going to replace Peter Falk?
That’s my favourite part too
And a perfectly healthy Captain Over develops each symptom instantaneously as they're stated by the doctor LOL.
"Can't you take a guess?"
"Well, not for another 2 hours."
"You can't take a guess for another 2 hours?" xD
"We have to get these people to a hospital."
"A hospital!? What is it?"
"It's a big building with patients. But that's not what's important right now."
I would give you another up vote, but it's at '747' and I don't wanna be the one to spoil it. ALTHOUGH, 'B748' is technically the code for the Boeing 747-800....so, tough call!
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."
One of my favorite movie lines ever. XD
I absolutely agree with that statement.
I like to think he really did call him Shirley and that’s why he doesn’t correct him. It makes it even more hilarious too me
One of the most memorable lines. 🤣
My teacher said this all the time
I liked the part when he said, " I just wanted to say good luck, we're all counting on you."
The 'drinking problem' gets me every time. This movie redefined deadpan humor!
+GeddyMX OMG I JUST GOT WHAT THAT MEANS! HE HAD A PROBLEM ACTUALLY GETTING IT TO HIS MOUTH XDXDXD
+Rebel Lord I know a lot of girls like that.
Thumbs up if you ever tried that gag even once in your life.
@@rebellord5288 lol i got the joke but then u explained it in a way that made it even more funny
Rebel Lord lol yeah you got it dude! :D
Looks like Steve McCroskey picked the wrong week to quit:
•Smoking
•Drinking
•Amphetamines
•Sniffing glue
After amphetamines I thought he's out of other things to quit the wrong week, he surprised me.
@@whothisgamer there’s still opiates, cocaine, and barbiturates
@@Rg-kp4nw
Mushrooms, prostitutes, Russian roulette, tide pods (I know not a thing back then).
Tell me all of it, from the beginning - well, the dinosaurs were killed by meteors...
That's a man of many vices
One of the underappreciated masterstrokes of this movie was the way they persuaded all these taciturn, tough-guy actors -- Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, and glory of glories, Leslie Nielsen -- to deadpan their way through mocking their own images. Absolutely inspired.
Lloyd Bridges and the "I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing ___" LOLOL! Of course he starts smaller and works up to glue.
this movie is an actual masterpiece, the humor in it still holds up to this day and I genuinely think it's the funniest movie of all time. There's no sad scenes, no serious scenes, just straight comedy the whole time. Also don't call me Shirley.
Everything in this movie just hits perfectly. I've watched it countless times, and it has never failed to make me laugh! Easily one of the best comedies ever made
I agree !this movie always make me bust out laugh so hard I can't stop.
A definite masterpiece, so well cast, and the comedy is timeless!
what makes this movie even better is 90% of all the things dealing with the plane its self is correct
Yep. Everything about it is extremely clever, while also being incredibly stupid. It's an absolute work of art that should be on any film studies course 😂
Left out my favorite seen:
"Would you like some whiskey m'am?"
"Certainly not!" *snorts cocaine*
I watched Airplane this weekend laughed so much love that scene.
See I love the one with the little boy asking the girl if she would like some coffee:
boy: "excuse me, I happen to be passing and I thought you might like some coffee"
girl: "oh that is very nice of you, thank you... oh won't you sit down?"
boy: "thank you, cream?"
girl: "No thank you, I take it black, like my men"
Scene
@@herzogatomsprengkopfensen4696 They have seen the scene, thus making it a seen
"Stewardess, I speak jive."
Ok but where’s the scene with the kid discovering the co-pilot is Kareem Abdul Jabber
Just watch the whole movie. It's on Blu-ray. All the clips are funny. :)
Eh, I didn't really care for that bit.
Jabar? He wasn't that loquacious.
But that wasn’t Kareem Abdul-Jabbar! He said so himself in the movie!! 😭😂
Follow up by them taking his unconscious body out of the co pilot seat, and he’s wearing his basketball shorts and goggles!
90% of the jokes in this movie are just people taking common expressions too literally...
And it's still somehow hilarious
aBigButterStick sometimes autistic thinking can be funny.. “sorry if I rude but it’s just people with autism can take things too literally.. “
It's the same type of humor Naked Gun used, Frank just always understood everything too literally.
this is what movies should be.. entertaining.. not political and agenda driven
@@mikewhatley8237 I know. It's rare to find something like that being produced nowadays. Everyone is too sensitive.
@@mikewhatley8237 What do you mean, you missed the scene in Airplane where they had Richard Nixon on and declared he was the best president of all time?
The Polynesian news guy is hilarious. Higher pitched sticks for the breaking news followed by switch to camera 2 😅
That and the Japanese tapestry of a crashing plane were great.
That camera switch is my favorite moment in this movie
The fact the tribe dont speak a language but communicate with sticks producing various tones.
@@seanhuds229 it’s Morse Code.
And he doesn't even break his stride when shifting to a different camera. That's professionalism right there.
My favorite bit is the news guy banging the drums being shot from a second angle, just like the real news. Nice touch.
and the falling plane in the back!
@@Grateful2Exist maybe it's their language
Yes thats hilarious. A hut for a studio but money enough for two cameras. And as though it's a universal. So funny.
He was sooo serious when he switched to that second camera
The drinking problem joke was always my favorite .😂
You missed the "I like my coffee black, like my man" scene. That's one of the most outrageously funny scenes in movie history.
So iconic you misquote it
@@jonathandevereaux298 Yeah, it's actually "I take my coffee black, like my men."
yeah that was hilarious scene. I've just watched it for the first time after reading ur comment.
@@jonathandevereaux298 it's 1 letter, two spaces away, and it spells almost the exact same fucking word
Surely this movie rocks after 35 years.
Happy New Year.
***** ROFL
It won't get old for at least a century.
It will just get better with age.
Juliaflo probably like wine
“It’s an entirely different kind of flying, all together!”
Both: “It’s an entirely different kind of flying”
I only just got that! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me too!
Best line ever
I didn't get that joke untill the 5th time I watched it.
Pls explain
"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" LOLOLOLOL... There will never be another movie like this again.
Anyone under 50 years old probably has no idea what that references. We always thought that was a pretty silly commercial.
@@tjwash5118 If Airplane! ever gets a big theatrical rerelease, for like an anniversary or something, Yuban needs to bring those commercials back for at least half a year before the movie comes back out. Or was it Sanka? I think it was Yuban.
Im a flight attendant and whenever I leave the flight deck I tell the pilots “i wanna wish you both good luck, we’re all counting on you”
After YEARS of people not getting the reference, a first officer replied “surely you can’t be serious” and I followed. That’s the highlight of my career xD
Its devastating when people don't register airplane references. But pilots??? It should be mandatory watching to graduate flight school.
"Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again"
That really set the tone for this movie lol
Just say it, Warren. You want me to get an abortion!
The best part is that irl both actors for the airport announcements were married.
The white zone is for loading and unloading only
@@TheRedKing247 And they weren't actors. They were the actual LAX announcers.
"Billy,have you ever seen a grown man naked?" "Billy,have you ever been to a Turkish prison?" "Billy,do you like gladiator movies?"
"I just wanted you to know. Good luck we're all counting on you"-before during and after the landing.
David Godfrey Umm.. Hanging around at the gymnasium implies looking at Women/Men Working out. obviously showing hes quite wierd. Have you ever watched Gladiator Movies means that he sees all the death and gore.. obviously wrong to say this to a child! (Thats what makes it Funny)
Gladiator movies show well built, strong men with naked torsi...
lol, what about Turkish prisons? xD
Ty, even though it was better when I didnt knew the reason xD
It was like an absurd joke xD
Arguably the greatest comedy movie of all time. Slapstick comedy is an extremely fine line to walk between clever and awful, and this did it better than anything else.
My mom was 19 when this came out in theaters, she said her and her friends all got stoned before watching it and almost died laughing so hard. I'm pretty jealous tbh. 😂
The mid-late 1900's was the golden age of slapstick comedy
Your mother is awful to di that when When War on Drugs way on full swing.
"Captain, how soon can you land?"
"i can't tell"
"you can tell me, i'm a doctor"
"no, i mean, im just not sure"
"well, cant you take a guess?"
"well, not for another two hours!"
"you can't take a guess for another two hours"?
The "lights poured onto that field" joke had me rolling
One of the trucks in the line of emergency vehicles is a Budweiser Truck!
@@christopherlizon6181 Yes! We howled at that scene! Good observation 😚😋😀😁😃🤣
I never saw that one before!
@@christopherlizon6181 Oh they'll definitely need a Bud after an emergency like that
The most subtle joke on this clip: "Do you have anything light to read?"
-"yeah, how about this leaflet, famous jewish sports legends"
I didn't think it was all that subtle - but then I'm Jewish, so I know it's true.
The three writer/directors are all Jewish lol
In the early days of the NBA, many players were Jewish.
elsrdick EXACTLY I LOVED THAT 1
this movie was made and produced by jews
I love the " Looks like i picked the wrong week..." jokes.😂😂😂😂😂
Leslie's straight face acting is timeless 😂
"... Jim never vomits at home..."
oh how about. "Are you okay miss?"' " No, but at least I have a husband."
dvxman72
(sobs dramatically)
+dvxman72 Hahahahahaha
Mary-Jane Watson How About:
"No I'l Take It Black, Like My Men"
That was spoofed after a yuban coffee commercial back then
I tried to make a video that had all the funny scenes from Airplane! but in order to do that I'd have to upload the whole movie.
How true.
Cool2BCeltic Thats what made Airplane so special. They made an exceptionally long movie, showed it to an audience, and litterally cut everything that did not get a laugh. There has never been a movie quite like it.
He just went from 12000 feet to 700...what an asshole
From opening scene to after the credits
wise words from dayman: fighter of the nightman, champion of the sun
Leslie Nielsen should have won an Oscar for this
And don’t call me Shirley
“Get that finger out of your ear - you don’t know where that fingers been” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Just utterly brilliant comedy. Still my #1 movie of all time.
It took me *way* longer than it should have to get the "It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether!" joke.
me too
smittykins I still don't get it. I haven't seen the movie so, could that be it.
Damian Louden It's being interpreted as "all together", rather than "altogether".
Damian Louden They think he's telling them to repeat what he just said, all together/at the same time. But at this point I'm confused as to which part you're not getting: The "all together" thing, or the fact that he said "altogether".
Furious321
OHHHH!!!
As in "all together now!"
1:59 he puts the plane into gear lmfao
Never noticed that xD
Me neither as well
Its a piss take, because they say you taxi down the run way, so they thought, wait? The airplane is a taxi? Okay
They also wipe the airplane front window
Lol, I never noticed that one! :D
This movie is really just one long hilarious quote. There’s not one wasted moment in it.
This movie is just absurdly funny. And every one keeping a strait face makes it better.
My favorite gag was when Rex Kramer just casually walks through a mirror, and it took me time of seeing it to notice. Truely the greatest comedy of all time.
What about the scene where there's the big line of people waiting to smack the lady.
This is my favorite scene
Late to the party, but that scene is a shout out to one of Agatha Christie's most famous works.
GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!
Or the woman playing the guitar, who accidentally unplugs the tube from the patient OMG
Not just a smack, but a "settle down!" and shake, I would honestly do the same thing to that lady
I laughed the hardest at the newscast bit. When the islander turned from camera one to two, i died
pyrotechnick I did too!!
Time to switch to the breaking-news mallets.
And the world was the better for it.
Have you cretins seen "The Life of Brian "? Or,if we must be American, "Blazing Saddles"?
Dead men type no tales.
When I saw this movie in the theater in 1980, I missed a lot of the jokes because I or other people were still laughing at a previous joke!
Imagine someone walking out of Airplane and trying to talk someone into seeing it.
"You gotta see this awesome comedy?
"Comedy? What is it?"
"It's a genre that involves getting audiences to laugh, but that's not important right now."
"Is it a musical comedy? Romantic comedy?"
"No, it's an entirely different kind of comedy, all together."
(Both) "IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KIND OF COMEDY"
lol@3:00 when Leslie Neilsen is asked if he's a doctor and he's sitting there wearing a stethoscope with a deadpan face...awesome stuff.
pete saws yeah, he's a treasure! Apparently, he wasn't getting the jokes. That's why the hilarious and excellent deadpan!
The funniest part for me is that he was sleeping one second, without the stethoscope, and the next, he looks like he's been awake the whole time, all ready to go, with the stethoscope already in his ears! XD
That's also a subtle homage to airline amenities in the dark ages. To listen to the entertainment channels, they gave you plastic tube headphones that were very similar to a stethoscope, and were worn the exact same way.
I'm off the clock, don't bother me.
His serious face makes him more funny.
"Cream?"
"No, I like my coffee black like my men."
You can't leave that scene out!! The look on that kid's face.....
That joke hasn't ages well because a large part of the humor is that they're children but the creators failed to predict the rise of hentai.
Yeah I mean looking back today this joke is pure edgey cringe lol the rest of the movie is absolutely perfect though
And also, "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?" wouldn't make it today.
thats it chief
The "Surely you can't be serious" is a legendary line!!!
3:09 the facial expression w the dramatic music when Randy turns around is my favorite part
After being relentlessly battered by joke after joke for the duration of the film, when they were dramatically struggling to land the plane and he walked through the door to wish them good luck, I couldn’t help myself anymore and just died laughing
Sorry for your loss. Also, good luck, we are all counting on you.
I don't get it?
"It's an entirely different kind of flying! All together"
"It's an entirely different kind of flying."
I read this comment as it played
Love the taxi passenger waiting though the whole movie 😂😂😂😂
This movie is one long dad joke
"Smoking or non smoking"
"Smoking"
*hands smoking ticket over counter*
thats how I buy all my airplane tickets
"oh so this guy is a smoker, oh OH HAHA"
What’s also funny is that this scene firstly implied that the plane has 2 area like a restaurant, the one with smoking allowed (usually outdoor) and the other with no smoking allowed (usually indoor)
@@Roxasora123 that was the point, in the 80´s smoking in planes was still normal so you had to choose to sit among smokers or in the non smoking section
@@tijmen131 what? Really? I didn’t know that wow
I just wanted to put this out to the top commenter:
I just wanted to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.
+NightfallIV I missed Leslie Nielsen!
I just wanted to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.
Can someone explain that joke to me?
Maya L DON'T NOBODY FUCKING TELL HER.
I just wanted to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.
I love this movie. It is such simple humor. It’s not like those movies that try too hard to make jokes. This is just natural comedy and I love it
These clips perfectly show the internal consistency of the jokes and why it's one of the best written comedies ever made. Absolutely brilliant!
A true "Best clips from Airplane" would pretty much be a vid of the entire movie.
How about:
"There is nothing to be worried about. Just enjoy your flight... By the way does anyone know how to fly a plane?"
(all hell break loose)
And there was a Random Boob shot😂😂
@@vonbraunwerner9067 random dudes start fencing 🤣
@Polo Loi At that part, I was shocked and covered my eyes.
"we're also out of coffee"
This is the type of humor that we need in now days in movies
“They’re on instruments!” Gets me every time
27 people picked the wrong week to stop snorting glue
They fly Air Israel!
For all those curious with the last joke, it's because Leslie Nelson voiced the Star Wars voice at the Death Star run. The part where the voice tells the pilots, good luck were all counting on you.
Therory1011 wait what Leslie Nielsen was in Star Wars?!?
What!!!!!
Really??? Wow
I'm having a hard time to believe you. Do you have any sources?
@@musmus-culus Yes, we have both tomato and barbecue.
the part that made me laugh hysterically more than any scene was when leslie nielson walked in as the plane was falling out of the sky to casually reaffirm that everyone is counting on them 😭😭😭
1:27 The Original Perfectly Cut Meme 😂
It seems the older this movie gets, the funnier it gets.
Because modern movies keep getting worse in comparison.
It’s timeless because it’s comprised of the most silliest recurring puns and gags executed perfectly. Very little that can date this film topically
Probably because with our modern 'offense' and post air terror culture.. its highly unlikely that you could get away with making something like this today..
Yeah coz movies today are garbage
@@MentalParadox ain’t that the truth, they don’t make
Em
Like this anymore
The kids coffee scene was the best! "I take it black, like my men"
Marion Williamson'
The look of befuddlement on a boy's face was just glorious
Oh my god it’s so funny 😆
I watched that and was just like "Somebody better come get they kid"
Gotta love the guy who decided that week to all at once get his life together.
Legends say that he is still counting on them
Missed my fav bit, when in the tower someone asks: "Shouldn't light up the landing lights"? And the head pilot responds:"No, that's what they are expecting us to do!"
And later after II...
Coming soon from Paramount Pictures, Airplane III!
Buck Murdock (aka Shatner): That's just what they would be expecting us to do.
a hospital? What is it?
Well it's a big building with lots of patients, but that's not important right now.
A question? What is it?
Well, it's an interrogative statement used to test someones knowledge, but that's not important right now..
The cockpit? What is it?
It's a little room in the front of the plane where the pilot sits, but that's not important right now.
I used that when I worked at a school age daycare.
Kid: What's snack?
Me: It's a small amount of food eaten between meals, but that's not important now.
That joke received some epic eye rolls from 4th and 5th graders.
It's hard to pull off that type of humor, but they did a good job of it.
It's a funny joke, but they overdid it in the film, using it too many times. They did it with HQ and with cockpit. They should have used it just once.
This movie is classic. The deadpan delivery of the dialogue is hilarious 😂
Best comedy of all time! No movie again can touch Airplane.... brilliant in every single scene!
“What was there for dinner?”
“Well there was a choice; either steak or fish.”
“Ah yes, I had the lasagna”
I saw this as a six year old on VHS in 1981 - one of the funniest lines in the film, IMO
Okay this needs to be shown on the big screen again! I'm calling my local theatre and demanding it!
+alastorr too true.
yeah when people still understood the difference between a joke bout cliches and stuff and real insults ... good times
dvxman72 they just showed it at my theatre
Every now and then I will go to Family Favorites at Cineplex to see old movies on the big screen.
But I don't think they will show this one.
As alastorr said, especially on the part that says ''I like it black, like my men'' Feminazis and white people would call that ''racist''
Several real Air Traffic Controllers and I went to see this movie, which was hilarious. We laughed through the entire film about scenes we were reminded of things we had actually encountered on the job. Others in the theater had no idea why we were the only ones laughing about several scenes. I was an Enroute Air Traffic Controller 1974-2006 ZAB/ZDV.
did NOT expect to see this here. "Check the radar range!!" "This guy's all over the place....he's at 9000ft, then up to 13,000ft......what an asshole!" Thank you for your service...it must've been amazing back in the day when planes actually used airways with VOR and DME. *sulks* As much as I enjoy GPS, there was something visceral about using ground-based navaids.
Copy. Good night.
All those serious actors acting so silly. Fantastic.
this is.... the funniest movie ever produced. Hands down.
It's between this one and Blazing Saddles.
Adam Lone
Good job, I saw Bill’s comment and was going to reply the same as you.... you beat me to it....
Facts
This movie would've made another joke out of that 'hands down' part,
just because it was there
Definitely. But "Clerks" is equally as good in my book. I can watch Airplane or Clerks anytime and laugh like it was the first time.
OH MY GOD, I finally got the "It's an entirely different kind of flying"-joke. Took me 4 times, holy crap.
Carolus Rex What does it mean?
Carolus Rex Actually I get it. HAHAAHA
+Carolus Rex *LOL* I've been watching this movie since I was a little kid, and that one went over my head a zillion times; when I finally got it, it became my favorite joke in the movie :)
I don't get it
wait now I forgot what it meant. Was it the all together bit?
Wonderful! Turner Classic Movies sponsored Airplane in movie theaters a few weeks ago, but COVID had changed the dates a few times and I forgot about it. Darn. Would have loved to have seen it again on the big screen. Love the bit where the pilot is at the bar and says "pinch me" and the guy next to him moves slowly away. Also, the "kind, gentle" dog attacking the boss pilot when his driver comes to pick him up. Gets me every time.
4:10 The NEWS cast KILLED me Litterally
This movie could not be done today, too many people would be offended.
Indeed. The third death that occured when Ted was talking about his backstory is now harsher in hindsight thanks to terrorist-related plane crashes, especially 9/11.
just wanted to tell you good luck were all counting on you
Surely you can't be serious
+bravo075 I am serious....and don't call me Shirley.
unsurprisingly insane Yes, I recall I had lasagna.
"We have clearance, Clarence."
"Rodger, Rodger, what's our vector, Victor?
I am weak xD
The one funny here is they thought its there name and look at the face of kareem abdul Jabbar
Huh?
On the list of "Movies that can not be made now"
"Smoking or non smoking?"
"Smoking please"
*proceeds to hand a ticket on fire*
And it was still smoldering when Ted took his seat.
My favourite scene: The passengers are running amok with terror, so, to calm them down, they announce that an in-flight movie will be shown. The passengers resume their seats. On comes the film, and the first thing we see is--a plane crashing into a cliff! Yes, just the thing they need to relax:)
How about the people waiting at the terminal for the plane that's skidding across the tarmac. "Gate #45. Gate #46. Gate #47" and they take off running onto each new gate.
I know your comment is 4 years old, but I was on a flight once where they showed a movie about a train crashing.
@@TheDrRJP Yes DrRJP. Totally classic. Wow. Priceless. 2😊
4:34 just kills me, every time. Plus their faces when playing "instruments" ROTFL
Especially Leslie Nielsen
The "I just wanna tell you both good luck" line made it into his other movies. That line is legendary. I use it to this day xD
2:59 When he says "Yes, i'm a doctor" always gets me!
As a kid I never got the "drinking problem" joke, because I didn't interpret it as literally having a problem drinking things.
oh man, I just realized I did the same thing. I thought it was funny because it was simply a strange affliction to have.
The best part literally was just the whole movie
I lived next to Robert Hays (Striker) for a number of years. Super nice guy
You just got me to watch the whole movie for the first time, thank you
The "drinking problem" always gets me.
That's impossible. They're on instruments.
(cut to the crew and doctor playing jazz) That scene kills me, every time.
Um, not to interrupt bu what exactly does that joke mean?
Joshua Farmer he’s referring to the plane’s instruments that help pilots to keep on course, but the joke is that they’re playing musical instruments
A comedy masterpiece. The timing and wit is unparalleled in cinema.
I like the line after the crash where Kramer is telling Striker to invest in municipal bonds. Hysterical!
You got a letter from headquarters this morning.
What is it?
It's a big building where generals meet, but that's not important.
Speechless at 4:22. He even turns to the second angle camera to continue the gag!
1980 was one of those great years for comedy movies. "Airplane" and "Blues Brothers", just doesn't get any better.
the casting was really amazing. none of these actors had anything resembling this in their resume's.