AIRPLANE! 1980 * first time watching * reaction & commentary * Millennial Movie Monday
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2021
- My FIRST TIME EVER watching "AIRPLANE!" from 1980 - and I've been told it's like Blazing Saddles... so I'm a little nervous.
Yes, I am a 26 year old who has NO IDEA what this movie is even about is even about - so I take YOU on a journey to watch me give you: What I think the movie is about, real time me watching, and my final review.
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The obligatory "Now go watch Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun" comment.
I actually tier-requested "Airplane II: the Sequel" with one other first-time reactor, and he equally busted a gut over it.
(One gag in particular, but that's for later.) :D
And then Police Squad! Yeah, it's a TV series, but the entire run is under three hours.
"Now go watch Leslie Nielsen in " Nuts (1987) "". His last dramatic role. Afterwards Mr. Nielson only played in comedic roles.
Actually, this was his first ever comedic role-heretofore he was known only for serious dramatic roles, and they almost didn’t cast him for fear he was too high-profile a dramatic actor for the role.
The TV series Police Squad! (6 half hour episodes) came out soon after AIrplane - 1982. The Naked Gun: From the files of Police Squad! came out in 1988. The same type humor throughout.
"Why does he have so much mayonnaise?"
He said he was from the Mayo Clinic.
That's a good example of "simply too many jokes, too many references for anyone to 'get' the first time watching."
@@BuffaloC305 oh, absolutely! I've been watching this for close to 30 years now. Every so often I catch a joke that I hadn't before.
@@Joeybagofdonuts76 I never noticed that before.
Rewatchings bring out the 'slow scenes' (the disco dance girl-scouts' bar fight; the African adventure) but they've also made "Johnny" a lot funnier over time. Instead of being an annoying pest, he's become this treasured out-of-sync-with-film character that I have a hard time figuring out how these writers dreamed him up. I mean - seriously - there is no other character like him. And I look forward to each and every one of his one-shot appearances. "Rapunzel-!" and "...those awful shoes!!"
@@BuffaloC305 "and Leon is getting LarGeR" 🤣
" Nervous?"
" Yes "
" First time?"
" No, I've been nervous lots of times."
For many years, Leslie Nielsen used to stick his head in the cockpit door and tell the pilots, "good luck, we're all counting on you."
Nobody ever sticks around through the credits to the end to see the guy waiting in the cab say, "I'll just give him 5 more minutes".
Not to mention all the funny jokes in the end credits, like . .
Best Boy - John Smith
Worst Boy - Adolph Hitler.
(A "Best Boy" is an electrician's assistant.)
That guy was Howard Jarvis, who was a huge tax opposition politician of the time period.
I never knew about that.
Maybe the third or fourth time I watched it I just left it on and was like, "wait, wat?"
LOLOLOL, I always watch all the way to the end, especially with these guys' movies. It also got me into the habit, which came in handy for the more recent MCU films with their cliffhanger endings. I never saw any documentation or interviews about it, but I suspect that at least one inspiration for the ending jokes and funny credits was the very end of the classic Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. After the end of the credits each week, you would still hear a single person clapping and it wouldn't stop until NBC took over, wrestling control back from the show, almost as if it had been hijacked for an hour.
True story, my American dad met and married my Costa Rican mom and brought her to the states. She didn’t speak a word of English and my dad took her to see Airplane while she was very full term pregnant with me. She laughed so hard at the scene where the stewardess disconnects the girl while singing, that her water broke and she went into labor and peek a boo, I’m here . Thus, a good laugh solves everything!
That's a great idea to induce pregnancy. How's your mom's English today?
@@panowa8319 it’s pretty good. I mean she sounds like Ricky
Ricardo most of the times with an accent but its not bad at all. And she’s not ashamed or embarrassed about her accent . She’ll talk to anyone
That may get us 1 step closer to what causes it.
Literally born from laughter. I love it.
@@anthonyhebisen Great story. I wish you and yours great health, great times and unlimited happiness. BTW, is she from San Jose?
“I take it black like my men.”
Never gets old. 🤣😂
I had a 98 year old woman say, she takes her coffee like her men: straight.
@@ranyarock5783 😆😂🤣
yes it does!
Always funny. That girl had great delivery, then the boys reaction.
My 9 year old is a fan. But knows we can only quote these classic lines inside our home!
This girl is the DEFENITION of a "sweet heart." Just the sweetest soul that ever dared the internet,
anyone disses our ashleigh and we go all "liam neeson " on their ass! " we will find you.....'
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit watching Millennial Movie Monday." - No one... ever
Well, the comment section from 12 Angry Men had me worried. At least everyone seems happy today
@@tconlon251 Any more awful choices like that one will see Fridays become an Ash free day :(
I used to wait tables at a restaurant in NYC and Julie Hagerty often came in. She was always incredibly nice and friendly. One night I had a panic attack because of another customer at her table who was really rough with me and Julie sat with me and helped me calm down. From then on she’d always make a point to come over and say hello to me whenever she came in. Super nice lady.
Oh my god you found a way to make Julie Hagerty even more adorable than before. _(salutes)_
@Hannah’s Dad here’s two things I can assure you of:
1. If I was going to make up a story about a celebrity - it wouldn’t be nice.
2. If I was going to make up a story about a celebrity - it would be a bigger celebrity than Julie Hagerty.
Former waiter here. Let me get this straight, a guest gave YOU a panic attack? SMH 🤦♂️
Eric when Julie was consoling you, did any of the customers attack her with bats, guns and knives trying to calm her down ??
She just seems like a sweet and genuine person. We love Julie!
“ no, i’ve been nervous lots of times” one of the best lines ever, still kills me each and every time
She's so lucky since this was only her first time watching this movie. Now she can still watch it another 10 times and always find new things she never noticed before
yes, like a baby being thrown into the air at 3:25 ...
there simply are too many things happening, and lots are missed when laughing about the other jokes that happen at the same time or only few seconds before.
i have watched this maybe a dozen times, & never noticed the propeller sounds until i read it a week ago haha
"Why is there a bird?" That bird was a vulture, a bird that typically hangs around creatures about to die, as they feed on carrion. It was meant to indicate that their chances were pretty piss poor.
Vultures love to fly commercial because they are allowed one piece of carrion luggage.
@@kanweian6482 👏👏👏👏
@@kanweian6482 Great joke!
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@@kanweian6482 oh dude,comment of the day 😁
You're watching _Airplane?_
Well, I just want to tell you, Good luck! We're all counting on you. 👍
Surely your not serious.
I heard he liked to go up to the pilots of the planes he flew on and say that line to them.
@@shanem4703 yes I am serious and dot call me Shirley
I see what you did there ☺️😂
Don't eat the fish!
I am unabashedly unashamed of how many times I have returned to this video. Makes me feel better in an instant.
Are we not going to talk about how well Ashleigh did with her version of Stayin Alive?? Nice! 😊
She actually has a beautiful singing voice. Most of the time when she sings “Welcome Baaaaack!” Her voice vibrates.
She has a nice voice!
""Are you supposed to bring visitors on the cockpit?"" The internet makes me feel so old.
And smoking on a plane.
I remember visiting the cockpit during a jet flight when I was a kid. The pilot gave me an airlines pin.
That, and Ashleigh's reaction to smoking on airplanes. People also used to smoke on buses and trains (because "freeeedumb"), but I don't want to be the one to tell her--I'm afraid her head might explode.
@@knavekid I had the same experience.
The cockpit visits and the smoking on planes... good old days...
Fun Fact: The argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life.
The argument they had was lifted right from a trashy romance novel that one of the writers bought.
Even more fun fact: far from being from taken directly out of a "trashy romance novel", the dialogue between the "red zone/white zone" announcers was from the novel "Airport", which was made into a series of disaster movies in the 1970s. Seriously, I was reading the book in a library one day and when I got to that point ("...if it's done properly, therapeutically, there's no danger involved!") I laughed so hard I was almost asked to leave.
No word on if she got the abortion
Top Secret is another movie by the same writers - very underrated
@@joeno-say5504 Top Secret is a must watch!!!!
Back in 1980, yes, planes had smoking sections, usually toward the rear of the plane. There was no TSA. Children would often be able to visit the cockpit and get a commemorative set of wings from the crew.
Oh, and I think you figured out that you should not take a sip of anything while watching this movie.
My dad took me with him on a lot of domestic (US) business trips begining in the early 80's when I was about 8 1/2 - anyway it got to the point I had been to the "cockpit" so many times I would like duck my head down and look busy when the stewardess would walk by. Smoking was always in the back 5 or 6 rows. I started smoking at 17 and one of the flights going back to visit my dad I sat in the smoking section. I remember too some airlines would let you stand back there and smoke. Then they made it so you had to sit in a smoking seat. Some airlines would ask the people assigned to seats in the smoking section that it would be okay to allow a passenger to sit there briefly so they could smoke a cigarette. These were transcontinental flights.
Go back in time further and smoking was allowed anywhere in the plane.
I remember flying by myself (when I was 12. Go figure. It was 1985) and got to visit the cockpit and got a pin. It was awesome! Lol
16:26 when your car doesn't turn over 🤣🤣🤣
"Airplane". The perfect date movie. If she doesn't laugh, there's not gonna be a second date.
Thanks for the idea.
For sure I think the same test could be applied to any of the Monty python movies
"Is she asleep?"
Me: In a matter of speaking: yes. 😂😂😈
Absolutely
That was a plot point in Freaks and Geeks too, but with The Jerk.
Kareem is a 6x nba champion and the all time points scorer still to this day
Ohhh wow
@@awkwardashleigh lebron has a chance of taking that title, but still has about 3,000 points to go
And was also a good friend of Bruce Lee. He was also a co-writer of a mystery novel starring Mycroft Holmes.
The pilot and the doctor (who went on to do the Naked Gun series and loads of other spoof movies) were, at the time, very serious actors. They were chosen specifically because the anti-casting would make it even funnier.
They told the director they were afraid they didn’t know how to play funny. The director told them “no, I want you to play serious, the script will take care of the comedy”.
Their deadpan delivery is one of the many reasons the movie works so well.
And when he says Walton & Lanier. he is referring to Bill Walton, & Bob Lanier two NBA Hall of Fame players, that he played against.
7:09 "I hope this hasn't been boring for you."
Ashleigh - "Is she asleep?"
I lost it. Completely lost it.
Yeah, that was brilliant! Made me laugh pretty hard.
No one ever seems to notice that the beach scene is a reference to the famous scene in From Here to Eternity. Back then it was considered the most famous movie kiss of all time. In 1953 it was scandalous and came to be considered the height of love, romance and passion.
Actually if you ever watch the special features both of the brothers insist they had never seen that movie prior to airplane and any resemblance is coincidental
The guy who stabbed himself with sword is James Hong, who played.the villain in Big Trouble in Little China, he also voiced Mr Ping, Po's father in Kung Fu Panda.
And the clueless maitre 'd in the classic Chinese Restaurant episode of Seinfeld.
He voiced so many villains I was expecting a twist in Kung Fu panda about that duck.
The guy has over 400 acting credits. Even does voicework for video games like Diablo 3. Dude is a legend.
And he played the father of Wayne's girlfriend in Wayne's World 2.
The Calvary's father and also a waiter on BBT
I think that "don't call me Shirley" and "I picked the wrong day to quit...." are probably the most common quotes from the movie.
"I picked the wrong week to quit smoking" was quoted in the original Zero Hour! too.
Don't forget, "What's that?"
And "ever seen a grown man naked?"
I'm partial to variations on "...but that's not important right now". :D
“do you like Gladiator movies”
The reason why the hospital had so much mayonnaise in the movie is that it was supposed the "Mayo Clinic," a famous medical research and education facility. I laughed at this funny visual pun.
_give me ham and hold the mayo_
In real life, actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) is a pilot and actually is qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft..
Fun fact, this movie holds the record for the most laughs per minute in theatres of any movie
Thats debateable. Monty Python, A Fish Called Wanda ranked up there. A Fish Called Wanda is the only movie where someone in the theater literally died because they laughed so hard
@Brad 2021 Everytime I have watched Wanda it is laughter throughout. Just saw it in the theater with a full audience a few months ago. Nonstop laughter
@@joshmorgan407 Surely, you can't be serious?
Don't be a menace is my favorite "laughs per minute" movie
@@YourMothersMan Funny since I can't watch that and not laugh or crack a smile once
"Are you typing loud enough?" Ashleigh honey, that is how typewriters sounded. It isn't a computer keyboard. They were loud all the time.
she's a millenial - she don't even know the model M
Some of the electric ones were a little less noisy, but the manual ones were simply that noisy, no getting around it.
But if you watch, Johnny was typing over-exuberantly. Just slapping away at random keys to make it even more hilarious.
12:55: Everybody seems to miss that the guy's mirror image steps out of the mirror.
Not everybody.
@@steves9283 Reactors.
I flew into lax a few years after this movie came out. The people on the intercom were the same voices that were in the movie. I fell over laughing. People walking by me thought I was nuts.
A lot of the older men in this movie were only known for dramatic roles. They were serious dramatic actors and played this movie straight, which makes it that much funnier.
Leslie Nielsen, after a long career as a serious leading man, started a whole new career in the absolute crapload of similar comedies that followed this movie.
@@rmhartman It's still hard to take him seriously as the stalwart space captain in "Forbidden Planet", or the ship captain in "The Poseidon Adventure".
@@rmhartman Plus the short lived TV series Police Squad
Paramount executives wanted the filmmakers to cast known comic actors at the time. Dom Deluise, for example. They didn't believe anyone would think Leslie Nielsen could be funny.
@@tomchris60 Half the fun was that it was played seriously, creating a contrast between the delivery and the funny jokes.
Leslie Nielsen did serious movies for 25 years before Airplane! and funny movies for 30 years after it, while the others stayed with serious roles.
The older woman who “spoke jive” was Barbara Billingsley best known at the time for playing the wholesome mom on “Leave it to Beaver”.
And talk about an age of innocence, the name of the lead in Leave it to Beaver was literally named Beaver-Cleaver
@@paulpeterson4216 omg, it never occurred to me how that would sound now.
What made this movie even more iconic, is 'almost' every member of the cast were famous for playing serious roles in other iconic serious movies and television shows. (a genius decision by the director/studio, that also made a comedy legend out of Leslie Nielson)
You should peruse all their acting credits...You'll find a veritable treasure trove of other classic films You can react to. :-)
Your laugh when they were playing instruments in the cockpit sounded like a remote controlled car! 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
My favorite ongoing gag in the movie is that they are on a jet airplane, but the engine noise is always from propellers.
Because the whole film is a spoof on the 1957 film "Zero Hour!". And the plane in that movie was a propellor-driven plane.
From what I've read, they started with a prop-plane model, but then decided to modernize with a jetliner. No one told the sound department. When they saw the result, it fit so well with the rest of their silly movie that they happily left it that way.
There is always something new you notice when you watch this movie and I never noticed that. Hilarious.
@@tristramcoffin926 Here’s another one: When the place crashes through the window someone throws a baby (doll) across the room
On the commentary track, they talked about how they originally wanted a propeller airplane, but the studio said that would be a deal breaker for them, in getting the picture made, so they compromised by continuing to use the sound of propeller over the jet airliner shots. Still one of my favorite jokes from the original.
Of course after you watch “Airplane” the next step should be to watch “The Naked Gun” with Leslie Nielsen.
Or Top Secret ;)
@@Vreth6 Yes. I know a few people who think that Top Secret is better than airplane. And The Naked Gun is a must...
The six episodes of "Police Squad!" first!
I cannot watch films, like "the Poseidon Adventure," where Nielsen plays a dramatic character any longer. He so perfectly played on his stoic past acting with this film and then the Police Squad franchise that he's ruined anything pre 1980 for me.
No. The next step is to watch _Airplane!_ again to pick up all the jokes she missed on the first watch. Both viewings will satisfy.
The taxi cab passenger was Howard Jarvis, a minor celeb at the time. He was the driving force behin California’s property tax reform bill, 1978’s Proposition 13. Everybody in the theater at the time knew him and cracked up when he appeared.
You will love: "the naked Gun" same humour, same creaters.
The guy who kept saying, “I picked the wrong day to quit drinking.”, etc. is Lloyd Bridges. He’s Jeff Bridges’ dad.
And he was the main character in an old TV series called Sea Hunt.
Another serious actor.
And you're gonna meet Jeff pretty soon.
@@henrytjernlund Going by memory here, but MIke Nelson was his name in Sea Hunt. I have no idea why I know that.
@@tukke she already did, she saw him in Iron Man.
When she said "who's that?" At Leslie Nielsen I just about fainted 😂
"Americanized Monty Python" You're a genius!
Just found these a couple days ago. I love watching you crack up at these movies I've seen many times before. One of the really strange things about "Airplane!" is that it is a parody of a movie called "Airplane!". They took the same situation and lines then made a few changes here and there and the rest is comedy history.
You mean Airport, right?
@@tombeyerlein3813 Actually no. There is an old movie called Airplane! that they bought the rights to and remade it as a comedy.
I didn't know that! Thanks.
@@tombeyerlein3813 The Movies title is Zero Hour! made in 1957. It is the basis for the Airplane! film.
The look on the boy's face when the girl says she takes her coffee black... like her men. Oh god it kills me every time.
I was expecting more than her just somewhat choking in response to that line.
I don't recall them showing the boy's face or reaction when the girl made that comment. I thought they ended that sequence with a close up of the young girl's face. Then again, I haven't seen the movie in full for quite a while so I could be wrong.
@@anzaeria - It's not in Ashleigh's reaction, but the look on the boy's face is surely in the film, and it is the face of shock that is too dumbstruck to comprehend how devastated he is. And it is gold!
@@maximillianosaben Sounds funny! I should watch the film again.
Nobody gets the best joke in the movie: The sound being played as the plane is a *propeller plane* , not a jet! It's so subtle!
I saw this movie in my early teens, never realized it until I saw it again in my 40's. Nearly dropped my drink when my brain made the connection.
THANK YOU! I've seen this dozens of times, but never noticed that. Finally something new i can look for when i watch it again.
Watch Detective Pikachu!🙂
Or the question at the information desk. 'Should I fake my orgasms in future?' Used that so often when I'm asked, 'Do you have any questions?'
@@tonyhaynes9080 Dude, no. Just no.😥
One running joke throughout the film, that most people never notice. The engine noise is from a turbo prop aeroplane, despite the aeroplane being a jet aeroplane. And the sound effect was taken from the film zero hour.
@16:37 this is one of my favorite movies, I have seen it countless times throughout my whole life, and this is the first time i ever noticed the ice cream cone.
When told that you could not make a movie like Blazing Saddles today, he famously said "You couldnt make it then either."
You can make Blazing Saddles today, you just have to be as clever as Mel Brooks.
What made it funny is that actors like Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, and Peter graves (along with others) were primarily known as serious actors before this and the makers of the film told them to be as serious as they could when reading their lines.
BTW, has anyone seen what "Lori from _That 70s Show"_ looks like these days?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver like a corpse....
@@RideAcrossTheRiver she died
Also, the director told them to act as seriously as they could.
Peter Graves was going to turn down his role until his wife insisted that he take it to show that he could do comedy. Leslie Nielsen had played dramatic roles for decades but had always wanted to do comedy - and his success in this role enabled him to do comedy for the rest of his career.
In 1987, a found this VHS tape on the side of the road while walking home in 4th grade. Still my all time favorite movie!
So my mother would always tell me how Leslie Nielsen (the doctor not named Surely) was a serious, dramatic actor from a famous soap opera. He was kind of a sex symbol, and then they stuck him in this movie. He went on to start in his own franchise of spoof movies called "The Naked Gun."
Yes, this is the movie where "Don't call me Shirley" comes from.
I easily put this film in my top 3 comedies ever made, alongside Blazing Saddles and The Great Dictator.
So funny!
"Some like it Hot" is better than the great Dictator
Y'all need to watch "hellzapoppin". It's basically the prototype of THIS sort of ridiculous comedy with insane visual gags every few seconds :D
@@garycrow1943 In fairness they are very different films.
Another one to watch is Hot Shots!.
I have watched this movie SO MANY TIMES and I'm always searching for new reactors watching it. Everytime I notice a new thing about the movie and I've just realized Otto sounds like auto. "Otto Pilot", uahahahaha
English is not my first language.
I love this movie so much!!!!
New subscriber. Great channel, great reactions. You go girl! ❤️
It was fun watching you really enjoy one of my all time favorites. My dad introduced it to me when I was a kid and I died laughing thru the whole thing!
It bears saying again, Barbara Billingsley, the jive speaking lady, was freaking June Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver, America's Mom for a whole generation, so her showing up and speaking jive with some brothas was one of the greatest casting gags of all time.
DAMN SKIPPY!
Sadly, I think what "June Cleaver" means is still lost in the translation. "Leave it to Beaver" was a generation before my time, so I'm one generation removed, having watched the show in reruns. But through these reruns (that you never see on TV anymore) you learned June Cleaver was the happy housewife who stayed home and cleaned house, made sure the kids did the right thing in school and in life, and that hubby was happy with a clean home when he came home from work to have perfect home-cooked meals. There was no such thing as a "bad day" for a housewife in this era. And by the way, Mrs. Cleaver achieved all this wearing perfectly coifed hair, heels, and a cute dress/skirt combo. For the purposes of the "Airplane" movie, "June Cleaver" as a concept was as white bread as they come. (Does anyone still use the phrase "white bread?") So, for white bread June Cleaver to step forward and say "I speak jive" is humor I'm afraid millennials just won't get... fortunately, all of that is SUB-text. If you don't know any of that, it's still pretty damn funny for an older white woman to step forward and ... well, you've seen the scene!
@Romanogers4ever Nick at Nite now and forever.
AMEN. June cleaver gettin' down with the Brothas. People who knew who she was would get the joke.
And we forever love her for it.
"Are we going to talk about that?" No. We just let it ride. If you don't like a joke, another will come along in about ten seconds.
The Doctor is played by Leslie Nielsen, from the Naked Gun comedy films. He had a dramatic theater background, so he is excellent in deadpan humor.
they all were serious actors, and only Leslie switch over to comedies.
with great success so that barely anyone remembers him in roles like the scifi movie "Forbidden Planet" (1956) near the start of his career.
I hope you watch the whole movies you react to. They are classics.
Love your reactions, especially the faces you make.
Keep posting girl, you bring a smile to my face.
Airplane is almost an copy of a 1957 move called Zero Hour except all the added comedy. Some of it is word for word; they actually bought the old movie to not cause problems.
ZAZ even kept the exclamation point of Zero Hour!
Wow! I didn't know that! I always assumed it was a spoof of the Airport series!
@@nocturneJOJO Airport was written by the same guy who wrote Zero Hour. So it all works out.
I really like it when they beat up the lady in the original movie
I dare anyone who's watched Airplane! to watch Zero Hour with a straight face.
You being such a Bill Murray fan, you'll love this: back when you could still go into the cockpit, he used to make a point on every flight he was on, of knocking on the cockpit door and then poking his head in to say, "I just want to say good luck - we're all counting on you!" It would crack the pilots up because of course they had all seen this movie! :D
Speaking of blackout sketch comedy movies, Bill Murray was in an otherwise undistinguished film called Loose Shoes where he played a convict on Death Row. This particular film went heavy into raunch.
That's beautiful.
And this is why Bill Murray is the GOAT
somehow i don't think that would "fly" today
The greatest absurdist satirical comedy in cinematic history, so many others owe so much to this movie.
There was a sequel to “Airplane” called “Airplane 2, The Sequel”. You should watch that one also. To be honest it’s not as great as the original but you may want to check it out
It has a couple of good jokes but not as good as the original
i love both, also the second one has some reference to other movie too, like with AL
In fact on the Airplane! Special features make mention of being glad they aren’t associated with it
I think a problem people have with 2 is they watch it immediately after the first one. You're already worn out laughing. It is a very funny movie.
If fact it get mentions in the directors commentary of the original Airplane! where one of the commentators notes @We had no involvement”
"Oh look, there's a sale at Penny's!" Johnny is my favorite side character. LOL.
I know it's quick, but Johnny is holding the paper upside down as he's reading about the sale at Penny's.
@@THOMMGB Isn't it folded? So the half he's looking at would be correct.
@Brad 2021 - He died not long after this movie..
The “where did you get that dress?” Part is my favorite!
@@rcrawford42 Check out 18:24 and you'll see it. If the paper looks right side up to the camera, which it does, then, by default, if the paper is folded in half then the part of the newspaper facing the actor would be upside down. Another thing is that there wouldn't be an advertisement for a sale at Penny's on the lower half of the front page of any major newspaper.
I once read it written of "Airplane!": "If you don't like a joke, just wait a few seconds for the next one."
That is how the Zuckers and Abrahams made movies
I saw this movie when it first came out. Nearly everyone went back to the theater to see it multiple times because everyone would roar at a joke and you'd miss the next 2 or 3 before the laughter died down.
I'm surprised at how well this movie has aged considering how topical much of the humor was (parodies of TV commercials and other popular memes). I'm just sorry that - because of the way films stream - no one sits through the crazy credits or the last gag after the credits. (BTW - The guy in the cab is Howard Jarvis - father of California's notorious proposition 13, that arguably changed politics forever by making citizen referenda a popular thing.)
This has got to be the most joke-dense movie ever made.
Your reactions are fantastic... I love watching you get joy from classics :D
I loved when you tried to be shocked, but then busted out laughing. The actor who played the doctor, Leslie Nielsen, used to be a serious actor, but after this movie he became a comedy icon. He was the star of the Naked Gun franchise.
ALL of them were and stayed to be serious actors, and only Leslie Nielsen switched to comedy _after_ this movie, pretty successfully.
Near the start of his career, he did the interesting scifi movie "Forbidden Planet", and 25 movies before and 30 after Airport!
and i would call it the "Police Squad" franchise (in color) since it started with that 6x30 minute miniseries, which took lots of the humor from Airport!
and invented a few recurring jokes like Drebin's driving skills, before those three "Naked Gun" movie sequels.
The sheer brilliance of this spoof is that it's funny no matter how many times you watch it.
I love that there's a joke in every scene.. the amount of detail. Sometimes there's something funny going on somewhere in the background
Yes exactly. You always notice a new joke you missed before.
"Are you supposed to bring visitors on the cockpit?" Ah, the good old days prior to 9/11. I remember when I was in second grade going on a field trip to an airport. We went thru security with no boarding passes and toured an airplane including the cockpit and even went to where luggage was getting sorted for loading. I can't imagine that happening now.
I still have an AA toy plane from back in the day that I got from the pilot
Post 9/11, visiting/touring the cockpit is no longer a thing. Even the airplane hijackings of the 1970s didn't put a stop to them.
I barely remember when there were still smoking sections in airplanes. Times have changed a lot since Airplane! was made.
I can top that.
The old Fort Myers airport in August, 2001 had a gift shop next to the security checkpoint. And you could get into the shop...from either side.
I recall the Katherine Hepburn/Spenser Tracy film called Woman of the Year. He takes her to the airport. He parks his car in front of the airport & just walks away. She gets on the airplane like she was boarding a bus.....ah, the days of yore...
Yes and the smoking on planes
you nailed that laugh build up at 4:10 LOL
Welcome to movies that got our attention over 40 years ago. Your reactions are so priceless. Ive just watched your viewing of Smokey and the Bandit.
The guy who looks so familiar... it was the legend himself, Mr. Naked Gun! Mr. Dracula - dead and loving it, the one and only Leslie Nielsen! May he rest in peace.
Watch it. Yes, I already made a comment before I saw this one.
Also plays an incredible bad guy in Day of the Animals.
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Another bad guy in Creepshow.
He was also quite a serious actor. Starring in Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure. And nearly starred in Ben-Hur
@@brianrogers7360 And I recently saw him in older Columbo episode, season 1
Fun fact, Kareem Abdul Jabar had Bruce Lee as his Martial Arts teacher. Bruce even picked him as a prominent villain in his unfinished movie “Game of Death”.
Holy shit, that _Game of Death_ is so funny to watch, with the still frame of Bruce Lee's face over the other actor, and a towel superimposed over his shoulders for some reason.
I think they even faked the death of Lee's character, then showed real footage of Bruce Lee in the casket! What a mess.
Ashleigh, don't know if you picked up on it but the dance scene spoofs Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta and the making love in the surf scene spoofs From Here To Eternity with Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr.
There was a lot of disaster films at that time. Airport and Towering Inferno come to mind. This movie was the perfect response to all of them.
Its now the right time to watch Naked Gun.
Can't really appreciate those until you watch the TV series they came from.
@@Runescope Speak for yourself. Never watched Police Squad, but watched all of the Naked Gun movies. Didn't affect my viewing experience.
The ironic part is that Leslie Nilesen was famous as a handsome romantic lead before this.
The TV show "Police Squad!" was better. It came out right after Airplane, done by the same guys. In fact, the full title of the movie is "The Naked Gun: From the files of Police Squad!"
Or hot shots
For over 30 years now every time someone has asked me if I'm serious I've automatically replied "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley" and it's got me into trouble a few times😂
You are not alone in this. 🥴🤣😂🤣
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I'd say we're all guilty of expressing 'Airplane' humour. The funny looks I get when someone ends a sentence with "altogether' and I repeat what they'd just said! That got me some great laughs one time at a shop counter though.
The bird is the guy's Emotional Support Animal. They are like other Service Animals, like Guide Dogs, but once upon a time, you could fly with them.
since i've been watching this channel , i have seen more of this girls tonsils than her dentist! love her reactions and has the same sense of humour as my ashleigh[ my daughter]
Leslie Nielsen (Forbidden Planet), Lloyd Bridges (High Noon), Peter Graves (Mission Impossible tv show) and Robert Stack (Unsolved Mysteries tv show) were all serious dramatic actors before appearing in Airplane. Watching their deadpan delivery of dialogue in absolutely ridiculous situations is hilarious!
Also somewhat related all were well known from the time period of the original movie that was spoofed, Stack in the Untouchables, Bridges in Sea Hunt, and of course the others. Splendid and inspired casting.
Leslie Nielsen was the captain of the Poseidon, in the original Poseidon Adventure.
This accounted for so much of the movie’s original hilarity. It’s a testament to the sheer volume of jokes, that it’s still funny in 2021.
I think the casting against type extends to Kareem as well. Always perceived as very serious. Who knew he could poke fun at himself? Inspired casting all around!
And Barbara Billingsley was the perfect white bread mom on Leave it To Beaver in the 1950s. The idea that she'd speak jive is just delicious. Great playing against type.
"You used to be able to smoke on a plane?!" Oh, Ashleigh.
Subtle AlastorCast/Hunnicast reference, nice ;)
I remember when people smoked in the movie theater. The center section was non-smoking and the seats on the other side of the aisle were designated smoking sections.
@@UtopiaTX yes, because smoke can’t move sideways, right? ;)
People used to smoke everywhere. Planes, trains, cars, ships, homes, offices, hospitals, some times even outside.
@@MacTechG4 no but attitude can. :P
I love your big hearty laughs and facial expressions most.. definitely glad I found your channel.
"Alright, boys, let's get some pictures," remains my favorite sight gag in all of cinema.
Ashleigh gone all Hollywood: new studio, all made up, fresh eyeliner, hair and nails 💅 all done up! Well, you go girl!
I dunno who this is but I'm pretty sure the real Ashleigh is tied up in her closet.
@@sokar_rostau If you know her *old* videos, you've seen a similar look, so yes, I believe this is the actual Ashleigh. ;-)
@@sokar_rostau 😂😂😂
As an airline pilot myself, love seeing you do this film. This is quoted SO often in cockpits across America, you’d be amazed.
It's an entirely different kind of flying....altogether!
Joey, have you ever saw a grown man naked?
Surely you cant be serious.....
@@Teddyboy33 They are serious, and don't call them Shirley
@@Ifyernotawakeyet _It's an entirely different kind of flying_
Glad you enjoyed it Ashleigh! It’s definitely a classic.
I’m a big fan of your channel! You are very funny with your expressions and so authentic! You have watched what I consider arguably the greatest slapstick comedy of all time!!
One of the more subtle jokes is that even though this is a jet plane, there's the constant propeller background.
The story I heard is that the directors wanted it to be a propeller aircraft, but the studio said it should be a jet. So they went with a jet but used propeller sound effects, which ended up being a much better gag.
Fun Fact: The Jive speaking lady is Barbara Billingsley who is famous for playing the mom on Leave it to Beaver and the guys speaking Jive taught her to speak it and she had a resurrgence in her career after this film came out
Fun Fact: The Jive speaking guys came to their audition with all of their own lines in the film and were hired immediately
When i first saw the movie i thought that scene was funny, years later when i found out it was Mrs Cleaver then it was about a hundred times funnier.
Also because of that scene when me and my best friend would see good looking girls we quote , Layem down and smack em yack em.
This is the second reaction video I have watched. You have the most infectious laugh and, if you'll forgive me, you're cute as a button. I will definitely watch more.
You have such an infectious laugh ... love it! Airplane was a film way ahead of its time comedy wise.
"Oh stewardess, i SpEaK jIvE"
Kills me every time! 😭🤣🤣
June Cleaver.
Remember that until 1979 they could tell ethnic jokes right out in public; in fact, they apparently were a regular part of The Tonight Show. They had to stop telling ethnic jokes after 1979 because a Poll*ck got elected Pope, so they had to stop telling Poll*ck jokes. And the PC police seized mile after inch thereafter.
When the jive speak is reprised in Airplane 2 is even more hysterical!
whoever told you to watch this, gets a gold star!
There were hundreds of us.
@@Metal_Auditor then we ALL get gold stars!
I laughed so much at your shelf drama 🤣🤣🤣 I feel your pain 🙃 love riding the hot mess express with you. You always cheer me up xx
How could you miss the after-credits scene! One of the best gags of the movie!
in some other comment i read that that taxi passenger was another inside joke like the two announcers or the "my husband never drinks a second cup at home" actress that were taken from reallife, in this case some politician who was known to protest taxi driver scams to artificially increase the fare.
The woman that translated jive was Barbara Billingsley. If you knew what she was most famous for that scene would have doubled in funniness. She played June Cleaver in the TV show from the 50's and 60's. She was the most wholesome depiction of an american wife and mother.
"...in the TV show LEAVE IT TO BEAVER..."
Only one more wholesome was June Lockhart as Ruth Martin on Lassie.
I always wondered how they let a kid be named Beaver Cleaver; but I suppose the full name was never mentioned...
The gutter is a narrow place for a mind, true, but it is cozy!
@@mikekane1980 Theodore. Often during Wards heart to hearts with him
@@pauldonohew7650 You beat me to it, and I think one of his teachers used his real name as well. Now lets see how well you know the show, What was the dad's job?
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
Funniest line in movie history.
Noooo. The best line ever comes from the second film they made, Top Secret!
General Streck: (on phone) Very well, let me know if there is any change in his condition.
(Hangs phone up)
General Streck: He's dead.
@@StargliderGaming I disagree, because that line didn't help skyrocket anyone's comedy career.
@@HankMeyer It's not about skyrocketing anyone's career. It's just a funnier line in Top Secret!
Agreed!!
Ironically Groucho Marx used it first on his radio series Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel back in the 1930's but a lot of people think it originated from this movie.
*Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* is one of the top 3 players of all time of the great 'Murican game of basketball. 7'2" tall, no defence could stop his legendary skyhook. 20 seasons in the NBA, six championship rings, rivalling the likes of Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. First championship in 1971, last in 1988. Only recently did LeBron James pass his all time scoring record of 38k+ points.
Highly intellectual too, with a college degree in history. Look up his column with The Guardian.
Also has a legendary on-screen kung-fu fight with 5'7" Bruce Lee in "Game of Death".
Kareem is The Man.
Yes, there's where the saying, "don't call me Shirley" came from. The bird in the cockpit was a vulture ready to eat the dead people. The lady talking soul (ebonics?) was Mrs. June Cleaver from the popular TV show Leave It To Beaver (1957-1963). Yes, back in the good old days there were a section inside buildings or airplanes where you could smoke. I was a busboy at a restaurant when California implemented a "smoking area." This was sometime around 1977 or so. Prior to this, you could smoke anywhere, except where there was fuel or explosives near by. People becoming aware of 2nd hand smoke, so by the early 1980's smoking was to be done outside and smokers were outraged by the law.
The scene with the soldier waving goodbye to his girlfriend from the plane as though it’s a train is spoofing a scene from the 1940s melodrama “Since You Went Away.” And the scene on the beach is spoofing a famous romantic scene in the 1953 movie “From Here to Eternity.”
The beach scene in “From Here to Eternity” was so scandalous for its implied sex, in an adulterous context, that the movie almost got banned in America.
Ha ha, so many callbacks to classic movies… That she hasn’t seen.
The freshwater fish on the beach also
@@xxxterm And don't forget a modern jet making prop-driven engine noises throughout most of it's flight.
From Here to Eternity is a great film, with great performances from Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, and Donna Reed.. All of who won Oscars during their career..
If you ever dive into the classics, it’s worth a look..