You missed the best scene of all, after the credits. The guy was still in the taxi, looked at his watch and said : "Well, I'll give it another 20 minutes, but that's it!"
@@RamblersInc The gag with the guy in the cab is that he was played by a real California businessman named Harold Jarvis who was upset that people were being foreclosed on and driven out of their homes for inability to pay property taxes due to fast rising real estate prices in California. He campaigned to put a state-wide proposition on the ballot which would assess taxes based on the last sale price of a home instead of the most recent estimate. Prop 13 passed just before Airplane! premiered and is still the law today. Sitting in a cab with the meter running up and up is a pretty good analogy for the problem homeowners faced, and Harold would be the last person to put up with it. 45 years later, the real joke is pretty obscure.
The commercial is here on RUclips. The lady (Lee Bryant) made terrible coffee, so her husband never wanted a second cup. When they were visiting neighbors he asked for seconds and that's when she put on a puzzled look and the voiceover kicked in: "Jim never has seconds of my coffee." Fortunately, Yuban saved the day (and, presumably, her marriage).
Finally a reaction with people who understood the ridiculousness of the comedy. Many other reactors laugh but they miss the spirit of the humor and question the silly situations as if they were supposed to be realistic. Great job going with the flow
3 of the actors besides Leslie Neilson were all serious dramatic actors before this movie. Lloyd Bridges (tower control), Robert Stack (Cpt. Striker) and Peter Graves (Cpt. Oveur) as well as Neilson all had serious acting roles in movies & tv so them just playing ig straight while saying and doung such ridiculous things made it even funnier.
The woman who spoke jive also played June Cleaver, the ultimate American suburban housewife/mother from the 1950's and early 60'sin the sitcom "Leave it to Beaver". Iconic. Every American who grew up during that time would recognize her. Made it much more hilarious. June! I knew there was so much more to you.
@@soylentgreenb or..... if you know the married airport announcers arguing over white zones and red zones were the real Airport announcers at LAX..... or..... if you knew that was Jimmy "DY-NO-MITE" Walker checking the airplane's oil..... or..... if you knew the lady with the inner monologue about her husband not wanting a second cup of coffee at home, was from a real coffee commercial..... or..... if you know who the hell Ethel Merman was..... or...... or....... or....... or....... or........ or.......
I always really liked this movie and knew you both would also. For great Leslie Nielsen, The Naked Gun is hilarious. Smoking on airplanes was allowed back in my "younger" days; the arm rests has ash trays in them. After takeoff, a lighted placard just like the seatbelt sign would light up if OK to one fire up. No cigars, though. The bit about the pep talk and George Zipp on his death bed was a takeoff from an old movie about the Notre Dame coach and a player named George Gipp in "Knute Rockne - All-American." Some of the gags were from commercials at the time so aren't picked up on today except by us Oldies. And it was a jet, but the engine noises were from piston planes. Good stuff!
Nobody seems to get the joke where Ted asks for 1 ticket to Chicago, "No Baggage." True he has no luggage but he has a lot of emotional baggage. See? Also, Boys Life was a Magazine geared toward Boy Scouts. It is now called Scouts Life. No one seems to get that either.
That movie is a blast, so many funny references! Some of those were to contemporary material and now are probably lost to time. The woman in the scene with her husband asking for another coffee (the one whose thoughts we could hear) was actually known for a coffee commercial where she does exactly that. From a discussion forum: "The guy would only drink one cup at home because his wife's coffee sucked, but while they are visiting another couple, he indulges in a second cup." Edit: That original commercial is actually here on RUclips. I can't link to it, otherwise YT would torch my comment, but if you look for 1970s Yuban Commercial you should find it easily. There's much more, of course, and skimming through the IMDB trivia page is like digging into a treasure trove. And, yes, that guy you wondered where you had seen him before, that is Jonathan Banks, "Breaking Bad"s Mike Ehrmantraut. The best thing is that the writer-directors, the Zucker brothers (David and Jerry) and Jim Abrahams weren't a one hit wonder. They followed this up with several equally hilarious flicks, such as the "The Naked Gun" series starring Leslie Nielsen, but also gems like "Top Secret" starring Val Kilmer, or "Hot Shots" I + II, starring Charlie Sheen. Mel Brooks did equally zany stuff, though some of his films get overlooked a little. I'm referring to his parody of Alfred Hitchcock movies, "High Anxiety" and his love letter to the era of silent films,"Silent Movie". Both are well worth a visit.
The guy in the taxi actually successfully sued cab companies for starting the meter while sitting at the curb. The actress who played the hysterical woman suggested the passengers line up with weapons.
The same production team did a few other films in a similar comedy style. I would recommend "Top Secret" that apes WW2 spy thrillers. It's an underrated gem and is noteworthy for being Val Kilmer's first film.
11:08: Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home. It really wasn't random. But younger people like you don't remember the Taster's Choice Coffee commercials that this lady was parodying. Everything that seems random wasn't. Oh, and Boys Life magazine was a thing.
If you like parodies, you might try "I'm Gonna Git You Sucker". It is a parody of the "blaxploitation" movies of the 60s and 70s. The plane crash footage they showed really was an accident. The plane, being flown remotely, was supposed to belly land (I think that's what it was), but it slammed into the ground hard and broke up. Not the footage they, the government, wanted yet it was still instructive.
If you have time, try to watch the actual films being parodied:"Zero Hour!,"" "From Here to Eternity, " "Airport," "Towering Inferno, " "Poseiden Adventure, ". The lead actors wear all serious film and TV personalities in their own series dramas from the 50's and 60's. The woman singing from bed at the VA hospital was famous Broadway and film actress Ethel Merman. There are other American cultural references in the film (too many to count).
This movie kind of misses the mark for a lot of people under a certain age. It's filled start to finish with references to movies, TV shows, advertisements and cultural phenomena of the early to mid 20th century that audiences of the time would've gotten immediately.
One of my favorite "throwaway" lines in this is just after they touch down and you hear Rex yelling over the radio: "Push a button! Pull a lever!" without being any more specific.
THis entire film is just one long non-stop cultural reference, or pun extravaganza. ETc. Kareem-Abdul Jabbar making his big silverscreen debut.. That was just.... weird as hell!
The closing theme is the University of Notre Dame's Fight Song. It was played because George Zipp is a reference to George Gipp, also known as “The Gipper,” an American football player who died of pneumonia in his senior year. In the film “Knute Rockne, All American”, a 1940’s biography about head coach Knute Rockne, Gipp was portrayed by future US President Ronald Reagan. Gipp's dying words in the movie were, “Win one for the Gipper.” The Fight song played heavily throughout the 1940’s movie. Ironic, considering the fact that Knute Rockne died in a plane crash.
it is actually a parody of only one movie, a 1950s black and white film called Zero Hour. Go watch it afterward and note the similar dialogue. And it throws in every absurd joke out there.
BadassVideos, this is quite clearly NOT a parody of just one movie. While it uses the structure and much dialog from the movie "Zero Hour!", it actually parodies TONS of other things, from commercials, other movies, etc.
Some of my favorite, more subtle gags are: 1) There are dozens of jars of mayonnaise behind the doctor at the Mayo Clinic, which is a real and prestigious hospital. Somehow, I must have seen this film at least a dozen times before I finally noticed this gag, which isn't all that subtle. You noticed it right away. 2) It does not make sense that a film made in 1980 has a younger character who flew in World War 2, which ended in 1945. This storyline comes from the melodrama "Zero Hour!" which inspired this spoof. It did make sense in that 1957 film. 3) The name of Rex Kramer's seemingly friendly but actually vicious dog is "Shep," which is the name of the dog in at least one of the "Lassie" films about a boy and his canine best friend. 4) During the doctor's pep talk to Ted, he mentions a character named George Zipp. This is a reference to George Gipp (1895-1920). He played American football for the famous team of the University of Notre Dame. Gipp died from infections which would likely be cured with today's medicine. In the Hollywood, probably fictional, version of him on his deathbed, he asked the coach that one day in the future, when victory seemed unlikely, the team should find a way to "win just one for the Gipper." When the doctor in this film says, "win one for the Zipper," the music playing is the "fight song" for the University of Notre Dame "Fighting Irish" football team. 5) There is a scene where the chief in the control tower asks for the compass bearing of the plane. The radar operator is playing an Atari basketball game instead, and he gives the time remaining in the game as the compass bearing. 6) Every time the jet aircraft is shown flying, you can hear the sound of propeller engines.
This movie came out the summer after I graduated fomr High School, and I remember hearing adults talking about it incessantly. It is the source of so many running gags to this day.. "A hospital?! What is it??" It's a big bldg with patients" "Surely you can't be serious?" "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." [This one especially gets constantly used to this day. It was that brilliant of a wordplay/pun] my favorite one: "What do you make of this?" "Oh A hat, or a brooch, or pterodactyl wings!" I still trot that reference out once in a while to an older person who will get it hopefully! LOL Peter Graves' comments about grown men/turkish prisons is another meme that gets repeated over and over through the years. The movie just gave us so many brilliant moments "Oh stewardess, I speak jive!" From Harriet Nelson of all people.
Great reaction guys...one of the gags that goes slips by is the fact they're in a jet, but the sound FX of the jet....is a propeller plane! 😂...again great reaction!
I would love to see a parody of the movie Speed. I think there’s a lot you could do with that one. Of course, Keanu must have a cameo in it as a cop or something.
If you haven't already, you guys have to see Hot Shots Parts 1 and 2. Made by the same producers as this, the first one a parody of the Top Gun sort of movies, the second taking the mickey out of Rambo, Commando etc, I've memories of this movie basically my whole life. I've watched it dozens of time, and am embarrassed to admit it was only a couple of years ago I noticed the jars of mayonnaise in the background. Perhaps because my attention was always drawn by the heart jumping around the desk. :D I've also always really enjoyed the sudden switch from Kramer getting dressed in the mirror showing the inside of his lounge room opposite, to stepping over the edge of the mirror as he appears to leave the room. I think the only think more confusing that the discussion among the cockpit crew as they take of would be singing happy birthday to Chinese scientist Tu Youyou (a real person, look her up). :D Lastly, the thing I love most about this movie is that it gave Leslie Nielsen's career a Renaissance. He'd been getting fewer role as he had always played tough characters, which was getting harder to sell as he got older. After this, his total dead pan delivery of his lines led to shows like Police Squad and their movies (The Naked Gun series), as well as a ton of parody movies.
@@RamblersInc At the risk of sounding contrary, I would disagree. It is structured as an action movie of the genre, but there are few direct references to any one movie. Frankly, they all started to blend into one another at some point, in much the same way that people are beginning to feel about the Marvel movies. For example, I have avoided watching Top Gun or any of it's clones religiously (never been a fan of the sub-genre), but still nearly needed to change my underway the first time I saw the first installment. That's just my personal opinion of course (except the bit about Marvel, I still like them :P ), but you must do what's best for you.
Ramblers, if you love Airplane!, you will also love Kentucky Fried Movie, which was by the same writers/directors and made previously to this film. It uses the same exact style of comedy, but goes after TV commercials, school educational films, movie previews, TV new programs, and in the middle actually has a movie-within-the-movie, a parody of Kung Fu movies.
One of the more awesome things about this movie that I wish I could've appreciated but didn't because of cultural and generational gap, is that most of these actors (except the two main ones, which were purposefully cast with unknown actors), are mostly big time serious actors of the time in America. Seeing them this silly after watching their more dramatic roles at the time must've been quite hilarious.
@@RamblersInc I only really know one. Well, kind of. I didn't watch the whole thing. Leslie Nielsen was in the Poseidon Adventure. The 1972 one. He's pretty much like how he is here in Airplane. Now that I think about it, I guess almost everyone here is probably like how they are in their serious roles, since they've been apparently directed to act seriously despite the absurdity.
I'm always a bit saddened by reactions to this movie because it depends so heavily on the audience's knowledge of 60s and 70s American pop culture. Few younger people catch even half the jokes. You guys did a good job of it, though. Your reaction was great fun. For instance, there really was always a gauntlet of religious solicitors you had to run to get into an airport. There had just been national scandals of air traffic controllers having nervous breakdowns (hence, Johnny) as well as using amphetamines and other narcotics (hence: "I picked a bad week to quit...."). "Boys Life" was a real magazine for Boy Scouts. The cabin scene recalled many well-known commercials from the 60s, as well as a few nods to then-current movie tropes. Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen had all been serious actors whose careers were on the wane before this movie. Like Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges (father of actors Beau and Jeff) also went on to a refreshed career of more comedy movies. The Japanese soldier who committed harikari was James Hong, who may hold the all-time Hollywood record for the number of movie appearances, most recently in "Everything Everywhere All at Once," and voice acting in the Kung Fu Panda movies and Pixar's "Turning Red." I think you missed the end-credit scene. I think there had been only one movie before that had an end-credit scene ("The Muppet Movie"). This movie parodied the many "Airport" disaster movies of the day. But it was actually a remake of the turgid 50s melodrama "Zero Hour!" That movie was so terrible, they played many scenes and dialog nearly straight for humor. There are a couple of scene-for-scene comparisons of "Airplane!" and "Zero Hour!" on RUclips. ruclips.net/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/видео.htmlsi=TLnqTYzIMn-n0lSN
We probably should've watched Zero Hour privately to get a lot more of the jokes. Thanks for the heads up. Brilliant post credit scene. I bet you he's still waiting 🤣
Love your sense of your humor, these movies are right up my alley! I remember seeing this in the theater when I was 12 and I thought it was funny but I didn't catch all the jokes. I appreciate it more as it aged! My father laughed so hard he made the entire audience laugh even more!
Much of the script comes from the film "Zero Hour!." Many thematic elements are a parody of a series of airplane diaster films that came out in the 1970s. Especially "Airport 1975."
In those days you could smoke on planes. There were smoking and non-smoking sections. 'Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home' was from a well known coffee advert at the time I'm told it's even the same actress. They actually do the 'what is it...but that's not important right now' joke three times, for headquarters, a hospital and the cockpit.
Back at the 80s, smoking was permitted on planes, at the few back rows BTW. The "cup of coffee" joke was a spiff on a commercial in 1980. The basic origin movie for this is "Zero Hour".
you guys need to see a few other movies along this line, try "Blazing Saddles", "Life of Brian", "Robin Hood, Men in tights", "Young Frankenstein", "Animal House" to name a few...but I will warn you that they can be found offensive, you just have to understand that it's all supposed to be comedy
Gentlemen, in case you werent familiar with it, the Krishna COnsciousness movement was EVERYWHERE in the US/Canad in the 1970s, and this movie came out in 1980, so the guy offering a flower and asking for a donation was a direct reference to that group... examples of that group showed up shortly thereafter. Once I looked into their belief system in college days, I realized the beliefs/philosophy weren't objectionable at all - but when you took their type of nonstandard proselytizing combined with obnoxious American behavioral patterns, people got pretty sick of them in a hurry. We got another transplant from South Asian belief systems when a guru named Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh boughta derelict town in Oregon and all his followeres moved there (overwhelming majority of them Americans) and renamed the town "Rajneeshpuram". Being from Utah it wasnt that far away, so we heard a good deal about it here. I actually toured that part of Oregon in my small repertory drama troupe. Look it up.. fascinating story. THe Simpsons actually mocked it and several other cults of personality in one of their episodes.
I can't make heads or tails of it. I can see there were lots of controversies.. Was it a cult that wasn't a cult? Especially when someone buys a large piece of land, renames it to their name and hardcore followers flock to it.
GREETINGS EARTH GUYS: The movie this one parodies is a 1950's thriller called Zero Hour. There's a vid hereon that does a good job of laying out parallels, etc. I enjoyed it. You're the only guy I've seen get the mirror illusion.
Striker was an air force captain. But in the bar scene, he was wearing the dress whites of a navy lieutenant. The fight music in the bar scene was straight out of 1960s Star Trek. It was used in many other places, including the national anthem of Zoidberg's home planet in Futurama.
I get a laugh out of you kids not thinking smoking on an airplane was allowed. In that way though I think this movie holds up better than it should. At least half the jokes go over people's heads and it's still enjoyable. That's good writing. Like nobody today recognizing Hari Krishna's, or the joke about them being solicited at the airport when in real life that was "their ***ing job!", thus the "we gave at the office" line being twice as funny. Or the "Win one for the zipper" speech which as based on "Win one for the gipper" from the old Knute Rockne speech to the Notre Dame football team, that was recreated in a Ronald Reagan film.
For more of the same- the Naked Gun movies starring Leslie Nielsen and Police Squad the short lived tv series it was based on. The episodes are on RUclips if you’re interested. Fun fact- Leslie Nielsen is Canadian and at one point his brother Erik was a member of parliament and deputy prime minister of Canada! 🇨🇦😊
Surprise! The title makes so much sense when you’re the one who got stung. You can imagine watching this in the cinema! Also, the soundtrack of this masterpiece was a best selling album. The genre of music is called Ragtime.
Yes, you could smoke on planes back then...also in stores, restaurants, bars...just about everywhere. Some jokes don't age well, like "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was how an old well known Folgers coffee ad started out. It was contemporary at the time.
Great Reaction Gents. Blazing Saddles, Naked Gun I and II, Police Squad (short lived TV series), Top Secret are all worthy successors to Airplane, but None match the original.
@@bkdmode True, Blazing Saddles did release in 1974, a few years before Airplane. I means 'successor' in the sense of watching it next as apposed to chronological order of release... but good catch. In addition, I'm not sure that it actually fits on this list as it more a movie taking a stab at mocking racism as apposed to a slapstick, joke-a-minute comedy like the others.
Boy’s Life was/is the magazine of the Boy Scout of America and might have been found in the selection of magazines on planes then, so it’s not that weird for a nun to be flipping though one of the magazines waiting for take off.
The 00:20:00 "Slap-The-Hysterical-Lady" line? For those punks who throw soup on classic paintings then glue themselves to the floor? I've always thought to announce to the Museum-Goers: "Hey everyone, they can't move! Line up now to take your shot!" and have a conga line of people punching them in the face one after the other.
So it looks like people answered the coffee thing, but you did miss the end credit scene. Go back and watch it, Saw this movie when i was 10, went as a birthday party, so at the end the parents with us told us to stay until the theater cleared out, and the end credit scene popped up. Otherwise i ight have never known about it. Great reaction guys, the 2 best after this are the Naked Gun Triology and the Hot Shots. Naked Gun is a police parody, Hot Shots is Top Gun
One of the very few reactors who caught the mirror gag. Instantly earned you a like!
Also, one of the very few to get the Mayo joke.
The other one very few get is "It's an entirely different kind of flying. All Together!"
Yes, most of the world doesn't know what a Mayo clinic is - for obvious reasons :)
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Can I double thumbs up that moment! It’s so true!
You missed the best scene of all, after the credits. The guy was still in the taxi, looked at his watch and said : "Well, I'll give it another 20 minutes, but that's it!"
One of the earliest examples of a post credits scene.
Let's be honest....he's still waiting 🤣
@@RamblersInc The gag with the guy in the cab is that he was played by a real California businessman named Harold Jarvis who was upset that people were being foreclosed on and driven out of their homes for inability to pay property taxes due to fast rising real estate prices in California. He campaigned to put a state-wide proposition on the ballot which would assess taxes based on the last sale price of a home instead of the most recent estimate. Prop 13 passed just before Airplane! premiered and is still the law today. Sitting in a cab with the meter running up and up is a pretty good analogy for the problem homeowners faced, and Harold would be the last person to put up with it. 45 years later, the real joke is pretty obscure.
I just want to tell you both, good luck. We’re all counting on you.
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The "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home.." bit is from an advert for Taster's Choice instant coffee.
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They even used the same actors from the comercial - brilliant !!!
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It was a commercial for Yuban coffee. And the woman who says the line was the same actress from the commercial
The commercial is here on RUclips. The lady (Lee Bryant) made terrible coffee, so her husband never wanted a second cup. When they were visiting neighbors he asked for seconds and that's when she put on a puzzled look and the voiceover kicked in: "Jim never has seconds of my coffee." Fortunately, Yuban saved the day (and, presumably, her marriage).
Finally a reaction with people who understood the ridiculousness of the comedy. Many other reactors laugh but they miss the spirit of the humor and question the silly situations as if they were supposed to be realistic. Great job going with the flow
Yes, yes! Too many reactors don't get that you cannot take any of this movie seriously. It was a joy to watch these guys get it.
It hurts me when people don't get the Mayo Clinic joke.
The propellers sound on a jet airplane is so obvious now but I didn't even notice for a long time.
My thoughts exactly
Seen this movie dozens of time but I had tears down my face due to their laughter. Love this movie.
3 of the actors besides Leslie Neilson were all serious dramatic actors before this movie. Lloyd Bridges (tower control), Robert Stack (Cpt. Striker) and Peter Graves (Cpt. Oveur) as well as Neilson all had serious acting roles in movies & tv so them just playing ig straight while saying and doung such ridiculous things made it even funnier.
Yes, the guy is still waiting for his cab. There's an end-scene after the credits you should watch :)
Ted Striker is a rich man with how long this guy was willing to wait 🤣
Every reactor misses it.
The woman who spoke jive also played June Cleaver, the ultimate American suburban housewife/mother from the 1950's and early 60'sin the sitcom "Leave it to Beaver". Iconic. Every American who grew up during that time would recognize her. Made it much more hilarious. June! I knew there was so much more to you.
my favourite episode was the one where Ward was a little hard on the Beaver.
@@JuandeFucaUWard, you were pretty hard on the beaver last night. 😂😂
@@JuandeFucaU I am not going to say anything about June's pearl necklace.
It's also more hilarious if you know that Leslie Nielsen used to make serious movies.
@@soylentgreenb or..... if you know the married airport announcers arguing over white zones and red zones were the real Airport announcers at LAX.....
or..... if you knew that was Jimmy "DY-NO-MITE" Walker checking the airplane's oil.....
or..... if you knew the lady with the inner monologue about her husband not wanting a second cup of coffee at home, was from a real coffee commercial.....
or..... if you know who the hell Ethel Merman was..... or...... or....... or....... or....... or........ or.......
Julie Hagerty's delivery is spot-on throughout this. "Can you face some unpleasant facts?" "… no."
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I always really liked this movie and knew you both would also. For great Leslie Nielsen, The Naked Gun is hilarious. Smoking on airplanes was allowed back in my "younger" days; the arm rests has ash trays in them. After takeoff, a lighted placard just like the seatbelt sign would light up if OK to one fire up. No cigars, though. The bit about the pep talk and George Zipp on his death bed was a takeoff from an old movie about the Notre Dame coach and a player named George Gipp in "Knute Rockne - All-American." Some of the gags were from commercials at the time so aren't picked up on today except by us Oldies. And it was a jet, but the engine noises were from piston planes. Good stuff!
Anybody wanna explain the gladiator movies bit?
@@adamwells9352 That was just the pilot being a creepy predator. It's kind of funny, but dark.
Cigarettes but no cigars ? That's just nicotine discrimination 🤣
The beach love scene is from the Burt Lancaster movie: From here to Eternity.
Nobody seems to get the joke where Ted asks for 1 ticket to Chicago, "No Baggage." True he has no luggage but he has a lot of emotional baggage. See? Also, Boys Life was a Magazine geared toward Boy Scouts. It is now called Scouts Life. No one seems to get that either.
Damn. We should've caught that.
That movie is a blast, so many funny references! Some of those were to contemporary material and now are probably lost to time.
The woman in the scene with her husband asking for another coffee (the one whose thoughts we could hear) was actually known for a coffee commercial where she does exactly that. From a discussion forum:
"The guy would only drink one cup at home because his wife's coffee sucked, but while they are visiting another couple, he indulges in a second cup."
Edit: That original commercial is actually here on RUclips. I can't link to it, otherwise YT would torch my comment, but if you look for
1970s Yuban Commercial
you should find it easily.
There's much more, of course, and skimming through the IMDB trivia page is like digging into a treasure trove.
And, yes, that guy you wondered where you had seen him before, that is Jonathan Banks, "Breaking Bad"s Mike Ehrmantraut.
The best thing is that the writer-directors, the Zucker brothers (David and Jerry) and Jim Abrahams weren't a one hit wonder.
They followed this up with several equally hilarious flicks, such as the "The Naked Gun" series starring Leslie Nielsen, but also gems like "Top Secret" starring Val Kilmer, or "Hot Shots" I + II, starring Charlie Sheen.
Mel Brooks did equally zany stuff, though some of his films get overlooked a little. I'm referring to his parody of Alfred Hitchcock movies, "High Anxiety" and his love letter to the era of silent films,"Silent Movie". Both are well worth a visit.
I actually found it by simply searching "jim never has a second cup of coffee at home commercial."
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@@OneThousandHomoDJs 👍You're like me, compelled to search for stuff like that!
That's a very very young breaking bad villain.
I love a good easter egg/reference hunt
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@@RamblersInc the beach kissing scene is making fun of famous scene from the film "From Here to Eternity (1953)"
So many classic lines, but the 'surely you can't be serious' and the deadpan 'a hospital?' ones are up there with the coffee kids.
The guy in the taxi actually successfully sued cab companies for starting the meter while sitting at the curb. The actress who played the hysterical woman suggested the passengers line up with weapons.
I remember being taken to see by my mum when I was 11 we both loved it. It’s so funny 🤣
Avoid Airplane 2. Instead the team that did Airplane went on to do 1984-Top Secret. also very funny.
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25:29 "He's not your husband"? Nether was the horse she was sleeping with...
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I feel bad for all of the jokes you had no way of getting, but if you like stuff this bizarre, try Kentucky Fried Movie nest.
Soul Plane was way after 1980 when Airplane came out it was mostly based on a movie called Zero Hour (1957)
Although they were uncredited, the basketball player tribe was the Harlem Globetrotters
The same production team did a few other films in a similar comedy style. I would recommend "Top Secret" that apes WW2 spy thrillers. It's an underrated gem and is noteworthy for being Val Kilmer's first film.
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Thanks for sharing your videos. I like to see people enjoy the movies I love.
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11:08: Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home.
It really wasn't random. But younger people like you don't remember the Taster's Choice Coffee commercials that this lady was parodying. Everything that seems random wasn't. Oh, and Boys Life magazine was a thing.
Tasters Choice could have applied too, but I think it was a Yuban coffee commercial.
Thanks for the info. We just googled the commercial. Yep. Definitely would've been funnier if we got the reference.
No Yuban commercials in England, regardless of their youth.
If you like parodies, you might try "I'm Gonna Git You Sucker". It is a parody of the "blaxploitation" movies of the 60s and 70s.
The plane crash footage they showed really was an accident. The plane, being flown remotely, was supposed to belly land (I think that's what it was), but it slammed into the ground hard and broke up. Not the footage they, the government, wanted yet it was still instructive.
Thanks for the recommendation 👍
Really enjoyed watching you two laugh. Nice change of pace.
If you have time, try to watch the actual films being parodied:"Zero Hour!,"" "From Here to Eternity, " "Airport," "Towering Inferno, " "Poseiden Adventure, ". The lead actors wear all serious film and TV personalities in their own series dramas from the 50's and 60's. The woman singing from bed at the VA hospital was famous Broadway and film actress Ethel Merman. There are other American cultural references in the film (too many to count).
This movie kind of misses the mark for a lot of people under a certain age. It's filled start to finish with references to movies, TV shows, advertisements and cultural phenomena of the early to mid 20th century that audiences of the time would've gotten immediately.
The actor you recognize is from Breaking Bad. Also, Radar Range was a brand name for a microwave oven.
Thaaaaaat's it. Thank You 👍
In Zero Hour, the co pilot was played by a professional baseball player.
And you missed the ending-credits scene. You should see it.
Just went back. Poor guy 🤣
It was because if the fish scene in this film that pilot and co-pilot are no longer allowed to eat the same meal.
Haha no way. That's hilarious.
The passenger is still waiting in the cab when the credits end. There are jokes all thru the credits.
YOU MISSED AFTER THE CREDITS, THE MAN IN THE CAB HAD A CLOSING LINE.
He's definitely waiting longer than 20 minutes 🤣
One of my favorite "throwaway" lines in this is just after they touch down and you hear Rex yelling over the radio: "Push a button! Pull a lever!" without being any more specific.
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THis entire film is just one long non-stop cultural reference, or pun extravaganza. ETc.
Kareem-Abdul Jabbar making his big silverscreen debut.. That was just.... weird as hell!
The closing theme is the University of Notre Dame's Fight Song. It was played because George Zipp is a reference to George Gipp, also known as “The Gipper,” an American football player who died of pneumonia in his senior year. In the film “Knute Rockne, All American”, a 1940’s biography about head coach Knute Rockne, Gipp was portrayed by future US President Ronald Reagan. Gipp's dying words in the movie were, “Win one for the Gipper.” The Fight song played heavily throughout the 1940’s movie. Ironic, considering the fact that Knute Rockne died in a plane crash.
George Zipp: look up win one for the gipper ronald reagan.
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it is actually a parody of only one movie, a 1950s black and white film called Zero Hour. Go watch it afterward and note the similar dialogue. And it throws in every absurd joke out there.
BadassVideos, this is quite clearly NOT a parody of just one movie. While it uses the structure and much dialog from the movie "Zero Hour!", it actually parodies TONS of other things, from commercials, other movies, etc.
If you liked this, you would probably like "Hot Shots" or "Naked Gun". This is exactly the same kind of slap-stick humor.
Top Secret is my favorite of the genre
@@Desibeatnik Ahh! That one is uniquely good.
Some of my favorite, more subtle gags are:
1) There are dozens of jars of mayonnaise behind the doctor at the Mayo Clinic, which is a real and prestigious hospital. Somehow, I must have seen this film at least a dozen times before I finally noticed this gag, which isn't all that subtle. You noticed it right away.
2) It does not make sense that a film made in 1980 has a younger character who flew in World War 2, which ended in 1945. This storyline comes from the melodrama "Zero Hour!" which inspired this spoof. It did make sense in that 1957 film.
3) The name of Rex Kramer's seemingly friendly but actually vicious dog is "Shep," which is the name of the dog in at least one of the "Lassie" films about a boy and his canine best friend.
4) During the doctor's pep talk to Ted, he mentions a character named George Zipp. This is a reference to George Gipp (1895-1920). He played American football for the famous team of the University of Notre Dame. Gipp died from infections which would likely be cured with today's medicine. In the Hollywood, probably fictional, version of him on his deathbed, he asked the coach that one day in the future, when victory seemed unlikely, the team should find a way to "win just one for the Gipper." When the doctor in this film says, "win one for the Zipper," the music playing is the "fight song" for the University of Notre Dame "Fighting Irish" football team.
5) There is a scene where the chief in the control tower asks for the compass bearing of the plane. The radar operator is playing an Atari basketball game instead, and he gives the time remaining in the game as the compass bearing.
6) Every time the jet aircraft is shown flying, you can hear the sound of propeller engines.
Can't believe I didn't catch the fact that Striker supposedly flew in WW2 and he's that young🤣
This movie came out the summer after I graduated fomr High School, and I remember hearing adults talking about it incessantly. It is the source of so many running gags to this day..
"A hospital?! What is it??" It's a big bldg with patients"
"Surely you can't be serious?" "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
[This one especially gets constantly used to this day. It was that brilliant of a wordplay/pun]
my favorite one:
"What do you make of this?"
"Oh A hat, or a brooch, or pterodactyl wings!"
I still trot that reference out once in a while to an older person who will get it hopefully! LOL
Peter Graves' comments about grown men/turkish prisons is another meme that gets repeated over and over through the years. The movie just gave us so many brilliant moments "Oh stewardess, I speak jive!" From Harriet Nelson of all people.
It's June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley), not Harriet Nelson.
@@hollishamilton3943 sorry its been a LOOOONNGGG time since Ive seen either.. so it's abit fussy from my youth in the 60s
Great reaction guys...one of the gags that goes slips by is the fact they're in a jet, but the sound FX of the jet....is a propeller plane! 😂...again great reaction!
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I would love to see a parody of the movie Speed. I think there’s a lot you could do with that one. Of course, Keanu must have a cameo in it as a cop or something.
That would have been hilarious 🤣 How have we not got a Speed parody yet?
@@RamblersInc Well, there is the episode of Father Ted that does a parody of Speed.
If you haven't already, you guys have to see Hot Shots Parts 1 and 2. Made by the same producers as this, the first one a parody of the Top Gun sort of movies, the second taking the mickey out of Rambo, Commando etc,
I've memories of this movie basically my whole life. I've watched it dozens of time, and am embarrassed to admit it was only a couple of years ago I noticed the jars of mayonnaise in the background. Perhaps because my attention was always drawn by the heart jumping around the desk. :D I've also always really enjoyed the sudden switch from Kramer getting dressed in the mirror showing the inside of his lounge room opposite, to stepping over the edge of the mirror as he appears to leave the room. I think the only think more confusing that the discussion among the cockpit crew as they take of would be singing happy birthday to Chinese scientist Tu Youyou (a real person, look her up). :D Lastly, the thing I love most about this movie is that it gave Leslie Nielsen's career a Renaissance. He'd been getting fewer role as he had always played tough characters, which was getting harder to sell as he got older. After this, his total dead pan delivery of his lines led to shows like Police Squad and their movies (The Naked Gun series), as well as a ton of parody movies.
The issue with watching Hot Shots is.....I've not seen Rambo. We'll have to watch that first.
@@RamblersInc At the risk of sounding contrary, I would disagree. It is structured as an action movie of the genre, but there are few direct references to any one movie. Frankly, they all started to blend into one another at some point, in much the same way that people are beginning to feel about the Marvel movies. For example, I have avoided watching Top Gun or any of it's clones religiously (never been a fan of the sub-genre), but still nearly needed to change my underway the first time I saw the first installment. That's just my personal opinion of course (except the bit about Marvel, I still like them :P ), but you must do what's best for you.
"You took my flower!" 1:37
That's what she said! Badum-tsssh
Ok, I will leave peacefully...no need to manhandle me!😂😂
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Ramblers, if you love Airplane!, you will also love Kentucky Fried Movie, which was by the same writers/directors and made previously to this film. It uses the same exact style of comedy, but goes after TV commercials, school educational films, movie previews, TV new programs, and in the middle actually has a movie-within-the-movie, a parody of Kung Fu movies.
Added to the list. Although, we haven't seen a lot of Kung Fu movies to maybe get some of the references.
One of the more awesome things about this movie that I wish I could've appreciated but didn't because of cultural and generational gap, is that most of these actors (except the two main ones, which were purposefully cast with unknown actors), are mostly big time serious actors of the time in America. Seeing them this silly after watching their more dramatic roles at the time must've been quite hilarious.
I've got to find a serious role of theirs now. It must be weird.
@@RamblersInc I only really know one. Well, kind of. I didn't watch the whole thing. Leslie Nielsen was in the Poseidon Adventure. The 1972 one. He's pretty much like how he is here in Airplane.
Now that I think about it, I guess almost everyone here is probably like how they are in their serious roles, since they've been apparently directed to act seriously despite the absurdity.
I'm always a bit saddened by reactions to this movie because it depends so heavily on the audience's knowledge of 60s and 70s American pop culture. Few younger people catch even half the jokes. You guys did a good job of it, though. Your reaction was great fun.
For instance, there really was always a gauntlet of religious solicitors you had to run to get into an airport. There had just been national scandals of air traffic controllers having nervous breakdowns (hence, Johnny) as well as using amphetamines and other narcotics (hence: "I picked a bad week to quit....").
"Boys Life" was a real magazine for Boy Scouts. The cabin scene recalled many well-known commercials from the 60s, as well as a few nods to then-current movie tropes. Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen had all been serious actors whose careers were on the wane before this movie. Like Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges (father of actors Beau and Jeff) also went on to a refreshed career of more comedy movies.
The Japanese soldier who committed harikari was James Hong, who may hold the all-time Hollywood record for the number of movie appearances, most recently in "Everything Everywhere All at Once," and voice acting in the Kung Fu Panda movies and Pixar's "Turning Red."
I think you missed the end-credit scene. I think there had been only one movie before that had an end-credit scene ("The Muppet Movie").
This movie parodied the many "Airport" disaster movies of the day. But it was actually a remake of the turgid 50s melodrama "Zero Hour!" That movie was so terrible, they played many scenes and dialog nearly straight for humor. There are a couple of scene-for-scene comparisons of "Airplane!" and "Zero Hour!" on RUclips. ruclips.net/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/видео.htmlsi=TLnqTYzIMn-n0lSN
We probably should've watched Zero Hour privately to get a lot more of the jokes.
Thanks for the heads up. Brilliant post credit scene. I bet you he's still waiting 🤣
If you're open to suggestions, please watch SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY
The older man, sniffing the glue, is LOYDD BRIDGES. The father of Jeff Bridges & Bo Bridges, Loydd was also in the, SPOOF FILMS, "HOT SHOTS" 1 & 2.
Love your sense of your humor, these movies are right up my alley! I remember seeing this in the theater when I was 12 and I thought it was funny but I didn't catch all the jokes. I appreciate it more as it aged! My father laughed so hard he made the entire audience laugh even more!
Gotta love an infectious laugh 🤣 Shame they don't make parody movies anymore. I wonder why.
If you watch through the closing credits, they show the guy still waiting in the taxi. 😁
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Recommendations? Airplane 2. Without a doubt
Post credit scene... You missed it.
Thanks. Just went back to watch it. That taxi fare 😰🤣
Much of the script comes from the film "Zero Hour!." Many thematic elements are a parody of a series of airplane diaster films that came out in the 1970s. Especially "Airport 1975."
The husband asking for a second cup of coffee is a parody of a 1960's Yuban Coffee commercial. The original commercial is available on RUclips.
One question that it is pointless to ask when watching AIRPLANE is, "Why?"
Now it's time to react to the movie, Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield. Another comedy
In those days you could smoke on planes. There were smoking and non-smoking sections.
'Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home' was from a well known coffee advert at the time I'm told it's even the same actress.
They actually do the 'what is it...but that's not important right now' joke three times, for headquarters, a hospital and the cockpit.
Lol was there any point in having a non-smoking section in a closed off area like the inside of an airplane.
@@RamblersIncNo, no point at all, but that never stopped anyone.
Back at the 80s, smoking was permitted on planes, at the few back rows BTW. The "cup of coffee" joke was a spiff on a commercial in 1980. The basic origin movie for this is "Zero Hour".
you guys need to see a few other movies along this line, try "Blazing Saddles", "Life of Brian", "Robin Hood, Men in tights", "Young Frankenstein", "Animal House" to name a few...but I will warn you that they can be found offensive, you just have to understand that it's all supposed to be comedy
Gentlemen, in case you werent familiar with it, the Krishna COnsciousness movement was EVERYWHERE in the US/Canad in the 1970s, and this movie came out in 1980, so the guy offering a flower and asking for a donation was a direct reference to that group... examples of that group showed up shortly thereafter. Once I looked into their belief system in college days, I realized the beliefs/philosophy weren't objectionable at all - but when you took their type of nonstandard proselytizing combined with obnoxious American behavioral patterns, people got pretty sick of them in a hurry.
We got another transplant from South Asian belief systems when a guru named Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh boughta derelict town in Oregon and all his followeres moved there (overwhelming majority of them Americans) and renamed the town "Rajneeshpuram". Being from Utah it wasnt that far away, so we heard a good deal about it here. I actually toured that part of Oregon in my small repertory drama troupe. Look it up.. fascinating story. THe Simpsons actually mocked it and several other cults of personality in one of their episodes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneeshpuram
I can't make heads or tails of it. I can see there were lots of controversies.. Was it a cult that wasn't a cult? Especially when someone buys a large piece of land, renames it to their name and hardcore followers flock to it.
GREETINGS EARTH GUYS: The movie this one parodies is a 1950's thriller called Zero Hour. There's a vid hereon that does a good job of laying out parallels, etc. I enjoyed it. You're the only guy I've seen get the mirror illusion.
If you haven't allready watched them I would highly recommend Blazing Saddles and The Naked Gun trilogy. They are all classic comedies
I'd watch your video if you would show the movie full-screen when you aren't making comments.
25:45 - That's Jonathan Banks. You've seen him as Mike Ehrmantraut on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Striker was an air force captain. But in the bar scene, he was wearing the dress whites of a navy lieutenant.
The fight music in the bar scene was straight out of 1960s Star Trek. It was used in many other places, including the national anthem of Zoidberg's home planet in Futurama.
I get a laugh out of you kids not thinking smoking on an airplane was allowed. In that way though I think this movie holds up better than it should. At least half the jokes go over people's heads and it's still enjoyable.
That's good writing.
Like nobody today recognizing Hari Krishna's, or the joke about them being solicited at the airport when in real life that was "their ***ing job!", thus the "we gave at the office" line being twice as funny.
Or the "Win one for the zipper" speech which as based on "Win one for the gipper" from the old Knute Rockne speech to the Notre Dame football team, that was recreated in a Ronald Reagan film.
"I've seen that guy somewhere": Mike in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Top Secret! Is the filmmakers follow up. A parody of Elvis movies
Good parody Thanks 👍 Try Police Academy
For more of the same- the Naked Gun movies starring Leslie Nielsen and Police Squad the short lived tv series it was based on. The episodes are on RUclips if you’re interested.
Fun fact- Leslie Nielsen is Canadian and at one point his brother Erik was a member of parliament and deputy prime minister of Canada! 🇨🇦😊
Love you guys reaction. Airplane is the funniest Parody movie ever
Surprise! The title makes so much sense when you’re the one who got stung. You can imagine watching this in the cinema! Also, the soundtrack of this masterpiece was a best selling album. The genre of music is called Ragtime.
Yes, there were smoking sections on airplanes once upon a time. Also, Boy's Life magazine was a thing.
This movie is almost a scene by scene parody of "Zero Hour".
Yes, you could smoke on planes back then...also in stores, restaurants, bars...just about everywhere. Some jokes don't age well, like "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was how an old well known Folgers coffee ad started out. It was contemporary at the time.
This movie is mostly of a parody of a movie called 'Zero Hour' just fyi.
Great Reaction Gents. Blazing Saddles, Naked Gun I and II, Police Squad (short lived TV series), Top Secret are all worthy successors to Airplane, but None match the original.
Thanks for the recommendations👍
Uh, "Blazing Saddles" came out long before "Airplane!"; circa 1974, I think... Blazing Saddle came out before I was in Kindergarten.
@@bkdmode True, Blazing Saddles did release in 1974, a few years before Airplane. I means 'successor' in the sense of watching it next as apposed to chronological order of release... but good catch. In addition, I'm not sure that it actually fits on this list as it more a movie taking a stab at mocking racism as apposed to a slapstick, joke-a-minute comedy like the others.
A lot of the jokes were based on commercials of the time. Its even funnier now when the younger folks are confused.
Many scenes and lines are from television and commercials of the time this movie was made. So, younger audience won't get everything.
this movie was a complete remake of the movie "Zero Hour". they even used the original script. see youtube " airplane vs zero hour "
Boy’s Life was/is the magazine of the Boy Scout of America and might have been found in the selection of magazines on planes then, so it’s not that weird for a nun to be flipping though one of the magazines waiting for take off.
The guy at the radar station that looked familiar was Johnathan Banks, best known for playing the fixer Mike on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. 😲
11:13 That's a spoof of a popular coffee commercial back then.
Watch TOP SECRET!
Indeed! The movie that dares to answer the question “How silly can you get?”
There is an Airplane ll you should check out. It's not quite as funny but it is still good.
You might check out "Top Secret" by the same writer/directors as this.
Smoking was allowed on planes until the mid 80’s.
The 00:20:00 "Slap-The-Hysterical-Lady" line? For those punks who throw soup on classic paintings then glue themselves to the floor? I've always thought to announce to the Museum-Goers: "Hey everyone, they can't move! Line up now to take your shot!" and have a conga line of people punching them in the face one after the other.
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No one sees Blue Streak parody or catches the win one for the gipper speech
11:04 poking fun at an ad about coffee, that is what i heard, never seen the ad myself
The last gag, in the last scene at final credits of the film the taxi passenger was still waiting for the driver to return
113 dollars and 30 cents. it goes up by 10cents
So it looks like people answered the coffee thing, but you did miss the end credit scene. Go back and watch it,
Saw this movie when i was 10, went as a birthday party, so at the end the parents with us told us to stay until the theater cleared out, and the end credit scene popped up. Otherwise i ight have never known about it. Great reaction guys, the 2 best after this are the Naked Gun Triology and the Hot Shots. Naked Gun is a police parody, Hot Shots is Top Gun
this is based on Zero hour movie, if you watch this you can see it was a carbon copy but with the humor
The coffee clip is a parody of a old coffee commercial
If no one has said it yet, Top Secret is a cool movie you would like