@@JeshuaSquirrel Now that you job my memory, i do recall cartoons being made about those "violent movies" although in those days they were just called "action movies".
@@raybernal6829 I recall it being geared more towards sex than violence, plenty of "horror movies' basically had no rating at all but get a glimpse of a bush somewhere and the whole movie ended up with a rating. For awhile it became a bit of a joke, us kids now knew what the "good movies" were ... They had the highest ratings ...
I've heard accounts from old pilots that they've experienced Mr Nielsen coming into the cockpit to tell them, "Good luck, we're all counting on you." Just to see their reaction.
A great inside tidbit about Top Secret is that Val Kilmer was told to learn how to play the songs on guitar; only to tell him to “mock” play during the scenes to make it funnier.
@@danrivera5588 another great tidbit, while on the press junket promoting Airplane! In Europe, the writers fed a fake news story to the European press to see if they'd pick it up. The fake story was that the new recreational craze in America was Skeet Surfing. 😀
Something to think about, before this movie Leslie Nielsen was a serious dramatic actor, and had never done a comedy before, this movie spawned a whole second career for him.
Yes indeed...One of Nielsen`s best acting jobs came on an episode of Bonanza. " The Unseen Wound ", season 8--episode 20. He played a man who was losing his mind due to the war he had been in...It was a very dramatic acting role for Nielsen...Very different from his later acting roles.
Peter Graves, Leslie Neilsen & Robert Stack all had reservations since they hadn't done any comedy to that point but the producers told them to just "play it straight" and hence the comedy, and it opened a whole new career for each of them.
Fun Fact, the guy in the tower who checked the turkey in the "Radar Range" was Jonathan Banks, who became Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
The public used to be allowed all the way up to the gates. You just weren't allowed to board without a boarding pass. Depending on the airport, you would either need to pass through the metal detector when you first entered the airport or at the gate to board the plane. San Jose was at the gates, I remember that from childhood.
18:35 - that "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" line was a spoof of a popular coffee commercial in the late 70's. And that actress was the same actress from those commercials.
And the guy putting a turkey into a microwave disguised as a radar display in the ATC tower referred to the fact that Radarange was a brand of microwave sold at the time.
That smash cut to them in the cockpit after “that’s impossible, they’re on instruments” is one of my favorite comedy bits (if it’s even long enough to call it a bit) of all time.
For me it's the shit hitting the fan. I saw this on VHS and had to rewind it about 20 times before I stopped laughing hard enough to keep going. Oh wait, that and the guy on the bike getting run over and shouting "Ass! Hole!" Those were the 2 moments that live rent free in my brain.
@Andrew Lustfield But remember, there was no PG-13 back then, which this film would be rated today. We had G for totally clean, PG for parent's discretion, and R which is restricted. Films were rated R for having strong language, violence, and sexually oriented nudity. I guess a pair of boobs is tame, so Airplane! didn't fall under that category.
This movie came out in 1980 (the last year of Generation X, according to some). Us Gen-X'ers were a breed apart. Our babysitters were TVs and Video Games, our parents worked so long and so much that we were by ourselves from the moment we got home from school until they came home from work. We are the Latchkey Generation.
Yup, as long as you were back by nightfall, the parents didn't care. I the 70s I waited for the school bus alone, out of sight of the house at a rural crossroads. No one bothered me. No one was worried. Different times.
Even in 1980 the overheads closed. The reason these are more like shelves is that Airplane! Is a nearly shot-for-shot remake of a movie from the 1950s called Zero Hour. The plane in that film is a turboprop, which is why they play a propeller sound effect everytime you see the plane, even though it is a jet.
My favorite subtle joke in this movie is how we hear the drone of propellor engines in each scene on the plane but the aircraft has jet engines not propellors.
Fun fact: before 9/11, anyone could go right up to the gate to see their family and friends off (or meet them when they land), as long as they went through the security screening. This was generally a metal detector and maybe a pat-down for people who were acting suspicious. You didn't have to have a ticket, everyone went through the same screening process whether they were flying or not. In fact, it was usually faster for family and friends to get through because they didn't have bags that needed to be checked.
21:20 Kacey is completely correct, they do indeed have different specific meals for each of the pilots, to prevent both of them being incapacitated because of eating the same bad dish, like in this film
It wasn't because of this film, that's a common myth. The rule (which not all airlines have) was only implemented after a real life incident on Overseas National Airline in 1982 when the pilot, copilot, and 8 other crew members ate contaminated tapioca pudding. Some new articles at the time mentioned the similarity to Airplane!, but it had come out a couple of years earlier and wasn't the reason for the rules.
@@sumnerhayes3411 There was an incident in 1975 on a Japan Air Lines charter flight which was in some ways even scarier. Contaminated in-flight meals led to 197 people getting food poisoning (out of 364 people on the aircraft). Of those affected, 144 were hospitalized, 30 of them in critical condition; all eventually recovered. The pilots had requested non-standard meals (dinner instead of breakfast). If they had eaten the standard meal, they would quite likely have received contaminated food, with a very real risk they would be incapacitated. As a result, the investigation report recommended that cockpit crew meals should be from separate sources, to prevent a single bad source from affecting multiple crew members. I'm somewhat surprised that there were airlines that still hadn't adopted this practice at the time of the 1982 incident.
Sliced off Prime Rib for both Pilot & CoPilot & reminded them of this rule. The Pilot reminded me, I was on his outgoing flight. If I made them both sick, I'm going down with them...
Kacee's reaction to Barbara Billingsley (AKA Leave it to Beaver's mom June Cleaver) diving into jive talk: priceless! It seemed like she was trying to keep a straight face for one second but just had to give up. That was always one of my favorite scenes in the movie, because you'd never expect that dialogue from Beaver's mom.
Barbara Billingsley said that this movie was her comeback. She hadn't had an acting job in over 10 years. But after this movie she worked consistently for the rest of the 80's
This was the best reaction to Airplane! I've seen on RUclips. "BLOW HIM!!!" hahahahahahahahahahahaha I literally spit out my drink and laughed so hard when she yelled that. I am now covered in Pepsi. Hahaha
FYI: THERE IS A POST-CREDITS SCENE I saw Airplane! at an US Army base theater in West Germany as a kid. Loved the poster and loved the film. It really set the bar high for comedies, for me. I also watched the TV series Police Squad!, and saw all its three movies in theaters (the Naked Gun movies). Police Squad! only ran for 6 episodes and is well worth a watch.
5:12 "Then give me the flower back!" Random solicitations from random churches were endemic back in the 70s. I had a member of the Hare Krishnas (the two guys in robes were supposed to be Hare Krishnas - that's the basis of the "gave at the office" joke) come up to me in Harvard Square in 1971 and give me a "free" book before asking for a donation. When I passed on giving him money, he really did take the book back!
The original beach making out scene was from the movie "From Here to Eternity" with Frank Sinatra. How he got the role supposedly inspired the horse head scene in The Godfather. The directors of Airplane had never seen From Here to Eternity and were simply mocking the already existent trope.
As someone who works at an airline, and in the summer/winter for late night flights, riding the conveyor belt in arrivals area is one of the few joys I get on the job XD And yup, it's everything as advertised ;)
Fun Fact: the policy about pilots not eating the same food was implemented after this movie came out. As they realized this was actually a potential hazard. So the food policy is actually because of this movie specifically. :)
This is a myth, albeit a commonly believed one. First, not all airlines have a rule like that. Second, nobody had such a rule even for several years after the movie came out. The first rules about diversity of eating were implemented in 1984, in response to a real-life incident where both pilots and several crew members got sick after eating contaminated tapioca pudding-Airplane! had definitely kind of predicted that possibility, but it wasn't the reason some airlines made such rules. The New York Times reported: “10 crew members of an Overseas National Airways DC- 8 became ill about 35 minutes out of Boston on a flight from Lisbon.'The crew all eat different things, but the one thing they had in common was tapioca pudding.'...It's clearly time for all airlines to require pilots and co-pilots to avoid any shared food before and during flights before a catastrophe occurs.” in a March 27, 1984 article on the subject. Google "THE DOCTOR'S WORLD; ARE PILOTS PROTECTED FROM CONTAMINATED FOOD?" for the full article. It wasn't until a few months after that incident that some airlines introduced rules about diversity of eating, and the ones that did cited that incident specifically.
When Captain Oveur picks up the red phone by mistake and the voice on the line says "No, the white phone", I'm sure you can hear someone on set laugh out loud! Unfortunately it's edited out of your reaction but Ioved it 😂
This was one of the best reactions to this movie. So many Americans especially young ones are so clueless to slapstick that a lot of the jokes go over their heads and they barely laughed. They take the jokes literally and not see them as jokes. 40:04 You laughed at a lot of things that most reactors don’t get at all. You make watching this movie fun. I know this movie is old and many of the references young people may not understand but you understood enough to enjoy the movie.
Fun Fact on the Saturday Night Fever spoof scene: While he was doing Airplane, actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) was also doing a short lived sitcom called Angie and his Angie Co-Star Donna Pescow was in Saturday Night Fever. There is also a sequel to Airplane called Airplane 2 The Sequel which is also worth a look just to see William Shatner steal the show.
Buck Murdock: We'd better get to the tower, Lieutenant. Lt. Pervis: We have no tower, sir. Buck Murdock: No tower? Lt. Pervis: Just a bridge, sir. Buck Murdock: Why the hell aren't I notified about these things? 🤣🤣🤣
Airplane 2 has several issues, but for me one of the biggest is that Robert Stack should have reprised his role in place of Shatner. The enmity from Airplane would have carried over more naturally. It's like they couldn't book Stack and Shatner had to fill in.
I envy Kacee so much, getting to watch this for the first time. And as for the PG rating, this was before PG-13 was invented. And, what was acceptable back then was a lot... "looser" than now. How about this: the original Planet of the Apes is rated G. Times change. People change. Culture changes.
20:25 James Hong plays the Japanese soldier who's been in TV & movies & voice since the 1950s finally got his star in Hollywood after his performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) winning 2 Awards at 94.
He was just an extra in this movie, proving that a lot of extras parts in movies are memorable. The girl who played the "patient" was also just an extra in this movie but spent years in the cast of "The Love Boat". JJ Walker from the TV series "Good Times" also had an extras part in this movie.
So much fun watching with you guys! It never ceases to amaze me how well Airplane holds up and can still be hilarious for someone like Kacee who's never seen it! Airplane 2 next? :)
In the scene where the dog is attacking the guy who came to pick up the other guy, I love the mirror gag. I don't think ANYONE ever spots it, usually they are too distracted by the dog. Go ahead and check that scene again. If you can't see what the mirror gag is, come back here and I'll let you in on it. It might be kinda hard to spot, I know I saw this movie soo many times over a couple decades before I even noticed it.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 this may be the same way I noticed it as well, I'm pretty sure the reactor didn't, but it for some reason clicked in my head "heeeeey! Wayment!"
I've made this comment on previous reactions before, would be funny if it was my comment you saw lol. I've definitely seen others talk about it though.
Johnny is my personal favorite character, mainly because he's the only character who seems aware he's in a comedy. Everyone else is brilliantly, stone-faced serious and then you've got this one guy running amuck in contrast.
Great reaction. Always funny to watch the under-40s see a comedy like this from back when you could get away with so much more! Now you need to see Airplane II too for comparison. They reuse a lot of ideas, but it's worth it if you love this kind of humour, and there is an interesting guest appearance.
Ronald Reagan was in a movie called "Knute Rockne, All American" where he played George Gipp. Rockne's famous inspirational speech was to win one more game for the "Gipper". As in George Zipp and "the Zipper".
See something new every time. 7:45 - the Mayo Clinic does exist and was and is considered one of the top Hospitals in the United States. 19:32 and 20:23 - James Hong who’s been in a ton of movies including "Blade Runner", “Big Trouble in Little China”, “Kung Foo Panda” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” - for other actors this would be an early appearance but in 1980 James Hong was already 26 years into his acting career.
What was even funnier at the time this film came out is that there were many serious actors in an out of character comedic role who people would have known quite well The woman talking jive was from an all white series called "Leave It To Beaver". The woman who's husband has two coffees was in a coffee commercial and her lines where almost directly from the commercial. They parodied Saturday Night Fever and From Here To eternity (the beach scene) amongst many others. ALSO if you liked Naked Gun, you should watch Police Squad (6 episode series that became Naked Gun).
When I was 17, my grandmother saw this in the theater and said it was the most disgusting and raunchy movie she had ever seen. I immediately knew that this was a must watch. PS: I also support your channel because you are crusaders in the legalization of raw milk.
Kids since have seen far, far worse. Cable kept pushing things further and everything is on the internet. Now most teens take pictures that go further on their own phones. We grew up in a far tamer environment.
The woman thinking about her husband having a 2nd cup of coffee is a parody of a Folgers commercial that was on constantly. The beach scene is from the 50's film 'From Here to Eternity'. The Leslie Nielson pep talk is from 'Knute Rockne All American. The overall movie parody is from 'Zero Hour'.
I love your Buc-ees hat. Went to our first Buc-ees a month ago south of Lexington, KY. We were blown away at the hugeness of that store. I love that you love those comedies that don't try to be so serious. Keep up the great reviews.
I've seen so many reactors laugh at the Mayo Clinic joke, but none ever seem to realize the joke is that the Mayo Clinic is a real place, just not filled with mayonnaise lol. Mayo Clinic exists
I can't believe they missed the mirror gag at 27:10 ! It's one of the most subtle yet complicated gags in the movie and my personal favorite. Other than that, a good video!
Think you missed my favorite joke, because its subtle. At 27:02, the captain is getting dressed in front of a mirror, while the dog attacks the other guy. When the captain goes to leave, his reflection steps into the real world
And of course, the granddaddy of the series, "The Kentucky Fried Movie" which set the tone for all their subsequent films. I walked in off the street to see that movie just based on the name, having no idea what it was about, and became a lifelong fan of their comedies.
I believe there was one movie called the Kentucky Fried Movie that was rated PG, but the narrator took the time to look into the camera and say, "F-you," to push it to an R.
These kind of movies right here I feel like is in ur element of what movies u would enjoy! Love ur reactions!! And don’t forget about” HOT SHOTS!” Part 1 and DEUX! Lol
The guys who made this made a film called Kentucky Fried Movie in the mid 70's. It was rated R and if you thought Airplane had some inappropriate jokes then Kentucky Fried Movie will blow your minds.
Right. They had to pick R, PG, or G. When you're faced with either R or PG, you're going to end up with some nudity and things like that in PG movies to avoid giving everything an R.
lol, welcome to my childhood. back in the day we only had G, PG, and R rated movies. I could walk into a PG movie as a 8 year old and nobody would have questioned it at all.
The joke(s) of the pilot asking the boy different questions wasnt in the script originally. They were added after the actor told a story about an incident that happened to me. He was at the grocery store and waiting in line to the cashier behind a mother and her son. The boy kept staring at him and he started to wonder why. He'd just been in a few gladiator movies that had done fairly well, so he assumed that the boy probably recognized him from those. And then he asked "Do you like gladiator movies?" from the kid, and the mom shot him a look that could kill. He only realized after that how bad it must have sounded. And that's how those jokes got into the movie.
I remember "The captain has turned off the no smoking sign" announcement on the plane, followed by half the passengers - or more - immediately lighting up to get their nicotine fix. I never smoked myself, but between my paretns and public places, I might as well have. Wow, I feel old.
It's true that pilots and copilots mustn't eat the same meal, specifically to prevent exactly this scenario. That rule was instituted by most airlines before the time of this movie - but long _after_ the time of _Zero Hour!_ the movie that this one parodies. 34:00 - *“Why? Why did they put a horse there?”* Now, come on. You _know_ why there's a horse there. And, yes, you should _definitely_ watch _Young Frankenstein._
Yes, plane overhead storage used to be just open shelves, without anything to secure people's belongings. I believe that that was being phased out in favor of bins like the ones that we're used to today around the time that this movie was made.
PG meant something completely different in the early and mid 80’s, once PG-13 became more common PG movies started being kid’s movies that were just over the line for a G rating
Airport security was added in mostly 3 steps. In 1972 -76 they banned handguns and phased in metal detectors. (and yes, before that you could just take your gun on the plane, nobody asked, actually you can still take your gun on the plane, but you have to check it in). After the 1988 lockeby bombing they also added security checks for check in bags. And post 2001 they phased in more general security measures.
Metal detectors first appeared in airports in the 70s, but the TSA didn't exist until 2002. The difference that most people are surprised by is that you used to ve able to go through security even if you weren't flying. You could go all the way to the gate to say goodbye, and you could meet people flying in at the gate
The po faced, deadly serious delivery of the ridiculous lines helped this film, together with the abundance of gags. The guy taking the chicken out of the oven was Mike from Breaking Bad. It's true that there would be keyboard warriors claiming they felt hurt or outraged at any joke now which hamstrings writer and creators. The last comedies I really appreciated were The Cornetto Trilogy but they're old now...
No one gets upset my dude, people just like to act victim and go - oh if this was today, they would be cancelled, oh they would never try it today, which is complete bullshit. Shows like South Park and Its always sunny go way way beyond this and are still going strong. Borat just came out last year All this claim of - oh this would get cancelled today, oh no would dare to do this today - is plain attention seeking
@@redpillfreedom6692 Ah yes, the old uno reverse card, laughing at people acting victim is you getting offended you guys! I am just tired of -people acting victims all the time, particularly when they need to lie about it. It not even original or smart, they are just vomiting out something they heard or read elsewhere Perpetually believing and acting victim is just cringe. Every singe youtube comments has just the same lines being parroted again and again, its just tiring
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@Pedro Castillo
Surely you can't be serious.
There is a good Comedy/Horror movie called "April Fools Day" that you both should react to.
Naked Gun movie came from the TV series Police Squad. It only ran 6 episodes before it was cancelled. But it is really funny.
I just wanna tell you both, good luck. We're counting on you.
Before 1984 there was no PG-13. Just PG and R, which made for some interesting results. You'd find toys from R rated movies like Rambo at McDonalds
Yup, those "Ratings" were merely a suggestion, we all had the toys, and the red headband, and the giant knife, nobody got upset lol
Toys? There were cartoons based on Rambo, RoboCop, Police Academy, and others.
@@JeshuaSquirrel Now that you job my memory, i do recall cartoons being made about those "violent movies" although in those days they were just called "action movies".
R was more for violence and sex. Not really nudity especially female frontal....
@@raybernal6829 I recall it being geared more towards sex than violence, plenty of "horror movies' basically had no rating at all but get a glimpse of a bush somewhere and the whole movie ended up with a rating. For awhile it became a bit of a joke, us kids now knew what the "good movies" were ... They had the highest ratings ...
I've heard accounts from old pilots that they've experienced Mr Nielsen coming into the cockpit to tell them, "Good luck, we're all counting on you." Just to see their reaction.
Bill Murray was also known to do the same just randomly (not necessarily at an airport). Kinda hard to get into the cockpit even back in 1980.
Wish they'd filmed one such incident and included it in the bonus material for the bluray.
The soldier who identified as Ethel Merman was played by.. Ethel Merman, a Broadway stage actress famous for her powerful voice.
"Top Secret" was their next film. WW2 spy spoof starring Val Kilmer in his first role. Same type and density of humor. It's an underrated gem
Top Secret made fun of WWII films, Elvis films, Beach Party films, Spy/Espionage films, Westerns & the Blue Lagoon 😁
@@MLJ7956All of the above fits under “Elvis films”.
Top Secret IS SO FUNNY! It needs its proper attention and love and this channel can do that.
A great inside tidbit about Top Secret is that Val Kilmer was told to learn how to play the songs on guitar; only to tell him to “mock” play during the scenes to make it funnier.
@@danrivera5588 another great tidbit, while on the press junket promoting Airplane! In Europe, the writers fed a fake news story to the European press to see if they'd pick it up. The fake story was that the new recreational craze in America was Skeet Surfing. 😀
I love the fact that every time the jet is shown flying it’s making a propeller driven airplane sound
It took me SEVERAL watches before I understood that.
Everyone misses that ... EVERYONE
Tu-95s flying around these days!?
I’m 68 now and Airplane is still one of my favorite comedy films. Yes, Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles. Please.
Yes! I think I’ve only seen one reactor who caught that detail. Can’t remember who it was though.
Something to think about, before this movie Leslie Nielsen was a serious dramatic actor, and had never done a comedy before, this movie spawned a whole second career for him.
None of the main characters were comedic actors.
Yeah, Lloyd Bridges (the character who quit basically every vice in the same week) was a serious actor before as well.
Like he seriously fought a bear in 'Day of the Animals'. A. Bear.
Yes indeed...One of Nielsen`s best acting jobs came on an episode of Bonanza. " The Unseen Wound ", season 8--episode 20. He played a man who was losing his mind due to the war he had been in...It was a very dramatic acting role for Nielsen...Very different from his later acting roles.
He made a guest appearance on MASH a bit like his Drebin character
These actors were mostly know for their serious roles, so it made it even funnier watching them be funny.
Peter Graves, Leslie Neilsen & Robert Stack all had reservations since they hadn't done any comedy to that point but the producers told them to just "play it straight" and hence the comedy, and it opened a whole new career for each of them.
"I take it black. Like my men." is the greatest line in cinematic history.
My girlfriend said that to me, so I replied, "I like my coffee like my women, warm and wet."
😂😅👍🏾
Greatest? "Where the white women at?"
Better than "NOOOO. I am your father?"
@@billolsen4360 That franchise is dead.
Totally lost it when Kacee said, "Blow him!" 🤣 Yyyyeah, Elaine pretty much had to!
No kidding, I just exploded! I think I scared my wife half to death.
Glad i had put my drink down just before that 😂
Fun Fact, the guy in the tower who checked the turkey in the "Radar Range" was Jonathan Banks, who became Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
33:29 what made this scene more funny is that this actress ( Barbara Billingsley) played the mom from the 1950’s show “ leave it to beaver”
Doing Airplane probably helped her land her role in Beetlejuice.
@@jtoland2333beetle juice ? 😮
Yes. The woman who had the dirtiest line in 1950s TV!
The public used to be allowed all the way up to the gates. You just weren't allowed to board without a boarding pass. Depending on the airport, you would either need to pass through the metal detector when you first entered the airport or at the gate to board the plane. San Jose was at the gates, I remember that from childhood.
18:35 - that "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" line was a spoof of a popular coffee commercial in the late 70's. And that actress was the same actress from those commercials.
And the guy putting a turkey into a microwave disguised as a radar display in the ATC tower referred to the fact that Radarange was a brand of microwave sold at the time.
That smash cut to them in the cockpit after “that’s impossible, they’re on instruments” is one of my favorite comedy bits (if it’s even long enough to call it a bit) of all time.
The bit before that where Henderson checks the RadarRange is even funnier...
For me it's the shit hitting the fan. I saw this on VHS and had to rewind it about 20 times before I stopped laughing hard enough to keep going. Oh wait, that and the guy on the bike getting run over and shouting "Ass! Hole!" Those were the 2 moments that live rent free in my brain.
For me, it when the dude says "No!... that's exactly what they'd be expecting us to do".
Gotta be Robert Stack's congratulatory message that goes on for ten straight minutes and covers at least five completely unrelated topics.
I saw this theatrically as a 13 year old, I have never heard such continuous laughter in a theater before or since.😂
I was 10 when I saw this in theaters. And how was this PG? We were Gen-X
We were different back then
This is the End. Only other time.
@Andrew Lustfield But remember, there was no PG-13 back then, which this film would be rated today. We had G for totally clean, PG for parent's discretion, and R which is restricted. Films were rated R for having strong language, violence, and sexually oriented nudity. I guess a pair of boobs is tame, so Airplane! didn't fall under that category.
@@mgordon1100 Here's the thing---people thought we could handle it, and mostly we did.
This movie came out in 1980 (the last year of Generation X, according to some). Us Gen-X'ers were a breed apart. Our babysitters were TVs and Video Games, our parents worked so long and so much that we were by ourselves from the moment we got home from school until they came home from work. We are the Latchkey Generation.
The older lady that interprets the jive talking is Barbra Billinsley she played the mother in the tv show leave it to beaver
Airplane, Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers…. It doesn’t get much better than those back in the day.
Was a kid in the 1980's, can confirm. Out and about for hours without nobody knowing where us kids were + titties in movies and on tv. Good times. 😂
Yup, as long as you were back by nightfall, the parents didn't care. I the 70s I waited for the school bus alone, out of sight of the house at a rural crossroads. No one bothered me. No one was worried. Different times.
What "titties ...on tv?" Don't count cable.
There is complete nudity on the internet everywhere today along with much of tv. Things were ridiculously tame back then compared to now.
Even in 1980 the overheads closed. The reason these are more like shelves is that Airplane! Is a nearly shot-for-shot remake of a movie from the 1950s called Zero Hour. The plane in that film is a turboprop, which is why they play a propeller sound effect everytime you see the plane, even though it is a jet.
My favorite subtle joke in this movie is how we hear the drone of propellor engines in each scene on the plane but the aircraft has jet engines not propellors.
Hardly anybody ever notices this, it's a throwback to the original movie Zero Hour which took place on a prop plane
It's because the whole movie is a remake of the 1950s movie "Zero Hour", which was set in a propeller-driven plane.
Fun fact #1: This movie was interred in the Library of Congress as one of the best comedies written.
One of the best comedies of the 80s!
*Of all time.
This and Blues Brothers. Absolutely
I just want to tell you both, Good Luck. We’re all counting on you.
The Naked Gun movies were based on a short lived TV Show called Police Squad. Those episodes are also worth watching.
Yes, the TV shows are great! They recycled some of the gags from the TV into the movies so you may recognise them.
OMG I remember choking with laughter during the first "freeze frame" end scene! Such a goofy hilarious show!
Once shot twice!
Then who fired twice?@@Jutrzen
Fun fact: before 9/11, anyone could go right up to the gate to see their family and friends off (or meet them when they land), as long as they went through the security screening. This was generally a metal detector and maybe a pat-down for people who were acting suspicious. You didn't have to have a ticket, everyone went through the same screening process whether they were flying or not. In fact, it was usually faster for family and friends to get through because they didn't have bags that needed to be checked.
21:20 Kacey is completely correct, they do indeed have different specific meals for each of the pilots, to prevent both of them being incapacitated because of eating the same bad dish, like in this film
My favorite fun fact! Did you know that rule was actually put in place because of this film?
It wasn't because of this film, that's a common myth. The rule (which not all airlines have) was only implemented after a real life incident on Overseas National Airline in 1982 when the pilot, copilot, and 8 other crew members ate contaminated tapioca pudding.
Some new articles at the time mentioned the similarity to Airplane!, but it had come out a couple of years earlier and wasn't the reason for the rules.
It was the raw milk that made the pilots sick.
@@sumnerhayes3411 There was an incident in 1975 on a Japan Air Lines charter flight which was in some ways even scarier. Contaminated in-flight meals led to 197 people getting food poisoning (out of 364 people on the aircraft). Of those affected, 144 were hospitalized, 30 of them in critical condition; all eventually recovered.
The pilots had requested non-standard meals (dinner instead of breakfast). If they had eaten the standard meal, they would quite likely have received contaminated food, with a very real risk they would be incapacitated.
As a result, the investigation report recommended that cockpit crew meals should be from separate sources, to prevent a single bad source from affecting multiple crew members. I'm somewhat surprised that there were airlines that still hadn't adopted this practice at the time of the 1982 incident.
Sliced off Prime Rib for both Pilot & CoPilot & reminded them of this rule. The Pilot reminded me, I was on his outgoing flight. If I made them both sick, I'm going down with them...
Kacee's reaction to Barbara Billingsley (AKA Leave it to Beaver's mom June Cleaver) diving into jive talk: priceless! It seemed like she was trying to keep a straight face for one second but just had to give up. That was always one of my favorite scenes in the movie, because you'd never expect that dialogue from Beaver's mom.
Barbara Billingsley said that this movie was her comeback. She hadn't had an acting job in over 10 years. But after this movie she worked consistently for the rest of the 80's
I _actually_ saw the scene in "Leave it to Beaver" where she actually did say, "Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night, weren't you?"
When Kacee snorted during the horse scene, that's when I lost it. SO freakin' funny! Love seeing you guys laugh. More comedies, please! \m/
This was the best reaction to Airplane! I've seen on RUclips. "BLOW HIM!!!" hahahahahahahahahahahaha I literally spit out my drink and laughed so hard when she yelled that. I am now covered in Pepsi. Hahaha
FYI: THERE IS A POST-CREDITS SCENE
I saw Airplane! at an US Army base theater in West Germany as a kid. Loved the poster and loved the film. It really set the bar high for comedies, for me. I also watched the TV series Police Squad!, and saw all its three movies in theaters (the Naked Gun movies). Police Squad! only ran for 6 episodes and is well worth a watch.
You two made it fun to watch again. And yes! Young Frankenstein for sure.
Great reaction... The best is when Kacee lost it on the "like my men" scene. 😂😂❤
5:12 "Then give me the flower back!"
Random solicitations from random churches were endemic back in the 70s. I had a member of the Hare Krishnas (the two guys in robes were supposed to be Hare Krishnas - that's the basis of the "gave at the office" joke) come up to me in Harvard Square in 1971 and give me a "free" book before asking for a donation. When I passed on giving him money, he really did take the book back!
One of the best of the parodies. ZAZ also did Top Secret!, which was Val Kilmer's first movie.
You'll love it!
"Thank God, I dreamed I was back in high school."
🎶"If everybody had a shotgun, and a surfboard too..."🎶
The original beach making out scene was from the movie "From Here to Eternity" with Frank Sinatra. How he got the role supposedly inspired the horse head scene in The Godfather.
The directors of Airplane had never seen From Here to Eternity and were simply mocking the already existent trope.
As someone who works at an airline, and in the summer/winter for late night flights, riding the conveyor belt in arrivals area is one of the few joys I get on the job XD
And yup, it's everything as advertised ;)
You actually get to do that!? I am in the wrong business!!
Fun Fact: the policy about pilots not eating the same food was implemented after this movie came out. As they realized this was actually a potential hazard. So the food policy is actually because of this movie specifically. :)
This is a myth, albeit a commonly believed one.
First, not all airlines have a rule like that. Second, nobody had such a rule even for several years after the movie came out. The first rules about diversity of eating were implemented in 1984, in response to a real-life incident where both pilots and several crew members got sick after eating contaminated tapioca pudding-Airplane! had definitely kind of predicted that possibility, but it wasn't the reason some airlines made such rules.
The New York Times reported: “10 crew members of an Overseas National Airways DC- 8 became ill about 35 minutes out of Boston on a flight from Lisbon.'The crew all eat different things, but the one thing they had in common was tapioca pudding.'...It's clearly time for all airlines to require pilots and co-pilots to avoid any shared food before and during flights before a catastrophe occurs.” in a March 27, 1984 article on the subject. Google "THE DOCTOR'S WORLD; ARE PILOTS PROTECTED FROM CONTAMINATED FOOD?" for the full article.
It wasn't until a few months after that incident that some airlines introduced rules about diversity of eating, and the ones that did cited that incident specifically.
When Captain Oveur picks up the red phone by mistake and the voice on the line says "No, the white phone", I'm sure you can hear someone on set laugh out loud!
Unfortunately it's edited out of your reaction but Ioved it 😂
This was one of the best reactions to this movie. So many Americans especially young ones are so clueless to slapstick that a lot of the jokes go over their heads and they barely laughed. They take the jokes literally and not see them as jokes.
40:04 You laughed at a lot of things that most reactors don’t get at all. You make watching this movie fun.
I know this movie is old and many of the references young people may not understand but you understood enough to enjoy the movie.
Fun Fact on the Saturday Night Fever spoof scene: While he was doing Airplane, actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) was also doing a short lived sitcom called Angie and his Angie Co-Star Donna Pescow was in Saturday Night Fever.
There is also a sequel to Airplane called Airplane 2 The Sequel which is also worth a look just to see William Shatner steal the show.
Buck Murdock: We'd better get to the tower, Lieutenant.
Lt. Pervis: We have no tower, sir.
Buck Murdock: No tower?
Lt. Pervis: Just a bridge, sir.
Buck Murdock: Why the hell aren't I notified about these things?
🤣🤣🤣
Airplane 2 has several issues, but for me one of the biggest is that Robert Stack should have reprised his role in place of Shatner.
The enmity from Airplane would have carried over more naturally. It's like they couldn't book Stack and Shatner had to fill in.
Just wanted to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you.
I envy Kacee so much, getting to watch this for the first time. And as for the PG rating, this was before PG-13 was invented. And, what was acceptable back then was a lot... "looser" than now. How about this: the original Planet of the Apes is rated G. Times change. People change. Culture changes.
True. Conservatives ruin everything.
...Hairstyles change...interest rates fluctuate... 🤭
Imagine someone filmed something like "Don't be a menace" or "Scary movie" now
Yeah, our generation was cooler✌️ yay '70's. I graduated in '80🙂😎😁
Things were both looser and more uptight back then, strangely. Midnight Cowboy was rated X, and would barely be an R by modern standards.
20:25 James Hong plays the Japanese soldier who's been in TV & movies & voice since the 1950s finally got his star in Hollywood after his performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) winning 2 Awards at 94.
He was just an extra in this movie, proving that a lot of extras parts in movies are memorable. The girl who played the "patient" was also just an extra in this movie but spent years in the cast of "The Love Boat". JJ Walker from the TV series "Good Times" also had an extras part in this movie.
So much fun watching with you guys! It never ceases to amaze me how well Airplane holds up and can still be hilarious for someone like Kacee who's never seen it! Airplane 2 next? :)
Roger, it’s named Over’s law as a result. Shirley you knew this.
The Mayo Clinic is a real,very respected,medical facility in the United States. The name wasn't the joke,the shelves full of Mayonnaise was the joke.
It wasn't until another first-timer video pointed it out that I noticed the jars of mayonnaise. 😆
I could just watch an entire video with just Casey laughing.
It's so contagious and happy.
I can definitely do without his laugh
In the scene where the dog is attacking the guy who came to pick up the other guy, I love the mirror gag. I don't think ANYONE ever spots it, usually they are too distracted by the dog. Go ahead and check that scene again.
If you can't see what the mirror gag is, come back here and I'll let you in on it. It might be kinda hard to spot, I know I saw this movie soo many times over a couple decades before I even noticed it.
I had to have someone point it out to me before I saw it. It might be the most subtle joke I've ever seen in a movie.
I've seen this movie tons of times, and it wasn't until I was watching a reaction that I noticed it.😂
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 this may be the same way I noticed it as well, I'm pretty sure the reactor didn't, but it for some reason clicked in my head "heeeeey! Wayment!"
I too had seen the movie multiple times but I only learned of the mirror gag via a reaction comment.
I've made this comment on previous reactions before, would be funny if it was my comment you saw lol. I've definitely seen others talk about it though.
You are one of the only reactors to catch the post credit scene. Thanks for that! Great reaction.
Of note; the actor playing the radar operator plays Mike, the heavy in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul 😲
Johnny is my personal favorite character, mainly because he's the only character who seems aware he's in a comedy. Everyone else is brilliantly, stone-faced serious and then you've got this one guy running amuck in contrast.
The tower? Rapunzel! Rapunzel!
I've read that all of Johnny's lines were ad libs.
How 'bout some coffee Johnny?
@@mogwaimofo No thanks!
I like the part where he's telling that woman how awful she is dressed.
Greatest reaction to a movie I've ever seen on RUclips. You two are officially the king and queen of RUclips. You earned my subscription.
Great reaction. Always funny to watch the under-40s see a comedy like this from back when you could get away with so much more! Now you need to see Airplane II too for comparison. They reuse a lot of ideas, but it's worth it if you love this kind of humour, and there is an interesting guest appearance.
Ronald Reagan was in a movie called "Knute Rockne, All American" where he played George Gipp. Rockne's famous inspirational speech was to win one more game for the "Gipper". As in George Zipp and "the Zipper".
And to add to that, the music in the background gradually getting louder is the fight song of Notre Dame, where Rockne played and coached.
See something new every time. 7:45 - the Mayo Clinic does exist and was and is considered one of the top Hospitals in the United States. 19:32 and 20:23 - James Hong who’s been in a ton of movies including "Blade Runner", “Big Trouble in Little China”, “Kung Foo Panda” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” - for other actors this would be an early appearance but in 1980 James Hong was already 26 years into his acting career.
What was even funnier at the time this film came out is that there were many serious actors in an out of character comedic role who people would have known quite well The woman talking jive was from an all white series called "Leave It To Beaver". The woman who's husband has two coffees was in a coffee commercial and her lines where almost directly from the commercial. They parodied Saturday Night Fever and From Here To eternity (the beach scene) amongst many others. ALSO if you liked Naked Gun, you should watch Police Squad (6 episode series that became Naked Gun).
I was 20. The first theater movie I ever paid to see twice. People were rolling in the aisles. Our sides ached.
When I was 17, my grandmother saw this in the theater and said it was the most disgusting and raunchy movie she had ever seen. I immediately knew that this was a must watch.
PS: I also support your channel because you are crusaders in the legalization of raw milk.
The "Jim never has a 2nd cup at home" was a reference to an old coffee commercial stating on how good the coffee was.
She was the actual person in the commercial as well,not sure if he was😊
I grew up in the 70s and 80s and as kids it was fine letting kids watch this and even worse stuff. Made our generation the best generation
Kids since have seen far, far worse. Cable kept pushing things further and everything is on the internet. Now most teens take pictures that go further on their own phones. We grew up in a far tamer environment.
The woman thinking about her husband having a 2nd cup of coffee is a parody of a Folgers commercial that was on constantly. The beach scene is from the 50's film 'From Here to Eternity'. The Leslie Nielson pep talk is from 'Knute Rockne All American. The overall movie parody is from 'Zero Hour'.
I think the commercial was for Brim coffee, an early half caff coffee.
@@jerryfick613 "Fill it to the rim with Brim!"
I take it black - like my men 😂
One.of the best lines ever....
I love your Buc-ees hat. Went to our first Buc-ees a month ago south of Lexington, KY. We were blown away at the hugeness of that store. I love that you love those comedies that don't try to be so serious. Keep up the great reviews.
I've seen so many reactors laugh at the Mayo Clinic joke, but none ever seem to realize the joke is that the Mayo Clinic is a real place, just not filled with mayonnaise lol. Mayo Clinic exists
Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota, is one of the most famous medical clinics.
" Surely You Can't Be Serious ? " - I Am Serious , And Don't Call Me Shirley !! " 🤣
fun fact: Christopher Lee was originally offered the role of Dr. Rumack, but he turned it down. In his autobiography he admitted to regretting this.
Not fun.
I can't believe they missed the mirror gag at 27:10 ! It's one of the most subtle yet complicated gags in the movie and my personal favorite. Other than that, a good video!
Think you missed my favorite joke, because its subtle.
At 27:02, the captain is getting dressed in front of a mirror, while the dog attacks the other guy.
When the captain goes to leave, his reflection steps into the real world
My favorite visual gag, that most people miss somehow.
The woman that spoke jive was Leave it to Beaver's mother from the popular 1950s sitcom.
Nobody ever gets the June Cleaver joke. Except old people.
And of course, the granddaddy of the series, "The Kentucky Fried Movie" which set the tone for all their subsequent films. I walked in off the street to see that movie just based on the name, having no idea what it was about, and became a lifelong fan of their comedies.
This reaction episode was sooo fun! I have never seen Kz laugh so much! 😂😂😂
I believe there was one movie called the Kentucky Fried Movie that was rated PG, but the narrator took the time to look into the camera and say, "F-you," to push it to an R.
These kind of movies right here I feel like is in ur element of what movies u would enjoy! Love ur reactions!! And don’t forget about” HOT SHOTS!” Part 1 and DEUX! Lol
The guys who made this made a film called Kentucky Fried Movie in the mid 70's. It was rated R and if you thought Airplane had some inappropriate jokes then Kentucky Fried Movie will blow your minds.
Waching Kacee work through the implications of "the horse" was the most amazing comedy reaction I think I've ever seen. :)
Keep in mind, Airplane! came out in 1980. The MPAA wouldn't introduce the PG-13 rating until 1984
The boombox is from Say Anything
The movie has boobs in it, it would be rated R today.
Right. They had to pick R, PG, or G. When you're faced with either R or PG, you're going to end up with some nudity and things like that in PG movies to avoid giving everything an R.
The ratings board was more open to what they let pass in the 1970’s. They began to crack down in the 1980’s.
Face the wall, groomer
I'm pretty sure PG13 wasn't created until after the second Indiana Jones, Temple of Doom. Mothers freaked out with that ripping the heart out scene.
Love the reaction to her own snorting, 😂❤ just beautiful.
Both in the airplane and naked gun movies, it's worth reading the end credits as they are filled with jokes.
17:42 STP was an additive for car engines. This scene depicts a pit crew at a race track. Notice the oil in the IV bottle.
Not many people catch that one today...
Top Secret with Val Kilmer is another classic from this genre
24:23 - Kacee: "BLOW HIM!!!!!"
Us - * Holy music stops * Well Kacee definitely called it before the joke happened 😂😂😂
lol, welcome to my childhood. back in the day we only had G, PG, and R rated movies. I could walk into a PG movie as a 8 year old and nobody would have questioned it at all.
The joke(s) of the pilot asking the boy different questions wasnt in the script originally. They were added after the actor told a story about an incident that happened to me. He was at the grocery store and waiting in line to the cashier behind a mother and her son. The boy kept staring at him and he started to wonder why. He'd just been in a few gladiator movies that had done fairly well, so he assumed that the boy probably recognized him from those. And then he asked "Do you like gladiator movies?" from the kid, and the mom shot him a look that could kill. He only realized after that how bad it must have sounded. And that's how those jokes got into the movie.
I remember "The captain has turned off the no smoking sign" announcement on the plane, followed by half the passengers - or more - immediately lighting up to get their nicotine fix.
I never smoked myself, but between my paretns and public places, I might as well have.
Wow, I feel old.
I love the way they shout OMG at Air Israel joke at the same time! Very funny
It's true that pilots and copilots mustn't eat the same meal, specifically to prevent exactly this scenario. That rule was instituted by most airlines before the time of this movie - but long _after_ the time of _Zero Hour!_ the movie that this one parodies.
34:00 - *“Why? Why did they put a horse there?”*
Now, come on. You _know_ why there's a horse there.
And, yes, you should _definitely_ watch _Young Frankenstein._
Yes, plane overhead storage used to be just open shelves, without anything to secure people's belongings. I believe that that was being phased out in favor of bins like the ones that we're used to today around the time that this movie was made.
PG meant something completely different in the early and mid 80’s, once PG-13 became more common PG movies started being kid’s movies that were just over the line for a G rating
Airport security was added in mostly 3 steps.
In 1972 -76 they banned handguns and phased in metal detectors. (and yes, before that you could just take your gun on the plane, nobody asked, actually you can still take your gun on the plane, but you have to check it in).
After the 1988 lockeby bombing they also added security checks for check in bags.
And post 2001 they phased in more general security measures.
Metal detectors first appeared in airports in the 70s, but the TSA didn't exist until 2002. The difference that most people are surprised by is that you used to ve able to go through security even if you weren't flying.
You could go all the way to the gate to say goodbye, and you could meet people flying in at the gate
That, and smoking on airplanes.
11:25 Aww, you missed the pilot switching gears like if he was in a car! 😀
The jerk is comedy gold
I saw this when it came out. I was 5, and I loved it. Never did me any harm. All the risqué jokes went over our heads.
You were both right about the bird, it was a turkey vulture.
"I was under the impression we used to be able to just walk up to the airplane" - yes, yes you used to be able to do that a long time ago lol.
The beach scene is a parody of the movie "From Here to Eternity". Shrek 2 also makes fun of that part.
The po faced, deadly serious delivery of the ridiculous lines helped this film, together with the abundance of gags. The guy taking the chicken out of the oven was Mike from Breaking Bad. It's true that there would be keyboard warriors claiming they felt hurt or outraged at any joke now which hamstrings writer and creators. The last comedies I really appreciated were The Cornetto Trilogy but they're old now...
it makes me feel good to see this younger generation enjoy real comedy without getting upset
No one gets upset my dude, people just like to act victim and go - oh if this was today, they would be cancelled, oh they would never try it today, which is complete bullshit. Shows like South Park and Its always sunny go way way beyond this and are still going strong. Borat just came out last year
All this claim of - oh this would get cancelled today, oh no would dare to do this today - is plain attention seeking
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit getting offended.
@@harish123azIronic. Here you are getting offended over someone asserting people would find this movie offensive.
@@redpillfreedom6692 Ah yes, the old uno reverse card, laughing at people acting victim is you getting offended you guys!
I am just tired of -people acting victims all the time, particularly when they need to lie about it. It not even original or smart, they are just vomiting out something they heard or read elsewhere
Perpetually believing and acting victim is just cringe. Every singe youtube comments has just the same lines being parroted again and again, its just tiring
@@harish123azIf you truly think that we are the same now that we were back then in terms of sensitivity then you are truly a dumbass.
We had Tupperware parties at my house but I'm pretty sure it was an excuse for the moms to hang out and get drunk without the kids haha