That was those guy's act. It's why they were cast. They wrote all their dialogue and taught Barbara Billingsley her "jive" lines as well. Outstanding! Very clever.
I've seen at least two she did; in one interview, she said was worried about offending people but the two "jive" actors (Gibbs and White) assured her she would come off just fine. The three of them are so good together. So many talented people in "bit parts" throughout the film.
Actually, I saw the 25th anniversary documentary and the Zucker brothers said the idea came from when they went to see Shaft and couldn't understand Richard Roundtree.
Randy: Can I get you something? Second Jive Dude: ‘S’mofo butter layin’ me to da’ BONE! Jackin’ me up… tight me! Randy: I’m sorry, I don’t understand. First Jive Dude: Cutty say ‘e can’t HANG! Jive Lady: Oh stewardess! I speak jive. Randy: Oh, good. Jive Lady: He said that he’s in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him. Randy: All right. Would you tell him to just relax and I’ll be back as soon as I can with some medicine? Jive Lady: [to the Second Jive Dude] Jus’ hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da’ rebound on da’ med side. Second Jive Dude: What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap! Jive Lady: Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don’ want no help, chump don’t GET da’ help! First Jive Dude: Say ‘e can’t hang, say seven up! Jive Lady: Jive ass dude don’t got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.
I really appreciate this transcript, because now that I can read it, I understand how perfect their replies are - they're indignant that the stewardess thinks they needed normal English "translated" back into jive for them, and the old lady is like "hey, don't complain to me about it, you want help or not?"
Just imagine how June Cleaver delivers those lines at dinner with her husband and sons. You can imagine Ward choking on his beer while Wally and Beaver listen in awe.
I didn't understand what they were saying or even what the joke was when I first saw this back when I was about 8 or 10 years old, but for some reason I laughed when the old lady said, "Cut me some slack, Jack!" 😂
We watched it here in English (somewhere in the Middle East) when we were kids and had no idea what Jive is and who Barbara BIllingsley was. We were still laughing our asses off not knowing what the hell was going on...
Yes, and it was the first role she had taken since Leave it to Beaver went off the air. She had been out of acting for 17 years when she took this part in 1980.
That's why it was so funny. Have they used just another white actress I don't know if it would have come off the same. But everyone knew her as Mrs Beaver Cleaver, the Prototype white woman/wife/mother of the 50s and early 60s
Yeah, parody movies like this are sadly a thing of the past and were replaced with absolute godawful garbage like “Epic Movie”, “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans”.
@@medalion1390 Agreed. Only good stuff from the 2000s is Scary Movie but that even got awful from 4 to 5. I discovered Mel Brooks recently and oh boy, that men and he's team are geniuses
@@absolutemalkavian4974 Unfortunately they forgot that the humor comes from actual parody and satire, and instead it all became nothing but references… “Hey look, it’s Paris Hilton/Britney Spears/Iron Man/Hannah Montana, etc” and that’s literally the joke.
If this was played by another actress it would’ve sucked. What made it funny is it’s VERY random that “Mrs. Cleaver” is in the movie, her deliver of what she was saying, and the reaction of the 2 brothas after she walked away.
I felt like this at a Burger King downtown Atlanta last night 😅. Some guy with a gold grill asked me... How U doin Lightskinnded 😅 I'm like...the jive has changed a little bit...i didn't know if it would be appropriate to respond back cause I'm rusty and now its considered cultural miss appropriation 😅 like i dont know if I'm expected to respond in my white Karen voice or not. I just nodded and smiled and said I'm doing good 👍.
In the German version of this movie, the two guys are speaking really heavy Bavarian, because of course. How are you going to get the joke across if the audience has no clue what jive is. It still worked and was funny as hell, so kudos to whoever came up with this solution for voicing over an otherwise untranslatable joke.
I've always harboured a deep affection for Afro American people, and respected their contribution to American society and culture, and their historical narrative. This piece only makes me love them more. The 'jive' segments in the Airplane movies are like dear old friends whom I love to revisit. - They get me laughing every time. If I was dying in hospital, I'd watch a lot of comedy, and the nurses outside my room would be wondering why I was laughing so much 'in my condition.' - I would make a point of watching these wonderful performances every day. Thankyou so much gentlemen.👍
lol... born and educated in akron... and lived in moco most of my life... and if i speak that way its either because im pissed off? or actually talking to some1 who only speaks that way,...
The only way to make this scene more hilarious...If Betty White did it at age 100. Sadly a stroke denied her age 100. Obviously 41 year difference. BB was the only actress who could have pulled this off in 1980.
This was a spoof on the blaxploitation films at the time where there was always a character who spoke in a jive talk. The actors made up their own dialogue. Just saving millennials and gen z from getting offended. 🙄
That was those guy's act. It's why they were cast. They wrote all their dialogue and taught Barbara Billingsley her "jive" lines as well. Outstanding! Very clever.
Just watched the interview with her about it.
What a great lady.
I've seen at least two she did; in one interview, she said was worried about offending people but the two "jive" actors (Gibbs and White) assured her she would come off just fine. The three of them are so good together. So many talented people in "bit parts" throughout the film.
Actually, I saw the 25th anniversary documentary and the Zucker brothers said the idea came from when they went to see Shaft and couldn't understand Richard Roundtree.
Lost it at their WTF stare after she left...
You are correct...they thought her how to speak it and created the entire dialog for that scene
After almost 40 years, this scene still has me laughing my ass off.
The end is the funniest part ...."Jive ass dude ain't got no brains anyhow"
She never got to say that to the Beaver even when there was a donkey on the show.
@@billkeithchannel
Actually, she did say exactly that to Eddie Haskall in season 3.
Best scene of the movie Barbara Billingsley was perfect
bgtg05 - They couldn't have GOTTEN ANYONE BETTER!!!!
June Cleaver, the whitest woman in America. Perfect!
Randy: Can I get you something?
Second Jive Dude: ‘S’mofo butter layin’ me to da’ BONE! Jackin’ me up… tight me!
Randy: I’m sorry, I don’t understand.
First Jive Dude: Cutty say ‘e can’t HANG!
Jive Lady: Oh stewardess! I speak jive.
Randy: Oh, good.
Jive Lady: He said that he’s in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
Randy: All right. Would you tell him to just relax and I’ll be back as soon as I can with some medicine?
Jive Lady: [to the Second Jive Dude] Jus’ hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da’ rebound on da’ med side.
Second Jive Dude: What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!
Jive Lady: Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don’ want no help, chump don’t GET da’ help!
First Jive Dude: Say ‘e can’t hang, say seven up!
Jive Lady: Jive ass dude don’t got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.
I really appreciate this transcript, because now that I can read it, I understand how perfect their replies are - they're indignant that the stewardess thinks they needed normal English "translated" back into jive for them, and the old lady is like "hey, don't complain to me about it, you want help or not?"
😂😂😂
Cutty said "tighten me", not "tight me". Tighten me means, help a brotha out...
Can you tell what they both started saying together in a jumble right after her "Cut me some slack, Jack"? It's not covered here
@DrakeyC That isn't an ordinary old lady, that's June Cleaver (aka Barbara billingsley), mother of beaver cleaver!
What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies, I dug her rap
"chump don't want da' help, chump don't get da' help."
Your the chump, chump.
Fool be actin like a jive ass turkey, talkin to big mama like dat when all she trying to do is hook a brotha up.
Blade GTR Whoa whoa whoa, no ones calling anyone a “JT”
@@wolverine67044
You're
@@wolverine67044 no seems you are
"Uh, pardon me Stewardess, but I speak Jive!" HaHa!!!!
cutty say he can't hang
“Just hang loose Blood” that had me 😂
The drone of the propeller engines, running joke throughout the film.
“Ward, the Beaver’s speaking Jive again.”
“I’ll have a talk with him, dear.”
Just imagine how June Cleaver delivers those lines at dinner with her husband and sons. You can imagine Ward choking on his beer while Wally and Beaver listen in awe.
Maybe Aunt Martha taught her
June Cleaver's accent is the best thing about this scene!
The two gentlemen actually taught her her lines. Those guys were great!
That is still one of the all time funniest scenes in movies; having Mrs Cleaver talking jive!
The older I get the more I come to accept that this film is the pinnacle of entertainment.
I live the propeller sound when it’s a jetliner.
I didn't understand what they were saying or even what the joke was when I first saw this back when I was about 8 or 10 years old, but for some reason I laughed when the old lady said, "Cut me some slack, Jack!" 😂
We watched it here in English (somewhere in the Middle East) when we were kids and had no idea what Jive is and who Barbara BIllingsley was. We were still laughing our asses off not knowing what the hell was going on...
“ ...I heard his Rap”, “Cut me some slack Jack!!! “Chump don’t want no help, chump don’t get no help!!!” Hella funny fo show!!!
You have to have seen Leave It To Beaver to know how cool this is. Hugh Beaumont would have been laughing his ass off seeing this.
Yeah, while Wally and the Beaver would listen to their mom in awed silence...😂
I’d like to see her let Eddie Haskell have it.
I just saw am interview where Barbara said her niece saw the movie in the theater and got so excited when she saw her aunt on the screen.
Ward Cleaver wouldn't have known wtf was going on. He wasn't too bright...
@@drl5002 That’s so cute
I'm sure people who were fsns of Leave it to Beaver were surprised by Barbara Billingsley's role in Airplane!
That movie had a lot of funny scenes, sometimes watch it and look into the background, those backup scenes are killer!😎
Sometimes humor can be dangerous - this skit was funny enough to hurt when I first heard it.
Dude, what?
@@matyikag.7681 When I heard this scene first time it I laughed really hard.
After I stopped laughing my ribs were hurting a bit.
June Cleaver was fucking raw.
They disgustingly removed this part from the HBO Max version of the film.
Wow, something you have to pay to see? Ridiculous. HBO used to be where you could see stuff you couldn't see on other channels.
That was June Cleaver!
THAT was the point!😂🤣😂🤣
Yes, and it was the first role she had taken since Leave it to Beaver went off the air. She had been out of acting for 17 years when she took this part in 1980.
That's why it was so funny. Have they used just another white actress I don't know if it would have come off the same. But everyone knew her as Mrs Beaver Cleaver, the Prototype white woman/wife/mother of the 50s and early 60s
Greatest movie ever.
Oh I really needed this today. THANKS!
Back when everyone had a sense of humor.
People still have a sense of humour, and it's way more edgy that it was back then.
that's not even true...they have shit like this on SNL
@@politicsbyjake No, they just make movies like Django.
@@hud1231 SNL stopped being funny a long time ago.
@@ahuehuete4703 didn't say it was funny but you'll see edgy race shit...like this now
"Stewardess, I speak jive."
The LOL at the end told me it was okay to laugh.
How can this not have over a million views?
This is exactly what I was looking for. :)
that is so funny, they all pulled it off perfectly
SHIII..t translation.....GOLLY!!!!! Even little kids enjoyed the humor.
The flight attendant after Billingsley says she speaks jive, “Oh Good!” ROFL
The Say 7 up part gets me every time
Barbara Billingsley saying, "Just hang loose, blood.." Is pretty much perfect comedy.
“Butter lay me to the bone, checking me up, tightly”. No idea if I heard that right. Fab scene.
Could someone put up the dialogue.
Rj rj eats winnets for breakfast
So funny and Barbara Billingsley great as well as the guys !
R. I. P. Mrs. Billingsly
"Cut me some slack, Jack!"
FARGIN GOLD !,,,
chump dont want no help, chump no get the help
Lmfao still after all these years
One of the funniest 30 sec ever !
Movies like this will never be made again. How deep have we fall
Yeah, parody movies like this are sadly a thing of the past and were replaced with absolute godawful garbage like “Epic Movie”, “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans”.
@@medalion1390 Agreed. Only good stuff from the 2000s is Scary Movie but that even got awful from 4 to 5. I discovered Mel Brooks recently and oh boy, that men and he's team are geniuses
@@absolutemalkavian4974 Unfortunately they forgot that the humor comes from actual parody and satire, and instead it all became nothing but references… “Hey look, it’s Paris Hilton/Britney Spears/Iron Man/Hannah Montana, etc” and that’s literally the joke.
Agree
This scene is so much better if you understand what they're saying hahahah
If this was played by another actress it would’ve sucked. What made it funny is it’s VERY random that “Mrs. Cleaver” is in the movie, her deliver of what she was saying, and the reaction of the 2 brothas after she walked away.
Where's Joe Biden when you need him...
Ha ha. Gold.
BigJ, you spoke of the future. Please tell me you've seen his rap battle Ad!
The White House
@@EricOfTheClanRed belongs in the jailhouse
@@christopherhand4836 uh no...that would be the Grand ORANGE Poohbaa of Upper Butt Crack- otherwise known as tRUMP! 🤣
Legend
Nanny from Muppet Babies can speak jive
Best scene in the whole movie
Wally: Mom where's Dad?
A lot people associate the language to the Black of the South , especially to good graces of New Orleans. Everything else is a metaphor .
They could not get away with this today. I miss these movies🤣
0:37😅
"Cut me no slack Jack" 😂
I speak jive. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Still laugh my ass off to this damn scene
This is how I felt when my mom started rubbing oatmeal on me when I had chicken pocks instead of Calhoun lotion
I revisit this movie every few years to see how epic it still is.
😂😂😂😂great 😃😃😃😃😃 movie
I felt like this at a Burger King downtown Atlanta last night 😅.
Some guy with a gold grill asked me...
How U doin Lightskinnded 😅
I'm like...the jive has changed a little bit...i didn't know if it would be appropriate to respond back cause I'm rusty and now its considered cultural miss appropriation 😅 like i dont know if I'm expected to respond in my white Karen voice or not.
I just nodded and smiled and said I'm doing good 👍.
I had a brainfart because I thought the guy with the afro was Craig Robinson. Turns out it was a young Al White. Crazy how much they look alike.
Where are the subtitles?
I wonder if Google Translate can help me here.
still good
I wish we would all speak jive instead of esperanto.
In the German version of this movie, the two guys are speaking really heavy Bavarian, because of course. How are you going to get the joke across if the audience has no clue what jive is. It still worked and was funny as hell, so kudos to whoever came up with this solution for voicing over an otherwise untranslatable joke.
I've always harboured a deep affection for Afro American people, and respected their contribution to American society and culture, and their historical narrative. This piece only makes me love them more. The 'jive' segments in the Airplane movies are like dear old friends whom I love to revisit. - They get me laughing every time. If I was dying in hospital, I'd watch a lot of comedy, and the nurses outside my room would be wondering why I was laughing so much 'in my condition.' - I would make a point of watching these wonderful performances every day. Thankyou so much gentlemen.👍
Still have a translator at work in 2023
That's interesting cause I happen to speak mayonnaise.
Cleaned that up a bit, didn’t they?
Check out Peter Sellers trying to talk jive in "Being There (bloopers)", it's hilarious!
airplane
Golly!
Knocka self a pro, slick.
lol... born and educated in akron...
and lived in moco most of my life...
and if i speak that way its either because im pissed off?
or actually talking to some1 who only speaks that way,...
Barbara Billingsley did a great job, but I bet it would have been even funnier if they cast Mister Rogers for the part.
I maintain that I still speak Jive.
Another reason RUclips is a great app lol
30 years later that part fucked everybody up!
Another funny premise is that you need an interpreter to translate standard English to jive-talking black dudes.
LOLOLOL!!!!!!! Classic!!
I love this scene it's actually amazing.
I’m black and even I don’t know what he said
Depends how old you are. Different generations have different jive
The only way to make this scene more hilarious...If Betty White did it at age 100. Sadly a stroke denied her age 100. Obviously 41 year difference. BB was the only actress who could have pulled this off in 1980.
nella versione italiana questo dialogo è tutto in napoletano, non so perchè 😄
Golly 😂😂😂😂
Cutter say he can't hang.
If you did that today it would be racist.
No it wouldn't.
@@killboggins it definitely would society is soft
@Servant of GOD no it wouldn't. You'd have to update the slang but it still would work as it's clever and genuine and not some cheap gag.
Back then you needed a black translator to translate black people. Now we have Urban Dictionary!
Classic lol
Lol classic!
Australia now 🙃
Say ay Sky, makka sakka pro. Lay em down smack em jack em.
No way this gets made today, no way anything comes close to how funny this is today.
HAHAHAHHAA EPIC
Eminem's grandma
This was a spoof on the blaxploitation films at the time where there was always a character who spoke in a jive talk. The actors made up their own dialogue. Just saving millennials and gen z from getting offended. 🙄