A movie where all we do is laugh the whole time!!!  What is your favourite Airplane! joke/scene/bit?

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The "Jim never has a second cup at home" is from a series of 70s TV ads for Yuban coffee. The actress that says it in this is the actress from those commercials.

Verowak, we just want to tell you, “Good luck. We’re all counting on you.”

The older lady who gets into the jive talk smackdown at 25:01 is played by Barbara Billingsley, who was still very famous when this movie came out, because she played June Cleaver, the Mom in “Leave It To Beaver”. June Cleaver was held up as the “par example” of the perfect white middle-class 1950s housewife. A true archetype. So people kinda lost their minds when she brought the “cut me some slack, Jack!” 😂🤣

A running joke that a lot of people miss on first watch is that the jet airplane always sounds like a propeller airplane.

Forbidden Planet for a serious Leslie Nielson role

OMG, someone finally saw the woman throw the baby in the air!!!😅

At my own wedding reception, when the DJ started playing "staying alive", my wife happened to be taking a breather while I was on the dance floor.  I took my jacket off and tossed it over to her, with no preplanning or coordination, she tossed it right back -- thus recreating the bar scene from Airplane!

Dan.

The beach flash back is From Here to Eternity.

Johnny was the only Character NOT Playing It Straight!

Halfway through and this is one of the best reactions to Airplane out there. You caught the most jokes of anyone I have seen.

It is kind of funny that one of the jokes goes unnoticed by many. They are on a jet, but all you hear is a propeller plane 😁

In case there was any remaining doubt that Verowak is an engineer ...  Only an engineer would number a flight 3.14  🙂

In the scene where the boy criticizes Kareem's game and he claps back, it was not in the script for him to grab the kid's shirt and pull him in.  The worried expression of the boy's face was genuine because he thought that Kareem was actually mad at him.

"He never drinks coffee at home" was a parody of a commercial at the time, where a woman didn't understand why the husband drank the coffee at a party, until she realized it was a superior brand.

What I think really makes this movie work, is that Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, and Lloyd Bridges all had only played serious roles up to this point. And they played it so straight, like they're not in on the joke. Also the fact that the majority of the script and plot was taken from another movie which was meant to be a dramatic adventure - 1957's  "Zero Hour's" dialogue was so corny, it made the Zucker Brothers job easy. "Airplane's" a timeless classic (dispite some of the time-relevant jokes), and I have watched it 100 times, going back when it was released. I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

So, the "test" for reactors on Airplane! is the "Gimmie Hamm on five, hold the Mayo" bit, and you passed beautifully!

You picked up on a lot of jokes other reactors usually miss, I'm so impressed. And it's always great to see new people laughing at the comedy, it's so well done that it still holds up after more than 40 years.

The guy who picked the wrong week to quit everything is Lloyd Bridges, when I was a kid (I'm 69 years old) he starred in a show centered around scuba diving called "Sea Hunt".  I used to watch it on a black and white TV LOL.

The man and woman over the loudspeakers in the airport were the actual airport announcers at LAX and were also a married couple.

The man in the cab was not an actor.  He was a well-known businessman from California who lobbied heavily to reign in government spending in California.  It’s obscure, and you’d have to have been from California at that time to even know who he was, but the joke is that he just sits there allowing the tab to keep going up without doing anything.

The black guys speaking jive, which they wrote themselves, was all a setup for the punchline of the older white woman speaking it as well and back to them.  The actress was Barbara Billingsley.  She played June Cleaver in the 1950’s TV show Leave It To Beaver and was the epitome of a white middleclass mother and housewife of that era.

The woman who thinks to herself that her husband never has a second cup of coffee at home was an actress who did national coffee commercials – I think for Yuban – and that was always her catchphrase.  She was very recognizable at the time.  It would almost be like “Flo” from Progressive being in a movie or TV show making an insurance reference.

Peter Graves (pilot), Leslie Neilson (doctor), Lloyd Bridges (air traffic controller) and Robert Stack (pilot in tower) were very famous and legendary dramatic actors who had done little to no comedy.  Casting them in this movie and having them say and do such ridiculous things was SO out of character for them.  That is what made it so funny.  Peter Graves was the main character in the original TV series Mission Impossible, which the Tom Cruise movies are based on.  There is a reference to it in Airplane!2.  Lloyd Bridges sons, actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges, begged him to do this movie so they could laugh at him.  It led to many more comedy roles for all of them.  Lloyd Bridges was also in a couple of episodes of Seinfeld toward the end of his life.

Ethel Merman was a very famous and successful actress, singer and Broadway star. Yes, that was her in the hospital flashback basically playing herself. The song she sings was one of her trademarks.

I’m not sure, but the horse in bed with the pilot’s wife might be a reference to The God Father.

The ridiculous images in the background while Robert Stack is driving to the airport, I think is making fun of the bad special effects used up till around that time whenever actors were driving.