AIRPLANE! (1980) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION 

"No, that's just what they'll be expecting us to do". I'm always astonished how few people get the humor in that.

Alot of people miss my favorite part of the movie. At the captains house, he is getting ready in front of a mirror, and as he walks off, his reflection walks out of the mirror and into the world.... its subtle and easy to miss

"Let's get some pictures" is one of my favorite gags, so simple yet so effective.

Barbara Billingsly was the woman who could speak jive-- the ma from Leave it to Beaver. The two black dudes wrote their lines in this (Abrahm and both Zuckers all agreed they were funnier than what they originally wrote) and coached her though the scene. This movie was just as much as collaboration from the actors as it was from ZAZ-- the panicky woman getting the shit beat out of her suggested having the line of other passengers with weapons of escalating violence and ZAZ thought it was hilarious the moment she described it. Also, the dude checking the radar range and playing basketball on the Atari is Johnathan Banks, aka Mike Ermintrout from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul.

Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Leslie Nielson et al, were all serious actors. When the studio sent the script to Peter Graves ( Capt Over), he read, and threw it in the trash. His son came into office, asked, pulled it out and read it. Immediately turned to his father and said " Dad, you gotta do this movie".

The man in the cab is Howard Jarvis, a Los Angeles businessman that was very vocal against wasteful spending. In other words, the last person that would wait in a cab with a running meter.

The majority of the actors were well know for their acting in dramatic serious movies. To see them in this comedy was hilarious!

I just want to tell you, JL, good luck. We're all counting on you.

Johnny is my favorite character. "I can make a hat, or a broach, or a pterodactyl..."😂😂😂

'Your auto-pilot is dyin'!' He had the fish too! ' 😂🤣

"How soon can you land?" "I can't tell." "You can tell me, I'm a doctor." - Most underrated line in the movie

Favorite line: “Why, I can make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl!”

FYI, the joke about the Radar Range/Microwave. When they were first marketed, Microwave Ovens were named Radaranges because they used a magnetron that was developed for radar by the Raytheon corporation.

The pilots are Roger Murdock, Clarence Oveur and Victor Basta. Tower: Flight 209, you are cleared for takeoff. Oveur: Roger. Roger: Huh? Victor: Request Vector. Over. Oveur: What? Roger: We have clearance, Clarence. Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?

"I take it black"... Always going to be one of the funniest movie lines ever. Along with "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?". Not many movies are as quotable.

The woman with the eggs in her mouth... This was a magic trick that literally every low-budget magician was doing at the time.

One thing I learned only recently. Many people thought it was based on the original 'Airport', but it's based on a film that came out in the late 50's....called 'Zero Hour'. I think the studio already owned the script, so the guys picked it up for around $1500.00....and played it for laughs. Look up 'Airplane vs Zero Hour comparison'.

"Have you ever seen a grown man naked?" is the funniest line to me. It is so completely inappropriate and it is delivered perfectly. All the random questions to the kid in the cockpit are funny.

For more of the hilarious Lloyd Bridges, Jeff and Beau's dad, "I picked the wrong week" guy - Hot Shots, a Top Gun parody Though he has a long and distinguished film career, I will always remember him for his ability to say the most ridiculous stuff with a completely straight face.

You are the ONLY reviewer who got the "Win one for the Gipper" parody. Take a bow, my friend.

Robert Stack did his own stunts in that fight scene at age 61! That man is friggin amazing.

I was so glad to see you do this one. You have more life context than a 20-year old reactor. The two jive actors were friends and came up with their own dialogue.

Absolute classic. My favorite line is "I like my coffee black, like my men". It's a total WTF moment early in the movie that is tough to top.

"That shit made me fart" is possibly THE best line I've heard in any reaction video lol!

Dude - when you said (about Otto the autopilot) "he's dying, he had the fish too" , I spit out the soda I was drinking, I laughed so hard!!!!!!!

This movie was actually Leslie Nielsen's very first comedic role. He was a well known dramatic actor before this. Lloyd Bridges also had a great comedy career after this movie. Legend says his last words were 'Looks like I picked a bad day to quit living.'

I love incorporating Johnny’s lines into every day jokes and conversation. Favorite: “It happened to Barbara Stanwyck!”

Those girls fighting in the bar are Girl Scouts which makes it even funnier. I watched this movie a dozen times and never realized that until someone told me. This is one of my Top 5 favorite movies of all time. I'm so happy you reacted to it!

This movie is so much better when you're of a certain age and can get all the references, especially to TV commercials in the 70s.

Johnny yelling Rapunzel! Rapunzel! and that leaping like a freaking gazelle absolutely kills me! In a lot of ways Johnny really did steal the show when it came to this movie as the expression goes. I've been watching this movie ever since it first came out and I crack up every time I see it. #JohnnyRocks #NYGenXBikerLady

Johnny is played by Stephen Stucker, a man who tragically died young from complications of being the silliest person to ever exist, if you're out there Steve I hope you know how many people have laughed thanks to you. RIP

"He had the fish, too!" Damn, that was _exactly_ the level of funniness of this video, really well done 🤣

Just when you think we're finally watching a movie without 'shut-up' jump scares, the Murder Whistle gives us 2!! 😂😂

“That’s impossible they’re on instruments!” One of my favorite scenes of all time.

God I love this movie. It's so absurd, I just laugh through the whole thing. Right at the beginning you said "This is gonna be silly as hell." I thought "dude you have no idea."

I think few people realize that when the pilot passes out from the bad fish and the JET AIRLINER starts nosediving down through the sky when his shoulder pushes the control stick forward, that the sound is of an old prop airplane engine....not a four engine commercial jet.

“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.”

Love it when “Keys to the Plot” are displayed to make sure we’re paying attention to the story.

This is probably my favorite comedy of all time. This movie wouldn't even make it past the writing stage today. It would completely start riots if this movie came out today. I have watched it I don't know how many times , there are so many stuff going on in the background... it was genius. I'm a fan of stupid sarcastic jokes and this movie has more than enough for me. I always get the stink eye when people ask me "What is it?" and I describe the thing instead of answering the question (Like when she said 'A hospital? but what is it? ' and he said 'It's a building full of patients, but that's not important right now).

The absolute seriousness of the actors is what makes the film work. And it's hardly ever mentioned, but the music is just as important in my opinion; dead-on serious.

Leslie Nielsen delivered the lines with a straight face because he didn't get the joke. Because he didn't get the joke, he played all these roles straight.

This is the type of movie you gotta watch several times because there's no way to catch it all in 1 go 💖

This is one of those movies that you see something different every time you watch it but you'll absolutely hate if you don't like that kind of humour . Glad you enjoyed it.

Oh it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the window and wheels AND it looks like a Tylenol! It's a twister Auntie Em it's a twister! There's SO MANY MORE lines that he delivers in this movie that absolutely crack me up. Then the look on his face when he almost unplugs the whole place~that glint in his eye is classic maniac! Johnny is one of my favorite characters in this movie! Him AND the old lady who's talking jive to the two black dudes! Bwaaah Haaaa! #JohnnyRocks #NYGenXBikerLady

This movie started his comedy career in movies, he is a well known drama actor from the 60's and 70's

After this movie came out, it became a rule that the captain and first officer MUST have different meals... Just in case...

What Leslie Nielsen did so well is called deadpan humor. 😐 He had always been known as a dramatic actor in his youth, but his career and serious demeanor found new life playing deadpan in movies like this and the _Naked Gun_ series. Nobody does it better.

The older lady who speaks jive was Barbara Billingsley who played the mother on the 50s TV series Leave It To Beaver.

It sounds like you're teaching your copilots how to say "Like and Subscribe". I swear that's what I heard from him several times, lol 😊

This was always one of my family favorites growing up, so I have seen it many times. My dad, especially, loved the dry and slapstick humor throughout. I have watched many people reacting for the first time to this movie. You, by far, was the most entertaining in a long while. So many people, especially younger folks, don't pick up on the dry humor. You seemed to understand it pretty well and just your expressions had me cracking up!

This was fun to re-watch with JL. I used to work for Bi=Lo foods and there was a woman who worked with us who ordered a coffee from the Deli/Bakery and told the woman, who she knows and worked with, that "she liked her coffee like she liked her men, hot and black." Later that day there was a rumor going around that she was having an affair with a black man. I like this movie but it's one that I can only watch once in a great while.

lol, you had your work cut out for you doing a reaction on this one, not bad. seeing it in the theater back then, we missed half the jokes because we were laughing so hard. it was a brand new kind of comedy movie back in the day 👍

It was great to see Robert stack in this may he rip. Another great movie Jay! Loved this reaction 😆

Never seen anybody flinch from the s*** hitting the fan before. Classic.

"We have clearance, Clarence." "Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"

"Can you fly this plane, and land it?" "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley." Classic comedy. Laugh a minute and very quotable. Fun Fact: In a 2008 interview, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a European flight and asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during takeoff so the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdoch. White-Red Zone Fact: Regarding the argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life. Casting Choice Fact: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.

Love your babies! You’re reactions never fail to make me laugh. Thanks to you, blank, and the background puppers who always take care of their Dad

This film has been rated to have the most laughs per minute. It’s a comedic remake of an original movie from 1957 called ZERO HOUR - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8-v2BHNBVCs.html BTW, the producers bought the rights to ZERO HOUR just to avoid being sued. References: Opening plane in clouds mimicking the movie JAWS. Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home (coffee commercial spoof) - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MJ4kCF22O2w-.html same actress in real coffee commercial Boy/Girl Coffee Scene: The Original and the Spoof - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yH6KW6eMWJI.html From Here to Eternity- Beach Scene - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7TlDNMc_hFk.html Also: He walked out from the mirror at Captain Kramer’s house. A lot of people don’t catch that joke. A lot of people miss the jokes throughout the credits and afterwards the man in the cab says he’s going to give him another 20 minutes but that’s it. - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DPeYFD-vVHg.html

"Nervous?" "Yes" "First time?" "No I've been nervous lots of times"

Fun fact about Leslie Nielsen, he was a dramatic actor before this movie. The Zucker brothers gave him a whole new career in comedy. This was the first proper spoof movie, taking off a bunch of 70s references including a disaster movie called Airport. It was primarily goofing a movie called Strike Force One, which is the reason for all the war references. I grew up on this movie and Police Squad, which spoke to my love of goofy humour

the old lady speaking Jive is hilarious. What makes it funny is that it's the same actress that played June Cleaver in the old show Leave it to Beaver

Gotta love Kareem! “Tell your old man to drag Walton and Laneer up and down the court for 48 minutes…”

"But at least I have a husband." One of my favorite jokes in the movie.

I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.

15:07 -- Yes, Lorna Patterson who played Randy did sing "The River of Jordan".😀 --- In real life, Robert Hays who played Ted Striker is a pilot and is actually qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft..

FINALLY! Someone who got and appreciated this movies humor! You get reactors are completely shocked by some of the humor, not understanding it was the 80s. Anything was fair material for comedy. I knew every word of this movie once bc idk how old you are but back around this time we're two companies beta and vhs. In his infinite wisdom my dad got beta. This was the only movie we had for it as vhs destroyed beta.

So awesome, me and my wife laughed along with this so hard. Thank God people still have a s sense of humor. (And my wife passed all her finals, so we celebrating) LOVE the puppies! Our shmooffle can tell when there are dogs on screen and gets excited

I loved that whenever they showed an external shot of the jet we hear the sound of an old propeller plane. More subtle than a lot of the gags.

The man in the taxi was Howard Jarvis. He was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician. He was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978. (Wikipedia). That tax reform measure was copied across the country.

"Chump don't want the help, chump don't get no help." 😄

"At least i have a husband" "That dirty bitch" 🤣 Yo - that was low key one of the funniest lines.

Im so excited! Get me a non-smoking ticket, a crowbar, a tambourine, some black coffee, a paper pterodactyl and I DON'T want the FISH! I know youre thinkin "Surely you cant be serious".... well yes I am SERIOUS and dont call me Shirley! 😬🥴 Have a Fun day Everybody!

My favourite sequence is the stewardess talking into the microphone: "We hope you enjoy the flight. By the way is there anybody, who knows, how to fly a plane?", followed by pandemonium. "It's an entirely different kind of flying, all together" "It's an entirely different kind of flying"

“What that little girl says?” Shooters shoot, but he wasted his shot. Lol

11:19 - Cuttin' loose with the moves! LMAO!!! One of the BEST comedies ever made! The sounds of propeller engines when seeing the jet always gets me... "Get into "CRASH" positions", the line of people waiting to "help" the panicking woman by beating the crap out of her, "Excuse me stewardess, I speak Jive", the in-flight movies are a series of plane crashes, unplugging the runway lights - "just kidding", "Where did you get that dress?! It's AWFUL and, those shoes GEEEEZ!"... I was in PAIN from laughing so hard after watching this the first time - Instant classic!!! LOL!!! "Jim never vomits at home" is a reference to a popular TV commercial at the time...

"Cause he is dying,he had the fish too" 20:10 ....your remark gave me a good chuckle

When this was made, most of the older actors weren’t getting many roles anymore. For most of them, this was their first comedy role. Barbara Billingsley (jive lady) was Mrs Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver.

"I Just Wanted To Let You Both Know Good Luck, We're All Counting On You!!"

The slapping of the passenger (and people lining up to do worse) was a parody of a scene in the 1970 disaster film "Airport" which is an entertaining film that deserves a reaction.

This film succeeds by having the actors play it straight while the humor is all in the background. You won't get all of the pop culture jokes unless you were alive in the late 70s early 80s.

Oh this is gonna be awesome

My favorite is when J was afraid the plane was gonna crash because the auto pilot was deflating.

The woman who spoke / translated the jive was the mother on Leave it to Beaver, Barbara Billingsley.

Its funny how the "it takes respect" gag no longer works. It is supposed to subvert expectations, which it did back in the day. You are supposed to expect her to be unhappy that he doesnt respect her. Nowadays everyone reacts to that line as it is expected that she doesnt respect him.

I couldn't count how many times I've seen "Airplane!" and I not only still laugh out loud I still get the "ugly laugh"...........where you're snorting and you can't breathe and you got tears running down your face. I love everything about it especially that cast. Awesome!

I've been doing "And Leon is getting L-a-a-a-a-a-a-argerr" to my dad for like 28 years

J finally low key told us his age. If he was 6 when Planes Trains and Automobiles came out then he's 41 going on 42.

Awesome video J. Airplane is such a classic that my friends & I consistently quote. BTW your furry co-pilot is adorable & such a well behaved companion.🙂👍

Here are a few great comedies you should check out: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Stir Crazy (1980) The Great Dictator (1940) Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) In the Loop (2009)

You MUST read "Airport" by Arthur Hailey, it is a high drama but Hailey was the coauthor of the script for "Airplane!" and is responsible for the actual story sans jokes. There are funny things in the book, like there's a conga line on one of the runways. But we don't learn what that means till the next chapter so you are left with a mental image of drunks dancing on the airfield, but it's actually a line of snowplows and snowblowers and salt trucks clearing the runway. If an author doesn't tell you what they mean it makes a story hard to follow but if you expect "Airplane!" Logic, It makes it fun.

There's a line in the film that no one has has picked up on. When Ted is buying his ticket he says "One Ticket to Chicago -- No BAGAGE" .... But he has all that Personal Baggage from the War and his relationship with Elaine!

Great movie! One of the funniest of all time. People also miss the fact that whenever you hear the sound of the airplane, it makes the sound of propellers and not jet engines!

Stephen Stucker gave us some hilariously memorable performances of off-the wall characters in several movies, including a few episodes of Mork and Mindy. Sadly, he died of aids in 1986, only 38 years old. He also ad-libbed all of his lines in this movie.

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned but the older Lady talking Jive was Mrs. Cleaver, From Leave it to Beaver, she was the Beaves Mom!

What’s amazing is that this movie, as funny as it is, is even funnier than most people think, because there are several that are cultural references from the time. Just a few examples… the old lady speaking jive is Barbara Billingsley, most famous for her role as the perfect little happy homemaker in the 1960s TV show Leave It To Beaver; the woman with the inner monologue is a spoof on a coffee commercial from the time; religious folks proselytizing in airports used to be a thing; so we’re Tupperware Parties; most of the main male characters were exclusively serious actors, which gave this spoof a real edge (even Neilsen was a serious actor at the time… though he became more famous for his comedic work, this was his first comedy); the guy checking under the hood of the airplane is JJ Walker, famous from the 1970s TV sitcom Good Times. And that’s only about half of the “dated” references. There are also just some funny things they did which they audience wouldn’t even know about - I guess the director/producer just got a kick out of it, I dunno… like the two airport announcers arguing back and forth about the red zone and the white zone; those were ACTUAL airport PA announcers in real life (at LAX), *and* they were actually a married couple. Think of how funny this movie already was, without knowing any of the references I just mentioned. And some people miss even more references than this. I’ve seen some viewers who don’t know who Kareem is, or they don’t know Saturday Night Fever, or they don’t realize that smoking on planes used to be illegal (so the smoking ticket joke falls flat with them). And a lot of folks have never heard of a microwave referred to as a radar range… so, when the guy is asked to check the radar range and he open a microwave, lots of viewers are probably just reacting with, “huh?” Think of how funny this movie is. Then consider all of the missed jokes possible for modern viewers (I’m old, hehehe). This is probably one of the funniest movies ever.

The funniest movie of all time. One of the first movies we had on VHS as a kid and I watched it a thousand times over the years.

"Excuse me stewardess. I speak jive." LOL

Ive seen so many of the Airplane reactions. Without fail, every single person across the spectrum busts out their moves during Stayin Alive.

32:01 "Your husband and the others are alive, but unconscious." "Just like Gerald Ford." Gerald Ford was the President when this movie was made. 😀

"That silly dude in the airplane place." That would be an airport.😄