AIRPLANE! (1980) is HILARIOUS!! | FIRST TIME WATCHING | (reaction/commentary/review) 

I always love to see reactions to take my coffee black. It is one of the most reacted to scenes in the entire movie because it takes everyone by surprise because they’re children

I just wanna tell everyone in the comments: Good luck. We're all counting on you.

11:06 The "second cup of coffee" bit was from a popular TV commercial at the time. The woman (the same woman as in this movie) says she will have a second cup, but her husband wont. The husband says, "I think I will have a second cup." The wife says (in VO), "Jim never has a second cup at home." Then the announcer announces that the restaurant has secretly switched their usual coffee with brand X...

The first book ever on this movie is coming out later this year in October, called; Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane. It is written by the director and producers of the film. We've all been waiting for this.

The dog scene is hilarious. Shep is a labrador. They aren't even remotely vicious, but the barking of a less friendly breed was dubbed over for comedic effect, just to distract you from the mirror gag they were setting up!

This is a spoof of some airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70's, they were called Airport, Airport 75,Airport 77 and Airport 79 the Concorde. The couple doing the airport announcements apparently worked at LAX doing them and were a couple in real life. I saw this in 1980 when it came out and I was 9 years old. There are references to other movies like Saturday night fever and from here to eternity. The two black men were speaking Jive which is a slang language created by black jazz musicians in the 1930's and it became popular again in the 70's. The old lady who speaks it is most famous for playing the mother on the 1950's sitcom leave it to Beaver which was known for being very wholesome which is why people found it so funny to see her speaking jive. The lady who is surprised by her husband asking for a second cup of coffee is a reference to a famous coffee commercial from the 70's. A couple of the questions the pilot asked the boy are references to movies with a homoerotic theme like the gladiator movie Spartacus and the movie midnight Express which took place in a Turkish prison.

The only 1hr 28min dad joke. Also, although uncredited, the natives he's teaching basketball to are the Harlem Globetrotters.

One of my favorite things that took me forever to notice is that he said "I'll be back in a minute" to the guy in the taxi and presumably never came back

Airplane is basically a parody on the movie AIRPORT. Within the movie there are several other movies that are parodied. For instance the bar scene music and dance is a parody on the movie SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. The beach scene parodies FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. To really appreciate this movie you have to be familiar with life in the 70s and 80s.

The "He never takes a second cup at home", thought was a line from a coffee commercial, btw.

My mom took me to see this at the drive-in when it came out. I was about 8yrs old. Best movie ever! 😆

No, she wasn't having sex with a horse; the guy that was screwing her was "hung LIKE a horse." You've never heard of that phrase before?

I’d recommend you watch the end credits of this film as well as the end credits of the Zucker Brothers’ “Naked Guns” films which made Leslie Nielsen a comedy star! There are so many WHAT DID THAT JUST SAY moments, you’ll want scroll them again and again!

So many people miss the "Mayo" clinic.

This movie also pokes fun at a series of plane disater movies from the 70s which are mostly forgotten today. Why there's a nun with a guitar and a sick girl. I wouldn't miss them as a kid when they'd air on prime time tv in the late 70s. Today I probably couldn't sit through them.

Absolute classic movie...great reaction, first time watching your page...wow you're cute 🤫

The doctor is *Leslie Nelson* & he stars in a similar comedy called *(The Naked Gun)*

JUST REMEMBER, this has a PG rating! 1980 was amazing!!

28:05 This is a parody of the Win One for the Gipper scene from the movie Knute Rockne All American. I've never watched the movie but anyone who was of age during the Reagan administration should have at least heard of this line even if they don't know where it's from. Wikipedia: Knute Rockne, All American is a 1940 American biographical film that tells the story of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's legendary football coach. It stars Pat O'Brien as Rockne and Ronald Reagan as player George Gipp, as well as Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Albert Bassermann, Owen Davis Jr., Nick Lukats, Kane Richmond, William Marshall and William Byrne. The film also includes cameos by legendary football coaches "Pop" Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg, William H. Spaulding and Howard Jones, playing themselves. Reagan's presidential campaign revived interest in the film, and as a result, some reporters called him the Gipper.[2] ... Outstanding freshman halfback George Gipp leads the Irish to greater gridiron glory. Gipp is stricken with a fatal illness after the final game of the 1920 season, and on his death bed, he encourages Rockne to someday tell the team to "win one for the Gipper."

Some fun facts. One of the jokes, not many catch is the shelves full of mayo jars in the background during the Mayo Clinic call -which by the way, is one of the most famous hospitals in the US. The African tribe playing basketball was the Globe Trotters. The lady saying Jim never drinks coffee twice at home was replaying a line from a commercial in which she said a similar line. The jive lady was famous for her role as the most white stereotypical woman on TV who would be the last person on earth to understand jive. The two black guys speaking jive improvised their lines using real jive slang from the time. The autopilot’s name was Otto; if you read his name out loud it’d be Otto-Pilot or autopilot. The Turkish prison and movies about gladiators lines referenced a couple of famous movies from that time. The beach and algae scene also referenced another movie. The whole slapping scene was proposed by that same lady getting slapped. The surfing nun was actually a guy dressed as a nun while surfing in California. This was Leslie Nielsen’s first comedy. When the flight attendant sings, that’s her real voice. Smoking sections were pretty common on airplanes until the early 90s. The guy on the radar is Jonathan Banks, the actor who plays Mike Ehrmantraut on Breaking Bad. The singing lady at the hospital was in fact, Ethel Merman. The guy in the taxi was a Californian politician famous for his tax and money-saving policies. there is a post-credits scene with him still waiting for the cab driver at the end of the movie. There are tons of more fun facts worth reading about.

At the ending that was a blow up stewardess (the whole stewardess' sleep with pilots trope)

I... I'm lost for words here 😂 I feel like I should have taken notes cause there's so much going on all the time! The horse! The drinking problem!! The big building with patients!!! But then... "at least I have a husband" 🤣🤣🤣 I think I watched this as a kid, I'm sure I didn't understand the pilot and his intentions with the poor little boy 😅 By the way, does anyone know what happen to him?! 😆 Love how the jokes go from innocent and simple to sexual to whatever that was with the gladiator comments 😅🙈😂 Thanks! I had such a great time!! Cheers!! PS: Man! The amount of comments is crazy! Congratulations on reaching more and more people!! I'm so happy for you!! 😃

Great reaction dude!u got the western copy of the film cause in Australia it was actually called flying high.

Don't forget there is a sequel too. Also Hot Shots 1&2 parodies of Top Gun

How many movie spoofs did you spot? ▪︎ jaws ▪︎ Airport '77 ▪︎ Lost Horizon ▪︎ officer and a gentleman ▪︎ saturday night fever Any more?

This was my Era and younger generations just don't get this humor which I find sad. It's called slapstick comedy (similar to stooges fare) with jokes at every 3 seconds and its supposed to be stupid and ridiculous. This was 1980 so still a lot of 70s vibes left but in that day anything was fair game for a laugh because no one took it seriously and on those days not everyone was so thin skinned and offended. This was also Leslie Nielsen first play as the straight man comedian in terms of dead pan delivery which he later used in the naked gun franchise.

My boyfriend’s name is Joey and I always ask him if he’s ever been in a Turkish prison and if he likes movies about Gladiators.

I think you missed the post-credits scene. The man is still waiting in the taxi cab for Ted, with the meter running.

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Don't worry about McCroskey, he came back for the sequel. I guess with all that glue sniffed, he must've stuck to something on the way down.

This is basically “Dad Joke: The Movie.” Love it.

There are even more parodies from the same filmmakers and in the following first recommendation, with three parts and what feels like even more gags that you can't all notice at first glance and close your eyes, put your hands in front of your eyes or look away and you might miss something. something :). Leslie Nielsen, the doctor in Airplane, plays the leading role, the other films are also parodies. The naked Gun 1-3 (1988-1994) Top Secret (1984) Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) + 2 Hot Shots 1 + 2 (1991+1993) Scary Movie 1-5 (2000-2013)

This movie is a riot just looking for a place to break out.

Saaaayyy . . . jet planes don't sound like that! LOL!

Great reaction that I enjoyed very much and was glad to see that you enjoy this Old School retro humor as much as I do. If you want to watch more of this kind of comedy in future, I can recommend two movies in particular. 1. Hot Shots (1991) Movies you should have seen before to get all the references and jokes right away: Top Gun (1986). 2. Scary Movie (2001) Movies you should have seen before to get all the references and jokes right away: Scream 1 & 2 (1996/1997), I know what you did last summer (1997), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Matrix (1999) and "The Usual Suspects" (1995).

Loved that reaction. I am a new sub!

that actually was THE GREAT Ethel Merman.....

Just go ahead and laugh, it's funny as hell! Don't question everything and feel uneasy about laughing at all the ridiculousness. Enjoy.

Nobody ever gets the Mayonnaise in the background!!!!

This moie is so funny I laugh everytime I watch it so much amusement the 2nd one was funny also.

There are many jokes that were relevant to pop culture at the time, or spoofs of other films (much of it being a shot for shot remake of an earlier disaster movie), and many of those only make sense with the context. For example, in the original, the pilot’s conversation with the boy does start of asking if he’s ever been in a cockpit before and giving him a toy plane (or something very similar), but the weird disturbing turn Airplane gives it is all them.

What that was, was the best movie of all time, PERIOD!!! LMFAO

This movie couldn’t be shot nowadays, I’m surprised they haven’t censured! It’s so stupid I’m crying 😂

Great reacting :)

This film was great because it, and others of the time, didn't feel the need to constantly worry who might be offended. Jokes were allowed to be funny, in and of themselves.

bravo!!

Even the religious song is a joke as well

GREETINGS EARTH GUY: He said he was in the Air Force but he's wearing a Navy uniform. The beach scene is from the film From Here to Eternity with William Holden and Deborah Kerr. There was a coffee commercial in the 70s where a housewife reflects on why Jim never has a second cup of coffee at thome. I think it was Folgers. Here's some info most people don't know about this movie: It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. I found this out by watching a reaction vid to a guy that knew the connection and compared the two. It's fun to watch. Apparently, there are Airplane! fanatics. The scene at Kramer's home as he prepares to leave for the airport never gets mentioned at it regards his reflection in the mirror. His wife is at the left appearing to be talking to him with his reflection facing us. Then suddenly he steps forward through what appeared to be the mirror. Subtle and dumb. Microwaves used to be called radar ranges. When the doc says "win one for the zipper" it's a reference to Ronald Reagan's film I think by the name of One For the Gipper.

Great movie

Nice, got here early

I guarantee you didn't notice all the gags on your first viewing. Also don't worry about certain "sensitive" elements - it was written by the Zucker brothers, born into a Jewish family, and some of it is self parody. Just enjoy it, there's no malice.

The 1970s and 1980s, when humor could be unfiltered and unbridled. It often used in-your-face satire to make a point opposite to the surface content. Have you watched Blazing Saddles? I don't see it searching your channel. It will blow you away. It seems one of the most racist movies around until you realize that it is showcasing the idiocy of racism.

Did you see the jokes in the credits, and the post-credit scene? I have easily watched the film over 100 times. Still finding new jokes. Still laughing at the old ones. The world it presents is so unlike ours that it's hard to take seriously.

Wonderful reaction. V funny.

You have to watch the naked gun movies with Leslie Nielsen, the guy who played the doctor.

I’m impressed you found this funny since most all of the jokes are parodies from pop culture of the times.

Two words: NAKED GUN

You need to watch the films it parodies. Knowing about the films makes the film funnier. There are cultural jokes you might miss because it's based on American TV commercials and TV programs along with films. The wife commenting on her husband asking for a second cup of coffee is a parody of a 1960's Yuban Coffee commercial. The heart transplant scene has jars of mayonnaise in the background, which is a joke about the infamous Mayo Clinic medical facility located in the midwest. You need to watch "Airport" , a disaster film from the 1970's . The beach scene is a parody reenactment of the infamous film "From Here to Eternity" set in WWII during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

This movie didn't have much of a budget. One of two Zucker brothers wanted to have the shot of the nose of the jet breaking through the window in the airport. The rest of the principles wouldn't have it, it was too expensive. The Zucker brother held his ground, insisting that as a comedy, it was hard to promote because of the nature of the comedy. His angle was they needed something to put in the ads, that would be visually outrageous and make people want to see the movie. In the end, he won. And it cost almost of third of the budge to produce that shot. It worked. It was the single most effective visual gag they could have ever thought to include with promotion in mind. Miss movies like this. The closest we got more recently are the Scary Movie series. Which, is pretty dang funny. But, it was more fun back before we got movies like this, and it ruffled many many conservative feathers. This was back before a movie's fate could be determined on social media before it even gets released.

The Jive Lady (and she’s credited that way) was played be Barbara Billingsley, who was most famous for playing the mother on the late 50’s/early 60’s sitcom, “Leave It To Beaver,” and is an icon of conservative white suburban America. Her playing against type was one of the biggest jokes of the movie! She became friends with the two jive-speaking actors, who came up with the jive dialogue.

Funny thing about the soldier who thought he was Ethel Merman is that was ACTUALLY Ethel Merman!

"Excuse me stewardess. I speak jive." LOL

This movie came out in 1980. The dad jokes were still in diapers at that point. 😉 I see that a lot of the more dated jokes have already been explained to you in other comments. A few more would be that the copilot (Roger Murdoch) was in fact being played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a famous American basketball star who also did some acting. Airports in the 1970s really were a haven for various religious groups who would wander around looking for donations and conversions. The Mayo Clinic really is a well known (and very well regarded) hospital system in the United States, although its doctors don't typically have shelves filled with mayo(nnaise) in their offices. The patient at the mental hospital who "thought he was Ethel Merman" really _was_ Ethel Merman, a famous American actress and singer from the 1950s through the early 80s. And of course Ted Striker's flashbacks to his time in "the war" were clearly from World War 2, which he was far too young to have been a pilot in (even in 1980 he'd have had to be in his 50s or older).

6:40 "Im so confused, what is happening?" 7:14 "This feels like a *fever dream"* Although most of this movie is a nearly scene-for-scene parody of an older matinee disaster flick, ("Zero Hour!" 1957. It even has the exclamation point in the title.) there are a number of references to pop culture that was more contemporary at the time, like the Jaws bit at the beginning. This scene is a reference to "Saturday Night Fever" 1977.

My favourite story about Leslie Neilsen was that he was on an internal flight in the US back the 1980's. This was before 9/11 and increased security like the pilot's cabin door being locked etc. With the cabin crew's permission before take off, he popped his head in the cockpit and said to the crew "I just want to tell you both Good Luck, We're all counting on you." The crew couldn't stop laughing for several minutes. What a comedy genius that guy was...

Can you believe those children in this movie are in their 50s by now?

This movie (and others like Blazing Saddles) are why Gen Xers are the way we are. Nothing phases us. 😜

The Pilot (Cpt. Oveur/Peter Graves) was on Mission Impossible, the doctor (Leslie Nielsen) and the 2 guys in the tower (Robert Stack/The Untouchables & Lloyd Bridges) were all serious dramatic actors at the time. Seeing them in this goofball comedy made it twice as funny. The 2 guys speaking jive created the language for the movie themselves because the original script for the scene wasn't working. They then taught it to Barbara Billingsley fir her lines. It sounded so funny coming from the woman we all knew as the ultimate 50's suburban housewife on Leave It To Beaver. Ted literally boring people to death. Lol.

5:32 - Boys Life was actually a popular magazine in the 70's and 80's. However there was no such magazine as "Nuns Life" 😄

If you liked this, you should definitely give the "Naked Gun" films a look! They star Leslie Nielsen who played the doctor in "Airplane".

It's difficult for anyone who didn't live through the 70s to fully understand this movie. First of all, it's a spoof of a famous disaster movie franchise of the time, which started with the movie Airport in 1970. It was so famous they did Airport 1975, Airport 1977, and Airport 1979. This movie makes fun of SO many movie tropes and even commercials of the time. It's good that people still can find it funny without the overwhelming amount of references.

George Zipp was a parody of George Gipp, who was actually a great College Football player for Notre Dame in the 1920's. He was the team captain and was nicknamed "The Gipper". Tragically George became fatally ill at the end of the football season, and was on his deathbed before a big game. The Notre Dame head coach, Knute Rockne have a speech to his players, telling them to "win one for the Gipper". The reason that story was relevant in 1980 was that former actor Ronald Reagan was running for President, and one of his biggest roles was playing George Gipp, in the movie "Knute Rockne, All American."

You didn't notice the jet airliner making propeller noises throughout the movie!😂

Johnny, the random comment guy ("Rapunzel!") is Stephen Stucker. He was from a sketch comedy troupe and known for his improv. In this movie, the writers gave him the straight lines for his scenes and let him write his character's off-the-wall responses.

FYI here is some trivia about the movie. The PA announcers did that for a living and married each other. The lady putting on the makeup was the Zucher brother's mom. If you look at the plane shots it sounds like a propeller plane, while it is a jet plane. This movie mainly used serious actors in their first comedy and loved doing it.

Great reaction. The lady with the eggs coming out of her mouth is one of the harder jokes to get. It's a play on words. They crack the egg and out flies a bird. She has bird flu (flew).

First time watcher and great reaction. If you like this I agree with some of the comments below that you might enjoy "Blazing Saddles" as well as "The Naked Gun" movies. 😁

I just want to wish you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.

The scene with he hysterical woman getting slapped was actually her idea. The directors went with it. The Jive talking woman is Barbara Billingsley aka June Cleaver, mother on the "Leave it to Beaver" TV series. Airplane is an almost shot for shot remake of a movie "Zero Hour" just funnier.

"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.

That was the genius of the film...everything was a set up for a joke! Everything had a comedic pay-off!

The thing to remember; is when this movie came out, Airport was on it's 6 film. Airport was a series of Disaster Films going around Hollywood. There were The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, and more. Airplane wanted to make fun of all those types of films, but based it on the Airport films in general. The team that created this; went on to created the short-lived TV show, Police Films, which would later because the movie, The Naked Gun. Scary Movie would later take this idea; and do a take on, well, Scary Movies.

The scene with the black guys talking "jive" always make white people feel uncomfortable commenting on. But black people have no idea what those guys were saying either. The subtitles are not only for whites. The black guys literally invented that for this movie.

What's amazing is how funny this movie still is, given how many dated references there are in it. Some commenters I've noticed have pointed out a few. For example, the inner monologue about the coffee comes from a popular commercial of the time. But there are so many more... 1) The proselytizing at airports was a thing in the early 80s; 2) The Mayo Clinic is certainly still around and famous today, but I think it was more well known back then; 3) you completely cut out the Tupperware Party, so I'm assuming you're unfamiliar with that; 4) lots of folks also don't know who Magic Johnson is (I'm guessing you don't since you cut that out); 5) the JJ Walker cameo (air maintenance guy) was hysterical; 6) the old lady speaking jive was known for playing one of those perfect little happy homemaker wives back in the 1960s (a show called Leave It To Beaver), so her speaking jive was hysterical; 7) most of the top cast members (except for the love interest) were known for playing serious parts (Leslie Neilsen - though he later became known for his comedy... this was his first comedic role, Peter Graves, Beau Bridges, Robert Stack, etc.)... if you don't grasp that, you miss the gravitas Airplane was trying to put forth in such a silly movie; 8) most folks now also don't get the Ethel Merman reference... that really was Ethel Merman, a famous entertainer back then, at the military hospital; 9) I've seen some reactors think the "smoking" ticket was just a cheap gag because you can't smoke on airplanes... you could back then; 10) even simple vocabulary, like the reference to the radar range... the person asking is presumably asking how far away the plane is on radar, but a lot of more modern folks (I'm old, LOL) don't realize that microwaves used to be called radar ranges when they first came out. And, not a reference lost in time, but still something most folks would miss (I did at first)... someone else mentioned it in the comments... the couple arguing over the PA system at the airport? That was an actual married couple, and they were, indeed, both PA announcers at LAX airport. And I'm sure I missed several other references in this comment. I practically wrote a damned book here... no way I remembered everything. Oh, in fact, just thought of another... the whole craziness in the background when Rex Kramer is driving... green screen technology was quite new then, they were purposefully just having ridiculous fun with it. It's just amazing that with SO MANY references lost to time that this movie remains as funny as it does. Imagine us old folks who watched it back then and got all the references. OMG, it was just uproarious! And because PG-13 didn't exist back then, and it wasn't QUITE raunchy enough to be R-rated, it meant anyone could go see it... parental guidance was merely "advised". And remember, back then we didn't have helicopter parents who watched over us like hawks. I'd leave my house at 8AM, tell my mom what I was doing and it was just, "ok, be home before dinner". So, if you went to this movie on a weekend you might very well see unaccompanied 10 or 15 year olds at it. Those were the days, hehehe.

In case no one said it yet, the beach scene was a parody from a 50's film 'From Here to Eternity'.

"To be honest, I've never been so scared. But at least I have a husband."

Notice the jars on the shelves at the Mayo Clinic...

You should watch naked gun trilogy

There was a slew of airport disaster movies that aired during the 1970s, so this was a spoof of all of those movies. The Zucker brothers made this movie the huge success it was by using slapstick comedy. I remember this was the first movie that my parents allowed my older sister Debbie and myself to watch by ourselves. It was released in the theaters one week after my 9th birthday. So as a kid, I LOVED this movie. I'm glad youtube suggested your movie reaction tonight for a movie that brought back so many happy memories!

I thoroughly enjoyed this reaction. So good to see Young people enjoying movies of my generation. You did pretty good catching the jokes. Recommend Airplane 2,Top Secret you will love the ballet scene, The Naked Gun, Hotshots Blazing Saddles,High Anxiety and Young Frankenstein.

Just an FYI....Cancel Culture exists because you allow it to exist.....people who are intelligent know the difference between insults and comedy as context is what differentiates one from the other, and those with intelligence easily identify which is which.

This was like one of the original parody movies. I remember watching it as a kid and lmao. Lol at watching you waiting for anything serious 😂😂

BRO 😎 BACK THEN WE NEVER 👎 GOT SENSITIVE LIKE IT IS TODAY, BACK THEN WE MADE FUN OF EVERYONE MIDGETS, GAYS , ETC… BECAUSE OF SENSITIVITY THEY DONT MOVIES 🎥 TO MAKE FUN ANYMORE, I WAS AROUND 12 now I’m 55 GENERATION XR HERE 😂😂😂 WE SHOULD BRING IT BACK 😂😂😊😊

I was going to try and explain some of the more obscure jokes, but others have beaten on most of the ones I know so I will finish with. It looks like I picked the wrong week to quit watching Airplane! reactions. Edit: I couldn't help myself. Having now done a search for the most comprehensive list of Airplane! jokes, I found a list of 223 jokes mostly without explanation, but they missed the longest running joke in the entire movie, the engine sound is for a propeller driven aircraft not a jet, And the ice cream microphone, and possibly a few more.

You can always tell when a reactor isn't a basketball fan!

Just remember, Oscar, movies like this were decades before political correctness. I watched this movie so many times, and going back to watch it now, I actually understand all the references and have seen all the movies, like Saturday Night Fever and From Here to Eternity that they parody, so it makes it funnier than when I was just a kid watching it. Still, it was hilarious and ridiculous fun in its time. It was a spoof of Airport, a dramatic series of movies.

The doctor, played by Leslie Nielsen, started his acting career in dramas. He didn't take many comedy roles until "Airplane!" The same for the other main characters in this film, which makes this film so funny.

26:04 - Point-Counterpoint was actually a brief debate at the end of each episode of "60 Minutes" a popular news program in the US.

You missed the last scene- It's after the very very last of the credits. It's just a short scene, but it's funny and actually part of the plot. Don't feel bad...it appears almost nobody knows about it anymore. Check it out!

Surely Airplane isn't the funniest movie ever made, was it? Yes it IS the funniest movie ever made and quit calling me Shirley!