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

you surely can't be serious

@@israelss Don't call him Shirley

Roger, Roger.

scientologeeeee.

That's impossible: they're on instruments.

Perfect quote about this film. lol

I laughed at your comment and then laughed at myself for laughing at your comment.

Probably only movie review they got right.

Film Critic Gene Shalit said, "This was billed as a laugh a minute comedy... they were wrong. It's a laugh every 15 seconds."

@@krash66 Awesome! Lol

Also, Robert Stack was an olympic champion.

I remember all of them in the '50s and '60s. The first one was Leslie Nielson in the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet. He was the Commander of the spaceship, and nobody called him Shirley. Not even Robbie.

@@GGE47 Yeah, I've seen some clips from that one; never got around to seeing the entire movie. I did see him in "Tammy and the Bachelor" years ago on a classics channel when I was a kid - a bit lighter fare. He was a bit of a babe, back in the day, though!

Spot on they play it straight movies like scary movies they act like they know they are in a comedy

Leslie Nielson in Forbidden Planet! ...and don't forget the Airport franchise which inspired this (how many of those were there? 5?)

Very much the same style of humor, too.

I think it's Nielsen's first comedic role!

He was a traditional drama actor but he with the writers and directors of “Airplane” playing the straight guy in ridiculous comedy made him famous. Pat Proft and the Abrahams Brothers gave him the perfect comedy to make him a legend.

As long as you show appreciation to his serious works... I mean that's what made his funny stuff great. Even vice versa for Robin Williams

Fact: When people watch the 3 biggest Zucker movies (Airplane, Naked Gun, and Top Secret) they have a hard time ranking which is best. They are all classic...

And I think she was in "Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World"

It's an entirely different kind of comedy

It's an entirely different kind of comedy

It's an entirely different kind of comedy.

It’s an entirely different kind of comedy

It's an entirely different kind of comedy

I just read that and laughed out loud again

Ok, I first saw this movie in high school (the phys-ed teacher got in HUGE trouble for cutting it loose on a bunch of tweens and not paying attention to what was in it. lol), I've seen this move probably 30 times no joke and I NEVER... NEVER noticed that until this comment. LOLOL

Funner fact: Actually the noise it makes is correct :)

@@Lustie not it isn't. I'm not even the first one to point out this gag.

@@deathtoraiden2080 The engines on commercial planes are called turbo fans. These fans make a jet sound but they also make a propeller sound. This is because the front facing fan acts like a propeller. The “fake propeller” sound is not a gag, as I said before, people who wouldn’t know any better would think the sound is incorrect to be funny but is but the sound is accurate. All the people in the comments are not right. Copying the masses opinion that the sound is inaccurate doesn’t make the same thing you’re claiming, true. Again, the sound is accurate. And if you really don’t believe me, either look up commercial airline engine sounds or watch the movie this movie was inspired from. It has the same jet and propeller sounds, and that movie was not a comedy.

Did she say Hangover was from the 80's?

Well I wouldn't call it unique... I mean, the sequel, Top Secret, all the Naked Gun movies, Hot Shots....

@@Linerunner99 It's unique because it was first.

@@rnorth8812 That's not what unique means. To be unique it must be the only thing of its kind. It is not.

@@Linerunner99 Fine. It WAS unique. It no longer is but it is was first and in my opinion the best to date. That's what I meant and you know that's what I meant.

"Danger is my middle name." "What about Jane?" "I don't know what her middle name is"

As long as by national you mean Canada.

@@incogneato6725 Peter Graves as well...his brother was James Arness from Gunsmoke. Yes both Canadian.

And the tv show Police Squad!

Amazing that a TV show canceled after 6 episodes would spawn even one movie let alone a series of them.

Lol so good

You win the internet today!

@@melodyrichardson5051 BUT!....only for the day....and a gentle reminder to return the internet in good working order. And PLEASE!.....no gum stuck to it!...I hate that!

Anytime anyone says, "What is it?" to my, "I've got a question," gets that response.

@@brettrobinson2901 And with all the viruses floating around the internet, don't use it without wearing a mask!

Which is kinda sad, really.

This was the moment that she gave in to the movie. After that, it was all over.

But helping autopilot after it faint and that smile is just because everybody like smileing and good mode workers but we know what we loughing there,dont we hehe One best comedy what world makes so far i think ^^

It's the way Peter Graves delivers that absurd line! :-D It's the straight-faced way he acts his questionable character!

She seems to be a super pure person so things like that as silly as it sounds grosses her out

I agree with Mr. Erickson; I only watch these videos to see your reactions.

Did not remember that there was women who need hearth surgery but hearthwarming was when she asks:where she is..kinda remembering something more important than movie itself. But it is fun movie from begin to final approach at gate..24 mby

And Caddyshack!!!

Watching Cassie laugh her way through this movie was delightfully uplifting....even more than just watching the movie 😃

hearing her laugh made me laugh more

Made me howl 🤣👍🏻

Surely You can't be serious.

@@kennethspears22 He is and stop calling him Surely!

Anybody want a peanut?

@@Mr.Ekshin Ha ha

@@kennethspears22 Don't call me Shirley

it was SOO...fun to watch you laugh...If I was 30 years younger I's make a pass at you. Why? Because your face and demeanour when you laugh is ADORABLE!!!

I watch reactors because watching people laugh makes me laugh... ... and watching people cry makes me cry. Imagine if this worked for any activity. Watching people crash cars makes me crash cars. Watching someone flying through the air makes me fly through the air. Watching people commit murders makes me commit murders. Watching people explode makes me explode. Watching people save the world makes me save the world. Well... we can certainly tell that I just watched a movie as silly as Airplane!.

That's right.

@@RideAcrossTheRiver And with Leslie's answer, a comedy career was launched.

@@billolsen4360 You need to see the _M*A*S*H_ episode "The Ringbanger"! "THIS is my tent because THAT is my milk!"

The first time I watched this scene as a kid, I didn't get this scene. That's because my Dad was a Doctor, and he would often be wearing his stethoscope just like that!

when i was little, i thought it was airplane headphones to listen to the in-pflight movie. i have no idea why i thought that

Surely, it's still spawning them now. (As with the Naked Gun facepalm) I used the sh... hitting the fan gif a few times now ...

@@Cau_No Yeah it must be spawning at least a few. And don't call me Shirley.

Well there are definitely gifs that are used regularly from that movie. And my family still goes around quoting it. Freakin hilarious!

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit making memes. 😀

Billy have you seen this new meme *nakked picture

Hey that’s not funny!! Do you know how hard it is to constantly be changing shirts? Lol

Good thing there's Gatorade hotlines for it nowadays

I use that line every time I spill anything I'm trying to drink.

A real corny dad joke but yeah, hilarious.

Shirley you realize how serious drinking problems are...

You were a Navy Pilot? Over Macho Grande?

@@digitalranger4259 That’s classified. We we we’re coming out of the east, where they wouldn’t expect us. 😂😂

@@digitalranger4259 No i don't think i'll ever get over Macho Grande, those wounds run pretty deep!

Yeah she was a diva before they invented the word, long before Maria Carrey or Cher there was Ethel Merman.

You should hear her sing "Silent Night"

Same with the first time I watched the first Naked Gun movie in the Cinema ESPECIALLY the love making scene. I went from " How is this scene funny, it doesn't make sense?" to actually gasping for air ,because I was laughing that much, in about 2 minutes. It took a moment for the humour of the joke to dawn on me and then I was in PURE STITCHES. I thought my sides were going to burst 😂😂. So in a nutshell, WATCH ALL THE NAKED GUN MOVIES ASAP. I told my friend that I had seen Naked Gun in the Cinema. He said" What is it?" I said it's a building that shows movies but that's not important right now"🎞️🎟️🎥🎦📽️🍿😂😂😂

I can attest to that. I'm amazed no one needed medical treatment from laughing so much.

I am sure that the way it was, it still remember when this came out on VHS and we watched this in my neighbors house in the suburbs , this was too much to take.

@@w41duvernay In high school, my friends and I rented it almost every time we got together on weekends. :)

I was ten years old when I saw it with my dad in theaters when it first came out. Neither one of us had ever seen anything like it! 😂

I was a senior in high school when this came out. We must have driven our teachers crazy repeating all of the one-liners from this movie! 🤣

@@CitizenPerkins Haha, still going. Sometimes I don´t even realize anymore these originally came from that movie. lol

@@CitizenPerkins Ah!....the school paddlings you must have received...now THAT'S how to create an upstanding citizen! Upstanding...cuz you can't sit down!😂

When I was little, my dad always say "Don't call me Shirley" whenever we say "Surely" in a sentence. I thought it was his weird sense of humour until I saw the movie. He also like to quote Monty Python alot.

@@ShadowMoon878 The little wascal´s got spiwit. lol

Why do you call it "ridiculous humour"? There's nothing ridiculous about it - it's simply very witty humour.

Always remember the interview of Peter Graves ( pilot), and he tossed the script in the garbage- then his grand daughter pulled it out and read it- went to her father and said that grandpa should do this movie. Father read it, handed it back to Graves, and said.." You gotta do this movie Dad.".

@@tonkatrucker Wait, really?

Most of them were known as “serious” actors, and the delivered the lines that way. That’s what made it doubly funny. I saw this movie when it came out in 1980, and remember asking myself if I should be laughing at it.

Saw this in a theater w/my mom, a double-feature with "Animal House." The disco scene crumpled me to the floor with laughter and mom (who didn't get the references, or for that matter most of the jokes) thought I'd lost my mind.

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Kareem Abdul Jabar gets over looked by a lot of reactors to this movie, and amongst being an all time great basketball, he was also a pop culture figure of the times.

@@mikeshoe74 That's because most of the reactors weren't even born when he played.

Barbara Billingsley was the funniest gag in the entire movie. It's still hilarious.

Did the place turn into a laughing mania?

@@Opiuth Wildest I've ever seen a theater crowd get - with the possible exception of a packed screening of Animal House when it was fresh in theaters. Also off-the-charts crowd reaction!

That's one aspect a modern audience wouldn't get. There were so many disaster movies in the 70s.

When I first saw this movie at age 7, I thought those black guys' "Jive" language was a real language. So I didn't get it at the time but now that I get it as an adult, that makes it many times funnier than before for me. "Dat honk muhfuh no be messin mah ole lady, mon." (That white gentleman should stay away from my wife, in the subtitles).

As a kid I watched it in subbed in German and a lot of jokes are lost in translation... now as an adult understanding English it is even better then I remember it to be...

@@sksaddrakk5183 Of course. No two languages translate exactly word-for-word, not even our Germanic languages, so many jokes in another language are lost in the translation.

I don't think ANYBODY gets all the gags and jokes in this movie on the first watch, there are just too many coming at you too fast, and sadly there are some that are now too obscure and dated (like the "second cup of coffee at home" one) so the humor is lost.

@@mitchellyoung5564 - you beat me to it! there are a couple, but this one is the best I've found so far.

Initially they had the idea of making a comedy sending up the popular series of "Airport" films. When it came to writing it, they realized that the situations would be so close as to make it hard to sell to a studio because of fears that the studio that owned the "Airport" films might sue. So they came up with the idea of buying the rights to Zero Hour and "remaking" it.

Another little trivia thing about this movie is the woman putting the makeup on is the mother of the Zucker Brothers I think if not Abrams. She appears in cameos and all their movies. She's in Ghost, the scene where Whoopi Goldberg is doing the signature card at the bank she's the bank employee. If you think about the humor and ghost it's like a facepalm moment when you realize it's a Zucker Brothers.

The Zucker bothers made a film titled Kentucky Fried Movie which was a satire on commercials. They taped a bunch of television to research commercials for a sequel when they got caught up watching the movie instead. When a character in Zero Hour asked, "Shirley you can't be serious," they both replied in unison "Don't call me Shirley," and knew they had a movie.

Also, the mature woman who speaks jive was none other than Barbara Billingsley, one the most famous TV mom's ever ("Leave it To Beaver"), and the epitome of white suburban homemaker, which makes the scene even more ridiculous if you get the casting genius.

I've seen Airplane! like 30 times and I STILL find details I missed each and every time.

Watch the scene where Ted chases down Elaine in the airport hallway. Right where the walls turn from gray to yellow in the lower left hand part of the shot you can see a grip laying down cable. Also in the bar flashback scene when the stuntman Ted does his back flip you can see Robert Hays next to the blue star on the wall waiting to take the place of the stuntman when he lands in the crowd.

It was her Last movie and she died 4 years later of a brain tumour

As I understand it, her part took only a few minutes to film, but she spent four hours getting her hair just right. Seems about right for a movie like this!

@@rhysthomas5811 Even weirder, Orson Welles' last film was "Transformers: The animated movie"

As much as I like the character of Johnny, his part didn’t fit in with the rest of the dry humor.

Except for the beach scene, that was not dry humor.

@@paulpeterson4216 Actually, yes it was.

I think that making people laugh is more difficult than making them cry. Good comedy is difficult

@@madizzle90 it did fit the film as his part was made to be a different level of humour to the rest.

You weren't a female when you were six?

Years ago,I worked at a Renaissance Faire. One day, it was pretty overcast and threatening to rain. Two guys came up and happened to stop next to me, facing the opposite direction. The thinner of the two said (and I kid you not), "The clouds are getting thicker." I immediately leaped sideways grabbed the heavvier of the two around the waist and said, "And Leon's getting laaaaarger!" then jumped away. They both got it and I thought they were going to choke from laughing. They then asked my boss if they could take me to an ale stand and buy me a beer. Fur times.

I think I was eight or nine and the line never fails to make me cackle. 😛

@@Firefax Oh my God... what a great memory to have.

I'm not 100% sure those people were "laughing" in their cars.

Leslie Nielsen played in some of those catastrophe flicks in the late 70s which were so fashionable at the time (like the 'Poseidon Adventure'), which makes it even more hilarious imo

Christopher Lee was originally going to be the doctor, but he did '1941' instead.

Not just him, Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack, too. All 3 were dramatic actors from the golden age of Hollywood.

@@SAVikingSA and they were playing their characters as straight men in this movie because the Zucker's script made them funnier.

Yeah but he also did 1980 disco/slasher film Prom Night.

Leslie Nielsen said himself that doing comedy movies ruined some of his earlier movies when he was doing serious roles. You kept waiting for the punch line.

You're right. He was the serious captain in the 1972 "The Poseidon Adventure". Also check out "Police Squad!" ("In color!"), a short-lived TV series that all the Naked Gun movies were based on. They're incredible.

This is a movie that you watch a few times, just to get half of the jokes...as you laughing and letting the other ones pass you by

Don't forget about the Hot Shots movies! No Leslie Neilsen, but there is Charlie Sheen and Carey Elwes!

@@mattj2081 Lloyd Bridges is great in those movies.

@@porflepopnecker4376 I was blanking on his name! The funeral scene in the first movie had me and my friends laughing so hard we had to pause the movie the first time we watched it!

Top Secret too

Leslie Nielson (like Lloyd Bridges) was previously known for serious roles, and this film basically launched a second career for him. It can be jarring watching Ransom! or Forbidden Planet if you only know Nielson from the comedies.

Man, i only watched this movie once in english without subtitles (I'm brazilian and was trying to train my english) and I didn't get what was so funny bout this scene, is it just cause it's random as fuck or there's some reference I didn't get, like the "have you ever been in a Turkish prison?" scene? haha

@@feliperamos3578 It's not a specific reference, but it's a line of dialogue that is commonly heard to heist movies or war movies, where someone is trying to outwit a tactical opponent or enemy. The humor comes from the absurdity of saying it in a response to a suggestion that is incredibly helpful, in a situation where you're trying to save lives. You absolutely want to do everything helpful and expected in that situation. The joke works, too, because both situations have heightened tension, so the mood is appropriate, but the reaction itself is ridiculous.

The actor, Robert Stack was famous for the TV series Mission Impossible. Where it was all about espionage, costumes, and fooling the bad guy.

@@amyjordan195 Peter Graves, who played, Capt. Oveur was on Mission Impossible. Robert Stack was on The Untouchables, a cop drama.

😅😄😆😂🤣

Of course it couldn't. The movie glofiries sexual assault, sexual objectification of women, violence against women, paedophilia, racial stereotyping, ethnic stereotyping, anti-semitism, misrepresentation of marginalized indigenous groups, mockery of alternative belief systems, mockery of suicide victims, mockery of children with life-threatening illnesses and, last but not least, zoophiliophobia.

@@SerbAtheist you’re probably a hit at parties.

@@SerbAtheist It couldn't get made because of people like you with large sticks up their asses who can't take a joke or realize that the movie made fun of everyone equally and didn't take itself seriously...unlike filmmakers today who have to worry about kissing the asses of the latest greatest group of perceived oppressed/repressed/depressed victims du jour.

@@telephotousa Did I say anything wrong? The movie makes fun of a stewardess being groped, the motion of a woman's breasts, a woman being assaulted by a horde of people, mostly men, a pilot grooming a young child, the Jewish ethnicity mocked for not having many sportspeople, an indigenous groups of people implied to be inferior because they don't have basketball or tupperware, groups of marginalized religions stereotypes as intrusive, suicide made light of as if a boring story can be a result of it and last but not least, a woman that has made a legitimate choice to experience man-species love is made fun of. People who have animal partners are already a hugely marginalized group and to have this group made fun of in a movie like this is deeply othering. The movie is absolutely unacceptable. Instead of punching up, as good comedy is supposed to, and challenge the dominant heteronormative patriarchy is consistently goes towards those weaker and those who cannot defend themselves. All males who took part in making of the movie should be arrested, yes including children, and all females sent to re-education camps to deal with the trauma of participating in one's own oppression. No exception! PS You honestly think I'm being serious in this or the previous message. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

No freaking way?! I must verify this immediately, off to IMDB I go! EDIT: IMDB agrees with you sir, that's great!

Fascinating, my favorite joke was those airport PA announcers fighting and getting mad over the red zone vs. white zone parking.

@@nathanfitzgerald6651 "listen Betty"

The reference to abortion was from the film Airport with Dean Martin and Jacqueline Bisset.

@@stobe187 "Oh, really Vernon?"

How dare you mock an afflicted veteran. Lt Hurwitz needs professional help!

And although she was game to make fun of herself in Airplane!, she was a Broadway legend and a very popular movie star, in the 30's-40's I believe.

The TV comedy show _SCTV_ had her singing "Silent Night"

I love the fact that Ethel Merman's last film is playing a person who thinks they're Ethel Merman.

The jokes aged just fine.

@@dupersuper1938 YEAH!!

Some of the jokes haven't aged well because of they reference things of that time period. Like the wife who had thoughts of how her husband doesn't get sick at home is a parody of a coffee commercial of the time where the wife thinks ''he never has a second cup of coffee at home''. I doubt a lot of people recognize the beach scene is from ''From Here to Eternity''.

My favorite. Val Kilmer as an Elvis-type joining the French resistance. Good one.

@@DeltronZed The French Resistance? (East Germany came into existence AFTER the Resistance disbanded)

I was about to say the same and Space Balls could be a nice one too

@@bonghunezhou5051 there is no correct time line in the movie. It's anachronistic. Nazi Germany and fifties style rock (Kilmer plays an Elvis type bringing US culture to Germany) with resistance themes.

"They asked me to help out in Pre-Teen Maternity." That line is so messed up in so many ways.

Most of the world agrees

An homage, true; also a comedic remake of Zero Hour!

Yes, this came out after almost a decade of "Airport" disaster movies, so to have a complete comedy based around the same idea both felt relevant AND was a huge surprise at the same time. This movie was VERY popular.

@@BigTroyT Too bad they couldn't have put Burt Lancaster in there somewhere.

And it has a happy ending too! Giggidy!

Love, or lust?🙃

@@dan_hitchman007I see what you did there!!!😂😂😂

yeah, the jive talk thing is probably lost on people who didn't spend years watching straight-laced, wholesome Beaver's mom. At the time, that's what was so funny, it wasn't expected of her. Oh, and the pilot fighting his way through the airport was just a mild exagerration of what it used to be like getting through all the Hari Krushnas trying to get a "donation" from you. they finally outlawed all that crap because it got so bad.

The fog is getting thicker...... and Leon's getting LAAAARRRRRRGER! I've made that my ring tone at times. When my phone rings and people around - even strangers at bars and restaurants or in the store - hear it, they usually all burst out laughing. Never gets old.

My fave part of Johnny was when he plugged off the runway lights, turns towards the camera and say " Nah just kidding!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

@@AmyEdwards1986 OMG I loved that part! Johnny had me dying of laughter 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@@DanielRamosMilitaryWiz Johnny and McClusky are my favorite characters in the movie. What Stephen Stucker and Lloyd Bridges did was comedic gold!!

@@joe6096 They are some of my favorite characters. This is still classic after forty plus years!

good advice.

She also did a goofy old lady stint on Malcolm in the Middle

My family will still occasionally use “Why, I can make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl!” 40 years later.

@@kathyastrom1315 Same! It's my favourite line of the whole movie

"The fog is getting thicker.." "And Leon is getting laaaaaaarger". Haha, gets me every time :P

And Leo is getting LARRRGER!!!

@@RDSports5 There was an NFL game a couple of years ago being played in a dense fog, and one of the announcers made this exact comment to his audience.

@Romanogers4ever i am serious and don't call me Shirley.

The entire generation of people raised on these movies are all dads now

@@thediscostu4127 A lot of them are GRANDDADS now.

Something like 90% of the dialogue is straight from Zero Hour.

A few scenes come from "Airport", from the same writer.

Heard leslie Nielsen used to go up to the cockpit of an airplane when he was flying aboard it and say the 'I just wanted to tell you all good luck, we're all counting on you'.

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue".

This was a rare semi-comedic role for Robert Stack as well, best known as the host of the TV series Unsolved Mysteries and who also starred in the Untouchables about Elliot Ness.

And the mom from Leave it to Beaver ( Barbara Billingsley ) speaking jive .

The problem with the Hot Shots movies is, they’re parodies of stuff she probably hasn’t seen. Would need to see Top Gun for the first one. The second one references/parodies sooooo many movies.

Another '80s classic with Airplane humor is "Top Secret!"

@@MP197742 I think the best way to watch those is to go Top Gun, Hot Shots and then Top Gun once more. It's a crazy experience.

I think it was Bobcat Goldwaith that gave me my line... while drinking water from a bottle during his stand-up he spilled... said "oh, I must be full" :-D

I do that too!

huh?!

@@AltCTRLF8 What exactly is confusing about that to you?

@@stevenhayes859 Its part of the joke ..

Don't forget anything Monty Python and Spaceballs!

@@interdimensionalsteve8172 So true my friend.

Young Frankenstein on everybody's list. Airplane. Maybe Vacation? Holy grail, but takes a special mindset. "Not another Teen Movie". I wouldn't have got this is It hadn't been for my date that recognized every scene and the movie it came from.? "Why is it that every time I tell a guy he can put it any where he wants they always..." then you learn that's her brother.?!!

all 10 out of 10 movies.