Airplane ! (1980) - MOVIE REACTION 

One of the very few reactors who caught the mirror gag. Instantly earned you a like!

You missed the best scene of all, after the credits. The guy was still in the taxi, looked at his watch and said : "Well, I'll give it another 20 minutes, but that's it!"

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

The "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home.." bit is from an advert for Taster's Choice instant coffee.

Finally a reaction with people who understood the ridiculousness of the comedy. Many other reactors laugh but they miss the spirit of the humor and question the silly situations as if they were supposed to be realistic. Great job going with the flow

The woman who spoke jive also played June Cleaver, the ultimate American suburban housewife/mother from the 1950's and early 60'sin the sitcom "Leave it to Beaver". Iconic. Every American who grew up during that time would recognize her. Made it much more hilarious. June! I knew there was so much more to you.

Julie Hagerty's delivery is spot-on throughout this. "Can you face some unpleasant facts?" "… no."

it is actually a parody of only one movie, a 1950s black and white film called Zero Hour. Go watch it afterward and note the similar dialogue. And it throws in every absurd joke out there.

Yes, the guy is still waiting for his cab. There's an end-scene after the credits you should watch :)

The closing theme is the University of Notre Dame's Fight Song. It was played because George Zipp is a reference to George Gipp, also known as “The Gipper,” an American football player who died of pneumonia in his senior year. In the film “Knute Rockne, All American”, a 1940’s biography about head coach Knute Rockne, Gipp was portrayed by future US President Ronald Reagan. Gipp's dying words in the movie were, “Win one for the Gipper.” The Fight song played heavily throughout the 1940’s movie. Ironic, considering the fact that Knute Rockne died in a plane crash.

3 of the actors besides Leslie Neilson were all serious dramatic actors before this movie. Lloyd Bridges (tower control), Robert Stack (Cpt. Striker) and Peter Graves (Cpt. Oveur) as well as Neilson all had serious acting roles in movies & tv so them just playing ig straight while saying and doung such ridiculous things made it even funnier.

Nobody seems to get the joke where Ted asks for 1 ticket to Chicago, "No Baggage." True he has no luggage but he has a lot of emotional baggage. See? Also, Boys Life was a Magazine geared toward Boy Scouts. It is now called Scouts Life. No one seems to get that either.

One of my favorite "throwaway" lines in this is just after they touch down and you hear Rex yelling over the radio: "Push a button! Pull a lever!" without being any more specific.

So many classic lines, but the 'surely you can't be serious' and the deadpan 'a hospital?' ones are up there with the coffee kids.

The guy in the taxi actually successfully sued cab companies for starting the meter while sitting at the curb. The actress who played the hysterical woman suggested the passengers line up with weapons.

That movie is a blast, so many funny references! Some of those were to contemporary material and now are probably lost to time. The woman in the scene with her husband asking for another coffee (the one whose thoughts we could hear) was actually known for a coffee commercial where she does exactly that. From a discussion forum: "The guy would only drink one cup at home because his wife's coffee sucked, but while they are visiting another couple, he indulges in a second cup." Edit: That original commercial is actually here on RU-vid. I can't link to it, otherwise YT would torch my comment, but if you look for 1970s Yuban Commercial you should find it easily. There's much more, of course, and skimming through the IMDB trivia page is like digging into a treasure trove. And, yes, that guy you wondered where you had seen him before, that is Jonathan Banks, "Breaking Bad"s Mike Ehrmantraut. The best thing is that the writer-directors, the Zucker brothers (David and Jerry) and Jim Abrahams weren't a one hit wonder. They followed this up with several equally hilarious flicks, such as the "The Naked Gun" series starring Leslie Nielsen, but also gems like "Top Secret" starring Val Kilmer, or "Hot Shots" I + II, starring Charlie Sheen. Mel Brooks did equally zany stuff, though some of his films get overlooked a little. I'm referring to his parody of Alfred Hitchcock movies, "High Anxiety" and his love letter to the era of silent films,"Silent Movie". Both are well worth a visit.

I always really liked this movie and knew you both would also. For great Leslie Nielsen, The Naked Gun is hilarious. Smoking on airplanes was allowed back in my "younger" days; the arm rests has ash trays in them. After takeoff, a lighted placard just like the seatbelt sign would light up if OK to one fire up. No cigars, though. The bit about the pep talk and George Zipp on his death bed was a takeoff from an old movie about the Notre Dame coach and a player named George Gipp in "Knute Rockne - All-American." Some of the gags were from commercials at the time so aren't picked up on today except by us Oldies. And it was a jet, but the engine noises were from piston planes. Good stuff!

Soul Plane was way after 1980 when Airplane came out it was mostly based on a movie called Zero Hour (1957)

The beach love scene is from the Burt Lancaster movie: From here to Eternity.

It was because if the fish scene in this film that pilot and co-pilot are no longer allowed to eat the same meal.

Some of my favorite, more subtle gags are: 1) There are dozens of jars of mayonnaise behind the doctor at the Mayo Clinic, which is a real and prestigious hospital. Somehow, I must have seen this film at least a dozen times before I finally noticed this gag, which isn't all that subtle. You noticed it right away. 2) It does not make sense that a film made in 1980 has a younger character who flew in World War 2, which ended in 1945. This storyline comes from the melodrama "Zero Hour!" which inspired this spoof. It did make sense in that 1957 film. 3) The name of Rex Kramer's seemingly friendly but actually vicious dog is "Shep," which is the name of the dog in at least one of the "Lassie" films about a boy and his canine best friend. 4) During the doctor's pep talk to Ted, he mentions a character named George Zipp. This is a reference to George Gipp (1895-1920). He played American football for the famous team of the University of Notre Dame. Gipp died from infections which would likely be cured with today's medicine. In the Hollywood, probably fictional, version of him on his deathbed, he asked the coach that one day in the future, when victory seemed unlikely, the team should find a way to "win just one for the Gipper." When the doctor in this film says, "win one for the Zipper," the music playing is the "fight song" for the University of Notre Dame "Fighting Irish" football team. 5) There is a scene where the chief in the control tower asks for the compass bearing of the plane. The radar operator is playing an Atari basketball game instead, and he gives the time remaining in the game as the compass bearing. 6) Every time the jet aircraft is shown flying, you can hear the sound of propeller engines.

The passenger is still waiting in the cab when the credits end. There are jokes all thru the credits.

I remember being taken to see by my mum when I was 11 we both loved it. It’s so funny 🤣

The actor you recognize is from Breaking Bad. Also, Radar Range was a brand name for a microwave oven.

If you watch through the closing credits, they show the guy still waiting in the taxi. 😁

Striker was an air force captain. But in the bar scene, he was wearing the dress whites of a navy lieutenant. The fight music in the bar scene was straight out of 1960s Star Trek. It was used in many other places, including the national anthem of Zoidberg's home planet in Futurama.

"You took my flower!" 1:37 That's what she said! Badum-tsssh Ok, I will leave peacefully...no need to manhandle me!😂😂

In those days you could smoke on planes. There were smoking and non-smoking sections. 'Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home' was from a well known coffee advert at the time I'm told it's even the same actress. They actually do the 'what is it...but that's not important right now' joke three times, for headquarters, a hospital and the cockpit.

In Zero Hour, the co pilot was played by a professional baseball player.

When the woman thinks, "He never has a second cup of coffee at home," that's from an old coffee commercial where the couple is out at a friend's house and has a second cup of her coffee.

Back at the 80s, smoking was permitted on planes, at the few back rows BTW. The "cup of coffee" joke was a spiff on a commercial in 1980. The basic origin movie for this is "Zero Hour".

Surprise! The title makes so much sense when you’re the one who got stung. You can imagine watching this in the cinema! Also, the soundtrack of this masterpiece was a best selling album. The genre of music is called Ragtime.

Great reaction guys...one of the gags that goes slips by is the fact they're in a jet, but the sound FX of the jet....is a propeller plane! 😂...again great reaction!

One of the more awesome things about this movie that I wish I could've appreciated but didn't because of cultural and generational gap, is that most of these actors (except the two main ones, which were purposefully cast with unknown actors), are mostly big time serious actors of the time in America. Seeing them this silly after watching their more dramatic roles at the time must've been quite hilarious.

The older man, sniffing the glue, is LOYDD BRIDGES. The father of Jeff Bridges & Bo Bridges, Loydd was also in the, SPOOF FILMS, "HOT SHOTS" 1 & 2.

If you like parodies, you might try "I'm Gonna Git You Sucker". It is a parody of the "blaxploitation" movies of the 60s and 70s. The plane crash footage they showed really was an accident. The plane, being flown remotely, was supposed to belly land (I think that's what it was), but it slammed into the ground hard and broke up. Not the footage they, the government, wanted yet it was still instructive.

The husband asking for a second cup of coffee is a parody of a 1960's Yuban Coffee commercial. The original commercial is available on RU-vid.

The same production team did a few other films in a similar comedy style. I would recommend "Top Secret" that apes WW2 spy thrillers. It's an underrated gem and is noteworthy for being Val Kilmer's first film.

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I would love to see a parody of the movie Speed. I think there’s a lot you could do with that one. Of course, Keanu must have a cameo in it as a cop or something.

If you liked this, you would probably like "Hot Shots" or "Naked Gun". This is exactly the same kind of slap-stick humor.

Of all the reactions to this movie, you were the first one that recognized the mirror joke.

This movie came out the summer after I graduated fomr High School, and I remember hearing adults talking about it incessantly. It is the source of so many running gags to this day.. "A hospital?! What is it??" It's a big bldg with patients" "Surely you can't be serious?" "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." [This one especially gets constantly used to this day. It was that brilliant of a wordplay/pun] my favorite one: "What do you make of this?" "Oh A hat, or a brooch, or pterodactyl wings!" I still trot that reference out once in a while to an older person who will get it hopefully! LOL Peter Graves' comments about grown men/turkish prisons is another meme that gets repeated over and over through the years. The movie just gave us so many brilliant moments "Oh stewardess, I speak jive!" From Harriet Nelson of all people.

11:08: Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home. It really wasn't random. But younger people like you don't remember the Taster's Choice Coffee commercials that this lady was parodying. Everything that seems random wasn't. Oh, and Boys Life magazine was a thing.

THis entire film is just one long non-stop cultural reference, or pun extravaganza. ETc. Kareem-Abdul Jabbar making his big silverscreen debut.. That was just.... weird as hell!

I love that this movie was made during the 80s because it would never have been made today, that's for sure. The jokes are amazing and this will always be my all time favorite comedy. If I make an airplane! quote and you don't get it, we can't be friends haha

I'm sure someone commented this, but I didn't see it: there is actually a post credits scene with the guy still waiting in the taxi cab. There's another joke built in because the guy waiting was known at the time for being the guy that got California's prop 13 passed which lowered and capped property tax rate growth. He was basically seen as super fiscally conservative so the idea he would be sitting in a cab while the cost just went through the roof was funny.

Really enjoyed watching you two laugh. Nice change of pace.

The couple doing the announcements apparently worked at LAX doing them and were a couple in real life. This is a spoof of airplane disaster movies from the 70’s like Airport 75, Airport 77, airport 79 the concorde. The lady surprised the her husband had a second cup of coffee was a reference to a famous coffee commercial from the 70’s. I read that when they asked Kareem to be in the movie they offered him $20,000 but he wanted $35,000 to buy some expensive oriental rug so they gave him $35,000.

25:29 "He's not your husband"? Nether was the horse she was sleeping with...

Yes, you could smoke on planes back then...also in stores, restaurants, bars...just about everywhere. Some jokes don't age well, like "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was how an old well known Folgers coffee ad started out. It was contemporary at the time.

The last gag, in the last scene at final credits of the film the taxi passenger was still waiting for the driver to return

The guy at the radar station that looked familiar was Johnathan Banks, best known for playing the fixer Mike on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. 😲

It was a parody of a series of films in the 70's called "Airport", "Airport '75", and more.

If you haven't already, you guys have to see Hot Shots Parts 1 and 2. Made by the same producers as this, the first one a parody of the Top Gun sort of movies, the second taking the mickey out of Rambo, Commando etc, I've memories of this movie basically my whole life. I've watched it dozens of time, and am embarrassed to admit it was only a couple of years ago I noticed the jars of mayonnaise in the background. Perhaps because my attention was always drawn by the heart jumping around the desk. :D I've also always really enjoyed the sudden switch from Kramer getting dressed in the mirror showing the inside of his lounge room opposite, to stepping over the edge of the mirror as he appears to leave the room. I think the only think more confusing that the discussion among the cockpit crew as they take of would be singing happy birthday to Chinese scientist Tu Youyou (a real person, look her up). :D Lastly, the thing I love most about this movie is that it gave Leslie Nielsen's career a Renaissance. He'd been getting fewer role as he had always played tough characters, which was getting harder to sell as he got older. After this, his total dead pan delivery of his lines led to shows like Police Squad and their movies (The Naked Gun series), as well as a ton of parody movies.

"I've seen that guy somewhere": Mike in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

the deadpan worked because just about all of the major players were known for dramatic roles. leslie neilsen, robert stack, lloyd bridges, and peter graves played it straight exactly as directed. Especially because it was a remake of zero hour. the whole film was just as much a collaboration between zucker-abrahams-zucker as it was between ZAZ and the actors. For instance, there was the lady who had the line of escalating violence to calm her down suggesting there be a line forming to slap her (leslie neilsen accidentally connected with that first slap, causing her to look at him like she did, so he just slaps her again). another instance was the two jive-speakers needing subtitles -- they wrote their lines with the old woman who engages them later on (played by barbra billingsly, the ma from an old 'wholesome' tv sitcom from the 1950s called 'leave it to beaver.' that show was whiter than mayonnaise sandwiches served on a lawrence welk record) peter graves (cpt oveur) was really uncomfortable saying those lines -- he would have backed out of the movie, but his son convinced him to take the role. in the states he was better-known as mr phelps from the original mission: impossible tv series.

Gentlemen, in case you werent familiar with it, the Krishna COnsciousness movement was EVERYWHERE in the US/Canad in the 1970s, and this movie came out in 1980, so the guy offering a flower and asking for a donation was a direct reference to that group... examples of that group showed up shortly thereafter. Once I looked into their belief system in college days, I realized the beliefs/philosophy weren't objectionable at all - but when you took their type of nonstandard proselytizing combined with obnoxious American behavioral patterns, people got pretty sick of them in a hurry. We got another transplant from South Asian belief systems when a guru named Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh boughta derelict town in Oregon and all his followeres moved there (overwhelming majority of them Americans) and renamed the town "Rajneeshpuram". Being from Utah it wasnt that far away, so we heard a good deal about it here. I actually toured that part of Oregon in my small repertory drama troupe. Look it up.. fascinating story. THe Simpsons actually mocked it and several other cults of personality in one of their episodes.

Love your sense of your humor, these movies are right up my alley! I remember seeing this in the theater when I was 12 and I thought it was funny but I didn't catch all the jokes. I appreciate it more as it aged! My father laughed so hard he made the entire audience laugh even more!

Avoid Airplane 2. Instead the team that did Airplane went on to do 1984-Top Secret. also very funny.

Although they were uncredited, the basketball player tribe was the Harlem Globetrotters

Much of the script comes from the film "Zero Hour!." Many thematic elements are a parody of a series of airplane diaster films that came out in the 1970s. Especially "Airport 1975."

Yes, there were smoking sections on airplanes once upon a time. Also, Boy's Life magazine was a thing.

25:45 - That's Jonathan Banks. You've seen him as Mike Ehrmantraut on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

Love you guys reaction. Airplane is the funniest Parody movie ever

I feel bad for all of the jokes you had no way of getting, but if you like stuff this bizarre, try Kentucky Fried Movie nest.

If you have time, try to watch the actual films being parodied:"Zero Hour!,"" "From Here to Eternity, " "Airport," "Towering Inferno, " "Poseiden Adventure, ". The lead actors wear all serious film and TV personalities in their own series dramas from the 50's and 60's. The woman singing from bed at the VA hospital was famous Broadway and film actress Ethel Merman. There are other American cultural references in the film (too many to count).

Gotta love that 70s color scheme on the airport hallway when Striker is talking with Elaine. But then again, in those days, you could get a suit made by DuPont, and a motorcycle made by a bowling company.

One of the few comedies that make me laugh despite decades of re-watches. So many jokes you only notice after multiple watches: the plane noise always being prop plane engines despite being a jet; Ted says he was in the Air Force but is in a Navy uniform, ; the baby being thrown in the air when the plane busts through the terminal window, etc. One of the biggest surprises for people of the day was the actors were almost all known for serious drama roles (Lindsay Nelson, River Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges) - so was shock to see them in a comedy. Of course, Nelson and Bridges went on to do a bunch more comedies after this. A few references: the win win for the Zipper was a spoof of one of Ronald Reagan’s biggest speeches in best known roles as the Gipper - a Notre dame football player. The older white woman who translated jive was Barbara Billingsly - who played Mrs Cleaver on “Leave It to Beaver” - the quintessential very white bread American family. The Jim never has two cups of coffee at home is a direct spoof of a coffee Tv advertisement of the day and the woman actress was in the TV ad as well. Also: the guy monitoring the “radar range” is the actor who plays Mike on Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul.

You missed the Post credit scene - the guy is still in the cab. “Well, I’ll give him another 20 minutes but that’s it”

YOU MISSED AFTER THE CREDITS, THE MAN IN THE CAB HAD A CLOSING LINE.

One of the funniest films I've ever seen!

A lot of the jokes were based on commercials of the time. Its even funnier now when the younger folks are confused.

If you haven't allready watched them I would highly recommend Blazing Saddles and The Naked Gun trilogy. They are all classic comedies

George Zipp: look up win one for the gipper ronald reagan.

This movie kind of misses the mark for a lot of people under a certain age. It's filled start to finish with references to movies, TV shows, advertisements and cultural phenomena of the early to mid 20th century that audiences of the time would've gotten immediately.

I watched a pilot review this film. He stated that pilots never eat the same meal in case of food poisoning.

For more of the same- the Naked Gun movies starring Leslie Nielsen and Police Squad the short lived tv series it was based on. The episodes are on RU-vid if you’re interested. Fun fact- Leslie Nielsen is Canadian and at one point his brother Erik was a member of parliament and deputy prime minister of Canada! 🇨🇦😊

The smoking ticket thing: back then you could actually smoke in the airplane. Pilots too. Crazy eh? Lol

Actually, if you fast forward past the end credits, you'll see that guy was still waiting in the cab

this movie was a complete remake of the movie "Zero Hour". they even used the original script. see youtube " airplane vs zero hour "

If you love this type of movie, the comedies of Mel Brooks are the best. Best maker of parodies.

Top Secret! Is the filmmakers follow up. A parody of Elvis movies

Great Reaction Gents. Blazing Saddles, Naked Gun I and II, Police Squad (short lived TV series), Top Secret are all worthy successors to Airplane, but None match the original.

This movie is almost a scene by scene parody of "Zero Hour".

More movie reactions please! 👍

When you laughed near the start when the plane crashed into the window, I knew it was going to be a good reaction. Good editing!

I'm always a bit saddened by reactions to this movie because it depends so heavily on the audience's knowledge of 60s and 70s American pop culture. Few younger people catch even half the jokes. You guys did a good job of it, though. Your reaction was great fun. For instance, there really was always a gauntlet of religious solicitors you had to run to get into an airport. There had just been national scandals of air traffic controllers having nervous breakdowns (hence, Johnny) as well as using amphetamines and other narcotics (hence: "I picked a bad week to quit...."). "Boys Life" was a real magazine for Boy Scouts. The cabin scene recalled many well-known commercials from the 60s, as well as a few nods to then-current movie tropes. Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen had all been serious actors whose careers were on the wane before this movie. Like Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges (father of actors Beau and Jeff) also went on to a refreshed career of more comedy movies. The Japanese soldier who committed harikari was James Hong, who may hold the all-time Hollywood record for the number of movie appearances, most recently in "Everything Everywhere All at Once," and voice acting in the Kung Fu Panda movies and Pixar's "Turning Red." I think you missed the end-credit scene. I think there had been only one movie before that had an end-credit scene ("The Muppet Movie"). This movie parodied the many "Airport" disaster movies of the day. But it was actually a remake of the turgid 50s melodrama "Zero Hour!" That movie was so terrible, they played many scenes and dialog nearly straight for humor. There are a couple of scene-for-scene comparisons of "Airplane!" and "Zero Hour!" on RU-vid. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8-v2BHNBVCs.htmlsi=TLnqTYzIMn-n0lSN

11:13 That's a spoof of a popular coffee commercial back then.

A running bit that I didn’t notice until it was pointed out to me was that when they showed the plane flying they used the sound of a propeller driven plane even though it was a jet.

Just might be the funniest film of all time. The radio operator you mentioned, "I've seen that guy somewhere". That is Jonathan Banks. He portrayed Michael Ehrmantraut in the television series Breaking Bad. Yes, he played Mike. You guys reactions were right on. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

The first time I flew in 1983 smoking was allowed on planes. There was an ashtray in the armrests. Me and my friends smoked up a storm.

Boy’s Life was/is the magazine of the Boy Scout of America and might have been found in the selection of magazines on planes then, so it’s not that weird for a nun to be flipping though one of the magazines waiting for take off.

The coffee clip is a parody of a old coffee commercial

Now it's time to react to the movie, Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield. Another comedy

The lady on the plane who said her husband "never has a second cup at home" and "never vomits at home" was spoofing a commercial from the 1970's for Yuban coffee that she herself was in (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MJ4kCF22O2w.html ). I think you'll appreciate the joke more after seeing the actual commercial. I have to say, you two are the ONLY reactors I've watched that have ever picked up on the fact that Capt. Rex Kramer walked through the mirror when leaving, rather than just turning to leave, as well as the "picture behind the Japanese news anchor" was a picture of a plane about to crash behind him. In fact, you did an excellent job of picking up a LOT of jokes on your 1st time around. Kudos !!!

So it looks like people answered the coffee thing, but you did miss the end credit scene. Go back and watch it, Saw this movie when i was 10, went as a birthday party, so at the end the parents with us told us to stay until the theater cleared out, and the end credit scene popped up. Otherwise i ight have never known about it. Great reaction guys, the 2 best after this are the Naked Gun Triology and the Hot Shots. Naked Gun is a police parody, Hot Shots is Top Gun

If no one has said it yet, Top Secret is a cool movie you would like

Many scenes and lines are from television and commercials of the time this movie was made. So, younger audience won't get everything.

The guy you recognized at the radar console was Mike from Breaking Bad