Coffee and "Airplane!", just like High-Quality H₂O and Bill Burr, always tend to make for a pretty worthwhile Vicarious Reaction-Video-Viewer Risibility Protocol, in the main. Best of all, it's free! Not a dry seat in the house. How 'bout some coffee, Johnny? No, thanks! Also, Mrs. Oveur was awakened from sleep by her husband's work to find out her husband had taken ill, as she just so happened to be at the tail end of sharing an illicit tryst in her and her husband's marriage bed with an insatiable young stud, if not a wild raging stallion. This live-action stallion, apparently, was an offer that Mrs. Oveur couldn't refuse, let alone - ah - pass "oveur", or so ever as to what it is... Big Mama... My mama didn't raise no dummies; I dug her rap. Hehehe. 🤪🤪🤪
Hi, Shree. You see, this was the whole point: Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves had all for years been well estabiished in serious dramatic roles. So to see these guys in 1980 doing this ridiculousness that was so out of character WAS the joke that had audiences that didn't know them in this way howling with laughter. For Leslie Nielsen in particular, this was a career rebirth for him, as comedy roles became plentiful for him following this.
@@Ocrilat Leslie also would often play the elegantly dressed villain in many TV shows of '60's and '70's. The FBI and other cop shows. His best role before Airplane was a science fiction movie called "The Forbidden Planet from the late 1950's or 1960's. It actually was a very good sci-fi for it's time with a well written story. Sure the special effects are dated and some of the characters don't fit our societies sensibilities today, but I would recommend you see it some day.
@@robstoll7542 I'm a fan of 60s Doctor Who...I don't care about special effects if the stories are well written. I dimly recall the show...I'll have to check it out. Thanks.
29:08 "I don't know what the hell is happening in this movie" That's because you're talking and not listening. A group of reporters were there getting a statement. One of them says: (28:59) "OK, boys, let's get some pictures." Instead of shooting photos with their cameras, they run to the wall and start removing all the hanging pictures. Get it? But you were talking away and missed it. This is why i don't subscribe to "reactors" who talk over the script - their reaction is "I don't get it..."
@@-Devy- Serious - i remember these reactors and when searching new reactions, even if i see they've reacted to a movie i really like, i won't check them out. "Watch me react to my dog or cat and jabber, jabber, jabber while the movie in the thumbnail plays in the background and I ignore it."
There's a simple explanation for "what the hell is happening in this movie" : It's a *COMEDY* , and it's crammed with non-stop jokes (most quite good) and humorous incongruities. It's a shame you missed them.
People today are not allowed to laugh at those jokes. Imagine growing up in a world where humor is not allowed because it might be "offensive" to someone, somewhere.
Yes, it seems like today the gut reaction to what we used to call an "off color" joke is shock and incomprehension, rather than laughter. More than a little sad, but I give credit to Shree for recognizing that there might be jokes here that need context and planning a re-watch.
@silverfoxeaterGood Lord.....weren't you the one telling somebody to "get a life" for disliking the reaction, yet here you are again getting upset over another comment. Seems to me like you're the one who needs to get a life.
The guy that played Johnny (the guy who said the plane looked like a tylenol) was friends with the writers, and that's how he got the role. But he refused to learn any lines, so they decided since he was pretty funny on his own they would just give him a list of cues to respond to. So all his stuff was completely ad-libbed.
Next time you watch, be sure to watch all the way through the end of the credits. Among other things, the producers irritated the FBI when they showed the standard FBI warning about how it's illegal to make copies of the film, but they added "So there." to the end of it.
To be fair, we can't expect her to get references to stuff that she didn't get to experience. But it did frustrate me when her response to the "You no smoko" sign was feeling like the sign was yelling at her. And that frustration isn't aimed at her as much as it is her generation's seeming inability to let go and be silly. As a Gen Xer, I just think, "These are OUR kids! We raised them, so why don't they enjoy ife like we do!? Did we hurt them, or fail to show them what joy looks likr?" And then, I remember, we're the ones who may not have started political correctness, but we did embrace it. Our only solution is to break out the rubber chickens and start over!
Woman who was able to speak Jive was Barbara Billingsley who played June Cleaver in "Leave It To Beaver," often held up as the whitest middle-class imaginary version of American life in the 1950's. Her (unintentional) trademark was doing housework all dressed up, particularly wearing a string of pearls.
Theres *a lot* of 70s references that were hilarious in 1980.. but are lost to time. Heres 2.. the "Never Vomits at home" line was from popular Coffee commercial from the 70s.. the actress in this movie was the one in those ads too.. the woman and her husband are at a friend's house and he asks for another cup of coffee... she thinks "thats funny, He never drinks coffee at home".. meaning her husband hates the coffee she buys. - The "Jive" Lady is Barbara Billingsly, who Baby Boomers knew as "Mrs. Cleaver", aka "Americas Mom" on the 50s-60s tv sitcom Leave it to Beaver, the most squeaky clean White bread tv show ever... so the joke was enhanced by having a woman youd never expect to hear "JIve talkin" acting like she'd done it all her life.
@@timhonigs6859 I assumed it was "Folgers" or "Maxwell House" too, until I actually searched the commercial several years ago. I guess "Yuban" couldn't keep up and fell out of favor. Apparently they still make it.
When the plane starts up and the guy continues to wave to his girl with the door still open is making it a railroad train leaving the station (and the doors could continue to be open). First there is a guy dressed like a conductor, consulting his pocket watch on a chain, then the plane is making chugging sounds.
The joke with the eggs coming out of the woman’s mouth was just that it was a slight of hand “magic trick” that magicians would do. Including the bird flying out.
One of my favorite comedies of all time! Man, we used to quote from this one back in my school. "Well surely you know what to do?" "Of course I do...And don't call me Shirley!" classic stuff! More jokes per square foot than any other comedy film I can think of. The jive guy scenes always crack me up when the film translates their slang into "English". The old lady translating their slang for the stewardess is my favorite of those scenes. "Excuse me miss..I speak Jive." (Incidentally the directors cast her because she played the mom in the Late 1950's TV series "Leave it to Beaver" which was a show about a very white suburban family, so having her speak "Jive" was an extra joke the audience of 1980 would pick up on.) I've met two people that worked on this film. By chance I met Al White the lead "Jive Guy" a few years back at a mall. And just this year I met the actress/stunt woman that played one of the two fighting Girl Scouts in the bar at a sci-fi convention. (She also played an alien in the pilot episode of classic Star Trek!) The commentary on this film is great and very informative. All three of the directors have cameos in the movie. One of them was the ground crew guy who accidentally sends the plane crashing into the terminal by gesturing with his lights in the wrong direction. And all three of them show up as members of the annoying group of religious (and otherwise) people hawking flowers and fliers in the terminal. The director's mother was the poor lady trying to do her makeup while the plane is trying to land. Leslie Nielson (The Doctor), Peter Graves (Captain Oveur) and Robert Stack (Rex Kramer) had never been in a comedy before this, and had long careers of straight dramas up until this movie. So they were a little nervous and thought they wouldn't be funny. Leslie's career ended up taking a sharp turn into comedy from this point on, and he did nothing BUT comedies after this film did so well.
"That F-ing predator..." 🤣🤣🤣 Otto the autopilot is a great collection of jokes. Glad he gets his in the end, even if he is a creep. Airplane is just hurling jokes at the screen every second. Not everything hits, but everyone gets something good out of it. Johnny in particular is very hit or miss with reactors. They either hate him or love him.
For every single person who has watched this film and missed the From Here to Eternity reference on the beach scene, and that seems to be literally everyone:) That show is pretty good!
One joke that nearly everyone misses is when Stryker says that he was in the "Air Force" stationed at Drambouie. However, in that scene, he wearing a Navy uniform!
It took me several watchings before I noticed that on the exterior shots of the airplane, the sounds they play are for a propeller aircraft and not for a jet (which the is what the shots show). The background gags in this movie and all other Zucker, Zucker, Abrams movies are something to look out for.
Hollywood produced a lot of disaster flicks in the 70s, and none were more serious and cheesy than the Airport movies. Airplane! makes fun of a lot of the cliches those films set up--nosy old lady, a nun with guitar, etc. My favorite element of the film is the cinematography which makes fun of the flat, inexpressive cinematography of Airport and the like. The plot itself is an almost scene for (parodied) scene of Zero Hour!, a disaster film from the fifties. IMHO, the best parody from this filmmaking trio is Top Secret! (1984) which somehow parodies the unlikely combination of Elvis and spy movies.
@@malcolmdrake6137 I suppose it wasn't the best choice of words, but I meant cheesy as in having manufactured emotions or overly sentimental. A cheesy love story can still be serious about its cheese.
The hidden true gem of this movie, is if you play Zero Hour, and Airplane! side by side, most of the scenes correspond to each other. Skip Airplane 2. Rights of the movie were passed to a different studio, and basically, the carbon copied the story, and gags of this movie, because ZAZ didn't want to do it. (Or, since ZAZ wouldn't do it, studio just carbon copied the script of the first one)
The thing is that Leslie Nielson, Peter Graves (pilot), Lloyd Bridges (tower chief) and Robert Stack (the pilot talking the guy through landing) were ALL serious dramatic actors until appearing in this film. That's part of what made it so funny to us when it came out.
The lady who got lipstick and makeup all over her face was Charlotte Zucker. Her sons, Jerry and David, were two of the directors of this movie. Charlotte would often end up having some small part over the years in most films that Jerry and David produced and/or directed.
Fun Fact Regarding the Saturday Night Fever spoof scene: While he was doing Airplane, Actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) was also doing a short lived sitcom called Angie and his Angie Co-Star Donna Pescow was in Saturday Night Fever. There is also a sequel called Airplane 2 The Sequel which is worth checking out just to see William Shatner steal the show.
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 References: Opening plane in crowds 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 21:52 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
Your take on American humor is very interesting, I have to say. Enjoyed your reaction for its uniqueness. I also appreciate that you immediately realize it needed multiple viewings. What I mostly came here to say was that the gag with the “Tribal Newscaster” cutting the second camera is criminally under-appreciated.
The Staying Alive segment is a parody of Saturday Night Fever, where the song first appeared. The beach love scene was a parody of a scene in From Here To Eternity. Jim never vomits at home is a parody of a coffee commercial at the time. (Jim never has a second cup at home.) Food poisoning is a real thing. The fish was bad.
What is amazing is that everybody thinks this movie is hilarious and has so many jokes and yet people who are watching it for the first time 42 years later miss so many more jokes because of the dated references, like the shell shocked soldier that thought he was the actress Ethel Merman was actually played by Ethel Merman, or the joke about the Ronald Reagan film, or about Gerald Ford being in a coma, or the The Zipper vs. Gipper from the Knute Rockne All American movie, the station where disco lives forever, the "Radar Range" and on and on...
@@goldenager59 On the upside, I've seen plenty of younger people who love irreverent stuff from our era. I raised my kids on a steady diet of Mel Brooks and Monty Python. There's hope!
a person watches a comedy (one of the best ) without ever smiling and declares that he would die laughing while acting in it well... as i see there somethin wrong in that situation
I like that you’re theories were so outlandish lol. Aliens, mutant fish, etc. but it was literally just people ate tainted fish and got food poisoning. Lol
There is a Mayo Clinic, very well-known: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Clinic. Not "a woman" but the one and only Ethel Merman (as stated), in what I think was her last screen appearance. Merman was a great Broadway star who originated many roles such as Annie in "Annie Get Your Gun" and Mama Rose in "Gypsy". She was known for her powerful, projecting voice and her strong personality: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rhOTMf84gFo.html
13:42, just wanted you to know, that was Ethel Merman. You should see her with the biggest cast of comedians and actors ever in It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World, (1963), a slapstick comedy classic at its best.
One of the "hidden" gags- the guy waiting in the cab was a person famous in CA politics in the 70's for starting a movement to curb overspending and overtaxing (Prop 13) in state government. His name is Howard Jarvis, and to have him sitting in a parked cab with the meter running is one of the most inside of inside jokes. My favorite quick joke: the airport solicitor (punched out by Rex Kramer) who says "Jews for Jesus?"
Two things 1. the genius of this movie is that there are so many gags in the background you can't catch them all in the first 10 viewings. 2. At 5:04 I never noticed that Pan American 747 in the background until now
The Zucker brothers got together and made every great shit they could think of. That's how you work as a good director. - The ones who do everything by the book and don't allow any creativity.(If you just do it for being successful) - And those few who let the camera run and tell their actors "do whatever comes to your mind". (Lesson from Mel Brooks by the way) Also looking for a good time: Listen to the Audiocommentary from the directors and stuff to this movie. It's amazing
One of the greatest funniest movies ever made😄😄😄Airplane! directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and music score by Elmer Bernstein. This film is a parody of the 1957 film Zero Hour! with elements from the 1974 film Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. The line "Surely you can't be serious....I am serious. And don't call me Shirley" was ranked number 79 in the list of the American Film Institute (AFI) 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. Thank you Shree great reaction excellent.
Few comedy films have been hugely successful in theaters . Airplane ,Police academy and Scary movie are the franchises of the genre that were able to entertain audiences in movie theaters.
1. I guess I picked the wrong week to stop watching "first time reaction" Airplane clips. 2, Little things to look for: Ted was in the Air Force but at the bar he's wearing a Navy Lt. Uniform. One of the fish was a freshwater catfish. Captain Kramer steps out of a mirror before leaving for the airport. The woman with the horse in bed is the creepy Captain Oveur's wife. She is also hitting on to Captain Kramer. It's a jet but the background noise is of a prop plane. 3. Otto/Auto pilot has his own webpage on IMDB 4. Elaine has permission to sit on MY face.😍😋 5. IMVHO Airplane II is better. Destination moon. I saw it first. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 6. Here is a movie you have to watch more than once. 7. Two other Funny Movies (that are connected somewhat) for you to share are: "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles"🤣🤣
10:10 - *“Oh no… Death #2.”* Did you already forget about the guy who was stabbed on the dancefloor, just a minute earlier? 11:11 - *“I think I'm almost gonna die.”* Yes, this movie tends to have that effect on people.
13:43 - the joke was that it actually WAS Ethel Merman singing in that scene. Ethel was a famous Broadway actress and singer, and she was singing her most famous tune, "Everything's coming up Roses." A lot of these references are outdated and younger people like yourself might not get some of the jokes because the movie's over 40 years old.
You talked right through one of the best jokes in the movie so you totally missed the whole thing!!! The "WOMAN " was Ethyl Merman. The taxi meter was at $113 dollars and 30 cents. (NOT 11 thousand 330 dollars.) The reporter said Let's GET some pictures, so they went to the wall and GOT some pictures. The introduction of Captains is what happens before the coin toss at football games. 👱♀️👗👠👠💓
That's just Julie Haggarty being Julie Haggarty. She's actually a very tragicly underrated comedic actress. Ive seen other people react to this movie, and Ive noticed nobody gets the lady with the eggs is a supposed to be a magic trick.
There are a few background jokes you might miss. You might have watch it again and again. Also, there is a sequel. But most people don't think it is as good.
You caught the election impact magazine! Running gag throughout the movie was referencing Ronald Reagan running for president in 1980 when the movie came out. Reagan was George Gipp, the Gipper, in "Knute Rockne All American" (the pep talk scene and classic football music). Notre Dame coach Rockne died in a plane clash. With all the parodies, references and gags, they matched the scenes to the classic movie "Zero Hour" along with the propeller sounds and open overhead baggage racks. Your reactions made the movie all the more fun.
Fun fact: Back in the 70s is was actually a thing that young white girls dated older black men (mostly in Texas). When the movie showed in most of the USA, people laughed at the scene, but in Texas the audiences just shrugged it off as an unremarkable statement of accepted cultural fact.
Please look up the word 'comedy' in the dictionary. Knowing what the word means may stop you from making non-sensical statements and/or asking non-relative questions about obvious jokes or sight gags. While looking up comedy, you might want to look up The Mayo Clinic also.
This film _single-handedly_ killed the "disaster movie" as a serious genre for over a decade. It wouldn't be until cutting-edge special effects introduced in the 90s that the Disaster genre would start picking up again.
6:13 As I understand it, when they dubbed this movie into German, they preserved the humor by making these guys Bavarian. Bavarian is a _dialect_ of German, but apparently, obscure enough that the mainstream German-speaker tends to struggle with it.
From what I understand, just about _every_ movie Leslie Nielsen was in before this one was a dramatic role (although you have to look back _quite a ways_ to find confirmation that he was not _born_ with a head of grey hair), but _this_ movie introduced him to us as a master of _deadpan_ humor, for which he quickly found not only a keen _expertise_ but a _fondness._ This expertise _particularly_ shines, though, _I_ think, in the _Naked Gun_ series. I mean he's great in _every_ deadpan-humor role he plays, and I think his performance _here_ is indispensable, but if I had to choose, I would have to say I _really_ like his performance in each _Naked Gun_ movie.
16:47 Elaine wasn’t asking what is a hospital. The doctor said the patient needs to taken to a hospital. “A hospital? What is it?” as in what is the illness.
30:20 If you watch them back to back, each airplane clip that plays is an older type of plane than the one before it until here they were only attempts at flight that didn't even work.
For me what makes this movie funny were the performances of all the serious dramatic actors like Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and Leslie Neilsen. That's right, before this movie these legends starred in dramas. Their serious portrayals in such a ridiculous situation was a brilliant choice. The next Zucker/Abraham movie after this was "Top Secret", also funny and reaction worthy
Yes as you’ve been told already many of those people were serious actors that played serious rules which makes this so funny because it’s deadpan humor they’re not stupid they’re just playing deadpan humor
THAT WAS A PARODY FROM THE 78 FILM ( SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER ) 😊THE FILM THAT LAUNCHED ( JOHN TRAVOLTA ) INTO THE NEXT PLANET SHREE!😊GR888888 BEE GEES AND OTHER SONG SOUNTRACKS!👍
@@ShreeNation Some of the references are hard to get here in 2022 because they're from 1980. Or even earlier, like the beach scene. That's a spoof of a similar scene in "From Here To Eternity," a film made in 1953!!!
The auto pilot isn’t a sex doll omg lol. He’s more like one of those wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men. Without the wacky flailing arms. But I guess he BECAME a sex doll after she inflated him lol.
