FIRST TIME WATCHING * Airplane! (1980) * MOVIE REACTION!! 

"Now we're lucky if I've shaved." Totally lost it at that moment. Hannah has GREAT comedic timing!! Great reaction, you two!!

“No thank you, I take it black like my men” still one of the funniest lines ever and the look on his face was priceless.

One thing I never see people mention, is that they're on a JET plane, but we constantly hear propellers throughout the movie. Pure genius.

The older lady who spoke Jive was Barbara Billingsly, who was the mother on Leave it to Beaver. She and the two black men worked out the Jive language together. They were close friends throughout the rest of her life. The glue sniffer was Lloyd Bridges (Jeff Bridges' father), a serious actor. He was worried that doing this film would ruin his career. His sons Jeff and Beau convinced him to do it and it turned out to rejuvenate his career because he was so good at comedy.

There’s one joke that a lot of people don’t get especially if they’re not American. But in America, there’s a very famous hospital called the mayo clinic.

One of my favorite things about this movie is the fact that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was playing himself but he was also a pilot and it's never explained WHY. lol

The joke where he repeats “good luck. We’re all counting on you.” was also used in Scary Movie 3. By the same actor. Leslie Nielsen.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="340">5:40</a> "This is a comedy, clearly, isn't it?" I've seen it many times, and I'm starting to suspect she's right. 😂😂😂

I just wanted everyone in the comments section to know "Good luck, we're all counting on you"

“We don’t need rings to prove our love”.. the look on Hannah’s face lol.. i gasped lol

I’m literally crying with laughter at this reaction!! 😂 thank you SO much for cheering me up after a terrible few days! You & Hannah are the best!!! Thank you again!!! X

I just wanna tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.

“He thinks he’s Ethel Merman” The real Ethel Merman begins singing in the hospital bed.

Oh, man - you've still got _The Naked Gun_ trilogy to watch🤣🤣

Fun fact: My cousin is one of the jive talking Black guys.

There was an actual food poisoning outbreak on a plane five years before the movie. Contaminated breakfast omelets caused nearly 200 people to get sick. Fortunately, the pilots hadn’t eaten the omelets and were able to make an emergency landing. By luck, the pilots’ biological clocks were still on Alaska time and had ordered steak dinners instead. The incident resulted in recommendations that pilots and passengers be served different foods during the flight.

Leslie Neilson is a national treasure, The Naked Gun is an absolute must

“I’m serious and don’t call me Shirley” is maybe one of the greatest lines in film history. Infinitely quotable

A hilarious scene is where the tower says "they're flying on instruments" then it goes back to the cockpit and they're all playing instruments 🎺 🎻 😭😭😭 lol 😂

I read that in North America "airplane" is used almost exclusively, and "aeroplane" is used more in the UK and Australia, but "airplane" is becoming more common in the latter as well. Both words mean the same thing.

"I just want to wish you both good luck, we're all counting on you." Leslie Nielsen was a very serious actor at the time, never did comedies and that's why he was chosen. When he expressed his doubt at being able to do comedy, the directors told to NOT play it as a comedy, but to play it very seriously. The deadpan delivery is one of the big factors why this movie works so well. Also, I hope you two react to "Top Secret!" (1984). Another timeless '80s classic comedy film by Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers that I know you two will love.

FUN FACT: The Japanese Soldier who stabbed himself was James Hong who played the father in Everything Everywhere All At Once. He just got a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame after a long and continuing career since the 50's

This is the ancestor of all comedy movies nowadays

"He's committing Teriyaki!" 😂 <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="890">14:50</a>

People who knew Leslie Nielsen in his private life said he was one the funniest people they ever knew. He was cast in serious roles because of his looks and voice, but was always a comedic person at heart. Even his gravestone has a fart joke on it.

Aeroplane is British, Airplane is American

Whenever I spill a drink on myself while trying to take a sip I say “I have a drinking problem” to myself.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1500">25:00</a> she was so devastated when he brushed off the marriage talk. Tears welling up in her eyes and it took her a good minute to stuff down the pain and try not cry.

The old man in the taxi was Howard Jarvis, a newspaper owner in Southern California. Led a successful property tax revolt in California in 1978. The joke was that he was a very impatient man and in the taxi, which had the meter running the whole time, he was sitting patiently awaiting the driver's return. All while watching the meter click higher and higher. We Californians came to know him from all of the interviews he gave leading up to the tax cuts and found the scenes amusing. Most of the movie viewers never got the inside joke.

There is a Post Credit scene. The guy is still in the Taxi. He says, "I'll just give him five more minutes!".

This movie holds the record for most laughs per minute at 3. There are so many visual gags you miss the first time around. Like at the beginning in the airport there's a section called spank material on the magazine rack 😂

so, fun fact, last I checked, none of the actors in this movie had done a comedy before in their lives. Some you can recognize as going on to have great careers in comedy, but this was their first. And part of it was the absolute straight shot delivery of pretty much every joke in the movie. Speaking of, it was based on another film that had a very similar plot, though it wasn't a comedy. The studio that made this movie bought the full rights to that movie they parodied to avoid any copyright issues. The old lady who spoke jive? She was the mother on 'Leave It To Beaver'

I love the fact that every time the jet is shown flying it’s making a propeller driven airplane sound

The one joke that people often miss is the wife who constantly is suspicious in her head about her husband. They are the actual actors from a 80s folgers coffee commercial who did the same bit.

I’ve seen a few reactions from this movie but Ash, you actually made it almost like the 1st time for me. I’m GenX so I saw this in the theater and I appreciate that you found it as funny as we did. We were not offended by the things that are found so offensive now. You need to watch the Naked Gun movies now.

This film started Leslie Nielson's comedy career. Before he played serious roles. His most prominent film is probably "Forbidden Planet," which is considered one of the best science-fiction films from the 50's. I highly recommend reacting to it. If you two are open to watching older movies.

Younger reactors often don't grasp thus absurdist humor, I was so glad to see how much you two enjoyed it.😂

The best moment of the whole reaction is at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="625">10:25</a> Hannah: If my kids don't act like that I wouldn't want em. The Girl: No, thank you. I take it black... 😂🤣🤣

Ethel Merman's last film appearance. and. The "old lady who speaks jive..." is actually Barbara Billingsley - who played the Mother in "Leave it to Beaver..."

It's so great to see how this movie perfectly jives with Ash's sense of humor. I think it's probably the funniest movie ever made. It's full of references to old American TV shows and movies. One example is that the very dark joke about the pilot being creepy with the young boy is a reference to how the actor Peter Graves was famous for a TV show in which his character adopted a young orphan and mentored him.

The Mayo Clinic is a famous medical provider in the US. So the pun was having the shelves filled with mayonnaise. It also added to the Mr. Hamm joke

Ash, the 13 year old boy in you really came out in this movie. The silent laughs were the best. So glad you got the humor. It holds up to this day.

Ash’s face during this movie killed me. Eyebrows raise eye squinted smiling ear to ear lmaooo

This is my favorite Airplane! reaction.😂 You two had me laughing! Thank you!

"Now we're lucky if I've shaved..." godamn you guys are hilarious lol :))

This movie is a shot-for-shot comedy remake of "Zero-Hour!" from 1957. Someone did a side-by-side comparison some years back and it's AMAZING.

I saw this in 1980 i was 19. All through the movies I was having chest pains and cold feet and hands. Laughing hurt so much, I laughed so hard. I took my friends home and drove myself to the ER to find out I had an infection around my heart. Love this movie.

The doctor character, Leslie Nielson, was in a movie trilogy called The Naked Gun. It's made by the same guys who made this movie - it's a must see!!!

Leslie's performance is what does it for me, he is such a legendary actor. His comedic timing plus the fact that he plays it so serious is so perfect to me.

“Naked Gun” movie has the Dr from airplane and he’s such a funny guy, not sure if you’ve seen “blazing saddles” but it also considers one the funniest movies ever

Whenever I fly somewhere, if I have the chance, I always try to tell at least one of the pilots "good luck, we're all counting on you" and they always get it! The last one even said thank Capt. Stryker!

Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home was a TV commercial at the time, for Yuban Coffee, where the wife didn't know she was buying and making bad coffee. And the casting folks for Airplane didn't realise the actress they hired WAS the lady from that commercial!

The bossy guy in the airport, Lloyd Bridges is the father of Jeff... The Big Lebowski actor.

The 2 black gentlemen were already accomplished Broadway actors.

The actor who played Ted Striker ( Robert Hays ) IS a pilot in real life and is actually qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft... Of course, if I was getting on a plane and saw Ted Striker was my captain.. I think I'd probably start re-considering my life choices...

I was 8 when this came out, and somehow *every* kid I knew saw it at least once, and school was nothing but "Airplane!" quotes, nonstop. You could get an automatic laugh with any of this stuff, and set off a chain of quotes from it. My best friend's dad was this blue collar tough guy, but a little thick around the middle. I said "the fog's getting thicker..." once with him in the room, and my best friend jumped over next to him, shook his gut and yelled, "And Leon's getting LAAARRRGERRR!" and took off running, with his dad chasing him out through the garage. It was priceless.

The, "Leon's getting laaarger," joke is a reference to a Canadian furniture store called Leon's that had commercials about how big and vast their store was. 😂

It makes me laugh whenever Ash laughs so hard no sound comes out anymore

The way Leslie Nielson does his hands and looks around when the bird flies away is just genius physical humor.

Want to realise how long jAmes Hong has been around? He's the Japanese soldier.

Holy shit I thought Ash was gonna die from laughter during this! 🤣

Dont call me Shirley is a regular quote in our family.

I hope you guys watch Airplane 2 as well! It was absolutely wonderful to see you both enjoy this SO MUCH! What a riot. Well done. Cheers!

What a great reaction! I forgot how weirdly hilarious this movie was. Ash. Love you dude. Put a ring on it already!

Never thought that Airplane would get one of the best reactions on the channel. So glad I watched this!

Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Lesley Nielsen were all very serious leading men. Barbara Billingsley ( Jive Lady ) played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, the epitome of the 50s suburban housewife. This was such shock. We all loved it! To understand how it hit us, imagine Derek Jacoby, Laurence Olivier, or Sean Connery doing this!!!🧓🎭📽️😎

The coffee scene is a parody of an actual coffee commercial from 1958.

When they said the inflator was on the beltline, it was one of the funniest parts of the entire movie

If you two weren't made for each other I don't know who is? Its nice to see a couple who care about each other and can still be silly and not worry about being serious! Reminds me of me and my wife! Much happiness!

That hilarious line (‘No thank you I take it black like my men) kills me 🤣🤣🤣

Love how you two totally vibed with the humor.

I remember my brother and I watching this movie in the theater. Everyone in the theater went berserk; we were all in tears!

The perfect parody of the disaster film genre, and the one that turned actor Leslie Nielson into a comedic actor, who would go on to star in *_The Naked Gun_* trilogy. And *Fun Trivia Fact:* This film is a parody of a 1957 film called *_Zero Hour!,_* parodying its more serious plot of the pilots and passengers becoming ill from the plane food, and one of the passengers - a former war pilot - being relied on to fly and land the plane safely.

Some of this humor, being from 1980, while of contemporaneous pop culture back then, is a bit dated for younger generations today (but still side-splitting). Some explanations: -- Boy's Life was an actual magazine (unlike Nun's Life...) -- The lady who 'spoke jive', Barbara Billingsley, played June Cleaver on the squeaky-clean 50s sitcom 'Leave it to Beaver', often doing household chores or cooking while elegantly dressed in heels and pearls, and would never be expected to know 'jive' (or likely ever encountered a black person on-screen) -- The 'win one for the Zipper' speech was very close to an actual speech from a famous 1940 sports movie 'Knute Rockne: All American', about dying college football star George Gip ('the Gipper'), with the musical theme being the Notre Dame College fight song -- The Amana kitchen appliance corporation's first microwave oven was called the RadarRange Microwave Oven, so when they asked if the flight was within 'radar range', that's why the guy opened the radar display as if opening a microwave -- "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was from a popular Yuban coffee TV ad, with the housewife who buys some other brand besides Yuban at home, wondering why her '1-cup husband' is suddenly having a second cup while eating out (so, the joke being a popular commercial just referenced randomly in the dialog) Finally, not necessarily a dated joke, but for non-American viewers, there really is a famous hospital in Minnesota called the Mayo Clinic. However, they have nothing to do with mayonnaise.... 😎

I saw that shit in the theaters and people were laughing so hard that you could barely hear the dialogue. It's nice to see you guys enjoying the movie and getting it, I've seen other people react to this movie and not really get the humor There's a bunch of stuff that I think people today wouldn't get, like: The people bothering you for donations, the jokes about, "No, the other white phone," or the smoking section ticket, the whole, "Don't start that white zone shit again," the thing where the lady is upset that her husband never wants a second cup at home (it's a reference to a television commercial for Sanka brand coffee,) the lady who can speak jive is the mom from the American television show, "Leave it to Beaver," which makes the fact that she can speak, "jive" hilarious, or the disco sequence in the Calcutta bar being a reference to the movie, "Saturday Night Fever." There's a bunch of stuff like that which doesn't really translate anymore.

No horses (or other animals) were harmed when making this movie. AHA has monitored films since 1939. Also, the stewardess did not cook the fish. She just warmed it up. The meals were made before they even took off.

Mel Brooks rocks!! - Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Robinhood Men in Tights, Princess Bride, History of the World Part 1, I, Frankenstein…

I've seen this film so many times that it doesn't make me laugh like it used to but your reactions had me absolutely pissing myself, thank you! 🤣

Ash, here's a trio of LOL comedies from your beloved late 70's/early 80's period: Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980) & Stripes (1981). There are more... 😄

It's worth noting that everyone in the cast was a serious dramatic actor when they were cast for this film. They tried comedic actors, but none of them were able to let the writing speak for itself. It was Leslie Nielson's first comedy - prior to that, he was "leading man" type of actor, famous for disaster movies, as well as a sci-fi movie called The Forbidden Planet; one of the inspirations for the original Star Trek.

Airplane and Airplane 2, The naked gun 1, 21/2, 3 3/4, Hot Shots 1 and 2, Top Secret, more or less the same crew behind the cameras. Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker (ZAZ) gave us in the 80s and 90s some of the best laughs of our lives. No buundaries, no stupid limitations, they could mock of whatever they wanted. Sad times now, where everythinbg has been ruined by all the stupid limitations of this era we are living in. Your reactions are so funny, as always.

hard to believe we're coming up on this movie's 50th year anniversary. Saw this in High School when it came out. Seen it at least 5 more times since. S-tier IMO.

As an American who spent about 15 years living in Britain I knew you would love this movie!!! The humor is very similar to the stuff I was watching when i was living there in the mid 90's. Loads of crazy stuff on the tele. Like the very first broadcast of Channel 4, loads of cool programs!!! Really enjoyed this!!!

I really love the two of you Ash and Hannah - your videos help brighten my day.

“Now we’re lucky if I’ve shaved..!” Guys. I almost passed away. One of the biggest laughs I’ve had all month.

Your relationship is so vibrant and lovely! You guys are absolutely the best, and would be so fun to chill and watch a movie with. You just spread such boundless energy, enthusiasm, and good cheer! 😃♥️

Im so glad you guys react together, you are perfect for each other and for the audience.

Seriously thought Ash might die laughing in this one. 😄 This reaction was so enjoyable, you two were so much fun.

The look on the “pinch me” dude in the bar, is a punchline in itself. Now let’s take some pictures.

Woefully inadequate amount of Johnny in this reaction. What a legend and one of the best side characters in cinema. That aside, this is one of the funniest films ever! Loved it guys.

Great review, you two! You were hilarious! Your conversations before and during the movie were the best. I liked how Hannah looked at Ash after the "marriage minded" exchange. Best watch of Airplane I can remember!

Thank you for all your hard work and for making me laugh and lifting my spirits ☀️❤️

@Just Trust Ash - actually, flying in the US used to be worth a damn... that could have been economy class,.. in the 79s airlines didnt treat you like cattle.. you had room, got good meals on all long flights, didnt have to pay for every bag you checked in, and it was very common for people to fly wearing suits regardless of class because flying was still considered "high class" transportation. As for the black guys - they were talking "jive" which was to the 70s what ebonics would be today. The old white lady that came up to translate for them was Barbara Billingsley.. she was the mother on the original Leave It To Beaver show in the 50s.. to see her talkiing jive was a total mind blow for people who recognized her.. soooo not what she was known for lol.

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

PLEASE watch "The Naked Gun"! The actor who plays the doctor stars in his own series... with the exact same energy...

Friday, Naked Gun, Raising Arizona and this, some of the greatest comedy movies ever made.

Holy God damn! You guys are brutally honest and funny as hell with each other! It's beautiful!😂

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="741">12:21</a>: I spit out my drink! Truth, baby girl, preach, lol!

If that's all you saw, you're missing a lot of the humor. In LA the Zucker brothers and Abrams (they wrote this movie) had a comedy group called, "Kentucky Fried Theater" where they did comedy sketches that changed every month. From there they did a film titled, "Kentucky Fried Movie." (It's really good especially the skit titled, "A Fist Full Of Yen," a very good take-off on Bruce Lee and "Enter the Dragon.") From this film came "Airplane." After that writing group broke up Pat Priest, who was with the Zuckers, got together with some others to write "Airplane 2" which starred William Shatner. Pat Priest did several other after that: "Top Secret" a take-off on WWII films and "Hot Shots" a take off on more modern hot-shot military pilot movies.

“No, I’ve been nervous lots of times” 😂😂