I saw Leslie Nielsen jogging along Palos Verdes Drive North when I was a kid. I reached over and honked the horn of my mom's car from the passenger seat. He knew he'd been recognized, and pretended to be startled. He stumbled dramatically, then he turned and flashed a big smile at me and waved before jogging on. It was one of the best moments of my life.
+Faith Smith did you watch the movie? its a quote from the movie: "Sir, there's a problem in the cockpit." "The cockpit? What is it?" "It's a little room in the front of the plane, but that's not important right now." -or- "How soon can we land? These people have got to be brought to a hospital." "A hospital? What is it?" "It's a big building with patients, but that's now important now." -or- "You just got a letter from headquarters." "Headquarters? What is it?" "It's a big building with generals, but that's not important right now." get it now? :-)
"LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!" -Best out of character line in Airplane!
RIP Leslie Nielson, Peter Graves, Robert Stack. They all died similarily in age. 84, 84 and 83. Leslie and Peter died within 4 months of each other. They leave a legacy of laughs!
Cana Dude And of course who could forget Peter from the original Mission Impossible? Now finding out if RU-vid's got that classic TV show from late 1960s.
@@scoobycarr5558 they also have the show that Peter Graves' Mission:Impossible co-star's Barbara Baine and Martin Landau starred in "Space:1999" on here as well
I still get sad thinking that Leslie is gone. There are only two people who I sincerely believe are comedy gods. Leslie and Mel Brooks. This is also one of the only movies I can watch over and over. The movie ends and I start it over. I can quote every line and every scene.
My favourite line is not one of the most spoken of: "They could be miles off course" "That's impossible! They have instruments!" Cuts to everyone playing clarinets and trumpets in the cockpit. Cracks me up to this day XD
That is actually my favorite part of the movie. lol Also my other favorite part is. "Should we turn on the runway lights?" "No that is exactly what they would expect us to do."
This is the best joke-per-minute film I've ever seen. Literally every frame is a comedy. Every time you see it, you will recognize something new. They are toying with perception, reality and word play all_the_time.
Some of the best parts were subtle things, such as when the pilots are talking in the cockpit before pushback and a guy outside the plane lifts the hood, checks the oil, cleans the windscreen, etc. And when he's done, Peter Graves hands him a credit card through the window. Absolutely classic.
One of THE great moments of my life was sitting in first class, for the first time, on a plane in Phoenix and having Leslie Nielsen walk in and sit down in the seat in front of me. He was much shorter than I imagined, but looked otherwise just like he does here. I was tempted, but resisted the urge to tap him on the shoulder & say "I just wanted to say good luck, we're all counting on you."
Leslie Nielsen and Peter Graves born in the same year 1926, both passed away same year 2010. Forever united by this classic film, the funniest comedy film of all time without a shadow of a doubt. Rest easy and thanks for the memories.
In my airline, every single time we're starting to request for atc clearence, it's always one guy asking "clearance, Clarence?" and the other guys replying "roger, Roger!". 3000+ pilots same habit.
Don't get me wrong. Airplane is my all-time favourite comedy movie but the "speaking jive" part of the movie was the only part I didn't find funny. I live over the pond in Northern Ireland and I guess the humour didn't travel.
@@adrianbradley8513 Barbara Billingsley was known coast to coast as the wholesome beloved "Mom" of America from her stint as Mother to child star Jerry Mathers "Beaver" on Tv sitcom here in the states in the 1950's called "Leave it to Beaver", a show about a almost perfect lily white suburban proper family in middle America circa 50's. To see her in a iconic twist to fluently know present day urban street lingo was beyond funny. Kinda of like for you if the Queen "Mum" herself did the same role.
I seriously miss old Leslie. God bless my old friend. You made us laugh in the darkest of days. You became family without you even knowing us. No one will ever be Leslie Nielsen.
He had it with him on his 1982 Letterman appearance as well. That's where I first saw it and it was one of his best uses of it. Very nonchalant LOL! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--8DMdfl53g4.html
@@TooBokoo He had it on Pat Sajak show in 1989 too, first time I saw it myself watching it recently, and it led to a rather amusing ending lol. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q7EoHGVLMS4.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PrxhinQ2Yp8.html (it's in two parts)
I worked with a woman named Shirley in the late 90s. The poor ol’ gal had to hear that joke every day. (And I’m guilty of saying it to her a couple times, too.)
Having grown watching all the giants - Jabbar, Graves, Nielsen, Bridges and earliest Stack - this movie was absolutely hilarious and enjoyable. Then Billingsly pops up talking jive - amazing. Pure genius.
"Airplane!" was a remake of the movie "Zero Hour!" Many of the lines were taken directly from "Zero Hour!", except "Zero Hour!" was not a comedy, which makes it hilarious today. I can highly recommend it to all fans of "Airplane!"
KC3141 and don't forget the huge success of the airplane disaster movies of that time was the "airport", "airport 75" "Airport 77" & "airport 79". "Zero Hour" started the whole thing...lol..thank you Arthur Hailey
i was looking for this. airplane took not just "many of lines", it's nearly a verbatim copy of the dialog from zero hour. the magic of airplane happens with the music, facial expressions and the comic timing as they deliver their lines!
When I transferred to material control in a factory my new supervisor asked me if I could drive a forklift. I told him I had driven one about 15 years earlier in a different factory. I told him driving a forklift is just like riding a bicycle, it’s just harder to put baseball cards in the spokes. He didn’t get the reference. I work with too many young kids. Sigh.
Jesse Bucasas and don't forget that plane was a 5 speed manual transmission...The captain is shifting gears as they take off...still makes me bust out laughing
@@lauranolastnamegiven3385 My understanding is the Zucker brothers wanted a prop plane but Michael Eisner, the head of Paramount at the time, insisted it be a jet. So the kept the prop sound effects becase that's what they wanted.
OH FFS I've seen this film over 50 times since it first came out, I seem to get another joke each time as there are so many, everywhere, but my God it is only now that I too got Otto Pilot OMG
Friend of mine, we both flew fir an airline. He was lucky, had Leslie Nielsen as a passenger from Seattle to Los Angeles. Asked Flt attendant if they could chat in LA. Unfortunately, Leslie had a tight connection at Tom Bradley terminal. “Oh well” thought Mark. Guess we won’t get to chat. Gets to gate, shutting down engines, checklists to run, etc. Opens cockpit door as main cabin door is opening into jetway. Leslie Nielsen pokes head into cockpit, apologizes, says he wishes he had more time to stay and chat. Then, just before he goes, “gentlemen, we’re all counting on you!” And dashes off the plane. Perfect exit. Great sense of humor. Class act
As a young projectionist back in the day, I watched Airplane! 10 times in five days. Found something new to howl at during every viewing. My favourite thing was listening to the audience reactions. I often thought about filming their reactions, but I didn't have a Super 8 camera. I'm not even sure home video tape cameras existed then. Imagine the goodies I'd be able to share if I had owned a camera! Once a week I was the usher. When something startling was about to happen in a movie, I would make my way up to the screen, stand in the dark by an exit door and watch them all react. Forty years later, everyone is doing that on RU-vid. A missed opportunity, to be sure.
Is there anybody else out there that has seen the movie about 50 times! And will watch it again to the end while channel surfing?! Back in 1982 I was a young pilot that had just become a flight instructor and was recommending this movie to everybody!
Leslie's brother was the deputy prime minister of Canada, heavy into politics and he is running around with a fart machine, one of the funniest men on the planet , different trajectories in life.
Leslie was by accounts quite intelligent, but not as educated as his brother. Erik Nielsen was not part of any of the Mulroney scandals, although his fairly sensible proposals for dealing with the deficit were largely ignored. Still, being a Cabinet Minister is a pretty big accomplishment.
RIP Neilson and Graves - There scene was so hilarious and epic. Lmao Doctor how so can we land? I can't tell. You can tell me I'm the Doctor. No I mean I'm not sure. Well can't you take a guess? Well, not for another 2 hours. You can't take a guess for another 2 hours? No I mean we can't land for another 2 hours.
I went to see a special showing of this last week, folks, and I'm not exaggerating when I write you that there were numerous explosions of maniacal, hysterical laughter among us all! I was wiping my eyes frequently.
+ecavuto That's great! I went to a showing here in Reno (the little big city where these asshole moviegoers _never_ get uproarious), and there were about three other people in the theater. I'm not a fan of this place.
I remember on the TV Ad (I think), they said it was a joke every 60 seconds. And that sounds about right. Still funny, even now. An interesting thing that I didn't notice for YEARS was that at the VERY end of the credits, when it says something along the lines of "Any similarities to persons living or dead" (etc) there's a blank line and then "So there!" Very funny. (Plus the guy waiting in the taxi cab who says, "I'm waiting just one more minute and THAT'S IT!"
@@JustWasted3HoursHere When I saw the movie for the first time in 1980 and the credits started rolling, people were leaving the theater and I told my husband, "These guys i.e. the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams are so crazy, they'll probably do something with the credits" and sure enough! I've seen it so many times over the past 38 years and it's still funny!
@@lovesmusic36 Yep, and a lot of people think that _Airplane!_ is a spoof of _Airport 77_ and those disaster movies of the 70s (and there IS _some_ of that in there), but actually it is almost a shot-for-shot parody of a movie they bought the rights to before filming called _Zero Hour._ Here's an interesting analysis of that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8-v2BHNBVCs.html
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Yes, that's true. Even the character of Ted Stryker came from Zero Hour. The 1950s was the decade for the typical drive-in theater-type movie. Of course, the "winner" would have to be Plan 9 From Outer Space! Sorry to say that I'm old enough to remember...! But back to Airplane, I think the Zuckers and Jim Abrahams made it for next to no money; between box office revenue and what was then video cassettes, they raked in a fortune!
One of the funniest films ever. As a Brit > thank you USA for this film!... RIP Leslie Nielsen + Peter Graves + Lloyd Bridges. (++) . All legends.. I first saw this as child in 1980-81 at our family friends house, their dad was a British Airways pilot who managed to a get an early Video of the film for all of us to watch .. we all laughed our socks off,, all ages and both families.. Even if aged 8 I didn't understand everything,, it soon grew on me :).... Also this airline pilot had many many pilot friends between UK+USA who all pissed themselves watching it. This humour is universal and will never die... I can watch this film a 1m times along with Naked Gun and still keep watching it..... Even recently - I was doing a work conference call in the UK, one colleague in scotland, one in northern england/midlands and the rest of us in London. Towards the end of the call one of us used a Airplane joke, then for the next the next moment we all started quoting the classic lines. "Surely you can't be serious....". ...'' yes I remember, I had lasagna'''''.....'what a pisser' ,, etc etc , (+tons more) .. and our scottish colleague came out with the best '....looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!"
They have nothing funny to hide anyway...that's why they all have targets on their backs for the next generation of writers and audiences who understand life. The karen videos are a taste of things to come....they are "Airplane" humor in real life.
Bunch of TALL guys... Leslie Nielsen 6' 1" - Robert Hays 6'2" - Peter Graves 6' 4" - Kareem Abdul Jabbar 7'2" Note: Peter Graves' older brother is James Arness (Marshal Matt Dillon - Gunsmoke) and even taller at 6' 7". Lloyd Bridges was the midget' at just 6'0"....
“How about some more coffee Johnny? No thanks!” 🤣🤣🤣 “Johnny what do you make of this? This? Why you can make a hat! Or a brooch! Or a pterodactyl!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pretty much all of Johnny's scenes and lines are what I call "throwaway scenes"; they're not needed to move the plot along. However, every single one of them is pure comedy GOLD! Any scene he was in was better and funnier because of how he played that role. Collectively, I think he's the funniest character in the whole movie.
I've never forgotten the scene in the terminal where there is a Movie poster on the wall behind them for "Rocky XXXII" showing an elderly Stallone with boxing gloves. Prophetic! lol
One of my favourite lines is right at the end. It cuts back to the passenger in Striker's taxi who says.' Well, I'll give him 20 more minutes, but then that's it'
My favorite line was when the ground crew was directing the plane into the terminal and another guy distracted the man by asking where the forklift was and the first guy points with his flashlight, the pilot of the plane thinks he is supposed to direct the plane into the terminal that way the next thing you know the nose of the plane breaks through the terminal window
I so miss the great spoof movies, Leslie Neilson made them the best. His Frank Dreben character had me in stitches all the time as a kid. Loaded Weappn with Samuel Jackson was also funny by as hell.
A lot of people don't know that Airplane was almost a line for line copy of a serious movie from 1957 called "Zero Hour!" Watching them side by side is amazing and hilarious.
Just had that opportunity--to the point where I kept quoting all the Airplane! punchlines missing from Zero Hour. Yes, all fans need to see how many scenes play out verbatim. This film, along with Blazing Saddles and Monty Python formed my sense of humor--the best gift a mom and dad can give!
To think that Leslie Nielsen was the ship captain in Poseidon Adventure, which was a serious role, I'd so different than how most of him know him in Airplane! and Naked Gun.
@Morbo The Annihilator Absolutely... "How he survived, I'll never know" "So....Howie survived?" "Afraid not,...we lost Howie the next day" "Over Macho Grande ?" "No...i don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande....those wounds run........pretty deep"
Lmao I only caught that a few years after I first saw it. The T.V version had cut it out. After seeing it a few times on TV I finally rented it. A big difference. That belongs in the " things that wouldn't fly today" file.
My mom sat beside Leslie Nielson on a flight, a long time ago. Being my mom, all she could say to him was that she knew he was an actor, but didn't know his name. He took it all in stride. And of course, my mother's name, Shirley.
Flew for a major airline for 22 years, and bought and gave away six fart machines that I found in a toy store. As a flight attendant, I worked coach and first class often. Can't begin to tell you the hilarious pranks we pulled on passengers and cockpit crews. Best purchase ever, and best gift to give airline crews as well. Just way too much fun and laughs, no matter the age!😅
It wasn't strictly a "line", but I still want to scream with laughter every time I watch Robert Stack pummel his way through that never-ending line of airport panhandlers. He acted out a dark fantasy that I believe many of us covertly harbor. And there was just a hint of the Duke's style when the melee was concluded and Stack went on his way - appropriately so, given Stack's role in "The High and the Mighty" (a VERY early disaster-drama, and one of John Wayne's favorite peacetime-non-Western roles).
Leslie Nielsen never did comedy until late in life. He was a serious stage and screen actor for many years, also famous for his key role in the classic 50s Sci-Fi movie, "Forbidden Planet." The same is basically true for Stack and Graves. That's what helps make this movie so funny. For those of us who knew these actors, seeing them doing deadpan humor tortured our funny bones!
The genius thing about the movie is that while it is a rapid-fire comedy with non-stop jokes and gags, it still has some genuine drama, suspense, and high stakes. That's why the subversions work best.
