“Captain, maybe we ought to turn on the search lights now” “No. That’s just what they’ll be expecting us to do.” Lol I loving using that line whenever someone suggests I be considerate
exactly🙅🏼Dont let them know what to expect. Next time elect al sharpton as president. Back when this movie was made sharpton was in jail. Then obama let him out. Thats just what they expected.😎
@@JimAllen-PersonaOh my god please look around you. You are trapped in an amber stone. People have always gotten offended over stupid stuff, people will always get offended over stupid stuff. Don't role play like you're in some apocalyptic wasteland of humor you absolute crybaby.
That’s because he was a super serious B movie actor... reading a super serious B movie script (Zero Hour) with just a few things changed to make it ridiculous.
Yes, he was-- Robert Stack was Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (Stack did this when he was only in his 40s [he took the Ness role having turned 40 on 1/13/59, born 1/13/19]).
For years afterward, whenever Leslie Nielsen would take a flight, he would pop into the cockpit and say I just wanted to wish you both good luck, we are all counting on you, and walk out. True story
@NHMO OYTIS I did as a kid. What he is offering is different to the basic crane or penguin origami. His creature will flap and squawk. I'll bet his newspaper brooch will sparkle as well.🤩😊
FunkYeah believe me I’m not politically correct myself in any way 😄. I’m just pointing it out and in mourning now about the contemporary PC ban-hammer 😢
4:48 Jonathan Banks, aka Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, delivering one of the most underrated quotes from this movie full of classic one-liners.
I've watched this movie so many times, but only recently noticed the guy in the back grabbing his laundry from a dryer in the control tower scene. That's why the zucker films are so great: There are so many gags, you'll always miss one.
The one gag that got me the first time was the deploying of the emergency vehicles. The ambulances and fire equipment was de rigeur, but the Sparkletts truck, cement mixer, road grader, Budweiser truck, ice cream truck and delivery van had me on the floor, I laughed so hard. And what made it funnier was the others who were along with me to see it couldn't figure out why I was laughing so hard. Believe me, it is hard to explain.
This movie legitimately made my parents roll on the ground laughing when I was younger. As an adult it has come full circle. Now my son looks at me with confusion... You will understand someday my boy.
My parents watched this with my bro and myself and I always thought it was the worst movie ever made until I watched it as an adult... What a classic!! Amazing how none of it makes any sense to a kid
@@cantcomeupwithausern even as an adult, it doesn't make any sense. ha ha. this is pure entertainment, just turn off your brain and strap yourself for the ride
Yes, as an old fart i remember watching Peter Graves star in Mission Impossible and Robert Stack star in The Untouchables. Lloyd Bridges stared in Sea Hunt, I but I only watched a couple of those.
Peter Graves went to the premiere and didn't think it was funny. Until he had seen his wife cracking up he asked her what was so funny and she told him you don't realize is that you and the other actors are the joke..
I think this is an old formula in comedies. I remember seeing an interview when Don Adams said that the way he create Maxwell Smart was a serious agent that nobody told him he was in a comdy series
This will forever be my favorite comedy film. I can't think of any other film with a higher jokes per second ratio. It's like it was made for people with short attention spans like me.
Well there really is such a thing as being too low. Aircraft typically approach the runway on a 3-degree angle to the runway, called the "glide slope". If they are below that, they could touch down short of the runway.
I love that in a clip so full of jokes, you comment on one of the few lines that isn't a joke. It's like your brain was primed to find something funny in every single line
Lloyd Bridges of Seinfeld Izzy Mandelbaum fame and father to The Dude in the Big Lebowski. Was also a great actor in his own right in the 50’s and 60’s.
0:49 The Budweiser truck being an emergency vehicle is a good joke. But if I'd just landed a plane as a passenger I would gladly accept any truckload of alcohol to calm my nerves.
@@societygamer1894 It's a 1960 Cadillac ambulance. They didn't start using vans until the 1970s. The Ghostbusters' car, a '59 Cadillac, is another example of a hearse-style ambulance.
Best line in the whole movie at 2:46 when talking about turning on the runway lights.....Robert Stack "No......that's just what they'll be expecting us to do" with an evil voice. Just pure ridiculousness considering they're the ones trying to help them land the plane.
well, Striker and Kramer never really cared for one another both during the war and on board the TA flight. Perhaps that was revenge for his comment about hating his guts....Thanks to Elaine relaying that message to Kramer. hahahahah
Robert Stack voice get me every time... he’s so serious and the movie is so hilarious, when he’s giving instructions to the pilot and the lady is touching him so passionately and he’s look at her like: “what the heck?” I laugh so hard 🤣😂
One of the great running gags in this is the sound of propellers playing over the shots of the outside of the airliner. Ridiculous considering it's a jet! :D
this was the first movie to ever make me laugh out loud, rolling on the floor, as a kid. Loved it. The sketchy parts totally flew over my head, as a child. As an adult, I got to appreciate the movie in a whole new way lol.
Robert stack, Leslie Nielsen, and Peter Graves in the same movie. Only one word masterpiece! They are all my favorite actors of that generation and to see them all in the same movie just makes my heart warm. Mission impossible is also another great with Peter Graves and Leslie Nielsen
Hi. How are you? Comparing an imperfect landing in a much adult, disaster film “Airplane!” to a disaster in only a much family-friendly film “The Wizard of Oz”. That’s one thing that I may/can say is impressive enough in this video.
I'm 58 yrs old and to this day this is the funniest move I've ever seen in my life. The sequel to this was ok but doesn't hold a candle to the original. Leslie Nielsen was pure genius with his expressions, his lines and mannerisms. Every time I watch this I crack up and I've literally seen it thousands of times
I've read many comments but no one mentioned Otto. The scene where he was feeling up Julie Haggerty I think her name was. Otto even though he wasn't human was HILARIOUS!!!!!
If you've got the DVD, I suggest listening to the commentary track. They originally meant to have a prop plane like the original movie, but the studio wanted them to use a jet. So they turned it into a gag by having the jet sound like a prop. A little bit like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where they couldn't afford horses, so they used the coconuts which became part of the lore.
"How soon can you land this plane?" "Well, I don't know." "Can you take a guess?" "Well, not for at least another two hours." "You can't take a guess for at least another two hours?"
@@rivotrich7 Ah yes, that was the late Stephen Stucker (aka "Johnny"). He was in both "Airplane!" movies. It's a DAMN CRYING SHAME his life was cut short by AIDS in April 1986 (he was only 38). ;-(
Wow... that was so awesome, i guess the whole cinema room was field with laughter's and nothing but laughter's from start to finish... What a wonderful experienced. I can imagine the atmosphere full of good laughs.
I know, it was like the whole theater was laughing continuously. Contrast that with the movie Platoon. Everyone coming out of the theater as if they'd just attended a funeral. ...Except for Leslie Nielsen in one of the Naked Gun movies (I think it was), LOL.
Just seeing Stack and Bridges pretty much pioneer dramatic actors' leap into farcical comedy was amazing at the time and still funny as hell today. Peter Graves, too. And Stephen Stucker left us way too soon. RIP, gentlemen.
Also, I was so amused by the duck that I'm not sure if this is the first time I noticed the stupidity of lifejackets when you're over land. :-) In real-life, a friend of mine had to calm a fellow passenger who panicked over not having a lifejacket, by pointing out that none of the trip was over water..
JesusChrist This is one of the only gags I don't "get". Is it supposed to be a reference back to a recurring phrase on the Tv show "The Untouchables" that Stack starred in?
They usually say "No, thats just what they'd be expecting us to do" in movies when there are villians or enemies or what you would call them. But in this scene it's a dead serious situation where they could potentially save 100+ lives and he just says "No they expect us to save them in this way" kinda.. Also I realized your comment is 10 months old.
@@midinerd Hey chief, I might be wrong, but I think we're flying into a mountain! This makes me feel scared of the mountain! One thing we could do is pull up and fly over the mountain. How does that sound to-
I remember seeing this when it came out and not wanting them to land, because it was so funny I had tears in my eyes and didn't want the film to end! And I love how the brought in so many veteran actors who were known for serious roles before like Leslie Nielsen, Pete Graves, Ken Toby (The Thing), and so very many TV actors in that plane and in the control tower. Almost everybody in this film is recognizable from something else. Genius.
What makes this movie work is that they were previously all serious drama actors who never did comedy in their life. If you put a cast of real comedians in here, even with the same lines, I really don't think the movie would have the same impact. It's the serious tone and deadpan delivery of hilarious lines by serious actors that makes this movie such a classic.
Life jacket to duck in one second. Absolutely hilarious!!! How did she keep a straight face!!!????? The whole film is rib bustingly funny. Comedy genius.
Probably seen this movie 25 times, but just caught the call letters of the Chicago disco radio station: WZAZ Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker This movie is brilliant on so many levels...
@@denisemayosky1955 This was 1980, they were spoofing the end of disco which in real life people hated by that time. As I understand it, that scene got a lot of cheers in the theaters when the movie was new.
