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“I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley” is one of the ultimate classic lines in cinema. The doctor is played by Leslie Nielsen. Incredible comedy actor. If you’ve not seen the Naked Gun films, you’ve definitely got to check them out

People always say 'you couldnt make this now.' But like Mel Brooks said about Blazing Saddles, "You couldnt make it back then either."

"No... that's just what they'll be expecting us to do" is the best line of the entire film, it kills me every time

"A grown man naked" "Hang around a gymnasium" "In prision" "Movies about gladiators" Because COCKPIT.

The guy who opens the microwave at 24:28 is played by Johnathan Banks, aka Mike from Breaking Bad/BCS, he looks so young in this!

"Top Secret" is another classic by the Zucker Brothers, don't miss it.

The pilot is Peter Graves who played Jim Phelps - the team leader in the original Mission Impossible tv series. At the end of his life during an interview Graves expressed that he thought he'd always be remembered for the "This message will self-destruct in five seconds" line, but instead most people would approach him, particularly in airports, and ask if "he liked Gladiator movies" xD

"They're acting like they know they're in a movie." Then he looks right at the camera and says "What a pisser". ha ha ha ha

10:08 the most underrated joke of the whole movie i think. he literally gives every detail about their plan of attack but when she simply asks when he'll be back he says it's "classified" lol kills me every time.

The PA announcers from the start of the film are an actual married couple who did the announcements at LA International

The look on the boy’s face when the girl says she takes her coffee black… like her men. Oh, it just destroys me every time.

Everyone is commenting on their favourite gag, so I'll mention mine as well. For some reason I always crack up whenever Robert Stack's character dramatically removes his shades, but he's wearing another pair underneath. I absolutely love it.

If you go back and check, every time there is an exterior shot of the plane (a jet) flying, the sound effect is from a propeller driven plane. A very subtle gag.

"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" was from a commercial.

The whole George Zipp/"win one for the Zipper" thing is a direct reference to the movie "Knute Rockne, All American," in which a Notre Dame football player named George Gipp ("the Gipper," played by Ronald Reagan) dies on a hospital bed and gives the same speech to his coach that the Doctor gives to Ted. That's also the Notre Dame fight song being played during that scene.

There are so many subtle jokes in this movie it's crazy. You can watch it 20 times and still pick up new things. One of the greatest comedies ever.

Part of the humor of this movie is that actors like Leslie Nielson started as drama actors in disaster movies. So this whole movie is filmed like a drawn out airplane disaster film, with actors you would expect to see in such a movie, and then all they do is make wise-cracks the entire time. This movie ended up relaunching Leslie's career from a somewhat unknown drama actor to a top-tier comedy actor.

I am sure you are going to hear this a LOT but now you need to watch "The Naked Gun" it stars Leslie Nielson, he is fantastic in it.

“How soon can you land?” “I can’t tell” “You can tell me I’m a doctor” “I mean I’m just not sure” “Well can’t you take a guess?” “Not for another 2 hours” “You can’t take a guess for 2 hours?” Genuinely genius. My favourite conversation in any movie I think aha.

Hi Brandon! In the '70's, back in the day when we had bicycles with banana seats and high-rise handlebars, we used to use a clothes pin to attach a baseball card (or a playing card) to the fork, so that it stuck inbetween the spokes of the wheel. When we rode it, the card would vibrate and sound like a motorcycle.

"Jim never has a 2nd cup at home" was a line from a coffee commercial at the time. The woman who could jive talk was Barbra Billingsley who had played the perfect suburban Mom/housewife on the TV show Leave It To Beaver which ran from 1957 - 1963. Most of the older actors in the film were well known for quite serious earlier career roles. At the time the contrast to their earlier images played into the humor of the film. This film is a parody of the 1957 disaster film "Zero Hour" using the same plot line and characters. You need to follow up with the Naked Gun series for more humor like this. Carry On!!

Leslie Nielsen, extremely dryly: "This... is how I would deliver... my line... in a drama." Equally dry: "And this... is how I would deliver... my line... in a comedy."

The internal monologue of the woman thinking about her husband getting another cup of coffee is parodying a coffee commercial from around the same time (you hear the same internal monologue in the ad). As for the lead guy pouring drinks on his face, early on he mentions he has a "drinking problem" -- the problem being he can't get them into his mouth.

"And now we have a kid in the cockpit, I have a feeling something bad is going to happen" - Well you weren't wrong XD

The little girl “coffee” moment is one of if not my favorite joke delivery of all time. She killed it.

He keeps spilling drink on his face because he has a problem drinking or a "drinking problem". Another beautiful pun

For the very first time I noticed a woman throwing her baby up in the air when the plane smashes through the glass in the beginning. I have been watching this movie since I was a child in the 1980s. There is proof that you will watch this movie MANY more times and still notice new things. There are even jokes worked into the end credits of the movies made by these guys.

The two ground crew guys who accidentally directed the plane into the airport were Jerry and David Zucker, the movies creators. There was an interesting featurette with the two Jive Guys talking about how they developed their part, taking a simple speaking style and turning it into a full language. Even more fun was that while they were explaining that there was a scroll below them translating their perfect English into Jive

My favourite line is “let’s get some pictures” *steals the pictures*

That Pilot has some serious Uncle Jack vibes going on.

Don’t forget “Airplane II: The Sequel” which has the same humour. It has a lot of the original cast and includes William Shatner as the moon base commander.

32:31 And credit to you, Brandon! You found the post-credit scene and laughed hysterically at every gag! Others will no doubt fill you in on the jokes that haven't stood the test of time. But overall, I think this is the best reaction to Airplane I've seen! 🥳

The couple arguing over the PA were in fact a real life couple, who were responsible for the PA announcements at LAX.

My favourite gag from this movie is the ongoing bit that our main character is so boring that everyone who sits next to him commits suicide. It's so dark. But so hilarious.

All these great legendary dramatic actors in this movie...Robert Stack, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves; making one of the most iconic and hilarious comedies of all time.

24:33 In the old days Microwave ovens were nicknamed "Radar ranges" the first models were built by Raytheon in 1950's (Who to this day make radar)

No matter how many times I see this, I always almost die laughing. Even just the cut to Leslie Nielsen with his stethoscope round his head "that's right" has me creasing every time

The guy who checked the turkey in the microwave was Mike from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

12:22 - That is a reference to an old coffee commercial from the 70s. It's one of the few "dated" jokes that, unless you're old enough to remember (or for some reason you have an afinity for vintage coffee commercials) you wouldn't know it right away. 21:03 - Yes, PLEASE! Anything by the "ZAZ" directors is this kind of funny. Personal favorites are this movie, Top Secret, The Naked Gun, and Hot Shots.

Do you notice, every time you see the jet, there are propeller sounds, so funny! Jimmy's my favorite character!

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit watching movie reactions...

It took me a while to get the "drinking problem joke" as much as "in your face" as it is.

"Kentucky Fried Movie" is by the Zucker Bros. as well from this same era, and contains much of the same style of humor, in a series of vignettes mostly mocking pop culture, TV, and movies. You should cover that one, if you like this :)

The dialog at 12:17 was making fun of a coffee commercial that was on TV at the time. All of the older actors in this movie were famous when I was growing up in the 60s. Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack were serious dramatic actors who usually played solid characters like detectives or spies or western heroes. Seeing them in this movie after growing up watching them was a real treat.

The woman speaking jive was the actress that played June Cleaver, the ultimate housewife & mom. That’s great casting. She’s the last person you’d expect to translate for them. A testament to the brilliance of the filmmakers.

Sadly II don't think the captain was asking random questions. He seemed to have a clear plan...

Capt. Over was played by Peter Graves, who was younger brother of James Arness. And starred in the T.V. series "Mission Impossible". The Doctor was played by Leslie Neilson, who up till this time was a serious actor best known for starring in the sci fi classic "Forbidden Planet"

Yay!! You reacted to the post-credits taxi joke!! Everyone tends to skip/miss that one…I saw this movie in the theater when it originally came out, I was 8-years old…though I was too young to understand the more ‘adult’ jokes, me and everyone else in the theater were laughing til our sides ached. This movie was a hit from day one.

RIP Leslie Neilson, one of the funniest men to ever grace the screen. Lloyd Bridges was a king of comedy too.

Films exactly like this. Airplane 2, Naked Gun 1,2,& 3 (Featuring the Doctor from Airplane), Top Secret (Featuring Val Kilmer). All hilarious.

When capt over was next to the magazine rack, one rack was labeled "reading material" the next rack with playboy and penthouse was labeled "whacking material"

The older lady who spoke jive is Barbara Billingsley, who played Beaver's mom in Leave it to Beaver. Literally the last person you would think would speak jive.

I was almost 13 years old when this hit theaters, seeing this in a full theater and seeing people actually falling out of their seats from laughter is something I will never forget. Please check out Top Secret! which came out 3 years later from the same writer/directors and is Val Kilmer’s debut. I think it’s even funnier than this one.😂👍

What really makes this film so brilliant and funny is the fact that the cast played it totally straight in their performances. Everyone is acting like they are in a drama and not a comedy!!!!

I watched this at a tech school when I was away from home for the 1st time for such a long time (a month then) and it was SUCH a pick me upper- I was very homesick. I got a DVD set with 20 movies on it for Christmas and Airplane! was one of them. I watched it the night after Christmas. :) One of my top 10 favorite comedies- 10/10. :)

In the song for the sick girl, the flight attendant singing about the River Jordan. The River Jordan is a reference to death. So she's singing about death to a sick kid.

I remember watching this as a kid back in the 80's and finding the original main pilot guy with the weird questions especially funny since he was the same actor who starred in the "Mission: Impossible" TV show and it was a really different role. Also, the guy in the control tower who keeps bemoaning that he picked the wrong week to quit his vices is the legendary Lloyd Bridges, Beau and Jeff Bridges' real life dad.

‘It’s a different kind of flying, altogether!’ (simultaneously) ‘…it’s a different kind of flying.’

I truly envy Brandon watching all of these incredible movies/shows for the first time. Watching him react and enjoy them makes me feel like I’m watching again for the first time. Love it!

"We have clearance, Clarence", 'Roger, Roger. Whats our vector, Victor?'

The bar scene is a parody of Saturday Night Fever, where Stayin' Alive by the BeeGees first appeared. The Beach scene, a parody of From Here to Eternity. The second cup of coffee internal dialogue was a commercial in the 70's. Win one for the zipper is a parody from the Knute Rockne story. You missed Jonathan Banks (Mike in Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) in the control tower. He's the guy who said "what an asshole". Do the Naked Gun movies, Top Secret, and Hot Shots

Leslie Nielson's first comedy movie if im not mistaken. He was a drama actor and they wanted him to act the same was as in a drama. Leslie Nielson just sitting there with a stethoscope always cracks me up

Any movie with Leslie Nielsen from the 80s and forward is a must. This movie had som big name stars for it's time. Most of them known for doing serious stuff, which makes it even more funny since no one expected them to be this funny. Like Rex Kramer (Robert Stack), the pilot on the ground helping them was the host of unsolved mysteries at the time.

The "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" line is a play on an old Folgers commercial. Such an amazing film with several stars known for more serious roles doing comedy.

I love that the plane is clearly a jet, but the sound it makes is a propeller one 🤣

My dad loved this movie and we'd often quote it. This movie is a great way for me to remember him with.

There are more movies like this but this is the one that got the genre started.

Hey Brandon loved the reaction as always! Two things I wanted to point out … First off, you mentioned wanting to watch other movies by the guys that wrote this. One of my favorite movies of all time is called Ruthless People. It stars Danny DeVito and Bette Midler and it’s written by the same guys. Highly recommend!! Second, the radar guy in the brown leather jacket is played by a very young Johnathan Banks!! I know you’re a huge Mike from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, so I thought you’d appreciate that.

Well, it looks like you've found the gateway drug to the Zucker Brothers. They had immense box-office success with this one and with "The Naked Gun", but in my opinion their absolute craziest, silliest and most underrated film is "Top Secret" which (fun fact) was the big-screen debut of Val Kilmer.

Fun Fact: the radio guy that says, "WE GOT ABOUT 2 MINUTES, CHIEF!" is Mike the hitman from BREAKING BAD!

'The Captain is full of random questions. Seems like he's the most normal one.' Uhhhhhhh...who wants to tell Brandon those questions aren't random, and that kiddie diddling isn't normal?

"I wish there were more movies like this" The Naked Gun trilogy, Top Secret, Hot Shots, all the Mel Gibson movies.... there are, my man, there are...

You need to watch Top Secret. It was their next film. I think it's even better. It stars Val Kilmer in his first film role.

I didn't understand "Air Israel" as a kid... Now, it always kills me!!!

the humour NEVER stops in this movie....you should watch the end credits you'd be amazed at how many written gags they pack into them!

This is a fantastic, entertaining reaction! You really appreciated the whole approach of the humor.

@26:07 "This dude has the absolute worst hand-eye coordination ever" That's Ted's drinking problem. He has a problem drinking. For the longest time i also didn't quite understand the joke until it just dawned on me.

Holy mackrel, does this mean Brandon has NOT seen the Police Squad/ Naked Gu movies? Welp. he wanted more in this style... guess we know where this is headed

The naked gun films are a must watch series of films for this style of comedy, I personally think they are even funnier than airplane, and airplane is hilarious.

You're the ONLY reactor to this movie I've seen who sat through the credits to see the final shot of the guy in the taxi! (The credits themselves also bear examination!)

Puns are so beloved in my family, my dad and I quote the Vector Victor scene all the time. 😂

If you liked Airplane, you need to watch Top Secret!! It's the best in the genre lol

The four supporting actors... the captain Peter Graves), the doctor (Leslie Nielsen), the flight director (Lloyd Bridges), and the military pilot (Robert Stack) were all only known for really serious roles before this movie. So it was extra funny at the time just to see them juxtaposed against all the rest of the madness going on around them.

One of only two films ever to leave my face sore the next days from smiles and laughter. The other was "The Gods must be crazy".

If you want more movies with this sort of humor you need to watch “Top Secret!” with Val Kilmer.

I don’t know what you were thinking Brandon, but this is an entirely different kind of movie, all together.

Great reaction! Yep, this film has a number of classic lines. Kudos to you for being one of the few reactors I’ve seen that got the Mayo Clinic gag! Also, Capt Oveur was played by Peter Graves. Although appearing in many films and tv shows, he’s probably best remembered for playing Jim Phelps in the OG (1967-73) and reboot (1988-90) of tv’s Mission Impossible. Keep up the good work!

for some context, the actress barbara billingsley (who plays the lady that speaks jive) also played june cleaver in leave it to beaver during the late 50s and early 60s. she was basically america's proxy tv mother. that she played (and was remembered as) basically the whitest woman in america added so much to the comedy genius of that scene. years later, she gave an interview and in it she revealed that she received more fan mail over the jive talk scene than for any of her other work in her illustrious career. it was a small and simple role and scene, but a tribute to how comedy can bring people together even over a touchy subject.

The entire dance sequences a parody of Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta. The beach scene is a parody of famous scene in the movie From Here to Eternity. The Jive lady was Barbara Billingsley, America's mom from the wildly popular Leave it to Beaver Show. She had a very staid but warm screen image. The Gorge zip scene was a reference to a Ronald Reagan movie I've never seen where he was called The Gipper.

Leslie Nielsen and Robert stack are legends. Robert stack on unsolved mysteries is nostalgic overload.

Striker's "drinking problem" is an absolutely fantastic sight gag/play on words!

The propeller sound effects throughout whenever the planes on screen Waaaaaah looooool love it

More like this that haven't been suggested yet: The best possible follow up = UHF starring Weird Al Hot Shots Hot Shots: Part Deux Spy Hard Monty Python films Mel Brooks Films

I was hoping you would get to this. I guess we will see your reaction to Naked Gun soon?

I just want to tell you Brandon, good luck! We're all counting on you.

Kudos to you for including the final joke of the movie!!! Lots of reactors miss that! (Great edit of the movie, thanks!)

That running "that's not important right now" joke is the best

The very best moment is when they show an exterior shot of the jet airliner and accompany it with propeller aircraft audio.

He misses his mouth because he has a "drinking problem", he mentioned that when he was doing the missionary scene.

The actor that picked the wrong week to quit everything is Lloyd Bridges. Jeff Bridges’ father! Not sure if you caught it, Ted kept missing his mouth while drinking - he has a drinking problem!