#153 - "Airplane!" (1980) with Nicholas Pepin

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Even during the lively era of
the Marx Brothers films at

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Paramount Pictures featuring
Valvillian chaos like Horse

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Feathers and Duck Soup or Mel
Brooks parody such as Blazing

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Saddles and Young Frankenstein,
audience had never experienced

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the overwhelming number of jokes
like the ones in this 80s flick.

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These gags are so non-stop that
the weaker ones don't even have

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time to linger.
The film is packed with puns,

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pratfalls, provocations,
interplay, A foreground and

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background double entendres,
references to movies, TV shows

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and even commercials along with
random acts of silliness and

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absurdity including mini dad
jokes.

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So be sure to park in the red or
white zone and purchase your

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smoking ticket, but don't eat
the in flight fish meal as

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Nicholas Pepin and I discuss
Airplane from 1980 on this

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episode of the 80s Flick
Flashback Podcast.

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Welcoming everybody I'm Tim
Williams.

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I am the host of the 80s Foot
Flashback podcast.

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Looks like I picked the wrong
week to stop podcasting.

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Today.
We're trying to land this plane

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safely while discussing the
1980s masterpiece airplane.

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To help me keep us from
crashing, I've brought an

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expert.
He's inflated the autopilot, he

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knows what the red zone is for,
and he definitely had the

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lasagna.
Making his return to the show

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first time in 2026.
It's Nicholas Pepin from Pop

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Culture Roulette.
How you doing Nicholas?

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Oh man, I I I did look at the
fish for a brief second.

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But you thought about it.
I thought about it but.

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Yeah, I don't think I'd ever eat
fish on a plane anyway.

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Like that would never be my
first choice.

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I'm, you know, I mean, obviously
being that I was born in 78, so

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I've been around for a while.
I don't remember the last time

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except for when I flew to
Germany.

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Yeah, yeah.
So there has to be a long flight

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nowadays, yeah?
I I, I don't even remember the

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last time I was offered anything
other than a sealed bag of,

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like, trail mix or, you know,
yeah.

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Of biscotti, Yeah.
There you go.

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Yeah, the little cookie and and
like half a can of whatever soda

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like they never give you the
whole can.

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You only get the half can so.
Yeah, so like, you know, the the

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idea of meal service on a plane
anymore, it just is like like

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mind boggling.
Yeah, I think like when I was

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younger and did like a longer
flight from like Atlanta to

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Texas or I know one time I flew
from Texas, I'm sorry, I flew

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from Atlanta to Las Vegas and
then Las Vegas to Seattle for a

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friend's wedding.
But I don't even think we had a

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meal on that flight.
But yeah, yeah, the last flight

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I had, the last flight I had
with Neil was when I went to on

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the Israel trip a couple of
years ago.

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And but that's like, it's going
to be like a cultural, like it

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was still like Middle Eastern
food.

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It wasn't even like what we
would normally get in the United

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States.
So it was interesting to say at

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least it was fine.
We're off topic already.

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Happy new year, everybody.
It's our first episode of 2026.

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It's a new season.
And look, 2025 was a year.

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Good or bad?
A little bit of both.

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And when I was planning this
year, I said, you know what, I

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want to start the year off with
some funny movies, like ones

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that have been on the list that
I can't believe I haven't

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covered yet.
And so we're kicking off with

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Airplane.
We're going to do Naked Gun in a

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couple weeks, and then we're
going to finish off January with

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Police Academy.
So if you will enjoy 80s

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comedies, this is the month for
you to be a big fan of the show.

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So we're starting with the one
that kind of started them all in

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the sense of parody movies, even
though Police Academy is not

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quite a parody.
But we don't care.

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I make the rules.
So we're going to talk about

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Airplane from 1980.
So you know how we start the

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show.
Nicholas, when did you see

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Airplane for the very first
time?

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Way too young.
Yeah, yes.

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It was, I saw it on, you know,
HBO or, or something like one of

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my friends had like, you know, I
saw it over at a friend's house

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for like a sleepover.
And I saw, you know, I was

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definitely, I definitely saw the
unedited version first and we'll

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get there later.
Right, right.

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But yeah, no, I I will say I saw
it at an age where most of the

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jokes went right over my head.
Yeah.

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But there was there was enough
just stupid humor and slapstick

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humor and and silliness that
like I enjoyed it.

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So later on in life, when I saw
it, I was like, well, First off,

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I can't believe that that that
you know, my friend's parents

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would that you know, that bad.
It can't be that bad, right?

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Yeah, that bad at their job to
let us watch this.

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But secondly, like there's no
way I understood a lot of these.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Even rewatching it today, it's

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like, like I was like, oh, I, I
completely forgot about that.

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That that's even, you know, it
was even a joke in this movie.

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But you know, I said stuff went
over our heads for sure.

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But yeah, yeah, same for me.
Like I saw it was definitely on

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HBOA lot, Airplane One and
Airplane 2.

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And sometimes I get the two of
them kind of blended together

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because then they just played
them so often because they came

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out pretty close to each other.
But it was PG so that it was on

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like during the day and
sometimes multiple times during

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the day.
So yeah, I, I saw this

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definitely as, as a kid and like
I said, much too young.

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I'm sure I, I, I like have a
memory of like my dad being in

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the room or like a Saturday and
it being on and me and my sister

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watching it.
And I'm sure he kind of like

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moved in his chair a little bit
uncomfortably.

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But he was like, maybe they
don't realize what's, you know,

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what's happening.
So I mean, it wasn't something,

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you know, it's the double
entendre stuff.

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Like it's not that explicit, but
you know, besides the full

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frontal nudity for the for like
5 seconds that I'm sure he

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probably had a cow about, but it
just lets it's it, but it's

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quick, it happens and you're and
you're moving on.

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So like just it's like don't
bring attention to it and he'll

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forget about it in 20 seconds.
And I'm sure I did.

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So how long has it been since
you rewatched it before we

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watching it for the podcast?
It's been too long.

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I watched it again over the
weekend and I was like, man, I,

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I mean, I've seen it a bunch and
like, I know I've seen it, you

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know, more than once.
In fact, I'm pretty sure, I'm

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pretty sure I bought it on DVDI
can't quite see my collection

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from here, but it's one of those
movies that there's no way I

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didn't go.
You know what, I should have

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this.
And I saw it like a $5 bin.

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Yeah, I've seen it more than
enough to.

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Like there was nothing that
really caught me off guard.

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There were a couple things and I
was like, I don't quite remember

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that.
Or maybe there's just, you know,

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you know, landing just a little
different in today's day and

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age.
Yeah.

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Oh yeah.
Yeah.

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But so I mean if anything
there's a few jokes that went

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over my head now because like I
don't remember or didn't even

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know the reference then.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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There's definitely a couple of
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Like I'm sure it had meaning
then, but you know, hey, I was

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too young then to know what it
meant.

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And now I'm too far removed from
what was popular at the time to

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know that was what they were
referencing.

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Or you know, a joke was reserve
referencing or whatever.

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So Oh yeah, I remember.
Yeah, the same.

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I I have I have a digital copy.
I don't have the actual Blu-ray

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or DVD of this one.
I'm sure I had the VHS for it or

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if not, I had it recorded off a
cable on avhs with other

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comedies.
Do I bought it on a digital.

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It was in a combo pack, digital
combo pack a couple of years

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ago, like, you know, laugh out
loud comedies or whatever on

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Voodoo, which is now Fandango at
home.

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If you want to be a sponsor, let
me know.

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And I remember watching it maybe
like a year and a half ago or

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it's been within the last two
years.

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And then I found airplane to
storm one of the streamers and

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definitely prefer the first one
over the second one.

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And so we'll just we'll focus on
this one.

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But yeah, so it's been a while
for me as well.

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So it's a new year.
We're going to try a new segment

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here.
We're going to play a little

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trivia quiz about the pre
production and how this movie

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was made.
So I'm going to ask Nicholas

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five true or false questions.
And of course, those of you

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listening or watching him play
along, see what you may or may

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not know about how this movie
was made.

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So Are you ready, Nicholas?
Let's do this.

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All right, statement number one,
true or false.

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The script for airplane was an
original idea that the riders

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came up with while eating bad
fish on a flight.

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True or false?
False.

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You are correct, the movie is
actually almost a scene for

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scene remake of a serious 1957
black and white disaster movie

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called 0 Hour with the
exclamation point just like

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Airplane has.
Airplane has the exclamation

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point in its title.
The Riders, Zucker, Abrams and

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Zucker, also known as Zaz.
I'll watch the original film and

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realize the dialogue.
Dialogue was so melodramatic,

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they didn't even need to change
much of it to make it funny.

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So yes, there are there are
actual segments of this movie

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that is actual dialogue from
these movies. 0 hour that just

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comes across as being
ridiculously funny because it's

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so overly dramatic.
So, all right, so he's got one

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right.
Next one.

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The role of the copilot Rodger
Murdoch was originally written

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for baseball legend Pete Rose.
True or false?

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I know it wasn't written for
cream Aldoja bar true, yes.

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That is correct.
But yes, the director originally

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wanted Pete Rose to play the
role when he had to decline

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because he was busy playing
baseball during the summer

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shoot, they cast Kareem Abdul
Jabbar instead.

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This makes the joke about him
being Kareem even funnier since

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he is clearly a basketball
player in a pilot's uniform.

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And also one of my favorite
scenes when they're pulling him

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out of the cockpit and he's got
his goggles on and it's like

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he's still got the pilot shirt,
but then he's got his uniform,

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shorts and tennis shoes on,
which I thought was hilarious.

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Oh yeah.
So, yeah, they actually wrote it

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for Pete Rose, but he couldn't
do it.

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So would have been a different,
different take for sure.

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All right, all right.
Nicholas is 2 for two.

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Here we go #3 The two passengers
who speak jive improvise their

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own lines because the directors
didn't know how to write the

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slang true or false.
I see the.

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Room that is correct.
The directors admit they had no

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idea how to write authentic
jive.

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They hired 2 actors, Norman
Alexander Gibbs and Al White,

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and told them we're just going
to record you talking for about

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15 minutes and we'll put that in
the scripts.

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They actually, I mean they told
them what they kind of wanted

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them to say, but they wanted to
do it in the jive slang language

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or whatever.
So which once again, Part 1 of

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part of the movie that doesn't
age very well now, but was

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hilarious when I was a kid.
Yeah, no, I and I would say the

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the funnier part was Barbara.
Billingsley.

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Yeah, being being the jive
interpreter.

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Yes.
Yes.

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One of the greatest cameos ever.
Ever.

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Yeah, absolutely.
All right.

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He's on the roll.
Robert Stack, who played Captain

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Rex Cramer, was the only main
cast member who had previous

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experience in comedy.
False.

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That is false.
The directors intensely cast

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actors like Robert Stack, Peter
Graves and Lloyd Bridges because

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they were famous for being
serious dramatic actors who had

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never done comedy.
The joke was that they played

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the absurd lines with 100%
straight faces.

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Yeah.
Think he should have said no

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previous experience comedy, but
yeah, we got it right. close

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enough.
All right, See if you can get a

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clean sweep here.
Number 5, This one's.

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This one's a little tough.
I'll even.

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I'll.
I'll say that from the get go,

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the propeller engine noise you
hear throughout the movie was a

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sound editing mistake that they
decided to keep.

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True or false?
Well, I didn't research that

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one.
I'm going to say true.

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Oh, you're so close.
It's false.

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It was an intentional joke.
Even though the plane in the

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movie is a modern jet engine
aircraft, the sound effect used

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for the entire film is the
droning buzz of a World War 2

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propeller plane to make it feel
more like an old B movie.

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And also because in the original
script they wanted it to be.

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They wanted to actually on a
propeller plane instead of a

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jetliner.
But the the producers, like the

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studio said no, we wanted to be
on like a commercial plane, not

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a propeller plane.
So but hey, you did good.

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Got four out of five, man,
That's that's all right with

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with no notice because I didn't
tell him until right before he

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started recording.
So he didn't have time to study.

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So let us know how you did in
the comments.

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If you played along.
How many did you get?

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Correct.
So all right, so kind of cover

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the rest of what we didn't cover
there.

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Believe it or not, one of the
funniest movies ever made

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started as a complete accident.
The riding trio known as Zaz

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Zucker, Abrams and Zucker were
recording late night TV looking

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for cheesy commercials to spoof
for their theater group.

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By mistake, they recorded a
super serious 1957 drama called

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0 Hour.
Watching the tape, they realized

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the melodrama was an
unintentionally hilarious

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Airplane isn't just a parody of
that genre, it is practically a

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scene for scene remake of 0
Hour.

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They actually had to buy the
rights to the original film,

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which they got for a steal of
$2500, just so they could

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legally copy the plot and the
dialogue.

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After cutting their teeth on the
Kentucky Fried Movie, the trio

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realized they had to direct the
script themselves to get the

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timing right.
Paramount Pictures agreed to

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make it, but there was an there
was a 2 negotiations.

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The studio demanded that the
movie be shot in color because

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they won't do it in black and
white and set on a modern jet

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instead of the propeller plane,
which I already mentioned the

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writers demand was.
In exchange, they insisted on

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casting serious dramatic actors
like Leslie Nilsen, Robert Stack

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rather than comedians.
The studio got their jet.

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The writers got their actors.
The decision to play the

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absurdity completely straight is
exactly why the movie is a

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classic.
And I would agree.

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If they had played it for comedy
it would not have worked.

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It's because they play it so
serious.

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And that's why so many parody
movies fall apart is that, and I

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think that's why this one works,
is that we, you know, they are

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like, you're obviously like
Julie Aggarty and and you know,

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some of those are, are playing
more of the jokes, but like the

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like, right, the, the, the the
funniest lions are the ones that

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are being delivered straight and
dead man.

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And like, you know, Leslie
Nielsen, who I'm sure we'll get

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to here in a few seconds, but
like, I mean, just like

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delivering it, the way he
delivered it made it work.

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And I think you're right.
Had had they, you know, been

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like hamming it up and being
like wink, wink at the camera?

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Right, right.
And it would have fallen apart.

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It would have been, it would
have just been a mass.

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Yeah, yeah, I agree.
I definitely agree.

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All right, well, let's jump into
casting.

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We've got, we've got a lot of
cast to cover only because

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there's a ton of cameos and
really it's more cameos than

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actual like prominent players,
but we'll kind of hit them a

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little quick.
So First off we got Robert Hayes

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as Ted Striker.
He came to prominence around

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1980 Co starring in the two
season domestic sitcom Angie.

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Other film roles included lead
role in the comedy Take This Job

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and Shove It from 1981.
Another movie I've seen a

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million times on HBO but cannot
find anywhere now now to relive

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it so it must be that bad.
He also played Bob Seaver, one

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of the main human characters in
Homeward Bound, The Incredible

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Journey.
In 1993 on TV he starred in the

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science fiction series Starman
from 86 to 87 and a short lived

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workplace sitcom FM in 1989 to
1990.

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The role of Ted Striker was
actually written for David

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Letterman, who had auditioned
for a news Anchorman role in

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Kentucky Fried Movie.
Letterman did a screen test in

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79 that the that the writers
liked and they wanted him to do

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a second audition.
But Letterman did not want to

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pursue the role that was not and
was not selected.

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Other people that were
considered Chevy Chase, Barry

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Manilow, for some reason, Bill
Murray and Fred Willard.

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But of course Robert Hayes got
the part.

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So I think he's perfect for the
role.

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I mean, that's, I mean, he's the
striker.

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I know.
I think he plays it the way it

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needs to be played.
Yeah.

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I mean, you know, I can't, you
can't argue with the product

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that we got.
So I can't say I would have

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rather seen.
I just, I don't see David

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Letterman doing it well.
No.

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But like, you know, I mean,
obviously, I mean, it would have

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been a different movie, but you
know, if we had gotten the Bill

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Murray or the Chevy Chase, like,
yeah, I don't know.

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I, you know, I don't know if
they would have been able to

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play it.
Yeah, I don't think they would

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have been a play it as straight
as, hey, I mean, Hayes does have

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a little bit more playfulness to
his role than the serious

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actors.
Like it's a little more.

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It's not over the top silly.
Like I think, like I said, I

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think if Chevy Chase, he was
going to add his, you know,

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sarcasm and his, you know, dry
humor.

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Same thing with Murray.
Like it would have been too much

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of their persona.
And even for Fred Willard, I

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think, I mean, he kind of has
his own persona too.

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So but yeah, I think Robert
Hayes was a good choice for the

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role.
All right, moving along, Julie

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Haggerty as Elaine Dickinson.
Her other film roles included A

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Midsummer Night sex comedy 82,
Lost in America in 85, What

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About Bob in 1991, She's the Man
in 2006, and A Christmas Story

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Christmas in 2022.
Lane's part was auditioned for

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by Sigourney Weaver and Shirley
Long, but eventually went to

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Julie Haggerty.
The directors advised the pair

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to play their role straight.
Hayes and Haggerty developed an

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on screen chemistry that worked
in the film's favor.

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They actually spent time to
practice and perfect the bar

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scene dance routine set to
staying alive to build their

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camaraderie.
So I mean, this is the only

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movie that I really know.
I mean, I know her in the other

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movies, but this is the movie
that I remember.

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Like when I see you're like, oh,
it's from, it's Julie Haggerty

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from airplane.
Like this is where I know her

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from.
Yes, this was where I began to

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know her from.
So.

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Absolutely.
Yep, nothing more to add.

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Cool.
No, not really.

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I mean, she, she did, she did
what she could.

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Yeah, yeah.
All right, then we mentioned

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them already.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, of course.

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Professional basketball player,
one of the greatest ever play.

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In a 2008 interview on the talk
show today, he said he told the

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story of being on a European
flight and was asked to sit in

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an empty seat in the cockpit
during takeoff so the crew could

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say they flew with Rodger
Murdoch.

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Which I thought was great.
And it was funny because it I

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maybe because I watched Lethal
Weapon not too long ago when he

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was like, my name is Rodger
Murdoch.

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And I said, wait, that's not no
Murtagh, Rodger Murtagh, Murtagh

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and Murdoch.
It was like so close.

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I had.
I had the exact same thought.

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Did you?
Good, I'm not good I'm not the

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only one like it's like you know
when the kids like you're cream

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Abdul is like look at my name
tag Rodger Murdoch.

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So and once again, as a kid, I
mean, I knew who cream Abdul

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Jabbar was when he was one of
the most popular basketball

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players at that time and is
still one of the most popular

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basketball players, even, you
know, for someone who's not a

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huge basketball fan.
But but yeah, just putting him

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in that role was fun.
But, and I didn't put this in

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the notes.
I'll real reference it here

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though.
The reason they had an athlete

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as one of the Co as the copilot
is because in another like one

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of the movies they were
spoofing, there was actually a a

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professional sports person that
had a bit part in one of the

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movies as a copilot.
So it was like, let's just go

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ahead and get somebody who's
like, actually people know as a

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professional, you know, I mean a
professional athlete.

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I think the other person was not
as well known.

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So I just thought that was like
it was on purpose.

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It wasn't just like stunt
casting, so.

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I mean, I feel like there are so
many jokes that like, even like

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people who've watched this movie
100 times probably still don't

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get all the ones that, you know,
they put in there.

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It's just there, there's so many
and, and you have to watch it.

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I mean, I feel like I was
watching stuff this time.

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It's like I've seen the movie.
Yeah, a good handful or more

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times.
And it's like I I know, man,

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that you because you just watch
things in the background or.

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Oh yeah, there's so much stuff
in the background.

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Or just yeah.
Or just just they're they're

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it's quick.
The jokes come so fast sometimes

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it's like you laugh over the
jokes.

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And so like, if you stand up
times, like you catch the second

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and third joke that you didn't
laugh over the first time, or

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because you remember the first
joke so much, you forget the

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jokes that come right behind it.
So Yep.

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All right, let's go to Lloyd
Bridges as Steve Mccroskey.

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He has.
He was the father of four

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children, including the actors
Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.

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He started his career as a
contract performer for Columbia

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Pictures, appearing in such
films as Sahara in 43, A Walk in

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the Sun in 45, Little Big Horn
in 51 and High Noon in 52.

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Of course, after this, he
demonstrated his comedic talent

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and other parody films like
Hotshots One and Part 1 and Part

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DIF.
So yeah, I mean, he was great.

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And it was his children that
actually told him to take the

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part.
They're the reason he did.

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He didn't, he didn't want to do
it at 1st.

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And they're, they're the ones
that advised him to do it.

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So he's great in this.
I love him in in Hotshot, the

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two Hotshot movies.
He just takes it to another

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level.
And those those movies, yes, All

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right.
And then we got Peter Graves as

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Captain Clarence over.
I'm going ahead and do it.

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I still like, I think of this at
least four or five times a year

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when they're in the cockpit and
I got it.

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Yeah.
I have so many lines that I want

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to mention go back to because I
want to say it right.

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Yeah.
We have clearance, Clearance

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Rodger, Rodger.
What's our vector, Victor?

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Like I want to say that before
we go on a road trip to my

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family and they're not going to
get the reference, but like I

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just, you know, we have
Clarence.

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We have Clarence, Clarence
Rodger, Rodger, What's our

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vector, Victor?
So yeah, but he's playing over

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kept.
Where'd he go?

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Captain Rodger over.
Yeah, Rodger over.

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Yeah, Rodger, Rodger.
All right, so he's most known

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for playing Jim Phelps and
Mission Impossible, the TV

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series.
I know him from this movie.

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He initially dismissed the
script as quote UN quote

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disgusting crap.
After rejecting the offer to his

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agent, Grave said he received a
call within an hour from

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producer.
Hawk Caught Hawk Cook asking to

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meet to discuss the movie, which
Graves accepted.

446
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By the end of the meeting,
Graves had lightened his tone

447
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,880
once he understood that, like
Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack,

448
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,760
he would really be playing a
spoof of himself and nothing

449
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,600
about the absurdist comedy was
to be taken seriously.

450
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,560
However, he still objected to
playing a character who was

451
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,480
attracted to young boys and did
not commit to the movie.

452
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,080
He later signed on because his
family and friends would read

453
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,080
the script and thought the role
was hilarious.

454
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,760
Eventually talked him into
accepting the role.

455
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,720
Yeah, once again, another
problematic part of the movie,

456
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,080
but still hilarious.
Yeah.

457
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,440
You ever been to a Turkish
prison?

458
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,240
You like gladiator films?
Yeah.

459
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,520
Oh, man, but it's just you know,
because it's so serious.

460
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:32,360
Like it's oh, and then once
again, the the subtle overtones

461
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,800
once again were taken from
another like that like not the

462
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:41,160
exact same lines, but like
questions being asked of a kid

463
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:45,280
up in the cockpit from the pilot
seemed like borderline.

464
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,920
Why is he asking these kids
these questions in another

465
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,880
movie?
Which is why they decided just

466
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,600
amp it up for the spoof, which
once again, I think is even more

467
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,400
hilarious, makes it even more
fun.

468
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,680
All right, moving along.
We got so got we're almost

469
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,400
there.
Leslie Nielsen is Doctor

470
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,600
Rummick.
Nielsen made his acting debut in

471
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,080
1950.
He was in movies like Forbidden

472
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,520
Planet and The Poseidon
Adventure, is a dramatic actor.

473
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,680
And then he got this one and it
changed his life, as he's even

474
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,600
said.
And he went on to be in the

475
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,840
Naked Gun movies, which will
cover the first one in a couple

476
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,320
of weeks.
So I mean, he was the definite

477
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,720
stand out in the movie as far as
like the serious actor, like

478
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:32,000
breaking out.
I mean, and of course, the most

479
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,240
infamous, the most famous and
infamous line.

480
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,520
Surely you can't be serious.
I am serious.

481
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,960
And don't call me Shirley.
I mean, that's, you know,

482
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,480
without Nielsen's delivery,
would it be as funny as it is?

483
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,960
Yeah, I mean, I've, I've people
quote that and I feel like most

484
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,600
of the time they don't even know
they're quoting.

485
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:49,440
It.
Yeah, yeah.

486
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,720
Have no idea where.
Never seen the movie before.

487
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,560
Yeah, they don't understand that
reference, but we know.

488
00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:01,600
And then we got Robert Stack as
Captain Rex Kramer.

489
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,520
He starred in ABC television
series The Untouchables from

490
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:10,200
1959 to 63, and later we knew
him in the mid to late 80s as

491
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:14,440
the host of Unsolved Mysteries
from 1987 to 2002.

492
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,720
David Zucker felt Stack was the
most important actor to be cast

493
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,960
since he was the linchpin of the
film's plot.

494
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,200
Stack initially played his role
in a way that was different from

495
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,080
what the directors had in mind.
They actually showed him a tape

496
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,040
of impressionist John Byner
impersonating Robert Stack.

497
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,360
According to the producers,
Stack then began doing an

498
00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:39,320
impression of John Byner doing
an impression of of Stack, but

499
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,240
they they got him to tone it
back down.

500
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,440
They actually told him to play
it more like the Elliot Ness

501
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,080
character from The Untouchables.
So that's that's why there's a

502
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,960
lot of scenes of like long
monologues and like giving a

503
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,680
grand speech because that's what
he's known for in the

504
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,720
Untouchables TV series.
So which I thought was great.

505
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:06,200
So a name that I would not know,
but a character I will never

506
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,680
forget.
Stephen Tucker as air traffic

507
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,200
controller Johnny Henshaw
Jacobs.

508
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,800
He was part he was a scene
stealing member of the cast of

509
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,560
the Madison, WI Kentucky Fried
Theatre, which is where the

510
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,960
Zucker brothers and Jim Abrams
came up with everything.

511
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,320
He also appeared in their movie
The Kentucky Fried Movie in

512
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,160
1977.
It led to supporting role that

513
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,720
Airplane 1 and 2 for the first
film, the writers gave Strucker

514
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,840
the straight lines for his
scenes and let him write his

515
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,480
characters off the wall
responses.

516
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,880
So yeah, he added most of his
lines, which is very evident.

517
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,120
I mean, it's all just very quick
improv stuff.

518
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,960
One of my favourites is the map.
What do you make of this?

519
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,080
Oh, I can make a hat.
Or maybe a?

520
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,680
Yeah, he he's one of one of the
few people in the movie who are

521
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,760
just hamming it up and are not
delivering everything straight.

522
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,640
I mean, I would say Julie
Haggerty maybe to some extent.

523
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,600
Yeah, yeah, but not as much as
him.

524
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,320
Not as much as him, but he he,
he's the like the one person

525
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,600
they were just like, all right,
you go do whatever and everybody

526
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,880
else is going to stay straight,
which makes those scenes even

527
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,800
funnier because like Robert
Stack and and Lloyd Bridges are

528
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,120
staying so straight and so like,
you know, dead face and he's

529
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,360
over there like plugging stuff
out, you know, taking things in

530
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,800
and out of the wall socket and.
Yeah.

531
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,360
And then in the was it when he's
wrapped up with the foams, it's

532
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,760
like it's a twister.
It's a twister, Auntie M Auntie

533
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,080
M Yeah, I remember that laughing
as a kid.

534
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,800
One of my another one that had
to be ad libbed was bad news.

535
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,760
The fog's getting thicker and
Leon is getting larger.

536
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,680
He grabs the other guy and
starts shaking him.

537
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,040
Oh my gosh, that's makes me so
much.

538
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,720
He just makes me laugh.
He's one of my favorite favorite

539
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:03,880
parts of the movie for sure.
So all right, moving into more

540
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:09,880
of the cameos here, Jonathan
Banks is a guy that you would

541
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,840
know he plays Gunderson.
He was in Beverly Hills Cop,

542
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,480
Armed and Dangerous, Under Siege
2, Dark Territory, Identity

543
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,640
Thief and the Commuter.
So if you know, if you know who

544
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,960
Jonathan Banks is, he's one of
the Gunderson.

545
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,200
He's one of the one of the air
traffic controllers, I think.

546
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,240
But yeah, that guy.
And we mentioned Barbara

547
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,440
Billingsley as the Jive lady.
The role of the Jive lady was

548
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,840
originally intended for Harriet
Nelson, who had played the

549
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,520
mother in The Adventures of
Ozzie and Harriet, but she

550
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,960
turned down the role because she
was concerned about the movie's

551
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,360
adult language.
She was replaced with Barbara

552
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,600
Billingsley, who played the
mother in the 1950s sitcom Leave

553
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,920
It to Beaver.
Nelson later admitted to Robert

554
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,880
Hayes that she regretted not
taking the role.

555
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,040
Yeah, Barbara got it.
She got the cameo.

556
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,080
You didn't.
So yeah.

557
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,200
But we are talking about how
great that scene was.

558
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,680
Then another, that guy, Nicholas
Pryor as Jim Hammond, the

559
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,400
husband who gets sick at the
beginning.

560
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:12,120
He was in Damian Omian 2.
I'm sorry, Damian The Omen 2.

561
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,480
He played Tom Cruise's father in
Risky Business 83.

562
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,680
He was Robert Downey Junior's
estranged father in less than 0

563
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,320
and 87.
Other film credits include The

564
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,400
Falcon and the Snowman, 85,
Pacific Heights in 1990,

565
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:29,760
Executive Decision 1996, and
Collateral Damage in 2002.

566
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,560
But yeah, recognized him
immediately for those.

567
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,520
That guy's for you as well.
There was only one part.

568
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,080
Well, there was, there was only
two people on the cast list that

569
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:45,440
I wanted to talk about.
OK, One, just because it was

570
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,040
such a random thing as I was
going through the cast list.

571
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,640
Otto.
Yes, Otto as himself.

572
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,120
Otto introducing Otto as
himself.

573
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,440
Yeah, and he has his own IMDb
entry.

574
00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,520
So they not only kept the joke
from the credits going like

575
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,040
they, you know, they, you know,
they kept it going under the

576
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,720
IMDb.
And then there's one that has a

577
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:12,920
young boy watching this movie, a
very impressionable age stuck

578
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:17,400
out kitten.
Not, not Tivanad.

579
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,880
OK.
You don't see her face.

580
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,800
But you see other parts.
You see the most memorable parts

581
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,440
of her.
She made quite the career using

582
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,720
them in a lot in a lot of Russ
Meyer movies.

583
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:38,920
I don't know if you're familiar
with Russ Meyer, but he's, he's

584
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,760
kind of like Rodger Corman.
Like they don't make, you know,

585
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,200
Rodger Corman, Russ Meyers a
little bit more amped up, you

586
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,480
know, with the exploitation side
of it.

587
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,520
Gotcha.
But you know, he, you know,

588
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,280
they're, they're making the,
the, the back end of the double

589
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,800
feature at the drive in.
Yeah.

590
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,720
Right, right.
You know, is and she was she

591
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,880
made quite the career for
herself making, you know, making

592
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,080
those types of movies.
But as a as a young boy seeing

593
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,880
this movie, man that that that
scene.

594
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,680
Awoke some things in you.
Left an impression.

595
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,240
There you go.
There you go.

596
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:18,680
Yeah.
I didn't have her on my list,

597
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,960
but that, you know, you brought
her up.

598
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,880
So talk about it.
I will.

599
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:29,440
So I have other.
Other ones here, but so we got

600
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,240
Lee.
I only mention this because I

601
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,320
didn't have originally have her
on the list until I found this.

602
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:38,880
Lee Bryant plays the wife of the
guy, the husband who gets sick,

603
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,520
Jim Hammond, who thinks aloud
Jim never has a second cup of

604
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,240
coffee at home, which was a
parody of a real you been coffee

605
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,280
commercial that was popular at
the time, which I kind of

606
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,560
remembered even watching a day.
I was like, I think they're

607
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,160
referencing like a commercial.
In an interview with AV Club,

608
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,720
Bryant recounted having
auditioned for the role in

609
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,960
Airplane without Zazz ever
knowing that she was the same

610
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,880
woman from the real commercial.
It was never brought up by

611
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,040
anyone.
So it's hilarious that they

612
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,560
wrote the part.
Like they wrote that line off of

613
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,639
the commercial and then didn't
realize when she auditioned that

614
00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:14,199
she's the lady from the
commercial which that.

615
00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:18,400
Was yeah, I, I, I mean, they are
that that's one of those parts

616
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,000
that like today's audience, Like
if you're seeing this movie, I

617
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,440
don't remember that commercial.
Like nothing about that.

618
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,440
I I was reading about it and I
was like, I don't, yeah, I, you

619
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,679
know, that that's definitely one
of the, one of the jokes that,

620
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:36,600
you know, today is going over my
head because I don't remember

621
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,080
the commercial from.
Right.

622
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,120
Right from what's that joke came
from?

623
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,440
But it's still funny though,
because it's like we're thinking

624
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,560
that.
Yeah, it's such a weird line,

625
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:47,280
He.
Never vomits at home.

626
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:52,760
Like oh man.
So yeah, the role of the Hari

627
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,320
Krishna in the airport went to a
college roommate of Hayes's

628
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,760
newcomer David Leisure, due to
Leisure's willingness to shave

629
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,400
his head for the part.
It would be several more years

630
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,680
before Leisure landed his
breakthrough role as Joe Isuzu

631
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,480
in the popular TV commercials,
and he was also on the TV show

632
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,800
Empty Nest that came on later in
the 80s.

633
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,480
But I remembered him as Joe
Isuzu in the Isuzu commercials.

634
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:19,080
I I remember those.
And of course, me being an avid

635
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,920
fan of The Love Boat, I
definitely recognized their

636
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,960
small part.
Jill Whelan as Lisa Davis, the

637
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:30,040
little the girl that's in the is
being transported for medical

638
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,800
reasons.
Of course, she played Vicki

639
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,520
Stubing, the daughter of Captain
Stubing, in six of the nine

640
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,520
seasons of The Love Boat.
That's another one of my

641
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,120
favorite scenes were the and I
and for a long time I thought

642
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,800
the stewardess was the same
actress that played Julie on The

643
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,320
Love Boat, but it's not there.
They look very similar and they

644
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,240
talk very similar, but she's not
the same person.

645
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,560
And she really didn't do much
after this movie either, which I

646
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,480
was kind of surprised by.
She's not on the list.

647
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,800
The singing nun is Maureen
McGovern who sings the theme

648
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,400
song to the sitcom Angie, which
Robert Hayes was Co starring at

649
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,960
the time of the filming.
But her appearance in the movie

650
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,800
is to poke at her having sung
the Oscar winning theme song for

651
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,480
two classic disaster movies, The
morning after, which was in The

652
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:20,160
Poseidon Adventure 1972 and The
Way and We May Never Love Like

653
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:21,960
This Again from The Towering
Inferno.

654
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:28,320
So you get the lady that sang
the the theme songs from

655
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,200
disaster movies to be in the
movie, to sing in the movie.

656
00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:35,360
I mean, they just they knew what
they were doing, even if we

657
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,960
didn't know.
Like it's just learning that

658
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,560
makes it even more funny.
So and then what she's singing.

659
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,960
Oh, when she's singing respect
to the guy, the two the guys,

660
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,480
the job talking guys, which was
hilarious too.

661
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,800
And he just keeps throwing up.
It's like he's he's probably

662
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,480
throwing up more by the way
she's singing it than by than by

663
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,160
being sick.
And you know, I'll in this.

664
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,840
I did not know watch I I watch
the credits because I knew there

665
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,240
was an extra scene at the end of
the credits.

666
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,560
I did not realize that Otis
Redding actually wrote the song

667
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,240
respect.
I mean, I know it's it's a

668
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,280
Aretha Franklin song, but I had
no idea he was a songwriter.

669
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:14,880
But I saw that on the credits.
So.

670
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,480
I think I actually knew that
because it was.

671
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,960
It was one of those like on a
trivia contest recently.

672
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,320
It would have to, Yeah, I was AI
could see that being on a trivia

673
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,400
trivia night or trivia show.
Yeah, yeah.

674
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,880
That's one of those things like,
oh, she didn't write it or

675
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,520
didn't, you know?
Yeah, like.

676
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,680
Just that it was him that wrote
it, like, you know, right, You

677
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,760
know, I know him as a singer.
I didn't really know him much as

678
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:46,480
a songwriter.
So right, got to moving on.

679
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,560
We're getting running long.
All right, so Ethel Merman has

680
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,120
her cameo.
We'll mention her.

681
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,600
If you don't know who Ethel
Merman is, she was huge in

682
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,040
musical theater.
I didn't really know who she was

683
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,600
at the time.
But just as like he thinks he's

684
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,840
Ethel Merman and you see this
lady come out of bed singing,

685
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,280
you'll be great to you'll you
know, doing this.

686
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,200
I was like obviously was Ethel
Merman.

687
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,600
I was a big fan of good times.
Of course, I noticed it was

688
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,240
Jimmy Walker as a windshield
wiper man at the beginning,

689
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,200
cleaning the windows of the
cockpit and then checking the

690
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,680
oil when he opens up the hood of
of the plane like it's a car,

691
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,120
which I thought was hilarious.
I know you noticed.

692
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,520
James Hong is the Japanese
general tests.

693
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:30,880
We've talked about him a couple
of times.

694
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,280
Big trouble with Little China,
Blade Runner.

695
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,960
He's been in every, just about
every movie ever made.

696
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,560
Yeah.
So James Grid, the great James

697
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,000
Hong is still doing his thing
today.

698
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:48,520
So alright, so last little I
wasn't going to add them, but

699
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:49,920
these are too good not to put in
here.

700
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:54,200
So for the red zone, White zone
send up of curbside terminal

701
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,600
announcements in which public
address announcers Betty and

702
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,880
Vernon argue over the red and
white zones.

703
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,760
Zaz went through the usual
process of auditioning

704
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,960
professional voice actors, but
failed to find ones.

705
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,160
I'm sorry, but failed to find
ones who could provide the

706
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,240
desired authenticity.
Instead, the film makers

707
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,760
ultimately sought out and hired
the real life married couple who

708
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,760
had recorded the announcement
tapes that were being used at

709
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,920
Los Angeles International
Airport at the time.

710
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,280
They actually lifted some of
their dialogue directly from the

711
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:28,360
1968 novel Airport, written by
Arthur Haley, who had also

712
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,240
written 0 hour script.
The lifted lines included ones

713
00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:35,880
about an unwanted pregnancy.
David Zucker said the couple got

714
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:40,040
a kick out of it.
So yeah, I was serious.

715
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,480
It's a real husband and wife
couple that actually does the

716
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,080
announcements that did that.
But when the movie starts and

717
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:48,440
they start like, I'm waiting for
it.

718
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,160
Like, that's one of the jokes
that I just, I'm waiting for,

719
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,600
like for them to start having.
No, the white zone is for, No,

720
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,520
the red zone's always been the
part for the, you know, for the

721
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,840
passengers.
So, and the last one, the last

722
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,880
cameo, which I did not know
this, I didn't know who this

723
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,720
person was, but I get the joke
now.

724
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,200
They got businessman, Republican
politician Howard Jarvis to make

725
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,000
a cameo appearance.
Jarvis, who was well known in

726
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,520
California at the time for
getting his tax policy

727
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,160
Proposition 13 passed in 1978,
plays the patient passenger who

728
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,280
gets into Ted Striker's cab at
the start of the movie.

729
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,760
He then spends the entire movie
sitting in an empty cab with the

730
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,240
meter running.
He also has the final line,

731
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:28,800
which he says after the end
credits.

732
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,720
He looks at his watch and says
well I'll give him another 20

733
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:34,240
minutes but that's it.
The joke being that Jarvis was

734
00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:37,360
wasting money while being known
for his stance on fiscal

735
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,600
responsibility and limited
spending.

736
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:44,960
Which I'm, I mean the IT without
knowing that it's still whole,

737
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,080
it's still funny.
It's still funny, right?

738
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,920
Learning that when I was doing
research for the movie, I was

739
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:54,360
like, OK, I feel like even at
that time, like most people

740
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,480
missed that show.
You have to know really who he

741
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:57,920
is.
Yeah.

742
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,840
And then and at that time, who
stayed to the end of the

743
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,240
credits, right?
Like the post credits theme was

744
00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:06,640
not what we know of it today.
So like, I honestly forgot.

745
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:11,200
I mean, I remember staying for
Naked Gun and watching the

746
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,600
credits because the credits had
like somebody had told me like

747
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,200
you got to stay for the credits
because there's going to be

748
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,160
jokes in the credits, which
there were, there weren't as

749
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,240
many in this one.
Like I did watch the credits to

750
00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:26,440
see that, but I don't think I've
remembered that there was an

751
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,360
extra credit scene or in credit
scene in this until my the last

752
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,400
couple times I've watched it so.
Yeah, and and there are I mean

753
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,720
there are like peppered jokes in
the after credits of like, you

754
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:43,360
know, extra rules or, you know,
like the adding so there at the

755
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:44,640
end of the.
Yeah, the.

756
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,800
FBI warning, which actually got
them in a little trouble.

757
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,400
The FBI was a little mad about
that, but they were like, I did,

758
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,400
too late to take that back now.
Right.

759
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,080
Like there's no way we can we
can take it off of all of the

760
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,960
copies at this point.
So, yeah, All right.

761
00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:02,600
Well, I think we've covered the
cast pretty well.

762
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,600
You covered the ones I missed or
was there anybody else that I

763
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,360
missed that you want to?
Talk about no you that you've

764
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,480
pretty much covered everybody
that I I would care to talk

765
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,760
about so.
As I usually do all right, let's

766
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,080
talk about iconic singing.
So if someone says I don't know

767
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,360
if I should ask this question to
you.

768
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,240
If someone says airplane, what's
the first scene that pops in

769
00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:23,040
your?
Head Well, the first thing that

770
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,960
pops into my head is, well,
we've already covered the

771
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,280
Shirley, you can't be serious.
Right.

772
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,440
Right, The one that really
sticks out to me and it's it's

773
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,360
not as many times as I
remembered it being, but he what

774
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,680
he's like, I've got a bit of a
drinking problem and every time

775
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,240
he goes to drink, he throws the
water like behind him, yes or

776
00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:46,680
whatever like that.
That to me is just like when I

777
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,880
that is always, every time I see
somebody saying I got a drinking

778
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:52,440
problem, I'm just waiting for
them to like.

779
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:53,600
With.
Yeah, exactly.

780
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:58,520
You know, try to try to like
that part.

781
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:03,280
You know that one.
Oh, it's your first time.

782
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,480
Yeah, I'm a little bit nervous.
No, it's your first time.

783
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:06,680
You know, I've been nervous
before.

784
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:10,560
Yeah, many times, yeah.
Yeah, those those lines are

785
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,320
great.
Like the ongoing thing about

786
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,160
using the cockpit, What is that?
Well, it's the little room at

787
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:18,720
the front of the plane that's
not important right now.

788
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:19,840
You know, it's like all those
little like.

789
00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:22,080
You got to get this Med to the
hospital.

790
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:23,720
What is it?
What is it?

791
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:27,080
It's a building with.
But that's right now, yeah, like

792
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,960
that, that running joke is
really is is good too.

793
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,840
Yeah, yeah.
Iconic scenes for me is and I'm

794
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,880
we're kind of mix them together.
Favorite scenes is the

795
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,360
hysterical lady and then they
start slapping.

796
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:45,280
Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's.
So that that always stands out

797
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:46,480
to me.
And there's actually a story

798
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,320
with that one.
I'm going to go to that one.

799
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,160
The I got to get out of your
scene where stewardess tries to

800
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,440
calm down a hysterical passenger
was actually improvised on the

801
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,840
spot.
The original scene, once again

802
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,440
based on a scene from Zero Hour,
only called for the stewardess

803
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,560
to try to calm her.
And then another passenger tells

804
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,320
a stewardess that he will handle
this and then slaps her with a

805
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,920
joke ending there.
But Lee Bryant, playing the

806
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,800
hysterical woman, suggested the
directors that the gag should be

807
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,440
extended to bring in other
annoyed pastors, forming a slap

808
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,600
line.
Although they like the idea,

809
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,800
they were hesitant to do it,
fearing Bryant might get hurt,

810
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,360
but she agreed to it and even
added in props like the boxing

811
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,960
gloves, that's iron the
revolver, which is hilarious.

812
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,920
After briefly rehearsing it,
they kept it in the movie after

813
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,160
one take.
According to Bryant, Leslie

814
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,040
Nielsen's second slap was not
rehearsed or expected.

815
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,840
And he really hit her, though
not intentionally, which I had

816
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,880
seen that on some kind of clip,
like some behind the scenes

817
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,360
thing, like over like in the
last couple year where they

818
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,400
thought about if you notice he
slaps for a second time, which

819
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,440
I'd never really picked up on.
They're like, yeah, that wasn't

820
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:52,080
scripted.
But yeah, that's one of my

821
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:55,640
favorite scenes.
And like the and the song with

822
00:44:55,720 --> 00:44:59,880
the for the girl and she, she
swings the guitar and knocks the

823
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,800
IV out of her arm.
I always think about that, that

824
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,920
scene.
I love the two little kids that

825
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,320
are being like the adults.
Like, would you like some coffee

826
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,320
cream?
No, I like my black like my men.

827
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:20,840
Oh man, this movie would totally
not be made today.

828
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,920
I mean, it's funny, but it but
and we talked if they talked

829
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,600
about it, you know, it offends
everybody, nobody.

830
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,960
You know, it's like it's one
thing if you're just trying to

831
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,520
offend one type of person, but
they just they were just making

832
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:38,400
fun of everybody, like everybody
gets gets gets the joked on.

833
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,720
And so it's kind of like a, you
know, it's all all fair, you

834
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:47,080
know, So I don't think they try
to make anyone superior over

835
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,440
another.
Like everybody's doing just as

836
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,280
stupid things as everybody else,
so.

837
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,120
The other one that I really
like, that I also refer back to

838
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,760
a lot in my own head is, man, I
picked the wrong week to stop,

839
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:00,040
you know?
Yeah.

840
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,640
And then it was, it's just every
time he said it, it was

841
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,960
increasingly, increasingly
worse.

842
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,600
Yeah, the first, Yeah, the first
one is quit drinking.

843
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:13,280
I quit smoking sniffing glue,
which I as a kid I was like

844
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,080
really sniffing glue and I would
take the Elmer's glue and like

845
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,480
try to, I would like, I was
like, it just smells like glue.

846
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,360
Like I didn't, you know, but I
think my sister who was older

847
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,200
than me had to explain to me,
no, it's not that type of glue

848
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:25,480
and don't do it.
So.

849
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,040
And then the last one was picked
the wrong way to quit

850
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:34,120
amphetamines, which I, I always
thought it was I need to quit,

851
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,040
stop to quit popping pills,
which might have been the TV

852
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:40,600
version, I don't know.
But when he said quit Anthony's,

853
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,200
I was like, I know.
I don't remember that being the

854
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:43,600
line there, but that's what it
is.

855
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:46,640
Oh.
Oh.

856
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:51,560
My other favorite part is when
the doctor is talking about the,

857
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,840
the symptoms of the sickness and
it starts happening to the

858
00:46:57,840 --> 00:46:59,920
pilot, Peter Graves, as he's
talking about it.

859
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:01,640
Yeah.
The virus penetrates the red

860
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,360
blood cells.
The victim becomes dizzy, begins

861
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,000
to experience into rash.
Then the poison goes to work on

862
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,560
the central nervous system.
Severe muscle spasms followed by

863
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,960
inevitable drooling.
It's like, Oh my gosh, that is

864
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,640
so funny.
It's just so funny that he's

865
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,680
reduced to a quivering, wasted
piece of Jelly.

866
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,120
So.
Yeah.

867
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,520
A joke I definitely didn't get
when I was a kid was the re

868
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:29,240
inflating the autopilot.
Yes, yes, I didn't get that joke

869
00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:31,720
until much I was much older.
Yeah, much.

870
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:38,200
I got it now, but you know.
I did get when when they when

871
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,440
they detached the auto, the
autopilot and it's floating

872
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:45,560
around and then it comes up
behind Julie and where he's

873
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:47,360
holding her.
I was like, I, I knew.

874
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:49,880
I knew that was a bad thing when
I was little, Like I shouldn't

875
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,840
see that, shouldn't see that.
I, you know what, like it's so

876
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:57,680
much, it's so forgotten because
like immediately after the, you

877
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:02,840
know, it's just the opening of
the movie when it's, it's the,

878
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,400
it's the Jaws.
Yes, the jaws.

879
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,960
Being and and use just the the
little tail, you know, fan of

880
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,440
the airplane, like, you know,
through the clouds.

881
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:16,160
Like it's just, yeah, yeah.
Like, because I mean, it's just,

882
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,520
and then so much stuff at the
beginning of the of the movie in

883
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,360
the airport, like when they're
walking through the security

884
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:22,680
line, I'm like, oh, do you got
any metal?

885
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,680
He takes his hand off and he
takes his foot off.

886
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,160
And the X-ray machine has an
actual X-ray, like somebody's

887
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:29,520
lungs.
Yeah, lung X-ray.

888
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,880
Like, so much stuff.
Yeah, just you miss because

889
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:34,920
like, it's just like you said,
like it's one joke after

890
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,120
another.
And sometimes there's two or

891
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,960
three jokes in one scene.
So like if you're looking over

892
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,080
at here, you're missing what's
going on back there.

893
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,920
Yeah, yeah.
I will say like this, this movie

894
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,440
and like the movie, this one
started it.

895
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,440
But even the ones that come out,
we'll talk about it in a couple

896
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:51,360
weeks.
We get to Naked Gun, which I

897
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,960
think did it more.
But the like what's happening in

898
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:59,360
the background, Like it, it
forced me when I'm watching

899
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,960
movies like I'm white with
somebody's having a

900
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,440
conversation, I get bored.
I just start watching what's

901
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,360
happening in the background.
Most of the time there's nothing

902
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,480
that's intentional there.
But like those kind of scenes

903
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,400
that are written like they'll do
it now, like they did on on

904
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,840
started out live here recently
where they've done a a skit

905
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,240
where it's just two people
talking, but there's all this

906
00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:19,600
stuff happening in the
background.

907
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,800
And there's a very popular one
from in living color that I

908
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,640
think was on their halftime
special where there's like a

909
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,320
news interview interview
happening.

910
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,920
And then Jim Carrey realizes
there's a camera And so he's

911
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,920
behind them like making faces
and being silly, but they're

912
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:35,240
having this serious
conversation.

913
00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:38,120
But you you're totally oblivious
to the conversation in the front

914
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,720
because you're focused on what's
happening in the back.

915
00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:43,800
So like, for them to have those
kind of scenes where, like I

916
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:47,640
said, like the scene in the
cockpit where the pilots are

917
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,840
having this conversation, but
Jimmy Walker is like treating it

918
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:54,160
like a car, you know, cleaning
the windows and checking the oil

919
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,040
and then he falls off the
ladder.

920
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,560
Like that's all happening in the
background that you're paying

921
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:00,320
attention to.
I can't tell you what any of

922
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,720
that dialogue is the pilot
you're talking about because

923
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,160
that's not the focus.
But yeah, those kind of that

924
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,760
that kind of comedy.
This is the movie that got me

925
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,440
into that kind.
Of but it it's really hard to

926
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,640
pick iconic over favorite
because there's so many iconic

927
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:19,080
from this movie and yeah.
You know, as I mean, I, I

928
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:23,040
literally have one page in my
notes of just lines that I

929
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:24,560
wanted to talk about and I had
to stop.

930
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:28,080
I was like, I'm gonna have half
the movie of the funniest lines

931
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,240
that I remember.
I was writing a bunch of stuff,

932
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,760
I was writing a bunch of stuff
down, and then I went back and I

933
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,880
wrote so many jokes, it's hard
to pick.

934
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:41,960
Yeah, Yep.
But I will, I will mention this

935
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:43,760
will be the last one and then
we'll get into some trivia

936
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,960
scenes.
But and when, oh, I'm sorry,

937
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:48,800
this was this was a deleted
scene because I read it.

938
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:50,600
I was like, I don't remember
that in the movie.

939
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,600
Maybe I just missed it, but it's
hilarious.

940
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:57,120
So there's a cutting room floor
scene where they're going into

941
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:01,120
the nosedive and Elaine says,
Ted, the altitude we're falling,

942
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,840
Ted, we're falling the
mountains, Ted the mountains.

943
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,480
And Ted says, what mountains?
We're over Iowa.

944
00:51:06,720 --> 00:51:10,200
And she says the cornfields,
Ted, the cornfields, which I was

945
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,560
like, that's great.
So I just, I just realized it

946
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,280
said that was a cutting room for
a scene that didn't make.

947
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,160
I was like that.
I was like, obviously.

948
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,160
I don't remember what, Yeah.
Yeah, so that was a good line.

949
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:24,920
So all right, let's jump into
some trivia, some other scenes

950
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,480
for the famous scene of the
Boeing 747.

951
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,760
Once again, iconic scene
crashing through the large

952
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,480
windows, which I love.
It's the he's he's guiding the

953
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,160
plane in with the flashlights
and the guy says, hey, where is

954
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,440
the where?
Where's the whatever he's he

955
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,640
starts, he moves his lights to
go the other direction.

956
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:50,200
Of course the pilot follows it.
But producer John Davidson

957
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,800
mentions the Blu-ray extras that
after the movie he received

958
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,680
numerous letters from various
pilots telling that they had

959
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,360
very come very close to re
enacting that very scene in real

960
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,840
life, with some pilots admitting
they had come so close as to

961
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,760
touch the glass with the noses
of their airplanes.

962
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:11,520
Oh man, this one I did not know.
This was kind of interesting.

963
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,000
When discussing whether the
flight is in radar range, an air

964
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,840
traffic controller is instructed
to quote UN quote, check the

965
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,320
radar range.
He immediately stands up and

966
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:25,040
opens a microwave oven.
This is the nod to the Amana

967
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:28,200
radar range, one of the first
successful in home microwave

968
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,800
ovens.
Microwaves used for cooking was

969
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,800
accidentally discovered during
its early development for

970
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,080
locating aircraft when a
scientist walked through a beam

971
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,320
and found his chocolate bar had
melted in his pocket.

972
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:43,320
So the name radar range is quite
literal, which once again,

973
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,880
totally over my head, but it
made me think of another thing

974
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:47,480
where they're looking, where
you're looking at the air

975
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,840
traffic controllers, and the guy
in the background opens up one

976
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:54,080
of the like, what are the
circular screens?

977
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,280
And it's like the dryer.
He's pulling out his laundry

978
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:57,400
from the dryer.
Yeah.

979
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,120
Remember that part?
Yeah, yeah, I do remember that

980
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:00,640
one.
Yeah, Oh, man.

981
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:01,880
So, yeah.
So radar range.

982
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:05,480
That was true.
The first two days of the movies

983
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,640
gross covered its entire
production budget.

984
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,720
So yeah, it it did well at the
box office, which we're getting

985
00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:14,120
to next.
So any other trivia things?

986
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,200
There was a lot that I just I
tried to keep it short.

987
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,720
Was anything that you you might
have read if you wanted to

988
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:21,560
mention?
No, nothing that I, I, I, I,

989
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,480
we've covered everything I wrote
down on my notes so.

990
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:28,040
OK, all right, cool.
We're wrapping it up, so let's

991
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,880
talk about box office.
Airplane opened on June 27th,

992
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:36,560
1980 in seven theaters in
Toronto, grossing $83,000 in its

993
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,080
opening weekend in seven
theaters.

994
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,880
It also opened in 2 theaters in
Buffalo, NY, grossing 14,000 in

995
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,360
first week.
It then expanded on Wednesday,

996
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:49,200
July 2nd to 705 theaters in the
United States and Canada,

997
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,200
grossing 6 million in its first
five days of wide release,

998
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:54,400
finishing second for the
weekend.

999
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,040
Overall, it grossed $83 million
in the US and kidding a box

1000
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:02,720
office and returned $40 million
in rentals, making it the fourth

1001
00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:07,640
highest grossing film of 1980.
Which is why they made a sequel

1002
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:11,840
so fast that the the the Zazz
hadn't wanted nothing to do

1003
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:13,520
with.
And it's very evident because

1004
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:21,560
it's not not good at all.
Doing a space shuttle instead of

1005
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,320
the airplane.
Yeah, it's been a.

1006
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:27,320
Long, long time since I've seen
the second one.

1007
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,720
It's a lot of recycled jokes
from the first one, which is

1008
00:54:30,720 --> 00:54:33,920
what most sequels were,
especially early 80s, like a

1009
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,560
comedy sequel that you're just
you're just trying to recycle

1010
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,200
the jokes in a different
setting.

1011
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,240
And that's pretty much what they
did.

1012
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:42,520
It's it's yeah, it's, it's
really bad.

1013
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,920
All right, It's time to take a
look at how well this 80s flick

1014
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:48,400
holds up today.
It's the rewatchability

1015
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,680
nostalgia Meter.
Patent pending.

1016
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,360
It's our way of measuring how
enjoyable a movie is for repeat

1017
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,760
viewings, along with the waves
and nostalgia brings.

1018
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,160
Here's how it works.
It's a one to 10 scale.

1019
00:54:58,160 --> 00:54:59,680
Any number between 1:00 and
10:00 will do.

1020
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:01,520
But here are a few parameters to
help you decide.

1021
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,240
At the bottom of the meter with
a number one is.

1022
00:55:04,240 --> 00:55:05,840
I saw it once and that was
enough.

1023
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,040
Right in the middle is the #5,
which is a good rewatch every

1024
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,000
couple of years, and the highly
coveted #10 at the top of the

1025
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,160
meter is highly rewatchable and
full of nostalgia.

1026
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,160
So Nicholas Pepin from Pop
Culture Roulette.

1027
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:23,600
Where does Airplane rank for you
on the rewatch ability nostalgia

1028
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:25,920
meter?
Having admitted that I don't

1029
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:31,160
watch this and haven't watched
this movie in a while means I

1030
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,480
shouldn't do this, but I'm going
to do it anyway.

1031
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,120
I'm going to have to give this
one A10.

1032
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:41,880
I mean, it's it's, I mean, yes,
I get the part of it's dated and

1033
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,200
some of the stuff, maybe some of
the jokes don't hold up as well.

1034
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,840
But like, it's still so
infinitely watchable.

1035
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,240
And yeah, I mean, like, I think,
you know, a new watcher could

1036
00:55:53,240 --> 00:55:55,240
sit down and watch it today.
And yeah, there's going to be a

1037
00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:58,360
fair amount of jokes that go
over your head because, you

1038
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:02,120
know, even even as a, you know,
you know, credit, I probably saw

1039
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:05,800
it in 8586.
So it was already a six or

1040
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:12,640
seven-year old movie by the time
I saw it, you know, so there's a

1041
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,080
lot of jokes that like, I've
never seen Zero Hour.

1042
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:18,600
I've, you know, I, I've been
aware that that movie existed

1043
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,840
because of this, right?
I've never bothered to hunt it

1044
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:23,280
down.
I've seen a bunch of the other

1045
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:29,400
movies, but it's this unfair or
fair, However you want to say is

1046
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:34,520
the movie that I think pretty
much every parody movie, for me

1047
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:39,400
anyway, is judged off of.
There's a couple other, most of

1048
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,280
them are Mel Brooks, but
they're, you know, there's a

1049
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:46,160
couple others that like I, I put
in this, this category like

1050
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,320
it's, it's like when I sit down
and watch any of the, and I'm

1051
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,600
not going to name them because
it's, you know, I don't want to

1052
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,320
throw people under the bus.
But like when I watch modern,

1053
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:58,280
when I watch a lot of the modern
parody movies or you know, that

1054
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:01,000
early mid 2000s when like there
was a whole.

1055
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,320
It was a resurgence of the the.
Resurgence of the parody movie,

1056
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,360
and it's like you guys don't
like you.

1057
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,760
You missed the memo like you
didn't.

1058
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,920
Like you can't just make a joke
to make a joke like you have to,

1059
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:15,800
right?
You know, there has to be some

1060
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,720
research like like the having a
radar range in the back.

1061
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,880
You know.
Like, or making a random

1062
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:27,080
reference to a coffee commercial
that only half the audience is

1063
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:29,960
going to know you know?
But it's still funny whether you

1064
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,920
do the OR not.
Right, Yeah, making making sure

1065
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:37,320
that the joke lands, not just,
you know, you know, going we

1066
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,160
said it funny and, you know, and
nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

1067
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:44,720
I mean, Ted Striker looks at the
camera once the entire movie.

1068
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:49,760
The rest of it having Leslie
Nielsen play it straight made it

1069
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:53,120
so much better.
And, you know, so like I said,

1070
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,400
it's unfair.
Fair, you know, unfair to other

1071
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,160
movies maybe or not, I don't
know.

1072
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:02,960
But it this is this one, and
maybe Spaceballs and the movie

1073
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:04,960
that you were going to be
covering in a couple weeks,

1074
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:09,120
Naked Gun are the movies that I
used to judge all other parody

1075
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:10,440
movies.
Yeah, yeah.

1076
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:14,400
And I would even say like Mel
Brooks changed how he how he

1077
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:18,600
parodied, I think after this,
like Spaceballs wouldn't have

1078
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:22,640
been Spaceballs or Robin Hood.
Men in tights are very different

1079
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:24,720
than like Blazing Saddles.
Yes.

1080
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:28,120
And even like History of the
World part one that came out the

1081
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:33,240
next year, Right.
So, like, he leaned into a lot

1082
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:38,240
of what Zucker and Abrams did in
this that established in this.

1083
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,520
So absolutely, yeah, I think it
changed.

1084
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,440
It changed the way parodies were
done for sure.

1085
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:45,360
So yeah, so, but for that, I'm
gonna have to give it a 10.

1086
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:50,400
I just, I really do.
Yeah, I can't give it a 10 like

1087
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:53,160
only because it's the the
rewatch ability.

1088
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,040
The nostalgia is pretty brings
it up high.

1089
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:59,600
But I'm like you, it's highly
rewatchable like I should watch

1090
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:01,720
it every year.
So I'm going to give it a nine.

1091
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:03,920
I'm I'm right, I'm like right
there at it.

1092
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,800
I just can't quite give it the
10 because it's not one that

1093
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:08,600
I've watched over and over and
over again.

1094
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,840
But but it's still it's still
enjoyable.

1095
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:15,120
I had a good time watching it
again today and it's 1.

1096
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:18,400
Like it's one of those movies.
Like we watch it, we talk about

1097
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,560
it and like as soon as we finish
talking about like I want to go

1098
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,840
put it in and watch it again.
Like I want to go back and

1099
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,200
rewatch it.
Just stop talking about it.

1100
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:26,800
Absolutely.
All right, well, let us know

1101
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,520
where you think airplanes should
rank on the rewatch ability,

1102
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,640
rewatch ability and nostalgia
meter for you.

1103
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,480
You can send us an e-mail, let
us know on social media, or you

1104
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:38,280
can leave us a comment right
here in the YouTube if that's

1105
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:39,760
where you're watching this
episode.

1106
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:43,080
So all right, Laramie, think or
not, Laramie, I did it again.

1107
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,680
Doggone it.
All right, Nicholas, thanks so

1108
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,360
much for joining.
What's going on over at Pop

1109
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,760
Culture Roulette kicking off
2026?

1110
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,120
What you got going?
On we're we'll be coming off our

1111
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:55,400
hiatus here pretty soon.
You know, with the holiday

1112
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,360
season, it just it was a little
too much.

1113
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:01,600
I think we're going to start off
or will we already maybe did

1114
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:06,480
look back at 2025 like what we
what we really liked about it

1115
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:10,160
and then probably the week after
we'll do like a look forward to.

1116
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:14,000
What's on what's on tap, what's
what's scheduled, what, what we

1117
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:15,800
what we think might be coming
up.

1118
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:20,240
And then we'll go back to the
normal, just random inane

1119
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,880
nonsense that we like to do over
a publisher roulette.

1120
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:28,360
Whatever.
We it by that point it'll be out

1121
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:30,560
of months since we've done a
bracket so we'll probably be

1122
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:35,280
itching to do 1 again.
Yeah, yeah, Always look forward

1123
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,000
to those episodes, babe.
You've had some good ones.

1124
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:41,000
Even over Christmas you had like
the the different Santas

1125
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:47,120
episode, which was good.
So yeah, I can't remember the

1126
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:47,800
last.
What was the last?

1127
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:49,240
What was the most recent one you
did?

1128
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:51,000
It's like it's totally blanket
on.

1129
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,360
Me the the Christmas songs that
we just couldn't stand.

1130
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:55,840
Anymore.
Yes, yes, yes.

1131
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:56,840
That was a good one.
Yeah.

1132
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,560
I I thought I was like, oh, I've
got to listen to this one

1133
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:00,840
because I'm definitely in there
with you.

1134
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:04,040
Like, why is this song been
recorded so many times?

1135
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:08,120
Just just stop, stop it.
All right, Well, thanks

1136
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,560
everybody for listening.
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1137
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,480
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1138
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,440
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1139
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:17,720
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1140
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:20,240
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1141
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:24,800
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1142
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:28,560
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1143
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:31,360
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1144
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:35,040
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1145
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:38,120
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1146
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:41,120
Oh, it's a big, pretty white
plane with red stripes, curtains

1147
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:43,640
in the windows and wheels, and
it looks like a big Tylenol.