Mair and Sophie, I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.

The repeated joke where Striker kept dumping water on himself is that he has a drinking problem (as in, not that he drinks alcohol but that he has trouble drinking).

3:35 In case you’re confused, airlines used to let people smoke on planes. The joke is that the ticket is actually smoking.

The joke of the soldier with severe shell shock who thought he was Ethel Merman is that the role was actually played by Ethel Merman. She was a popular singer/actress from the 1950s and 1960s.

Fun Fact: The two actors talking jive actually made up the language themselves. It wasn't in the script.

Fun fact: some of the Malumbo villagers in the basketball clip were played by actual members of the Harlem Globetrotters.

I love all the little things people miss, like the sounds of propellers on a jet plane, or why he said he was in the air force, yet he is wearing a Navy officer's uniform in the bar, so many details. Most the main characters at that time were famous for parts that portrayed them in completely different roles. The pilot was always in super serious dramas and now he is asking a little boy if he ever saw a grown man naked, the old lady that spoke "Jive" was Beaver Cleaver's Mon from Leave it to beaver. On and on at ever turn in the movie.

Five years before the movie, there was an actual food poisoning incident onboard a plane. Contaminated breakfast omelets caused nearly 200 passengers to get sick. Fortunately, they were near their destination and the pilots were able to make an emergency landing and get them treated. It was pure luck that the pilots didn’t eat the omelets. Since their biological clocks were still on Alaska time, the pilots had ordered steak dinners instead. The incident resulted in recommendations that pilots and passengers be served different meals during flights.

"Can you fly this plane, and land it?" "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley." Classic comedy. Laugh a minute and very quotable. Fun Fact: In a 2008 interview, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a European flight and asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during takeoff so the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdoch. White-Red Zone Fact: Regarding the argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life. Casting Choice Fact: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.

The scene where the soldier was saying bye to his girlfriend that was a train conductor to make you think it’s not a plane it’s actually a train

11:39 That was actually because they’re played by the Harlem Globetrotters.

No one explained whacking? Spanking the monkey, choking the chicken, saluting the purple helmet...

Come on, guys, you're missing everything ! The clerk gave him a ticket that was on fire because he asked for "Smoking" !

What's scarier then the Pilot asking Joey perverted questions ...is reactors not knowing why he's asking those questions.

Fun Facts: As it pertains to the Saturday Night Fever spoof: While he was doing Airplane, Actor Robert Hays (Ted Striker) was also doing a short lived sitcom called Angie and his Angie Co-Star Donna Pescow was in Saturday Night Fever. This movie would actually be the comedic debuts for Leslie Nielsen (the Doctor), Peter Graves (Clearance Over), Lloyd Bridges (McCrosky) and Robert Stack (Rex Kramer) as all of them were known more for serious roles. Nielsen and Bridges would have a whole new career birth doing comedy movies. There is a sequel called Airplane 2 The Sequel which you should also check out just to see William Shatner steal the show.

Mair! I can count on one hand the number of reactors who recognized Kareem and knew who he is. Kudos to you, my man!👍🏽

It would be a trip to take someone from 2023 back to the 70s, to an average airport -- those religious people really did walk around and hassle folks, you could walk your friend to their gate, it was so insanely different......

This film has been rated to have the most laughs per minute. It’s a comedic remake of an original movie from 1957 called ZERO HOUR - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpOmZaV5s6i6c6c.html BTW, the producers bought the rights to ZERO HOUR just to avoid being sued. References: Opening plane in clouds mimicking the movie JAWS. Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home (coffee commercial spoof) - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7BknqZ3l5izYqtg.html same actress in real coffee commercial Boy/Girl Coffee Scene: The Original and the Spoof - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r65mfrpnyrO7en0.html From Here to Eternity- Beach Scene - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbqcd7F-yMXMdp8.html Also: He walked out from the mirror at Captain Kramer’s house. A lot of people don’t catch that joke. A lot of people miss the jokes throughout the credits and afterwards the man in the cab says he’s going to give him another 20 minutes but that’s it. - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eraVjKl1kty6eJs.html

The scene @ 10:10 where the lady gets out of the hospital bed and starts singing: That actually IS Ethel Merman who was a VERY famous singer and actress in the 1950s and 1960s. She died about 4 years after this movie was made.

Jive was the name of the slang used by inner city blacks at the time. Everything that was said in "jive" was understood by those of us who saw this movie in the theater. The entire joke of the old white woman understanding was She was the actress who played the loveable mom on the 1950,60 s TV show "Leave it to Beaver"

I’m glad you knew enough about Jaws to recognize that the opening scene is a parody of Jaws. If you didn’t, the joke would have gone over your head.

Those kids on the plane were dressed up in adult clothes and talked mature so when that young girl said that line that’s what the director wanted to make sure that the audience knew to make that scene funny to the adults laugh

“I just want to tell you good luck , we’re all counting on you”

@ 25:16 you are right to get Family Guy vibes. That very joke, among so many others from this movie are all in Family Guy because the show creator Seth MacFarlane is a big fan of this movie and uses the exact same jokes in a lot of his episodes. Also if you've seen Breaking Bad, Mike from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is in this movie. The guy wearing the brown leather jacket@ 23:04.

25:26 Why does he do that? Because he has a “drinking problem”. They’re trying to infer he’s an alcoholic, but the funny part is that his drinking problem is that he literally can’t drink properly, and pours drinks to his upper face and not his mouth.

Watching Jeff Lebowski's dad be addicted to everything on the planet is hilarious

There was an after credit scene; where the dude is still in the taxi. The key thing to know about this movie is that it was making fun of pop culture and 1970’s disaster movies.

3:44 Don’t be afraid to laugh. Al White and Norm Gibbs, the two Jive speaking guys, wrote those lines. It’s only exaggerating the Jive words.

“What is Jive”? Ask your Gen X Aunties and Uncles.

You guys are the first people to get that the egg thing is supposed to be like a bad magic show!!

The black language was an idea the directors had after seeing the movie Shaft. They said they couldn't understand a word in that film and thought of doing a scene where guys were talking in Jive but having subtitles. These 2 (Jive) guys Norman Gibbs and Al White got the part and they gave them the script as to what the subtitles were going to be and they ad libed those entire scene making it up as they went.

I think Sophie should get hazard pay with you jumping/pushing on her the whole show. lol

It's funny how you said the comedy was very subtle right before the plane crashed through the window. 😂

The airline's name, TransAmerican, was a play on TWA (Trans-World Airlines). It was the high class airline in the 60's and 70's, so Elaine has a good, cushy job.

I watched this movie 4 times to get all of the jokes over a decade ago. So I thought. I watched a reaction to it a few days ago and noticed 2 more jokes I never even got.

The woman in hospital bed who thought she was Ethel Mermen. It was the real Ethel Mermen, a singer during World War 2

Mair: "Is he a doctor or a magician?"

Every time you watch this you get something else. Some things are from that time era and y’all wouldn’t understand like the lady “thinking” her husband never has another cup of coffee at home. That was a coffee commercial that played all the time back then. So funny. One of my all time favorite comedies.

25:26 He has drinking problems. And the reporters did "take" pictures, they didn't only "get" them. 🤔😂

After the credits, they go back to the guy waiting for his taxi driver.

I think the one nobody gets because it’s so old is the “Jim never has a 2nd cup of coffee at home” joke. It’s a reference to an old coffee commercial. Hopefully y’all also caught the post credits clip

2:35 That was a common occurrence during the 1970s and 80s. Hare Krishna were the most notorious in doing that.

I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you. 🤣

Did you watch the movie all the way to the end? The guy in the taxi, looms at his watch and says "I'll give him 5 more minutes ". LOL. Also, the guy that was cleaning the windows and checking under the hood of the plane was Jimmie Walker aka JJ Evans from Good Times.

Y'all don't understand I was born in 77. The movies and TV shows of the 80's and 90's were crazy. If they had and ideal and a budget they made it. No questions asked.

Great reaction! After they cast the jive dudes, the directors were thinking who would be the last person on earth to understand them. They picked the wholesome perfect mom from Leave it to Beaver, and she crushed it.

20mins in and I can tell they don't like it much. Lovely couple but young. This flicks definitely in its own category..

The dance sequence in the bar is a parody of Saturday Night Fever.

The fact that they didn’t know what jive was 😂

You didn’t stay for the scene at the very end. The guy was still sitting in the cab after the credits ended.

What made this movie great was serious dramatic actor Leslie Nielson doing comedy with that dry delivery.

2:55 -- Jimmie Walker as the mechanic

This film succeeds by the actors playing it straight and placing the jokes in the background

A lot of reactors start grooving along to 'Staying Alive'! There is a post-credits scene with the guy still waiting in the taxi.

There should have been another scene at the end that showed the man still waiting in the taxi cab.

Such a classic! It's amazing how the humour is so consistent in some ways, but so varied in others between sight gags, puns, and just general absurdism. You should check out the sequel too, some people don't like it as much but I think it's good.

The African basketball players were actually members of the Harlem Globetrotters 😂

@16:30 was the best random scene to happen in a “PG Rated” movie 😂

Did you miss the point of the plane smashing into the terminal ? A guy distracted the attention of the dude who was directing it !

Oh Jaws is such legendary piece of movie=)

Those two African Americans were speaking Jive that’s what they called what they spoke through the 1970’s,1980’s &1990’s

airplane is one of the funniest movies I have seen.

The crap going to hit the fan was my favorite part 💩 😂

In this movie, the End does not mean it’s the end. There are jokes in the closing credits that need to be read and there’s one more scene after the closing credits which most people miss. Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy. “Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”

3:55 Crickets.... Which is unusual because normally people laugh alittle bit.. I think you both were still recouping from the whole "jive talking" bit..

1K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍 You're welcome! Thanks! 😊 I just subscribed! Notes: I haven't seen the actual movie in some time, so lately, I've been viewing reactions like yours. 😅 Thanks for including scenes that the others didn't. Like the Pinocchio nose reference, the jiggling, the dog, et cetera. 😎 This movie has one sequel. In it, you get to see the "Starship Enterprise" appear as she did in the original series. That's the first and last time for such a cameo! 🖖 Author Alex Haley, who wrote "Roots" also wrote the novel "Airport" that a Dean Martin movie was based on. 😀 It became a franchise that ended in 1979 with an adventure about the "Concorde" versus an "F-4 Phantom II"! The beach scene parodies the famous and infamous one in a movie about Pearl Harbor. A lot of strict religious people didn't approve of the beach scene! 😕 Actor Leslie Nielsen dramatically and romantically played a starship captain in the movie "Forbidden Planet" and then he was the stoic ocean liner captain in the original "The Poseidon Adventure"! Then, he comically played a starship captain in the movie "The Creature Wasn't Nice" (also known as "Naked Space" and "Spaceship".)

Love you guys and thanks for all the great content!!!❤️

FINALLY a reactor knows who Kareem is!

The basketball playing tribe was the Harlem Globetrotters.

Many people believe the crash position is for their protection, in reality it is designed to kill you 🤷🏻‍♂️

I won't spoil it (& I hope no one else does) BUT There's a good reason to watch this ALL the way through until AFTER the end credits ... & not just because of the jokes within the credits themselves.😄😁😂 For that matter, it's worth watching again to see all the jokes you missed because you were laughing at a previous joke.😂😂😁👍

Awesome Movie and Work Guys , Thanks Greetings from Helsinki, Finland

20:10 One of the greatest actor performed movie stunts of all time, up there with the swordfight from *The Princess Bride,* often overlooked because of it placement in such a silly setting as *Airplane!:* Rex Kramer (Robert Stack) grabs the Jehova's Witness by the armpit and wheels up and over him, using him as an axle, and kicks the guy behind him, goes full-over and lands on his feet, then grabs the guy, who now offers information about Buddhism, and throws him across the terminal.

The couple argueing over the PA were married to each other, and worked as announcers at LAX. The plan crashing through the window was a throwback to Silver Streak (Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.) The doctor at the Mayo Clinic had mayonaise on the shelves be hind him. And, thoughout the film, you hear the sounds of a properller driven aircraft, despite it being a jet.

I've seen many "reactions" to this film, and so far no one has picked up on the taxicab passenger joke - I guess you have to be a Boomer to recall that in 1978 the voters in the state of California passed Proposition 13, limiting property taxation, largely through the efforts of the man in the cab - Howard Jarvis. He had a reputation for being a tightwad.

If you haven't you really, really want to see Top Secret with Val Kilmer, basically the same production/director crew and even more mad and funny.

Karrem Abdul did the movie for an expensive rug he wanted.

There was a band in Chicago called I Speak Jive

If you haven't seen The Naked Gun, definetly check it out. It's a trilogy by the way. Same humor.

This put me to sleep 5 minutes after watching😂😂😂😂

You must watch the sequel, Airplane 2. You're going to love it.

Came to the comments to see 50 joke explanations.

After the ending credits it shows what happened to the old man in the taxi. You missed it

First five minutes you guys missed so much. You can't talk over the movie in this or you'll miss most of the jokes.

There is an after credits scene. Maybe the first ever? No one sticks around for it.

great movie, great reaction... the sequel is good too x

Thanks for the reaction. I think you missed the clip after the end credits.

You two GOT TO watch Jaws!

Classic movie

27:49 look it's mike ehrmantraut !

I think the reason you both didn't think it was as hilarious is due to the age of the movie. There is A LOT of cultural phenomenon during the time it was made; which caused a great portion of the bits to, unfortunately go over your head. Hopefully, with several commenters already pointing them out it'll give you a better understanding why this movie is considered one of the greatest "spoof" movies of all time. Also, and nobody ever mentions this...the airplane in the movie had jet engines; yet the sound it made when flying was that of propeller engines. To me; that is the crazy funny.

Shirley, you need to see Jaws.

A shame that you did not enjoy it.

You guys are fun to watch movies with

Great reaction

12:25 -- this was a reference to THIS commercial. Notice that it's the same actress. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7BknqZ3l5izYqs.html

Love to see the younger generation discover this crazy movie. Yes! do a Jaws reaction.

just saw Scary Movie 3 reaction, was hoping for this!

These guys need to look up the definition of "satire" .

1. I guess I picked the wrong week to stop watching "first time reaction" Airplane clips. 2, Little things to look for: Ted was in the Air Force but at the bar he's wearing a Navy Lt. Uniform. One of the fish was a freshwater catfish. A couple of Hari Krishna's actually leave the airport. It's a jet but the background noise is of a prop plane. The woman with a horse in her bed is creepy Captain Oveur's wife. Captain Kramer walks out of a mirror. 3. Otto/Auto pilot has his own webpage on IMDB 4. Elaine has permission to sit on MY face.😍😋 5. IMVHO Airplane II is better. Destination moon. I saw it first. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 6. Two other Funny Movies (that are connected somewhat) for you to share are: "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles"🤣🤣 Reply