In the script, the wife who gets slapped for being hysterical was only supposed to be slapped by one person. The actress herself came up with the idea of having a line of people waiting with increasingly more lethal weapons and brought it to the director, who loved the gag and filmed it instead.

I have never seen anyone enjoy this movie less. Amazing.

The airport announcers at the beginning were genuine voice actors who did the job for real - and they were actually married !

Let me just tell you that as an airline Captain who has been flying professionally for 20 years, this movie is quoted, ALL THE TIME, in the flight deck. I had a generational gap with a first officer recently, young guy, had never seen this movie….I assigned him homework to watch it.

The heart patient was Jill Whelan, who played Vicki Stubing, daughter of Captain Stubing (played by Gavin MacLeod) on The Love Boat. You likely remember her from that.

I don't understand how people don't get the humor of Airplane!

I’m so happy to see that you picked up on the Yuban coffee commercial gag. What’s even funnier is that she was the same actress that was in the commercial.

Toni's thought processes and interpretation of what is going on in these movies never ceases to amaze and confound me.

The whole movie is an almost like for like remake of a supposedly serious movie - Zero Hour ! (hence the exclamation mark). In that the co-pilot is played by an ex-NFL football player who was trying to break into the movies. That's the reason the Zucker brothers approached NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to play the co-pilot Roger Murdock and why he's wearing his strip.

Fun fact: the voice actors for the airport announcers who argue about the red zone and white zone over the intercom were, in fact, a married couple who made the same announcements at Los Angeles International Airport in real life.

“It’s not a killer plane, is it?” 😂 😂

Johnny's antics are just some of the best parts of Airplane! for me. Given that he adlibbed everything, the guy deserves credit - allegeldy the 'leon's getting laaaaarger' one was very difficult for people in the scene to not break character and start laughing. Shame he died so young, only 38 with complications from AIDS.

Imagine being able to make a movie with nothing off limits and the audience being able to handle it! Them was the days !

The scene with them making out on the beach and the waves crashing over them is a spoof of a famous scene from the movie From Here to Eternity (1953) starring Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr...it also starred a quite young Frank Sinatra.

People now don't get the joke of the many annoying zealots in the airport -- they were like mosquitos, everyone hated them. Also, a joke that I got the first time, but missed for about the next 40 years -- the nun tells the doctor, "you're wanted on the phone." In 1980, this would have been as likely as telling someone on a plane, "they need you in surgery." There were very much no phones on planes, so this diversion was a very minor joke that I just rediscovered.

David gets this movie. He was laughing like I laugh when I rewatch it. Toni just looked mildly puzzled 😂😂😂

(10:14) Pretty sure that's an homage to *"From here to Eternity"* _(1953),_ with Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr.

Well it seems we've found the one person on the planet not to laugh at the 'Shirley' moment !

As I get older, this movie just gets funnier and funnier. Almost nobody picks up on them, so I'll be curious to see if you notice... 1) the propeller noise coming from a jumbo jet (this was a staple sound effect in older movies featuring airplanes) 2) the beach kissing scene inspired by From Here to Eternity kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i-Clkq-W3621iYU.html 3) the pep talk inspired by the death of George Gipp (the Gipper) in Knute Rockne, All-American kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lctnpdChz6i3gmw.html These last two were both *extremely* famous movie scenes and audiences in 1980 definitely understood the references.

I laughed so hard watching this! David, like you, I grew up with this movie and ALL of the references made. My Mom and I would always do the Shirley joke thing and so many others. Toni, you did great considering you were thrown in the deep end of this type of movie. I still spot things that I missed the first 30 or so times I've watched it!!

I saw this in the theater in its original run, and was laughing so hard I was crying. Three elderly people behind me had Toni’s reaction, and at the end said “this was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.” 😂

Now everyone's familiar with these genre parody films, but back then, this was groundbreaking for it's originality. It was unlike anything anyone had seen. Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges (father of actors Jeff and Beau Bridges) were all accomplished dramatic actors at this point. Leslie Nielsen, too, had had a long successful career as a dramatic actor through the 50s, 60s, and 70s, before finding a second career for a younger audience as a comedic actor in the 80s and 90s. You can also see him in the Naked Gun movies, and the short-lived tv show they were based on, Police Squad. The old woman who spoke jive was Barbara Billingsley, who played the mother in the quintessential 50s-60s family sitcom Leave it to Beaver. That really was Ethel Merman in the hospital. This was her last movie role. She died a few years later. The two airport workers who sent the plane crashing into the airport were played by David and Larry Zucker, two of the writers and directors of the movie, and the makeup lady was played by their mom, Charlotte. I'm impressed- Not many reactors recognize Jimmie Walker as the airplane mechanic, and you're the first one I've seen who recognized David Leisure, who played Joe Isuzu in the commercials.

33:08 "did you enjoy it at all?" david enjoyed it enough for you both. 🙂

This movie is classic slapstick. Cast of major stars doing silly things makes it even better. btw, there are catfish in the ocean. The sick girl was on The Love Boat series.

(13:14) She was the Captain's daughter on The Love Boat.

FUN FACT Director Cameo: Jerry Zucker, David Zucker (who made this movie): appear as the ground crew at the movie's beginning (they are the ones that direct the plane into the window of the terminal).

The questions the pilot is asking aren't random; he likes little boys and is trying to come onto Joey - hence why Elaine is nervous and tries to get Joey out of the cockpit.

FYI. The 1st man in the tower, after an emergecy was declared is Mr Loydd Bridges. He was the father of Jeff Brigdes & Beau Bridges.

Wow...I've heard there were people who didn't find this movie very funny...but I thought it was some type of urban myth. Interesting to watch someone NOT enjoy this movie. I'd rather her be honest and not really like it than try to fake like it. Good reaction!! Thanks for not faking it to please those of us who loved this movie. I've hit the "subscribe" button because of the honesty.

Looks like she picked the wrong week to quit humor. 😁

I just noticed when the plane crashes through the window in the beginning, the woman holding the baby yeets it into the air.

"We need to get this woman to a hospital" "A hospital? What is it?" "It's a big building with patients....but that's not important right now" LOL

The transplant recipient and the flight attendant who played guitar for her were both on the TV show “Love Boat”

I think I laughed just as hard at Toni's reaction (or lack of) as I did the first time I saw this classic.

There’s a joke about every 10 seconds in this movie. If you talk, you will miss a joke. 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.”

13:15 ... she was on the TV series "The Love Boat" as Vicki Stubbing... Captain Stubbing's daughter

I must be a rare bird because I got all the references in this movie & I’m a millennial. Also, Captain Rex Kramer is most known for the TV show he hosted called “Unsolved Mysteries”.

3:20 Writer/Director cameos - David and Jerry Zucker. Oh and the woman trying to apply make up throughout the flight is their Mom, Charlotte.

Microwave is the generic term. It was originally called an Amana (brand-name) Radar Range.

The funny thing is that there is (was) a video on KZfaq that compared scene for scene 'Airplane' with the actual movie it was inspired by and you'll see that not much was changed.

Fun factoid: the producers bought the rights to a old black and white movie called zero hour, almost all dialogue in the serious scenes were word for word (cept the jokes of course)

The Red Zone/White Zone thing always cracks me up. Either their in separate rooms, which makes no sense if you know about intercom systems, or they're in the same room, exchanging icy glares and airing grievances.

In the scene where the soldier stands in the open door of the airplane and yells goodbye to his girlfriend, who is running alongside and almost bumps into structures, is a spoof of the film Since You Went Away (1944), which is a really good film, but rather long. David Selznick was trying to re-create the success that he had with Gone With The Wind (1939).

(29:03) She doesn't get enough praise for her role. She kept the film moving.

My mom wouldn't let me watch Jaws but my uncle let me watch this and it's the first movie that I was actually in stitches in.. it was before my mother taught me that silly wasn't funny. :) Never laughed so much.. it was the unplugging of the runway lights that absolutely killed me lolol back in the day we didn't have a sex offender registry, we knew who they were and were never allowed to be alone with certain people lol. children knew.

Fun fact: The scene where Ted first catches up with Elaine was shot at LAX. That funky, 70s multi colored wall is still there today.

5:10 “They don’t really do that, right?” Correct! Jet aircraft don’t have engines like cars. They have jet. Famously, on the wings. There’s no engine under the hood for checking the oil. :-) Also, an often missed joke is that the engines are jets, but exterior shots of the plane flying uses sounds from a propeller. :-)

In Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker movies you have to watch them more than once. There's always something going on in the backgrounds. Even the end credits are goofy. You have to watch all the way through.

Jill Whelan was the actress who played the young girl needing the heart transplant. She is most well known for playing Vicki, the captain’s daughter on “The Love Boat.”

This movie is always fun for me to watch to see how many of the jokes and more importantly, how many of the former stars they recognize in this movie. Basically, every male with gray hair was a former big time star parodying his roles that made him famous. The two exceptions being Jimmy J.J. Walker from Good Times who was the airplane mechanic checking the oil. And Kareem Abdul Jabber the really tall black pilot. If Toney cries during this one, I just don't know what to say. LOL. The little girl with the IV was on a ton of Love Boat episodes. Leslie Neilson was the Doctor and he always played serious detective type roles and was most famously the main character in the old sci fi classic movie "Forbidden Planet." Then later in the Naked Gun movies were he basically plays an expanded version of this character. The old guy that was always picking a bad week to quit something is Lloyd Bridges. Maybe the biggest star in the movie. He is Jeff and Beaux Bridges' dad and a big star from the 50-s60's.. Kramer is Robert Stack. Most famously from the "Untouchables" tv series from the 60's. He played Elliot Ness. And The Pilot is Peter Graves. He was the main dude on the original "Mission Impossible" tv show from the 60's. Oh, the old woman that speaks Jive played June Cleaver, Beavers mom on the Leave it to Beaver tv show.

26:08 "But they don't take actual picture of the plane...?" I've seen this movie a million times and that's the first time I noticed that...🤯

I've seen this a few times and now I realized that the guy who dances with a knife in his back to the song stayin' alive..

I think that the nurse is Sandy Duncan. She played PETER PAN ON BROADWAY.

It does make sense in a riot looking for a place to break out kind of way. In conedy, Toni makes a good "straight person" to your more comedic reactions. There was no PG13 rating back then.

No one ever reviewing this notices that when they are on the ground, the pilot shifts through the gears while they are moving.

The girl heart patient looks familiar because she and the stewardess that played the guitar were both on The Love Boat together

I'm really curious to see her reaction to mel brooks stuff now 😂

The aiplane window cleaner is JIMMY WALKER; J.J FROM `GOOD TIMES". The captain is PETER GRAVES. From the original MISSION IMPOSSIBLE TV SERIES. CO PILOT IS NBA HALL OF FAMER, LAKERS, KAREEM ABDUL JABAAR.

Leslie Nielsen second slap on that woman hahaha

I have seen lots of reactions to Airplane! and no one has ever mentioned that it's a jet plane but you hear propeller engine noise! And you have to read the credits.

The little girl heart patient later played Captain Stubing's daughter on the Love Boat.

👏A reaction commenting on the open luggage racks which along with propeller noise pays homage to "Zero Hour." Many Zero Hour scenes are copied or parodied in addition to the many other references and gags demonstrating great writing and detail. Running gag was several references to the 1980 election with Ronald Reagan running (US News magazine, last RR film the couple watched, and of course the pep talk parody from 1939's Knute Rockne All American; coach Rockne actually died in a plane crash years later).

The dance scene in the bar where they met with the disco music playing and he pulls off his uniform and all of a sudden he’s got the white outfit on that’s a spoof of the movie “Saturday Night Fever “ that was popular at the time.

The beach scene is from the movie, “From Here to Eternity.” Almost nobody gets that one.

‘That’s silly’ truer words were never spoken!

(3:33) I was 10 when I saw this at the theatres. When I saw the walls, I said to my Dad, Dad, they're at Chicago, O'Hare. Felt so smart.

That was tough watch. Well done Toni.

Another reference most don't know because the movie is so old (1940) is the story at 20:00 about George Zipp and win one, etc. That's a takeoff on the story about Notre Dame football in "Knute Rockne, All-American" and a dying player named George Gipp used as a motivational speech by famed legendary coach Rockne. The part of Gipp was played by Ronald Reagan.

9:11 "how is he doing that?" 🙂 strong core.

If you can find it, there's a classic movie starring Jimmy Stewart called Harvey. It's a comedic drama following a guy who insists he's friends with a giant, invisible rabbit called Harvey. I won't spoil the ending for you; but I'm wondering if the humor might be more up the Mrs's alley. Movie release in 1950.

Kareem was referring to Mr Bill Walton. One of the greats, as well!!!

Speaking of the young girl/heart recipient. "She looks familiar. Yeah, but I don`t know who she is though". Could it be she was the daughter of the captain on the "Love Boat". Unless I`m mistaken I think that`s her.

The beach scene is a parody of From Here to Eternity. "Lisa" is played by the same actress as Captain Stubing's daughter on The Love Boat, a TV sitcom set on a cruise liner.

First reactor not to nearly fall off their seat laughing at the little girl’s “like my men” line. But, love that Toni tries to get outside her comfort zone of Easy Company men getting blown up. 😂 Also love that we finally have reactors who pick up on the Yuban coffee ad; Mrs. Cleaver; JJ from Good Times, etc. Toni asked if this is why they stopped serving meals - no, meals are still served, at least in biz and first class and often for sale in coach. BUT apparently, the FAA was asked after the movie came out if they had protocols to avoid all the pilots being felled by food poisoning - and they didn’t. So since then many airlines require that flight crews have different meals from each other.

The end credit scene.... the guy is still in the cab and gives Striker 20 more minutes!!!!

The actor playing the part of the pilot was Peter Graves he starred in the tv series “Mission Impossible “

Another good reaction. :) The girl Lisa (Julie Whelan) is Vicki Stubing from The Love Boat. Johnny for president

13:17 - I think that patient became a regular on the Love Boat.

Besides the horse being a reference to The Godfather it is also alluding to the joke "hung like a horse" 😉

One of the FUNNIEST movies ever made!

10:21 It's actually a spoof of 'From here to eternity' with Burt Lancaster.

Good, you're being much kinder to Toni on this one.

10:15 'From Here to Eternity' is what this scene is parodying.

Music is from HERE TO ETERNITY, WITH WILLIAM HOLDEN.

The beach scene was a parody of From Here To Eternity.

The Guy washing the Windows was Jimmy Walker… Dynomite

Just like many women and humour, it is like me enjoying knitting 😂

This is my FAVORITE comedy! I loved David's reaction to this. I always laugh just as much now as I did back then. David's reaction got me laughing so much my hubby had to come in the room to see what was so funny. When he saw what I was watching, he sat down & watched with me. We quote this movie often. Thanks for reacting to this!! BTW - I have the perfect love story for Toni. It's light, funny & a real love story....50 First Dates. She'll love it! It's got Drew Barrymore & Adam Sandler in it. Comedy for you too, David.

The ratings... It was generally left to the parents to decide what was acceptable for their kids to watch. It was more of a suggestion. This was before everyone got offended by everything.

Dude run. Run now.

Did you know this was an almost word-for-word remake of the 1957 film Zero Hour! from Paramount? And did you recognize the mom from Leave It to Beaver?

The little girl on the plane that needed the heart transplant, you said she looked familiar she was on the tv show “The Love Boat”she was the captain’s daughter (or niece).

the beach love scene was from “from here to eternity”

Watched this with my 15 year old daughter, and the one part that broke her was the pilot creeping on the boy

Notice that the jet passenger plane sounds like a turbo prop. Propellars!!!

Half way in ... Not sure what I am enjoying more ... Her total look of confusion, or his anticipation for the punch line ... LOL enjoying it tho .. :-D Oh and the sick girl was from the LOve boat ..

2:49 & on ... the difference in your expressions! 😹

The girl with the I.V. played Vicki Stubbings, the Captains daughter on Love Boat.

Also the scene of them on the beach laying in the sand and getting hit with the water and seaweed and fish that’s a spoof of a real old classic movie “From Here To Eternity “with Bert Lancaster (Archie Graham in Field Of Dreams).

That little girl that was having a hard choice and plant was on the Blood boat in the early 1980s late 1970s