Well, we're up to 1.4K pelvic exams. That's more than 5 pelvic exams a day for a year (with weekends off). I don't know if that's below or above average for a typical obgyn.

"Why can’t he drink anything?" He has a drinking problem.

There's so many dated and underlying jokes in this movie that younger audiences of today can't possibly appreciate because of the time gap. One example is the older woman who "speaks jive" to the black guys is Barbara Billingsley. The audience in 1980 would all know that she played June Cleaver in the 1950's T.V. show "Leave It To Beaver". She was the epitome of the white, suburban, nuclear family house wife who wore a dress and pearls just to vacuum the house and clean the kitchen. The notion that she, of all people, can speak JIVE just made the scene that much more hilarious.

The longest running joke in Airplane is the jet making propeller noises.

15:19 "I wish I could drink, but I'm afraid I'll do a spit-take or something." It's okay Jen, admitting you have a drinking problem is the first step.

Hey Jen, I just wanted to tell you good luck we’re all counting on you.

If you haven't watched them yet, you should watch the Naked Gun movies. Same humor, same directors, and starring Leslie Nielsen. They're fantastic.

First reactor who recognized Peter Graves from Mission Impossible series... Thanks, Jen's dad! Also, at 21:38, Timmy's coffee is a treat! Another great reaction.

Ethel Merman was a famous Broadway and film actor. This was her last movie. There's something brilliant about the idea of her last role playing a person who thinks they're Ethel Merman.

One of the most pervasive, yet subtlest running jokes of the movie is every time there's an external shot to the plane, they have the drone of propellers, even though it is a jet engine plane.

Several months ago I had to go to the emergency room, and when I was checking in the nurse asked my what was wrong. I said I was having a problem with my bowel and when she asked, "What is it?" I could not resist. I said, "It's a long tube inside your body where your food goes. But that's not important right now." totally deadpan. Her eyes got big, her mouth dropped open, she smiled and said, "I love that movie." Her reaction was like, "Oh my god, I can't believe that just happened in real life!" To be honest, I was feeling the same it. It was a lot of fun actually. I'm so glad it worked. She picked up the reference instantly.

The Zucker brothers actually bought the rights to a 1950s movie called "Zero Hour!" in order to spoof it without breaking any copyright laws. Besides the jokes, puns and sight gags, most of the film is word-for-word from the original film, and delivered in the same deadpan style. This movie "discovered" the comedic talents of Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves, all of whom had been serious dramatic actors with lengthy careers previous to this film. Numerous deadpan-style comedies followed, most notably the Naked Gun and Hot Shots series. Also, the lady that "spoke Jive" was Barbara Billingsley, the wholesome mom in the "Leave it to Beaver" series from the 50s. The guy checking under the airplane's hood was a cameo by Jimmie Walker from the 70s sitcom "Good Times", famous for his line, "Dyn-o-mite!" "I feel like I've seen him before..." The actor playing the Hare Krishna that you recognized was comedian David Leisure, who became famous in the 80s for a series of automobile ads as the lying car salesman "Joe Isuzu." The first time I ever saw the movie, I was laughing so hard I definitely missed half the jokes and had to watch it again. There are a lot of gags in it that were in the background (blink or you'll miss it jokes), and some of them were very "70s" jokes that don't work well unless you know the 70s, but most of them are still funny today.

Please watch "Top Secret!" (1984)! Made by the same guys who made "Airplane!".

You'll see a lot of references in this movie. The line "Win one for the Zipper" was based on a movie that starred Ronald Reagan playing real life college football player George Gipp. Knute Rockney, coach, was visiting Gipp in the hospital due to an illness. Gipp told Rockney that if his team was down, "Win one for the Gipper."

Good memory, Jen. You're correct about the pilot being in the old Mission Impossible shows. He played Mr. Phelps, the guy who listened to the tape recordings before they self-destructed.

The beauty of this disaster movie spoof is the fact that the cast do such a fantastic job of playing their roles completely straight and dramatic as if they were in a serious disaster film. It's genius and allows the jokes to land perfectly, and you can imagine it wasn't an easy task for the actors (except maybe Leslie Nielsen) since they all knew the film was a comedy.

Lorna Patterson who played "Randy" really did sing "The River of Jordan". That's her voice. --- Robert Hays who played "Ted Striker" is a pilot in real life and is qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft..

I just wanted to tell you both: good luck, we're all counting on you.

Yes, you may have missed what happened after the end credits ... the guy in the taxi appears, looks at his watch and says , "Ill give him 20 more minutes and then that's it"

My favorite joke in the movie is the one where the reporters say "Lets get some pictures" then proceed to take all the pictures off the walls.

This movie happily ruined me when I saw Titanic in the theatre. The part where DiCrapio is dancing with Winslet and we get the same POV shot, I burst out laughing because the same scene from Airplane was so ingrained in me. Fortunately there were a few others in the audience that laughed as well. I like to think that it was for the same reason. And honestly, to this day, when I see a wide-shot of people smiling, I instantly imagine someone coming into frame... from the ceiling ;) -loved yer laugh.

Julie Hagerty who played Elaine is also in a hilarious movie you should check out called "What About Bob?". It stars Bill Murray as a neurotic patient with multiple phobias and Richard Dreyfuss as a self-involved psychiatrist. It's a blast!

'We have clearance Clarence,.. ..roger! Roger,.. ...what's our vector Victor?'. 🤣 Gets me everytime....

The guy in the taxi was the actual Howard Jarvis, who wrote and successfully promoted the California Prop. 13 tax law.

The music is by legendary composer Elmer Bernstein. He had a LONG career composing film scores including scores for movies like The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill A Mockingbird...

5:06 Yes that’s Peter Graves from the TV show, Mission Impossible. His brother was James Arness who played Matt Dillon on the TV western Gunsmoke. It was on the air for about 25 years (plus several years on the radio prior to that). It was the longest running TV show for many years until it was beaten by the Simpsons.

Airplane(1980) is a spoof of 1970's disaster epics(Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, The Swarm, City on Fire). It's also a spoof of the 1958 film Zero Hour.

After a decade of disaster movies this was a breath of fresh air. This was a slapstick monster.. ZAZ raised the bar for stupid humor and reinforced Three Stooge mentality for sickos like me. Thanx guys! Launched Leslie Nielsen into comedic career after three decades in drama. ENJOY!

There were jokes throughout the credits abd a post credits scene. Yes, you will realize jokes after many views. I first saw this back in 1981 and just recently noticed that when we meet Rex Cramer, he is in front of a mirror, then when leaving he steps through it. The same team made the equally funny but more insane Top Secret!

Old school dead pan comedy. Just what the world needs right now. Bust out the corn for popping good times inbound.

The lady getting all that makeup on her face was Charlotte Zucker. Her sons, Jerry and David, were two of the directors of this film. She would also pop up in later films they also directed and/or produced. The captain at the airport, Rex Kramer, was played by Robert Stack. He would be known in the late 80s and through most of the 90s as the host/narrator of "Unsolved Mysteries", a documentary series which showed re-enactments of real life cases that had gone unsolved for long periods of time. The show recently had a brief revival on Netflix, but it was a little different from the original with Robert Stack.

This was the beginning of Leslie Nielsen’s comedic acting career.

You literally quoted a Friends episode there! Jen: “I love that it’s not just ‘Airplane’, it’s ‘Airplane!’” Phoebe Buffay: “The exclamation point in the title kinda scares me, it’s not just ‘Freud’, it’s ‘Freud!’” That is all 😂

A lot of the humor in this movie is missed because younger audience members (those watching the movie ten years after it was released) miss the references. The co-pilot was a famous basketball player (just as the assassin baseball player in The Naked Gun was a famous baseball player), the second-cup-of-coffee bit starred the actress who did the same kind of commercials for Yuban coffee and actors Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all serious actors in serious movie and television roles. Having the original Mr. Phelps from TV's Mission: Impossible innocently ask a kid if he ever saw a grown man naked was what rocked audiences when this movie was released. There's also a bit of a carry through having Leave It To Beaver's mother translating jive as the actor who played her oldest son was in the director's previous Kentucky Fried Movie (written and acted by the three and directed by John Landis) playing that role in a court room scene. I'm sure others on this comment section will fill you in on more references, particularly the Zero Hour ones which also included unaltered lines from that movie.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar was a basketball player in those days. He was also friends with martial artist Bruce Lee.

A big part of why this movie worked so well is that they had a bunch of experienced dramatic actors saying and doing very silly things with utmost seriousness.

A sequel to Airplane was made 2 years later called Airplane 2 The Sequel. Ted, Elaine, the creepy pilot, Lloyd Bridges, Johnny all come back but instead of Leslie Nielsen, you have William Shatner stealing the show. You should check that one out.

I gotta say, putting Airplane! right after Saving Private Ryan is a good move. We all need a good laugh after that horrifying and heart-breaking masterpiece. 👍 Definitely one of my all-time favourite comedies, with seemingly endless rewatchability. 🤣🤣🤣

"AND DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY!"

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

This movie is absolutely genius comedy wise. Being British I love deadpan humour, when the characters do something outlandish and never acknowledge it like it’s no big deal, like the bits about “It’s such and such but that’s not important right now” get me laughing fit to burst. One of my favourite gags is the subtle joke that the airplane despite having modern jet engines sounds like a WW2 plane. A lot of people miss that.

Surely you can't be serious. "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley. "

I highly recommend "The Naked Gun"!

Yep the Captain is played by Peter Graves who did indeed play Jim Phelps in the original Mission Impossible TV show (67 to 73).

The scene where Ted and Elaine are on the beach is a reference to a famous 1953 film 'From Here to Eternity'.

The first guy you recognized was a total unknown at the time of this movie. He came to fame doing Isuzu commercials (Joe Isuzu) not long after this. He later went on to have a recurring role in the TV show Empty Nest (and a rare appearance on Golden Girls). I’m not sure what you’d recognize him from, as you seem fairly young and I’m not sure what else he’s done since back then. He was a real flash in the pan… a 5-10 year career peak. A nobody before and a nobody since. Btw, this movie has tons of interesting actor/character placements. They used Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen to give it a dramatic expectation (Nielsen had only done dramas up until now). The woman speaking jive is a stereotypical 1950s mom from TV (Barbara Billingsley… June Cleaver from Leave It To Beaver). And there are many more (like JJ Walker). It’s quite a tour de force. Spectacular movie.

I love the fact that you hear multi engine prop plane for a jet airliner. Ted was in the US Air Force and was wearing a US Navy officer uniform. This movie is hilarious because everyone is playing it seriously.

2:25 David Leisure, a/k/a Joe Isuzu in those hysterical Isuzu commercials of the 80s.

Kaiser in my city has their hospital for in-patients in one building and their medical offices and out-patient clinics in a couple of other buildings a few blocks away. In 2019, a week after kidney stone surgery, I had an unrelated appointment in one of the out-patient clinics. I felt incredibly sick but didn't realize it was a post-op infection because I always felt horrible after kidney stone removal and because I so sick that I wasn't thinking rationally. I almost passed out walking to the exam table, and noting that I had an elevated temperature and dangerously low blood pressure, the doctor said "We have to get you to the ER and admit you to the hospital!" I said "Hospital? What is it?" and she said "You could be going into shock from a post-op infection." Then I told her "You should have said 'It's a big building with patients.'" Even when I'm delirious from bacterial toxins, I still have my wacky sense of humor.

I have watched this movie probably 60 times. I finally got to the point where I don't notice new jokes anymore! 🤣

The highest rated COmedy movie of all time for a very good reason.

He thinks he’s Ethel merman still one of my fav cameos

You are right. The guy who played Pilot Captain Oveur *WAS INDEED* from the TV series *Mission Impossible.* He was Jim Phelps. The guy in the beginning of each episode was getting his team assignments and to make sure the tape self-desructs.

The key of the success of this movie was how intelligent were David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams when it comes to use the absurd humor. And is because that humor is using from a tragic set and serious actings, mocking about the drama, so the impact is funnier because the sensation of scapism is bigger. Many people hate this film and say its humor is silly...but come on, is really clever and witty. Favorite scenes: the dance in the disco, the sordid conversations between Peter Graves and Ross Harris, Robert Hays covered in sweat while landing the plane, Lorna Patterson singing River of Jordan, Ted's flashbacks about the Molombos tribe, the slap-in-a-row scene, and of course all the scenes of Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack.

Awesome review, per usual… 😂 Hilarious movie and you are absolutely right, you can watch it over and over again and still find new things to laugh about. “Hot Shots” and “Naked Gun” series are right up there with the slapstick humor. One of the best gags often gets looked over and that’s the guy in the cab. After the end credits it shows him again. Still sitting in the cab. 😂 Anyway, I hope you’re having a wonderful week and hope you’re staying warm. Until next time Jen. 😉

12:32 - when I was a kid my dad and Uncle would laugh their heads off at this scene lol

Loved your reaction. One thing that I didn't see in the comments was that Leslie Neilson had for years tried to get a comedic acting role but couldn't get one because he was a 'serious dramatic' actor. and neither the studios or his manager wanted to play with his image. Then along comes Airplane and he steals the show. He never played another dramatic role in his life. I don't know for a fact (because I never spoke to the man) but I suspect his attitude was...WORTH IT.

All I know is that when I’m having a bad day, I’m quoting this movie…”I guess I picked the wrong day to stop drinking.”

Such a fun movie. Check out The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! if you haven't seen that. Done by the same filmmakers, SO good.

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

I'm just glad I'm not giving up any of my vices this week.

Funny oversight by many, the nun was Maureen McGovern, known for singing a couple of songs for two famous disaster movies which you already reacted to -The Morning After from “The Poseidon Adventure” -We May Never Love Like This Again - “The Towering Inferno”

The guy in the beginning with the shaved head use to play - in the 1980’s Isuzu ads - Joe Isuzu; very funny ads.

There are also some jokes specific to that time period like the older lady speaking jive who played the suburban mom on Leave It To Beaver and the 2nd cup of coffee joke with the couple that was referencing an old coffee commercial.

The advantage with the comedy of this movie is-take everything literally!!!

This is a parody of several movies. However, the primary movie referenced is The Dark Hour. The actor who played the co-pilot was a pro baseball player. In this movie, Kareem Abdul Jabar, a pro basketball player is the co-pilot.

That was really Ethel Merman

"Surely you can't be serious." "Yes I am and don't call me Sherly!" Classic! 🤣

Since you liked the music, I recommend Stripes (1981), preferably the theatrical cut. The score for both Airplane! and Stripes was done by Elmer Bernstein. Airplane! has serious actors in a comedic role, Stripes has a mostly serious score accompanying a comedic movie. The Stripes March wouldn't be out of place in a classic war film... Bernstein worked on a few of those too.

10:19 - LLOYD BRIDGES. Lloyd Bridges Jr. (January 15, 1913 - March 10, 1998) was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.

Great reaction. If you want silly movies, try Mel Brooks films Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, and Monty Python films Holy Grail and Life Of Brian.

what made the jokes even better was the majority of actors were known for dramas at the time. Leslie Neilson (the doctor) was best known for playing villains in films until this point and stuck with comedies for the rest of his career.

4:53 I don't think any scene based in the '70's is complete without _this_ song.

This movie is an almost scene for scene re make of the 1957 movie Zero Hour. This was the very first movie script that Abrahams and the Zucker wrote. They even bought the rights to the Zero Hour movie so they wouldn't violate copyright laws.

This movie is top tier goof overload. I won’t say every joke holds up, but I sure do miss the times when these fast and loose comedy spoof movies were good.

"I assume it's gonna be kinda goofy" Kinda?!? 🤣🤣🤣

There was a tag at the end of the credits, the guy in the taxi is still there : )

the counterpoint bit was from a segment that used to appear on 60 Minutes.

Hi Jen, I thought that I'd give this one a rewatch too, to help you and your channel.

The filmmakers follow up to this movie is Top Secret which I think is even better. Highly recommend it. THEN move on to their Naked Gun films. I would enjoy watching them with you.

1) Legit case for funniest movie ever. 2) Using the kids for the coffee scene was brilliant. Check on KZfaq Airplane coffee scene original and the spoof. 3) Opening a film about an airplane with a JAWS gag. Brilliant! 4) They show establishing shots of a jet plane, but you can clearly hear throughout the film that it's a propeller aircraft. Brilliant audio gag, but in truth they wanted it to be a propeller plane but the studio said it had to be a jet. So they used the jet, but just had propeller sounds throughout. I think that makes it funny for several reasons. It wasn't so much a joke for the audience, it was just going around what the studio wanted. Complying with them, but in the most blatantly noncompliant way possible.

You were right about Peter Graves from Mission Impossible. The Hari Krishna guy who said he gave at the office was a guy who first became famous for a series of commercials in the 80s where he played a cheesy liar. Later, he had a regular role as the cheesy neighbor on the TV sitcom Empty Nest. You might remember Robert Hays from several things, but his biggest TV roles were as the husband on the sitcom Angie (a show that had a lot of similarities to the sitcom Rhoda). Angie was a waitress who marries a rich guy played by Hayes, and the show was about her adjusting to her new wealth. In the show, she also had a demanding mother and a kid sister, just like Rhoda. And much later, when they turned the sci-fi movie Starman into a regular series, Hays played the role of the alien (played by Jeff Bridges in the movie. Whose father, Lloyd Bridges is in this movie as the guy who keeps quitting all of his addictions this week, BTW). In the series, Starman returns to earth to find his love interest from the movie had a son by him, and he joins with his teenage son to find her. Starman might be a fun movie to check out too.

Nobody ever picks up on this, but they are using a prop plane sound for the jet plane for the whole movie.

Since the movie is over 40 years old, younger people may not get some of the jokes because they are in reference to something of that era. There are also some big name actors that younger people may not know but there’s enough comedy to make anybody laugh. “Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by 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.”

This was a great reaction, I absolutely love this movie.

Thank you for watching this great comedy, Jen. Your reaction was the best. I highly recommend that you watch "Airplane II: The Sequel". Most of the original cast returns in it. While it's not as good as the original, it does have it shares of good laughs. Not to mention that it's a movie that few reactors have watched. I think you would enjoy it.

For more comedies like this - Airplane! 2 and Top Secret, both by the same team, and 1941 by Steven Spielberg. All classics, although 1941 is that type of movie where it doesn’t always seem to work, but you’ll keep remembering the jokes afterwards.

If you want silly and funny, start watching Mel Brooks movies. Blazzing Saddles, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and more.

Actually, this movie is almost shot-for-shot a humorous "remake" of a 1950's adventure movie called "Zero Hour!" (yes, with the exclamation point as well). They do change up a few scenes to make them funny, and more in tune with the late '70's early '80's timeframe.

The scene where the heart is bouncing around, that is the Mayo Clinic. If u notice, there is a lot of mayo jars on the shelves behind him. That was part of the joke.

"Point/Counterpoint" was a regular feature on the news magazine program "60 Minutes" back then.

The beach scene (with the seaweed and fish) is a reference to the old black-and-white movie From Here to Eternity. The scene is often considered very romantic, so Airplane showed the problems with that idea.

The first 2 Naked Gun movies are similar tone and hilarious!

Robert Hays is in the "Homeward Bound" films where the two dogs and one cat travel a few hundred miles to get back home. Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future) voices one of the dogs in both films. The first film is a remake from a 1960s Disney version.

This is not a dig on Jen, but this movie is greatly lost on those not of the era in which it was released. So many laughs depend upon recognition of actors in this film going totally against character, and other references to the late '70s (or what we would now consider memes of that time). How many 20-somethings today recognize Howard Jarvis playing the guy in the taxi? Know why he is notable, or know why it was entertaining to see him in this scene? Or what the woman thinking about her husband having a second cup of coffee at home is supposed to mean. I know because I'm 68-years old. But I don't expect a person 40 years my junior to know about the pop culture of that time. At least half the energy of this movie has been eroded by time and memory. If you are young and think this movie is funny, double your funny score for those of us that saw it in the time it was released.

One thing you cut out was a scene where an air traffic controller is watching the plane bounce around all over the place on radar and says “What an A-hole”. That actor is Jonathan Banks who went on to play the fixer Mike Ehrtmantraut on the TV show Breaking Bad.

The man that said we gave at the office is from Empty Nest the spinoff of The Golden Girls,

The Counterpoint guy made me laugh the hardest.

After watching this movie, I'll probably never fly again.

Genius casting, picking actor who, up to this point, had been known primarily for their dramatic roles to play many of the parts - Peter Graves (yes, ftom Mission Impossible), Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges (father of Beau and Jeff Bridges), and Leslie Nielson. Nielson had already had a successful career as a dramatic actor through the 50s, 60s, and 70s before becoming known to a younger generation as a comedic actor. This was Ethel Merman’s last movie role. The two airport crew who crashed the plane into the airport at the beginning of the movie were played by David and Larry Zucker, the writers and directors of the film. Their mother Charlotte played the passenger putting on her makeup. I hope you saw the post credits scene. This was the first movie I’d ever seen with a post credits scene.