I just want to tell everybody in the comments: good luck, we're all counting on you.

"You're Kareem Abdul Jabbar!" "I don't watch Baseball" That one got me real good. 😂

This movie has so many jokes, a young person can laugh at 100 of them, and miss the other 100, and still be perfectly tickled.

As a 25 year flight attendant, I can tell you that this movie is 100% accurate.

This morning, Siri said, "Don't call me Shirley." It seems I had accidentally left my phone in Airplane mode.

The guy who "picks the wrong day to quit" is Lloyd Bridges, father of Beau and Jeff Bridges.

I love how in the beach scene, Striker tells Elaine the entire attack plan: When they will ship out, what the target is, from which direction they will be approaching, at which height, etc. But when she asks when he'll be back, he just answers: "I can't tell you that, it's classified" 🤣

"A hospital? What is it?" "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now."

Never has a second cup of coffee at home was a commercial at the time. It's an entirely different kind of flying ALL TOGETHER.

Airplane is one of those movies you think you're better than. You think it's cute but corny. Then a joke hits you and you can't help but belly laugh. Then you get hit again.

Watching this movie in a theater back when it came out in the 1980s, the audience was howling with laughter. The jokes were rapid-fire.

In case you didn't see it, in the post credits we see that the guy is still waiting in the cab and says "Well, I'll give him another 20 minutes, then I'm leaving"

Love the fact that while it is a jet engine aircraft, you constantly hear propeller engine sounds.

The jive lady was Barbary Billingsley, the mother on the sitcom "Leave it to Beaver." Her portrayal of the kind, straight laced, white bread, demure middle class housewife was almost a parody in and of itself. To see her show up speaking jive was the funniest gag in the entire movie.

I've seen this movie a million times. I never noticed the "whacking material" sign on the magazine rack until Ames just pointed it out.

I saw this at the Colosseum theater in Oslo Norway when it came out. I was an exchange student from the US and it was the weirdest feeling to be the only person in a theater of 2,000 who was laughing at all the "inside" jokes from American 70s culture and TV commercials. Great flic.

Roger Ebert had a great way of describing these movies. He said you laugh at every joke twice: once at the joke, and then once again at yourself for laughing at the joke.

"He gave himself a samurai death" Though he doesn't get a line, the disdainful way James Hong (the Japanese officer) looks over at Ted slays me. The man is a treasure.

I'm impressed! Youngsters don't usually get many of the jokes and references, but you got at least half of them 👏

The reactions to “like my men” and “wriggle it” lines are what I watch Airplane reactions for. Those never disappoint.

I laughed my ass off when you said you don’t watch baseball! You are a treasure! 😂❤

One of my favourite jokes in this movie is a kinda subtle one that tends to go by unnoticed, when Kramer steps through the mirror.

One of THE BEST comedies of all time. The drop dead perfect line delivery is Oscar worthy. Airplane is a legend played by legends.

The fact that you picked up on the Saturday Night reference despite not having seen it was most impressive, nicely done.

"Nervous?" "Yes."First time?"No, I've been nervous lots of times"

One of the craziest things about this movie is that it actually a remake of the 1957 melodrama Zero Hour. They bought the rights and use a lot of the dialogue word for word.

28:37 “why does that one have a beard - is it a sports team?” Oh, so precious.

Airplane is one of those comedies you can watch over and over again and see jokes you missed the first time.

"It is a different type of flying... ALL TOGETHER." Then they all say it together.

These videos make my work day much better. As the son of two airline employees, dad was a retired pilot and mom is a retired flight attendant, This movie was like the Bible in the house growing up. ❤

My favorite running gag in this is the engine noise. Every time they show an external shot of the jet you hear the sound of an old World War II type propeller airplane.

Best line of trivia from IMDb: "Robert Hays was in real life a licensed pilot, having completed his training in 1974. Although this was an entirely different kind of flying altogether."

The lady with the inner dialog about second cups of coffee and is beaten up by the passengers was the same actress in a series of popular Yuban coffee commercials where you hear her thoughts... about Jim not having a second cup of coffee.

Part of what makes this movie amazing is you can ask ten different people what they liked the most and probably get ten different answers. Everything with the kids is just too funny.

I saw this in the theatre the week it was realessed. I was 12 years old. I had never laughed so hard. The entire audience was in stitches throughout the movie.

Kareem really was a very famous basketball star in the late 70s and early 80s. His cameo was freaking awesome.

The mechanic who is popping the hood of the plane is comedian Jimmie Walker AKA JJ Evans from the 70s sitcom Good Times.

The propeller sounds when it shows the plane always gets me. 😂

And for those that wonder why Gen X just doesn't care about your feelings, remember this is what a PG movie was when we were growing up.

Peter Graves (Capt Clarence Oveur) , Robert Stack (Rex Cramer), Leslie Nielsen ( Dr. Rumack), and Lloyd Bridges (McCroskey) were known only for heavy, serious, dramatic roles prior to this film, which made the film even more surprising and funny in 1980. The Zucker brothers asked them to play their roles "straight." For some of these actors it changed the course of their careers. The woman who has the panic attack suggested to the directors that the people line up to beat on her. The pep talk Dr Rumack gives is a parody of a scene in "Knute Rockne, All American." There is a character (also an actual person) by the name of George Gipp, with the nickname "The Gipper." He was a player on the Notre Dame football team. Here, the character's name is George Zipp, with the nickname "The Zipper." And in the background while the Doctor is speaking, the soundtrack is playing the Notre Dame fight song. Julie Hagerty is great in the film "What About Bob?"

Leslie Nielsen had been a dramatic actor on television and in theatrical films going all the way back to the 1950s, often playing villains. But with the success of “Airplane!” in 1980, he was able to reinvent himself professionally and enjoy an entire second career as a comic actor through the 1980s, ‘90s, and 2000s.

I love how when the panicked woman was calm for a moment, Leslie Nielsen slapped her again just for good measure.

I'm an airline pilot, and we quote this movie to each other all the time. Classic jokes.

No matter how many times I see this movie the magazine rack with one named "Box Lunch" always makes me smile.

I just want to wish you good luck with your reaction. We're all counting on you. 😎

_"It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether."_ _"It's an entirely different kind of flying."_ Because Ted said "altogether," the others repeated his quote ... altogether.

This is one of those movies that you quote during random conversations and either people know or they don't

What makes this movie work is that all of the characters are completely serious (except Johnny), and were played by actors known for drama instead of comedy. It gave Leslie Nielsen a big career boost. Up until Airplane!, he did serious roles, mostly in B movies. Airplane! turned him into a comedy star. The couple of voices bickering about white zones and red zones were played by the actual couple who did recorded announcements at LAX. They were married in real life. There was a TV commercial for Yuban coffee that showed a couple at a party. The host offered a guy a 2nd cup of coffee, to which his wife replies that he never has a 2nd cup. When the husband accepts the coffee, the wife thinks to herself, "Jim never has a 2nd cup of coffee at home." They got the same two actors in the movie who were in the commercial and gave them the same dialogue. Doctors always have stethoscopes in their ears, even when they're not working. A pap schmear? I'm not eating any bagels at your house! The jive translator lady was Barbara Billingsley. She played the mother on the old TV family sitcom Leave It to Beaver. The show was set in a very white suburb, and her character of June Cleaver was often shown doing things like vacuuming while wearing pearls. For people who grew up watching that show, it was very unexpected (and funny) to see her talking in an exaggerated black dialect. In The Godfather, Jack Woltz woke up with a horse's head in his bed, but in Airplane!, Mrs. Oveur had an entire horse. The show 60 Minutes used to have a Point/Counterpoint segment, that had two commentators with opposite viewpoints debating each other. The "let 'em crash" bit was a parody of that. There's a post-credits scene that shows the guy still waiting in the taxi. He says, "Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes, but that's it!" The actor was Howard Jarvis, a prominent California politician of that time.

The Mayo Clinic is a real place, and the joke was that there were jars of mayo on the shelf. The same people who made Airplane made Top Secret, which is my favorite comedy of all time. That is definitely one to see.

Old stuff: there was a popular TV commercial at the time. A couple have dinner at a friends' house. When offered coffee, the husband has a second cup. The wife wonders, "Jim never has a second cup at home." Then the wife asks the friend what brand of coffee she used. The wife uses it, and the husband likes it better. The man in the cab is Howard Jarvis, famous legislator and author of California's infamous Prop. 13.

The "never has a second cup" line was from a contemporary tv commercial for coffee. Enjoyed your reaction video, thank you!

Easily one of the funniest movies ever made.

you ended before the end, the guy was still waiting in the cab

I saw this movie for the time in 87 when I was 13. It changed my life. It opened me to all sort of humor, puns, visual, background event. I watched it at least once per week during a long long time, ofter finding something new I missed. And here, until today, I NEVER noticed the guy in the passenger seat had scratches on his face because of the dog.

One of the best lines in this movie is too often ignored, "Give me Ham on 5, hold the Mayo"....

Fun video. She missed the Mayo clinic joke. Damn! She did miss a few, but I'm glad she appreciated the ones she got.

Yes and no about comedy pushing boundaries. When it was released none of this humor was considered scandalous. It was just funny. Maybe over the top or outrageous , but no one got upset or was “outraged “. Because it was all in good fun. It used to be so simple. Thanks for reacting.

50-something lady here & remember watching this in the theaters...one of the best comedies out there and love to see a younger generation enjoying it! If you like this, I'd recommend a reaction tohe movie "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka" by the Wayon Brothers. Another great old school comedy. 😊

"That's no way to treat a lady" She's no lady, she's HYSTERICAL!

I will never be able to hear Robert Stack’s voice without thinking about Unsolved Mysteries.

The guy stuck in the cab is Howard Jarvis who was a famous California politician at the time. He had been one of the main proponents of Proposition 13, which modeled the use of citizen's initiatives to pass legislation and limited property taxes. It was a big deal and most people in 1980 would have recognized him.

Airplane! was primarily a send-up of the disaster movies that were in common back then. Movies like Airport, Towering Inferno, Earthquake. But it was also a parody of everything of the day that we now call pop culture. Similar to something like Scream.

My favorite as a kid in the 80’s!!! That black coffee scene always gets me. You can’t find this kind of comedy anymore

I took my cousin to the theater to watch this movie. She laughed so hard that I was embarrassed. She actually peed her pants.

This movie is almost a scene-by-scene parody of the 1957 movie, Zero Hour. There are several clips on KZfaq which show the parallel scenes side by side. After watching this, some of the elements of Airplane! (like having a famous athlete for the co-pilot) make a lot more sense. ---- Early on, a soldier says good to his girl as the plane starts up. This is a direct spoof of a well-known (at the time) 1944 wartime movie. The guy gives his sweetheart one long embrace while the conductor walks up, pulls out his pocketwatch on a chain and says "Better hurry son and get on board." The soldier gets on the train but stands in the vestibule (the ends of the passenger cars), with the top of the dutch door open. He throws his watch to the girl who runs alongside as the train picks up speed. She winds up ALMOST running into the platform light posts. This is copied on Airplane! except she does run into the poles. (You will note the plane starts with chugging sounds.) You can watch this specific scene on KZfaq: Since You Went Away, chasing the train ---- The beach scene is a take on the iconic scene in the 1953 From Here to Eternity, also spoofed in the beginning of Shrek2. ---- The woman who is astonished by her husband having a second cup of coffee is the actor from a well-known commercial for coffee. Her coffee is not good because she uses "brand X" although when they are at a restaurant, he does like a second cup. ---- I still don't get the women with the eggs in her mouth. It is NOT a take-off of the name bird flu, including the bird that flies away (flew) when he cracks the egg. The disease was first diagnosed in 1878, called "fowl plague." In 1981, it was officially named "avian influenza." The first human case was recorded in 1997. Not sure exactly when the nickname bird flu was first used or first popularized. ---- The woman who can speak "jive" was Barbara Billingsley, who had played June Cleaver on the most vanilla tv sitcom, Leave It To Beaver. She was the epitome of the suburban housewife of the 1950's, who did housework dressed up, with her string of pearls almost a trademark. Her big goal in life to make sure the house was always in order and she had dinner on time for her "boys" (husband and two sons). As the feminist movement began to take hold, her character was held up as the one they most wanted to avoid. The producers could NOT have picked a more iconic actress for her role here. (Come to find out, she had a sort of hollow in the front of her neck, which the strong tv lights emphasized by its shadow, so she wore the necklace to hide it. They improvised all the jive talk and years later she recalled how much fun she and the two guys had making this scene.) ---- American audiences were still in shock at the time over the most famous scene from the recently released Godfather. A Hollywood producer wakes up with the severed head of his prize race horse next to him in bed because he ignored "the offer he couldn't refuse." ---- The turkey being cooked was because the first commercially available microwave was introduced in 1975, the Amana "Radarange" because the heating effect of microwaves was first discovered when technicians worked around radar installations. (A guy found a chocolate bar in his pocket completely melted.)

When I first saw this I was thirteen, The sound of the WW 2 prop-engines quietly droning instead of jet engines made me fall off the couch laughing. I love this movie. Thanks You reactions were great.... and don't call me Shirley.

One thing I've learned from watching so many Airplane! reactions... no one under a certain age has ever heard of the Mayo Clinic

the guy checking the turkey cooking in the oven is Mike Ehrmantraut from "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul"

This movie relaunched several careers, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, and notably Leslie Nielson, who always played serious dramatic roles in their early careers delighted audiences with this comedic turn. It spoofed a series of Airport disaster movies, familiar TV commercials, 70's cultural trends and events.

I love how you said you’re aware to expect the unexpected, and then got blindsided 30 more times every few minutes till it ended

I love that fully halfway through the movie, you still thought there was a plot!😂 It makes it even better..

One of my friends, who is pretty tough to crack when it comes to "older" movies. Watched this the other week and he loved it. He described it as "meme humour before memes existed" and I thought that was a pretty perfect description 😂

He said "altogether" get it

My sister and I quote this movie to each other weekly for the last 24 years. And it's funny EVERY. TIME.

on a budget of 3.5million raking in 171 million is pretty darn good for a comedy sketch this well done

It’s amazing how many miss the fact that it’s a jet but throughout the entire movie there’s an airplane propeller sound effect going

Ames: "What's this now, a scene from a movie I haven't seen?" ( yes, yes it is .... the classic , From Here To Eternity❤)

At the time we saw this in the cinema, we laughed so loud and for so long. We loved it and it became an instant classic along with Blazing Saddles. Some of those jokes went on to become part of the normal everyday language around or office. Especially the 'Hospital Joke'.

I was 15 years old in 1980 when my friends and I went to go see this in the theater. It was absolutely hilarious, especially for the time. The Zucker Brothers didn't want comedic actors to play the roles....they wanted to use known serious actors to play the roles, which made it even more funny. Great review and reaction video!

Ethel Merman was a singing star for many years whose trademark was a loud and powerful voice, which earned her the nickname "Old Yeller"

Merman played as one of the lead characters in what I believe is the funniest movie ever made: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, a 3 hour masterpiece of comedy as 8 people go on a journey to locate stolen cash. It was re-done, to a lesser extent, in the movie Rat Race. I keep a copy of It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World out to play at least 2 - 3 times per year since it was released on VHS in the 80s. And i watch it whenever i can when it is on TV.

I saw this in theater when it came out, and to this day I laugh my azz off and find new things that I missed! What a comedy masterpiece!

As I write this at the very beginning, and I think I speak for everyone here, I can tell that this is going to one of your favorite reactions that trounce done. So silly but just amazingly written.

I admire editing this reaction. How to choose which parts to cut considering pretty much every line is a joke.

I grew up warching reruns of Leave it to Beaver. Watching Barbara Billingsley, who I can only see as a 50s housewife, speak jive is still one of the funniest things I've seen. It's right up there with watching Betty White, the sweet old lady from Golden Girls, in Lake Placid using words that would make a sailor blush.

The first movie I ever saw on video, it was at my aunt and uncle's place, they had a Sony Beta video player. When we went to the video store, my aunt had to explain to me what a video store was and how it worked, this was around 1981 or 1982 . I was around 14 and had never laughed so hard during a movie;) Great memory... Oh, almost forgot, great reaction:)

You're right, for those of us that grew up in this era, this was comedy gold. But it says a lot about the film that you enjoyed it as much as you did even if you didn't "get" all the references. I love how I could watch it a few years later and pick up things I had missed before. Like the bit spoofing "From Here to Eternity" where he tells her every detail of his next air strike mission, but he can't tell her when he will be home because it's "classified."

11:07 that was the most Airplane-like reaction you could have had 😂

Someone can correct me on this. That the couple arguing in the P.A. System in the opening scene are a real couple who do this in real life. ( the job, not the arguing) LOL!

It's fun to watch someone else watch this for the first time. Thank you.

What makes it funnier, most of the actors were known for serious dramas IRL.

Yes, Shirley. That was the legendary Ethel Merman as Lieutenant Horowitz! I grew up watching three actors here in dramatic roles. Lloyd Bridges in Sea Hunt 1958 (I was born two years later). Peter Graves as the leader in the 1967 tv series Mission Impossible, and Leslie Nielsen who often portrayed the bad guy in classic tv series. Seeing them as comedic genius later in their career was incredible. And then there’s Robert Stack (Rex Kramer). That all four veteran actors mostly never broke from their serious persona, but still were the funniest ever! They were ‘robotic’, Shirley, because Ted said, “all together.”

what i enjoyed the most was watching you enjoy yourself. youre very special and your reactions are the best. great job and keep it up

"It's an entirely different kind of flying. All together!" *All together:* "It's an entirely different kind of flying!"

Fun fact: Sigourney Weaver auditioned the part of Elaine, but they didn't like the way she delivered the "set on your face and riggle" line😂😂😂

Several of the actors in this movie had a long history of doing only serious roles, like the pilot and the doctor, so seeing them in this movie playing comedic parts was a dramatic change. The second cup of coffee reference is a Folger's coffee commercial. The references to commercials, entertainers, movies and events is very very extensive.

I saw it when it came out with my then girl friend. She was a very LOUD laugher and folks in the theatre responded more to her laughing than the movie itself, I believe. It was in fact extremely funny back then.

You have quicky become my favorite when it comes to reacting to comedies.

Nice to see you smiling and laughing to a comedy, Ames. Airplane is an all time classic.

25:02 Radarange was a brand of microwave ovens back in the 70s. So it was a pun. "Check the radar range" and he looked in the microwave.