The Making of Jive Talk from Airplane!

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Mark Fassett

15 жыл бұрын

The creators of Airplane and the two jive talking actors discuss the creation of the jive used in the movie.

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@dancingdan1994 2 жыл бұрын

I love how in keeping in the spirt of the movie they are putting the subtitles in Jive format. So great

@GizmoMaltese Жыл бұрын

omg, I didn't notice at first. Thanks!

@MyLateralThawts Жыл бұрын

I laughed about as hard as when I saw the original bit. Hilarious!

@sailor5853 Жыл бұрын

that was genial

@mihailmilev9909 11 ай бұрын

Dare I say inspiring lol. Certainly is for me, between this and some other things like learning AALV or what it's called is an official thing, I wanna learn it now!

@thepillar4313 5 ай бұрын

I noticed that part and was dying Hahahhahaha shiiiiiiiet

@dukeskunk 5 жыл бұрын

"Chump don't want the help, chump don't get the help" is my motto for 15 years in customer service.

@fastmail55 3 жыл бұрын

We had a variation of that thought in the IT support world!

@pythonfan1 3 жыл бұрын

Wishful thinking.

@CorePathway 2 жыл бұрын

Golly

@Powerranger-le4up 2 жыл бұрын

Jive ass dude ain’t got no brains anyhow.

@danielcarson2945 Жыл бұрын

"Chump don't get dick help".

@michaeldamore7733 Жыл бұрын

June Cleaver speaking jive is one of the most funniest scenes in cinematic history.

@markl2322 Жыл бұрын

"Beaver, you ain't got no reason t'be angrin' on th' bad side, cuz ol Wally be givin' a bad view of how you be bein', y'sef, chile..."

@syrupofwahoo3059 10 ай бұрын

😂@@markl2322

@Weshopwizard 9 ай бұрын

Golly!!

@mikejohnson9118 8 ай бұрын

@@Weshopwizard Hey, hey...language please!

@Weshopwizard 8 ай бұрын

@@mikejohnson9118 cut me some slack Jack.

@ThrobertMcGee 14 жыл бұрын

"Oh, stewardess -- I speak jive!" has got to be one of the funniest lines in the history of American cinema.

@raymondweaver8526 2 жыл бұрын

Especially from Mrs Cleaver

@drive5050 2 жыл бұрын

Especially with Barbara Billingsly doing the part of "jive lady"

@noelht1 Жыл бұрын

The whole film is a masterpiece of continuous catch phrases. It’s wonderful

@hillsane9262 Жыл бұрын

@@noelht1 When you watch it, you are like that was stupid and that was not funny, but I am still laughing. I think it's a combination of it's so corny that you kind of laugh and when they are throwing 3 - 5 jokes, gags at you a minute, if you just laugh at 1 or 2 of them, you will be laughing through much of the movie.

@noelht1 Жыл бұрын

@@hillsane9262 I never analysed it like that, I just enjoyed it and laughed all the way through

@danielcarson2945 Жыл бұрын

The talent it took to not only write the dialogue, but to pull it off that smoothly was incredible. One of the best comedy skits in a movie ever.

@notdreadyet33 Жыл бұрын

The dialog written wasn't actually used, according to the "making of" feature. The two actors were friends from school and used to talk like this for fun, so they implemented it into the movie instead of the "jive" written by some honkey True story, bleeed

@elleryeggen9678 Жыл бұрын

Mrs. Cleaver, Genius!!

@aussiesurfer805 Жыл бұрын

But they didn’t use the dialogue that was written … were you not listening young Daniel ? 😜

@jonesy4588 Жыл бұрын

talent ? comes by them naturally

@mihailmilev9909 11 ай бұрын

@@jonesy4588this is why we can't have nice things

@JustWasted3HoursHere 6 жыл бұрын

The icing on the cake is when the two jive brothers say "shit..." at the end and the subtitle says "golly!"

@Johnfromaustralia 3 жыл бұрын

pmsl yeah hey!!! this film was halarious, i liked it when kramer puts his uniform on and then his hat, then walks through the mirror pmsl

@JustWasted3HoursHere 3 жыл бұрын

@@Johnfromaustralia Classic! I was watching someone reacting to that movie recently on KZfaq and when that scene happened they didn't even notice it. I was like, "Hey! Didn't you see what just happened?"

@JustWasted3HoursHere 3 жыл бұрын

For anyone who doesn't know, here's that scene: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZqpdoZOqyNrdd40.html

@notdreadyet33 6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely platinum film history. It's a shame these guys never had their own show.

@Dahveed1982 Жыл бұрын

the OP Keene and Peele

@sifugurusensei 7 жыл бұрын

Julie Haggerty is underrated. Her reaction to what those guys are saying is priceless.

@bobsolo55 6 жыл бұрын

her reaction to the second guy is hilarious.

@The3rdGunman 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobsolo55 She was funny in Just Friends

@steeloned 2 жыл бұрын

The queen of bewilderment.

@nickpacitti3247 Жыл бұрын

Hilarious in just friends “Hello ???”😂🤣😂

@tootired76 Жыл бұрын

She looks like a deer caught in the headlights!!

@tenjenk 10 жыл бұрын

I love how they just threw in the Jive subtitles for this Making Of video

@tenjenk 9 жыл бұрын

nearly two years later. still gets me.

@Kurostyle21 7 жыл бұрын

Glad to read that you checked up on this video once more :D

@JohnBehrens118 4 жыл бұрын

Two years after that, still funny.

@oz_jones 3 жыл бұрын

Fo sho

@chriscastillo4275 3 жыл бұрын

Just when shit couldn’t get any funnier, they hit us w/it again. Classic.

@markl2322 Жыл бұрын

These gentlemen not only pulled off a "language", but did it with a spirit of broad humor and self deprecation that was so mature and refreshing, as well as capable of DESTROYING the negative stereotypes of that particular time period. I remember watching this in the theater and MELTING because it took all of my preconceived ideas and prejudices out of me, and stomped them into the ground. I will always be grateful to Allan White, and Norman Gibbs for creating such a wonderful moment of cinematic history...

@Bartonovich52 9 ай бұрын

Also. “El no a you smoko” “Puttana de seatbeltz”

@garypautard1069 9 ай бұрын

I never thought of Airplane as a movie which destroyed stereotypes . Now I see it did ,much like Blazing Saddles did by getting racism and dragging it out outside and throwing a bucket of cold water on it.

@upresins 5 ай бұрын

Someone should make an ENTIRE movie with Jive as language. It'll be a riot, I tell ya

@memebrain2177 4 ай бұрын

@@upresinssurly, you can't be serious

@alcd6333 2 жыл бұрын

Hilarious scene: the Jive Brothers talk normally while the subtitles are in Jive!

@Charlezard. 9 жыл бұрын

I love that for the interview, they translate the actors' answers back to jive at the bottom.

@jonstefanik9400 9 жыл бұрын

Al White played the black father who chases Marty out of the house in the alternate 1985 in Back To The Future: Part II.

@deaddu 9 жыл бұрын

+Jon Stefanik I knew he looked familiar, ty!

@HansEisenman 8 жыл бұрын

+Jon Stefanik I mistakenly read, at first, the last bit you wrote as "...BLACK to the Future: Part II". #Freudian PS: "Shi'...."

@mildpigeon 3 жыл бұрын

Sheeeit. That’s some good knowledge right there

@Helmuesi911 3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah 🤔

@Malcolm5pointoh 3 жыл бұрын

He does! This is gold. “We ain’t selling...we won’t be terrorized”

@HansEisenman 8 жыл бұрын

Inverse subtitle bit was priceless! Loved this scene in the movie.

@rand49er Жыл бұрын

Classic. So glad to see these two actors in real life and hear their take on this not to mention the writers and how they visualized doing it. Absolutely classic.

@alc4117 7 жыл бұрын

"First Jive Dude" & "Second Jive Dude" lmfao

@peteryocum 11 жыл бұрын

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

@adammcdonald798 Жыл бұрын

Shirley you can't be serious

@tjb7756 Жыл бұрын

@@adammcdonald798 I am...and please don't call me Shirley.

@ShahidKhan-ke8fe 2 жыл бұрын

Very considerate to add jive subtitles for jive speakers.

@runwillrobinson Жыл бұрын

Whoever decided to have Beaver Cleaver's mom translate deserves a medal.

@markl2322 Жыл бұрын

Congressional Medal of Honor.

@The.Last.Guitar.Hero. 10 ай бұрын

Those two guys nailed it

@scspera Жыл бұрын

“Cut me some slack, Jack!” 🤣🤣🤣

@Burnsengine 12 жыл бұрын

Golly! I love this movie!

@skyblueerik 9 жыл бұрын

The scene is still hilarious even if you don't know that lady is Beaver's mom.

@alcd6333 6 жыл бұрын

Fun fact #2: Her husband encouraged her to take the role! He thought it's hilarious if she was speaking jive (which it was)!

@-oiiio-3993 3 жыл бұрын

Ward, aren't you being a bit hard on the Beaver?

@stevebojo4378 3 жыл бұрын

I remember in the theater when she appeared and the audience busted out laughing.

@Burnsengine 12 жыл бұрын

These guys, SERIOUSLY, need to be in the Hall of Fame. Nothing will ever be done like that again.... and thank God. Because you can't possibly top this. It's not possible. Nope. Not at all. And I agree... the reverse subtitles are so frickin' hilarious!

@markl2322 Жыл бұрын

Just the "Sheeit" translated as "Golly" was enough to throw me onto the theater floor.

@Mikeanglo 9 жыл бұрын

That scene with the verbose sub-titles was brilliant.

@semasiologistics 5 жыл бұрын

Airplane was so, so amazing! As a kid I used to watch it with my brothers and even today I can watch again and laugh like hell. Absolute diamond comedy! The jive was just another awesome part of the film. I've been looking around for dictionaries of jive and the only ones I could really find are from the 30s or are on the internet as small glossaries. Still, these guys obviously took it to a whole new level!

@lenawagenfuehr53 3 жыл бұрын

And they were so thorough and scientific about it! It had to consistent and follow a natural rhythm - they should have been given degrees in linguistics

@markl2322 Жыл бұрын

The way I describe it is "a live action MAD Magazine".

@thedeathwobblechannel6539 10 ай бұрын

The two actors brought their professionalism and that a high-level they already had everything ready to go

@RichieInTheBox 10 жыл бұрын

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue....

@tomtrinchera8405 6 жыл бұрын

Or have the fish for dinner...

@mzmadmike 5 жыл бұрын

@@tomtrinchera8405 That's right. I had the chicken.

@schnellfahren911 Жыл бұрын

So, my buddy snuck us into this movie as 6th graders, his older sister worked at the theater- I was positive we'd get caught but nothing happened. The best thing anyone's ever done for me, hands down. Thanks Brian! (And Michelle)

@jasonpattinson2241 2 жыл бұрын

Look-a-here..... Always gets me when he says that 🤣

@keithjefferson2196 3 жыл бұрын

Back when we know how to make fun of each other and not get mad.

@lundylow Жыл бұрын

I was not expecting them to reverse subtitle the interview, that got a belly laugh out of me just now

@adamv242 4 жыл бұрын

This is GOLD. In 2020, we need to understand and laugh at each other!

@NellieKAdaba 3 жыл бұрын

Great movie

@billybgonzalez 10 жыл бұрын

I like how in the movie they didn't over use this scene that was imo one of the funniest, they used it perfectly about 3 or 4 times I believe. 👏

@Felamine 10 жыл бұрын

I know, right? If this movie were made now, all the jokes would be run into the ground to the point they would stop being funny. Movies don't have a sense of subtlety anymore.

@Probowler37 9 жыл бұрын

Felamine I agree and that is spot on. Movies and even Sitcoms today are not as funny as they used to be for that very reason.

@N324F 6 жыл бұрын

Billy Gonzalez

@jamesnoble8205 6 жыл бұрын

Blazing Saddles has many parts that not only wouldn't be made but would get you thrown out of the studio for even suggesting them

@troy424326 4 жыл бұрын

My absolute favorite episode of the series

@Baliverna 12 жыл бұрын

In the Italian version they used Naples' dialect. It makes one laugh to death as well, especially the distinguished old lady.

@rpcheesman Жыл бұрын

The countless times I've seen this film and it still makes me laugh so hard. I know so many many lines from it although committing the jive speak to memory has been a challenge. Even the shots of the plane flying makes me laugh, knowing it's showing a jet plane, but they added propeller engine sounds in homage to the original Zero Hour.

@wallacemays4842 2 жыл бұрын

Jive talking, this was great talking, she talked it great!!!!!

@cbockiii 12 жыл бұрын

Jim never vomits at home....

@user-pb2vo4pt3t 24 күн бұрын

This was a brilliant scene! The guys that performed it were brilliant!!! They've made me laugh since I saw this as a kid! Love you guys!!! Thanks for the great laughs!!!! I can watch this after a bad day at work, and STILL laugh all these years later. You guys are awesome!!!

@nicetna2010 10 жыл бұрын

Elaine: Would you gentlemen care to order your dinners? First Jive Dude: Bet, babe. Slide a piece o' da' porter. Drinks, I run da' java. Second Jive Dude: Lookie here. I can dig grease 'n chompin' on some buns and draggin' through the garden.

@micahnewman 5 жыл бұрын

I still don't see how the second line translates to "fish"... :-D

@user-jn3ju3cz4h 5 жыл бұрын

First Jive Dude: Bad babe slide a piece o' da porter drinkside run the java

@pythonfan1 3 жыл бұрын

@@micahnewman I think "draggin' through the garden" might be a reference to herbs.

@RetNemmoc555 3 жыл бұрын

@@pythonfan1 I took it to mean include a salad with that. I've tried ordering steak dragged through the garden in restaurants (not with jive talk), but they never get it.

@FortPeckNDN 11 жыл бұрын

I love those jive sub titles.

@rha101 14 жыл бұрын

Minute for minute, the funniest movie ever made, hands down.

@theguywhoshim 13 жыл бұрын

I love that in the interview, they're speaking conversational and educated american english and the subtitles are completely wack hahahaha

@funwithfood7451 10 ай бұрын

Your skit will live forever and is just as funny today as it was then thank you!!

@camachda 4 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite scenes from that classic movie!! In a movie filled with funny scenes, this one always has me LOL!

@ronetele13 9 ай бұрын

The non-jive subtitles - pure comedic genius 😂

@Rambleon444 Жыл бұрын

I remember the Greaseman used to use this hilarious Jive bit all the time on his radio show.

@nicetna2010 10 жыл бұрын

Jive dudes interview response should've been - "We was stylin' an profilin' baby! Dig this, pray to J ever'day, ain't nothin' to it, but to do it. We cool?" Translation - "We prepared our dialogue and we were very successful. Thank you."

@lancetop 13 жыл бұрын

the Jive part of Airplane is totally one of the funniest parts!

@AaronGilliland 10 жыл бұрын

I don't know that I expected them to talk jive in real life, but their ultra-crackerized delivery in this interview is blowing my mind. Well done, sirs.

@BillBodega 10 жыл бұрын

My god, they were subtitled in Jive during the interview. 100% A+.

@sird2333 7 ай бұрын

The jive translation when they were explaining the making of the scene was a nice touch! 😂

@mortb9 9 ай бұрын

"Lookie here". Best line of the entire movie. : )

@Geckogold 11 жыл бұрын

Man, I love this clip, and the humor of adding the jive subtitles.

@markwoldin162 3 жыл бұрын

Just beautiful.thank you to everyone involved.

@ChristinaRedd 13 жыл бұрын

"Don't be so naive. Arthur." hahahahaha!

@thebookwasbetter3650 4 ай бұрын

"golly" was the cherry on top for that scene.

@0x777 2 жыл бұрын

In various dubs, they used different distinct dialects as jive, which, depending on the language, can actually be even funnier than the original. E.g. in German, they speak Bavarian, in Italian (IIRC) the Neapolitan dialect, Spanish was afaik Cuban and so on. That's certainly easier than jive since they are, for all practical purposes, complete languages.

@joelellis7035 7 жыл бұрын

I was so enthralled with seeing Al White and Norman Alexander Gibbs speaking clear English, that I totally missed the Jive subtitles!

@cc9316 3 жыл бұрын

One if the best skits in the whole movie

@Ugarte211 5 ай бұрын

The entirety of how this Jive talk in Airplane came to be is both brilliant and funny as hell! 😂😂😂

@roadkill_666 Жыл бұрын

That's awesome. One of my favorite movies from childhood, never really understood the humor of this part until now. I love that they're old friends.

@bobbyfeet2240 9 ай бұрын

This makes those scenes even better to watch. Kinda wholesomely awesome.

@rickdeckard2704 7 жыл бұрын

Thats why I'm not successful. These two guys took a seemingly trivial part in a movie and scientifically prepared for it. And they were right to, it worked perfectly.

@rlkavan 14 жыл бұрын

"chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help"...greate line from beav's mom.

@panowa8319 3 жыл бұрын

"Jive ass dudes ain't got no brains anyhow!"

@keithc728 3 жыл бұрын

The military should have also used jive talking for code talkers

@ohger1 9 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this with my wife (girlfriend at that time) when it first hit the theaters, and I remember laughing so hard during this scene I was having trouble catching my breath. I also remember my wife looking at me like I was insane, and pretty much the same thing happened to every other young couple sitting there. Definitely not a chick flick. Funny, funny stuff.

@allthatjazzspaz95 6 жыл бұрын

John-Del definitely a chick flick. All my friends love the film

@tomtrinchera8405 6 жыл бұрын

This was always my late dad's favorite scene -- he used to laugh so hard he'd make his bad back ache and he'd have tears streaming down his face.

@jhzab666 5 жыл бұрын

I was laughing like that during the "Uncle Fucker" song in the South Park movie. My wife, at the time sink down in her seat.

@russs7574 3 жыл бұрын

And that is why I consider myself a very luck guy. My significant other loves this movie...we pull this out once a year or so, and we still laugh like hell watching it. Not only that, we do the same with Blazing Saddles, The Naked Gun, The Jerk, Animal House and Monty Python and the Holy Grail...and we laugh like idiots. The scene that really sets her off is "Candygram for Mongo." And one of her favorite movie lines is "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" How can you not love a woman with this sort of taste in movies?

@danyv1826 2 жыл бұрын

@@russs7574 u have a keeper there

@detangojet Жыл бұрын

It was some of the funniest parts of that movie. They were perfect for the part and were hilarious

@THOMMGB Жыл бұрын

SURELY, that is a 100% accurate statement. :-)

@coralarch 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this!! It's one of my all time favourite scenes, and has me in fits every time- those subtitles are soooooo drily funny!

@fakshen1973 Жыл бұрын

I saw Airplane with my parents... at the drive in movie theater... the scene where the poop hit the fan. I lost it and pee'ed myself (I was 6 or 7). It was the funniest thing I had ever seen in my life up to that point when that fan fell over.

@PsychoGolazo 14 жыл бұрын

Cut me some slack, jack!

@govtom4 Жыл бұрын

Saw this in a Memphis theater when I was 14. I spit my Pepsi out when Ms Cleaver said, “jive ass dudes ain’t got no sense, anyhow.”

@tonoslim 9 жыл бұрын

I love the jive talking caption! lol

@sstaners1234 10 ай бұрын

“I’m June Cleaver from ‘Leave It to Beaver’ and I speak Jive.” Jive Turkey🤣😂🤣

@tommyt1971 13 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, the jive subtitles made me choke on my lunch!!! Too cool!!!

@semipenguin 4 жыл бұрын

Barbara Billingsley, Mrs Cleaver, speaking jive. That was classic.

@jx14aby 3 жыл бұрын

She delivered the dirtiest line in television history: "Ward, last night you were a little hard on the beaver."

@theviking2877 3 жыл бұрын

jx14aby get your mind out of the gutter

@jx14aby 3 жыл бұрын

@@theviking2877 - I can't. That's where I live.

@DerpyPenguin4747 9 жыл бұрын

Man the fly, it was off the chain man!

@robbylebotha 3 жыл бұрын

That's why I live having grown up in a multi lingual and multi cultured place. Growing up my friends and I would make up our own jive talk and still use it today when we want to pass messages in secret.

@CJ42090 14 жыл бұрын

The part that always gets me is "shiiiiit" translating to "golly."

@jeffbrehove2614 11 ай бұрын

Oh God! The jive subtitles! 😂😂😂

@FirstSarnt 12 жыл бұрын

Even better when they cast Barbara Billingsley (Mrs. Cleaver) for the part. Classic!

@timmmahhhh 13 жыл бұрын

This is so awesome - thank you for posting!

@RichardBronosky Жыл бұрын

Someone please link to the entire interview I would like to see that whole piece. I love that freaking movie. One of my best childhood memories right there! ☮️❤️🌈

@frtw4428 12 жыл бұрын

Great film from the 80s! Love the Jive subtitles starting at 1:00!

@crlguitar1 8 жыл бұрын

It was brilliant....I still laugh out loud when I hear it....Must be 100 times or more....

@noitallmanaz Жыл бұрын

That is so awesome. It is one of the greatest scenes in film. I wanted to learn jive when I saw it.

@theBIGBLUTO 3 жыл бұрын

" layga down & smack em yack em , cold got the beat...shit (golly). Btw rewatch & pause it when they show the script, the boys must've had a impromptu and said " gotta be runnin' cold upside his head "...the best part in the movie & that's saying something !

@pronoun_dilemma Жыл бұрын

Those 2 guys nailed it!

@RedSiegfried Жыл бұрын

Oh man, I lost it when they subtitled the two actors in jive. :)

@Burnsengine 13 жыл бұрын

This is one of my favorite scenes... from any comedy ever created. I laugh every single time. Classic!!!!

@CinemaKev24 Жыл бұрын

I remember how a bunch of us saw the movie when it came out and afterwards, all we could talk about was the jive scene. Our attempts to speak jive never sounded as cool as the movie, but it was still a good laugh!

@johnandrews3568 Жыл бұрын

When Airplane came out, my buddy and I loved this, figured out the dialogue and rhymed it off all the time. lol

@protectorofillinois3 7 жыл бұрын

Lmao @ the subtitles

@limafilho27 13 жыл бұрын

This is awsome. Thank you for posting.

@tigerman8000 14 жыл бұрын

fascinating to hear from the geniuses behind this scene. great post.

@mayorb3366 Жыл бұрын

Barbara Billingsley popping in out of the blue as a jive translator absolutely destroyed. "I speak jive" is among the most iconic lines in movie history. I was reminded of this scene when Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg teamed up on ads. By several accounts, Airplane! is rated the #1 comedy movie of all time. It helped, but not necessary, to have first seen the Airport movies, and Zero Hour (1957). The latter of which so much content was lifted from, that the producers bought the rights to the film.