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Airplane! | Patreon's Choice Movie | Full Reaction (Patreon)

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2025-07-13 16:33:54
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2026-08

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I wasn't sure what to expect going into Airplane! since I was born in '92 and I figured a lot of the humor might go over my head. I was really nervous I wouldn't "get it". But wow, I was dying laughing a few times lol. The absurdity, the literal jokes, the deadpan deliveries. It was so much fun! I didn't expect it to hold up this well. Even without catching all the references to famous people or '70s culture, the sheer commitment to the bit had me cracking up. From the literal 'drinking problem' to the background chaos that just kept escalating 🤣 I totally get why this was considered a classic!Sure, a few moments did not age well and some I was wondering if they were ever really funny lol. But overall? This was so much more fun than I expected and I'm really glad I finally watched it! Thank you all for the suggestion and votes!Thank you for your support on Patreon!Relax and enjoy 🍿🌿LINK: https://youtu.be/-6WO0O9AEvgI watched this on Amazon Prime

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TheJoeKerr

Surely you can’t be serious.

KJ

I had a teacher that constantly did this to students at school 😩

Richard

You are too intelligent for this stuff but glad you had fun. Actually the same people who made this movie made the Naked Gun movies which I feel are funnier and have more relatable references. The first Naked Gun in particular is an amazing non-stop cry laughing movie.

ButtercupsTrueLove

I haven't yet watched Kali's reaction to "Airplane!" but the first time I saw the movie I laughed out REALLY loud when Captain Clarence Oveur said, "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?" I think Kali is too young to get this reference but in the early 1960s there were a bunch of Italian-made gladiator movies that were shown a few years later on broadcast TV. These movies all featured body builder types with oiled bodies and scant clothing. This, along with the awkward dubbing to English, struck me as odd even as a kid. However, until I heard the reference to these movies in "Airplane!", I never made the connection to having a lustful interest in them and I found it hilarious.

Lastboyscout73

When can we land? I can't tell. You can tell me, I'm a doctor. We got 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. Classic stuff.

Simon

How many times do we think Kali says 'STOP!' in this one? 😂

Code Monkey

Search YouTube for a video named `"Side-by-side" comparison: Zero Hour! (1957) Vs Airplane! (1980)` by user "The Gookie". You're appreciation of Airplane! will be taken to a whole new level!

Hefty517

An absolute classic. So happy you enjoyed it. So many classic quotes. If you do want more like this, I’ll echo other commenters and recommend Naked Gun.

Glen Roberts

The " Jim never has a second cup at home" is a reference to an old Yuban coffee commercial series where the idea was that Yuban was so good that people who normally only have one cup of coffee would drink more if it was Yuban coffee. So a couple would be out somewhere and usually the husband would ask for a second cup and the wife would think to herself that " Jim never has a second cup at home" .

Glen Roberts

One thing you may not have noticed was the bar where Striker met Elaine was in a city called Drambuie and the place where his war mission happened was in Daquiri. Both places are actually liquers. :)

DarthChef

I just came in to say, good luck. We are all counting on you.

Chris

Good job not asking why! If you want more comedies, people often recommend the Python films alongside this one (Holy Grail is my personal pick for funniest movie ever made). My other personal top tier of comedies: - Superbad - Tommy Boy - There's Something About Mary - Anchorman - Office Space - Best in Show - Coming to America

McShades

"UP" is a good comedy from Pixar, all of Adam Sandler's early stuff is really funny too, (Big Daddy, Happy Gilmore, Wedding Singer, The Water Boy, etc..)

Wil Castillo

I agree, I think we need more comedy. I think we should have a comedy night every week.

M1 Maz

The cat brawl in the intro was a sign of all the chaos coming your way LOL. This movie is so stupid in all the best ways, like it's a 90 minute Saturday Night Live skit. Which usually I'm really not a fan of, but this one (bad jokes aside) just works for me haha. Really fun time laughing along with you! "It was worse than Detroit" You know, I would have taken that personal, but 40 years later and you could still say the same thing LOL For other comedies, Kindergarten Cop is one of my favorites and I know you'll particularly love it. But I'd suggest keeping it in your back pocket until after you've watched Terminator or any other serious movie with Arnold in it haha

Phil Stubblefield

"There's been a little problem in the cockpit, and I was—" "The cockpit! What is it?" "It's the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now..." 🤣

Phil Stubblefield

Moreover, the wife who worries that "Jim never vomits at home" is played by the same women (Lee Bryant) who acted in those Yuban commercials! 😂

Phil Stubblefield

"You are too intelligent for this stuff..." Um, as someone who finds this to be one of the funnier comedies ever filmed, should I be insulted? 🤔 But I second the vote for The Naked Gun (1988)!

Dude Longcouch

Forgetting Sarah Marshall. One of my "desert island" movies.

Phil Stubblefield

First, the big thing: No, I never thought the pedophile humor was funny either. I just don't get it. Second, we've already established that you're one of the most compassionate people on the planet, but I have *never* seen anyone feel so sorry for Ted Striker! Rather than laughing at the comedy, you focused on his obvious struggles with PTSD. Kali, you may be the kindest person I've ever encountered! Finally, a few nuggets that no one has yet mentioned... • Few people notice that the airplane is a jet, but the sound is that of a propeller-driven plane. • The couple arguing about the white and red zones are the actual husband and wife who recorded the real announcements at LAX at that time! • The kissing-on-the-beach clip parodies a famous scene from the love story From Here to Eternity (1953), but the version in Airplane! has lots more seaweed and fish... • The woman who spoke "jive" was June Cleaver, who played the housewife in the extremely conservative TV series Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963). The joke is that a woman who was known for wearing a nice dress just to vacuum the house is the *last* person one would expect to have any street smarts. • The horse in the bed is a parody of a scene from a very famous gangster film to which you'll certainly react someday. • The "Win just one for the Zipper..." bit parodies a famous speech in Knute Rockne, All American (1940), a biopic about the famous football coach at the University of Notre Dame. In the original movie, a character named George Gipp (played by future president Ronald Reagan!) gives a speech imploring the team to "win one for the Gipper." In Airplane!, the doctor tells a story about a pilot named George Zipp. At its conclusion, Ted Striker returns to the cockpit, his confidence restored, while the soundtrack plays the Notre Dame fight song. And there are many, many more inside jokes...

kaliwali

I wish I had time to do that because I totally would!!

Danny

it's another older comedy but i think YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is the best comedy ever made. Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman say or do something funny every second they're on screen.

Cory Stanish

I think some of the jokes in this movie... especially the ones with the captain and the little kid... are the kind of jokes that are supposed to be funny BECAUSE they're really outrageously inappropriate. But I do think that people are less likely to feel comfortable with jokes that go in that specific direction these days. I think a lot of people didn't care for it much at the time, either. But if you want movies with a similar madcap comedy style: Top Secret! Airplane 2: The Sequel The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (same director, lead character is played by Leslie Nielsen, who played the doctor in this one. The Naked Gun 2 & 1/2: The Smell of Fear The Naked Gun 33 & 1/3: The Final Insult The Naked Gun has also got a remake coming out soon starring Liam Neeson

Greg In East TN

There's so much to say about this movie. I didn't read all the comments, so some of this may be a repeat. The movie was already written and filmed in the 50s. It's called "Zero Hour". Here's a short side by side comparison of the two. All Airplane! did was add the gags and jokes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs&t=27s What gives this movie so much punch is that most of the stars were no-nonsense, tough guys that were always in dramas. Lloyd Bridges is best known as Stan Nelson in Sea Hunt. That's why Stack asks him occasionally, "Got a cigarette, Nels?" Robert Stack is best known as Elliot Ness in the series The Untouchables. Peter Graves is James Arness' brother. Arness played The Thing in the 1951 movie, and played over 20 seasons as Matt Dillion on the series Gunsmoke. Peter Graves was in 50s B Sci Fi and Horror movies like "It Conquered The World," and played the main man on the series Mission Impossible. Leslie Nielson was a character actor that was always the "heavy" or bad guy. If you look back at the third season of Kung Fu in the 70s, he was a bad bad bad villain. Airplane was all of those actors' first comedy. That's why the people were amazed to see their tough guys being funny. I read where the plane running into the airport window was a $40,000 gag (including the mock plane). The longest running gag in the move that no one seems to get is that jet planes don't have propellers!!! Nobody seem to notice that. Listen to it again, especially when it shows the airplane from outside. But I will give you credit for being one of the few that caught the fact that Kramer walked through the mirror. Most miss that. And you caught the Mayo at the clinic. Most people zoom in on the heart. They had to go through all of that for that one punchline, "Give me Hamm on 5, hold the Mayo." But they weren't afraid to pick low hanging fruit, either. We have clearance Clarence, Roger Roger, What's our vector Victor? You are one of the few that picked up on the train platform as the train was leaving. And yes, that was a 60s and 70s type credit card impression maker. It had paper and carbon paper, and you got a receipt, the gas station got a copy, and they sent a copy off to the company. I've used one many times. I have learned that there is a "rule of 3" in comedy. And they followed it nearly every time. Striker threw his hat and it came back, he threw his coat and it came back, he threw the girl and she came back. Three people killed themselves listing to his story. The Dr told them good luck, we 're all counting on you three times. There were three "what is it" jokes (headquarters, hospital, and cockpit). The only time I counted 4 was the things that McCrosky picked a bad week to quit (smoking, drinking, drugs, and glue). There's more, but that's enough for now. I hope you read something new here. Be well, Greg

pinkdino99

The 1970s was stuffed full of disaster movies. This is Abrams and Zucker who went on to do Police Squad and Naked Gun. Both Peter Graves (Captain Oveur) and Leslie Neilson were straight actors before this. The team had made a sketch movie called Kentucky Fried Movie which was very literal and very silly. But this film launched a genre of spoofs. This is why Graves' lines with the child are so funny... because it was SO risqué and SO out of character. However shocked and appalled you were watching it today, audiences back then were ten times more shaken up. Graves had read the script and said no way, but was finally talked into it. Some jokes get better each time you watch them ; -The lady who asks to read something light is given a pamphlet on famous Jewish athletes (guessing there were not many Jewish sports stars !) -The "nervous... first time ?" joke gets me every time no matter how many times I watch this. -"I asked the guy standing besides me to pinch me" his face kills me. -"Can you handle some unpleasant facts ?" - "No." Even watching this today I picked up on a new gag. And I've been watching this since I was a teenager ! When Rex goes into the office a spear nearly hits him. Back when he was driving the car he was being chased by native Americans !

Dan Gonya

I find it hilarious that you are trying to analyze this ridiculous spoof of a movie.

pinkdino99

Surely she can't be serious !