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FULL LENGTH: Airplane! (1980) (Patreon)

Published:
2026-03-30 15:00:16
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2026-04-15 04:33:03
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2026-10
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We watched this movie on Amazon Prime Video. You will need your own copy of the movie to watch along with us (we've seen that it may be available to stream on Paramount+ on April 1, 2026).

https://youtu.be/fsvWPGJDuGk

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Airplane! (1980) Full Length Reaction

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Tyler Foster

There are four Naked Guns including the remake. Before it was The Naked Gun, after Airplane!, the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team was interested in spoofing a detective show, particularly "M Squad," starring Lee Marvin. They pitched it to Paramount as a movie but instead Paramount greenlit a TV show, which was called "Police Squad!" and introduced Leslie Nielsen as police officer Frank Drebin. The show only lasted 6 episodes, at least one of which I believe did not actually air on TV. The gang later offered the post-mortem assessment that this style of comedy requires attention to get the jokes, and too many people watched television while doing other things, and missed half the gags. After Top Secret! (1984), the gang returned to Drebin with the first movie, the full title of which is The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), tying it back to the show. Since the show was barely seen, some of the gags are reused, but the show is still quick, great, and worth a look. The original run was a trilogy, completed by The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994). Although "Police Squad!" failed, there was another cult comedy show in that vein that managed two seasons, called "Sledge Hammer!" That show starred David Rasche as a spoof of Dirty Harry, and was created by writer Alan Spencer. In the late 2000s, after the ZAZ team had moved on, Spencer wrote a highly-celebrated script for a fourth movie called The Naked Gun: What 4? The Rhythm of Evil. Some script reviews made it online, and I still remember the gags. For example, Drebin on aging: "I can still do everything I used to do, just slower, and with more mistakes." Or Drebin narrating and having to stop because people can hear him. It was commissioned by Paramount's direct-to-video division, but they never gave it a greenlight, and Nielsen passed away in 2010. Paramount developed some other pitches in the years since, including a version that would've had Ed Helms in the lead, as "Frank Drebin -- no relation." Your interpretation of Nielsen's career arc is pretty much how I've heard it, that he was a "serious actor" -- as in, the films he was in were not comedies, not that he took himself seriously. Nielsen was a working actor, to my knowledge, so, recognizable as a reliable supporting player, but not exactly famous per se. The two movies I suspect most people have seen him in outside of Naked Gun are the landmark sci-fi film Forbidden Planet (1956) and the famous disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure (1972). These are good movies but also distinctly genre movies, so when comparing him to Liam Neeson, I would say it's especially fitting when you're looking strictly at early or late-period Neeson rather than his stretch in the middle as an A-lister following Schindler's List. The guy who is in stuff like Excalibur (1981) and Krull (1983), or Taken and 100 variants, that's more like who Leslie Nielsen was, and I think becoming known for comedy was great for him, because it was probably more rewarding. Also, if you love Alison Brie, I think her best film so far is the rom-com Sleeping With Other People (2015), co-starring Jason Sudeikis, Adam Scott, and several other familiar faces. It was directed by Leslye Headland, who would go onto be the creator and showrunner of the Star Wars show "The Acolyte." It's very funny, it has a cheeky R-rated edge, and it's very charming as well. Last but not least, since this is already very long (and this is all before watching the movie itself, so I may come back later and add more), I recently read the fantastic oral history book Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!, which came out in 2023. It features interviews from pretty much every living person involved with the movie -- and since then, co-writer and co-director Jim Abrahams (the sole director of both Hot Shots! movies) has passed away, so it's great to have all his recollections in the book as well.

Tyler Foster

Now that I've watched the movie, here are some other shorter bits of trivia: This is more than just a parody of disaster movies, although it does just spoof those kinds of movies, like the Airport series. Specifically, it is an almost scene-for-scene remake of Zero Hour! (1957), which the ZAZ team saw on television and were immediately convinced that it was ripe for parody. To make Airplane!, they even bought the rights to the movie for chump change in order to make sure there were no legal issues with ripping it off, right down to copying some of the dialogue line-for-line. Not only were Al White and Norman Gibbs, the actors in the jive scene, in on the joke, they actually wrote their own jive dialogue for the scene based on real slang, and taught it to Barbara Billingsley, the white woman who offers to translate for them. They have talked about being very proud of helping to develop the joke. (Also, of course, the joke isn't making fun of anyone, necessarily -- "jive" may be a little silly but AAVE is a real dialect, and the case could be made that since the subtitles are the joke, the joke is on white people.) One joke that most people miss is the sound of a propeller plane being used for all external shots of the plane. Heads up about Saturday Night Fever (1977), which is a great movie: the movie is *extremely* dark. If you ever do check it out, expect something gritty and dramatic, not fun and upbeat! In addition to Jonathan Banks in his bit part as Gunderson (checking the "radar range" -- in case that joke doesn't play, RadarRange was the brand of appliance he checks), I had wondered if you'd catch Big Trouble in Little China and Everything Everywhere All At Once star James Hong as the Japanese soldier who stabs himself listening to Ted's stories. As for which movie with Jonathan Banks from the '80s Angela's teasing, my guesses are the cop comedy, the horror comedy, or the sci-fi cult comedy -- but I'll leave the titles out so the surprise is still surprising if one of those answers is right. Greta Gerwig listed Airplane! as one of the movies that influenced Barbie, and I think she took two jokes straight out of the movie and recontextualized them/adjusted them. When Barbie leaves BarbieLand and goes to the real world, she's given some water and pours it on herself because she expects it to be empty, kind of like Stryker's "drinking problem," and later when she returns to BarbieLand and finds Ken has taken over, Ken gives a speech about how he felt wronged by her behavior, and at the end, as a closing move, he puts a pair of sunglasses on over a pair of sunglasses he's already wearing. While there are still a couple of off-color/dated jokes in Top Secret!, I think its humor has aged a little better than Airplane! simply because in some ways it's their most ambitious and bizarre movie. I don't want to spoil anything, but it's a mash-up of two genres that don't necessarily go together, and yet in the movie they work perfectly. The skill, craft, and dedication required to execute the visual gags in that movie is unbelievable -- again, I'll err on the side of caution, but the bar fight is an all-timer. It also features an incredible debut performance in the lead role by a future star, whose performance is one of his best despite being his very first one.

Michael Hill

Angela you were right actor who played Rex was the host of Unsolved Mysteries

Gavin Provost

Angela: “…but I feel like I hear lines from Airplane…Shirley I do.” That had to be intentional…right?

David

They did go back to the taxi in a short post-credits scene you missed.

FunnyNFarbsy

Ah dang it. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that, and I’ve watched the movie quite a few times!

Michael Kemmet

Throwing in a few extra trivia tidbits: - Adding onto what Tyler wrote, RadarRange was the brand of the first consumer microwave ovens. - The music playing during the "pep talk" was the Notre Dame Victory March. This was because the doctor's speech was right out of 'Knute Rockne, All American'. It was a 1940 movie about early Notre Dame football, but it was repopularized in the late 70s because it co-starred a young Ronald Reagan as ill-fated Notre Dame player, George Gipp. On his deathbed from illness, Gipp asked Rockne(the coach) to tell the football team to "win one for the Gipper". Reagan would use that as a campaign slogan during his 1980 run. - The stethoscope joke doesn't land like it did in 1980. Back then, airplane headphones looked just like stethoscopes because they worked using the same principles(air pressure). You can see the jive-talking woman wearing a set when she watches the plane crash in-flight movie. When Sony introduced the low-cost electronic headphones in the early 80s, the older style disappeared almost overnight. - Speaking of the jive-talking woman, she was played by Barbara Billingsley and is most well-known for playing June Cleaver(the most white-bread housewife ever) on Leave it to Beaver(1957-63). And that's why it would be funny for audiences in 1980 to hear her speaking jive. - I'm pretty sure the horse in the bed joke is indeed a reference to The Godfather, but I can't be 100% certain. - The extremely questionable morals of the captain I think can be traced to the 'Zero Hour!' source material. In the original, the actor playing the captain had a very unique facial structure and profile. Because of the lighting and the camera angle, there's a scene where it looks like he's openly leering at the young boy. I think ZAZ thought it was funny and built it into that series of jokes. - As a general rule, if something in the film feels offensive and/or socially dated, it's probably because the filmmakers are making fun of overused tropes of the era. I think the jive talkers are a reference to the popularity of blacksploitation films of the 70s, the slapping of the hysterical woman was a trope, as was the 'I'm not married/at least I have a husband". The movie is satirizing those tropes. - It slightly hurts to see people not familiar with the real Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; one of the top medical centers in the world. I think it was in the public consciousness in the late 70s because a world leader(Shah of Iran?) spent time there getting medical treatment. I know it well because I spent a couple months there 25 years ago where they played Legos with my arm and leg bones to save what they could of my arm. ;)

Michael Kemmet

Oh yeah, the basketball scene... I think you missed the voiceover line, but Ted says something like, "it was because of our advanced American teaching techniques...". That whole scene was satirizing the white savior trope. Among other things, it's making fun of idealistic white Americans going to other countries to teach natives things they don't need or already know. BTW, the basketball players were played by members of the Harlem Globetrotters. And the reason Kareem was in the movie also goes back to Zero Hour!. One of the pilots in that movie was also a former professional athlete(football, I think). The last thing I find amusing about younger reactors watching this for the first time(I'm 50, so you're both younger than me ;) ), is when they get uncomfortable with some of the scenes, but then they love Johnny. Ummm, Johnny is nothing but gay stereotype jokes. That entire character is nothing but making fun of homosexual men. I guess culture has changed enough in the last 45 years that it's not apparent anymore, but that's what he is. It just makes me chuckle. :)