It goes on to reveal everyone on the plane is lined up with various weapons, waiting for their turn. Lloyd Bridges is an acting legend with so many classic roles in his career. However, he is probably most known for his scene-stealing work here as the gruff and stressed tower control supervisor, McCroskey. As he deals with the increasingly difficult situation of the doomed airplane, there is a running gag about his many bad habits.
Later he remarks about quitting drinking as well. Then it's pills. By the time the joke lands on sniffing glue, McCroskey is high as a kite.
Sometimes it's hard to even imagine how the writers of this movie came up with these lines. And the ones that seem the most outlandish are among the funniest. When a young boy comes to the airplane cockpit early in the flight, Captain Oveur tries to give the kid a friendly welcome, then proceeds to ask him a series of very inappropriate questions.
The exchange starts innocent enough, with the captain asking the boy, "you ever been in a cockpit before? The line about gladiator movies is so random in an already very strange scene, it's impossible not to laugh. As classic as some of the lines are on their own, many of them serve as the perfect set up for an incredible sight gag.
Few movies have featured as many visual jokes as Airplane! One of the best gags is when the film's hero, Ted, is explaining his dark past.
His experience in the air force left him haunted and, like many brooding movie heroes, he explains that he developed a drinking problem. Ted then takes a drink and completely misses his mouth, spilling the drink all over his head.
It's another silly joke that works so well. Leslie Nielsen once made a career with small supporting roles in dramas, but Airplane! As Dr. Rumack, Nielsen plays the part completely seriously, which only makes the whole thing that much funnier. Every line is delivered with a straight face, no matter how ridiculous it might be. One of the movie's most famous lines comes as Rumack asks Ted is he can fly the plane. Shocked, Ted says " surely you can't be serious, " to which Rumack responds with the iconic " I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
Post-credit scenes are all the rage these days, but Airplane! Near the beginning of the film, Ted is working as a cab driver and heads to the airport to try to talk to Elaine. As he does, he leaves his customer in the backseat with the meter running. Ted unexpectedly boards the plane and the adventure unfolds.
And the film periodically cuts back to the poor man still waiting in the cab. After the credits roll, the movie sneaks in one more joke as we see the man still waiting and beginning to suspect his driver might not return.
It's a forgotten gag that gets one of the biggest laughs. Colin has had a long passion and obsession with movies going back to the first time he saw The Lion King in theaters. Along with movies, Colin stays up-to-date on the latest must-see TV shows. While he loves to find interesting projects in any kind of genre, he has a special movie of crime stories that are infused with a little dark humor much like the work of his favorite author, Elmore Leonard.
Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics Lists airplane! Jerry Zucker : It took us a while to sell the movie, and we just kept putting in jokes and putting in jokes. If a joke lasted for all that time between the time we wrote it and when we finally shot it, we figured it was probably a pretty good joke. But that was part of our idea of the kind of movie we wanted to make: We wanted the jokes to come really fast. David Zucker : For ten years before that, we had done a live comedy show on Pico Boulevard called Kentucky Fried Theater, and that show also had a fast pace.
We found that it was easier to keep an audience laughing than to start them up all over again. So we better have another joke. How often do you go back and watch the movie? A lot of film festivals. What gag tends to get the biggest laughs, on average?
Some of the things I enjoy are the really simple things that got laughs 35 years ago and will get laughs 35 years from now. David Zucker : The easiest, hugest laugh used to be the reporters running into the phone booth. Jerry Zucker : Sometimes I like some of the odd stuff. What do you think the comedic legacy of Airplane! It has more of a legacy now than it did when it just came out and kinda vanished, like all movies.
David Zucker : I love going to parties and not having to put out any effort to be funny. I did Airplane! We tried to allocate only one joke per work of art. If Blazing Saddles has five of them, then great. David Zucker : Well, Blazing Saddles would probably have one. But Airplane! But whatever you want to do is fine, I guess.
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