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Airplane!’s Creators Reveal the Origins of ‘Don’t Call Me Shirley’
New York Magazine ^ | 2/1 | Abraham Riesman

Posted on 02/01/2016 1:40:02 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: j.havenfarm

Yeah, you have to be prepared and ready to insert an Airplane! line into daily conversation. Someone always gets it though.

So many times I have had to hold one back because it was an inappropriate setting. Damn shame.


81 posted on 02/01/2016 4:14:01 PM PST by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: bleach
I love Airplane, but Kentucky Fried is where it all started for them. I actually like it best.

Here, here. Can't believe nobody has mentioned "Young Catholic Girls in Trouble". Of course I was a teen when I first saw it so I loved it.

82 posted on 02/01/2016 4:15:31 PM PST by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks, the mighty Black Hawks)
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To: nickcarraway

What am I going to believe, these guys or my lying memory?
“Don’t call me Shirley,” goes back at least as far as the TV series, “Police Squad.”

Another great moment in Police Squad is where Frank Drebin breaks into the dressing room of a partially-clad woman who, expecting a police raid, says, “Is this some kind of a bust?”

Drebin looks at her scantily covered breasts and says, “Yes. Very nice.”


83 posted on 02/01/2016 4:16:21 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sharkhawk

Filmed in “Feel-O-Rama”.


84 posted on 02/01/2016 4:17:37 PM PST by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: sparklite2
I especially loved the shootouts.


85 posted on 02/01/2016 4:17:49 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: scottinoc

Threadwin! LOL


86 posted on 02/01/2016 4:18:54 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Semper911

I waited for years before the context was right for this bit from the Three Stooges, but the time came and I nailed it.

Moe: Oh, you think so, do you?
Curly: I don’t think, I know!
Moe: I don’t think you know, either.


87 posted on 02/01/2016 4:29:43 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: dfwgator

Or whenever Drebin rolled up on a crime scene in his police car, he inevitably took out a few trash cans with him.


88 posted on 02/01/2016 4:32:22 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Yaelle

I love/hate it when things like that happen.


89 posted on 02/01/2016 4:40:03 PM PST by jocon307
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To: dfwgator

I said it before, I’ll say it again:

” ....followed by uncontrollable flatulence.”


90 posted on 02/01/2016 4:48:44 PM PST by clbiel (Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being decapitated)
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To: T-Bird45

Bfl to your link. Thanks.


91 posted on 02/01/2016 5:47:49 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: T-Bird45

Good to know... Thanks!


92 posted on 02/01/2016 6:22:06 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Yo-Yo

LOL!


93 posted on 02/01/2016 7:51:17 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Sans-Culotte

The first episode of Police Squad! was hysterical.

Cover me!
(Partners throw a blanket over him)

The interrogation room scene was a classic.


94 posted on 02/01/2016 7:54:18 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: j.havenfarm

That is great. My sister and I almost have a competition to see who can find a way to work than line into conversations when it is even the least bit apropos. Our kids just look at us like they have no clue.


95 posted on 02/01/2016 7:55:36 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


96 posted on 02/01/2016 7:56:31 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Sans-Culotte
Police Squad! Interrogation Scene

One of my favorite scenes ever.

97 posted on 02/01/2016 8:04:37 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Skywise

I bought the complete Police Squad DVD collection and I’m not the type to ever buy dvds.

Every episode ended with a laughing freeze frame but one guy was always left mobile.


98 posted on 02/01/2016 8:26:31 PM PST by eartrumpet
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99 posted on 02/01/2016 10:43:41 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Nailbiter

bflr


100 posted on 02/02/2016 2:33:59 AM PST by Nailbiter
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