"Well I'll give him another twenty minutes....but that's it."
Posted on 02/01/2016 1:40:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
It’s OK, I speak jive.
Johnny had some hilarious scenes, lines, and gags.
Johnny, what do you make of this?
I can make a hat, or a broach, or a pterodactyl...
“There’s a sale at Penney’s”
I’ve watched Airplane! dozens of times. It’s one of those movies where if I stumble upon it, I’ll watch it again and *still* laugh. One of the greats.
Probably the movie of all time that GUARANTEES laughter.
I remember seeing this in the movie theater with my brother and another guy who has since passed away in a car accident. The three of us walked out of the theater in Van Nuys or Sherman Oaks, after having laughed to tears through basically the entire movie, and said “Well, that was stupid.” “Yeah.” Lol. We did not appreciate how much intelligence was behind all that comedy.
And though I’ve watched it a million times, one of the best times was when my then mother in law was asleep one room away and could hear everything, and it came on tv. We tried very hard to stifle our laughter. That’s how I know it does guarantee laughs.
My two favorite parts are a) Leslie and the woman on a guerney and he has a speculum in his hand, in the aisle of a plane, and b) when Karreem finally breaks character.
They do look similar, but Willy Wonka was made almost a decade before Airplane (1971 vs 1980). Veruca Salt was played by Julie Dawn Cole . The girl in Airplane is Michelle Stacy, who played the voice of Penny in Disney's The Rescuers. Airplane seems to have been her last film.
I can never remember to say “nice beaver!” in the appropriate circumstances. Probably better that way...
"Well I'll give him another twenty minutes....but that's it."
I remember Kentucky Fried Movie. They went all out with the long Enter the Dragon parody, and I had never seen the film. Years later, a boyfriend took me to a theater showing of the old Bruce Lee classic. Everyone in the audience was a reverent fan.
Sadly for them, I finally “got” all the Kentucky Fried Movie jokes while watching the original, and I was laughing through any scene they parodied. People were angry, and it only made it harder to stop. It was a uniquely painful yet hilarious situation.
Oh, yeah.
Joey: And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs.
Roger Murdock: [breaking character] The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
That one, and
We have clearance, Clarence.
Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
The autopilot sight gag. The Jive scene. The lineup to commit mayhem on the panicking passenger. And on, and on...
“But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency.”
That scene got HUGE CHEERS in the theater because that was exactly what it was like walking through LAX in the 70s with all the beggars and Hare Krishnas. I actually think it helped weed them down after the movie.
I picked the wrong thread to stop sniffing glue.
“This fog’s getting thicker.”
“And Leon’s getting wider!”
The great Jonathan Banks had his moment as the radar man. “He’s up. Now he’s down! Now he’s up again! What an a*****e!”
Another Zucker movie that is underrated is BASEketball, which featured Trey Parker and Matt Stone from South Park.
The proper response to “I like my coffee like I like my men,” is “Ground up in a can?”
At one point you see all the men at ground control staring into round radar monitors. Then someone comes along, pops one open, and takes out a load of laundry.
"Air Israel, please clear the runway."
“I know a little German.......he’s sitting over there.”
Makes me want to watch it again when I get home. For the one millionth time!
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