Airplane!’s Creators Reveal the Origins of ‘Don’t Call Me Shirley’

New York Magazine ^ | 2/1 | Abraham Riesman

[Tired of Taxes]

Surely there’s a way to fix these unusual characters in these posts.

I found that, to delete the strange characters, you have to go through and replace all the apostrophe marks with apostrophe marks. Seriously.

See your post as I copied it above?

Now look at it:

Surely there's a way to fix these unusual characters in these posts.

[Tired of Taxes]

LOL. “Oh, stewardess, I speak jive.”

[j.havenfarm]

It’s hard to choose, but mine is “...Lt. Herwitz...severe shell shock.... He thinks he’s Ethel Merman.” That, the fighting Girl Scouts, the nun reading “Boy’s Life,” etc. etc. etc.

[T-Bird45]

Or you can just use a simple website to clean-up the entire article in just a couple of clicks, no individual edits.

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html

[scottinoc]

Surely there’s a way to fix these unusual characters in these posts.

It's a difficult thing to fix, altogether.

All (in unison): "IT'S A DIFFICULT THING TO FIX"

[Thorliveshere]

Still one of my all-time favorite films.

[traderrob6]

Frankly, you have to have one wierd sense of humor or none at all not to like the movie.

[dfwgator]

[Sans-Culotte]

It,s a remake of Zero Hour, very, very closely - lines and scenes.

And Police Squad! was closely based on M-Squad. I think hewing so closely to serious films and shows made their spoofs even funnier.

[aomagrat]

The passengers lining up to beat the hysterical woman is hysterical.

[doorgunner69]

Only 2 kinds of people in the world. Those who like “Airplane” and those who don’t.

Similar might be said of "Blazing Saddles".

[kidd]

“We have to get this man to a hospital!”

“What is it?”

“It’s a large building filled with doctors and nurses. But that’s not important now”

[dfwgator]

[traderrob6]

Something just struck me.....Is that girl in the pic Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Did you know Airplane is almost a word for word rip off of an old movie called ‘Zero Hour’ starring Dana Andrews? Right down to the poison fish.

I didn’t and started watching it one day and was floored. Zero Hour wasn’t a comedy. Zero Hour now seems pretty funny too.

[NorthMountain]

Not the same person.

Veruca Salt == Julie Dawn Cole

Young Girl with Coffee == Michelle Stacy

info from IMDB

[dfwgator]

Well we know that’s one scene that will never make it to the remake.

Also the scene with the Africans playing basketball and trying to figure out “Supperware”.

[traderrob6]

Hmmmmm, strong resemblance.

[traderrob6]

The scene with the pilot and young boy in the e cockpit either....rougugh but wicked funny.

[Darth Reardon]

$line =~ s/\&\acirc\;\&\#128\;\&\#153\;/\&\#8217\;/;

[remove the ‘\’ before acirc, I had to add it so the cut and paste wouldn’t mess up the code]