Totally silly. But great entertainment.
Posted on 01/08/2024 7:57:38 PM PST by Rummyfan
and trapped in Tehran. Unemployment was at 7.2%. Inflation stood at 12.5%. Thanks to a decade of the aforementioned out-of-control inflation, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at an anemic 876.02, only about a hundred points higher than it was in 1970. The Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan. A feckless Jimmy Carter saw his second term hopes being challenged on the left by Ted Kennedy and on the right by Ronald Reagan.
As always when the nightly news is grim, Americans need something to laugh about at the movies. As former Cheers producer Rob Long wrote at Commentary last month, show business “is at its most successful when it counter-programs against a world that’s falling to pieces.” However, audiences had no idea that the hip comedy of that summer would change Hollywood forever. Or at least for the next several decades.
Airplane! was Paramount’s low-budget sleeper hit that dominated the summer box office in 1980. Today, the lines from the movie are indelible. “Surely, you can’t be serious. I am serious – and don’t call me Shirley.” Cream for your coffee? “No, thank you, I take it black, like my men.” “A hospital? What is it? It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.” “Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive.”
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Totally silly. But great entertainment.
I speak jive
I loved it when Robert Stack ran over the guy on the bicycle with his mustang and then walked into the airport and beat the hell out of those hippies trying to offer him flowers.
The problem with Police Squad was the gags came in too quick and tended to be missed or go over everyone’s head.
When Police Squad came out on DVD, then gags could then be replayed to see what someone thought they missed or was not sure of.
Airplane! paced the gags to be sure they were understood.
He had some excellent investment advice in that movie =>
“Municipal bonds, Ted. I’m talking double-A rating. The best investment in America.”
Do you know what it’s like to fall in the mud? And get kicked? In the head! With an iron boot??
Of course you don’t. No one does. It’s a dumb question. Skip that.
Actually Police Squad premiered in 1982 with only 6 episodes, all classic!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Squad!
I really thought Police Squad was prior to 1980.
Was 1982.
You’re Kareem Abdul Jabbar. My dad says you don’t even try, except during the playoffs.
Roger Murdock : Flight 2-0-9’er, you are cleared for take-off.
Captain Oveur : Roger!
Roger Murdock : Huh?
Tower voice : L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9’er.
Captain Oveur : Roger!
Roger Murdock : Huh?
Victor Basta : Request vector, over.
Captain Oveur : What?
Tower voice : Flight 2-0-9’er cleared for vector 324.
Roger Murdock : We have clearance, Clarence.
Captain Oveur : Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?
Tower voice : Tower’s radio clearance, over!
Captain Oveur : That’s Clarence Oveur. Over.
Tower voice : Over.
Captain Oveur : Roger.
Roger Murdock : Huh?
Tower voice : Roger, over!
Roger Murdock : What?
Captain Oveur : Huh?
Victor Basta : Who?
I thought Police Squad was the precursor.
Saw this in the theater. We laughed so hard our sides hurt.
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You try dragging Bob Lanier up and down the court for forty eight minutes.
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