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Every Joke from ‘Airplane!’ Ranked
bs ^ | Aug 12, 2016 | Alex Kavutskiy

Posted on 08/17/2016 9:06:23 PM PDT by sparklite2

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To: rlmorel

If you want to see the movie that inspired Airplane!, watch Zero Hour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour!


61 posted on 08/18/2016 4:13:38 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: Mark17

When I watched “Lost in Space” when I was a kid, I always thought Dr. Smith was some kind of child molester. Maybe it was the lilt to his voice or something, but as a kid, that was how he hit me.

And I always thought the robot knew it when nobody else seemed to pick up on it, except for Maj. Don West, who SEEMED to know at some unconscious level.

DR. SMITH: “Will, come over here behind this rock!”

ROBOT: “DANGER! Will Robinson, DANGER!”

It was just the way that whole dynamic came across to me...I wonder if it was done intentionally that way? Maybe it was just me...


62 posted on 08/18/2016 4:16:00 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: rlmorel

She is scarred for life!


63 posted on 08/18/2016 4:26:23 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: sparklite2

I saw this movie in Hungary. English with Hungarian subtitles. It didn’t work. I was rolling on the floor laughing and everybody was looking at me like I had three eyes on my head.


64 posted on 08/18/2016 4:52:43 AM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: sparklite2

All this way and no one has mentioned:

“Ok, give me Hamm, hold the Mayo.”


65 posted on 08/18/2016 5:06:26 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: MD Expat in PA; All

Side by side highlight comparison of Airplane versus Zero Hour, the parody film was based on.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs


66 posted on 08/18/2016 5:31:34 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: sparklite2

Someone needs to do the same type thread on Blazing Saddles!


67 posted on 08/18/2016 5:37:29 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: sparklite2

Besides the jokes, look carefully for “hidden” sight gags. For example, there’s a shot of Lloyd Bridges leaning over his desk, grimly smoking a cigarette, while behind him hangs a picture of ... Lloyd Bridges leaning over his desk, grimly smoking a cigarette.

There are dozens of those if you watch carefully (and repeatedly).


68 posted on 08/18/2016 5:59:09 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Delta 21

Wasn’t that Airplane 2?
Pale shadow of the original but underrated and very funny.

cheers
Jim


69 posted on 08/18/2016 6:15:15 AM PDT by gymbeau (Go America! Without you there is no freedom.)
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To: Ken H

That would have been great!


70 posted on 08/18/2016 6:16:34 AM PDT by gymbeau (Go America! Without you there is no freedom.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
Side by side highlight comparison of Airplane versus Zero Hour, the parody film was based on.

That was brilliant and well done. Thanks for posting it.

71 posted on 08/18/2016 6:16:43 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: Mears

Every time I saw him I thought of The Swamp Fox. Hard to get past childhood memories.


72 posted on 08/18/2016 6:18:24 AM PDT by mware
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To: BBB333

Or “Drinking Problem “


73 posted on 08/18/2016 6:19:58 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: gigster

One of my desert island discs!
I love the reference near the beginning where, I think, Mickey Rooney refers to Ethel Merman as an old bag (where they’re arguing about the financial split) and Jonathan Winters says something like “we all agree about that..”

Criterion Collection has a great Blu-ray of it.
cheers
Jim


74 posted on 08/18/2016 6:20:15 AM PDT by gymbeau (Go America! Without you there is no freedom.)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

Kicks the bucket!


75 posted on 08/18/2016 6:21:34 AM PDT by gymbeau (Go America! Without you there is no freedom.)
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To: IronJack

Looks like I picked the wrong week ta quit sniffin glue!


76 posted on 08/18/2016 6:30:19 AM PDT by misanthrope (Liberalism; it is not unthinking ignorance, it is malignant evil.)
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To: llevrok

That’s an easy answer: No.


77 posted on 08/18/2016 6:37:47 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Ken H

LOL


78 posted on 08/18/2016 6:54:56 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: MD Expat in PA

I didn’t know that...I always assumed it was “Airport”...

Now I am goingo to have to check it out...:)


79 posted on 08/18/2016 7:05:50 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: rlmorel

There was another movie, made in the 1950s, I think starring Dana Andrews, called Zero Hour, with the same plot line and some of the dialog almost word for word of Airplane. However, this was not a comedy, it was a serious movie. But even though this was a serious movie, when you hear the same dialog from the movie Airplane except it’s said in seriousness, it makes this serious movie funny.


80 posted on 08/18/2016 8:27:41 AM PDT by murron
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