I thought that was one of the most hilarious scenesd in the film, especially when the white, elderly woman started talking Jive. :)
Heck, my black friend laughed out loud watching that scene.
As I posted on another thread: I wonder if BLM and the Democrats know how many smart, productive, black Americans they are insulting every day by coddling them like children unable to care for themselves.
The mere fact that articles like this exist prove the point.
For several years late on Saturday night I watched Showtime at the Apollo on TV. The comedians were mixed but one was a mixed race women that was mocking her Italian self. Hysterical and by this standard racist.
It was a funny movie. It did take a few totally out of the blue attacks on Reagan and Anita Bryant which were not funny or even tried to be.
The censors are coming, the censors are coming....
Comedy has to offend or make light of a foible. Has to.
If Hee Haw, the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres couldn’t kid country people.
If Animal House, Airplane I and II, Police Squad, the Blues Brothers and all the National Lampoon Vacation movies took out all the offensive materials about someone and anyone.....we’d see the opening and closing production credits and union label for stage crew members.
Three minutes long.
No way in hell that movie would be made today.
> Zucker, though, stands by it four decades later. “It’s evenly laughing at Black people and white people. ... “
Poor old fool. Evenness is such an outdated concept. He might as well be arguing for the return of the Model T Ford.
And Zucker had better shut up while he’s only a little behind. Because if he keeps talking reasonably, they’ll pull “Airplane” from movie lists just like they did with “Gone With the Wind”.
“ Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.”
“Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?“
Jewish creative talent back then had not problem making fun of their own.
How about the scene of the two precocious kids talking and the girl says I like my coffee like my men...black.
Jive talking in a comedy is now deemed offensive. What about the pilot asking the child if he ever saw a grown man naked? No one finds that offensive. Some people are just too thin-skinned.
And then there’s National Lampoon’s “Vacation” with the scene in East St. Louis.
I thought it was funny when Mrs. Cleaver started talking jive!! I guess I am hopelessly, and willingly, UN-woke.
Life becomes a bore and a chore when you can’t laugh.
Why is the scene “controversial”? It is hilarious. Everyone in the scene is a stereotype, and the juxtaposition of the stereotypes makes it funny. Homie can only communicate in jive? June Cleaver can translate jive? Hilarious.
The role of the “Jive Talkin’ Lady” was originally offered to Harriet Nelson of “Ozzie and Hariet” fame. She turned it down because she was not comfortable with some of the language in the film.