Airplane, Airplane 2 and Police Squad- your favorite quotes

OK, I know I’m just begging to be tossed out the window for being that annoying nitpicker but:

  1. boy: (offers the girl coffee) “cream? sugar?”
    girl: “No thank you, I take it black… like my men”

  2. Not Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

Feel free to tell me to shut up at any time.

Almost forgot this sight gag-

Scene of nun reading Boy’s Life magazine…cut to shot of boy reading Nun’s Life magazine.

If somebody here who speaks Jive could post the entire conversation, I’d be eternally grateful. You know, the one that ends (approximately/phonetically) with “…lay ‘em down an’ smack em yack em.” “Gots ta be”.

(The best man at my wedding suggested that I answer the question “do you take this woman…” with “Gots ta be!”. Uh…no.)

Airplane
Rex Kramer (which would be my SDMB user name if I had it to do over again) dramatically removing his sunglasses, revealing another pair underneath.

Any establishing shot of the exterior of the jet plane had an accompanying prop plane sound effect.

“My mama didn’t raise no dummies, I dug her rap!”

And am I the only one who thinks of Airplane first before Saturday Night Fever when Stayin’ Alive plays on the radio somewhere?

Hot Shots:
“We should arrive at 0500.”
“Great, wake me up at about…ohhhh…four thirty.”

Top Secret
[on the phone]“Yes? Yes? I see. Inform me if there is any change in his condition.” [hangs up] “He’s dead.”

And the greatest scene, the Swedish bookstore with Grand Moff Tarkin himself (shown the way it was actually filmed on the DVD)

From KFM:

“This is Han–he’s tough and ruthless.”
“This is Han’s driver–he’s rough and toothless.”

I am sure that he has your gratitude.

By request:

By another request:

And another for fun:

I loved the way they would freeze-frame at the end of each episode of Police Squad… except they weren’t actually freeze-framing, the actors were all just freezing in place. In one episode, they froze while leading a prisoner off to jail. So, while they were all frozen, he escaped. Classic.

Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant Garde, Croissant, Souffle, Escargot, Chocolate Mousse and Deja Vu. Latrine comes in a few minutes later.

Elf6c – extremely cool. Wheredja get your dialog? Looks “official”. However, I’d like to see the first conversation between the two Jive Dudes – the one that was “translated” as “early to bed early to rise…”

(And of course we all recognize “White Haired Grandmother” as Beaver’s Mom, Barbara Billingsley.)
Joey…do you like movies about gladiators? Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

Michelle Rodham Huddleson: Now we have to go in to get the men who went in to get the men who went in to get the men.

Michelle Rodham Huddleston: Oh, Ramada, how could you have been so blind? You were too wrapped up in being Miss Perfect College to notice me. Why concern yourself with the feelings of one insignificant roommate? One fabulous day, one incredible experience.
Ramada Rodham Hayman: I had no idea it meant so much to you.
Michelle Rodham Huddleston: I remember that day as if it were yesterday. The exhilaration of experimenting sharing something so new, so dangerous, so intimate. And I’ll never forget the look on your face. The way the sweat glistened on your hard body. Then you tied my ankles. Tighter. Tighter. But it just wasn’t right. It wasn’t natural. Bungee-jumping is just too dangerous a sport.

**Nigel: **The pirates took advantage of me in unspeakable ways.
Hillary: That must have been awful!
Nigel smiles wistfully

Little Boy: Would you care for some coffee?
Little Girl: Yes, please.
Little Boy: How do you take it?
Little Girl: Black. . . like my men.

“I’ve got to concentrate…concentrate…centrate…”
“Hello? … ello…llo? Echo…echo…cho”
“Now batting for Pedro Borbon…Manny Mota”

By the way: if you ever get a chance to see Zero Hour (it was on TCM recently) do so. It’s a mind-blower. I knew that Airplane was inspired by Zero Hour, but it’s more than that: Airplane is virtually a shot-for-shot, line-for-line(without the funny lines) remake. Even the sames sets & costumes.

Of course, one of the best recurring gags in “Airplane!” is that on every external shot of the plane, you hear the drone of propellers.

Also:

“Nervous?”
“Yes.”
“First time?”
“Well, no, I’ve been nervous lots of times.”

Why? You’re cheaper than a set of reference books. :wink:

As for Police Squad! freeze-frames, my favorite was the one that included pouring the cup of coffee.

“Say when, Frank!”
“When!”
<Actors freeze. Credits roll. Coffee keeps pouring… and pouring… and pouring…>

Got it from IMDB.com

There’s a dated joke. Even by the time Airplane came out I think most US airports had eliminated solicitation on the premises.

Another fun sight gag is when Kareem has fallen sick and has to be pulled from his seat, he is somehow in his Lakers uniform.

From the court scene in Airplane II:

Prosecutor: Doctor, can you give us your impression of Mr. Stryker?
Doctor: I’m sorry, I don’t do impressions. My training’s in psychiatry.

One of the Naked Guns had a sight gag where someone is reading a newspaper with the headline:

“Dyslexia for found cure”

I also remember one where people are talking to a doctor describing someone’s symptoms. He says:

“Ah yes, sounds like Spanish flu. I just had 3 cases of it come in today”

In the background as he’s saying that, you see a guy wheel in a dolly with 3 boxes stacked on it, each with “Spanish Flu” stamped on the side.

Those movies are so joke-dense, it’s hard to remember what line comes from which one!

The entire script from Airplane.

Excellent.

Or, “early to bed and early to rise”

“I have to report to headquarters.”
“Headquarters? What is it?”
“It’s a building where all the generals meet–but that’s not important right now.”

“Air Israel, please clear the runway!”
Shot of airliner with jewish beard and prayer shawl.

Rex Kramer calls home and we see that his wife is in bed with a horse.

The man waiting in the cab is California politician Howard Jarvis (I guess that joke was lost on most people east of Nevada).

The long line of peolpe waitng to assault the hysterical woman.

“That’s funny, Jim never vomits at home.”