You’re conflating scenes. This wasn’t with the hysterical passenger, this was on the ground behind Lloyd Bridges.
Listen Betty, don’t start with your ‘White Zone’ shit again!
Flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle. It’s just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.
I take it we’ll all meet back here tonight/tomorrow after Zero Hour is over to discuss?
I know, I gottagetouttahere, I gottagetoutahere!!
ironically, my favorite Airplane quote turned out to be from Airplane II;
Steve McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that’s happened up 'till now.
Jacobs: Well, let’s see: First the earth cooled. And, then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil. And, then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes…
Thanks for the head up!
One of my favorite movies! I never even heard of the Zero Hour thingy. Got the DVR cranked up babby!
Oh god! I had the fish tonight!
Yes, I know, I had the lasagna
Roger, Roger…
Give me Hamm on 5, hold the Mayo…
Lt Ted Stryker was Canadian!
“Ever been in a cockpit before, Joey?”
That #3 engine is running a little hot.
Pretty amazing, watching them back to back. Zero Hour is played totally straight, yet it made me laugh, having just seen Airplane!.
Definitely…and quit calling me Shirley…
I could watch the disco scene with the guy with the knife in his back over and oveur.
Zero Hour! was in turn a remake of Flight Into Danger, a Canadian TV production, written by Arthur Hailey (later of Airport), with a young James Doohan.
It was hard to watch ZO after Airplane!, my brain kept inserting Airplane! lines, that is when I wasn’t MST3K’ing it…
Hey, there’s an idea, have Mike Nelson and the Rifftrax crew release a 'Trax for Zero Hour, even without the Airplane! refs, it has plenty of spots for riffing
I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.
Ps, have a transcript.
http://home.netcom.com/~rogermw2/zero_hour.html
My favorite line of all is one of the most “throwaway:”
Kramer: "The risk of a flameout is too great. Keep 'em at 24,000.
No, feet."
I have the feeling that if Mike and the crew had done a Rifftrax on Zero Hour! the result would have sounded almost exactly like the dialog from Airplane!
I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.
“I think you ought to know what our chances are. The life of everybody aboard depends on just one thing: Finding someone back there who not only can fly this plane, but who didn’t have fish for dinner.”
They don’t write dialogue like that anymore.
Having just watched The Crowded Sky, one of many crappy aviation movies he made, I can safely say that Airplane! should have had Dana Andrews as the captain, not Peter Graves. If only his health had permitted it.