# Airplane! movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 26, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362 "2020-07-26T03:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/61 "2020-07-28T20:29:36Z")
“I was in the Air Force, stationed in Drambuie, off the Barbary Coast. I used to hang out at the Magumba bar.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/62 "2020-07-29T01:16:08Z")
Sorry; I hadn’t read all the posts yet. I’ve also liked the scene (which also dates it somewhat) where a group of reporters rush into a row of payphones, and the whole wall tips over. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/63 "2020-07-29T01:24:56Z")
“Joey, do you ever hang around the gymnasium? When the men have been working out, and they’re all hot and sweaty?” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/64 "2020-07-29T02:08:14Z")
“What can you make of this?” (printed report) “I can make a hat, or I can make a brooch, or I can…” ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/65 "2020-07-29T03:38:52Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’ve also liked the scene (which also dates it somewhat) where a group of reporters rush into a row of payphones, and the whole wall tips over. It was dated immediately - banks of phone booths weren’t used in that era. Multiple pay phones were mounted on walls with no partitioning. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/66 "2020-07-29T11:50:01Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > It was dated immediately - banks of phone booths weren’t used in that era. Multiple pay phones were mounted on walls with no partitioning. In this scene you can see one of the photographers has an old folding press camera with a bulb flash…not used by journalists since the 1960s? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rf1SjAv0UOw/hqdefault.jpg "Let's get some pictures!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf1SjAv0UOw) Notice one of the microphones is an ice cream cone. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/67 "2020-07-29T11:54:19Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > It was dated immediately - banks of phone booths weren’t used in that era. Multiple pay phones were mounted on walls with no partitioning. Jet planes from that era sounded like jet planes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/68 "2020-07-29T11:56:51Z")
Apparently, ZAZ wanted a prop plane but the studio insisted on a jet. So they retaliated by putting the prop sound in. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/69 "2020-07-29T14:05:30Z")
I’m pretty sure some older buildings still had private phone booths in 1980. I also doubt some older photographers wouldn’t have ditched a perfectly good camera in favor of a more modern model. Besides, using a bellows camera is a lot more dramatic. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/70 "2020-07-29T14:11:46Z")
A pizzeria in Sayville, NY that I used to frequent still has a working phone booth that closes (well as of 2012 they did). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/71 "2020-07-29T14:29:50Z")
The magazine _Modern Sperm_ in the airport bookstore rack marked “Whacking Material.” ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/72 "2020-07-29T14:34:21Z")
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/73 "2020-07-29T15:16:03Z")
“I’ve got it!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/74 "2020-07-29T15:32:14Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I’m pretty sure some older buildings still had private phone booths in 1980. I also doubt some older photographers wouldn’t have ditched a perfectly good camera in favor of a more modern model. > > Besides, using a bellows camera is a lot more dramatic. Missed the edit on this one: _would_, not wouldn’t. 🥺 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/75 "2020-07-29T15:35:41Z")
“All right, give me Hamm on five, hold the Mayo.” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/76 "2020-07-29T16:21:35Z")
Could a movie even have a conversation about having an abortion these days? it seems we’ve regressed to a more puritanical past.\* -\*I watch L&O reruns on WeTV. they blank out certain words - remember, L&O was originally broadcast on over the air TV! WeTV is censoring words that were good enough for NBC’s Standards and practices watchdogs! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/77 "2020-07-29T16:26:36Z")
_Blazing Saddles_, it has often be noted, could almost certainly not be made these days. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/78 "2020-07-29T16:32:05Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > -\*I watch L&O reruns on WeTV. they blank out certain words - remember, L&O was originally broadcast on over the air TV! WeTV is censoring words that were good enough for NBC’s Standards and practices watchdogs! It’s worse than that. If you’re half deaf from a lifetime spent in factories and use closed captioning you get to see WeTV censor closed captioning using a computer. You’ll see a sound described as “gun xxxxing” . Yes, they replace the word “cocking” with “xxxxing” which seems way dirtier than the original. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/79 "2020-07-29T17:06:48Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Jet planes from that era sounded like jet planes. Yeah, I always noticed during the multiple times the aircraft lost altitude that it was clearly a sound sample of a diving prop plane. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/80 "2020-07-29T17:26:07Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > It’s worse than that. If you’re half deaf from a lifetime spent in factories and use closed captioning you get to see WeTV censor closed captioning using a computer. You’ll see a sound described as “gun xxxxing” . Yes, they replace the word “cocking” with “xxxxing” which seems way dirtier than the original. WOW! And yet, the plot lines they show on the promos for “Love After Lockup” should be censored! I don’t understand that channel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362.md?page=5)