A ludicrous amount.
Subtitle - Golly!
We are NOT going plaid!
It’s the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that’s not important right now.
“Excuse me, we’d like you to have this flower…”
[firmly but politely brushes past]
“Excuse me, sir, but would you…”
[pushes the questioner away]
“Donations for the Reverend Moon?”
[swift punch to the gut]
“Jews for Jesus?”
[enthusiastic kick]
“Read about Jehovah’s Witnesses?”
[flips over him to anticipatorily deck the next guy]
“…how about Buddhism?”
[judo-style throw; elbow strike]
“…help Jerry’s Kids?”
[BAM!]
“…Scientology?”
[POW!]
“…more nuclear power?”
[BAM, POW!]
“The fog is getting thicker.”
“And Leon’s getting laaaaaaaaarger!”
(It’s not just the line, or the randomness of it. What makes it a hat trick is the way Johnny jumps into frame, from an apple box or whatever.)
Johnny’s my least favourite part of the movie. The “let’s laugh at the guy for probably being gay” schtick has not aged well, and he just doesn’t fit the rest of the movie. Everyone else is playing it straight - that is what makes the movie so funny - and this one guy is capering in front of the camera like an eleventh grade drama club nerd desperate for attention.
Yikes! I never thought his campiness was the main draw. To me, he’s a smartass (“How 'bout some coffee, Johnny?” “No thanks!”)* who happens to be swishy. And the fact that Steven Stucker died before he could bring the funny to anything except the sequel to this breaks my heart. You really don’t laugh at what I quoted?
*Yes, I know the coffee request was in Zero Hour. But “No thanks!” wasn’t.
I like Johnny. He’s one of my favorite secondary characters in the movie.
Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
I like the way he types, with a Liberace flourish.
I don’t agree that eceryone else is playing it straight. Characters breaking the forth wall are not playing it straight. Plus, that really is Jabbar moonlighting as a copilot using an assumed name, not Jabbar playing Roger Murdoch.
Oh, it’s a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol!
From what I’ve read, Stephen Stucker was really like that in real life, and was totally on board with the character.
“Just kidding!”
No, the Leon gag isn’t funny to me at all. It’s totally out of sync with the rest of the movie.
Oh, I don’t have a problem with the guy personally, God rest his soul. He was an actor doing his job. Stucker was, of course, a regular collaborator with the ZAZ crew, playing another camp role in “Kentucky Fried Movie.”
It’s out of sync with a movie that literally has the shit hitting the fan?
I don’t see it.
It starts with a slight fever and dryness of the throat. When the virus penetrates the red blood cells, the victim becomes dizzy, begins to experience an itchy rash… then the poison goes to work on the central nervous system: severe muscle spasms followed by the inevitable drooling. At this point, the entire digestive system collapses, accompanied by uncontrollable flatulence… until finally, the poor bastard is reduced to a quivering, wasted piece of jelly.
The fork lift? It’s over there!
And then jumps back out.
When I saw it in the theater, the line “Put Ham on five, hold the mayo” got a huge groan from the audience. It was probably because the theater was a block away from the Mayo Clinic.
You can’t take a guess for another two hours?