My brother and I died laughing at the Latin lesson, and neither of us ever studied Latin. Decades later, I can still recite most of it by heart. (What follows is strictly from memory)
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS? People called Romanes they go the house?
It says “Romans go home.”
No it doesn’t
I even remember the correct answer ROMANI ITE DOMUM
And that’s pretty much all the Latin I know.
This is a recurring problem with comedies where the plot is just there as something to embed the jokes in. Look at the endings of Marx Brothers movies, for instance - the endings of the good ones are all contrived. If you’re having a good time going nowhere of importance, what to do when you get there is always going to be a dilemma. My feeling is that if the ride is good enough, I’m not going to be too particular about the ending. (If I felt otherwise, I wouldn’t be a Marx Brothers fan!)
At least in MP&HG, they start setting up the ending well in advance, starting with the “A Famous Historian” scene which follows the knights’ initial encounter with the French taunters.
Airplane! is the only movie I literally (literally) fell out of my seat watching. At several points, I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe. Of course, I was a 12-year-old boy the first time I watched it, so it did hit me in the sweet spot, as it were.
Blazing Saddles is funny, and I’ve seen it as a kid and as an adult. Each watch is always a good time with lots of laughs. But nothing compares to Airplane!
I’ve seen Airplane! at least 15 times. And I’m *still *seeing new sight gags. For example, the scene with all the reporters putting up their microphones for a good quote on the impending disaster–one of the microphones is an ice cream cone! Just recently noticed that.
Airplane! gets the vote.
OMFG, you’re right! I never noticed that myself, either. See at 10:25 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs
If you didn’t laugh in the “Biggus Dickus” scene you are dead inside and/or a robot, did you also not cry for Fry’s dog in Futurama? how did you even pass the captcha to register in the forum? 
OMG! And, I didn’t even notice it until you just pointed it out. That’s brilliant! I wonder how many more of those visual gags I’ve missed.
I’d say Airplane! is funnier, BS is better satire. Since the poll asks which is funnier, I’ll be voting for Airplane!, especially after that video. Amazing.
I’m just going to say one name: Will Elder. The Mad comic book pretty much did that incessantly, starting in 1952. They were all reprinted, 3 to an issue in the 90s.
I just watched it. He was making his centurion crack up by saying stuff? That’s the joke? I didn’t even smile. Doesnt it seem like kind of a dumb outlier from most “smart” python bits?
We tried watching Blazing Saddles again around Christmas and I was surprised how dull the first half hour was. Couldn’t get into it again. Airplane, we still laugh from start to finish.
Dead.
Inside.
So you did not find it - wisible?
Wegards,
Shodan
It’s not wisible!, he has a wife you know…
Mmmph.
Airplane! seems a remake of It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Blazing Saddles and Life of Brian heartily skewer cultural atrocities.
Why has nobody mentioned Porklips Now? It only lacked a budget.
Huh? *Mad *was a glacially-paced, heavily-plotted film starring famous comedians desperately mugging though endless chases and crashes for what seemed like six hours without a single joke ever being made. It would be hard to come up with a film less like Airplane!!
Surely you can’t be serious?
It was a remake of Zero Hour. Or a skewering. Or a complete decimation.
Yeah, count me in on the folks who don’t at all see the similarity between [It’s a …]Mad World* and Airplane!. If RioRico hasn’t seen it, here’s side-by-side of Zero Hour and Airplane. As it was mentioned before, Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker bought the rights to Zero Hour, which is why it hews so closely to the source material in parts.
Hear, hear. Rat Race, the Zuckers’ semi-remake, was far superior, even if it wasn’t one of their all-time greats.
They both had Ethel Merman?
You mean Lt. Hurwitz?