I don’t know if we have to worry about spoiling a film such as Airplane! but I posted it in my thread title anyway.
It’s available on amazon prime and I’ve watched it 5 times this week. Surely, you can’t be serious.
I am, and don’t call me Shirley.
“Oh stewardess, I speak jive.”
Looks like the foot’s on the other hand now…
Kramer on phone:No, we can’t do that, the risk of a flame-out is too great. Keep 'em at 24,000.
(pause)
No, feet.
This has always been my favorite line. On top of being funny, it’s a well timed bit of comic relief during an oddly suspenseful part of a comedy.
For some reason, this is my favorite bit of the whole movie (just the three seconds).
I work in a small office with both a Roger and a Victor. I’ve been patiently waiting the past 7 years for someone named Clarence to drop by the office just to break out the perfect lines.
Just wanted to say, Good luck, we’re all counting on you.
One of my favourite lines:
“Do you know what it’s like to fall in the mud and get kicked… in the head… with an iron boot? Of course you don’t, no one does. It never happens. Sorry, Ted, that’s a dumb question… skip that.”
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.”
(That was my first post on FB the day after Trump was elected.)
The greatest scene ever filmed in an airplane cockpit.
Don’t give me that white zone shit again.
Any of the scenes with Johnny always crack me up.
Just wanted to say, Good luck, we’re all counting on you.
Okay, as good a place as any to ask this:
Early in the film, Captain Oveur (Peter Graves) takes a call on the white courtesy phone from the Mayo Clinic (complete with mayonnaise jars in the background). Then the operator breaks in and and tells him he has an emergency call from “Mr. Ham on line five.” Oveur tells the operator, “All right, put Ham on five and hold the Mayo!”
Now, should not that have been “Put Ham on white and hold the Mayo”? Did Graves blow the joke?
I don’t think so. IIRC, wasn’t the quote “Gimme Ham on five and hold the Mayo”? Also IIRC, in old timey diner lingo if a waitress told the cook “Gimme ham on five” it meant “A ham sandwich for table five” or something along those lines.
Ooh, a debate! I don’t think Peter Graves blew the joke. It’s supposed to sound like, “Give me ham on rye and hold the mayo,” (or white if you prefer) not actually be that. Mr. Hamm is on line five, and the Mayo Clinic gets put on hold. Yes, it’s contrived, but it’s internally consistent, which is about all you can hope for from a pun.
I always find this example of how quotable the movie is to be amusing. One weekend I was supposed to spend the entire day with my young nephew, but I had a rare opportunity and wanted to disappear for few hours. I had recently purchased a very inexpensive DVD with both Airplane! and *Top Secret! *included. I told the kid to watch an old favorite movie of mine with his grandmother, and when I returned we would discuss it.
So I got home shortly after the movie ended and my nephew ran up to me and breathlessly exclaimed: “Uncle Temporary, you should have stayed and watched the movie with us- you would have loved it! They stole ALL your jokes!”