Hmmmmm…okay. Hadn’t considered that. I was stuck on “white” as in the bread, but I guess that works.
Sorry, Mr. Graves. 
I’ve been waiting for someone to up the ante with a similar gag on “eating disorder.” :eek:
You have it backward. The quoted scene is the original theatrical version. The TV version nixed it, for obvious reasons. It was replaced by a longer scene between the same two young actors. However, instead of the one bang joke, there was a whole conversation played out like they were both adults. I forget the particulars, but the “joke” was that the little boy was a businessman or something and the girl was likewise “adulting.” But not sexual.
It was pretty lame and went on far too long. The one-liner original version just kills it, though.
I believe the courtroom scene from the sequel are some of the best moments of the entire franchise.
First they revisit some of the most popular bits from the first movie, and then they have some very clever word play with the guy who flew with Stryker during the war:
“Buddy couldn’t handle the pressure!”
“Andy went to pieces?”
“Howie came unglued?” All followed by by:
“Then . . . Howie survived?” “No, we lost Howie the next day.” “Over Macho Grande?” (Capped by the brilliant reply):
“Nooo. I don’t think I’ll ever be over Macho Grande. Those wounds …… run pretty deep.”
There’s a sale at Penney’s!
That dialogue is reminiscent of the Police Squad! TV show, where they interview a teller at a bank after a robbery:
Drebin: “We think we know how he did it”
teller: “Oh, Howie couldn’t have done it…he hasn’t been in for weeks”
<a few seconds later, while departing>
Drebin: “Weeks?”
Captain: “Saul Weeks…the comptroller”
Sight gags really REALLY need to come back into vogue in the movies.
Why, I could make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl…!
Visual: jet airliner flying in the rain
Audio: Prop plane engines
“Please take your crash positions.”
"That’s impossible, they’re on instruments:
Of course sight gags only work if the audience is actually paying attention to the screen the entire time. That works with a movie like Airplane! because you have a captive audience in the theater. But part of why Police Squad wasn’t a success was because it relied so heavily on sight gags, and if people had it on in the background while they were washing dishes or whatever they’d miss half the jokes.
I’d love to have this fine artwork
The Ethel Merman cameo gag was classic and her last movie appearance. Nice but odd way to finish up a legendary career.
You’ll be swell! You’ll be great! Gonna have the whole world on the plate! Starting here, starting now, honey, everything’s… coming up… roses!
Thanks to this thread I’ve requested a Zero Hour/Airplane! double feature at my local Alamo Drafthouse. I’ll let you guys know if they are able to set it up. It would be a riot!
The question is: in what order do you show them?
Side by side on one screen (for comparison). “Airplane!” audio in right earphone, “Zero Hour” audio in left earphone. Sick of one? Yank appropriate earphone. Yeah, I don’t know if they could rig the technology.
OK, let’s get some pictures, boys.
Gunderson, check the Radar Range. Anything yet?
I love the fact that Mike from Breaking Bad worked Air Traffic Control in the early 80s.
Jonathan Banks uttered the immortal words, “He’s all over the place! Nine hundred feet up to 1300 feet. What an asshole!”