I am serious - Airplane! was released on July 2nd, 1980; 46 years ago today
Thank you,
I just want to tell you good luck we’re all counting on you.
Johnny, what can you make of this?
This? Why, I can make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl!
Gonna drag this classic out tonight for a watch 
I picked the wrong day to give up sniffing glue.
It’s an entirely different kind of flying, altogether!
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Landing this thread in Cafe Society
@Chronos, that was probably the lousiest landing in the history of this message board. But there are some of us here, particularly me, who would like to buy you a drink and shake your hand.
Roger, Roger!
@Chronos I think you’re the greatest, but my dad says you don’t work hard enough on defense.
What’s our vector, Victor?
Roger!
What?
Chronos is not Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, although the resemblance is uncanny.
For true propeller-heads, ZAZ did the definite book. Practically every line and gag is lovingly detailed.
Ooh, I’mma need that for my cruise read! Thanks for the recommendation!
Now, the question on everyone’s mind is, who likes movies about gladiators?
“It’s an entirely different kind of flying!”
For those who may be interested, Ross Harris was the actor, 10 years old at the time, who played Johnny and who was asked if he had ever been in a Turkish prison, etc. He did an interview about it years later; TLDR, he didn’t get the joke at the time. The director had told him to really lean into the “Golly Gee Whiz!” of it all, so I suppose that’s where his mind was at the time. A year later he went to see the movie and realized that those jokes were about.
You could never make that joke in a movie today.
Also, before Airplane!, Leslie Nielson was a serious actor who played serious roles for seriousness. After that film, he became a sort of parody of himself and his later roles, like his in Airplane!, juxtaposed his seriousness with the films’ absurdity. And he loved it. He would later say that it was the best thing to ever happen to him: he was a jovial and jocular fellow who preferred comedy over drama.
Also, on the subject of kids and dirty jokes, Michelle Stacy (“I take [my coffee] black, like my men”), who like Ross Harris was 10 at the time, also wasn’t in on the joke. ZAZ deliberately kept all of the kids on the set in the dark about what their lines really meant.
She abruptly dropped out of acting after Airplane!
Michelle Stacy — The Movie Database (TMDB)
You might want something a little lighter. I recommend Famous Jewish Sports Legends.
Harold Abrahams.
The End.
There are a lot of Hank Greenberg & Sandy Koufax fans that would like to talk to you on that one. Both in the Hall of Fame.
Oh and from the Olympics: I’m pretty sure Mark Spitz with his 7 Gold Medals was Jewish.
My bad. Also, in one of his Chanukah Songs, Adam Sandler name-checks Rod Carew, but apparenlty Carew never followed through with conversion.