# The comedy Airplane! was released 30 years ago! Surely you can't be serious! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249 "2010-07-10T21:33:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/81 "2010-07-12T04:16:45Z")
> [@Shot\_Clock](#): > > Help Jerry’s Kids? > > :: pop pop BAM! POW! :: For this scene I liked the comment made in You Tube: [Robert Stack] “Next time on unsolved mysteries…KICKING ASS” [/Robert Stack] [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qse_wf57tZM/hqdefault.jpg "Airplane Missionaries") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qse_wf57tZM) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/82 "2010-07-12T04:45:52Z")
The OP is all over the place. He’s giving a timeframe, he’s quoting jokes, he’s quoting newspapers… what an asshole! ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/83 "2010-07-12T06:24:10Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > The look on Leslie Nielsen’s face while he is handling the Violoncello is what sells it to me. 🙂 > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEywGpIt0vw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEywGpIt0vw) ::grrr:: Damn you! That’s what I came here to post. This is just about my favorite joke in the world. heh…instruments… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/84 "2010-07-12T06:54:23Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > The look on Leslie Nielsen’s face while he is handling the Violoncello is what sells it to me. 🙂 > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEywGpIt0vw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEywGpIt0vw) That link got me to a clip of the guys talking jive, which led me to [this clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUw2fIa0dSI) of Barbara Billingsley discussing her role. Looked her up on IMDb; still alive, will be 95 in December. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/85 "2010-07-12T07:03:30Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > That link got me to a clip of the guys talking jive, which led me to [this clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUw2fIa0dSI) of Barbara Billingsley discussing her role. > > Looked her up on IMDb; still alive, will be 95 in December. …and [The Making of Jive Talk from Airplane!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkZdz4Vz10&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/86 "2010-07-12T07:46:34Z")
We’re gonna have to come in pretty low to land this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/87 "2010-07-12T07:59:20Z")
HE’S COMING RIGHT AT US!!! ::dives out of forum:: ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/88 "2010-07-12T08:01:19Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > HE’S COMING RIGHT AT US!!! ::dives out of forum:: (Not to be Captain Bringdown or anything, but that gag, kind of like the Ghostbusters climbing the fire stairs and complaing about the weight of their gear, does come off a bit different these days.) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/89 "2010-07-12T10:30:51Z")
It’s a damn good thing you don’t know how much I hate your guts. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/90 "2010-07-12T10:42:45Z")
I’ll give this thread another twenty minutes; but that’s it! ---
**Author:** ![Baboonanza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@Baboonanza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baboonanza)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/91 "2010-07-12T11:57:28Z")
‘It was around about that time that I developed a drinking problem’ Best sight-pun ever. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/92 "2010-07-12T16:25:38Z")
Some great _Airplane!_ trivia here: [Airplane! (1980) - Trivia - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/trivia) ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/93 "2010-07-12T16:29:17Z")
I love this thread…It’s a big pretty white one with little curtains…and wheels…and looks like a big Tylenol! ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/94 "2010-07-12T16:46:59Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I love this thread…It’s a big pretty white one with little curtains..and wheels…and looks like a big Tylenol! This thread, now posting in Cafe Society. … Now posting in MPSIMS…Now posting in the Pit…in GD..in GQ.in the BarnyardinIMHO… ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/95 "2010-07-12T17:05:49Z")
No thanks. We gave at the office. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/96 "2010-07-12T17:20:19Z")
Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up coming into threads late after all the good lines have been taken. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/97 "2010-07-12T17:29:01Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > I’ll give this thread another twenty minutes; but that’s it! No, feet. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/98 "2010-07-12T17:40:18Z")
This is so weird, I was really bummed out yesterday so to cheer up I watched _Airplane!_. one of my favorite comedies. Now i find out that it was released 30 years ago. What a pisser. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/99 "2010-07-12T17:46:05Z")
Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-comedy-airplane-was-released-30-years-ago-surely-you-cant-be-serious/546249/100 "2010-07-12T18:37:57Z")
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