In cab #1960?
I know you’ll all want to get this T-shirt: http://www.sportys.com/wrightbros/don-t-call-me-shirley-t-shirt.html
Ted, I have the strangest feeling we’ve been through this exact same thing before.
Since this has been resurrected: Oveur gets called over to the white courtesy phone, and in the middle of his conversation with the Mayo Clinic gets interrupted with news of an emergency call from Mister Hamm on Line Five – which, of course, prompts Peter Graves to declare “All right, give me Hamm on Five and hold the Mayo.”
By all that’s holy: why? Who takes all the time to set up a gag like that, and then stops right before having that second call come in on the white phone?
I’ll tell you who: a person who knows that the gag is a play on “ham on rye and hold the mayo”. No one orders a “ham on white”.
“Hamm on Five” is supposed to sound like “Ham on Rye”, and ordering a sandwich ‘on rye’ was a standard trope at the time. I think ‘on white’ would work better for a comedy today because ‘ham on rye’ isn’t as common of an expression, but at the time they were hitting a familiar note.
Do you like gladiator movies?
It still cracks me up, decades later.
Me too!
That’s exactly what I’d have expected them to do!
Want soooo badly
I just wanted to wish this thread good luck.
They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.
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Any list that has “Surely you can’t be serious” as the 44th best joke in “Airplane!”, can’t be serious.
The “oh, stewardess; I speak jive” scene is waaaaaaay too low. I mean, reasonable folks can disagree about where it ranks compared to other stuff; but other instances of jive stuff, which was there to build to that payoff, scored higher? C’mon.
Seriously. Cut me some slack Jack!
Listen, Betty, don’t start up with your White Zone shit again.
Ahh the classics…
My favourites are quick sight gags like the spinning newspaper headlines montage showing how different outlets are covering the breaking story, ending with an Enquirer-like paper with the headline “Boy Trapped In Refridgerator Eats Own Foot.” That’s the T-Shirt I’d buy.
Another I’d forgotten before buying the movie is a scene where Captain Oveur casually picks up a copy of Modern Sperm magazine from the “Whacking Material” section of the airport newsstand.