“Yes I am, and don’t call me Shirley”
Does anyone remember the scene where Peter Graves, the pilot, say to the little boy visiting the cockpit, “Tommy, have you ever seen a grown man naked?” I’m amazed they could get away with that even 30 years ago.
When I watched it new, it was creepy. Squirmy even. But still funny. I think it was acceptable because the understanding of how pervasive molesters are wasn’t understood. To my 1977 mind, child molesters were rare creeps, obvious, like Uncle Ernie. They were easy to avoid, because of that. How little we knew then!
Not Airplane! but somehow I just found this 50 Shades of Drebin video.
Hmm… no. No, I don’t, and I doubt anyone else posting in this thread does, either. But if we did, we’d know the boy’s name was Joey.
Star Wars came out in 1977. *** Airplane! ***came out in 1980.
Well, I was young for my age.
Indeed, or the little girl stating she takes her coffee black, like her men!!:eek:
As inappropriate as this is, it cracks me the hell up. 
To be fair, the whole movie is ethnic and gender stereotyping. Starting with the two jiveass dudes, and continuing with the “Famous Jewish Sports Legends” pamphlet, the Japanese dude who commits seppuku, the Indian dude who (accidentally) immolates himself, the entire phalanx of religious types in the lobby, Johnny’s flaming, the pedophile priest, the horny chick, Ovure’s wife having an affair with a horse, and ends with Elaine giving oral sex to Otto.
But I love the movie! I ain’t no SJW, but Code of Honor is still a racist episode of TNG.
Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch! :mad:
Believe it or not, the announcers you heard in the film were the IRL married couple who had recorded the announcements for LAX.
While casting the movie, Zucker and Abrams auditioned voice actors to do the parody curbside announcements, but none of the candidates offered the verisimilitude they were seeking. So they decided to hire the couple who actually had done the announcements, and the result has made us laugh for decades.
I have this from Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, in an episode where he interviewed Zucker and Abrams.
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The Red Zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There’s never stopping in a White Zone.
I want every light you can find on that field!
[Cue somber portentious music, while a dumptruck deposits a load of old table lamps onto the tarmac ]
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Look Betty, don’t start up with your white zone shit again. There’s just no stopping in a white zone.
OK, boys, let’s get some pictures.
Would I be accused of {shudder} Junior Modding if I pointed out that one-third of the posts/quotes in this thread are essentially duplicates of earlier ones?
The cockpit used for filming Airplane! now resides in the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson AZ. FYI. 
Good luck, we’re all counting on you.
:: whinnies ::