Yep … they don’t make 'em like this anymore.
RIP Two Jags.
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Oh no ~ Janey Godley’s dead.
How did I miss this? She was a great stand-up and her animal voice-overs are hilarious.
It does help to be Scottish tho.
RIP Janey ~ I love you x
One of the writers of the hilarious Airplane and Naked Gun movies, Jim Abrahams has passed aged 80.
Surely you can’t be serious…
Thanks for the laughs
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Sad day. Airplane is still one of my favorite laugh out loud quotable films.
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Jims wife walks into the bedroom to find Jim unconscious in bed, so she calls 911
Jims Wife: Hello operator, my husband is seriously sick, he needs to be taken to a hospital!
Operator: A hospital, what is it?
Jims Wife: A big building with patients in it, but that’s not important right now.
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Jane: Can I interest you in a nightcap?
Frank: No thank you, I don’t wear them
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It’s a completely different type of flying, altogether.
Flying High in our neck of the woods
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit quoting Airplane!
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Oh stewardess?
Yes?
I speak jive.
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Nice beaver!
Thanks! I just had it stuffed.
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While l was doing TEFL training in China l hosted a movie night for trainees once a week. One Chinese lass who hailed from Fiji had never seen or heard of Airplane/Flying high, so of course we played it one night. She hailed it as the funniest of movies, she had good taste.
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You like movies about gladiators?
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“I know but this guy has no flying experience at all. He’s a menace to himself and everything else in the air … Yes, birds too.”
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Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish Prison?
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Captain. How soon can you land ?
I can’t tell.
You can tell me, I’m a doctor.
No i mean I’m not sure.
Can you take a guess?
Well. Not for another 2 hours.
You can’t take a guess for another 2 hours?
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Interestingly…
Some of the dialogue for Airplane is ripped straight off another movie called Zero Hour. Word for word. But it’s considered a drama. I tried watching Zero Hour once and just couldn’t get through it without thinking of how Airplane did the exact same scene.
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One of the funniest scenes ever committed to film.
And completely ad libbed!
Hostess: Can I get you something?
[Second Jive Dude ]: ‘S’■■■■ butter layin’ me to da’ BONE! Jackin’ me up… tight me!
Hostess: I’m sorry, I don’t understand.
[First Jive Dude ]: Cutter say ‘e can’t HANG!
Elderly Lady: Oh, stewardess! I speak jive.
Hostess: Oh, good.
Elderly Lady: He said that he’s in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
Hostess: All right. Would you tell him to just relax and I’ll be back as soon as I can with some medicine?
Elderly Lady: [to the Second Jive Dude] Jus’ hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da rebound on da med side.
[Second Jive Dude ]: What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!
Elderly Lady: Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don’ want no help, chump don’t GET da help!
[First Jive Dude ]: Say 'e can’t hang, say seven up!
Elderly Lady: Jive-ass dude don’t got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.
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I watched Zero Hour long before l ever saw Flying High, and it is a straight drama with Dana Andrews as the reluctant pilot. I particularly liked how Flying High used the same sound for the jet as Zero Hours old propellor driven job.
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