Airplane! (1980) vs. Spaceballs (1987): Part 1

<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome to the Surely Can't Be Serious podcast,
<v Speaker 1>discussing and debating the iconic and the forgotten of eighties
<v Speaker 1>and nineties pop culture with your co hosts James D.
<v Speaker 1>Graves and Jason Colban.
<v Speaker 2>So here we are on our best of the Parodies of.
<v Speaker 3>The eighties, Best to the Parodies, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Best of the parodies movies, yes, our first movie podcast. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And of course we got to keep our namesake in
<v Speaker 2>the picture here. So we're going to talk about Airplane
<v Speaker 2>by Zucker Abrams and Sucker Zizzy, and we are going
<v Speaker 2>to talk about Spaceballs by the originator and master of
<v Speaker 2>the parody, mister mel Brooks. Really appreciate you tuning us
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<v Speaker 2>on Twitter. That's it, okay, So to jump right in.
<v Speaker 2>We're going to talk about Airplane, all right, So we
<v Speaker 2>haven't I haven't talked to you. I don't know if
<v Speaker 2>you've got a preference on which one of these is
<v Speaker 2>better or not. I've made up my mind. But maybe
<v Speaker 2>we just maybe we'll just keep it a secret.
<v Speaker 3>Let's just dive in and see what we got.
<v Speaker 2>Okay to jump right in, We're going to talk about
<v Speaker 2>Airplane before we get every.
<v Speaker 4>Time to Yes, good luck, We're okay, Okay.
<v Speaker 3>I can't. Let's get too far down the road of that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, one quote.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, Oh my gosh, it's going to be a quote faster.
<v Speaker 2>It looks like the pick the wrong We could quit smoking.
<v Speaker 3>In fact, we should just stop talking and just play
<v Speaker 3>the movie and get out of the way.
<v Speaker 2>Okay. So Airplane was released in nineteen eighty. Let's try
<v Speaker 2>to do maybe some rapid fire exchange back and forth
<v Speaker 2>of things that happened in nineteen eighty. Padded shoulders became
<v Speaker 2>a fashion trend among young professionals that were dubbed in
<v Speaker 2>that particular year yuppies.
<v Speaker 3>Well, I get the unfortunate. John Lennon was shot.
<v Speaker 2>Rubik's Cube was debuted in nineteen eighty, which quickly became
<v Speaker 2>the hottest toy trend of the early eighties. Did you
<v Speaker 2>have a cube?
<v Speaker 3>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, for sure. And I took it apart and I
<v Speaker 2>put it back together, and I never learned to actually
<v Speaker 2>have solt it. Actually I was young enough at that time.
<v Speaker 2>I saw my brother take it apart, and I was like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>I can do that. And then I pulled all the
<v Speaker 2>stickers off, and they don't go back on once you
<v Speaker 2>pull them off, so we had to get a new.
<v Speaker 3>Whes the sticker puller offer. I actually I can solve
<v Speaker 3>one side, maybe two sides, but I can't do the
<v Speaker 3>whole thing.
<v Speaker 2>I can get it all the way. I can get
<v Speaker 2>it top layer and next two down layers, but there's
<v Speaker 2>a formula to get that last layer, and I haven't
<v Speaker 2>memorized it me.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, also Junie of nineteen or not June of nineteen,
<v Speaker 3>but nineteen eighty, you had the miracle on ice.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that's what I have. Is my next one as well.
<v Speaker 2>The US team with their amateur players does the miraculous
<v Speaker 2>thing and beats the Soviet Union, whose players were all
<v Speaker 2>professional and incredibly good.
<v Speaker 3>H Okay, go ahead, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So ACD another side event, ACDC frontman Bond Scott dies
<v Speaker 2>and that was in February of nineteen eighty. Shortly thereafter
<v Speaker 2>they have to decide what to do. They find frontman
<v Speaker 2>Brian Johnson through auditions. He actually came straight from a
<v Speaker 2>Hoover vacuum commercial you would.
<v Speaker 3>Come back from.
<v Speaker 1>It's a beautiful mover.
<v Speaker 3>The new compack does more than beat.
<v Speaker 2>It also cleaves.
<v Speaker 1>It also sweeps, rushes up to the net.
<v Speaker 4>It's a beautiful.
<v Speaker 3>An opportunity knocks, Yeah, there's opportunity and then there's Back
<v Speaker 3>in Black knocking on your door.
<v Speaker 2>Right. Yes, so they had they had recorded partial some
<v Speaker 2>of Back in Black, had set it up, but he
<v Speaker 2>worked with them, completed the album and Back in Black
<v Speaker 2>was released. Uh in June of nineteen eighteen.
<v Speaker 3>The news that blows in my mind. He is doing
<v Speaker 3>vacuum cleaner commercials. Yeah, and they say, come scene on
<v Speaker 3>Back and Black. Now they didn't know what I mean.
<v Speaker 3>You know, Back in Black and I'd be the one
<v Speaker 3>of the best albums that I think.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, there's no question that it is their best album.
<v Speaker 2>And he has done a phenomenal job with them since then.
<v Speaker 2>And I mean his voice is so similar to Bond
<v Speaker 2>Scott's and his stage presence was spot on. His look
<v Speaker 2>was different than anybody else. It was a solid I mean,
<v Speaker 2>they are arguably one of the best rock and roll
<v Speaker 2>bands of all time.
<v Speaker 3>All right. How about this Mount Saint Helens blows up
<v Speaker 3>in nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't remember that either, but my father's recollection
<v Speaker 2>is that it was like almost like nighttime during the day,
<v Speaker 2>like a cloud enveloped at least all of the US,
<v Speaker 2>if not the whole world.
<v Speaker 3>I remember it. That was a very sort of curious
<v Speaker 3>thing for me, you know, following along this major explosion
<v Speaker 3>and killed people, and the Mountain blue half of its top.
<v Speaker 2>It was supposed to be an inert volcano, right there,
<v Speaker 2>wasn't supposed to be active.
<v Speaker 3>It was, well, it was a sleeping giant. Yeah, they
<v Speaker 3>started to notice the bulge.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I had that one as well. So next one
<v Speaker 2>on the list is Lakers beat the seventy six ers
<v Speaker 2>for the NBA Championship, with mister Magic Johnson himself scoring
<v Speaker 2>forty two points in the final game.
<v Speaker 3>Best point guard at all time. Don't come at me
<v Speaker 3>on that one, okay. How about this hosted notes gone
<v Speaker 3>sale for the first time in.
<v Speaker 2>Nineteen eighty Oh wow, So that's an interesting one. Yeah, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>In on October third of nineteen eighty, which is the
<v Speaker 2>day that I turned five. Nice, the police released as
<v Speaker 2>in YadA Mandada Chad my favorite police song on it
<v Speaker 2>Don't Stand So.
<v Speaker 3>Close to.
<v Speaker 2>The World may recognize Ronald Reagan was elected in nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 2>That's kind of a big one. I remember that one.
<v Speaker 2>I actually remember.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that was that was big. And I did play
<v Speaker 3>a bunch of quarters worth of pac.
<v Speaker 1>Man and.
<v Speaker 2>Oh sure, sure well Reagan pac Man neck and neck
<v Speaker 2>on importance.
<v Speaker 3>I think for me, Yeah, okay, what else you Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Nothing? No, I got nothing.
<v Speaker 3>Well do we want to do? So? Do you want
<v Speaker 3>to do? The top ten real quick?
<v Speaker 2>Top ten Top ten songs of nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 3>So, just to kind of so I'm a big music guy,
<v Speaker 3>I'm a big pop music guy. Just to kind of
<v Speaker 3>set the stage for when we are actually talking about
<v Speaker 3>this is the top ten for the week of Airplane
<v Speaker 3>was released on July second, nineteen eighty, so this is
<v Speaker 3>roughly that time period. Here's the top ten on the
<v Speaker 3>top one hand, be right for this, yes, all right?
<v Speaker 3>Number ten Cars by Carry Against the Wind by Bob Seger.
<v Speaker 3>Nine Beautiful Okay, Hurts So Bad by Linda Ronstat, No idea,
<v Speaker 3>I Got nothing on that Stomp by the Brothers Johnson. No, okay,
<v Speaker 3>here we go now we start to get into the
<v Speaker 3>biggest part of Me by Ambrodier. The Sexy Eyes by
<v Speaker 3>Doctor Hook, Got Nothing here we go. Don't Fall in
<v Speaker 3>Love with a Dreamer by Kenny Rogers.
<v Speaker 2>That One I Would Do, Yeah, That one was an
<v Speaker 2>LP that we had coming up by Paul McCartney. Nope
<v Speaker 2>Call Me by Blondie. Oh yeah, fantastic. That song is
<v Speaker 2>still good.
<v Speaker 3>And number one song this week. The release date of
<v Speaker 3>nineteen Airplane in nineteen eighty was Punky.
<v Speaker 2>Down Nice Funky Town is also a classic. Okay, let's
<v Speaker 2>move on to our movie Airplane oversimplified plot. Are you ready? Okay?
<v Speaker 2>All right? So Striker is a war veteran and he
<v Speaker 2>cannot handle flying anymore because of a bad experience he had.
<v Speaker 2>His girlfriend, who's a flight attendant, leaves him. What a pisser.
<v Speaker 2>He goes to find her, dear John letter too soon
<v Speaker 2>and runs to chase her onto the airplane. He chases
<v Speaker 2>her onto the airplane, buying a ticket. She goes on
<v Speaker 2>the airplane is surprised to see him. He pleads with
<v Speaker 2>her to come back to him, but then everything goes
<v Speaker 2>awry when the food that is served on the airplane
<v Speaker 2>starts making everyone sick, including the pilot, the co pilot,
<v Speaker 2>and the navigator, leaving no one else to fly the
<v Speaker 2>plane except can you fly this plane and land it?
<v Speaker 2>Surely you can't be serious.
<v Speaker 4>I am serious, and don't call me surely.
<v Speaker 2>Ted Striker, who is still dealing with the problem of
<v Speaker 2>his stress from his war days. Then to help him,
<v Speaker 2>help guide him through the process of bringing the plane down,
<v Speaker 2>is his old war buddy Rex Rex Creamery.
<v Speaker 3>He is successful that he doesn't know how much he
<v Speaker 3>hates his guts.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, he is who is ultimately successful in guiding the plane,
<v Speaker 2>and he has overcome his fear and he and his
<v Speaker 2>striker and his girl are reunited to live on happily
<v Speaker 2>ever after.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, so that is the simplified plot of Airplane.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, so let's talk about who wrote and directed the movie,
<v Speaker 2>Avid Zucker.
<v Speaker 3>Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abers.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, that's right, the trio known as zazz z A
<v Speaker 2>z z Abram, Abrams, Zucker, Abrams and Zucker, who have
<v Speaker 2>gone on since that time to do multiple parody movies,
<v Speaker 2>including Naked Gun, which was Naked Gun from the Files
<v Speaker 2>of Police Squad. Interestingly, there was actually a series that
<v Speaker 2>they wrote and directed called Police Squad. That was a
<v Speaker 2>TV series. It lasted exactly six episodes.
<v Speaker 3>I got to watch that.
<v Speaker 2>I oh, it is so good. And I was one
<v Speaker 2>of those fortunate few who had an older brother who
<v Speaker 2>was very familiar with the video store. So I actually
<v Speaker 2>watched Police Squad before they ever made Naked Gun. And
<v Speaker 2>so I went to Naked Gun with happy anticipation, and
<v Speaker 2>it was fantastic. They took so many things from that
<v Speaker 2>original series, but the Zuckers refused to do a laugh
<v Speaker 2>track in them. They had so many site gags a
<v Speaker 2>laugh track wouldn't really make any sense for them. And
<v Speaker 2>as a result, the studio said, okay, never mind, Well
<v Speaker 2>are your six episodes that you did and then we're done.
<v Speaker 2>A laugh track would have killed that. I absolutely absolutely would, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So they started. These guys started out together, work, went
<v Speaker 2>to college together, came created the Kentucky Fried Theater together,
<v Speaker 2>which is where many of their comic bits come from.
<v Speaker 2>Was this kind of improvisational actor troupe theater that they
<v Speaker 2>put together. And then the first movie that they came
<v Speaker 2>out with was the Kentucky Fried Movie exactly, which I
<v Speaker 2>have not seen. Have you seen it?
<v Speaker 3>I've seen parts of it.
<v Speaker 2>I've seen little bits of it. It's it's that same
<v Speaker 2>kind of weird, quirky humor, not to the same degree.
<v Speaker 2>But did you know who was directed by right throwback
<v Speaker 2>to our episode number one? Yes, there you go.
<v Speaker 3>So they originally Airplane was scheduled to be a skit
<v Speaker 3>in the middle of the second Kentucky Fried movie. So
<v Speaker 3>it's supposed to be a skit, but they decided, hey,
<v Speaker 3>there's enough meat on the bone here, we can actually
<v Speaker 3>make the whole thing a movie.
<v Speaker 2>Whole thing of movie yep. And so the way that
<v Speaker 2>they came up with the idea for this movie is
<v Speaker 2>they were recording old late night bits. Do you know
<v Speaker 2>this story?
<v Speaker 3>I heard this?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, go ahead tell it.
<v Speaker 3>Well, so they used to leave the VCR on recording overnight,
<v Speaker 3>just hoping to get funny commercials sort of those something
<v Speaker 3>to make fun of overnight, and they accidentally recorded zero
<v Speaker 3>Hour and ended up Zero Hour and thinking, man, this
<v Speaker 3>is we could really turn this into something funny.
<v Speaker 2>So, for those of you who don't know, Zero Hour
<v Speaker 2>is a movie from the what fifties, nineteen fifty seven
<v Speaker 2>nineteen fifty seven, which was an intense airplane drama and
<v Speaker 2>if you are so lucky as to see it, you
<v Speaker 2>will say, oh my, they really did just totally adapt
<v Speaker 2>this script from that script. They some of the lines
<v Speaker 2>are identical. And because they knew that they were doing it,
<v Speaker 2>they were fascinated by this weird movie. They decided, we're
<v Speaker 2>going to buy the rights to the script first, which
<v Speaker 2>their lawyers told them they didn't have to do, but
<v Speaker 2>they did anyway, right, smart move, I think, yeah, absolutely,
<v Speaker 2>avoid the trouble. And it couldn't have been that expensive.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So do you know who they wanted to be
<v Speaker 3>in the movie initially.
<v Speaker 2>So they're One of their first choices for Ted Striker
<v Speaker 2>was David Letterman. Did you know that watched his screen
<v Speaker 2>his audition? Yes, and no, it's terrible.
<v Speaker 3>It was. It was embarrassing, and they.
<v Speaker 2>All agreed that it was terrible. They were so excited,
<v Speaker 2>and he was like, this is a bad idea. And
<v Speaker 2>then when they were down there, like, you're right, this was.
<v Speaker 3>A bad idea, and he was up front saying, listen,
<v Speaker 3>I'm not an actor. No, And he's not an actor no.
<v Speaker 2>And he's on They are on one of the earliest
<v Speaker 2>episodes of The David Letterman Show.
<v Speaker 3>I also heard paramount wanted very Manilow to.
<v Speaker 2>Be one of the pilots. Oh wow, did you hear.
<v Speaker 3>That, and then also considered Bruce Jenner.
<v Speaker 2>I can see that, Yeah, Bruce Jenner, probably for the
<v Speaker 2>Kaream Abdul Jabbar Park.
<v Speaker 3>Correct, he was, No, they wanted him to be one
<v Speaker 3>of the pilots.
<v Speaker 2>Kareem Abdullal Jabbar was the pilot, yes, okay, so he
<v Speaker 2>wanted wanted him to be in the Kareem Abdul Jabbar
<v Speaker 2>Park probably okay.
<v Speaker 3>But the real person they wanted in the cream Adul
<v Speaker 3>Jabbar part was Pete Rose.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, they're never one choice, which would have been an
<v Speaker 2>entirely different Yeah, but.
<v Speaker 3>It was shut during the summer and Pete was playing baseball.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So there you go. I'm glad they ended up
<v Speaker 2>with Corey. So they were involved in other pictures, a
<v Speaker 2>couple of the scary movies, some other silly parody things,
<v Speaker 2>but nothing compares to Airplane and to Naked Gun and
<v Speaker 2>the sequels for Naked Gun. Interestingly, they did not do
<v Speaker 2>the sequel for Airplane. Airplane two was done by someone else,
<v Speaker 2>had a lot of the same stars in it, of course,
<v Speaker 2>but part of the contract with the studio was they
<v Speaker 2>get to decide who and how and where the sequel goes,
<v Speaker 2>and they did ask these guys to do it, but
<v Speaker 2>they weren't interested, no, thank you.
<v Speaker 3>They were on the outside looking in on that deal.
<v Speaker 2>Right.
<v Speaker 3>So, actually, before we go any further, this this podcast
<v Speaker 3>was very nearly Airplane versus Naked Gun.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was, but we decided that there was those
<v Speaker 2>two movies were so similar, and you guess, yeah, you
<v Speaker 2>needed to have you need to have two different styles
<v Speaker 2>of parody.
<v Speaker 3>Goer, before going further, did you enjoy Airplane two?
<v Speaker 2>I think I did, but it's also been like since
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty five or earlier since I watched it, so
<v Speaker 2>I don't. I mean, I remember they're flying the Space
<v Speaker 2>Shuttle and it's headed towards the Sun, and I remember
<v Speaker 2>there's like courtroom scenes, which when I watched some of
<v Speaker 2>the scenes from the Kentucky Fried movie it seemed to
<v Speaker 2>be kind of a throwback there too that as well.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure I liked it then, but I have not
<v Speaker 2>seen it recently enough to say whether it holds up
<v Speaker 2>or not.
<v Speaker 3>It's not on the same level, but there's some there's
<v Speaker 3>some laughs in it, right especially since it's similar plot
<v Speaker 3>seeing people give me a.
<v Speaker 2>Position the name striker. I'm sitting down and facing front.
<v Speaker 3>Why would you.
<v Speaker 2>Want to know that striker stri.
<v Speaker 3>Like a striker?
<v Speaker 2>Anything else on writers and directors?
<v Speaker 3>Nothing else in writers directors?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So moving on to soundtrack and special effects. I
<v Speaker 2>have enough. Okay, Jason, let's stop for just a second
<v Speaker 2>and do a Potter and Family shoutout.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, podcasters are a very supportive group, so there's certain
<v Speaker 3>podcasts we want to put our endorsement on.
<v Speaker 2>You have a friend that has helped us out tremendously
<v Speaker 2>when we've been developing this podcast.
<v Speaker 3>That's right. My good buddy, Dave Dolphin has the Practical
<v Speaker 3>Worship Podcast. He's a worship pastor at a church here
<v Speaker 3>in Oklahoma City. Good friend of mine. He's been very
<v Speaker 3>encouraging and very helpful with questions that type of thing.
<v Speaker 2>It really means a lot to have a mentor to
<v Speaker 2>help you through these things, and he's been a great
<v Speaker 2>help to us and we really appreciate it. That's right.
<v Speaker 3>If you are in the church choir, you have an
<v Speaker 3>interest in church music, definitely want to catch his podcast,
<v Speaker 3>The Practical Worship Podcast. Thank you, Dave, We really appreciate.
<v Speaker 2>It, thanks, David. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>So a composer for Airplane, yes, especially a famous composer, yes,
<v Speaker 3>very famous, Yes, Elmer Bernstein.
<v Speaker 2>Right, who in the sixties and seventies was doing some
<v Speaker 2>of the best movies. He did The Magnificent Seven, yep.
<v Speaker 3>And Commandments Wow, the Great Escape.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. And as it turned out, he was close family
<v Speaker 2>friends with the parents of John Landis. As we mentioned,
<v Speaker 2>John Landis was the director of the Kent the Kentucky
<v Speaker 2>Fried movie, right, and he is also the composer for
<v Speaker 2>Animal House, which was John Landis's next big, big movie,
<v Speaker 2>and he was it was because he was friends. He's like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>I'd love you to come do this. And if you
<v Speaker 2>remember the soundtrack from Animal House, it's this very kind
<v Speaker 2>of pomp and circumstance type of composing, which was perfect.
<v Speaker 3>You know.
<v Speaker 2>It's the it's the juxtaposition of this high falutint music
<v Speaker 2>and these crazy college kids. And so I think there's
<v Speaker 2>really no question that the John Landis Z A Z
<v Speaker 2>connection had to have ended up with him doing the
<v Speaker 2>soundtrack or doing the composing for Airplane as well. And
<v Speaker 2>he's he's done tons of movies since then.
<v Speaker 3>We I mean we just talked briefly. I mean all
<v Speaker 3>like it looks like all of john landis is I
<v Speaker 3>mean American World from London, Ye, spies like us, trading places.
<v Speaker 3>Three amigos also did Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters Yeah, I mean Moonraker,
<v Speaker 3>Caddy Shack right, I mean to kill a mocking bird.
<v Speaker 3>I mean you get you get to kill a mockingbird right,
<v Speaker 3>take commandments right, also get spies like us.
<v Speaker 2>And if I could, if I could get this guy's
<v Speaker 2>movies all down, I would I would win at the
<v Speaker 2>Kevin Bacon game every single time, every single time. Was
<v Speaker 2>the composer for this and Animal House. Kevin Bacon boom
<v Speaker 2>right there.
<v Speaker 3>You know. Hit. Another one that was impactful to me
<v Speaker 3>was Moonraker.
<v Speaker 2>I love Moonraker.
<v Speaker 3>Does that kind of haunty yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Well yeah, I mean I just love the movie the
<v Speaker 2>I told you yesterday. My Jaws was my favorite, Like
<v Speaker 2>villain become Hero. I mean you got the character arc
<v Speaker 2>with him. The Spy who Loved Me? Is that the
<v Speaker 2>first one he was in? So he played Jaws and
<v Speaker 2>a Spy who Loved Me? Klin, Richard Klein, Richard Keel,
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, Richard Keel. Now Richard Okay, Richard Keel played
<v Speaker 2>Jaws in the Spy Who Loved Me, who comes back
<v Speaker 2>to reprise the role in Moon Raker and ends up
<v Speaker 2>being a hero and falls in love with the geeky
<v Speaker 2>girl and.
<v Speaker 3>It gets a girlfriend and becomes a wimp.
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, he becomes a good man.
<v Speaker 3>This is a.
<v Speaker 2>Conversation for another day, right, okay, So Elmer Bernstein, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we we've been educated on the amazing history of his movies.
<v Speaker 3>He's composer. But we mentioned a couple of things from
<v Speaker 3>the soundtrack.
<v Speaker 2>Oh sure. So you've got the classic dive bar, criminal
<v Speaker 2>bar with the girl scouts fighting each other, and then
<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, somebody her head goes into the jukebox.
<v Speaker 2>Her head goes into the juke box and suddenly staying alive. Right, stay,
<v Speaker 2>a lot of other Begi starts playing at increased speed. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>it's faster in the movie than it is and it's
<v Speaker 2>but I mean, you gotta have something you can dance to.
<v Speaker 3>And then you get the disco scene.
<v Speaker 2>And the yanks off is his navy jacket and is
<v Speaker 2>already in the disco butterfly collar with the white vest,
<v Speaker 2>and then the jacket comes back and hits him in
<v Speaker 2>the face.
<v Speaker 3>That's a great scene, you actually, and so the soundtrack
<v Speaker 3>you have the game from Jaws, right, planes running.
<v Speaker 2>So that's a that's a special effect.
<v Speaker 3>You know.
<v Speaker 2>They've what they've done is they've put clouds on top
<v Speaker 2>of a I mean literal lake wooden platform and they're
<v Speaker 2>rolling the their roll in the toy I mean special
<v Speaker 2>effects on this one are not they don't fool yet,
<v Speaker 2>well they don't.
<v Speaker 3>The budget is three and a half million dollars.
<v Speaker 2>Right, so yes, this is their first substantial movie and
<v Speaker 2>for what they had, plus it adds to the comedy value.
<v Speaker 2>I think when you see a little toy plane plane
<v Speaker 2>and absolutely runway.
<v Speaker 3>So a couple of other things. If you remember during
<v Speaker 3>the movie, you have the The nun Seen Respects by
<v Speaker 3>Artha Fanklan Ari s b CD.
<v Speaker 1>Find Out what it means to Me Ari sb CD.
<v Speaker 5>They out DCP suck to.
<v Speaker 2>Be sucking to me, sucking to me, suck to be
<v Speaker 2>sucking to me, suck to me. Yes, So here's an
<v Speaker 2>interesting Let's see, she was the songwriter for a song
<v Speaker 2>that was very popular in the seventies that was the
<v Speaker 2>theme music for a TV series Trivia Question trivia break,
<v Speaker 2>Trivia break name that TV series?
<v Speaker 3>I have no idea.
<v Speaker 2>The TV series was Angie starring mister Robert Hayes. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 2>so yeah. The lady who composed the theme music for
<v Speaker 2>Angie ends up being the nun in air.
<v Speaker 3>And clearly Robert Hayes is the star. He is striker yep, okay,
<v Speaker 3>and so respect Berry Franklin. Everything's coming up, roses oh
<v Speaker 3>ethel Merman, he just thanks which that is her last film, by.
<v Speaker 2>The way, sure, and then way to bring it down.
<v Speaker 3>You do have a a little bit of the Notre
<v Speaker 3>Dame Victory march in there. Uh huh.
<v Speaker 2>One one for the Zipper.
<v Speaker 3>Talking about George Zip.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And then finally you think before we move on to
<v Speaker 3>this last no, the river Jordan's there is only one river.
<v Speaker 5>There is only one se.
<v Speaker 3>Is a song written by a guy from Peter Paul
<v Speaker 3>and Mary Popular.
<v Speaker 2>My guess is his name is Peter or Paul It
<v Speaker 2>probably is or John Dender.
<v Speaker 3>But he wrote it as a gift to his bride
<v Speaker 3>on her wedding thing, and so he thought it was
<v Speaker 3>a very heartfelt, serious and then they took it and
<v Speaker 3>made it into this hilarious joke.
<v Speaker 2>So is that is that the one where she's singing
<v Speaker 2>with the guitar and knocks the girls ivy out.
<v Speaker 3>There is only one. Yeah, she knocks her ivy out
<v Speaker 3>and the guys.
<v Speaker 2>Are classical pla. This is a classics number one. And
<v Speaker 2>this I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about it now. They
<v Speaker 2>have people they and we'll talk of this when we've
<v Speaker 2>talked about the actors, but they bring in people who
<v Speaker 2>do serious roles and the seriousness and this, I mean
<v Speaker 2>that girl sings well. She is performing that song really well.
<v Speaker 2>And that in combination with the girl who's making the
<v Speaker 2>fish face because her iv has come out, is brilliant.
<v Speaker 2>It is the brilliance of the comedy of a Zas.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, no doubt, no doubt.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let's talk about our five top lines or scenes.
<v Speaker 2>Unless you've got one more thing you canna tell me?
<v Speaker 3>No, Okay, I can quote all day there.
<v Speaker 2>It's there is really no end to like. Almost every
<v Speaker 2>line in this thing is perfect. It's one of the
<v Speaker 2>most quotable movies of all time.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, every every joke lands too. It's not like I
<v Speaker 3>really can't think of anything.
<v Speaker 2>That's just no, no, okay, all right, I will I
<v Speaker 2>will start number five looks like I picked the wrong
<v Speaker 2>weeked quit sniffing glue. Lloyd Bridges, Yes, brilliant and.
<v Speaker 3>He was a serious actor, encouraged by his sons Bow
<v Speaker 3>and Jeff to take this role. And he had trouble
<v Speaker 3>sort of figuring it.
<v Speaker 2>Out, struggle. He was perfect, he was great.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Okay, So my fifth favorite. I like this one
<v Speaker 3>he says when the doctor and the pilot talk. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>this scene where he's like, when can you land this plane?
<v Speaker 3>In the past says I can't tell you can tell me.
<v Speaker 3>I'm a doctor. He's like, well, I'm not sure. Well
<v Speaker 3>can't you take a guess? Well enough for another two hours.
<v Speaker 3>You can't take a guess for another two hours. That
<v Speaker 3>whole conversation cracks me up right funny, funny. Okay, So
<v Speaker 3>that's my number five.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, number four for me. The cockpit what is it?
<v Speaker 2>That's the little room where the pilot sit. But that's
<v Speaker 2>not important right now. Oh my gosh, that's brilliant genius
<v Speaker 2>that they use multiple times with the hospital with the cockpit,
<v Speaker 2>and I think they probably used it over again and
<v Speaker 2>some other thing. But genius building with patience.
<v Speaker 3>But that's not the part right now, right, all right?
<v Speaker 3>Number four for me, He says, the whole Johnny, the
<v Speaker 3>character Johnny, which is the weird guy.
<v Speaker 2>At the kind of a I know exactly who Johnny is, Johnny,
<v Speaker 2>what can you make this?
<v Speaker 3>And he hands them some papers like well, I can
<v Speaker 3>make a hat, or I can make a broach, or
<v Speaker 3>I can make the pterodactyl.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, So I'm gonna go ahead and jump up
<v Speaker 2>to my number two because my number two is every
<v Speaker 2>single thing that Johnny says. He he is perfect. And
<v Speaker 2>here's what's interesting. He was one of those guys who
<v Speaker 2>came from the Kentucky Fried Theater and he they didn't
<v Speaker 2>write any of his lines. They just gave him the
<v Speaker 2>script and you know, hear the lines and if you
<v Speaker 2>want to come in, let it know. And so every
<v Speaker 2>single thing that he does was his own improvisational thing.
<v Speaker 2>And it's brilliant. And you know, we talked about and
<v Speaker 2>we're going to get into it. But they got serious
<v Speaker 2>actor number one, Peter Grave, Serious Actor number two, Leslie Nielson,
<v Speaker 2>Serious Actor number three, Robert Stack, Serious Actor number four,
<v Speaker 2>Lloyd Bridges, and Robert Hayes does a fantastic job and
<v Speaker 2>Julie Haggerty does a fantastic job of all remaining perfectly
<v Speaker 2>serious throughout the movie, and that's what makes this movie
<v Speaker 2>so good and so funny. But Johnny is the exception
<v Speaker 2>that breaks the rule. It's a big, pretty plain, big wheels.
<v Speaker 3>It's right with red stripes.
<v Speaker 2>Looks like a big tile in gosh.
<v Speaker 3>All right, so I guess we go back to you, okay,
<v Speaker 3>back to me?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, okay.
<v Speaker 3>Anything that the black guys say cracks me up.
<v Speaker 2>Every time, absolutely, the jive talk, the give talk.
<v Speaker 3>And then when Barra Billingsley steps in, excuse me, miss,
<v Speaker 3>and then she starts talking to you know what they say,
<v Speaker 3>see your broll to get a booty actor, layer down,
<v Speaker 3>a smack cole, got to.
<v Speaker 2>Be chump, don't want to Okay. So interestingly, the Zazz
<v Speaker 2>when they wrote this, they really just made up garbage,
<v Speaker 2>gibberish stuff. But the two actors that portrayed the jive
<v Speaker 2>talking guys in the movie, they've read the script and
<v Speaker 2>they're like, we got to come up with something better
<v Speaker 2>than this. And so when they go into audition, they've
<v Speaker 2>actually again written their own dialogue where they're throwing in
<v Speaker 2>some of the stuff that they grew up with which
<v Speaker 2>if you hear these actors talk, it's hilarious because they
<v Speaker 2>I mean, they're they're the most well spoken, clear, I mean,
<v Speaker 2>it's not what it does. They don't sound like them
<v Speaker 2>the guys in uh airplane at all. But those those
<v Speaker 2>guys came up with that, and it kills their moment.
<v Speaker 3>Didn't raise no DMan, they dug the red.
<v Speaker 2>You're me, I don't know, go ahead, the.
<v Speaker 3>Part in the bar where the girl scouts are fighting
<v Speaker 3>when he lean's over till the guy maybe dreaming pinched
<v Speaker 3>me right. But the best part of that whole scene
<v Speaker 3>is when Elaine is dancing with the guy that gets
<v Speaker 3>stabbed in the back.
<v Speaker 2>He's pointing at his back, in his back, and she
<v Speaker 2>thinks it's a dance move. Well, Joey, have you ever
<v Speaker 2>been in a Turkish person?
<v Speaker 3>Joey, you like movies about gladiators?
<v Speaker 2>Have you ever seen a grown man nikked?
<v Speaker 3>Peter Graves gets asked to save these lines all the time.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, oh yeah, And and he was. He was
<v Speaker 2>incredibly nervous about playing the part because he had been
<v Speaker 2>in nothing but serious roles before and he just didn't
<v Speaker 2>He was like, I don't know if I can do comedy,
<v Speaker 2>and they said, we don't want you to do comedy.
<v Speaker 2>We want you to be as serious as you can be.
<v Speaker 2>So can you imagine deliver bring to a child actor
<v Speaker 2>the line, have you ever seen a grown man naked
<v Speaker 2>with absolute sincerity? How do you do that? I don't Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Okay, I gotta say one thing. There's
<v Speaker 2>this one line that I'm gonna give honorable mention to
<v Speaker 2>because I literally laughed out loud. I mean I laughed
<v Speaker 2>out loud throughout the movie, but this was a pa
<v Speaker 2>laugh that I don't even I need to look up
<v Speaker 2>the actor, but he's one of the bit actors in
<v Speaker 2>there in the air control room and he's on the phone.
<v Speaker 5>In the flying has no airline experience at all. He's
<v Speaker 5>a menace to himself and everything else in the air. Yes,
<v Speaker 5>birds too, Oh my gosh, it's hilarious. Well, I'm gonna
<v Speaker 5>throw an honorable mention too, Okay.
<v Speaker 3>When Leslie Nielsen comes in and says, I just want
<v Speaker 3>to say good luck, Royal cantan on you, right, and
<v Speaker 3>then continues after they already crash landed, they land the
<v Speaker 3>plane and all and everything's done. I just want to
<v Speaker 3>say good.
<v Speaker 2>Luck Royal Canny, and then our number one has to
<v Speaker 2>be surely you can't be serious.
<v Speaker 3>I am serious.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, thank you Airplane for giving us the title of
<v Speaker 2>our podcast very much. All right, okay, so we are
<v Speaker 2>now onto the actors. Okay, you ready, Okay, let's roll
<v Speaker 2>with first R two. Top two actors, who are Robert
<v Speaker 2>Hayes and Julie Haggerty. Honestly, they didn't do much else
<v Speaker 2>besides this. Robert Hayes was in Angie, which was a
<v Speaker 2>popular series at the time, then after it was canceled,
<v Speaker 2>did this movie and not much else. He was obviously
<v Speaker 2>an Airplane two, as was Julie Haggerty. This was Julie
<v Speaker 2>Haggerty's first major motion picture, and she's been in quite
<v Speaker 2>a few things since then, but nothing of.
<v Speaker 3>The only thing I really remember from her is what
<v Speaker 3>about Bob's Wife?
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's right? Oh well that is that is a
<v Speaker 2>solid movie.
<v Speaker 3>That's funny.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's great. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So that's it for her and for him really yeah,
<v Speaker 3>when I if I see him, he's Airplane.
<v Speaker 2>He's dead Striker always. That's it.
<v Speaker 3>She's going to be Elaine always.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So then we move on to our supporting cast.
<v Speaker 2>We have Peter Graves, who is famous from the Mission
<v Speaker 2>an Impossible series, not the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible series,
<v Speaker 2>but the original television series. We have the original soundtrack.
<v Speaker 2>I want to play that right now because it's so
<v Speaker 2>awesome and anything on Peter Graves. I know what you're thinking. No,
<v Speaker 2>we're not related, all right. Who we got next?
<v Speaker 3>Leslie and Nielsen.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so let's Nielsen had been in some pretty weird
<v Speaker 2>kind of B movie things, but always a serious role,
<v Speaker 2>and he's kind of funny. He's in a Martian movie.
<v Speaker 3>It's very strange, like one of those old fifties sci
<v Speaker 3>fi bad sci fi, like Mystery Science three thousand times,
<v Speaker 3>oh for sure. And he's like the kind of the.
<v Speaker 2>Tough guy, the guy. Yeah, basically he's the hero, right.
<v Speaker 3>But whenever I say Leslie Neilson to me, he's Frank
<v Speaker 3>Dreven absolutely. I mean, he's the doctor from Airplane too,
<v Speaker 3>but he's Frank driven from Megan guy. Then we have
<v Speaker 3>Lloyd Bridges, father of as you mentioned, Jeff and Bridges,
<v Speaker 3>Bow Bridges, the.
<v Speaker 2>Fabulous Baker Boys. Okay, so these guys came from TV.
<v Speaker 2>Leslie Nielsen had been in Forbidden Flant Forbidden Planet, the
<v Speaker 2>weird sci fi fifties thing, and then Robert Stack was
<v Speaker 2>Elliott nas and the old Untouchables series that was on TV.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, one hundred nineteen episodes of the Who the whole Run?
<v Speaker 2>Right, Yeah, I think so?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So here I have a funny story about Robert Stack. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>this is true. This is a true story. I don't
<v Speaker 3>know how if it's truth or not. But we're watching Airplane, okay,
<v Speaker 3>at my grandparents' house. Okay, okay, I'm little, I'm not little,
<v Speaker 3>I'm young. And my granddad goes, I know that guy,
<v Speaker 3>he'd pointing in a TV. And I'm like, I'm what,
<v Speaker 3>I'm Airplane?
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, who do you know Robert Stack?
<v Speaker 3>He knew Robert Stack. They served together in the military
<v Speaker 3>during World War Two. Now, I don't know if that's
<v Speaker 3>true or not.
<v Speaker 2>It was your grandfather's name. Stranker gets sorry, Well, well,
<v Speaker 2>we'll go and check Robert Stack's military record and see
<v Speaker 2>if things check out or not. He's the unsolved mysteries guy.
<v Speaker 2>That's how he Yes, that's how I know it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>he'd always be in that kind of trench coat dark alley.
<v Speaker 2>Here's the story.
<v Speaker 3>It was a Dark Knight.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and then so we as we said, Peter Graves
<v Speaker 2>came from Mission Impossible, the TV series in the sixties
<v Speaker 2>as well. And then Lloyd Bridges came from Sea Hunt,
<v Speaker 2>which which is a big show that I didn't I
<v Speaker 2>mean well before my time a couple of decades.
<v Speaker 3>And you see the original Mission Possible television show.
<v Speaker 2>You've never seen it. Oh, it's good. They have the
<v Speaker 2>masks like they do the thing with the pull in
<v Speaker 2>their face off mask. That's where it comes from in
<v Speaker 2>the Tom's Tom Cruise series as well. Cool. And so
<v Speaker 2>then Lloyd Bridges also was in a Police Story which
<v Speaker 2>was another TV series later on. Was kind of the
<v Speaker 2>main character in that, and I believe it's spin off
<v Speaker 2>of that afterwards. But uh, these guys were all serious
<v Speaker 2>actors from TV who kind of were beyond their prime
<v Speaker 2>at the time that that this movie came out.
<v Speaker 3>Yep. Absolutely, we have.
<v Speaker 2>Anything else to say in the actors.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So we're to the final wrap up of Airplane.
<v Speaker 2>Right, because I can't think of six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
<v Speaker 2>So I'm trying to think. Okay, so Leslie Nielsen, I
<v Speaker 2>can't do it. I'll have to We'll have to take
<v Speaker 2>a pause and I'll think about it.
<v Speaker 3>Let me let me give this a track, okay while
<v Speaker 3>we're on Thereah, go for it all right. Leslie Nielsen
<v Speaker 3>to George Kennedy Okay in Naked Gun. Yes, George Kennedy
<v Speaker 3>to Clint Eastwood.
<v Speaker 2>In the Eiger Sanction Wow.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Clint Eastwood to Charlie Sheen in The Rookie Yes,
<v Speaker 3>Charlie Sheen to Tom Cruise in Ah, Charlie Sheen to
<v Speaker 3>Emilio Estevez and network or Young Guns right, the best
<v Speaker 3>of best to Tom Cruise in The Outsiders Tom Cruise
<v Speaker 3>to Kevin Macon and a few.
<v Speaker 2>Given seven you didn't make it?
<v Speaker 3>Did make it?
<v Speaker 4>In seven?
<v Speaker 3>Seven?
<v Speaker 2>You didn't make it? Okay. So let me let me
<v Speaker 2>think about that real quick, okay. So okay, So I
<v Speaker 2>had a little time to think this over, Okay, but
<v Speaker 2>I didn't really take the time to think it over.
<v Speaker 3>But that would be cheating, right, that would be cheating.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't. I didn't search. I am to be. I
<v Speaker 2>literally thought of this as I just went to the
<v Speaker 2>bathroom and came back. Okay, get you ready, Julie Haggerty, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>from airplane Okay to Bill Murray in What About Bob.
<v Speaker 2>Bill Murray to Rick Moranas in Ghostbusters. Rick moranis to
<v Speaker 2>Steve Martin in Blue, My Blue Heaven, My Blue Heaven,
<v Speaker 2>Thank You, My belue having Steve Martin to Kevin Bacon
<v Speaker 2>in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
<v Speaker 3>Oh good one.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because Kevin Kevin Bacon is just in a a
<v Speaker 2>very brief spot there. But he was filming a movie
<v Speaker 2>with John Hughes all I kind of at the same time,
<v Speaker 2>and so the movies were supposed to be linked up.
<v Speaker 3>That's good, Okay, cool.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So now we are moving on to comments on
<v Speaker 2>that movie. This is a sleeper hit. I mean, we
<v Speaker 2>you had a movie that was done by guys who
<v Speaker 2>had only done one movie before that was kind of
<v Speaker 2>a well, I mean, well it was a really low
<v Speaker 2>budget movie, right, and then even Airplane was very low budget,
<v Speaker 2>but they knocked it out of the park.
<v Speaker 3>They crushed it.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's it is a timeless movie. This is
<v Speaker 2>not what I've watched with the kids. Yet. You got
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighties PG ratings which featured boobies. So I don't
<v Speaker 2>you know, my gonna have the kids watch that?
<v Speaker 3>Man. I can tell you a story about the movies
<v Speaker 3>in airplane.
<v Speaker 2>Those specific movies. Tell me those particular tell me the
<v Speaker 2>movie story.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So this was a I watched young because my
<v Speaker 3>dad thought it was funny, Okay, but he was trying
<v Speaker 3>to keep me from seeing there's one scene where a
<v Speaker 3>woman is wearing no shirt and shoe just walks directly
<v Speaker 3>from the camera and then walks off screen and that's it, right,
<v Speaker 3>So basically you have half a second it's just out
<v Speaker 3>of nowhere boobs and then they're gone. Right, And so
<v Speaker 3>he was trying to watch this movie with me. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>protect me, protect my eyes from well, you've gotta you've
<v Speaker 3>got to know exactly or it's they're there and then
<v Speaker 3>gone and then it's over. And he was the best.
<v Speaker 3>And so that was my first on screen flash of skin.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah really, like the first time you ever saw naked
<v Speaker 2>boobies on TV?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Wow.
<v Speaker 2>Nice.
<v Speaker 3>It's a special day. So Dad, thank you. I know
<v Speaker 3>it wasn't your purpose. Mom, sorry about that.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for your aptitude. That's awesome. Okay, So I
<v Speaker 2>literally I can't There is nothing bad I can say
<v Speaker 2>about this movie. I have no criticism at all. It
<v Speaker 2>is brilliant from beginning to end, there's I will say this, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>so there are a couple of jokes in there that
<v Speaker 2>I still don't get. Okay, So you remember, like midway
<v Speaker 2>through the movie, just as things are kind of going crazy,
<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, as they're talking about the bad
<v Speaker 2>stuff that can happen, this spear comes out of nowhere
<v Speaker 2>and the yeah on the map. I have no idea
<v Speaker 2>what that was about. I don't know why it's funny.
<v Speaker 2>It was just kind of random. It was, I mean,
<v Speaker 2>their stuff is really random already, but that was so
<v Speaker 2>random that I was just like, I don't even understand
<v Speaker 2>how this is a joke.
<v Speaker 3>That movie is so funny that and they have such
<v Speaker 3>rabid fire jokes. Yeah that that spear doesn't even cause
<v Speaker 3>me pause because I'm already moving on. And there's something
<v Speaker 3>funny right after that.
<v Speaker 2>Somebody was looking at how many jokes there, and they
<v Speaker 2>are literally like ninety jokes per minute in just any
<v Speaker 2>given scene that you have in this movie, which is
<v Speaker 2>just I mean, it's too much to keep up with.
<v Speaker 2>These guys tried to fit something in every second. And
<v Speaker 2>then the other joke that I didn't get, excuse me,
<v Speaker 2>the other joke that I didn't get was the watermelon
<v Speaker 2>falling from the sky onto the desk. I don't It
<v Speaker 2>was just like the water I don't remember. Yeah, I mean,
<v Speaker 2>it's just like the watermelon. Just I mean, they're just
<v Speaker 2>in they're in the control area and they're all talking,
<v Speaker 2>and it's like things are going to go bad and boom,
<v Speaker 2>watermelon falls and busts apart all over the desk. Huh.
<v Speaker 2>And I looked it up. I tried to find it,
<v Speaker 2>and nobody knows what those things mean. And I think
<v Speaker 2>even the guys in the commentary are just like, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I really wish these jokes had gotten a little more play.
<v Speaker 2>And I was just like, I don't understand the joke.
<v Speaker 2>Nobody does, and you're not explained.
<v Speaker 3>Mean, how about this one, okay, Johnny Johnny Johnny, Yes,
<v Speaker 3>so he's hilarious.
<v Speaker 2>He's funny, Steve, I think, But yes.
<v Speaker 3>He knocks it out of the park. He's still seeing
<v Speaker 3>he crushes it. And I have even quoted this the Rapunzel, right, Rabunzel, Rabunzel.
<v Speaker 3>It's funny. I don't know what he's talking about, but
<v Speaker 3>it's funny.
<v Speaker 2>Right, Well, I have anything more.
<v Speaker 3>The only thing I would say is I have no critiques.
<v Speaker 3>I have no critiques of this. I think it's perfectly funny,
<v Speaker 3>deliciously naughty, you know, a little bit off humor, which
<v Speaker 3>makes it even funnier. Right, And if somebody said, what
<v Speaker 3>a million dollars more to the budget made it make
<v Speaker 3>it any more funny? And I don't think it would. No,
<v Speaker 3>there's nothing more that they could have done with another
<v Speaker 3>million bucks.
<v Speaker 2>The lack of technical savvy on the special effects makes
<v Speaker 2>it a little bit more funny. The fact that you
<v Speaker 2>can tell it's a model airplane as it lands makes
<v Speaker 2>it more funny. I bet that the I bet the
<v Speaker 2>most expensive thing they did was running the actual plane
<v Speaker 2>through the window. That probably was the most scene that
<v Speaker 2>they probably shot.
<v Speaker 3>I will say, if you have I don't know if
<v Speaker 3>we've talked about this, and I can't remember, but if
<v Speaker 3>you've got the DVR remote and you can hit pause
<v Speaker 3>in the nightclub scene when they're playing Staying Alive and
<v Speaker 3>he's dancing with her and it's the disco scene, right,
<v Speaker 3>she's flinging around by his feet and when she lets
<v Speaker 3>him go, he does this big backflip right right, Well,
<v Speaker 3>the the stunt person who does the back flip is
<v Speaker 3>obviously not Robert Hayes. So it's this massive backflip. You
<v Speaker 3>can see Robert Hayes hiding in the crowd pre back flip,
<v Speaker 3>which is kind of a funny blooper if you're if
<v Speaker 3>you've got the remote control. When he does this giant
<v Speaker 3>backflip and lands, you can see Robert Hayes cowering in
<v Speaker 3>the back, hiding among the people.
<v Speaker 2>That's funny. Well, I don't I'm trying to remember. Did
<v Speaker 2>we talk about the very first scene where it's the
<v Speaker 2>red zone is for loading and unloading and the white
<v Speaker 2>zone is for a white zonationers. There's no stopping in
<v Speaker 2>the white zong.
<v Speaker 3>No, the white zone is forming and unnoted, and there
<v Speaker 3>is no stamping in the red zone.
<v Speaker 2>The red zong has always been for loading at a quoting.
<v Speaker 1>There's never stopping at a white song.
<v Speaker 3>Don't tell me which sell is for stopping and which cell.
<v Speaker 5>Is for mooting.
<v Speaker 2>Somebody, don't start off with your white zoon. It turns
<v Speaker 2>out those are the actual people who recorded those pa
<v Speaker 2>things that they played in all of the airports all
<v Speaker 2>over the country for those things, and those two people
<v Speaker 2>were actually husband and yeah, that's right, all right now,
<v Speaker 2>it's time to jump into Spaceball one and travel at
<v Speaker 2>ludicrous speed so we can warp ahead in time to
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty seven when Spaceball's was released. So join us
<v Speaker 2>next week for part two of the debate. Here's some
<v Speaker 2>of what you're gonna hear. The actor who portrayed Prince
<v Speaker 2>Vallium was Jim J. Bullet, who I remember from the
<v Speaker 2>Hollywood Square Now. He was I think a lifetime member,
<v Speaker 2>along with John Rivers, who does the voice for the
<v Speaker 2>robot Dot Matrix Matrix. Yes, Vespa means wasp in Italians.
<v Speaker 2>The very very white girl is Princess Wasp in sense
<v Speaker 2>it's funny she doesn't look bush. And then the third
<v Speaker 2>co writer is Ronnie Graham, who you will recognize from
<v Speaker 2>the movie as the priest for the wedding.
<v Speaker 3>Every line he says, it's fun. Absolutely when they say
<v Speaker 3>they say, I'm sorry, I'll be sorry to be quiet.
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<v Speaker 3>What happened? Where are they?
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, sir.
<v Speaker 4>They must have hypertests on that thing?
<v Speaker 3>And what do we got on this thing?
<v Speaker 4>A queasin ut?
<v Speaker 3>No, sir, we'll find them cast though, Yes, sir, prepare
<v Speaker 3>shift for light speed?
<v Speaker 4>No, no, no, light speed.
<v Speaker 3>It's too slow. Lights speak too slow. Yes, we're gonna
<v Speaker 3>have to go right to Ludicris speed.
<v Speaker 2>Ludacris speed.
<v Speaker 4>So we've never gone that fast before. I don't know
<v Speaker 4>if the ship can take us.
<v Speaker 3>What's the matter, Colonel Sanders Chicken? Yeah.
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