Have You Ever Seen A Grown Man Naked?: Celebrating 30 Years of Airplane!
It seems unfathomable that we once lived in a world where we were deprived of Ethel Merman playing a doped-up PTSD-afflicted soldier who thinks he's Ethel Merman, or the mom from Leave it to Beaver sliding some smooth jive-talking on the brothers, or watching Lloyd Bridges pick the wrong day to stop sniffing glue. But fortunately, Airplane! came along some 30 years ago and comedy has never been the same. Like the rapid-fire gags you see on The Simpsons and American Dad? Enjoy the so-dumb-it's-hilarious jokes of the Farrelly Brothers? Appreciate the fact that Leslie Nielsen is best known now for his screwball comedies rather than his stodgy black and white dramas? Thank Airplane! for all of the above. After the jump, enjoy my favorite scene and the original trailer from one of the funniest movies ever made.
The scene:
The trailer:
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Leave it to Beaver, not The Brady Bunch. I ain't mad atcha, though!
Nuts, you're right. It's my fault, I often have Florence Henderson on the brain. But thanks for the correction.
The Mayo Clinic. Genius.
That trailer is just perfection.
One of life's sweetest moments is discovering someone who hasn't seen Airplane and then showing it to them for the first time.
Don't start with your white zone shit again.
Stephen Stucker as "Johnny" is my comedy icon.
What a pisser.
We both know perfectly well what this is about, Louis. You want me to have an abortion.
Of course there is the downside of having to suffer through the endless stream of spoof-movies it has inspired, but still a classic. It made me want to travel to see Macho Grande.
I was at a party 2 weeks ago where I took a swig of my drink and missed my mouth completely and got it all over my cheek. I made some comment that my drinking problem and fear of flying started after the war. NOBODY knew what I was talking about. It made me sad. And I felt really old. So thank you for this post!
Surely you can't be serious.
"i want every light poured onto that field"
that one line just sums up the whole movie
god! 30 years? oh, no, i'm getting old ;-(