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Surely you can't be serious! An oral history of Airplane (1 Viewer)

D. Zucker: That was another lucky break that we got, because Kareem himself was not the first choice for that role. We actually wrote it for Pete Rose.
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Tell your old man to drag Garvey and Cey around the basepaths for nine innings!

J. Zucker: We met Jonathan Banks [who played Gunderson] because we had the same law firm, so our attorney said, “Hey, what do you think of this guy?” And he put a picture down, and—once again—you can’t tell anything from a picture, so we said, “Sure, have him come in.” And I remember his reading was just perfect for what we were looking for. He was great.
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Clip.

 
I don't feel like scrolling through the whole thing again, but Jenner was mentioned. I think he was considered for the Striker role.

 
So good. Watched Airplane with my 9 year old son a few weeks ago. He thought it was hilarious. May have been my proudest moment.

 
Don't miss the section on the jive dudes. There is an interview with Jive Dude #2, and ironically he is amazingly articulate.

 
elbowrm said:
So good. Watched Airplane with my 9 year old son a few weeks ago. He thought it was hilarious. May have been my proudest moment.
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Which part did he enjoy the most...the auto pilot blow job or the bouncing bare breasts during the chaos?

 
Robert Hays came off as a genuinely good guy. Humble and appreciative of the role. I liked how Stack, Graves and Bridges didn't get it at first, but once they did get it they dove headfirst into their parts.

MeTV shows a bunch of the old Westerns, and it's always strange to see a young Leslie Nielsen deliver his lines with the same cadence and inflection--but without a punchline. Little Joe, let's get back to the Ponderosa.

David Leisure (the Krishna guy). For all of the unjustified abuse Flo from Progressive gets, no commercial was as awful and unbearable as his Joe Isuzu was in the 1980's.

 
The scene with the little boy and girl where the boy asks her if she would like some coffee. She accepts and he offers cream. She replies "No, thank you, I take it black, like my men"

She can't be more than 8 years old...

 
in the "give me ham on 5 hold the mayo" scene it always bothered me, why couldn't he be on the red phone with mayo clinic and the operator said that ham was on the "white" phone. Then he could've said "give me ham on white hold the mayo"

:shrug:

 
Not directly related to Airplane, but....when Amad Rashad married Phylicia, OJ was the best man and Bill Cosby walked Phylicia down the isle.

 
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Fennis said:
I remember when someone posted in the FFA how Airplane had line for line scenes from Zero Hour! and it blew my mind. It was one last not to mention the best, Airplane joke 30 years later.

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In the oral history, ZAZ mention they bought the film rights to remake Zero Hour, giving them permission to use that film's story and dialogue when they wrote Airplane!. ZAZ said it helped them a ton. They knew the jokes they wanted to tell but didn't know how to write a movie with a beginning, middle, and end. So they bought the rights to another movie and used that script.
 
Al Czervik said:
El Floppo said:
Fennis said:
I remember when someone posted in the FFA how Airplane had line for line scenes from Zero Hour! and it blew my mind. It was one last, if not the best, Airplane joke 30 years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q__vuyH1JEI
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whoa... I had no idea. awesome.
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That's great.

Good clip on YouTube about the jive talking including the two actors; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkZdz4Vz10
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:lmao: the jive subtitles during the interview :lmao:

 
always loved this exchange and delivery from II

Witness: Striker was the squadron leader. He brought us in real low. But he couldn't handle it. Prosecutor: Buddy couldn't handle it. Was Buddy one of your crew? Witness: Right. Buddy was the bombardier. But it was Striker who couldn't handle it, and he went to pieces. Prosecutor: Andy went to pieces? Witness: No. Andy was the navigator. He was all right. Buddy went to pieces. It was awful how he came unglued. Prosecutor: Howie came unglued? Witness: Oh, no. Howie was a rock, the best tailgunner in the outfit. Buddy came unglued. Prosecutor: And he bailed out? Witness: No. Andy hung tough. Buddy bailed out. How he survived, it was a miracle. Prosecutor: Then Howie survived? Witness: No, 'fraid not. We lost Howie the next day. Prosecutor: Over Macho Grande? Witness: No. I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande. Those wounds run...pretty deep.
 
Prosecutor: Doctor, can you give the Court your impression of Mr. Striker?

Dr. Stone: I'm sorry. I don't do impressions. My training is in psychiatry.

 
Witness: Check it, bleed. Bro... was on! Didn't trip. But the folks was freakin', man. Hey, and the pilots were laid to the bone, Home. So Blood hammered out and jammed jet ship. Tightened that bad sucker inside the runaway like a mother. ####. [subtitles: "Mr. Striker performed exceptionally. The passengers were very concerned. The pilots were incapacitated. So Mr. Striker took control and landed that plane safely. Golly!"]

[the stenographer wears sunglasses and sways back and forth as he types]

 
Chemical X said:
Prosecutor: Doctor, can you give the Court your impression of Mr. Striker? Dr. Stone: I'm sorry. I don't do impressions. My training is in psychiatry.
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Elaine: ...we had the kind of relationship where we would laugh and laugh. Do you know what it's like to laugh like that?

Judge: Yes, yes I do.

 
Striker: Because of my mistake 6 men did not return from that mission

Elaine: Make it 7..George Zip died this morning

 
Leisure: Leslie Nielsen’s whole persona up to that moment—Airplane! absolutely changed his career—was that he was the big, handsome, staid leading man. But he was the goofiest mother####er you’ve ever met in your life.

D. Zucker: In person, Leslie was a silly practical joker, as probably everyone knows by now. He had that little fart machine of his, so that every time he was interviewed on a show or something—and in real life—he would be talking with a straight face, and then he would appear to be farting. That’s just what he liked to do.

Leisure: He was a virtuoso fart musician. He had a little fart machine that he would keep in his hand, and he would, like, sit down next to you. [Adopts deep voice.] “Hi, I’m Leslie Nielsen. You’ve probably seen me in the movies and things.” [belches.] “Sorry, I had some onions at lunch.” And then he would have this thing tucked under his arm, and you’d hear this loud, boisterous fart come out, and you’d go, “Oh, my God!” And then you’d realize he was pulling a gag on you, and he’d go sit down next to some girl, some extra, and he’d do the same thing. You’d see her face just blanch, waiting for the invisible thing to hit her nostrils.

Bryant: The first day I walked on the set, Leslie introduced himself, and then I heard these horrible noises. [Laughs.] This rubber and metal thing fit in the palm in his hand, and it would make farting noises. People would walk by, and they’d think, “Oh, that poor man!”

Ashmore: Leslie’s little device just made the most incredible flatulence sounds. He had us going for, like, a day. When he first sat down, he said, “Gentlemen! Very nice to meet you!” And then he blew one off. I remember Peter [Graves] looking over at me, and he had kind of a smirk on his face, like, “Oh, my God, is this guy for real?” And then Leslie blew another one off, and he says, “Oh! I’m so sorry, guys. I just ate a burrito off the lunch truck, and I’m having some real problems here.” And then it came out after a day, maybe even two days later, that some prop guy had made this thing for him that he worked in his hand. Oh, man, it was a magic trick and a sound gag all rolled into one.

McGovern: I will always remember Leslie Nielsen for his hand farts.

White: Was I a victim? Yes, I was. [Laughs.] That was too funny. We were backstage, we had a little break and I was waiting to go back on, and we were talking… and then he sets it off. [Fart noise.] And I’m like, “Oh…” But I let it go by. You don’t want to mention anything like that. But then he did it again, and I was trying to not breathe for a minute, to let the air clear. I was thinking he might’ve had a little problem, you know. But that’s life. The human mechanism works that way. But then he pulled out his little whoopee cushion thing and showed it to me, and I was, like, “Oh, man…” So, yeah, he got me.

Whelan: Leslie and I knew each other for several years after Airplane!—he also did The Love Boat—and he always had that fart machine with him. Always. I remember being in an elevator with him, and a herd of Japanese tourist got into the elevator, and the fart machine, which was in his hand, he let it go. And they all immediately got out on the next floor. [Laughs.]

Hays: Oh, God, there are so many Leslie Nielsen fart machine stories. But I remember sitting on the set early on, Leslie was sitting there, too, and I think I knew about it already by this time, because he did it all the time. But two girls came on the set—they were nice-looking girls who were extras—and they were sitting on the plane as passengers, and one of them said to the other, “Oh, look, it’s Leslie Nielsen! I’m going to go over and say hello!” And a minute later, she came walking back, just horrified, and she said, “Do you know what he did?” [Laughs.] And, of course, he was farting away with his little machine.

Once we knew what he was doing, he just started playing with the thing. He’d lean against the wall and start talking with that voice of his, saying something really profound, and then [Fart noise.]. And then he’d play like he had an attack of it, so he’d start making faces and putting his hands or his fists on his stomach, groaning and stretching his neck out, and then [Repeated fart noises.]. He’d fart in different ways. We were just on the floor.
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joffer said:
The fog is getting thicker
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...and Leon is getting larger.We used to do that gag all the time in high school when one of our heftier friends was around. Usually when we were all very drunk.

 
El Floppo said:
zamboni said:
Fennis said:
I remember when someone posted in the FFA how Airplane had line for line scenes from Zero Hour! and it blew my mind. It was one last, if not the best, Airplane joke 30 years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q__vuyH1JEI
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May have been said back then, but note Captain McCloskey from The Godfather Brig Gen Jack D Ripper (Sterling Hayden) in several clips - can really notice the voice/face at the 6:09 mark.
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Yeah, that too.

 
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