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| - Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines) is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, which it follows fairly closely, with superficial changes. For example, Ted Striker was Ted Stryker in the older film. The film is known for its use of absurd and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags.
- In "Death Is a Bitch", the varied passengers on the plane, nuns, Girl Scouts, etc., are reminiscent of the film. Peter slaps Lois in the bathroom, yelling “Get a hold of yourself,” in "He's Too Sexy for His Fat". Dr. Rumack, a character from the film, is portrayed by Leslie Nielsen. Rumack appears in Blue Harvest telling Han Solo (Peter) "I just want to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you". C-3PO, played by Glenn Quagmire shakes Leia while saying "...and Leia's getting laaaarger." "Padre de Familia" translates its title into Spanish as 'Incredible Flying Joke Bus'.
- Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines) is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot and the central characters, as well as many elements from Airport 1975. The film is known for its use of absurd and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags.
- Airplane! is a comedic remake of an old disaster film, Zero Hour, where Ted Striker (Stryker in Zero Hour), an ex-military pilot, has to get over his personal traumas to pilot a commercial plane after the crew is stricken by food poisoning, and reconcile with his estranged girlfriend at the same time. Take that basic plot, and have a silly joke every three seconds. In fact, that is partly what makes the film work: if a joke falls flat, move on to the next one. Of course, further analysis of the jokes will just hurt the humor of it all. Just see the film for yourself.
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| - Airplane! is a comedic remake of an old disaster film, Zero Hour, where Ted Striker (Stryker in Zero Hour), an ex-military pilot, has to get over his personal traumas to pilot a commercial plane after the crew is stricken by food poisoning, and reconcile with his estranged girlfriend at the same time. Take that basic plot, and have a silly joke every three seconds. In fact, that is partly what makes the film work: if a joke falls flat, move on to the next one. Of course, further analysis of the jokes will just hurt the humor of it all. Just see the film for yourself. It was followed by a sequel called Airplane II: The Sequel, in which Striker is forced to pilot a prototype lunar shuttle that malfunctions and goes off course. Without ZAZ at the helm and recycling much of the humor, it suffers from Sequelitis but is still a lot of fun for many viewers. Though the main joke is the title, there is no Airplane in the film.
- In "Death Is a Bitch", the varied passengers on the plane, nuns, Girl Scouts, etc., are reminiscent of the film. Peter slaps Lois in the bathroom, yelling “Get a hold of yourself,” in "He's Too Sexy for His Fat". Dr. Rumack, a character from the film, is portrayed by Leslie Nielsen. Rumack appears in Blue Harvest telling Han Solo (Peter) "I just want to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you". C-3PO, played by Glenn Quagmire shakes Leia while saying "...and Leia's getting laaaarger." Many characters, including Herbert, Evil Monkey, Elmer Hartman, Mayor West, and Kool-Aid Man line up to shake Stewie in "Prick Up Your Ears". "Padre de Familia" translates its title into Spanish as 'Incredible Flying Joke Bus'. In "Peter's Daughter", The scene where Stewie and Brian are renovating the run-down house, and becoming confused with the requirement to say "over" when using the walkie-talkie may be a distant reference to the sequence in the movie, where confusion is caused by the name of Captain Oveur, pronounced "over". When Brian starts to lie about how he likes Loretta in "Love, Blactually", Brian's nose starts to grow like Pinocchio's nose does. Brian also repeats the line, "free to pursue a life of religious fulfillment", which is a line uttered by Dr. Rumack. "Airport '07" has many references to the film. When New Brian walks into the kitchen just before the "I Like Farts" song, Peter says, "Oh, you have a guitar!" just like the mother of the sick girl does in the film Airplane!. Jerome and Quagmire quote Jive in "Jerome Is the New Black". Peter beats up a bunch of annoying people while holding in his poop in "Mom's the Word" as a parody of a scene where Rex Kramer (Robert Stack) beats up a mob of religious recruiters while calmly walking through the airport.
- Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines) is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, which it follows fairly closely, with superficial changes. For example, Ted Striker was Ted Stryker in the older film. The film is known for its use of absurd and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags.
- Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines) is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot and the central characters, as well as many elements from Airport 1975. The film is known for its use of absurd and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags. Airplane! was a financial success, grossing over US$83 million in North America alone, against a budget of just $3.5 million. The film's creators received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy, and nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. In the years since its release, Airplane!'s reputation has grown substantially. The film was voted the 10th-funniest American comedy on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs list in 2000, and ranked sixth on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies. In a major 2007 survey by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, it was judged the second greatest comedy film of all time. In 2008, Airplane! was selected by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time and in 2012 was voted No. 1 in The 50 Funniest Comedies Ever poll. In 2010 it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Several of the spoken lines, or gags, have become enduring puns in American culture.
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