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What is your favorite joke from the movie Airplane?

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Everyone's got one. What's yours?
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The sight gag that you probably miss when you first see the movie. Robert Stack has been called to come out to the airport and he's complaining about airline incompetence as he's getting dressed as the camera pans away from him standing in front of, and facing a full-length mirror with his back to us, and his wife standing next to him on his left.

I didn't notice until either I saw it three or four times or my brother mentioned it. Stack says, "Let's go," as he picks up his bag, steps past his wife on his right, and forward past us, over the doorway in front of him, and on to the outside, out of frame..

In short, when the camera came back, Stark steps through the mirror!
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So many to choose from, but I think I'll still have to go with "It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether!"

I just watched the clip again and I giggled at it, even though I've seen it three thousand times, and just got finished typing it. That's staying power.
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Are you nervous?
Yes.
First time [implying flying]?
No, I've been nervous before.

When Kramer hears about this, the shit's gonna hit the fan.
[Scene of excrement hitting fan]

Hey, everybody, let's get some pictures.
[Reporters start taking framed pictures off the wall]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to [discontinue ever more dangerous addictive substance].

[Woman on plane refusing coffee in disgust in order to snort a line of coke.]

[Woman gets out of bed tells her lover she has to leave because her husband is in danger, and he can let himself out. Pan back to bed where her lover is a horse.]
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I said your FAVORITE, Paul. I didn't say "list as many Airplane jokes as you can remember."
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There are so many good sight gags in that film. I watched it a couple of months with the kids and I got a kick out of watching them laugh at some of the same jokes I laughed at thirty years ago. Not all of it has aged well, but most if it still works.

I was surprised to learn neither of my kids knew what a Hare Krishna was... and the more I thought about it, I think I probably learned what they were from watching Airplane as a kid.
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Flack wrote:There are so many good sight gags in that film.
Did you see the one where Robert Stack walks through the mirror? A lot of people miss that the first time.
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The part where Julie Haggerty recites the symptoms of the poison fish and Captain Oveur displays them instantly after looking at the fish skeleton off to the side.

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Runner up.... Ethel Mermen!

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McCroskey - Johnny, how 'bout some more coffee?

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Oh yeah, everything Johnny said is gold.
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Tdarcos wrote:Are you nervous?
Yes.
First time [implying flying]?
No, I've been nervous before.
To nit pick, the line is "No, I've been nervous lots of times."
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Flack wrote:
Tdarcos wrote:Are you nervous?
Yes.
First time [implying flying]?
No, I've been nervous before.
To nit pick, the line is "No, I've been nervous lots of times."
I appreciate your careful effort in correcting my errors so I may learn. Fuck you very much.
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