20 Replies to ““Could you make Airplane! today?””

  4. The common meme for this is “The cleaned up version of Blazing Saddles will be on Tv tonight between 8pm and 8.12pm”

    whereas most of the jokes are now on the cutting room floor.

    I’ve never seen “Airplane” (or any of the Star Wars films) though I’ve watched Blazing Saddles about 10 times.

    2. I flew over to Calgary two years ago with AC. I was (pleasantly) shocked to find Blazing Saddles available on the inflight entertainment in all its’ glory – no disclaimer and I didn’t notice any cuts or edits. Maybe there is still hope.

    2. *
      “Captain Oveur tries to give the kid a friendly welcome, then
      proceeds to ask him a series of very inappropriate questions.
      The exchange starts innocent enough, with the captain asking
      the boy, ‘you ever been in a cockpit before?‘”

      From there, the direction he takes the conversation is hilariously
      unexpected.

      “Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?”

      *

  6. Yet Zucker is incapable of drawing a straight line from the destruction of comedy to leftism and all its subgroups. Enjoy, @sshole!

  7. Given David Zucker’s prominence in Hollywood, I assumed he was a Leftie. But I’ve done some research and apparently he is not. Regardless, he makes some very important points about what he calls the “9 Percenters” (aka Wokeratis and the Lefty Left) have ruined everything, starting with comedy.

    Historians will look back at the start of this century with disdain and speculate how the masses so easily rolled over to such a tiny group of despicable morons.

  8. When Airplane! came out, I was working for Wardair on the ramp in Vancouver. We considered it a training film; we lived it.

    The first time I went into the trailer under the terminal building that ‘housed’ the ramp rats, there was a rampie asleep on a set of file drawers, and he turned out to be someone I had known in Montreal.

    The guy who hired me just wanted to reminisce about working on the ramp in Montreal, so I sat in the van with him for weeks, smoking and watching the other guys busting their butts loading the planes. Same guy once hired a guy with the same name as the owner of the company just to see if the in-house mail system got screwed up.

    We sometimes had the world’s worst schedule; 6 to 10 in the morning and 9 to 1 in the morning at night. To make up for it, you just had to show up right before the plane landed, work the flight, and leave as soon as the pilot called in after departure. It was a real motivator to getting the job done. I had a shortwave radio to listen for the pilot estimating Vancouver on the way back from Hawaii. I knew before anyone else exactly when the plane would touch down and I commuted accordingly.

    One morning only two guys turned up to work the flight to Hawaii, instead of 8. We got the plane loaded, and it left on time. Afterwards, we found a container of bags that had been left off. We took it over to CP and they put it on their plane to Hawaii (try that today …). Their plane was faster than Wardair’s, so it actually got there first. For our efforts, we both got letters on our file for forgetting the container.

    Before Wardair introduced domestic flights, as an employee, you had to fly to London, get off the plane and then get back on, just to get to Toronto. With free booze on both flights, you were mostly unfit for much of anything when you got off the flight.

    “Where’s the forklift?” “It’s over there …… ” So many memories.

    1. So, you’re the one I complained about. I watched you through the window practising body slams with my suitcase.

  9. Prima: Comedy? What is it?
    Secundus: A dead art form that they want you think isn’t important right now.

  11. Conservative media works best if they use comedy to skewer the ruling left-establishment. So in this sense comedy is alive and well. The left run all the dominant institutions, and this is why the left hates comedy.

    I mean, has anyone watched a CBC-produced comedy? And laughed?

  12. Airplane is arguably the best reboot of a movie franchise every made.

    The original is, while tense in parts, not really that funny and comes across as a bit cheesy.

    (yes – Airplane is a REMAKE. Look it up. And don’t call me Sherly. 😀 )

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