Watching "Airplane!"

[Brigid]

Hadn't watched it in years. I'd forgotten about Samuel L. Jackson speaking jive!

[Dr. Strange]

1. Are you sure you aren't watching "Snakes on an Airplane!"?

Check it out big mama, I don't think Samuel L. Jackson was in Airplane!

[Brigid]

7. That jive dude sure looks like Jackson.

And when I went looking around the net to double check, I found out I'm not the only one who thinks so!

[uppityperson]

2. Don't call me shirley

do you like gladiators?

[Dr. Strange]

4. Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle...

just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.

[HopeHoops]

17. "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

[7wo7rees]

3. SLJ was not in that movie

First Jive Dude: Shiiiiit, maaaaan. That honky muf' be messin' mah old lady... got to be runnin' cold upside down his head, you know?
Second Jive Dude: Hey home', I can dig it. Know ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap up on you, man!
First Jive Dude: I say hey, sky... subba say I wan' see...
Second Jive Dude: Uh-huh.
First Jive Dude: ...pray to J I did the same ol' same ol'!
Second Jive Dude: Hey... knock a self a pro, Slick! That gray matter backlot perform us DOWN, I take TCB-in', man!
First Jive Dude: Hey, you know what they say: see a broad to get dat booty yak 'em...
First Jive Dude, Second Jive Dude: ...leg 'er down a smack 'em yak 'em!
First Jive Dude: COL' got to be! Y'know? Shiiiiit.

[HarveyDarkey]

5. Barbara Billingsley was better

[Dr. Strange]

6. Jive ass dude don't got no brains anyhow!

[MrsBrady]

25. this is a brilliant scene n/t

[Brigid]

8. Lloyd Bridges:

"Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit smoking/drinking/amphetamines!"

[Son of Gob]

12. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffin glue.

[brewens]

20. Lloyd said he really regretted that. I bet it would have been okay if he's just done the cigarettes

booze and weed. The rest was a bit much. We already got it by then.

[MrsBrady]

26. that's why it is funny...

it's over the top.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Al White and Norman Alexander Gibbs were the "Jive Dudes"

[zen_bohemian]

10. I loved Johnny.....

Leon's getting llaaarrrrrgeerrr

me John big tree

[edbermac]

11. Great film, too bad one of the directors turned into a loony neocon

[Son of Gob]

13. Romney had a brief cameo.

[merrily]

15. Funny!

Someone gave me Airplane.

If someone is anxious or sad about something short of the most serious kinds of tragedy, I invite him or her over for a bite to eat, then sit them down with a bowl of popcorn and dim the lights for a private showing of Airplane.

Then, I go about my business elsewhere within my home so I am not a distraction.

Pretty soon, I am hearing shrieks and belly laughs. Then I get thanked profusely.

So far, it's worked every time.

[uppityperson]

22. Had this playing after a parent died. We didn't belly laugh but it was a great distraction

During the eulogy the minister said something along the lines of "surely (parent's name) would have" and we all started trying to not snort. The people behind us thought we were trying to not cry. It helped us get through the ordeal.

[kentauros]

14. Zero Hour!

I double-dog dare you to watch this film without thinking of Airplane!

[DFW]

16. Hospital!? Why, what is it?

It's place where people go when they're sick. But that's not important now.

[HopeHoops]

18. "DON'T PANIC"

[Initech]

19. Jive-ass dudes don't got no brains anyhow!

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Love that film. Am a real fan of silly stuff like that.

[hauweg]

23. Just calm down

[zellie]

24. "The shit is really going to hit the fan "

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