British Comedy Guide

Airplane 1980

LOL! Just found this link (apologies if it's been listed b4 here?) but sometimes, it's just so great to view those brilliant lines.

Airplane Memorable Quotes

I was writing today about having a bad time and 'projecting' shit elsewhere and it made me think of those great lines in the control room from Steve McCroskey like, 'Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue'

Wow . . 1980 eh! Seems like only 22 years ago ;)

Beej

Quote: Beej @ October 24 2012, 1:53 PM BST

Wow . . 1980 eh! Seems like only 22 years ago ;)

More like 32 if you ask me.

Quote: David Bussell @ October 24 2012, 2:00 PM BST

More like 32 if you ask me.

I know Dave, it was a joke ;) hehe

Quote: Beej @ October 24 2012, 2:03 PM BST

I know Dave, it was a joke ;) hehe

That's the second time you've winked at me now. Are we about to have sex?

Quote: David Bussell @ October 24 2012, 2:11 PM BST

That's the second time you've winked at me now. Are we about to have sex?

Wot, again! Not if you're as soft as you were last time, you drunken slut xx

Right now (7pm 9th December 2015) the TCM TV channel are showing Zero Hour, the original film that Airplane was based on.

Much of the script is the same, just done seriously not for laughs, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up smoking" for example.

Even the pilot is called Ted Stryker.

Here are a couple of YouTube videos comparing scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjU-e01zQ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs

Thanks for this Guilbert. I didn't know Airplane was based on a specific movie.

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