Airplane! (1980) appreciation thread - Thank god it's only a motion picture!

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LOVE Airplane! Peter Graves and Robert Stack knocked it out of the park.

Here, have a sneak peak at CNN and FOX News headquarters (last week colorized)

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Airplane is an all time classic. I think I love it as a comedy because it really combines just about every form of comedy you can think of.

It has slapstick, it has puns, it has zaniness, it has clean humor, offensive humor, it has parody, sight gags, verbal gags, it can be dry and sarcastic, or just off the wall crazy. The whole thing is a masterpiece of a bunch of people trying to make a movie with the mission statement of getting a laugh at every turn. Its wonderful.
 
Earlier this week, I watched parts of the "World Broadcast Premiere" of Airplane! taped off CTV (CFCF-12, Montreal) at some point during the Christmas shopping season in 1983. Surprisingly, the exact same VHS tape I watched the hell out of when I was 9 was still quite watchable even though it was taped at EP/SLP speed over 36 years ago. I was mainly watching for the commercials but I also watched the opening and landing scenes.

The thing about the old TV cut of Airplane! is that, to make up for the sheer amount of adults-only content that was removed for broadcast, it includes several minutes of jokes deleted from the theatrical cut. Here's a compilation (not mine) of some of the jokes that weren't available on any home video release until the Blu-Ray and DVD "Extended Haul" cut. (I have the Blu-Ray with the "Extended Haul" cut, as well as the theatrical cut, but only the earlier version of the DVD that had the ZAZ commentary track but not much else so I don't know if the later DVD version has all the same content as the Blu-Ray other than the resolution.)


I don't think that's every single deleted joke included in the "Extended Haul" but it's got the most famous ones like "Hi, Jack!", the water cooler scene, and the kids who are reading the lines for the teacher and lobbyist from Zero Hour (which didn't make sense to me when I watched the TV version as a kid since I had no idea at the time that Airplane! was technically a remake of a 1950s disaster movie).
 
It's a big house with doctors, anyway that's not important now!
 
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