"Side-by-side" comparison: Zero Hour! (1957) Vs Airplane! (1980)

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  @leslieross5074 · 1 month ago

  My phone kept calling me Shirley. Then I noticed it was stuck in Airplane mode.

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• MA

  @mattslupek7988 · 1 year ago

  I just want to tell whoever made this video good luck.  We're all counting on you.

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• LA

  @LadderWhale121 · 2 months ago

  NO FREAKING WAY they replicated the iconic “taking turns slapping the frantic woman” scene from the original. I cannot believe that was meant to be a tense dramatic moment 😂😂

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• AN

  @annem8152 · 1 year ago

  I almost choked on my drink when the guy in "zero hour" said he chose the wrong time to quit smoking.

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• SN

  @snakeguy76 · 9 years ago (edited)

  The genius of 'Airplane' was getting serious actors (Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Neilsen, Robert Stack) playing the comedy straight.  They could have easily gotten comedic actors, but it was even funnier with this cast.

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• GR

  @grumbles · 1 year ago

  One of my favorite moments substitute teaching in a high school a few years ago was when this freshman boy asked to use the bathroom, and i was like yeah sure go ahead. And as he's walking out, I randomly called out, "Just wanna wish you good luck, we're all counting on you!"  He stopped, turned around sharply, and said "Surely you must be joking!!!"  "I'm not joking...and don't call me Shirley."  The other 25 kids were utterly confused.

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• Z-

  @z-beeblebrox · 8 months ago

  &quot;Why don&apos;t they make them like this anymore?&quot;<br>&quot;They can&apos;t. There&apos;s nobody left who knows how&quot;

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• RI

  @richmcgee434 · 3 years ago (edited)

  My fondest memory of Airplane will always be the first time I saw it in the theater. &nbsp;My mother (who apparently didn&apos;t understand movie ratings) took my ten year old sister and I to go see it opening night. &nbsp;When the film got to the scene at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs&amp;t=580">9:40</a> (which continues with the wife getting out of bed and waking up the horse she was sleeping with) the whole theater went dead silent for a couple of seconds as people processed the joke, and god bless her, sis piped up at the top of her lungs with &quot;They&apos;re horsing around!&quot; &nbsp;Whole theater was laughing so hard we missed about a minute of dialog, and mom slapped her hand over both our mouths to muzzle us. &nbsp;She still bitches about how embarrassed she was to this day.

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• ST

  @steveward6099 · 5 years ago

  This is what so many modern Spoofs have missed. What made Airplane so funny was how straight it was played. The dialogue and acting just needed little subtle stings here and there to make it hysterical. Epic Movie and it&apos;s ilk just make 20 pop culture references a minute and don&apos;t even focus on the genre or plot they are spoofing.

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• AX

  @AxelQC · 7 years ago

  Amazing how easy it is to turn a sappy melodrama into an unforgettable farce.

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• TH

  @Thresh0r · 4 years ago

  I knew Airplane was based on Zero Hour but this is the first time I&apos;ve seen them side by side... it&apos;s an entirely different kind of experience seeing them like this altogether.

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• TI

  @tiadaid · 2 years ago

  Dana Andrews, who plays Ted Stryker in Zero Hour, was also in Airport &apos;75 as the pilot who collided with the airliner

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