October 25, 2000

12:43 PM

Hi Jack! HIJACK!! Hehe... You'd think they'd have addressed this problem a long time ago with pilots being named Jack...
posted by PWA_BadBoy (8 comments total)

Let me do it!

Movie: Airplane!
The scene: cockpit of a jetliner preparing for takeoff.
Characters: Control tower, Clarence Oever, Roger Murdock

Tower: Flight 2-0-9er, you're cleared for take off.
Oever: Roger!
Murdock: Huh?
Tower: L.A. departure frequency 1-2-3 point 9er.
Oever: Roger!
Murdock: Huh? Request Vector, over!
Oever: What?
Tower: 2-0-9er clear for vector 2-3-4.
Murdock: We have clearance Clarence.
Oever: Roger, Roger. What's our Vector Victor?
Tower: Tower's radio clearance, over!
Oever: That's Clarence Oever! Oever.
Tower: Roger.
Murdock: Huh?
Tower: Roger, over.
Murdock: Huh?
Oever: Huh?

posted by daveadams at 1:20 PM on October 25, 2000

Dr. Rumack: "What was it we had for dinner tonight?"
Elaine: "Well, we had a choice, steak or fish."
Dr. Rumack: "Yes, yes, I remember. I had lasagna."
posted by Hankins at 1:32 PM on October 25, 2000

While everyone is quoting from the original Airplane! movie, wasn't the "Hi, Jack!" gag used in the sequel, Airplane II: The Sequel?
posted by bradlands at 1:46 PM on October 25, 2000

Damn, I'm too young to remember Airplane!

Everything you guys are sayin... right over my head. :(
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 1:57 PM on October 25, 2000

Here's the script. But you're better off just renting it. It's good, clean fun. (Without utensils.)
posted by waxpancake at 2:47 PM on October 25, 2000

*Very* good, Dave.
posted by baylink at 8:31 PM on October 25, 2000

Thanks, baylink. PWA, go immediately to your local video store and rent Airplane! now! It's an absolute classic, and chances are it will only cost a buck or so to rent. In fact, if anyone wants to thank me for my contributions to Metafilter (ha!), I'd be happy to accept the DVD edition of the movie as a token of your gratitude. It's on my wish list so it should be easy to ship it right to me! :)
posted by daveadams at 8:13 AM on October 26, 2000

If one participated in such Communist plots as Amazon wish lists, sure it would.
posted by baylink at 12:44 PM on October 27, 2000