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August 14, 2016 9:03 AM

Every Joke in Airplane!, Ranked. We rated each joke only in reference to other Airplane! jokes. Airplane! threes and fours are probably equivalent to most other movies’ nines and tens.
posted by EmGeeJay (78 comments total)

Surely you can't be serious.
posted by brevator at 9:09 AM on August 14, 2016 [13 favorites]

I know these things are usually boring and facile surface-level reads of like whether Stephen King's Cat's Eye is better than Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, but this one is a true delight. There's just the right amount of editorializing and graphic embellishment, but the beautiful, hilarious jokes are the focus. They even include some trivia from the commentary track (which is also funny).

It's very, very hard to make a case for any other movie being the funniest ever made to see just how many of these jokes land. The author's avowed "least favorite joke" still cracks me up, even after seeing the movie four or five times. Perhaps more so.
posted by EmGeeJay at 9:10 AM on August 14, 2016 [6 favorites]

Great list, though I'll die on the hill that the "you're Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!" scene is the absolute best in the movie.
posted by Itaxpica at 9:24 AM on August 14, 2016 [13 favorites]

I tried watching Airplane! once and we had to give up because it wasn't funny. I don't even remember getting to the part of the movie where anyone was on an airplane, because there was some sort of flashback with an unfunny dance number or something.

Animal House wasn't funny either.

Disclaimer: I am 27.
posted by silby at 9:24 AM on August 14, 2016 [6 favorites]

(NOTE: just realized there's a very small NSFW!! gif featuring the part of the movie that would warrant an R rating today)
posted by EmGeeJay at 9:33 AM on August 14, 2016

176. Jesus Dashboard Statue has a little umbrella when it’s raining.

Aaand I already started giggling.
posted by dirigibleman at 9:37 AM on August 14, 2016 [4 favorites]

See, the problem is he’s literally having trouble drinking.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 9:37 AM on August 14, 2016 [43 favorites]

With all that's been written about humor, you'd think some shrinks must have studied what kind of people like what kind of humor. (The Airplane films are a particularly polarizing example of the "different strokes" thing in comedy.) Anybody know anything about this?
posted by kozad at 9:40 AM on August 14, 2016

With all that's been written about humor, you'd think some shrinks must have studied what kind of people like what kind of humor. (The Airplane films are a particularly polarizing example of the "different strokes" thing in comedy.) Anybody know anything about this?

Other grand humor dividers: Monty Python, 30 Rock, Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job!

I've spent years studying this issue and the problem with people who don't like those things, or Airplane!, is that they're not as good as I am.
posted by dis_integration at 9:49 AM on August 14, 2016 [78 favorites]

I've watched Airplane! at least a hundred times and I never noticed the ice cream cone in with the microphones.
posted by Daily Alice at 9:49 AM on August 14, 2016 [12 favorites]

Disclaimer: I am 27.

I don't think age has anything to do with it - my 74-year old dad, 45-year-old me, and my 14-year-old son are united in the belief that Airplane is the funniest movie ever.
posted by Daily Alice at 9:52 AM on August 14, 2016 [19 favorites]

Man, a lot of racist jokes in this movie. Putting them all in a list kinda drives the point home.
posted by tobascodagama at 9:53 AM on August 14, 2016 [20 favorites]

Oh man I love this movie. I first saw it when I was 7 or 8 - even though Shirley more than half the jokes went over my head, I remember saying out loud "I didn't know something could be this funny."
posted by STFUDonnie at 10:02 AM on August 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

Most everyone misses the gag of the jet's exterior shots with the sound effect of a propeller plane.

My mother yanked my sister and me out of our seats of the theater when the boobies appeared that only resulted in repeated and appropriately furtive VHS viewings.

All the gags in which women are the butt (a lot) and the pedo jokes do give me pause now. The movie is a rich document of its time. I don't believe MacFarlane would have had a canvas without it.
posted by lazycomputerkids at 10:03 AM on August 14, 2016 [11 favorites]

Having seen the movie countless times, I'm not at all qualified to comment on the merits of this list, as my own would change wildly on every viewing.
posted by lmfsilva at 10:16 AM on August 14, 2016

Yeah, I did wonder if all the rate-ers were white. I've always felt weird about the "tribal" and "jive" scenes.

And then the guy who was about to set himself on fire, he was in brownface :/

And then Johnny... (He did have the best lines though).

As a young girl, I loved this movie, but all the titty/woman-groping/pedo jokes made me pretty uncomfortable! Especially if I was watching with boys my own age.

Which is probably why I liked Police Squad; they were unable to show tits on TV but they managed to be funny anyway.

In conclusion, straight white guys in the 70s could be brilliantly funny, but still have the blind spots you have when all your writers are straight white guys in the 70s.
posted by emjaybee at 10:16 AM on August 14, 2016 [35 favorites]

I still love Airplane! despite now being painfully aware that a lot of those jokes are very offensive.
posted by Kitteh at 10:24 AM on August 14, 2016 [7 favorites]

I guess I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue!
posted by chavenet at 10:25 AM on August 14, 2016 [4 favorites]

Okay, now do one for Blazing Saddles.
posted by nonasuch at 10:32 AM on August 14, 2016 [12 favorites]

OMG I love this movie to pieces. One of my favorite things about it is that even though I've seen it like a dozen times, each time I watch it again, I see something else in the background that is hilarious that I've missed before. This joke list had a few I hadn't noticed before, like the Charles Dickens credit, and the ice cream cone instead of microphone.
posted by FireFountain at 10:36 AM on August 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

I think the "jive talk" scene deserves a better score. I don't think they factored-in that the woman is Barbara Billingsly and, given the general age of the audience at the time, that made the gag soooooo much more delightful than it probably does to today's younger audiences.
posted by Thorzdad at 10:43 AM on August 14, 2016 [21 favorites]

very offensive.

These were the dark days before everyone realized that it's not okay to make fun of nuns, alcoholism, jive, paedophilia, women, war, Jesus, basketball, Hare Krishna, disco, mayonnaise, and airport security.
posted by sfenders at 10:45 AM on August 14, 2016 [40 favorites]

I would love to see a similar list for all the jokes in We Need to Talk About Kevin.
posted by beerperson at 11:11 AM on August 14, 2016 [8 favorites]

Let's do our own:
Lowest: the race stuff
Middle: sight gags, running jokes
Top: everything Johnny Says
Top top: Leslie Neilson
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:20 AM on August 14, 2016 [5 favorites]

Okay, now do one for Blazing Saddles.

Or Spaceballs!!
posted by FireFountain at 11:29 AM on August 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

Okay, now do one for Blazing Saddles.

Do you think it would it have more or less than the 178 jokes listed for Airplane!?
posted by fairmettle at 11:38 AM on August 14, 2016

"They're on instruments!" is about 100 places too low.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 11:43 AM on August 14, 2016 [15 favorites]

Blazing Saddles, because of Pryor's involvement, seems to have a different take on racist stereotypes. The mayor accepting all races of the RR crew "except the Irish", the RR workers asked to sing a n-word worksong and they respond with Cole Porter, the Native Americans are played by Jews, and so on.

You want to go joke for joke with Mel Brooks? Blazing Saddles probably has the most jokes but Young Frankenstein has the best ones. I will go to my grave insisting this.

I think that at least some of the context for "getting" Airplane has to do with seeing 60s and 70s films, particularly the work of Robert Stack and those "serious" actors who are playing against type and disaster porn like the first Airport movie.
posted by Ber at 12:00 PM on August 14, 2016 [14 favorites]

Airplane is essentially a remake of the 1957 movie Zero Hour (down to some of the more memorable dialogue, such as "We need to finds someone who can fly a plane and didn't have fish for dinner"). It was on Channel 4 once in the late 80s as I watched with amazement. I assume that the Airplane writers did the same thing I did - get stoned and do an MST3K at it.
posted by Grangousier at 12:18 PM on August 14, 2016 [7 favorites]

Fun fact: They actually bought the film rights to Zero Hour so they could use as much of the original as they wanted without getting sued.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 12:27 PM on August 14, 2016 [10 favorites]

I don't think they had to since both were owned by Paramount.
posted by I-baLL at 12:32 PM on August 14, 2016

Surely you can’t be serious: An oral history of Airplane!
(Yes, we’re serious. And don’t call us Shirley.) [A.V. Club, April 17 2015]
posted by Auden at 12:46 PM on August 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

I would love to see a similar list for all the jokes in We Need to Talk About Kevin.

This made me laugh harder than the original list.
posted by AFABulous at 1:09 PM on August 14, 2016 [4 favorites]

I think we should do one for Foodfight! Ready? I'll start:

walks away from the computer, goes out the door, jumps off a cliff
posted by JHarris at 1:26 PM on August 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

"We input every joke into a Google Excel Sheet..."

I understand that Google Sheets can import and export .xlsx files, but... surely they can't be serious.
posted by Reverend John at 1:36 PM on August 14, 2016 [4 favorites]

Yes, they're serious, and don't call me Google.
THANKyou for the obvious setup; it made my day
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:53 PM on August 14, 2016 [4 favorites]

unfunny dance number

Pistols at dawn!
posted by books for weapons at 2:07 PM on August 14, 2016

I didn't think there was a joke in this movie I wouldn't remember, but damn if the woman throwing the baby didn't surprise me too.

Hat or Brooch or Pterodactyl, you will always be tops in my heart
posted by Mchelly at 2:20 PM on August 14, 2016 [8 favorites]

In around 5th or 6th grade, we had a class movie night where everyone could nominate a movie to watch and we'd vote. I nominated Airplane! and as soon as I did, our teacher declared we would skip the voting process and watch that. Upon rewatching the movie as an adult -- Karen C., you were a much cooler (and ballsier) teacher than I ever realized to have a classroom of elementary school students watch Airplane!.
posted by phoenixy at 2:24 PM on August 14, 2016 [11 favorites]

Some of the lines (like "What a pisser." and "Yes, birds too.") are funnier when you see them next to the equivalent scenes from Zero Hour. See comparisons here.
posted by Daily Alice at 2:26 PM on August 14, 2016 [6 favorites]

I saw Airplane in the theater when I was 16 with my sister, my mom and my 75 year old grandmother. And ... everyone laughed themselves silly and loved it. My family could be awesome at times.
posted by octothorpe at 2:39 PM on August 14, 2016

61. Mrs. Oveur is having an affair with a horse.

Which they don't mention is also a Godfather reference.

58. The people are on the baggage claim with the baggage waiting for them.

Now arriving, No Frills Airlines.

86. The “Clearance, Clarence. Roger, Roger. Vector, Victor” scene.

This is probably my favorite joke in the whole movie. Sheer genius. "What's your vector, Victor?"

I love this movie so much. I saw it in the theaters with my parents in 1980 when I was ten, saw it several times since, and watched it with my son when he was about eight. It has always held up and I still laugh at most of the jokes.
posted by bondcliff at 2:56 PM on August 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

I think the "jive talk" scene deserves a better score. I don't think they factored-in that the woman is Barbara Billingsly and, given the general age of the audience at the time, that made the gag soooooo much more delightful than it probably does to today's younger audiences.

I think it's definitely worth mentioning how much effort the actors put in to make that joke work too. From the oral history article.

Al White: I looked at the script and couldn’t make hide nor hair of the actual verbiage. [Laughs.] But I got a sense of what they wanted. They wanted jive as a language, which it is not: It’s a word here and a phrase there, originated by the jazz musicians back in the 1920s. So we had to first understand what they wanted, and then Norman and I tried to work together on it, but we couldn’t seem to gel on what we each wanted to do, so I said, “Well, okay, you work on yours and I’ll work on mine.” So what I did was, I went and got a couple of books—one was on black English by J.L. Dillard, and another was on black language—and I just saw what they had in standard English and tried to come up with what I felt was jive. I tried to jive it down, if you know what I mean, using actual words and actual meaning. So what we ended up saying does mean something. It’s not a bunch of gibberish or whatever. It did actually mean something.

posted by urbanwhaleshark at 3:03 PM on August 14, 2016 [25 favorites]

What I've always loved about that scene is that no one is really being mocked. There's a social faux pas between Elaine and the Jive speakers with her not understanding what they're saying, but it's her problem and it's OK because the old lady speaks Jive. What they're saying makes perfect sense, and it's not that difficult to understand. It would work just as well with Glaswegians.
posted by Grangousier at 3:11 PM on August 14, 2016 [12 favorites]

Shiiiiiiit



[Golly!]
posted by lmfsilva at 3:32 PM on August 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

Yeah, the Jive scene is both funny and a fairly harmless play on cultural differences. (Al White apparently helping rewrite it no doubt made a huge difference there.)

Literally all of the "tribal" stuff is hella uncomfortable, though.
posted by tobascodagama at 3:52 PM on August 14, 2016 [9 favorites]

I just want to tell you all, good luck. We're all counting on you.
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:04 PM on August 14, 2016 [10 favorites]

What surprised me most about the whole thing was how there were ONLY 178 JOKES listed. The movie ran 88 minutes; now some movies are considered "a laugh a minute", but ONLY 2 jokes per minute? I'd think Airplane! would've had a raw joke rate of one every 20 seconds. The IMDB Quotes page for the movie has 84 quotes and that excluded all the sight gags and repetition of running jokes (and most of the worst lines). Then I saw that the list included running jokes as single items (as well as some bits that built up with several laugh lines to a final punch). This seemed to result in some underrated bits: "McCroskey’s 'Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit ______'"got listed once as a 'runner' and was only given a 6, when its comic impact succeeded in increasing with its ongoing heightened absurdity. Also a 6 was "Ted’s cab passenger still waiting the whole movie." Of course, as a Californian watching it first-run, I knew the cab passenger was the unlikely cameo of Howard Jarvis, "Tax Crusader" and co-author of California's awful Proposition 13, and the context of HIM being so passive and credulous lifted every return to the cab an 8+ for me.

I picked the wrong week to quit overthinking funny movies.
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:33 PM on August 14, 2016 [15 favorites]

I suppose my reaction to this list is predictable, but I generally disagree with their ratings. My own ranking would be an entirely different thing - altogether!
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:13 PM on August 14, 2016

All the Johnny jokes are WAAAAY too low.

And that dress! It's awful!
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 5:25 PM on August 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

An entirely different thing

Because of Airplane!, I almost always repeat anything someone says before "altogether", always hoping against hope that this time will be the time that everyone else (or even someone else) will join in with me. But they never do.

Never.
posted by Mchelly at 5:30 PM on August 14, 2016 [17 favorites]

an entirely different thing
posted by DoctorFedora at 5:35 PM on August 14, 2016 [4 favorites]

Mchelly, I'm shocked and dismayed that you've had so little success with that venture. I would totally back you up.

On a related note, people don't use the word "altogether" nearly enough.
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:45 PM on August 14, 2016 [5 favorites]

An entirely different thing.
posted by Navelgazer at 5:50 PM on August 14, 2016

I think that "I just want to tell you both, 'good luck'. We're all counting on you" was ranked too low compared to some of the other jokes in the movie. More importantly -- though this is outside the frame of just the movie -- I think that that particular gag foreshadowed the absurdist humor that has become more and more common, especially in televised comedy, since the second half of the 1990s. It's my personal favorite from the film.
posted by dhens at 6:47 PM on August 14, 2016 [5 favorites]

I guess if I were doing this exercise it would be hard to separate out how funny something is from its placement in the movie vs how funny something has become after a lifetime of finding ways to get in. My family & my hubby & I mostly subsist off in-joke humor and I first saw this movie when I was very little so I've been quoting it my whole life. I probably would rank alot of the jokes higher based on that, than someone who hadn't done that. I just want to tell you all, good luck. We're all counting on you.
posted by bleep at 7:29 PM on August 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

it would be hard to separate out how funny something is from its placement in the movie vs how funny something has become after a lifetime of finding ways to get in.

I'll take that a step further and say that to some extent, the funniness of all the jokes in the movie partly depend on the pacing and buildup - i.e., most of these jokes would have landed to some degree even in relative isolation, but the sheer unrelenting density of punchlines as the movie continues carries one along on a wave of amusement and lifts all the jokes into a higher realm.

And yes, I am serious.
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:53 PM on August 14, 2016 [7 favorites]

Because of Airplane!, I almost always repeat anything someone says before "altogether", always hoping against hope that this time will be the time that everyone else (or even someone else) will join in with me. But they never do.

Which reminds me to gesture vaguely in the direction of Angie Tribeca.

And also Disco the Parakeet.
posted by tobascodagama at 8:10 PM on August 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

Well, I'll give this thread another twenty minutes, but that's it!
posted by dannyboybell at 8:12 PM on August 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

I will always have a spot in my heart for, "It's a good thing you don't know how much he hates your guts."
posted by Chrysostom at 8:57 PM on August 14, 2016

God, this movie is very hot and cold for me depending on my mood - in the right mood, everything lands, in the wrong mood, well, I laughed exactly once - at Johnny's "It looks like a big Tylenol!" line, which I believe makes that the definitively best joke in the movie. It's just that he's so full of wonder, and the idea that "a big Tylenol" is what has him so jubilant just gets me right in the funny-feels.

As for the problematic jokes, well... Brown-face doesn't really play anymore, thank God, and the titties shaking in front of the camera were much beloved by 12-year-old me but kind of hacky even then. I think the jive-talking scene (my mom's favorite, so it has a special place for me) works for the reasons urbanwhaleshark and tobascodegama bring up - nobody's the butt of the joke, and the actors, at least, put work into making it specific and real enough to be somewhat respectful. Plus Barbara Billingsley.

The "Ever seen a grown man naked" stuff is just hilarious and I don't care. Especially with the knowledge of the scene in Zero Hour, where the pilot comes off exactly as creepy. Plus the kid is never in danger and has no idea what's going on. An errant look from him would have probably killed that gag.

Agreed that "looks like I picked the wrong week..." is a strong enough runner to have each line included individually. Blowing (up) the Autopilot seems kind of hacky now but must have been about the funniest thing ever when this was released - those saying the misogynistic jokes have aged very poorly are right. Though that additional slap Leslie Nielson gives the panicking woman is perfect comedic timing.
posted by Navelgazer at 10:13 PM on August 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

96. Johnny: “Nick, Leaf, Jerrod, there’s a fire in the barn!”

Annotation: This should be, "Nick, Heath, Jarrod, there's a fire in the barn!" It's a reference to the TV show The Big Valley.
posted by bryon at 10:24 PM on August 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

God help me, after all this discussion I just had to watch the movie again. And I noticed four or five jokes that medium.com never even mentioned! Which brought me back to the intro of that article:

There were seven of us, all of whose careers are more-or-less involved in comedy writing and filmmaking. None of whom have made anything nearly as good as Airplane!.

...and now I bet I can guess why.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:45 PM on August 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

I loved this movie, but can see that it would never be made in this day and age.

But the thing that stands out for me is that in my country (and I think most countries) it was called "Flying High". I was too young to see it in the cinema. But then one of my father's friends who had "connections" managed to get a really bad quality black market copy of "Airplane!" on VHS. I was very confused that they had the same cover art and many of the jokes I'd heard in schoolyard whisperings about Flying High were in Airplane! I didn't know who was ripping off whom. It was a few years later, when it eventually aired on TV here under the name Flying High, that I realised they were the same movie.
posted by Diag at 11:21 PM on August 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

Hat or Brooch or Pterodactyl, you will always be tops in my heart

We are best friends now.

I love that my boss knows all these movies, so he and I can riff on them while my cow-orkers shake their bewildered heads.

I walked out of his office last week after I said something like "surely they mean (insert veterinary term here)" (in the middle of a serious discussion about a patient) to which he, without a second's pause, replied "agreed, and don't call me Shirley". I then said, as I left "looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue", which garnered me some odd looks from the less-enlightened folks I work with, one of whom asked me if the discussion had really gone that badly...

Not Airplane!, but he also, without fail, every time we see a pet named Abby, gives me the conspiratorial side-eye and says "Abby....normal?". I have a cool boss.
posted by biscotti at 3:16 AM on August 15, 2016 [4 favorites]

This is fun, but #166 seems to imply that the raters / author aren't aware that a "radarange" is what people used to call microwave ovens. There is totally a joke there!
posted by tocts at 5:16 AM on August 15, 2016 [5 favorites]

I just want to tell you all, good luck. We're all counting on you.
posted by middleclasstool at 5:32 AM on August 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

I recently worked on a show on TruTV about the making of Airplane. It was a pretty good TV approximation of that AV Club article, with the added bonus of clips from the movie compared to Zero Hour and some ancient footage of the ZAZ team back in their Kentucky Fried Theater days (which is incredible because you can see where a lot of their gags got their start on the stage, including early Steven Stucker!). Also a scene where Robert Hays visits the old cockpit set, which is amaaaaaaaazing.

Unfortunately, the show has a shitty name ("TruInside" WTF is that) and was not advertised or promoted in the slightest; the only thing I can find online of the show is one goddamn clip. Why networks spend the money on cool shows like this and do nothing to promote them is beyond me. Maybe there's a torrent out there, if you want to see it.
posted by fungible at 6:08 AM on August 15, 2016 [5 favorites]

See, the problem is he’s literally having trouble drinking.

Ever since I saw this movie, whenever I see someone spilling a drink I comment on their drinking problem. The same goes with people spilling food. If I'm the one doing it, I lament my own drinking problem or eating disorder. No-one laughs (well, I do) but I just keep on saying it. I know that eventually someone will understand that I'm quoting, damnit!
posted by h00py at 6:20 AM on August 15, 2016 [5 favorites]

I love how many of the callbacks are so ingrained in our culture that it's just a given that if someone says, "Surely...." you've got a fairly great odds that someone will mutter "don't call me Shirley." I wonder if the joke wasn't ranked higher because the writers are so used to it as a joke construction that it feels more like "how it got in my pajamas I'll never know" - there's no surprise left in it.

Another vote for watching Police Squad if it's possible any of you haven't seen it. I was really surprised not to see our other family favorite "Cigarette?" "Yes, I know." (though for us it's generally Banana? or Dessert? or some other food that sets it off) on the list, only to Google it and find out that nope, it's Police Squad, not Airplane!. PS is also the source of what I consider one of the best comedy interchanges on TV:

-- Who are you and how did you get in here?
-- I'm a locksmith. And I'm a locksmith.
posted by Mchelly at 6:33 AM on August 15, 2016 [10 favorites]

My favorite moment in Metafilter was the time I had the perfect chance to use "good luck, we're all counting on you".
posted by Zonker at 6:48 AM on August 15, 2016 [2 favorites]

My favorite moment in Metafilter was the time I had the perfect chance to use "good luck, we're all counting on you".

I have a similar favorite.
posted by bondcliff at 7:35 AM on August 15, 2016 [2 favorites]

The problem with hiring Millennials is when you tell them "good luck, we're all counting on you" and they look at you blankly.

This has also backfired on me when I mentioned picking the wrong time to quit drinking - both with my staff and at home.
posted by nickmark at 7:51 AM on August 15, 2016

"Cigarette?" "Yes, I know."

I will never not laugh at this stupid gag.
posted by tobascodagama at 7:51 AM on August 15, 2016 [5 favorites]

I just realized this list doesn't include Adolf Hitler's credit as Worst Boy and is therefore wholely invalidated.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 7:53 AM on August 15, 2016 [12 favorites]

I'm old enough to to have seen this movie in its original theatrical release, and it seems to me that the writers must be a lot younger than me. They missed a lot of the cultural references as already mentioned (June Cleaver speaking Jive was brilliant), although until today I didn't realize that was Howard Jarvis in Ted's cab, which does make it even funnier. Thanks oneswellfoop! I also noticed that they totally missed the jet airliner making prop plane sounds, which I always loved because it was a relatively subtle gag in a movie not generally known for subtlety. And although it is based on Zero Hour, it also parodies the more contemporaneous Airport movies, such as in the scene where the panicking woman gets slapped.

The tribal scenes didn't bother me too much. I took then as being as much about clueless westerners trying to impose their culture on indigenous people without realizing there is already a native culture there.
posted by TedW at 8:06 AM on August 15, 2016 [1 favorite]

#53 is my #1, simply for the reason I use it at least once a day. "I've got to concentrate, concentrate, concentrate..."

Once a day. For thirty-odd years. Very odd years.
posted by Capt. Renault at 8:40 AM on August 15, 2016 [3 favorites]

#53 is my #1, simply for the reason I use it at least once a day. "I've got to concentrate, concentrate, concentrate..."

[makes note to self to enspousenate Capt. Renault on Enspousenating Day]
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 5:19 PM on August 15, 2016 [1 favorite]