It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up for the Tri-State Watch Party, just ahead of its 40-year anniversary, we’re watching Airplane!
The Netflix Watch Party app ended up being a little complicated, so we just set a time to hit “play” and then chatted through instant messenger. Click the jump to read some highlights from the conversation.
The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, Nathan, and the parents (Parents represented here by Marian, because Dad would chisel a message in a stone tablet before typing anything on a phone.)
Elizabeth
Gimmie 5 minutes, I haven’t figured where to watch it!
Kathryn
2.99 on prime. Also on CBS All-access.
Hannah
We’re all set here
Elizabeth
Sweet, I actually have CBS
Ready!
Kathryn
Pressing play?
Hannah
Yep
Elizabeth
Totally forgot about the Jaws intro.
Nathan
I will resist the urge to post every Airplane gif in the Messenger library.
Hannah
And this is pretty much shot-for-shot of a serious movie?
Kathryn
Apparently a riff of Zero Hour?
Nathan
And of Airport.
Kathryn
“Don’t start up with your white zone shit again. ”
Nathan
I once heard an announcement outside an airport that was similar to this one. I quoted that line out loud and cracked up everyone around me.
Elizabeth
Heh “Whacking material”
“Mayo clinic.”
Hannah
This is already weirder than I remember
Kathryn
Also don’t think I noticed the scene with the heart before.
And yeah, the jokes are gonna be pretty relentless
Nathan
It’s Jimmie Walker!
Kathryn
I remember watching this as a kid and Mom absolutely falling out over this maintenance scene.
Hannah
Just happened again
Kathryn
????
Elizabeth
Hee
Kathryn
The music sting just startled the cat.
Golly!
Elizabeth
“What’s our vector, Victor?” One of my favorite lines right here.
Kathryn
Who’s on first?
Hannah
I’ll say it, that’s better than Who’s On First
Nathan
????
Hannah
Haha
That leaflet just says “Sandy Koufax”
Nathan
????
Elizabeth
Is anybody else nervous just looking at the overhead luggage just out in the open like that?
Nathan
Oh, yeah!
Elizabeth
Absolutely forgot the Stayin Alive bit
The sound effects are cracking me up
Hannah
Same
NO FISH ON AIRPLANES
Elizabeth
Hee
Kathryn
“I take it black. Like my men.”
Elizabeth
It’s weird the things I DO remember, that line is one of them
Hannah
It’s surprising to me that this movie is PG
I just wanted to call “From Here To Eternity” “100 Years of Solitude”
Kathryn
Ha!
Elizabeth
WAY different love scenes.
Nathan
Ah, the days when you just walk into an airplane cockpit.
That kid’s collar could poke out an eye.
Elizabeth
I had friends who used to quote the “you like movies about gladiators?” line
Hannah
“SIT ON YOUR FACE” IS NOT PG
Elizabeth
hahaha
Nathan
This was before they came up with PG-13.
Elizabeth
HA, the spit take
Hannah
I can’t remember what podcast I was listening to when they were talking about “You ever seen a grown man naked?”
Elizabeth
Excellent Ethyl Merman cameo
Hannah
Makes me think of how I learned about Rosemary Clooney from an ER episode where she played someone with dementia
That actor was in West Wing!
Elizabeth
Which one?
Hannah
The Asian guy he’s telling the story to
Shibboleth
Elizabeth
OH, no wonder he looked familiar
Kathryn
Hee. Drinking problem.
Hannah
“Drinking problem” is maybe my primary joke from this movie
Elizabeth
Ew
LEAST FAVORITE BITS OF THIS MOVIE
Cousin Chris does that trick way better
Hannah
Oh my God Mom just said John Arnold as Scrooge had a Tiny Tim he hated and used to always ask him, “Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?”
Elizabeth
hahahah
Nathan
????
Hannah
How they could’ve made that terrible House episode in an airplane knowing this movie existed…
Kathryn
HATED that ep.
Elizabeth
I was JUST THINKING THAT
Too much puking
Hannah
I liked the stuff about the bends, but the rest was so dumb
Kathryn
I love how much they run a joke into the ground in this movie.
HE’S A BASKETBALL PLAYER. IT’S FUNNY.
Elizabeth
The “what is it?” “It’s a big building with patients but that’s not important right now” is funny every time and I will die on that hill.
Hannah
Was just going to say that
Jesus this just makes me think that House episode was a joke
Elizabeth
Strangely makes me like it better if nobody was expected to take it seriously
Hannah
Yeah, actually
Elizabeth
And the ground crew is the best!
Nathan
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking!
Hannah
We should watch that SNL skit with the Scottish ground crew after this
Kathryn
The smartass guy in the background is my favorite part of the movie.
Elizabeth
Yes! Johnny!
Elizabeth
ALSO NOT PG
Kathryn
And here we have the part where PG is baffling.
Hannah
SOOOOOO NOT PG
Nathan
1979.
That’s all you need to know.
Elizabeth
“Can you face some unpleasant facts?” “No.”
Kathryn
SUDDEN PANIC.
Elizabeth
BEWBS
Kathryn
NOT PG.
Hannah
BOOBIES ARE NOT PG
I love the idea of taking your 11-year-old to this
Nathan
I’ve had interactions like this with golden retrievers many times.
Elizabeth
Robert Stack!
Ultra Magnus will save us!
Hannah
Robert Stack would know that that’s not how gasoline works
Elizabeth
The TIMING on that MATCH
Nathan
Don’t call me Shirley.
Kathryn
And don’t call me Shirley
Elizabeth
“It’s an entirely different kind of flying”
Hannah
Heh altogether
Elizabeth
The prop crew must have had fun putting together a never ending dashboard.
Kathryn
And get a note to the milkman: no more cheese!
Elizabeth
Hahahah the crazy backgrounds in the car.
Nathan
The jokes come fast and furious in this film!
Elizabeth
Lordy someone just said Scientology…
Hannah
Um, Jenn just told me she’d never heard of this?
Kathryn
The little asides just before the camera pans away. “Yes, birds too.”
Elizabeth
Hee
“Just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.”
“I speak jive.”
Kathryn
Love Johnny, always.
Elizabeth
“A hat, a broach, a pteradactyl..”
Godfather reference!
Nathan
The guy who opened the radar range played Mike in Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul.
Kathryn
It looks like a big Tylenol!
Elizabeth
“…and it looks like a big Tylenol..”
Kathryn
Jinx!
Elizabeth
:D
Kathryn
Ah, the days when you could carry more then 3 ounces of liquid on a plane.
Hey look Tab
Elizabeth
.pounce. “And LEON’s geting LAAAARGER.”
Kathryn
Did the actor who played Johnny just make up his lines? It’s all so wonderfully random.
Nathan
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Hannah
Did Leslie Neilson ever do a serious role after this?
Nathan
Not sure.
This definitely relaunched his career as a comedic actor.
Elizabeth
I always knew Johnny was my favorite but I forgot how many lines he had
Where did you get that DRESS it’s AWFUL and those SHOES..
Kathryn
That coat, jeeeez…
Budweiser truck, very important.
Elizabeth
I feel like Ted is the father of another actor who showed up on a lot of things but I’ll check that later..
Kathryn
I feel like Robert Stack almost laughed at that last line.
Nathan
I just want to wish you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.
Elizabeth
Wow NOW I recognize the guy from Better Call Saul
“crash positions”
Kathryn
This is what I think of every time there’s a gate change
Elizabeth
IT’S A TWISTER IT’S A TWISTER
The rolling hubcap
Hannah
WELP that was weird
Nathan
But hilarious!
Elizabeth
Right??
Kathryn
Yehp
Hannah
Dad says they cut a scene? Something about a barnyard?
Nathan
No idea.
Elizabeth
Did they?
Nathan
Don’t remember a scene like that.
Hannah
Might be a different movie
Nathan
Might have been in the sequel.
Elizabeth
And I was wrong, I was thinking the pilot was the father of Scott Foley, looks like im, but no.
Hannah
Aw, HORSE: WINDY
Kathryn
Elizabeth
Last line of the credits “may result in criminal and civil prosecution, so there.”
I think I found the SNL airplane Scottish skit!
Hannah
Yep, that’s it!
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