Scene from the film AIRPLANE! (1980) starring Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty, featuring music from The Bee Gees in a parody of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977)
My wife and I were on vacation in Hawaii ....One of our favorite things to do on vacation , wherever we were was to go to at least one movie ... We had absolutely no idea what Airplane was suppose to be about ... but we decided to go see it ...... It literally was one of the highlights of our trip ... and I could not wait until we got home so I could see it again ...... Great memories from our 55 yr marriage ...
I agree John. I have a friend who doesn't find it funny - nor does he find funny the Naked Gun movies, etc. I just don't get people like that either lol
@@diplamatikjuan3595 I've been searching for some sign that I'm not insane for like 30 mins now. When I first saw the movie a few weeks ago, I thought that was actually Nick Frost until I figured out that's impossible. And yet this has lived rent-free in my mind until I started searching today.
Airplane is one of the few comedies I have seen in my lifetime where I can't go through a single scene without laughing hysterically. It never ever stops. From beginning to end it's absolutely hilarious.
muskatDR Ever see The Chapelle Show where Charlie Murphy tells various stories? In one, a man doing the robot in the club steals the scene, just like Striped Shirt Guy!
@@draconix4131 i think it is a better joke if it isboomeranging back...pretty sure that was the intention. you have to pretend you don’t see the arm in shot.
Even if you hate the Bee Gees, this song is just too infectious - it's impossible not start dancing to it. It's perfectly suited to a right-laugh sequence like this.
I saw it a few times when it was released. You’re right, the audience were in hysterics. It took me a few times seeing it to notice that when they showed the ‘outside’ shots of the Boeing jet flying through the clouds…..there was the drone of propellers in the background😆 Something new each time you watch it, even when you think you’ve spotted everything. A classic movie that started a whole trend.
This is one of the best scenes of one of the best comedies of all time. "Airplane!" has been named to so many top ten lists that it boggles the mind. It's one of those comedies that NEVER stops being funny. "Galaxy Quest" is another example. If you watch it four times in four days, you stop laughing at the jokes. But if you watch it four times a year, you laugh every time.
When I first seen this film way back in the 80's, I nearly gave myself a hernia watching this scene. The bit where that poor guy gets knifed in the back and pointing to it with Elaine thinking he's just dancing had me in tears.
I love the guy who gets stabbed in the back and Elaine thinks it's a dance move. Friends and I used to joke about that when we were at the dance clubs.
Still my favorite line in the whole movie, " I asked the guy next to me to pinch me. " The expression he gives Robert Hayes is priceless. Gets me every time. Everyone in Airplane was just the best.
I remember like it was yesterday. The movie was just released and me and a bunch of friends went to local theater to see what everyone was talking about, we ended up going 6 more times within 2 weeks. This is classic comedy overload.
Me and my dad rewatched this together for the first time since we watched it like 10 years ago. This was the hardest I’ve laughed during that time since that first viewing. And this was the scene we lost it. The preposterous amount of smoke and the escalation of the insanity of their dance moves is amazing. She’s laughed so high she was airborne for like 10 seconds 😂😂😂😂😂
ha-ha that dude next to the jukebox made nothing if the fact that a lady just went crashing through it. He heard that disco music and boy that set him off ahah
This scene opening with the 2 girls fighting was the only movie I can remember that made my grandma laugh really hard. Like,truly laugh. I miss slapstick comedies!
stosh21 You're right about that, but didn't you know the Academy of Motion Picture fArts and Sciences are very much above awarding Oscars for comedy performances? They'd rather give Best Actor for some boring depiction of an emotionally-weak man who's worried that he's no longer young or not sufficiently politically-correct.
Supporting awards are often more accepting of comedy performances and Whoopis Oscar was a consolation for "The Color Purple". The Academy is notoriously known for giving consolation awards for overlooked performances in the past which in turn deprives the true winner of that year. Its horrible
It was perfectly set up by the springboard noise just before, so you get this fantastic trifecta of sound effects that knock on to the next and get funnier.... "Boing!".... "Pee-OW!"... "OOOOH!"
LOL the man with the hat and the striped top standing by the jukebox, i love the way he looks really bemused at the jukebox when Staying Alive starts playing and then just starts dancing LMAO.
I like how the old guy seem to come alive at the sound of the music and starts dancing. This movie surpasses all the other parody movies. Nothing can touch the classic
The fact they keep her spinning after throwing him is the funniest thing hahaha, this and the green screen during the driving sequences will always be the best.
You have to have seen 'Saturday Night Fever' to get this. I remember taking my wife to see this film - I had seen SNF, she hadn't. I was rolling around, crying with laughter - she sat stoney faced: 'what's funny about that ?'
Airplane 1 and 2 both CLASSICS! 2 was on tv a few weeks ago I hadnt watched them in a few years. I watched it and never laughed so much! They are still hilarious ! really funny and better than most of the so called comedy movies these days! They have stood the test of time. Total Classics well wrote and acted!
That moment when he's throwing his jacket (with the comic book sound) and someone immediately throws it back into his face - I'm laughing so hard I'm crying 😂😂
I think that some of errors - i.e. seeing the wires and Robert Hayes hiding in the background while the stuntman flips over - was purposely shown to add to the absurdity of this scene!
I don't think the wires were meant to be seen thats just the kind of special effects we had in those days and they just did the best they could to hide them. I think I heard somewhere that no one had caught it in editing that Robert could be seen waiting in the background and when they did it was too late.
Amar7605 Yes at 2:58 you can see Robert hiding before jumping out plus the fake knife in the guys back, you can see some square object it was stuck into. Either way, it makes this funny movie even better!
I watched this film for the first time a few days ago. And I think I made a huge mistake putting it off for as long as I did. I hadn't laughed that consistently in a while.
I first saw this film in 1996 when I was 15 and I'm still finding things today that make me laugh. I've never seen Saturday Night Fever but after seeing the 'you should be dancing' scene with his hands I can't stop laughing....bloody genius!!!!
I love how his coat is thrown back Reminds of when I tried getting rid cheap beer at a neighbors party and the next day it ended up Back on my doorstep
Watched this film in India, Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria within 18 months. Released with different titles. Still, after 37 plus years, I am in awe. Probably the best comedy ever made. Can't be produced today due to PC
I love how Ted is supposed to be an Air Force pilot, but he's wearing a Navy uniform, and later is in an Army hospital.
could have been in the naval airforce
Haha i could never make my mind up, i put it down to my drink problem at the time.
Seen the movie hundreds of times and this never occurred to me.
What a pisser
@@flyjarrett saw it lat nite on hi def digital, the jive talk scene with June Cleaver cracks us up everytinme
The guys reaction to him asking him to pinch him is classic.
But can someone explain me why he reacts like that?
He thinks the guy in the white uniform is trying to put the moves on him
Ok, thanks ;)
You are welcome mister ;)
You know who that actors name name is?? He seems familiar
0:19 shout out to that guy standing by the jukebox! His straight faced transition into dancing always makes me smile!
best part of the movie
Ansemthewise59 the fuck?
I always remember the guy in the striped shirt!!
I used to dance like him as a joke and did it so much I dance like it all the time now
The yellow striped shirt guy will always be remembered, that transition to dance mood always puts a smile in my face ahaahah
Whenever I hear "Stayin' Alive" on the radio, I think of this scene. Classic.
Same
....and me !.
I think of John Travolta
I think of both this scene and the 70's flashback scene from The Naked Gun 33 ⅓.
Surely you can't be serious.
2:58 LOL, Hays standing in the corner waiting for the stunt man to finish his jump...love this movie. They didn't even try to hide the mistake.
+rpwVideoInstruction Good eyes !
😂 great catch!
I have watched this film dozens of times, and never noticed this. Thank you!
Holy shit I never noticed that!
Brilliant! Seen this film about 30 times and I never noticed that.
My wife and I were on vacation in Hawaii ....One of our favorite things to do on vacation , wherever we were was to go to at least one movie ...
We had absolutely no idea what Airplane was suppose to be about ... but we decided to go see it ...... It literally was one of the highlights of our
trip ... and I could not wait until we got home so I could see it again ...... Great memories from our 55 yr marriage ...
Sounds like one of Ted's stories.
Wow, how you've managed to miss this is cool. Still brings a good laugh and smile
Well done sir!
That sound effect when he throws his hat is legendary.
And his jacket!!!!!!
I crack up every time his hat hits the bartender in the head
@@abc-bu7nr like a boomerang 😂
One of the funniest movies ever made...
Bryant Howerton definitely. i don't understand how some people just don't get this movie. it rocks!
I agree John. I have a friend who doesn't find it funny - nor does he find funny the Naked Gun movies, etc. I just don't get people like that either lol
+Bryant Howerton I must disagree with you Bryant, it is THE funniest movie ever made!
haha, fair enough.
You can probably hate me right now, but I love Naked Gun and Hot Shots series more than Airplane
"I had to ask the guy next to me to pinch me to make sure I wasn't dreaming" What a line and what a great reaction from the bloke!
+jamuga60 I hate when that happens.
Oh you mean Nick Frost's dad? :)
@@diplamatikjuan3595 I've been searching for some sign that I'm not insane for like 30 mins now. When I first saw the movie a few weeks ago, I thought that was actually Nick Frost until I figured out that's impossible. And yet this has lived rent-free in my mind until I started searching today.
@@firebyte1 lol
Can anybody lip read ? Does he actually say that, or something else ?
Airplane is one of the few comedies I have seen in my lifetime where I can't go through a single scene without laughing hysterically. It never ever stops. From beginning to end it's absolutely hilarious.
I can't remember any other movie where you can laugh almost at every line
@@ggbb5621shits hilarious pretty funny how Ted how the same Scene too 😂
Surely you can't be serious.
That guy in the striped shirt by the jukebox deserves an oscar
muskatDR Ever see The Chapelle Show where Charlie Murphy tells various stories? In one, a man doing the robot in the club steals the scene, just like Striped Shirt Guy!
@@Xoximilco777 thats charlie fucking murphy
They put him there as he is the best dancer and eye candy
I was thinking the same thing! And Ted when he is doing that Russian dance and catches the 3 balls and starts juggling...
Julie Haggerty is great eye candy.
Every time I hear Stayin' Alive on the radio I crack up, thinking of this scene. Brilliant.
Me too :D
Me three :)
Love it when they throw his jacket back to him!
Belle Singer hahahaha also the cap too 😂😂😂😂
John Travolta: Time to burn up the dance floor!
Robert Hayes: Hold my jacket!
(John throws jacket back at Robert)
Probably my favourite part, I can just picture someone from the crowd saying "jackass!"
Wait, they throw the jacket back at him?I thought it was like a boomerang thing.
@@draconix4131 i think it is a better joke if it isboomeranging back...pretty sure that was the intention. you have to pretend you don’t see the arm in shot.
Even if you hate the Bee Gees, this song is just too infectious - it's impossible not start dancing to it. It's perfectly suited to a right-laugh sequence like this.
Who can hate Bee Gees?
I love The Bee Gees
Only the devil himself hates the bee gees
If you hate the Bee Gees, there is something seriously wrong with you.
I dont think anybody has the right to hate the Bee Gees
I can only imagine how loud the theaters would be in laughter throughout this whole movie 😂
I saw it in theatre yesterday
I saw it 20 times....
I saw it a few times when it was released. You’re right, the audience were in hysterics.
It took me a few times seeing it to notice that when they showed the ‘outside’ shots of the Boeing jet flying through the clouds…..there was the drone of propellers in the background😆 Something new each time you watch it, even when you think you’ve spotted everything.
A classic movie that started a whole trend.
This is one of the best scenes of one of the best comedies of all time. "Airplane!" has been named to so many top ten lists that it boggles the mind. It's one of those comedies that NEVER stops being funny. "Galaxy Quest" is another example. If you watch it four times in four days, you stop laughing at the jokes. But if you watch it four times a year, you laugh every time.
I’ve watched this movie many times and caught new gags and references each time.
When I first seen this film way back in the 80's, I nearly gave myself a hernia watching this scene. The bit where that poor guy gets knifed in the back and pointing to it with Elaine thinking he's just dancing had me in tears.
You can actually see the square pad underneath the jacket he was wearing and the other guy sizing up the pad with the knife before sticking it in.
@@leeharris9958no shit sherlock, its a spoof movie
Haha that groan of agony is so perfect
I love the guy who gets stabbed in the back and Elaine thinks it's a dance move. Friends and I used to joke about that when we were at the dance clubs.
Right on man!
Jeffrey Teeselink I know! That's my favorite part of the movie! Elaine looks sexy and hot in that dress!
Airplane quiz: What is the longest gag in the movie? Hint, it nearly runs the entire length of the film.
Jeffrey Teeselink
Not sure... might be "don't call me Shirley".
I'm like to say what the answer is but I'm going to wait a little longer. Give other people a chance to answer.
Still my favorite line in the whole movie, " I asked the guy next to me to pinch me. " The expression he gives Robert Hayes is priceless. Gets me every time. Everyone in Airplane was just the best.
The guy that was hanging out by the jukebox always cracks me up. He's all serious one moment and then starts dancing all weird out of nowhere.
You mean, the man with the best dance moves in history?
Hell yeah!
I remember like it was yesterday. The movie was just released and me and a bunch of friends went to local theater to see what everyone was talking about, we ended up going 6 more times within 2 weeks. This is classic comedy overload.
At the end of telling this story you notice someone has hung themself beside you
I went to the cinema to see this with my Mother WAY back in 1980. We were almost helplessly convulsed with laughter throughout the film.
Me and my dad rewatched this together for the first time since we watched it like 10 years ago.
This was the hardest I’ve laughed during that time since that first viewing.
And this was the scene we lost it. The preposterous amount of smoke and the escalation of the insanity of their dance moves is amazing. She’s laughed so high she was airborne for like 10 seconds 😂😂😂😂😂
ha-ha that dude next to the jukebox made nothing if the fact that a lady just went crashing through it. He heard that disco music and boy that set him off ahah
Yeah, he's super funny for doing so little.
he was absolutely brilliant !
I love how that old man starts dancing, that has me in tears
love it...
That is the funniest part! The minute that right hand goes in the air, I laugh so hard everytime !
I just now noticed, that they sped up the song significantly in the movie. It sounds like it's running about 10% faster than normal.
One of my favorite scenes from one of my all time favorite movies! I love the bullet sound effect at the 3:04 mark! ALWAYS cracks me up!
What makes this scene is how all the extras look like people who don't belong dancing to that music LOL
John Moonitz the bit that never fails at making me laugh is the noise that one guy makes when he gets stabbed in the back
This is a great scene.But my favorite is Beavers mother talking jive with those two guys.I never get tired of that scene!!!
This scene opening with the 2 girls fighting was the only movie I can remember that made my grandma laugh really hard. Like,truly laugh. I miss slapstick comedies!
That move he starts at 3:07 gets me every time. One day I will replicate it.
Perfect hip action.
Bro hes the best
The sound effect is legendary 🤣
Yup it kills me every time
Good luck. Personally I want to replicate the part at 3:17.
How Robert Hays didn't win an Oscar for his performance I'll never understand
stosh21 You're right about that, but didn't you know the Academy of Motion Picture fArts and Sciences are very much above awarding Oscars for comedy performances? They'd rather give Best Actor for some boring depiction of an emotionally-weak man who's worried that he's no longer young or not sufficiently politically-correct.
@@billolsen4360 But didn't Whoopi Goldberg win an Oscar for a comedy movie?
@@tami8458 Ghost, described as a drama & fantasy in IMDB.com. I never saw it. Probably had some humor in it if Whoopi was the star.
Supporting awards are often more accepting of comedy performances and Whoopis Oscar was a consolation for "The Color Purple". The Academy is notoriously known for giving consolation awards for overlooked performances in the past which in turn deprives the true winner of that year. Its horrible
@@annalouise3251 it's not just the Oscars, the Grammys too
Elaine's dance partner getting randomly backstabbed followed by his flailing getting mistaken for dance moves is one of my favourite bits.
When his jacket comes flying back and hits him kills me every time.
Yeah, loved that scene!
Love the gunshot sound when he points to the sky ha ha
+jay zacharias
and the people going: "ooohhh Oooh!"
@@mikaschultz2301 Right? The crowd gasping when he does that just puts it over the top.
It was perfectly set up by the springboard noise just before, so you get this fantastic trifecta of sound effects that knock on to the next and get funnier....
"Boing!".... "Pee-OW!"... "OOOOH!"
By far one of the greatest comedy movies ever made.
I think they could've taken just this one scene and expanded it into an entire movie. LOL
+Daniel P Hanover I love how they cast extras that you would never find dancing to this music or that can even dance at all
I'd pay to see that!
This scene is comedic gold! The fact that the song is sped up from the original version makes it even funnier.
It’s hilarious in hindsight considering most songs uploaded on CZcams are now sped up to avoid copyright infringement.
Who else thinks Robert and Julie should re-enact this scene again for
Dancing with the Stars
SO, YEAH!!!
They're 40 years older... would he still be able to throw her in the air like that or could she spin him by his ankles anymore? 😸
Yes, absolutely!
That would be funny as hell
Wearing the same outfits
LOL the man with the hat and the striped top standing by the jukebox, i love the way he looks really bemused at the jukebox when Staying Alive starts playing and then just starts dancing LMAO.
I always thought that was really funny
osaro runner You spoke Sumon's heart.
archismanm Sumon, as in my friend. Don't google.
perfect timing,
+osaro runner 0:32 knocks the food over just 'cause it's there
I'll never get tired of this scene ! ^^
I like how the old guy seem to come alive at the sound of the music and starts dancing. This movie surpasses all the other parody movies. Nothing can touch the classic
The fact they keep her spinning after throwing him is the funniest thing hahaha, this and the green screen during the driving sequences will always be the best.
Julie Haggerty is such a doll in this scene
that pose kills me every time lol gotta love the 80's
At 3:07 He was dancing better than John Travolta in Saturdays night fever.
1970's Enthusiast no one absolutely no one can beat Travolta
The yellow striped shirt guy next to the juke box beat travolta with just 5sec of dancing :'D
@@marcusdelagarza3442 You're joking?
Definitely some surprisingly good dancing.
@@marcusdelagarza3442 Adele Dazeem can 🕺
The Gun shot always gets me
This has got to be one of my favourite scenes of all time.
This film's use of staying alive is better than Saturday night fevers use.
There is no legitimate reason this should make me laugh so hard, and yet it always still does. God bless Zucker, Zucker, and Abrahams.
I see now where Elaine got her "dance moves" in Seinfeld...the chick dancing with the first sailor LMAO
The Cossack dancing is hilarious.... The woman in red had a fantastic figure x👌
I can't get enough of this movie and it just makes me laugh everytime I watch it. From start to end, it makes me laugh and love even more.
"I had to ask the guy next to me to pinch me, just to make sure I wasn't dreaming."
I love how he's in the Air Force but wears a Navy uniform
@Chad K in the movie he says he is in air force...
He’s also was admitted to the Army hospital after the raid that killed 7 including George Zipp
He was in denial about his past...
What war was Ted fighting in? Fyi, U.S. Troops pulled out of 'Nam in 1975. SNF wasn't released until 1977.
@@middlefinger1565 the battle of macho grande... DUH! 🙄
Watching this with my daddy best childhood ever 💗
I agree...since this movie came out, everytime I hear this song, I think of the movie!
One of the most funniest films ive seen 😅😅
Never gets old!
Nope, it's a classic
Comedy in the 80's - well thought out and hilarious
Comedy in the 20's - Tiktok
[Man how we have fallen]
You have to have seen 'Saturday Night Fever' to get this.
I remember taking my wife to see this film - I had seen SNF, she hadn't. I was rolling around, crying with laughter - she sat stoney faced: 'what's funny about that ?'
Man with a knife in his back deserves an oscar 👏🏻
THat shit still cracks me up!
Surely the funniest three minutes and 56 seconds in all of cinema.
The cossack dance part is terrific as well - looks hard af to do
Airplane 1 and 2 both CLASSICS! 2 was on tv a few weeks ago I hadnt watched them in a few years. I watched it and never laughed so much! They are still hilarious ! really funny and better than most of the so called comedy movies these days! They have stood the test of time. Total Classics well wrote and acted!
The epic reverse dolly zoom at 3:03 immediately ruined by that stupid dance is perhaps the greatest moment in cinema history
Imagine a dead man falling from the pullman
I am so glad I got this movie when I did, a pure classic ahead of it's time 🙂
2:59
You can see Robert in the background before he even pops up on the dance floor. Little details like that make me love this movie even more.
I was a kid in the cinema and the gunshot at 3:04 got one of the loudest laughs in the audience
That moment when he's throwing his jacket (with the comic book sound) and someone immediately throws it back into his face - I'm laughing so hard I'm crying 😂😂
I think that some of errors - i.e. seeing the wires and Robert Hayes hiding in the background while the stuntman flips over - was purposely shown to add to the absurdity of this scene!
I don't think the wires were meant to be seen thats just the kind of special effects we had in those days and they just did the best they could to hide them. I think I heard somewhere that no one had caught it in editing that Robert could be seen waiting in the background and when they did it was too late.
Amar7605 Haha! I JUST realized that! :)
Amar7605 Yes at 2:58 you can see Robert hiding before jumping out plus the fake knife in the guys back, you can see some square object it was stuck into. Either way, it makes this funny movie even better!
I can't see any wires.
I think in the editing room they saw it and just thought it would make things even more ridiculous
I, also, imagine "old" people, with walkers and sh**, dancing to this tune. Why the tune just fills me with a "silly", good, feeling when I hear it. 😁
How can something like this be disliked?
Little kids paying with someone's phone.
73 stabbed in the back (padding).
I'll hunt them :-)
They have drinking problem... :)
Because comedy is diferent this days, they dont make movies like this anymore :(
I remember audible laughing out loud hysterically at this scene
I watched this film for the first time a few days ago.
And I think I made a huge mistake putting it off for as long as I did. I hadn't laughed that consistently in a while.
The first time I saw this scene I was hysterical with laughter.
Gotta love how they sped up the song and made the high voice even higher! lol
Wait! "Sped up"? You mean, that WASN'T their real voices?! ; )
Rickey Boyer yes - if you listen to the real version it’s just a bit slower than this.
@@n.y.gemini4432 It was a joke! Bcz the Bee Gess' voices are already so high, that no one should be able to tell... hence the joke!
Rickey Boyer oh my bad
That’s the beauty of how music gets sped up and higher
One of the silliest movies ever made… and I love it…
This dance scene was just too hilarious 😂😂😂.
1:15 I still love how carefully the gut inserts the knife into the pad and then the other guy's 1 second delayed reaction
I first saw this film in 1996 when I was 15 and I'm still finding things today that make me laugh. I've never seen Saturday Night Fever but after seeing the 'you should be dancing' scene with his hands I can't stop laughing....bloody genius!!!!
In school we would either watch this or star wars thx for the memories
The "Texas switch" at 2:58 is priceless old school filmmaking (Robert Hayes is clearly waiting in the background)
oh crap I just noticed that! good one!
@Sunset Freerunning Nah, it's clearly him. The directors even admitted that in the DVD commentary.
Hahah I love the Stabbed in the Back dance!!!
One of the most classic scenes in the history of film.
"Surely, you're not serious?"
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
Gets me everytime
Still an all- time favorite of mine..gut laughs every time. I miss those days when the goal of Hollywood was to entertain, rather than indoctrinate.
Almost 50 years later, still funny as hell:)
It always cracks me up when they throw his jacket back to him XD
I love how his coat is thrown back
Reminds of when I tried getting rid cheap beer at a neighbors party and the next day it ended up Back on my doorstep
Ted Striker was my hero!
Best movie dance scene ever 💃🕺
This 'Saturday Night Fever; spoof is my favorite scene in the movie. It makes me laugh like a gibbon on crack!
Greatest scene ever
I wish todays movies were as good as these and the early 2000s...
Epic scene, deserved 10 Oscars.
Airplane is one of the greatest comedies in American cinema. :] Thank you for giving us comedy-loving folks Leslie Nielsen as well! :]
When that jacket gets tossed back.gets me every time lol
2:59 you can see Ted waiting in the background after the stunt man does the flip
You are right. This is deliberate - part of the spoof.
thats the point..
you think this movie actually want to be real?
the movie is real, its a classic spoof movie
Действительно.Но все равно фильм классный
I can watch this 10 times in a row.
I can 11 times
Man.. I remember when I first watched this scene.... swear I never laughed so hard before
When i saw this movie in 1980 i laughed so hard the whole freakin movie
same here
Watched this film in India, Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria within 18 months. Released with different titles.
Still, after 37 plus years, I am in awe. Probably the best comedy ever made.
Can't be produced today due to PC