3:07 In an attempt to slow down the runaway bus the capitan issues the command "raise the flags of all nations!" I still use that line whenever I'm trying to slow down quick hahaha ...
Watched this film, over 30 years ago. Would watch it again if I could get it on DVD. Happy & loving memories. No one can take them away , but sadly, can never get bring them back.
I saw this movie on late night TV in the fall of 1976. I remember the one driver kept having panic attacks & passing out at the wheel. What a wacky show. On board swimming pool, bowling alley, ya right!!
I totally forgot about that movie, until I stumbled over a picture of the bus today and it came all back to me, so I sought it out on CZcams. Nice nostalgia trip. Thanks for sharing.
One of my favorite scenes is when the pickup drove off the hill into the upper deck lounge. LOL, and the loungers introduced their family members to the occupants still in the lodged truck sticking out of the side of the bus. Not weird at all. LOL!!
The bus was never suppose to stop. It even had an automatic tire change system, the old blown tire was ejected from the vehicle and a one popped on while driving. In curves the bus could not stay in its lane so had to drive down the middle of the road.
My dad was a bus driver and I loved watching this on TV when I was a kid back in the 80s, I took it really seriously, I was dismayed when I saw it again as a teenager in the 90s and realised it was a just a dumb comedy.
Omg. I always thought I was imagining things. When I would make a reference to the big bus. Pepole would look at me strange. I knew I didn't imagine this shit. Now take this straight jacket off me
I saw this when it first came out, a parody of all the disaster movies but at the same time the precursor to all those other parodies/slapstick movies, eg, airplane, naked gun etc. Had a thing for Stockard Channing, this was before Grease when her career was still sorta getting off the ground but the film has no mention in Wiki. I still find the silliness funny.
My pals and I and all the kids at school would have loved to have seen this when it came out. We went to the movies for anything, and the local cinema showed everything B grade and cheap and we were there every Friday. but I swear in the Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi area there was no press, no advertisement, no word of mouth. I only heard of it much much later when it was on cable. Did it go straight to TV ? even then why didn't we hear about it?
das ding ist ja schon einige jahre alt.... wenn ich mir so vorstelle, so ein geschoss zu bauen, ist das eine gewaltige leistun... weil: computeranimiert war das derzeit noch nicht ....
I have trouble imagining the logic of having a nuclear-powered bus speeding through the twisty, curving roads of the Colorado Mountains. Isn't this the same road that Jack Torrance was driving on during the opening credits of "The Shining?"
I could remember this long time ago I believe if I remember correctly the two actors who played both bus drivers was Vic tayback and John Beck if my memory serves me correct John Beck played the one bus driver whose nickname was shoulders because once in awhile he would pass out and drive on the shoulder of the road and Vic tayback had a past was rumored that he ate the bus passengers back then before both of those guys drove the big bus.
Joeseph Bologna was the actor who played Dan Torrance the bus driver and John Beck played the co driver Vic Tayback played the bus driver Goldie at the bar who accused Dan Torrance of eating the his passangers .
Thar was the Coen Brothers, and starred Nicholas Cage, so I think it has enough star power to stay in the public consciousness. The Big Bus seems more forgotten now,although this video made me curious again.
The Italian Job Reference at the end. Would have been awesome if the A Team showed up in their van and Murdoch was flying a U.S. Army Heavy Duty Sky Crane Helicopter and Hannibal Smith got out and said that they were sent to help with the rescue operation. 😁
It would never be built today. It looks like it's more than 15 feet high, too high for standard overpasses, weighs 75 tons which is 25 tons too heavy, and 32 wheels on 8 axles which is too big !!! The powers that be would have a fit, not even counting the fact that it's nuclear powered too !!! All that adds up to a real roadway monster !!! It wouldn't be considered a bus, but a road train, which to my knowledge, are illegal in the U.S. !!!!!
I saw this movie when it was aired on TV around 1980 or so. I remember a scene just before the bus departs the terminal where the owner of the bus, who was injured in the explosion at the beginning of the film, is lying on a stretcher. He makes a comment asking why the coyote painted on the side of the bus is facing the wrong way. I distinctly remember this scene but it is not on the DVD release. Does anyone else remember this or did I just imagine it. I remember being really fascinated by this bus when I was a kid. Too bad it wasn't preserved in some museum or studio back lot.
They guy on the stretcher couldn't be moved because he had a St Christopher's medal embedded in his chest. I saw it when I was 18 at the drive in theatre as an extra to the main feature
lincbond442 - sounds like the mandela effect - when the movies we remember from years ago have been tweaked and passed off that they have always been that way. Not just movies though.
@@memyselfandaeiii That's no Mandela effect. The "real" Mandela effect is more of a sci-fi conspiracy about alternate dimensions. Some movies have alternate takes and cuts that are used for television, or even subsequent releases (before VHS would be shown years after their original release date at discount theaters). Mel Brooks' classic parody western Blazing Saddles is the one I've noticed most. It has several alternate takes to omit cursing and sexuality for TV AND some extra scenes that were in certain TV versions, but not the theatrical or VHS release. Quoting from IMDB: "The TV release has five extra scenes that weren't in the theatrical release: When Sheriff Bart is trying to capture Mongo, after he delivers the "CandyGram for Mongo", it then shows a "draw on the dummy sheriff" game that fires a cannon at Mongo, and then a scene Bart convinces Mongo to go diving down a well for Spanish Doubloons and Bart stops pumping air to the diving suit because it's time for his lunch break. Bart and Jim run away from Hedley Lamarr and his gang whilst wearing the KKK outfits. They run into some Born-again Christians having a baptism/picnic and join in. Lily Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn) gives a brief spoken introduction to the saloon crowd before beginning her song. Governor Le Petomaine (Mel Brooks) arrives in the fake Rock Ridge a few moments before the final showdown, in a stagecoach with a flashing red light on the back, makes a joke about losing the "blue collar vote" and does a skit in the town where he impersonates Harpo Marx. When the dynamite fails to explode, Lily Von Schtuup says with some German rambling that it didn't work. When nobody knows what she said the guy that speaks frontier gibberish tries to translate. Those around him hit him with their hats."
When I was child I fell in love with that bus, but now that I am an adult who drives for a living. Driving something that big that isn't working right, don't look that fun. And the passengers, I would have pulled that bus over and left them on the side of the road.
Buses like this--minus the "atomic power" and dual steering, are very common. More common now than ever before. But they did make a few as early as 1946!! Also, I have seen on Google where they had several buses that were made up of 4 units. Mostly these were city transit, but they have 'em.
haha there is no way in hell this would go under the bridges in our country.The clearance under these bridges wouldnt be high enough.And this bus actualy has 3 levels.I wouldnt be on the top floor when there going under a bridge i would be killed.
A nuclear powered bus, Instead rolling coal it rolls Chernobyl.
nuclear powered bus Instead combusion Engines
lol
3:07 In an attempt to slow down the runaway bus the capitan issues the command "raise the flags of all nations!" I still use that line whenever I'm trying to slow down quick hahaha ...
Watched this film, over 30 years ago. Would watch it again if I could get it on DVD. Happy & loving memories. No one can take them away , but sadly, can never get bring them back.
hi
I have it on avi format
if you want a copy on a dvd sent info
I saw this movie on late night TV in the fall of 1976. I remember the one driver kept having panic attacks & passing out at the wheel. What a wacky show. On board swimming pool, bowling alley, ya right!!
His nickname was Shoulders, because he couldn't keep the bus on the road.
I remember watching this as a kid in the 70's. A rolling Three Mile Island as my mother called it! 🤣
Ah yes. The joys of jet engines in street trafic.
Not jet - nuclear reactor!
You just gotta love the 2 dozen or so light bulbs in the back of the engine!
Zero tailgating
nuclear powered bus! that is some fallout 4 level madness right there
I guess you didn't hear about the Ford nucleon.
@@farkasabel or the hybrid nuke ship
This movie was brilliant . Thanks for the memory.
Why did CZcams recommend this to me?
And me
Big bus
Gewel ✔ yes
Who cares, this is cool!
uheuheuheuhuehueh
I thought that was from a bad dream I had whwen I was a kid, Christ.
Same here, holy shit it was really really a movie
The only part I remember as a kid was it splitting at the end.
Whenever I see one of those articulated city buses I picture a lounge and a bowling alley and think of this movie.
I totally forgot about that movie, until I stumbled over a picture of the bus today and it came all back to me, so I sought it out on CZcams.
Nice nostalgia trip. Thanks for sharing.
I never forgot about this film. It's the Airplane! on wheels. LoL!
Me and my mother both laughed at this movie when it came out. It was some great, great memories.
The Bongo player at the beginning was the legendary Richard Feynman.
Love this movie!
It looks like they made an actual movie used bus. The bowling alley was the killer one for me!
One of my favorite scenes is when the pickup drove off the hill into the upper deck lounge. LOL, and the loungers introduced their family members to the occupants still in the lodged truck sticking out of the side of the bus. Not weird at all. LOL!!
The bus was never suppose to stop. It even had an automatic tire change system, the old blown tire was ejected from the vehicle and a one popped on while driving. In curves the bus could not stay in its lane so had to drive down the middle of the road.
MidnightVisions the
Snowpiercer, but in a bus
Wow, i have seen this film in the 80s! I was a little child! Nice!!
The public transportation we need
Who else was picturing ponch and John from chips chasing down this thing on the Los Angeles freeway listening to that 70’s music?
And here I was thinking Super Train was kitch...
muito bom. assisti quando criança....clássico demais esse filme.
My dad was a bus driver and I loved watching this on TV when I was a kid back in the 80s, I took it really seriously, I was dismayed when I saw it again as a teenager in the 90s and realised it was a just a dumb comedy.
FYI...street scenes are from Santa Clarita, CA. Soledad Canyon Rd in front of the Saugus Speedway and Sierra Highway.
Many great movies have been filmed on those same roads. "Duel" is the one that always comes to mind.
The first scene was the Port Authority in New York City.
@@lincbond442 Duel is so simple but epic. Definitely a great film.
It usually would drive on Interstate freeways.
Looked like feathers flying out of the top of the bus at one point.
Without that bus, BRT service in every city wouldn't have existed.
Nice movie. Love to know what happened to the prop vehical. Affter all it was a nice toy for some supper rich kid's Christmas tree.
It got scrapped right after the premier of the film. :{
Holy crap, I didn`t imagine this from when I was a kid. It exists :D
damn that powerful Bus EVER
yes Nuclear reactor powering Entire BUS!
Even the 1970s music is funny.
Matt: Hey, look at these tires, Andrea!
Andrea: They're the Dynapros
Matt: And, their mounted on shiny, Alcoa rims.
first time i saw it this here in youtube
Nossa eu me lembro desse filme muito legal .. montes claros MG Brasil
4:09 - Whew! That was _way_ too close for my cowardly comfort!
This was a very funny movie
like ''Airplane!''
I almost missed it
Omg. I always thought I was imagining things. When I would make a reference to the big bus. Pepole would look at me strange. I knew I didn't imagine this shit. Now take this straight jacket off me
Nurse? Nurse!?! I've decided I'm not crazy any more and I would like to go home now.
Take a look on a veritable Big bus on wikipédia : the Jumbo cruiser Neoplan this film is a sarcastic and funny description
Me too especially the bowling 🎳 alley scene 🤠
Thanks for the memories !
I saw this when it first came out, a parody of all the disaster movies but at the same time the precursor to all those other parodies/slapstick movies, eg, airplane, naked gun etc. Had a thing for Stockard Channing, this was before Grease when her career was still sorta getting off the ground but the film has no mention in Wiki. I still find the silliness funny.
I wouldnt like to be to the rear of that bus in traffic as it accelerates off at the lights anyone within 50 feet of its rear would be instantly toast
Yes The Rocket Engine
The A380 of buses lol
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
I Born 1980. I watch this Movie .1986.
Next time: use infinity stones to power a bus
What do you think those are Affinity stones Power by
I can't find that movie anywhere I remember it so well
Assisti uma vez na sessão de sábado da Globo nos anos 80. Depois nunca mais vi. 🤔😀
One thing I like is the booster I didn’t know there was a booster
Well, this bus is very fast
Thanks for posting! This movie predates the first *Airplane!* but is just as wacky!
few people know that
Yeah, I remember seeing this once a long time ago.... before Airplane.
Surely you can't be serious......
@@leogetz3570 LOL
@ROCK UNCLE Production LOL
Looks like something the jetson would have use.
... "why don't you take a FLIXBUS".... 😂😂😂
Looking at a similar posting on this site, this but looks like it has the seating capacity of a Neoplan Jumbocruiser--bus #4.
My pals and I and all the kids at school would have loved to have seen this when it came out. We went to the movies for anything, and the local cinema showed everything B grade and cheap and we were there every Friday. but I swear in the Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi area there was no press, no advertisement, no word of mouth. I only heard of it much much later when it was on cable. Did it go straight to TV ? even then why didn't we hear about it?
Bet if you look up the design staff for TBB you'll find some crossover with Super Train.
A lot of design similarities
Era una película de los 70' acá en Argentina le pusieron Cíclope, el autobus atómico!!
Yo vi esa película y hoy no la puedo encontrar por ningún lado
This would make an awesome RV!!
This bus can't swim.
Hilarious thanks for sharing :-)
if i remember this movie~~~~ the bus is atomic powered!!!!
That was a crazy movie. But now we got buses almost similar to that design. You go figure.😂
I wish to get on the big bus, and take a tour of the United States.
Imagine this monster in the 405/101 fwys at Rush hour . :(
das ding ist ja schon einige jahre alt.... wenn ich mir so vorstelle, so ein geschoss zu bauen, ist das eine gewaltige leistun... weil: computeranimiert war das derzeit noch nicht ....
You know what's really funny, some of it was done before this movie was made..... THEY EVEN THOUGHT TO USE NUKES TOO! 😶
I have trouble imagining the logic of having a nuclear-powered bus speeding through the twisty, curving roads of the Colorado Mountains. Isn't this the same road that Jack Torrance was driving on during the opening credits of "The Shining?"
Thanks to everybody for watchs my videos 😊
I could remember this long time ago I believe if I remember correctly the two actors who played both bus drivers was Vic tayback and John Beck if my memory serves me correct John Beck played the one bus driver whose nickname was shoulders because once in awhile he would pass out and drive on the shoulder of the road and Vic tayback had a past was rumored that he ate the bus passengers back then before both of those guys drove the big bus.
Joeseph Bologna was the actor who played Dan Torrance the bus driver and John Beck played the co driver Vic Tayback played the bus driver Goldie at the bar who accused Dan Torrance of eating the his passangers .
Lol, I remember this movie!
Those flags would be streamers by the time it went 1 mile
Does anyone remember a movie comedy called "Raising Arizona" ? You'll laugh so hard you will get a headache.
Thar was the Coen Brothers, and starred Nicholas Cage, so I think it has enough star power to stay in the public consciousness. The Big Bus seems more forgotten now,although this video made me curious again.
@@Yngvarfo "Thank You" for your response.
Realmente es un cachivache, y no quiero imaginar toda la logística para este armatoste, igualmente gracias por el video y conocer estás rarezas.
i wanna see it do a drift
have Model In ROBLOX!
Man ! That bus was shifting ! Ha ha ha😁
The Italian Job Reference at the end. Would have been awesome if the A Team showed up in their van and Murdoch was flying a U.S. Army Heavy Duty Sky Crane Helicopter and Hannibal Smith got out and said that they were sent to help with the rescue operation. 😁
Tbis was made in the seventies - George Peppard was still Banacek at the time.
It would never be built today. It looks like it's more than 15 feet high, too high for standard overpasses, weighs 75 tons which is 25 tons too heavy, and 32 wheels on 8 axles which is too big !!! The powers that be would have a fit, not even counting the fact that it's nuclear powered too !!! All that adds up to a real roadway monster !!! It wouldn't be considered a bus, but a road train, which to my knowledge, are illegal in the U.S. !!!!!
It would be kool though, road trains
Emazing big bus.👍👍👍👍
This is some Thunderbirds crap right here
Talk about the Ultimate party bus
I saw this movie when it was aired on TV around 1980 or so. I remember a scene just before the bus departs the terminal where the owner of the bus, who was injured in the explosion at the beginning of the film, is lying on a stretcher. He makes a comment asking why the coyote painted on the side of the bus is facing the wrong way. I distinctly remember this scene but it is not on the DVD release. Does anyone else remember this or did I just imagine it.
I remember being really fascinated by this bus when I was a kid. Too bad it wasn't preserved in some museum or studio back lot.
They guy on the stretcher couldn't be moved because he had a St Christopher's medal embedded in his chest. I saw it when I was 18 at the drive in theatre as an extra to the main feature
lincbond442 - sounds like the mandela effect - when the movies we remember from years ago have been tweaked and passed off that they have always been that way. Not just movies though.
@@memyselfandaeiii That's no Mandela effect. The "real" Mandela effect is more of a sci-fi conspiracy about alternate dimensions. Some movies have alternate takes and cuts that are used for television, or even subsequent releases (before VHS would be shown years after their original release date at discount theaters).
Mel Brooks' classic parody western Blazing Saddles is the one I've noticed most. It has several alternate takes to omit cursing and sexuality for TV AND some extra scenes that were in certain TV versions, but not the theatrical or VHS release. Quoting from IMDB:
"The TV release has five extra scenes that weren't in the theatrical release:
When Sheriff Bart is trying to capture Mongo, after he delivers the "CandyGram for Mongo", it then shows a "draw on the dummy sheriff" game that fires a cannon at Mongo, and then a scene Bart convinces Mongo to go diving down a well for Spanish Doubloons and Bart stops pumping air to the diving suit because it's time for his lunch break.
Bart and Jim run away from Hedley Lamarr and his gang whilst wearing the KKK outfits. They run into some Born-again Christians having a baptism/picnic and join in.
Lily Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn) gives a brief spoken introduction to the saloon crowd before beginning her song.
Governor Le Petomaine (Mel Brooks) arrives in the fake Rock Ridge a few moments before the final showdown, in a stagecoach with a flashing red light on the back, makes a joke about losing the "blue collar vote" and does a skit in the town where he impersonates Harpo Marx.
When the dynamite fails to explode, Lily Von Schtuup says with some German rambling that it didn't work. When nobody knows what she said the guy that speaks frontier gibberish tries to translate. Those around him hit him with their hats."
Good film. Worth a laugh or two but did take itself a bit too seriously at times. Mind you so did Airplane lol
I rode the big bus to school as a kid! Or maybe it was the short bus. I'm easily confused.
That was some noisy bus.
This was actually somewhat of a parody movie following all of the big budget disaster movies that came before it. It was a big flop.
nonstop from NYC to Denver but looks like California. hah
When I was child I fell in love with that bus, but now that I am an adult who drives for a living. Driving something that big that isn't working right, don't look that fun. And the passengers, I would have pulled that bus over and left them on the side of the road.
LOL...yep, sure does. I also love how these "non stop" movies never seem to show them on the interstate, always back roads and scenic routes
haha this is insane
that was a neoplan bus
I wonder if that old girl I still around somewhere, waiting to be restored
That would be so awesome to see some You Tuber mechanic refurbishing it!
bus was scrapped right after filming
@@TEDavis bus was scrapped right after filming
@@microbusss well poop
but there might be plans out there on how to build the big bus
I belive this was a paordy of the goverment allowing buses to go from 8' to 8.5'
merci pour votre avis 👍
Who else got this recommended 10 year or more later
Dat musicc
Buses like this--minus the "atomic power" and dual steering, are very common. More common now than ever before. But they did make a few as early as 1946!! Also, I have seen on Google where they had several buses that were made up of 4 units. Mostly these were city transit, but they have 'em.
This movie is so bad, it’s great. Very campy and goofy - lots of laughs !!
Who parked that truck on top of driver side .... Is it a Elevated parking zone... Lol
Esse é da minha época, só não lembro o ano. Tô envelhecendo mesmo.
1976
Woa cool
Looks like the vehicle i drew when i was 6
haha there is no way in hell this would go under the bridges in our country.The clearance under these bridges wouldnt be high enough.And this bus actualy has 3 levels.I wouldnt be on the top floor when there going under a bridge i would be killed.
everyone sawed on back
Look like A Rocket Engine????