Do you like movies about Gladiators?

[matcom]

:rofl:

[Downtown Hound]

1. Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

This thread is so getting locked.

Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

[cwydro]

2. have you ever spent time

in a monastery?

[terrya]

3. I shouldn't laugh...

but still, that was one of the funniest moments from "Airplane!" :-)

[meegbear]

4. Ever hang around a gymnasium?

[El Fuego]

5. Do you like movies about U.S. congressmen?

Have you ever seen a republican congressman naked? Want me to show you the house whip?

[cwydro]

11. omg

:rofl: :rofl:

[edbermac]

6. Surely you can't be serious?

[Ravenseye]

7. Wrong Forum

Discussions about Foley belong in GD or GD Politics, not the lounge.

[kay1864]

8. Peter Graves (and Leslie Nielsen) were excellent in that movie

Neither had done comedy before.

From imdb:

Graves said he was astounded when his agent sent him the script for the 1980 spoof, and after reading it, he felt that it was "the worst piece of junk" he ever saw. However, he changed his mind after meeting with the movie's writers, Jerry and David Zucker.

Lieutenant Hurwitz was the final screen role for Ethel Merman.

The entire production took just over a month. Robert Hays was doing the television show "Angie" at the same time.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took the part because he wanted to buy a $30,000 rug.

The argument between the two P.A. voice-overs about an abortion comes from "a cheap, dime-store novel" according to the trivia track of the DVD version. That "novel" is actually Arthur Hailey's "Airport".


and most amazing of all...

The film is mostly a parody of Zero Hour! (1957), a film that had a main character named Ted Stryker and such famous "not meant to be funny" lines like "We have to find someone who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner."

[datasuspect]

9. The Jive Dudes, a mystery illness, and Barbara Billingsley...

http://larry.teamoverkill.com/jive/illness.wav

[Rude Horner]

10. I just dug out this DVD the other night and watched it

It still makes me laugh right from the opening scenes:

Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Male announcer: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading. Now, there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading.
Female announcer: Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for unloading.
Male announcer: Look Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again. There's just no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Male announcer: It's really the only sensible thing to do, if its done safely. Therapeutically there's no danger involved.

:rofl:

I can't think of too many other movies that have as many great lines worth repeating, as Airplane. A true classic.

[leftofthedial]

12. Ever seen a grown man naked?

Maybe Peter Graves could play Mark Foley in the movie . . .

I hear the script is a real page turner

[Zomby Woof]

13. Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.

Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Victor Basta: Request vector, over.
Captain Oveur: What?
Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324.
Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over!
Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
Tower voice: Over.
Captain Oveur: Roger.
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: Roger, over!
Roger Murdock: What?
Captain Oveur: Huh?
Victor Basta: Who?