… for the umpteenth time.<\/p>\n
“And stop calling me Shirley.”<\/p>\n
“I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.”<\/p>\n
“Stewardess? I speak jive.”<\/p>\n
Jen and I commented on the fact that we couldn’t even LAUGH during the “jive-translation” scene, because it is too funny. We could only laugh once it was over.<\/p>\n
Things I had forgotten:<\/p>\n
— Leslie Nielsen giving a random Pap smear in the middle of the airplane<\/p>\n
— How funny Lloyd Bridges’ disintegration of personality is<\/p>\n
— the RIDICULOUS disco dancing scene in the bar “during the war” – Er – what war would that be? Jen and I were laughing so hard we were crying. I said at one point, “Look at the extras. It’s a mixture of pirates and disco dancers.”<\/p>\n
— the automatic pilot never fails to reduce me into a puddle of laughter<\/p>\n
— Leslie Nielsen is brilliant. How in the world did he not laugh. How????<\/p>\n
— the stewardess who knocks out the IV with her guitar. What struck me as so freakin’ funny during THIS viewing was how HARD she sings that song. She is BELTING out those notes. Jen and I were howling.<\/p>\n
— the arguing announcers at the airport. Heh heh heh<\/p>\n
— the man in the turban who douses himself with gasoline rather than listen to his seatmate’s long long LONG stories about the “war”. What struck me was this: There he is, pouring gasoline over his body – Then: he lights a match. At that moment, the stewardess comes over, and a long conversation ensues, where she tries to convince him he has to take over as pilot. During that entire conversation, the turbaned-man sits, watching, holding up this lit match … as it burns down to the end. He never turns to look at the match, or blow it out – He is frozen. Hilarious.<\/p>\n
So much more.<\/p>\n
This movie is sheer liquid joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
… for the umpteenth time. “And stop calling me Shirley.” “I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.” “Stewardess? I speak jive.” Jen and I commented on the fact that we couldn’t even LAUGH during the “jive-translation” scene, because … Continue reading