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   yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 03:51:55 JST yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   omg... there are babies onhere that have never seen AIRPLANE!

   how can their mammas raise them so wrong

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     arclight (arclight@oldbytes.space)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 03:51:54 JST arclight

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     • Grant Gulovsen

     @blogdiva @gulovsen My favorite bit of trivia about AIRPLANE! is that they originally tried to get Pete Rose as the Roger Murdock character. Filming was delayed until summer and Rose was out so they approached Kareem who was arguing with his accountant about if he could afford a really expensive Oriental rug. "If I do this movie, can I buy the rug?" The rest is history.

     This parallels the casting in Zero Hour where Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch was cast in the same role (AIRPLANE! is a scene-for-scene parody of Zero Hour). Hirsch was a college football star and athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, alma mater of Abrams and the Zucker brothers.

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     Grant Gulovsen (gulovsen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 03:51:55 JST Grant Gulovsen

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     @blogdiva Yes, but ... there are definitely some scenes in that movie which have not aged well... 😬

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     yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 03:51:55 JST yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     • Grant Gulovsen

     @gulovsen was thinking about the little Joey scenes, and had to check the wiki to get my dates straight. he looks like the kid of, i think it was a Chex ad? but also the little baby from Close Encounters, also a very recent hit.

     the escalation of the questions was so slick. they had movie references like the turkish prison one (Midnight Express was hugely controversial & a box-office hit)

     then the fact it was the Mission Impossible dude asking them? it's still just too funny

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.