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After Hours, shirley you're watching Airplane! on RTÉ2?

  • 01-01-2015 02:10AM
    #1
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭


    In keeping with the 'will-you-be-watching-Taffin/Back-to-the-Future' Xmas/NY movie thing I'd like to know if AH are watching this great comedy.


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  • #2
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    In keeping with the will you be watching Taffin/Back to the Future Xmas/NY thing I'd like to know if AH are watching this great comedy.



    Yes i am, and dont call me Shirley!



































    Really watching Jools Holland, but everyone loves an Airplane Gag.


  • #3
    MagicIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,902 ✭✭✭MagicIRL


    I picked the wrong year to stop sniffin' glue.


  • #4
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Yes i am, and dont call me Sherley!
    MagicIRL wrote: »
    I picked the wrong year to stop sniffin' glue.


    Here we go! :pac:


  • #5
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    I'm partying in my living room to Jools Holland.

    Airplane just reminds people of 2014...


  • #6
    AboutaWeekAgo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭AboutaWeekAgo


    Do you like movies about gladiators?


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  • #7
    yipeeeee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,605 ✭✭✭yipeeeee


    Is this actually meant to be funny or just one of those films you have to find funny for the sake of it?


  • #8
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    I'm watching Trading Places - one of the best Xmas/NYE films ever made!


  • #9
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Ever seen a grown man naked?


  • #10
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    I could have sworn that RTE/RTE2 showed Airplane last New Year's Night too. But it's a classic comedy so what there to complain about :)


  • #11
    doughef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭doughef


    Its pure class!

    I can see its influence all over the Simpsons and Family Guy!


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  • #12
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    watching it myself


  • #13
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    Watching LA Confidential instead. Cheery fare for the night that is in it.


  • #14
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Boom Don't call me Shirley :)


  • #15
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?


  • #16
    Straylight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭Straylight


    yipeeeee wrote: »
    Is this actually meant to be funny or just one of those films you have to find funny for the sake of it?

    Neither, it's simply a very funny film.

    I can make a hat, a brooch, a pterodactyl...


  • #17
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    'Chump don'want da help chump don' get da help'


  • #18
    Topper Harley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Topper Harley


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    In keeping with the 'will-you-be-watching-Taffin/Back-to-the-Future' Xmas/NY movie thing I'd like to know if AH are watching this great comedy.

    It's a damn good thing you don't know how much I hate your guts.


  • #19
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    'Chump don'want da help chump don' get da help'

    Jive ass dude ain't got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiiit!


  • #20
    Topper Harley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Topper Harley


    Nim wrote: »
    Jove ass dude ain't got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiiit!

    I love how "Shiiiiiit" is translated as "Golly!"


  • #21
    Venus In Furs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Venus In Furs


    yipeeeee wrote: »
    Is this actually meant to be funny or just one of those films you have to find funny for the sake of it?
    I find it genuinely hilarious. Silly humour so maybe not everyone's cup of (black) coffee, but also some very clever stuff. Even the dated bits are funny when you put them in the context of their time.


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  • #22
    McDermotX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,113 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    What an absolute classic !

    KRAMER
    Stand by, Striker.
    (to McCroskey)
    The one hope we have is to build this man up. I've got to give him all the
    confidence I can.
    (into microphone)
    All right, Striker, have you ever flown a
    multi-engine plane before?

    STRIKER (v.o.)
    No. Never.

    KRAMER
    Shit!

    INT. COCKPIT - NIGHT

    Striker over hears conversation on radio.

    KRAMER (v.o.)
    This is a goddamn waste of time. There's
    no way he can land this plane! Route 'em
    into Lake Michigan and at least avoid
    killing innocent people!

    Plus some of the greatest visual jokes in comedy films.



  • #23
    ireland.man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dO90hdkeKrs

    It's based off a bad 50s movie and watching them at the same time makes it even funnier!!


  • #24
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,371 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    So racist but so funny

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s


  • #25
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    So racist but so funny

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s

    Nope, not racist at all.
    It just pokes fun at the cultural disparity and contradicts what the audience is expecting.
    Besides, the actors in the piece were part of the creation process.
    And the actress was Barbara Billingsley , well know as the mom in Leave it to Beaver and so to see her play the role was an equal half of the scenes comic effect, at least in the US.


  • #26
    Stoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    In keeping with the 'will-you-be-watching-Taffin/Back-to-the-Future' Xmas/NY movie thing I'd like to know if AH are watching this great comedy.
    Was Taffin on !!


  • #27
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    The life of everyone on board depends upon just one thing: finding someone back there who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner.


  • #28
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    The expression on yer mans face when Ted asks him to pinch him

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXVaChA3Q0


  • #29
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    And just because
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVTmqsS32q8


  • #30
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    That's impossible they're on instruments!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCGyYC9We34


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  • #31
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Stoner wrote: »
    Was Taffin on !!

    There was an entire thread about the build up to it and subsequent intellectual analysis of its virtues!

    I hadn't realised its genius before then.


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