Airplane! (1980)

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Wikidata Q497256, film, IMDb tt0080339, TMDB 813: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Julie Hagerty as actor (‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan); 4 more episodes agree.

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What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Saturday Night Fever: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read). Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty.
    “The airplane parody scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50 sure it was them)

Spartacus: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (reference): Spartacus ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read). The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works.
    “there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Die Hard 2: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (airport movie): Die Hard 2 → Airplane!. Set-in-an-airport Apex Mountain is either Die Hard 2 or Airplane, with Airport and Planes Trains aged or insufficient.
    “It's either this or airplane, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:05:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (filmography): Kareem Abdul-Jabbar → Airplane!. Kareem's IMDb run: Game of Death, Airplane, and Fletch; later Mighty Ducks D2.
    “which inexplicably has that Bruce Lee movie, Airplane, and Fletch.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:39:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Leslie Nielsen: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Airplane! → Leslie Nielsen. Leslie Nielsen in Airplane is named for best line reading.
    “Leslie Nielsen, an airplane.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:17:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Saturday Night Fever: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Airplane! → Saturday Night Fever. Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty.
    “The airplane parody scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50 sure it was them)

Spartacus: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (reference): Spartacus → Airplane!. The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works.
    “there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Jerk: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (aged-comedy peers): The Jerk → Airplane!. The Jerk is grouped with Airplane and Blues Brothers as all-time bangers that faded as years passed.
    “like airplane, Blues Brothers, some of those where they were just like, all kind, all time bangers, and then as the years passed, they've kind of faded”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:12:25 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (structural analogy): Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story → Airplane!. Walk Hard is modeled on Walk the Line the way Airplane! is modeled on Airport, then copies everything else.
    “in the same way that airplane is modeled mostly after airport, and then it copies everything else.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:58 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

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career (1)

  1. career (filmography): Kareem Abdul-Jabbar → Airplane!. Kareem's IMDb run: Game of Death, Airplane, and Fletch; later Mighty Ducks D2.
    “which inexplicably has that Bruce Lee movie, Airplane, and Fletch.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:39:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Airplane! → Leslie Nielsen. Leslie Nielsen in Airplane is named for best line reading.
    “Leslie Nielsen, an airplane.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:17:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (structural analogy): Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story → Airplane!. Walk Hard is modeled on Walk the Line the way Airplane! is modeled on Airport, then copies everything else.
    “in the same way that airplane is modeled mostly after airport, and then it copies everything else.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:58 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Airplane! → Saturday Night Fever. Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty.
    “The airplane parody scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (airport movie): Die Hard 2 → Airplane!. Set-in-an-airport Apex Mountain is either Die Hard 2 or Airplane, with Airport and Planes Trains aged or insufficient.
    “It's either this or airplane, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:05:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (aged-comedy peers): The Jerk → Airplane!. The Jerk is grouped with Airplane and Blues Brothers as all-time bangers that faded as years passed.
    “like airplane, Blues Brothers, some of those where they were just like, all kind, all time bangers, and then as the years passed, they've kind of faded”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:12:25 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (reference): Spartacus → Airplane!. The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works.
    “there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

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