DOCTOR: Captain, how soon can you land?
CAPTAIN: I can’t tell you.
CAPTAIN: I can’t tell you.
DOCTOR: You can tell me, I’m a doctor.
CAPTAIN: No, I mean, I’m just
not sure.
DOCTOR: Well, can’t you take a guess?
CAPTAIN: Not for another two
hours.
DOCTOR: You can’t take a guess for another
two hours?
CAPTAIN: No, we can’t land for
another two hours.
Yes, it’s one of the many classic interchanges from
the movie Airplane! with Leslie Nielsen
playing the doctor and Peter Graves the airline captain.
Little One and I watched it yesterday on my night off.
Oh how hard we laughed. Patch sat in periodically and chuckled too. The scene
where the husband takes a second cup of coffee from the stewardess and the wife
thinks, echoing, Jim never drinks a
second cup of coffee at home … only to be followed ten minutes later by Jim,
barfing after being food poisoned, and the wife again pondering in echoes Jim never vomits at home … had tears streaming
down my eyes, and tears down Little One’s when she noticed the tears down mine.
Ah, good binding times.
Next on deck: The
Naked Gun (fast-forwarding through the risqué stuff, of course). Time to
introduce my little playwright to the comedic genius of Leslie Nielsen.
2 comments:
Classic, classic, classic. The actors in that movie that revealed their comedic sides - Leslie Neilson, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (My dad says you're lazy).
Uncle
Oh and my all time favorite sequence --- "We have to get this man to a hospital." "What is it?" "It's a big building with patients, but never mind that now."
Uncle
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