"Side-by-side" comparison: Zero Hour! (1957) Vs Airplane! (1980)

Man that was funny 😂😂😂

No wonder they had to get the rights, they must have gotten a script and written theirs in the margins. It honestly explains a lot about the way the gag-a-minute jokes during serious dialogue are almost complete nonsequiturs.

My fondest memories of Airplane is the relief that I felt when I walked out after 10 minutes.

Airplane! had more memorable scenes like the bar hounds disco-ing to The Bee Gees, and the two dudes jive talkin’ with the Beaver’s mom.

“Ever seen a grown man naked?” Omg this film would’ve never been made today 😆 😆

Your editing skills are top notch

Johnny is the best

The fact that they casted an athlete the same way Zero Hour did is hilarious.

OMG, my whole world has been turned upside down!!! WHAT??? Next thing you know you're going to tell me they redid West side story!!!!!

With Airplane the producers just realized how ridiculous the premise was, and decided to make it self aware and add jokes, rather than playing everything straight like Zero Hour did.

Where are the jive dudes...???
🤣🤣🤣

Well, hell! I didn’t know that they copied it THIS close!

Kinda bummed that the original didn't say "like my men" ☕

Wow😂😂😂

OMG this is hilarious, I had no idea.

While this is 2023 and I am eight years late to the party, so I will just say what my eight year younger self would have said back then. "OmG, this Is AMazEballs, I ThiNK you juSt w0n the interwEbs!"

Biggest difference: in “Zero Hour,” there wasn’t a kid telling the co-pilot his dad thought he didn’t run down the court and didn’t try hard until the playoffs, to which the co-Pilot angrily retorted he’s been hearing that since college and suggested his dad try to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes. 🏀🤣

Wow. Okay so total rip off. But still very funny.

I was going through Air Force pilot training the year the movie Airplane was released...we must've quoted the lines all year! "I AM serious...and DON'T call me Shirley!"

I have watched all the Airplane moves and the Naked Gun series. I found this comparison incredible ! Very Surprising !

lol great comparison!

“Airplane”……one of those movies you can watch over and over and over and still see something you missed a previous time, especially with things in the background. 😂😂

Just saw this. I had no idea. Fantastic!!!

Brilliant! I was lucky enough to see both films back to back with a Zucker introduction and Q&A after. During "Zero Hour," audience members would recite the Airplane lines, like "What an @$$hole." It was GREAT FUN!

Christmas Ted, what does it mean to you? To me it was a living hell. Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked in the head with an iron boot?

Never knew the existence of the close relationship between “Airplane” and “Zero Hour.” Utterly amazing!

I'll never be able to watch zero hour without laughing 😂

I asked to see the cockpit last year and they bound and gagged me!

I had to buy Zero Hour after seeing this. Now I'm going to eat some lasagna

The pilot in Zero Hour looks like the automatic pilot!

That was amazing

My BF and I discovered "Zero Hour" one night on TV and were laughing ourselves silly, having seen "Airplane!" many times. I was amazed at how much of the dialog in the latter came from the former. You did a good job in comparing the two side-by-side.

This was really well edited! I had no idea it followed Zero Hour so closely.

Awesome! I didn't had any idea about this but it makes me LOVE Airplane! even more! Great editing btw, love Bernstein's score and very funny gay wink in that final clip from Zero Hour. Bravo!

This was worth watching to the end...so there😅

I had no clue this movie was so heavily sourced from a specific film. I always thought is was an amalgamation of the 70s airplane disaster movies. Excellent editing. Thanks.

Outstanding vid! I'd almost forgotten how delightfully daft Aitplane! is- it's been so long since i last watched it, so thanks for the reminder. It's still of the most brilliant spoof movies of all time: great performances from a stellar cast, a ditzy dialogue that never gets stale and some of the finest and funniest one-liners on film. If Deadpan Delivery of a Comic Quip was a movie award category, Leslie Neilsen's "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley" gets my vote.

Here I am... sitting in an airport (I work here), watching this video... laughing my ass off...

One of the most hilarious things (to me) is how many people had the fish.

Bahahaha!🤣 Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

Thanks for the educational video!

I have yet to call him Shirley!!!

I have never seen "Airplane", but I saw "Zero Hour" when I was about 10 years old, and finally found it on Amazon a few years ago and watched it again. Good movie.

The sheer brilliance of Airplane! is unparalled to this day. I remember my Dad recording Airplane! on VHS because it was on past my bedtime. I've never laughed so hard!!

Sad if such spoof movies got made today it will have total other messages and memes from a kid of two and stupid actors that yells and cannot act also the soundtrack would be ruined with rap or r'n b .

Gosh i miss those times of great humor from every country . Airplane, The Naked Gun show and later on the trilogy movies , The Monty Pythons movies , Benny Hill show, The Silence of the Hams , all the movies from French actor Louis de Funes , etc... As for me the last great spoof movies were Scary Movie 1,2&3 .