I Speak Jive - Airplane! (5/10) Movie CLIP (1980) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
When a flight attendant struggles to understand her jive-talking passengers, a friendly old lady (Barbara Billingsley) steps in.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, boards a jumbo jet in an attempt to woo back his stewardess girlfriend (Julie Hagerty). Food poisoning decimates the passengers and crew, leaving it up to Striker to land the plane, with the help of a glue-sniffing air traffic controller (Lloyd Bridges) and Striker's vengeful former captain (Robert Stack), who must both talk him down. Along the way, we meet a clutch of stock disaster movie passengers like the guitar-strumming nun, a sick little girl, a frightened old lady, and two African-American travelers whose "jive" has to be subtitled. Leslie Nielsen portrays the plane's doctor, launching a new phase of the actor's career that carried him through the next two decades in several similarly comedic roles. The trio of directors Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, and David Zucker responsible for the film would eventually go on to solo careers, but not before making Top Secret! and Ruthless People.

CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1980)
Cast: Al White
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Producers: Jim Abrahams, Jon Davison, Howard W. Koch, Hunt Lowry, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Screenwriters: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Arthur Hailey, Hall Bartlett, John C. Champion

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[seabrook]

Apparently, when Barbara Billlingsly got the script, she had no idea what jive was. She met with the two other actors in this scene and they all three went out to lunch where they wrote out that entire dialogue. Comedic gold.

[pastorjerrykliner]

"Chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help." I have no idea how many times I repeated that line as I grew up... LOVE IT!

[ReaverLordTonus]

I actually got to meet the guy on the left at wondercon, he was actually pretty cool. I asked him how much of the jive speak was prewritten or if it was all improvised right on camera? It was from a script, however he told me that he and the other guy wrote it up themselves on set, he also told me that Barbara Billingsley was a delight to work with, absolutely sweet and found the concept of the jive language to be really fun so she wanted to get this scene right and all three of them had a great time teaching her how to deliver the lines.

[chargeit]

0:22 I've seen this movie twice and just now realized there's a vulture behind him when he says he has confidence in him coming back alive. This movie just keeps getting funnier and funnier the more I watch it.

[MythicSuns]

What’s even funnier is that she keeps on talking Jive to herself as she walks away.

[jshann]

The jive talking scene is EASILY one of the funniest scenes in comedy movie history!!!!

[DrJekyll]

Did you know that after Barbara Billingsley passed away in 2010, right after AOL listed her "Leave It To Beaver" credit in her obituary, they included this clip, prefacing it with just four words: She Also Spoke Jive.

[icecol]

The jive talk scene with Barbara Billingsley is one of my favorite scenes in this movie. I crack up every time. It's absolutely hilarious. You don't expect her to speak jive.Shes funny.I was 10 years old when this movie debuted in 1980.

[hfontanez]

- 'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me! (I ate something that is making my insides cramp up.)
- Cutty say'e can't HANG! (My buddy here says he can't take this for much longer.)
- Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da rebound on da med side. (Just be patient my friend. She's going to bring something on her way back to make you feel better.)
- What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap! (Ma'am, I'm not stupid. I understand what she just said.)
- Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da help! (Give me a break! If you don't want help, I won't help you!)
- Jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! stupid, anyway. Golly!)

[stevenpilling]

Casting Barbara Billingsley for that scene was sheer brilliance.

[beemo]

"Oh stewardess - I speak jive."
One of the best lines in movie history.

[gradyjenkins]

This is the funniest scene in the whole entire movie. I’m still dying of laughter 43 years later.

[ThePursuitofHappiness]

“Jiveass dude don’t got no brains, anyhow!”
June Cleaver will always have that ethereal class.

[christiankrenek]

As brilliant as the script for this movie is, I have to say the casting really elevated to genius level. Apparently, to sell it as a satire of disaster movies, the creators knew they needed to have everyone take the script as seriously as possible, so they cast actors known for their dramatic roles in the leads (Leslie Nielsen, for example, WASN’T known as a comedian before “Airplane!”), reasoning it would be funnier. That philosophy is so perfectly captured by putting Barbara Billingsley—June Cleaver herself, THE housewife of 1950’s TV, the pinnacle of wholesomeness—as a foul-mouthed grandmother fluent in jive. Absolute genius!

[mizztree]

Chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help!

[_Ben]

It's not just the jive talk, but the fact that as strangers they are instantly & immediately bickering & falling-out with each other at a time of need that still makes me laugh so much every time....!!! Absolute comedy gold...!

[SeanP]

I was a small boy when my older brother took me to see this at the theatre. It was quite the experience. I had been to a couple movies before but nothing like this. The theatre was completely packed and 85% of the jokes were flying over my head. The laughter was insane. I remember this very heavy woman in front of me actually fell out of her seat from laughing. I remember sitting in the back row and taking it all in. It was strange to see an entire theatre screaming from laughter. Oh and on this scene I remember thinking it was an actual foreign language and didn’t understand why people were laughing.

[sumanadasawijayapala]

I first saw this scene as a child but one burning question has haunted me these past few decades: *why didn't the two gentlemen cut her some slack?*

[Rokaize]

My favorite part is that the two black dudes aren’t even surprised she speaks “jive”. They just go right along with it like everything is normal.

[melonymann]

“Johnny what can you make of this?”
“I can make a hat… or a broach… or a pteroda-“
Lol still makes me laugh