THAT was one of my favorite scenes in that movie...I love the very first one where the nun grabs his shoulders, and you don’t really expect her to whack the hysterical woman! (and the Hare Krishna after her set up the rest!
One of the things that struck me about “Airplane!” was when I re-watched “Airport” a few months back...I simply could not watch the movie the same way!
Every single scene, and I do mean nearly every one of them, made the parody scene from “Airplane!” pop right into my head!
(Kind of the reverse of what happened to my wife after she watched “A Clockwork Orange” with me...she used to LOVE “Singing In The Rain”, but now, every time she sees that, all she can visualize is “A Clockwork Orange”.
She says she hates me for that...:(
If you want to see the movie that inspired Airplane!, watch Zero Hour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour!
She is scarred for life!
There was another movie, made in the 1950s, I think starring Dana Andrews, called Zero Hour, with the same plot line and some of the dialog almost word for word of Airplane. However, this was not a comedy, it was a serious movie. But even though this was a serious movie, when you hear the same dialog from the movie Airplane except it’s said in seriousness, it makes this serious movie funny.