The following quotes come to us courtesy of the 1980 hit movie - AIRPLANE
TED STRIKER (Robert Hays): "Surely you can't be serious."
DR. RUMACK (Leslie Nielsen): "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."
STEVE McCROSKEY (Lloyd Bridges): "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking."
STEVE McCROSKEY (Lloyd Bridges): "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking."
STEVE McCROSKEY (Lloyd Bridges): "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."
STEVE McCROSKEY (Lloyd Bridges): "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines ."
CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): "You ever been in a cockpit before?"
JOEY (Rossie Harris): "No sir, I've never been up in a plane before."
CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): "You ever seen a grown man naked?"
DR. RUMACK (Leslie Nielsen): You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
ELAINE DICKENSON (Julie Hagerty): A hospital? What is it?
DR. RUMACK (Leslie Nielsen): It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?
ELAINE DICKENSON (Julie Hagerty): There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
ELAINE DICKENSON (Julie Hagerty): You got a letter from headquarters this morning.
TED STRIKER (Robert Hays): What is it?
ELAINE DICKENSON (Julie Hagerty): It's a big building where generals meet, but that's not important.
JOEY (Rossie Harris): Wait a minute. I know you. You're Kareem Abdul-Jabar. You play basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers.
ROGER MURDOCK (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar): I'm sorry son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot.
JOEY (Rossie Harris): You are Kareem. I've seen you play. My dad's got season tickets.
ROGER MURDOCK (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar): I think you should go back to your seat now Joey. Right Clarence?
CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): Nahhhhhh, he's not bothering anyone, let him stay here.
ROGER MURDOCK (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar): But just remember, my name is ROGER MURDOCK. I'm an airline pilot.
JOEY (Rossie Harris): I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs.
ROGER MURDOCK (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar): The hell I don't. LISTEN KID. I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
STEVE McCROSKEY (Lloyd Bridges): Johnny, what can you make out of this?
[Hands him a piece of paper.]
JOHNNY HINSHAW (Stephen Stucker): This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl....
ROGER MURDOCK (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar): We have clearance Clarence.
CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): Roger, Roger. What's our vector Victor?
Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over.
CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
Tower voice: Roger.
ROGER MURDOCK (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar): Huh?
Tower voice: Roger, over.
ROGER MURDOCK (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar): Huh?
CAPT. OVEUR (Peter Graves): Huh?
Airport Curbside Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Airport Curbside Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Airport Curbside Male announcer: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a white zone.
Airport Curbside Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading. Now, there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Airport Curbside Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading.
Airport Curbside Female announcer: Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for unloading.
Airport Curbside Male announcer: Look Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.
male announcer: There's just no stopping in a white zone.
Airport Curbside Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Airport Curbside Male announcer: It's really the only sensible thing to do, if its done safely. Therapeutically there's no danger involved.
CAPT. REX KRAMER (Robert Stack): Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked... in the head... with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. It's a dumb question... skip it.
STEVE McCROSKEY (Lloyd Bridges): [to Mrs. Oveur] Now your husband is alive, but unconscious.
JOHNNY HINSHAW (Stephen Stucker): Just like Gerald Ford.
REX KRAMER (Robert Stack): Don't be a fool, Striker, you know what a landing like this means, you more than anybody. I'm ordering you to stay up there.
TED STRIKER (Robert Hays): No dice, Chicago. I'm giving the orders and we're coming in. I guess the foot's on the other hand now, isn't it Kramer?