What happens when you gather two Gen Xers who worship a comedy classic, two Millennials seeing it fresh, and one very unimpressed holdout? You get the most hilariously divided episode of Too Old or Movie Gold yet.
Hosts Olen Vanderleeden and Matthew Stockton pf the Comox Valley are joined by comedian Will Corry, Debbie, and Sean to revisit the 1980 comedy classic Airplane! – written and directed by the legendary ZAZ trio (Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers). The verdict from most of the panel? Pure gold. But Sean has entered the chat, and Sean is not having it.
The episode digs deep into what makes Airplane! a masterclass in comedy – the wall-to-wall gags, the genius of casting deadpan dramatic actors like Leslie Nielsen (whose career was almost finished before this film revived it), and the sheer rewatchability that still reveals new jokes decades later. The panel shares their personal favourite bits, debates how many jokes Millennials actually catch, and marvels at a movie that earned $83 million on a $3.5 million budget and landed a 97% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
There are also some remarkable behind-the-scenes facts: the film was pitched to the studio as “Animal House on a plane,” the rights to the source material were purchased for just $2,500, and the directors legally changed their names so all three could get directing credits. Oh – and MythBusters confirmed a regular person actually could land a plane using only instructions from the tower.
And then there’s Sean – who gave it a two out of ten and would rather rewatch Escape From New York. Surely he can’t be serious. Don’t call him Shirley.
“This is my favorite type of humor. This is one of a handful of comedy movies that actually makes me laugh out loud every time I watch it.” – Olen Vanderleeden
“When being random is your hook, if that’s all you got, you got nothing.” – Sean, the lone dissenter
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