The Making of Jive Talk from Airplane!

[realtalk516186]

FBB Sugar Tank talks Jive check out her video on Youtube

[ghostrecon755]

brilliant.

[aussieosbourne]

al white never spoke jive at home...

[spjfrat]

I tend to be more partial to 70's slang, compared to today.

[Landotter1]

shiiii  (golly) haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Landotter1]

chump done want da hep, chump done get da hep... jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow.... haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[fivebearrugs]

I love this movie, and I have this DVD...my only complaint about the DVD is that in order to see this extra and all the other deleted scenes and interviews, you have to select "Long Haul" version on the DVD, and the extras periodically interrupt the movie...booo!

[FirstSarnt]

Even better when they cast Barbara Billingsley (Mrs. Cleaver) for the part. Classic!

[cbockiii]

Jim never vomits at home....

[wbustudent]

at 0:48 They didn't put in subtitles for his drink order. He ordered coffee with his porterhouse steak ("drink side, run the java").

[Jefgg]

The Bros were ON.

[acdcfan911]

Golly!

[greedyhips22]

cheshire cat

[dirths]

I am confused as to how this film ended up in the $5 bin at Walmart??? Should be up there with Gone With The Wind

[tsntana]

@dirths I'm not complaining. Here's 5 bucks to make sure this movie is in my library to stay.

[dirths]

@tsntana LOL! Good point! I love it when I can find classics in the $5 bin, though.

[bloggaloggs]

@dirths MUCH better than Gone With The Wind!

[dorsal08]

Don't be so naive, Arthur.

[WMsandKFCisBackMOFOs]

Airplane is THE funniest film ever made. Period.

[klabkebash]

Golly...

[timmmahhhh]

This is so awesome - thank you for posting!

[mrbriscoe2001]

Great to see those 2 actors again.......shoulda been in Oscar contention...."best Foreign Language..?

[TheKhaibear]

"Lookie here.I can dig chompin..." LMFAO

[cuntylishus]

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit!

[RandallFlaggNY]

@cuntylishus "Golly!"

[nicetna2010]

This vid was as funny as the original movie! Would love to see a new movie called "Airplane! Delayed!"

[zizwop]

To this day, every time someone tries to accuse me of doing something stupid when I didn't, I say, 'my momma aint raise no dummy.'

[WESTCOMPTON]

THAT GUY LOOKS LIKE DR.DRE



[MrLetsdolunch]

This was really funny but the entire movie I thought was totally hilarious. Just another example of how "they don't make it like they used to".

[ThatguyNice]

The funniest scene in a funny movie. "Excuse me. I speak Jive" was too much.

[ReploidSigma]

I wonder if Mike Myers took inspiration from this scene for the "english english" (cockney) talk with Michael Cain in Goldmember.

Although the Jive talk scene is way funnier than the other one!

[muireadach]

It's playing on Showtime now. Man, that sh*t never gets old.

[florida995]

Say, I can take some grease chomp it on some butter and drag it through the garden

[alphasgv]

This was ground breaking stuff !

[snowdjagha]

these guys are genius! especially david zucker is a master writer!

[DeleteThisMF]

Okay the reverse subtitles had me on the fucking floor

[414pwz]

@DeleteThisMF "Golly"

[spooncvc]

"Golly"

[mindsaglowin]

I think it's a lower form of elvish.

[KenMacMillan]

and we beat up the chops muggin' mellow

[sangolt88]

Say can say, say seven up

[lordtalon69]

I agree what program is this from I bought the DVD and this is not on it.

[gazzisgimpin1]

What programme/dvd is this from? I've been hoping the airplane creators would do something like this since I saw it. Miss you Leslie!

[gazzisgimpin1]

What programme/dvd is this from? I've been hoping the airplane creators would do something like this since I saw it. Miss you Leslie!

[limafilho27]

This is awsome. Thank you for posting.

[chernobleman]

Porterhouse is a good steak.

[jayfyp1]

Weird how much lighter there skin has became in there later years of life.

[TemDMindu]

@jayfyp1

It's probably just the difference between what the movie and the interview were recorded on - very late 70s film stock and... digital?

[Cheenjoo]

@jayfyp1 It didn't become lighter, it's the bright lights on them. Also, from the 80s on back, African American make-up was always off. It was usually darker than the actor/actress' actual complexion which made them look darker than they were; sometimes even orange-ish in color. They didn't have the variety of undertones and shades for AAs in cosmetics as they do now.

[KenMacMillan]

@jayfyp1 Old people tend sit around in the house to much. They have no sun tan.

[DigitalDesigner]

Golly

[Chopsy11]

When the actors who spoke 'Jive' in the movie were talking, then had the Jive subtitles up it really did make me laugh hard

[theguywhoshim]

I love that in the interview, they're speaking conversational and educated american english and the subtitles are completely wack hahahaha

[cbyrdman126]

excuse me, i speak jive

[ThatguyNice]

One of the best scenes in the movie. Classic!

Old lady: "Yes, I speak jive."

[karmax1911]

Anglo Americans, some just have no culture, but spend a life time studying another groups culture. The results come to be a Cultural Bias statement.

[Whoizcasper]

So why were the black actors separated from the creatures huh? jive ass mo'fuckers

seriously though one of the if not funniest film of all times

[AvEryBadApPLe]

much more epic than those blue aliens playing pocahontas

[computerfile]

I gotta slap down feelin in my bones

[ridgerunner721601]

What they don't mention here is that June learned all that jive crap from Fred Rutherford. During the summer of 1959 the Rutherfords won an all expenses paid vacation to East St. Louis, IL and had to learn the language because nobody there spoke English. When they came back to Mayfield, they taught jive ebonics to Ward and June. I understand Lumpy speaks jive ebonics on a regular basis nowadays and quite fluently at his job as a bank executive.

[HeyBoris]

What is it  big momma, my momma don't raise no dummies i dug her rap!

[alekesam]

Golly. 

[TheTallMan35]

I grew up on this movie and especially this scene, so it's kinda weird to hear these gentlemen so many years later speaking proper english.

[MrOhjames]

"Don't be so naive. Arthur." hahahahaha!

[JHawkzZ]

This "jive talk" scene is one of the funniest scenes in the history of cinema!

[elsoda]

@JHawkzZ the whole movie is!

[wesmatron]

@JHawkzZ Cold got to be

[DrVictorRoman]

What did she write down????

[mikedrud]

@DrVictorRoman Sheeeeeeeeeeit.

[lancetop]

the Jive part of Airplane is totally one of the funniest parts!

[animallover2047]

Airplane is the funniest movie ever!!!!

[PaintGuru24]

lmao what it is my mama didnt raise no fool

[firmingitup]

Remember when they served MEALS on airplanes? Ah, the good ole days!

[firmingitup]

Should I be alarmed that I understood what the first guy ordered, including the fact that he asked for coffee as his drink, but that didn't appear in the subtitles?

[thepineapple1]

see a broad to get dat booty yak 'em...

leg 'er down a smack 'em yak 'em!

[goodlad22]

@thepineapple1 i was just trying to figure out what they said to put it on here and come across yours loooooool

[tommyt1971]

Holy shit, the jive subtitles made me choke on my lunch!!! Too cool!!!

[tigernorthnorth]

The best part is how they use the word GOLLY for the word shit.

[tommyt1971]

@tigernorthnorth You mean sheeeeeeeeeyit... %-D

[tigernorthnorth]

@tommyt1971 Yes. Or Golly same thing

[MrDiamonds01]

sad loss he was a true great

[Doctalen]

R.I.P Leslie

[Zubirrex]

Butter layin' me to the bone. jackin' me up...

[Gig294]

Sam L. Jackson's dad.. xD

RIP Leslie Nielsen!

[szqsk8]

@thedeadburgerman2580 - he's the white-haired man in the movie who is the doctor treating the people who got food poisoning from the fish that was served. Dat's who he is! LOL!

[ajb12376]

epic

[renman16291]

Bet, babe. Slide a piece o' da porter. Drink side, run the jaw.

Looka here, I can dig grease & chop it on some butter & dragon fruit, k?

Way, WAY ahead of their time!

[darrendelong]

omg.. Airplane, one of the funniest movie I've watched..Leslie RIP

[Serai3]

Where are these interview bits from? Is this on a DVD somewhere?

[szqsk8]

RIP Leslie Nielsen!

[thedeadburgerman2580]

@szqsk8 who dat?

[Germtalia]

@szqsk8 yeah hes annoying

[godfree2canada]

Top Secret was better in this class

[Zarafraze]

The only thing that could have made this movie MORE perfect is the one and only Lord Buckley speaking jive

[Avatarblackwolf]

R.I.P Leslie

I am serious, and don't call me Shirley

[steveconn]

@Avatarblackwolf

Well said.

[9182736458481]

@steveconn i hope you get raped by a wild pack of niggers AND YOURE GUNA DESERVE IT !!!

[jubjub2112]

So bummed Leslie Nielsen is gone . . .

[szqsk8]

This gag through the movie was hilarious and having 'Mrs Cleaver' decipher the jive talk was priceless. RIP Barbara Billingsley

[noto1070]

@szqsk8 Rest in piece Leslie Nelson....oh and the finnies bit was "the shit is going to hit the fan"...that is priceless.

[nikz3777]

sounds like hes saying dragon food carton! lmao! thank god we have sub titles for times like these. Love this movie!

[BettorOffSingle]

I was thirteen when Airplane! came out and thought it was the funniest film ever.

Every kid I knew was quoting that movie for at least two years.

[jubjub2112]

@BettorOffSingle Two years?? Ha! My friends and I have been quoting that movie non stop ever since it came out!! :-) Leslie left a fine legacy . . . A very funny man who will be sorely missed . . .

[PhuckHue2]

what's funny is 99.9% of Black people dont know what the fuck he is saying. that jibbrish is from the 30's and 40's and not too many blacks talked like that.

[vintagevwr1000]

lol imdb credits Samuel L Jackson as one of the jive talking black guys....

[CoolasIce2]

It's a damn shame they didn't have the dudes do the dialog one more time for time sake!

[MegaMrphillips]

Very Funny!! When this movie came out it poked fun at almost every nationality, creed, gender, race . It was awkward, had negative stereotypes, and was very funny. Today we have political correctness now, so that ignorant racist, sexist , etc. people won't take this type of content at face value and perpetrate continued hatred towards others.

[BettorOffSingle]

@MegaMrphillips Actually, the movie was parodying disaster films of the 1970s, particularly the "Airport" series, which this film also put out of business.

They were definitely parodying stereotypes as well. The purpose of this was just to set up "June Cleaver" (Billingsly) speaking "Jive."

[megatron0357]

jive soo thick, i needed transation! LOL!

[davidnarbett]

RIP Barbara Billingsley

[Burnsengine]

This is one of my favorite scenes... from any comedy ever created. I laugh every single time.

Classic!!!!

[Gerkinstock]

This reminds me of Bababooey talking on the phone to D.L. Hughley a number of years ago on The Howard Stern Show. He was told to use "urban slang" throughout the conversation and see what Hughley's reaction would be. Very funny.

[sprintbass]

funny as hell

[itpduder]

No way this could be originally done today. Cuz that would be "racist."

ughhh, we are waaay too sensitive nowadays.

[TooTiredToSleep]

@itpduder Yeah... I agree. Too many people who use the word "racist" obviously have no idea what it means.

[knoxvilleguy2]

@itpduder - We are a society of UPTIGHT, over - sensitive mo - fo's, man.

PC has its place, but it went from a ripple in the pond to a tsunami !!

[kesterling2003]

epics7 set and setting are very important. Many people have heard Pink Floyd's "The Wall" but I've just realized that there was no brouhaha over the lyrics.:

"are there any queers in the audience tonight, get 'em up against the wall

there's one in the spotlight he don't look right get him up against the wall

and that one looks jewish, and that one's a coon, who let all this riff raff into the room

there's one smoking a joint and another with spots

if I had my way

I'd have all of you shot

[Gold753]

@kesterling2003

That's because that was Roger Water's intention. It's part of the storytelling to show that the character "Pink" has become fascist and racist. Waters isn't really racist but so aren't the directors of this movie. It's all really about artistic intention. Either a humorous poke at urban language or an operatic conceptual storytelling. You kinda see it when you see it. Oh yeah, I'm seeing Roger's Wall tour and my family is Salvadoran. That's why I responded ;D

[ultrakool]

ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the beaver last night?

[mdharfman]

SHIIIIIIIIT!

[JRussoBuffaloNY]

@redhabagat The Ink Spots are the best from Indy,I.N. formed in 1935

[mjklin]

cold got to be!

[MansourtheAmazing]

lmao the subtitles

[CJ42090]

The part that always gets me is "shiiiiit" translating to "golly."

[boringshi]

my favourite scene. Together with the rest of the whole movie.

[KTA0806]

rha101 I completely agree with you - minute for minute THE most hilarious movie ever made!!

[airforceaggie]

i wish rosetta stone had a jive set

[grumpypant]

A real good thing coming out of all of this movie is that no black folk ever get insulted from it, no lawsuit, no protesting, no affirmative action---nothing to this day! We even had black friends using those "jive language movie lines" in classes to joke around with everyone.

[epics7]

@grumpypant Dude, keep in mind these were different times. BUT, what you pointed out was going on back then. Don't confuse a parody for something that people did protest. It was going on back then. BUT, Mel Brooks and like were cool because people got the parody point and it wasn't solely targeted at one group. They targeted pretty much most of them to make a point. Todays, street lingo flowered from Jive. But Jive flowered from street lingo too.

[jojopuppyfish]

The funniest side story to this was ZAZ went to see the movie in Germany and the audience laughed. They went up to the translator and asked what he did to get them to laugh. He said they used a southern German accent....which essentially is the same idea in germany.

[Tr2u1ck]

1:00

[grumpypant]

Is "Mrs. Beaver"...Barbara ...something, still alive, anyone know?!!!

[tk848]

@grumpypant Yes Barbara Billingsley is still alive. She's 94 now.

[elmariachi109]

he look a lot like samuel l jackson... the young one... a lil' bit like will.i.am

[Dogman36]

"lookie here. i can date grease and trumpet on some butter then drag it through a garden".

[YeahDeylikeME]

you can tell that the Airplane writers STILL dont understand or know any black ppl! lol smh

[TheR347]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue...

[hostilel7]

Actually, the fact that it was the woman who played the mother on "Leave It to Beaver" that was saying it, made it one of the funniest IDEAS in cinematic history. Especially since she had only acted once in the roughly seventeen years since that TV show went off the air, and this was her first gig in almost ten years. Imagine the public being reintroduced to her in such a way. This type of thing is echoed today, every time sweet, old Betty White says or does something 'naughty.'

[Realizalize]

The in the german version, the two passangers speak straight Bavarian dialect.

Hillarious like all Zucker(suggar) productions, simply a must.

[kyrieeleison1]

hahaahahahahaha. 

[rha101]

Minute for minute, the funniest movie ever made, hands down.

[227060]

@rha101 damn straight it just enver stops

[Mewtario]

I wonder how modern rap/gangster slang would sound if it was engineered, in this fashion, into a language?

[AZIARGROUS]

Golly!!

[Gannondalf]

friggin comic geniuses... airplane! is one of the best comedy films of all time! ZAZ rules!

[cowboybear40]

I loved the jive talkin' scenes from the movie, and one I caught last Friday on TCm was the two kids drinking coffee, missed every otehr time I watched. It's where a little boy offers a littlegirl a cup of coffee, and he asks how she likes it, she said loke her men black and strong. It's the two little kids acting like adults

[groovymr1337]

@cowboybear40

You didn't miss it every other time, it is a deleted scene! (I think)

[muurgadroid]

@groovymr1337 Not as far as I know, it's on the DVD I have which isn't a special edition or anything.

[dudewarp]

haha this is funny!

[ogaal83]

Genius. Thumbs up!

[myale87]

love the move the actors were great the briliance of the two and jive talk language created, i was impressed, i loved and laughed at the movie its in my top 10 all time comedys :) happy to see these behind the scenes makings

[slaphead99uk]

Brilliant- thanks for this. I'm so dumb- I needed it all explained to me :)

[CoolasIce2]

This is good seeing these dudes again, but damnit, they missed an opportunity to recite the jive talking one last time.

[landart67]

those guys are FUNNY Geniuses !!!

[reneecalling]

I just saw some clips from "Shaft" on YouTube and I understood every word. What the heck is he talkin' about?

[plumbernumber]

RIP Peter Graves !!!!

[CLaarkamp1287]

LMAO at the subtitles for the actual interview with the jive talkers.

[tigerman8000]

fascinating to hear from the geniuses behind this scene. great post.

[jaegerhund]

"you bet babe, slide a piece of the porter, drink side run the java. " Is that right ?

[slunacourtier]

hahah whatever he said for the fish....

[Cossack7357]

And NOW I know the rest of the story. This is great!

[TkMToM1993]

it creeps me out lol, it like there talking English but u don't understand them :S :S lol

[Slasherzza]

Creeps you out? What the hell? It's funny. :)

[TkMToM1993]

@Slasherzza :/

[rrasher]

at 1:45 'they had this kinda stuff going since they were in high school'

what you mean by THEY ! huh? 'those people!?' wtf is that supposed to mean honkey?

[ThrobertMcGee]

"Oh, stewardess -- I speak jive!" has got to be one of the funniest lines in the history of American cinema.

[Vexis525]

@ThrobertMcGee

I don't know, "Jive-ass dude don't got not brains anyhow" could give it a run for its money.

[Disneydanny]

@ThrobertMcGee R.I.P. Barbara

[rlkavan]

"chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help"...greate line from beav's mom.

[Ibhenriksen]

I knew it couldn't have been white guys that came up with this. I've always wondered about this scene. Now it all makes sense.

[supremeleader102]

(~_•)

[slicked25]

It's probably one of the most underrated funniest scenes in all the movies. Watch it at least 5 times a year for a laugh. I can almost say all of it verbatim. lol

[slym2none]

Almost as funny as the movie-scene itself, esp. when they translate what the actors are saying into jive!!!

@slym2none I should know bet