That’s the punchline for the funniest 30 seconds from the classic “Airplane!”

TCM was showing this last night. It’s not as good as I remember it; the experience of watching it in your living room is very different from watching it with 200 drunk college students, which is how I first saw it back in 1980. But this still made me laugh out loud. (That, and the brilliant “I talk jive” moment are classics.)

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